New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4053 - 4176

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

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‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me .... and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him ....’ John 14, 21

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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

4053 - Sin against the spirit....

4054 - Passing on the divine Word to the new earth....

4055 - Fatherly Words to His servants on Earth....

4056 - Working together for the kingdom of God.... (personal)

4057 - Effect of the power from God....

4058 - Difficult living conditions.... God's guidance and help....

4059 - Call to activity for the kingdom of God in the night....

4060 - Conditions for the working of the spirit.... God-connectedness through love....

4061 - The work of God's servants concerning formal believers.... The church of Christ....

4062 - Hell.... judged matter....

4063 - Power and glory of God.... His love....

4064 - Activity of the light beings.... connection to the earth....

4065 - Pre-ordained course of life - Destiny corresponding to will....

4066 - End of an epoch no further development in the hereafter, but banishment....

4067a - Electrons....

4067b - Electrons....

4068 - God's care for His servants....

4069 - Doubting God’s existence in the end time....

4070 - Love....

4071 - Exhortation to immerse oneself into God’s word.... supply of strength....

4072 - Spiritual regeneration and renewal....

4073 - Luminous appearance in the sky.... The cross of Jesus Christ....

4074 - Past - present - future....

4075 - God's call to action.... mission....

4076 - Rejection by people.... knowledge of God's plan of salvation....

4077 - Increase of knowledge.... co-workers of Jesus....

4078 - Spiritual sun....

4079 - Word of God flesh and blood.... bread of heaven.... becoming one....

4080 - God's love and mercy in the last time before the end....

4081 - Repentance of the soul in the afterlife....

4082 - ‘With God nothing is impossible....’

4083 - Consequences of observing as well as not observing divine order....

4084 - World – bogus goods.... spiritual treasures in the afterlife....

4085 - Fullness of divine grace....

4086 - Complete dissolution and remodeling of the earth....

4087 - Short time in a state of free will.... long time in a must state....

4088 - Spiritual death.... term "life"....

4089 - Pure divine love principle of giving.... no sin....

4090 - Reason of the loss of earthly goods....

4091 - (Personal)....

4092 - Exemplary life of love of God's servants on earth....

4093 - Spiritual conversations influence of light beings....

4094 - Remark upon the end.... natural events....

4095 - Glory of the spiritual realm....

4096 - Serious admonitions about Christian neighbourly love....

4097 - Creation of the world.... Moses.... metaphorical language....

4098 - Spiritual knowledge imparts knowledge of the divine will....

4099 - Mission of the last disciples before the ruin.... God's hiring of workers....

4100 - God's mercy is greater than His wrath....

4101 - (The announcement was not transcribed by Bertha Dudde).

4102 - Word from on high of divine origin - sounding word.... profundity of faith....

4103 - Voice of the spirit God's voice.... protection from erroneous thinking....

4104 - God's will - voice of the heart.... Inner urging....

4105 - Selfish love.... Love your neighbour as yourself....

4106 - Distribution of earthly goods.... to make provision not God's will....

4107 - 'He that keepeth My commandments.... to him I will come and manifest Myself ....'

4108 - Reference to events.... Chaos.... Speedy arrival....

4109 - God as a Father, friend and brother seeks to attract love....

4110 - Realisation of the worthlessness of the earthly.... afterlife....

4111 - (The announcement was not transcribed by Bertha Dudde).

4112 - God as teacher....

4113 - God as teacher also through mediators....

4114 - God as teacher also through mediators....

4115 - 'Take this and eat.... this is My flesh and My blood....'

4116 - The destruction of the old earth.... Experience in the flesh.... Warning....

4117 - Much suffering - Much grace....

4118 - Influence of the beings of light on destiny.... truth of the divine word....

4119 - Recognizing the voice of God....

4120 - John 14:15-26....

4121 - (Personal.... )

4122 - Teaching ministry – teacher – truthful knowledge....

4123 - Increased struggling of a light receiver on earth – compensation....

4124 - Truth of the announcements....

4125 - Last Judgment.... Spiritualization of earth....

4126 - Calm before the storm.... Visible appearance of the Lord....

4127 - Cross.... "My yoke is easy and My burden is light.... "

4128 - 'Only he who remains in love remains in Me, and I in him....'

4129 - (Father words) chaos.... task of the workers for the kingdom of God....

4130 - Capacity for spiritual announcements.... change of heart....

4131 - Justice.... Equal rights.... Mutual love....

4132 - Fulfilling the divine will.... observing the divine word.... love....

4133 - Spiritual communion substitute for renunciations and disappointments....

4134 - God's hiring of workers for the vineyard.... spreading the divine word....

4135 - (Personal.... )

4136 - The Lord’s messenger before His coming.... Help desperately needed....

4137 - Urgent reminder from God....

4138 - Spiritual bondage....

4139 - Opposing the will of God.... (personal)

4140 - Inner word - gift of grace.... doubt.... (personal)

4141 - Task of the servants of God.... mediator between God and people....

4142 - Spiritual communion.... process.... (birth)

4143 - Process of imparting the divine Word.... Spirit - Soul - Body....

4144 - Activity and ability of the being in the state of constraint....

4145 - Admonition of God to His servants....

4146 - Destiny.... school.... more stringent means....

4147 - Gift of receiving remains, gift of teaching can be withdrawn....

4148 - Loving father words....

4149 - You will reap as you sow.... "How you measure out will.... "

4150 - Lack of trust.... "Ask and it will be given to you.... "

4151 - Power of love....

4152 - Harvest.... reapers.... God as teacher....

4153 - Relationship of a child with its Father...

4154 - Mental emanations.... spiritual powers....

4155 - Disappointment of the people - improvement.... divine intervention....

4156 - Harvest time.... reapers.... workers in the vineyard.... prophets....

4157 - Sounding word....

4158 - Mediator between God and people.... Jesus Christ....

4159 - Gift of prophecy....

4160 - Battle between light and darkness....

4161 - Love inspires return of love.... love wins....

4162 - Relationship with God - love or reverence, respect, worship....

4163 - Spiritual food.... "Come to Me, I will refresh you.... "

4164 - "My kingdom is not of this world.... "

4165 - Truth only originates in God....

4166 - Act of forgiveness of sins.... Jesus Christ as redeemer....

4167 - Battle of faith.... Breakdown of human work.... Church of Christ....

4168 - God’s word purest truth.... doubt.... love of God....

4169 - Divine revelations can be accepted without scrutiny.... Love....

4170 - God's call within your heart....

4171 - Working for God and His kingdom....

4172 - Seeming contradictions in God's Word....

4173 - God's care for His Own....

4174 - Call to work.... The mission of God’s servants....

4175 - Jesuschild God and man....

4176 - Incarnation of God....

Sin against the spirit ....

B.D. 4053 from May 31th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It has to be regarded as a sin against the spirit if people recognise the word offered to them by Me as truth and yet they do not want to accept it, that is, they reject My servants on earth or do not attach importance to receiving My word. It is a special grace when My word is imparted to a person, for it is the bread which comes from the heavens and therefore also has a special effect on the human soul. It is given through the voice of the spirit, it is My spirit which unites with the spiritual spark in the human being, it is supreme spiritual good, a gift of grace of such inconceivable value, and it should be received with gratitude and also be valued as an exquisite gift of grace by the one who recognises it as My gift, who feels touched by truth, who has to acknowledge it as valuable in terms of content, as of divine origin. And understandably such a person sins against the spirit if he accepts My word indifferently, if he resists making the content his spiritual property by thinking about it and taking a stand on its content. For I Myself have approached him and he pays no attention to Me; I have knocked at his door and desired entrance and he does not receive Me; I speak to him and he does not listen to Me; I offer him bread and wine, My flesh and My blood, and he rejects what is meant to be refreshment and strengthening for his earthly path through life .... And whoever I once approached without having found reception will have to struggle for a very long time before grace is granted to him again; he will not easily be invited by Me to the Lord's Supper again, for he did not accept My first invitation .... And the sin against the spirit is extremely serious, for it can result in complete lack of knowledge, the human being can become completely blind in spirit, because then I Myself will take away his ability to recognise, once he tries to extinguish the light through his refusal, because he certainly perceives the shining of the light and yet does not take the path which is brightly illuminated for him; because he prefers to continue on the old path from which I want to guide him onto the right path. Anyone who is able to recognise the working of the spirit is also obliged to take notice of the content of the announcements which originate from My kingdom, for I truly bestow a precious good upon people on earth, and if people believe that the spiritual good originated from Me it must also be regarded as a divine gift, it must be joyfully received and spread everywhere so that even those fellow human beings who are unable to hear the voice of the spirit within themselves will be blessed by My revelations. And those who accept it as My gift will be blessed, for they receive Me Myself and henceforth stand in My grace .... I Myself am now with them, and My presence assures them constant guidance, constant help in every adversity and a measure of grace which they can increase themselves through their love for Me, and they can safely reach their aim on earth .... that they shape themselves into beings of light, because My word simultaneously imparts strength to them, which is why every person who sins against the spirit understandably comes away empty-handed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Passing on the divine Word to the new earth ....

B.D. 4054 from June 2nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Just a small flock will await My coming before Judgment Day; there will only be a few people whom I can call My Own, who remain strong in faith and confess Me before the world, and who will therefore be persecuted in every way and would have to fear for their lives if they had no spiritual vision and were not spiritually minded. But this small congregation will know about the end, it will expect Me with profound faith and therefore will devotedly endure the extreme time of hardship. It will confess Jesus as Son of God before the world and thus I will lift them up to Me and provide them with a heavenly place to stay until they may return to the restructured earth .... This small flock has the task to pass My Word on to their descendants, so that it will be offered again just as unadulterated as I conveyed it to people and remain the fundamental teaching of Christianity on the new earth. For I will continue to take care of My Own, which include all who accept My will, who aspire to reach Me and therefore act with love, since their desire for Me is already a manifestation of their feeling of love which also expresses itself towards their neighbour. Thus they will fulfil My commandments, and they will also receive My Word from Me, either directly or indirectly.

My Word comprises the teaching that Jesus Christ preached on earth because He was permeated by My spirit of love, since the human being Jesus had already found union with Me on earth. And in order for people to achieve the complete union with Me on the new earth they have to be informed of Christ's teaching. Thus the pure truth, which is presently offered to you humans from the heavens, has to be taken along as My Word onto the new earth, where its utmost profoundness and wisdom will be recognised as a message from above, as a direct instruction from God. For that reason it will remain the fundamental teaching for a long time, until people become more materially minded again and make corrections and changes to My Word once again. This is already the next cause of digression from their knowledge and will darken their state of mind, which determines Me to send My Word to earth once more. But for the time being it will remain pure and reach many people. Every Word will be acknowledged as My gift and people will love and serve Me, they will love each other and be happy on earth. For they will live in constant contact with Me and are therefore also recipients of light and strength, because My proximity will result in making them strong and wise, as I promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fatherly Words to His servants on Earth ....

B.D. 4055 from June 3rd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

All your worries will become invalid if you consider how close it is to the end. Anyone who has decided to work for the spiritual kingdom should always remember his assigned task and how much determination he will need if he wants to accomplish this task fully. And so he should only ever strive to receive greater willpower, he should turn to Me and request it and I will truly not fail to answer his prayer, I will influence his thoughts, guide his will in the right direction and thus show him the path to Me which he will take because he will be drawn by My love .... Having handed himself over to Me he will have become My possession, and once I possess something I will never release it again, I will ever more powerfully draw it higher, and since I constantly walk by its side I will not let it go astray, supporting and holding it when it is at risk of falling. That which is My Own can confidently walk every step on earth, for I will spread My hands under its feet and carry it across all cliffs of life. On account of its will it will have become part of Me, and that which is My Own cannot go astray again. For this reason you must accept all changes in your circumstances, you must recognise My will in everything that comes upon you and know that My love takes special care of you and determines My intervention if the world wants to push itself into the foreground with the intention of captivating you. Travel your path without worry and don't forget that I will always walk with you, that I will guide you along flowery paths because My love also wants to grant you joy on earth, but that you will have to walk across thorns and thistles as well because My wisdom knows that it will benefit your soul. And thus always let Me be your constant guide and companion, call upon Me if you come to a crossroad and don't know which way to go, and you will clearly feel that I stand next to you and gently push you on the path you should pursue until the end .... which will lead you to Me, into the spiritual kingdom where you can expect the bliss and peace you will never ever find on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working together for the kingdom of God .... (personal)

B.D. 4056 from June 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You should live in complete harmony and make My commandments the guiding principle of your way of life, you should carry out every possible assistance if you thereby show love to your fellow human beings and awaken love again. You should not split up, you should not go separate ways but walk together as I have determined since eternity. The more intimately you are united in love, the more you open your hearts to the spiritual streams, because they can only work where there is love. But then your earthly life will also be successfully completed for the souls if love reigns, for where love is present My presence is also guaranteed, and My presence means ascent upwards, bliss already on earth and one day in eternity. Do not leave each other of your own accord but stay together as long as I do not separate you through My will. You have a task to fulfil and this requires cooperation .... you have to carry out a mission which requires your entire commitment, and I brought you together for the sake of this mission, and it is truly not My will that a change should be made by yourselves until I intervene in your life to change it, for the time has to be fulfilled first, and during this time your joint activity is of greatest blessing, even though you do not recognise this as yet. Yet far too soon the time will arrive of which it is written, and then you will also realise the necessity of your bond, you will completely entrust yourselves to Me and can only do so in firm faith in Me, which you must still bring to greater strength for the sake of the mission which awaits you, which is why I direct your steps such that they are inexplicable to you for the time being. There is still a short time left and you should use it for eager activity of love, both towards your fellow human being as well as amongst yourselves. You should give what seems desirable to the other person, you should be helpful and not fear a lack of strength, for I will give it to you in increased measure as soon as the hour of your activity for Me has come. And then you will realise how important your cooperation is in the service of the kingdom of God. Then you will love Me with all sincerity, you will recognise it as My working and activity which is only meant for the redemption of the restricted spirits, which also includes you humans whom I want to save from perdition before the end has come. But you shall serve Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Effect of the power from God ....

B.D. 4057 from June 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The fact that the power from God imparts itself to people who open their hearts to Him, if they pray to Him in spirit and truth, can be recognised by the human being's will, who always turns more and more towards God, who strives for good and detests evil. For the strength from God always has a supporting effect, it will always lead towards God, it is, so to speak, the means of attraction which God uses to direct His living creations towards Himself again, and thus anyone who allows God's power to flow through himself, who consciously receives it because he deeply desires it, will also certainly reach his aim, he will find union with God, for the power of God flowing through him shapes his nature such that it adjusts itself to God's nature, becomes love and bridges every gulf, that it finally completely hands itself over to God and thus unites with the eternal love, which therefore wants to impart strength to people unmeasured in order to thereby win them for eternity. But how the strength from God expresses itself depends on the human being's will, he can appeal to God in the realisation of his inadequacy, and this prompts God to help him in every weakness, thus the assistance for the human being comes in the form of strengthening, which makes itself felt in increased earthly activity as well as in increased spiritual striving, so that the human being takes the path leading upwards as a matter of course. He can no longer have any other thought than to reach his aim on earth and to fulfil God's will, and his striving is directed towards God and disregards everything earthly as far as it does not belong to his range of tasks into which God Himself has placed him. God draws him, for He wants to make His living creations happy, and thus it is a grace, it is God Himself Who turns the spiritual in the human being towards Himself, provided that the human being's will grants Him the right, that he submits himself to His will of his own accord and always puts divine will first and expresses this through his prayer, which earns him unmeasured strength and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Difficult living conditions .... God's guidance and help ....

B.D. 4058 from June 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Entirely different living conditions will also necessitate an entirely different way of life and people will find themselves faced by tasks which seem impossible for them to accomplish and yet they have to be solved because they are vital for their survival. And this is when My Own will have to prove themselves, that is, they will have to test the strength of faith and utterly trustingly wait for My help, and they will be helped. This is the time when profoundly faithful people will bear witness to the unbelievers as to what the devout human being can achieve if he trusts in God's help, if he hands himself over to Me with profound faith and confides his severe adversity to Me in prayer. They will receive help and life will become bearable for them, although still very difficult. Yet I also gave them the promise which I want to remind you of now: that I will shorten the days for My Own's sake. And thus the hour comes ever closer when I will come in the clouds, and this second coming of Mine will signify true salvation for My Own who will find themselves in grave difficulties and require My obvious help .... As long as they still live on earth they will also be exposed to suffering, i.e., they will not be entirely insensitive as yet to harassments and threats from the world. Yet the strength of their faith will let them bear all suffering more easily, even if now and then it will affect them quite severely.

And thus people will divide themselves into two camps, those who do not believe and therefore have little contact with the spiritual world, and those whose contact with Me means everything to them and who will not start anything without first appealing for My blessing and who therefore will also clearly recognise My guidance, since due to their love for Me they also sense My presence within them and My presence always signifies strength and thus makes it easier to overcome that which is a far greater burden for people without My strength. And then My Own will recognise each other by their strength of faith, they will unite and console each other with the coming of the Lord .... Full of hope they will anticipate Me and yearn for Me in their love, they will firmly believe in My coming, and I will not disappoint their faith and help them where help is necessary, and I will come to fetch them when the adversity becomes unbearable, so that they will not fall away from Me, so that they will remain steadfast until the end and be able to enter the paradise of the new earth, because they remained loyal to Me even in their greatest adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Call to activity for the kingdom of God in the night ....

B.D. 4059 from June 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It is an incomparably beautiful task to work for the Kingdom of God. Anyone who is deemed worthy of this task should devote all his strength to it, and no earthly bond should hold him back when he feels called by the voice of God. And he will clearly hear the call in his heart, but then he must not delay but place himself to the divine Lord and Master's service, he must follow the father's call as an obedient child, he must not resist or only reluctantly comply but with a joyful heart he should carry out the work for which he has placed himself to God's service. He possesses a rich treasure which was imparted to him so that he can fulfil his task, so that he can be active as a teacher, thus perform his service for God for the blessing of fellow human beings who are in spiritual hardship and urgently need help. God Himself has taken him into His school, He has instructed and trained him to be a teacher, and now it is up to him how he utilises this treasure, yet he has to account for the precious gift he received and should have passed on to people who are ignorant .... And to this activity God calls you, when the time of activity has come for you. The call will be made in the night where no human voice touches the ear and therefore the voice of God can be heard clearly and distinctly. And the Lord will instruct His servant, the maid will receive her assignment, everyone who wants to serve God will be accepted and the work will be assigned to him according to his ability, and then no-one may hesitate or be undecided what he should do .... what God requires shall be carried out, for God will know how to find a replacement for every earthly activity. Spiritual work, however, cannot be carried out by just anyone but requires spiritually educated people who therefore also have the duty to use the knowledge they received from God otherwise they one day would have to answer to God. But the servants should know that God has marked out their path of life in accordance with their spiritual task on earth, that therefore the work in the vineyard of the Lord can also be carried out with the best success if only the person has the will to put the spiritual work before all other work, then God will also take care of the compensation, He will take over all earthly worry. And the spiritual task will also be feasible, for the good forces from the spiritual kingdom will also cooperate and assist the servant on earth in every way, they will give him in a spiritual and earthly way, they will support him with strength, and he will be able to fulfil his task in a spiritual as well as earthly manner, he will be able to serve in every way as soon as he merely entrusts himself to his divine creator and asks Him for His blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Conditions for the working of the spirit .... God-connectedness through love ....

B.D. 4060 from June 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You can receive knowledge from all fields if you so desire and allow yourselves to be instructed by the voice of the spirit. But the condition is that you first fulfil what I demand of you, what is made known to you through My servants .... that you thus accept My teaching of love and act accordingly .... This is the prerequisite for then also penetrating deep knowledge. If you receive the same knowledge through human instructions without first working with love you will not know what to do with it, you will also not be able to pass it on to your fellow human beings in a living way, for since it has not yet found its way into your heart yourselves you lack both the gift of speaking about it as well as the zeal of inner conviction, and it will remain entirely ineffective in the ears of those who listen to it unless the required working with love makes the listener able to receive the wisdom with heart and intellect. Then My spirit will work as in those persons, he will be instructed by the spirit within himself, albeit through the mouth of the one who is full of understanding himself for what he passes on. The right attitude towards Me, towards My commandments, is the basic condition in order to have truthful knowledge, no matter in which way and in which form it is offered. And therefore, these proclamations, which are conveyed to people from the spiritual kingdom as mental spiritual knowledge, can never be examined by a person who lacks the main thing .... the bond with God through love. A just examination and a just judgment irrevocably necessitates the working of the spirit, and My spirit only works where all influence on the part of the adversary is eliminated, where the divine spiritual spark establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit, which is only possible by shaping oneself into love. In every situation of life the human being can shape himself into love, and therefore every human being can also let his spirit become effective, yet the reception of spiritual knowledge must also be practised, otherwise the voice of the spirit cannot be heard, just as the thoughts must be paid attention to if the spirit cannot express itself audibly. It is not a language of the world which the spirit speaks, they are words of light and love, words which convey realisation, profound knowledge and purest truth and which express God's great love, which a good father speaks to His children. And thus the heart has to accept these words, for the intellect alone can certainly receive the content but never grasp its depth, because the divine word has to be felt, not merely heard. And this is a matter of the heart, otherwise God's love cannot be recognised and thus cannot become effective either. The human heart is the seat of feeling, i.e., the soul communicates to the body through the heart and equally the spirit also wants to express itself through the heart. The spirit intervenes in the soul's life of feeling and thus likewise wants to be heard by the body; it wants, as it were, to unite with the soul for the same activity. It wants to draw the soul over into the spiritual kingdom and also make the body submissive to its will. And therefore the human being must help in this unification of the body with the soul, he must want to be given to by the spirit within himself, to be instructed, and do everything in order to hear the voice, which is only possible when he has shaped his soul through an unselfish life of love such that it now leans more towards the spirit than the body, that it is driven by the heart to desire light and love, so that its desire will now be fulfilled. For this is the condition that the gifts of the spirit are desired. The intellect alone, however, will certainly examine or judge but never be influenced by feeling; the intellect alone demands evidence which cannot be produced in spiritual truths, but the heart is content and lets its feeling pass for an evidence and will therefore judge more reliably and correctly and recognise truth as truth. It therefore possesses an ability which the intellect cannot claim. And thus it is understandable that the results of the working of the spirit can only be judged correctly if the examiner himself consults the spirit within himself and if he makes himself worthy of its expressions, i.e. fulfils all conditions which earn him the working of the spirit. For then his knowledge will also become profound and extensive and all relations will become clear to him which he would never be able to fathom by merely thinking intellectually. For God hides Himself from people who are still distant from Him so that they will come to Him and appeal for His help, so that they will call upon Him for enlightened thinking, for this call comes from the heart and will also result in what is helpful for the soul to unite with its spirit .... The heart will be allowed to receive love and grace and never come away empty-handed if it opens itself through heartfelt prayer to God, Who will always hear it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The work of God's servants concerning formal believers .... The church of Christ ....

B.D. 4061 from June 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Your particular task is to influence the many believers who feel affiliated to the church and yet cannot be regarded as belonging to My church, for they no longer stand on the foundation of faith. They have built their church on sand, which will give way under their feet if their faith is to be tested. They deem themselves devout and also profess with their lips what the church tells them to believe. Nevertheless, they are not deeply convinced of any religious doctrine, they would be unable to completely agree with any one if they seriously had to form an opinion of it. And this conventional faith, which was merely accepted and will not be abandoned for the sake of the outside world is almost worse than unbelief, for an unbelieving person can be provided with explanations in form of discussions, even disputes, whereas the former offers little opportunity of informing him because he will only profess everything again with his lips and yet is far removed from becoming a convinced representative of that which he acknowledges with his mouth. And he will belong to those who fall away when the decision of faith is demanded of him. For only then will he give his opinion about controversial issues and, not having any knowledge and consequently no realisation of the significance and value of a true faith, he will totally ignorantly relinquish that which is most valuable, the faith in Me as Creator of heaven and earth, the faith in Jesus Christ as Redeemer of the world and the faith in the continuation of life after death, which would motivate him to live an appropriately responsible life on earth, which he owes to Me as Father and Judge of eternity. But they will find no mercy before My eyes, for many times they are offered the opportunity to penetrate religious truths and to acquire a living faith, yet they accept no instructions and neither do they openly declare their opposing points of view but only ever leave their fellow human beings under the impression that they belong to the church which I founded on earth as a human being.

I summed up the faithful congregation with the Word 'My church' and will only ever consider those people as belonging to My church who call a living faith their own, for My church is not a worldly organisation, it cannot be externally recognised but is merely the union of believing people on earth, it is My congregation which, although it is small, is extremely dear to Me. The formal believers, however, stand outside the circuit of My flow of love, nevertheless, they can join My congregation at any time when that which they believe themselves to be has become reality, when they own a living faith and are very happy with possessing it. And a sign of a living faith is the fact that they gladly speak about divine matters, that they look for and enthusiastically hold spiritual conversations and that they provide clarifications where their fellow human beings are still in the dark. For once someone belongs to My church he will also appreciate My treasures, he will know about the significance of the time and the approaching end. He will remain loyal to My church for there is nothing left on earth that would be desirable for him. The living faith has opened this knowledge up for him, and he knows the alarming ramifications of a conventional faith, of the soul's fate in the beyond, subsequently he will do whatever it takes to draw people's attention to the danger they are in; he will try to make them understand it so that they will still be able to gain a living faith in the last hour. But whether it is successful entirely depends on the human being's will, the freedom of which shall not be curtailed if the soul is to ascend. And yet it is your task to influence the formal believers as much as possible since they are, after all, in greatest danger and are therefore in need of help because they lack realisation, and wherever help is necessary it shall be given, so that no-one can say that the blessings of divine mercy had bypassed him .... I want to help all people, but whether My help is accepted is determined by people themselves, and I let them keep their freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hell .... judged matter ....

B.D. 4062 from June 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

As long as the spiritual is bound in the solid form, one can speak of judged matter, of the soul which is in judgement, for it is banished by the decision of Him from Whom it once emanated as strength. Judged matter is therefore everything which has not yet undergone any essential change or dissolution in infinitely long periods of time, which therefore, in a manner, does not yet betray life, for the spiritual bound in it is completely powerless and suffers dreadful agonies because it cannot free itself. And this is a pitiable state, it is a state which can be described as hell, which becomes eternity for the being and only improves when the being strives towards the light, i.e. when a support offered to it is no longer rejected.

(14.6.1947)

It is the environment which torments the being unspeakably, for it is in deepest darkness. Matter holds it captive .... it is bound and remains in resistance to God all the longer and becomes ever more powerless, for the being lacks God's power of love if it keeps itself distant from Him, and lack of God's power of love results in constant hardening, and thus the spiritual being's imprisonment does not become more bearable with the length of time but rather intensifies if the being is to find its way back to God again, from Whom it distanced itself of its own free will although it was offered the opportunity to approach Him. This state of hardening of matter occurs when God withdraws His power of love from the spiritual being, and since the being originates in power from God, everything divine is blissful, but wretchedness is a state of torment, the distance from God can therefore be regarded as hell, for it completely contradicts the original state and purpose of the creatural which originated from God, although it lacks the awareness of its self even in the furthest distance from God but still feels all torment. Yet he lacks realisation, for this is the inevitable consequence of the beingness' distance from God. Consequently, a change of his state, an improvement of his situation is also a matter of an endless long time. It is an eternity for the bound spiritual, and a change would never occur if the being alone were to bring it about through its will, for this is weakened to the utmost and gets no boost if it is not offered help on the part of divine mercy. And this will inevitably happen, yet the times God needs in order to persuade the spiritual substance which is opposed to Him to give up its resistance cannot be assessed by people on this earth, yet God's mercy will not drop any of His creations completely, for they emerged from His love and God's love will never cease. Material creations are constant evidence of God's love, they are an expression of His deepest mercy and also a testimony of His justice, just as the great guilt of a sin against God requires a punishment, an expiation of the guilt of sin. And again, the term 'eternal times' applies, for a human being cannot detect any passing away or dissolution or change of certain creations during his lifetime, and it is these which harbour the spiritual condemned to hell. And yet, the time of bursting comes one day even for the hardest material work of creation which releases the spiritual being bound within it .... One day God's mercy will be greater than His wrath, and one day the spiritual will enter the process of ascent again, one day the torments of hell will subside, they will diminish when the due penance for God's justice has been done. Then God's love comes into effect again, and it lifts the deeply fallen up to itself again. For God's love outshines everything, God's love does not allow eternal condemnation, for God's love there is no permanent separation from Him, for He desires His living creations and does not let go of them but seeks to make them happy because they are and will remain His for all eternity ....

Amen

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Power and glory of God .... His love ....

B.D. 4063 from June 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Great is the power and glory of God, infinitely deep His love, unsurpassed His wisdom, and nothing equals His excellence, neither in heaven nor on earth. And yet He is in closest contact with the small creature, man, who is insignificant because of his imperfection. The human being is a part of Him, and for the sake of this particle He does not let him get lost, He stretches out His arms towards him in order to draw everything that has a mind turned towards Him to His heart and to make it eternally blissful. He descends into the deepest depths in order to lift up that which has fallen away from Him, that which has sunk into the depths, in order to put it into a state which allows the creature to remain close to Him. He comes to meet the weak, helpless and supports it with His strength .... He increases the strength of the one who receives it from Him, He works through His spirit in people who love Him and try to adapt to His nature, for He wants to be eternally united with that which He created, which emerged from His power of love and walks on earth for the purpose of perfection. For His love is boundless .... It is expressed in His word, which flows out of His mouth as power, takes the path to His living creations on earth and works there according to the will of the recipient .... Giving strength and light everywhere to those who receive it with a hungry heart, and pointing the way to Himself for all people that they take this path and become eternally happy. His infinite love wants to give to all who are in need, it wants to lead what is imperfect to perfection, it wants to unite in order to make happy, because only love is happiness-giving, only love is perfect, and what is without love is also unworthy of God's nearness, because eternal love can only unite with the same, with creatures which have also become love. And therefore, God's love gave rise to creations whose only purpose is to receive the imperfect creatural and to educate it according to its purpose into beings which learn to recognise God and love Him and then consciously strive towards Him .... And when the creature has reached the degree of maturity which is aware of itself and capable of realisation, His love will now also supply it with strength in the form of His word and grant it all support so that it will reach its aim .... But the word testifies to Himself, the word gives knowledge of His might and power and glory, the word manifests His love and imparts His wisdom, it gives light and strength and leads everything towards eternal beatitude which only has the will to reach God, the Father from eternity, Who wants to be eternally united with His children because they emerged from His love ....

Amen

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Activity of the light beings .... connection to the earth ....

B.D. 4064 from June 17th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Exceedingly extensive knowledge is imparted by the beings of light in God's will to people on earth if these are willing to accept it. But the latter is a prerequisite, otherwise the process of transmission from the spiritual kingdom cannot take place. For the knowledge, offered by God's great love, would have a faith-coercing effect on people without the will to accept it, if they, in addition to the knowledge, were also given the powers of realisation, which is only the key to wisdom for a person who is willing to accept it, but which he always receives combined with the knowledge if he is endowed with spiritual gifts through divine will. But then he is already infinitely rich on earth, for he possesses something imperishable, something which has eternal value .... he possesses knowledge which corresponds to truth and which can never ever be taken away from him, for it completely fills him, it is absorbed by heart and intellect and can constantly be increased, because no limits are set for the human being by God. And yet, only very few people have this knowledge, only very rarely can the beings of light convey spiritual knowledge to earth, only very rarely are knowledge-hungry people in contact with God such that His will will dignify them to receive spiritual knowledge, therefore pure truth only rarely finds its way to them, and the darkness on earth shadows the light even though it will never extinguish it. Yet everything must bow to one law, in heaven and on earth .... the inviolability of free will .... And therefore, the beings of light can only work where the will to receive spiritual knowledge, divine truth, stirs in the human being himself. Then they seize every opportunity to communicate with people on earth, after all, this is the chief activity of love of these beings, to pass on the light which shines for them and which makes them unspeakably happy, to bring brightness into dark places, to kindle light in human hearts, to break through the night of the spirit and to make hearts happy and blissful. For divine knowledge makes him happy and satisfies him who hungers for the truth. But God will never withhold His gift from the one who desires it, instead, everyone will be given according to his desire, and therefore one person can call extensive knowledge his own while the other is only offered a little, for the former's desire is greater, which is why he is also surrounded by many beings of light who mentally instruct him and give him what they themselves possess. They are busy in their activity, love for the ignorant drives them to constantly convey knowledge to them. But they only find few hearts willing to accept, which is why these few are given extraordinarily abundantly so that they likewise take part in the work and impart spiritual goods if they are willingly received. And this is one of the greatest works of love for the neighbour .... to make the truth accessible to them, which originates from God and is also intended to lead all unredeemed people back to God again, who still live in ignorance and therefore cannot be blissfully happy either .... This is God's will that the truth be spread so that the spiritual night will give way to a bright morning which will soon be followed by the light of day ....

Amen

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Pre-ordained course of life - Destiny corresponding to will ....

B.D. 4065 from June 18th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Every path is pre-ordained even though you believe to have chosen it yourselves. Although you apparently determine your course of life yourselves because you can, at times, plan it in accordance with your will, but I have known of this will since eternity and have taken it into account, and therefore your destiny corresponds to your will; which means, that your life develops in a way that your will can turn towards Me and has ample opportunity to acknowledge Me. However, how your will decides is entirely up to you, I won't compel it or you would not need to live your life in the first place if I wanted perfect entities by means of force. My only goal is to enable the spirit to achieve the highest possible maturity of soul on earth but meet with all-round resistance.

Yet human beings cannot alter the course of their life and thus have to submit to everything if they want to achieve spiritual benefit. Every resistance, every complaint and grumble reduces your psychological success because it testifies of a will that is still in opposition to Me or has very little perception of Him, Who gave you your life. If you would know Me as the Eternal Love you would also know that I would not let you suffer unless it is necessary for the salvation of your soul.

This is why you should suffer and endure and place your earthly life into My hands, live each day without worry but do not exclude Me from your thoughts, then I will guide you and, truly, your life shall not be in vain. One day you will thank Me even for the difficult hours and days since they benefit your soul far more than quiet, carefree days. I know this, I know your soul's degree of maturity, I know your will, your weaknesses and your faith, and I let everything happen so that no day needs to be lived unsuccessfully, that you can mature in a short time and reach your goal while you are still on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

End of an epoch no further development in the hereafter, but banishment ....

B.D. 4066 from June 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The earthly path the soul has to cover is only unique during a redemption period, i.e. that the soul develops upwards from the most solid matter into the stage as a human being .... that it always stays on earth, i.e. in earthly creations, during this time of development. But with the end of human existence the soul also concludes this earthly course of development and then enters the spiritual kingdom, irrespective of its state of maturity. For the spiritual kingdom accepts perfect and also imperfect beings, only that the spheres are completely different, thus there are spheres of light and also constant eternal darkness, that the souls which dwell in the dark spheres can now also mature, this only requires infinitely much more time because the beings in the state of imperfection lack strength. And there is great danger that they will sink even deeper due to their weakness of will, because the dark forces have an effect on them and try to pull them down into darkness. But then it is the soul’s own fault, for it has possibilities of help through God's love and grace, so that it can just as well strive upwards. The beings of light assist it and also let their rays shine into the darkness in order to awaken the desire for light in the souls, which then begins the ascent. Thus, in the beyond, in the spiritual kingdom, there is still the possibility to step out of the state of imperfection into the state of perfection and to continue the development missed on earth in the spiritual kingdom .... But it is different with the expiry of a redemption period .... Then there is no further development in the spiritual kingdom, but only an upward development beginning on the lowest level, which again necessitates the course through the entire creation of earth. For then the soul has reached a low which makes it impossible for it to stay in spiritual spheres and which therefore results in banishment in the solid form. This low level occurs when the soul completely gives itself to God's adversary, when it takes action against God itself by opposing everything spiritual on earth, thus trying to displace God to a certain extent. This is a degree which no longer allows for upward development in the spiritual kingdom, which can indeed also be experienced by souls which do not stay on earth until the last end but have already departed before. Yet God's love and mercy does not allow the spiritual being to fall entirely into Satan’s hands, He once again leaves the being free to change its will, and He banishes it in the new creation and thereby withdraws Satan’s power over it, He in a manner of speaking releases it from satan’s bonds and gives it a bondage which is subject to His will, and His will is truly intent on the being's redemption, not on eternal bondage. In the beyond, however, an ascent from the spiritual low would no longer be possible because the soul has completely sold itself to Satan through its bondage and it is completely powerless in the spiritual kingdom and would never turn its will upwards. But since the upward development in the spiritual kingdom is likewise dependent on the being's will, it would either remain eternally in the completely lightless and powerless state or sink even further, which would certainly also result in a hardening of the spiritual substance but in such an infinitely long time that no calculations could be used for it, and what this means cannot be assessed by the human being as such. Consequently, if a period of development is interrupted and replaced by a new period, then this is a work of God's greater than great love for His living creations, for He wants to shorten their time of suffering, even though the beings themselves still determine the length of time they need for their perfection, because the period of free will always replace the time of the state of constraint and (the former) can now be utilised or passed up uselessly. The will is always decisive, both during the time of development on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, and God knows when the will has reached the necessary strength to strive upwards. Many people already lose their temporal life before the end of a redemption period, but those who remain behind and still experience the last day on earth are either God-bound or complete devils for whom an ascent in the spiritual kingdom has become impossible due to their spiritual low. And therefore, the last judgement will separate the goats from the sheep .... Only good and evil people will exist to be judged. God will call the good to Himself and let them experience the new earth in paradise, while the wicked will receive their punishment and yet this, too, will only prove God's love and mercy. For He also wants to make them blessed one day, because He does not want anything to be separated from Him forever that has been His from the beginning ....

Amen

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Electrons ....

B.D. 4067a from June 23rd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Forces which unfold in nature can be regarded as an effect of the eternal creative power, as a consequence which is understandable to every human being who is mentally concerned with it. God's flow of power is directed into infinity, and this power must somehow appear, otherwise it would not be recognisable as power. It must give rise to things or set them in motion, it must generate life. This development of power is therefore a revival of everything that has emerged from God's hand and is to reach again the state in which it originally was .... where it was active in creating and shaping. Thus, through the perpetual outpouring of God's power, works of creation must also perpetually come into being, just as a constant activity must also be recognisable in them. This activity is, so to speak, the life of the spiritual embodied in the works of creation, which, if it is recognisable to the naked eye, places the work of creation in the category of living beings. But there are also tiny and most minute living beings which the human eye cannot recognise and which, even if the eye were exceptionally sharpened, cannot be recognised because they move with such speed that they cannot be tracked. But they are of inconceivable power and form, so to speak, the core of the whole of creation, as far as this is apparent to man as matter. They form the basic material, the first form of the power emanating from God, they are condensed emanations of God, living entities in innumerable multiplicity, which are certainly visible as matter when united, but which have not yet entered into this union and which therefore move at the utmost speed because they seek each other and press towards each other. These are therefore spiritual substances of incomparable strength, which buzz around unbound and free and cannot take on any form until they have found each other and now condense more and more. (23.6.1947) Power emanating from God strictly speaking is not divisible, nevertheless its effects are individual creations, which again each for itself disintegrate into innumerable substantial particles, would they be dissected down to the (smallest) finest. And these tiny substances are in constant motion, so they cannot be anything bound that is powerlessly dependent on help. It will only become so when in an infinitely long time a spiritualisation of these substances takes place, i.e., when they are destined to be carriers of spiritual entities, which only occurs when after merging forms have formed, however small. Thus power from God then condenses into form, and this is the emergence of matter, which probably needs an inconceivably long time to emerge before it becomes visible to the human eye. Every form takes in spiritual things that are to develop upwards. Therefore, as soon as man can determine small and smallest particles through research, they are also already animate, otherwise they could not be substantially proven. And the spiritual that animates these electrons is the imperfect spiritual that begins the course of development on earth and is bound in form. There is no more stupendous discovery during earthly life than the realisation that the beginning of the enormous creation is to be found in the most infinite reduction, that every work of creation could therefore be dissected to the most infinite, provided that this plan would be carried out with God's help. But people with only intellectual thinking go so far as to enter an area which they will never completely master. And this riddle will not be solved as long as the earth is still existing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Electrons ....

B.D. 4067b from June 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And yet, the knowledge-hungry human being will be given information if he appeals to God, for God does not withhold knowledge from the human being on earth, even though it touches areas which are far away from spiritual knowledge.

(24.6.1947)

It must not be failed to appreciate that God, the creator of heaven and earth, bends to His creatures Himself in order to instruct them in truth, provided that it concerns spiritual knowledge. Worldly knowledge, however, is also supported by God as long as the human being is also connected to God in earthly activity, i.e. as long as he also subjects his earthly work to God's blessing and thus testifies to the sense of belonging to God. Then he can address his questions to God at any time and they will be answered. On the other hand, it is different when the human being wants to satisfy his thirst for knowledge in order to broaden his earthly knowledge, thus spiritual knowledge is out of the question. In that case God will leave it up to him how far he penetrates the truth, as long as he tries to fathom it purely intellectually. But then always limits are set for him, for God alone opens them for him because He does not want to be ignored in the investigation of things which God apparently keeps hidden from people. But He always solves spiritual questions, and He does so the more understandably the more mature the soul of the seeker of enlightenment is: .... The laws of nature relate to each other in the same way as the divine principle in the human being, love, relates to the eternal Deity, to the original power, i.e. God and love cannot be thought of without each other, and the human being who wants to reach God must also carry love within himself or he would never be able to make contact with God. It is the same with the laws of nature .... one is the complement of the other, and all laws establish the divine order. A violation of them creates disorder and at the same time means distance from God, Who Himself stands in the highest perfection and order. And so the construction of the whole of creation is also done in the greatest order and perfection; unsurpassable wisdom established this order, and deepest love was at its root. Consequently, the creatural, when it began its course of development, also had to reach its aim in this order and lawfulness, to become perfect. It had to allow itself to be pervaded down to the smallest substance by the flow of power of eternal love, otherwise it would remain incapable of a task which, however, is the purpose of the earthly path for the beingness. However, due to its former apostasy from God the creatural was no longer able to enter into contact with God Himself, nor with His power, which is only an emanation of God and thus something divine that cannot unite with imperfection. Therefore, something had to be created first which was suitable to receive the immature spiritual, which therefore contained so much divine that the creatural could be fed if it craved strength which it lacked. And thus God directed His emanation of power into the universe so that it touched the whole of infinity, yet in the tiniest measure, for this alone was enough to fill the whole of infinity with His power. Thus an inconceivable life arose, a movement in the universe, because the power of God in itself gives rise to eternal life, eternal activity. And this life increased through the uniting of the tiniest sparks of power, it seized the dead, powerless in the universe in order to draw it into the process of activity, if it wanted to let itself be seized. The living enclosed the dead, the living held captive the dead, but not in hatred but in love, for the power of God is love and never changes. As long as these tiny sparks of power are still whirring in the universe, as long as they are still free, i.e. in constant motion, we cannot yet speak of matter, although it is the beginning of matter and the sparks of power .... electrons .... are, so to speak, the original components of matter. They only become matter once they have consolidated, i.e. when a state of hardening occurs due to the immature essence, which now hinders the electrons' mobility, whereby the essence is now bound and God's emanation of power decreases in its effectiveness for a certain period of time in accordance with God's will, until the bound essence begins to slacken in its resistance. Then also the power stirs again, and a slight life becomes apparent even in hardest matter, when the time of banishment for the spiritual has expired. So the electrons in their state of mobility are certainly spiritual substance, but no substance of the soul of man, which develops after an infinitely long time, while the immature substance, the bound creatural, must be counted among them, because this beingness now begins its process of upward development, which ends with the stage as man. Electrons are purest power from God and therefore indestructible, they are, so to speak, the border crossing from the spiritual into the earthly kingdom, an emanation of God, which takes on form with the entry into the earthly kingdom, if one can speak of form in the incomprehensibly smallest scale. The pure divine unites with the imperfect out of love and mercy, otherwise the latter could never develop upwards because it is totally weakened and nevertheless resists God by not accepting His power .... And thus the power seizes the imperfect, binding it and making the consequences and agonies of the denial of divine power perceptible to it, so that it itself changes its will and desires God's power in order to reach His nearness again ....

Amen

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God's care for His servants ....

B.D. 4068 from June 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You, who are to spread My word, I will not leave you in distress of body and soul, so that you can free from worries and calmly exercise your ministry, so that you will not become incapable of being active for Me and My kingdom. You can only speak if you are full of inner equanimity yourselves, if you can move freely in thought and action without feeling the pressure of earthly hardship too much, for your mission is too important for Me to let it be endangered by imposing earthly burdens on you which distract you too much from your spiritual activity. I will no longer leave you to the world and its temptations, but on the other hand I will also grant you everything that contributes to making you cheerful, so that you will work for Me gladly and joyfully and not laboriously and depressedly. For serene calmness will also contribute to success, because the word shall speak for Me and you yourselves, if you are permeated by My word, will also be able to pass on the word with a cheerful look and will have more success with the souls of your fellow human beings. Therefore I grant you what is not detrimental to your soul .... And thus your life's destiny has been determined since eternity and you cannot change it by shaping it yourselves, and if you consider this alone you will gain inner peace, you will by no means feel depressed but walk your path cheerfully and carefree, you will have peace and tranquillity and also radiate it to your surroundings, and you will be active on My behalf and promote My kingdom, and My love and grace will always be with you .... I will bless you who want to serve Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Doubting God’s existence in the end time ....

B.D. 4069 from June 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It requires an exceptionally keen intellect to scientifically prove that God’s existence can be doubted or denied. And the attempt will be made to solve this biggest problem by scientific means .... the question: Does God exist? .... That humanity is deliberating this most important question is also a sign of the end time, but far more in a negative sense, since people are willing to partake in this controversial issue and its line of argument because their faith, if it exists at all, is very weak and the slightest reason suffices to shake it ....

Does God exist? ....

No question is more important, and providing it is asked seriously by seeking people I Am prepared to enlighten them so that the seeker will be truly satisfied with the knowledge he receives and which he now also confidently upholds. However, if the question is not raised by seekers but by people who think they know better, who only accept the answer which suits them, and who do not want to prove that I Am but that I Am not, they will never arrive at a truthful result, in spite of sound evidence. They already belong to the opposing power which wants to take over the reign itself and push Me aside .... And this is the beginning of the end, because according to the law of eternity I will strip My adversary of his power as soon as he oversteps his legitimate limit, which will be the case when he attempts to displace Me entirely from people’s thoughts ....

The battle for Me will be harsh, impressive words intend to convince My Own that they are chasing after a figment of imagination, all religious dogmas and doctrines will be pulled to pieces and not entirely steadfast people will gradually suffer defeat, because the adversary knows how to use his words effectively. And since the majority of people lack knowledge, since they are spiritually blind themselves, they cannot detect the adversary’s inaccuracy, but they cannot look for and find the truth within themselves either. And they will falter and fall if they do not join Me in the last hour, if they do not (in the last hour) ask Me for clarification which I very gladly grant to anyone who asks, providing he is of good will and wants what is right and truthful. But anyone who trusts in himself, who wants to solve this most important problem intellectually as well, will get lost in the darkness because he is chasing a deceptive light, he believes the convincing words of worldly scholars and admires their keen intellect and conclusions, and he will abandon Me .... and condemn himself ....

And because I know of this conflict since eternity, because I want to help the weak as well as those who are looking for Me, I Am bringing them the truth in advance. And anyone who applies this truth, who becomes worthy to receive it and voluntarily aspires for it will outshine the keen intellect of worldly scholars, he will become knowledgeable, he will receive the ability to reason, his spirit will become enlightened, and nothing will be able to take away his faith, his conviction, because he is taught by Me Myself and has the evidence that I Am and that I want to win all My living creations for eternity .... And he will remain loyal to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love ....

B.D. 4070 from April 26th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

My love for you humans is infinitely profound, and your earthly life shall be proof of this, for I give it to you in order to also win your love, which you denied Me because you did not recognise Me. I court your love until you offer yourselves to Me, until you have become Mine for eternity .... Love is bliss, love is sense of togetherness and the desire to please, to give .... And if you humans feel love on earth you will not rest until the object of your love is in your possession, and then you will be happy. And you can only feel love very slightly because you would not be able to bear the abundance of love which I am willing to give to you and which determines Me to approach you again and again so that you shall recognise Me and I shall win your love. And therefore I will never condemn anything which is caused by love, for if you carry the holiest feeling in your heart, if you feel pure love, this is already an adjustment to My nature, it is a sign that you have kindled the spark of divine love which was your original nature, for you emerged from My power of love. What therefore unites in love has My blessing, for it cannot pollute because love is pure and noble as long as the will not to sin is present in the human being. But if you have doubts, if you cannot distinguish right from wrong, then ask Me and I will answer you. And again, I say to you: Cultivate love .... It is the divine, it is My share, it carries you over everything, it leads you upwards, it leads to Me, it can also only drive you to good thoughts and actions, otherwise it would not be love .... For a love which takes a wrong direction is certainly also a desire for possession, yet a spiritually striving person will truly have the right feeling for whether love is right or just self-love which only desires and does not want to give. Giving love is always divine and has My blessing, but desiring love never thinks of the other but only of itself. And this is the characteristic of love which is blessed by Me, that it makes you happy and increases, that it seeks to make happy and that it does not displace the love for Me, i.e. that I am not eliminated from your thoughts, which, however, will always be the case if love takes a wrong direction, if it is only self-love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Exhortation to immerse oneself into God’s word .... supply of strength ....

B.D. 4071 from June 27th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Trust in My strength if you feel weak and all weakness will leave from you .... And then deeply immerse yourselves in My word and the strength will spread to you, which is why you need nothing but My word and this word is able to give you everything, even though it is still incomprehensible to you. All strength is contained in My word and can be felt by anyone who deeply believes in Me and receives My word, for I gave you the promise: "He who believes in Me will be saved .... " And salvation only exists in connection with Me .... But My word is I Myself .... My word is My emanation which signifies strength for everyone who thus approaches Me in profound faith. You need not be weak, you need not fear weakness, for I strengthen you physically and spiritually through My word, and you will recognise the truth of My word when you have reached the degree of maturity that you unreservedly devote yourselves to Me and no longer let arise any doubts about your weakness and apparent inability to accomplish something which seems to exceed your strength. Only that which is still far from Me lacks strength, if it has not yet sunk so far that it receives strength from below, from My adversary. You do not know how powerful you could be if you believed .... And therefore I teach you again and again, struggle for strong faith, do not slacken in prayer and live in love, for then your faith will also grow stronger and come alive .... and then there will no longer be anything insurmountable for you; and make use of every day and every hour, for the time will soon come when new hardships and worries will approach you which you will only be able to overcome and endure with profound faith in Me. Then you will need much more strength and also receive it from Me if you trustingly turn to Me and appeal for grace and supply of strength. You would be filled with anxiety if you knew the day and hour when I will express Myself, and therefore you should use the short period of time as far as possible to increase your soul's maturity, for then you must come forward and instruct your fellow human beings at every opportunity, especially when questions are asked, when desperate people are helpless in the face of the events and their consequences and call for God and yet are unbelieving. Then you must enlighten them and emphasise My love for people who are in danger of losing themselves completely and can no longer be guided onto the right path in any other way. And then you must have conviction yourselves, your faith must be unshakeable, otherwise you will not be able to promote Me and My kingdom, otherwise you will not be suitable labourers in My vineyard. I will fill you with strength at all times if you feel weak and call upon Me for help .... I will help you in all earthly and spiritual adversity so that you will evidently recognise Me and believe in Me.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual regeneration and renewal ....

B.D. 4072 from June 28th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Your aim and desire should be to experience spiritual rebirth, then you will also enter into union with Me and your ascent will be assured. You were born into the flesh and the spark slumbers in you, which is My share, but this spiritual spark does not yet have life, even though you live on earth, you first have to give it life, thus the spirit in you has to experience its birth, and this is just your work. It is your task, on the fulfilment of which your life in eternity depends. To be born anew in the spirit therefore means to give the spirit in you the opportunity to enter into your life completely independently of physical life, thus to take part, as it were, in everything you think, speak and act. The spirit within you, which is My part, wants to have a say in your earthly life, it wants to advise, guide and instruct you, it wants to make itself heard and draw the soul over to itself and thus help you to find union with Me so that you will be saved. But how do you awaken the spirit in you to life? By doing the will of the One Who gave you life and Who placed the spiritual spark in you in order to establish the connection with you through it, who are still distant from Me and yet should find union with Me while still on earth. And it is My will that you keep My commandments, that you love Me above all else and your neighbour as yourselves. Then the rebirth of the spirit will take place very quickly and it will be able to work in you .... And for the time being its activity consists of organising the thoughts which now turn towards the spiritual kingdom .... Your thinking will be spiritually directed .... In contrast to the earthly life before you will occupy yourselves with spiritual matters, you will no longer give the world special emphasis but your desire will be for matters concerning the life of the soul, you will think about life after death, you will seek Me and I will let Myself be found .... For the spiritual spark in you seeks unification with the father-spirit and wants to cause you to strive in the same way, it wants to detach you from the world and open up the charms of the spiritual world to you, and it will succeed in all of this if you give it the opportunity to work .... Then you will be born anew of the spirit, and then you will also safely reach your aim, for I am eternally united with the spiritual spark, and consequently you are also united with Me if you let yourselves be drawn by the spirit within you, if you once awaken it to life and then hand yourselves over to its influence .... Soul and body will now take advantage of the connection with the spiritual spark within you, soul and body will relinquish the earthly world in order to connect with the spiritual world, and soul and body will push towards Me, because the spiritual spark now determines thinking, feeling and willing and the spiritually born anew human being completely hands himself over to the influence of the spirit. Thus anyone who is born anew of the spirit will no longer walk in darkness for ever, he has found the light .... he has come to life and will never lose his life .... he will live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Luminous appearance in the sky .... The cross of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 4073 from June 30th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Pay heed to the occurrences of the last days. And thus you will soon become aware of changes in nature; you will be able to observe a peculiar power-play, a phenomenon which will make you think, if you regard it with the right attitude towards Me, the Creator, Who also causes these appearances to take place in order to turn all people's attention to Himself. And you will notice that only few people have the right attitude towards Me, that most try to explain everything in a worldly sense and are not especially impressed by extraordinary manifestations. This luminous sign will show itself during the day, it will be visible in the sky without prior warning and will not permit any other interpretation than a reference to Christ's act of Salvation, because it is in the shape of a cross with the unmistakable face of the Redeemer. And this luminous phenomenon will give rise to much debate, and now My servants should prepare themselves since this manifestation will be the beginning, it is more or less intended for all people, because it can be seen by all. But how differently it will be regarded and how little it will be understood ....

I will cause a visible sign to appear in the sky and yet find very little attention; I will place the work of Salvation before their eyes that they may believe in Jesus Christ and become blessed, but their faith in Him will be as good as gone and will no longer be found or strengthened either, in spite of this luminous appearance. Because humanity has become too worldly minded and does not want to believe, because they would like to evade all responsibility which they could not do if they had faith in Christ. And thus, this luminous appearance will again be a sign from heaven, a sign of the last days, for only a few people. Although many will indeed be seized by inner unrest it will soon give way to tense attention which, however, is only due to the appearance as such. They will not believe that it is related to the forthcoming end and will merely mock the believers, who will proclaim these predictions to their fellow human beings so that they can prepare themselves for the end. They will find little belief and yet may not slow down in their work for My kingdom, because such opportunities are a special grace for people on earth to reflect and consider the thought of possible intercession by supernatural forces through extraordinary natural phenomena, that the appearance will have been planned by Me to remind people of the end. Science will provide an explanation which will also be accepted, but anyone with spiritual aspiration will recognise Me therein and will cheer and rejoice in view of the imminent end. Because the world will have nothing more to offer him yet his heart will be full of hope for life after death, and he will long for the last hour which will release him from earthly hardship, as I promised, that I will come in the clouds to take My Own home into My kingdom. He will know that the hour has arrived when earthly tribulations increase and no more worldly help can be expected. Then I will shorten the days so that My Own will remain faithful and endure to the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Past - present - future ....

B.D. 4074 from July 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The concept of past, present and future is eliminated in the realm of pure spirits, i.e., when the degree of perfection is reached, the concept is invalid for the soul, everything is, so to speak, timeless in eternity. Thus the soul can experience everything again in retrospect, it will not have the impression of standing in the past, but the concept for time disappears from it as a spirit, (1.7.1947) for time and space is something limited and therefore cannot be separated from the state of imperfection. Something limited, however, cannot be a concomitant in the state of perfection, for there is no limitation for this state. And therefore, the concept of time and space must also be omitted, because it always includes a limitation. But the human being cannot form an idea, yet it must be made comprehensible to him, because this contributes a great deal to the explanation of mysterious phenomena which the human being would otherwise not be able to believe. Mature people, also because of a mission, can have visions which reach far back into the past and yet are described realistically without those ever having had a connection with the past. And then only the explanation can be applied that that person's degree of maturity enables him to see past experiences, that he then detaches himself from earth, his soul dwells with the spirit in it in spheres of light and there, in retrospect, has the most glorious experiences and can relate them, as far as this is beneficial for people through God's will. Then the soul still lives on earth, so to speak, but is already an aspirant of the spiritual kingdom, only that its soul returns to earth again and again in order to be able to describe the impressions from the spiritual kingdom on earth as well, in order to awaken or revive the faith of fellow human beings. This is a mission which likewise requires maturity if the human being wants to be of service to God and pass on his experiences in order to spur his fellow human beings on to active soul work, to reach the state of perfection on earth. For people need convincing advice, instruction and also rebuke if they are too lukewarm about it. From time to time people need extraordinary phenomena which stimulate them to think, and if they do the latter they should also receive truthful enlightenment if they are interested. However, regressing into the past is only possible in a high degree of maturity, and this is a sure sign of perfection which already entitles a person to enter spheres of light, and such a person only remains on earth for the sake of his mission, otherwise the imparting of past experiences could not take place without coercion of faith, which, however, according to God's will must not happen. This is why such obvious proofs of divine activity often take place in all naturalness, only always leaving open the problem of how the human being comes by such knowledge when the concept of spiritual vision is not yet comprehensible to him. Spiritual enlightenment can only ever be given, and the concept of spacelessness and timelessness can only be understood when the human being, through his own striving, has also attained a higher degree of maturity, which brings him spiritual knowledge. Then the enlightenment about mysterious phenomena will also be understandable to him and only deepen his faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's call to action .... mission ....

B.D. 4075 from July 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You should comply with My voice when you are called to serve Me and thus to fulfil your mission. You will clearly feel it in your heart and all ambiguity will be eliminated, you will also feel inwardly urged to be active for Me, and then you should comply with this urge unhesitatingly, unconditionally hand yourselves over to Me, leave yourselves to My guidance. And then you will do as your heart tells you, for through it I declare Myself. You will perceive My call like clear thoughts and not know whether I have spoken the words which resound in you. And My call will make you happy and glad and you will gladly give up everything in order to comply with Me. Then you will be confronted with the world and its demands but you will also be able to fulfil these with My support, yet the work for Me and My kingdom will always be your main work which you give priority to every activity, and thus this will also be blessed and not hold you back from spiritual work. And this is your task, that you speak wherever you have the opportunity, for you can give much because you possess much, you can teach because you are knowledgeable, and you can always and constantly make My will known to people, you can teach them love and thus bring them the gospel which you have received from Me .... You can show people the right path and speak to them about the end .... You will never need to think about what you should say, for if you want to work for Me you will also be filled by My spirit as soon as you are only spiritually active, and then your thoughts will also be guided right, and you will be protected from erroneous thinking and can hand yourselves over to My guidance free from worries; you are only not allowed to resist by refusing against your knowledge, by fearing the world and not trusting My power and strength. But then the world will also hold you captive and you will not be suitable as labourers in My vineyard. But anyone who loves Me will also listen to My voice and gladly follow Me, and I will take special care of him, I will help him to detach from the world, I will also make earthly life bearable for him and enable him to do spiritual work, I will bless it and constantly bring people to him whom he should help in spiritual adversity. But I tell you all this beforehand so that you should be attentive, so that you should prepare yourselves for your ministry and listen to My call which will soon be sent to you, for the time is drawing to a close, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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Rejection by people .... knowledge of God's plan of salvation ....

B.D. 4076 from July 2nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The fact that people act so dismissively towards My revelations is due to the fact that they shy away from examining them, although this would dispel all their reservations if they took it seriously. Nevertheless, it has to be made accessible to them, they have to know about God's extraordinary working and His love for His living creations. For one day the hour will come when they will recall your Words, when they will no longer have any other lifeline than this love of Mine, which you should always and constantly proclaim. And then a few will still be able to find Me if only they call upon Me for mercy. I want to lend them My help in an obvious way, but they should know about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, so that they then ask themselves the question: How have I utilised My life? .... There is only a short time left for you until the day when I emerge for the first time .... It is only days of death which humanity experiences now, for it does not use the time as it would be necessary, and therefore I still want to take a step of concession. Although I do not seem to approach you as a God of love, if love were not involved, I would have given you up long ago and would never wait until you returned. Only love determines Me to do so. Look at the devastations caused by people and believe Me that I could never do the same .... only to take what is dear and valuable to you and to give nothing back .... But I will give you incomparably more valuable treasures than you had to give away .... For the sake of this gracious gift I allowed the destruction by human hands, even though this is still incomprehensible to you. You must surrender what hinders the reception of My gift of grace. Thus you must surrender to My will if you have to go through suffering and affliction and lose everything. I enlighten you, who are Mine, about My eternal plan of salvation, I inform you of what is to come so that you can also instruct your fellow human beings, and again and again I admonish you to do the latter, even if people reject you or listen to you indifferently. The time is coming when your words will resonate in their hearts, and they will not be spoken in vain with everyone. Surprisingly quickly a turn will occur, and then only My word will offer you humans comfort and impart strength. Life will still be bearable for every recipient of strength .... I tell you beforehand so that you can prepare yourselves for it, yet you will not be able to take earthly precautions but only your soul can prepare itself so that the coming time will not depress you, that you will live through it with your eyes turned upwards .... It is the time of the end and it will not last much longer, it is the time of the great tribulation which I have always and constantly announced through seers and prophets and which I now also predict to you again with all urgency and admonish you to eager spiritual striving and warn you against lukewarmness or completely worldly-minded thinking .... And therefore proclaim everywhere what I have made known to you, speak fearlessly of My working and make people's soul work urgent, for the spiritual hardship is even greater than the earthly hardship and you should help to remedy it, even though the human being, by virtue of his free will, also rejects your help. Yet you should work diligently for My kingdom and I will bless you for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Increase of knowledge .... co-workers of Jesus ....

B.D. 4077 from July 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You humans are only imparted the knowledge you are receptive to, yet you can increase the latter yourselves if you desire profound knowledge. But then you first have to intimately unite with the Giver of truth, you have to be willingly devoted servants to Him who accept His instructions unquestioningly. Your thoughts and aspirations must remain in the spiritual kingdom, then you will also be able to receive unmeasured knowledge from the spiritual kingdom. And then you will also be able to fulfil the most beautiful task on earth as teachers of your fellow human beings .... a mission which makes you co-workers of Jesus Christ. You can already continue the work of redemption on earth which He started and also be active in the spiritual kingdom immediately according to your destiny. The extent of your redemptive activity depends solely on your knowledge, therefore try to increase this knowledge and use every opportunity to establish contact with God in order to be allowed to receive the eternal truth, the most precious spiritual knowledge, from Himself. But the acceptance of this spiritual knowledge requires a strong will, it requires overcoming earthly pleasures and matter, it requires devotion to God, love for Him and for your neighbour and a deeply humble heart which thus completely submits itself to God's will. If you have love within you and thereby remain in constant contact with God, Who is eternal love Himself, then a deep sigh to Him for His grace and strength will suffice and your love will be reciprocated, God's love will flow to you in the form of His word, which is blessed with His strength, and His word is truly the most valuable thing you can be offered for earthly life, for you will mature in your soul, you will still on earth reach a degree which will turn you into beings of light, so that you will be able to enter those spheres at the end of your bodily life where the light will pervade you and make you unspeakably happy. And therefore use your will, make yourselves capable and want to become bearers of light on earth already, that you hear the divine word within you and thereby mature in realisation, that you stand in truth and have great knowledge at your disposal. For spiritual knowledge is a wealth which you can take with you into the spiritual kingdom, which is everlasting and signifies a treasure for you with which you can work if you want to be active in redemption ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual sun ....

B.D. 4078 from July 6th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The spiritual sun has risen for people who have gained the knowledge of God through prayer and loving activity. It has become bright inside them, a radiant morning has replaced the dark spiritual night, and the day will last forever, it will no longer be followed by night, for whoever once has knowledge will keep it for eternity. Only when the sun of the spirit shines on a person does his heart find inner peace, for when it is day all the worries and fears of the night disappear, it is the feeling of security that determines the person, and this feeling gives calm and peace. Now and then a little cloud can still cover the rays of the spiritual sun, dismal moments in the human being's life can worry him, but the rays of the sun will always break through, they will shine ever brighter and more penetratingly, until finally the human being is completely radiated through and everything impure and wrong is consumed by their glow, until the rays no longer encounter any resistance and the human being is completely spiritualised .... Then man will live .... he will live for eternity. For the sun awakens everything to life, and nothing can be alive without its rays. Before anyone who walks along in the rays of the spiritual sun a life will open up which will make him blissfully happy, for he will have profound knowledge and be able to radiate this knowledge himself, thus become a bearer of light himself, as it were, a small sun which is fed by the great sun, which, spiritualised by its rays, can distribute spiritual knowledge, for the rays of the spiritual sun do not lose their strength, and the spiritual knowledge offered as light can be imparted to fellow human beings so that a bright morning can dawn on them again after a dark night. But only few walk in the spiritual sun, for the majority of people avoid the bright light and withdraw. And these are the people who steer clear of every spiritual debate, who do not desire the truth but are rather hardened or content if they know nothing about continued existence. Others, however, accept the knowledge and do not utilise it, that is, they only hear it with their ears but not with their heart, they do not feel the benefit of the sun's rays because they do not expose themselves to them, and therefore they are not alive either, for they lack the love which would also make the benefit of the spiritual sun's rays comprehensible to them. They do not see the sunrise, they remain in their state of twilight, for they do not desire the light and thus it will not rise for them either, because they escape the circuit of divine love. Still others are completely indifferent when the light from on high is offered to them. They feel comfortable in darkness and never seek to change their state, and therefore eternal night remains in them. But night is no one's friend .... Where spiritual night is, the soul falls into extreme hardship, the light of day must have an effect on it if it is to feel free and happy, it must be illuminated by the spiritual sun if it wants to live in eternity. And it can escape the night, it can always approach the radiant morning, for it only depends on the human being's will that he makes an effort to attain knowledge of God, that he practices love, that he unites with God through loving activity, even if unconsciously, that he then feels God, calls upon Him in prayer and commends himself to His love and grace. All this must precede if the human being wants to attain the right knowledge, if he wants to think right and know the truth, if he wants to become knowledgeable and be taught by God Himself through His spirit. But then he will be in the light, then the sun of the spirit will have risen for him, then there will be no more night, no darkness will be spread over him, he will find radiant brightness everywhere, he will walk the right path in the light of day which leads to the aim, he will release the soul from spiritual adversity, he will give it life and nothing will be able to frighten it anymore because it will always and everywhere be accompanied by the One Whom it has recognised in the light of the morning, Who Himself is the light from eternity ....

Amen

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Word of God flesh and blood .... bread of heaven .... becoming one ....

B.D. 4079 from July 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The desire for spiritual food is a sure sign of the impetus to ascend, and this desire will always be fulfilled insofar as that I distribute My gift and satisfy people with the bread of heaven, that I take them to My table and offer them communion, that I let them taste My flesh and My blood so that they feast on it and are saved .... They will certainly reach the aim, a high maturity of soul, which will ensure My nearness on earth and in the spiritual kingdom. For anyone who partakes of My Supper is already intimately united with Me and will feel My nearness, for he hears Me, he accepts My word, he eats My flesh and drinks My blood, and thus he receives Me Myself if, in his desire for Me, he allows himself to be fed with the bread of heaven which My love gives him .... I am the bread of life, and whoever eats Me will never die in eternity .... I spoke these words to people and they did not understand Me, because only he who has love within himself grasps the spiritual meaning .... But they were unloving and therefore took literally what had to be understood spiritually. In the same way, people of the present time have not yet penetrated the depth of My word, they do not understand the spiritual meaning either and therefore have a wrong understanding of the Lord's Supper, of the feeding at the Lord's table. They certainly make an effort to act in accordance with My word and to receive the Lord's Supper, yet they do not know My will, and if I make My will known to them through My awakened servants they do not believe it and hold on to what they have already accepted as erroneous. I offer Myself to them in the word, and anyone who receives Me into his heart with a hungry heart receives the Lord's Supper, he is fed and watered by Me, he eats My flesh and drinks My blood, i.e. he receives Me Myself with the word, Who is the word made flesh from eternity .... My blood is the strength which flows through him if he receives Me Myself into his heart, yet he must desire it or he will only hear the empty sound, otherwise the word will not come alive in him. But anyone who desires Me and desires to hear My word also lives in love, for love and I are one. And no-one will desire and love Me to whom the working of love is alien. But I always speak of the desire of the heart, not of the stammering of the mouth, of empty words which mean the same but are not felt in the heart. And this shall cause people to seriously criticise if and when they desire My word in their heart .... For only then will they receive the Lord's Supper, only then can they say with conviction: I Myself Am with them in the word .... And then they experience the greatest mystery, they unite with Me through love .... The desire for My word expresses the love they feel for Me, and love attracts Me, love expresses itself towards Me and towards their fellow human being .... The loving person will incessantly be active and unselfishly serve his neighbour, and thus he will fulfil My will as it is pleasing to Me. And I will constantly give him the bread of heaven, I will constantly provide him with spiritual food, he will never come away empty-handed at My table, he will constantly unite with Me, thus communicate with every reception of My word, for I Myself am the word and enter into intimate union with him if his heart desires spiritual food and spiritual drink ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's love and mercy in the last time before the end ....

B.D. 4080 from July 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

God's great love and mercy will evidently become apparent in the last days before the end when the believers will live in hardest tribulation. It will be a time of most bitter hardship for people who want to remain faithful to Him, for the adversary will take drastic measures against anyone who stands up for his faith and for Jesus Christ and His teaching. The measures taken to enforce faithlessness will be of such severity that people will offer little resistance and almost without exception profess themselves against God. But those who know the truth, who live in love and therefore also in the right knowledge of God, who call upon Jesus Christ as redeemer for His help, will also recognise in the measures the one who is announced as the Antichrist for the last time before the end. And for this reason, they will stand all the firmer and wait full of confidence for God's help and His coming, and they will not be disappointed either. God's great love will be revealed to them, for He is close to them at all times, so that even the unbelievers would be able to recognise Him if they were not of bad will and therefore completely under the sway of Satan. Yet anyone who is still weak and not completely apostate will still be seized by God's mercy, and he will be offered many proofs of divine activity so that it will be made easy for him to believe and to withstand all threats from the world. Only good will must not be lacking, then God's hand will reach out to him even in the last hour. It is difficult to predict to people what will happen in this time, because Satan continues to work out new plans and outdoes himself with cruelties, inhuman decrees and shameful actions against the believers. The believers' fate is apparently unbearable and yet they will draw so much strength from God that they will be able to endure all oppression and not to feel the hardship as much because their gaze is directed heavenwards and the world and earthly things no longer tempt them. Moreover, they hear the voice of the Lord .... they know that He shortens the days, for His promise has given them comfort, and thus they every day expect to be delivered from earthly adversity .... And yet the last day still comes as a surprise even to them; it will come when there is no longer any possibility of winning souls, and this will be the case very quickly, for the separation will soon be completed, the courage of people's conviction is only slight, and the decision for or against God will be demanded in a short time, and therefore it will also be the prelude to the end, for the tribulation to which the believers are now subject calls for God's help, otherwise the small flock of His Own would also be overcome by weakness and God would never allow this to happen again .... And thus He will come as Saviour in utmost adversity and take His Own to Himself .... And then comes the Judgment as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Repentance of the soul in the afterlife ....

B.D. 4081 from July 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

For the soul in the beyond, the consciousness of having caused its own situation and of being deprived of any possibility to change its condition by its own efforts is immensely burdensome. But it only has this consciousness when the desire arises in it to create an improvement. Before that it is apathetic, it strives neither upwards nor downwards, it only feels unparalleled agony and is completely without will until, with the help of beings of light which approach it in disguise, it is offered the opportunity again to meet with other souls, and now the urge awakens in it to enter another environment, in the belief that it will then also have escaped the agonising state. And now it realises that it has to make up for what it missed on earth, that it has to work in love. And now it also recognises her idle period on earth, and its remorse for the many passed-up opportunities is extremely deep. With good will it will soon feel an improvement, for as soon as it feels remorse it will also use every opportunity to be lovingly active towards the needy souls, for a hardened soul will turn more downwards and never feel remorse about its own guilt, because such a soul can never recognise its wrongdoing through the influence of evil forces and therefore also feels no remorse. Only the realisation of its guilt is capable of stimulating the soul in its striving upwards. And then loving activity sets in, which supplies it with the strength to ascend. The awareness of its guilt is always the result of compassion for the souls which, like it, have to endure an agonising state, and this impulse already earns the soul the help of the beings of light which now do not slacken until it has found and entered the path upwards. And the further the soul progresses in realisation the more diligently it pursues its activity of love in the beyond and helps all those who are still below it, because it knows about their agonies and would like to help reduce them. And this activity of love now makes its own remorse diminish, after all, it still has the opportunity to mature, and even if it can never reach the highest degree, the childship to God, which can only be acquired through a life of love on earth, it is nevertheless blissfully aware that it can serve God, Whom it now loves above all else, for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

‘With God nothing is impossible ....’

B.D. 4082 from July 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Where all earthly help fails God’s love is often clearly revealed, which makes even the seemingly impossible happen so that people will learn to believe in Him and love Him above all else. There is no limit to God's power, what He wants will happen. Thus there is nothing that would be unattainable because with God everything is possible. And so people frequently suffer unnecessarily throughout their earthly life, for if they want to be able to achieve extraordinary things they need only ask God for help. He can always help, and He will always help. But they can only acquire this faith by practising neighbourly love, because every good deed establishes the connection with Him thereby ensuring the acceptance of strength which, being God’s emanation, also has to lead back to Him again. And thus a person must learn to believe, and he will be able do so if he genuinely strives to ascend.

In the last days before the end the most amazing things will happen which seem to be supernatural but are merely the result of a person’s will and his strength of faith. In this rests the whole explanation for everything that seems incomprehensible to you but which is, in fact, only the result of a right way of life before God. Hence it is not enough that people formally call themselves Christians, that they profess the church they belong to, if they don’t exemplify their Christianity and, by their way of life, demonstrate that they belong to the community of believers who represent the true church of Christ. Living faith and active neighbourly love is required in order to activate the strength of the spirit. But then the human being has extraordinary strength at his disposal, because he is permeated by God’s strength which has no limitation. Therefore a person can accomplish exceptional things with God’s strength, just as God can also manifest Himself by providing the kind of help which appears to be supernatural, because it frequently happens when no further hope for help exists. With God nothing is impossible ....

Time and again a person should remind himself of this in every difficult situation, then his faith will become so strong that there will be no more hardship for him. Through his attitude towards God, through his profoundly firm faith in His help, he will banish every adversity and thus calmly face every difficulty. And then God will certainly help him since he will never let a strong faith be destroyed. With God nothing is impossible .... He can accomplish whatever He wants, and He will accomplish everything if His children call upon Him as their loving Father and trust in Him without reservation. Then He will provide for all their needs and help them in all earthly troubles and difficult situations. For He is a God of love, and love will always give help because it wants to bestow happiness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Consequences of observing as well as not observing divine order ....

B.D. 4083 from July 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Fulfil the law from eternity, and you will live forever .... The former means living according to God's will, which is the basis of His law of order, and thereby finding union with God, Who guarantees eternal life. And thus the Lawgiver must first be recognised and acknowledged, the human being must subordinate himself to His law, he must want what God wants, thus freely submit his will to divine will and thus express his complete belonging to God and push towards Him in free will. Then the resistance is broken, which made the spiritual embodied as a human being remain in separation from God for an infinitely long time .... But separation from Him is death, union with Him life .... And anyone who has once found union with Him as a human being will in eternity no longer be separated from the eternal love, Which draws everything to Itself that does not fundamentally resist It. But it is of particular merit for a person if he endeavours to do more on earth than is his actual task .... not only to work on his own upward development, thus to live in accordance with God's will, but also to make the salvation of his fellow human beings his concern and to take on a task which is extremely beneficial because it is work for the kingdom of God. The task consists of presenting the divine will to fellow human beings and showing them the path that leads to the aim, to union with God. Thus, man must be instructed of the consequences of observing as well as of not observing the divine order, so that he may now strive for eternal life and not succumb to death. This is a mission which thoroughly corresponds to the divine will, but which is not commanded to man, but is purely an act of free will. Therefore, it is an increased degree of love for God and his neighbour which determines the human being to offer himself to God for this mission, and his will is doubly valued by God and rewarded accordingly on earth already through the extraordinary grant of grace, which in turn impels and also enables the human being to carry out the teaching ministry associated with this work. The gift of grace, however, is the divine word which places the human being in elevated knowledge and trains him for this teaching activity. Consequently, the day must undoubtedly come for a person who receives the word of God directly from Him when his mission starts, and a person who receives the divine word directly is certainly also called by God when the time has come for his activity on earth, for his work for the kingdom of God. (13.7.1947) For only when people are given knowledge of God's will, of the law of eternal order, can they be called to account. But until this knowledge is made accessible to them, they cannot be charged with wrongdoing if they violate the divine commandment. Therefore you must be diligently active as labourers for the Lord's vineyard and seek to convey the gospel to your fellow human beings .... to make divine will known to them in order to thereby lend them assistance if they are in great spiritual hardship and neither know the meaning and purpose of earthly life nor the urgency of a life in accordance with God's will. Only then can they fulfil the law, only then can they enter into union with God and receive extraordinary grace. And blessed are those who still receive the word of God before the general disintegration, for it will be easy for them to get to know the law of God and they will bring great blessings to those who are still dead in spirit. For these can be awakened to life and secure eternal life for themselves in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

World – bogus goods .... spiritual treasures in the afterlife ....

B.D. 4084 from July 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The world with all its treasures can never replace the human being's feeling of God's nearness, just as it can never secure them eternal bliss in the spiritual kingdom. It only hands out bogus goods, and these bogus goods disintegrate into nothing when the human being leaves the earth. On the other hand, what he receives from the spiritual kingdom is permanent, it is a treasure of greatest value, for he can work with it and thereby constantly increase it, but just as he can also hand out and constantly make poor people happy, and yet he will lose nothing of his wealth. If people on earth would consider how little their earthly directed desires and their earthly activity earn them in comparison to spiritual work, then they would already gain much, for the realisation of the worthlessness of earthly goods is already an increase in spiritual goods, and their striving for them would be increased by this realisation. But the human being pays little attention to these very thoughts and thus he remains ignorant, and at the end of life he will pass in spiritual darkness, empty and poor, into the spheres where only spiritual wealth is valued. He has not acquired any, for materially minded people usually lack the love which is compensating. For every activity of love on earth is stored up as spiritual wealth and earns the soul its reward in the beyond .... knowledge and thus a body of thought with which it can work. That is why love is the most important thing on earth, because its effect in the beyond is light and strength and light and strength signify happiness and bliss for the soul. For light and strength are the radiance of God, they are the evidence of God's nearness, of His love and His glory. The deeper and more intimate a person's love is, the more firmly he attaches himself to God and the more is he made happy by the feeling of His nearness, by the reciprocation of love and the awareness of possessing light and strength in abundance. But all this is lost to souls which leave earthly life in spiritual darkness, which are not followed by works of love into eternity and which therefore dwell in extreme poverty and destitution in spheres where there is night and no spark of light as long as love does not awaken in the souls, love for the fellow sufferer, for souls which are in the same need. If the soul has the urge to give to them in order to help them, then it will also be able to receive and give, however, without love it will remain in spiritual poverty, for endless long times, and will not be able to acquire any goods. For love remains the first law on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, which must be fulfilled without fail ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Fullness of divine grace ....

B.D. 4085 from July 16th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

In abundance you can take grace upon grace .... What promise lies in these words .... It will not be measured out to you but you may determine for yourselves the measure which will be given to you. Consider this, that My love does not impose a restriction on you but gives you unmeasured, that it leaves it up to you how you want to be bestowed upon and that you receive the measure according to your will. You may increase it at any time, but you can also disregard My promise and make no use of what is sent to you. But then you will suffer for a long time and find no regret or help, for you rejected Me when I offered you the great gift of grace. Your life will pass by unsuccessfully for your souls if you do not avail yourselves of the blessings which are at your disposal. Thus you will not be called to account by Me, for it is your free will which I do not touch but give you complete freedom. But you will have little success, for this merely depends on the grace the human being claims for himself. I.e., since grace is meant to be every aid I give to you in order to reach the height, the success of your progress must fail to materialise if you lack profound faith in Me and My grant of grace in the time of the end. For the lack of faith entails, that the allocation of grace is not used, that it is not increased by human will, and this is stagnation which can also become regression. I will give you what you need to ascend, I will always and constantly help you as long as you do not withdraw your will and are not careless towards My gift of grace. But you yourselves must be willing to receive My gift of grace, you must request and thankfully receive what My love offers you, and you must always represent to yourselves that you will never be able to progress without My gift of grace. But your aim is unification with Me, which then brings you strength in all abundance so that you will live and never ever be able to die, for your spirit will be awake and give you life, you will be born anew of the spirit and have reached your aim. But the abundance of My grace already enables you to reach this aim on earth, therefore request it and make use of it, and let yourselves be bestowed upon by My love so that you will be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Complete dissolution and remodeling of the earth ....

B.D. 4086 from July 18th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

In a very short period of time the complete dissolution of the earth will take place, for the forces which have their effect are so elemental that nothing will withstand them, that everything will be destroyed which exists on the earth's surface as well as in the earth's interior of creations of every kind. Thus it is not possible to speak of a partial dissolution but the spread of force extends over the whole earth, and thus the whole earth is a single conflagration to which everything falls victim because everything is seized by fire. And so the fire will certainly spread more slowly in individual places, according to God's wisdom, namely where the souls are still to be offered the opportunity in the last hour to call upon God for help, where people live whose mind can still be changed shortly before the end. But the earth will be completely destroyed, i.e., the core will certainly remain but the entire surface of the earth will undergo a change which is so enormous that one can speak of a passing away of all works of creation. A transformation of the old earth is also only necessary and possible when all creations of the old earth have passed away and the creations of the new earth can be formed from the remains, which are to receive the spiritual again, which is still in the midst of its development. And this spiritual will be released to its great satisfaction, for it longs for upward development in order to be able to make use of the blessings of earthly life as a human being, and it pushes towards this last embodiment. Thus the new earth will not have any old creations but they will be completely destroyed and newly formed, and the process will only last for a very short time .... In fact, the destruction will take place before people's eyes, yet in their great horror they will only pay attention to themselves, i.e., in their fear of death they will only be concerned about saving themselves, but this is impossible for them. However, the believers, whom God catches up before the complete destruction, will be able to watch the work of the ruin of the old earth, for it will take place before their eyes so that the power and glory of God will be revealed. Yet the emergence of the new earth will remain hidden from their eyes, for when they are brought to this new earth by God all creations already exist, and a diverse picture unfolds before the eyes of the believers, completely unknown creations, glorious to behold and surpassing in their usefulness everything the old earth offers in terms of creations. However, people on the new earth cannot assess the duration of the emergence of these creations, for people are deprived of any concept of time for the time of dwelling after the rapture, and they will also initially lack the concept of time on the new earth, since people already possess a high degree of maturity and this results in past, present and future only being one concept for them until people's outlook grows more material again and thus they are also subject to the law of time and space again ..... And thus the emergence of the new earth is completely hidden from people's view, yet the explanation will be given to them spiritually and they will always be able to take the most important part of the divine teaching from it, but on the other hand it will also be conveyed directly to people themselves, for God will dwell in the midst of people who love Him because they have shaped themselves into love and God Himself, as well as His angels of light, will instruct people on the new earth. And thus the original light dwells in the midst of His Own and distributes light to all who are worthy of it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Short time in a state of free will .... long time in a must state ....

B.D. 4087 from July 20th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Unimaginably long times were necessary before the spiritual was allowed to incarnate, which was granted the embodiment as a human being on the basis of a certain degree of maturity. This degree of maturity had to be attained beforehand and this through service in works of creation whose purpose was the preservation and propagation of other creations of God. During this long time the spiritual knew nothing but to subordinate itself to divine will in order to be able to use its will freely in the last embodiment as a human being. But the time of free will is very short for the spiritual in relation to the extremely long time before. The short time can now bring the spiritual being perfect maturity, but it can also earn it renewed banishment if the being allows itself to be stirred up by bad forces which try to mentally animate it. But if the human being is strong enough to resist this dark influence, then he will very quickly progress upwards. The troubles and hardships of the last time of his embodiment can bring about that he seeks to approach God in free will and voluntarily submits himself to God. Then human existence is not without result for him, he reaches his aim on earth, a high maturity of soul and liberation from form, he enters the spheres of light as a free spiritual being. This state corresponds to his original state of being able to work in fullness of strength to an unlimited extent for his own happiness. And this state lasts for all eternity. So the endless time before the embodiment as a human being is again only a short phase in relation to eternity. It is a transition from the material world into the spiritual world which certainly extends over a certain time but in the state of light is no longer felt as a long time because in the state of beatitude every concept of time is eliminated and the soul also gratefully feels the preceding suffering as God's help which enables the spiritual to ascend. Thus only the imperfect will always feel the length of time, the perfected, on the other hand, will recognise everything as beneficial which preceded and resulted in the state of perfection. The whole process of upward development is made up of such phases, each of which certainly represents an eternity, but for the perfect being it only means a short time in comparison to eternity and is gratefully regarded as God's proof of love, Who wants to help redeem the imperfect, i.e. lead it to perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual death .... term "life" ....

B.D. 4088 from July 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The human being can live and yet be spiritually dead, but conversely he can also die and yet enter eternal life, except that this is a spiritual life, whereas the former only concerns the body, whereby the soul is in a state of lightlessness and consequently also without strength, thus a state of death is its fate, even if it lives in the midst of a joyful environment. For earthly life is only an illusory life which does not last, yet the human being who is spiritually dead is also without realisation and therefore places the illusory life before the actual life, the life of the spirit in eternity. But what are you human beings basically and really? You are spiritual, only enclosed by a material cover, and as soon as this cover falls, which is transient, the spiritual in you is free, no matter in what state the soul leaves the body .... It is free from its outer form, but not every soul is free to will and able to create. But wanting and being able to create out of itself is its bliss, it is the state which was its original purpose and which has been lost. Wanting and being able to create, however, is synonymous with life .... being able to be continuously active according to its will .... On earth, too, 'life' means being able to be active unhindered by physical weaknesses and infirmities, for an earthly life which is accompanied by the latter is not fully valued and is regarded as a shortcoming as long as the human being does not have the right knowledge about his earthly task. On earth, however, even the inactive person usually compensates himself by fulfilling earthly desires and thus helps himself to overcome his state of weakness or conscious inactivity .... idleness .... taking himself day by day, which was given to him for the upward development of his soul. In the spiritual kingdom, on the other hand, the soul must do without any anaesthetic, it must feel the state of its inactivity oppressive, it must become a torment to it so that it seeks to escape from it. Its lack of strength prevents it from changing its state on its own authority, it is poor in every respect and has to live in want until help is brought to it in its adversity through the prayer of people close to it on earth. For where love sends such a prayer after it into eternity, a glimmer of realisation will come to the soul in a flash. If it uses this, the light around it will soon become stronger and the dreadful torments of lightlessness will subside. But the desire for life now awakens in it and stimulates it to activity, but activity in the beyond is: to work in love, just as the soul can only gain eternal life on earth through a life of love, which only gives its soul the right life. And thus death need never frighten a person who endeavours to live a life of love on earth, for he will not die but live in eternity. But for the others, who only value earthly life alone, death will retain its sting, for they are truly in the state of death after their demise, only that they are not completely extinguished but that the awareness of their existence clings to them extraordinarily and often such that they only think of themselves and pay no attention to the hardship of the souls around them. And then they are in deepest danger of having to remain in the state of death for eternities, for only love can give life, because the law of love has to be fulfilled on earth as well as in the beyond, because without love there is no life and the human being can never be saved. Life and death can therefore be close together, a person's passing away need not signify his death, just as a person's life on earth can only be called life if the spirit is constantly active, if the person sets himself a spiritual aim and eagerly pursues it; if he works with love as his spirit tells him to do, for he will not die but live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Pure divine love principle of giving .... no sin ....

B.D. 4089 from July 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Direct your gaze inwards, sharpen your spiritual ear and listen to what I reveal to you through My spirit. Then you will also hear My voice and behold My image deep in your heart, you will experience My love in every way, which I bestow upon those who entrust themselves to Me, to whom I want to be a guide throughout their entire earthly life. My love, however, expresses itself especially in the increase of their souls' maturity, which is certainly achieved through My love and grace but which also results in increased love for Me, so that My love kindles theirs and makes it become a bright flame and the human being is urged to increased loving activity .... Therefore, if love flares up in you then you also know that I Myself am in you; otherwise you would not be able to feel love .... Thus I am close to the one who gives love and practices love. And I determine his will, thinking and actions through My spirit working in him. Let this be said to you that love ennobles everything, that it cannot give birth to anything bad and that it always guarantees My presence .... But when is love pure, that is, divine? When is it to be assessed and recognised as an emanation of love on My part? .... When it is not self-love, when the principle of giving predominates and when the human being's thoughts are meant for Me, even though they also concern his neighbour's well-being. For true love will always also have an earthly effect as long as you humans live on earth .... There are probably few of you who exclusively turn their gaze towards Me. But as soon as the neighbour steps into their path, giving neighbourly love will also be practised, and because this is a law from eternity that love has to have an effect, that it impels to give, that it seeks to make happy and finds its own happiness in making the neighbour happy. And this love is divine, it pleases Me and will be blessed by Me. And I will never condemn the one who is close to Me through love, who carries Me Myself within himself, who fulfils My commandment to love his neighbour as himself, who, through love for his fellow human being, ties Me to himself .... I will remain with him, for he has prepared his heart for Me to dwell in, he has become Mine through love and can never ever lose My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Reason of the loss of earthly goods ....

B.D. 4090 from July 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You must feel completely unbound if you want to reach the highest level of realisation on earth. You must, as it were, be able to renounce earthly life in exchange for a better life if I take it from you, and you must not feel the slightest regret at the thought of having to part from your surroundings, from your neighbour as well as from everything dear to you. You must be able and willing to give up everything, then you will no longer be bound to earth and your spiritual ascent will be assured. Hence, to renounce is the first thing you have to practise, and if I therefore take something from you to which your heart is chained I will only help you because it is difficult for you to voluntarily renounce, and if you love Me you must also resign yourselves with complete trust to everything that has been destined for you since eternity, you must bear your fate without complaint, want to serve Me and completely hand yourselves over to My guidance. Then the soul will mature and you will already find peace and tranquillity on this earth, for I will only take from you that which signifies a danger for your soul, that which still ties you to earth and which to give away is an act of free will that is still weakly developed in you and which I thereby want to strengthen. And thus you know why I reduce your earthly possessions and why you had to go through a time of loss of earthly goods and what reason I give to let you also intellectually recognise the truth. For everything that happens is based on profound wisdom, and to you, who are to spread My word, I also want to give you a truthful explanation, after all, you yourselves are often affected by the fate which, however, touches people almost without exception in the last days. You should enlighten your fellow human beings, after all, it is incomprehensible to them that everything has been taken from them and that the eternal creator has allowed this to happen. It is all for your good, for you are still too closely tied to matter and therefore need support from Me, which I have also given you, even though you are unable to recognise My love and wisdom in it. Yet you do not know the danger your soul was in and that you can only gain even if you lost what you loved on earth. Soon your life will be over and nothing of earthly goods will follow you into eternity. Therefore it is not too great a sacrifice to voluntarily give up what hinders your spiritual ascent, and you will thank Me when the end has come and you feel free from all earthly desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

(Personal) ....

B.D. 4091 from July 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

What God has joined together, let not man put asunder .... This I say to you, in Whose power it lies to bless a union or to dissolve it. I tell you so that you shall recognise from it that neither your own will nor chance brought you together but that My will alone was decisive and that you must submit yourselves to this will if you do not want to grieve Me and act against Me. The fate of both of you is destined for you and will unfold as it has been determined since eternity .... You only have little time left and in this short time you shall serve Me with all your heart, and you can only do this in complete agreement, in the complete devotion of one for the other. And for this reason, much love for each other is necessary, because the same thinking, the same wanting and the same acting is the prerequisite for a spiritual cooperation which goes beyond the bounds of the natural. But how do you want to be active if My spirit cannot work in you at the same time? For you are dependent on each other and therefore have to live together in harmonious understanding, and this requires pure deep love for each other which you have to cultivate like a delicate flower, which you have to guard like a precious stone, for love alone makes it possible that I Myself am with you and prepare you for your task, for your work for My kingdom. If you want Me to take full and complete possession of you, then you must enter the circuit of My love through loving activity and constantly seek contact with Me. And you will always and constantly find the opportunity to do so, for daily life requires and demands much loving activity towards each other as well as towards your fellow human beings. And you must not forget that you owe love to each other, that everyone is entitled to the love of the other. And therefore you should work together for Me and My kingdom, because I need hearts which are willing and able to love and I have recognised these in you. Take My words seriously, let yourselves be admonished to constantly unite so that you can work together with joy and devotion to Me, Who will bless you and your spiritual activity as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Exemplary life of love of God's servants on earth ....

B.D. 4092 from July 27th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

In times of the most blatant lack of love, people must be particularly influenced by an exemplary life of love so that they recognise their faults and weaknesses, so that they take it as an example when their neighbour approaches them with a request. No human being is spared suffering and hardship, everyone will be dependent on the help of others, and then everyone should also prove himself, the will to love in him should be stimulated and come into effect. A good example can bring more blessings than just words of instruction, a good example often wins over a hard heart. And you, who voluntarily work for Me, you know about the effect of a life of love, you have become receivers of strength and light and can therefore be active in love in an earthly and spiritual way .... You can give at any time, even though spiritual gifts are not valued as much by fellow human beings who do not live in love themselves. Yet the distribution of earthly goods, help in daily life, is also particularly significant in your work for My kingdom. For where you distribute such you will also find open hearts for the spiritual gifts and awaken reciprocal love. The great lack of love can only be controlled in such a way that My Own are recognisable through their work of love, that they obviously step out of the framework of the general public, that their way of life stimulates fellow human beings to think and to imitate them. For love is a power which never remains ineffective. My emanation of power comes to light in the working of love, and thus I Myself work where love is practised, and where I work, success can never fail to materialise. The awakening of the slightest degree of reciprocal love is already a success which cannot be valued highly enough, for then the human being already unites with Me and, through the smallest work of love, extricates himself of My adversary, whose sharpest counter-weapon is love. He cannot withstand love, and continued working in love completely drives him away. If a person now begins to change, if he gives up unkindness and endeavours to do the smallest of labours of love, he will noticeably feel the release from the power to which he has been in bondage until then. If he pays attention to this and continues on the path of love he will also feel freer and drawn towards God, he will then unconsciously strive towards Me. For the knowledge of his beginning and his destiny will not yet earn him the feeling of God's presence, but loving activity lets him sense what was previously hidden from him, and therefore it is extremely important to kindle the spark of love in the fellow human being so that he himself feels the feeling of God-connectedness within himself and seeks to increase it. And if he does not do so on his own accord it should be demonstrated to him by good example, and if his heart is not yet completely hardened an act of love shown to him will not remain without effect, and then one more soul will be won for My kingdom, which otherwise would inevitably be lost forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual conversations influence of light beings ....

B.D. 4093 from July 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

All spiritual conversations ensure success, just not always immediately afterwards. Some time may pass before they are utilised, but they do not remain entirely without impression if there is mutual interest during the conversation. If, on the other hand, one part only listens reluctantly or inwardly rejects it, then success is doubtful, unless fate puts him into life situations where he recalls such conversations. Then there will also be success, and he will be grateful for the instructions he received from the spiritual conversation. And therefore, My servants should use every opportunity to promote My kingdom. They should take every opportunity to inform their fellow human beings of My working, they should teach where teaching is possible and always bear in mind that the spiritual forces are also active and influence the thoughts of those who have spiritual conversations, and that these forces also subsequently still try to exert their influence by repeatedly intervening in people's thoughts and reminding them of the speeches, and thus My servants on earth helped them to direct people's thinking in a spiritual direction. And this spiritual activity is incumbent upon you, for only then is full understanding present for the spiritual knowledge offered by Me when the human being mentally deals with it, and this is only the result of debates of spiritual content, providing the will is present to be told the truth .... (28.7.1947) If people are willing to engage in spiritual conversations then their course of thoughts will be directed as if by itself towards a subject which the beings of light want to explain to them, so that they will progress in realisation and knowledge. They certainly believe to have raised this question themselves but the influence of those beings has preceded, for they are in knowledge of the spiritual state of the people entrusted to them, whom they now try to instruct in accordance with divine will. But it absolutely requires an open heart, thus the human being must have the will to broaden his knowledge, he must desire the truth. Then the beings of light will teach him, they will often intervene in his thoughts .... Anyone who makes the spiritual kingdom the aim of his thoughts will always be guided by his spiritual guardians in such a way that he will be offered the opportunity for spiritual conversations, that he will be able to express his thoughts and thereby will benefit himself from it as well as his partner in the conversation can increase his knowledge according to his desire. And thus the beings of light also determine the human being's fate to a certain extent, i.e. they also intervene in earthly experience but with the aim of the spiritual progress of those who are entrusted to them as protégés. But they always guide the human being according to God's will, so that the human being's destiny has been determined by God since eternity but is carried out by the beings of light, just as the human being's will itself is decisive for his destiny. Then they will influence the human being's thoughts in such a way that he will undertake what is advantageous for his spiritual upward development. It is no coercion which is exerted on the human being, only a representing of this or that thought which the human being can now freely take up or let flow, and he will also use his free will if he feels little coercion and yet listens to the spiritual influences, although he believes he shapes his life himself through his free will. The spiritual guardians are full of love for their charges and also guide their life's destiny such that spiritual development can always be furthered, that great spiritual danger can be averted and the connection with God can be established and eagerly cultivated, but always respecting the human being's free will, thus never exerting coercion on his decision. But if the human being is pleasantly touched by spiritual conversations, if he seeks them or does not avoid them, then he will gain inconceivably much, for then the spiritual working of the beings of light can be infered with certainty, and then he will also be certain of his ascent, for where beings of light can work the human being is relieved of all danger .... he will progress in his upward development, he will reach the aim on earth, he will enter into contact with God and never ever be without spiritual protection and help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Remark upon the end .... natural events ....

B.D. 4094 from July 31th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A short period of time only passes until the end of this world. And in this short time I use all means to cause you to transform your soul. I make Myself heard to people before the last Judgment is still to be expected. Thus you humans must first await this manifestation of Mine before you expect the final end. But this follows the previous one very quickly. Again and again I have to announce the same to you, otherwise you do not believe My words enough; again and again I have to point this out to you because you humans are currently not spiritually minded enough, thus you do not value words offered to you from above much differently than human talk, indeed, you rather acknowledge and pay attention to the latter than instructions whose content only benefits your soul. So what shall I do in order to urge on you what is necessary for your souls' salvation? If My word is unable to motivate you to tackle the work on your soul, My voice must sound louder so that you will be alarmed and call out to Me in the fear and distress with which you will be seized in view of the end. And I point out this event, which takes place in nature, to you with all urgency, for only then will it give My word the confirmation of its authenticity, which people mostly doubt. But before that I already want to have an effect on human hearts which are receptive for My love and grace, which recognise My word as a sign of love and grace and therefore accept it with joy and gratitude. These will have a double blessing from the last admonition and warning sign. They will be exceedingly strengthened in faith themselves and therefore eagerly and with conviction speak up for My word and will be able to successfully participate in Christ's work of redemption. For now the eyes of all believers are directed towards the end, which they expect with conviction and therefore will also stand firm in every battle against Me and My (word) kingdom. This is My purpose in My frequent announcements beforehand that a last sign of My love and mercy will still be sent to all people, even though it will only rarely be recognised as such. But My Own understand that and why I speak to people from on high and therefore they expect every day that I will let My voice be heard. But I have My fixed plan and I speak when the time has come, when you least expect Me, when you think of Me as inactive, when an earthly adversity has seemingly been averted. But what is foretold in word and scripture comes true .... I will let a natural event of unheard-of magnitude and expansion take place which will cost countless human lives .... And yet, this is only a small foreshadowing of the destruction on the last day, only that I will not visibly express Myself now, whereas shortly before the end I Myself will come to make My Own happy and fetch them home into My kingdom. But anyone who survives the natural disaster beforehand will gain convinced faith if he is serious about it. And this is My purpose, that a deeply believing person now represents everything to his fellow human beings which refers to the last end .... For this will not be long in coming. (31.7.1947) When My voice will be audible from above, you will fast be approaching the end. For many the last hour of life will indeed already have struck with the outbreak of that natural disaster which will claim countless human victims, yet I announce this for the survivors' sake, for they shall derive a benefit for their souls from it, they shall learn to believe and learn to recognise Me as their Creator and Sustainer, as Father and divine Friend, they shall call to Me of their own accord and, if they have experienced My obvious help, strive towards Me; having recognised Me they shall seek to attain Me with a loving heart and make My will their own; having found Me they shall not give Me up again but remain faithful to Me until the end .... And therefore I allow the earth to be partially affected by an exceedingly great storm of destruction so that the thoughts of those who survive will change and turn to Me, Who I long for My living creations which are still far away from Me and yet possess My love because they once came forth from Me and shall return to Me again. For My love does not diminish, My love never ceases, it is eternally meant for the created by Me, even if it has not yet found its way to Me. Then I will show it the path again and again and offer Myself as a guide to those who entrust themselves to My care and want to follow Me, so that one day they will reach their aim, so that they will be eternally united with Me, as was their original destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Glory of the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 4095 from August 2nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And I have no greater concern than to make you partakers of My kingdom which, with its glory, with its spiritual creations, offers unimagined bliss, which is therefore worth striving for beyond all measure. But, so that I am able to offer you all this, you humans must also be informed of what eternal glory consists of so that you strive to attain salvation and fulfil all conditions I have attached to the attainment of eternal bliss. You must unconsciously or consciously fulfil My will, i.e. be driven from within into loving activity or practise loving activity, educate yourselves to love if you do not carry it within yourselves. And because you have a totally weakened will and would certainly never fulfil these conditions of Mine if earthly life would give you complete satisfaction, I come to your aid in such a way that you admittedly do not recognise My help but rather doubt My will to help as well as Me and My existence itself. You are so far behind in realisation, you are in the knowledge of those who are no longer in contact with the original power from which they originated. You yourselves no longer have any powers of judgement and therefore believe what is presented to you without accounting for the extent to which what is offered to you corresponds to the truth. And therefore My first concern for the souls' salvation is the imparting of the pure truth. You must first accept this into your heart or you will not acknowledge the eternal Truth Itself and strive towards It. And therefore I will help you in every way, I will bring you the light to illuminate the still dark path, I will bring you the eternal truth. I convey it to you through My word and confirm it through My obvious influence .... I fulfil what seers and prophets have proclaimed to you long before .... I give My word even more emphasis by putting countless people into a state of anxiety from which they can still flee to Me in their distress. I use the sharpest means, so to speak, in order to influence the human being without coercion who is not yet entirely of bad will .... I inflict many pains on people who are still attached to earthly matter too much in order to teach them to overcome the latter. For in order to be able to enjoy the spiritual kingdom in all its glory, matter must first have been completely overcome. My aim is your happiness, and therefore I must inflict a misfortune on you now .... but one day you will recognise My care, My love for you, and blessed are those who then stand at the gate of heaven, who no longer allow themselves to be beguiled by the world for the sake of the spiritual kingdom. Blessed are those who are already convinced of My love on earth, who humbly accept all adversity and know that I only send them what is best for them. For they have faith and belong to My Own, otherwise they would lack realisation. But anyone who knows about My love for My living creations is not as much affected by adversity, by earthly suffering and hardship, even though he is confronted with them, for he always retains hope and firm confidence in My help despite all difficulties in life, because he also recognises My love in suffering and throws himself into the father's arms like a child, hoping for His help. But he also knows that earthly life is only a school for life in eternity and that it therefore has to be difficult if the human being is to attain the highest maturity of soul on earth. And he abides by My promise: 'What no man's eye has ever seen and what no man's ear has ever heard, these I have prepared for those who love Me ...." I truly know no greater joy than to make My creatures happy, because I have loved them from the beginning and will never cease to love them. If My creatures have left Me, I nevertheless do not rest in regaining them again. For I will not give up in eternity what was once Mine, and I will certainly achieve their return, but often only after an infinitely long time. But in order to shorten the time of their being far from Me, which is also a time of wretchedness, I use all means. And likewise in the last time before the end, for now there is great danger that they will no longer recognise Me, that they will no longer love Me and therefore even deny Me with a completely turned away mind if I do not help them in such a way that they have to recognise Me and can love Me if only they are of good will. Yet everything I do is based on My love which never ends and is eternally intended for My living creations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Serious admonitions about Christian neighbourly love ....

B.D. 4096 from August 3rd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Recognise your weaknesses and try to resolve them .... don't become impatient when you should put yourselves into another person's position, and be lenient .... don't hurt his feelings, and take the commandment of love seriously when your neighbour needs your active help or encouraging words .... Don't provide any reason for argument but kind-heartedly try to find agreement, take My example, I Who approached all people with a loving heart to win them over. And thus you, too, should always try to win the other person's heart; you should leave nothing undone that could awaken love, for full understanding of the other person's weaknesses can only manifest itself in love. And thus each one of you should do this to the other, leave no opportunity unused to please with a kind word or a loving action, for if you avoid hurting your neighbour, if you give him inner peace, you will do a truly Christian deed of neighbourly love which will benefit you, for you will thereby strengthen him physically and spiritually. He will be placed into a state of love himself, he will feel love in return, and he will not fail to put his love into action. He will lessen his selfish love ....

Be patient and gentle, meek and humble, and your life will become easier, for love is the best weapon against animosity, and love forgives and endures, it gives and makes happy, it unites hearts, it heals wounds and will never be without understanding of the other person's weaknesses and faults and will finally triumph nevertheless, for love is strength which achieves whatever it wants ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Creation of the world .... Moses .... metaphorical language ....

B.D. 4097 from August 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Do not let yourselves be carried away to any judgement as long as you are not yet of fully awakened spirit. There is so infinitely much that would burden your intellect if it should digest it, but which is nevertheless divine wisdom, thus knowledge which completely corresponds to truth. The human being, in his inadequacy, cannot grasp a particle of it, nor can he receive light about it through even the sharpest intellectual activity, but he must desire and receive clarification about it in a spiritual way .... He must let God speak to him directly or in the form of thoughts which arise in him after heartfelt prayer for enlightenment. What is fully understandable to one person can be knowledge darker than the deepest night to another, and thus the latter will reject what the former recognises and accepts as pure truth. But a debate about it can also give clarification to the latter, if he demands such. Likewise, God can also distribute the truth in the form of instructions through fellow human beings, if He can express Himself through an organ or dictate to it in the pen what is necessary to know: .... There are various explanations of the scriptural text of the creation of the world, and each can be truth if it originated from the One Who is the eternal Truth Himself. And thus it depends on the degree of maturity of the person being taught which explanation he needs. He can look at the days of creation as he likes, he can want to recognise a purely spiritual relation and be instructed accordingly .... But he can also regard himself as the centre of all material creation and accordingly interpret the traditional words of Moses or put them aside as incomprehensible to him until further notice, i.e. until his maturity of knowledge is increased by a way of life in accordance with divine will. He will never attain complete understanding on earth, for divine wisdom is inexhaustible, unfathomable, until the human being is perfect, although God enlightens the human being and can impart extensive knowledge to him through His spirit. The creation of the world cannot be made clear to people in any other way than metaphorically. The people of Moses' time were familiar with imagery, so that they not only understood it as the earthly, i.e. the material development of the earth, but were also able to comprehend the spiritual relation, if they wished to learn about it. Moses' words are not given superficially, and therefore they cannot be understood according to their wording either, but God Himself spoke to Moses, and indeed for the whole of humanity of a whole epoch of redemption, which encompasses an infinitely long period of time .... (5.8.1947) And his speech was designed in such a way that it could be applied to the present, the past and the future. It illuminated both the time from the beginning to the end of a redemptive epoch as well as the time before and the time still to come, which was clearly and surely foreseen by a spiritual visionary, as Moses was, even if the human being as such does not know about future things. To the visionary, however, everything is revealed, and his actions are accordingly. Moses therefore gave humanity a light, he was in fullest unison with God's will, and therefore he was also able to express what urged him to speak: God now wanted to make known to people the order of earthly creation, whereby it must be considered, however, that an infinitely long time was needed for this and this time must be related to both spiritual and earthly development. The spiritual development always concerns the creatural in the embodiment as a human being last. Consequently, the upward development as a human being must also be comparable with the slow development of earthly creation, and since the former takes place in divine order, it must resemble the course of development of the earthly material world, which also took its course in God-ordained order. Only the spiritually striving human being understands the connection and can realise this, and he also understands the spiritual meaning of Moses' words. However, a more comprehensible explanation cannot be given as long as the parallel of spiritual and material upward development is not sought. To explain the development of the material creation to people was truly not important, and the knowledge of it does not enrich the human being. Nevertheless, its beginning was in accordance with the spiritual state of the creatural .... Everything that followed resulted from the preceding. But it can by no means be denied that God constantly gives men indications of their destiny, of their purpose in life .... the higher development of the soul. Through Moses the same thing happened in the same way that people's attention was drawn to the origin of the earthly creation, always in view of the spiritual aim. And in the same way the man Jesus explained the words of Moses, driven by the spirit in Himself, and the spiritual development of the human being was of greater importance to Him, so that He explained everything in view of it in order to induce people to attach less importance to the actual creation of the world than to the spiritual correspondence, the parallel, which every earthly event has to show and which has to be paid far more attention to if the human being wants to achieve success for his soul .... Many other explanations can be offered, and it is also the case that the recipients of spiritual announcements receive different interpretations of them through the work of the spirit. But then a discussion is necessary from time to time, and where the same views, the same explanations are to be found, there it is also possible to speak of sure working of the spirit, for all explanations must agree with each other and ultimately always concern the spiritual man's upward development, albeit in an easier or more difficult to grasp representation. Where the spirit of God itself can work, understanding is also guaranteed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual knowledge imparts knowledge of the divine will ....

B.D. 4098 from August 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Much is still hidden to you, yet My love does not set any limits to your knowledge if you try to transcend them of your own free will. Yet I must demand one thing of you that you believe My words, that you recognise the teachings as divine and use them accordingly. For you must tell yourselves that I do not speak to you arbitrarily but that My wisdom and love see the necessity .... that I know about your helplessness and want to remedy it. And what I now proclaim to you from above has unconditional educational value .... it shall shape your soul into perfection. Consequently, I will not burden you with knowledge the possession of which does not particularly contribute to increase your souls' maturity, for you receive this knowledge in the spiritual kingdom as soon as you have become receivers of light and strength and as such are also able to utilise it for yourselves and for the needy souls handed over to you for care. But what you lack is the knowledge of My will. And therefore I convey this to you as the first and most important thing for your earthly task. I familiarise you with My will, which merely concerns the fulfilment of divine order, and I constantly present to you the blessing of unselfish neighbourly love as well as, conversely, the hardship of the soul if you do not observe this commandment. Through increased love for Me you can now extend your knowledge, yet you also have to possess a certain spiritual maturity in order to derive the right benefit from it. Without this state of maturity the knowledge is completely useless to you, and therefore I only ever give according to the human being's state of soul, yet every word is the purest truth which is conveyed to you from above through My love. And the more faithfully you receive it the deeper you penetrate, and the greater peace and tranquillity will come over you if you recognise My love and wisdom and, as it were, entrust yourselves completely to Me in order to receive further knowledge and let yourselves be made happy by Me. You can still mature a lot and receive divine truth, but then your striving for it must never stop, you must always think of your aim and make use of every opportunity to assimilate the content of the announcements so that you will also receive the undivided blessing of those, so that you will learn to love Me and diligently work on shaping your souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Mission of the last disciples before the ruin .... God's hiring of workers ....

B.D. 4099 from August 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And you shall be witnesses of the last events on this earth .... Therefore if I have appointed you to it, a mission awaits you, the last one My disciples have to fulfil on this earth before its ruin .... that they once again establish the connection between heaven and earth, that they are mediators between Me and people in the time of hardest distress of the believers and deepest spiritual destitution of the unbelievers. This mission requires workers on earth which are willing to help and which offer their services to Me of their own free will, because otherwise people would have to be influenced by compulsory faith and this would be unsuccessful. And since I need many labourers in My vineyard I constantly hire them, I still go among people late in the day to hire servants for the last hours .... who places himself to My service? .... Only a few want to carry out work which, although it seems hopeless, is nevertheless of greatest blessing, even if only a small success would be recorded, for one saved soul alone will thank its helper in eternity that it has found its way back into the father's house and no longer needs to take upon itself the infinite torments of a renewed earthly progress. The time is flying, the end will not tolerate any more delay, the day of the last Judgment is near and countless souls languish in spiritual darkness to whom light shall still be brought .... And therefore every labourer is welcome to Me, and everyone who takes care of the spreading of My word can consider himself My servant who is exceedingly valuable to Me if he willingly does work for Me. Work and be active while it is still day .... bring light to people, lead them through the night into the light of day, inform them of the urgency of your activity by announcing the near end to them, by pointing them to eternity, to life after death and to the state of their souls. Admonish and warn them, even though they listen to you incredulously, laugh at you or try to oppose you with their worldly wisdom. The time will come very soon when they will remember your words. For that is why I lead them into your path beforehand, so that you should already do the preliminary work, the blessing of which will only then be recognisable. And therefore do not slacken, do not let yourselves be held back by the length of time until the fulfilment of My predictions, and do not tire, for your work is urgent, it has to be done, and therefore you should always be active ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's mercy is greater than His wrath ....

B.D. 4100 from August 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

God's mercy is greater than His wrath, and His love is endless .... And although the last Judgment is to be regarded as a punitive Judgment, although it imposes a terrible fate on the condemned, it is nevertheless the prelude to a new redemptive epoch, it is the absolute necessity for a renewed ascent with the final aim of complete release from the form. And that is why God is not eternally angry, but God's mercy takes the place of wrath, He helps the fallen again to ascend, even if a long time passes over it. God's love and mercy outweigh God's justice, even though this is satisfied by the torment of being banished. He is not eternally angry, while His love remains eternal and is meant for that which has come forth from His power. Consequently, the spiritual is the product of His love and wisdom and can therefore never ever cease to exist, it can indeed be banished from His face by God's wrath for a long time, yet God always turns His face towards it again because love understands everything and forgives everything. (9.8.1947) That which has fallen away from Him is weak, and this weakness moves Him to pity, for God's essence is deepest love, and love can never ever turn away but only finds happiness in the union with that which once parted as a spark with the eternal fire, from God, Who is love Himself. His embers increase and consume everything that approaches Him and turn it into most blissful beings, and where that which once emanated from Him languishes in wretchedness, there love deepens and, full of mercy, inclines towards these unhappy beings .... love does not condemn eternally because this would mean eternal distance from God and this is never possible because God is love Himself. Yet the state of union cannot occur as long as the fallen being resists it, because love never compels but only seeks to make happy. But then the being also remains unhappy, and this state, which at the same time signifies remoteness from God, where the being no longer feels God's love, is, as it were, a judged state, a state of banishment and thus can be described as 'being under God's wrath', where the being must forfeit all emanation of God's love due to its own fault. However, the fact that this state cannot be a permanent one emerges from the fact that again and again new creations come into being and that these testify to God's love again, Whose mercy has destined them to be the abode of the spiritual beings which oppose Him; that God's power of love comes to light in them again and enables the creatural to reduce its state of remoteness from God and to enter into ever closer contact with the original power in order to completely join this original power of its own free will after an infinitely long time. Then God's love will become ever more obvious to the being if it is able to recognise God's love and grace embodied as a human being. And now it can also love God and seek union with Him in free will. And then it will be saved, for what is once seized by God's love, what once no longer has to fear God's wrath, will eternally remain in His grace, it will have kindled itself by the fire of love and become a flame itself, the fusion with the eternal love will irrevocably take place as soon as it surrenders itself without resistance, as soon as it has changed itself into love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

(The announcement was not transcribed by Bertha Dudde).

B.D. 4101 from August 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

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Word from on high of divine origin - sounding word .... profundity of faith ....

B.D. 4102 from August 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

My word reaches you from on high, that is, spiritual beings full of light convey it to you if it is not offered to you by Me Myself. And you must accept this origin if you try to fathom it, for it is wisdom which is offered to you, it is knowledge which cannot be imparted to you by human beings because without My support people can never gain it with the certainty of absolute truth. But if you believe in divine origin it must also be extremely valuable to you, you must value it as the most precious good and try to increase it, you must accept it as purest truth and live and act accordingly. Thus you must believe and accept every word as an emanation of Myself. Then it will not remain without effect on you. You, who believe, I could also offer you the word directly from on high, I could speak to you loudly and audibly without influencing your faith in a coercive way, yet this shall still attain a firmness, it shall withstand every onslaught, and therefore it must be tested again and again and also be subject to trials through My gift, for only when you unconditionally accept every word from Me as truth, the connection between you and the spiritual world is so profoundly established that constant contact can take place without any preparation, for this is necessary in the time to come when My Own will depend on the strengthening from above through My word, when they will need My encouragement, My comfort and My help in every situation of life, when they will be distressed and therefore require My support. Then they can only find it by receiving My word, and then they have to be very strong in faith so that I can express Myself soundingly without increasing their faith in a coercive way. The profundity of faith must be gained by people themselves through heartfelt prayer and steadfast conviction that they stand in the midst of divine activity. No doubt may arise in their hearts about the truth of what I offer them, they must always and constantly recognise My voice and know that they are surrounded by beings of light which prevent every disturbance if only the human being has the serious will to stand in truth and to be taught by Me. Only then will My word have the fullest effect on My Own, only then will they be aware of My presence and find peace and tranquillity in this awareness, even though they stand in the midst of the hostile world. Weak faith, however, results in doubts, and where My gift from on high is doubted no real success can be achieved, neither towards oneself nor towards fellow human beings. For there My word loses its effect and has in vain been spoken to you from on high. Believe firmly and without doubt and you will have surprising success for your souls .... My love will speak words of love to you and you will understand them and be blissful .... My love will give you advice and you will be able to go through life easily and free from worries, and if I give you an assignment you will fulfil it unhesitatingly and be My faithful ministers and servants on earth. For this reason, you first have to gain a strong faith, and for this you will also be subject to frequent tests of faith which, however, you can pass if you constantly seek contact with Me and appeal to Me for help in every adversity of body and soul. For I will never ever abandon you who receive My word from on high .... And I am constantly present and audible to you as soon as you desire to hear Me. And all My servants in the spiritual kingdom support Me and help you humans where help is required ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Voice of the spirit God's voice .... protection from erroneous thinking ....

B.D. 4103 from August 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You need never doubt that the voice of the spirit teaches you correctly, for it is God's voice .... You need never assume that beings other than God-devoted beings can influence you if you first commend yourselves to God in prayer. The connection you establish with God through prayer protects you against forces which would like to impart other than pure truth to you, and your own line of thought will never lead you astray, because good spiritual forces protect you from receiving the thought material of impure beings. And yet you must always take care that you eliminate bad influence through your will yourselves, so that the battle between the world of light and the forces of darkness cannot break out in the first place, so that only good beings have access to you, which only the human being's will can accomplish. For it alone is decisive as to which forces approach him. If your will is turned towards truth and therefore also towards God Himself, your thinking will always be right, it will correspond to the spiritual good which you receive through the working of the spirit within you; the voice of the spirit will always instruct you in divine wisdom, and everything you think, do and speak will correspond to God's will, Who works in you through His spirit Himself and, through His presence, constantly keeps all imperfect spiritual things away from you and prevents them from distressing you or winning you over. You can be completely certain of His protection, you can also be certain of His love which protects you from all harm to your soul, and you can always regard every advice, every instruction and every other announcement as His word, as His expressed proof of love, which He constantly wants to give to you so that you will recognise and love Him and remain in constant contact with Him. For He gladly dwells where a human heart opens itself to Him, loves Him and deeply desires Him .... And there is no more intimate union with God than through love .... Where love is practised, God will always be present and will reward the earthly child a thousandfold for its love. But the most beautiful reward on earth is His word, which sounds in the human heart .... Anyone who reaches this state can consider himself extremely fortunate, for he has the undeniable proof that God loves him and wants to make him happy and makes this known through the sounding word. But then there is no longer any doubt, then the human being on earth has already reached the degree his soul needs to unite with God. Then he will only live in order to fulfil a mission assigned to him, yet his longing will now constantly be directed towards the spiritual kingdom in order to be and remain intimately united with the aim of his longing, with God, for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's will - voice of the heart .... Inner urging ....

B.D. 4104 from August 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

I will place the feeling as to what you should and shouldn't do into the heart of those of you whom I love because you strive towards Me. And if you entrust yourselves to Me in prayer, if you confide your worries or thoughts to Me, you will feel it in your heart and whatever you then feel urged or desire to do, that is what you should do and it will be right before My eyes. If you commend yourselves to Me in prayer you will no longer be able to sin, for then I will no longer let you become sinful. If you appeal to Me for My protection I will grant it to you, and then you can confidently rely on the voice of your heart, that is, you can do what your heart desires. I Am your Father, I want you to come to Me with complete trust, and I truly want to provide for you like a loving father does, I want to give to you what makes you happy, providing it does not cause you damage. And since you yourselves are unable to judge what is beneficial for you and detrimental to the soul, you should come to Me and totally hand yourselves over to Me, tell Me your problems, be they of a spiritual or earthly nature, and I shall answer you, that is, I shall place My will into your heart so that you will want to do what is right and also be able to accomplish it. And thus you can come to Me with all concerns, you will never be left without an answer, for I will place it into your heart. You just have to pay attention to the voice in your heart, you ought to know that every inner urging is always the influence of forces which want to persuade you to accomplish something or to leave it. Forces of darkness will want to tempt you into committing a sin, forces of light into actions which are pleasing to Me. Let the forces of light gain influence over you, then you will never be able to sin. And hand yourselves over to these forces whenever you seek to make contact with Me in prayer, whenever you communicate with Me and always consult Me with all your problems. I love My living creations and My only goal is their salvation of soul. And where there is no danger of this I will grant them everything, even earthly pleasures, if they do not detract from spiritual striving. Yet I always want to be your Mentor, you should always leave the decision to Me and, after heartfelt prayer, ask your heart and it will truly guide you correctly ....

Amen

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Selfish love .... Love your neighbour as yourself ....

B.D. 4105 from August 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

God instructed you to love each other; He gave you a commandment you must fulfil if you want to be saved. And this commandment requires nothing else but love for Him and your neighbour .... Yet it includes the entire work of improving your soul, which should attain perfection while you still live on earth. Your every thought, word and action should correspond to this commandment of love, it must express itself in your will to give and to please, to help, comfort, encourage and protect .... the human being must do to other people what would please himself were he in need of the same degree of help. Love your neighbour as yourself .... Hence, God has granted the human being a degree of selfish love by which he can always judge how far he fulfils the commandment of neighbourly love. If a person loves himself very much, he also has a duty to give a greater measure to his fellow human being if he wants to comply with God's will. In that case he must also accomplish more kind-hearted deeds .... If a person's selfish love is small and he wants to fulfil God's will, his neighbourly love will exceed the degree of selfish love, and he will find this easier because he will easily be able to let go of earthly possessions and give them to his fellow human beings. But you humans are always expected to practise unselfish neighbourly love, consequently, you must also be able to go without, you must be able to make sacrifices in favour of pleasing a fellow human being. And the more you love a fellow human being, the easier you can do this. But in order to awaken the feeling of love for a fellow human being you must bear in mind that all of you are children of a Father, that all of you came forth from the same strength and therefore all of you are creatures of God's love .... Then you will learn to regard your fellow human being as your brother, you will treat him with love, you will want to help him if he suffers adversity, and your willingness to help will make you happy, because it is blissful in itself and results in spiritual knowledge .... If you give to your neighbour what you desire yourselves, then God will give you what belongs to Him .... He will give you the truth, He will give you light and strength and grace .... He will please you and likewise will only give you possessions which originate from His kingdom, which cannot be offered to you in an earthly way. But He will also bless your possessions in an earthly way by increasing what you sacrifice if it benefits your soul's salvation. If you therefore give because of love for your neighbour, you will not need to starve, for God's love will give you in kind if you are in need, and He is not prudent with His Own but distributes His gifts without measure .... providing you also sacrifice without anxiously calculating what you can do without. If you are impelled to give by love, you will not hesitate or give very little and therefore also receive in abundance from the eternal Love. And if you are incapable of the feeling of love, then you must train yourselves to accomplish unselfish deeds of love, you must look around yourselves and actively intervene with helpful support when you come across hardship. This is God's will, and you should adopt this will as your own, then your kind-hearted activity for your neighbour will make you happy in every way .... you will kindle love in yourselves until it grows into a bright flame which takes hold of everything that enters its vicinity. For love is divine, it comes forth from God and leads back to God again, this is why the commandment of love for God and one's neighbour is the most important commandment which must be fulfilled on earth as well as in the beyond in order to unite with the eternal Love and to attain eternal bliss ....

Amen

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Distribution of earthly goods .... to make provision not God's will ....

B.D. 4106 from August 16th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

As long as you humans are not of the same opinion you are also not of the same spirit, for the voice of the spirit will only ever proclaim the truth, it will never contradict itself, thus it will express itself concurringly with all people. Therefore, anyone who listens to the voice of the spirit can also be convinced to hear the truth as an answer to questions which are put to him. But I will not withhold an answer from you if you approach Me for it yourselves; I will give it to you through My spirit if it can work in you; I will give it to you in the form of clear thoughts if you do not hear the voice of the spirit yourselves, or also through My servants on earth whose instructions you may confidently accept as pure unadulterated truth. What you receive in the form of thoughts must therefore correspond to what My messengers convey to you, otherwise you are not yet enlightened, thus you have not desired My answer but your thoughts are the result of intellectual thinking alone. You have to make this distinction that you can very well come up with an answer to spiritual questions which has no claim to absolute truth if I am thereby eliminated insofar as that you have not requested My judgment before forming your own opinion. And therefore, different opinions will always be found amongst people, and now the question arises: Who is enlightened by My spirit? Which result is pure truth? And in case of doubt there is again only one answer: Submit the questions to Me and I will answer them for you so that you will come to clarity .... I distribute My gifts unmeasured but always considering how they will be used by the recipient .... I can give, I can deny. The former where the gift is utilised in accordance with My will, the latter where My love and My activity are not recognised and therefore My gift is not appreciated. I can hand out little or much as well, and both again depend on the recipient and his unconditional faith in Me .... Thus a believer will always be allowed to receive from Me and need not suffer any hardship, for I Myself never overspend and thus always have gifts ready to hand out, even if this seems impossible in an earthly view, for I am, after all, the Lord over all creation and I am also free to distribute the fruits of My creations at My discretion. And one person can have it while the other comes away empty-handed, and this at times of earthly adversity as well as earthly prosperity, for the distribution of earthly goods is solely up to Me. And therefore a believing person does not need to make provisions, because this is My sole concern as to what a person should dispose of .... (16.8.1947) And if you consider the different distribution of earthly goods amongst your fellow human beings you have to admit yourselves that this does not depend on the human being alone but that it happens in a way according to destiny, that the human being himself does not always control the creating of living conditions according to his wishes. And ultimately, if you believe, you must look at this distribution from My point of view, that I prepare both good and bad living conditions for people, depending on the necessity for the soul's maturing. In the same way, therefore, the care of the body is My work and proceeds according to the strength of faith. And the weak believer will not rely so firmly on My help and therefore also be petty in caring for his body, where he would only be allowed to trustingly appeal to Me in order to be free from all concern for his physical well-being. Providing for you in the long term does not correspond to My will, for My aim is to develop you into supreme strength of faith, and you humans will rarely realise that I obviously stand by you, that I sustain you and cover all your needs, often in a way which completely steps out of the bounds of the natural in order to precisely thereby strengthen your faith and form it to such strength that there is no longer any doubt about the fulfilment of every request and that the human being need not worry at all about the maintenance of his body as long as he lives on earth. This strength of faith also guarantees complete supply, certainly corresponding to the spiritual state of the general public but also adapted to the needs of the individual. I truly know what people need, and I especially take care of My Own, i.e. those who strive towards Me of their own free will and acknowledge Me as their father from eternity, and I will prevent their faith from being shattered. And therefore I often take from people what they have gathered with the intention of providing for themselves for later times, otherwise they will need a long time to trustingly open their hearts to Me in profound faith and to request and expect My help. For I want to be recognised by people, I want to be a faithful father to them, and My children shall bring every request to Me, entrust themselves to Me and faithfully expect My help. And they will never ever suffer hardship again, for I have given them the promise: 'Seek first the kingdom of God, and all other things shall be yours as well .... "

Amen

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'He that keepeth My commandments .... to him I will come and manifest Myself ....'

B.D. 4107 from August 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Let Me speak to you in all places, at all times and in all situations of life, in joy and in suffering, in hardship and worry of body and soul by turning your thoughts to Me and desiring to hear My voice .... And I will speak to you, and everyone who expects My communication shall hear Me. For I have promised you that I will manifest Myself to the one who loves Me and keeps My commandments, who thus strives towards Me and lives a life of love .... Anyone who fulfils My commandment will also recognise My Word, he will accept My revelations and be joyful in the knowledge that I Am talking to him. The awareness of hearing Words of love from Me will make him happy, he will strive towards Me even more sincerely and ever more longingly listen to My Word in silence, he will open his heart to Me and I Myself will enter him, I will take abode in his heart, I will unite with him and remain in constant communication with him. This is the state every person on earth should strive for, to be in constant contact with Me, to mentally establish this bond and, in blissful unity with Me, to relish My flesh and My blood, that is, to accept the strength of My Word. Once you have reached this state on earth you can confidently consider yourselves as My children, you can come with every concern like a child to its father, you may know yourselves loved by Me and need not be afraid or feel abandoned in any earthly adversity for then I will constantly be with you, I will safeguard every step you take, I will guide and protect you and grant every wish you request of Me in spirit and in truth.

I will hear your call, regardless of how secretly it is being sent up to Me .... For I love those of you who have the will to come to Me. And since I Am connected to you by greater than great love I will not allow you to go astray if, faced by a crucial decision, you don't know which way to turn. I will very gently push you towards the right path, I will take you by your hand so that you will not stumble, I will illuminate the path if it gets dark and you are no longer able to recognise it properly. And time and again you may be permitted to hear My voice which intends to give you the assurance that I Myself Am with you. You should only look upon the earth as a stage of transition in order to achieve on it the degree which allows for My presence. However, once you have achieved this you no longer need to fear anything of an earthly nature, for then you will be earmarked as aspirants for the spiritual kingdom and they will infallibly attain their goal. Consequently, don't be afraid of that which will still be imposed upon you in an earthly way, because it is only temporary and will just last a very short period of time, which you will no longer have to go through on your own but in constant company with Me you will also be protected from all harm. The hearts in which I have taken abode belong to Me without fail, and I will never again let go of that which has become My possession, and this assurance should make your life easier to bear, you should believe it and always consider yourselves as My children who will safely return to their Father's house under My guidance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reference to events .... Chaos .... Speedy arrival ....

B.D. 4108 from August 21st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Expect My speedy arrival, for there is not much time until the end .... You will shortly experience things which will confirm what My love has made known to you long in advance .... namely, that the final phase before the end has already started. You will wonder why I allow such disasters to happen, why I let such immense adversity come upon humankind and I can only ever give you the answer that it is necessary for those people who have as yet not recognised Me and only ever look upon each event from an earthly point of view but never associate people's spiritual development with it. These are irrevocably the final pangs, and the end will follow soon without fail. Time and again I call your attention to the fact that you should not go through earthly life in a secular-minded way, as it only lasts for a short time and it can still be of greatest significance for you if you consider your purpose and make appropriate use of life. However, you humans are half-hearted and complacent regarding My admonitions and warnings, for you don't believe in My Word. And I can't give you further proof about the truth of My Word, because you must take the right path without influence, you must feel impelled from within to comply with My will, otherwise your souls cannot mature. Yet you can draw visible proof from the forthcoming event, for thereby I will come extraordinarily close to you, revealing Myself to those who know about My gifts of grace and confirming these to them so that they will be able to recognise Me. And those of you who want to be of service to Me should know that you do not have a long lifetime ahead of you and that the mission incumbent upon you allows for no further delay, and that you, for the sake of this mission, should first convince yourselves of the truth of My Word so that you can spread it without inhibition. And thus you will see that everything I have proclaimed to you in Word and Scripture will come true. You will learn to despise the world and examine the spiritual kingdom more thoroughly, for your own advantage, for the transformation of your soul. Countless beings of light are at My disposal, and through these I influence you humans time and again by constantly steering your thoughts to the forthcoming event, by allowing you to go through so much adversity and misery until you yourselves will yearn for the downfall of Earth in order to escape from the harsh pressures inflicted upon you by fellow human beings. Then you will gradually prepare yourselves for the end, for then you will believe in it and make an effort to live on earth to please Me. This time will be followed by incredible chaos, during which you should trustingly expect My help from utmost adversity, for I assured you of this and will not disappoint your faith. And thus these Words of Mine are your best guarantee that no harm will come to you even though you will be put under pressure from all directions. However, you must give your love to Me, and if you love Me you will long for Me, and for that reason I will come to fetch you from the place of perdition into My kingdom, where you will never ever be persecuted again, where only I Am in charge and evil is not allowed to enter. And all hardship will have come to an end for the believers, but for the others the adversity will have just started, as I have proclaimed .... they will be condemned into darkness .... they will be banished on the new Earth into creations which are beyond your imagination until you populate the new Earth yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God as a Father, friend and brother seeks to attract love ....

B.D. 4109 from August 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

I want to be a loving Father to you, a wise guide and advisor, a faithful friend and brother, I want to give you everything you need on earth both psychologically and physically, I constantly want to care for you and you shall never feel abandoned by Me; I want to stand by your side in every adversity and protect you from all onslaughts by your enemies, be they spiritual or earthly, I want to shower you with an abundance of gifts of grace and you shall always recognise My love which I have felt for you since the very beginning and which will not diminish in all eternity .... Nevertheless, I expect you to entrust yourselves unto Me, to strive towards Me, to love Me like a child loves its father. If this love belongs to Me, then I can take hold of you with My strength of love and completely gain you forever. And I ceaselessly seek to attract this love. This is why I will try to guide you into truth, into recognising Me Myself and My eternal plan of salvation, for you first need to know that you are My living creations and the relationship you have as My living creations with Me, the eternal Creator. You must be aware of the great responsibility towards Me and live accordingly, so that you will find grace before My eyes. Your heart must impel you to do so, only then will I recognise your love and then you will belong to My Own whom I have promised My kingdom, for then you will look for Me and when you have found Me never let go of Me again; you will seek the union with Me and appeal to Me for strength because you recognise Me as your Lord and Creator. And you will humbly approach Me, and you will be as it is pleasing to Me, full of love and truth, portraying your problems to the Father with a childlike quality. And I will grant your prayers, I will fulfil your every request because My love for you manifests itself such that I want to make you happy while you are still on earth and one day in eternity .... Therefore you must listen to My Word, for you learn to recognise Me through My Word as soon as you accept My Word in your heart, think about it and subsequently live as it pleases Me. Then you will love Me as well and see your bliss in being in possession of My love for you. In that case I can come to you Myself, I can make you happy through My presence now and forever .... I can provide you with spiritual gifts depending on your worthiness; I can receive you in My kingdom once you have finished your life on earth, and make you blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

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Realisation of the worthlessness of the earthly .... afterlife ....

B.D. 4110 from August 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

What can earthly life still offer you if you have realised that life in the spiritual kingdom is far more valuable, that it is, after all, the actual life which is only preceded by a period of preparation .... the life of the soul in embodiment as a human being .... And when this time of preparation draws to a close, every thought must then be directed towards the afterlife, this afterlife must be eagerly awaited because it replaces the life in the last shell and the soul as a free spirit enters spheres which touch it in an extremely pleasant way if only the soul has reached a certain degree of maturity. Everything earthly must lose its appeal in view of this realisation and every day must only be regarded as an intermediate station. And thus the human being cannot be shocked by the knowledge of the near end, for if he has this knowledge he knows the cause and purpose of it, and the knowledge of it only contributes to a faster detachment from everything that belongs to earth. The human being has to become calm within himself, he only has to concentrate on spiritual knowledge, he has to strive to avoid every temptation and hand himself completely over to God so that he will be seized by His love, and then he will only live in God and his earthly life will not have been in vain. However, the knowledge of eternal truth is a gift of grace which the human being can and must acquire for himself through unselfish neighbourly love; but this always means overcoming selfish love and thus renouncing earthly joys and pleasures of his own accord .... Consequently, the human being must first give something before he can receive, he must not regard the earth with its appeals as desirable, but he must learn to despise it, only then does he relinquish what is still valuable to his fellow human beings. He gives it to the needy neighbour and receives something purely spiritual in return .... The spheres of light open up to him and radiate into his heart, which now detaches itself more and more from earthly things and exchanges spiritual knowledge for it, which now makes him consciously strive for spiritual life. The end will not come as a surprise to such people, for through knowledge they stand in deep faith and through faith again in the knowledge of God's eternal plan of salvation, of the meaning and purpose of earthly life and of the worthlessness of earthly matter. They live consciously and with God and will gladly exchange life for eternal bliss ....

Amen

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(The announcement was not transcribed by Bertha Dudde).

B.D. 4111 from August 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

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God as teacher ....

B.D. 4112 from August 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The gracious act of spiritual instruction cannot be denied if a person gains an insight into spiritual knowledge of great extent and seriously reflects on it. He must then acknowledge a power as the origin if he cannot explain it naturally. The spiritually awakened person can certainly give an explanation, for he knows that the recipient's way of life makes teachings possible .... he knows that God teaches every person who acknowledges Him as Teacher and enters His school. Nevertheless, it remains a grace of utmost significance, which not every person can exhibit, if the kind of instruction proceeds in such a way that it makes the recipient happy in the form of notes, thus that it is also extremely significant for fellow human beings. Then it can certainly be realised that God is concerned about people's spiritual state, that He not only wants to instruct the individual but also gives his environment the opportunity to draw from the source of eternal truth, for spiritual instructions are irrefutably purest truth, which is why anyone who wants to stand in truth must have the spirit of God as a teacher. If the will for truth is present, God's spirit is always ready to work in and on people and guides them into truth, albeit in different ways. But it is always a gift of grace which the human being receives, and this gift of grace must be desired and gratefully received. This is a prerequisite for the human being to be guided into right thinking and also to gain the inner conviction to think right, if he is not yet informed of the working of the spirit. The knowledge of this is already an increased degree of maturity of soul, a proof only for this person himself but not for his fellow human beings to whom the knowledge could not yet be imparted. For as long as they do not strive for the truth themselves, their powers of realisation are also merely weak. And consequently, they first have to be stimulated to seek the truth and call upon the Giver of truth to impart it to them, to take them to school Himself and instruct them .... And God will not let Himself be asked in vain ....

Amen

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God as teacher also through mediators ....

B.D. 4113 from August 28th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

What you receive from Me not only applies to the individual person, to the recipient himself, but everyone who hears My word through him is, in a manner of speaking, My student whom I instruct Myself. The fact that the ability to receive varies and is often completely lacking does not justify the assumption that the human being is not offered the opportunity to penetrate the truth, just as, conversely, the other person does not therefore become wise, i.e. full of spiritual knowledge, because he is in direct contact with Me. The only decisive factor is the human being's will to penetrate the truth and his way of life in unselfish neighbourly love. Thus I also give every person an answer if he desires such .... first through the transmission of My word to My servants on earth, to whom I, apart from their ability to hear My word in their heart and write it down, also give the ability to recognise and utilise everything correctly, i.e. to speak about it freely and proficiently. Thus anyone who receives My word through a mediator is likewise taught by Me, for he will recognise it as My word. But if the case has occurred that My word has lost its purity by passing it on frequently, then the person desiring truth will no longer be fully convinced but want to raise objections which can only be refuted again by My awakened disciples. The pure truth will always have a convincing effect on a person taught by My spirit. Where would My love, My wisdom and My strength be if I did not want to grant them to a person who seriously desires the truth? How would I relate to you, My children, if you were helplessly left to My adversary's arbitrariness? I only require your will to turn to Me in full seriousness .... that you inwardly realise how ignorant and imperfect you are and therefore appeal to Me to guide you into knowledge of the pure truth. This expressed will will also inevitably bring you the truth. But very few people muster this will, and yet I cannot influence them to think right against their will, because My adversary likewise has a share in them and they have freely conceded their will to him. Thus the separation from him first has to be accomplished in terms of will before I can influence the human being with My power of grace .... But then I am only concerned to make it easy for the human being to recognise error, because this is the greatest obstacle to attaining maturity of soul. Whatever comes from My adversary with the intention of displacing Me can never be tolerated by Me but it has to be fought with perseverance and patience. And therefore, My adversary will never triumph where only the slightest will for truth is present ....

Amen

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God as teacher also through mediators ....

B.D. 4114 from August 30th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Only those who are actively engaged also in an earthly respect will ever be able to be mediators from Me to people. They must be willing and able to work constantly. For I demand this when someone starts work with Me and must demand it all the more when it is a matter of training a servant who serves Me and preparing him for an activity. Only someone who is dutiful and diligent in an earthly respect can be called upon for work which certainly touches the spiritual but also requires the use of physical strength, which thus can be called earthly to a certain extent. Thus, anyone who is deemed suitable for this work by Me will be given My gift of grace which can then be regarded as coming forth from his hands until the fellow human being tackles the work himself .... to shape his soul according to My will, which is made known to him through the gift of grace offered from above. Then he will understand the urgency of a transmission from above and recognise the purely spiritual task of the one who is active on My behalf. But anyone who disregards this working on the soul will never consider the announcements to come from above but will only see earthly work in them which, in his opinion, is completely useless. But I attach great importance to it and will not slacken to remind My servants of the urgency as well, and I always admonish them anew to be extremely active and not to let themselves be disconcerted by disparaging words of fellow human beings, for it concerns the highest, it concerns the soul's fate in eternity. Whoever seriously keeps this in mind will also pay more attention to the announcements, and they will not remain without success. (29.8.1947) But in order to be able to receive the announcements, the recipient must first believe that they come from above. If this belief is missing, then it is also not possible for beings of light to intervene in the thoughts of the receiver. And then the fellow human being is also inclined to believe in human influence and rejects it. Faith in My working in the human being through My spirit is absolutely necessary in order to receive such a gift of grace from Me. And therefore, it will be rare that I can express Myself in this way, despite people's will to live in My will and despite faith in Me, My love, omnipotence and wisdom. For only faith causes the human being to listen inwards, and then he can hear the inner voice if he is sensitive, i.e. if he can interpret every sensation. For hearing the inner voice is a refined feeling and likewise a necessity, for establishing a connection from the earthly to the spiritual kingdom requires thoughts turned towards the spiritual kingdom which, however, must be paired with the firm will to serve God. Both of these factors provide the human being with refined sensitivity, and only through this is it possible to hear My voice. Yet the time to come is so difficult and will make people of little faith waver. But I give every person the opportunity (30.8.1947) to take note of the eternal truth and therefore not only speak directly but through mediators to all people, thus they receive the same, so to speak, as the servants on earth who are directly taught by Me, only that I speak to them through their mouth in order to eliminate a compulsion of faith in those who are still weak in faith. For the word spoken by Me must be offered to them in such a way that they can accept it of their own free will or also reject it. And therefore I also reserve the method of transmission for Myself by also putting the words into My servants' mouths in a way which is most helpful to their fellow human beings in order to stimulate them to think. And therefore the conversations will also take the course which I deem favourable, i.e. My servants will speak as it is My will, if they speak up for My word, if they work for Me, thus if they have conversations within the scope of the spiritual. Where the human being is sensitive, he has to be touched if the words are not to remain without impression, and where he is in erroneous thinking the battle has to start, for error has to be fought first, and this cannot be achieved with tolerance, with consideration for old tradition. Anyone who fights for Me must fight with the sword of his mouth, he must not become unfaithful to Me for the sake of people; My word must be more important to him than the affection of a person whose life or views contradict My word. And therefore I choose fearless, intrepid fighters on earth who uncover the slightest contradiction against My word, who eagerly speak up for everything they have heard through the inner voice, who, once they have recognised My truth, give it up no more and use every opportunity to spread it. And their work will be blessed .... However, the extent to which it is successful for fellow human beings is entirely up to their will and desire for truth. For their will is free .... I want to help people recognise the truth and offer it to them, however, I do not coerce them to accept it but give them their freedom ....

Amen

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'Take this and eat .... this is My flesh and My blood ....'

B.D. 4115 from September 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

I call to My Own: Prepare yourselves and consider that you will soon be called back and need to proceed with the work for which I have hired you. The days are counted and only a few are still granted to you. Then the truth of My Word will be proven to you and you will become strong in faith. However, until then you will still be subject to many different internal as well as external problems, so that you will join Me increasingly more sincerely and I can grant you the strength which will enable you to stand up to all opposition and become willing labourers for Me. I persistently urge you to work diligently at improving your soul, for I know how important it is that you don't become half-hearted. I Myself Am with you and, time and again, direct your thoughts to the spiritual kingdom, I motivate you to seek contact with it and send messengers from the kingdom of light to meet you, who will always instruct you according to your understanding. And I Myself will enlighten you about anything you desire to know. It is not My will that you should be troubled by doubts, hence I want to dispel them by conveying the pure truth to you; so once you are enlightened and convinced that you possess the truth, it will be easy to work for Me, for then you will also advocate what I teach through My spirit within the person. And this speaks in you as I Myself would speak to you were I among you. Consequently, you can always ask Me questions and the right answer will come to you. For as soon as you are called, you must defer your earthly task and first comply with My request through the inner voice. First of all, I want to remove any doubt that still burdens you and that you shall discard. I want to answer your questions even if you don't ask them out loud, for I Am aware of your most secret thoughts, of your strength of will and your faith:

Firstly, keep to My Word which is offered to you from above. This Word comes from Me directly or is offered to you through beings of light, which only comply with My will and educate you according to My instructions. The man Jesus taught in the same way on earth, for He was also a being of light and spoke to people on My behalf, thus likewise according to My will. Hence, His Word was the same Word that came forth from Me and therefore He could rightfully say 'Anyone who hears Me hears the Father, for the Father and I are One ....' My voice sounded in Him, My strength was active in Him and My spirit completely filled the man Jesus, Who, thus permeated by Me, was completely united with Me. And this complete unity was the result of an exemplary life of love, a life of selfless neighbourly love, as I demand of all people who want to become perfect. A life of love therefore results in total unity with Me and this, in turn, the mediation of My Word, the emanation of Myself .... I Am the Word, therefore the Word is God .... Receiving and accepting the Word is spiritual nourishment .... It is the bread from heaven which is offered by Me Myself to someone who is hungry and thirsty for it. And when I offer people the bread from heaven I say 'Take this and eat, that is My flesh and My blood', after all, I Myself Am the Word .... flesh and blood in the spiritual sense .... On the occasion of a physical meal, the Supper with My disciples, I tried to explain to them the spiritual meal; I wanted to encourage them to accept spiritual nourishment more often, to enjoy My flesh and My blood in remembrance of Me, since then they would always be able to unite with Me and be full of strength. The fact that I broke the earthly bread and drank actual wine with My disciples at the same time was of no great importance, for My disciples understood My meaning because they were spiritually awakened, they lived a life of love and therefore also understood My figurative comparison. Besides, they were meant to take Me as an example .... they were meant to share all possessions with fellow human beings in need of them .... to feed them physically and spiritually, and I linked it to the promise of giving Myself to them .... they should find unity with Me through distributing everything they possessed and their neighbour lacked in order to receive My Word, through which I reveal Myself to all those who are united with Me through works of love. I did not prevent people from using My Words to create a process which can only be regarded as a purely external one, which can only be said to have been metaphorically carried out if a person has secured My presence first through a life of love, nor will I ever prevent it, so as not to curtail your freedom of will; however, I will always provide people with the right explanation through other spiritually enlightened people, who therefore have the right understanding of My Words and will pass them on. However, without the right understanding they will merely be an insignificant formality which only gains in value if the spiritual meaning is observed, if people hunger and thirst for accepting My Word, if they thus let themselves be nourished by Me with the bread from heaven, with My flesh and My blood, in order to be and forever remain united with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The destruction of the old earth .... Experience in the flesh .... Warning ....

B.D. 4116 from September 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

I told you that you will witness the destruction of the old earth while still in the flesh and I say it again so that you will believe it. Your faith is weak, and inwardly you refuse to accept the fact that you live in the last days. But My spirit repeatedly tells you that the time of the end is close at hand .... Why don't you want to believe this? Since, on the other hand, you cannot deny the truth of My revelations? And why do you hope for and expect progress, an improvement of earthly conditions? Why does the thought of an end in combination with a total destruction of the old earth seem unbelievable and unacceptable to you? Because you would gladly continue to live, because you are not yet prepared and do not sufficiently contemplate My Word, which very clearly explains to you the necessity of a total transformation of the old earth and will guide you into profound faith if you, with your will towards Me, absorb and accept every Word as coming from heaven and live accordingly ....

Even you, who should spread My Word, allow yourselves to be troubled by doubt, and therefore do not represent My Word convincingly enough, you allow yourselves to be undermined by objections to the contrary. Your faith is not strong enough, in spite of your good will to serve Me. The reality of life affects you and you find it impossible to reconcile it with the human being's spiritual destiny. Consequently you don't support My revelations about the forthcoming time diligently enough. You do not take My Word seriously enough yourselves, hence I always have to give you the same urgent warning of the approaching end again .... You will experience it while you are still in the flesh .... Does that not tell you enough? Do you know what age you will reach? Could it be that you will only live a short time? Only I know which day will be the last and I will keep it a secret, but I will tell you that it is not far away and that you will serve Me until the end .... Consequently you will have to experience the day and should believe it!

You will be good labourers for Me because a convinced faith also lets you speak convincingly. I need servants like you on earth who will strongly urge and vividly describe to people the need for My working on earth and the spiritual hardship humanity will experience if it does not receive help. You receive My Word and are therefore already advanced in knowledge .... and yet you do not want to believe although you will not reject or oppose it ....

For this reason I speak to you all the more insistently, because profound faith is necessary if your words are to make an impact on your fellow human beings. When you yourselves are convinced that what you hear through the voice of the spirit is the absolute truth, then you are true representatives of My Word on earth, and then you lend Me your mouth so that I can speak through it Myself. Your task during the approaching time is to be My mouthpiece because I cannot reveal Myself to people in any other way, but it is absolutely necessary that they should hear Me Myself, although they are not always able to recognise My voice. The extreme difficulties of the last days will come upon people with such severity that they would have to despair without My help, without My Word. But if I speak to them Myself they will be strong and able to resist even the greatest adversity because My Words will have given them strength. Hence you should render your services, because people have to be influenced without force, and because I Myself will always be present when you, as mediators, engage people in spiritual conversations and thus establish the connection between Me and the people who are to be instructed, who urgently need My Word if they want to endure until the end. And the end is coming soon .... I call to you time and time again; you should believe My Words and with complete trust approach the future, which will unfold as I told you well in advance in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Much suffering - Much grace ....

B.D. 4117 from September 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Excessive suffering is an exceptional grace, even if you find this incomprehensible; for My love does not want to let you humans slide into the delirium of the world and confronts some of you with hours of starkest adversity in order to bring you back to your senses, or the soul would remain empty-handed and not progress in its spiritual development. Suffering must always be considered as a means to render the human being helpless and make him aware of his weakness, and as soon as the suffering has contributed towards the fact that the soul turns to Me, that it appeals to Me for help and humbly entrusts itself to Me, it is a great blessing and should therefore be viewed as a gift of grace. For suffering leads to Me, whereas the joys of the world as well as all earthly pleasures will achieve the opposite. Suffering motivates people to pray, without prayer it is impossible to make contact with Me. Without prayer you cannot be given the gift of grace, because prayer expresses the will and the longing for Me and thus enables Me to meet the human being and, as fulfilment of his prayer, give to him what he needs.

If, however, the human being is spared suffering, the body will continue to reject the spirit when it wants to communicate with the soul in order to give the person the right guidance and instruction. But it is absolutely essential for spiritual progress, for reaching a high degree of maturity, that the soul be instructed by the spirit and that the soul will thus unite with the spirit. For this purpose I must absolutely grant help to the soul with My strength and therefore must first be asked for it, because the human being's will is decisive and suffering impels its decision. Suffering can also harden a human heart, in which case the person will drift away and no longer strive for ascent, and then there is no other means that would be more successful. But as a rule suffering leads to Me, generally a human being perfects himself through suffering and then it has fulfilled its purpose. Subsequently, you should be grateful for it and also acknowledge it as a grace; for earthly suffering is not a permanent condition and extremely beneficial, providing you want to mature. Then you will be eternally thankful to Me, and in the state of realisation earthly life will be easier for you to understand and you will also be able to cope during the time of great need, for then you will not live your life alone but with Me, because you will open yourselves to Me in prayer and thus receive strength which you, in turn, can use after your own will and with certainty will use for your spiritual ascent, as you are destined to do ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of the beings of light on destiny .... truth of the divine word ....

B.D. 4118 from September 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

All proclamations originate from Me as soon as they are audible as the voice of the spirit after heartfelt prayer. Hence it would be absurd to assume that I could ever contradict Myself, and therefore it is imperative to attach value to every manifestation, and thus its meaning will also be easier to understand .... I provide you with spiritual attendants on earth, and I also give them the right to influence your earthly life insofar as that they guide you on your earthly paths, that they direct and arrange your destiny according to My will. And thus your earthly life will always unfold in such a way as is helpful for your spiritual maturing. It is hardly possible to speak of complete fulfilment on earth, because then the maturing would be questionable. Rather, constant struggles must take place through which the human being who is serious about his spiritual ascent can mature. But as soon as this is striven for and the danger no longer exists that the human being will lose himself to the world again, they will also take earthly wishes into account because this is My will; and even then spiritual upward development is guaranteed, although earthly happiness concurs to spiritual work. But then it is My will which the spiritual attendants carry out, and then the human being can calmly enjoy his earthly luck, it will not cause him any spiritual disadvantage, as long as the human being's prayer always is: Father, Thy will be done .... An overly strong desire can certainly influence the human being's spiritual work so that it is carried out less eagerly, yet then the spiritual attendants will be active accordingly in order to put limits on the desire, i.e. they shape life in form of destiny and determine the human being's renunciation, yet never in a coercive way but only through mental influence in order to dissuade him from the overly strong desire and, if he is devoted to My will, to shower My gift of grace upon him again. Yet a child striving towards Me is exceedingly dear to Me and will be faithfully protected by Me until the end .... And I will also listen to its every request, I will take care of all its wishes and already grant it luck and joy on earth if only it longs for Me and does not exclude Me from its desire, if it approaches Me with love and trustingly presents every request to Me. For My love is always willing to give and bestows a state of bliss and peace upon My Own on earth as well ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Recognizing the voice of God ....

B.D. 4119 from September 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Anyone who loves Me also recognises My voice and will obey it. But to anyone who loves the world My voice is alien, for it does not sound as he desires. And for this reason, My voice from above will not be heeded either, because only a few people turn away from the world but most are still slaves to the world and thus unable to recognise My voice. And yet, I also express Myself to them in order to have them wondering. For there are only very few where you, My servants on earth, will be successful, (10.9.1947) because people completely lack the belief that I speak to people on earth in a form which manifests My love for them. It is only My great love for My living creations which causes Me to reveal Myself because they are in great distress and I want to help them; because I do not want to influence them in a coercive way, otherwise I would speak audibly from above in a way that they would have to recognise Me. I want to be recognised but the will to do so has to originate from My living creations themselves. Then I will so obviously approach them that it will be easy for them to believe in Me and to love Me. And then the right relationship between My living creations and Me will also have been established, the relationship of a child to its father .... then I will be able to seize it and take it into My special care, I will be able to give it what it needs and I will be able to induct it to the truth, and this will be recognised as originating from Me and find complete faith. And anyone who has once recognised My voice will be a willing servant to Me, for he is happy to be able to serve Me because he loves Me. And thus love and the gift of recognition will always be together. Only someone who feels love for Me will be able to recognise the divine origin in My word, in My gift of grace from above, and therefore accept it as a revelation which is certainly addressed to all people but which requires the will for truth before it has an effect on people. They will experience the blessing of My voice in themselves, they will be happy on earth already and will never be able to weaken, for anyone who receives a gift of grace from Me Myself is My child whom I always want to help to gain strength so that it will not live weakly through earthly life and can fulfil its purpose of earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

John 14:15-26 ....

B.D. 4120 from September 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And in every spiritual adversity I am close to it and strengthen and comfort it, I remedy every earthly adversity as soon as it is helpful for its soul. But it will always hear My voice if it listens within and wants to hear Me. For as a loving father I am always anxious to make My child happy in the form of My word which expresses My profound love. And thus I will also enable My children, who strive towards Me with love, to hear My word and they will recognise it as the father's voice .... And My Own can be recognised by this again, that My gift of grace, My word, is exceedingly dear to them, that they do not want to miss it any more once they have heard Me, and that they gratefully receive it from My servants who are mediators from Me to them. For all of them are taught by My spirit, I can work in all of them, even if in different ways. Anyone who loves Me fulfils My commandments, and anyone who fulfils My commandments draws Me close to him and I can reveal Myself to him. But My revelation is the most precious gift of grace a person can receive on earth. I Myself communicate with him, I speak to him, I instruct him and never ever let him go, and thus I will enter his heart, I will take abode with him and unite Myself with him .... I will fill him with My spirit, with My strength, and the connection with Me already means bliss on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

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(Personal .... )

B.D. 4121 from September 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And thus walk your path together until the end, under My guidance, with the assurance of My help in all situations of life, in every earthly and spiritual adversity and especially in your spiritual work, which is now to be the purpose and aim of your union. And do not let any doubts arise in you as to the truthfulness of what is conveyed to you through the voice of the spirit, for your strength and the certain success of your spiritual work lies in profound undoubted faith. Whatever you start, consult Me, do not live your life without Me, let Me be your daily companion and ask Me for My blessing .... And I will never leave you, I will look after you, give you information where it is necessary and always be a wise and loving advisor to you, a friend and brother and an exceedingly good father to Whom you can entrust yourselves without limits. And if you now know about My will, then follow it, do not miss the time which remains for you to work for Me and My kingdom, and consider that you must be united before I usher in the end with My intervention; for this will be followed by a time which is very difficult for everyone in which you must already work if you want to be successful. And this unity must have taken place inwardly as well as outwardly for the world, which will then also become fully understandable to you. You do not yet know what is coming, but I know of your fate, of your situation in life and therefore also know what is necessary for you to be able to fulfil your task for which I have chosen you. For time is short and every hour is precious. Therefore use it and follow My advice .... Unite closely and be sure of My blessing, which accompanies you on all your paths ....

Amen

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Teaching ministry – teacher – truthful knowledge ....

B.D. 4122 from September 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A teaching post can only be administered by people who are prepared to acquire the necessary knowledge, otherwise they can never work as teachers. It is extremely important that these teachers are instructed by people who are really knowledgeable, i.e., the teacher must know the truth himself, he must have knowledge at his disposal which enables him to pass it on, and therefore it is understandable that the highest knowledge, divine truth, must first have divine origin, that the recipient of this knowledge is therefore truthfully instructed, because the origin, God, is the eternal truth Himself, that God Himself is therefore to be regarded as the teacher and therefore those who spread the divine truth must also be taught by God if they want to teach again on earth amongst people. He will also always choose the people Himself who are active on His behalf and spread the gospel throughout the world, and He will know how to prevent His disciples from receiving wrong knowledge or the pure truth from being presented to them in an incomprehensible way. Furthermore, He will also protect the teachers chosen by Him from erroneous thinking or erroneous whisperings of bad forces, but conversely, He will also instruct the beings of light, i.e. knowing forces, to spiritually influence the people who are to preside over the teaching ministry one day. And these beings of light can again only distribute the pure truth from God because they only fulfil God's will and, as beings of light, constantly receive knowledge and can utilise it. But once a person has been appointed to the teaching ministry God will never ever let him go, after all, the appointment by God only took place after the human being's voluntary surrender to Him, after subordinating his will to divine will, and thus the striving towards God was shown so obviously that God will never ever let him sink back into the state of separation from Him. He seizes the voluntarily returning to Him and now takes it into His constant care as His own. And He entrusts it with a task .... to work for Him on earth and to be active in spreading the divine truth. So the first thing He does is to instruct the human being according to his task .... He trains him as a teacher, He gives him the knowledge which he should then pass on to his fellow human beings so that they will become free from error and acquire the pure truth from God. But anyone who is taught by God must inevitably also be recognised as a teacher, even though he lacks worldly studies and has never been taught by people. The right knowledge must come from God Himself. But it can be passed on and then conveyed to fellow human beings, who can certainly also deform the pure truth if their will strives for such. God does not prevent this, but He will always convey the pure truth directly to earth again, and this in an obvious way as soon as a person is willing to let himself be instructed by Him. For His will is always and constantly that the truth shall be spread, and thus He chooses His servants on earth who shall spread the gospel throughout the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Increased struggling of a light receiver on earth – compensation ....

B.D. 4123 from September 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Anyone who has the ability to receive the word directly from God, i.e. who succeeds in concentrating so that he is able to hear the extremely delicate voice of the spirit, will understandably be able to achieve a higher maturity of soul through this gift of grace if he has the serious will to do so. But he will have to struggle and fight all the more, he will have to compensate for his spiritual advantage in a certain respect through difficult life situations, through spiritual hardship and earthly difficulties, in order to rightfully earn the gifts of grace, thus he must, so to speak, acquire the spiritual good, which secures him a faster ascent, and withstand the struggle for it, otherwise it would be an unequal distribution of ascent opportunities from God. Every person is offered by God what is useful for the maturity of his soul. And one person needs less, the other more resistance at which he is to mature, yet the aim, perfection on earth, can be reached by every person because gifts of grace are allocated according to the will. If the will is good, i.e., if it seriously strives towards God, then its path of life will be an uninterrupted chain of receiving grace, and the temptations by the world, the onslaughts from outside, will also be less. But a soul that does not have to fight becomes lukewarm and indifferent and does not mature, but remains stagnant on its stage of development. And this is what God wants to prevent, and therefore He tries to encourage the recipient of spiritual gifts to detach himself from all earthly things and to only work spiritually, He tries to increase the desire for the latter, but He also presents the world with its attractions to the human being and lets him test himself against it. He constantly leads him by the hand over paths which are stony and thorny, He guides him and His guidance is truly the right one, even though the human being cannot understand why burdens are sometimes imposed on him which seem almost unbearable to him. Through constant inner struggle the human being makes himself receptive for the divine word as well as for the influx of strength, for adversity drives him to God, to the father, and the connection with the father through heartfelt dialogue is always successful, for God never dismisses a child calling upon Him without strengthening it. What is offered to man from the hand of God is always precious and must be utilised accordingly. God knows of everything that is still hidden from people, He also knows what is helpful for those who receive His word, He will help where help is needed, He will ease the pressure which weighs them down when the time comes and He will bless everything that contributes to a person's inner development. The firm bond with God is the human being's first and last aim, for the sake of which the individual's life will often be more difficult but will immediately be relieved when the purpose is fulfilled, when the human being has entered into contact with God through heartfelt prayer or by trustingly submitting all needs and worries to the heavenly father. Then His fatherly love will be revealed again, the sun will break through cloudy skies, it will be a bright and cheerful day when the soul revives and is willing to serve God again and engages in its spiritual work with great zeal and thereby serves Him as a faithful labourer in His vineyard ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Truth of the announcements ....

B.D. 4124 from September 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And this shall become your certainty that My gift of grace can never be distorted by you as long as you are so united with Me that the reception of My word is the result of heartfelt prayer, that you ask Me for spiritual enlightenment and trustingly approach Me, asking for My support in earthly and spiritual adversity. The appeal to your father in heaven protects you from erroneous thoughts, from misrepresenting what you have received and from a lack of understanding of what My spirit imparts to you. You can confidently make My word your own, you can advocate it as purest truth and make it the guiding principle of your daily life, you need not fear that I allow misguidance through evil forces, just as you must never assume that I indifferently face earthly hardship and leave you in it, for this would call My great love for you into question. But I only want your happiness and My word shall help you to live a blissful life. Through My word I will never mislead a person but I will try to lead a misguided person to the truth, and thus My word must be truth. And the fact that it is My word is evident from the fact that I only ever admonish you to love, because if you follow My admonitions you will also realise clearly and brightly that you can only have contact with spirits of light, because love never wants to harm or allows harm. If you practise active neighbourly love yourselves then you will also be fully convinced of the originator of the spiritual transmission and there will no longer be any doubt in you. For who should admonish you to love if not He Who is love Himself? You can certainly make a distinction between spiritual and earthly announcements but never consider the latter impossible as long as I, as your guide and advisor, have also taken charge of your earthly life and thus instruct you spiritually what you should and should not do. I have also promised you My earthly help, and since I want you to approach the father like children with all your concerns and needs I will also answer you like a loving father and help you where My help is required. And therefore do not doubt the truth of My word but accept everything as given by Me and comply with it, and you will live according to My will, you will not take wrong paths but constantly be guided by Me until the end of your life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Last Judgment .... Spiritualization of earth ....

B.D. 4125 from September 16th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A strict judgment will be held at the end of times, that is, there will come a time when the composition of earth can no longer be called earthly matter, but when all material substances will have spiritualised themselves, so that even the earth will have become a spiritual creation like many others in the universe, each of which, however, lays claim to be a place of education for the spirit. And earth will remain such a place of education for the spirit, only that its creations as well as its inhabitants can be called spiritualised, that the living beings' life will proceed under different conditions and even their task cannot be compared to their present one. Earth, too, will have to go through such an era after an endlessly long period of time, and it is this era Jesus spoke about to His listeners on earth.

Every material creation has to take this path of development, that is, it is only condemned matter in the beginning and, after an infinitely long time, after eternities which people will never be able to assess, it elevates itself to a completely different level; it increasingly spiritualises itself and can finally only be referred to as a spiritual creation. Yet these are immeasurably long periods of time, because all banished spirits first have to take this earthly material path so that matter will then have been completely overcome. Consequently, an endlessly long time will still have to pass until the complete spiritualization of earth has occurred. And this duration of time is comprised of individual phases of development again; each one on its own will be regarded as an eternity by as yet unenlightened people, because many generations will have to accomplish their full maturity during one such phase in order to attain a specific degree of maturity which then is comparable to the spiritualization on earth. Every stage begins with spiritually highly mature people and ends with people whose inclination to the abyss is so strong that it will be fulfilled, that they will be banished again into the creations of the succeeding new earth. These phases of development are in fact by human standards also infinitely long but they will always come to an end one day, and time and again an era of development will start anew. Yet at the end of times the spiritualization of the once material creation will proceed ever faster, and the tests of will, which happen in every period, can become increasingly less, because all living creations will then feel the same .... they will all desire to behold the countenance of God and therefore strive ever more sincerely towards God, or they have already been too far removed from God by the adverse power as to be able to return to God. And this is why they later, in spiritual creations, have to stay as spirits in places to which they are drawn and this is the harshest punishment which can come upon God opposing spirits since it is, after all, a state of complete blindness, a state of servitude, where helping only takes place against the servant's will, yet the person is unable to take any other path but to be of constant service until he surrenders his resistance.

This, too, is a divine law, that every occurrence takes place on a small scale and then repeats itself in infinitely diverse variations .... Jesus foresaw the end of this time, but you humans are only able to look forward to times which allow for humanly possible events .... All of you only take one Judgment Day into account .... But this will keep repeating itself as long as periods of Salvation find their conclusion in accordance with divine will .... Every judgment will end with the condemnation of the adversary's adherents and an admission into the spheres of light of those who remained faithful to God even in utmost adversity. And thus the Last Judgment will also result in the total destruction of all matter, but a completely spiritual new earth will arise, if only after such an endlessly long time that it need not be mentioned so as not to give people a false sense of security by proclaiming a new period of development in which they, in their opinion, would be able to make up for their neglect.

The judgment which separates one period of Salvation from the succeeding one will come irrevocably soon .... This shall be proclaimed by seers and prophets who are called by God and whom He informs Himself through His spirit, for it is necessary for the whole of humanity to face up to the approaching end, to change their way of life and to improve their souls, for the time left to humanity as a final gift of grace will pass quickly .... Soon the final hour will arrive and with it the Judgment which will carry out a complete separation of the pure from the impure ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calm before the storm .... Visible appearance of the Lord ....

B.D. 4126 from September 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A time of anxious misery and suffering lies before you and you can regard the time prior to this, the time in which you presently live, as the calm before the storm, during which you can still live your life within the scope of tradition, during which you can still speak of a certain extent of prosperity compared to the poverty and the deprivation which await you afterwards. And yet it will be a time of grace, a time when I will be clearly recognisable, when life will only be bearable if you deeply unite yourselves with Me in your thoughts, since then you will never be alone but will always be able to have Me as your protection. And I will also manifestly reveal Myself to you, I will approach individual people in the shape of the One Who harboured Me in all fullness within Himself. And I will be recognised wherever people's love for Me is strong, even if I dwell as a human being amongst people, for My eyes will tell them who I AM, and their hearts will come aglow with such burning love for Me as they would never be able to offer to a fellow human being. I will come to meet them with ardent love, I will illuminate them where they lack knowledge and comfort them in hours of distress and they will be able to overcome the most difficult situations and not despair, for they will sense My help, and wherever I visibly approach them they will be full of strength and profound faith. And once this fills a human heart no oppressive adversity will be able to exist anymore, for then they will only utterly rely on Me and I will truly not disappoint their faith. Yet anyone who lives without Me will hardly be able to endure this time. I cannot leave him in his spiritual adversity and will therefore have to sorely strike him with earthly adversity until his opposition against Me slackens, until he starts to believe and expects help from Me ....

Thus all of you will be subjected to anxious distress and suffering through which I want to win you over completely. Nevertheless, you also have abundant strength and grace at your disposal which will help you to gain Me. I only want your love and once I own it I will come to meet you .... in the last days even visibly in order to strengthen your and other people's faith, because you are in need of extraordinary strengthening and consolation. Consequently, you won't need to fear the difficult time ahead of you either, for you will survive it with My help. Nevertheless, it will remain a time of grace, and the yoke I impose upon you will be an easy one if only you make correct use of the gift of grace. To be allowed to behold Me with your physical eyes is truly worth the cross you will have to bear until the end. Yet I will also offer Myself as a bearer of the cross to those who take refuge in Me and appeal to Me for My help .... And for their sake I will shorten the days until the end. I know every individual person's problems, and those who are faithful to Me are My true children who will really not call upon Me in vain for help. Therefore don't let My announcement frighten you, approach the coming events determinedly and calmly, detach yourselves from the world and wait for Me .... And I will come .... at first appearing to individual people, in order to then fetch My Own into My kingdom .... in order to lead them away from the place of perdition into to the kingdom of peace, where their life will be as blissful as in paradise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Cross .... "My yoke is easy and My burden is light .... "

B.D. 4127 from September 21st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Take up your cross and follow Me .... And I will walk beside you and help you carry it, for My love will not let you suffer where it can take away your suffering without harming your soul. But if the cross weighs you down, then know that this is necessary for your soul's maturity .... And bear in mind that I know about your spiritual adversity and try to remedy it first, for the soul is in greater danger than the body when the hour of death has come. Consider that all adversity will end with the end of this earth and that this end is not far away. And therefore try to shape yourselves such that your stay in spheres of light will be assured, that you will gladly give up your earthly body and exchange it for a life in the beyond in complete freedom, if you have passed the test of will on earth. And this life will compensate you for everything you have suffered on earth and you will never desire this earth again. And the more suffering weighs you down the sooner you will have to (be allowed to?) give up earthly life and yet be purified for the spiritual kingdom. And you will thank Me eternally that I let you suffer for your own sake. Nevertheless, I give you comfort that your suffering can be averted through heartfelt prayer to Me, that I will take it away from you if you trustingly come to the father like children. Then I will lovingly take care of you and carry the cross for you, i.e. I will find a solution which is equal to a reduction of the hardship .... I lighten your cross so that it no longer weighs so heavily on you, and you will be able to carry it because you draw the strength for it from Me. "My yoke is easy and My burden is light..." I Myself gave you this word. Do you want to doubt its truth? Therefore always believe that every cross is bearable for you if only you carry every burden with your eyes turned towards Me, and if it seems heavy to you, consider it a sign of My love for you, for I want to make My kingdom accessible to those I let suffer without guilt already on earth, because I know about their direction of will, about their activity of love on earth and about their state of soul, which I want to elevate. And therefore patiently accept all suffering, it is only imposed on you for your own good, and you will never reach your aim in the same time if you are spared suffering, if you are not burdened with a cross, if earthly life gives you fulfilment of all your wishes and much more. And if you know of My word that it is a sign of My great love for you, if you get into earthly adversity which almost makes you despair of life, then do not complain and grumble but surrender to your fate and think that your father in heaven truly does not burden His children with suffering if it would not bear far greater blessings for your soul, the maturing of which is the aim of every human being on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

'Only he who remains in love remains in Me, and I in him ....'

B.D. 4128 from September 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Love has to come alight in you if you want to be united with Me. Only he who remains in love remains in Me and I in him. And thus you must feel impelled by your heart to give love to your fellow human being, to make him happy and gain his affection, you have to be in constant harmony with him, you have to be a friend and brother to your neighbour, you have to share joy and suffering with him and always endeavour to ease his fate on earth, and you must always be willing to guide him correctly in spiritual matters, because the most important and most pleasing activity of love is to save or benefit his soul. If you are impelled by love, that is, if you feel urged from deep within yourselves to carry out works of love, I Am closely united with you, for the feeling of love already shows that I Am taking possession of you, it is an overflowing of My strength of love to you, which is the result of your will turning towards good, thus an unconscious turning towards Me.

I can certainly draw all of you to My heart, I can instantly kindle love in you and in that case win all of you over for Myself, if I wanted to do so .... however, in that case I would have no living creations as My image but only judged beings without free will as a sign of their divinity. But I want to work and create with perfect beings, I want to give them ultimate happiness because My love for them is infinitely profound, and I can only do so if they have reached a particular degree which people should and can reach on earth. And this is why I must constantly admonish you to be eagerly active in love, because I want to be united with you in order to be able to work in all fullness within you and thus increase the strength of your love, so that you become divine beings yourselves, as was your destiny in the very beginning.

I want to be as one with you yet you must accomplish this merger of your own free will .... And this is why you have to practise love yourselves, you must constantly make an effort to do good works, you must change your feelings if they have not yet come alight as love within you, you must want to be good then you will also be able to become it, for I will bless such a will and give you strength to implement it. You must want to be united with Me and I will come to you and take possession of you with the intention of never letting go of you or allowing you to separate yourselves from Me again. For My love is so profound that it will not rest until total unification has taken place, because this was the original state, because My living creations came forth from Me, because they are strength from Me which inevitably has to return to Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

(Father words) chaos .... task of the workers for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 4129 from September 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The people who will survive My intervention, the raging of the elements of nature, will still be faced by indescribable chaos, and no-one will have the strength to be active in a constructive way apart from My Own who can constantly draw strength from their bond with Me. They will also master the most difficult living conditions, they will achieve great things because they will obviously be helped by extraordinary activity on My part, for their profound faith in Me allows for such activity. And they will find a field of work of far-reaching proportions .... There will be people everywhere who are left helpless in the world and unable to cope with the difficult circumstances. And to bring them to faith in Me and My love, to give them a faint recognition of truth, to stimulate them to active neighbourly love and thus to inform them of My word, that will be the task in the coming time of suffering, which you can well fulfil if you want to be efficient labourers for Me and work for Me and My kingdom. But then you will also have to go through the time of suffering yourselves, I cannot keep hardship and misery from you where the whole of humanity is affected by it, instead I have to confine Myself to filling you with strength so that you will survive the time of adversity. But this requires a constant relationship with Me, deepest faith and love for your neighbour. Then you can act as teachers for Me, and you yourselves will be guided as My will and My wisdom have determined since eternity. And for this reason, you should speak everywhere where it is possible, for what I once say will come true to the sorrow of countless souls which are still very far from Me and to the joy of those who have found their way to Me. You shall bring them the gospel, you shall inform them of the time of grace until the end, of My activity of an extraordinary kind and of the great spiritual success of the fulfilment of My will, which I make known to people through you. You shall instruct them of the effect of a life of love, of the consequences of right thinking and acting. And if you succeed in making them believers, in winning them over for My teaching, you will have worked successfully for Me and you yourselves will be blessed in a spiritual as well as earthly way and thus already be rewarded on earth through the bestowal of extraordinary blessings during the extremely difficult situation of life in the last days .... (24.9.1947) You will have neither earthly nor spiritual shortage, you will be able to work for My kingdom filled with strength, you will withstand all temptations and also be able to stand your ground to the world, you will be courageous and confident and by no means bow down to the measures of those who are hostile towards Me, and you will always and constantly receive My word, and this will be the greatest gift of grace which will make you endure the days until the end. For you will feel Me, you will be aware of My presence and thereby exceedingly happy, because I will also show Myself to you if increased strength is required for you. And therefore you, who are Mine, will also endure the last and most difficult days and patiently persevere until I come to fetch you into My kingdom. Yet they will weigh unspeakably heavy on those who have no faith in Me and who therefore have fallen prey to My adversary beyond all hope. For a terrible end awaits them .... They will remain under his control and will be banished anew, so that one day they will be able to be free from his rule, even if it is after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Capacity for spiritual announcements .... change of heart ....

B.D. 4130 from September 27th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

What stand the human being takes on the spiritual transmissions determines also his capacity for these announcements. And thus two people can receive the same knowledge and yet be touched by it differently. Although the announcements themselves are easy to understand for every spiritually striving person, they are a completely new field for a purely earthly-minded individual. They originate from the spiritual kingdom and also have the spiritual kingdom as their content, thus they also appear improbable to the worldly-minded person, just as everything spiritual seems unreal and therefore implausible to him. A closer explanation will also not be successful for him. He cannot grasp it because he also does not want to delve into an area which touches him (26.9.1947) terribly. For his soul rejects everything that goes beyond its cognitive faculties. It rejects it as completely contradictory to its state, it does not want to submit itself to demands which are contrary to its will. But a worldly-directed soul's will is always turned towards matter, and spiritual striving is not appealing to it but obstructive to its worldly interests. Its aim is earthly goods and therefore it neither desires nor utilises spiritual goods if they are offered to it without desire. And therefore, understanding can rarely be expected from a worldly-minded person unless the world disappoints him to such an extent that the soul then seeks a substitute, namely instinctively where imperishable goods are handed out. Such a change of heart can occur after earthly failures, after tribulation and great earthly hardship, which would then have fulfilled a high purpose for which the soul, after realising it, is extremely grateful to its creator. Yet it must in free will seek contact with the spiritual kingdom through reflection or continued activity of love, then it will also have understanding for the announcements from on high, and its powers of judgment will also correspond to its desire for truth, it will mature in realisation, it will receive a treasure of spiritual knowledge, it will never ever want to miss it and endeavour to fulfil God's will and thus live in divine order .... But then it has also already become an aspirant of the spiritual kingdom from where knowledge is imparted to it. It has become a bearer of truth, a receiver of light, and it can now distribute truth, it can let the light shine .... i.e., the human being can make use of his knowledge and instruct others who are ignorant, he can work for the kingdom of God .... But only that human being can be addressed as a worker for the kingdom of God who is in contact with the spiritual kingdom, i.e. who has received the knowledge from on high, or to whom it was conveyed by fellow human beings, and the beings of light must have had such an effect on him that it has fully become his intellectual property. He must not only have listened to it with his ears but his heart and intellect must have become active after receiving spiritual knowledge, only then will it have brought him realisation, and only then will spiritual gifts .... announcements of spiritual content .... be utilised correctly and ensure the human being's spiritual ascent .... an increased degree of maturity of his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Justice .... Equal rights .... Mutual love ....

B.D. 4131 from September 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Even the sense of justice is subject to a law. It can certainly be increased many times over, nevertheless, in cases relating to equal rights it has to be limited. For it always has to be taken into consideration that both giving as well as taking are first subject to the commandment of love. Giving is determined by love, insofar that love has to be the driving force of giving, and thus every gift has to awaken love in the recipient. For love is the fundamental substance of everything that is visible to the human being, just as it must incessantly flow to all works of creation if they are to continue to exist. Consequently, it requires the strength of love if the offering is to awaken love in return and increase the strength in itself. Giving is the evidence of love, but the receiving can take place without love, in which case it will remain appropriately ineffective unless the recipient is voluntarily partaking of the spiritual gifts from above which lead upwards again. Earthly gifts can only have an earthly effect, that is, the giving part has to take into account that his gift will indeed be accepted yet not valued differently than a matter of fact and therefore awakens little or no love in return, which would be classed as a spiritual failure. In that case, only the giver's will is of importance but not the act itself. The degree of love which urges a person to give is always the decisive factor, this is why giving cannot be generalised, since the degree of love is not always and towards all people the same; rather, the human being has to exercise firm self-criticism, otherwise he will regard actions as deeds of love which are merely the results of education or habits and thus lack the driving force of love for a another person. The latter conduct of people is doubtlessly commendable and therefore should not stop; nevertheless, every act carried out by love has eternal value, because it results in the soul's higher maturity. Actions of love increase humanity's spiritual state on earth, actions of justice can certainly go hand in hand with love yet are generally only driven by the feeling of formal thoughtfulness, which can be automatically carried out without the heart being involved and therefore does not follow the person as a deed of love into eternity.

Just thinking and just conduct is expected of people, for the contrary has detrimental effects on fellow human beings and is therefore unkindness; it is a violation of the commandment of love. Consequently, just thinking and just conduct can be regarded as the fulfilment of the commandment of love .... But justice should not always be understood as equal rights .... because a demand for absolute equality cannot always and by all people be made .... For even here, laws apply which are subject to divine will. The human being should certainly take care not to value himself too highly either way, thus he should not lay claim to more than he is willing to give, he should give to another person what he himself deems desirable, yet this will has to remain free, it must not be forcibly aimed in one direction which, however, is the case when the reason for giving is an acquired formality that a person complies with. Hence you should seriously examine which feeling prompts you to put your will to give into practise. Don't be satisfied with a correct act which lacks all warmth but follow the urging of your heart, then you will be governed by love and every thought, intention and action will be good. However, in cases of emergency you should act fairly, when not just one person relies on your help but when it is needed everywhere. Don't deny it to one person while you give it to the other but make an effort to distribute and judge fairly. Give pleasure where you can and don't try to keep an anxious limit, for this stifles love, it does not awaken mutual love, and where love is lacking there is no spiritual progress, even if you have effectively created earthly order, yet divine order must be fulfilled first, and according to divine law love comes first. Where it is observed all other good qualities will follow, and this includes justice as well ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilling the divine will .... observing the divine word .... love ....

B.D. 4132 from September 30th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Anyone who does not bow down to My will will also hardly inherit My kingdom, for he can never enter into complete union with Me as My child. However, it is every person's own business what stand he takes towards Me and My will, thus towards My commandments, and therefore he will neither be forced nor prevented from performing actions which prove his direction of will. He can freely decide upwards or downwards, yet he is responsible for his decision because knowledge of My will was conveyed to him beforehand, which he should respect first. And My will is made known to you through My word, which you can hear loudly and clearly directly, offered by My never-ending love to people who have profound faith in Me and My might. I can express Myself to them and yet only within the scope of the natural so as not to infringe the freedom of will. Yet I give people proof of the truth of My word by giving them the opportunity to inform themselves beforehand of events which take place in nature according to prediction. I speak through a human being to the entire environment .... Anyone who listens to Me has gained much, for what I promise a person will truly come true .... Anyone who listens to Me cannot get lost, he is in contact with the spiritual kingdom and will never ever remain without guidance from the beings of light .... anyone who listens to My word .... however, not only with his ears but also accepts it with his heart and follows it. And if he now complies with it he fulfils My will, he bows to the law of love, the fulfilment of which I demand as the only and first thing because eternal beatitude depends on it, the complete uniting with Me and the complete transformation of your being into love. Everything the human being does to fulfil My will must therefore be dictated by love if it is to be successful for his soul, otherwise it would be a humanly issued commandment without value and effect for eternity. But I pave the way to salvation for you by informing you of My will. Therefore make My will your concern and you will thank Me for all eternity that I make it easy for you to submit yourselves to My will. And believe that I have great power and want to use it for My children, for whom I want to prepare a kingdom in eternity which will open up all glories for them. Believe this and make an effort to do everything that corresponds to My will so that you will be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual communion substitute for renunciations and disappointments ....

B.D. 4133 from October 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Spiritual communion has to compensate you for what you are denied, for you receive My word as a sign of My love, and you can always draw the strength for renewed loving activity from the connection with Me. It is indeed a renunciation which is not caused by My will, yet it is not detrimental to the soul insofar as that it pushes all the more intimately towards Me and is also seized by My love. For I do not deny Myself to any of My living creations, I draw to Myself what does not resist Me and make happy what hands itself over to Me. And if you therefore receive My word I no longer cover My face but I let it shine and its rays fall into your heart. And they will light up, the fire of love will be ablaze and scatter its sparks in all directions, and they will no longer be able to be extinguished because their embers are too great, it is a fire which has Me as its source, the eternal fire, ardent and everlasting love. And love must therefore awaken everything to life that enters its circuit. Nothing can resist love because this is My will and My plan from eternity also provides for that which brings about the release of love. True love balances and does not refuse, it tolerates and forgives, it gives and makes happy, it shares in the suffering and hardship of the other, but it also sees the highest happiness in union. But anyone who has My word should not lack love, he should only entrust himself to Me and let Me alone rule, and his path through life will be well-organised, he will realise what helps him to attain maturity of soul and never ever doubt My love and grace, which grants him everything and wants to deny nothing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's hiring of workers for the vineyard .... spreading the divine word ....

B.D. 4134 from October 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It is immensely important to take care of the spreading of My word at a time when the whole of humanity has reached a spiritual low. No-one takes My word seriously, no-one establishes the right relationship with Me, even those who deem themselves faithful look for Me in the distance, and the few people devoted to Me who have the right living faith are not taken seriously, they are laughed at because of their profound faith and only reluctantly listened to if they stand up for Me and My word in order to bring Me close to them. It is a state which cannot continue, for people live a life without Me even though they keep up appearances and outwardly profess to be united with Me. Yet they do not know Me and therefore cannot be irradiated by My love. They live a life which resembles the state of death .... unawakened spirit, complete spiritual blindness. They do not know what is in store for them, they know nothing of the end time and its manifestations, of the demands which both earthly life and I Myself place on the human being, they know nothing of My love and grace, of My mercy and constant helpfulness .... They live and yet are dead in spirit. And therefore, My word must be conveyed to them wherever possible, the blessing of love must be preached to them, they must know about My will and about their state of soul so that they will start the work of changing their souls, for there is not much time left. Yet only people on earth can provide them with information, and these I instruct Myself and put into their mouths what they should say, just as I always direct their steps towards those who are in need and accessible to My gift of grace from above. For I know of every person's spiritual condition and take all circumstances into account. Yet if My word is offered to them and they do not accept it, I cannot help them in any other way, for they reject Me Myself with My word. But anyone who wants to receive Me must also take note of My word, otherwise he will not be able to grasp the significance of My presence either. And therefore I constantly hire willing servants on earth, for My word shall become established amongst people of good will. And therefore take every opportunity, you who have offered yourselves to Me as labourers in the vineyard .... do not be afraid to speak of Me and to mention My extraordinary working, present the end to your fellow human beings, the significance of the last days and the last Judgment, and thus work for My kingdom and I will bless you. For this work is so urgent that all other work shall remain unnoticed until the spiritual work has been done. My word is absolute truth, and anyone who follows it need truly not fear death, even though it is close to him in view of the end and the work of destruction which will come as a result of a great shaking of the earth, which is destined for you soon. Take My words seriously, for they will not sound for much longer in order to then be heard from above. But then it will be dreadful, for only few will stand in faith to face this disaster calmly. But I will disturb the whole world in its rest, and it will happen as I have proclaimed .... And you shall prepare people while there is still time, you shall speak as if the next day could already bring the disaster .... Then your speech will not remain without impression, and a few will allow themselves to be advised, they will offer no resistance and thus be seized by Me. And I will reward you for your activity for Me and My kingdom. But the most beautiful reward will be the gratitude of the souls which have found their way back into the father's house through you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

(Personal .... )

B.D. 4135 from October 4th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Signs and miracles happen to those who want to belong to Me because I take care of those who entrust themselves to Me in their adversity. I do not stay away from them but hear their call and listen to their pleas. And since I have assured you of My help in spiritual and earthly adversity you shall also obviously experience it, for you, who want to serve Me, shall inform your fellow human beings of My love and care, of My working on you and of the truth of My word. And therefore I also let you run into difficulties from which only My help can rescue you, where there is no other way out than that I take care of you and make the hearts receptive for every gift of grace, which also includes the expression of My will, which I have instructed you to observe for your own sake. There is only a short time left for you to prepare in quiet living together, in spiritual training and shaping of your souls. Then life will once again approach you in all its oppression for a short time, but you will master it. I give you this assurance so that you can adhere to My word, so that you are strong in spirit, set each other up and never ever leave each other. You will be able to do what you want to do because the strength of love is active in you and no longer allows for weakness. And I will tell you the time when your mission will begin. A time of greatest excitement will precede, the world will draw all attention to itself, people will fear the future because they see a fire developing which cannot be easily extinguished. Yet all this has to precede it, otherwise too little attention will be paid to My intervention, for I will emerge when the climax has been reached, when there is no way out but boundless destruction. Then people shall hear Me, and then you will also have to be ready and proclaim Me to all those I lead to you. And then do not hesitate but serve Me, walk the path I mark out for you and work for Me and My kingdom, for time is flying and there are only a few days until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The Lord’s messenger before His coming .... Help desperately needed ....

B.D. 4136 from October 6th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Remarkable gifts of grace can be offered to people and they walk past them as if they were everyday occurrences. They can't be troubled to examine them earnestly, and although they hear what is offered to them as a most precious gift of grace they do not apply it to themselves and, therefore, do not perfect themselves according to My Will. And thus the time of grace will pass without much benefit to them. The end is near. I will make Myself known in every possible way, I will use every means to open their hearts so that I may enter and teach them Myself. Consequently there will be twice as much work in the forthcoming time and My servants should take their task seriously and not deceive themselves by believing that their job is done. This short time before the end requires exceptional assistance on My part and particularly keen activity on the part of My servants on earth, if the souls are to be saved which are in extreme distress. Although it seems that you will not be very successful, since many will reject you, your work will not have been in vain.

Someone will come and speak the same words to people that you have received from Me. And people will compare and be surprised because they will recognise that the content corresponds to what they have already received through Word and Scripture. And again people will be offered a great opportunity to change their way of life and to shape themselves in accordance with My will. Because the messages from above will be so obviously consistent with the Gospel preached by him, who is My forerunner before My last coming. Only a few will recognise the extraordinary light and know that the time has come. The majority, however, will disregard a gift of grace which My love repeatedly offers to them. They cannot be helped anymore because it is their own free will as to whether they accept or reject it and which I will never compel. But the time of grace will be over soon, soon the hour will have passed and the last bell will toll. And anyone who has not found his way back to Me by then will remain distant from God for eternity and thus in a miserable state, which My love constantly attempts to prevent .... but success is up to you humans yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Urgent reminder from God ....

B.D. 4137 from October 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

I want to heal the sick, strengthen the weak, lift up the fallen, comfort the afflicted, I want to be a father to the orphaned, a teacher to the ignorant, and where an erring soul stands helplessly by the wayside I will offer Myself as a guide to warn it of the wrong path which leads it into the abyss. And all people who need My help and want to accept help will evidently experience it so that they believe that there is a God in heaven Who takes care of them and does not leave them on their own in their adversity. They are only not allowed to resist Me because then I will withdraw My will so as not to curtail their freedom of will. Nevertheless, I could very well impose My help on them, yet then it would not be real help but merely an obstacle to their soul's ascent, which has to travel the path of ascent in utmost freedom if it wants to be saved. And therefore I can only inform you humans through My word of My love for you and of My will to help. And if you now come to Me of your own accord My love can work on you and you will thank Me eternally that I have taken care of you. And thus all hardship and suffering will be a burden for you if you do not want to accept help, and then earthly life will be unspeakably difficult for you and you will hardly reach your aim if My love cannot take effect on you. But I will still not leave you, and if I do not manage it in this earthly life then you will indeed have to go through another life on earth, yet one day you will reach the aim and let My love take hold of you, and your adversity will be remedied eternally. But now I once again urgently admonish you to follow My word and entrust yourselves to My guidance, for you do not have much time left on this earth. Use every day to approach Me, listen to My advice and let yourselves be instructed by those who are My true representatives on earth, who convey My word to you, which they receive from on high, from Me, in order to convey it to their fellow human beings. Listen to them, for they are My servants on earth who shall speak in My stead and inform you of My will, of My working and My love for you. Listen to them and follow My will, and very soon you will be guided onto the right path and will certainly reach your aim in the short time you have left until the end. Let yourselves be seized by My love and you will be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual bondage ....

B.D. 4138 from October 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Where spiritual bondage prevails there is little success for My representatives on earth, for people are extensively deprived of knowledge, but on the other hand they are bound to handed down traditions which they never ever want to surrender and which, however, oppose what you, My servants on earth, represent and try to convey to them. Tremendous work has to begin in order to separate the pure teaching given to people by Me on earth from additional human work. Where intellectual freedom reigns, clarification can be accomplished through claim and counterclaim. But where the human being is prevented by commandments and prohibitions from freely deciding for himself, a purification of the falsified teaching is difficult to accomplish, and there it will also hardly be possible to win people for the revelations from on high, thus for the pure truth. But people remain in spiritual bondage as long as they unconditionally accept what they are taught without thinking about it themselves, otherwise they would encounter contradictions which would give them reason to doubt the absolute truth of what is imparted to them. Doubt must first set in before the human being is receptive to the pure truth, if he is in error. And error is everything that does not correspond with the teaching offered by Me Myself. Thus you humans can always use it as a guideline, for what is proclaimed to people through the voice of the spirit is pure, absolute truth and can also be represented as such at any time. However, evidence will also be produced on that side of the correctness of what contradicts the pure truth. But this evidence is not fully valid, it partly originates from human accounts which have been sanctioned, but partly also from unclear reports on which the stamp of credibility was deliberately put in order to strengthen the foundations of an organisation which wanted to occupy a position of power. And so the members of this organisation have been guided by themselves into a wrong thinking from which they do not want to or cannot free themselves. Every bearer of truth who endeavours to refute misguided teachings or merely to portray and illuminate them as doubtful will be in a difficult position against those, for they are commanded to have undoubted faith in the correctness of what they are taught, and thus they are spiritually not free, they are in a bondage which is wanted by satan and tolerated by people without resistance. And they cannot free themselves from this bondage as long as they do not have the firm will to attain the truth and call upon Me for My assistance. Then they will testify to Me that their will is turned towards Me, and then they will truly receive the strength to break away from the power of the one who is the enemy of the pure truth. Then they will also start to doubt from within the truth of what they are taught; they will desire the truth and I will convey it to them in a form that they can accept it. And then those will also have lost their power who are in the service of him who fights against the truth. Then they will not belong to the crowd of followers who accept without thinking what is to be thought through, but they will feel far happier in possession of the pure truth, which they will also recognise as such. Yet the opportunity is offered to all to take a stand on the spiritual knowledge imparted to them, for everyone will run into a position to discuss controversial issues, yet how long such occupy their thinking is again up to the human being's free will. And therefore, everyone is also responsible for his spiritual knowledge, although the teachers also have to answer who distribute spiritual knowledge which has not become their own mental knowledge but was also passed on by them irresponsibly, without the teacher having acquired the inner conviction of truthfulness. But he who exercises a teaching office must also be able to defend the body of thought, which is only ever possible if he himself deals with it intellectually. If he fails to do so he will have to answer to Me as the eternal truth Myself, which I offer to anyone who only seriously desires it in order to invalidate My adversary, whose most eager endeavour is to undermine the truth and lead people into wrong thinking. And I will truly be victorious, for My adversary will be defeated at the end of days, whereas My word, the light from the heavens, the pure truth, will remain, although heaven and earth will pass away ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Opposing the will of God .... (personal)

B.D. 4139 from October 11th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Anyone who opposes My will will find no peace in this life once he has realised that I, as Lord and creator, rule the entire world and that I also incline towards the tiniest being if it needs My care. And this realisation will occur to every person who once received My word through the mouth of a servant on earth and let it speak to his heart. Anyone who has remained untouched by My word will not incur guilt if he does not fulfil My will, even though he is impelled to do so from within; yet he lacks realisation and thus he will not be held responsible either. But where the powers of realisation have also been acquired for deeper knowledge, a violation of My will is a disregard or rebellion against Me Myself, which also has to be atoned for accordingly. And thus you have to expect that I will withdraw My gift of grace from you, that your view will be clouded and that you will lose spiritual wealth and a great emptiness will remain in your heart which will make you unhappy and weak towards earthly life until the desire for My love and grace overcomes you and you sincerely appeal for the granting of My word; and then My grace will shine for you again, providing you comply with My will and do what I have commanded you. For My will is unchangeable and I truly know best what is necessary for you to become faithful labourers for Me and My kingdom. And so let yourselves be admonished and follow My will, and do not become negligent in your striving, work diligently and try to make My gift of grace accessible to your fellow human beings, receive yourselves what My love offers you and utilise it, otherwise you will be weakened in wanting and carrying out what I demand of you through My word. Draw the strength from My word and you will be faithful and willing labourers for Me and always fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Inner word - gift of grace .... doubt .... (personal)

B.D. 4140 from October 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Why do you doubt My word? You cannot yet grasp what a gift of grace you receive, for the inner voice is a great gift from Me which I grant to everyone but which requires an extremely high degree of maturity which people no longer have today. Nevertheless, My love for you, My living creations, is so great that I want to transform you into My children and therefore My word, the light from above, is indispensable in a time of spiritual low. And therefore I give you humans a gift by choosing you to be a mediator between Me and you. And I also gave you the ability to receive and understand My word; it is a great gift of grace, although your will only made this gift possible. And such a gift shall make you happy and joyful, it shall give you strength and comfort in every difficult situation in life, it shall be a support for you when earthly supports fail and you doubt the truth of the word which comes to you from on high? Give yourself completely to Me and all doubt will disappear from your heart. What else could I possibly want but to preserve you for a task which is extremely important in the time of humanity's deepest distress. And if suffering oppresses you, then this shall only contribute to making you strive towards Me more intimately. Yet you can always be certain of My help, for I want you to work for My kingdom and will never let you become unfit for it due to excessive suffering. And if I give you the assurance that you will work together in the time to come, then quell every doubt and believe, for the strength of faith also guarantees certain success. I do not want a separation, I do not want a decline in your spiritual life either, I want love to increase because without love no activity on My part is possible in you. Therefore give up the fight, let Me rule and entrust yourselves to Me and My love without limit, for I never deny Myself, I am always ready to stand by you, and I know about every adversity your soul experiences, yet I also know what is for your best and helps it to mature .... Yet I can only advise you and make My will known to you .... And if you follow My advice My blessing will also always accompany you and you will be happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Task of the servants of God .... mediator between God and people ....

B.D. 4141 from October 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You must likewise believe unquestioningly that you have been given a spiritual task, and you must by no means easily ignore it or neglect to fulfil it. To be allowed to serve God is a special distinction which certainly requires the human being's will but also a higher degree of maturity which enables him to do unusual work. But being allowed to serve God also obliges one to do it with the utmost commitment, it obliges one to be industriously active and to be most willing to conscientiously fulfil the task set. And again, the fulfilment of such a task is extremely important and significant, for humanity's spiritual hardship demands that the former finds help, that God Himself brings it help through His very servants on earth. And this service to suffering humanity should be taken seriously, for countless souls are dependent on help. But the help consists of a human being being the mediator between them and God, Who informs humanity of His will through this mediator and tries to lead people to right thinking and a way of life in love. But since people are no longer able to establish the connection with God themselves, a human being must volunteer to enter into contact with God as a mediator in order to receive His instructions and, as it were, pass them on to people for their salvation. This task is so extremely important and its fulfilment so urgently necessary that God gives the one who wants to serve Him every opportunity to fulfil his task and also grants him every protection, every support and every grace so that the mediator can carry out his office in peace and can constantly work for the kingdom of God. And therefore you should not doubt that you have a mission to fulfil, and if you believe you will also be diligently active and not miss any opportunity to work for God and His kingdom wherever possible. Then you will put spiritual work first and never regret it, for if you work for God and His kingdom He will also reward you .... He will give you grace in abundance so that you can participate in Christ's work of redemption already on earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual communion .... process .... (birth)

B.D. 4142 from October 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Communicating spiritually is a process which guarantees unmeasured gifts of grace, for it is the uniting with Me Myself, Who bestows grace in abundance. Through spiritual communion the human being's soul enters a state of transfiguration, it no longer belongs to earth but is in such intimate contact with the spirit within itself that it is, as it were, spiritualised itself and in this state feels the bliss of the connection with the father-spirit without the human being feeling anything with his physical senses. It is merely the soul which is participating in it, the soul which has detached itself from the earth and to a certain extent also from the body and dwells in spiritual spheres. I Myself seize it full of love and also radiate love into it, I fill it with strength which enables it to feel and think completely spiritually and to only want what corresponds to My will. Spiritual communion is a state of complete surrender of will to Me, for only that soul can be united with Me which has given up all resistance and surrenders itself to Me in deepest love, thus it accepts My fundamental nature and becomes love itself. This transformation of its nature takes place through the human being's activity of love first, which is then followed by a heartfelt desire for Me Myself which is so strong that the soul desires to hear and feel Me. Through this desire the soul draws Me to itself, because love seeks and finds union and because I, as the eternal Love Myself, know no other aim than to be united with My living creations and to make them happy with My love. And therefore I comply with every desire of a loving soul and make it happy by making My presence known to it through My word .... so that it feels My presence, so that it is certain of My nearness and receives undeniable evidence of My love .... My radiance, My word, My flesh and My blood. Spiritual communion is the intimate union with Me which can never remain without consequences. The soul is born anew, it emerges from its shell, it becomes free from imprisonment, it enters into life, for My spirit unites with it and awakens it to life, it becomes spiritually active and receives gifts of grace .... a rich knowledge which encompasses eternal truths. She is no longer in a state of death but lives a new life, in light and strength, in knowledge and love. And I am constantly united with it, for anyone who once communicates spiritually no longer wants to miss the union with Me, he constantly longs for My presence and My love, and his longing will constantly be fulfilled. For a soul born anew constantly returns to its origin again, it feels that it belongs to the kingdom of spirits as a spirit, it feels closely united with the father as a child, it remains in constant love and therefore never parts with Me again for eternity .... And the earth only keeps it bound until it has given away its spiritual wealth, its treasure of grace received through spiritual communion, to its fellow human beings in order to likewise provide them with the unspeakable happiness of spiritual uniting with Me, in order to help them attain the beatitude which it has found itself through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Process of imparting the divine Word .... Spirit - Soul - Body ....

B.D. 4143 from October 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Once the soul has united with its spirit the body will have lost its entitlement to the soul, i.e., the soul will reject physical desires because they contradict the spirit's wishes. For this reason a union between soul and spirit can only take place at those times when the body is not occupied with earthly activities during which all thoughts and feelings, hence the soul, are focussed on this activity. Although a human being's activity may well correspond to divine will, the spirit's effectiveness nevertheless depends on the soul's complete surrender to the spirit, consequently it requires a person's withdrawal into seclusion for the spirit to make itself heard by the soul, especially if the conveyed spiritual knowledge is also intended for fellow human beings, hence if it needs to be written down. This is why proclamations from the spiritual kingdom, thus the Father-Spirit's emanations to the spiritual spark, can only be received in seclusion, when the soul can unreservedly hand itself over to the spirit. Then a complete connection between soul and spirit will be possible, so that God Himself will be able to express Himself through the spirit, so that the soul will spiritualise itself and during moments of contact with the eternal Father-Spirit receive, understand and subsequently inform those people of His Word who desire to know the outcome of the retreat. Only then will the soul establish contact with the body and inform the latter of what it has received from the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Activity and ability of the being in the state of constraint ....

B.D. 4144 from October 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Even the most inconspicuous creature on earth enjoys God's love and care, for it emerged from His power of love and is eternally inseparably united with Him. But it also has a purpose of existence to fulfil, and that is why it was given life, be it as a human being or an animal, in a free state or in a state of constraint. Every creature is assigned a task which it must fulfil. If it now fulfils this task, then it becomes free from the respective form and can re-embody itself in a higher form. Thus every creature has to carry out an activity which, however, always differs from the previous one, because different abilities have to be developed, which certainly repeat themselves in the course of infinitely many embodiments, but are always adapted to the being's degree of development. Before the embodiment as a human being the activity of those creatures is subject to God's will and therefore takes place in a certain regularity, which is why the same abilities are always characteristic of the creatures, which then mark the being in a form. And thus there are infinitely many forms before the embodiment as a human being, and in each one the being's task is different, and every activity corresponds to the divine will, His unsurpassed wisdom and His greater than great love .... It results in the maturing of the creatures, the safe ascent to the height, to the last embodiment as a human being, whose purpose of existence is again the upward development of the soul. And in this last period of development divine love takes special care of its living creations, which now have to carry out an activity of their own accord, no longer subject to the law of compulsion, but which is always intended to secure the soul's upward development. But every activity as a human being must prove serving love, then it corresponds to God's will and will also be blessed. Now God's love is also constantly turned towards His creatures. And it expresses itself especially in that it creates opportunities for the human being where he can carry out a serving activity. Every earthly work is such an opportunity, and the spiritual development of a human being is also according to how he views his work, always dependent on the degree of love which inspires the human being during his activity. But divine will ends the earthly life of every soul at a time determined by Him in His wisdom in order to then transfer the being, whether perfect or imperfect, into the spiritual kingdom, where it will continue to be cared for by His love and also now has to be active in serving love in order to become perfect and to finally find union with God as its aim, which is the only purpose of every being on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Admonition of God to His servants ....

B.D. 4145 from October 16th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Remain faithful to Me, open your hearts to Me and let Me enter, let Me work in you, whom I have chosen to cooperate with Me, so that My working can indeed appear but is concealed from people in dark spiritual night, because bright light would blind them and could only have an effect to the detriment of their souls. I need you to help Me and therefore I must prepare you such that you will be suitable instruments for Me in the time to come, which will be extraordinarily difficult for the whole of humanity but bearable for you because I am with you and smooth your path of life so that you can travel it safely until the end. I constantly want to make you happy with My word, I want to speak loving father words to you, I want to give you comfort in hours of adversity which also cannot pass you by because it will be one anxious experience after the other. I want to strengthen you and spur you on to tireless work for Me and My kingdom, I want to loosen your tongues, put your thinking in order, and I want to work in you through My spirit and give you brightest light, clearest realisation and profoundest knowledge, I want to kindle your hearts into a great flame of love so that you will take care of your fellow human beings who live in great spiritual distress and need your help. Let Me constantly stay with you, call Me so that I can come to you, and familiarise yourselves with My word, for it is a source of strength, a refreshment and nourishment for the soul, and remain intimately united with Me in prayer, then you will never need to fear falling into a weak state and be masters of every situation in life. I only require one thing from you, that you make My will your own, that you do not resist Me but only keep My commandments .... love Me above all else and your neighbour as yourselves .... But consider what these commandments demand .... and then fulfil them, and you will be assured of My constant blessing, My love and grace, and you will remain faithful to Me and persevere until the end, and you will be willing servants through whom I Myself can work where My working is required ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Destiny .... school .... more stringent means ....

B.D. 4146 from October 17th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The One Who gave you life also determines your destiny, and both your earthly and your spiritual life are subject to His will, the latter is indeed dependent on your will insofar as that you create the degree of your perfection yourselves, yet furthering your spiritual maturing through everlasting spiritual impressions which, to a certain extent, are caused by earthly impressions, which is why every person's destiny is predetermined according to the human being's will for perfection. And thus you always have to go through the school on earth which your soul needs, for God has known since eternity which course your spiritual development takes, He also knows about the degree of maturity the soul has reached at its passing, He knows about the individual's lifespan, and He often has to apply more stringent means before the death of the body in order to further the soul's development. Then life approaches the human being with complete harshness and thereby forces him to free himself from every earthly desire, so that the soul will only long for God and thus discard its last earthly fetter in order to enter the spiritual kingdom completely free and purified. Sometimes a state of extreme adversity is necessary for a soul so that it completely entrusts itself to its creator and ruler and dissolves all ties with the world. But then it reaches a high degree of maturity which brings it complete happiness and thus full compensation in the spiritual kingdom. It receives again spiritually a thousandfold what was taken from it earthly or remained denied to it. And the human being should bear in mind that God does not let him suffer arbitrarily but only ever pursues one aim, to make him blissfully happy forever. And if the school he has to attend is not to remain unsuccessful, then often all severity must be applied or the human being would not be able to educate himself spiritually in the short time which, according to his eternal destiny, still remains until the end. And since the end is not far off, hardship sets in in a way which often does not reveal a God of love. And yet, God's infinite love itself determines the educational path the soul has to take, and therefore the human being should always commend himself to God's love, then his soul will derive its benefit from every experience, it will mature in a short time and enter the spiritual kingdom with a high degree of development as soon as it leaves its body, its last shell, and after an infinitely long time of being bound it can enjoy eternal freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Gift of receiving remains, gift of teaching can be withdrawn ....

B.D. 4147 from October 18th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Only rarely can I express Myself in such a way that a regular transmission of My word to earth takes place through the will of a person who is at My service. Only rarely is such a connection established which not only produces mental results but also results in written notes which can be made available to fellow human beings. And only rarely, therefore, is there the possibility of giving people enlightenment and answering every spiritual question. It is a connection between heaven and earth, between Me and people, which obviously has an effect as a sign that an informal contact with Me is possible and that it evidently results in the conveyance of My word. And therefore it is understandable that I will never dissolve such a connection but that I will favour it and lovingly look after the person who establishes this connection with Me, and that I will help him in every way to find his way on earth with regard to both earthly and spiritual matters so as not to lose him, because a great task awaits him which can only be carried out by such a person that is completely devoted to Me and therefore also sinless, so that My spirit can express itself through him. Anyone who is active for Me need never fear that this gift of grace will be withdrawn from him, because once he is in close contact with Me he cannot go so far astray that he makes the working of the spirit in him impossible. He will not deliberately disobey Me, he will consult Me in every matter of human life and thus never need to do without My word, because he can never become so unfaithful to Me that he consciously resists Me. Yet I can certainly withdraw from him the gift to enlighten his fellow human being if he makes himself unworthy of My instruction. For the extent to which the deeper knowledge is comprehensible to the fellow human being depends on the way the transmission is rendered. And thus the recipient can very well keep the gift of receiving divine wisdom and be constantly instructed with My full will, yet the listener can remain little impressed and My gift of grace will pass him by completely ineffectively, and he will experience this state as agonising and suffer but grasp every opportunity where he can feel My working of the spirit again and follow it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Loving father words ....

B.D. 4148 from October 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Receive what My love offers you and strengthen yourselves with it at all times. And if you are burdened by earthly worries, consider them imposed on you by Me and bear them submissively, and if they seem unbearable to you, come to Me and I will help you bear them or take them away from you completely, i.e. give you strength or send help so that the hardship which has burdened you will be remedied. And thus you will never come away empty-handed if you turn to Me, for a father does not deny Himself to children who love Him and want to gain His love by fulfilling His commandments. And therefore you will always find Me willing to make you happy with gifts of grace, you will always hear words of love from Me if you have inner contemplation. You will never need to go hungry and never lose My love either, because I am always willing to give and want to distribute My goods in spiritual as well as earthly regard to those who need them. I do not leave anyone empty-handed, however, I distribute My goods differently according to the individual's will of utilisation. And thus you should not be anxious in giving and always bear in mind that I am the One Who can bless and increase all your goods, whether earthly or spiritual, that I can give back to you what you give away and that I will also do so, only distributing them in a different measure if you give to your neighbour out of love. You will lack for nothing if you do not leave your neighbour in need, for My possessions are not limited and My love even less so, and thus you will be allowed to receive without measure if only you use your gifts right and thus use them to work in unselfish neighbourly love. And then do you need to worry about your needs if I give you the assurance that they will be covered? Do you need to fear that you could become weary in the battle of life if I stand by your side and you never need to believe that you are abandoned by Me? Just believe in My love and every worry will leave you, believe in My omnipotence and you will no longer doubt that I can help you in every adversity and also want to help you because I love you. Believe in My wisdom which only shapes your life in a way that is good for your soul. And thus you can constantly receive gifts from Me, I will provide for you in earthly regard and not leave you spiritually destitute, as soon as you receive My word and draw all the strength you need from it for your earthly path of life in order to be able to cover it according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

You will reap as you sow .... "How you measure out will .... "

B.D. 4149 from October 21st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You will reap what you sow, and you will always have to recognise Me as a righteous Judge if I allow the fruits of your sowing .... the consequences of your way of life and your activity on earth, to clearly show as sufferings or joys, as hardships or blessings of all kinds. I want you to recognise Me, to regard nothing as coincidence but to always and constantly see My providence, My hand, whatever comes upon you. And I want you to account for the extent to which you yourselves are to blame for your fate, if it seems to be difficult for you to bear. Every lack of love results in spiritual weakness, every act of love results in increased knowledge. And thus, with strict self-criticism you can judge by your spiritual state how far you practise love. You will always be happy, strive towards Me, seek to increase your spiritual knowledge and thus desire to hear Me, directly or through My servants, if you give .... spiritual or earthly goods .... As you measure out, so will be measured out to you, i.e. you will not see any shortage if only you endeavour to make contact with Me through love. But where love is lacking My activity to distribute spiritual or earthly riches is also not possible .... and where unkindness prevails even that which the human being possesses will be lost. A person's actions must have a backlash on him, they must rebound on him otherwise My justice would be called into question, the fruits must correspond to the sowing, even if it is sometimes not immediately recognisable, because My patience often delays in order to give people the opportunity to reflect and change when their thinking is not right. And if a person is serious about his spiritual development, about increasing his soul's maturity, about spiritual progress, broadened knowledge and approach to God, his life must also be an unmistakable work of love; he must make an effort to give love to his fellow human beings, to distribute what earthly or spiritual possessions he has, he must give and make happy, he must be lovingly active in the sense of the word, then he will also gather the fruits of his life on earth, because I am just and give to everyone as he is worthy of My gifts ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Lack of trust .... "Ask and it will be given to you .... "

B.D. 4150 from October 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You certainly hear My word and thereby can learn My will, you are also willing to serve Me and to take care of the spreading of My word .... you also live consciously and strive for a higher spiritual state .... you also make an effort to live in love and are often in mental contact with Me, yet you still lack one thing: the boundless trust in My help in every adversity of body and soul. Yet it is precisely this trust which is the characteristic feature of My children that they come to the father and present their needs to Him in faith in My certain help. Not the slightest doubt is allowed to arise in you, you must put yourselves into the love of your father and creator and sustainer for His creatures. If you are able to feel seized by the father's love then every doubt in you will also disappear, for then My love will explain everything to you, then you will know that I cannot act differently towards you than to grant you everything you request, because true love never denies itself but wants to see itself united with the object of its love, and that I therefore always want to grant you what is good for you so that you will not come to any harm. Yet your intellect cannot grasp it, and you are still far too active with your intellect where only your heart should decide; your intellect questions and ponders and hardly comes to a satisfactory result. But your heart has the right feeling and tells you again and again that only My love is decisive and that this love is intended for you forever if only you desire it. And therefore you only have to make yourselves worthy of My love, and then you will never make a wrong request, for I will grant you everything if only you can be counted as My Own by fulfilling My commandment of love, among those who no longer have a home on earth but see their true home in the spiritual kingdom and who therefore long for a connection with Me, their eternal heavenly father. You need only ever think of My love and your trust will increase, and then you will have the guarantee for the fulfilment of every request yourselves, and then you will no longer doubt because I have given you the promise: 'Ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you .... "

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Power of love ....

B.D. 4151 from October 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The power of love is overwhelming and yet it is too little recognised and used. It is like a torrent which seizes everything and takes it along with it, it is like a fire which nothing can withstand, which consumes everything that comes close to it. There is an unusual power in love, but it must be a pure love, otherwise it triggers instincts that pull down. A pure love can and must awaken requited love again, just as a force also triggers a counteracting force. And that is why it will also find a reciprocation, even if not directly as a consequence but only when love has had an effect on the fellow human being. It must, so to speak, first touch his heart before the reciprocal love awakens and thus radiates back. It is an original law that love works as a force and that as such it also has tremendous power. It is a fundamental law that it must double itself as soon as two beings feel attracted to each other, but that one behaves passively, the other actively and that therefore the love of the one must be stronger, otherwise it would not be constructive, thus noticeable as power. It is love emanating from God and therefore to be called divine as long as it only strives for spiritual good. However, a person's love can also be for his fellow human being, and even then it can still be divine if the principle of giving love prevails. Then it will also arouse requited love, but it must then be completely free from self-interest, and its aim must always be to give and bestow happiness. (24.10.1947) Anyone who carries love within himself which is willing to give and make happy is truly connected to Me and constantly draws strength from Me. For such love will always urge activity, it has to express its power, and this urge results in everlasting activity. But activity is life, and therefore the human being is only in a state of life when he is full of love. For only love activity ends the state of death which surrounds the soul before. Love work is an activity emanating from the spirit, which cannot be compared to earthly activity, even if it has an earthly effect. The influx of strength from the spiritual kingdom will always drive the human being to increased activity of love, and consequently the strength within himself will constantly increase. Although the human being is not particularly affected by it physically, his entire life of feeling experiences a deepening, he is extremely sensitive and therefore hears the voice of the spirit within himself, which only sounds softly and faintly and cannot be perceived by the physical senses. This voice of the spirit is therefore the effect of loving activity and loving activity again the effect of loving feelings in the heart, this again an emanation of Myself which I let flow to him who loves Me, i.e. who fulfils My commandments, who endeavours to do My will, who consciously strives towards Me, i.e. who acknowledges Me and believes in Me. Love is always power, whether it comes forth from Me and touches My living creations or returns to Me in the form of unselfish loving activity. And this power will continuously flow into the universe, for I Myself, as the eternal Love, want to give and make happy and raise My living creations into a state of bliss, I want them to live and receive and distribute the strength from Me through constant activity, because it drives them to want to give and make happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Harvest .... reapers .... God as teacher ....

B.D. 4152 from October 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Spiritual striving should unite you and no longer allow separation. Common experience shall let you mature, and everyone shall strive upwards out of innermost impulse, everyone shall feel as God's agent who has a mission to fulfil and ask God for strength and grace to be able to carry out this mission according to His will. And you will find plenty of work if you place yourselves to His service, for He needs willing labourers to cultivate a field which shall bear abundant fruit. He needs people for sowing, just as He needs reapers for the time of harvest, who serve Him and work diligently. If God has chosen you, be aware of this honour and make yourselves worthy of it. For it is a very special grace to be allowed to receive His word which prepares you for this mission, which makes you knowledgeable and able to pass this knowledge on to your fellow human beings. Therefore be aware of this gift of grace and accept with gratitude what God's love offers you, but also fulfil His will which is made known to you through His word. Every spiritual conversation will benefit you, it will result in increased knowledge for you, and this knowledge will make you happy, for it is offered from above, from God Himself, Who instructs His servants to teach you and Who reveals Himself to you as a teacher, takes you into His school and imparts divine wisdom to you. If He Himself instructs you, you will be far from all error and the truth will flow to you in purest form, for His love is exceedingly great, His wisdom is unfathomable and His might unimaginable. But you can notice love and wisdom and omnipotence in every announcement and therefore be happy that His nature is revealed to you and that you possess the ability to grasp what His spirit announces to you. And therefore appreciate this gift of grace, make yourselves worthy of it, do not become lukewarm and indifferent but desire it with all your heart and receive it with gratitude, then your spiritual striving will bring you blessings, you will progress in your development and surely reach your aim .... complete union with the eternal Love Which wants to win you for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Relationship of a child with its Father...

B.D. 4153 from October 26th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You shall become My Own and never separate yourselves from Me again, you shall enter into unity with Me, hand yourselves over to Me and desire no more than My love, and if you have reached this stage of renouncing all earthly things, you can relinquish your life without qualms, for then you will have passed your final test on earth and will be ready for the spiritual realm. But what do you need to achieve this degree of love for Me which will make you blissfully happy forever? You must have the relationship of a child to its father, then you will not desire anything else but to be united with Me, for the child only desires to be with the father because it feels his paternal love and knows that it is well protected by it. The child is weak and requires protection and support; it requires gifts which only the father's love can bestow upon it, so it trustingly comes to him and asks him full of childlike humility, and the father will not deny the child anything because he loves it. You must all feel like My children and have this confidence in Me so that you can present all your worries, hardships and afflictions to Me and faithfully wait for Me to take them from you, to remove them and let your fate on earth be bearable for you. And thus you forge a bond with Me, your Father of eternity, you entrust yourselves unto Me, and therefore feel so close to Me that you speak to Me without inhibition and also make an effort to gain My pleasure and thereby My love again, and you will be aware that you, as My children, possess My love and this awareness will give you inner peace and strength in abundance. And yet you will not become arrogant, you will remain profoundly faithful and be showered with My grace .... Then I will be able to take effect in you, I will be able to speak to you through My spirit and you will be able to hear Me .... the connection with Me will lead to an abundance of blessings, for then you will belong to Me and I will never ever let you leave Me again. The union will have taken place which should be all peoples' goal on earth so that they will be able to enter the kingdom of peace when their life on earth is over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mental emanations .... spiritual powers ....

B.D. 4154 from October 28th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Secret powers are always at work, in union with the original power, the creator of the universe, with God, to Whom everything is subject in the spiritual kingdom as well as in the material world. These powers are constantly active and influence the thoughts of people who are entrusted to their care. Thoughts are spiritual currents which are conveyed to people by these powers, but whether they are accepted by them is up to people themselves. And therefore the spiritual powers seek to guide the human being's will in a certain direction, so that the will is now ready to receive the thought waves which surround it and present them to the intellect for digesting, so that then both the soul as well as the intellect will benefit from them. These powers are now at work to achieve a total change of thinking, and they take every opportunity to admonish and warn people, and therefore these powers, spiritual beings of light, first try to direct people's thinking towards the spiritual kingdom, and for this purpose earthly life is fatefully made more difficult for them so that they give it up more easily and seek a substitute where they cannot be disappointed. (28.10.1947) In many cases people chain themselves even more to earthly life after severe strokes of fate, and then it is difficult for the spiritual powers to make themselves heard, for the mental emanations are not accepted .... The human being remains in his completely material thinking and is lost for the spiritual kingdom. But where only a few get together and mention what occupies their thoughts, where only one person touches spiritual spheres in conversation, there those powers can also work and express themselves mentally, and the people who do not oppose him will acquire mental knowledge which satisfies them inwardly and is recognised by them as truth. And to receive this knowledge mentally is enlightenment of the intellect, which is the grant of grace to every person who directs his will into the spiritual kingdom in desire for knowledge, for truth, and receives it from God through His beings of light. Right thinking does not originate from the intellect but from the spiritual kingdom, the spirit from God is active to awaken the slumbering spiritual spark in the human being, which is His share, and to instruct the soul through it, which then makes itself heard by the human being, which now also requires intellectual activity, so that the knowledge becomes the human being's intellectual property. In order for the human being's intellect to become enlightened it is necessary for it to be directed into the spiritual realm through impressions or conversations with other people, to mentally occupy itself with spiritual problems, and for the knowing powers of the spiritual kingdom to carry out God's task and to influence people's thoughts, to convey the truth from God to them, which alone leads to God and secures eternal life for people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Disappointment of the people - improvement .... divine intervention ....

B.D. 4155 from October 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A great disappointment will be experienced by those people who hope for an improvement of the situation in life and do all kinds of work with the prospect of a better time. They believe they can reshape their lives through human hands and human will, they believe in an advancement in every respect, they carry out all work which amounts to provision for the long term, they are exceedingly hard-working in unimportant things, but they leave the most important thing unattended .... to make provision for the life beyond. Their thoughts constantly revolve around earthly duties, earthly pleasures, earthly prosperity. But they are completely indifferent to spiritual life, and thus it is understandable that they strive away from God even though they talk about His name, for the world's charms are stronger and the world is part of the one who works against God and wants to displace Him. And since they concede more rights to God's adversary through their desire, what they desire will also be granted to them, yet he will also take possession of their soul and a release from his control requires a strength of will which earthly-minded people cannot muster. For these people the disappointment will be overwhelming if the earth is afflicted by divine will, if the natural disaster destroys all their hopes and places them into extremely meagre living conditions which contradict all their plans and hopes. It will be a bitter time for all worldly-minded people which they can hardly bear, for now they realise the impossibility of a better way of life and are incapable of any constructive work. They grumble and complain and reject a creator and sustainer of all things, for they are unable to recognise God in this adversity which has occurred through the work of destruction. They will not accept a spiritual explanation of the coming time, for their worldly attitude deprives them of all ability to make a right assessment and therefore they will be completely at a loss in the face of the newly created situation until God has mercy upon them and either takes them from earth or gives them a renewed opportunity to take note of His word in order to be able to change seriously, if they muster the will to do so. Nevertheless, it is the only possibility, for the inclination towards the world is too great to be discarded if God had not simultaneously combined this work of destruction with an action of help in order to give them the opportunity to detach themselves from matter. For this must first be overcome if the human being wants to be saved, if he wants to get to know his actual task on earth and strive to fulfil it. Divine intervention through nature is the last means of help to turn to spiritual striving in free will and to learn to overcome the earth with its charms.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Harvest time .... reapers .... workers in the vineyard .... prophets ....

B.D. 4156 from October 31th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You will experience the time of harvest, of which it is written that the wheat will be separated from the chaff and the fruits of the fields will be gathered into the barns. And the Lord will instruct His servants to do their work dutifully, He will send them out to be diligent reapers of the harvest, to be anxious to fill their master's barns, and not to rest until the last fruits are brought under cover, until they can say to Him: "Lord, our work is done." (31.10.1947) This time is near, and all those who work for the kingdom of God, all those who want to bring souls to God, who seek to spread His teaching of love, who inform people of God's work and activity, these are His servants whom He has hired so that the work may be done which is urgently needed before the end, before the day when the wheat will be separated from the chaff. And this day is no longer far away, again and again it is told to people through the mouth of the prophets, through the mouth of those who serve God and place themselves completely to His service. Time and again God avails Himself of them to speak through them to all who want to listen to Him. But time will pass quickly, an exceedingly lively activity will have to start in order to still gather a rich harvest until the last day. But the reward will truly be worth the labour .... Even in the last hour God still needs labourers for His vineyard, and He solicits such incessantly, for the urgency of the end requires excessive labour, and all the more so the greater the spiritual need is amongst humanity. Who offers his services? Who does not shun work for God and His kingdom? Who has mercy on erring souls and wants to help save them from eternal damnation? Who hears the voice of the Lord, Who calls servants to serve Him? All of you will experience the time when God will reap the harvest, and all of you should listen to His call and place yourselves to His service. The work is indeed difficult and requires much patience and love for your fellow human beings, yet God will bless your efforts a thousand times over and will not demand more from you than you are able to achieve. And He heaps His grace upon all who enter His service, for the end is near and haste is called for because the day has been determined since eternity when the last Judgment will be held ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Sounding word ....

B.D. 4157 from November 1st 1947, taken from Book No. 50

To hear the sounding word in the heart is My love's most unmistakable sign. It sounds like a softly spoken word, fine and delicate and yet bright and clear. It fills you humans with heartfelt joy, for it is so unusually pleasant that you would constantly desire to hear it if I did not want to disillusion you so that you can also stand your ground in earthly life. For the bliss of feeling My nearness deprives you of tranquillity, and therefore I must also always approach you in covering, whether in word or in My presence, and protect you from becoming exuberant, which is not suitable for this world. Love for Me is indeed kindled in you like an unquenchable fire, yet I do not let it flare up in bright flames for your own sake. But I know when your heart is capable of profound pure love for Me and when I can therefore express Myself soundingly in you. But you do not know the degree of love which allows this surest sign of My love, and therefore you have to be urged to increased love and often through suffering which is to push you into My arms. For whom I have seized with My love I will never leave again, but neither will I leave him on the same stage of development, I want him to draw closer to Me, to become ever more perfect, so that in the end he will only desire Me alone .... and this requires a heart which is completely purified and open to Me .... Do you understand that I only want to help you achieve this and that you have to go through schools of purification in order to be able to be blissfully happy in My presence? In order to be able to hear My spoken word and thus to be fully convinced of My presence? Do you understand why you have to go through suffering and misery, why I exhort you to constant activity of love and constantly give you the opportunity to work in love? Do you understand why you have to serve in order to be able to rule one day, why you have to bow down in humility in order to be lifted up by Me? If you hear My word resounding within you, you will understand all this and thank Me with all your heart, for then you will also have mature knowledge and an understanding for everything that happens in the world, around you and to yourselves. Everything is only based on My greater than great love, everything only has the purpose to make your approach to Me desirable and to help you achieve it. For you can only be saved in union with Me. Becoming one with Me is your aim, because you are My share from eternity which I will never relinquish or hand over to My adversary. And if you only have the slightest will for this uniting with Me then you will certainly reach the aim, for My love takes hold of everything that strives towards it, and love's highest aim is final unification with Me for all eternity. And if you knew of the depth of My love, a blissful peace would flow through you .... But you should struggle and ask for strength, you should be diligently active and work on yourselves in order to attain the highest perfection. But then I Myself will dwell in your hearts, I will speak to you and you will be allowed to hear Me at any time and in any place, as often and as long as your soul can bear it, as long as you still live on earth .... But one day you will be allowed to hear Me constantly, you will be able to constantly stay close to Me and constantly be made happy by My love, and your bliss will have no end .... you will be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Mediator between God and people .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 4158 from November 4th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Jesus was the mediator between God and people at a time when the connection with God was no longer established on the part of people and it was therefore impossible for God to make Himself known to them through the inner word. A link between them and God had become necessary, so to speak, and the possibility had to be created to convey God's will to people, and this could only happen through a person who had such a high degree of maturity of his soul that he was able to hear the inner word, so that God Himself could express Himself through this person without endangering the freedom of will. This act can only take place in fullest unison of the human being's will with divine will and therefore total submission of his own will to God's will, and this complete submission results in the ability to hear God's voice, and since the divine voice (3.11.1947) sounds extremely fine and delicate only the person who attentively listens inwards is able to hear it. Jesus, the man, was full of love for His fellow human beings, He Himself heard the voice of God in Himself .... (4.11.1947) and in His love He sought to inform His fellow human beings of what He received from God Himself. For God spoke to all people through Jesus, and thus He was only the shell through which God Himself expressed Himself. The connection between God and people had become so absolutely essential, for without the mediation of divine will no-one was able to fulfil his purpose on earth, to shape himself in God's image, to shape himself into love, for at the time of Jesus Christ people were completely devoid of love and thus endlessly distant from God. There was a gulf which could only be bridged through loving activity, and people would have been irredeemably lost had God not sent them a Saviour in Jesus Christ, Who bridged the gulf by virtue of His great love for people, Who established a path from people to God .... the path of unselfish neighbourly love. This was intended to bring them back into the state of hearing the word of God, of hearing Himself and recognising His speech as divine and obeying everything God demanded of people. However, the people of that time did not establish the connection with God Himself, they neither practised unselfish neighbourly love nor did they believe in a God Who wanted to speak to them. Jesus knew about this human condition and wanted to help them by offering to fulfil the conditions which were directly linked to the hearing of the divine word. And thus He first shaped Himself into love and thereby entered into such intimate union with God that He was chosen as a mediator, that God Himself took on His body as a cover in order to conceal His radiance, His all-consuming fire of love, from people who walked in such dark spiritual night that bright light was unbearable to them. God made use of a human being, and He spoke through His mouth. Nevertheless, He was recognised by only a few. Only a few lived according to the divine will, so that they also recognised the divine in the man Jesus and accepted His word as spoken by God. The majority called His word in doubt, they did not recognise Him because they were sinful and without love .... And in this same adversity are people now again who have no faith in God and are so distant from Him through their unloving (nature) life that they cannot hear His word. (4.11.1947) And again they need mediators .... Servants through whose mouth God can express Himself in order to send admonitions and warnings to people in their spiritual hardship, to give them the commandment of love and guidelines for their way of life so that they will not be dragged into the abyss by His adversary but attain eternal beatitude. And these servants must be so intimately united with God that they are able to hear His word, they must have acquired this ability through loving activity and a will turned towards God; love for their fellow human beings must induce them to provide spiritual and earthly help. Furthermore, they must be completely independent of religious organisations, i.e. they must not be pushed into wrong thinking which can prevent them from accepting the pure word of God and rejecting contrary teachings .... because they should seek to spread the word received from God with all zeal as the sole, eternal truth. To be a mediator between God and people, to establish the connection with the spiritual kingdom is certainly the most beautiful task on earth and eclipses every earthly activity. It is a task which earns a wealth of grace of inestimable value, yet such an office is also obligatory, for he who has much must also distribute much, and he will also be held responsible for how he has administered his wealth. Being a mediator between God and people is truly of utmost importance, it is the narrowing of a gap which has become almost unbridgeable due to people's unkindness. But one person's love can build a bridge, and countless people can step onto this bridge and become able to hear the divine word again. And for this reason, God will bless His servants on earth who freely offer to render a service to their fellow human beings which will have an effect for eternity, and He will always be mindful of supporting them with love and grace so that they can fulfil their mission .... to be a suitable instrument for God Who wants to speak to people in times of deepest spiritual adversity, Who wants to help them because they urgently need His help, for time is coming to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Gift of prophecy ....

B.D. 4159 from November 5th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The gift of prophecy is only given to the person who makes use of it in the right, i.e. God-willed way .... who announces to his fellow human beings what he is able to see or hear as a servant of God. Judgment never comes upon people without prior announcement, they never remain unwarned. Warnings and admonitions, however, must come to them through the mouths of men, for people are to decide in free will for good or evil, and thus they must also be allowed to judge the predictions without constraint and be able to make a stand of belief or disbelief, it must be left up to them to change on the basis of the predictions, i.e., to decide on a God-pleasing way of life, they must by no means feel compelled to do so, and thus the predictions must be conveyed to them in a way which does not influence their free will. They are spoken by human mouths on behalf of God, and every religious person will undoubtedly believe God's servant, yet generally little faith will be placed in his statements because people consider the prediction of great events to be impossible as well as the fact that God Himself expresses Himself about future things through seers and prophets. However, since people are only made aware of forthcoming events in their spiritual interest for the sake of their work on their souls, individual people are given the ability to see into the future, which, however, cannot be generalised, but only those in God's service can be believed, which is why people should not presume to want to reveal future things who have not been commissioned by God to do so. God's spirit must make known to them what is to be revealed to their fellow human beings, and these revelations must be combined with admonitions for a God-pleasing way of life, otherwise they are pointless if not harmful, for God does not let seers and prophets arise amongst people in order to satisfy earthly curiosity. But since humanity's spiritual low necessitates a Judgment people will be warned beforehand and the knowledge about the development of earthly events will be made accessible to them, yet always in connection with people's spiritual good, which is why seers and prophets will always arise amongst people if people are in danger of falling prey to a coming Judgment and they should still remember their souls before it is too late. But anyone who is called by God to work for Him on earth is also given the gift by God to predict future things. And they can be fully believed, for soon the evidence will also be provided to them, for all predictions will come true ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Battle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 4160 from November 6th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It will remain an eternal battle between light and darkness, i.e., eternities will pass until the light has completely overcome the darkness and only an infinite kingdom of light exists where no more darkness can enter. But then there will also no longer be a battle of spirits against each other but deepest love will unite all spiritual beings in their common work for God. The striving for perfection will never cease and thus a new basis will have been created for the activity of all beings in the spiritual kingdom .... For this will then no longer apply to the redemption of erring souls, because the kingdom of light only contains redeemed souls, but it is a mutual spurring on to ever greater perfection, a constant uniting of the equally mature spiritual and intensified activity through constantly increased strength, which is exclusively used for approaching God .... to lively activity of love, for activity in love will eternally remain the first law in the spiritual kingdom. But it mainly turns to the creation and shaping of spiritual creations, to the happiness of spiritually like-minded souls which unite in order to let new creations arise by means of increased strength, which in turn help other spiritual beings to ever higher perfection. It is an incessant life, i.e. constant activity in the most light-filled surroundings, yet driven by the desire for the face of God, for His love and His word, for constant emanation of God, which triggers unspeakable happiness. And this desire is constantly fulfilled and yet never decreases, for God's love will always remain worth striving for even for the most light-filled, perfect spiritual being, and therefore beatitude will also never end, the beings in the spiritual kingdom will be blissfully happy for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Love inspires return of love .... love wins ....

B.D. 4161 from November 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The power of love is great and it is victorious. And if the human being feels weak, then his love is not strong enough, otherwise strength would flow through him and he would be master of every situation. For love forces everything and even wins over its opponent .... It awakens requited love, provided it does not prematurely give up the fight, i.e., provided the human being does not slacken in his wooing of his fellow human being's love. Then he forfeits strength, the other side, the fellow human being, is stronger than him, he does not use the power of love, which forces everything and can never be unsuccessful. It must set itself an aim, but this aim must also correspond to God's will insofar as it does not exclude or exceed love for God, and love for God requires complete submission to His will. Thus love can certainly be directed towards the neighbour and aim at uniting with Him, yet the strongest desire should always be offered to God and from His hand should be accepted what He gives to the human being. And depending on the strength of love and faith the power of love and faith will also appear .... love will be victorious .... because God Himself as the eternal Love is now active and He wins for Himself what He once seized in love. Love is something divine which can never be without power, and no one can resist love. However, a union of love can only take place when God Himself approves of it, when He Himself joins this union by deeming it beneficial for the human being's soul, when it does not endanger its development. But this is never the case when the human being submits himself to divine will without resistance. Then his soul will no longer be in danger, and then God can and will grant him what his heart desires, He will let love flare up, He will unite Himself with the human being and all resistance will be given up, for if God Himself wants to take possession He will no longer be denied love, and the bond will be firm and of eternal duration, because love is the greatest power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Relationship with God - love or reverence, respect, worship ....

B.D. 4162 from November 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Every person has the right to decide for himself which relationship he wants to have with Me. He can regard Me as father, as brother or friend, but he can also only see his God in Me, the highest most perfect being, Whom he wants to submit to and Whose commandments he wants to fulfil because he acknowledges Me as the highest power. This latter relationship, however, will never be accompanied by profound love for Me in a person but only by awe and admiration, respect and worship. But I want love, I want an intimate relationship with Me to be established, for love alone is bliss. How poor a person is who lacks love, and how rich he is who possesses it .... I certainly take pleasure in the humility of the one who submits to Me as the highest Power, who acknowledges Me and wants to gain My pleasure, I will also meet him halfway and bestow My love upon him, yet My aim is always to change his attitude towards Me into the right relationship .... into the relationship of a child to its father, of a bride to her bridegroom, into the relationship which has love as its foundation. For I can reciprocate this, I can give away that which is My fundamental nature, I can let My love radiate, thus make happy with My fundamental substance which flows as strength towards the object of My love .... I can grasp My living creations and draw them to Me .... I can make them blissfully happy forever. But every human being has free will, I woo his love, his trust and approach him as father by bestowing My care upon him, by taking care of him in adversity and distress and constantly granting My grace to him .... Yet where My love is not reciprocated in the same way, where the heart does not press towards Me with a fervent desire for union with Me, where the child does not call for its father and approach Him in childlike trust, confidently expecting His help in every spiritual and earthly adversity, there I cannot reveal Myself in My fatherly love either, although I will always be recognisable as God, as the all-creating and sustaining Power, and I will not leave My living creations empty-handed who strive towards Me. Nevertheless, I will not cease to woo their love, to push them into the right relationship with Me, always respecting free will but nevertheless bringing the human being into situations where he can take refuge with the father as a child and thus establish a trusting relationship and completely win Me over for himself. Only then will he progress quickly, because My power of love can now flow into him unhinderedly and this signifies the soul's upward development, which is the aim and purpose of his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual food .... "Come to Me, I will refresh you .... "

B.D. 4163 from November 10th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Receive spiritual food as often as it is possible for you. You are at the start of such a difficult time that you have to be anxious to make yourselves resistant to hardship and suffering of all kinds. You will need much strength if you want to fulfil your earthly as well as your spiritual task, and My word imparts this strength to you. For this reason I admonish you again and again to make use of My gift of grace; I draw your attention to the adversities of the coming time and only warn you humans against living thoughtlessly from day to day, fulfilling the body's every desire and leaving the soul in want, for it is merely a matter of the soul's good .... your life in eternity. I would like to help you to be saved, yet your will has to become active and you should not believe that eternal beatitude can be acquired effortlessly, that it will fall to you against your will, without any help from you. You must be aware of the fact that with the death of your body the opportunity to work with your own strength is over, that you will bitterly regret every passed-up opportunity when you come to realise what earthly life has been for you. You only have a very short time left but it is enough if you have the serious will to mature your souls, for I will see to it that you are offered a thousand opportunities to fulfil your actual task in life, the work of unselfish neighbourly love. But there is one thing you must not neglect to make My word your own, to draw strength and comfort from it, because you, who let My word speak to your hearts, unite with Me Myself and thereby receive great blessings for your soul. Do not be satisfied with the fact that My word is offered to you from time to time but look for the opportunity yourselves with a hungry heart to put yourselves into its blessing .... Come to Me, I will refresh you .... Let Me speak to you often, do not be lukewarm and indifferent but hurry up and build up a store of strength in yourselves so that you will become strong in faith and be able to walk the most difficult path of life serenely and calmly, remain constantly aware of My presence and thus walk with Me towards the aim .... to be completely united with Me in the kingdom of light .... Take every word seriously which is conveyed to you through My servants on earth, think about how urgently you need My admonitions, about the danger you are in if you slacken your striving, if you attach too little importance to My word which is offered to you in deepest love in view of the great adversity. You stand in a great extraordinary grace that you receive My word .... make use of this gift of grace, feed your soul with the bread of heaven, do not let it go hungry, for it needs spiritual nourishment .... Therefore pay more attention to your soul than to your body, pay more attention to spiritual life than to earthly life, for the latter will bring you great disappointment if you attach too much value to it. But even a difficult earthly life need not frighten you who strive spiritually, you will live it with Me if you always and constantly let Me speak to you in the word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

"My kingdom is not of this world .... "

B.D. 4164 from November 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

My kingdom is not of this world .... And thus everything that is to lead to or contribute towards the attainment of My kingdom will not be of a worldly nature but can only have a spiritual character. My words which I spoke on earth can only be understood spiritually, and the observance of My word must have a spiritual effect, just as it only has to be expressed by every action being always an impulse of the heart, i.e. inner impulses alone are decisive as to what extent the human being takes possession of My kingdom. Neither worldly customs can increase the right to My kingdom nor active help given to the neighbour without the heart being involved. My kingdom is not of this world .... Do you believe that I require worldly or symbolic actions in order to make this kingdom of Mine accessible to you? Do you believe that I can take pleasure in externals which are more of a danger, because deep inner impulses subside in the human being as a result, but the externals distract him and finally are solely paid attention to by him. I truly did not give any encouragement for this through My word, yet the inner bond with Me, through which they attain high maturity of soul and thus can already occupy My kingdom on earth, was not enough for people, and they attached great importance to the fulfilment of certain customs which, however, are completely irrelevant for the attainment of My kingdom. Whoever keeps My commandments .... loves Me above all else and his neighbour as himself can also rightly call himself an aspirant of My kingdom. But it is never possible to gain it if My commandments are not observed. How often, however, do I miss the observance of My commandment of love in those who strictly adhere to outwardness, who strictly adhere to the commandments which were added by people to My commandment of love. How precisely people often comply with what their fellow human beings commanded them, yet I pay no attention to it as long as the soul is not involved in it .... (12.11.1947) although I also bless the will of those who believe to serve Me with it because the truth has not yet been conveyed to them. But it is My will that the truth penetrates and displaces what contradicts it. Consequently, it is My will that whoever receives the truth from Me shall speak up for it. It is My will that error be denounced, that people who still move in erroneous thinking be instructed, that they be given clarification by those who are My servants on earth, whom I have chosen to spread the truth, who hear My word and are therefore instructed by Me Myself in the pure truth. For it concerns the faster development of the soul .... You only have little time left and yet you can gain a considerable advantage if you live according to My will .... disregard everything external and work intensively on your soul, as soon as you base all thinking, speaking and acting on My commandment of love and receive My word wherever it is offered to you .... Hearing My word is urgently necessary, and wherever it is offered to you, there you will also receive blessings if your soul hungers and thirsts for them. And My word you shall hear .... For the sake of My word you should seek out the place where it is imparted to you, if you are not taught by Me directly or My word is conveyed to you through My servants. You should by no means feel bound by laws which did not originate from Me, for the Lawgiver from eternity is Me, and My law from eternity is: Love Me above all else and your neighbour as yourself .... Then you will surely gain My kingdom, which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Truth only originates in God ....

B.D. 4165 from November 12th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Only that is truth which has its origin in Me as the eternal truth. There is only one truth and this is conveyed to earth by Me Myself through My spirit. You humans should understand that truth can never originate from humans, for the human being, as an imperfect creature, is distant from truth as long as he is not united with Me, because truth cannot exist outside of Me. Distance from Me likewise signifies wrong thinking, ignorance and lack of powers of cognition. Consequently, the human being will not be able to distinguish truth from error but will always lean towards error in a state of remoteness from God because it corresponds to his imperfect nature. Only when he is united with Me will he accept the truth from Me and also recognise it as such. And even if the truth is not offered to him by Me in an extraordinary form through the inner word, his line of thought will still be right, for his thinking is guided by the spirit, he will be enlightened and therefore also stand in truth. Hence the bond with Me must always be established first, and this requires seclusion and inner immersion in spiritual problems, questions which the human being desires to be answered, heartfelt thoughts of Me and appeals for My help, for right thinking .... for enlightenment of the spirit. Then he will desire the truth and it will be given to him. But then the human being will also have to compare with the spiritual knowledge which was offered him by people, and he will realise that the latter differs considerably from that which is imparted to him by Me. For I reserve the right to distribute the truth Myself. But what comes from Me, what obviously originates from Me, can be accepted and also defended as pure truth with utmost certainty, and therefore I choose servants for Myself on earth who directly receive knowledge from Me which has to be addressed as pure truth, because it demonstrably has no other origin than the spiritual kingdom, since the act of transmission proceeds extraordinarily, thus eliminating human thought. And now this spiritual knowledge conveyed by Me to earth can confidently be used as a standard for knowledge to be examined .... What agrees with it is truth, what deviates from it can be rejected as error and also branded accordingly. For error is seeds of satan, error is My adversary's means to oust Me from people's hearts and to increase his power. You humans are too lenient towards error, you do not recognise its great danger and therefore you do not fight it but tolerate it. But I cannot tolerate it and therefore instruct My servants to fight it strictly and to drop all tolerance if it is necessary to expose error and put forward truth. I demand that My servants fight with the sword of their mouth and endow them with all gifts to successfully take action against everything that contradicts the truth from Me, which does not have its origin in Me. I alone distribute the truth, but I consider all who want to stand in truth, for the desire for truth also proves the desire for Me Myself, and I will never deny Myself, but I also demand as a gift in return that the recipient of truth will speak up for it towards his fellow human beings who are still under the sway of the one who fights against everything that comes from Me and who, as the prince of lies, will always try to undermine the pure truth so that I will no longer be recognised, so that people will walk in darkness and shun the light which, through My love, shines for them again and again, for all those who desire to be in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Act of forgiveness of sins .... Jesus Christ as redeemer ....

B.D. 4166 from November 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The act of forgiveness of sins can also only be regarded as a ceremony if the spiritual prerequisites for the forgiveness of the guilt of sin are lacking. If the human being feels sinful and carries his guilt of sin to God, if he sincerely repents of his sins and asks God for forgiveness, his sin will also be forgiven by God and for the sake of Jesus Christ the guilt will be remitted, because the human being Jesus died on the cross for the purpose, that the guilt of sin of all humanity of the past, present and future was redeemed. And so the first prerequisite for the forgiveness of sin is faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the will to belong to those who have been redeemed from their guilt of sin through the blood of Christ. Sincere repentance towards God and thus the realisation of having transgressed against God through sin, of having violated His commandment of love, is a further prerequisite that justifies the act of forgiveness of sin. A person can indeed express repentance with words, while his heart is not touched, thus he does not suffer under the pressure of his sins and thus does not realise how seriously he has transgressed against God and His commandments. Then the guilt of sin cannot be taken away from him either, then he remains afflicted with his sin (13.11.1947) until he is aware of his guilt and it presses him, so that he appeals to God for forgiveness. However, the human being has no reason to mention his sins to his fellow human beings. (14.11.1947) It is true that this has one thing in itself, that he practices humility by openly confessing his weaknesses and faults, but this open confession to a person has nothing to do with the forgiveness of his sins. "Whose sins you forgive, are forgiven them; and whose sins you retain, are retained." .... You cite these words of Jesus as a reason, but you do not consider that Jesus spoke to His disciples, to those who had attained a spiritual maturity through their way of life, which made them clairvoyant and clear-hearing. Furthermore, Jesus spoke of the sins whose consequences were physically visible and occasioned the sinners to seek help, i.e. averting their suffering, from the disciples whom they recognised as great men of God .... From this arose the act of general forgiveness of sins after the confession of sins to a person, which, however, is again only to be regarded as a transformation of Christ's teaching, as a deception insofar as people mostly believe (make) the forgiveness of their sins dependent on the confession of them, but this confession often becomes a formal matter, whereas deep inner repentance, the confession of guilt against God and detestation of sin and the earnest desire to amend one’s life only faintly touch the human heart, but the forgiveness of sins is dependent on this alone. This inner confession of guilt must be made to God. No mediator is necessary for this and thus auricular confession is once again only a commandment added by people to Christ's teaching which, however, is extremely well observed but contradicts God's will, Who wants to have every outwardness replaced by true inner devotion to God, by completely spiritual experience and living out His commandments. For every outwardness is a great danger for people that they observe themselves too little, that they only make the humanly added requirements their concern and thereby become shallow and lukewarm in their work on their souls. For people's spiritual decline proves that the will to detest sin, which is the result of profound repentance, does not exist or has not become an act, which would absolutely be the case if the act of forgiveness of sin had not been given such a form but was always only an inner concern of each individual. Then the human being would educate himself to an improved way of life, if only he were of good will. But in this way even the willing become lukewarm and indifferent through false teachings and presentations of the forgiveness of sins, which is not intended by God as it is presented to people. Only true inwardness is of value before God, and every external form does not please Him and therefore does not meet His approval.

Amen

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Battle of faith .... Breakdown of human work .... Church of Christ ....

B.D. 4167 from November 14th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The last days before the end will show the strength of resistance people will muster who belong to the true Church of Christ, in contrast to those who pay more homage to the human structure which they will see disintegrate in view of the battle of faith. For it will be a time when no compromises will be made, when everyone will have to make a clear decision, when religious doctrines will be unravelled down to the last detail and will therefore also necessitate thinking about and when everything of an external nature cannot stand up to serious criticism and will therefore be condemned or rejected. Only then will people realise how worthless it was and how much grace and strength rests in true faith and the heartfelt bond with Me which lacks all formality. People will see something fall apart which they portray as permanent and they will have to realise that those without enforced commandments have a far stronger faith and are far closer to Me through their way of life and their will, which looks for and strives towards Me constantly. All ecclesiastical performances will become subject to the measures of those who fight against spiritual issues, and only someone who longs for Me from the bottom of his heart, who receives My Word and with My Word also My strength, will prove himself .... Then much will be abolished which seems important to people now, and they will have to relinquish it and content themselves with silent contemplation without external actions, without pomp and glamour and without teachers who were not enlightened by Me and therefore unsuitable for the office of a minister. And they will have to acknowledge that I Myself have chosen My servants on earth and given them the task to instruct their fellow human beings and to convey the truth to them .... And blessed are those who will then accept the truth, who will make an effort to live according to My will and who use the short time until the end for their soul's development, for they will bear up and persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word purest truth .... doubt .... love of God ....

B.D. 4168 from November 15th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The teachings you receive from Me guarantee purest truth and yet you oppose them with doubts. But you shall provide yourselves with the evidence and can only do so if you live strictly according to My word, thus if you work according to My will. For then your life will be an uninterrupted activity of love which will result in clearest realisation and an absolutely certain feeling for truth. And make it your concern to constantly appeal to Me Myself for right thinking, and I will not let you go astray, I will walk beside you every step of the way if only you leave the guidance to Me and confidently entrust yourselves to Me. The term truth can only be applied to one thing .... to knowledge which is imparted to you humans by Me Myself. You can accept this knowledge without any scrutiny, for it is surely understandable to you that a scrutiny of My word on your part would be presumptuous, since the scrutiniser as a human being does not possess the ability to judge right and furthermore has no right to subject divine revelations to scrutiny. Instead, he must accept them unconditionally, even contrary to his own opinion, otherwise he would question his faith in God's working in this way; if he believes in God and His love, wisdom and omnipotence he must take this faith as a basis and conclude that God's love wants to convey the pure truth to people, that God's wisdom offers people the right knowledge which is necessary and also helpful for their spiritual progress; and that God's omnipotence puts a stop to every deception by evil forces as soon as the human being appeals to Him for His support .... If you humans urgently bear all this in mind then you will no longer oppose My words, for My fatherly love for you, My living creations, is exceedingly great; it wants to save you but never let you sink into thinking which has a damaging effect on your soul. Call upon Me in thought, speak to Me and listen to what I send to you as an answer .... And then firmly rely on it, for I have both the power and the right to reject and keep away every evil force from you, and My love must be your guarantee that I do so, otherwise you could dispute My love, for does a father leave his children in darkness when they desire light and he can give light in abundance? Will a father have the heart to send a child, who is obedient to him and wants to fulfil his will, an error-ridden teaching? .... Consider this and all doubt must disappear in you .... My love in you is boundless, thus it will only give you what you need and makes you mature spiritually .... the pure truth which originates from Me and can never ever be deformed by lower forces as long as you unite with Me in prayer and ask for illumination of spirit. Then My spirit will descend upon you and teach you according to the fullest truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Divine revelations can be accepted without scrutiny .... Love ....

B.D. 4169 from November 17th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A divine revelation should and must be taken seriously, otherwise the recipient is not worthy of it. Various possibilities to solve earthly problems certainly exist, earthly things can be viewed from various angles, an earthly problem can be answered in different ways, depending on the human being's attitude, however, in a spiritual respect there is only one truth, there is only one solution, and this solution is given by God Himself to those who desire it and are worthy of it. And despite the worthiness, the transmission of truth through revelations of the spirit is a very special grace which must be acknowledged, just as that which God imparts to people through revelations is beyond all doubt and may therefore be accepted without any examination. And, indeed, as soon as God Himself is acknowledged as the source of spiritual revelations his communications are no longer doubted. Yet it is precisely the source of spiritual revelation that is frequently questioned, and then the human being will not be entirely convinced that the content corresponds to the truth. However, the Word speaks for itself, and it speaks in a language which can certainly be understood by all those who live a life of love .... Kind-hearted people, who develop increasingly higher, can also affirm the content of the proclamations, for they grasp the truth and are on the right track with their thoughts, nothing will seem implausible to them, instead, they accept every Word and arrange their life accordingly. Yet a person who lacks love will find it more difficult to believe unconditionally. God's working is incomprehensible to them, and neither can they completely appreciate the content, for love is the key to truth, love is indispensable if the human being wants to penetrate the truth through his acceptance of divine revelations. They can only be advised to practise acting with love, for only through this they will understand everything and disperse every doubt. Through love he will make contact with God and can subsequently also be instructed by God Himself. Then he will know the truth, he will be allowed to receive profound knowledge, it will be easy for him to believe, since the truth speaks for itself, and the Word of God will always be pure and unadulterated truth, because it originates from the One Who is the eternal Truth Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's call within your heart ....

B.D. 4170 from November 19th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

You have to heed the need of the moment, i.e. you have to hold yourselves in readiness, so when you hear My call within your heart you will be able to serve Me without hesitation, for the hour of taking up your post is near. And the sign and evidence of My Word's truthfulness rests upon the fact that worldly obligations no longer seem important to you once you have heard My voice, which clearly instructs you what to do. You will have no further desire for this world but only find joy in your spiritual work, and you will receive help in accomplishing it because it is My will. This time will be preceded by a spiritual drought, a time when you will hunger for My Word, for lively activity in the spiritual field, and when you will lack every opportunity for spiritual debate. Although you will receive My Word, and My love will always take care of you, you will find yourselves isolated amidst a world with a zest for life which is unable to give you anything. You will get little sympathy from other people and therefore feel down-hearted but move ever closer to Me, and thus your hunger for My nourishment for your soul will increase, until you suddenly hear Me inside yourselves .... And then the hour will have come for your mission to begin .... And I will make sure that you will be able to start your work, that you will lose all shyness, that all reservation and fear will leave you.

You will only speak, think and act in accordance with My will, you will represent Me Myself on earth, that is, you will speak what you receive through My spirit, you will be living witnesses of My Word. You will go amongst people as My disciples again and proclaim to them My Word, with the addition that the end is near and that I will come Myself to fetch My Own when the time has arrived which I have determined since eternity. And, in order for you to speak freely and unimpeded, I will place people by your side who will provide you with worldly support, who will accompany you as faithful followers, who will protect and shield you from the world, although you will always enjoy My protection and I will not leave you until the end. But I will also take care of you in an earthly way and you should fulfil your task without concern, because your mission will completely drain your strength, and therefore you shall be free from all earthly worries. But I ask of you to pass on the gifts you receive from Me and thus make them accessible to other people; to carry My Word into the world verbally as well as in print, to spread the truth and thus inform your fellow human beings of My working, so that their thoughts are directed to the spiritual kingdom. And I will bless your service to Me, I will give you strength until the end and one day will reward your work in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working for God and His kingdom ....

B.D. 4171 from November 20th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

And thus a new phase will start for you, a time full of activity for Me and My kingdom .... and you will not regret having offered your services to Me, since you will feel the blessing of the work, you will multiply My church, the flock of believers around you will expand and you will be able to teach, and My spirit will constantly manifest itself through you. You will always be certain of My presence and this awareness will make you confident amongst people of hostile mind. For it will remain a battle of truth against lies and error, because humanity is already too deeply entangled in the latter. Nevertheless, people will, at first, be willing to listen to you, and the time following the natural disaster should be used since you will be able to speak freely, unimpeded by worldly power. Therefore I will need faithful labourers during this time and always seek to invite them, since help needs to be brought to those whose hearts were hardened by their destiny, and who will be looking far and wide for an explanation of the cause and purpose for this natural event. They will still possess a modest faith in divine justice, and then it will be particularly important to provide people with what they long for: light and strength, fullest understanding and a living faith in Me Myself, Who will speak to them through you in order to draw them close to Me and gladden them with My presence.

You will have to achieve a great task and thus will be guided in a worldly way such that you can fully devote yourselves to this task. Therefore you should be ready and wait for My call, and not hesitate to comply with it when you hear it within yourselves. Because I will guide your fate such that you can be at My disposal at any time, because time demands urgent action. You, however, shall receive clear vision and perception and will therefore always know where your work is needed and where it can be successful. I will lead the people to you whom I want to help through you and who are willing to believe .... For I will take care of all people who are not entirely subject to My adversary and who are of good will. I will approach them with My Word, I want to speak to them through you, and I want to win them over for Me and My kingdom, so that they will be eternally blessed.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Seeming contradictions in God's Word ....

B.D. 4172 from November 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Don't take exception to the contradictions which seem to exist in My Word but consider the fact that your intellect cannot grasp everything My spirit imparts to you. Accept in good faith in Me and My love, wisdom and omnipotence that everything offered to you from above is not comparable to earthly wisdom; that even that which seems impossible to you is possible in the kingdom of the free spirits. Two worlds exist, the spiritual and the earthly world, and both stand in opposition to each other. However, it is My goal to spiritualise the earthly world, to educate it such that it can join the spiritual world in order to finally be a spiritual world itself. And on this earth, amid the earthly world, a spiritual world can also be established through the unification of those people who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom, who receive spiritual knowledge, strive spiritually and are thus averted to the earthly world and only still accomplish the work which has been assigned to them for their earthly life. They will likewise be in opposition to worldly-minded people who belong to the earthly world, and their thinking will also seemingly be in contradiction to the thoughts of the general public, for a spiritually directed eye sees things differently, the ear hears differently, and the soul feels differently than is otherwise the norm, and the earthly-minded person will not understand him. Then two worlds exist side by side and their inhabitants can be at various distances from Me even though they are together. One of them can understand that which he hears from Me, for the other it is and will remain inaudible or strange if it is passed on to him.

And this is what you have to accept if you want to judge My gifts from above. Whatever I give to one person corresponds to his maturity of soul, and it need not be wrong by any means if it seems incomprehensible to someone else. In that case it is not the gift itself which should be questioned but the person's degree of maturity which is therefore insufficient to grasp spiritual knowledge. In that case it concerns information which goes above and beyond earthly knowledge, not commandments or proclamations intended to clarify My will to people but more profound wisdoms touching upon subjects beyond human knowledge. Then My Word will have to be the guarantee for truth, for neither examinations nor your own findings can provide you with proof. However, enlightened people will be able to believe it, that is, accept it as truth with complete inner conviction because they let their heart speak more than their intellect. For the heart is in contact with Me, the human being feels the truth, he does not make use of his intellect in order to seek the evidence of what is an inner conviction for him. Strive towards the spiritual world and your thoughts will be spiritually inclined, i.e., you will also be able to grasp spiritual concepts. Create the world that is your actual goal on earth already .... Detach yourselves from the earthly world by not desiring it any longer, instead only seek to carry out your earthly task .... to shape yourselves into beings whose greatest aspiration rests in their love for Me and their fellow human beings and thus approach Me, which aim to bring their nature into line with Mine by doing deeds of unselfish neighbourly love .... And you will become brightly enlightened and capable of understanding the most profound wisdom which, however, will never originate from the earthly but only from the spiritual world and be exceedingly valuable. And nothing you are offered from above will seem contradictory to you, you will be able to believe, i.e., be fully convinced, you will know the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's care for His Own ....

B.D. 4173 from November 22nd 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Anyone who entrusts himself to Me need not fear failure, I will truly fight his cause and help him even though it appears hopeless according to human opinion. And I repeat that I will not leave My Own in adversity and that I will guide their steps and smooth their ways also in an earthly respect, because I am a friend and brother to My Own and always ready to help. And I say to you, who have become Mine through your will and your spiritual activity, you are under My special protection and have no reason for despondency .... Believe that it is good as it comes upon you and be grateful to the One Who holds your fate in His hand. Sufferings and joys will alternate in your still short earthly existence, accept both with gratitude and know that it is My will as it comes and that nothing happens without My approval, because I know what your soul needs to mature. Yet in every adversity you may come to Me, and the depth of your faith, the confidence in My loving help will always be rewarded .... You will be helped because I love you and am your faithful father. The fact that you should work for Me and My kingdom on earth and that I train you to do so must be proof to you of how close you are to Me and that I never want to lose you as labourers in the last days before the end. But anyone who is once in My service shall also be able to manage his service, and as his master I will also take over all care for him and thus also the worries which oppress him because he still lives on earth and cannot yet completely detach himself from it .... And thus I will give him what is desirable to him as long as it does not harm his soul. Therefore believe and hope and entrust yourselves to Me, and you will evidently experience My help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Call to work .... The mission of God’s servants ....

B.D. 4174 from November 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

How you will hear My call to work for Me and My kingdom depends on each of My servants' state of maturity on earth, because I need many labourers in My vineyard and everyone who is ready will be given the task he can meet in accordance with his ability, which again depends on his soul's maturity. One person will feel an inner urge to speak about spiritual things, to attract people to Me and lead his fellow human beings into faith, he will be called by Me through an inner desire. I will effectively place this task into his feeling and he will accept this feeling and comply with the inner desire.

Another person will hear the inner voice; he will follow an inwardly prompted train of thought. He will be unable to detach himself from ideas which will motivate him so much that he will have to discuss them, and I will bring him into contact with people to whom he can talk about his thoughts and enter into spiritual conversations which inspire the fellow human being to dwell on it, and thus he will likewise be invited to My kingdom.

But I will also make Myself audibly heard to My servants, whose particularly advanced state of maturity allows for it. I will tell them clearly and understandably how they should work for Me, where they should go and what they should teach. And they will have a very special mission .... they will, encouraged by My spirit within themselves, preach My Word where My adversary is openly active .... where misguided teachings are spread by people who also call themselves My servants but who have not yet received the pure truth from Me because they refuse to accept it.

This mission requires a special ability .... it requires the gift of oratory, which My servant need not have but which will be given to him during his time of working for Me because he will have attained a certain degree of maturity allowing the working of My spirit through him. But at the same time the person has to intellectually grasp what he, prompted by My spirit, is saying. He has to be able to cope with hostile attacks and disprove any contention of My Word. Although he indeed merely has the task to spread My Word, the pure truth from Me, he will also have to speak freely since debates will arise which make intellectual activity indispensable. Furthermore, the comprehensively informed challengers have to acknowledge My servant's spiritual superiority if they are to pay attention to what they will be told, as they will argue about important and profound problems which can only be handled by an awakened and spiritually enlightened human being with Me Myself as a teacher, and therefore also presents himself confidently and is not afraid to contradict those who pride themselves in being intelligent and knowledgeable.

These servants will receive a special call; they will audibly hear My voice within themselves so that they will be completely certain of My will and then totally subordinate themselves to it. If they win one of these teachers over for Me and My doctrine, for the absolute truth, which they can only receive from Me Myself through you, it will be a great spiritual success because he, in turn, will then likewise campaign for the truth again and teach a larger circle, and thereby make My Word available to many people in its purest form and for the benefit of everyone.

Anyone ordained for this mission can call himself a servant of God with full conviction because he will speak on My behalf, he will only do My will, he will be guided by Me and take every step in My company, he will only be My mouthpiece so that I can manifest Myself to people without infringing their freedom of faith or will. For this reason I need such servants devoted to Me during the last days before the end because work has to be done everywhere and constantly in order to make My pure Word accessible to people, which is blessed with My strength but which also comes directly from Me and is sent to earth in order to liberate people from misconceptions ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesuschild God and man ....

B.D. 4175 from November 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Call for clarification, and it will be yours .... On whom the spirit of God falls, the one can also truthfully give answers to questions, that are put to him in spiritual regard. It is the mystery of the incarnation of God such a difficult problem for people on earth, that they can be taught never completely, unless they take even the declaration in receiving the spirit of God, so that they are understood well by the receiver of spiritual messages, but can not be forwarded to the neighbours understandably .... The man Jesus was born in a wonderful way indeed, and His birth was accompanied by heavenly appearance of any kind . Nevertheless the body was and remained earthly material for the time being; the soul came from the kingdom of light and thus came without sin into the world, and consequently God could reveal Himself by this soul, He could act, because there was nothing, what would have opposed itself as an obstacle to His work. So God and man was in the child Jesus at the same time .... everything the human eye could see was a human being, but Who gave the child life, Who attracted people and caused them to worship by His nearness, was God. The eternal Godhead self revealed Himself and was recognized by those, who were goodwill, whose hearts were capable of love and love willingly and therefore they opened themselves for the spirit of God to act in them. By the time of the birth of Jesus only people came near Him, who were guided to Him by the spirit of God, who were also appreciated by God Himself, to view the child, whom He Himself approached through the child and where He awakened the consciousness, to be in the nearness of God. But another man than such people the child would appear purely humanly, not otherwise as other children, as well as it was with His earthly body. And so the people saw Him in His youth and in later years, for He did not appear obviously with His divinity, with His being filled with the spirit of God, although He Himself always united more and more with God by His exemplary life of love, which also spiritualized His body and made it a receiving vessel for the divine spirit. But it was the man Jesus, Who Himself had to make a worthy temple of God’s spirit by activity of love, that this could conceal in Him in all fullness and could work through Him indefinitely. What He spoke, was doing miracles and even commanded the death, was God Himself, what people were seeing, was a human being .... The belief in the divine mission of the man Jesus let the people also recognize God in Him, both as a child and in His years of teaching, where these recognized Him likewise again, who were themselves the same spirit, who led a life according to the divine will and therefore also opened up to His divine being. For them, it was without doubt, that God Himself was in Him and worked through Him. But sometimes the human outer form let even arise doubts in those, because they could not understand the mystery of the incarnation of God and the mystery of the complete unity of God and man, as it can also never be completely clarified to the people, who are not spiritually lively. These would probably be able to grasp it with their soul, but it can never be purely rationally shown, as it would be necessary for a full understanding. But never and never the child Jesus can be denied the deity, because This child was worthy of the highest grace, that God Himself hid in Him, that He revealed Himself to those, who loved Him and lived according to His will.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Incarnation of God ....

B.D. 4176 from November 27th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

The most formidable problem is the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ. And yet a person with childlike faith can pass over it without intellectual difficulties, it can appear simple to him precisely because he believes .... For him Jesus Christ is God, and he also believes it with full justification, for divine is that which has united with God through love. However, the fact that this union was the final aim of a human being in the first place, achieved by the man Jesus in a short time on earth, likewise remains a truth which neither the keenest intellect nor the most devout heart can deny, for in order to attain the degree of perfection which makes a soul divine, a life of love must absolutely be lived in free will, of its own accord, and that in the stage as a human being, and the will may not be influenced in any way in a certain state of constraint. An already perfect being only enters earth for the purpose of a mission. It will also fulfil this mission but never on the basis of its already high degree of maturity before its embodiment as a human being, instead, its life, like that of every other human being, must be a battle waged in freedom of will against weaknesses and faults of all kinds. He must freely want the degree of perfection which marks him as a divine being, strive for it and achieve it through loving activity, which he can also refrain from, just as he could also direct his will downwards because he can freely use his will. He must be able to be just as evil as good, just as he will be credited with every decision one day. God does not influence such a soul in any way, but neither does He allow it to fall prey to the adversary involuntarily, thus to be forced by him to apostatise from God or to act against His will. This freedom of choice also had to be granted to the man Jesus if His act of salvation was not to lose in value, just as His divinity had to be the merit of a human being striving for perfection, Who should serve as an example for the whole of humanity and inspire people to imitate His way of life .... (27.11.1947) Jesus was a living example of a life according to divine will for people, consequently it must also be possible for a human being to attain the same perfection. He was a mediator between God and people, consequently it must be possible to reach God under the assistance of Jesus Christ; thus Jesus also had to be close to people in a human way, He had to have walked the same path on earth and have an intimate relationship with both, with God and with people, a relationship which was borne by deepest love, that He felt such great love for people that He wanted to help them; but He also felt the love for the eternal Deity which God requires in order to give Him unlimited power and abundance of strength, that He united Himself with Him, but which always presupposes that Jesus was a human being Who reached His aim .... was born as a human being and ascended to heaven as God in all glory. He was in no way endowed preferentially so that He would have succeeded in His human existence without any effort and as a matter of course, rather, He had to struggle unusually against temptations of unclean spirits who knew about His mission on earth and tried to prevent it. The temptations approached Him in every way, and it took all His strength of will to withstand and to adapt His physical desires to the desiring of the spirit and the soul, for His external body was human with flesh and blood, His senses felt the beauty and charm of the earthly world to an unusual degree, and they longed for fulfilment, yet He denied it to the body out of love for needy humanity, to whom He could only bring help by sacrificing Himself, by achieving a higher degree of maturity of His soul through refrainment and renunciation, which led Him to union with God. The union with His father from eternity, however, enabled Him in the first place to embark on His mission to spread the divine teaching of love on earth and to proclaim the divine will to people, but on the other hand it also gave Him the strength to make the most difficult sacrifice a human being has ever offered to God and people on earth .... To blamelessly take upon Himself the death on the cross and to suffer unimaginable mental and physical pain out of love for humanity in order to bring help to it, which had to expect a dreadful fate in the beyond due to its great guilt of sin, and to save it from eternal condemnation, from sinking into deepest darkness. Jesus, the man, put spiritual life before earthly life, His will was stronger than His physical desire, and thus He was victorious in the battle against Himself and thereby won the highest prize .... the love of the eternal Deity, Which gave Itself to Him, Which flowed to Him without restriction and worked upon Him as strength. And He became powerful and wise, He was filled with light and strength, the essence of God completely took possession of Him. That is, body and soul shaped themselves into love and thus became divine, because the fundamental substance of the eternal Deity is love and consequently anyone who carries love within himself and thus unites himself with God, the eternal Love, has to be a divine being .... Jesus was God and man .... God was His being, man was His body, which held the divine being, love, within itself. Therefore, if one speaks of Jesus as God, then His essence is meant, the spiritual shaping of His soul, the absorption in pure, selfless love and thereby the shaping of His soul into the image of God .... And since Jesus had gained victory over Himself, His body spiritualised itself and completely subordinated itself to the will of the soul .... And thus Jesus was filled with light, flowed round by light, and after His death He ascended into heaven as the purest spirit, yet also visible to the disciples through His will .... For He had overcome death, He had redeemed the world from the state of weakness into which it had fallen through sin .... He had accomplished the work of redemption as a human being, because otherwise it would not have been a sacrificial death and would not have extinguished the immense guilt of sin into which humanity had fallen ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer