New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 3579 - 3686

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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God accessible to all people.

Between 1937 and 1965 Bertha Dudde was permitted to receive and record 9030 individual proclamations on a daily basis.

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

3579 - Last days.... Future - Present....

3580 - Miracles.... False prophets....

3581 - Using the gift of the mind....

3582 - Intercession by fellow human beings....

3583 - God obviously expresses Himself in the end time....

3584 - Without grace no working in love....

3585 - Last test of will....

3586 - Without activity no higher development....

3587 - Not just listeners, but doers of the word....

3588 - Promise.... spirit - comforter.... truth....

3589 - 'The gates of hell....' Church of Christ....

3590 - Exceptional abilities....

3591 - Belief in a supremely perfect being....

3592 - Stage of ignorance.... knowledge....

3593 - The spiritual and material world oppose each other....

3594 - Everything is God's will or permission....

3595 - Duration of shaping the new Earth .... Paradise ....

3596 - God is the Word.... God's presence.... Different conveyance of the Word....

3597 - Appeal for inner enlightenment....

3598 - God's will governs all forces.... free will....

3599 - Divine order.... disorder - chaos human will....

3600 - Light.... God’s word....

3601 - Called servants of God.... office on earth....

3602 - Need and torment of immature souls in the afterlife....

3603 - Satan knows he doesn't have long time.... devil in the end time....

3604 - Strong faith.... power of faith....

3605 - Heavenly messengers.... spirit beings to establish order....

3606 - Stormy times before the Last Judgment.... Paradise....

3607 - Right instruction of children.... will....

3608 - Receiving the truth requires spiritual connection....

3609 - Perfection of God.... purpose of His will....

3610 - Cause, purpose and aim of suffering.... Awareness.... Transience....

3611 - God's love for the fallen.... inseparable - God's share....

3612 - Consciously listening within.... The voice of the spirit....

3613 - God’s word.... bread of heaven.... flesh and blood....

3614 - Devil of the end time.... paradise....

3615 - Conditions for the working of the spirit....

3616 - Request from power.... humility - grace....

3617 - Spiritual turning point.... divorce of the spirits....

3618 - Free will decision.... church organisation....

3619 - Redemption process.... eternities.... hell - damnation....

3620 - Severe hardship before the last rescue mission....

3621 - ‘Whoever sees Me sees the Father....’

3622 - The Ascension of Christ.... Transfiguration....

3623 - "He who confesses Me before the world...."

3624 - ‘Become as little children....’

3625 - The end is determined by people themselves.... Low level....

3626 - Preparation time for workers of the lord....

3627 - The souls’ purification process in the beyond....

3628 - Thoughts from the spiritual kingdom....

3629 - Presence of God in the word....

3630 - Cosmos.... Changes.... Catastrophe....

3631 - Marriage of the spirit with the father-spirit....

3632 - Bondage under satan and damnation....

3633 - Fearless work for the kingdom of God and courageous confession....

3634 - ‘Did you not know, that I must be in My Father’s house....’

3635 - Significance of the act of Salvation....

3636 - Bond of love.... Unification with God....

3637 - Soul food.... God's care for earthly needs....

3638 - Fighting against the truth.... erring teachers....

3639 - Exploiting the end time.... soulwork....

3640 - Blessing of God's servants in their work....

3641 - Spiritual arrogance....

3642 - Acknowledgement of the work of redemption necessary for maturity of soul....

3643 - God instructs His disciples and sends them out into the world....

3644 - Significance of the work of redemption.... past - present - future....

3645 - Constant longing for God.... love - happiness....

3646 - Earthly and spiritual creations....

3647 - Two worlds.... Divine law of love....

3648 - Language of creation.... Essence - Creative power....

3649 - Love - Wisdom.... Selfish love - Error - Darkness....

3650 - Distributing spiritual goods....

3651 - God's will or approval....

3652 - Incarnation of God....

3653 - Think and act justly....

3654 - Teaching the disciples, according to God's will of maturity and destiny....

3655 - Testing the spiritual work and the power of love....

3656 - Quiet and peace of the soul through deep faith....

3657 - Day of judgement.... devil of the end time....

3658 - Lighting the light.... God’s word....

3659 - Urgent reminder to work on the soul....

3660 - Strength of faith.... Help in every need....

3661 - Psychological work....

3662 - Voice of the father....

3663 - Mighty task of the servants of God.... end....

3664 - Mighty task of the servants of God.... end.... strength to that from God’s word....

3665 - King of kings ....

3666 - Life of the soul - activity....

3667 - Light bearers.... darkness on earth....

3668 - Earthly activity - redemption process....

3669 - Soon fulfilment of the announcement....

3670 - Spiritual creations.... Beatitude.... 'Eye hath not seen....'

3671 - "What you will bind on earth...."

3672 - Antichrist.... End....

3673 - Spiritual looking....

3674 - God's language through natural catastrophe....

3675 - Life in divine order - ordered life....

3676 - Prepare a dwelling in the heart.... communion.... "Behold, I stand at the door...."

3677 - Course of a redemption period....

3678 - Christ problem....

3679 - No apostasy of His own from God possible....

3680 - Free will cause of need and depression....

3681 - Call upon Me in times of need.... Depth of faith....

3682 - Praying with humility....

3683 - Listening to God's servants on earth....

3684 - Temptations....

3685 - Serious trials of truth....

3686 - Serious scrutiny and will for truth....

Last days .... Future - Present ....

B.D. 3579 from October 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

God has foretold people what will happen to earth in accordance with His eternal plan of Salvation .... He does not want them to experience the last day unprepared, He does not want to surprise them suddenly in their imperfection but give them ample opportunity beforehand to achieve perfection. He wants to urge them to become spiritual, He wants to warn them of the consequences if they ignore His reminders, and He wants to inform His Own of all events which shall come to pass during the last days in order to strengthen their faith and to give them hope and trust for their deliverance. He will not allow anything to happen to earth without informing people first, so that they should recognise Him in all forthcoming events. But He will never divert from His eternal plan of Salvation which He has wisely considered in knowledge of its effectiveness. The end may well take its time but it will irrevocably arrive, and for that reason all prophecies concerning earth and the signs of the last days should be taken literally. And thus the human being can expect the end at any hour, he should always anticipate that the end could occur in the present time, and therefore attach great importance of improving himself, his soul, so that it can emerge unharmed and stand before God on Judgment Day. As soon as the human being believes the end to be in the future he becomes indifferent and slow in the work on himself.

However, if he anticipates that God's prophecies could fulfil themselves in the present time he takes the transformation of his nature seriously, and this is God's intention from the start, and He urges people to change their nature. But yet one day His proclamations will become the present and shall fulfil themselves word for word. And just prior to the events people will least believe the prophecies and this itself will demonstrate that the last days have arrived. When no-one anticipates the transformation of earth any longer, when people reject all relevant information, when they look at all events from an entirely earthly and material point of view and ignore the divine Creator, i.e. when they negate every connection between humanity's fate and divine will .... then the hour is not far, because then humanity has reached the degree of maturity which causes the end. And then God's proclamations shall fulfil themselves literally, to the horror of those who do not believe and hence are completely unprepared, and to the joy and comfort of the few who are waiting for the last hour as the hour of deliverance from greatest earthly distress. Because one day even the future will become the present, and although God's love is infinitely great, one day God's justice will take its place and end a condition which is disastrous for the still imperfect spiritual substances in the universe. And for that reason people should be repeatedly reminded of the end, they should be informed of the Word of God Who uses His prophets to warn and remind people and hence speaks to them through mediators .... The end is close at hand and blessed is he who believes the prophecies and prepares himself. The day will come unexpectedly and take all living beings from earth to lead them either into eternal life or into death, as God has proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Miracles .... False prophets ....

B.D. 3580 from October 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Don’t allow yourselves to be deceived, because the adversary constantly seeks to keep you in darkness and to obscure the light from above. He tries to trap you with lies and falsehoods and thereby render you unreceptive to the absolute truth. He is always plotting to obscure your vision, to confuse your senses and to shroud the essence of the eternal Deity, and uses means which are difficult to discern as Satan’s work of deception if the sincere will for pure truth does not exist. He feigns piety towards people, his appearance is that of an angel of light because the people themselves desire radiance and splendour and can only imagine divine glory as external magnificence. He feigns the illusion of God’s glory when he finds gullible people who derive pleasure from it. And through them he spreads lies and misleading notions and thus obscures the thoughts of human beings. They accept the falsehood and reject the pure truth which God Himself sends in plain form to earth .... And thus the lies and fallacies spread much faster than the truth, because this is what people themselves want and because those who spread falsehoods work in the guise of being a representative of Christ’s teachings and hence find approval everywhere. Satan works with cunning and force .... He uses human beings who do not sincerely desire the truth, and they are his slaves because they do not sincerely desire God either, Who is the eternal truth Himself. And thus Satan, the lord of falsehood, has an easy time.

Human establishments can only be of lasting value when God’s support is called upon. And God wants to be called upon in spirit and in truth, otherwise He will not listen. This excludes every outer formality; all kinds of ceremony, splendour and grandeur prevent the right kind of prayer, prayer in spirit and in truth .... He who takes notice of external events will find making an inner connection with God very difficult, because the adversary will always step between him and God, divert his attention and capture his senses with external impressions. And therefore do not look for God in grandeur and splendour, do not look for him in surroundings where earthly matter has its greatest effect .... This is the field of God’s adversary and he works it with success. God reveals Himself in secret, He reveals Himself in people who are lowly and humble. He reveals Himself in those who shall speak on His behalf because His revelations apply to all of humanity and the individual person merely serves as His tool through which He speaks to the people Himself. His revelations primarily aim to spread the truth and to proclaim His will, adherence to which results in eternal bliss for the human being. Through seers and prophets He will also announce the end of the world and draw attention to the signs of the last days. It is His will that humanity be given the relevant information, that no one shall claim that they have not been reminded and warned when the end takes them by surprise. These seers and prophets will always be human beings with profound faith and love, otherwise God’s adversary will choose people to work for him and find their approval. Consequently particular attention has to be paid to the conduct of those who call themselves God’s servants, whether it complies with God’s will, with His commandments. But then the revelations should also be believed.

God works in silence, albeit in a clear and remarkable way, yet not in miracles which would force people to believe, just as He excludes all outward show because He is not trying to win over the people of the world with splendour and grandeur, but He wants to turn their hearts away from that worldly light of deceit. Worldly people have to be able to explain unnatural events by natural means, otherwise they would be forced into believing, which God would never sanction. And thus only profoundly devout human beings will have extraordinary revelations when God’s love wants to award those and He wants to reveal Himself to them. However, public miracles compel people to believe and they would not progress spiritually because fear of God can never take the place of love which the human being has to feel for Him in order to join Him. But miracles only cause fear in the immature person and never love .... Nevertheless Satan does use such means; in this manner he wants to prevent human beings from loving God, and his work shall be unhindered where there is a lot of sinfulness and where human beings are seldom introspective but worldly-minded instead. But even there he appears under the cover of piety. He pulls the wool over people’s eyes, stopping them from seeing clearly and thus exercises his influence. This is further aided by false representatives of Christ, who deem themselves destined to spread His teachings but who are not sufficiently living in truth themselves to separate lie and falsehood as such and to exclude them. Because he works with cunning and power .... God, however, is love, and only love flows from His revelations and cultivates love. And thus you should apply this standard .... Truth is where love is taught and practised because there is God Himself .... But where the light of the world shines too brightly God’s adversary makes himself known .... And his activity is falsehood and opposes God even if he tries to appear in a disguise of light. Anyone whose will is turned towards God knows him in spite of his disguise, and he is destined to warn his fellow human beings of the false prophets who will always appear when people are in need but who will even worsen spiritual hardship instead of reducing it. And God calls out to people: Beware of false prophets because the last days will be used to work against God, against the eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Using the gift of the mind ....

B.D. 3581 from October 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The gift of understanding should be used in every way. The human being should use it earthly in order to live in the right order and for the blessing of his fellow human beings and to fulfil his earthly task, just as the intellect should be used in order to fulfil the spiritual task. For the human being bears responsibility for his soul, and in order to be able to answer for himself he must be able to distinguish between good and evil and therefore also intellectually weigh up and consider everything that happens around him in order to take a stand in his heart. He must know what God requires of him during his earthly life; this knowledge must be presented to him and he must intellectually process it himself before he can adjust himself to it. That is why God gave the human being intellect, and only the use of intellect can bring his soul to maturity. And thus the human being is also obliged to think about spiritual knowledge which is imparted to him. Spiritual knowledge which is presented to him and which he accepts without examination is not yet knowledge for him. He then only mechanically carries out something which can never promote his ascent development if he complies with the duties which that spiritual knowledge demands of him. His own thought activity must necessarily have begun before it is real knowledge for him, which brings him advantage for his soul. And intellectual activity must be used in the right way, i.e. God must be consulted, He must be asked for help, for enlightenment of the spirit, for right, i.e. true thinking. For intellectual activity can also go astray in its results as soon as the human being considers himself capable of fathoming everything through his intellect. The human being's will is free and the freedom of will must also be unrestricted, so that the human being can think right and wrong, i.e. that right thinking is also dependent on his will. And since everything is only then ordered and corresponds to divine law if it is in the same will as God, this will must absolutely first be turned towards God so that thinking is also ordered. Thus God can never be excluded, just as one's own intellectual activity may not be excluded in order to gain possession of the truth. Consequently, imparted spiritual knowledge will only be of value to the human being when he has taken a stand on it himself, and that after serious reflection with the help of God. This is the right use of the gift of understanding, which must never be disregarded, because the human being must also be responsible for his thinking and because right, convinced faith can only be gained through intellectual processing. Anyone who thoughtlessly accepts what spiritual knowledge is offered to him will not call a living faith his own but only a formal faith which cannot withstand any shaking, because the human being cannot represent what spiritual knowledge he possesses if his intellect has not become active at the same time and has not processed this spiritual knowledge. He will always be assured of God's support if only he asks Him for it, for God is always willing to influence the human being through His spirit, to order and guide his thinking in the right way, yet He wants to be approached for His assistance because this demonstrates the will turned towards Him, which should strive for perfection in all freedom in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession by fellow human beings ....

B.D. 3582 from October 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

How unwise it is to bypass the direct connection with God and to want to make use of a fellow human being whose prayer is supposed to benefit him. God only respects prayer which is sent up to Him in deepest love for the neighbour, and the power of love is then used for the benefit of the needy. But every other prayer is useless. In His merciful love God sends suffering and adversity upon the human being in order to motivate him to entrust himself to Him without limits, in order to motivate him to establish the right relationship between a child and its father, because only then can the strength of divine love touch the human being's heart and through this influx of strength help his soul to develop spiritually. If this intimate connection is disregarded, then the influx of strength is only slight and also only guaranteed if the intercession for the fellow human being comes from a loving heart .... otherwise the human being will remain entirely without strength and his soul will have to starve. A person can never achieve the transformation of his fellow human being's nature but he has to be active himself, he has to turn his will towards God himself and make contact with Him in order to receive strength. Loving intercession is only useful for him insofar as strength is supplied to him which lifts his weakened will .... that he thus receives the strength through intercession to turn himself towards God. This supply of strength is the effect of the fellow human being's love; but without love every prayer is useless, for only profound love will cause a prayer to be sent to God in spirit and in truth, and then it will also be successful. God requires the connection with Him, which every human being can establish if he wants to. Anyone who relies on the prayer of a fellow human being is not yet doing God's will, and thus that prayer will also remain ineffective. The human being can achieve far more with a heartfelt sigh than a long prayer which lacks this heartfeltness, just as the heartfelt thought of God gives him more strength than a prayer of intercession by a fellow human being. But God evaluates the degree of love of the one who prays for his fellow human being, because love always gives strength and thus a loving intercession does not remain ineffective. And that is why again and again great suffering and bitter hardship befalls the individual person, because he should not forget Him Who alone can help him, because he should establish the right relationship which alone secures him the supply of strength from God, and because he has to become active himself in order to achieve success for his soul. And people should not forget that their fellow human beings can never take the responsibility away from them, that everyone has to take responsibility for himself and therefore also has to become active himself .... and that they can only carry out this activity with God's help, Whom they have to call upon in heartfelt prayer for strength and loving care so that they will reach their aim, so that their souls will mature on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God obviously expresses Himself in the end time ....

B.D. 3583 from October 21st 1945, taken from Book No. 46

God's spirit works in silence and makes itself known to those who enter into silence and listen to its voice. But He will also manifest Himself when the time has come for God to reveal Himself in order to strengthen His own in spiritual and earthly adversity. Then His working will appear, but again only recognized by the believers. For those who are blind in spirit do not see because they do not want to see. But God does not leave His own, and He obviously makes Himself known to them through the mouth of man, which reproduces His word, which is merely His organ on earth through which He speaks to people in order to strengthen, comfort and admonish them and impart words of love to them by which they recognize the heavenly father. For the time will be so full of excitement that the human being will hardly be able to take refuge in solitude and therefore the working of the spirit will have to manifest itself. Anyone who is able to detach himself from the world in order to hear God's voice within himself will be deeply impressed, for God will reveal Himself to him in profound wisdom and love, and He will loosen his tongue so that he will also be able to convey what God has revealed to him. The blessings of the end time are unlimited, and everyone can recognize God's nearness and love who is turned towards Him, who opens his heart to His voice and lets Him speak to him. For the end time requires much assistance and extraordinary activity on God's part. It requires much strength and grace, and God distributes these without measure. And thus He will manifestly show Himself to them, and especially believing people will also have the grace to behold Him, even if only for a short time. Yet He also visibly dwells amongst people on earth when the hardship threatens to become unbearable and His appearance makes people able to accept even the greatest tribulation. And He does this for the sake of the unbelievers, who shall recognize the truth of what the faithful represent by the strength of faith .... that they shall recognize that God obviously assists those who remain faithful to Him. Where He Himself appears, every doubt of faith, every weakness of faith will disappear and nothing will be able to shake the faith of His own. God does not hide Himself from those who want to find Him, yet He remains invisible to all people who reject Him and therefore also forfeit the extraordinary blessings which He holds in abundance for His own. His activity will be recognizable in various ways to those who see in Him their father from eternity. He will guide and lead them with a strong hand and let them survive the end time unharmed in body and soul, for where the spirit of God is active the spirit of the adversary has lost all power, and God will be victor over all evil and hold court on the last day .... But the last judgement is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Without grace no working in love ....

B.D. 3584 from October 21st 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The human being's conscientious observance of My word is only possible if he appeals to Me for My grace, if he is aware of his weakness and appeals to Me for strength. The human being is unable to do anything on his own, for as an imperfect being he is deprived of his strength, i.e. he has rendered himself powerless through his past apostasy from Me. And he can only regain possession of strength once he has become perfect, that is, once he is in closest union with Me. Earthly life is certainly the means of maturing, however, the human being is still without the supply of strength as long as he is still in a state of imperfection, and he is imperfect until he has united with Me again through loving activity and prayer. For I also impart strength and grace to the imperfect as soon as it concerns Me. However, if a person believes that he can live or act well without acknowledging Me and appealing to Me for help, he will be in error, for even the seemingly good deeds he carries out will then be rooted more in self-love than in the right love for his neighbour, which I demand as a confession of love for Me. Anyone who is capable of love and performs good deeds with a feeling of love for his neighbour will not reject Me in his heart either, for then he will already have become similar to My nature and wisdom and the power of realization will be inherent in him .... He will already possess a degree of perfection which will secure him My supply of strength. And in thought he will also be united with Me, acknowledging Me as the most perfect being and as the creator to Whom he owes his existence and Who guides his destiny. For the loving human being carries knowledge within himself which My spirit imparts to him in the form of thoughts .... Yet the unloving person who only persists in self-love will hardly fulfil My commandments, even if he wants to appear to do so. He lacks strength and what he does are works of self-interest but not works of love for his neighbour. Every person needs grace and strength as long as he stays on earth and has not yet changed to love. He cannot ascend without help, for he has forfeited the state of strength himself as a being which believed it could distance itself from Me. And it must now inevitably return to Me voluntarily in order to be able to receive strength again through which it can work in love. The human being must turn to Me in prayer and thus bend his will to approach Me again, then I will send him strength by means of which he will be able to carry out the works so that they will excite My pleasure .... that he will be able to carry out these works with love .... For love alone makes them valuable and pleasing to Me. Every person has to make use of My grace or he will remain on the same level of development he entered at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being. Graces will also be offered to him but he will never be forced to accept or make use of them. The greatest grace, however, is prayer .... the opportunity to contact Me in order to request what he lacks. However, anyone who does not acknowledge Me and consequently does not pray to Me, who does not ask Me for help and strength, does not possess the necessary strength for ascent development either. He will neither be able to be lovingly active nor attain the right knowledge, and the maturing of his soul will not be possible on earth, for where I cannot work with My grace there is imperfection, and the being remains powerless and cannot accomplish anything of its own strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last test of will ....

B.D. 3585 from October 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The spiritual being which resisted God had to live through endless times of bondage, and only a short phase is given to it to test its will, yet this short phase is decisive for its further state, for its fate in eternity. The walk through the material world is certainly agonizing for the spiritual being because it cannot freely work according to its will. In the last stage, however, its will is freely given and therefore life as a human being no longer seems unbearable to it, indeed, it usually feels so comfortable in this stage that it makes no effort to exchange it for a free life as a spirit, free of all earthly matter and thus of all fetters which previously bound the free spiritual. And that is why the last test of will is often not passed, and the endless long course of ascent development before was in vain when earth life still results in the spiritual being regressing, that it falls back into the hands of its enemy, who is to blame for its lack of freedom. And yet this last test has to be imposed on the spiritual being because it should strive towards God in complete free will if it wants to become free and regain its original strength. At the beginning of its embodiment as man it is in a degree of maturity which guarantees its complete liberation, therefore every man can wrest himself from the power of the opponent during his short earth life. He is offered all possibilities to do so, and he is also assured of God's support if he only asks for it. But in order to test his will the adversary must also have the power to make him submissive to his desire, otherwise it cannot be spoken of a decision of will. And that is why earthly life is full of struggles and temptations, of all kinds of resistance, which the spiritual must and can overcome with God's help. Therefore the human being must consciously make use of God's help, he must be supplied with the knowledge of a power Which can do everything It wants and wants everything that is good, because It is love in Itself. The human being must believe in this power and make contact with It and, full of desire to belong to this power, appeal to It for strength to reach the aim on earth. Then he will release himself from bondage, because God's love seizes everything that consciously and in free will turns towards it again, as it once turned away from it in free will. The spiritual being has to pass this last test of will, and earthly life is given to it for this purpose, so that it will finally become free from God's opposing power and attain its original state again .... that it is intimately united with God as a being of light, from Whom it once originated ....

Amen

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Without activity no higher development ....

B.D. 3586 from October 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

I assign to every creature the activity it has to carry out in order to become free from its external form. All works of creation contain spiritual substances which are of bound will, i.e. which have to be active according to My will, the law of nature, in accordance with their degree of maturity. It determines the nature of its activity itself, so to speak, by relaxing its resistance against Me, thus the spiritual is only permitted to be active in a certain way when it relaxes its rebellion, its resistance against Me. But every activity serves the building up and preservation of My creations, thus it will only have a destructive effect when the destruction of one results in the development of the other work of creation. For everything goes according to My plan, which is based on wisdom and love and only aims at redeeming the unfree. And thus a lively activity will be recognizable in the whole of creation, seemingly dead and living matter subordinates itself to My law, it submits to My will, albeit forcedly, as long as the spiritual's degree of maturity is still a lower one. Yet it is always on the path of ascent development, for as long as the spiritual substance is subject to the law of compulsion it can only carry out what is My will, and My will is that the spiritual substance progresses upwards, that it reaches the degree where I can release it from the bound will and give it free will, in that it can then carry out any activity .... constructive and also destructive, in accordance with My will or also directed against My will .... But then it is also responsible for its activity and its will, whereas previously it was relieved of all responsibility. The stages of development in the state of compulsion are endlessly long compared to the last stage in free will, but the last stage is of utmost importance because it is determining for eternity .... The distance from Me through the former rebellion of the spiritual was too great for the spiritual itself to reduce it because it was also powerless through the distance. But the supply of strength is guaranteed to it during the endless long time in the bound will. But it must be used to reduce the distance, and therefore the being must compulsorily carry out the activity, which it refused before .... It must serve .... because it previously wanted to rule .... Its once free will was forced into an activity it did not want to carry out of its own accord. And thus it could again reach a degree that its freedom of will could be given to it again, in which it now has to prove itself. If it now voluntarily continues to serve, it is driven to do so by love, and in a short time it completely releases itself from its form, from a fetter which has made it unfree. If it refuses to serve with love, if it tries to rule again with unkindness, it increases the distance from Me again and strengthens the bondage, it remains unfree and is deprived of all strength again because it uses its will and strength in the wrong direction .... every activity must therefore be carried out in serving love, every activity must be a voluntary service of love to the neighbour or to the works of creation, then it will have a redeeming effect ....

(25.10.1945) The task the being has to fulfil in the bound state is determined by God; the earthly task, however, is left to the human being's own will. He can choose his activity himself, and this will correspond to the degree of love in which the human being stands. Fate will indeed place him in a position which prescribes a certain activity to him, nevertheless his will is also decisive, for he can carry it out with pleasure and love but also with reluctance, and his spiritual development is also corresponding. Without activity, however, an ascent development is impossible. Then the spiritual in the human being still remains in resistance to God, it does not use the vitality offered to it as a gift of grace and voluntarily retreats into a state of powerlessness. It ignores a gift from God and thus increases the distance from God instead of reducing it. And this inactivity of free will is contrary to divine order and has exceedingly serious consequences for the being. For since it was active for endless times before according to God's will in a state of compulsion and thus reached the degree of development which is a prerequisite for embodiment as a human being, it is now also fully responsible for the direction of its will, and renewed resistance to God results in complete withdrawal of strength from God, which has exceedingly agonizing effects in the beyond after earthly life. For in the spiritual kingdom the lack of strength is an intolerable state for the being which now cannot be remedied as long as the being's will does not strive for it itself .... And again the law of serving love applies to the redemption of such souls .... What the being neglected to do on earth it has to make up for in the beyond under increased difficulties; it is now neither in bound will nor in free, powerful will but it is left to itself whether and how it uses its totally weakened will. It has to be active in order to redeem itself and is incapable of activity because it lacks the strength to do so, which it left unused on earth as a human being. This state is far more agonizing than the state of being bound in matter through endless times. But even then God's infinite love and mercy still gives the spiritual being the opportunity to free itself, but the will is always decisive, the will to be active in love. The being is never forced, yet opportunity is constantly offered to it, and that is why there is no eternal damnation, only often that of endless long duration until the being itself has the will to be lovingly active. Then strength will also be supplied to it again because it has now finally given up its resistance against God as soon as it wants to be active in love ....

Amen

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Not just listeners, but doers of the word ....

B.D. 3587 from October 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Those who strive spiritually must make an effort to live a way of life that corresponds to God's will, because this alone brings success and guarantees the human being spiritual ascent. Anyone who only mentally tries to reach the aim and does not turn his thoughts into deeds will remain at a standstill in his development. For only the deed proves his will to ascend, to God. And therefore only the person who lives according to God's will .... who is not only a listener but also a doer of His word, which makes the divine will known to him, can mature in knowledge. His knowledge can only increase and become the right knowledge if he utilizes the knowledge he has already received, thus if he follows the divine word and is lovingly active towards his neighbour, be it spiritually or earthly .... if he tries to alleviate his neighbour's hardship in order to comply with divine will. He can only reach God through love, which he demonstrates to God by loving his neighbour. Only this path leads him to the aim. The heart must drive him to carry out what is first conveyed to him intellectually through the offering of the divine word. If the human being is not active then he can constantly receive knowledge intellectually, it does not promote his spiritual development but remains dead spiritual knowledge because it is not utilized accordingly. And that is why life according to God's will is the first condition to mature spiritually, for knowledge will then increase even if the human being does not try to penetrate it intellectually. For through loving activity the human being's heart opens itself to the influx of God's strength of love, and this promotes his knowledge .... by directing his thoughts correctly and thus taking possession of the truth of his own accord, by giving it to him even without brooding and researching about things which lie outside of human knowledge. A righteous and pleasing way of life before God also earns him the power of realization to distinguish truth from error, and therefore a loving person will never walk in error because he is in contact with God through love and God will never be where error is, thus God's presence excludes all error or ignorance. The human being's feelings will always be turned towards truth, even if the intellect is not exceptionally active, for the right knowledge is the result of love but cannot be achieved through human intellect. However, if a loving person also uses his intellect then he can achieve abundant success by penetrating deepest knowledge, divine wisdom, but then for the purpose of passing it on to his fellow human beings, for divine gift is to be utilized. And again, this gift will be recognized and understood by people who live in love, thus who fulfil God's commandments, His will made known to people, who receive the word of God and let it take effect in their hearts .... who are not only listeners but doers of the divine word ....

Amen

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Promise .... spirit - comforter .... truth ....

B.D. 3588 from October 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And I Myself will instruct those who live in love, for I gave you the promise that I will guide you into truth through My spirit, through My comforter, who shall testify to My presence. I Myself have given you the assurance to remain with you until the end of the world. And thus I am always present amongst My children, and My children are those who fulfil My commandments, who abide by their father's will and don't want to act contrary to Him. These are My own whom I guide into truth and to whom I give the knowledge, the knowledge which signifies spiritual wealth, which they take with them as imperishable treasure into the spiritual kingdom, where only spiritual goods are of value because everything earthly is transient and cannot follow the soul into the kingdom of the spiritual. And this truth will make the soul unspeakably happy, for now it sees everything in the light, it is knowledgeable and thus also able to work for My kingdom .... to spread knowledge and thus to chase away spiritual darkness, so that light will shine everywhere and the soul's distress on earth as well as in the beyond will be reduced. Where there is love and wisdom there is also bliss, for love and wisdom is My share and My presence will always signify bliss. However, I can only impart My wisdom to a loving soul, for it alone is capable of using it again according to My will. To be knowledgeable is bliss, but only the perfect can be blissful, and perfection is inconceivable without love. Where knowledge is offered there must therefore also be love if it is to be recognized as truth, otherwise the recipient lacks divine power of realization and the knowledge, although divine, remains dead spiritual knowledge, i.e. it does not awaken to life because it does not reach the heart, where all spiritual knowledge wants to be received in order to become effective in the human being. And thus transmitted spiritual knowledge can only be like knowledge for the human being if a loving heart is willing to enter into intimate contact with the giver of the spiritual knowledge and expresses this through a way of life according to the giver's will. And My wisdom now flows to him without limit, for the love of the heart now impels him to utilize it. And thus the human being is now redemptively active on earth, or he enters the kingdom of the beyond with richest spiritual knowledge in order to participate in the work of salvation there, in order to guide the souls out of spiritual darkness into the light .... in order to also impart knowledge to them as soon as they are willing and able to love. For without love there is no light, neither on earth nor in the beyond .... without love people are still so far from Me that they do not touch My light radiation, My spirit, and therefore languish in darkness until they have changed into love. And this is why My word only teaches love, this is why I announce My will to people which only requires loving activity, so that I can then bring light to people, so that I can introduce them to truth and impart divine wisdom to them in order to make them blissfully happy .... For only where there is light is bliss, where there is light I Myself am, and My nearness must make the beings happy .... only love, light and strength emanates from Me which communicates itself to the spiritual being which has become perfect through love ....

Amen

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'The gates of hell ....' Church of Christ ....

B.D. 3589 from October 29th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The quintessence of Christ's teaching is the commandment of love for God and one's neighbour. Hence, wherever this is taught and practiced, there is true Christianity, there is the church of Christ, which has its foundation in its firm faith in Him and which therefore will continue when all else comes to an end. His church comprises believers who live according to His commandment of love and who are therefore permeated by His spirit which manifests itself openly or in secret, depending on what is best for the individual soul. And Jesus Christ guaranteed that this church will last forever with the Words 'The gates of hell shall not prevail against it ....' At the same time His Words indicated that it will be attacked by the forces of hell .... And His Word is truth and will come to pass at the end of the time granted by God for the souls' redemption. Then the church of Christ will be assailed by forces which are hostile to God, yet it will remain victorious and be recognised as everlasting by its followers, by the community of believers who practise true Christianity, abide by the teachings of Christ and live a life of love.

However, this church of Christ will be small, only a small group will belong to it and yet, it will be represented all over the world .... truly lovingly active people and therefore true Christians will live all over the world. Their love will gain them wisdom, and thus they will also be profoundly devout and acknowledge the God of love Who embodied Himself on earth in Jesus Christ and consciously strive towards Him. They were all promised by God that He would remain with them until the end, He promised them His spirit because they belong in truth to His church which He Himself founded. And thus He will protect them until the end from spiritual and earthly ruin, because they live according to Christ's teaching .... with love for God and their neighbour .... and belong to those who will be shielded from death, who will be taken by God into the kingdom of peace before the immense destruction takes place .... The small group constituting His church will be the foundation again on the new earth, Christ's teaching will be proclaimed once more, love will be cultivated and the people of the new earth will live in deep faith, for God's love had revealed itself to them, He Himself will stay in their midst because they fulfil His commandment of love for God and their neighbour .... And thus God's church will continue, it will survive all times because it will always be followed by people whose faith in the Redeemer of the world fills them with love and whose activity consists of a constant service in love .... because nothing can cease to exist which originates in God, which accepts love as its basic principle and therefore is divine ....

Amen

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Exceptional abilities ....

B.D. 3590 from October 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Every human being's extraordinary ability is a gift from God if the human being uses it to serve and benefit his neighbour. For powers from below also impart unusual abilities to him if he is in bondage to the power of darkness. But divine gift is every ability which is used beneficially for the fellow human being or also for creation, which therefore serves the preservation or the development of new creations for the purpose of the further development of that which is hidden in the works of creation. But people can possess the divine gift without exploiting it in the sense of God .... they can be able to achieve extraordinary things and remain inactive, or they only use their abilities to increase earthly goods and achieve earthly successes. Then they leave a grace unnoticed, a possibility through which they could achieve a great advance in their spiritual development with the right use of will. For the increased ability provides them with countless opportunities to be of service to their neighbour, thus to stimulate him to practice neighbourly love. Through his ability he can bring about great blessings and be helpful to his fellow human beings and thereby also achieve great spiritual progress. He must therefore also answer to God if he leaves the divine gift unused or uses it wrongly, and his remorse after the death of his body will be overwhelming when he looks back and sees the unused opportunities, when he realizes that he has forfeited a grace which God's love offered him .... These extraordinary abilities can be his share if he is already in a higher degree of maturity at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being, which is cause for God to give him extraordinary consideration in order to help him to faster ascent development on earth. But he can remain at a standstill in his development if he does not use the ability .... he can develop regressively if he uses it for earthly striving or, instead of creating good, uses the ability for evil actions, for creations which harm his neighbour and benefit himself. Then the ability given to him by God is exploited by His adversary who, by influencing the will, pushes the human being into actions which contravene the divine commandment of love. And the strength to carry out these deeds now comes to him from that opposing power and secures him greatest earthly successes but also spiritual decline. Then it is a renewed grace of God when he loses the ability or he is prevented from evaluating it .... And this grace is granted to the human being who, through his weakness of will, finds mercy with God, who has not yet completely fallen prey to God's adversary through hard, unbending will and unloving actions. And then he can still come to realize on earth that he has not respected God's gift of grace and secure forgiveness through humble submission to God's will, as soon as he now strives to think and act correctly and repents of his conduct of life. For God is a God of love Who leaves no means untried in order to win the souls and guide them into realization as long as they still dwell on earth, in order to give them the opportunity to change and mature spiritually as long as they are in possession of the vitality they lack in the spiritual kingdom, as soon as they enter it completely immaturely ....

Amen

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Belief in a supremely perfect being ....

B.D. 3591 from October 31th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Faith in God's omnipotence gives the human being inner peace as soon as he also feels God's strength of love within himself through his own activity of love; for now he is certain of the father’s loving care, which offers him safe protection in every danger of body and soul. To recognize God as a supremely perfect being means to be convinced of His love, wisdom and omnipotence, and this is profound faith which has a beneficial effect on the human being in every way. A being Which is supremely perfect only wants good for all Its living creations, and It will also determine the human being's path on earth according to Its discretion, as it will result in the greatest success for him. And nothing will be impossible for this being because His will and His strength will accomplish everything. Consequently, a profound faith must guarantee the human being's innermost tranquillity who feels himself to be a creature of the one Who is supremely perfect. For perfection can only want to shape what has become perfect again or lead what has become imperfect back to perfection. And because this will is decisive, every happening will only serve this purpose and thus be good, although the human being does not recognize it as long as he is not deeply believing, thus convinced of God's love, omnipotence and wisdom. To know oneself in the care of the supreme being must make the human being happy and take away every worry. But this requires the belief that no other power can thwart the plans of the supreme being and that consequently another power is no longer to be feared as soon as the human being entrusts himself to the supreme being. God has the greatest power in heaven and on earth, and every opposing power is small before Him. But God's love takes hold of everything that strives towards Him, that acknowledges Him, thus lives in faith in Him. And this love works united with strength, thus every implementation of divine will is an act of divine love, and since God's might and strength is unlimited, every will can also be implemented. But where God's love determines His will, every worry the human being has on earth about his fate is invalid .... Where love and wisdom reign, where omnipotence is unlimited and what love, wisdom and omnipotence accomplish aims for perfection, there a being is active Which is unsurpassable in Its perfection and to Whom surrender guarantees the most blissful fate on earth and in eternity, for the being, which is a creature of the supreme being, will never ever need to attach importance to its own needs and worries if the eternal deity takes over all care for the creature which surrenders itself and its will to Him. Deep faith in God therefore gives the human being peace and tranquillity, for he knows that he is guided and protected and is not afraid of the oppositions he has to overcome for the sake of his soul's maturity. He constantly draws strength from God and will remain victorious in every battle of his soul with its opponent. Already the acknowledgement of the perfection of the supreme being is profound faith which makes the human being confident and carefree. For what man fears can only be the effects of imperfection, that is, the work of God's adversary or his own inadequacy. And when both are confronted by perfection through one's own devotion, the former collapses and all anxiety leaves the human being, for the most perfect being can do everything and wants everything that is good. And only evil is to be feared if the human being does not acknowledge God. This is why profound faith is absolutely necessary if the human being wants to attain inner peace and live out his earthly life in carefree happiness and hope for a blissful end. But anyone who lacks this faith will live an incessant battle with the powers of darkness, and this means constant restlessness, fear of fate and inner doubt as long as the human being is of weakened will and has not yet decided for or against God. The apostate, however, is supported by the forces of the underworld, and his earthly life can certainly feign peace and carefreeness but his soul never participates in it, and at the end of his earthly life comes the soul's great hardship, which is now at the mercy of the powers of darkness, because it acknowledged them on earth and not the supreme being, Who in His perfection also tried to win this soul but constantly found rejection, because the human being lacked all faith, without which there is no spiritual ascent, no beatitude and no inner peace ....

Amen

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Stage of ignorance .... knowledge ....

B.D. 3592 from November 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

In the stages of the human being's preliminary development the will of the spiritual is still bound, and therefore its ascent development is certain, because the bound will signifies a natural law fulfilling itself in divine order, thus the will of the spiritual subordinates itself to divine will, even if in a certain state of compulsion. This preliminary development is therefore a transitional stage between complete immaturity, i.e. remoteness from God, and the stage where the spiritual is so far developed that it can recognize itself as being far from God and now consciously strive towards God. And the spiritual being must have reached this degree of recognition before it can embody itself as a human being to pass the last test of will on earth. The fallen spiritual being's complete ignorance would prevent it from consciously striving upwards, for the darkness which keeps it imprisoned in utmost distance from God is ignorance of the highest being from Whom it once emerged in perfection. The being must be led out of this total darkness into a state where it can recognize light if it is willing. And thus the stage as a human being is at the same time a stage of light which can unfold from the weakest twilight to the brightest illuminating power if the human being wants it himself .... i.e., the human being has the ability to recognize, and he can change the state of ignorance into a state of deepest knowledge and thus step out of the darkness of spiritual night into the brightest light of day. Only his will must become active itself. The spiritual night is no longer impenetrable at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being, it has given way to an exceedingly weak twilight .... the success of the endless long earthly walk before, where the spiritual had to pass through deepest darkness under God's guidance, but which it did not recognize. It would be impossible for the spiritual being to cover this long path without God's assistance, and thus if it did not reach the certain degree of maturity in the state of compulsion it would eternally remain distant from God, in utmost weakness, and the gulf would be unbridgeable. God Himself therefore created the bridge through His work of creation, which only serves to force the beingness to travel a path which it could and would never cover of its own strength and will. Nevertheless, even in the stage as a human being the spiritual is still in danger of increasing the distance from God instead of decreasing it, because now free will comes into action, thus the human being can oppose the law of divine order, divine will, and he then remains in complete ignorance about the nature of God, which is equal to the state of darkness before. And now God gives him extraordinary help again through Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Where the human being's will is too weak but is not curtailed by God in its freedom, it can be strengthened through God's help, yet the human being's free will is also required for this, for the final redemption from the form applies, which can only take place in free will. The spiritual being is so weak of itself that help has to be granted to it throughout its time of development, whatever God's love is willing to do. But in the last stage the being has to help, it has to want to be helped itself, then it can easily pass the last test of earthly life, it can come to realization and consciously strive towards God, with the help of the divine redeemer it can muster an exceedingly strong will and reach its aim in a short time .... to completely detach itself from the realm of darkness, to bridge the gulf to God, and to return to the state of strength and freedom which was its original state .... to be intimately united with God again and to live in bliss for all eternity ....

Amen

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The spiritual and material world oppose each other ....

B.D. 3593 from November 3rd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The material world and the spiritual kingdom oppose each other, consequently their demands on the human being are also of a conflicting nature, and no human being can ever do justice to both but unconditionally has to meet the requirements of one world. Understandably, the spiritual kingdom can only give spiritual wealth and this under conditions which disagree with worldly longings, while the world offers human beings earthly wealth which meets their needs. However, worldly longing is in opposition to the demands of the spiritual kingdom insofar as it puts physical pleasures and physical well-being into the forefront and aggravates or makes it entirely impossible for the soul to strive for the spiritual kingdom .... because the soul has to fulfil the demands of the spiritual kingdom and persuade the body to share the same desire which, however, necessitates the surrender of earthly longings. Thus two worlds are facing each other and the human being has to decide which world to choose. And at all times one world will demand the rejection of the other world, at all times either the body or the soul has to speak, to be precise, the soul has to decide whether its own development is more important than the body’s well-being during its life on earth as a human being. The spiritual kingdom bestows the most delightful gifts upon the soul and although as human being it cannot understand their true value they are nevertheless eternal and denote a wealth which the soul will be able to use in the spiritual kingdom for its own happiness.

The world also offers treasures for the body but these are short-lived and cannot be taken across into the spiritual kingdom. They will disintegrate like the body disintegrates when the soul moves from the physical world into the spiritual kingdom. And since the soul on earth can only receive from one kingdom it will be poor in the spiritual kingdom if it has only paid homage to the world. Voluntary surrender of earthly goods inevitably results in the possession of spiritual wealth because the soul only abandons the former due to love, or the desire for earthly goods will be predominant. And where love has awakened, the soul will unconsciously strive towards the spiritual kingdom and disregards earthly wealth. And thus the human soul has to decide during its life on earth whether to make the earthly world or the spiritual kingdom the goal of its aspiration. And its fate in the spiritual kingdom, to where it will proceed after its time of earthly trial has come to an end, will depend on this decision .... Prosperity or poverty, bliss or a pitiful state .... but bliss will necessitate the surrender of everything that is earthly and thus temporary ....

Amen

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Everything is God's will or permission ....

B.D. 3594 from November 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

You should be attentive and regard every event as wanted or permitted by Me if you want to draw blessings for your soul from it. Only the constant certainty that My will is behind everything that happens will let you become calm, even though you live in a turbulent, restless time which means increased hardship and worry for you. As soon as you recognize Me everywhere and in every event all restlessness will fall away from you, for then you will know that I am equally willing and powerful to create a more favourable situation for the individual, and this faith will not be disappointed by Me, for I only try to build up a strong faith because I will need it in the coming time .... because I require supports on earth which, only through a strong faith, are capable of helping to establish My kingdom in this world or to protect it from destruction by My adversary. I try to develop this strong faith in you, I constantly try to deepen it and constantly instruct you, mentally imagining My creative power and My will to love and relating every happening around you to it .... And thus, if you pay attention to everything and to your path of life in particular, you will always have to recognize My love for you which again and again finds ways when you need help. And you should leave yourselves to your fate with utmost confidence, for I, your father of eternity, already guide you correctly and nothing is impossible for Me if only you expect My help with firm faith in My love and strength .... I want your faith to become strong and therefore also have to subject it to tests where it shall prove itself, where it shall grow stronger until it has become unshakeable and you are now suitable instruments for Me on earth. Nothing happens without My will or My permission, and everything can be a blessing for you if you look at it from this point of view, for then you will always feel Me close to you, you will not feel alone but relieved of all worries because you can entrust them to Me, the stronger one Who always helps you if you ask Him for it. I will always stand by your side as soon as you only allow My presence through spiritual unity with Me, through good thoughts and good deeds .... as soon as you hand yourselves over to My guidance and courageously also want to conquer what seems insurmountable with My help. Then every burden or obstacle will become smaller, it will collapse, and step by step you will come closer to the aim because I am with you, because I walk with you and you will safely reach your aim by My hand. Therefore believe and consider everything as My will, whatever comes upon you .... and believe that nothing is impossible for Me, Who is love and the source of strength from eternity .... ....

Amen

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Duration of shaping the new Earth .... Paradise ....

B.D. 3595 from November 5th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The time it will take to shape the new Earth would astonish people if they knew about it. Yet their concept of time will have been taken from them while they stay away from Earth in the kingdom to which God’s love will lead His faithful followers in order to complete the act of destruction of the old Earth. They will live in bliss and peace, no longer being subjected to the enemy of their body and soul, they completely hand themselves over to God’s reign because their love and faith is so deep that they will be in heartfelt contact with God. And thus God proceeds with His work of shaping a new Earth which is to serve God’s faithful followers as an abode. He will not need the time which any other earthly creation usually requires; instead, He creates new forms which are to shelter the still immature spiritual substances for the purpose of their higher development in an instant. And, since the people will have lost all sense of time during their rapture from the old Earth until their return to the new Earth, they will certainly be able to appreciate the marvellous creations but not the great miracle of their sudden emergence. Countless creations will arise in an instant from God’s love and strength which will delight the human eye and exponentially increase their love and gratitude towards God. Then people will start a new life which will completely deviate from their life on the old Earth, for there will be profound peace on earth, people will live together in love and harmony, each one helping the other with love, and all people’s eyes and thoughts will be turned upwards, for they are in heartfelt contact with God, God Himself will dwell in their midst, teaching them and distributing spiritual wealth and they will glorify and praise Him without end. And so only short periods of time, judged by human standards, will be enough to result in a complete change, and the people of this earth will have the opportunity to marvel at the new creations and compare them with the old ones. These will be the people who possess the knowledge of God’s Word and who are therefore also acquainted with God’s plan of salvation for the spiritual beings. They will consciously expect the Day of Judgment, the rapture and the destruction of the old Earth, yet prior to this they will go through anxious times of adversity in order to then be allowed to populate the new Earth as victors, as God has promised. Therefore people should be informed in order to offer them the opportunity to pay attention to the progression of world events and thereby recognise that the time of the end has come, so that they will endeavour to belong to those who will not perish with the old Earth but, as God’s faithful confessors, may find His love and grace and be permitted to start the paradise-like life on the new Earth instead .... People ought to know what time they live in. Nevertheless, the knowledge conveyed to them does not oblige them to believe .... They are at liberty to form a mental opinion about it, yet it is one more opportunity to find God and to ensure the soul’s life. For everything will come to pass as God proclaimed a long time before, because His Word is and will remain truth for all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God is the Word .... God's presence .... Different conveyance of the Word ....

B.D. 3596 from November 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And thus I Am in the midst of you in the Word as I have promised. I won't leave you on your own and you shall also feel My presence, and so I draw near to you in the Word, for I Myself Am the Word and anyone who has My Word can also speak of My presence and feel protected near to Me. I Myself Am a Spirit Which is not bound to any material form but is strength and light to the highest degree and Which, due to Its will and Its thinking ability, has to be addressed as a Being, Which takes effect with love and wisdom and therefore emanates love and wisdom into eternity. And My love expresses the strength and the light in a form which you humans can become aware of, as you are not yet mature enough in order to receive strength and light in its fundamental substance .... And this expression is My Word, which I convey to you so that you shall gain maturity .... A Spirit which is light and strength in itself can in fact only be present in the form of light and strength, and thus My Word, the emanation of Myself, has to incorporate light and strength within itself, and this characterises My closeness. And therefore I gave you the promise that I will stay with you until the end of the world .... by the fact that My spirit is always with you who want to receive light and strength .... by the fact that My directly emanated Word is constantly conveyed to you in order to make My presence known to you. I Am with you .... and even if I don't visibly dwell among you, you nevertheless have the evidence of My presence in your hands if you recognise Me in the Word. For I Myself Am the Word .... and you will constantly receive it as soon as you desire Me and My being close to you.

Thus anyone who recognises Me in the Word will also be profoundly happy that I Am close to him, and all doubt, all fear and all worry will leave him because he knows that the One is beside him Who will helpfully support him in every adversity of body and soul. Consequently, My will grants strength and grace, for anyone desiring My Word will open the door to his heart through which I can enter in order to take abode in it. And I will never ever leave him again once his will applies to Me and he has recognised Me in the Word.

For the Word is the medium through which I express Myself, through which the most perfect Spirit of eternity reveals Himself to the imperfect beings in order to lead them to perfection .... I Am close to you .... So why do you who have My Word, who receive it directly or through the mouth of the recipient, still hesitate and worry .... I Am with all of you, because your desire for My Word demonstrates your love for Me .... And remember that only the flow of My Word to you gives you the certain proof that I Myself Am with you. Anyone who does not desire to hear Me does not desire My presence, his heart does not strive towards Me, for it would long for the expression of My love, for proof of My presence. Admittedly, the desire for My Word can certainly vary .... the human being can want to be comforted and strengthened through spiritual consolation, he can want to enrich his knowledge of spiritual spheres, he can also think of Me with gratitude and therefore want to express it by desiring My presence, he can want to remain with Me in intimate dialogue and accept My Word in his thoughts .... yet he must always be spiritually minded, then I will also let Myself be found and his call will draw Me to himself, and I will reveal Myself through My Word, since otherwise the human being would be unable to endure My presence. And likewise My Word will be conveyed to him in different ways .... through the direct working of the spirit within him so that he will be able to hear My Word himself .... through receiving it from a direct recipient who proclaims My Word on My instructions, or by way of mental transmission of knowledge from the spiritual kingdom .... through reading the Word I convey to earth .... through spiritual conversations with fellow human beings .... I will always look after a heart which desires Me, I will always be with those who want to hear Me, for I Myself Am the Word, and thus I Myself dwell amongst people if they listen to My Word with the sincere will to let Me speak to them. Then I will offer them the bread of heaven, My flesh and My blood .... And if they thus eat and drink Me Myself they have to be most intimately united with Me .... if they accept My Word in profound faith that I Am the Word Itself they will accept Me in their hearts and I will constantly please them with My presence .... For I gave you the promise that I will stay with you until the end of the world, and every Word of My promise will come true, because My Word is and will remain the truth for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Appeal for inner enlightenment ....

B.D. 3597 from November 8th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Every human being can appeal for the grace of inner enlightenment and he will receive from God what he desires. Correct thinking and the right kind of conduct will result if God enlightens the person's spirit, and thus anyone who prays for the grace of inner enlightenment will lead a way of life corresponding to God's will, for if God's spirit determines the person's thoughts and actions he will only accomplish what is good and need not fear to do wrong. Yet he will have to pay attention to the inner voice, he must hand himself over to the working of the spirit, that is, he must open his heart in order to let the thoughts conveyed to him from the benevolent spiritual side influence him. The human being's will determines the spiritual beings' influence on him. If he desires to become enlightened by God then God will assign beings to his side which will guide his thinking correctly, providing he does not oppose them. Opposition, however, would be an unbending will which cannot be guided, which, prior to the appeal for inner enlightenment, has had goals in mind and is afterwards unwilling to let go of them in order to entrust himself to God's guidance without resistance. Anyone appealing to God for spiritual enlightenment must be willing to meekly hand himself over to His guidance, he must only ever listen within himself and give in to the prompting of his heart which will urge him to do or not to do this or that. He must let himself be guided by his feeling, for this is God's voice as soon as the person seriously strives to do what is right. The more he lets his own will become active the less audible will be the spirit's voice, God requires a relinquishing of will, a subordination to divine will in order to be able to work in the person through His spirit.

God's spirit will speak audibly and clearly in all who unconditionally hand themselves over to God .... He will lead them through all dangers, He will guide their thinking right, and what they should then do or not do will correspond to divine will. Admittedly, this does not comply with human requirements which only consider it sensible to pursue a designated goal, which are thus intended to activate a person's own will and regard a relinquishing of will as a shortcoming. As long as the human being deems himself strong enough and believes himself able to master everything solely through his determination he will undoubtedly be able to achieve earthly success but never progress spiritually, for his thinking and activity will not always comply with God's will because he fails to appeal for God's spirit .... for inner enlightenment. For God's adversary interferes quite often with his thinking and activity; the person listens to suggestions made by the beings which are subject to the opposing power and his way of life will be lived accordingly. Therefore pray for the grace of inner enlightenment, pray for the working of the divine spirit within you, and then let yourselves by guided by the thoughts flowing into you .... comply with the urging of your heart and you won't have to be afraid to think or act wrongly, for God will answer your prayer and He Himself will work through His spirit in people who entrust themselves to Him .... as He has promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's will governs all forces .... free will ....

B.D. 3598 from November 9th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

All forces must obey Me, for My will rules heaven and earth and also the kingdom of the underworld. Only there do I withdraw My will where, through the development of free will, the beings shall decide for Me or My adversary. And this also explains the great injustice on earth which people inflict on each other, it also explains the influence of spiritual forces on people's thinking, which likewise can be shaped for good or bad by the human being's free will, for the human being is meant to prove himself on earth, he is meant to pass the test, the passing of which makes him a free, powerful being. And yet My will is above all .... Temptations are also permitted and a blessing for the human being if he passes them. But I never approve of what evil will gives birth to, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. And the forces of darkness plunge themselves into ever greater sin, into ever greater darkness, if they contribute to confusing people's thinking on earth, if they encourage them to act badly and thus make them co-sinners. The bad remains bad even if I let it come to fruition through My permission, even if it serves to transform human will again. And therefore everything bad has to be atoned for on earth or in the beyond. And the natural consequence of sin is suffering and adversity already on earth, because it is an expression of unkindness and because unkindness always overturns My eternal order and thus results in disorder, which is never a sign of happiness for people. Where there is suffering and earthly hardship, there is also a state of disorder which always has unkindness as its cause. The forces of the underworld are also increasingly active there, for they find good soil for their sowing, they spread hatred and envy again and contribute to ever greater disorder. This can never correspond to My will and yet I allow it so as not to make the human will unfree, yet the human being has to answer for himself if he has not used his will correctly .... And in order to make the wrongness of his will clear to him I also allow the effects of evil thinking in all severity, so that he will come to realization and change himself and his will. For this is the human being's aim on earth, I gave him life for this purpose but also his freedom of will, just as I also give the spiritual forces the freedom to influence people according to their own will. Yet My will is above all else, and it governs all beings in infinity in all wisdom and love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine order .... disorder - chaos human will ....

B.D. 3599 from November 11th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And it is divine law that in the course of time of a redemption epoch everything develops upwards until the last stage, which the spiritual embodies as a human being. Consequently, in all preliminary stages there can be no disorder, no chaos and no destruction due to divine will, but everything unfolds in a regularity, both the coming into being and the passing away of the works of creation as such as well as the activity of the living beings on earth, which have not yet reached the last stage where the being can act in free will and therefore also disregard divine law, which, however, always means disorder, chaos and disintegration. But as soon as the divine law is circumvented, as soon as the divine order is overturned, an ascent development is switched off. And that is why the embodiment as a human being is often a standstill or decline of the upward development, because now no longer the will of God but the will of the human being himself is determining. Yet the human being's free will also belongs to divine law, for the lack of freedom of the human will would also be a deficiency at the same time which would overturn divine order .... If there is chaos on earth, if there is decay, then human will has always been active and caused it. Such chaos can never be regarded as God's work, because all destruction interrupts the spiritual's course of development in the previous stages. It is different, however, when the destruction of divine creations is the result of natural disasters, i.e. the result of a process which is not set in motion by human beings but which takes place completely independently of human will. Then these destructions are not to be regarded spiritually as destructions but as a transformation and renewal of creations which again serve the spiritual for upward development. Before the eyes of men it is indeed a work of destruction but it also has its reason in the will of man, i.e., that the spiritual standstill of man's decline makes such a process necessary in order to change the will of them. What God does is always based on His love and never contradicts divine order, yet if people too obviously overturn this order God comes up trumps by proving to them the weakness of their own will, which cannot stop what God sends upon people. The purpose of His seeming work of destruction is that the human being adapts to the divine order again, that he learns to recognize that only that which takes place in divine lawfulness and is followed by the human being is good, and that every act of contravention prevents upward development, thus life as a human being remains unsuccessful as a result .... Only that which moves in divine order ascends, and therefore God's law must inevitably be fulfilled, the human being must adapt himself to it, heed it and thus fully and completely insert himself into the law of order, and that of his own free will. Then he will also ascend upwards, and at the end of his life on earth he can leave his form in order to enter the spiritual kingdom as a free powerful spiritual being, because he has fully subordinated himself to divine law and this now signifies an activity in the spiritual kingdom in God-like will .... an activity in love and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light .... God’s word ....

B.D. 3600 from November 12th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

From the realms of light the light flows inexorably into the darkness of the earth, and whoever moves in the rays of light is no longer frightened by the darkness. Nevertheless, dark figures seek to darken the path of light in order to mislead people who are making their way upwards. But the light is so bright that they cannot bear it and flee from its power. And the path to the height again lies bright and clear before the person who wants to reach the aim. Where light is, darkness is no longer to be feared, and all efforts of the dark spiritual forces are fruitless, for where the light has once found access to earth, there it cannot be extinguished eternally. The light radiates to earth, it emanates from God, the eternal light .... it is His emanation, thus visible evidence of His working of love and His strength of love .... The light is God’s word, the manifestation of Himself, Who wants to make Himself known to people. And this light can never be obscured by the forces of darkness, God’s word will never lose its truth and strength, it will always be a luminous signpost to Him for the creature which is still distant from Him but strives to come close to Him. And even if dark figures often flit across the path, the light is strong enough to chase them away, and the human being can fearlessly cover the path in the bright glow of the divine ray of light .... He is untouchable for those creatures, and he is protected by beings of light who guide him during his earthly life. Yet the path to ascent is difficult to pass and requires strength and endurance, although all obstacles are recognizable in the glow of light .... But the human being has to overcome this hardship, he has to fight step by step. But the light is at the same time strength-giving .... The word of God is a source of undreamt-of strength, and anyone who draws from it will never tire on his path through life, he will always be strengthened and able to meet all the demands which life's difficult path places on him. For God Himself is in the word with those who draw from the source of life, who hungrily receive His word, who want to refresh and strengthen themselves with it .... God Himself is the word, God is the light of eternity, God is the source of strength Who feeds everything with His strength that strives towards Him, that longs for light, for the nearness of God, and thus moves in the ray of light which flows from the spiritual kingdom to earth .... And every person will be permeated by this strength who takes refuge in His word, as He Himself has promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Called servants of God .... office on earth ....

B.D. 3601 from November 13th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Anyone who believes himself to be called to carry out a mission from God must also hear the divine voice within himself, otherwise he cannot proclaim the divine will as His representative. This is a condition which cannot be disregarded, for a servant of God must first know his lord's will himself and thus receive His expression directly. Understandably, people first have to fulfil the conditions which presuppose hearing God's voice within themselves .... The human being must live a life of love, he must be deeply religious and thus firmly convinced that God Himself speaks audibly to people, and he must consciously listen to the voice of God within himself .... Without fulfilling these conditions God's spirit will never make itself known and thus the human being will also not be called to present His will to his fellow human beings on God's behalf. The human being can indeed speak to his fellow human beings about spiritual things in good will to instruct them, however, there is no guarantee that he will instruct people truthfully. He first has to work on himself with the firm will to be accepted as God's servant until, by fulfilling all conditions, he is called by God for an office on earth which is extremely important and therefore can only be administered by people who are completely devoted to God. And this person must absolutely hear the voice of the spirit within him .... He must be so obviously introduced to truth, to the right spiritual knowledge, that his extraordinary mission, his calling by God Himself, can no longer be doubted. He must have brought himself into a state that he, as a servant, can receive all assignments directly from his lord, that he only functions as a mediator between God and people. And the change into this state must be the result of the strong will to serve God, to fulfil His will himself and to help fellow human beings in greatest spiritual adversity. No earthly interests whatsoever are allowed to have a say, they must be completely eliminated .... Thus the human being has to adjust himself completely spiritually if he wants to enter God's service and be active for Him and His kingdom. Through him God also appoints helpers on earth who are likewise active in His will. For God's will can now be made known to them through the former, and they will be in truth because it will be conveyed to them purely and unadulterated through God's servant .... And anyone who strictly adheres to the word of God thus imparted to him will be accepted as a labourer in the vineyard of the lord, and his activity on earth will likewise be a blessed one, he, too, will be considered a servant of God as long as he adheres to the word which is conveyed to him by God Himself through a called servant. But anyone who does not acknowledge this word, who does not have a direct recipient of divine truth as a teacher, if he cannot hear the inner voice himself, can never be active as a servant of God on earth either .... He will never be able to be a guide or teacher for his fellow human beings but, like them, a person in need of guidance who first has to be given the right knowledge if he wants to walk the right path on earth. Only then will a person be able to work for God and on His behalf on earth, for only then will he represent the pure truth, only then will he be in direct contact with God and be able to hear God's voice through His spirit within himself. But he will never arrive at the truth, at the right knowledge, by any other means, and he can never believe himself called by God to spread His word as long as he is not introduced to the truth himself, for His disciples are only those who are instructed by Himself or receive His direct instructions through a mediator, and these alone He sends into the world to instruct people .... And anyone who believes them, who allows himself to be taught by them, will stand in truth and therefore be blessed, for truth leads to God, Who Himself is the eternal truth ....

Amen

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Need and torment of immature souls in the afterlife ....

B.D. 3602 from November 14th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The soul which enters the spiritual kingdom completely immaturely has to endure unimaginable torments, yet the nature of these torments is not conceivable for you earthly people, even though you imagine the worst fate on earth as a comparison. For the torments are of a more spiritual nature, caused by the soul's environment which, depending on its state of maturity, is deepest darkness or twilight but always causes torment for the being which desires to be light and powerful because this was its original state. The sense of earthly good is indeed also strongly pronounced in such souls and likewise the cause of great agony, yet the state of darkness is unbearable for them and signifies utmost hardship for them. And their weakened will prevents them from striving towards the light when it falls like a spark into their lightless surroundings to stimulate the souls to follow the ray of light in order to find the source of light. Once the soul has overcome this weakness of will .... through the influx of strength from a loving intercession on the part of people .... its lot is already considerably better, for the knowledge of moments of light gives it the hope of being able to change its state, and it now pays attention to every slightest dawn, every illumination of its surroundings through such rays of light. And as soon as it herself steps into its glow, it feels an improvement of its situation, for the light touches its beneficently and gives it strength. But it is only touched by a ray of light if it desires it, and this can take an eternity before it liberates itself from its desolate situation through desire for change, for light. For the soul's will is decisive and therefore usually so weakened or completely turned away from God that the rays of light cannot find access to it. Since the being was originally full of light and strength it will only feel at ease in a state of light and strength and will have to feel every lack as torment, but the nature of the torment is inconceivable to people, yet full of pity they should think of those souls which are abandoned without help through human love and have to remain in a desolate state for eternities before they are released from it. People should imagine the saddest earthly lot and know that it does not yet reach the torment of an immature soul in the beyond, and therefore give it their love .... heartfelt prayer for these souls that they will lose their weakness of will, that they themselves will now muster the strength to desire light, that love will also stir in them, that they will want to be active and work in love .... As soon as the soul's will has accepted this direction its agonizing state will end, and through the influx of light and strength it will be able to work on its ascent development and make up in the beyond for what it neglected to do on earth .... to work in love .... For only through love can it redeem itself and only through loving activity can it receive light and strength again, thus it can shape its environment into a light-filled one, which means beatitude for it. To help these souls in their adversity is a work of Christian neighbourly love of unheard-of importance, for they are completely helpless and only depend on people's help through loving intercession. And therefore they often stay close to such people who were close to them on earth in order to appeal to them for strength, for help from their agonizing situation. They themselves don't know in what way they can be helped, because in their ignorance and spiritual darkness they also don't know about the blessing of a loving prayer. Yet unconsciously they promise themselves help through people, and you, who are of awakened spirit, should bring it to them and know about the agonies of an imperfectly secluded soul, even if you cannot measure their depth. Help them through heartfelt remembrance and prayer, thereby give them strength, try to point the souls to the blessing of the working of love and remind them in your thoughts that they can only redeem themselves through love .... make them sensitive to the suffering of other souls and thus try to stimulate them into loving help, always giving them the strength through your prayer to give their will the right direction .... and you will carry out a merciful work of neighbourly love which the souls will eternally thank you for once they have escaped the greatest darkness and eagerly strive upwards ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Satan knows he doesn't have long time .... devil in the end time ....

B.D. 3603 from November 15th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The gates of hell open wider as the end draws nearer .... All the forces of darkness unfold and assail people, and the prince of the underworld has great power. He sees himself at the end of his time and still seeks to exploit it in every way. And people in their weakness of will do not stop him, but they are willing servants whom he determines to act contrary to God in order to separate them from God forever. The prince of the underworld knows that he does not have much time left .... His power will be irrevocably broken when the end of this earth has come .... And by the raging of satan it can be seen that the end is no longer far away. The most cruel events are becoming more frequent, deeds are being carried out which no-one previously thought possible, people will shy away from nothing and they themselves no longer recognize the depths they are in, the depths they have been drawn into by a power which is outside of all divine order, which is completely devoid of love and which also stifles every spark of love in people's hearts, which spills every little flame which still glows in secret. It is a time of boundless hatred and the most blatant lack of love, people no longer live like brothers amongst each other but they are hostile to each other in every way, and only a few stick together and do not allow themselves to be spiritually raped, i.e. they defend themselves against satan’s assaults and take refuge in God, asking Him for help against the enemy of their souls. And love is not yet suffocated in them, and their actions correspond to God's commandments, and therefore they will be particularly harassed by the enemy of their souls in the last days, namely by their fellow human beings who carry out the will of the one who wants to corrupt them .... Hell has opened its gates .... Countless devils pass through and come close to earth, spreading their poisonous breath on it and using it according to their lord's will. And they are willingly accepted, people themselves give them room to manoeuvre, they not only tolerate them in their vicinity but they voluntarily tread off the ground for them in which they can spread evil seed and completely poison it .... they open their hearts and do not resist those who seek to corrupt them. And if a servant of the lord comes to warn people against those forces of the underworld, to admonish them to close the doors and only allow the God of love to enter, they will be turned away from the door unheeded, their words will be disregarded and the prince of the underworld will be victorious. And this alone through the will of the people, who are free and can determine over themselves .... And the end draws ever nearer. God's language will still be heard urgently before but will also only receive little attention because people are already too much under the spell of him who seeks to draw them down into the kingdom of darkness. And the light which at the same time shines brightly from above down to earth will not be heeded .... And therefore there is no longer any stopping, the redemption period will come to an end in order to be replaced by a new era; satan will be bound and deprived of all strength and with him all spiritual beings which are in bondage to him, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strong faith .... power of faith ....

B.D. 3604 from November 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And everyone will be helped according to his faith .... People who let My spirit speak within themselves, who therefore try to unite their spiritual spark with the father-spirit through intimate contact with Me, these people have faith even if they are weak and despondent at times of earthly adversity and anxiously appeal to Me for help. Prayer to Me is a sign of faith, earthly adversity, however, often oppresses the body to such an extent that it gains control over the soul and seemingly overwhelms it. And then the human being is anxious and despondent but his faith has not died out, for the soul which once has found Me will always stick to Me in adversity and thus prove its faith. And I will come to its aid. Weak faith is when a person doubts Me and My might in times of adversity, when he is in danger of no longer accepting spiritual things and grants the world greater power and rights. Then faith is in serious danger, and then I cannot manifestly appear through miraculous help either, because then I would force faith but this is not beneficial for the human being's soul. But as soon as the human being wrestles daily for My fatherly love, as soon as he constantly commends himself to My love and grace and presents all his worries and needs to Me in prayer, he will also have profound faith, and he only has to try to make the body as silent as possible, i.e., to pay less attention to the earthly afflictions and impose them on Me with complete faith. He must try to let the soul speak alone, thus to hear the voice of the spirit through it, the emanation of My love, which will certainly earn him strength to also become master over the body's afflictions. For the believer will be helped because I will not leave My own in adversity as soon as they call upon Me for help .... And the less attention they pay to the body's distresses the less they will be oppressed by them, and this is strength of faith .... leave all earthly worries to Me and wait for My help in peace of mind .... My love for My living creations determines Me to constantly provide them with help, but especially if they are in spiritual hardship. And the greater the spiritual hardship the further away they are from Me, thus the more faithless they are. And then the earthly adversity must press them hard so that they will find their way to Me .... But anyone who has found his way to Me, who consciously desires My love and thus believes in Me, in My love, wisdom and omnipotence, no longer needs harsh means of education to the same extent as the unbeliever, and I can helpfully approach him at any time. And his fate on earth will be easier, even if he cannot remain completely spared for the sake of his fellow human beings and for the purification of his own soul. Yet I am always ready to help if his call rises from his heart to Me .... And thus constantly let My spirit speak to you, listen to the voice of the spirit within you even in earthly adversity, that is, intimately unite with Me in thought and listen to My voice which will comfort you and impart strength, which will restore your inner peace if you are in danger of losing it, and which will also give you earthly advice if you need it. For if you remain united with Me nothing can approach you which harms you, because My nearness always protects you from the activity of the forces of darkness, because where light is there can never be darkness and where I am the enemy of your soul never has access. And deeply remember that I am able to banish every adversity and, if you deeply and unshakably believe in it, you can be sure of My help .... Strive for strong faith, pray for it without ceasing, then every adversity will stay away from you because you will be able to banish it yourselves with My strength, which a strong faith brings to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Heavenly messengers .... spirit beings to establish order ....

B.D. 3605 from November 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Whatever threatens you is My will or My permission. It is necessary for your soul's maturity and therefore it has to be recognized as My will and humbly accepted. But I, as the eternal controller of all destinies, determine the course of each individual life, and truly only for your best. Countless spiritual beings are active on My behalf who again and again intervene in an orderly way where human will has caused disorder, and again and again My own will therefore come to order if only they allow Me to rule and do not oppose My loving guidance. Firm trust in My help guarantees the success of everything you undertake. For I walk beside you on all paths and send My heavenly messengers to meet you, who, although they are invisible to you, helpfully stand by your side with advice and action. Believe and trust and do not be afraid, for the one does not sleep, nor does He forget you, but in adversity He is closer to you than ever. My father's eye sees into the hearts of His children and knows about their needs and worries .... and even if I seem to close My ear to your cry for help .... I am already directing and arranging all the threads so that they become untangled .... And where no rescue seems possible I know ways and means, and I can help you, for My power is great and My love for you infinite. And therefore trust Me and don't worry and fear, don't let yourselves be depressed by earthly adversity .... Who lets it come upon you for the salvation of your souls, Who can also take it away from you in an instant, and He also does this if you abandon yourselves to Him, if you, as My true children, devotedly wait for the father’s help, Who is with you at all times .... Who does not abandon you to evil forces if you yourselves strive away from them .... You have My word which you may not doubt, and My word promises you protection and shelter again and again. And keep to this and take refuge in Me at My father's heart, and you will be safe for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Stormy times before the Last Judgment .... Paradise ....

B.D. 3606 from November 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The Last Judgment will put an end to all abominations and peace will be on Earth for a long time. There will be a state of divine order on earth where only peace will reign, where love will unite all people, where the individual person's love will also guarantee God's working through His spirit, where everyone will be able to hear God's voice and be exceedingly happy to know God is so close to him .... where God will also visibly dwell amongst His Own in an as yet inconceivable way for present-day people .... People on the new earth will live in paradise again, in harmony of soul, in yearning for God and His love and in constant fulfilment of their longing. And all evil will be banished for a long time .... Yet before this state can come to pass on Earth a storm must sweep across it with a purifying and devastating effect, a storm which only people with profound faith and loyalty to God will stand up to. They will suffer great distress yet their later time on the new earth will amply compensate them for all previous adversities and afflictions. For as soon as evil has lost its power they will no longer be harassed and most blissful peace on Earth will be their fate .... This is why the final stormy time should not be dreaded by the believers, for God's will is above all happenings, God's love will work amongst His Own and His power will overcome Satan's power at the right time. And regardless of what will threaten the believers, worldly power, human hatred and unkindness will be unable to prevent the coming bliss on Earth or in the kingdom of the beyond for those who will remain loyal to God ....

They cannot kill the soul although they want to kill the body. Yet God will even prevent this because He wants His Own to inhabit the paradise of the new earth .... because they are intended to form the root of the new generation and because they shall be compensated for their previous time of distress as a sign of God's greater than great love which wants to provide His Own with a blissful fate on Earth. Therefore they will also be endowed by God with extraordinary strength with which they will be able to overcome all evil and which will enable them to stand up to the worst hostility. For the bulwark of their faith will be most violently shaken .... And only in those who have overcome their desire for the earthly world will the strength arise to offer resistance. But anyone who will still allow himself to be captivated by the appeal of the world will relinquish all resistance, he does not belong to the flock of those faithful to God, he will sell his soul for ill-reward, for whatever he believes himself to have gained will crumble on the Day of Judgment .... And all atrocities will come to an end on this day .... all God-opposing spirits will be banished and a state of calm will ensue in the whole of the universe, a state of peaceful activity which is incomparable to the peace of death. The latter is the fate of the banished spirits which will be bound in utter weakness within solid matter and for an infinitely long time be unable to become active .... And this is the time you humans are approaching, and you don't have much time left. If you want to be successful during the last days before the day of Judgment you must still diligently work at improving yourselves, you must contact God increasingly more sincerely, you must draw strength for yourselves daily and hourly and constantly remain in prayer in order to always receive strength as soon as you open your heart and desire God's grace and strength. And He will be and remain with His Own until the end, He will dwell with them in the paradise of the new earth and stay inextricably united with them for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right instruction of children .... will ....

B.D. 3607 from November 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The distance from God decreases as soon as the being voluntarily strives towards Him. The will alone is enough to come closer to Him as soon as it is serious, for God's love seizes the being in the state of free will, which uses this will in the right direction. Power flows to the being and it now also becomes active according to God's will .... the human being who has a will turned towards God is active in love. God only requires the change of will in order to then help him in his ascent upwards. For God now showers the human being with His grace .... He creates opportunities for his soul to mature, He gives him strength to work with love and is always helpfully at his side, always bearing the human being's spiritual well-being in mind, so that the soul will release itself from its last material shell. And therefore the human being's will has to be directed towards God from the beginning of his embodiment, so that his earthly life will be fully utilized and he can achieve the richest spiritual success. And therefore the human being must be given the knowledge of the highest and most perfect being to Whom his will should turn .... He must be instructed so that time will not be lost until the human being has attained the recognition of the eternal deity through his own reflection. Although it is also necessary to think through and examine the imparted knowledge, the thoughts must be directed to the spiritual realm from an early age, and this happens through instruction about God as the creator and shaper of all things .... about His will and the human being's relationship to God. The human being is then still free to decide. He can also give his will the right direction as a child, he can strive towards God and already be seized by God's love in his earliest youth, so that his upward development will proceed much more easily and he will possess greater strength of resistance in later life if the decision is required and he is to weigh up through his intellectual activity what is truth and what is error. The will, which strives towards God, also provides him with the strength to make the right decision, it provides him with the power of knowledge, for God's love will never let him go. The human being can indeed first direct his will towards God in later life, as soon as the knowledge was not imparted to him as a child, but then his struggle for truth will be more difficult and much time will have been lost which he could have used for the benefit of his soul. And therefore it is a great blessing if the children are instructed correctly, for the knowledge of both powers .... of God and His adversary .... is necessary in order to be able to decide in favour of one of the two powers. And therefore it is a crime against the youth to let them wander about in ignorance or to want to deprive them of their faith in God, the eternal creator and father, even as a child .... God certainly guides people so that they will still attain knowledge in order to be able to decide freely, yet the soul has to overcome far greater resistance and its ascent is more difficult. For the will first has to be turned towards God before the human being can receive the strength he needs in order to liberate himself from the one from Whose will he emerged and Who also placed His will, which is turned away from God, into the beings which His will called into life using the strength from God .... Only the will turned towards God reduces the distance from God and guarantees the complete bridging of the gulf which separates the being from Him due to its former apostasy from God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receiving the truth requires spiritual connection ....

B.D. 3608 from November 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The core of truth remains hidden to those who live without spiritual connection, whose senses are only earthly directed and who thus do not strive to attain Me as the eternal truth. All knowledge is rooted in Me, and through Me all knowledge of the pure truth is conveyed to people. But since I Myself am the origin, the source of all wisdom, the origin of all knowledge, the human being must understandably first try to establish contact with Me if knowledge is to flow from Me to him. And this requires thinking turned towards the spiritual kingdom, it requires an acknowledgement of Myself, which in turn first requires a preoccupation with spiritual problems and the will to fathom eternal wisdom. Hence the connection with Me alone is the guarantee to receive truth from the giver, for the influx of pure truth is an expression of strength from Myself which absolutely requires a receiving station. And since I allow the human being freedom of will he has to prepare himself as a receiving station otherwise the flow of strength of My love will not touch him. A connection must be established from the human being to the spiritual kingdom in the form of thoughts which, if they are turned towards Me, will also mean an open heart .... a receiving station for My emanation .... The human being's freedom of will necessitates this, otherwise the human being would be forcibly guided into truth and realization by the influx of My strength, which would be detrimental to the soul's maturing. As long as people on earth are indifferent to the pure truth, as long as they do not desire true knowledge, no truthful knowledge can penetrate their hearts, for I Myself cannot work in people who do not open themselves and their hearts to Me. All wisdom emanates from Me because I am the eternal truth Myself .... My spirit shines through infinity and transforms the worst darkness into light .... Yet I also gave My living creations free will as a characteristic of their perfection, and thus the creature itself must want to be within the circle of light of My emanation; it must also be possible for it to dwell in darkness if this is its will. Light is knowledge of the pure truth, darkness is darkening of the spirit, ignorance, thus also lack of the power of cognition to distinguish truth from error and lies. If the human being's gaze is spiritually directed he unconsciously enters the light of My influx, his will is turned towards the light and it will also become light for him according to his will. But if he strives for the world, for earthly goods, he will not desire higher knowledge either; he feels comfortable in spiritual darkness and thus can never receive the truth or recognize it as truth. And therefore truth can never be where the spiritual bond with Me does not exist, where the human being does not turn to Me for enlightenment with profound faith in Me, where he does not entrust himself to the giver of truth Himself so that He will instruct him and give him what he desires. There can never be truth where worldly interests prevail, because My emanation cannot penetrate where hearts do not desire Me alone but the world, and the human being is accessible to its pleasures. Having completely overcome the world guarantees the ability to receive spiritual knowledge, yet both at the same time will never make the human being happy because I, as the eternal truth, keep Myself away from those who still adhere to the world, thus to the kingdom of My adversary, the prince of lies and error .... There are two separate worlds, and the will of the human being himself must decide for one of the two .... The spiritual world will guarantee him certain truth, the earthly world will keep his thinking in darkness, it will go astray, and the human being will always let his will become active in the wrong direction but will never be able to attain wisdom, the pure knowledge from Me, which I only impart to those who open the door of their heart to Me in free will, who shape themselves as a receiving station for the emanation of My love and thus enter into contact with Me, as eternal truth, so that I can now consider them according to their desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Perfection of God .... purpose of His will ....

B.D. 3609 from November 18th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Great and mighty is God, and His love knows no bounds .... His nature radiates profoundest wisdom, His abundance of strength is invincible and His will only strives for perfection, and therefore everything is perfect which has emerged from His eternal creative power. It is recognized by His unsurpassable wisdom as good and right for the purpose it is intended to serve. What comes forth from God can never be deficient, otherwise He would not be perfect, otherwise also His power would be limited and His love would not be infinite. God is exceedingly wise, and His wisdom is coupled with a will which can let all His thoughts become form through His power. Thus nothing is impossible to Him, He can do anything He wants but only wants what His wisdom recognizes as purposeful .... And purpose is unlimited beatitude of that which once emerged from His strength in all perfection but became imperfect through its own will. His will will never be active in the opposite direction, He will never carry out or prevent something through His strength which would render the purpose invalid, as far as the human being's free will is not decisive, which He well respects even though He cannot approve of it. But God's will is eternally unchangeable, it is good and only aims at perfection. Yet that which has become imperfect opposes His will with great resistance, for it does not recognize the most perfect being, the being Which is love, wisdom and strength in Itself .... otherwise it would have to submit to Him unconditionally. Its own will is to blame for its lack of knowledge, of its own free will the originally perfect being has deprived itself of all power of knowledge and plunged into a state of ignorance from which only free will can redeem it again. And thus it does not know about the strength and power of the highest being, it does not know about Its love and wisdom, it does not know about the blissful state of perfection. And therefore it also does not recognize its own imperfection and is therefore in a state of deepest adversity if God does not come to its aid. Everything God does is a means to lift the imperfection, to help those who once fell away from Him of their own free will to become perfect again, to find their way back to Him in order to become blessed. And what He does by virtue of His will and His love and wisdom inevitably leads to this aim, even if it takes endless times before this aim is reached, if the will of the imperfect person resists .... Only when the resistance subsides does the beingness begin to recognize that it is imperfect; it begins to suspect that a supremely perfect being is its creator from eternity and that it must strive towards this highest being .... And with this quiet realization its ascent begins, it begins to align the imperfect with the supremely perfect being, it begins to subordinate its will to God's will, and it recognizes everything God does as wise and based in His infinite love .... And as soon as this state is reached, the being can no longer sink into the state of imperfection, it can no longer defect from God for ever, for it merges with the original strength from which it once originated through unceasing striving upwards and is unspeakably blissful for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cause, purpose and aim of suffering .... Awareness .... Transience ....

B.D. 3610 from November 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Worldly minded people are so far removed from the truth that they are unaware of how much strength they can draw from faith and a heartfelt bond with God, and thus they only ever take notice of world events and do not realise that this wrong attitude towards God is the cause of every world event which results in human suffering. And as long as human beings lack this insight, the state of suffering cannot change either. Time and again the suffering will merely adopt different shapes, so that the diversity of their hardship and sorrow will eventually make people understand that a power other than human will is behind the sorrow, that human will alone is not the cause but that the will of a higher power simultaneously steps into action, and that they will develop a certain opinion about this higher power. The knowledge of pure truth explains everything; it makes the immense hardship comprehensible because its cause, purpose and objective are identifiable. Change is only possible when people adapt themselves to the purpose and objective, i.e. when they try to solve the cause of sorrow and hardship which, however, is and remains incomprehensible to the worldly minded person as long as the world is his priority, as long as he provides his body with all privileges and starves the soul.

The knowledge of truth can only be given to the person who detaches himself from the world, for if the knowledge is conveyed to the worldly minded person he will not recognise it as truth and reject it. Thus increased suffering will put him into a situation which will make him receptive to truth .... by learning to understand through suffering and hardship the worthlessness of worldly goods and reducing the longing for those same goods .... The desire for truth will increase accordingly, providing he is not influenced by negative forces who completely confuse his reasoning and attempt to divert him from the truth, who incite hatred in the person the more the world and its joys disappoint him. But such people will not find the connection to God on earth anymore, and every means employed by God is in vain. Nevertheless it is an advantage for the human soul to recognise the transience of earthly values while it is still on earth, where it can learn to despise them and is no longer excessively bound by them to earth when it departs, even if it enters the beyond with a low degree of maturity. In that case, overcoming matter in the spiritual kingdom will not be quite so difficult and the process of higher development in the spiritual kingdom can progress faster once it has finally started. The soul will then accept the truth more readily in the spiritual kingdom, it will not oppose God as much as on earth.

Consequently, the fate of the departed souls is not as hopeless if intense suffering on earth had made them aware of the transience of earthly possessions even if they lose their earthly lives as apparent victims in times of hardship. And thus even suffering and hardship caused by evil human will is of benefit for the souls who are still very distant from God, hence God allows human beings to rage against each other of their own free will until He Himself commands an end when it fulfils His plan of eternity. And as long as people live in ignorance, as long as they do not want to hear the truth, He will allow them to mature through their own actions and experience untold perils and suffering, because this is what they want and therefore they are the instigators of their own suffering ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love for the fallen .... inseparable - God's share ....

B.D. 3611 from November 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And this is eternal truth which My spirit proclaims to you that you remain indissolubly united with Me and can never ever separate from Me, even if your will turns away from Me. You are a part of Me, for My strength was effective at your creation and therefore you will remain My share for all eternity. But whether you feel connected to Me and thereby become aware of My strength and are blissfully happy due to My supply of strength is determined by your own will. You create the state of bliss as well as the state of wretchedness yourselves, but I never push you away from Me, My will is never decisive for your fate in the spiritual kingdom but you alone determine it. And therefore I don't condemn you but you yourselves plunge into damnation if you deviate from Me and use your will wrongly. And yet, even in the deepest depth of hell you remain My property .... I will not leave you in the hands of the one whose will called you into life by using My strength. Only that it will take eternities before you give yourselves to Me, because this depends solely on your will if you acknowledge Me as your father and creator of eternity. For I do not force this will .... Yet My strength of love touches the being the less it distances itself from Me through its own will, even though it cannot completely separate itself from Me. But the strength of love flowing from Me signifies bliss, it signifies light and strength .... knowledge and power .... And therefore the spiritual being which is distant from Me is without light and strength because it withdraws itself from My strength of love. It is wretched because the state of lightlessness and powerlessness completely contradicts its original state. It is the state of the imperfect, whereas it originally emerged from My strength as a perfect being. Everything wretched is far from Me and does not feel the beatific love which flows from Me and touches everything perfect. Yet I take pity on the wretched because My love for the created by Me does not cease, and I seek to guide the wretched back to beatitude. Yet the process often takes eternities because the creature itself does not want to let My strength of love flow through it, but I respect its free will. And in these eternities My will and My omnipotence is constantly active to create opportunities for this spiritual apostate to find and take the path to Me. Again and again My love inclines towards the fallen one, My love descends into the deepest depths, sending rays of light into the darkness in order to awaken the desire for brightness in the beingness .... My love stretches out its hands to grasp what is sinking and pull it upwards .... For I will forever court My creatures because they are and will remain My share for all eternity. But they have to reduce the distance themselves through their will, and because they are no longer able to do so if they remain at an extreme distance due to My adversary's influence, I bind their will .... i.e., I take away its freedom until it is able to make its own decision again in freedom of will. For My love wants to help the weak, the powerless, to become powerful; My love seeks to change the will of the spiritual being which is distant from Me without, however, making it unfree in the stage of the final decision as a human being. But before that the spiritual being would abuse its will and therefore I bind it to prevent this. It must feel the shackles of its bondage for an infinitely long time and experience it as torment in order to want to be rid of it. Only then can it take the last path in freedom of will, towards the source of light and strength or back into deepest darkness again. But one day even the spiritual substance which resists Me will become free and strive towards Me, for what is Mine from eternity will inevitably return to Me, because I will not give up anything which has emerged from My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Consciously listening within .... The voice of the spirit ....

B.D. 3612 from November 24th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

To consciously listen within oneself furthers spiritual development to a great extent, for this enables the direct acceptance of strength from the spiritual kingdom. It demonstrates the will to make contact with the spiritual sphere, that is, with God, and where this will exists there is also the guarantee that God will draw close to a person, that He will reveal Himself, mentally or through the voice of the spirit which, however, can only be heard by a person who has prepared himself for receiving spiritual gifts. But he will be greatly blessed .... A source will be opened up to him from which he can constantly draw a delectably refreshing drink, God Himself will offer him a gift which is bound to advance his higher development because it originates from God and acts as a means to totally unite the person with God. An incredible wealth of grace will be made accessible to him, everlasting treasures which come from the spiritual kingdom and which the person will be able to take across into the spiritual kingdom in order to work with them there for his own happiness and for the salvation of innumerable souls in need. The spiritual wealth accepted by a person through the inner voice is often so extensive that he is unable to fully understand and use it, nevertheless, he will be inconceivably happy in the spiritual kingdom, for the extent of his wealth also determines his activity and the degree of his bliss. He accepted the divine gift of his own free will, he has voluntarily worked at shaping himself into a receiving terminal for the strength of the spirit, and this will is blessed by God .... He lets His spirit take effect in the person, He imbues him with strength and grace, He grants him unlimited knowledge and guides him into eternal truth .... But He can never ever offer this delectable gift to a human being who does nothing in order to make himself receptive, who neglects to work at improving himself or who refrains from consciously listening within .... For imparting spiritual wealth to him would signify compulsory faith and the soul's maturing against his will, but this would contradict the divine law of order.

To someone who remains in private communication with God, who asks Him and waits for the answer and thus also consciously listens within, He will speak mentally, He will steer the person's train of thought in the right direction, He will instruct him according to his faith and his spiritual maturity. For every connection with God through prayer or thoughts inclined towards Him opens the heart to the influx of strength from the spiritual kingdom, and the person can always be endowed with strength and grace, he becomes a receiving vessel for the divine spirit as soon as he believes in the working of the spirit, in God's working within the human being. This faith is the prerequisite in order to become receptive; otherwise, the human being will not consciously listen to that which the voice of the spirit proclaims. And this faith is only rarely to be found, consequently, the working of the spirit manifests itself only rarely too. This is also the reason for humanity's spiritual hardship, because it ignores the source of life from which it would always be able to refresh and fortify itself. The human being cannot mature without a spiritual flow of strength, he cannot advance but instead remains at the same stage of development. However, spiritual strength can only be conveyed to earth from the spiritual kingdom and therefore requires a connection between the spiritual kingdom and earth, which needs to be voluntarily established. Where this will is absent humanity is weak, the souls suffer spiritual hardship and cannot receive help .... For this reason God avails Himself of a human being who fully consciously makes himself available as a mediator between the spiritual kingdom and Earth .... who, with profound faith in God's working through the spirit, attunes himself as a receiving terminal, who prepares himself as a receiving vessel for the divine spirit due to his will to help his fellow human beings and to be of service to God. And thus divine gifts of grace flow to him without measure .... the spring of divine wisdom pours into this vessel for the benefit of all who drink from it, who do not bypass the source of eternal life but refresh and strengthen themselves on their journey through life. Their path of ascent will be an easy one, they will travel it by holding on to God's hand and thus safely reach the goal, for His gift is delectable and guarantees spiritual success for everyone who accepts it from His hand ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word .... bread of heaven .... flesh and blood ....

B.D. 3613 from November 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

You will constantly be granted the grace to be able to receive the word of God which God, in His love for you, conveys to earth in order to help you in every danger of body and soul. And since you therefore constantly receive the evidence of His love, your striving shall only be directed towards showing yourselves worthy of this love; you shall live a righteous way of life, you shall excel in works of unselfish neighbourly love, you shall be humble, gentle and patient, merciful towards every fellow human being in need, you shall live peaceably next to each other and constantly give God the glory, choose Him as your leader .... you should consciously work on your soul so that you, too, will become love in order to be able to unite with eternal love. God gives you His word, He does not let you go hungry but continues to feed you with the bread of heaven which gives you the strength to walk according to God's will. And you should always recognize this grace and be grateful, for His word is also proof of His presence, because He Himself is the word and thus descends to you in the word. Therefore do not let Him knock in vain at your heart if He desires entrance, if He wants to bring His word to you and only requires open ears and hearts so that His word can become effective .... You, who receive His word directly, try to influence your fellow human beings, inform them of His overwhelming love and His desire to enter your hearts; try to persuade them to open the door of the heart wide so that He can enter unhindered and also make them happy with His word which, when received directly, signifies immeasurable blessings and a treasure of grace for the recipient. Listen to what He says to you and move it in your hearts, and therefore let the great gift of grace become effective in you .... Let yourselves be filled with the bread of heaven which fatherly love offers you and enter into intimate contact with the one Who is the word Himself, Who offers you His flesh and His blood .... His word and with it the power .... It is nourishment from heaven which is given to you and which is therefore the most delicious food you can receive, which removes all weakness from you and enables you to overcome everything difficult on earth, which cannot be compared to earthly food, for it not only strengthens and refreshes the body but also the soul and gives it strength to develop itself, to unite with the spirit within itself and thereby to find union with the father-spirit of eternity, from Whom it once came forth and to Whom it shall return again .... God Himself calls the soul through His word, He gives it strength through His word, and He unites with it through His word, because He Himself is the word from eternity and thus comes to people in the word who hunger and suffer and need and desire strength and strengthening .... For His love is infinite, it applies to His creatures for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Devil of the end time .... paradise ....

B.D. 3614 from November 26th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And in the midst of devils you will be close to God when the end has come .... I Myself dwell in the midst of you, in the midst of My own, spiritually and physically, where My presence is longed for in deepest faith and the adversity is overwhelming. I do not leave you alone, I do not abandon you to the dark forces, even though the adversity threatens to crush you. I take part in everything, always warding off the worst and endowing you with strength until the last day has come. And you will also feel Me, you will recognize Me in every help that is given to you. And your faith will increase and let you carry everything more easily, and in My grace you will stand until the end .... And let this be your comfort and confidence that evil will not overcome you, that I will cover you with My shield and not let any harm come to your soul. But what is imposed on the body to carry is weakened by My influx of strength, and you will also be able to carry it because you are My children who can be without fear because the father loves them. If I dwell among you spiritually you will also feel My nearness, your physical weakness will leave you and you will be able to banish fear and worry through heartfelt remembrance of Me, Whom you feel around you and to Whom you therefore entrust all your worries. And I will be your protection and shield in hours of anxious earthly distress .... The world will rage against you and not leave out anyone who is faithful to Me and confesses this before the world. But I demand this confession from My own because I want to speak through you Myself and therefore you must give yourselves to Me without restriction, which also includes a public statement for Me and My word. I demand your support for Me and My teaching, I demand your faith in My word, which you must confess before the world so that the world will recognize the strength that lies in faith in Me. I demand this because My church shall remain victorious and this requires the undaunted confession of My name. For evil will recoil from this name if it is pronounced in all reverence and holiness. The devils will have to recognize in impotent rage what strength and power lies in this name, and whether they will also not stop threatening and fighting the believers, they will run against the bulwark of faith and finally feel the hand of Him Who is lord over heaven and earth .... My hand, which will carry out their earthly destruction and banish their souls again, because otherwise an upward development, an improvement for the better, cannot take place. But I must first give the devils free rein .... I have to allow them to proceed against Me Myself so that satan will have tested his power to the utmost in order to nevertheless have to acknowledge My victory. As long as he is not active in all his power he does not acknowledge My stronger power, but this is absolutely necessary in order to submit to My will. Admittedly, this still takes eternities, and therefore every redemption period will end with the binding of the one who wants to outdo Me as an adversary. And he must first be able to work in all his power in order to feel his powerlessness when the end has come. But I will always work amongst My own and they need not fear to succumb to the opposing power. Anyone who stands up for Me will fight in My camp, with Me Myself, and will truly remain undefeated in every battle .... Whom My shield covers, no thrust of My adversary can wound, even if he is surrounded by devils of the worst kind .... He stands in the light and blinded by it the devils miss their aim, he is covered by the beings which are subject to Me, which are active in My will and protect all who want to belong to Me when the enemy of their souls approaches. And therefore it will indeed appear to the world as if the believers are defenceless and abandoned and exposed to evil forces, yet they themselves know that they are not alone, they always call Me close to them through thoughts and prayer, and I will remain with them until the end .... as I have promised. My own will be allowed to hear and see Me, I will lead them by the hand and willingly they will follow Me and entrust themselves to My protection, and I will truly guide them right .... And when they see Me coming in the clouds to take them home into the kingdom of peace, they will be blessed, for then all distress will have an end .... Then they will be transported into a paradise where a time of deepest peace, harmony and bliss will replace the unbearable time of struggle before and where they will no longer be harassed by any devil, by any evil power .... where I can dwell amongst them, because only those people who are full of love will animate the paradise of the new earth .... For where love is, I can also be, I Who am eternal love Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Conditions for the working of the spirit ....

B.D. 3615 from November 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Your knowledge is patchy for as long as you are not taught by the spirit within yourselves .... and all your pondering and searching will not suffice if you do not contact Me first .... in order to appeal to My spirit for enlightened thinking. Anyone having gained his knowledge without appealing for My help first can certainly speak of human insight but never claim to possess divine wisdom .... knowledge which relates to the spiritual kingdom and corresponds to the truth .... For I alone distribute this knowledge, certainly to anyone who desires it, nevertheless only providing the conditions I ask for are met so that My spirit is able to work in a person. Consequently, the knowledge, the pure spiritual truth, will only be guaranteed if the petitioner completely submits himself to My will, if he lives according to My teaching .... with love for Me and his neighbour .... This is the first condition a person will have to fulfil if he wants to become worthy of My gift of grace, of receiving the pure truth through My spirit ....

Additionally, he must have a profound desire for truth .... This is another condition I expect to be met but which is rarely considered. For in order to receive the knowledge which complies with the truth the human being must first give up his humanly imparted knowledge, that is, he must not assume to be already knowledgeable .... otherwise he will hardly be open to the influx of pure truth if it is not in line with his previous knowledge. He must be willing to abandon his acquired knowledge in order to receive the pure truth .... And this will can only be mustered by a person who is as yet not convinced of the truth of his own knowledge. However, if he believes that he knows the truth he will hardly appeal for it, therefore it cannot be imparted to him either, his misguided knowledge cannot be disclosed and eradicated. To completely voluntarily submit himself to Me and to attentively listen to that which I reveal to him through My spirit .... is the only way in order to arrive at the truth ....

And thus the person must have profound faith, he must be firmly convinced that I Am able to convey the truth to him and will do so .... He must be convinced of the working of the spirit within him, of My direct activity in the human being, or he will not enter into solitude and carefully listen to that which My spirit reveals to him. To consciously listen within is therefore another condition which has to be met in order to hear Me. For the spirit's voice is gentle and delicate and can only be heard by someone who completely withdraws himself from the world, who listens within, thus who establishes contact with the spiritual kingdom, with Me as the Giver of truth, as the Father-Spirit Whose share rests as a spiritual spark in his soul .... He must allow the spirit within himself to speak and prior to this shape his soul such that it becomes receptive to the outpouring of the spirit .... And any person will partake in an abundance of knowledge if he fulfils these conditions, if he sincerely strives for the truth and requests it from Me as the eternal Truth. For it is My will to convey the truth to people, I do not want them to live in spiritual darkness, I want to draw them into the spiritual realm, and this is only possible by imparting and receiving the pure truth, which alone leads to Me because it also originates from Me. And anyone who searches in this way will have the right thoughts, he will penetrate profound knowledge, the spiritual sphere which will remain closed to all those who search elsewhere, because this is My will. The prayer for enlightenment of the spirit alone is no guarantee for its working if the other conditions are not observed as well of which I, however, will not let go because one depends on the other .... because a spiritual gift can only be offered if My law is complied with, which is fixed for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Request from power .... humility - grace ....

B.D. 3616 from November 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Don't rely too much on your own strength but humbly pray for strength and grace from God so that you can fulfil your earthly task. Recognize the hardship of the time, recognize the low state of the souls and know that people lack strength and grace from above or they would never reach this deep degree of maturity of their souls. For with God's strength the human being inevitably progresses upwards. But anyone who trusts too much in his own strength does not notice that he is completely powerless to develop spiritually, for he only uses the vitality he constantly has at his disposal for as long as he lives on earth for his earthly life. But he lacks spiritual strength if he does not request it from God, which requires profound humility and realization of his weakness. God comes to the aid of the weak and humble, He strengthens him and lifts him up to Himself. But he who believes himself to be strong does not stretch out his hands in supplication, he does not see the father’s hand stretching out to him, but he goes his way alone, he believes to reach the aim alone and without help. But the aim is not God, the aim is not light, but his path leads into darkness, because the eternal light does not illuminate him, because the light cannot shine where it is not desired. Serious desire, however, is only expressed through humble prayer, and only when man recognizes his inadequacy does he become small and humble .... but if he feels great and strong he exalts himself, he does not recognize himself, he is unaware of his powerless state, which is the result of the former rebellion against God. The state of ignorance, however, is also a spiritual low, which requires great earthly hardship in order to be remedied. For through earthly adversity the human being often learns to recognize his lack of strength, through earthly adversity he becomes small and humble, and then he finds the path to God to Whom he humbly submits himself in prayer for help .... If earthly adversity achieves this, it will have been a blessing, and the human being will thank God in eternity that He so visibly made him aware of his own weakness in order to induce him to pray humbly. For only the grace flowing towards him brings about his ascent development, but this is only accessible to the one who humbly asks for it, thus opens himself up to it through prayer. For without the supply of spiritual strength the human being will never reach ascent, no matter how powerful he may be on earth .... The soul will remain weak and incapable of developing if it does not receive help from above. However, help can only be given to the person asking for help, otherwise he would be forced to develop upwards, which is against God's order and thus could never result in anything perfect. And until people recognize this, until they lie on the ground and stretch out their hands to God, to their father of eternity, the influx of divine strength and grace cannot touch them, and the earthly adversity cannot be alleviated either. People can be powerful if they avail themselves of the strength from God, which is at their unlimited disposal .... yet they prefer to go their own way; they believe to possess strength themselves and to be able to master all obstacles in life. And this is the inheritance of the one who thought he could defeat God, who also thought himself strong enough to deprive God of strength and overthrow Him. And as long as the human being still carries this inheritance within himself, as long as he does not recognize that all strength must first flow to him from the eternal source of strength, he will be weak despite his awareness of strength and will not be able to force anything. And only the state of complete helplessness must bring him to his senses so that he turns to the source of strength, the source of strength from eternity, requesting and expecting help from there. Only then will his path go upwards, only then will he distance himself from the one who believes himself to be powerful and yet is completely subject to the will of the one Who is strength in Himself and distributes it alone according to His discretion ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning point .... divorce of the spirits ....

B.D. 3617 from December 1st 1945, taken from Book No. 46

A spiritual turning point has been decided in My eternal plan of salvation as soon as the spiritual development on earth comes to a complete standstill or experiences a decline due to the human being's free will, as a result of which the course of development is interrupted and continues again in a different form. This process will always signify a spiritual turning point, in that the more highly developed spiritual will now be placed into a state where it can work and create without being hindered by lower beings, where therefore in spiritual terms the struggle is weaker or completely eliminated, where the earth is only inhabited by the embodied beingness which belongs to Me, and thus the connection from earth to Me, to the spiritual kingdom, is always and constantly established, which signifies spiritual elevation. Such a turning point is also now imminent but still presupposes a hard battle in which spirits have to separate and decide. There is a great spiritual decline, which can be seen in the behaviour of humanity, in its unkindness of thought and action. The time has come when the decision in My eternal plan of salvation has to be carried out, because humanity itself causes the spiritual low, because it has completely distanced itself from Me and makes its upward development impossible. This state cannot last long because it completely contradicts My law of eternity which demands and favours constant ascent development. Therefore I have to separate the beingness which is willing and strives upwards from the beingness which more strongly develops its drive downwards and interrupts the course of upward development in free will. I must deprive it of every possibility of sinking even further back and bind it again in a new form adapted to its state of maturity, so that it strides upwards in a state of compulsion .... Hence a spiritual turning point occurs, a conclusion of an old and beginning of a new redemption epoch, a passing away of the old earth, i.e. of the creations on it, and the forming of a new earth with entirely new creations which again serve the bound spiritual's ascent development. My will separates people of a low degree of maturity from those who strive upwards and long for Me, so that they will live together in a time of deepest peace and most blissful harmony and learn to regard the earth as a spiritual school, as a means of education of high value for the spiritual which is still bound in form, so that they will find their beatitude in spiritual striving already on earth and no longer need to fear everything evil, lowly, because it is banished for a long time and does not find access to people. And this is a spiritual turning point which can only occur when a complete purification has taken place, which is certainly foreseen in My eternal plan of salvation but which also demands its time, so that every spiritual being is offered the opportunity to decide .... (to separate himself) from the opposing power of his own free will and to strive towards Me by using My strength. If this opportunity is disregarded, the spiritual being will inevitably belong to the one that is judged in the end, which is condemned to a new course of development through creation for the purpose of final redemption. And this spiritual turning point must also be an explanation to people in the last days for the great adversity, for the extraordinary working of My spirit and for the miracles at the end of days when I Myself will come in the clouds to fetch them home into the kingdom of peace, who remain faithful to Me even in the most difficult time because they recognize in Me their father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will decision .... church organisation ....

B.D. 3618 from December 2nd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The human being's decision of will has to be made by himself, i.e. the human being's will cannot be directed by either good or evil forces but he can only be influenced by both sides to decide in one direction. And therefore the transmission of God’s word, of Christ's teaching, can only ever be regarded as an influence on a person, for it is up to him to decide whether to accept or reject it. And thus every ecclesiastical organisation can only ever be regarded as a means to guide the human will in the right direction; but it can never claim to be the aim of right thinking and will .... thus the purpose can certainly be achieved through membership of such an organisation but membership is never already evidence of a correctly directed will, which is why human striving has to start in every religious community itself to give the will the right direction. For the human being can fulfil all requirements imposed on him by an ecclesiastical organisation, but this can be education and habit where his own will is still switched off. It can be an outward observance of Christ's teaching, a fulfilment of duties which lack deep love, even though they are carried out out of obedience to the church. A right decision of the will demands a mental immersion in spiritual questions and only then a conscious opinion on them. Blind obedience, on the other hand, is not a decision of the will, it is rather a shutting out of free will and therefore cannot bring about any spiritual success. And therefore people are often forced to take a stand insofar as they are led into doubt by God's love as to the truth of what is presented to them. Again and again the word of God is brought to them so that they shall find contradictions between what Jesus Christ taught on earth and what an ecclesiastical organisation sometimes represents .... so that the contradictions will stimulate them to think and thus the activity of the will will lead to a free decision. For time on earth should not pass by unused, which, however, is the case when a person leaves spiritual knowledge unexamined, when he has been pushed into a school of thought and does not make any effort to examine it for its truth. No one can lay claim to unconditional attainment of aims by belonging to a church organization, his will must first have become active itself by mentally dealing with everything he is taught and again demanded of him .... And the word of God will always be his guide, he will learn to distinguish the voice of God from the voice of the world, he will be able to judge God's work and additional human work and then also decide correctly, as is his task on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption process .... eternities .... hell - damnation ....

B.D. 3619 from December 4th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The spiritual's process of redemption lasts as long as the spiritual itself needs it ..... Thus it cannot be said to take the same length of time but every entity determines it itself through the severity of its resistance, through its will to allow itself to be redeemed. And therefore eternities can pass before this process is finished, and several redemption periods can be necessary; but one epoch can also suffice for the spiritual being's complete redemption as soon as it is willing and consciously strives for redemption in the last stage of development.

This last stage can be lived through by the spiritual being sooner or later in a redemption period, for here too the will of the spiritual being in the bound state is decisive, even though this will is not free. The being certainly has to carry out certain activities, it cannot fight against divine order, but it can willingly comply with this activity, it can strive for a loosening of its bondage itself; and then it does not need such a long time for its ascent development in the state of compulsion and can all the sooner enter the last stage with freedom of will where it finally has to decide whether it is willing to serve in love and of its own free will or falls back into resistance against God .... And this is why a being which ascended quickly in the preliminary stage can prolong the process of redemption itself through an unused earthly life as a human being by then having to continue it in the kingdom of the beyond under considerably more difficult conditions. Eternities can pass again in the spiritual kingdom before it can enter the kingdom of light; there is also the possibility that it will sink deeper and finally have to walk the path through creation again, in bound will .... that therefore a second redemption period is necessary for this beingness and also several in order to reach the aim once. The spiritual being, which remains in hard resistance to God, needs a far longer period of time for its redemption. It is held in hard matter, it already needs eternities for its ascent development in the state of compulsion, but this also once leads to the last stage as man where it has to pass the last test of will. Even then there is still the danger of a standstill or decline, but also the possibility of complete redemption. But the latter will become smaller and smaller the further a redemption period has progressed. It is evident that the resistance against God has not yet been broken despite endless long captivity before, it is evident in humanity's spiritual low, in its unbelief and in a life without connection with God. But people who nevertheless reach their aim at this time have to endure strong struggles as compensation for their infinitely long resistance before, yet they also have to expect exceedingly strong strength and grace on God's part, Who assists the spiritual in immense love in order to lead it to the aim. But the beingness which fails inevitably takes the course of development once again without being given the opportunity to mature in the beyond, for it no longer reaches the degree of maturity which requires an ascent development in the beyond. Rather, it is in the power of satan, thus it has already sunk so far that only the binding in the firmest matter .... a renewed course through creation in a state of compulsion, can help this spiritual being to reduce its distance from God and thus also the total lack of strength, which is the result of the distance from God. And thus it is possible that several periods of development are necessary to lead a being to the aim, and that is why people also speak of eternal damnation, of hell and death, because they are periods of time which, according to human judgement, last eternities, which the human being's intellect cannot grasp with its concept of time and which therefore also explain God's merciful love, with which He tries to influence people at all times and especially in the time of the end in order to protect them from such a repeated earthly progress, in order to guide them into the state of maturity which enables them to enter the kingdom of the beyond in order to continue their development there. For once the time God has granted the spiritual being for redemption has expired, and a new period begins according to the eternal plan of salvation, which is the basis of all events and only has the redemption of the unfree spiritual as its aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Severe hardship before the last rescue mission ....

B.D. 3620 from December 5th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And thus I guide you along a path which, although indeed hard and stony, will definitely come to an end at the goal which you should reach on earth. You will yet experience fearful hours and have to come ever closer to Me, you will witness much misery in your environment and often ask yourselves why I allow such despair .... you will experience serious hardship yourselves and call upon Me fearfully, but your call shall not be in vain. I will always be ready to help when the hardship has reached its limit, as I have promised you, because I protect you from the worst, since you are My Own and want to serve Me and therefore, as My workers, also have the benefit of My assured protection. Come what may, do not give up, because whatever My will allows to happen is necessary for the soul of people who are near to you and cannot find Me. But when the time is right I will intervene .... I will leave no stone unturned in order to win over more souls before I start the last rescue mission before the end, because many will lose their earthly lives and I still want to preserve the lives of their souls so that they can enter the spiritual realm with a glimmer of awareness.

This is the purpose of the severe hardship before the end. And you will have to witness it, if only up to an endurable extent for you. Hatred and human unkindness are the initiators of adversity, they cannot be content, they do not want to live in peace, they incite hatred by any means and thus force people into severe difficulties. They are ruled by Satan and are his willing servants. No house will remain unaffected by hostile actions, no human being will be spared suffering, and blessed is he who takes his refuge in Me ....He will be helped and time and again he will be guided by My strong hand, time and again his path will light up and the goal become visible, which will give him joyous hope to courageously overcome all adversity. Whoever takes My hand and lets himself be guided by it need not fear no matter how severe the hardship may be .... Whoever calls upon Me I will hear and not leave him without assistance. Because I gave you My Word that I will protect and look after you, thus you may trust Me with blind faith and accept everything that happens to you. Because My will shall end all hardship at the right time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

‘Whoever sees Me sees the Father ....’

B.D. 3621 from December 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Whoever sees Me sees the Father, because the Father and I are one .... I brought the Word to people but they did not recognise it as God’s Word, as the expression of His infinite love for His living creations. They looked at it as human word, given to them by Me from Myself, because they were dark inside and did not know about God’s working within the human being .... Hence they could no longer hear God’s voice themselves, which could have provided evidence to them of God’s presence, of His essence and his close relationship with people. I, however, wanted to return this knowledge to them, I wanted to introduce them to the strength of love and faith, so that they might become noticeably aware of God’s presence if they heeded My teaching .... I came to them as a mediator sent by God to proclaim His Word to people of good will in accordance with His instruction. The eternal Father-Spirit took abode in Me to visibly work through Me .... Everything I said and did was His work, His will, His strength and His love .... I was merely the form through which God expressed Himself, or His presence would have been unbearable for the people who were living in profound spiritual darkness .... And the form which veiled the Father-Spirit also belonged to Him, for everything within Me aspired towards the Father-Spirit, albeit it was a mortal shell like any other human being .... But because of the spirit within Itself It became immortal ....

I was Jesus, the man, but only in My external appearance, because everything in and about Me was spiritualised by love, it was united with the eternal love to which I was inseparably connected since eternity. God as a spirit is not visible to human beings, nevertheless He made Himself visible to them in Me as a person, He adopted My physical garment and showed Himself in it to people, identifying Himself as wisdom, love and omnipotence. And to those who believed in Me My work on earth gave evidence of the Deity through miracles, which were only possible to God and which My will could accomplish because God was in Me, and thus His will, wisdom and strength permeated Me .... Hence there was no further separation between God and My mortal body, It had become one with Him, He occupied it completely, He Himself walked on earth in My external form, which in turn was a work of His love in order to make Himself accessible to people .... And I brought His Word to them .... He Himself spoke through Me, He, the eternal Word Himself, had become flesh in order to make Himself heard by people. Because they no longer knew the mystery of eternal love, the eternal Father-Spirit, Whose Word establishes the bond with people ....

They no longer knew about the strength of the Word which draws everything towards Itself when it can become effective in a person .... They did not know that every human being could hear the divine Word Itself in himself if he shaped himself to love in accordance with God’s will, in order to receive the divine love Itself .... For this reason God came to earth Himself, and He brought them the knowledge again which should release the people from their darkness .... And people did not recognise Him, they pursued Me, Who sheltered the Divine inside of Me, as a human being .... And I had to allow it to happen in order to safeguard their free will. I brought the Word to them but they did not accept it, and they did not recognise in Me the One Who permeated Me completely .... They saw Me but not God in Me, Who did not conceal Himself from their view but performed signs and miracles in order to make the blind see again .... But to those who believed He revealed Himself in His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... And they saw Him rise to heaven in full glory, they saw His shell spiritualising itself before their eyes and in radiating light ascend to the kingdom which had been its home since eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Ascension of Christ .... Transfiguration ....

B.D. 3622 from December 7th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

My life on earth was a path of love which I concluded with My death on the cross .... My body was on earth, that is, it was subject to all natural laws, My soul was with God, it lived a spiritual life and thereby became powerful enough to conquer the body, to likewise make it strive towards God which subsequently spiritualised soul and body, so that the external form sheltering God, the eternal Father in all fullness, was no longer an obstacle for His working. The external form could therefore no longer succumb to physical death, because only matter sheltering immature spiritual substances is mortal, i.e. changeable within itself, but not completely spiritualised substance. Hence soul and body were able to enter the spiritual kingdom in a perfect state, they were translucent and, being permeated by light and strength, were able to leave Earth, which was a process My disciples were allowed to witness as it occurred before their eyes, so that they were able to behold God’s glory in order to receive strength for their mission on earth which subsequently commenced for the sake of humanity’s redemption. Their task was to inform people of My act of Salvation, of My way of life, My teaching, of My excruciating suffering and death on the cross and of My resurrection and ascension .... And for this mission they had to be prepared, they had to live a life of love themselves, they had to be profoundly faithful, having recognised in Me the Father of eternity, they had to accept My teaching wholeheartedly within themselves in order to be able to pass it on; they had to be guided into truth in order to comprehend My sacrificial death, and thus they had to be living followers and able to preach with innermost conviction. And for this reason they were also allowed to witness My ascension on earth, the last sign of My glory, My divinity, I was able to give to them as a human being, which completed My life on earth but which must remain alive for My Own for as long as the world exists. For My transfiguration, as the fulfilment of My teaching, was indeed comprehensible to My disciples yet only understandable to people if they followed Me, lived a life of selfless love and thereby became able to grasp the truth and accept profoundly divine wisdom. When they know that the purpose of earthly life is the spiritualisation of soul and body and the result of it is brightest permeation by light they will also find My ascension credible. For this reason My only purpose of earthly life was the preaching of love, for this reason the Word became flesh, in order to show people the right way, to exemplify a life of love and to encourage them to follow Me .... Only love achieves a spiritualisation, and only love delivers the human race from death and awakens it to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"He who confesses Me before the world ...."

B.D. 3623 from December 8th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Whoever confesses Me before the world, him I will also confess before My father .... And thus you will be forced by the world, by worldly-minded people, to confess Me or to deny Me. And then you must stand firm; you must know that I likewise demand this confession and decide for Me or the world. For you cannot enter the father’s kingdom if you have not confessed your allegiance to Him on earth. This decision is demanded of you so that My working in My own will become evident. It is the last opportunity for those who are still undecided, who are weak-willed, to join you if they recognize the strength that lies in faith in Me and My name. Furthermore, the small circle of those who stand up for Me shall be separated from those who deny Me, and this can only happen through open confession before the world, so that those who want to remain faithful to Me unite and those who stand against Me in the last battle on this earth are recognizable. For the small flock of believers must promise each other comfort and strength, they must refresh themselves with the source of grace which My love has made accessible to them for this difficult time, and they must consciously await the end, My coming and the last judgment. Anyone who openly confesses before the world carries the sign of the cross before him, and under this sign he will also be victorious, even though the adversary's camp seems to be far superior to him. And the heavenly father prepares a dwelling place for him in His kingdom .... I will bring him in Myself on the day of judgment, I will confess him before My father as He confessed Me before the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘Become as little children ....’

B.D. 3624 from December 10th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Become as little children and take refuge with Me in every adversity .... and don’t be afraid, for your heavenly Father does not allow anything to happen that is not beneficial for you. Have faith and trust in Me, your Father of eternity, that I will hold My hands protectively over you and simply regard every ailment of the body as a caring way of helping your soul. However, you should know that the body’s adversity, too, will be cured by Me if you firmly believe in it and recognise My Fatherly love in everything, regardless of what happens. Be as carefree as children and leave it to the Father to take care of you, just make sure you fulfil your heavenly Father’s will and My Fatherly love will take hold of you and draw you to My heart. Don’t ask and speculate fearfully what might become of you, but remain calm and simply wait for the Father’s help if adversity weighs you down. Totally rely on Me Who guides you wherever you go. Your strength rests in your childlike trust and humble prayer, for I will not disappoint this and grant your prayer at all times. Yet do not worry and doubt .... My Fatherly love will save you from every danger and the call of My child will never go unheeded .... But in order to become as children you must relinquish all resistance, you must only ever want Me to lead you by the hand and you must follow Me willingly and never want to take different paths .... And thus you must pray with faithful trust and devotedly rely on Me and then regard every happening as My will .... For it is My will, nothing happens against My will if you commend your problems to Me. Only someone who acts on his own, without having appealed for My blessing and My support, activates his will with appropriate results, yet not always in his favour. I cannot grant My help to him because he would not recognise it as My help but regard it as his own merit. Yet for My children I will even out their every path, even if it appears difficult to travel. Just hand yourselves over to My guidance with complete trust and you will always feel a loving Fatherly hand which will guide you safe and sound through every calamity of this world. And always draw comfort and strength from My Word .... Let the Father speak to His children, and accept every Word of love so that it will impel you to love in turn. Never let the Father’s voice go unheeded but be glad that you may hear it, that the Father thereby reveals His love for you, and follow Him and His Word with joyful zest .... And you will gain My approval, you will feel My Fatherly love increasingly more, you will no longer fear any adversity and be safe and secure in My heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The end is determined by people themselves .... Low level ....

B.D. 3625 from December 12th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

My eternal decision included the end, and thus it will come without fail when people's low spiritual level demands it .... The end will therefore be preceded by a time when people distance themselves from Me of their own free will, so that I can no longer influence them with My strength of love because they will prevent it themselves. But where My strength of love stops, i.e. where it is no longer able to affect the spirit, that is where life .... activity .... will also come to an end. The spiritual being will descend into a state of solidification. This will be the result of insufficient strength, to which it will have shut itself off. The human being as such will still be in possession of vital energy, but since he will be using it in a completely wrong way during the last days, since he, instead of striving towards Me, will strive away from Me completely of his own free will, I will also have to take his vital energy away from him, which will therefore signify the physical end of countless spiritual beings which are embodied as human beings on earth and which, deprived of their final form of development, will subsequently completely solidify again, thus descend into weakness and darkness, until My love gives them a form once again in which their process of development can start anew. The spiritual being cannot live, thus be active, without an influx of strength, yet this strength will not flow to it against its will while it is in a state of free will. At the start of its incarnation as a human being the latter is certainly weak-willed, or his will is still undecided, and he can use the vital energy he is granted as a gift of grace in any way .... But once people have reached the lowest point when they no longer make use of this vital energy in order to attain spiritual strength, when they consciously resist the influx of strength from Me, I will also withdraw the energy of life from them .... They will have to repeat the process of development once more, which starts again with an utterly weak state in the most solid form, in hard matter, the overcoming of which takes an infinitely long time again .... I would like to spare the spiritual beings this long captivity, and therefore all conceivable means will be used by My love beforehand, yet people are beyond learning ....

If My servants explain their spiritual hardship to them, if they are reminded of the serious consequences of their unbelief , if their attention is drawn to the shortly approaching end, they close their ears. They don't believe in My eternal plan of Salvation, they don't believe in Me and My never-ending love and thus they precipitate the end themselves .... They not only remain on their low spiritual level but continue to descend ever further .... Their own will hastens the dissolution of that which shelters spirits, just as their own will lets the human being return to that which his soul had already overcome long before .... It is not My but people's own will which determines the end, yet I have foreseen this will for eternity and thus will constrain it once again because freedom of will is being misused. Anyone who has My Word knows about My love, he knows about My plan of Salvation to redeem the souls and he also foresees the end, for he recognises the spiritual hardship. Yet anyone who does not recognise this hardship is not imbued by My love, he is still in spiritual darkness and can hardly step out from this into the light of day. For he needs My Word to do so, the light which illuminates him and enriches his knowledge .... And he will understand the physical adversity of the time, which is caused by the immense spiritual hardship. Anyone who has My Word will expect the end with profound faith, for everything will come to pass as I proclaimed in Word and Scripture. Therefore, pay attention to My Word when it is imparted to you through My messengers .... pay attention to the Word which is conveyed to you from above, which guarantees you the absolute truth which originates from Me, the Giver of truth, and which I impart to you with all My love, so that you will find the path to Me through the Word, so that you will not be lost to My kingdom, so that you need not go through the process of development again, which would mean indescribable agony for your souls .... Pay attention to the Word so that you will belong to My Own, who will be spared at the end in order to enter the kingdom of peace, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Preparation time for workers of the lord ....

B.D. 3626 from December 14th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Anyone who wants to be active on earth on My behalf, who wants to work for My kingdom in the last days before the end, must also take the path I guide him on, which is not always smooth but requires strength in order to overcome the obstacles. For he shall fight for Me and My kingdom, and therefore he must become strong himself, he must be of strong will and strong faith, he must recognize Me and My might, so that help will be granted to him again and again when his path is arduous and he is in danger of slackening. He must realize that he never walks alone but always by the hand of the one Who can remove every obstacle, Who safely leads him over cliffs and rocks, Who does not let him stumble and safely guides him to the aim. This realization gives him strong faith, and then he will also be able to work for Me and fearlessly and undauntedly stand up for Me and My name .... My fighters will constantly have to pass tests of faith beforehand, again and again earthly adversity will approach them, yet again and again they will be helped because I want to make Myself known to them so that they will believe .... Yet the will to believe must be present, otherwise My often miraculous help would mean a compulsion to believe and this is not My will. My servants shall place themselves in My hand with complete faith, they shall allow themselves to be guided without hesitation and without resistance. They should only believe .... that I am always and constantly with them, that their call always reaches My ear, that My love always takes care of them and that nothing can happen to them but what My will does not allow, but that everything is a blessing for them if they humbly accept it from My hand. For I alone know what will benefit them for the salvation of their souls, for the strengthening of their faith and for the training for the work they are to do in the coming time. And if they know that they are to be My helpers they will also leave the leadership to Me in complete trust and be able to work successfully for My kingdom. And therefore you must endure every situation in life and not forget which task still awaits you, you must always know that it is the time of preparation for your office in the last time before the end, which is only short but requires much strength, and for which I need you and therefore train you. The recognition of your task also guarantees that you will fulfil it, for then you will understand everything that concerns you in terms of suffering and adversity, you will also be able to see the help My love will always bring you and you will thereby attain unshakable faith. And then you will be true labourers for My kingdom, then you will fearlessly stand up for Me before the world, you will find the right words to say to your fellow human beings, you will always feel Me beside you and be filled with strength and, where your words only fall on not too hard ground, you will also be successful .... For many souls are still to be saved, help is still to be brought to many who are still undecided, and therefore I need servants who let Me speak through them, who are active on My behalf, who only carry out what My spirit tells them to do and who therefore must have profound faith in Me, My love, wisdom and omnipotence and who, through this faith, are so strong as to be able to resist the world and its desire. Yet the time is no more long, the end will come sooner than you expect, for the spiritual hardship is overwhelming .... And thus I bless My servants on earth who voluntarily submit themselves to Me, and I promise them My protection, whatever threatens them .... I guide them through all hardships and sufferings of life so that they will fight the final battle on earth under My guidance, from which they will emerge victorious as My fighters, as I have proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The souls’ purification process in the beyond ....

B.D. 3627 from December 15th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The departed soul's purification process in the beyond starts immediately after the decease of the body but in accordance with the soul's will. Spiritually completely dark souls experience the darkness as agony, and this right from the start of the process, because it is intended to contribute towards the change of the soul's will. Although the duration of this varies, it is always the principle of the purification process. God's love constantly gives the soul the opportunity to change its will, but in the beyond it does not always recognise these methods as the working of God's love, and yet they can soon lead to the goal providing the soul is not too obstinate. It has to purify itself completely before it can accept light, and until it can receive light it is in a state of torment, and thus the fate of an immature soul is lamentable. It can never receive too much help from people by means of loving intercession or mental instructions and advice to act with love. However, if the soul is not too obstinate it will constantly progress in its development, every torment melts the hard cover, it becomes receptive to help and will try to liberate itself, although occasionally it can take a very long time before the purification process is completed and the soul, as a recipient of light, is able to act with kindness.

But even more mature souls will still have to become more receptive to light, because the light can touch a soul at various degrees of intensity, depending on its state of perfection, which can reach an increasingly higher level. On entry into the spiritual realm the soul can already be so advanced in knowledge that it no longer needs to linger in dark surroundings, it is able to see and understand everything, it finds itself in a more or less brighter pool of light and thus is also able to work accordingly. And yet it still has to shape itself to receive more light. It still has to crystallise itself to utmost clarity and this again through loving work with needy souls, because devoted love for those unhappy souls will purify the soul and make it progressively more receptive to light, while due to its redeeming activity its own happiness intensifies at the same rate. As soon as a soul has the will to ascend it becomes diligently and untiringly active, and because of its will to help other suffering souls it constantly receives strength for its own happiness and sustained helpfulness. Always providing, of course, that it has overcome its weakness of will, that its engulfing impenetrable darkness is broken, that it is receptive to the merciful rays of light which God sends into the darkness, and that it wants to escape its dark state. Its struggle towards ascent, its torments and the darkness of its surrounding are taken into account as purifying factors, its layers dissolve, it becomes receptive to light and its ascent towards the light is assured. In accordance with the soul's own will God's continuous help enables it to ascend until, penetrated by light, it can work in the spiritual kingdom as is its destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Thoughts from the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 3628 from December 16th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Thoughts flow to you from the spiritual kingdom, if you are spiritually minded and therefore also look for contact with the enlightened beings of the spiritual kingdom. Consequently, every thought can be a blessing for you provided you sincerely want to become enlightened, thus to know the truth. Yet in order to be taken care of by helpful spiritual beings it is also always necessary for you to conduct your life in accordance with God's will, since you are also surrounded by forces of darkness which seek to lead your thoughts astray. And you yourselves reject or allow their access to you, depending on your conduct in life, on your will and your attitude towards God and towards good.

And therefore you have to seriously scrutinise yourselves whether you strive to live in keeping with God's will, whether you want the truth. You must know that thoughts are the activity of spiritual beings in the beyond which they try to convey to you, and that you allow yourselves to be influenced by forces which you draw to yourselves by your way of life and your will. For this reason you have to observe your thoughts whether they lead towards God or divert you from believing in God. Every good thought teaching love and referring to God is the activity of good spiritual forces, and you should take it up and let yourselves be affected by it, for as soon as you pay attention to it, it will also shape your way of life and be beneficial for your soul.

But as soon as you pray to God for correct thinking, good spiritual beings will always be your teachers and guides, they will influence your thoughts and also try to transmit spiritual concepts which will heighten your maturity of soul; they will provide you with power of perception which will enable you to render the activity of evil forces ineffective by instantly recognising it as error and rejecting it. If you unite yourselves with God, if you live intending to please Him, then you will not have to fear evil spiritual forces which deceive your thoughts, for you give yourselves into the hands of good spiritual beings which will take loving care of you and direct your thoughts such that they will correspond to the truth and promote your spiritual development, because you strive for it yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Presence of God in the word ....

B.D. 3629 from December 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

When you gather to receive My word you express your will to make contact with Me and thus I also come to you. And if you speak to each other and mention My name with love and reverence you will know that I Myself dwell with you, giving your thoughts the right direction, determining your words and thus working amongst you with My strength and My love. And if you are fully convinced of My presence, profound peace will enter your heart, for where I am there is peace and bliss. And thus you can make contact with Me at any time if you bring My word to your fellow human beings who want to accept it with a joyful heart, if you instruct them in My name so that they, too, will be convinced and delighted by My presence. Anyone who desires My word also desires Me Myself, and I will fulfil his desire. Every spiritual conversation which has My word as its basis draws Me to you, and I will always dwell amongst you and thus speak to you directly, albeit through a human mouth which proclaims My word. For he is merely the organ through which I speak to everyone, of which I make use so as not to make you unfree in faith. But wherever My word is offered in order to bring people to Me I will speak Myself and thus desire entrance into the hearts of those to whom My word is brought. Only the dead word will not bring you My presence, the word which is offered without love, which is only spoken as a form without inner spirit, which therefore is not My word but human thought material as long as the giver and receiver are not moved by love and desire for Me to offer and accept it. For where there is no love there is not My word either, and My presence is impossible. And therefore My word may not be offered schematically either; people must gather in desire and longing for Me, for My presence, which is assured to them through My word. They must sincerely desire to hear Me, they must pronounce My name with all reverence, they must let My spirit work in them by giving themselves to the effect of My word, and then they will also feel Me Myself close to them, they will recognize that I Myself am the word, that I Myself speak to them and thus dwell in the midst of those who desire to hear Me. And I bring you peace with My word, I will never leave you again and remain with you until the end of the world .... until all eternity ....

Amen

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Cosmos .... Changes .... Catastrophe ....

B.D. 3630 from December 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Whatever takes place in the cosmos is unknown to you, and neither will you ever ascertain the laws of nature in such depth that you will be able to determine when and how changes take place which, according God's eternal plan of Salvation, must take place in order to prepare the work of Earth's redevelopment. The events happening in nature will always take you by surprise, consequently, you will also unexpectedly be confronted by a powerful natural event, which is understandable to someone with spiritual vision but which remains incomprehensible to the majority of people because they fail to recognise the correlation between all happenings, including cosmic ones, with the spiritual development of people and all tangible beings, and because they have no knowledge of the approaching end and the transformation of a work of creation which is only meant to serve spiritual development and has become pointless now due to people's God-opposing will. The preparations in nature proceed imperceptibly and people therefore pay little attention to them. And yet they would be able to observe many deviations which should make them suspicious if they were vigilant and allowed Creation to communicate with them more. Changes are occurring in the interior of the earth which will lead to eruptions. At first they will only partially break through in order to then, at a specific time, lead to a complete destruction of the earth's surface, so that God's eternal plan of Salvation can take the course His will had determined. Countless spiritual beings in the Earth's interior will liberate themselves and God will give His approval, He will allow them to become active at a specific time, because their activity does not oppose His law of eternity .... And the Earth will tremble when these beings become active .... It will open up in places and thus clear the way for the beings to enter different shapes than before .... And where this activity takes place it will cause great changes on the Earth's surface to the horror of the inhabitants who will be subject to a dreadful natural disaster .... However, this will only be a preliminary event for the subsequent total destruction of Earth; it will be a final wake up call for all those who survive it and an indication of the near end, which will have previously found no credence with people. Nevertheless, God's language will be understandable to everyone who wants to understand it.

Everything that happens in the universe, including every cosmic change, is due to spiritual development, and even if people don't understand it on account of their lack of knowledge they must nevertheless be affected by the activity of beings which are still constrained in the interior of the Earth and which strive towards liberation for the sake of their higher development. Countless human lives will fall victim to this eruption and enter the spiritual kingdom in a more or less mature state. Yet countless beings will also be released and be able to strive towards ascent in different forms. And so the immense event in nature is simultaneously a process of release after an infinitely long time of constraint within hard matter and a transition for the indwelling spiritual substance into less painful forms, but it also ends the process of development of spiritual beings in the last stage on earth which could have used their free will for their deliverance. No-one can predict this cosmic event in advance unless, in profound faith in God, he is informed of it by the spirit of God, for the divine laws of nature are not perceptible for people, so that the day and hour will always remain hidden until the first tangible manifestations announce themselves, but which will be ignored at first. Yet as soon as the day approaches, great restlessness will come upon all living beings, human beings and animals alike will inwardly feel it, and only spiritually awakened people will be able to explain it and yet not be listened to by the worldly-minded, who will never want to accept a destruction of Earth and thus be taken by complete surprise by the eruption of the natural elements .... And God will repeatedly announce this event, He will not leave people in ignorance as to what they can expect in time to come. Again and again He instructs His messengers to mention the forthcoming event. For the day will not be long in coming .... Any careful observer will also recognise the changes, and he will look upon it from a spiritual point of view, for the goal of everything that comes according to God's eternal plan of Salvation relates to the spirits' development, which is in danger and which God's love wants to help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Marriage of the spirit with the father-spirit ....

B.D. 3631 from December 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And so your spirit mates with My spirit, with the father-spirit, Whose share it is. And then you will be blissfully happy .... For a separation from Me is wretchedness, even though it cannot take place according to your imagination, for what is My share is also eternally inseparable from Me. And yet, you cannot be blissfully happy as long as you yourselves do not desire this unification of your spiritual spark with the father-spirit. For you will be blessed according to your will. If you believe that you can distance yourselves from Me and strive for this of your own free will, then My love cannot touch you either and I will give to you in accordance with this will. But if you strive towards Me then you enter the circuit of My love yourselves, and receiving love from Me always signifies bliss, more or less consciously for as long as you stay on earth, because the soul feels My strength of love and the body is less affected by it. Yet the soul always derives its benefit from it, for it increasingly enters the state which makes the reception of light and strength possible and shapes it into a being of light which, after the body's passing away, can carefree enter the kingdom of light in order to be immeasurably blissful. Only a union with Me can bring you this bliss, and the more intimately you strive for this marriage with Me the more I can fulfil this desire and nourish you with love and strength. The more you will be able to work with love and draw Me ever more intimately to you, because I Myself am love and every work of love results in a union with Me. And therefore only love can result in a union with Me, and if you want to become blissfully happy you must completely shape yourselves into love, you must live as I have taught you, as I have exemplified life to you on earth, you must let the spark of love within you become a bright flame which seizes everything that is accessible to it .... Your heart must feel nothing but love and your actions must be motivated by love, then you will always be united with Me, your spirit will flow towards Mine, it will merge with the eternal father-spirit and you will remain inseparably united with Me for all eternity, enjoying supreme bliss, working in abundance of light and strength and thus being active in creating and shaping for your own happiness, yet always working in Me and with Me, from Whom all light, all strength and all bliss has emanated since eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bondage under satan and damnation ....

B.D. 3632 from December 21st 1945, taken from Book No. 46

You will be enslaved for eternity if you sell yourselves to satan for the sake of earthly reward. You will be unfree and powerless again for an infinitely long time, for as soon as satan is bound, all spiritual beings which made themselves in bondage to him of their own free will will also lose their freedom. And this again means an infinitely long time of captivity which is agonizing for you and involves unspeakable suffering because lack of freedom and powerlessness does not correspond to the original state which was your share before the apostasy from Me. Yet if you profess My adversary you will also have to accept the fate My adversary has prepared for you .... darkness, powerlessness and bound will .... and thus through torments for eternities. The path of ascent lies brightly and clearly before you if only you want to take it, and you will not lack strength either, yet you must approach Me for it but not surrender to the one who wants your ruin. He entices you with earthly pleasures, with material goods, in order to win your souls, but I promise you spiritual goods, I want to lead you into the kingdom of peace where many dwellings are prepared for you if only you comply with My call, despise the world and only strive for Me and your spiritual well-being. But if you don't listen to Me, if you pay attention to My adversary's voice and let yourselves be beguiled by his promises, My flow of strength cannot touch you, and the path to ascent is too difficult for you if you don't take hold of My hand and let yourselves be guided. I want to give you eternal freedom but you prefer servitude under My adversary's power, you choose the path down into his kingdom yourselves and thereby make the eternal home inaccessible to you, which offers you glories of an incomparable kind. Yet your will is free, and if you desire servitude you will also have to bear it, you will have to go into captivity for a long time so that one day there will be the possibility again that you will turn to Me of your own free will, that you will believe My words and want to let yourselves be redeemed from satan’s bondage, who is and will remain My adversary for eternities before he, too, will bow down to My will and all evil will be completely redeemed. My admonition, however, resounds over and over again .... don't sell your souls for the sake of earthly goods, strive to acquire the spiritual kingdom for yourselves, strive towards Me and let yourselves be guided upwards by My hand, so that you will escape the dominion of the one who wants to destroy you forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fearless work for the kingdom of God and courageous confession ....

B.D. 3633 from December 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

In My name you shall be active on earth .... Don't shrink back when the world approaches you, commanding you to deny Me and My name, but know that I am stronger than earthly rulers, that I can also break their power in an instant. And therefore profess Me and courageously stand up for Me and My teaching, for this is necessary in the coming time, that people will be instructed, that they will be enlightened as to the disaster they are facing if they don't adhere to Me, if they don't fulfil My commandments and believe in Me and My act of salvation. You will find little faith, little understanding and have to reap much scorn and ridicule, you will often preach to deaf ears, for people are no longer in contact with Me and therefore do not recognize Me when I speak to them through you, and everything you say seems unreal, fantastic to them and therefore they do not accept it. But you should stand all the firmer in your faith in Me, you should shape yourselves ever more powerfully through constant activity of love and fear nothing that approaches you from outside. If you remain in spiritual contact with Me and My kingdom you will feel strength within yourselves and thus be industrious workers for Me. I can only rarely work through willing servants who are devoted to Me, I only rarely find open hearts which accept My word and take it to heart. And therefore I need every human being in the coming time to work for Me and My kingdom. You will likewise only be able to fulfil the earthly demands made on you with My support, and this shall be constant proof to you that I am with you at all times, that you have a support in Me which is stronger than earthly power. And therefore, if the desire of these is directed against My commandments, if it applies to the denial of My name, then offer resistance and don't fear that it could weaken, that the world is stronger and could bring you down. For I am constantly with you, I speak through you, I guide you all ways and lead you to those whom I Myself want to influence through you. Be courageous confessors of My name, represent My teaching to the world, preach love and reproach people that unkindness and hatred will plunge them into ruin, that they are the signs of satan’s activity to which they will fall hopelessly if they don't repent and accept My teaching, if they don't live according to My teaching, keep My commandments and try to establish contact with Me. Speak what your heart tells you and don't be afraid, for it is I Who speaks through you and Who will also protect you in every danger of body and soul. And if My will allows you to lose your earthly life, you will truly exchange it for a life in eternity which will fully compensate you for everything, for My love will reward you for your work for My kingdom for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘Did you not know, that I must be in My Father’s house ....’

B.D. 3634 from December 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Listen to the voice of the spirit: Every person shall shape himself such that the Father can take abode in him, thus, he himself shall become God’s house in which the Father can be effective. You all carry the divine spiritual spark within you which is therefore My share, hence I lay dormant in you waiting to be awakened through your loving activity and heartfelt bond with Me .... However, as long as you remain inactive you will not feel My presence, even though the spiritual spark rests in you. It can only become effective if you shape yourselves into a receiving vessel for Me Myself, only then will I be active in My house, then I will be able to dwell in you and instruct you according to absolute truth. Then I will be in My Father’s house .... then wisdom will be where love exists .... Then you will have become a house of God yourselves, which shelters the Holiest of all, which God Himself takes as a dwelling place .... I will be with you and never again will you walk alone on earth, but you will always and forever feel My presence and be permeated by My spirit, which will guide you into all truth, which will teach you just as I have taught in My Father’s house .... For when I became wisdom through love I had to be constantly active on earth .... Dispensing love and wisdom, I had to give to other people what I Myself had received because I wanted to help them attain beatitude. And thus I had to be in that which belongs to My Father, where I was able to proclaim His Word, where people gathered in order to hear His Word .... Consequently, God’s house will always be where His Word is taught .... where it is either externally offered to people or is inwardly perceived .... wherever the Father can be effective, that is, where love makes people receptive for the wisdom from Me .... For I always want to be active in My house, and My house consists of the hearts of people who want to accept Me and thus shape themselves into love so that I Myself, the eternal Love, can unite with them. My house is wherever My spirit can manifest itself .... but without the working of My spirit you will linger in empty halls even if you have chosen a place where you assume you will be able to find Me .... I can only be where My Father is, and the profundity of My Word can only be heard where love exists .... However, I Myself Am the Word and if you want to hear Me you must shape your hearts to become receptive, you must change yourselves into love and then open the doors for Me so that I can enter into your heart and make your heart My dwelling place wherever you may be ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Significance of the act of Salvation ....

B.D. 3635 from December 24th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And remember the One Who redeemed you from all sins .... His act of Salvation is of such momentous significance that you cannot be exhorted strongly enough to cast your mind back to it. You must always bear in mind that you would be lost for an infinitely long time had Jesus Christ not taken your guilt of sin upon Himself through his crucifixion in order to redeem you. However, you will have to profess Him yourselves if you want to partake of the blessings He acquired for you through His death. You have to believe in Him and consciously place yourselves underneath His cross, you must live with and for Jesus Christ, i.e., in memory of Him accomplish your every action, be helpful and thus comply with His teaching of love, in order to makes yourselves worthy of His gift of grace, to make yourselves worthy of His love, which wanted to protect you from an infinitely long time of torment and suffering in the beyond. The divine Redeemer has mercy upon all sinners .... He carried their guilt and suffered and died for it, He sacrificed Himself as atonement, because He loved people and wanted to lessen their immense spiritual hardship.

And thus He offered people a gift, the magnitude of which they cannot to judge on earth, and He only asks for their acknowledgement of His act of love, their acknowledgment of Himself and their conscious avowal of His crucifixion .... He asks them to keep Him in mind at all times .... People should not forget this, they should always remember that without Him they would be lost for an infinitely long time .... Hence He approaches people time and again by reminding them of Him .... time and again He tries to direct their eyes to Him, time and again the person, as a bearer of the cross himself, is admonished to remember Him, and every suffering is intended to draw his attention to the One, Who took all sins upon Himself and constantly helps people to carry their suffering as well if they, in profound faith in the divine Redeemer, burden Him with it and appeal to Him for grace and love .... People don't carry their suffering without merit, Jesus Christ, however, was entirely without sin and took humanity's guilt of sin upon Himself, He therefore carried a far heavier burden upon His shoulders, a cross which was so immensely heavy that He almost broke down under it, nevertheless, He accomplished the act of Salvation since His love for humanity was great and gave Him the strength until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bond of love .... Unification with God ....

B.D. 3636 from December 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

An indestructible bond is wound around God and the spiritual being which tries to join Him due to love. It will remain inseparably connected with Him, always coming closer to Him, forever striving towards Him, being seized by Him and in blissful happiness merging with the eternal Love, once the being has become perfect. This bond is the goal of all spiritual beings which once emerged from His strength. God is the eternal centre of Power from Whom everything originates and to Whom everything will return again according to God's eternal order. Only that which has returned to God again is happy, it is perfect, permeated by strength and light and thus able to actively create and shape. This state will never ever be changed again, insofar as that the being's beatitude will diminish, but it will constantly increase because perfection knows no limits, because God, as the supremely perfect Being, will always and ceaselessly be aspired to for all eternity. To be merged with the eternal Deity signifies participation in the shaping of works of creation, it signifies guidance and care for the spiritual beings which are sheltered in these creations; it signifies redemptive activity on the bound spiritual beings, it signifies bliss and harmonious striving for unification with equally mature beings and revelations of undreamt of splendours which immature beings are incapable of beholding.

Eternal life .... is not a state of weakness and darkness anymore but activity in light and an undreamt of abundance of strength. Jesus Christ promised this eternal life to those who believe in Him and keep His commandments, who, by fulfilling and complying with His teaching of love, establish the connection with God on earth already, the bond, which connects the soul with God ever more closely until it has entirely united with the eternal Love. And thus the human being must inevitably attain faith in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of the world, otherwise the bond with God can never ever be established, for due to the being's imperfection the distance is too vast and cannot be reduced by the being itself, since the distance from God signifies weakness at the same time. Jesus, however, acquired the strength on behalf of people through His death on the cross .... He descended to Earth in order to deliver people from their weakness of will and lack of strength and to show them the path which leads them to God while they are still on earth. However, without faith in Him and His act of Salvation the human being will never be able to overcome his lack of strength and weakness of will, he will never be able to lift himself up because God's adversary keeps him down and wants to prevent his life in eternity. But anyone who believes in Jesus Christ shall be saved, he will live up to His commandments, he will make an effort to live a life of love and thereby receive the strength to establish the connection with God, and God will never let him fall again .... He will wind the bond of love around him and not allow it to slacken, instead it will embrace those who strive towards Him ever more tightly until they are inseparably united with Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Soul food .... God's care for earthly needs ....

B.D. 3637 from December 26th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The food of the soul shall be desired first, and to it shall be the desire of the heart .... and every earthly worry will become obsolete .... This is My condition which I set in order to be able to take care of you, in order to provide you with everything you need for the preservation of earthly life. I will gladly take care of you, yet you must also fulfil My will, you must make the salvation of your souls your first concern, for the sake of which I gave you earthly life. And your souls can only mature if you feed and water them, if you don't let them starve during your earthly life. The soul must receive spiritual nourishment because it is spiritual, and this nourishment is constantly offered to it through My word. Therefore, if you accept My word in order to nourish your souls it will be able to perfect itself; it will receive strength which will enable it to mature. And therefore you must first desire spiritual nourishment, you must long for My word and hungrily accept it within yourselves, and you will fulfil the condition I set and can look forward to every day without worry .... I cover all your needs in helpfulness which is also clearly recognizable to you. My concern is only for your soul, yet you must tackle the work on it. I cannot shape your soul into perfection but your free will must accomplish this. The maturing of the soul is the aim and purpose of your earthly existence, and I will always help you to reach the aim. And thus, if you seriously strive to become perfect, you can only use all care for your spiritual well-being, and I will relieve you of earthly worries, I will give you everything you need. For I rejoice over My children if they accept the nourishment from heaven offered to them in their desire for Me, if they open their hearts hungering and thirsting in order to let themselves be satisfied by Me. And I now provide for them abundantly, spiritually and earthly .... He who hungers shall be fed, he who thirsts shall be watered, I will sustain the body until it departs from earth, until it has fulfilled its purpose of enabling the soul to mature. Therefore, don't worry and be anxious but leave all earthly worries to Me, your father of eternity, Who will not let you go hungry if only you desire My word in your desire for Me, which is always offered to you if you hunger and thirst for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fighting against the truth .... erring teachers ....

B.D. 3638 from December 27th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

You must never allow yourselves to be captured by the adversary who wants to deprive you of your spiritual freedom through misguided teachings, who uses every trick in order to push you away from the truth, and who thus fights with means which give the appearance of truth and lead to the most blatant error. You must bear in mind that he will always fight against the truth, that he will always fight most fiercely where the truth tries to break through and that he will dress himself in the garment which serves his purpose .... that he himself appears as a proclaimer of truth in order to mislead people who are not yet permeated by the spirit of God but who strive for the truth. You must consider that it is often easy for him if people's desire for truth is not entirely profound and thus he is not protected by beings of light from the activity of the one who fights against God, against the eternal truth .... Thus he will have much success through the will of people themselves who are more indifferent towards the pure truth from God, on the other hand, who are taken in by His adversary's influence. For it depends on the will of the human being himself how far he penetrates the truth, and therefore it cannot be called to you urgently enough: Beware of those who pretend to bring you the truth and do not stand in the truth themselves .... Beware of those who believe they are called to teach and need to be taught themselves if they want to become suitable for the teaching ministry on earth. Ask God for enlightenment and examine, yet with the deepest desire for truth, otherwise you will only open your heart and ear to thoughts which do not correspond to the truth, because truth is only recognized as truth by someone who seriously desires it, who is willing to surrender all knowledge, all spiritual thoughts, in order to exchange the pure truth for it .... Examine earnestly and ask God for His blessing, for illumination of your spirit .... for the pure truth .... Then the adversary's activity will remain without influence, then the beings of light will repel all erring strength from you, then your thoughts will be guided correctly, you will be able to distinguish truth from error and thus also achieve great spiritual progress, for only the pure truth will lead you upwards, towards God as the eternal truth ....

Amen

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Exploiting the end time .... soulwork ....

B.D. 3639 from December 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Your earthly life will only last a short time, and thus you must use every day and every hour for the perfection of your souls, for when the hour of the end has come you will be judged according to your soul's work on earth. You, who will lose your earthly life before the last end, are not given much more time, and therefore you will constantly be reminded of this so that you don't become lukewarm in your soul's work .... You can still make great spiritual progress in a short time if you pay attention to the great hardship around you, if you are willing to help and try to alleviate the hardship with unselfish neighbourly love. You can establish an ever more intimate connection with your father of eternity and thereby receive an abundance of grace so that you can mature in a short time and need not fear your physical end. This is why God constantly speaks through His instruments on earth, He announces the end to people, He announces His intervention through the forces of nature, always pointing out to people that they have to reckon with an early demise in order to give them the opportunity to be diligently active and to take care of their spiritual welfare .... And the day is no longer far away .... The knowledgeable should be exceedingly diligent and put spiritual welfare before all earthly concerns. But God Himself instructs the ignorant through adversity by trying to bring Himself close to them again and again, by wanting to motivate people to call upon Him and thus to come to the realization of their weakness, and again and again He sends His messengers towards them to inform them of the forthcoming end. No-one will remain unwarned and unadmonished, everyone will be informed of what is coming in a different way so that they can seriously think about their souls and mature. But whoever leaves this time unused has to expect a hard fate in the beyond and must make up for what he missed on earth, which can take an infinitely long time. Earthly life will not last much longer, for the end is also imminent .... And consider this, you who still cling too much to earthly things, who strive to gain earthly goods and have few spiritual goods to show for yourselves .... Consider that you will have to give up everything in the end and that only spiritual goods make up your wealth, and therefore seek to increase these, earnestly strive for perfection, for wisdom from God, and thereby secure eternal life for yourselves if you have to give up earthly life when and as God has decreed since eternity ....

Amen

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Blessing of God's servants in their work ....

B.D. 3640 from December 29th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

I bless all My servants on earth if they are active for My kingdom, if they are redemptively active on earth where people are in greatest spiritual adversity. I endow them with strength in order to be able to work for Me, I instruct them so that they can spread the truth, I loosen their tongues as soon as they speak for Me, for My teaching and My name .... Thus I prepare them for their mission which begins after I have manifestly made Myself known to the world, after I have spoken to people with an iron voice which is more or less recognized by them as My voice. Then they will find a large field of work, people who, in earthly adversity and great misery, long for a word of comfort and encouragement, who desire an explanation for the immense event which brings unspeakable suffering and costs many people their lives .... And then you shall give them this explanation, you shall speak for Me and My name, for My teaching, you shall mention the forthcoming end and reproach them for the great spiritual hardship they are in .... you shall preach to them about My love and thus lead them to Me so that they will now turn to Me Myself and desire My help .... And I will bless your activity .... I will give you strength to speak in such a way that you will be successful, I will make their hearts receptive for My word .... I will help them to direct their senses spiritually and speak through you as is beneficial for their souls. For there is only a short time left when you can work unhindered by worldly measures, and you must use this time and be diligently active. The hardship around you will be great but bearable for My servants so that they shall visibly feel My help and grace and proclaim Me and My love. And anyone who listens to them, who allows himself to be instructed in the sincere will to do what is right, his hardship will likewise be obviously alleviated, he will noticeably feel the strength of My word which is conveyed to him through you, for thus I want everyone who is willing to recognize Me. And therefore I need you as My labourers, because human mouths have to proclaim My will, because I cannot manifest Myself where humanity is unbelieving or too weak in faith. I require servants on earth who are strong in faith, who are in contact with Me Myself and constantly fetch strength for their ministry on earth, who are knowledgeable and shall convincingly spread their knowledge to those who desire it, who call for help in physical and spiritual adversity. And I will always bless My servants' work, after all, it is of great urgency for the salvation of erring souls. And therefore try to shape yourselves first so that I can take complete possession of you, so that I will no longer find the slightest resistance if I want to work through you .... Strengthen yourselves constantly through My word, give your soul the nourishment it needs in order to become mature for the acceptance of Myself into your hearts, and then let Me work through you so that a work of salvation can begin before the end which the souls will eternally thank you for, to whom you bring salvation in deepest spiritual hardship ....

Amen

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Spiritual arrogance ....

B.D. 3641 from December 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Spiritual arrogance prevents the human being from recognizing the truth. Everyone must bear this in mind, that only through profound humility can the human being attain that which, in the realization of his deficiency, desires knowledge .... who does not believe that he is already knowledgeable before he has sincerely asked for truth. The human being acquires knowledge through his intellectual activity, or he receives it from outside if it appeals to him, and he holds on to it. And this knowledge is usually enough for him if it agrees with his wishes and views. He shuts himself off from every presentation that does not correspond to his knowledge, always in the consciousness that he possesses the right knowledge .... He exalts himself above his fellow human beings who think differently and rejects everything offered to him from this side without taking a stand himself. And these people are difficult to guide into truth, for only the person humbly asks for it who believes himself to be ignorant and recognizes his inadequacy to penetrate spiritual knowledge through his own strength. But God only gives His grace to this person, for He wants to be approached for it in humble prayer. The belief to be in the right knowledge prevents the human being from asking for it as long as he still walks in error. For the person who has penetrated the truth remains inwardly humble despite the richest knowledge, and his prayer constantly ascends to God for an increase in his knowledge. For he feels infinitely small in view of God's greatness, Who becomes ever more sublime to him the greater his knowledge is. And thus this person will also always be accessible to spiritual conversations, whereas the believer in knowledge quickly ends such conversations because he does not want to be instructed, instead he seeks to spread his knowledge himself, always emphasizing it in spiritual arrogance as his own body of thought which he deems unassailable. He even tries to instruct God's servants, His messengers, who bring him the truth, for he does not acknowledge the working of the spirit and tries to invalidate everything they oppose him with his intellectual thinking. He fights against the working of the spirit, he thinks himself more mature and wiser and also does not recognize God as the giver of truth, Who expresses Himself through His messengers .... He fights with human wisdom against divine wisdom and does not submit himself by asking God Himself for enlightenment of the spirit .... And therefore he can hardly attain truth as long as the spirit of arrogance dwells in him .... Only the realization of complete ignorance in the spiritual sphere can determine him to occupy himself mentally with questions, and only then can the truth reach him if he humbly requests it, for God gives His grace to the humble but He does not reveal Himself to the arrogant ....

Amen

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Acknowledgement of the work of redemption necessary for maturity of soul ....

B.D. 3642 from December 31th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The open confession of Christ and His work of redemption irrevocably belongs to the attainment of maturity of soul. The human being cannot mature without love .... but the one who has love also recognizes Him who sacrificed Himself for humanity out of love. He also knows that Christ took death upon Himself on the cross as atonement for humanity's great guilt, that He therefore wanted to redeem it from an infinitely long time of captivity. And consequently He will also acknowledge this work of great love and mercy and place Himself under Christ's cross in order to also partake of the graces of the act of salvation. But the graces of the act of salvation only bring about the maturing of the soul, for the redeemer Himself now draws the soul to Himself, upwards, He imparts strength to it to want and do what is right. Anyone who does not acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation remains under satan’s control, his will remains weak or turned away from God, the soul remains on a low level of development, for it lacks love .... But love recognizes Jesus Christ, for where love is there is also wisdom, the power of realization for pure truth, and thus Christ's act of salvation will be fully understandable to the loving person, whereas the unloving person is completely ignorant of humanity's sin and guilt, of the meaning and purpose of earthly life, of the human being's aim and task on earth. If he knows all this his way of life is already a life of love, and then the divine redeemer will only be the symbol of profoundest love for him, Whom he has to acknowledge and Whom he also confesses before the world if this is demanded of him. And then his soul will strive upwards and it will certainly reach its aim, because it will not strive of its own strength but with Jesus Christ, because its will will be strengthened by Him and the soul will constantly receive strength and grace, for His promise is: 'He who believes in Me has eternal life ...." Faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation is absolutely necessary in order to be able to enter the kingdom itself, which signifies eternal life for the soul, which is filled with light and strength and signifies bliss, which Jesus promised to those who believe in Him, because these will endeavour to follow Him and live a life of love as Jesus exemplified to them on earth, for only love will earn them supreme beatitude in eternity ....

Amen

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God instructs His disciples and sends them out into the world ....

B.D. 3643 from December 31th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The spirit of love must rule you if you want to unite with eternal love. This is My commandment which I give to you again and again, it is the epitome of My teaching which I convey to you again and again through My messengers .... it is the content of My word which comes to you from above because I love you and want to draw you to Me forever. And if you practice love you will fulfil My commandment and gain My pleasure, I Myself will draw close to you and you will draw nearer to Me until you unite yourselves with Me through unceasing activity of love .... And therefore I repeatedly send My messengers out into the world, My disciples, who are to instruct people in My name, who are to preach love to them and thus make My will known, because I want to help people to redeem themselves, to shape themselves into love in order to be able to become blissfully happy .... And therefore I instruct these disciples to make them able to teach their fellow human beings .... I impart My word to them and show them the path every person has to take in order to unite with Me for eternity .... I Myself instruct My disciples and send them out into the world with the task to be active on My behalf, because people shall be given the correct knowledge of My will, of My commandments, of their life's task, their aim, of their imperfection and My greater than great love which wants to educate them into perfect beings so that they will become blissfully happy. They can only be informed of everything through My word, and thus they must be informed of My word through servants who have received it from Me Myself, who are able to pass it on in all purity as it originated from Me. And these servants are My disciples whom I send out into the world .... Anyone who listens to them listens to Me, and anyone who takes their words to heart listens to Me, he obeys My commandments, he fulfils My will, he shapes himself into love and seeks and finds unity with Me. My word only teaches love and is therefore always recognizable as My word as soon as it is offered with love and points to Me, the eternal love. My word can also only be received by people who live in love, who are therefore so intimately united with Me that they desire to hear Me and are able to hear that I can come to them in the word, and who are therefore also suitable to work for Me on earth as My servants .... to educate people to love again by bringing them the word which originated from Me Myself. I Myself am the word, and if people want to unite with Me they first have to let Me speak to them, they have to know My will and strive to fulfil it. And since My word only requires loving activity from them, since this alone is My will that they keep My commandments of love, they need only let their own will become active and shape themselves into love in order to unite with Me, Who is eternal love Myself. But then they will also be unspeakably happy, for unification with Me signifies redemption from bondage, from the bondage of the one who is without love and therefore stands far away from Me, who is an enemy of the souls and seeks to corrupt them and whose endeavour is to distance them from Me, thus to seduce them into unkindness and thus to plunge them into ruin. But My word is the path to beatitude, My word is enlightenment and guidance, My word gives strength and grace and safely leads to the aim, for anyone who hears My word and faithfully accepts it in his heart will also constantly be active in love and thus redeem himself, because I draw him to Me and will never again let him fall into the hands of the one who is My adversary ....

Amen

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Significance of the work of redemption .... past - present - future ....

B.D. 3644 from January 1st 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Jesus died the death on the cross for all mankind .... This was an act of divine mercy and love which is incomprehensible to people as long as they dwell on earth. It was an act of salvation which not only applied to the people of the time who lived with Him on earth but in which the spirits of the entire universe participated, for the divine saviour's love extended to all bound spirits which wanted to be redeemed from their adversity. All people of the following time had a share in His act of salvation, but Jesus Christ also brought salvation to the souls which had already departed before His descent. The path into the kingdom of light was open for everyone because the redeeming love could now be active on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. Even the still immature spiritual in the beyond recognized the power of love, even the immature spiritual was given the choice to acknowledge Jesus Christ or to strive towards God's adversary once more, and its decision was valid and paved the way up into the kingdom of light or down into darkness. Jesus descended into hell after His death on the cross .... He also lit a little light there in His merciful love and left it up to the souls to make use of the light .... He took care of the souls who had left earth unredeemed, who were overwhelmed by satan’s power and alone too weak to be able to offer resistance. Love was not yet completely suffocated in those souls, and thus He stoked the fire of love by presenting His merciful love to them, which alone was able to accomplish the act of salvation. He stretched out His hands to the fallen so that those who were willing to accept His merciful love, His gift of grace, could lift themselves up by it ..... And He redeemed them from death .... And everything spiritual in the universe, everything spiritual bound in earthly creations, was released from a tremendous pressure .... For its earthly course could once be decided and end with complete redemption, if the spiritual wanted it, whereas it was previously unable to redeem itself from satan’s bonds. Although it was not aware of this as long as it was not yet in a state of free will, the whole of creation was burdened with the immense guilt of sin of the spiritual's former apostasy from God .... Jesus' merciful love lightened this burden so that the bound spiritual also felt it and pushed towards the final stage of redemption. The spiritual development of ascent entered a completely different stage through Jesus Christ's act of salvation, an opportunity was given to become free from every form during the short earthly life as a human being .... Death had lost all horror, for eternal life supersedes earthly life if the graces of the divine work of redemption are utilized .... if the human being allows himself to be redeemed by acknowledging Jesus Christ and living a life of love on earth in accordance with His example. And the human being's love also flows over to the spiritual substance in the bound state, it feels its effect and its strength and its resistance begins to weaken, it strives towards the final state of development on earth itself, it is willing to serve with love, and the final redemption is guaranteed as soon as the strength of love has once touched the spiritual substance .... Jesus' act of salvation was therefore of inconceivable significance for the whole world, for the spiritual kingdom as well as for the earthly kingdom, for it was based on profound love, it was an act of utmost mercy and the bestowal of an immeasurable treasure of grace. It was accomplished for all times, for the past, present and future .... It was a work of merciful love for all who suffer and are unredeemed, but it must also be acknowledged without fail if it is not to remain without effect .... as Jesus Christ Himself promised with the words: "He who believes in Me has eternal life ...."

Amen

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Constant longing for God .... love - happiness ....

B.D. 3645 from January 2nd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

All your thoughts should flow towards Me in a constant longing for My nearness, for My love and My grace .... Then you will have overcome earthly life, even though you still have to live it out until your hour has come. Then your soul will no longer belong to the world, it will have become one with the spirit within you and only push towards Me .... And only love can bring about this state .... Anyone who is constantly active in love can no longer feel differently, his thoughts will be directed towards Me in a love-desiring way, because the spirit in him directs his thoughts and constantly directs them towards the eternal kingdom .... The working of love guarantees the intimate connection with Me, and anyone who has once entered into it will no longer want to miss it. His longing is only for constant union with Me. There is no more blissful feeling than that of love, love draws towards each other and unites, love always and constantly gives, it seeks to please and thereby finds its happiness. And since I love My living creations from the beginning and will never stop loving them, I also try to lead them to the highest happiness and constantly share with them out of strength and grace in order to make them worthy of this happiness. If the soul now loves Me again, it also wants to give Me .... itself, and therefore it pushes towards Me and I draw it to Me to make it blissfully happy in My presence, through My love, through light and strength .... Whatever comes to Me of its own accord I take hold of and make it capable of receiving light and strength already on earth, so that it can distribute again for its own happiness and for the redemption of that which has not yet found its way to Me .... Whatever applies to Me of its own free will takes the path of light, and it can never ever become dark around it. For as soon as it unites with Me through heartfelt remembrance, prayer and loving activity it will also be permeated by My love, and My love is light and strength .... knowledge and power .... The knowing soul will also be able to let My strength flow into it and be able to work through My strength, for it works from Me and with Me. If My love has taken hold of a creature, the lack of strength will have fallen away from it, it will approach the original state again, which signifies full possession of light and strength, and thereby it will become blissfully happy, for it will be able to be active in love as it desires. And if a person already strives for this on earth then the earthly world recedes, the desire for the spiritual world predominates because the soul feels that spiritual activity alone is true happiness, that it alone is only valuable and that it is also urgent because the hardship of the unredeemed spiritual requires it. And every person who feels this and offers himself to Me for help is seized by My love, it flows through him, it makes him capable of suitable work for My kingdom and thus already gives him the happiness of redeeming activity on earth. And let this be your endeavour, you who want to ascend, that you constantly try to turn your thoughts towards Me, that you first commend everything you start, also your earthly activity, to My blessing, that you always and everywhere mention Me as your guide and advisor, that you start nothing, without first having thought of Me, and that you thus live in intimate union with Me, always feeling Me next to you, desiring Me at all times and drawing Me ever closer to you through loving activity until there is no longer any separation between you and Me, until a firm bond has been formed which will remain unbreakable for all eternity ....

Amen

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Earthly and spiritual creations ....

B.D. 3646 from January 3rd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Everything which presents itself to your gaze, which you see and feel, and countless works of creation which lie beyond your field of vision, which fill the whole universe and bear eternal witness to My love, My strength and My everlasting creative will, came forth from Me. All creations are My work, they carry My strength within them, they are constantly sustained by My strength and thus fulfil their purpose according to My will .... But they carry something within themselves which does not yet correspond to My will .... they harbour the spiritual substance which has changed contrary to My will, which has left the state of perfection in free will and has sunk into a state which is imperfect, thus completely contradicts My order of eternity. And this imperfect spiritual substance was the cause of My creation .... My will became active in the same way, only in the opposite direction .... what wanted to distance itself from Me I try to hold back, I try to guide it towards Me again in a roundabout way, respecting free will but supporting it as long as it is in a state of complete ignorance due to its striving away from Me. My creation is therefore only a means to an end, and the end is the final return of that which once originated from Me in all perfection and became imperfect through its own fault. As long as this creation is visible to your eyes it is animated by spiritual substances which are completely opposed to Me and bound in material form. As soon as this resistance subsides, the form changes more quickly in order to finally release the spiritual completely, even if it has not yet completely given up its resistance. Then, however, spiritual creations are its abode, depending on its state of maturity. And these spiritual creations are so exceedingly versatile and wonderful to look at as soon as the spiritual has already approached Me so far that it can look with spiritual eyes. Nevertheless, even then they still serve the spiritual kingdom's higher development, thus purpose and aim cannot be denied to them either, for nothing is without purpose that has emerged from Me, because My will to shape is paired with profoundest wisdom, because supremely perfect thoughts flow from Me which I let become form through My will. The spiritual kingdom is the actual world, the earthly world only a faint reflection, a creation of a minimal kind, adapted to the spiritual, which, embodied as a human being, enlivens earthly creations. And yet, earthly creations also completely correspond to their purpose, and they are the most effective means for the reclamation of the spiritual, even though the latter often disregards the means in free will. My work is never imperfect, only it can be too little utilized by the still immature spiritual being, and then even the most effective means fail to achieve their purpose. Once the human being has attained the spiritual maturity that he is already able to see spiritually on earth, then he will also recognize the great love and wisdom which underlies every work of creation; he will recognize Me as the creator of everything he sees, and he will reverently bow before the power Which gave him life and let him walk through creation to his perfection .... Yet the human being's gaze must be spiritually directed if he wants to learn to recognize Me, and creation will speak to him in a language which goes to his heart .... He will praise and give thanks and eternally glorify the one Who let everything come into being, he will recognize Me and love Me with all his heart, for he has found Me in order to never lose Me again ....

Amen

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Two worlds .... Divine law of love ....

B.D. 3647 from January 4th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Divine law requires love, consequently everything unloving is ungodly, it is very distant from God, it is His adversary’s part which is entirely without love and for this reason he is God’s direct opposite. God and His adversary rule over two worlds which will always stay apart until the law of love is fulfilled and unites both worlds. Nevertheless, God’s power also extends to the world where His law is ignored, because everything in this world emerged from God too, it has merely distanced itself from His sphere of love. And His power shows itself in as much as that He also rules in the kingdom of the heartless, i.e. he directs all events in accordance with His will. In spite of God’s adversary having great strength and power at his disposal, it is nevertheless limited and does not extend to the works of divine creative power, it does not extend to the creations in whom heartlessness was constrained in order to change itself into love .... In this state the spirit, which had previously fallen away from God, is isolated from His adversary’s power and compelled to fulfil the law of love, although its will does not yet determine its actions. It enables the spirit to cross more easily from the ungodly world into God’s world when it is permitted to undergo this test on earth.

But then the power of God’s adversary comes into its own and with cunning and force seeks to hold on to the spiritual essence of his world .... He tries to increase its heartlessness, he attempts to make it give up the divine, he endeavours to withhold from it the divine law of love and make it wholly inclined to his wishes .... But God in His merciful love will not leave the spirit to His adversary without a fight. During the last stage as a human being He will repeatedly give him the knowledge of His law of love, he will constantly approach the person by requesting love and offering him the opportunity to fulfil the divine commandment. He will present His world to him, either in thoughts or through his fellow human beings, and thus will urge him to make a decision for one of both worlds. And if he is willing to carry out the requirements of divine law, if he is willing to apply love, he will also recognise the right path leading to the kingdom of light. He will see the darkness of the realm which belongs to God’s opponent, he will see the consequences of heartlessness as he recognises the strength of love, and he will voluntarily submit himself to divine law .... He will shape himself into love and therefore be an applicant to the spiritual kingdom, the world which belongs to God .... He will renounce God’s adversary in order to belong to God eternally, Who is love in Himself, because he has become love itself ....

Amen

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Language of creation .... Essence - Creative power ....

B.D. 3648 from January 5th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Learn to understand the language of creation .... God Himself is speaking to you through creation, He is constantly facing you by revealing Himself in all the work that emerges from His strength of love. And He has given you the ability to perceive His creation, to stimulate your intellect .... and thus it is He Himself Who is mentally instructing you, providing you are willing to accept His instructions when you look at the creation around you, when you ponder its meaning and purpose, its origin and the One Who brought it into existence. Every relevant thought is a question answered by God Himself, providing you truly want it answered .... The eternal creative power cannot be denied if you contemplate the origin of the works of creation .... The eternal creative power has to be acknowledged by every person, but its origin, its source, is frequently disputed by people. They do not always want to acknowledge a perfect Entity as the source of creative power. Creation has not yet spoken to them clearly enough, they have not yet understood its language, and their thoughts first have to aim in the right direction in order to come to the right conclusion ....

Creation exceptionally and distinctly reveals a conformity to law, an orderliness, which cannot be surpassed. Something so orderly is always the result of a strong will, of an Essence Which claims this strong will as its own. Furthermore, order also testifies to the wisdom of the Entity Who produced it .... well thought-out laws which eliminate all imprudence, a wisdom which brought nothing into existence without meaning and purpose and which also allows its meaning and purpose to be known. Hence the Being, Which would be the originator of the creative power, has to be intelligent and, by virtue of His will and power, be able to let His thoughts take shape. Thus it has to be a supremely perfect Being Who reveals Himself in every work of creation, Who wants to be recognised in His perfection .... Who in turn is using His strength to provide other intelligent beings with proof of His existence, because He is in closest contact with these intelligent beings in as much as they too emerged from Him, that they too are the product of His creative will and His creative power, whom He wants to bring into a state of perfection in order to make them carriers of abundant strength as well, so that they too can be creatively active for their own happiness. The Creator’s close link with His living creations has to be recognised, the human being has to become aware of the relationship between himself and the eternal creative power. As a being in his own right he has to acknowledge the Power, Which is infinitely stronger than himself, as an Entity or he will be lost in creation as the only intelligent individual being which is in possession of (free) will and yet incapable of actions for which he lacks strength.

Furthermore, it is absurd to assume that a Power, Which gave rise to everything, would give life to intelligent beings without being intelligent Itself .... The same applies to the human being’s inherent will which, however, is being denied to the origin of natural power .... What would creation be without intrinsic inhabitants .... of what purpose would this unsurpassed order be could it not be recognised by beings, if it did not give testimony of a supreme Being, which wants to be acknowledged .... What would the human being be without intelligence and will .... an imperfect living creation which would not need orderly creation to exist .... The fact that the human being is able to think and has free will is proof of a Creator Who, in utmost perfection, is capable of thought and, in accordance with His will, uses His ability with wisdom and in full possession of strength .... It is also proof that the human being was not created without reason and purpose, and that he was given thought and will in order to recognise the reason and purpose and strive for it .... He has to realise that he does not master earthly life in spite of thought and will, he has to acknowledge a stronger Being above himself Whose will is decisive, and he has to accept Its wisdom and love and bow to It ....

And God speaks to people through creation, He motivates them to contemplate it and willingly offers explanations if these are sincerely wanted, if people, abandoning their knowledge, hand themselves over to the eternal creative power Who has given them their intelligence. Then their thoughts can be guided in the right direction so that they too will live in the order which is intrinsic to every work of creation but which the person can also revoke, because he is in possession of free will. Nevertheless, should he want to live in God’s ordained order, then his will shall be observed .... and he will be given knowledge about everything he wants to know ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love - Wisdom .... Selfish love - Error - Darkness ....

B.D. 3649 from January 6th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

All darkness will leave you, every veil will fall from your eyes, the love of God will reveal itself brightly and clearly to you if you make the effort to live with love, since out of love comes wisdom, the realisation of pure truth, and you become knowledgeable, depending on your attained degree of love. Yet without love you will stay in spiritual darkness, without love you will never become enlightened, you will never be able to distinguish truth from lie and error, you will never understand the depth of the Deity, and His rule and actions will remain hidden to you. And for this reason Jesus taught love on earth ....

For this reason He could only bring the truth to those people who followed His lessons of love, for this reason He was able to teach His disciples and impart on them profound knowledge, because He recognised the love in them and that is why he chose them to become His disciples. People first have to be encouraged to love, otherwise they cannot find the truth. Love is God, truth is God and therefore, whoever is without love is without God and walks in error. However, to live in love means to be good to other human beings from an innermost urge of heart, to help whenever they need it, when they suffer hardship, yet always without self interest, always at the prompting of the heart, then it is divine love and not selfish love which the human being has to oppose if he wants to please God. Selfish love prevents the human being from acting kindly towards other people, it is therefore the greatest danger to him as it leads him into wrong thinking, into error and into darkness of spirit, because selfishness formerly led to the fall of the spirit ....

The completely enlightened being fell into spiritual darkness due to the wrong kind of love, it could no longer discern the truth and became a subject of the one who fought against the truth, against God. Thus every person who exists without divine love will be a servant to the one who is entirely without love and will be as distant from the truth as he, due to his heartlessness, is distant from God because God, Love and Truth are One. And that is why only the human being who acts kindly himself and who on account of his love is led to wisdom, can live in truth and know God on earth. All veils will fall from him, he will recognise the goal brightly and clearly since God will reveal Himself to him, He will guide him into truth and turn him into a recipient of light and strength, even on earth. This will enable him to work with love for the souls of his fellow human beings and to show them the path which leads to truth and light, so that he can convey to them that only the adherence to Jesus’ teachings of love will result in right thinking, in enlightenment of the spirit, in order that the fellow human being can also know the truth and therefore God Himself as the eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distributing spiritual goods ....

B.D. 3650 from January 7th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

I Myself distribute spiritual riches to anyone who desires them .... No request for it will go unheard, no request will remain unfulfilled which applies to the soul's well-being, which concerns spiritual possessions which I exceedingly gladly impart to My children on earth. Yet I also demand something in return, I distribute the knowledge which corresponds to truth under conditions which have to be fulfilled first, so that the recipient will prove himself worthy of My gift of grace .... I require loving hearts which accept My gift .... And if the human being seriously strives to gain advantages for his soul, if the well-being of his soul is his first concern, he will also fulfil this condition of Mine, he will be lovingly active out of innermost impulse, for the desire for spiritual good only occurs when the human being has disregarded earthly goods, when he has overcome selfish love and unselfish neighbourly love has taken its place. For this reason every person who seriously strives for spiritual goods will also make an effort to live in love, and therefore no request will remain unfulfilled, for I Myself help the supplicant so that the spark of love in him becomes a flame, I Myself impel him into loving activity without, however, forcing his will. I place the thoughts in his heart which he can accept but also reject and thus spur him on to lively activity in love. For if the human being wants to shape himself according to My pleasure, if he wants to gain spiritual advantages for himself, the strength to carry out his will will always be given to him by Me, and My supply of strength also signifies increased activity of love, because it is the emanation of love from Me Myself. This is why no person will remain on a low spiritual level who demands ascent .... For he complies with My will, he fulfils his purpose of earthly life, he uses his will in the right direction and his thinking is guided by Me from the start as soon as he seeks to ascend the spiritual height .... But this always presupposes the connection with Me, the prayer which is sent up with full faith to the one Who distributes spiritual possessions .... Thus I must always be acknowledged as the giver of light, as the giver of truth, as the source of strength and as the embodiment of love .... Therefore, anyone who believes will inevitably ascend, and anyone who is weak in faith and sends the request for truth into infinity will also find grace by his weak faith being strengthened, by his prayer becoming ever more personal, by him finally conversing with a being Who reveals Himself to him ever more and more and does not deny him the spiritual goods .... Which also introduces him to truth because it is his will to attain truth .... because he unconsciously strives to become perfect, because he wants to remedy his deficient state of ignorance and every desire for spiritual maturity finds My pleasure .... For this is the aim and purpose of earthly life, that you mature spiritually, and therefore no request you send upwards for the sake of your soul will be in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will or approval ....

B.D. 3651 from January 8th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Never forget that I am lord over heaven and earth .... that My will rules everywhere and no power can trump My will. Never forget that My will must therefore also be respected if you want to be subject to Me, if you, as My living creations, don't want to remain in resistance against Me. But My will is to live in My order from eternity .... You must never submit to other laws as soon as they are contrary to My order, otherwise you will disregard My will, you will be hostile towards Me and therefore also have to be aware of My might so that you will realize that you cannot act contrary to My will without evil consequences .... I presuppose this in order to explain to you the condition which is currently oppressing people .... It is only the consequence of disregarding My will but not My will itself. For My will is order, whereas the state on earth is completely disorderly, thus it can never correspond to My will. Only the human being is able to overturn the laws of order by virtue of his free will, but I leave them eternally unchanged, and again and again I inform people of My will so that they will remain in My order for eternity if they respect My will. But a chaotic state can never be My will because it would contradict love and wisdom. But people bring about the chaotic state themselves through unkindness and ignorance, through their shortcomings, their imperfection, which the will opposed to Me entails. And what people strive for or accomplish in their imperfection I never approve of, yet I do not force their will into the right direction but let them bear the consequences themselves which must result from their wrong direction of will. Nevertheless I rule heaven and earth .... I also seek to exploit humanity's wrong will for their own souls. People must learn to experience disorder as torment themselves if they want to make an effort to enter My eternal order again, and the will to do so must be born from within themselves, it cannot be placed into a person by Me. And therefore they must learn to recognize what disregard for My will leads to .... I must give them a free hand in thinking and wanting in order to shake them up, in order to help them return to divine order again. And therefore the state on earth cannot be ended by Me if people themselves do not seek to end it .... they must voluntarily submit themselves to My will, then they will also come into the right order again, then their will will join Mine, then people will be governed in wisdom and love again and also be able to recognize this, whereas in the state of disorder they will not be able to recognize Me, although My will will still be above everything even then .... I don't want the disorderly state on earth but I allow it so that people will guide themselves into the right order by respecting My will and making an effort to live accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation of God ....

B.D. 3652 from January 10th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The fact that I took abode on earth in a human shell will remain an insoluble problem for people as long as they live on earth, for they will never be able to comprehend that the most sublime, the creator of heaven and earth, could shelter in a human being, in a shell, which therefore meant limitation for this spirit of eternity. People will never be able to penetrate this mystery, even if it is explained to them according to their maturity of soul. This problem of the human manifestation is so mysterious and yet My love tries again and again to make it understandable to people so that they can believe what they should believe in order to become blissfully happy. For the time being, the reason for My incarnation on earth lies in My infinite love. My creatures were no longer able to recognize the connection between themselves and their creator. And thus I wanted to make Myself recognizable to them in order to stimulate them to re-establish the bond with Me, for My love eternally desires that which has emerged from Me. And the desire must also be on the part of My living creations if the union is to take place. Thus My love wanted to bring itself close to people so that they would recognize Me .... Man is only a work of creation in the smallest miniature compared to My infinitely great strength .... he would not be able to face My abundance of strength without being crushed by it .... Thus I had to confront him in a form he could understand and bear in order to give him the opportunity to make contact with Me. And thus I came to people as a human being .... My spirit, which also slumbers in every human being as a spiritual spark, took abode in all its fullness in a human form. The form thus hid the divine from their eyes, before which they could not exist if it were to irradiate them in all fullness of strength .... My spirit filled infinity .... But it could also shelter itself in the smallest shell because My spirit is not bound to time and space. My spirit did not need a cover, but it gave itself a cover for the sake of My creatures, which were never able to bear Me without a cover. In a human form, therefore, I brought Myself into visible proximity to people. Every human form is first enlivened by My spiritual spark, by My breath, My portion, which, placed in it at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, lies dormant and awaits awakening. And My living creation becomes divine as soon as it awakens this spiritual spark, the part of Myself, through love .... The man Jesus then brought the spiritual spark within Himself to life through loving activity, the spark ignited into a bright flame and He drew Me in all fullness into His physical external form, which now became the abode of Myself. My spirit of eternity is not bound to time and space, it is not limited, it fills the whole universe, the spiritual kingdom and all creations, it is everywhere .... consequently, it must also be able to dwell in a human shell if this shell allows its dwelling in it insofar as it has shaped itself such that it is no longer consumed by My strength and love .... For this presupposes perfection, which people lacked but Jesus had achieved on earth. This is why the man Jesus was able to be in closest contact with Me without passing away, while His cover sheltered Me from those who could not bear My nearness because they were still imperfect. Nevertheless, they could see Me but they did not recognize Me, they only saw the man Jesus but not Me in Him. But I Myself had become a human being, I Myself had given Myself a human shell, for I Myself am the creator of everything that is visible. The reason why I came to humanity is My overwhelming love for them, because they needed My presence in order to find their way back to Me. I became a human being and as a human being took up the battle with My adversary who wanted to push My living creations away from Me and deprived them of all willpower to oppose him .... And thus I fought with him for people .... And My weapon was love, which defeats everything that opposes it .... I suffered and died as a human being for people, out of love for them, in order to defeat the adversary whose strength could not withstand this weapon, whose power I broke through love .... (10.1.1946) My descent on earth was therefore the outcome of a battle between light and darkness. The light itself confronted the prince of darkness in order to break his power over the spiritual, which was to decide in free will for light or for darkness. My adversary, however, did not allow this free decision of will but forced the spiritual substance insofar as he claimed people's weakened will for himself, that he made it impossible for people to recognize God, that he therefore tried to keep Me, the light of eternity, away from them in order to prevent them from deciding in favour of Me. And therefore I came to people's aid. I took away My adversary's power to influence weak-willed people in this way, I placed Myself on people's side and fought against him as a human being .... i.e. My external form was subject to the same laws as every other human being. It had to wrestle its way through all temptations and earthly weaknesses, yet it was inspired by love, and the strength of love kept the victory, it was stronger than the power of the one who was without love. In the human being Jesus I was in all fullness, My spirit of eternity had taken abode in Him, but before that the human being Jesus had shaped Himself such that I could take Him as My abode. My external form was certainly also My work, the work of the creator of eternity, yet at the beginning of the embodiment of His soul this external form was also a carrier of immature substances which first had to spiritualize itself through the will of the man Jesus, through His love, thus it first had to become the receptacle of My Self .... For I, the most perfect spirit from eternity, could only take abode in a perfect vessel .... But then I dwelled visibly among men, then I Myself walked on earth in the form of a human being; I Myself, the spirit Who controls infinity, had descended to earth, I had manifested Myself in a form which was visible to men .... This is a mystery which will remain incomprehensible to you despite any explanation, and yet I try to make it comprehensible to you to such an extent that you can acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus, for just as a smouldering spark can grow to have an elementary effect as a mighty fire, so the spiritual spark in the man Jesus ignited into brightest embers and united with the eternal fire, the eternal fire consumed everything earthly from the man Jesus and only the divine remained in and on Him .... It was I, the great spirit of eternity, Who was visible to people in order to bring them knowledge of God again, to Whom they should strive on earth, for Whom they should decide of their own free will and Who acquired the strength to do so again through His death on the cross, which the man Jesus took upon Himself in order to redeem His fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Think and act justly ....

B.D. 3653 from January 11th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

I demand righteous thinking and righteous action from you, for this arises from a loving heart. If you give to your neighbour what you claim for yourselves, the love of your heart will impel you to do so, and thus you will fulfil My commandment to love your neighbour as yourselves. And you will constantly have the opportunity to do so, although you will also be exposed to temptations, for My adversary will also work on you undauntedly and try to kindle your desires such that you will not want to deny yourselves what you deem desirable. But the more earthly goods seem appealing to you, the more you should remember My commandment of love .... Pray of what you possess and alleviate your neighbour's hardship; think and act justly, i.e., don't let those who have nothing go hungry but put yourselves in their position where you would be grateful for any help. Think and act justly .... You are all brothers, you are all children of one father and should share every gift amongst yourselves, for this is true love which delights the father’s heart and which will bless you a thousandfold. And if you give, do not measure anxiously, fearing that your supply will be less .... for as you measure out, so shall it be measured to you .... I, your father from eternity, always give to you according to your will to give, for I want hardship to be alleviated, that people may develop their love, I want to inspire them to loving activity, and I truly do not leave in hardship those who disown themselves in order to help their fellow human beings .... I want My blessing to be evident to you, that you recognize Me Myself as the giver of everything you need; yet I also want you to hand out in the same way as I hand out to you .... that you consider the needy and thereby practice love, that you don't claim for yourselves what My love offers you when the hardship is clearly recognizable around you. Think and act justly .... Seek to alleviate the hardship with love in order to awaken reciprocated love, for only when people realize that your activity of love will earn them My blessing can the earthly hardship improve, because then the purpose of the hardship will have been achieved .... a change in the human being to love which corresponds to My divine order and also results in an orderly earthly life. And thus your thoughts and actions shall always be guided by the love of the heart, then your way of life will correspond to My will, then you yourselves will mature in your soul, then the earthly adversity will be alleviated, for then love will reign, and where love is I Myself am, just as I will always dwell where My commandments are fulfilled, which only require love for Me and for the neighbour ....

Amen

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Teaching the disciples, according to God's will of maturity and destiny ....

B.D. 3654 from January 12th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You will be taught according to My will if I convey the truth to you through messengers from heaven. For I alone know about your state of soul, about your maturity, and wisdom comes to you accordingly. That is why the teachings are kept in a form which can increase your state of maturity in a short time. But the instructions also correspond to the teaching activity which the recipient of My word is to carry out when the time has come for it. My word shall be spread such that people can recognize it as My word if they are willing to do so. My word must reveal wisdom, it must carry love within itself and make My will known .... If My disciple takes up the teaching ministry he must be able to present Me Myself to people as the supremely perfect being Which they should strive for. And thus he must be instructed himself so that he can represent his teaching with conviction .... He must have recognized Me, he must be knowledgeable, he must be so intimately united with Me that I Myself can also instruct him at any time if he desires clarification .... And therefore he must first be trained such that he is a true disciple of his master, a servant of his lord who only carries out what he has been instructed to do. But I know My disciples, I know about their ability, about their will, about their zeal for service, and as a disciple gives himself to Me he will be filled by My spirit. I order his thinking, I direct his will because he has submitted himself to Me, I show him the path which always leads to where I want My teaching proclaimed. And if he is to be active for Me and My name, if he is to spread My teaching, I will loosen his tongue and he will speak instead of Me .... Thus the instruction of My disciples beforehand happens on My instructions, if I don't express Myself but let My messengers be active as teachers, and they will always want the same, only My will will be carried out in every proclamation, for it is My word which is conveyed to My servant on earth, it is My word which the recipient receives, even though it is not offered as a father's word but is conveyed to the human being through spiritual beings full of light. For these are in My service, they carry My will within themselves, they are permeated by My strength and filled by love for Me, so that they only ever work for Me in order to contribute towards the redemption of the unfree spiritual beings. But the recipient himself often determines the form of the proclamations from above through his will if he is weak in spirit and therefore needs repetitions which are intended to strengthen him. And My love and wisdom will create this and thus give the purest truth in accordance with the state of the soul, however, because only light can flow out of the heavens which no shadow of darkness can obscure. For the light shall be guided to earth so that all those who desire it, who strive to escape from darkness, shall be enlightened ....

Amen

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Testing the spiritual work and the power of love ....

B.D. 3655 from January 13th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You should all test the strength of love and the working of the spirit, then nothing would seem impossible to you anymore and your faith would be strengthened many times over. I will show you the path Myself through My messengers, through My servants on earth, and if you now want to take this path you will have certain proof in your hands that My word is truth. You only have to let your will become active by carrying out what I request .... by living in love. For only then can My spirit become effective in you, because I can only work where love is, otherwise My working would be a compulsion, a spiritual progress against the human being's will .... And thus you can create the evidence of My working and the truth of My word for yourselves at any time, if you find it difficult to believe without it. And you will be amazed at the power of love .... I inform you that you will achieve great spiritual progress if you are lovingly active .... And if you believe My servants on earth and take their words to heart, if you fulfil My commandment of love, you will also soon feel the strength of love .... Your thoughts will take a direction which leads you closer to the truth and you will know that you are taking the path to truth. For My spirit will now work in you and give you knowledge of which you desire knowledge. And it will teach you nothing else than you are taught by My servants on earth, who have received the same truth from Me Myself and are to spread it .... The strength of love and the working of the spirit will always be presented to you, the spiritual spark in you will stir and proclaim to you the eternal truth .... that no-one can become blissfully happy without love, that no-one can penetrate the knowledge of divine truth without love, and thus the spirit in you will constantly impel you to love so that you will thereby become wise, so that you can receive My word directly through My spirit within you. Put yourselves to the test, let your will become active and fulfil My commandment of love .... And you will clearly and brightly recognize the truth of My word which is conveyed to you through My messengers in order to also make you direct recipients of My word if you are willing to do so .... Let Me Myself work in you, shape yourselves through love into the receptacle of My spirit, and your share will be light and strength in all abundance .... you will be knowledgeable and powerful, for the strength of love flows through you .... I Myself work in you as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Quiet and peace of the soul through deep faith ....

B.D. 3656 from January 14th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Your heart remains restless as long as you do not firmly believe in My everlasting love and care for all My creatures. Only profound faith gives you peace and tranquillity of soul. And thus you must first try to gain it, then you will master earthly life even in the most difficult days, in earthly adversity and distress. Again and again I call out to you: What can happen to you without My will or My permission? .... My might is so strong that it can prevent everything I want; and My love for you is so great that I will also prevent what will harm your soul. If the body nevertheless has to suffer, then also consider this a proof of love, for it serves your soul for the best. And therefore don't fear earthly suffering but trust Me that I will also make this bearable for you if only you believe in Me, My love and might. Try to imagine that an opposing force from Me wants to ruin you and that I will never ever allow this out of love for you. The opposing force seeks to win your will and if it does not succeed in doing so, it rages against you .... If your will is now seriously turned towards Me I will also stand by you as protection and the adversary's activity will be unsuccessful. And thus you only ever have to believe that I am with you, that you will never be defencelessly exposed to his influence, and this faith will give you comfort and peace, for I will not disappoint it. Your faith is the best weapon against the enemy of your souls .... I will not disappoint it and help you in every adversity, spiritually and earthly. But if you fear and doubt, the adversary will penetrate you and exert his influence. You can only achieve strong faith if you constantly unite with Me in prayer, for the constant call also gives you the inner certainty that I can help you, and you will also feel My love which wants to help you in every adversity .... Don't let earthly worries arise, for I will take care of them when the time comes, and only remember your souls and diligently care for them by strengthening and fortifying them through My word .... If you supply your soul with My word it will grow stronger in faith, and if you believe no earthly adversity will frighten you anymore. I constantly give you the assurance that I protect you in every danger of body and soul, and believe this word of Mine .... And peace and tranquillity will enter your heart, you will leave all worries to Me, you will also be able to transfer your faith to others, for profound faith radiates its strength and also revives your fellow human beings' weak faith. Don't be afraid but believe that I am powerful and love you .... And you will go through earthly life light-heartedly, always certain of My help, no adversity will frighten you even if you have to endure it for the sake of your souls, for I will end it when it is time, I will help you in accordance with your faith ....

Amen

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Day of judgement .... devil of the end time ....

B.D. 3657 from January 15th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The day of judgement will end everything, good and evil activity on this earth, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture. It will be a horror for evil, for the devils of the last days who dwell on earth embodied as a human being, but it will also be a day of joy and victory for people who strived for good at all times, who recognized and confessed Me despite the worst rage of those devils who are under satan’s rule. And My righteousness will be revealed, nothing will be able to be concealed, nothing will remain under false pretences, every deed and every thought will come to light openly, and I will judge people according to their way of life. And all adversity will come to an end for My own, but the great adversity for those who are in bondage to My adversary will only begin, and this is their damnation, that I will imprison them again, that they, deprived of their free will, will have to languish in hardest matter again for an infinitely long time .... But the devils of the end time cannot expect any mercy for the time being, for their raging against Me and My own is too severe and necessitates the harshest punishment. Moreover, a change of their attitude is no longer possible on this earth, for they have sunk too low and are close to the spiritual state again which prompted Me to let creation arise for the apostate spirits, and thus they will have to take the path through creation again if they are to have the opportunity to come close to Me again of their own free will. The final judgment is the prelude to this and at the same time the conclusion for the souls which have finally given up their resistance against Me, which strived towards Me in free will and sought to gain My pleasure on earth. And thus good will be separated from evil, and the process of destruction will take place before the eyes of all people on earth, and it will be a great horror for all inhabitants of earth, for I will rapture My own before .... I take them from this earth in their living bodies and transfer them to a place of peace until the work of reshaping the earth is completed, which will then again serve them as their abode .... The end is near .... and you should all fear the hour of judgement, who today scoff and mock and no longer believe in the righteousness of Him who gave you life .... You should fear the hour and make every effort not to let it become an hour of condemnation for you .... Believe that the time is near which I have always and constantly announced, and prepare yourselves for it. For the time still given to you for your earthly life is exceedingly short, it is only a last phase which will also be exceedingly painful, and you will recognize that you live in the last days and that the end will no longer tolerate a delay, for if the devils themselves rage on earth I will end their existence .... And you will all be able to recognize that the devils are raging by the fact that their activity is directed against Me .... that all love is fading away, that people are harming each other in the most blatant lack of love, that they act like devils amongst themselves and disregard all divine order. But where love dwindles is My adversary's kingdom, and I will destroy this kingdom when the last day has come, which I have set as the end since eternity in recognition of people's will and their spiritual low, which testifies to their belonging to My adversary. And I urgently call upon all of you: Remember the approaching end .... Prepare yourselves so that you belong to My own, do not let yourselves be seduced by the devils but resist them so that you will not fall under the judgment .... For the last day is no longer too far away, it will take you by surprise if you don't pay attention to My word, if you don't believe. But I want to warn you before it is too late and for this purpose I will send you My messengers who shall bring you My word, which is truth and will remain so for all eternity, for it emanates from Me, Who is the eternal truth Myself ....

Amen

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Lighting the light .... God’s word ....

B.D. 3658 from January 16th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

I will lead you through the night to the light if you willingly follow Me, if you do not flee from the light and prefer darkness to light. You walk in darkness on earth as long as you walk without love. And if I now make My will known to you, if I give you the commandment of love and teach you to take the path of love, I will kindle a little light for you which will increase its brilliance as soon as you fulfil My will. I Myself bring you the light with My word, which you need only obey in order to be surrounded by the most radiant light. I Myself kindle the light everywhere and its rays shine into all corners, they can have an effect in a wide radius if you nourish the flame yourselves, if you ensure that it does not go out but shines ever brighter .... if you are constantly loving and let My word penetrate ever deeper into your hearts .... Then all darkness will disappear, you will be enlightened, nothing will remain veiled in darkness but you will be able to see clearly and brightly, recognizing everything, understanding everything, for there is light in you and light is knowledge of the pure truth. Thus you also have to accept the bearers of light who bring to you on My behalf what emanates from Me. For I Myself send them to you because it is still dark on earth and I want to break through the darkness if you do not resist. You must listen to My messengers, thus willingly open doors and windows so that the light can brightly penetrate your house .... You must receive My word and let it take effect in you .... You must let it shine into all corners of your heart, you must let your intellect become active and at the same time also let your heart speak, then you will feel the benefit of light, you will become free from the pressure of darkness which weighs upon you as long as it is night in you, night of the spirit, which means ignorance, lack of freedom and erroneous thinking. Where there is light there is no need to fear an attack by hostile forces, for they will be recognized if they approach and rejected, they cannot tolerate the bright light and therefore only work where the darkness of night is spread over people's hearts and minds. And therefore I warn you, I bring you the light so that you can resist these forces, so that you can chase them away from the realm of light and may walk your path unchallenged, always following the light which I carry before you, which brightly and clearly illuminates your path to Me and which will never ever lead you astray. And where therefore a light shines for you, there direct your path and know that the light was always kindled by Me Myself in order to help you who still walk in spiritual night. Rejoice over every flaring up of a light .... let yourselves be revived and refreshed by My word, let it also find a reflection in you and surrender yourselves to its effect without resistance .... And it will become bright and light in you, for I, the eternal light Itself, can work in you and help you to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgent reminder to work on the soul ....

B.D. 3659 from January 17th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Do you know whether you will still live to see tomorrow? Whether you will still have the strength to work on earth and to shape yourselves into spiritual maturity? Do you know whether your life will not end prematurely and you will no longer be able to work if you live without strength in the beyond? Therefore reckon every day and every hour with your passing away and make use of the time, work diligently on your soul and gather spiritual riches so that you will not pass over into the beyond empty and poor. God calls out to all of you: Do not value earthly life too highly and do not forget your soul, for it alone outlasts earthly life and must bear the consequences of your earthly change. And if you only strive for earthly possessions on earth which you cannot take over into eternity, then your fate in the beyond will only be pitiful, for you possess nothing and therefore cannot give anything .... and therefore also receive nothing. Again and again you will be reminded to remember your souls .... Don't ignore this admonition which comes to you from above but seriously consider the danger you are in if you live lukewarmly and indolently and only seek and accept the world. Seek to detach yourselves from it and to enter into contact with the spiritual kingdom, constantly remind yourselves that every day can be your last and give yourselves an account as to whether you feel mature enough to enter the spiritual kingdom. You are indeed involved in earthly duties which you have to fulfil, yet always leave them in second place and work on your soul first, for the earthly duties will be taken over by someone else if you are no longer able to fulfil them when your earthly life is over .... But no-one can take your soul's work off your hands, you have to do it yourselves, and you will be judged according to it in eternity. And therefore you should always reckon with a premature death, for no one of you has much time left, and therefore the work of the soul is more urgent than ever. And anyone who is called by God to work for His kingdom should be diligently active and point out to people everywhere that they don't have much time left, he should inform them of their fate in eternity if they enter the kingdom of the beyond without strength because the human being on earth neglected to gather spiritual riches, and this alone signifies strength and the possibility to also be active in the beyond. But without such the soul is inactive, powerless and in a pitiable state which it can, however, avert if it follows the admonitions, if it puts the well-being of its soul before that of the body, if the human being constantly provides the soul with spiritual nourishment and thus gives it strength to shape itself according to God's will. For you humans don't have much time left but you will constantly be informed of the end and the consequences of an unused earthly life. Therefore pay attention to these indications, be active and work with love as long as you can still work on earth. And thereby create a blissful fate for yourselves in the beyond, where you may then be active for your own happiness, because strength and light is your share, which you will then constantly receive from God, who shapes your souls according to His will ....

Amen

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Strength of faith .... Help in every need ....

B.D. 3660 from January 18th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You may ask for My help in every need even though the fulfilment of your request seems impossible to you. Only then will you understand the strength of faith when the remarkable guidance of My will resolves this need as a result. My power and My love copes with what appears impossible to you .... providing your prayer shows Me a strong faith, providing you entrust yourselves unto Me with complete confidence .... Therefore, take refuge in Me with all your needs, tell Me your problems, relinquish your worries and fears, and appeal for My help .... And truly, I won’t let you call in vain when your prayer expresses profound faith and you humbly await My help. Hence you need not fear anymore, providing you firmly believe .... The deeply devout human being belongs to Me eternally, he belongs to My Church, he is one of those whom I will never leave and who therefore always enjoys My protection too.

But now, for the sake of other people and even for yourselves, as a test of faith I send worldly perils time after time that you should prove yourselves, that your fellow human beings should find Me and through you find evidence of strength of faith, that they too should learn to believe and thus reduce their spiritual poverty. And although everything takes place in accordance with My plan of eternity, the faithful human being need not fear anything because My guidance is miraculous, My power is more than great, and My love always finds a solution to every problem for those who belong to Me. Thus, what is unavoidably necessary for the whole of humanity, what it perceives as hardship and misery, can leave someone with complete trust in Me utterly unimpressed; he need not be affected by it even though he stands right in the centre of an event which the entire human race identifies as disastrous because he holds on to My hand and this guides him safely and unharmed through all difficulties. You are able to banish everything with a firm faith, and neither people nor spiritual forces can harm you if you escape to Me with a firm faith, entrust yourselves unto Me and unconditionally abandon yourselves to Me and My mercy.

I, however, know the strength of faith in every single person, and his destiny is arranged in accordance with his faith .... But in order to become perfect the soul has to struggle for this strong faith, it cannot be given to the soul without its contribution, without its aspiration and sincere prayer. But someone who struggles for deep, steadfast faith will also attain it because his prayer is for spiritual wealth and won’t remain unheard. Therefore he is confronted time and again with events which should deepen his prayer, which are intended to strengthen the faith. Hence you may turn to Me with all your needs and ask Me for prevention or help .... And I certainly won’t disappoint you, I will always be ready to help, so that you learn to know Me, My love and My omnipotence and your faith becomes ever deeper until you live your earthly life completely carefree, because you know of the strength of faith and at all times put your trust in Me ....

Amen

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Psychological work ....

B.D. 3661 from January 19th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Scrutinize yourselves and recognise your weaknesses .... and then strive to overcome them. This is psychological work, that you try to shape yourselves into human beings who remain within My order, who live in accordance with My will and thus shape themselves to love. Because every weakness, every mistake, every bad habit has its source in unkindness and selfishness. Gentleness, peacefulness, humility, patience, mercy and justice are signs of love for other people; if you lack any of these signs you are not filled with love and need to actively work on yourselves. But in order to do so you have to recognise your weaknesses and faults yourselves and this requires honest analysis, serious reflection and correction of your relationship with Me and your fellow human beings. You have to acknowledge Me as Father and every man as brother because you are all children of one Father. And you children should love each other, then you will find My favour, because then I Myself will be able to stay with you, My children. However, every bad habit prevents Me from doing so and this is to your disadvantage because without Me, without My presence, you will remain weak and imperfect and will not be able to achieve your goal on earth.

Your goal is to become perfect, to change yourselves into love and to change your nature into the original state that you once abandoned voluntarily. For you are only happy in your original state and as long as you are far-away from it your fate on earth as well as in the spiritual realm will be insufficiency, ignorance and weakness. I, however, want to lead you back to happiness and thus constantly caution you to aspire towards it; that you start the work of transforming your being; that by observing your inner self you learn to become aware of how little your thoughts and actions correspond to My will because you are still selfish. And therefore you have to make an effort to change this

imperfect state, practicing love wherever and whenever an opportunity presents itself. Because you can only become happy with love, you can only master your faults and bad habits with love.

And if you cannot feel this love within yourselves as yet then use your intellect to shape yourselves into righteously thinking people .... be gentle and peace-loving, humble and patient and try to bring help to your fellow human beings .... and the feeling of love will awaken in you, it will make you happy and encourage you to perform loving deeds. Then you will no longer be moved by your intellect but by your heart, then you will be on the right path. Therefore observe yourselves, meditate and seriously ask yourselves whether you think and act righteously, and your heart will answer you .... And I Myself will come to your aid, providing you genuinely ask yourselves this question, I will give you strength to carry out what you seriously want, and the work on your soul will advance successfully, you will find it satisfying yourselves, submit to My will and continue your ascent as soon as it is your will to become perfect ....

Amen

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Voice of the father ....

B.D. 3662 from January 20th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Anyone who recognizes the father’s voice is also a true child of the father and thus a candidate for eternal beatitude .... I always make Myself known to My own, and anyone who proves his childship to Me by striving to be what I am .... love .... I also so obviously confront him that he is able to recognize Me, and if he hears My word, directly or through My messengers, he also recognizes My word as My gift, he recognizes Me Myself in the word and lets it speak to him, he opens his heart and feels the benefit of My working of love in him, he fully gives himself to Me and thus belongs to My own whom the father no longer relies on eternally because they have found their way back to Him of their own free will. And this is how you will always recognize My own who send the word into the world, whether they accept My word, whether they recognize it as the father’s voice of eternity or reject it .... whether they regard My revelations as divine or as the work of men, for anyone who is not My child does not know how the father’s voice sounds either .... he listens to the voice of the world, he listens to the voice of false prophets who indeed also speak My name but who are never bearers of light and strength from Me, who can never be bearers and thus true spreaders of My word because they lack the love which also makes My voice recognizable to them. Pay attention to this when you convey My word to the world; offer them My word with all love and then leave them complete freedom to accept or reject it .... For My word has to speak for itself, and anyone who does not recognize the father’s voice will not be able to be taught by human mouth either, although I Myself speak through it. Give him knowledge of My word and then let him judge for himself .... and if he rejects it, don't urge him to accept My teaching, for the human being has to find Me of his own free will, he has to become lovingly active of his own free will in order to be able to recognize Me Myself in the word. Only love turns My living creations into My children who shall inherit My kingdom, whom the father wants to introduce into His house in order to make them eternally happy. And anyone who does not have love can never be a candidate for this kingdom, for he cannot hear the father’s voice, he does not recognize the father when He calls him, and thus he will also have no communion with the one Who nevertheless is his father from eternity, Who is his creator and provider, but Who will also eternally court His living creations until they return to Him of their own accord ....

Amen

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Mighty task of the servants of God .... end ....

B.D. 3663 from January 21st 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You have an enormous task to fulfil on earth if you want to be active for My kingdom before the last end. This task requires strong will and profound faith and a fervent love for Me, for Whom you want to be active. For you will be attacked from all sides, you, you will be attacked by people you previously thought to be on your side, for satan rages and also carries the sparks of hatred and unkindness amongst them. And thus their thinking will also be blinded, they will no longer recognize Me in the word you convey to them, they will oppose you and betray you for the sake of worldly reward, they will change to the enemy's camp and deny Me because they have never yet recognized Me. But you must withstand every onslaught, no matter from which side it comes. You must always remember that I have foretold all this to you so that you will only recognize the truth of My word and adhere to Me all the more firmly and faithfully, Who will not abandon you in any adversity. For everything must come to pass as I have proclaimed it .... only a small flock will remain faithful to Me, and this flock shall fight for Me with the sword of the mouth, it shall speak fearlessly and unhesitatingly even in the face of the strongest earthly power, it shall always know that I am mightier than all earthly rulers, that they speak for Me and in My name .... And therefore this task requires strength of will and strength of faith, and only a few will be able to accomplish their task. But to these few I bestow extraordinary strength to work for Me, and I Myself will constantly be with them and accessible to every call which, coming from their hearts, touches My ear. Fear nothing, you who want to serve Me in the coming time, trustingly hand yourselves over to My guidance, recognize Me in every event and only seek ever more intimate contact with Me, and you will gain a strength of faith which no longer lets you fear anything, which is able to accomplish what seems impossible and which gives you peace and security in the face of every onslaught of the world. And thus let Me constantly be active in your hearts, let Me speak to you through My spirit, listen to My voice and follow all instructions I will give you when it is necessary in a clearly recognizable way, and always recognize Me as your lord and father from eternity, be willing servants and loving children to Him at the same time, and you will be successful labourers for My kingdom, you will also be able to master the difficult task in the last days and contribute infinitely much to the souls' salvation, and every single soul will thank you for its salvation until all eternity ....

Amen

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Mighty task of the servants of God .... end .... strength to that from God’s word ....

B.D. 3664 from January 22nd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

And therefore strengthen yourselves beforehand for your task so that you can carry it out full of strength. And draw this strength from My word, receive it with a hungry heart, fill yourselves with the bread of heaven and grow and mature in spirit and soul. And all weakness will fall away from you if you refresh yourselves at the source of eternal life, and you will be equal to every spiritual and earthly activity, nothing will seem insurmountable to you if the strength from Me flows through you, which you receive from My word. For then I Myself will work with you, and thus you cannot be defeated, you will successfully work for Me and My kingdom. And therefore you cannot exist without My word in the last days before the end, and the word from heaven itself must be offered to you if it is to give strength and testify to Me and My presence. For the battle against the believers will result in little faith being placed in My word if it is offered as it has been up to now .... by people who are not enlightened by My spirit, who adhere to the letters and fail to grasp the meaning of those who desire too little spiritual nourishment themselves and therefore cannot receive it either. The word thus offered will no longer be recognized as My word because it is no longer unadulterated, because it has no longer remained as pure as it was taught by Me Myself on earth. Yet what is offered to you from heaven, where My spirit's working obviously comes to light, will also mean strengthening for the believers, and anyone who satisfies himself with this bread will withstand all temptations of the world. For he recognizes My voice, and because the father’s voice sounds so close to him he is full of faith and trust, and he takes on every battle against the enemy .... he remains faithful to Me until the end .... But only My word gives him the strength to do so, and therefore seek to spread My word beforehand as far as it is possible for you, accept the strength of My word yourselves without ceasing by letting Me speak to you again and again, and do not fear and tremble .... For He Who speaks to you from above is always ready to help, He is with you, He is so close to you that you need never feel alone, and His presence is safe protection in every adversity and danger. And if you become weak, draw strength from My word, which My love gave to you and will constantly give to you until you have fulfilled your earthly task, until the end has come and I fetch you to Me into My kingdom ....

Amen

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King of kings ....

B.D. 3665 from January 23rd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The King of kings governs His kingdom in wisdom and love and all rulers of the world must fear His power if they do not respect His will, if they are not subject to Him with humility and acknowledge Him as their Lord. For His power directs all destinies according to His judgment, including the destinies of every nation and their rulers, since He governs with wisdom and His activity is determined by profound love. Even if He allows people free will and thereby allows these rulers to act and govern according to their will, He will nevertheless appear as King of kings when the time comes, when the spiritual and earthly adversity on earth requires Him to resolve it by using His power. The time does not seem to have come for the world, because the princes and kings of this world strive for a peaceful solution, nevertheless, they will not succeed. It will fail because the one who is Satan’s servant on earth will resist it. Spiritually, however, the time has come which necessitates a radical change, for humanity no longer acknowledges the greatest Ruler and for that reason they shall find out the hard way .... And once Satan’s activity consists of instigating strife instead of supporting peace, the time will also have come on earth for the King of kings to appear and oppose the will of the earthly ruling powers with His will .... Then there will certainly be peace among humanity but neither happiness nor prosperity .... Then a different kind of adversity will start and this, too, must be endured by people in order to prepare themselves for the near end. For a brief period of time the earthly power will be broken, yet it will rise again worse than ever and initiate the final work of destruction .... it will declare war against everything that chooses the King of kings .... it will not accept Him, it wants all people to turn away from Him and profess the authority which is governed by Satan and thus openly fights against God. And then the end will come .... He will only reign for a short time in order to relinquish his dominion for an infinitely long time, for he will be apprehended and deprived of every opportunity to reign .... And only One will govern and this One governs in love and wisdom for the benefit of everyone who lives on earth .... These will acknowledge the King of kings for they became His subjects of their own free will, they have proven this by courageously professing Him and His name before the world, before His adversary, and thus they will be rewarded on the new Earth with a blissful life in paradise.

Amen

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Life of the soul - activity ....

B.D. 3666 from January 24th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The soul's life is guaranteed as soon as it receives strength and light on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. For it needs both for activity, and activity is life. The soul's activity is a spiritual one, it involves itself in the entire activity of all spiritual things, in the process of redeeming the unfree spiritual, which also includes the creation and shaping of new creations, which is incumbent upon the spiritual being in highest abundance of strength and light. For the soul's activity is also determined by its degree of strength and light, and therefore, once it has gained knowledge, it will always strive for the highest degree of maturity in order to be able to be active in a way which completely corresponds to God's will and makes itself extremely happy. A soul's degree of maturity can only be increased through incessant activity of love .... Thus the eternal life, the imperishable life of the soul, necessitates its activity of love, which only then brings it light and strength. Life, that is, activity without love, does not exist, even though the human being on earth believes himself to be alive, even if he is devoid of all love. It is only his physical life which, however, he loses at the moment of his departure from earth, for the soul is already dead and powerless on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in this state because it cannot completely pass away, thus it has to endure its powerless state in the consciousness of its existence .... It is dead until it decides to work with love and struggles for strength. Only then will it slowly awaken to life if it receives strength through loving prayer from people on earth or help from beings of light .... of souls which therefore live, i.e. are active in love, in order to release the souls from darkness. Without the supply of light and strength the soul is unable to do anything, but the supply of light and strength is only the result of the loving desire to be helpfully active itself. Everything that has emerged from God is imperishable, but more or less active. The state of inactivity, of complete powerlessness, is the state of death, which means an unspeakable agony for the spiritual, which was originally active in creating and shaping. And this agony cannot be ended in any other way than by supplying the soul with light and strength so that it awakens to life. Therefore it has to awaken love in itself, it has to muster the will to be lovingly active through the supply of strength, which makes God's mercy or the human being's mercy possible for it, otherwise it can never ever become a recipient of light and strength and falls into the state of complete torpor, from which it can no longer redeem itself in eternities until it is forcibly guided through creation again and a slow change of will is the result of the walk through creation. So-called dead matter is then its abode, whose life is only recognizable again when the resistance of the spiritual subsides and the deformation around it can be loosened. Then earthly life begins again, an albeit minimal activity which intensifies the more the spiritual gives up its resistance. Earthly life is only the preschool for spiritual life, for the vitality which God grants to the spiritual being in ascent development is only a means for the attainment of spiritual strength which then secures life for the soul in the spiritual kingdom. The strength of life is a means to be able to work on earth with love, so that the soul receives light and strength on earth and can enter the spiritual kingdom with it, where it can now be constantly active and thus live in bliss ....

Amen

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Light bearers .... darkness on earth ....

B.D. 3667 from January 25th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

All good spirits are eagerly active to strengthen the light on earth in order to pave the way for people's souls into the spiritual kingdom. The darkness is almost impenetrable, the lit little lights are obscured by shadows so that their rays can only be weakly effective. And that is why the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom are constantly endeavouring to increase their radiance. For darkness will become so great on earth that even the bearers of light will be forced to cover themselves so that their light will not be completely extinguished. For this is the will of men, who are under satan’s power .... But God's will does not allow His light from the heavens to be darkened, to be extinguished and the earth to sink into complete darkness .... And therefore countless spiritual beings are active on His behalf in every way; they constantly protect the bearers of light, they constantly supply them with light and strength, they work on the bearers of light in a particularly obvious way in order to strengthen their light, in order to make them able to let the light shine .... For once the light shines it also illuminates the surrounding area as soon as the bearer of light is strong enough to chase away the beings of darkness .... And he will be able to do this with God's support if he makes use of His strength, if he himself allows the light to penetrate him so that it illuminates him from within and gives him strength to defeat all opposition. A person who is constantly accompanied by beings of light from the spiritual kingdom will possess a rich mental treasure, he will live more in the spiritual kingdom than in the earthly world, he himself will be so permeated by light that no darkness will frighten him anymore but that he will also take up the battle with darkness because it will not seem hopeless to him .... He will be driven from within to bring light into it, to enlighten his fellow human beings, to introduce them to the blessing of light and the curse of darkness, and thus, driven by the beings of light, he will make every effort to give light himself .... so that the souls of fellow human beings will recognize the path which leads upwards, into the kingdom of light. And this work has to be done as long as the bearers of light are not yet completely prevented from their work by the world, by worldly-minded people who have great power in the coming time and try to extinguish every light. But where God is working and countless spiritual beings are active on His behalf, it will be impossible for the light to be extinguished, only this also requires the willingness of God's servants, it requires profound faith and industrious work for His kingdom .... Then the densest darkness will not be able to diminish the illuminating power of the light from above or even completely cancel it out. And therefore every bearer of light on earth is blessed, therefore every bearer of light on earth will be subject to the special protection of God and His spiritual beings. And he will never need to fear having to give up his spiritual activity on earth, for this is his mission which he will fulfil with God's strength, so that souls will still be saved, so that they will find the path to the kingdom of light and be able to walk it despite densest darkness on earth ....

Amen

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Earthly activity - redemption process ....

B.D. 3668 from January 26th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Nothing you see is without essence, for the whole of creation contains spiritual substances which are at the lowest point of their development and strive to ascend. And if you now consider that all creatures wrestle and long for redemption, you must be eternally grateful that you have already overcome what is still granted to that beingness, that you have covered the endless long path and now only stand before the last test of earthly life which can earn you complete release from the form. You are therefore constantly surrounded by opposing or struggling spirits which want to draw you back to themselves, but which you can also help upwards if you are willing to do so. Every change of form is progress for the spiritual, as long as the new form fulfils a serving purpose. And as soon as you eagerly contribute to the change of form, as soon as you create new forms, you yourselves offer the spiritual the opportunity for ascent development. Thus your activity on earth is a blessed one if it simultaneously favours the maturing of the beingness in matter. And the blessing will also be noticeable for the human being insofar as his own spiritual development progresses faster because his activity, even if earthly, is also a redeeming one in the spiritual sense. People who make such activities their life's task are therefore also active in a redeeming way, only their work has to be done willingly, not under compulsion without their own impulse, otherwise the beingness in matter can certainly progress upwards but not the person who carries out this activity. Every earthly work which helps the still immature spiritual in matter to serve favours the process of release of that which is bound in the works of creation, and the more diligently the human being carries out his earthly activity the more orderly the process of redemption takes place, and if love drives him to it, love for his fellow human beings or also for the unredeemed in creation, this will also become noticeable in an orderly earthly life, because then a peaceful work of building up but not hostile work of destruction is the result and this always corresponds to divine order. A destruction of matter without simultaneous transformation for the benefit of people certainly provides the spiritual with freedom for a short time but contrary to divine order, and that spiritual takes revenge for its interrupted course of development with God's permission .... it oppresses people and also other works of creation until it is bound again in a form which corresponds to its state of maturity. As long as divine order is disregarded the spiritual upward development on earth will not take its right course, and this will always result in spiritual and earthly chaos. The loving human being recognizes this and increases his earthly activity in order to compensate for what people's unkindness is to blame for. And as long as love and unkindness are in balance the state on earth will also be bearable; but as soon as unkindness prevails the love of others will no longer be able to prevent damage to the same extent as sins are committed .... And the disorder in earthly life grows immeasurably. The struggling spiritual substance in creation must be helped by people if it is to be able to redeem itself from its respective form as soon as it is itself willing to serve .... And every human activity which fulfils this purpose will be blessed and facilitate the ascent development of countless spiritual beings ....

Amen

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Soon fulfilment of the announcement ....

B.D. 3669 from January 27th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You, My faithful servants on earth, you don't have much time left until your work for Me and My kingdom, for the hour is near which will create a different sphere of activity for you than before. I only give humanity a short period of time to reflect in order to then speak through the elements of nature Myself .... to give it a sign from above that My might and My will shall be recognized. No longer worry about futile earthly things but only strive for your work, for your mission, which you have entrusted to Me. It will soon begin and I tell you this beforehand so that you should still use every day diligently, so that you receive strength and power through My word in order to be able to withstand what is coming, which will also greatly shake your peace. But do not fear, for My eye watches over every one of My servants because I need him in the coming time. A storm will pass over the earth of inconceivable violence and will uproot what is not established as the first sign of My might and power .... And then you will know that the day is approaching, then detach yourselves from everything that is dear to you and wait for My call. Share in your fellow human beings' adversity and loudly proclaim to them what I have announced to you before, that I Myself will speak through the forces of nature, that I Myself want to manifest Myself through this .... speak and don't be afraid, for I Myself am with you and speak the last words of admonition to people through you. And when the day draws to a close, draw strength from My word again and do not fear .... And I will jiggle and shake the earth, and good for him who recognizes My hand, My will, in it, who lets My language go to his heart and calls upon Me for help. His soul has found the path to Me and is not lost, even though he has to give up his earthly life. For the hour of death has come for countless people, as I have proclaimed before. And afterwards you will start your mission which requires all your strength and will but which you can also accomplish if you unite with Me and thus let Me Myself work through you. And so know that you don't have much time left and that every day is still valuable for you to receive strength and light from My word. Bear this in mind and put your spiritual work before your earthly work .... For the latter will be obsolete, but the former will be important, if I have spoken from above .... Recognize Me in My word and believe .... do not become weak in faith, so that you doubt the truth of My word, but expect the fulfilment of My announcement from the start, for I will not delay much longer, because it is necessary for humanity that I manifestly express Myself .... And if you want to serve Me, be ready, for I will call you when the time comes ....

Amen

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Spiritual creations .... Beatitude .... 'Eye hath not seen ....'

B.D. 3670 from January 28th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Everything that is visible to you testifies of My might and strength and love. Yet My strength of love also produced invisible creations which will delight you in the spiritual kingdom, but only when you have achieved the degree of maturity which allows for spiritual vision. Then you will indeed marvel at My love's works of wonder, they will enchant your eye, nevertheless they will also be comprehensible to you, for then you will recognise Me Myself as strength and love, then you will already be so pervaded by it that you will be able to understand that it is the primary cause of every creation, and then you will forever glorify the One Who employs His will for constant works of love.

The spiritual creations are inconceivable to people on earth, they are the epitome of proportion, perfection, beauty and versatility, they are exceptionally magnificent formations and their ever changing appearance makes them increasingly more wonderful to behold and they will never tire or oversaturate the onlooker's eye but forever cause immense happiness and gratitude towards Me, the Creator of heaven and earth. Indeed, earthly creations occasionally also appear lovely to a person and let his heart beat faster in the realisation that he is facing the eternal Creator, Who is almighty and full of love. However, the most beautiful creations on earth are but a pale reflection of the spiritual creations which are incomparable, since it is not possible for My love be so evidently visible on earth because people have not yet changed themselves into love.

But I can bestow the abundance of My love to souls which have become love, My creative love can reveal itself to them and I can show them and bestow on them what I have promised 'Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him ....' And the more profoundly a being is able to love the more glorious will the creations become .... Profound love gives them an insight into My reign and activity in the spiritual kingdom, they are no longer opposite Me as imperfect beings, but have become what I Am Myself .... love .... they are full of might and strength themselves, and in highest perfection are able to create and shape in harmony with My will through My strength.

No comparison can be given to people on earth about their activity in the spiritual kingdom since it is subject to completely different laws and spiritual activity has nothing in common with physical activity, with work on earth. Yet it is a blissful activity, an activity which signifies supreme happiness for the being which has become love, which can think, feel and want, which is able to see and hear, which feels like an individual being and yet is extremely happy in unity with other beings because it thereby increases its strength and love and intensifies its ability to be active. The inhabitants of the spiritual world exist in a state of utterly blissful harmony, a state which is constantly aspired to as soon as the soul has attained realisation on earth or in the spiritual kingdom.

I would like to place all beings into this state because I love them and would like them to behold the glories of My kingdom. For the activity of My love constantly applies to My living creations' happiness, My love is infinite and wants to give and delight, and thus I want to make My living creations worthy of being allowed to stay in spiritual creations; yet they themselves have to want it, they must shape themselves into love of their own free will so that they can be made indescribably happy in the spiritual kingdom for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"What you will bind on earth ...."

B.D. 3671 from January 29th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven .... These are My words which I gave to the disciples when I sent them out into the world. And much more spiritual meaning is hidden in these words than people believe to recognize when reading the letters. It is the spiritual which is embodied on earth, in the stage as a human being in a bound state, as long as it is still in the power of the one who was the cause of My creation .... in the power of My adversary, who also placed his will, which was turned away from Me, into the beings he begot by using My strength. The beingness was indeed given the right of self-determination, it could decide for itself whether it wanted to acknowledge Me or My adversary as lord. And in free will it decided in favour of the latter .... Thus it subordinated itself to the adversary's will, which now no longer freely gave the will and rendered the entity incapable of liberating itself. This is why I came down to earth to restore the strength of will to people who wanted to accept My gift from Me. I wanted to redeem them, to release them from the adversary's power, however, only on condition that they did not resist themselves, that they accepted My help in their will to become free. Thus the spiritual element in the human being was bound until it was redeemed through My love and grace .... And this act of salvation therefore requires the human being's free will if it is to take effect. As a human being I died on the cross and as a human being acquired immense strength for people from God which everyone could use to strengthen his will so that he could renounce God's adversary .... But the transmission of strength could only take place on a path which I showed people, which I walked Myself in order to give them a living example. I taught people love and lived a life of love Myself in order to prove to them the truth of My word about the strength of love. Therefore, if the human being wants to make use of the blessings of the act of salvation he has to make himself receptive for the transmission of strength through a life of love .... He must first acknowledge Me, believe in Me and in My act of salvation and then fulfil My commandments in order to free himself with My support from the power of the one who holds him captive until his will is strengthened through My help .... And I sent My disciples into the world to teach love, to proclaim Me and My act of salvation to people and to show them the path on which they could attain freedom for their soul .... And people's striving on earth is decisive for eternity .... Anyone who can free himself from the adversary's control on earth is eternally free, but anyone who does not use the time on earth, who does not acknowledge Me Myself on earth and appeals to Me for support, remains under satan’s control and also enters the beyond bound, for without Me there is no redemption; but I do not touch freedom of will because the being turned away from Me in free will and now also has to find its way back to Me in free will. My disciples then brought people the light, they brought them My teaching, they proclaimed Me Myself and My will to help weak people, they brought them the truth, and everyone only needed to make use of it in order to change the bound state into a free one; yet this had to happen of his own free will. Anyone who did not make use of the opportunity, who did not listen to My disciples, who did not believe them, also made My working on him impossible, I could not release him from My adversary's control, he remained in a bound state as long as he stayed on earth and entered the kingdom of the beyond bound, i.e. under satan’s control .... My disciples' work on them was unsuccessful .... In earthly life the human being's will shall already decide for Me or My adversary, and I give all means of help into the human being's hand. And therefore I sent My disciples into the world who were to preach the gospel, who were to loudly testify to My work of love for the whole of humanity, who were to speak of the battle with My adversary, which was only meant for people's weakened will whom I wanted to help to escape from his control. My disciples were to continue My work of redemption, I gave them the commission to do so, I gave them the power of the keys, I sent them into the world in order to provide information in My stead to all who desired information .... to proclaim to them the pure truth which they had received from Me. And therefore they were active on earth as My representatives, and whoever heard them heard Me, whoever took their words to heart accepted Me and was helped for ever .... For the human being's only aim is to be released from the bondage of will, for which I help everyone who just wants to be helped ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Antichrist .... End ....

B.D. 3672 from January 31th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The spirit of the Antichrist has been in the world since Jesus Christ accomplished of His act of Salvation. He has constantly attempted to undermine His act, he has always and forever fought Jesus' followers, he has always and forever driven people into heartlessness, thus he has actively opposed Christ's will and teaching on earth, partly by means of spiritually confusing people's thoughts and partly, in human appearance, clothed in a gown of knowledge and intelligence. The teaching of Jesus Christ was opposed by a human teaching at all times which aimed to weaken it, thus it was antichristian, and this has always been Satan's work, the work of forces from below which intended to cause people's desertion from God or to obstruct their way to Him. And this antichristian activity is steadily on the increase and will be blatantly self-evident before the end .... Satan himself will be active on earth in human form, the Antichrist in person, whose activity will be extremely ominous for the whole of the human race. For he will initiate laws which aim to eradicate spiritually-minded thoughts, which will prevent all spiritual endeavour and intend to entirely secularize people. And this will be the last work of the one who fights against God, for he will be transgressing the limit of his authority, which is relentlessly punished by God .... The change of worldly events will be rapid, extensive worldly changes will occur in short succession and a ruling power will come to the fore by wanting to direct the state of affairs of all nations and, instead of order, will cause utter disorder. For his regulations will first and foremost apply to the suppression of all faith. He will find many supporters on earth, and that will be the sign for the End. For people won't resist it but will almost unanimously profess and celebrate him as a hero and victor whose goal they acknowledge and consequently also support.

And this will be the start of the most difficult time for believers. It will seem incomprehensible to them what is going on in the world, it will seem incomprehensible to them that God's love and patience allow His most sacred name to be slandered and ridiculed and Jesus Christ's followers to be ostracized and pursued in a most brutal way. Yet they penetrate the truth of the divine Word ever more, which has predicted all this, and thus they also faithfully commit themselves to God's guidance. The Antichrist rages in a most frightening way, he dazzles people by the actions he implements with support of strength from below .... Satan himself works through him as the opposing spirit of the One Who works in the living creations of love and faith, in people, who love God above all else and firmly believe in Him and thus have to suffer great adversities due to God's opponent. People will pay homage to him, they will erect altars, they will proclaim him as the Messiah bringing salvation to them, for he will achieve feats which will impress people, yet they will not be works of love but mere activities of arrogance and craving for power. He will work as a human being, try to explain his strength as human strength and oppose and deny everything that is divine, that points to and testifies of God. And his willpower will be rock hard .... He will give orders, and anyone resisting his command will be destroyed by him .... He will seek to prohibit all teachings of Christ, all knowledge of Him and His act of Salvation, he will try to drag everything through the mud and regally reward those who assist him in his quest against Christ, just as he, full of hatred, will also take actions against His followers ....

The Antichrist's stature will be recognisable by its external good looks, by his physical strength .... for Satan conceals himself so as not to be recognised for who he is. And his extraordinary abilities will draw humanity's attention to him, there will be no end of admiration. He will reside on earth in external splendour and grandeur, in contrast to Jesus Christ Who lived inconspicuously amongst his brothers, devoid of all earthly possessions with a love-filled heart for his fellow human beings. But the Antichrist's heart will be callous and unemotional towards all worldly hardship and yet humanity will jubilantly applaud him, blinded by his external brilliance and strength. He will appear suddenly and unexpected at a time of utmost earthly adversity and, with strong hands, promise relief, seize power and authority without meeting any resistance, because people only pay attention to the harsh conditions on earth and ignore this hero's spirit, who will want to distinguish himself and, with the help of like-minded people, elevate himself as a ruler. And then the end will be near .... For the resulting battle of faith will be the prelude to the entire work of destruction of earth .... It will only last a short time but with such intensity that it will require an extremely strong faith as not to succumb.

Yet once again God Himself will confront His adversary .... For He is in spirit amongst those who fight on His behalf, and the Antichrist runs in vain against the bastion of faith .... And he will fall from his throne into the mire of damnation .... His government will not last long but will cause unspeakable misery amongst the whole of humanity which will predominantly support him and abandon all faith in God, which will believe his earthly implementations and will thus finally also share the damnation, for it will be subject to God's adversary and therefore also share his fate. And this will be the End .... Jesus Christ will remain victorious and His church will continue to exist for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual looking ....

B.D. 3673 from February 1st 1946, taken from Book No. 46

By means of spiritual vision the human being could gain insight into the spiritual kingdom, but this requires a degree of maturity of the soul which only a human being on earth rarely achieves. But the spiritual kingdom is no longer closed to him, earthly matter and the material cover of his soul is no longer an obstacle for him to rise from earth and walk in otherworldly realms for his own education and to increase his soul's maturity. Only the seriously striving and thirsting for truth will be granted this grace, and likewise, only from him will people be able to receive enlightenment who likewise strive for spiritual maturity, for what God has concealed from people will remain concealed from them until they themselves fulfil the laws which result in the lifting of the veil. The more perfect a person is on earth the deeper is his bond with the spiritual kingdom, for the gulf between the human being and the spiritual kingdom is only the imperfection of the former; if this is remedied the bridge is already built on which the human being, i.e. his soul, can swing into the spiritual kingdom at any time in order to receive riches there which further its spiritual development. The soul can also stay unconsciously in those realms, i.e., without the human being becoming fully conscious, thus his bodily sensations remain unaffected by the fact that the human being as such is unaware of it, whereas the soul derives the greatest advantage from it because it is constantly instructed and thus increases in strength and power in order to further educate itself spiritually in a conscious state, and thus covers the earthly path in constant striving for perfection. But if the human being is fully aware of what the soul has seen in the spiritual kingdom, then he has reached a higher stage of development and is also close to his physical end. His stay on earth then only has the purpose of explaining to those who strive but have not yet attained that perfection, and who are thereby to be spurred on to spiritual activity, to strive for perfection. However, the impressions will only be comprehensible to these fellow human beings, for the spiritual kingdom exhibits infinitely many deviations from the earthly kingdom, and only when the human being penetrates deeper spiritual knowledge through loving activity will the explanations of a spiritual observer be comprehensible to him, because earthly laws are eliminated and understanding spiritual laws requires a degree of perfection. Yet the soul of the spiritually observant person is immeasurably delighted by what reveals itself to it in the spiritual kingdom, and it only lives earthly life as if in a dream because it has recognized that it is not the soul's true life, that its true home is the spiritual kingdom and that actual life only begins when it can enter the spiritual kingdom without a material cover. It also appreciates the extraordinary grace that the spiritual vision has been opened to it and is full of gratitude and praise towards its creator, its father of eternity, Whose commandments it only strives to fulfil on earth and to Whom it is therefore also spiritually and mentally bound and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's language through natural catastrophe ....

B.D. 3674 from February 2nd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Let creation speak to you .... This call has already gone out to you countless times, yet you pay no attention to it, you live as My living creations in the midst of creation and indifferently accept all wonders of nature, you don't let yourselves be impressed by them, you don't learn from them, and thus the language of creation fades away at your ear without you deriving any benefit from it. And again and again I come close to you in it, I show you My constant activity and My strength, again and again I let new creations arise in order to direct your senses towards Me, and I repeat this in regularity .... And precisely this lawfulness lets you become indifferent and disregard My working. And if I overturn this lawfulness, if changes occur in nature contrary to My lawfulness, even then you pay no attention to them because your physical life keeps you so imprisoned that your thoughts and aspirations only concern the body's well-being and your thoughts are only concerned with earthly worries. You are indifferent to the creation around and above you, and thus you are also indifferent to the eternal creator Himself, you cannot find the path to Him .... And this moves Me to an urgent admonition, to a loud language which you must hear, even if you are excessively entangled in bodily worries and no longer have an eye and ear for My rule and activity in nature .... if you do not pay attention to the constant miracles around you, I will meet you in an obvious way .... I speak loudly and penetratingly .... yet again through nature, because this is still the only possibility to influence you humans' thinking. And indeed, I overrule My lawfulness for a short time because I am lord over heaven and earth and thus also over all laws which have Me as their author. Nevertheless, this work is also based on a lawfulness, but it is difficult for you humans to recognize it. But now I also want to make people suspicious who do not believe in a change of nature to the extent it is announced .... I want them to let nature speak to them and that they also listen to Me, that they learn to recognize the raging of the elements of nature as My voice, as My expression, although I leave their will free .... Yet My language shall be audible to them .... for where no human will is active, where no human will is able to stop it, there a power must and can be recognized Which is stronger than human will. And this is the purpose of My language from above .... If people are hopelessly at the mercy of the forces of nature, if they have no earthly hope of help, if they have to recognize that something extraordinary, natural, is happening, faith in a higher power can still be born if a person is not completely hardened and therefore far from Me .... I speak to everyone, but especially to those who find their way to Me in greatest adversity, who need such a means of force in order to recognize the voice of their father and creator of eternity. It is a tremendous process of such magnitude that the whole world is mentally pointed to the supreme power and can confess it because I so obviously express Myself at a time when the world is in deepest sin and people commit acts of most blatant unkindness .... Anyone who wants to hear will also recognize the voice of the father and the judge, and anyone who wants to see will also see His love and might in this event which earthly certainly signifies the end for many people but which can bring salvation to just as many souls, depending on the human being's will. And therefore the whole of humanity can benefit from it, although not the whole of humanity will be affected. Yet they will hear My voice clearly because it sounds too powerfully and touches every person's ear for the sake of his soul's salvation. For the whole of humanity will have to take note of a work of destruction which is inconceivably great and will terrify the whole world. But I have already announced it a long time before, and everywhere My servants are active on earth, pointing to My intervention, to the work which precedes the last end, so that people will reflect and find their way back to Me before the end. And thus every nation, every people and thus also every individual will be able to benefit from it if he takes My language to heart and heeds My last admonition. But anyone who still doesn't understand the creator's language or doesn't want to understand it will be ruined by the end .... He will have to answer for himself as My adversary and he will receive the just punishment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life in divine order - ordered life ....

B.D. 3675 from February 3rd 1946, taken from Book No. 46

As soon as the divine order is observed, as soon as the human being lives in accordance with divine will, his earthly life will also be an orderly one, and therefore an improvement of living conditions can only occur if people make an effort to observe this divine order, otherwise God will constantly use means to lead them to it and this will mean earthly hardship and tribulation. So people themselves are the originators of earthly adversity, even if they seem to be uninvolved in it. They are the originators due to their God-opposing attitude, due to their disregard for the divine commandments and thus their complete disregard for their task in life. And as long as people do not recognize this, the condition on earth will also remain unbearable, despite an apparent improvement of living conditions. For the human being makes every condition more or less bearable for himself through his attitude towards God. And thus people in the midst of greatest disorder and most difficult living conditions cannot feel them so harshly because they work on themselves and strive to enter divine order, just as, on the other hand, people are harshly and sensitively affected by hardship and misery because they live completely outside of divine order, or they also live in the prosperity of the body if they make use of the strength of God's adversary, i.e. completely devote themselves to him, carry out his will and thus are willing servants to him, for which they also receive the reward from below. These are not to be envied, and the person who finds himself in adversity and misery should not wish for their fate but draw the right benefit for his soul from the adversity by working on himself in order to do justice to divine will, then he will also feel relief from the adversity and at the same time mature his soul. And if the coming time brings an apparent improvement, people will recognize by it that they belong to God's adversary, that prosperity is always to be found where people are far from God, thus servants of satan. And therefore they should humbly take the hardship upon themselves, and every person should strive for improvement by working on himself .... Then the reward will not fail to materialize, earthly life will be bearable for the individual, although the whole of humanity will still be affected. Only a life in divine order also results in an orderly earthly life, for God does not leave in adversity and misery those who strive to fulfil His will, and He especially takes care of all those who commend themselves to Him and His grace in times of earthly adversity, who strive to improve the state of their soul and therefore always try to fulfil the commandment of love. For they strive for divine order and can be certain of God's help at all times ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prepare a dwelling in the heart .... communion .... "Behold, I stand at the door ...."

B.D. 3676 from February 4th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

O enter yourselves and don't let Me knock in vain at the doors of your heart, open them and let Me enter and bring you salvation, and receive Me with a glad heart and prepare a dwelling place for Me within you, make My will your concern and serve Me by serving your neighbour with love for My sake. And happiness and peace will enter your heart with Me, for once you have recognized Me you will no longer desire the world and its goods but sacrifice everything for the sake of My presence, for the sake of My love, which I bestow upon you if you accept Me into your heart. I bring you My word, I bring you nourishment for your soul, and thus you will no longer hunger and starve and also feel this earthly as a benefit. For flooded with strength you will overcome all earthly difficulties because I Myself stand by your side and convey the strength to you. For now you no longer walk alone through the earthly valley, you have Me as your constant companion once I have taken abode in your heart, once you have prepared it to receive Me through your will, through loving activity. If I knock at your heart's door and offer My word, only your will is decisive to let Me enter .... Then this will will be directed towards the right aim because it was meant for Me at the right time. First you accept Me as a stranger, then you recognize Me and establish the right relationship, you let Me be your friend and brother, you see in Me the father of eternity, you feel deeply united with Me as My children, and your relationship with Me will become ever more intimate until you have found unity, until you are united with Me forever through constant activity of love. Let Me into your hearts when I approach to bring you the word .... offer no resistance, receive Me with a joyful heart and a rich blessing will blossom from your willingness .... I will not leave anyone out in order to bring him salvation, yet anyone who keeps his house closed when I speak, who refuses to receive Me Myself, will eternally no longer have to expect a gift of grace, for his will itself closes itself to it and will never ever be forced by Me. Yet don't let My call go unheard, open yourselves to Me for your own sake so that your soul need not hunger and starve, offer the nourishment which I Myself bring to you, be My guests, let Me feed and water you with My word, with the bread of heaven, the strength of which you need in order to become one with Me .... Receive Me Myself into your hearts so that I can give you communion, so that I can satisfy you with My flesh and My blood .... with My word, the strength of which must flow through you in order to become blessed. and therefore open to Me when I approach to desire entrance .... do not fear that a false prophet wants to mislead you, that he might offer you nourishment which does not suit you .... My word is recognizable because it preaches love .... and thus it is commanded by love Itself, by Me, Who comes to people in the word to help them in their great spiritual adversity, Who desires entrance into their hearts in order to be able to work in the hearts Myself for the blessing of all who receive Me and prepare a dwelling for Me .... Do not let the admonition fall on your ears but pay attention to it, and when I come open wide the door of your heart to Me and receive Me .... And you will be unspeakably happy, already on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Course of a redemption period ....

B.D. 3677 from February 5th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Everything spiritual which is still apostate to Me at the end of this redemption period has to cover the course of development again on the new earth in bound will, as soon as it had reached the last stage of free will on the old earth, where it could decide for or against Me. But the spiritual, whose course of development is interrupted by the complete destruction of the earth's surface, continues it in new creations and thus soon reaches the last stage of its development. I impose serving duties on it again, which it must first fulfil in bound, but then in free will, in order to redeem itself from form. Consequently, the newly formed earth is once again a school of the spirit from which the spiritual substance, which once apostatized from Me, can emerge in highest maturity if only it is willing to do so. The upward development can proceed more quickly at first because the people of this earth are in love and every activity is beneficial for the spiritual's liberation. For the power that wants to prevent this is bound for a long time. The spiritual, which now embodies itself as a human being, is likewise willing to serve in love, for the frequent violent destruction of its outer form and the resulting frequent interruption of its development has caused it agony, which now determines the spiritual to escape from every form in as short a time as possible. It strives for its original state of its own accord, it strives towards Me, for the creation of the new earth constantly directs the spiritual embodied as a human being mentally towards Me because it is still informed of the old earth, of the time of the low before and its consequences. It is certainly easier for this spiritual being to ascend but it had to endure far more torment before and is therefore already more purified at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being. And thus the first generations of the new earth will also reach their aim on earth .... Transformation into beings of light which can unite with Me forever .... And this will be easier as long as people themselves make it impossible for My adversary to work through their will and their bond with Me through love. For he is completely powerless towards them but immediately gains power when love subsides, that is, when love for Me changes and is directed towards the kingdom, which is his .... when it strives towards earthly matter again which harbours spiritual things apostate to Me. Then My adversary will also take action again by stirring up this wrong love and trying to turn people away from Me. And again I do not force the human being's will but leave him complete freedom. The redemption of the spiritual necessitates resistance, it has to fight its way through, and the more apostate it is at the time of its banishment in the solid form, the harder its battle will be. And therefore the battle will become increasingly fiercer and My adversary's activity increasingly more successful the further time advances, because then that spiritual substance, which is initially bound in hard matter in the creations of the new earth, will also animate the earth as a human being .... An infinitely long time will pass again until this battle, yet it is the irrevocable course of a developmental period that all maturing of the spiritual substance takes place quickly and almost effortlessly at first, because love for Me is the driving force of its activity on earth, but that the ascent development becomes increasingly slower and more laborious the more divine love dwindles and worldly love takes its place .... and that in the end satan again has such great power over the spiritual in free will that it almost exclusively becomes apostate to Me and finally has to be bound again in the solid form. My love offers it every conceivable opportunity to become free from every form during a redemption period, but its will alone is decisive. And thus a redemption period now comes to an end while a new one takes its beginning .... And blessed is the spiritual being which, by giving up resistance, is already allowed to embody itself as a human being at the beginning of such a period .... It will truly not be difficult for him to finally free himself, yet his will is also decisive, for he will not be forced into loving activity as a human being but it must be his innermost motivation to serve Me with love, then the human being will redeem himself completely and remain united with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christ problem ....

B.D. 3678 from February 6th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The people of this earth fail at the Christ problem in the last time before the end. And that is because they themselves are devoid of all love and therefore cannot and will not recognize the greatest love. And since the teaching of Christ completely contradicts their desires and their behaviour, it is being attacked as an obstacle to the work of reconstruction which they intend to undertake after the work of destruction which the natural catastrophe has accomplished. They see Christian doctrine as a stumbling block to the execution of their plans, and therefore they declare war on Christ. Complete ignorance and a diabolical attitude are the driving forces of this battle, through which they also want to deprive the knowing followers of Christ of their last support for the sake of earthly goods. For every disposal contradicts the divine commandment of love. People will be forced into a way of thinking which will completely shape them into devils if they don't defend themselves and take refuge in the one Who alone can grant them help against satan and his servants on earth .... to Christ, Who again presents Himself to them for battle .... Christ is not acknowledged, for people try to eradicate everything divine on earth, but they neither recognize Christ as divine nor as redeemer of humanity, and therefore He is openly belittled, His name is mocked and ridiculed and His followers are harassed in the worst way. And more necessary than ever is His confession to the world .... For He alone imparts strength to people if they acknowledge His act of salvation, He alone has power over satan and He alone strengthens people to resist; without Him, however, the human being is powerlessly exposed to satan’s power, without Him he is in firm chains from which he cannot free himself. And that is why the bearers of truth are given particularly clear information about the problem of Christ, so that they can inform all who desire information about it. It is explained to people that only love constitutes the divinity of Jesus' humanity, that through love every human being shapes himself into a divine being, into a child of God, and that through love every human being achieves extraordinary abilities, because love in itself is a strength which has eternal love as its starting point and is effective in every human being who has become love .... so that people will now also understand that they must never ever reject Christ and His teaching if they don't want to go down into the kingdom of darkness, where weakness and eternal darkness of the souls is the lot. Every battle against Christ as the bringer of the teaching of love and thus the divine guide to strength and light will therefore result in the most severe and painful consequences if it is not passed, if the fighter does not take Christ's side, where he can never be defeated. And whatever is demanded of people in the last days .... who walk with Christ and stand up for Him and His teaching will have extraordinary strength to defy all worldly demands .... But those who deny Him, who as satan’s servants help him to eradicate Christ and His teaching, will be judged, for their devilish attitude cannot find mercy with God on the day of judgment. Ignorance is no excuse because every person is given sufficient opportunity to think about Christ and His act of salvation, about His mission and His teaching of love on earth, and it will not be difficult for anyone willing to find understanding for a problem which only remains a problem as long as the human being does not concern himself with it. Anyone who lives in love knows what strength love is, and he also knows that the God-man Jesus only possessed the extraordinary strength because His nature was pure love .... And if people are not to fall prey to the prince of the underworld completely without strength they must acquire strength through love .... they must follow Jesus Christ, they must acknowledge Him and His teaching, they must keep His commandments which only require love, and they will remain victorious over all powers of the underworld, for they contend with Jesus Christ, Who is and will remain invincible for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

No apostasy of His own from God possible ....

B.D. 3679 from February 7th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

No power of the world and no force of the underworld will be able to oust Me from the hearts of My own, for they are seized by My love and can never detach themselves from it. My love is exceedingly powerful in its strength and every other power shatters because of it. Wherever I can therefore work through My strength of love there is no more apostasy, no more decline to fear, because then My own will also be enlightened and the knowledge will also strengthen their will to resist. Their aim is clearly in front of them, they don't enter into darkness and therefore don't let themselves be distracted by the world's efforts to divert them from the right path. For from above, from the spiritual kingdom, a hand stretches out towards them which they recognize as the father’s loving hand which wants to save and guide them .... And they willingly take hold of this hand and are then untouchable for all strength which has My adversary as its origin .... And if they lose their earthly life in the process they willingly surrender it because the soul will then be closer to Me than ever. My own will not be lost, they have passed their test of earthly life, for they have found their way to Me of their own free will, and I will never again let go of what I once regained, what has turned to Me of its own free will out of darkness. And therefore My own should not be fearful and not fear earthly hardship either, for their earthly path will end one day and they will truly exchange earthly life for a heavenly beautiful life in eternity which will compensate them a thousand fold for all earthly hardship and suffering. My own should only believe that My love protects them in every adversity and danger of body and soul. Then they will also pass through earthly hardship unharmed, and the burden imposed on them will also be bearable for them, for it will only depress the body for a short time, then all adversity will come to an end and a blissful fate in the beyond will follow .... My own must always be willing to loudly confess Me before the world, they must be so closely united with Me that they always feel Me next to them and therefore cannot take a step without mentioning My nearness, My presence. Their everlasting thoughts shall be directed towards Me, they shall begin their day's work with Me, they shall end it with Me, their souls shall constantly seek Me and be happy to be allowed to hold a dialogue with Me. For these are My own who, driven by the love of the heart, strive towards Me, who cannot receive anything but love because they give love, and who are therefore also filled by My strength of love which pushes them ever closer to Me because My love constantly draws them .... For love seeks unity, and if I seize My own in My love I will never let them go from Me, just as My own feel the love for Me as beatitude and never want to give Me up for the sake of earthly reward. And therefore no earthly power and no evil spiritual strength will be able to separate My own from Me but only cause them to unite with Me the more intimately the more they are oppressed by external forces .... And they will be victors, even though they seem to be earthly defeated, even though everything is taken from them and their physical existence is thereby called into question .... I take care of My own, and truly, better than the world can provide for them, I don't leave them in adversity, and when the time is right I take My own from earth in order to introduce them into My kingdom where all adversity will come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will cause of need and depression ....

B.D. 3680 from February 8th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

I strengthen the human being's will at all times but I do not force it .... And if you see the great hardship on earth, if you take notice of people's spiritual low, then you know that only people's free will has caused this and that My will is uninvolved in everything that is bad. Yet I leave people the freedom of their will and thinking and also rarely hinder their actions which arise from their will and thinking. For without freedom of will, which can indeed result in sinking into the deepest depths, ascent is also impossible, without freedom of will the human being cannot attain perfection .... without freedom of will therefore cannot unite with Me and become blissfully happy. The human being creates his own state, both on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... For as his will is, so is his fate. If I take away his freedom of will, thought and action, then the human being will be in the stage of an animal which is under My law, which therefore has to do as I determine, as it corresponds to the laws of nature decreed by Me. And then he would eternally be unable to become what his ultimate aim is, a freely creating, perfect spiritual being which works in wisdom and love and is blissfully happy in full possession of the strength from Me .... Thus, if I offer him supreme beatitude on the one hand but he strives towards the depths of darkness of his own free will, he will not be prevented from doing so, and people must recognize for themselves where free will, if it is wrongly directed, can lead to in order to correct it of their own accord in the knowledge of a wrong earthly existence with regard to eternity. My creations once emerged freely from Me, products of My strength of love and in possession of free will as a sign of their perfection. But free will also had to be able to develop in every direction, the spiritual being had to have the opportunity to let it become active for every purpose, good as well as evil .... and thus constantly turn this will towards Me if it wanted to be perfect and therefore blissfully happy .... The fact that it now turned away from Me of its own free will because it allowed itself to be influenced by a strong spirit which had misused its free will and was now opposed to Me was sin, i.e. it was contrary to its state of perfection and contrary to My will, which from eternity only strives for good and only allows good things to come to fruition. The being had therefore stepped out of the divine order in free will. And to stand outside of the divine order also means to stand outside of light and strength .... The being became lightless, i.e., it fell into a state of complete ignorance, into a state of erroneous thinking and complete darkening of the spirit .... And it also became powerless, i.e. it could no longer create and shape according to My eternal order but only draw strength from My adversary, which it used for the opposite, for working in the will which was opposed to Me, for disrupting the thinking and influencing the will of other beings in order to alienate them from Me too. And this resulted in the binding of the being's will in order to pave the way for its return to Me, in order to make this return possible for the being. But the return can only take place again in the stage of free will, and therefore I cannot curtail the human being's free will, no matter how much he sins against My will, no matter how much he rages against himself, against his spiritual life .... I leave him freedom of will, no matter how it works out, only I sometimes end his earthly life out of mercy in order to once again make it possible for him to recognize his weakness in the beyond through the state of weakness, so that he may still change his will in the beyond .... And thus the spiritual adversity as well as the great earthly adversity can only be explained by the human being's free will, who can turn both away from himself if he gives this will the right direction, if he turns his will towards Me, completely submits to My will and slowly enters his original state again .... to be a free, powerful being which is permeated by light, which can create and shape according to its will, but which is always also Mine as soon as the being is perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call upon Me in times of need .... Depth of faith ....

B.D. 3681 from February 9th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

In your hours of need you only have to call Me trustingly and I will be closer to you than ever. All mental contact with Me results in My closeness to you because I Am a spirit Whose smallest element is within yourselves. And if your call to Me comes from the bottom of your heart, the spiritual spark within you, which is inseparable from Me, will strive towards Me, the eternal spirit of the Father, and will thus draw Me to itself. Although I Am, in fact, always close to you, I Am only perceptively close when your will consciously strives towards Me and you request My presence. You will feel My closeness by an inner calm taking hold of you which is the result of your firm faith in Me and My help. Call upon Me in times of need and I will hear you .... And if you believe that I exist and that I love you, that nothing is impossible for My power and My will, then you will also call upon Me with your heart and await the fulfilment of your request, My help, without any doubt. And you will be helped ....

But every disbelief weakens the strength of faith, you make the working of the spirit within yourselves impossible, you yourselves prevent it from striving towards Me, the Father-Spirit, and it cannot give you the strength which flows from Me to you through the spiritual spark. I truly want believing children to call My Own who utterly trust the Father's Word, who abandon themselves to Him in every adversity and danger, who do not fear and become fainthearted, because they know themselves to be safe in the protection of the loving Father. This depth of faith makes you outstandingly strong in spirit; it banishes every earthly and spiritual adversity because a firm faith allows My unrestricted action and constantly perceptible presence. Then I will also be able to work visibly, I will be able to accomplish what appears to be impossible, because the abundance of strength is the result of profound faith by which the human being himself, or the spiritual strength on his behalf, becomes the master of all his worries.

Have faith and you will always receive help, by your faith let yourselves be filled with My strength and let the spirit within you give you calmness and certainty. Your increased strength originates from Me, it is an emanation of Myself, and hence I Am in and with you Myself, depending on the intensity of your faith and the sincerity of your call to Me. As long as you are on earth you will never be able to understand that I Myself, the spiritual spark within you, love, strength and light, are One, that I Am therefore always present where the spirit can work in you, where love is practised, and I Am recognisable as strength and light .... If you could understand this you would no longer doubt. But you should try to understand it and should ask the spirit within you to inform you and to shed light on what is yet inexplicable to you, on what you don't understand .... And the spirit within you will teach you .... And again, it is Me Who teaches you, Who wants to draw you to Him and give you truth so that you can find Me, so that your senses are directed towards the spirit and you desire to contact the Father-Spirit. Then your faith will become ever more profound and stronger, you will always and forever know Me, you will feel My constant presence and with complete calm submit yourselves to My guidance, and truly, you will be guided well on this earth, you will take the right path which leads to your eternal home and safely reach your destination ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Praying with humility ....

B.D. 3682 from February 10th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

True prayer requires true humility, only then will it be pleasing to Me, for humility towards Me is also proof of love for Me, because love will never want to dominate but only ever be of help .... Anyone who therefore appeals to Me with a feeling of love in his heart will also be able to humbly approach Me and I will respond to his love and grant Him My grace .... However, anyone lacking true humility merely sends a fearful call to Me, Whom he certainly acknowledges in his heart but Whom he does not love because he has not become love himself and, because he does not love his neighbour, cannot receive love and grace from Me either. This is also often the reason why prayers remain unanswered, for I request humility of heart since it is the evidence of love for Me. Humility of heart excludes every arrogant thought, it excludes heartless actions, for love and humility go together and are not in opposition to each other. This is why a humble heart is well-pleasing to Me and which I will provide with grace and love in abundance. Profound humility, however, does not show itself in a person's external demeanour, for this is at all times abhorred by Me .... Humility towards Me only manifests itself in prayer and humility towards another person in helpful neighbourly love. External gestures, however, often feign humility while the heart does not feel it. I, however, look at the soul's motivation .... I won't let Myself be deceived by appearances, and therefore the sign of My grace will only rarely be found where an outward appearance of humility is given, where fellow human beings are intended to recognise such in gestures, in attitudes or humbly sounding words ....

I only pay attention to the humility of heart and these are the people I consider, although outwardly they assert themselves and don't display any kind of subservience. But anyone who actively engages himself in helpful neighbourly love will not elevate himself, he will always remain a servant of the Lord, for he complies with My commandment, he lives up to what his Lord requested of him, he subordinates himself to My will without having been forced to do so. And if he thus prays to Me his request will likewise be that of a servant to his Lord or that of a child to its Father, to Whom it subordinates itself in love and profoundly humbly entrusts its worries to Him .... it will not demand but request, which is a sign of humility, the acknowledgement of the One Who should grant its prayer .... and its request will not remain unheard .... Pray correctly and your wishes shall always be granted .... request but don't demand .... remain deeply humble in your heart so that My grace can flow into you and know that I will never require an external gesture, that external gestures are never pleasing to Me because they easily become a cover for those who are not profoundly truthful, who want to deceive and whose hearts feel different than it seems. Therefore take no notice of them or copy them, but be of loving service to your neighbour and you will be graced by true humility of heart which will find My pleasure and which I will be able to reward with grace in abundance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Listening to God's servants on earth ....

B.D. 3683 from February 11th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Let yourselves be taught when My servants come to you in My name to inform you of Me and My will. Do not reject them but listen to what I speak to you through them and heed it, and you will derive immense blessings. For once I have spoken to you and found an echo in your heart, My word will continue to have an effect in you .... You will become receptive for every spiritual gift if it is offered to you in times of need. Just don't close your hearts when I knock, recognize My servants as My emissaries who only carry out My mission and let their words go to your heart. I seek you out Myself, and if you thus listen to My servants, you listen to Me. For it is My spirit which speaks through them, they are merely the form in which I make Myself known, because you would not be able to endure My presence, My word, otherwise as long as you have not yet matured in your soul. And again and again I will confront you in the word in order to direct your thoughts towards Me, in order to spiritually direct your senses and prepare you for the coming time, where you will only be able to survive if I feed and water you .... For there will be a great drought which My love wants to make bearable for those who turn to Me. The souls will have to starve because the bearers of truth will be prevented by worldly power from bringing you nourishment. Yet if you believe Me and trust in My loving help you will be strengthened by Me Myself, I will offer you the nourishment from heaven Myself, and therefore let My servants instruct you in advance on My behalf that it is possible to make contact with Me Myself and receive the nourishment from heaven directly .... Listen to them, for the time of adversity will come and will not leave you untouched either. And depending on your will you will survive it. For if only you want I Myself will give you strength, I will speak to you and you will be able to hear My voice Myself, because I will not leave anyone without encouragement who only seriously desires it and who first shapes himself such that he is able to hear Me. And therefore I send you My messengers to instruct you, to teach you and to proclaim My will to you, which only requires love, love for Me and for the neighbour. For only through loving activity can you put yourselves into a state of contact with Me Myself in order to receive My word .... Only love enables you to hear Me, yet My word will be indispensable to you in the coming time. It will be the right food and the right drink in the time of drought you are approaching, and your soul will hunger and thirst for it and be satisfied according to its desire. Listen to My servants and don't let their speeches fall impassively on your ears, consider everything they tell you and know that they are only active on My behalf, that I Myself send them to you in order to prepare you so that you don't need to live in want when the great adversity strikes. My love does not want you to suffer and again and again shows you the path to Me, from Whom you can receive the word which gives you strength and light so that you can also survive the last battle on this earth which requires great strength. Listen to it and fulfil My will, and you will also emerge from this battle unharmed in your soul, and the end will not need to frighten you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Temptations ....

B.D. 3684 from February 12th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Don't fall prey to the temptations which again and again approach you through My permission. The enemy of your souls constantly endeavours to win you over for himself and again and again he lays snares for you in which you shall become entangled, he tries to bring you down knowing that you can only rise with difficulty and that he can then exploit your weakness for himself. And I don't prevent his plan because I have granted him a certain power over your souls in the human stage, because you have to decide of your own free will and with My help and grace you can also escape his power. I allow his activity but constantly warn and admonish you so that you will resist and be mindful and not distance yourselves from Me .... so that I can help you at any time if you call upon Me and request My help. The strength to resist is always at your disposal, therefore make use of it, come to Me in every physical and spiritual tribulation so that I will help you and don't leave yourselves to My adversary without resistance, for only through battle will you ascend, only through battle will you become stronger and superior to the enemy. You can always accept strength from Me and use it against him, and you will remain victorious because your will turns away from My adversary. And don't become of little faith and fearful when temptations approach you, no matter how threatening. This is His weapon to make you despondent in order to weaken your resistance; but you should know that there is one Who can give you strength in abundance and that you therefore need not fear any temptation, no matter how obviously it approaches you. The will to victory should only inspire you, then you will also be victorious, but the will must be serious. You are constantly surrounded by evil forces which want to bring about your spiritual downfall, but you also constantly have helpers at your side who come from the kingdom of light and who helpfully assist you on My behalf, if only you call upon Me .... And commend yourselves to them daily, let them be your protectors through your will and your devotion to Me and to all spiritual beings full of light which are closely united with Me and thus also work according to My will. Let them take care of you and mentally transfer the burden which oppresses you to them and you will feel relief, you will no longer be timid, you will calmly and equanimously face every temptation and thus also overcome it .... You are constantly assured of My protection and My help, for although I have granted My adversary power over you, power is nevertheless also available to you in the same measure, for I also want to win you, and My aim is truly the right .... Only because of your freedom of will do I allow the fight and temptations on the part of the adversary, for only in freedom of will can you reach the aim of becoming perfect and thus blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious trials of truth ....

B.D. 3685 from February 13th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Seriously put the question to yourselves whether and how you fulfil My will, and only then judge the value of My word which is offered to you as My gift of grace. For your judgment depends on your soul's degree of maturity and this, in turn, depends on the fulfilment of My will, of My commandments, which I gave in order to lead you towards spiritual maturity. A person who has not yet reached a certain degree of maturity is also still weak of power of realization, he cannot distinguish truth from lies, he cannot recognize them as such, because ignorance is the characteristic of the fallen person, because ignorance and inadequate knowledge signifies spiritual darkness into which the being fell due to the past sin of rebellion against Me. And I want to lead the being out of this darkness into the light again, I want to help it to shape itself such that the state of ignorance will change into a state of knowledge .... I will help it to increase its degree of maturity and give it the means to do so .... I convey My word to it which proclaims My will to it for the first time and at the same time offers it purest truth. If the human being fulfils My will then he will also recognize the truth as such, and therefore the will must first become seriously active, the will must be strong in the heart, it must not just be expressed in words or fleeting thoughts, for an illusory will does not lead to success, it does not earn the soul a higher degree of maturity and therefore also no power of realization. But I look into the heart, I know every person's will, I also help where it is weak as long as I don't encounter any resistance, for the slightest resistance is a hindrance to My working, to My transmission of strength in order to be able to carry out the will. The human being himself must seriously want to mature his soul, to live according to My will, and approach Me from the bottom of his heart for support .... The serious will is the surest guarantee that he will also come to recognize the truth, for to the extent that he works on himself his faculty of judgement also increases and thus the ability to recognize spiritual good as offered by Me, but to eliminate erroneous teachings and to free himself from them. The person who endeavours to live in accordance with My will will also gain complete trust in the giver of truth, it will be understandable to him that I, as the eternal truth Myself, do not want to let My living creations walk in error, because I am also love Itself .... it will be understandable to him that an earthly child desiring the truth will not ask in vain, that I will truly grant its request and fully grant it the truth, for how else could I possibly proclaim My love? If I wanted to deny a requesting child the best, the pure truth, which alone leads to Me, to eternal life? Consider this, that only one can give you the truth .... and that this one is exceedingly loving and just, that He distributes according to worthiness and desire .... and that anyone who wants to possess the truth must earnestly desire it but must also first shape himself such that he is worthy of a gift offered by Me Myself. It can indeed be given to the human being everywhere and in every form, through word and scripture, but worthiness and desire for truth always presupposes the supply of pure truth. And therefore seriously examine yourselves as to what extent you comply with My demand, as to what extent you make My will your concern, and carry out the examinations in your heart, not just intellectually or with empty words .... And if you earnestly want to, you will see brightly and clearly where truth or error is offered to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious scrutiny and will for truth ....

B.D. 3686 from February 14th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

All information must be scrutinised first before a person accepts it as absolute spiritual truth, that is, before it becomes his possession. And the sincere will to possess the truth must form the basis of this scrutiny. Consequently, he must turn to Me, the eternal Truth Itself, and appeal to Me for enlightenment of his spirit, for turning his thoughts in the right direction and providing him with the intellectual capacity to comprehend and form an opinion. And he will truly not be led astray by Me if he desires the truth .... You must remember that it is always and forever My goal to guide My living creations into truth, and that the human being can be certain of receiving the truth providing his will strives for it. I only need his will in order to convey the truth to him. However, where this will is not sincere, where it is merely replaced by words and thus his desire for truth is not recognisable by Me, as I Am even able to look into the furthermost corners of his heart, the human being will hardly be able to carry out a serious examination and therefore not possess the complete truth from Me. All spiritual information is available to him, he does not defend himself against misguided teachings, but neither does he recognise the truth as such; he allows himself to be pushed into a traditional school of thought without actively investigating its value. Nevertheless, one day he will have to justify himself for his thoughts and intentions because he failed to use his gift of intellect and thereby prevented his own spiritual ascent. Nor will he be be able to use his conscientious observance of the rules given to him as an excuse, because the right relationship with the eternal Father makes every person also realise his task on earth, and once the human being has established this right relationship with Me, he will consider Me and My will more important than the laws he was given by those whom he regards as My representatives on earth. And he will give greater credence to My Words, because I influence the thoughts of those who want to be My true children in order to lead them into truth. I only require the human being's sincere will .... If it is inclined towards Me, then the human being will soon feel as My child and will willingly accept every gift from the Father's hand with gratitude, he will rather accept what he receives from Me Myself than from those who call themselves My representatives on earth. For the heart of a true child will always tend towards the Father's heart, it will take the direct path and won't try to attain the Father's love and kindness in a roundabout way. And I will also always cross its path so that it will be able to find Me with ease .... And what better gift could I possibly offer more gladly to My child than the purest truth? .... Those of you who have not yet established direct contact with Me, who still adhere to external formalities too firmly and don't want to relinquish them, should bear in mind that I Am not to be found in the external shell but that I want to be recognised within yourselves in order to then be present for you at all times. Engage your intellect and form a mental opinion about the information you receive from external sources. And call upon Me for assistance .... And I will help you to recognise what is right and true and liberate you from error, for only the pure truth will lead you to Me, only the pure truth will gain you eternal life .... And therefore you should diligently endeavour to know the truth if you want to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna