New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4287 - 4419

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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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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

4287 - Serious reminder and indication of the end....

4288 - Increased suffering in the end time.... God's love....

4289 - "Create and work while it is still day...."

4290 - Announcement of the end of the world....

4291 - Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light.... no man's eye....

4292 - End of redemption period.... last judgment....

4293 - Pre-humans.... creation illustrated....

4294 - Dogma....

4295 - The good Shepherd .... ‘My Own recognise My voice .... ’

4296 - Destiny.... 'Father, Your will be done....'

4297 - Feeding at the lord's table.... communion....

4298 - Different spiritual directions.... truth from God....

4299 - Counteraction on the part of the world....

4300 - Law of order.... subordination of the will....

4301 - "Many are called, few are chosen...."

4302 - Apostasy.... children of God - creatures of God....

4303 - Presence of God....

4304 - Triumphant church.... One flock and one shepherd....

4305 - Prayer for poor souls....

4306 - The light beings’ intervention in destiny....

4307 - "I want you to be blessed...."

4308 - Mission readiness.... prediction....

4309 - Task of truth bearers.... enlightenment....

4310 - ‘Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed ....’

4311 - Various sowings and their fruits.... lord's vineyard....

4312 - Church of Christ.... "You are Peter, the rock...."

4313 - Audible Word....

4314 - Body power (life power) multiplication by spiritual power....

4315 - Spiritual debates are necessary for clarification ....

4316 - Merging the spirit with the soul through love....

4317 - God's protection of His workers on earth....

4318 - Light of the sun.... interaction....

4319 - The Lord will come at a time of greatest adversity....

4320 - The present time will lead to the end....

4321 - Relationship of the child to the father.... supporters....

4322 - (Fatima) After reading about it....

4323 - Unusual spiritual experience.... reminder....

4324 - Spiritual guidance.... truth from above....

4325 - Significance of the spirit's voice.... Close to the goal....

4326 - Harmony of body and soul....

4327 - Notice to end.... rights representatives of God....

4328 - Community of 'Saints'.... Intercession pointless....

4329 - Hell, end of day.... nightfall....

4330 - Spiritual conversations.... scattering the seed....

4331 - Signs of the end.... spiritual depression....

4332 - God’s word necessary for attaining maturity of soul....

4333 - Force - subconscious....

4334 - Cognizability.... must state....

4335 - Sustaining the body through God’s word....

4336 - Earth school of the spirit....

4337 - Spiritual task prefixed before earthly activity....

4338 - Measure of grace.... will.... self-will.... -love....

4339 - Love life - spiritual work.... holy scripture....

4340 - "Become like children...." strong faith....

4341 - Psychic beings.... 'Deliver us from evil....'

4342 - Love - bliss.... gifts - fulfilling.... working together....

4343 - Inner life.... Withdrawing into seclusion....

4344 - Temptations of satan.... God's protection....

4345 - Working together for God....

4346 - Lack of understanding of people without love....

4347 - Spiritual low at the end.... busy work needed....

4348 - Earth rotations.... Earthly tremors....

4349 - Oppression by earth-bound spiritual....

4350 - Various mission of the workers of the lord....

4351 - Servants of God children of light.... spiritual intercourse....

4352 - Unity with God.... School of suffering....

4353 - Disintegration.... Work of destruction.... Renewed banishment....

4354 - Leadership of God.... demons in the end time....

4355 - Supplement and explanation regarding no. 4348....

4356 - Educational tools.... admonition to love....

4357 - Marriage.... In the presence of God and before the world....

4358 - Right direction of will.... commandment of love.... truth....

4359 - Luminous phenomenon before the catastrophe....

4360 - Parable of the good shepherd....

4361 - Power of satan before the end....

4362 - Original state.... fall.... love.... perfection.... will....

4363 - Prayer: "For the sake of Jesus Christ", "in His name...."

4364 - Union with God.... renunciation....

4365 - Free will.... Destiny....

4366 - Mediation - responsibility.... invitation to communion....

4367 - Crossroads.... inner voice.... right guides....

4368 - Transformation of earth.... Change.... Disintegration....

4369 - New earth.... creations.... paradise....

4370 - Words of God to "servants" on earth.... representatives....

4371 - Signs before the catastrophe (Anxiety of people and animals)....

4372 - The right prayer.... 'Father, Your will be done....'

4373 - Faculty of judgement dependent on love life....

4374 - The Flood.... Last days.... Worldly progress....

4375 - Office of the right servants of God....

4376 - God's care for His servants....

4377 - Serious reminder.... (Silencing of the voice?)....

4378 - Inner voice difficult to hear.... Turmoil - silence....

4379 - Last Supper.... Spiritual meaning.... Flesh - blood....

4380 - "Where two or three in My name....“

4381 - Divine order.... basic law.... love....

4382 - Aim of man.... love to God.... counter-love....

4383 - Presence of God.... love.... God’s word....

4384 - Research.... truth.... way of life....

4385 - Work in the vineyard of the lord....

4386 - Power of the word before the end.... need....

4387 - Personal Words....

4388 - Heartfelt prayer.... God's help....

4389 - Power of prayer....

4390 - Spiritual decline.... Signs of the end....

4391 - Great need.... divorce.... grace period....

4392 - Redeemer.... faith.... free will.... compulsion....

4393 - Right prayer in spirit and in truth....

4394 - Spiritual mission.... truth.... end battle....

4395 - Different schools of thought.... Christ’s teaching....

4396 - Demonic influence.... truth bearers....

4397 - Destiny according to the will....

4398 - Worker in the vineyard.... heresies - truth....

4399 - Abundance of grace.... Unchanging Fatherly love....

4400 - God's love.... radiance.... God’s word....

4401 - Battle of darkness against all that is light....

4402 - Overcoming matter in free will....

4403 - Measure of charity: self-love....

4404 - Work of the servants of God.... carrying the light forward....

4405 - Material and spiritual creation.... activity of the residents....

4406 - "And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them...."

4407 - "My kingdom is not of this world...."

4408 - ‘No-one can serve two masters....’

4409 - Without God no truth.... enlightenment of the spirit....

4410 - Inner voice....

4411 - Fight with the sword of the mouth.... assistance of God....

4412 - Fire of love.... divine....

4413 - Do not hide from Me....

4414 - Earthly worry unnecessary.... God's Fatherly love....

4415 - Spiritual work more necessary than earthly.... God's care....

4416 - Words of love characteristic of spiritual working....

4417 - Grace and love grants....

4418 - God's care for His servants....

4419 - Serious exhortation to soul work....

Serious reminder and indication of the end ....

B.D. 4287 from April 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Reflect on the seriousness of the hour. The will to live and to create a bearable existence is extremely strongly developed in the human being, and every thought has earthly well-being as its aim. And time passes without bringing any benefit to the soul, the end draws ever closer, the distance from Me grows ever greater, people seek to satisfy themselves in the frenzy of earthly pleasures, they only pay attention to the world and don't think about death and what will come after death. And even if I admonish and warn, My words go unheard or are not heeded. It is a state of greatest confusion, both earthly and spiritually, the apostasy from Me is growing ever greater, and the few who stick by Me are of weak faith and anxiously await the future. They are certainly touched by My grace but they do not yet recognize Me as I want to be recognized. And again and again I therefore speak words of love and encouragement to them and give them the promise that I will not leave them, even if the adversity seems immense. Yet the latter is unavoidable, for I want to chain My own to Me, they shall not seek comfort and help elsewhere but only from Me; I want them to constantly take refuge in Me and thus no longer exclude Me in their thoughts, actions and intentions. Then they will also persevere and not get lost. But you who seek the world, who are unable to separate yourselves from earthly things, you will still experience difficulties, for you too must become aware that your stay on this earth is not eternal and that you strive for what is transient and worthless for eternity. Again and again you have to give away what you acquire until you detach yourselves from it in your heart, only then will you be receptive for spiritual possessions, only then will you listen to My word and accept it in your heart if you are of good will. I still try to save the souls which are not yet completely corrupted, and for the sake of these souls the adversity will become even greater, as I have predicted to you through seers and prophets. You must recognize the truth of My word, for I have constantly pointed out this adversity to you and presented your earthly existence as almost unbearable .... You must believe My words, you must not dismiss them indifferently and ignore them but adjust your life accordingly, you must criticize yourselves and conduct your way of life in accordance with My commandments, you must work on your soul, make an effort to live a life of love and constantly seek Me in thought and heartfelt prayer. Then you will survive the difficult time because you will never lack strength; you will derive great benefit for your soul even if you live in earthly adversity and misery. The end is near and a blissful time will soon dawn for you if you follow Me, if you pay attention to My admonitions and warnings and prepare yourselves for the last days, if you remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Increased suffering in the end time .... God's love ....

B.D. 4288 from April 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Whatever may come over you, do not doubt My love for you and My power. Know that everything is necessary, both for you, who are active as My co-workers on earth in the last days before the end, as well as for the people who are distant from Me and shall still be won over for the spiritual kingdom. The fact that you, who want to belong to Me, will also be affected by the suffering cannot be avoided, yet again and again I give you the assurance that you will not remain without My help and My protection, that even the most difficult will be bearable for you if you remain intimately united with Me. The time of the great tribulation has dawned, which it is written will usher in the last days, and every individual will have to feel it; only those who belong to My adversary will remain unaffected and enjoy earthly prosperity. But don't let yourselves be distracted by this, My love belongs to you who have to suffer, I provide for you differently than with earthly goods, I give you spiritual wealth, although I also take care of your earthly worries. You will not need to starve, I will provide your soul and body with nourishment, thus you need not worry about their preservation. And yet, you will have to fight and need great strength which I will always supply to you through My word. The more intimately you desire My word and accept it in your heart the easier you will go through earthly life, even if it is outwardly difficult for you. The time of tribulation has dawned .... Remember this when you believe you can no longer endure life, remember that the end is near and that a time of adversity must inevitably precede it, because I have foretold it and My word must come true and because the souls which have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary can no longer be saved otherwise. And remember that the time until the end is only short and therefore has to bring increased suffering in order to accelerate the maturing, so that you will be in a state at the end that I can take you to Me, that you can see Me when I want to make Myself visible to you coming in the clouds. Remember that this vision requires a degree of maturity which can only be achieved through loving activity and suffering, but that I can also make the latter bearable for you if only you believe. Let your faith become stronger and you can thereby reduce your own suffering, for then you will achieve what you ask for, because I have given you the promise: "Ask and it shall be given you, knock and it shall be opened to you ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Create and work while it is still day ...."

B.D. 4289 from April 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

"Create and work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you can no longer work ...." How close you are to the onset of night, it is the last minutes of the day when you are alive, and you are not aware of the seriousness of it, you are lukewarm in your soul's work and live as if you still have a long time ahead of you. You are mistaken .... night will soon fall and envelop the whole earth in deepest darkness, and you could still achieve an unspeakable amount if you wanted to use the last minutes and seriously prepare yourselves for life after death. You should only think of your souls and pay no more attention to what concerns the body. For only the soul remains, nothing remains for you of earthly goods, of the material world. You already have one foot on the other side, but what will the kingdom be like which will receive your soul? Is it the kingdom of light or that of darkness? Is it day or night for your soul? Where there is light, there is life, but the night is dreadful. And therefore I warn you urgently and speak to you again and again to draw your attention to the great responsibility you bear towards your soul. Don't bring it into an unspeakable adversity which you can still easily avert if you change, disregard everything earthly and only think of fulfilling My will and living a life in accordance with My commandments .... stand by your neighbour in every earthly and spiritual adversity, intervene helpfully where your help is required and always and constantly accept My word which informs you of My will and imparts strength to you to live the life as it is My will. Create and work while it is still day .... it will soon draw to a close and an endless long night will follow from which I want to protect you because I love you .... Listen to the words of My love and take them seriously, so that you will escape the night and a day will dawn for you which will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Announcement of the end of the world ....

B.D. 4290 from April 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

People postpone the end of the world to the farthest future and do not comment on its imminent announcement because they consider a debate about it to be completely nonsensical. And this is also how My admonitions and warnings are assessed, they are hardly heeded and therefore no change of lifestyle is striven for. And this, too, is a sign that the end is near, for people are only earthly minded and have no inner drive for spiritual striving. Again and again I send them My messengers who mention and point out My extraordinary working. They receive knowledge through these messengers and will therefore never be able to say that they have remained without knowledge about the end which is shortly approaching you humans. It is My will that you will not remain without knowledge. And thus again and again you will be informed of it through word and scripture, through your fellow human beings who serve Me and are in contact with Me, who receive the pure truth and want to hand it over again.

(30.4.1948) They will inform you how close the downfall of the earth is, what adversity and tribulation is in store for you, so that you will recognize that the time has come when My word will be fulfilled. Anyone who postpones the downfall to the future, who does not believe My word, will have no explanation for the unusual adversity, and all faith will be lost to him, yet through his own fault. For the truth, which he does not want to hear, would give him fullest explanation and also let him find the path to Me. Yet the human being cannot be forced to accept what is conveyed to him from above; he must voluntarily open himself to My word if it is to take effect in him, but then he will also be able to believe how close the end is and derive benefit for his soul from his knowledge ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creating and shaping in the kingdom of light .... no man's eye ....

B.D. 4291 from May 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will be seized by an indescribable longing for My presence once your soul has entered the kingdom of light, and the fulfilment of this longing is bliss. You will feel love for Me to an ever increasing degree and therefore also sincerely long for unity with Me, and so that you will find fulfilment I will draw close to you and you will feel My closeness as a blissful feeling of strength, as an increased impetus for activity, as an inner urge to make yourselves happy by distributing what you possess. In order for you to be able to distribute, I constantly provide you with spiritual wealth, I impart profound knowledge to you and therefore place you in an everlasting state of happiness which offers you variety in every way. You will be allowed to see and hear what you will never be granted to see or hear on earth. You will be blessed .... What love can offer you, that you will receive, for My love for you is boundless and constantly intent on turning happiness towards you. Yet you will only ever be spiritually considered, for earthly goods no longer appeal to you in the state of perfection. The desire for earthly goods is a sign of a lack of maturity of soul which can never earn you a state of light. But you will hunger and thirst and always have the desire to be satisfied, and your desire will always be satisfied by My love .... Shape yourselves on earth such that you only desire spiritual goods, try to overcome all matter, only attain spiritual gifts, and you will already be able to enjoy the state of bliss on earth, for as soon as earthly things are overcome I will never ever leave you, then My presence will be assured to you and with it the supply of strength which you will feel as bliss, which will impel you into constant activity for Me and My kingdom. Giving and wanting to please is right love, giving and wanting to please characterizes the degree of neighbourly love, and thus only the urge for pleasing activity can be called love, although the human being's desire is also for things which are only purely material; yet this love is a perverse love which does not lead to Me but distances itself from Me. I want to draw your attention to the fact that only love which has Me as its aim, which therefore expresses itself through unselfish neighbourly love, is strength-inspiring. Love for the world will never put you into a state of bliss which approximately equals that of the beings of light. And never will the desire and fulfilment be as blissful as in the spiritual kingdom, where I alone am the object of your love and longing ....

(2.5.1948) Do you now understand why I constantly court your love? Why do I want to win you for eternity? I don't want to improve your lot on earth but I want you to be happy for all of eternity. You shall work together with My angels as beings of light and develop an activity which gives rise to wonderful things, which brings about creations of wondrous design. And thus you shall be allowed to use My might and strength without restriction, but this first requires unity with Me. I want you to become blessed through the use of My strength. I want to give unlimitedly, and you shall be so filled with My strength that you can create and shape like Me according to your will, which is then also My will. The integration of your will into My will is the first condition to find unity with Me, yet you will always think, want and act in free will if you have subordinated it to Me; you will never be active in a feeling of compulsion because this would impair your beatitude and diminish your perfection. In the kingdom of light My will fulfils all beings which nevertheless are active according to their own will, and all beings only have one aim .... to dwell close to Me. Yet it is impossible and incomprehensible for the human being to specialize life in eternity, to take cognizance of the activity of the individual beings, because this eludes all conception of human thought. The spiritual kingdom is a different world than the earthly one, and therefore the latter is also not to be mentioned comparatively. Only a certain degree of maturity of the soul makes the human being able to see and to receive and reproduce spiritual impressions. But if the soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of light it will understand My infinite love and marvel at all the glories of which the human being on earth cannot imagine. Then My word will come true: No human eye has ever seen and no human ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End of redemption period .... last judgment ....

B.D. 4292 from May 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The earth will become a place of judgement for all people who stand aloof from Me .... I will pronounce My judgement according to justice, and woe to those who are condemned .... the earth will swallow them up, and their souls will have to walk the path anew through the creations of the new earth. This has been decided since eternity. For the law of order must be maintained, but at the end of a redemption period this law will be completely disregarded, which always means destruction. Humanity, which lives in such a time, completely contradicting My order, also falls prey to this destruction, yet it is always only the external form which falls victim to destruction, but the soul, the spiritual substance, only transforms itself, i.e. it takes on other external forms, and this act of transformation is the judgment .... The spiritual, which was already in a state of a certain freedom, will again be bound in solid matter. This act will take place because My wisdom recognized it from eternity as a means to guide the spiritual substance, which is completely distant from Me, back to Me again. It is a means which is certainly effective but unspeakably painful for the spiritual substance and which I therefore only use when there is no other possibility of approaching Me. Yet as long as a period of salvation continues I will always point to its end in order to motivate people to still seek an approach to Me on earth, in order to make the significance of earthly life clear to them and to induce them to live in accordance with My law of order. But humanity does not want to believe in an end, it regards earthly life as an end in itself, not, as it is, as a means to an end, and therefore it remains untouched by the ideas of those who know about My plan of eternity and are to have an enlightening effect on earth on My behalf.

(6.5.1948) These are instructed in truth, they have been taught by the voice of the spirit according to My will, their thinking is enlightened, and thus they will only ever recognize what is right and know how to distinguish error from truth. They are initiated into My plan of salvation, full understanding will dawn upon them, and they will also have knowledge of the course of an earth period, they will recognize the time of the end from people themselves and from the phenomena which have been predicted since the beginning of a redemption period and thus be able to point to it with certainty if they, as My representatives on earth, are to proclaim My word to people. You humans should listen to them and take their words to heart, for they are given to you by Me, I Myself speak to you through their mouths, it is My spirit which speaks through them because I Myself want to instruct you, because I want to admonish and warn you for the sake of your souls. You should remember the end, you should remember your imperfection and the great gulf which still exists between you and Me if you are sinful. You should entrust yourselves to Me so that I Myself will take care of you, and you should see in Me your saviour from spiritual adversity. Only spiritual adversity prompts Me to let you fall into earthly adversity, for if you listen to My servants My words will enter your heart more easily and you will also consider an end of this earth possible. You will have more contact with the spiritual kingdom from where help will come to you in many ways. Try to win Me as father and loving God for you, yet don't let Me become a punishing judge for you .... Win My love for yourselves so that you need not fear My wrath, overcome matter so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom carefree, and create and work so that you will become blissfully happy. For the time is short when you can still work, the day is coming when everyone will be called to account, when I will judge the living and the dead, when I will separate the goats from the sheep, when every soul's fate will be according to its will .... bliss in the kingdom of free spirits or renewed banishment into matter, a state of hell which you should fear and from which I want to protect you .... Therefore believe what comes to you through the mouth of the seers and prophets .... believe that it is My word which is given to you from above so that you may find grace and be saved on the day of judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Pre-humans .... creation illustrated ....

B.D. 4293 from May 8th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You must visualize the development of every work of creation in order to gain the conviction that the human being also had to cover an infinitely long period of development before he reached the stage where he could think, speak and act in free will. To a certain extent, an outer form had to be formed which was suitable for any kind of activity; furthermore, an organic activity had to be possible for this outer form which served the preservation of the body. But this outer form first had to come into being in the most primitive way and in the course of a long time had to refine itself, that is, it took a long time for this outer form to develop in such a way that intellect and free will were added to it and it could now carry out any activity rationally. From this it follows that there was no sudden creation of the human being by God, although this was certainly easily possible for Him but did not correspond to His wisdom and love, but that a slowly ascending development preceded, the product of which is the human being who is capable of thinking, wanting freely and carrying out deeds, who could now also be held responsible for his thinking, wanting and doing. Therefore, before the fully developed human being there were already human-like living beings on earth on different levels of development, but temporally there was no great difference, so that at the same time the whole earth was (not) animated. (not animated) .... (crossed out and changed in brackets in the handwriting) by the living being that could lay claim to the name man, that was therefore in possession of free will and a well-developed intellect and thus capable of acquiring a certain degree of knowledge.

And this being multiplied according to divine will and divine order, for every work of creation, including the human being, is subject to divine natural law, and it is guided and determined to act in accordance with nature, on which its existence also depends. He can certainly also violate this natural law, but this also endangers his physical life as a human being on earth as well as his soul life, for whose (the soul's) further development the external form was given to him (the soul).

(8.5.1948) For the sake of the high aim man also had to be given abilities by God which can let him reach this aim if free will is seriously directed towards it. The human being must acquire abilities himself, he must develop his talents and strive to attain the highest maturity of soul. Thus, even as a human being he must continue to develop, and no longer according to his external form, but his thinking, willing and acting must be directed towards his inner form, so that at the end of his earthly career a being will enter the spiritual kingdom which resembles the originally created being, just as it came from God's source .... The act of creation is therefore a process which extended over a long period of time but which was presented to people as it was comprehensible to them, for the creature's state of imperfection results in ignorance, in the inability to understand the deepest motives of creation, its meaning and purpose and its final aim, and the final aim of the creatures placed on earth by God, for which reason knowledge had to be offered to the latter in a form that gave a rough outline of God's rule and activity, in order to make the creation of the earth and all living creatures understandable to men in a pictorial way. But as soon as the human being achieves the shaping into love in free will, as soon as he develops the ability within himself to receive spiritual instructions, as soon as he is mentally in contact with the spiritual kingdom, he will also know about the pure truth, about the slow upward development of all creation and thus also of the human being, who, as the crown of creation, is the only living being which can change ignorance into a high degree of knowledge, to whom therefore also the ability was given to recognize God and His working, which reveals love, wisdom and omnipotence. Once a person has acquired this knowledge he will also be able to explain the figurative comparison which was once given to the ancients who, if they were pious and God-fearing, understood its true meaning. Faithless people, on the other hand, regard every depiction of creation as untrue or unacceptable, and they reject it without knowing the truth or being able to oppose it with better knowledge. But even if the truth could be offered to them clearly and comprehensibly, they would reject it because their intellect cannot grasp it, since their hearts are without love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dogma ....

B.D. 4294 from May 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

It is not a spiritual violation if a person from a certain school of thought is introduced to another one, if he is offered information which contradicts his knowledge, as long as he is able to accept or reject it of his own free will. However, if he is forced into acceptance by law, if he is placed into a punishable state, i.e. if, through threat of punishment, his thoughts and actions become constrained, then it is a violation which can never have good results for his soul. Therefore, My Word should always be preached, but never forcefully imposed on people. For this reason the transmission of pure truth from above is an act of purest freedom of will which always allows an unenlightened person the option to look at it as human fabrication, if the listener’s will of rejection is stronger. Every human being is able to recognise the divine origin if he is genuinely interested in the pure truth and the continued progress of his soul. In that case he will certainly also be given the ability by Me to recognise the truth as such, because it is My will that the human being’s thoughts should be within the realm of truth and I will provide him with every opportunity to recognise what is right.

But I, for My part, will never forcibly influence the will of a person, therefore I also disapprove of people being spiritually forced by other people by teachings which, in the form of dogma, oblige their acceptance or else they are regarded as sinful. The human being has to be answerable for every offence against My commandment of love but I will never call him to account if his inner feeling prevents him from accepting a religious doctrine, even if it corresponds to the truth. Even then he will still not burden himself with sin, his longing for truth is just not sufficiently deep yet to allow him to recognise the truth as such. However, the acceptance of religious dogma without scrutiny and inner conviction is completely worthless for the development of the soul. Dogma is always unfavourable for the soul because the human being is being stopped from forming an opinion about a religious doctrine, yet without deep thought no conviction of faith can ever be gained.

People certainly need leaders if they do not endeavour their soul’s spiritualisation of their own accord; nevertheless, wise guides should only teach and thus try to stimulate the heart and intellect because the connection to Me, to the spiritual kingdom, has to be established by every individual person himself. And the path to this end should be shown by My representatives on earth by the spreading of My Word. They should always allow Me to speak and never add their own words, decree commandments or impose commitments on people as if they were demanded by Me .... I allow every person to keep his freedom, and I Am only concerned with the uninterrupted transmission and spreading of truth. Anyone who is searching for it is searching for Me and, truly, I will let Myself be found by him; but anyone who does not sincerely strive for truth will not derive any benefit from the acceptance of religious doctrines either, which are presented to him as dogma and therefore he believes that he may not reject them.

Every dogmatic instruction is a restriction of the freedom of will which was given by Me to people, hence it is a spiritual violation which does not correspond to My will and which My representatives on earth should fight against on My behalf. And I will bless every bearer of truth, I will give him the opportunity to spread the truth even though it will meet with opposition. Yet anyone who seriously wants it will recognise it and become thoughtful, and I will help him, I will illuminate his spirit and bless his will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The good Shepherd .... ‘My Own recognise My voice .... ’

B.D. 4295 from May 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I know My Own and My Own know Me .... And if I call them, they will abide by Me, for they recognise the voice of the Father Who loves them and Whom they want to obey. But soon My call will go out to you, My Own, and I tell you so in advance because you feel safe, because you do not believe that the end is near. However, I need you and therefore I inform you of the fact that you will soon hear My voice, the voice of the good shepherd, who calls His sheep .... I need faithful guards for My flock, leaders who will guide My Own upwards across stony paths and cliffs, who will constantly look after My Own and draw their attention to the near end. These guides and guards will receive the truth from Me directly and convey it to you, they will emerge from the ranks of My Own and impart My Word from above to people; they will be in direct contact with Me, thus they belong to My Own themselves, so when they hear the call, they will know that the hour of their work for Me and My kingdom has come. Then they will establish such heartfelt contact with Me that regression can no longer be possible for a soul which serves Me, that it will never be left without strength, that within a very short time it will be able to speak from Me Myself and then it will fulfil its mission on earth, which is its purpose and goal of earthly life. Then it will only work for Me and gladly spread and advocate My Word, because it will be fully convinced that I Myself speak to it and therefore attach utmost significance to every Word. And the human being will receive strength in abundance. All feeling of weakness will fall away, every spiritual gift will be fully utilised and employed, and his work amongst people will be successful and richly blessed. And this activity of yours will start shortly. I Am aware of your will and your weakness of faith, but I also know the change that will occur to you shortly, I know about the adversity and the suffering of the forthcoming time, but I also know your willingness of having faith and the strength of your faith. And, accordingly, I will provide you with strength and never leave you on your own, regardless of what might happen. Therefore, always abide by My Word, draw from it the strength with which I blessed it, become My children in truth who trustingly hand themselves over to the Father and believe that He will assuredly save you if you suffer adversity. For anyone who recognises My voice is My child and his life is My concern; anyone who believes in Me will also be able to hear My voice; yet anyone who questions the sound of My voice is not My child even if he believes that he is united with Me. The sheep recognise the voice of their shepherd and will follow him when he calls them. I, however, Am the good Shepherd who will not rest until He has found His sheep.

Amen

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Destiny .... 'Father, Your will be done ....'

B.D. 4296 from May 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Every individual person's course of life is predetermined and has to be taken without grumbling and complaining if it is to have a favourable effect on the soul. But strong trust in God has to be present too, then every destiny can easily be endured, for it is shaped by God alone according to His will, only He is able to change every situation in life, He is able to change joy into grief but also suffering into joy if he is approached in heartfelt prayer, and He will do so if the human being in childlike trust tells Him of his problems and commends himself to His grace.

A long path has to be travelled from the abyss to the pinnacle, and this path cannot always be even or it would not lead to ascent. Obstacles have to be overcome, mountains have to be climbed, for the goal is up above and every progress is arduous without the assistance of the right guide. And as long as you humans walk with God Himself by your side as your guide, as long as you entrust yourselves to His guidance, you will not travel the path in vain, He will lead you upwards, and with His help you will be able to overcome every obstacle. And the steeper the path the shorter it will be and the higher you can climb; but when you have reached the pinnacle you will be able to look back and be grateful to your Guide Who enabled you to reach the goal, and every adversity will be over.

The more difficult a destiny, the higher the goals set for you and the brighter the light will shine, and all abysmal darkness will be defeated. God, however, is able to make even the steepest path of ascent seem smooth to you if you hand yourselves over to Him as His children, if you accept every sorrowful event, if you always pray 'Father, Your will be done ....' Then He will not let you suffer, even in greatest adversity He will calm your soul and give you peace, He will powerfully work in you Himself and nothing will seem difficult and yet you continue to progress, for your will, your submission to His will, lets you partake of His strength, you will not consider anything a burden to you and always gladly and cheerfully cover your earthly path until the loving Father's hand takes hold of you and takes you into the Father's house, until you have reached the goal and return to the eternal home, into the land of light where no sorrow, no suffering nor adversity exist but only eternal blissfulness ....

Amen

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Feeding at the lord's table .... communion ....

B.D. 4297 from May 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Words that come from above enlighten the spirit, they expand knowledge, they strengthen the soul and also help the body's substances to spiritualize themselves and turn towards the soul, which is why the body willingly complies with what the soul, driven by the spirit, demands of it. Words which come from above can only be heard when soul and spirit are united, when the human being's thinking, feeling and wanting is directed inwards, from where the human being's spirit, which is of divine origin, can make itself known to the soul. Hence the spirit gives off something which flows directly from the spiritual kingdom and has taken the path to it, because the spiritual spark in the human being is in contact with the eternal father-spirit and can therefore also constantly draw the strength from Him which expresses itself as knowledge, which it now also passes on to the soul it inhabits. It is therefore a diversion of divine strength to the soul, which he now has to use if the soul is to achieve spiritual success. It must receive the word from above and let it have an effect on it, and the effect of the divine word will be an impulse to act in love. Then, therefore, the soul will also have influenced the body to join the spirit's will, and the loving human being will thereby establish direct contact with God, Who will now work in him through His strength of love .... This is a process which is so easy to understand if it is explained to people correctly, and which nevertheless requires the working of the spirit in the human being in order to be understood. For the world, with its earthly mind, knows nothing and understands nothing of God's union with the human being through love. Although man takes it in literally, he does not understand the connection, just as he has no correct idea of God's working in man. He explains the latter to himself with clear intellectual thinking but he does not recognize direct word transmission, which proves that he does not believe in the working of the spirit and consequently also does not know that and how God's spirit expresses itself in the human being. And therefore people also lack the knowledge about the spiritual feeding at the lord's table. They do not understand the deeper connection between the transmission of the divine word and the lord's supper instituted by God, and they also lack all understanding for the fact that the word emanating from God Himself is the highest and best good which is attainable on earth and exceedingly necessary for the soul's development, and that Jesus Christ on earth only knew the one aim to show people the path which earns them the grace to receive that good, the divine word. For He Himself was in that state where His spirit, in union with the eternal father-spirit, imparted profound knowledge to Him and spirit, soul and body were united in constant activity of love. He constantly drew strength from God, He was united with the father of eternity, His soul was fed by the father with His word, and thus He gave back to His fellow human beings what He Himself received .... He distributed the bread of heaven, He passed on the divine word and admonished them to do likewise, He gave bodily and spiritual food to those who hunger and thirst. The giving of the bread was only a figurative comparison of what Jesus offered people with His word .... the divine truth, which truly brings maturity to the soul if it is received with heart and mind. He offered people the word which the father spoke in Him as true food and true drink and admonished them to do the same, to spread the divine teaching of love and thus to refresh people with food and drink, so that they would then strive for union with God and God Himself would be able to refresh them at His table, so that the spiritual spark would flare up in every person and the word of God from above could be heard by all who desire it, who hunger and thirst for spiritual nourishment ....

Amen

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Different spiritual directions .... truth from God ....

B.D. 4298 from May 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You all want to stand in the truth and yet represent different schools of thought. And thus you must admit, since there is only one truth, that every school of thought must be examined as to how far it can lay claim to truth. As long as different schools of thought are opposed to each other, the question is also justified as to which of them represents the truth. Each wants to claim it for itself and none wants to accept the view of the others. And so a serious examination must be made, and the origin of what is taught must be fathomed. And in the end it will turn out that they are always based on human views, that the schools of thought represent knowledge which was merely human thought. Admittedly, such knowledge can also correspond to the truth as soon as it was conveyed to the person who desired truth in the will to serve God. But it has to be considered that God Himself has to distribute the truth because He is the eternal truth Himself. And thus the origin of all knowledge must always be and remain God, and therefore there can only be one truth, i.e. all who request the truth from God and are instructed by God's spirit will receive the same knowledge. And therefore there cannot be different teachings, for this is the characteristic of truth from God, that it corresponds in everything with the word directly conveyed to the human being from above, which can only be received by a person who lives in love and whose faith in God's working in the human being through His spirit also causes him to listen to the voice in him which can be heard mentally or also in sound. Thus, where the origin of spiritual knowledge is demonstrably the inner voice, where knowledge was acquired without external supply, where a teacher who is not of this world has to be acknowledged, absolute truth can also be concluded, and a school of thought based on such knowledge can be regarded as right and represented to fellow human beings, whereas spiritual knowledge acquired intellectually may not be accepted unquestioningly or first has to be examined as to what extent it corresponds to pure truth. Although it must always be acknowledged that all schools of thought strive to come close to God and thus to the truth, they do not always take the right path ....

(13.5.1948) that they are lovingly active and approach God for enlightenment of the spirit and then pay attention to the thoughts which now flow towards them from the spiritual kingdom. This path would certainly lead them to the aim, their knowledge, which they believe to have acquired through their own mental activity, will correspond to the truth, for then they will be taught by God Himself, Who imparts the truth to anyone who seriously desires it ....

Amen

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Counteraction on the part of the world ....

B.D. 4299 from May 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will have a hard time with those who do not want to acknowledge your spiritual work and therefore try to make you unfit for it. You will not be able to change their attitude towards God and it will therefore be a constant battle which you wage against each other. The work against you will paralyse you at times, yet My strength will be stronger, you will not let go of Me and remain faithful servants to Me. And because of your will I will provide you with relief, I will weaken the opposition, I will send you co-workers who will stimulate you and promote the spiritual work, I will come to you Myself and My words will be believed even if I only speak through your mouth .... no objection will be able to be raised to your words anymore, and My working will be obvious. The forces of darkness constantly endeavour to obscure the light which shines in you, and the people of your surroundings fall prey to them, they don't defend themselves and don't turn to Me for enlightenment, they reject Me if I approach them and therefore also take no part in what I offer them from above. I Myself took the earthly path, and this path was difficult, for I constantly had to fight people's unkindness, their unbelief and their love for the material world. And I tried to educate them to love and faith through My word, but only with little success. Once again the love of earthly things prevails, once again people live without love and without faith, and once again I want to help them onto the right path through My word .... And they do not recognize it .... and reject Me. I don't retaliate because they are weak in spirit, yet I don't tolerate that they harass you either, that they prevent you from doing your work, that they oppose you if you work for Me and My kingdom. And thus I want to visibly support you, I want to give you a field of work where you can work, even though the world will always oppose you, even though you will find little encouragement. Yet I know My own and I also know the people who can still be won over for Me, and you shall help them. And if you work together success will not fail to materialize, yet you must be active and never put the world with its demands before spiritual work. Believe in My help and don't be afraid .... I direct all events as they are good for spiritual development, and I will watch over those who serve Me and, as My servants, always have to expect the protection of their lord. I will constantly provide you with helpers who will assist you in earthly and spiritual adversity. Therefore believe firmly and unshakably and expect My help .... and your faith shall not be put to shame ....

Amen

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Law of order .... subordination of the will ....

B.D. 4300 from May 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Understand that you must fulfil My will if you want to become blessed. My will is the law of order from eternity, and if someone violates this order he also acts against My will. If you want to be Mine you must also submit to My will, and if it is made known to you it will be easy for you to act accordingly, for I do not demand more of you than you are able to fulfil. I have given you a commandment to love one another .... because love corresponds to My law of eternity, because everything came forth from love and everything is sustained through love. This law is therefore to be accepted unconditionally, and it can also be fulfilled because it corresponds to the original nature of every creature. Only the human being's will has to join My will, then he cannot but feel love and give love. But if he lets his own will come to the fore then he is in self-love, then he is no longer subject to Me, he disregards My commandment and thereby distances himself from Me because he lacks the strength which he receives from Me through love. Hence it is a completely natural process that the human being, who is in self-love, gives up his striving for Me or refrains from doing what he had done in a state of loving activity. And the lack of strength results in an inability to recognize, in a lack of faith and an ever decreasing will to love. The human being cannot understand deeper wisdom if he lacks love. Nor can he be lovingly active if he does not accept My will, if his own will is stronger than the commandment which makes My will known. And thus the human being's spiritual development must also involuntarily decline because he does not live in the order I want. It does not correspond to My order that a division arises amongst those who have knowledge of My word, who therefore have the grace to be taught by Me directly or indirectly. A certain degree of loving activity imparts My word to him, and this degree shall be increased and the knowledge increased. However, if a lack of understanding occurs for the teachings which I Myself gave to people through My word, this is a sign of the decline of the activity of love, a sign of increasing self-love which darkens the light, although it cannot be completely extinguished. Yet I hold My own and don't allow them to decline, instead I use means which impel increased loving activity until the human being's thinking brightens up again, until My truth appears acceptable to him again and his life also changes accordingly. But never ever can I depart from My commandment of love, from the eternal order, and never ever can I pour out My spirit upon a person who does not submit to My will. And blessed is he if he feels the deficient state, the inability of deeper spiritual understanding, as pressure or even a shortcoming .... For then he will be easily won over again, and he will also pass the test of faith for the sake of which he has to solve spiritual problems which almost cause him to waver ....

Amen

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"Many are called, few are chosen ...."

B.D. 4301 from May 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Let yourselves be counted among My disciples whom I train for their last activity on this earth. Again I choose fighters for Myself, I choose disciples for Myself to whom I can proclaim My gospel so that they will carry it out into the world. The end time has dawned, the time of harvest is coming, and much work is still to be done which I entrust to My disciples, to those who follow Me and allow themselves to be taught by Me of their own free will. These disciples of the end time have the same mission as My first disciples, whom I chose Myself according to their inner value, i.e., whom I recognized as willing and able to love and to whom I was therefore also able to send My spirit which continued to instruct them when I no longer lived on this earth. Every person is capable of love, but whether he is willing to love is determined by himself. The ability to love is My gift, the willingness to love is his merit .... And thus many are called but only a few are chosen .... These words of Mine are to be understood as I have explained them, that all people are able if only they want to, but that the willing are also the chosen ones whom I shower with grace. Nothing else shall My words mean, and never that I only grant grace to a few to belong to My own, while I deny it to the others. All people are called but not the devil's servants, for since I gave everyone the ability to develop love within himself, everyone can also shape himself into a receptacle for the spirit, and thus he is also chosen, yet this shaping of his soul is the work of free will. And if he does not use his ability to love his soul will never change and be suitable as a receptacle for the spirit. Then he certainly belongs to the called but not to the chosen, then not My will but only his will is decisive, then he is not a disciple of Mine, he does not follow Me and is not suitable for work at the end of time. What could you humans accomplish if you used your abilities properly .... My first disciples were full of the spirit when they went out into the world, they all developed their ability to love, they were all devoted to Me and followed My will in everything, and I chose them, I assigned their activity to them, I sent them out into the world so that they should report what they had partly received from Me on earth and partly received from My spirit. And they carried out My mission and taught .... they conveyed the pure truth to people, for their pure, loving nature prevented every misconception and misinterpretation. And as long as they spoke My teaching was pure and unadulterated. But it did not remain so, for people who came after them and in whom My spirit was not yet able to take effect presumed to have the same teaching authority, and the pure teaching was disfigured .... The disciples of the end time are chosen by Me again and are bearers of the pure truth according to their willingness to love. They, too, are to pass on the unadulterated truth to people and must therefore be enlightened by My spirit if they want to carry out their teaching ministry for people's blessing. The willingness to love makes them suitable disciples, whereas the ability to love does not yet guarantee their suitability for the teaching ministry. In order to be able to teach, they must first call knowledge their own; but the transmission of this knowledge is the result of a life of love without compulsion. You are all called, but who shapes himself in such a way that I can choose him, that I can pour out My spirit upon him, which guarantees purest truth? But I bless My disciples of the last days, for I only dwell with them in spirit, whereas My first disciples constantly had Me close to them, whereas I was constantly present to them and consequently it had to be easier for them to believe in Me than for the disciples of the last days, who have to awaken faith in Me within themselves and let it grow and who therefore find it far more difficult to believe and accept every word as truth. However, I will constantly stand by their side, even if not physically; yet I will always stay with them in spirit until the end, for I Myself have chosen them because I have recognized them and have known about their willingness to love since eternity ....

Amen

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Apostasy .... children of God - creatures of God ....

B.D. 4302 from May 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You shall all be My children .... You are indeed My living creations, you emerged from Me but were called into existence as free beings and not exposed to any compulsion which told you to stay with Me .... you were merely prompted to make a free decision as to whether you wanted to stay with Me or surrender My nearness out of a false consciousness of strength. You opted for the latter, you believed that you could create and shape independently of Me and thus rejected My emanation of strength, My love .... And thus you have deprived yourselves of childship, you are indeed My living creations yet not devoted to Me with love but striving away from Me .... But I want to win you back as My children, I want you to return to Me of your own free will, that you long for My love, that you desire My strength and should strive for it with all eagerness. I want to give you back the right of childship, I want you to be full of light and strength, that light and strength drive you to be active and that you thus create and shape like Me for your own bliss. And I will enforce My will, even if eternities will pass until you have reached the final aim; but one day I will have all My children again, they will have entered into the most blissful union with Me and it will be, as it was in the beginning .... a kingdom of blessed spirits who will never depart from Me .... But in order to achieve this aim I must also make Myself known to the most distant creatures, I must try to awaken love for Me in them so that they will strive. And therefore I constantly approach them, especially in the stage where My living creations are capable of realization, so that they let their own will become active and turn to Me. In the stage as a human being My struggle for the creature is uninterrupted, for it is the stage of freedom of will which is decisive. If My living creation has recognized Me it strives towards Me, yet I cannot forcibly guide it into recognition because it should decide freely. Yet I constantly influence the soul and come close to it in everything that surrounds it. Every work of creation is a testimony of Me, which the human being's thinking, feeling and wanting .... his soul .... can stimulate to seek connection with Me. Every experience, suffering or joy, his entire course of life, points to Me again and again .... to the being Who has granted him this course of life. The human being can believe but is not forced to do so; he only has to want to recognize his purpose of existence and deal with thoughts which touch upon the question of the meaning and purpose of his earthly life. Then he will slowly enter the state of realization, for then I will be close to him where he is and where he stands. For I want to be loved by My living creations so that I can raise them to be My true children. And therefore they must recognize Me if they are to love Me. And I help them to come to knowledge through My word. I Myself speak to them and teach them to understand My word, through My word I give them knowledge of My nature, of My creation and activity and of their purpose. And if the human being hears My word he will learn to love Me and inevitably find his way to Me, and I will accept him and truly prepare a home for him as My child, a father's house, where all the joys of a child will be offered to him, where he will be free and happy and constantly dwell in the father's vicinity and be inexpressibly happy ....

Amen

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Presence of God ....

B.D. 4303 from May 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I am present to you whenever you speak to Me in prayer or in thought .... This therefore presupposes that I know every person's thoughts and feelings, that I hear every sigh, every call and childlike plea. Thus I also know about the soul's every adversity, about its earthly and spiritual state, I know about every possibility to help it and know all ways which lead out of the adversity, but I also know how often people's thoughts go astray and how necessary the adversity is in order to help the soul. You only have a short earthly path to cover, then every adversity will come to an end for people who want to remain faithful to Me, who adhere to Me and are united with Me through their will. But I want to help you achieve eternal peace, I want you to be free from every oppression, I want you to be able to develop all your strength in order to reward you for your loyalty on earth, I want to reward you for your services which you are willing to render Me. And therefore the last time is still connected with hardship and suffering for you, so that your souls will still be completely purified and be able to receive light in all fullness. I know about every person's adversity, for I am constantly close to you as soon as you include Me in your thoughts. I am always present to you .... You must always live in this certainty and you will more easily endure everything which seems almost unbearable to you without this awareness. I am present to you .... I accompany you everywhere, I direct your steps, I influence your thoughts, I speak to you through the voice of the spirit, I live with you and My love is always and constantly meant for you, which is why I will never leave you but always be present to you. And even if the world oppresses you, even if your thoughts are taken up by it, you will always return to Me, you will seek Me the more intimately the more the world wants to dominate you. Believe in My presence and always feel safe, protected and cared for by Me, even if you have to suffer, for only My love for you will let you suffer, otherwise you truly would not be able to find Me but I long for your return because I am your father and you are My children whose love I want to possess forever. If you believe in My presence nothing will truly oppress you anymore, for then you may pass all burdens on to Me, I will help you carry them and gladly take your burden upon Myself if your love for Me is inflamed and you hand yourselves over to Me, if you entrust yourselves to Me and appeal to Me for help. For I am always close to you, you are never alone .... Remain aware of My presence and your faith will increase, your love will deepen and your prayer to Me will be so heartfelt that I will hear it at all times ....

Amen

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Triumphant church .... One flock and one shepherd ....

B.D. 4304 from May 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Those of you who follow Me, who desire Me, shall be of like mind in your thinking, speaking and actions. Then you will form a strong congregation although it is small in numbers. Then My spirit will take effect in you and, being permeated by My spirit, you will be able to speak for Me and My kingdom. And your words will ignite, for you give evidence of them yourselves with your actions which express your thoughts and your will. Unity shall reign in My congregation because all are living in the same truth and all must be united with Me by love and therefore form a great soul which I call My church. I will always be present in this congregation, and when My Word is preached it is I Who speaks through the speaker. And this is the church against which even the gates of hell shall not prevail, for if I Am present in it Myself the adversary's activity will remain unsuccessful. This is the church which will triumph at the end of the days, for it embraces the flock whose shepherd I Am .... It will only be one flock and one shepherd. It will comprise people of all denominations who have liberated themselves from all external appearances and who, due to their eagerness of living to please Me, are in intimate contact with Me. And I will graze My sheep .... in evergreen pastures, where no cliffs, no thorns and no pits exist anymore, I will be in the midst of My Own in the paradise of the new earth, for then there will be no separation between us anymore, My sheep will not flee from Me any longer, they will not leave their shepherd, for they love Me and don't want to be without Me again.

You only have a little time left and should strive to enlarge your congregation, My true church, and therefore you should exemplify the right way of life to them, you shall give love and through love try to gain the children of the world who are oblivious of the strength of love .... give them much love, so that it will kindle the flame in their hearts, so that they will get to know the pleasure of giving and of happiness, so that they will join you and thus also seek to make contact with Me. Be a good example to them and try to motivate them into doing the same in order to test the strength of love and of faith. Show them the path to Me, draw their attention to the right relationship with Me, explain to them that they must see their Father in Me to Whom they must submit like children in order to be elevated to true children who shall come into the Father's inheritance. And even if you can only gain a few it will nevertheless be a great merit to you, since the good shepherd delights in every sheep that once was lost and comes back to him, and thus I will also bless everyone who helps Me to increase My congregation before the final end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer for poor souls ....

B.D. 4305 from May 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Souls in darkness suffer terribly. Their strength is depleted; it is a state of utter hopelessness as long as they don't know about the strength of love, which can lighten their fate. They wander around, their will is lethargic, and they will remain in this agonising state for an extremely long time if they do not receive help through prayer. You humans on earth are able to help them if you lovingly remember such poor souls and would like to ease their plight. For only love will give them strength. A prayer without love is worthless; it is a mere formality without effect. Only the degree of love determines the amount of strength they will receive. And thus you have to visualise the fate of these poor souls and know that they will beseech you to give them strength once they have felt the strength of love. They depend on your help as long as they are still in the abyss, as long as they cannot increase their strength themselves through knowledge, which, in the beyond, consists of loving actions for other needy souls.

Every kind, compassionate thought for those souls eases their plight, they feel this and then remain close to you. They ask for your loving intercession by pushing themselves into your thoughts. Don't forget them, don't turn your thoughts away from them. Give them a loving prayer and thereby help them to ascend. Alleviate their torment and, most of all, demonstrate the power of love to them, so that their love for other distressed souls arises and, by helping these souls, that they can liberate themselves from their own hardship. Their surroundings correspond to the state of their soul, dark and desolate, and when a prayer for these souls rises up to God a faint state of twilight occurs which gives the soul a glimmer of recognition and benefits the soul after the constant darkness. The degree of love in the intercession determines the brightness of light emanated into the darkness, and the soul turns towards the ray of light always expecting and pleading for more rays. Grant them their wish, don't leave them alone in their need, and give them the help which you are still able to give to them. But also bring the Gospel to them in thought, remind them that they should lovingly consider others in their environment and help them to receive a blessing of light as well by giving to them in turn what they received from you. You can alleviate immeasurable amounts of suffering, you can participate in the redemption of these souls because the gift of strength through your prayer affects their will which then becomes active in the right way. The soul uses the strength it receives to lovingly help other poor souls, and it begins its ascent for which it will be eternally grateful to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The light beings’ intervention in destiny ....

B.D. 4306 from May 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Everything has to be called divine providence, for everything, even the smallest happening, has been predetermined since the start. It is God’s will that you should fully mature on earth. And therefore everything has been arranged very prudently so that time and again you will have the opportunity to develop further. Your will is also decisive for the shaping of your earthly life, for God foresaw your will an eternity ago and accordingly laid out every individual person’s course of life. The inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom of light are God’s spiritual assistants and take care of people in accordance with their degree of maturity, and thus they are God’s representatives and serve every individual person as spiritual guardians according to God’s will. They intervene in earthly life with their teaching methods, they give to and deny people as is most beneficial to them. Thus they have authority from God to please people with gifts just as they might lead people to maturity through failures. Although this, too, always happens according to God’s will they are nevertheless allowed freedom of activity as soon as the human being trustingly appeals to them for help. They are able to grant this request or deny it, and their great love for people will always get it right, since they are as one with divine will. Nevertheless, calling upon the beings of light is an assured means of help, for the beings of light are exceedingly tolerant in their love for people, they rarely deny people a request if the aim of their request is not obvious wrong-doing. And God will give His approval, regardless of how the beings of light decide, for they always share the same will with God. However, if it endangers the human soul the light beings will be adamant, for the danger to the soul must first be over before they can become receptive to a person’s request and intervene helpfully. But then the light beings’ activity will be evident, then the human being will be able to undertake anything, he need not fear any failure and earthly life will become easy and bearable for him, because his guardian angels grant him support and he can entrust himself to them in every way but without ever excluding God, instead, heartfelt dialogue with Him should precede every appeal to the beings of light, so that the will of the latter is always God’s will and the help is always recognisable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I want you to be blessed ...."

B.D. 4307 from May 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I want you to become blessed .... My aim is not earthly bliss, for earthly life is only short compared to eternity. But you shall be granted an eternal life of bliss, and this eternal life shall be the price for your probation on earth. Nothing on earth shall seem desirable to you anymore, your gaze shall be directed towards life after death, and if you can give up everything with a light heart you will be ready for eternity. Your heart must be able to detach itself from earthly things, you must be able to sacrifice what is dear to you on earth, you must strive with all your heart and soul for what belongs to the spiritual kingdom, goods which are denied to you by the earthly world, which no-one can offer you but Me alone and which I offer you because I want to make you blissfully happy. Learn to value spiritual goods and despise earthly goods .... and be certain that I will provide you with the earthly goods you need in order to be able to fulfil your earthly task. Make yourselves completely My own and I will take care of you in every way, I will provide for you earthly and spiritually and not let you go hungry, yet in order to become blissfully happy your soul first requires spiritual nourishment which will ensure its life in eternity. You humans put earthly needs first and believe that you cannot exist without over-anxious worry .... But I know that you lack spiritual nourishment much more, and you have to strive for this yourselves because I cannot impose it on you due to freedom of will. Earthly food and earthly drink only ever sustain your body for a short time and can never prolong your earthly life if I call you away from earth. Spiritual nourishment, on the other hand, ensures your eternal life .... And what you have once received in spiritual nourishment will never ever perish or become ineffective; you take it with you into eternity and build your life on it. In order to be able to live eternally in beatitude you also have to carry out a pleasing activity and therefore need capital with which you can work, which you can distribute to those in need, you need spiritual wealth which does not diminish but always increases the more you give of it. And I want to give you this spiritual wealth so that you will become eternally happy. But you can only accept it if your heart is completely empty, where My treasures can spread out, for spiritual treasures are not compatible with earthly treasures, a heart cannot contain both, and it is up to you which goods you want to keep your heart free for. But if I love you and want you to become blissfully happy, I, as a wise father, must also advise My children and help them to cleanse their heart chambers of unsuitable goods which displace the true treasures and make it impossible to receive them. And thus I will help you to detach yourselves from what the world offers you, what your heart still desires but is a hindrance to you for eternal life .... And therefore consider all earthly failures as an aid on My part to detach yourselves from the world and its illusory goods, recognize My care in it which only applies to your final aim of making free, exceedingly happy beings out of you who will know no more sorrow and worry in eternity but will only ever be blissfully happy and live .... i.e. be continuously active in loving activity. I want you to become blissfully happy, I want to be able to provide you with spiritual nourishment because you need it for eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mission readiness .... prediction ....

B.D. 4308 from May 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

In My name you shall be active .... This necessitates a complete detachment from earthly things, and thus My servant's path on earth must always lead more and more away from the world, the internalization must increase and thus result in the increased working of the spirit. And this will always be connected with trials and renunciation so that the soul will detach itself more easily and only strive for more spiritual contact, so that it will mature in realization, in knowledge which corresponds to truth and which is conveyed to it through spiritual activity. If this is therefore understandable to you, you must also recognize from the increasing adversity and distress that the hour has soon struck when you should be active for Me and My kingdom. You must keep yourselves ready and pay attention to My word that you are close to the end, that the time of your overall activity is only short and that I will soon appear and initiate the last act, as it is foretold through My spirit. Report all this, for the hour is near, keep reminding your fellow human beings that I constantly point you to this day so that they will see when it comes, as I have proclaimed. And take every word seriously, for I have chosen you to be My representatives on earth, and you should firmly and steadfastly believe that everything will come true and that My plan has been determined since eternity. Through your faith you shall influence people such that they will also seriously consider a sudden change of their situation, that they will think about a quick end and seriously prepare themselves for it. And if you make My word heard to them, never forget to encourage them to increase their activity of love so that they will be able to recognize and believe the truth of My word .... Love must always and constantly be preached to them, through loving activity they must gain strength if they are weak, and through loving activity alone they can become enlightened, thus they know the meaning and purpose of their earthly existence and their relationship as living creations to the eternal creator. They will never attain this knowledge intellectually, but a life of love gives them fullest realization. Time is pressing and therefore your mission is to be taken seriously, and you must not miss anything if you want to serve Me. But I assure you once again that you will be guided and that no path you take is of your own will, for great things are at stake, the final willingness to help is at stake, which you are still to bring to many erring souls, and I will lead you to those who need your help. And thus you can confidently hand yourselves over to My guidance until the end of your body, which will not be long in coming. For the time until the end is short and therefore it shall be used for eager activity for Me, and I will support you where and when you need help and give you strength to be constantly active for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of truth bearers .... enlightenment ....

B.D. 4309 from May 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Anyone who has committed himself to work for Me and My kingdom through the freely given vow to serve Me must enlighten his fellow human beings, for they live in complete ignorance, they go through earthly life ignorant and therefore do not evaluate life correctly. But it has been given to them for the purpose of maturing their souls, which can only happen if they .... truthfully informed .... work on the transformation of their being, if they change to love. But only truth can bring about this change, the knowledge of My fundamental nature and the relationship between Me and My living creations. And thus the transmission of pure truth is an urgent necessity and task of those who want to serve Me. Where people are who sincerely desire the truth I will also convey My word, and My servants will always have the opportunity to pass on their knowledge, and every opportunity is My work, My will. I know about people's questions, I know about the individual's receptiveness, I know about his desire for truth and I know about his strength of faith and his love, and accordingly I provide each individual with the truth but leave it up to him to accept or reject it. The spiritual gift has to be offered completely without constraint, otherwise the will to reject is too strong ....

(22.5.1948) But if I Myself approach people of good will in the word they will recognize Me, they will be touched by the strength of My word, they will not let it pass their ears but let it take effect within themselves, they will take a stand on it, and the truth will satisfy and make them happy. People of good will also live in love, and My word speaks to their hearts to the same extent as their hearts speak to Me through works of love. Therefore, bearers of truth should seek contact with people who are willing to love in order to make them more able to love through the transmission of the pure truth and to strengthen them in the difficult days that are still to come for each one of you. But bearers of truth should also try to bring the truth to people who go through life lukewarm and indifferent, without practicing works of love, without wanting to help their fellow human beings in serving neighbourly love, without desire for truth and striving for spiritual good. These are misguided and should be led onto the right path. They walk in darkness and should be touched by rays of light so that they feel the benefit of the light and expose themselves to its rays. The realization of truth is urgently needed for humanity, and My spirit will always be effective where the adversity is great and only the slightest possibility of rescue exists, where erring souls have not completely fallen prey to My adversary and the short time until the end can still bring about a change of thinking. I take care of them and send them My messengers who shall speak in My name and testify to My love, wisdom and omnipotence, so that people will learn to believe and turn to the one from Whom they once originated and to Whom they shall turn again of their own free will, so that they will become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed ....’

B.D. 4310 from May 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

‘Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.’ These Words of Mine do not demand blind faith but stand for faith without proof, which I also expected of My disciples yet did not find. ‘Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed ....’ I Myself stood before their eyes, My miracles convinced them, they recognised My wisdom, and thus they believed that I was God’s Son and they followed Me. Their faith was indeed a convinced one, the inner voice told them who I was and their life of love, which was the reason why I chose them as My disciples, also gave them the power of realisation, and yet they often doubted Me; time and again these doubts surfaced and in order to strengthen them I revealed Myself to them many times, I showed Myself to them in My divinity, I illuminated their spirit, I opened their inner eye so that they were able to see the host of angels being of service to Me and thereby lose all doubt concerning My divinity. And yet their faith was weak .... I showed Myself with full strength, and they repeatedly wavered, so that I always had to reveal Myself anew, because they were intended to work as My disciples, because they were intended to advocate My teaching and bring the Gospel to people and therefore their faith needed to be deep. And because they saw Me, they believed .... But I call those blessed who do not see and yet believe .... For their faith is a far greater credit to them, as it cannot be proven, it can only be gained in the heart through activity of love, prayer and deliberation .... Although I also reveal Myself to them but in a way that only faith can recognise the manifestation as such and that without faith it can be rejected. I call him blessed if he acquires his faith, if he has no need of proof, if he only accepts the working of the spirit as proof, which can certainly also be doubted but which is recognised by a person who lives a life of love and who therefore will become blessed one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Various sowings and their fruits .... lord's vineyard ....

B.D. 4311 from May 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You constantly receive currents of strength from the spiritual world in the form of instructions which expand your knowledge and thus make you able to teach your fellow human beings. Hence you receive spiritual possessions which you can pass on, even though they are not earthly tangible or matter to be earthly evaluated; but they are possessions which can never be diminished or expropriated from you, providing you don't want to give them up yourselves, that the gift of grace from above is not disregarded, which would be the result of a way of life which contradicts My will. But anyone who once receives My word from above has mostly broken with the world, his thoughts and aspirations are only the treasures of the spiritual kingdom, and therefore his knowledge will always increase and his soul will strive upwards. The spiritual world and its inhabitants have greater influence on him than the earthly world with its sham goods, and the earthly course was not in vain. The strength which now comes to you from above is to be used, and therefore you, who are knowledgeable, should pass on your knowledge wherever the opportunity is offered to you. Then you will consciously work for My kingdom, then you will carry My word out into the world .... the seeds you scatter .... And they will fall on different soil and also bear different fruit .... Men will listen, but unimpressed the words will fade away in their ears, and the wind will blow away the seed .... people will be thoughtful for a short time, the meaning of My words will not completely escape them, although they will not move the word deep in their hearts .... few and light fruits will the field bear, but nevertheless the sowing will not have been entirely in vain .... and again people will be deeply touched by My word, let it go to their hearts, recognize its truth and make an effort to live according to My word, they will walk upwards, and the seed has brought forth a thousandfold fruit because it has fallen on good soil .... And therefore you, My labourers in the vineyard, should be diligently active and not pass by any field without having scattered the seed. You should speak in My stead and always bear in mind that I will not leave out any of My creatures if it is necessary to procure their salvation, and thus you should also make the salvation of your fellow human beings your concern, impart strength to them in the form of My word where it is appropriate, so that you will be abundantly provided for again from above, so that you will constantly receive and increase in wisdom which enables you to teach. You shall be My servants on earth, active on My behalf, you shall speak in My name, for My glory and for My kingdom .... and My blessing shall accompany you on all paths ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Church of Christ .... "You are Peter, the rock ...."

B.D. 4312 from May 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

A community of faith in the sense of Christ means the union of people who, through their way of life, through unselfish neighbourly love, have acquired such a living, profound faith that they understand everything Jesus taught on earth and therefore do not doubt a word, for the understanding of what God demands to be believed is always only the result of a correctly led way of life and will also always result in a living faith, the conviction of pure truth and therefore also of a consciousness of strength to be able to accomplish everything, which only has faith as its foundation. Such a community is the true church of Christ, it is the church which He founded on earth with the words: "You are Peter, the rock, on you I will build My church." And this church will remain in existence, it will not be able to be shaken by the forces of the underworld when the last battle on earth will break out against faith. Then it will become apparent who belongs to this church, who possesses the strength of faith that he will not fall away when hell will storm against everything spiritual. Then only the truly loving people whose faith is a living one will stand firm, for the others will be too weak to resist. They will be deprived of everything they have understood about the church until now, every ceremony, every outward appearance will fall away, the places of ecclesiastical activity will be closed or destroyed, there will be no possibility to carry out the actions which seem important to them and they will seriously be confronted with the decision to confess for or against God. But the decision will not be difficult for those who have living faith, who can believe because they understand, while the others, still blind in spirit, have nothing to hold on to and fall away from God for the sake of their physical well-being, who surrender their faith because it was only a dead faith, a formal faith. But you, who belong to Christ's church, should constantly promote this church, you should enlighten people and try to make the difference clear to them so that they will shape their formal faith into a living faith, you should show them the path to understanding what Jesus taught and encourage them to walk the path of love, which alone gives birth to a living faith and leads to full understanding of His word. Only this small congregation of the true church of Christ will survive the final battle, because every school of thought will be declared war beforehand and all its followers will lose who do not belong to the true church of Christ. But God will grant them His support, He will be in their midst, strengthen their faith, enlighten their spirit and give them strength to persevere until the end. And for the sake of this church of Christ He obviously works amongst people through His spirit .... He instructs them and conveys His word to earth so that His church will gain followers, so that they will be exceptionally strengthened by His word, which comes from above and is blessed with His strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Audible Word ....

B.D. 4313 from May 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The most sublime moment in earthly life happens when a person audibly hears the Word, when he hears the expression of My love in his heart like a spoken Word. For then he will perceive My closeness like a flood of light which permeates his heart and is also perceptible by the person's senses. The human being's maturity of soul influences how the inner voice can be heard. He can freely enjoy the blissful sensation if his soul is already far advanced, but in a low degree of maturity he might still have fight against inner obstacles. Nevertheless, he must have attained a certain degree of psychological maturity, otherwise he would never be able to receive the grace of the audible Word .... Hence it is a process of a direct transmission of light and strength, the person is in such intimate contact with Me that I Am able to manifest Myself to him and be understood, which will never be the case with immature souls. But I must always stem My strength of love if the human being is to remain suitable for earthly life and not lose all earthly attachment due to his overwhelming happiness. And therefore I will only ever audibly manifest Myself for short periods of time until the end of the person's course of life who is so close to Me that I will credit him with My speech.

However, during the time of the end I will need servants on Earth who will diligently work for Me, and I will reward their enthusiasm by revealing Myself to them such that they are no longer able to harbour doubts in their hearts because they are faithful to Me, because they believe without being able to see and work for Me in this belief. I want to stimulate them into working ever more diligently for Me but I will only be able to express Myself audibly if their faith has already become so firm that they unconditionally believe in My activity, that they had previously already heard the voice of the spirit and recognised it as My voice, for the audible Word must never compel them into believing since it is the culmination of a strong faith and, in earthly life, the most desirable state to strive for because it makes a person indescribably happy and the thought of it can render him insensitive to suffering and distress of an earthly nature. His happiness and his convinced faith also offer his fellow human being the possibility to gain a stronger faith, so that his activity amongst people is extremely richly blessed and that every work he tackles will be accomplished by him. His fellow human beings can certainly doubt him but anyone who audibly hears My Word within himself will no longer be able to doubt. And thus I reward the love and loyalty of My servant who stands up for Me and grant him the kind of happiness on Earth which the world cannot offer him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Body power (life power) multiplication by spiritual power ....

B.D. 4314 from May 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You cannot go beyond the limits of your creativity without the supply of spiritual strength. A human limit is set for you, i.e. the body is only capable of carrying out the will according to its biological composition, thus the divine law of nature always underlies a person's ability and achievements. However, this only applies to the human being who does not desire divine power supply, i.e. does not request it .... whose power is limited .... It is different with those who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom, who may request and receive strength at any time according to their will and their connection with God. Through their connection with God they abolish the limits of creation, they are not subject to the laws of nature, so to speak, but are above it because it is God's will. They can accomplish everything .... but the fact that they do not accomplish it despite this mentioned prerequisite is due to their weakness of faith, and that is why it can so rarely be proven that the human being can do everything despite his physical limitations of strength. He lacks faith, and thus he sets limits for himself where he could exceed them. He therefore certainly has the will but not the faith, but without faith the extraordinary strength cannot be given to him because he may not be forced to believe. A distinction must be made between physical and spiritual strength .... The former is the vitality which every human being has at his disposal, albeit differently, and which is a special gift of grace in the last embodiment on earth. The human being only pays attention to this natural strength and does not think about how he could increase it, but accepts the fact that it decreases or increases depending on age or health. However, he can increase this vitality at any time through spiritual strength, which is not arbitrarily given to the human being but is only received after certain preconditions have been fulfilled. This spiritual strength is available to the human being unmeasured but must be requested, i.e. asked for. But this can only happen in faith that it is both possible and certain through God's love and that a prayer will never reach Him in vain. Only then will the human being request spiritual strength in the right way, and he will have unlimited access to it. The human being must imagine that he, as a tiny particle of the eternal deity, also participates in His might and power, as soon as he does not live in opposition but in harmony with God. And this certainty will also let him believe that every measure of strength is given to him which he can now use according to his will. There is only a restriction of creativity for people who live outside of God, for they only have their physical strength at their disposal. But anyone who lives in God and with God will be able to accomplish things which go beyond human ability as soon as he firmly and steadfastly believes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual debates are necessary for clarification ....

B.D. 4315 from May 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Do not let any opportunity pass you by when you can be active for Me and My kingdom, when you can speak about that which My spirit reveals to you. Questions will be raised which only you will be able to answer, and a multitude of opinions will be voiced, but you will be able to uphold only the right ones with conviction, for only you know the truth, only you are taught by Me and therefore need not fear any objection to the contrary since, on account of your knowledge, you will recognise every wrong point of view. However, your task consists of providing the impetus for spiritual debates, of not being afraid to speak, of always regarding yourselves as My servants who avidly work for their Lord, and of always being mindful of your mission. If you are inwardly impelled you should give in and do what your heart tells you to do, and if you desire to speak, then speak, for then I Myself will urge you to do your spiritual work. It will always be My will that you should mention My Word from above, it will always be My will that people should exchange their thoughts regarding spiritual questions, and I Myself will always give you the impulse for this and pave the way for you, that is, I will direct people’s thoughts to problems which I Am willing to explain. Thus you may always be certain that I Am present during all spiritual conversations and that I will guide your thoughts in the right direction and enable your mouth to speak and provide your intellect with the correct power of judgment. Therefore you can talk freely and you will always speak according to My will, for you are merely My tools through which I express Myself. But don’t be hesitant and remain silent when it is necessary to talk. And you will be successful; your discussions will greatly contribute towards clarification and encourage people to voice their opinions which will always result in My light beings’ intervention by trying to exert their influence. Then you will have ploughed the field first and distributed the seed which is to yield good fruits.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Merging the spirit with the soul through love ....

B.D. 4316 from May 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

In the fusion with Me you will find the highest happiness. The spiritual spark in you seeks to unite with the eternal father-spirit, but it is prevented from doing so by the soul and the body as long as they are still worldly-minded, that is, their striving contradicts the spiritual striving. Then the soul is stronger than the spirit insofar as the spirit does not have a compelling effect but lets the soul determine and withdraws. Therefore the soul first has to be won for the same striving, it has to join the spirit with its desire in completely free will, only then can the spirit work in the human being, and only then will the human being's connection with Me be established. But the union of the soul with the spirit is the result of the working of love. To perform a work of unselfish neighbourly love is first of all a turning away from the world, i.e. a voluntary renunciation of something belonging to the world, as soon as the work of love is about the distribution of earthly goods. But if it is help of a different kind, then self-love always takes a back seat, and this is an act of worldly renunciation, a moment of the soul's insertion into the will of the spirit, which impels the soul to deeds of love. If the soul gives ear to the spirit then it has won it over for itself, and then the union with Me can also take place, Who is in most intimate contact with the spiritual spark, for it is My share and remains My share for eternity. Thus, something which was previously outside returns to Me again through love .... Again and again I want to make people understand why love can never be excluded from the soul's ascent; again and again I want to explain to them how the working of love influences the soul's union with the spirit and thus with Me, and again and again I want to make clear to them the significance of merging with Me, of the spiritual marriage, and give them the beatitude on earth already which results from this union with Me. But the human being is too earthly minded and only values the tangible goods attainable on earth; but he ignores the spiritual goods because he does not believe in the soul's continuation of life after death and because only this belief makes him consciously strive for spiritual goods. And yet, I will not let up and again and again speak to people in the word and again and again instruct them to strive for unity with Me. For in the stage as a human being the spiritual in him is capable of realization, but his will alone determines to what extent he evaluates the ability of realization. And I don't force this will but help it to decide ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection of His workers on earth ....

B.D. 4317 from May 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The time will weigh heavily on you, yet you will walk lightly over all obstacles by My hand, for I Myself spread My hands under your feet, I smooth the path you have to take and am always with you with My strength and grace. For anyone who is willing to serve Me and takes his work for Me and My kingdom seriously can expect support from Me in every situation of life, he will not be disappointed. The time is approaching its end and demonic forces are affecting people with excessive zeal in order to draw them down into the kingdom of darkness. And you should counteract them, you should give light where darkness exists, you should teach people to believe in Me so that they will come to Me when My adversary oppresses them, so that they will look for help from Me which will also become certain for them; you must point fellow human beings to Me and inform them of My love. Again and again I ask you for this service to fellow human beings because they have mercy on Me in their unbelief and spiritual darkness. But the enlightenment must come through the mouths of men, for they would not bear My word from above without perishing. And therefore I do not speak to them directly but through you, and the closer the end is the more urgently. They shall hear My word through you and recognize My power through the coming event. They shall be pointed to Me through My word and through suffering which is imposed on them by Me in order to let them find the path to Me. And thus suffering will befall the whole earth, everyone will be affected in a different way, yet anyone who serves Me, who therefore wants to help Me to bring light into the darkness, will survive the difficult time as if in a dream, he will be guided and cared for by Me so that he will clearly recognize My reign from everything, so that he will feel My care and fully trustingly hand himself over to Me and My grace. His path will be even despite all obstacles, his spirit will be bright and clear despite the deepest darkness which is spread across the earth, and he will serve Me with joy, the work for Me and My kingdom will fill him with strength and he will be active for Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light of the sun .... interaction ....

B.D. 4318 from May 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The interaction of force and resistance must show itself in light phenomena of whatever kind, or also .... every generation of light is the result of the counteraction of two forces, from which it can be concluded that positive and negative forces are absolutely necessary in order to bring about the light of the sun which outshines everything. The light of the sun has such an important distant effect that people on earth can certainly see and feel it but can never determine its origin because they will never fathom the nature of the sun and will therefore always draw wrong conclusions. Light phenomena on earth always have causes connected with matter, and therefore the same or similar causes are also attributed to the light of the sun. The sun, however, is not a material world, even though it is visible to people and is counted as such in research. It is a purely spiritual heavenly body, a creation which certainly exists, thus it is called into existence by the will of God, but which has no material substances and can therefore only be seen with the spiritual eye, whereas the earthly eye can only see the exceedingly radiant brightness and be dazzled by it. The light of the sun is of such tremendous effect that it must be concluded that it has an origin which lies far beyond human knowledge. A process is taking place in the universe which is only comprehended by a few enlightened people; to a certain extent a gate is open where the activity of the spiritual becomes visible; it is the struggle of the beings of light against the darkness, the counteraction of forces which unfold the utmost energy in order to assert themselves, in order to gain victory over the opposing force. A spiritual creation with all its inhabitants openly confronts the darkness and from there continues to have an effect on it. It is like a perpetual unfolding of the highest tension of two poles, and the effect is a fire that is incomprehensible to human beings, a source of light of undreamt-of strength .... It is an emanation of the light emanating from the perfect spiritual beings into the universe, it is spiritual strength which is visibly guided as light wherever there is darkness in order to create the possibility for the still undeveloped spiritual to return into the proximity of the eternal light. It is an emanation which certainly has a similarity with earthly produced light, which is luminous in highest potency, whereas earthly light has a limited luminosity, as everything in the material world is limited. Forces that work against each other, if they fight fiercely, must then ignite when they are unyielding, that is, of insurmountable hardness, otherwise one force defeats or consumes the other. Now here are the most distant opposing forces at work .... highly perfect beings from the spiritual world permeated by God's strength and the forces of darkness, which still dwell unbound in the universe and seek to destroy everything that is to be addressed as divine creation. But nothing is within their reach. Their power is enormous, and so they proceed against those forces where they expect the hardest resistance, where they can let off steam and believe they can destroy what resists them. They abhor the light and want to extinguish it. The perfect beings, however, want to break through the darkness. This struggle of light against darkness is, however, at the same time the preservation of the entire earthly material creation. For forces come to development that multiply infinitely and push towards utilization .... and the utilization is only to awaken to life that which has been overcome in the struggle, to make it possible for that which has hitherto become inactive to become active through the supply of strength when it exposes itself to the working of the light. Thus the positive and negative forces constantly generate life, their struggle is visible through the light of the sun, but it is not an earthly explainable firepower which causes the extraordinary radiation, but the light of the sun is only visible in the earthly sphere when it touches the earthly material sphere as well as the spheres of those heavenly bodies which lie in the sphere of the sun and are fed with its luminosity. For these are the kingdom of the bound spiritual, which is allowed to take cognizance of the battle between light and darkness in order to draw benefit from this knowledge for the course of development. For this reason, however, no research can be undertaken beyond these spheres .... i.e., the cause of the sunlight can never be determined by research, because outside of the earthly sphere there is no further for the human intellect, because it exceeds the human being's power of thought, nothing can be proven but only what God reveals to people through spiritual enlightenment has to be accepted by faith. Research begins where it is actually already at an end. Everything earthly can be researched, beyond that the earthly intellect is not sufficient, and through earthly drawing of parallels it becomes entangled in error. For the spiritual world .... the world outside the earthly sphere .... is a completely different world with other laws and other effects, into which a person should never stoop in research if he does not want to fall prey to error ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Lord will come at a time of greatest adversity ....

B.D. 4319 from May 31th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I will come to fetch you from utmost distress, as I have promised. There will be great adversity, and anyone following your destiny will recognise that only your strength of faith keeps you going, otherwise you would be too weak to bear up to the threats and violent actions by your enemies against whom you are completely defenceless. Yet only defenceless on the part of people, however, I will stand by your side as protection and this certainty must render you immune to all hostilities. This great adversity will only last for a short time, then I will come personally in order to fetch My Own into My kingdom and prepare them for life in the paradise on the new Earth. If you are strong in faith, if you attach significance to every one of My Words, then the final adversity will come to an end for you and, in the hope of My speedy arrival, you will stoically endure everything and wait for Me. And I will definitely come .... I will not leave My Own in distress, I will come when no earthly way out can be seen anymore; I will appear suddenly, only visible to My Own, and all My faithful followers will call out to Me. Rejoicing and cheering My Own will blissfully and happily rush towards Me and raise their hands to Me. Whoever believes will be saved, for he will persevere even if the world is full of devils .... he knows that the hour of deliverance will come, he knows that I will not leave him and that all devils are powerless against Me. He will wait for Me and I will reward his profound faith with the greatest prize, with a new life in the paradise on this Earth. Why won't I take him to Me into the spiritual kingdom? Anyone who passes this final test of faith and recognises Me will be suitable to form the root of a new human race and a new generation will come forth from him, for the Earth shall be populated again with spiritually highly advanced people who will live their life for Me and with Me. And I Myself want to rear these people .... All people's degree of maturity is known to Me but especially of those who in the end will fight for Me against Satan. Such people are required by Me as progenitors for the new Earth. I will bless them, both physically and spiritually, and the new Earth will become a paradise-like abode for them, children and children's children will be in heartfelt contact with Me and the human race will be full of love. A new period of development will start again with spiritual beings embodied as human beings who are close to maturity and longingly strive towards Me and rapidly achieve final maturity of soul on earth. For the last days on the old earth will very quickly have matured the spiritual substance which was shortly due to be embodied as a human being, because it had fought the battle between light and darkness and the final destruction of the old earth had temporarily released it. Since it had not yet attained the maturity to be free, it experienced this as pain, so that it will find the new form comforting and eagerly strive upwards, even though during the preliminary stage it will be unconscious of this success. For this reason, people will live in most wonderful harmony with all creations in their environment; the mineral, plant and animal world will entirely fit in with people's needs, profound peace will reign in nature as well as in the human heart, people's joyful togetherness with Me will make them the most blissful beings, My love will smooth their every path and their hearts will beat for Me with ardent love and all adversity will be forgotten .... And this time is not far away, soon I will come and fetch My community of brides, the great adversity will soon be over, for My promise must fulfil itself .... I will return in the clouds to fetch My Own and to judge the living and the dead ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The present time will lead to the end ....

B.D. 4320 from June 1st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

And time and again I say to you: You will experience the end .... It is an urgent wake-up call which I send to people who presently inhabit the earth, it is a call which I will still intensify because you need to let go of your conviction that you still have much time left, because you need to spend thought on a sudden end and try to come close to Me. You have only little time left and very soon will be startled out of your calm, fear will enter your hearts which you can only banish by calling upon Me, by faithful prayer, which will provide you with strength and composure. The time is fulfilled, and even if you resist this thought .... you must prepare yourselves for whatever the end entails. It is you who will experience the last battle, who ought to win it; it is you who will experience the last Judgment, who will either see My coming in the clouds and the homecoming of the righteous or the final act of destruction take place, depending on your attitude towards Me, depending on your will and your love. It is you who must make a decision since you will not be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond after your death if you side with the adversary, but you will have to repeat the process through the creation of the new earth according to My eternal counsel. Do not expect the end in the future, get used to the idea that the present time will lead to the end, that you will be affected and that everything will come upon you as seers and prophets predicted according to My will. I can only ever draw your attention to it and as confirmation of My Word speak to you from above, and I will implement it shortly because there is not much time until the end.

I will inform you, whose will to serve Me made you My Own, once again of this just before the end, so that you will not experience the day unprepared, for even though you believe that My Word is truth you are still not taking My prediction seriously enough, you are still counting on a reprieve and not on My speedy arrival which, however, is about to happen to you. Yet you will yearn for My arrival when the time of the battle of faith comes and you enter the last stage of this earthly period. Then you will have learned to despise the world, you will have no further desire for earthly possessions, you will only yearn for My Word, and I will also always be with you in the Word and comfort you until the day when I will appear in the clouds, when your adversity has reached huge proportions and help can only come from Me. You must take it for granted that you will experience this time if I won't recall this or that servant of Mine prematurely, according to wise judgment. You will all be surprised as to how quickly events will unfold, which I predicted long in advance through the voice of the spirit. And once I appear the end will come upon you with giant strides. Anyone who is profoundly faithful will inwardly rejoice despite hardship and suffering, for he will know that he will be compensated one day, that sooner or later all adversity will have an end and that a new era will start again with the paradise, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Relationship of the child to the father .... supporters ....

B.D. 4321 from June 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

It is of decisive importance for people which relationship they establish with Me and how they fit into the order of eternity which is founded on the law of love. The human being has freedom of will, he is not forced into his relationship with Me. He certainly belongs to Me inseparably but by virtue of his free will he can also revoke this bond of his own accord, yet by doing so he also decides his fate in eternity. The spiritual being already wanted to accomplish the separation eternally ago, and this will was enough to make the spiritual being sinful, although the separation cannot take place eternally. But the being must now also feel the effect of a separation from Me as a just punishment for its wrongly used will. But the state of separation will only be lifted when the being, the spiritual being embodied as a human being, approaches Me again of its own free will, when it establishes the right relationship with Me, that of the creature to the creator, that of the child to the father, when it therefore unites with Me again of its own accord and thus enters the order established by Me .... and fulfils the law of love. Its will must consciously turn towards Me, in order to be accepted by Me it must discard its previous resistance and humbly submit to My will. But My will is that the human being shapes himself into love, then all barriers will fall, then unification will take place, then the separation will be lifted, the gulf will be bridged, the spiritual spark will have united with the father-spirit and the meaning and purpose of earthly life will have been fulfilled. But in order to achieve this unification the human being must first be given the knowledge of his distance from Me due to his former arrogance of free will. Every individual creature is responsible for its sin as well as for its return to Me, for every individual being once attains the ability to know its relationship with the creator, and through the instructions, through the imparting of My word, the sin which separates it from Me and has caused the distance from Me will also be made clear to it. Hence he must first detest the sin if he has recognized it and then try to reduce the distance from Me by fulfilling My commandments in obedience to Me. Then he will come closer to Me step by step, then he will enter into the right relationship with Me .... he strives towards the one from Whom he originated and seeks to unite with Him .... But what is My commandment? I only demand loving activity because only through love can the bond with Me be established. And thus it follows that the human being's sole striving on earth should be to live in love, that My influence on people will only ever consist of directing their will in the right direction, that they seek Me and approach Me in loving activity .... They must consciously strive towards Me .... This is so important because the state of separation cannot be remedied otherwise. And every individual must establish contact with Me himself, otherwise he will never be able to reach the aim .... Anyone who now understands this will also understand that the path to Me will be endlessly prolonged if one wants to reach Me in a roundabout way .... that the time of grace granted to the human being on earth will not be utilized if the direct path to Me is not taken but the human being turns to supporters who are to intercede on his behalf. Those who need a supporter lack the right relationship of a child with the father, and they will truly find it difficult to reach their aim, for earthly life is quickly over. My fatherly love wants to be distributed in abundance, but My right children are considered first who trustingly come to Me and appeal to Me for My love and grace. So how could I induce people to turn their thoughts towards a behaviour which certainly also seeks to win beings of light but does not put Me first? How could I make it My task to call upon these beings of light, Who wants to be called upon first, because the connection with Me has to be established if the human being is to reach his aim? The kingdom of light never influences people in the sense that a being of light, no matter how perfect it may be, is placed in the foreground. The beings of light will only ever work on My behalf and only ever try to influence people such that they join Me and comply with My will .... and this will only ever be to observe the commandment of love .... it will only concern a person's inner shaping but never demand external actions or ceremonial custom s which affect the relationship with Me and have little advantage for the soul's development. Come to Me like children and commune with Me, and I will truly tell you what I require of you, I will guide you without external visible appearances, I will be everyone's faithful father Who helps you to reach the aim ....

Amen

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(Fatima) After reading about it ....

B.D. 4322 from June 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

It is a game of demons when gullible people's vision is clouded by all kinds of appearances which are suitable for the spreading of error and untruth, which only serve to reinforce already existing misguided teachings and to push people away from the right path, the direct path to Me. It is easy for an awakened person to see through this game but difficult for people who already adhere to misguided teachings and are led by blind guides who lack all knowledge themselves and who do not desire the truth either but are satisfied with adopted spiritual knowledge without examining its origin. A chain of misguided teachings is made up of various wrong concepts, and to reinforce these misguided teachings people who advocate them will use any means, for they do not strive to bring light but to keep people in spiritual darkness .... And this is a great injustice, which is why I constantly include representatives of My pure teaching who speak out against untruth and error and try to enlighten their fellow human beings. My revelations never happen in such a way that My will is made known to underage children, instead, every revelation has the purpose of being spread for the benefit of all, for I only use one mouth in order to speak to all people through it. I will never ever command silence from those who are able to hear Me but instruct them to make My will known to their fellow human beings. My will is that people love each other and attain beatitude through love. If My will is not fulfilled, then the human being remains imperfect and cannot be released from his guilt of sin, which is attached to him and which he constantly increases through unkind actions. Another can never take his guilt upon himself or atone for it, because Jesus died for it on the cross, Who took humanity's guilt of sin upon Himself in order to redeem it. The human being can indeed participate in Christ's act of salvation by spreading Christ's teaching of love as an example through an exemplary life of love and by awakening love in his fellow human beings, furthermore, he can participate in the redemption of erring souls by conveying the gospel, the pure truth, which everyone carries within himself who lives in love. He can also give strength to his fellow human beings through intercession from a loving heart, however, his will must always be willing to accept every flow of strength, for every person is responsible for his soul himself and this cannot be taken from him in any way, otherwise My justice would be called into question and all people would also be redeemed immediately, because loving beings of light always turn their love towards the unhappy, unredeemed and their strength would truly be enough to make all people blissfully happy. Every individual person has to find Me himself .... he has to recognize his guilt of sin and try to rid himself of it, he has to atone for it himself through eternities or let himself be redeemed by Jesus Christ by consciously acknowledging His act of salvation and asking for forgiveness of his sins .... (4.6.1948) A person's love for his fellow human being can certainly plead for his conversion but only insofar as that he is granted extensive support from the spiritual side, that he is brought into situations of life by beings of light where he can change if he wants to, where his thoughts are directed towards people who live a right way of life, that he is granted every assistance to gain maturity of soul and also receives increased strength which intercession has acquired for him. But how he makes use of this strength is entirely his own will. That his sins can now be atoned for by loving earthly brothers and sisters is a misconception and only indicates the misunderstanding of My teaching, which was offered in full clarity but was often contaminated by humanly wrong ideas. If intercession is based on love it will never be without success, but the effect is different, for every person has to answer for his sins himself. And thus it is a perpetual misguidance to inform people of supernatural appearances which can never stand scrupulous scrutiny and can never be brought into harmony with the truth conveyed to earth by Me. It is demonic deception which found good breeding ground in people's gullibility and their misguided thinking. For where I appear I do not come in pomp and splendour, yet recognizable to everyone who wants to recognize Me and is of good and pure mind ....

Amen

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Unusual spiritual experience .... reminder ....

B.D. 4323 from June 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The great spiritual experience should make you think and give you the certainty that I Myself take care of you, that I want to win you and that I therefore intervene in your life in an obvious way. You should always bear in mind that you experience something unusual, that you are in direct contact with the kingdom where you seek Me if you believe in Me, and that you will be taught from there in an unusual way. Furthermore, you should consider that you receive answers to questions which move you, that I Myself, your God and father of eternity, speak to you, that you therefore have the most valuable thing to offer .... to be able to speak with the greatest spirit of infinity and to be granted the grace of an answer by Him, and that all this takes place in deepest love for you .... You are in such a great experience that you cannot be grateful enough for My love for you, for you have something rare and precious to offer that is denied to your fellow human beings .... Appreciate this gift, remain aware of the great grace, don't take it for granted but often immerse yourselves in the unusual and don't let it become an everyday occurrence. Consider what knowledge has already been imparted to you, consider what light has been kindled in you, what spiritual wealth you may call your own and with what clarity the deepest problems are solved, furthermore, consider that no human being could ever impart such knowledge to you and that no human being without study can ever have such extensive knowledge at his disposal as you have gained through the constant instructions from above which My love has offered you. And if you seriously bear this in mind you must look up to Me full of love and reverence, you must be and remain deeply humble and come to Me like children in profound gratitude and do everything I ask of you .... You can already be blessed on earth that you are in this grace, that My love has chosen you to be co-workers on earth. And therefore you should place yourselves entirely at My disposal and do what I require of you; you should serve Me by spreading the pure truth which you receive from Me in such an unusual way .... you shall endeavour to fulfil My will and diligently cooperate, i.e. take care of the spreading of My word as and where it is possible for you. For again and again I tell you that I need you in the last time before the end, and therefore again and again I will help you and direct your thoughts towards the extraordinary events happening to you. And I will not let up because I don't want to lose you once you have been active for Me, I will speak to you again and again until you are aware of the fact that your God and father, your creator of eternity, needs you and therefore comes to you Himself in the word .... until you fully submit yourselves to His will and are active for Me because you recognize My love for you and My gift of grace and no longer want to lose it ....

Amen

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Spiritual guidance .... truth from above ....

B.D. 4324 from June 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You humans need constant guidance if you want to reach your aim. Your aim is spiritual development, attainment of the degree of perfection, your aim is union with Me, which you can only achieve through a change to love. Consequently, you must be guided onto the right path which guarantees your ascent development, which brings you closer to perfection and thus also to Me, Who can only unite with perfect beings. You can certainly also reach the aim by yourselves if you have the good will, if you are driven from within to work with love. Then you will not need earthly guides, for then you will be guided correctly by the voice of the spirit which truly instructs you correctly. But people who are only lukewarm in love, who are not yet aglow with its fire, do not hear this voice, they do not know the path upwards and therefore need guides to lead them onto the right path .... they need teachers who instruct them correctly about My will, about My commandments and about their earthly task. They need to be instructed correctly .... If I have set unification with Me as people's highest aim, it must also be My will and My endeavour to let people find the path which will lead them closer to the aim, and thus I must also give every person the opportunity to gain knowledge of the conditions and My will. I have to give them the opportunity to be instructed in the truth, thus I have to provide them with the teaching forces which are able to spread the truth in accordance with My will. On the other hand, however, I cannot prevent people from rejecting the truth by virtue of their freedom of will and from adopting untrue thought material, which is why I never intervene to prevent My pure teaching from being distorted by those who carry out a teaching activity, for I do not force people's will. I only want to clarify who is to be addressed as a spiritual leader and when people need spiritual leaders ....

The whole of humanity walks in darkness and needs the supply of light. Light, however, can only emanate from the eternal light, it is lightless in the human heart as long as I cannot ignite the light in it, as long as the fire of love is not in it which radiates bright light. Light can therefore only come from within, it has to be ignited through love, only then will the human being be knowledgeable and stand in truth. Consequently, the right, truthful knowledge can never be taught, i.e. brought to the human being from outside, but only love must be awakened in the human being, only then can he recognize the right knowledge imparted to him from outside as truth and accept it. And thus the office of the leaders on earth is only limited to teaching people love, and this is the task of those who stand in the world as spiritual leaders, who have the will to guide humanity onto the path which leads to Me. If they make themselves available to Me for this task I will bless them and give strength to their words so that they will not remain without effect on people. But the truth will also be conveyed to people directly from above if a willing person living in love declares himself willing to accept the truth and pass it on to the world. These are now to be addressed as spiritual leaders who are called to show fellow human beings the right path to Me. For they are called by Me Myself. The transmission of pure truth from above happens in such a way that it is an inexplicable process for fellow human beings, so that an extraordinary power can be recognized. What ecclesiastical leaders represent and teach must be in complete agreement with the knowledge conveyed from above to earth, it must, so to speak, originate from one source, and the word conveyed from above must always be used as a standard as soon as deviations arise. Then the ecclesiastical guidance is also to be acknowledged and as such also blessed by Me. But I demand this agreement, otherwise I must reject every teaching which deviates from the pure teaching imparted by Me Myself. I cannot make concessions where the pure truth is concerned, but just as I never refrain from choosing My servants Myself, from instructing and training them for a teaching activity, because it is urgently necessary to convey the truth to people. I will always acknowledge ecclesiastical leaders if they preach the truth, but neither will I silently tolerate the spreading of misguided teachings to those who seek the truth. I respect free will, but My will also becomes active and tries to compensate where human will sins. I work against it by opposing pure truth to error, by opposing the bearers of truth to those who walk along in error and seek to spread it. And every individual human being can freely decide .... The inner urge for truth also secures him the supply of truth, yet the lukewarm, completely indifferent person remains blind in spirit despite ecclesiastical guides, for truth wants to be sought in order to let itself be found ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Significance of the spirit's voice .... Close to the goal ....

B.D. 4325 from June 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You are hearing the voice of the spirit .... do you know what that means? It means that you are removed from the weight of earthly matters if you accept My Word, be it directly or through mediators, that you are in contact with the spiritual world which is beyond all matter. Do you know that you are already close to the goal, that you have almost overcome matter if My Word penetrates your heart and does not merely bypass your ear? Do you know that My Word is a ray from the kingdom of light which you may be permitted to enter after the death of your body, that you are therefore being honoured to be in the spiritual kingdom while your body is still earthbound? Do you know that you, if you receive My Word, are in connection with Me, your God and Father of eternity, your Creator and Preserver? That the connection is the final goal of every human being and that you therefore have reached the final goal already if you not merely intellectually accept My Word but allow it to affect your heart. And you may already consider yourselves incredibly fortunate on Earth, for you accept My emanation of love noticeably and demonstrably, for I give Myself to you, I give you My flesh and My blood, as I have promised .... I take supper with you because you allowed Me to enter when I knocked at the door of your heart. And thus you are My exceedingly beloved and precious guests to whom I will only serve that which brings you joy, I will endow you with spiritual possessions, with everlasting treasures which you may take into eternity with you; I want to provide you with everything you desire, yet you will only request that which will be spiritually beneficial to you and make you happy. And all My angels and beings of light will be at your disposal, they will enlighten you if you desire such and your knowledge will increase, your fear will dwindle, you will be conscious of being in most intimate union with Me when you accept My Word, for My Word demonstrates My love for you ....

My Word is the greatest gift of grace, for I Myself dwell amongst you in My Word; hence you do not just accept it as an expression of Myself but you accept Me Myself in your hearts when I speak to you. Then I will have taken abode within you, as I have promised. Would you then still be lonely and forsaken? Can anyone on earth replace My closeness? And would you then still want to be fearful and sad, timid and of little faith? Just take care that every Word of Mine takes root in you, that it comes alive, that you don't just read or hear it but that you let it penetrate your heart; live your life such that I can work within you, that you will also soon hear the audible Word which will suppress all doubt, all anxiety and make you blissfully happy. Then you will be willing to sacrifice everything, then your faith will be firm and steadfast too, then anything can confront you and you will not waver, for you will feel Me, you will know that you are protected in My proximity and are full of love for Me. My Word is a gift of grace for which you cannot be thankful enough, and you ought to demonstrate your gratitude by passing it on in the world, you should tirelessly work to spread it, you should inform your fellow human beings of My activity of love in you and through you in all people. Speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, for people need comfort and help in their spiritual distress, they need you, who receive My Word either directly or through mediators, as knowledgeable, experienced and on the path; don't be half-hearted and complacent in your work for Me; live up to My Word by being lovingly active and by providing earthly help wherever it is needed. Work in cooperation with Me and, in so doing, thank Me for My love for you, which manifests itself in My Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Harmony of body and soul ....

B.D. 4326 from June 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The body, too, should be well cared-for in order to maintain its strength and keep it in shape for its task .... to help the soul attain higher development. The body should not be entirely neglected because orderliness is My law as well, and orderliness includes everything which results in a supportive and progressive outcome. It is indeed the human being's task to detach himself from matter, to rise above it by liberating his heart from it and thus no longer be controlled by earthly material things. Nevertheless, the body also has to be in harmony with the soul, it has to provide the soul with inner calm which it can always achieve once it has calmed itself down, i.e., once its needs are met and it can attend to the soul's requirements.

The body can indeed make demands which betray materialistic thinking that by no means corresponds to My law of order, in that case it is not in harmony with the soul, and if the soul is already enlightened it will resist and refuse to give in to the body's desire even if it continues to persist in its demands. Then soul and body are silently fighting each other, then the body will be poorly endowed from all directions until it is content with being granted minor wishes, until it has accepted the soul's requirements. At that point it has entered the right order again and will also feel comfortable in that state since it then considers itself as the soul's supporter. Subsequently it can also be granted bigger wishes again since there is no more risk that the body will overrule the soul by getting so involved with the material world that it totally neglects the soul.

The body must never control the soul, the material world must never be given priority, the soul must be the determining factor and supported in its desires and aspirations by the body, then the body can also be granted relief and fulfilment of its desires, for then the body will never make demands which are detrimental to the soul, and the soul will mature anyway, since it constantly endeavours to live in harmony with Me, to attain My pleasure and to come close to Me, and can obliviously bypass the pleasures of the world. I want to give joy to people on earth too once these joys are no longer a danger for the soul; but only I can judge when this will be the case, and so I quite often let the body go short, just as I also provide people who are faithfully devoted to Me with private joys in order to demonstrate My love for them, which always wants to please ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Notice to end .... rights representatives of God ....

B.D. 4327 from June 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The peaceful state is only granted to you for a short time, for the world clock is advancing and will soon have reached the last hour. Anyone who is aware of this also lives his life consciously in anticipation of what is to come, he prepares himself in all actions for the fact that he will soon have to relinquish earthly life, and he strives to secure eternal life for himself .... he works on himself and strives for the greatest possible maturity of his soul. But how few are there who believe in an end .... how few are seriously concerned with the thought of parting from this world .... It is like an increased hunger for everything the world offers, and very rarely are they moved by the thought of Me, very rarely do they seek the opportunity to hold spiritual conversations and provide their soul with the nourishment it so urgently needs. People live and yet are dead in spirit .... and the better they are doing, the more they master earthly circumstances, the more they fall away from Me or they place Me to one side, only occasionally turning their gaze towards Me but their hearts do not desire Me. And there are only a few of My true representatives on earth, otherwise the work in My vineyard would be crowned with greater success, otherwise people would be more aroused and change in their thoughts and intentions. My rightful representatives proclaim My word to people, and only ever My word as a source of light and strength for those who are of good will and pay attention to My word .... My right representatives draw their attention to the misguided teachings which are spread throughout the world. Yet many call themselves My representatives on earth and take little care that My only true word is spread. They certainly urge people towards pious, God-fearing thoughts but always by way of ceremonies and external actions which are irrelevant for the spreading of My word. These will not have the success that people will concern themselves with thoughts of eternity and recognize the seriousness of the time, for those who call themselves My representatives do not believe in such a quick end themselves. And they reject every right representative who can bring them enlightenment. And thus people are in great spiritual hardship because they are completely blind and no other help can be sent to them than the transmission of My word from above. For this reason I repeatedly admonish My servants on earth, whom I have chosen as My rightful representatives, to proclaim My word wherever it is possible to point out to fellow human beings the end, the necessity of a change of soul and faith in life after death. I admonish you again and again, do not slacken in your spiritual work, create and work diligently as if tomorrow were the last day, for it will come irrevocably and not be long in coming. I don't want to lose you to death, I want you to live and prepare yourselves for this life and therefore speak words of love to you again and again from above until I let My voice sound louder from above as a sign that you may believe what I announce to you and tell you to spread. The day is near and you will be surprised, for My word has to fulfil itself ....

Amen

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Community of 'Saints' .... Intercession pointless ....

B.D. 4328 from June 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You humans need considerable support from the spiritual world if you want to survive the last battle on earth, and this help is at your full disposal in every way by just asking for it. For this reason it should be explained to you what kind of help will be given to you and how you can request it. There exists, as you humans call it, the community of Saints, which helps you; but it is necessary to explain the term ‘Saints’ to you if you are to be truthfully taught and free from wrong notions. The beings of light are people’s most faithful guides and helpers who are always ready as soon as they are called. But their assignment to people is determined by God in His wisdom, just as He, corresponding to their degree of perfection, also permeates the spiritual beings with light and strength. People, however, are unable to assess another person’s degree of maturity and therefore have neither the right nor the ability to elevate him to sainthood, because only God knows the quality of his soul when he, having been liberated by physical death, enters the spiritual kingdom. Only God knows the relationship the person has had with Him on earth and to what extent he acted with love.

Loving activity is the decisive factor and could have given him light and strength in abundance while still on earth, enabling him to do extraordinary things on earth if he wanted to. But in the beyond God reserves the right to guide mature souls to the sphere of activity which corresponds to their degree of maturity. He allocates to them the activity in the spiritual kingdom, just as He determines what kind of help should be given to people on earth. The beings of light have abundant strength, they can achieve anything because they work with God and in accordance with His will since they are constantly permeated by His strength. But the being of light moves entirely within God’s will too, i.e. it cannot want anything but God’s will since it has already established the union with God and is therefore totally absorbed in His will. However, since it possesses great wisdom it also recognises the inexpediency of many people’s petitions and therefore also has to refuse when a fulfilment would be detrimental for the soul.

Helping people is a state of happiness for the beings of light, for this reason God allows people to request help from them. But it is not right to call upon specific Saints, because their activity and task could be entirely different and people, in their ignorance, might appeal to a being which is still far from perfect and then, due to their petition, become subject to and get unfavourably influenced by it. Because those who are called will appear, they immediately seek to get close to the caller and try to impose their thoughts on him, which might not correspond to the truth. Besides, the canonisation by people is mainly dependent on a way of life conforming to a church community, i.e. where piety is a prerequisite, although never demanded by God it is insisted upon by that church, and in accordance with the latter the canonisation takes place, which can never be the will of God. Consequently, not everyone canonised may be a being of light, whereas there are many beings of light in the spiritual kingdom whose way of life in fact corresponded to God’s will but did not conform to the rules of an ecclesiastical community. All beings of light possess God’s strength which they want to use, thus people were entrusted into their care whom they should and can help to reach perfection, providing human will is not opposed to it. Appealing to the beings of light will never be in vain, whereas calling upon specific beings may be good but could also be harmful even though help is expected from them. However, the idea to gain intercession by the beings of light is misguided ....

Prayer is an appeal to God. It establishes the relationship between the human being and God, which is requested by God Himself because the appeal demonstrates that the person’s will is directed towards Him. Thus in people’s opinion, the beings of light, which are already in closest union with Him, are supposed to establish this relationship with God. This would relieve the person from establishing the relationship himself which, however, is purpose and goal of his earthly life, because only the contact with God provides the influx of strength without which the soul is unable to mature fully. But the being of light cannot convey strength to the person, because even in the spiritual kingdom are laws which have to be observed by its inhabitants in the knowledge that they were given by God’s love and wisdom. The beings are willing to help in every instance and in accordance with God’s will, consequently the human being has to please God’s will first in order to be considered by Him directly or through the beings of light, which truly will never leave anyone without help if God’s will approves. Hence the appeal for help to the beings of light will never be in vain, but an appeal for intercession is futile. Because the child itself should trustingly approach the Father so that the Father’s love can give Itself to the child, and because this intimate relationship will never be established if the human being believes that he can also reach the goal through intercession. God is a God of love. He does not want people frightened to come to Him, He wants to be the Father of His children and not a strict judge and ruler. People try to please the latter through intercession but approach the former trustingly, and God asks for this trust from His living creations, because His infinite love belongs to them and He will also fulfil their every prayer ....

Amen

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Hell, end of day .... nightfall ....

B.D. 4329 from June 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The day is drawing to a close, the light is sinking into twilight, and night is falling with its impenetrable darkness. And inevitably you humans are heading towards this night, for it is already late in the evening if you do not save yourselves in the light that can no longer go out, that can no longer be darkened by any night .... the eternal light that God has as its original source. Where there is night, the spirit of darkness reigns, and its kingdom is truly not desirable; where there is light, there is truth, love and bliss. Night only serves lies and hatred, and the stay there is agonizing for the souls who fall prey to this kingdom. Escape the night before it is too late, strive towards the light, do not be indifferent to what will be after death. Redeem yourselves from the power of the enemy of your soul, strive towards the saviour Jesus Christ, stretch out your hand towards Him and He will lovingly take hold of it and draw you over into His world, He will free you from the evil power, for He is the redeemer of humanity, He has passed the battle against His adversary, against the one who threatens to ruin you. Hurry under the cross of Christ, carry your guilt of sin to Him, ask Him for help and He will help you to win the victory in the last hour. But hurry, for time is pressing, let yourselves be urgently admonished once again that soon, very soon, night will fall and then it will be too late if you have not already taken the path which leads to Him, Who alone can help you. Withdraw your gaze from the world, look into yourselves, how it looks there and what work still awaits you, if you want to create order within and stand before God when the end comes. The spiritual hardship is indescribable, people get more and more caught up in the thought of increasing matter and have no time left for soul work, for inner self-contemplation, the world demands more and more and therefore they leave the soul in want. But the world will collapse, yet the soul will continue to exist and will then dwell in most meagre surroundings if it has the grace to still be called away before the end. But those who experience the end will be pushed into the abyss without mercy if they have not sought the light before. And this abyss is night, it is hell, it is the new banishment in works of creation of every kind. Let this be said to you that you return to matter, which you now seek so eagerly and yet had long since overcome. It will be your share because you desire it with all your senses, because you forget your soul above matter .... it will be your share, it will enclose your soul, that you languish in hardest captivity for endless times. Be aware of the fact that you yourselves create the state which will be your fate afterwards, life or death .... light or darkness. Listen to what you are told from above, don't pass it by carelessly but pay attention to the guides who know the way and let them show you the right path. For it concerns eternity, it concerns more than just earthly trinkets and physical comfort, it concerns the state of eternity which you create for yourselves because you have free will. And change before it is too late, for the day is drawing to a close and the night will soon fall ....

Amen

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Spiritual conversations .... scattering the seed ....

B.D. 4330 from June 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Every spiritual encouragement, every spiritual enlightenment or stimulation remains in the human brain, even if it does not initially penetrate to the surface if it is not consciously accepted into his thought material through the human being's will. Something spiritual, however, cannot get lost, thus it can rise into consciousness again at any time, and it is always only the human being's will that it constantly remains there. God gives every person the opportunity to receive spiritual thought material, only the utilization of it is up to him. And therefore the work of a servant on earth is blessed, it corresponds to God's will, Who needs people who speak to fellow human beings for Him and in His stead. He wants spiritual conversations to take place so that the human being's train of thought is guided into a path which leads to the spiritual kingdom, for the stimulation usually has to come from outside because the human being practices too little love and thus the working of the spirit from within is absent. Therefore people first have to be made aware of the commandment of love, they have to be made aware of the meaning and purpose of earthly life and encouraged to work diligently on their souls. The mission of God's servants on earth is to always and everywhere spread the seed so that it will sprout and bear fruit. Man seldom seeks to hear the divine word of his own accord, although he pauses at times to prepare himself to receive the word of God. But it is far more advisable to give people the opportunity to express themselves and to be instructed through speech and counter-speech, because then they will be forced to think for themselves and the thought material will stick in them, even if they do not immediately agree with it. But the time will come when it will rise to the surface, the time will come when every word will be remembered, when the human being will draw comfort and hope from it and the seed will now take root, and for the sake of this time work shall be done diligently beforehand, people shall be forcefully made aware of their earthly task and mention shall be made of life after death, people shall at least be taken away from earthly life for a short time and be granted insight into spiritual life, which is why every opportunity shall be used in view of people's great need and the coming time of adversity which will still affect earth for the sake of the human soul. Work and create while it is still day .... Bear in mind that night will not be long in coming. Still kindle a little light everywhere, you who want to serve God, and don't be afraid to speak, for it is God's will and therefore you will also always find His support, He will give you strength and grace so that you will also always speak according to His will .... And He will bless your work, for the spiritual hardship on earth is exceedingly great ....

Amen

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Signs of the end .... spiritual depression ....

B.D. 4331 from June 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Everything points to a near end. Consider people's state of faith, their rejection of a divine being, their ignorance in spiritual matters and, in contrast, their fanatical advocacy of a blind faith without sense and understanding, consider their unwillingness to engage in spiritual conversations and their scornful attitude towards the divine word, and you will have to admit that these are all signs of a spiritual low which justifies humanity's downfall, even though there is still a small hope of winning few people for God and His kingdom. The labourers in the vineyard of the lord will have to do hard work, it will cost a lot of effort to cultivate the field and yet you should not be afraid of this work, for God's blessing will rest on it as soon as you take care of the erring souls without self-interest and carry to them what you yourselves have received from God. Rely on His help, on His assistance, for as soon as you are active countless beings of light are also willing to cooperate and influence people's thoughts, providing they don't encounter harsh resistance which they don't want to break but leave people free will. Spiritual conversations are only rarely held, and people anxiously avoid mentioning what is most important .... the human being's spiritual development and the effect of earthly life in the spiritual kingdom after the human being's bodily death. People rarely deal with such thoughts of their own accord, and if they emerge they are rejected and their thoughts and aspirations are turned towards the earthly world. And this marks the near end because a change of humanity can no longer be expected where even the greatest earthly adversity cannot bring about such a change. It is like a thick veil spread over people's spirit, the light does not penetrate because the desire for light does not exist. But if human beings are stimulated, spiritual forces can intervene and have a mental effect on people, which is why God's servants on earth will again and again be admonished and spurred on to eager activity wherever the opportunity is offered to them. And God will bless this activity and success will not fail to come ....

Amen

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God’s word necessary for attaining maturity of soul ....

B.D. 4332 from June 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Receiving My word is indispensable for attaining maturity of soul, and therefore it is of utmost importance to be in direct contact with the spiritual kingdom, with the giver of truth, with the eternal word Itself. My will has to be proclaimed to you humans in a form, just as your earthly task has to be presented to you in order to be able to fulfil it. And thus I will always make sure that My word is made accessible to you, but I will also always make it dependent on your will to enter into the blessing of My word. In the last time before the end your will is completely inactive, and you would lose My blessing if I left it up to you to desire and listen to My word. I must come to your aid in an extraordinary way, I must try to win you over by unusually offering what is of utmost importance for your soul. I must confront you with My word where you least expect it, I must disturb you in the midst of earthly life and speak to you because you no longer accept it elsewhere or only listen to it and let it rustle your ears. I try everything to make you receptive for My word, to awaken in you the desire to be nourished by Me because I want to win you for eternity. And thus it must also be understandable to you that I choose servants for Myself on earth to whom I assign the work of promoting Me and My kingdom, to whom I give the opportunity to speak to you outside of this place, otherwise you would be able to receive My word if you desired it. You do not seek My word, therefore My word seeks you .... And in the last days before the end this will be so obvious that your thoughts will be directed towards Me and My word that you will have to become suspicious if only you pay attention and have the will to recognize it. My servants will indeed often be attacked and find little faith that they are active as My representatives on earth, nevertheless, their work is not done in vain, for in view of the great adversity which will still befall the earth My word will also resonate in people who previously took notice of it, albeit unwillingly and seemingly without success. And many a seed will still sprout and reach maturity, and thus I will bless the work for Me and My kingdom and admonish you again and again to be restlessly active ....

Amen

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Force - subconscious ....

B.D. 4333 from June 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The inner constitution of a person does not always correspond to the outer impression, and there are often erroneous conclusions where the judge believes himself to be certain. What is presented to you for examination is mostly intellectually acquired knowledge, and then your intellect can also suffice to carry out an examination. But as soon as it concerns knowledge which has a different starting point than the human being's intellect, even the most sharply developed intellect is not capable of an examination, unless it allows itself to be guided by the spirit within, it allows itself to be controlled by feeling, so that the intellect is therefore switched off for the time being. Every inner impulse must be triggered by a force, even if the human being as such possesses abilities which would first have to be awakened. A force which now awakens the ability in him must be recognized, otherwise all people and at all times could have the same ability at their disposal. And it is this triggering power that every thinking person should fathom and every loving person can fathom. What man now calls this power is indifferent, only it cannot be dismissed with a learned-sounding expression, which in itself is again nothing explainable. A power cannot be denied, but the origin of this power cannot be fathomed by human intellect, therefore something supersensible must be accepted, which again can only be explained by supersensible activity. Thus a human being can certainly ascertain phenomena but not explain them from the bottom up by virtue of his intellect. For the origin will always be and remain the spiritual world, but what has its origin there can neither be fathomed nor proven intellectually. Assumptions, for example, can be doubted, but an established fact will also be able to withstand serious examination. Extensive knowledge can be regarded as an established fact, and the only question that remains is where the knowledge began. But first it must be acknowledged that it is extensive knowledge, and this is only possible through serious examination. Then it will be possible to fathom the origin of knowledge in the desire for truth, then the examiner will be of clear mind and emotionally come close to the truth .... he will seek to fathom the power and discover it in the supersensible .... he will be able to believe what was previously incomprehensible to him and therefore had caused his wrong judgment. For the human being must test with Me or he will make a wrong judgement and be far from the truth ....

Amen

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Cognizability .... must state ....

B.D. 4334 from June 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

In order to reach the level of cognitive ability, the being must first have animated all things, which it is then able to observe in the stage of cognition, if they appear before its eye. It must have gone through every work of creation in the state of inability to recognize the work of creation itself as a form that has been brought into existence for itself, which helps it to develop upwards. The being transforms this form completely unaware of its situation because a recognition of it would cause it dreadful agonies and even increase its resistance against God. Only in the last stage as a human being can it become aware of its situation, but only if it has the will to do so and develops the ability to recognize by fulfilling the conditions God has attached to it. The state of realization can be blissful but it can also lie on a person like a burden and endanger his free upward development, the latter if the human being would be forced to believe, if he would not be free to accept or reject the knowledge about the human being's course of development or his soul, for this realization only triggers a state of faith when the human being consciously desires the truth, which is also only the result of a right way of life before God. Then he can believe, and he also wants to believe, and knowledge makes him happy, for it signifies light for the soul, which was the soul's original state. Knowledge is already the proof of a certain degree of maturity, therefore man only has the ability to know if he shapes himself in such a way that his being adapts to the original being. Knowledge cannot be transmitted in a scholastic way, even if it is passed on in the form of instruction; yet as long as the human being does not live in God's will he will not be able to acknowledge the knowledge of truth either, because he lacks the ability to judge, which only arises from the connection with God through the fulfilment of His will. The being is dark as long as it is imperfect, therefore the state of the being before its embodiment as a human being is also dark, and the ascent development is the effect of the law of compulsion under which the being stands. Only in the stage as a human being is the ascent development voluntary, but also connected with the condition to become capable of cognition. But the ability to recognize can be increased to infinity and is already a state of bliss, only minimally, as long as the being lives on earth.

The ability to recognize is proof that the being, the soul in the human being, strives for perfection and union with God. The prerequisite for knowledge is love, and anyone who lives in love has already found union with God in the working of love. God lets His strength of love flow to him, and this expresses itself in the fact that the human being is able to think correctly and thus now knows about the creature's relationship to the creator, about his earthly task, about the purpose and aim of his life on earth .... that he recognizes God and His reign and activity in the spiritual kingdom and in the entire universe. The fact that he receives information about this from God Himself through His greater than great love is already a sign of ascent development and, to a certain extent, a reaching of the state which corresponds to his original state. Then a great gulf has been bridged, for which the infinitely long time in the state of compulsion was necessary, the being has ascended from the abyss to the height again, it is aware of its exit and never falls back into the abyss once it has found unity with God through love. For once it recognizes God it also remains faithful to Him and does not rest until it has completely merged with Him ....

Amen

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Sustaining the body through God’s word ....

B.D. 4335 from June 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

My greater than great love for you humans is expressed in the word which is conveyed to you from above. Again and again I have to make you aware of this, again and again you have to reward My love with gratitude by opening your heart and ear to Me and accept what I offer you. My word contains the strength your soul needs in order to become Mine forever; therefore My word is nourishment for your soul which you must not lack if you want to become blissfully happy. And thus My word will always be supplied to you so that you can refresh yourselves when you hunger and thirst, and a time will come when you will lack physical nourishment and yet spiritual nourishment will sustain you, physically and spiritually. Remember My words and then don't become anxious if you are earthly deprived of everything you need to maintain the body, remember that My strength and might is unlimited, that I am lord over life and death, over all things in creation and that it is truly possible for Me to sustain My living creations, even if it seems earthly impossible, for everything is possible for Me .... And if I supply you with strength from the spiritual kingdom through My word you can confidently drop all earthly worries and firmly believe that God will sustain you .... Yet you must draw the strength from Me, otherwise My working on you is impossible, i.e. it contradicts My law of eternity. Every extraordinary help is possible for creations which have entered My flow of love, but those who are outside of it will be powerless and perish physically as well as spiritually, because this, too, is a law of eternity that nothing can exist without My supply of strength. Therefore I will meet you humans in the word beforehand in order to show and explain My extraordinary working to you, so that you will then be so strengthened in faith that you will hand yourselves over to Me without any doubt. And then I will also be able to perform the miracle on you that you live without being provided with earthly nourishment .... which will be a miracle for the unbelievers but understandable to you and only proof of My presence and My great love for you. But you must first let the strength of My word take effect on you, you must have already become My own, adhere to Me with love, keep My commandments and always make an effort to fulfil My will, then it will be self-evident to you that I will sustain you in times of greatest adversity, then you will no longer doubt My love and My might and place your fate in My hands with complete trust. And I will sustain you .... physically and spiritually I will provide for you and give you the evidence that you are children of My love and will never lose My fatherly love .... I will guide you through adversity and danger, through earthly suffering and sadness, you will remain steadfast until the end and be allowed to receive the reward I have promised you .... eternal bliss or life on the new earth in paradise ....

Amen

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Earth school of the spirit ....

B.D. 4336 from June 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Consider the earth as a school of the spirit, as an educational station for eternal bliss, consider Me as your teacher Who cares about your education, Who wants to shape you into mature, perfect creatures so that they can be active themselves in shaping what is still imperfect and therefore unhappy. Do not regard the earth as an end in itself but as a means to an end with all its creations, which are only the will that has become form and the sign of My great love for you and which are meant to help the imperfect being to attain perfection. And know that you, having emerged from My strength, remain eternally united with Me, that you, as a part of Me, can never ever be rejected by Me, but that you must be perfect if you want to be active with Me and in My will. And if you now look at creation with Me in mind, consider that the whole of creation exists for you but that you yourselves are the centre of this creation .... the most highly developed work of creation endowed with intellect and free will and that you, as living creations, are constantly in contact with your creator. Although the world appears large to you, you are the life in this world, for you embody the spiritual being which stands at the end of the earthly course as beings cared for by My love, which I want to draw over into the spiritual kingdom, which I want to make happy with My constant nearness. I do not leave one of these beings to its fate, not one needs to do without My care and love, every single creature can feel safe under My protection and bask in the rays of My grace. But it has to make use of earthly life, otherwise it will prolong the time of its earth-boundness, otherwise endless times can pass until it is mature for the spiritual kingdom, until it can dwell in the light, in My nearness and be blissfully happy. Earth is the school of the spirit, therefore this must be taken into account, i.e. the spirit must first be given the opportunity to develop, it must be given the opportunity to reveal itself to the soul, so that the human being will now live in accordance with My will .... he must be instructed so that he becomes suitable for eternity. But he can constantly receive the instructions, for My love will consider people such that they will be able to fulfil their earthly task if only they have the will to do so. And thus I will present them with knowledge which completely corresponds to the truth and which will let them mature on earth if they accept it and use it accordingly. I Myself will train your spirit, for it is part of Me and establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit if you don't resist and let Me Myself take effect in you. And thus you receive My word through the working of the spirit as a sign of My love and as a means to your perfection. I Myself speak to you, and if you listen to Me you will inevitably ascend, you will recognize what you once were, what you are and what you shall become, you will successfully complete the school of the spirit and be able to leave earth as beings of light and enter My kingdom and you will eternally thank Me for this school which shapes you into perfect beings again, which you were from the very beginning .... children of your father from eternity ....

Amen

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Spiritual task prefixed before earthly activity ....

B.D. 4337 from June 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The human being's spiritual task shall take precedence over earthly activity. This not only applies to My servants on earth but to every human being, for earthly life was given to him in order that he should develop spiritually. And he will also be able to combine both, if his aim is spiritual ascent he will always find support in his earthly activity from spiritual beings which will support him in every way. It is a wrong assumption to be unable to spend time on spiritual striving due to earthly overload, instead, he will also be able to achieve elevated earthly things if he puts spiritual work first. The only condition for a person who does not have to accomplish a special spiritual mission is that he has the firm will to mature his soul and appeals to Me for grace and help. He will always be able to send a silent thought to Me, even in a responsible activity; he must be inwardly united with Me, he must feel at one with Me and strive to fulfil My will. Then I will also support him and increase his strength. But if the human being places earthly things above his spiritual development then he will increasingly depart from the latter, he will regard the spiritual as something unreal and not seek a bond with Me, and then he will inevitably come to a standstill on the level of his development, or he will go back and end up where he stood endless times ago .... in solid matter .... But I demand complete commitment from My servants on earth for their task and then also bless every earthly activity. It is up to every person himself whether he takes his task seriously, his will has to become active himself, although he can expect all support from Me; but spiritual work is not allowed to go alongside but it has to constantly move the human being's thinking, after all, he should provide the earthly creators with the evidence that both can be reconciled, a serious spiritual striving and also the fulfilment of earthly activity, that I do not demand anything impossible from people but only your will has to agree to accomplish both. I only demand a constant life with Me. Your thoughts must not turn away from Me and towards the world, I want to be your constant guide and companion and never be eliminated from your thoughts. In addition, every person also has time for a short inner reflection, every person has an hour of contemplation where he can achieve great progress again through intimate contact with Me, through mental discussion and silent prayer. At any time you are to be replaced on earth in your earthly activity, but only that remains for you which you have acquired spiritually, which no-one could achieve for you and which cannot be replaced by anything else .... Don't become lukewarm and indifferent in your spiritual striving, let yourselves be inspired by My word, hold spiritual conversations and constantly progress, then you will also succeed in every earthly work, I will bless it, and you will fulfil your earthly task and reach the aim ....

Amen

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Measure of grace .... will .... self-will .... -love ....

B.D. 4338 from June 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Whoever seeks Me will also find Me .... It is erroneous to assume that beatification depends on the measure of grace with which I consider the individual, that I distribute My grace differently and therefore also favour or disadvantage the individual's development, that I have considered the human being's will and ability to believe to a greater or lesser extent, that he could therefore reject responsibility with the objection that he cannot act against his nature. Furthermore, it is erroneous to assume that My love is expressed in various degrees of strength in people and that only some would be gifted to find and climb the path of ascent. An open source of grace is available to all people and everyone can draw from it as needed, he just has to want to and make use of the measure, since grace cannot flow to him against his will. However, the resistance in some people is so strong that every influx of grace is rejected and thus the person himself limits or restricts the influx of grace. The objection that he cannot will otherwise must also be refuted, otherwise the human being's will would be unfree, which I will always and constantly declare to be an erroneous opinion. The human being has his own will, which is difficult to bend but must be broken if he wants to reach his aim, which has been set for him since eternity .... to become perfect. Therefore, as a human being he is given the ability to recognize so that he can also recognize and remedy his shortcomings through rational observation of himself and recognition of his ability to change. His heart will also always point him in the right direction, and as soon as he gives up all resistance he will be helped by Me to change .... And this is grace .... The resistance in the human being is increased self-will which can be broken at any time and also has to be broken because the human being has to answer to Me for his will. And this absolutely requires the acknowledgement of Christ and His act of salvation. The human being has to hand himself over to Him and appeal to Him for help, and his will will receive the reinforcement which enables him to let the flow of grace flow into him, which is inexhaustible. The human being's self-love and self-will are his greatest spiritual enemies, and My adversary will always try to strengthen these two instincts in the human being in order to push him away from Me. But the human being is free, it just costs greater resistance and strength the weaker the will and also the love for Me is. I am truly concerned about the beatification of all My children, yet My help and grant of grace is always evident where the desire is also directed towards Me and thereby the human being's heart opens to My love and grace. Anyone who wants to believe will also be able to do so, anyone who cannot believe should not misinterpret his unbending will as a lack of grace but only ever open himself to My influx of grace and recognize by virtue of his intellect where I helpfully approach him, and always be ready to accept but never reject what is offered to him as evidence of My grace: enlightenment, spiritual conversations and My divine word, which always ensures him the supply of strength of grace. I always meet the human being with the full vessel of My grace so that everyone can refresh himself and draw strength from it at any time, but I will never force him to make use of My grace but leave him complete freedom for which, however, he will have to answer for one day ....

Amen

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Love life - spiritual work .... holy scripture ....

B.D. 4339 from June 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Therefore you should live in love so that My spirit can work in you, so that you become enlightened and understand My word which will speak to you through My messengers and which you can read in the scriptures which testify to Me. And then you will realize that you will always be confronted by the same word, that you will find full agreement between the written word and that which is directly commanded to you from above, that My word will therefore always and forever remain the same. It can only be interpreted differently by people but I will always correct this through My word spoken from above. For I want you to live in truth, that your thinking is not misled and that you always recognize Me Myself in the word, but this can only be the case if it affects you as it originated from Me. I Myself approach you in My word, thus you must feel Me and My presence, regardless of whether you hear My word or receive it through the scriptures. If you feel Me then you will be in truth, for I am not present in the erroneous word, and you can only feel Me again if you live a loving way of life, otherwise My word will be lost on your ears, even though it is purest truth and therefore not shaped by people. Thus only a loving person can pass judgment, for only a loving person is of sound mind and can distinguish truth from error, because the latter seems strange to him and he senses that it is not the father's voice which sounds to him. This is why every debate about truth will be unsuccessful with people who lack love, but it will always lead to a result where My commandment of love is respected and the working of the spirit is thereby made possible. They will draw comparisons between the spoken and the written word and accept what is directly conveyed to them by Me through My messengers. For the written word shall be pointed to as confirmation, so that people will recognize the profound truth and My obvious working will strengthen their faith. A truthful explanation and interpretation of My written word will also appear much more comprehensible to them and confirm the divinity of My word, and every thinking person will feel satisfied by My word spoken from above and yet not need to reject the scriptures because they completely agree with it. And as long as you conform to the scriptures in your teaching you, My servants on earth, need not fear any spiritual debate either, you will be able to refute every objection, you will clearly and distinctly reproduce the meaning of the written word and be able to reconcile it with that which is commanded from above, you will be successful with every seeking person who is in love and therefore always have to point out to people that love is the first and most necessary thing in order to be able to understand My word and recognize it as a fatherly voice. For only love enlightens the spirit and makes you receptive for My word ....

Amen

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"Become like children ...." strong faith ....

B.D. 4340 from June 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Become like children .... All self-conceit must fall away from you, you must humbly come to Me like little children, entrust yourselves to Me and let Me guide and instruct you, you must completely leave your upbringing to Me, only ever trusting in My love and being certain that everything I let happen to you is right, because I, as the father, well know what you need in order to still reach the aim on earth. And if I let suffering and adversity come upon you, don't take it as a sign of wrath, as a punishment which shall befall you because you are sinful .... Believe in My love which never wants to let you suffer again but which cannot spare you suffering for the sake of reaching maturity, because it is an effective means to let you take refuge in My arms like children and to establish the right relationship with Me which must exist between us if you want to become blessed. Therefore, never rebel against your fate, otherwise you will also rebel against Me; be certain that I will not forget you, that I am always with you, even in the greatest suffering, that I guide you by the hand and pay attention to every request, every thought of Me, in order to help you, if you believe. Become like the children .... And thus you must also keep a childlike faith which will not waver even if fellow human beings who want to be wise do not want to accept it. Worldly wisdom wants to teach you differently, it wants to prove to you that your thinking is wrong, for worldly wisdom is infinitely far away from the truth because it takes a different path .... that of research, where the path of love has to be taken. And thus people will try to solve all spiritual problems in a worldly way, they will want to tear apart all teachings of faith and portray them as groundless. Then hold on to your childlike faith, let yourselves be guided by the feeling of your heart and remain faithful to Me, Who speaks to you through the heart and Who, as a father, truly does not let His children walk in error if they desire the truth .... Become like the children .... Faith is the right of a child who cannot judge for himself because he is not capable of it. But I will help you to also recognize what you should believe, but the prerequisite is always that you come to Me like children and let yourselves be taught by Me alone. Then I will explain everything to you in such a way that even your child's heart can understand and accept it, that you will become convinced in your faith and that you will also stand firm in the face of worldly wisdom if it wants to shake your faith. Behold in Me your father from eternity Who loves you, Who looks after you like children and does not want you to suffer harm to your soul, then you will also trust Me unconditionally and let yourselves be guided by Me, and your path will truly be the right one ....

Amen

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Psychic beings .... 'Deliver us from evil ....'

B.D. 4341 from June 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Direct communication with the spiritual kingdom can only take place when spiritual forces are called upon in thought or in prayer. This is why the transfer of spiritual information is always an act of free will if beneficial forces are to be effective, whereas harmful forces aim to deactivate the human being's will in order to impose their inclination of will on him, which happens when a person surrenders his will, thus when he, in an unconscious state, hands himself over to beings which are far removed from the truth. Hence, it is advisable for a person who is afflicted by dark forces to commend himself in a conscious state to God's love and grace, to appeal to Him for His protection and support against the beings pestering him and to call upon the spirits of light to take special care of him and to stay close to him. This call for the benign beings entitles them to help him, which will subsequently leave the dark forces powerless. Human will is too weak to offer resistance in the case of psychically inclined people, i.e., those who open themselves to the world of the beyond and its influences, who therefore feel themselves attracted to invisible beings. The forces of darkness particularly exert their influence on the body, taking possession of it as soon as the human being's will relinquishes its resistance. However, the body's appropriation results in the fact that the human being's thinking ability slows down, that the person finds himself in a dream state and instead of voicing his own thoughts he expresses those of the occupying force corresponding to this spiritual being's way of speaking. Thus, a different soul has effectively taken over the body, whilst the person's own soul sleeps and even afterwards, in a conscious state, cannot remember anything that the person had said or done. Since the spiritual forces are stronger than him, the person will not be held to account during this time, nevertheless he should protect himself from this exploitation by dark forces by handing himself over to benevolent beings as well as to God Himself, by constantly praying 'Deliver us from evil ....' For it is evil if a human being is controlled by those spiritual forces so that his thoughts and actions are no longer his own but are transferred onto him by a strong-willed power. Wicked forces must always be resisted, for they are constantly close and trying to make the most of every opportunity, which presents itself when the human being, mentally seeking the spiritual kingdom, has not established a bond with God first and thus is without protection if he is harassed by the forces of darkness. Calling upon Jesus Christ against the enemy of the souls must always precede every spiritual contact, then a person need not be afraid of falling into the hands of evil forces, for countless beings of light hear the call and come quickly in order to protect and teach. This prevents the approach by evil forces, because the name of Jesus Christ will banish all beings opposed to Him, just as He will give increased strength to those who are in favour of Him and voice His name with deep devotion.

Amen

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Love - bliss .... gifts - fulfilling .... working together ....

B.D. 4342 from June 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The spiritual union with Me can only take place if the human being has shaped himself into love. How then could I condemn a union which is based on love? I want a feeling to flare up in you which shall give you a glimmer of realization of what I feel for you who have come forth from Me. Love of the heart is something holy, something related to My fundamental nature, even if the human being can never feel love to the extent that it fills Me. Love is therefore wanted by Me and also blessed by Me as soon as it lifts you humans up and you try to make each other happy. And where true, profound love ignites I will always be present, for then you will also live out My word which teaches you love. Every person is your neighbour whom you should love as yourselves .... if you show him more love than you do yourselves, you can always be certain of My pleasure, for then the holiest feeling will drive you and you will understand that I demand love from all people because I want them to become blissfully happy .... for love is bliss as soon as it is given, just as love is bliss which is fulfilled. The loving person will give and fulfil at the same time, but nothing but love again, and then it is also approved by Me, then I bless those who love each other, and My blessing can also be recognized by everlasting help where it is required. My love embraces all My children, and a father's heart rejoices when an intimate relationship is established between those who are close to Him. Therefore I want to unite My own and direct their will so that they will strive towards each other in times of greatest adversity, I want intimate communion to exist when cooperation is necessary and that separation is impossible for the sake of their purpose. For I have chosen those who shall carry out My work, thus I will bless a covenant which guarantees spiritual cooperation, and I will show it to you so clearly that I have designated you as My workers .... and without resistance you will submit yourselves to My destiny, for the time will soon be fulfilled, then you will have to take up your office and work together for Me and My kingdom, which necessitates profound, pure love between you. For you will draw strength from love, because I am constantly present to you if you are permeated by the feeling which I also cherish for you, if you love with the ardour of your heart, if you unite in order to make yourselves happy and thereby come close to Me in your heart, for I Myself am love and can only reveal Myself to a loving being ....

Amen

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Inner life .... Withdrawing into seclusion ....

B.D. 4343 from June 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Go into seclusion and allow Me to speak to you, and you will hear an abundance of wonderful things, a world of ideas will be revealed to you which otherwise would remain unknown to you, for I Myself will guide you into regions which are new to you and yet seem appealing to you once you have entered them. Spiritual instruction is extremely valuable because you will keep it forever; it is truly far more beneficial for you than any increase of earthly knowledge, for all this will fall away or be forgotten the moment you physically die, spiritual knowledge, however, shines like a bright light and casts a gentle gleam which attracts entirely uninformed souls because it affects them beneficially. Thus you may accept spiritual knowledge from My hand if you withdraw into seclusion, if you enter into silent communication with Me in your closet. You should seek seclusion, that is, leave the world behind you, live an inner life in frequent union with Me .... And I will always be a willing Teacher for you Who will convey the knowledge you need, which you are missing and which makes you happy. As long as you are attracted to the world, you will find it difficult to make spiritual contact with Me, for I stand outside the world, yet I Am at all times within reach for you if you turn away from the world. I Am always available, but whether you have time for Me remains up to you, nevertheless, every minute you think of Me is a blessing for you.

Therefore gather spiritual wealth, it is extremely precious, and make good use of your time, be aware of the fact that it will never be wasted if you enter into contact with Me, if you withdraw from the world, and remember that you merely acquire illusive possessions with every service the world demands of you. Only love for other people has the same value, because it equally results in a connection with Me and enables My working in you .... So you should often talk to Me if you want to gather eternal treasures for yourselves. I will always assign the right task for you, I will guide you to where you can be lovingly active, I will send people to you whom you can inspire into discussions which direct their thoughts to Me again, as your Teacher I will provide you with the knowledge which you should pass on to them, and I will always be with you, because every connection from earth to Me is beneficial and will help you to ascend. For this is My promise to you 'I remain with you until the end ....' Understand these Words and realise that you yourselves have to enable Me to be present with you through your will, that you must withdraw into solitude and lift your thoughts up to Me .... Then I will be and remain with you for all eternity ....

Amen

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Temptations of satan .... God's protection ....

B.D. 4344 from June 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You must not allow yourselves to be drawn into satan’s nets, who seeks to plunge you from the heights into the deepest abyss. He gains power over you if you do not resist him with a stronger will or, if you are weak, with heartfelt prayer to Me. He has no power over you if you do not admit it. For I have withdrawn this power from him. Therefore strive to become and remain strong-willed through the call of Jesus Christ, Who will always increase your will if only you strive for it. My adversary's aim is apostasy from Me and a way of life without love. He will achieve both if you lack My strength, My support and My grace. Everything is yours, but not against your will. If you now want Me to help you and pour My strength and grace upon you, then you must request in prayer what you lack, and again and again I must tell you how you should pray .... full of humility and devotion to Me you should ask the father like children and faithfully trust that He will grant your request. Then satan will completely leave your sight, i.e. he will no longer harass you because you are surrounded by guardian spirits whose brightness is unbearable to him and he will cease his temptations. Nevertheless, you must be on your guard, for he will come again and try to bring you down. Therefore don't give him a point of attack, escape from him and take refuge with Me .... and I will protect you,

(21.6.1948) for his power is small if I appear as his adversary, and you should secure My protection. The time of the end brings increased danger because he will once again use all his power and strength to increase his kingdom; temptations of all kinds will approach you, the world will present all its charms to you, the body will press you and harbour desires whose fulfilment is a danger for you, yet you will be able to resist everything if you stay with Me, if your heart's desire is for Me and you seriously strive for maturity of soul. Then you will make contact with Me again and again, you will listen to Me when I speak to you, and satan will truly not withstand My words, he will flee if you oppose him with My word, if you immerse yourselves in My word in hours of distress and temptation and work for Me. For My word is strength from Me, which he rejects, and that is your strength. With Me you will always defeat satan, with Me you will resist every temptation and with Me you will safely reach your aim. Time is hurrying and every day is precious, therefore use it and work for Me and My kingdom, and disregard all earthly wishes, be content with what I want to give you and I will truly not think badly of you. But don't let My adversary gain power over you, resist him and come to Me, and I will reward you for your faithfulness and give you what is beneficial for body and soul ....

Amen

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Working together for God ....

B.D. 4345 from June 21st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I kindle a flame in your hearts which will flare up into highest embers, you will know yourselves in My care and be united in love for Me, for what you feel drives you towards Me, love will ennoble you, and you will strive for high spiritual aims, for I Myself place the urge for perfection in your hearts if you have united yourselves for joint activity for Me. But I set you this task, that you think of the poor whom you can help spiritually, who live without love and therefore are also without knowledge. If you work together many doors will be open to you through which you can enter, and it is My plan from eternity that great adversity will bring people together who are to work for Me, whom I have destined for spiritual activity and who are capable of such through a life of love. And even if it seems as if the talent for a teaching activity on earth is lacking .... the time will come when the tongue will loosen and My servant will speak with full conviction whatever I give him, for I Myself equip My servants for spiritual activity so that they will not carry out their work unsuccessfully. And I know My own and often let them go through a hard school so that they join Me and I will never ever lose them again. But I want to increase the strength of the individual, and therefore I also want you to unite in love and My strength can flow through you, which you will feel as increased lust for life with the aim of spiritual maturity and activity in Christ's act of salvation, to help erring souls to the truth. My will will control you because you place yours under My control, and therefore you can confidently walk your path of life together, for I Myself guide you and determine your destiny, which you cannot change yourselves but only contribute towards its fulfilment. And your work will be blessed because you have found your way to Me through deep adversity and remain with Me, Who watches over you until the end ....

Amen

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Lack of understanding of people without love ....

B.D. 4346 from June 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Only the person who lives in love can have a full understanding of the truth .... Understand this and don't be surprised about the general public's lack of understanding of your explanations and teachings, understand that they lack the key to truth as long as their hearts are untouched by love. For they walk without Me, Who Myself is love. But I and truth are one, which is why truth cannot be thought of without love. Truth emanates from Me, so how can it find entrance where the door is closed to Me Myself through unkindness, where I Myself cannot enter in the form of love. No matter how clever and wise a person may appear in the world, he can have great knowledge of the world at his disposal, but if he lacks love he walks in error, his field of vision is clouded, he only sees real things but not the spiritual world, and where he turns his gaze towards it he only sees illusions, he cannot recognize the truth because he lacks the power of realization for it, which can only be gained through loving activity. And thus it is seldom and usually unsuccessful to talk about spiritual subjects with people who stand in worldly wisdom, for they close themselves off and reject as long as they are not driven to love from within. My activity should certainly also be mentioned to them so that they will not remain without knowledge, yet you will not be able to achieve more success because worldly knowledge usually contradicts your knowledge. A change in their attitude can certainly occur as soon as the human being becomes aware of the uselessness of worldly knowledge and lets his thoughts wander into the time that still lies ahead of him, as soon as he seriously thinks about death and raises the question: What will happen afterwards? What is the success of life on earth? Then doubts can arise as to the correctness of what he has held until now, his heart can become soft and receptive, he can feel impelled to work with love and also raise a slight understanding for truth which, depending on his way of life, can now deepen so that he no longer doubts the truth but believes .... Science, however, mostly keeps its representatives on earth, provided that they lack working of love. Where love is a companion the worldly knower will also be able to cultivate spiritual knowledge at the same time and unite both, because I enlighten the thinking of the one who is united with Me through love and who will always walk in truth, spiritually and earthly. Yet you must carry out this examination if you preach My gospel, you must not allow yourselves to be distracted by seemingly clever contradictions, you must recognize whether the spirit of love speaks from them, and you will also recognize it, you will feel it where love is lacking and also have understanding for their rejection if you remember My words. Then you must not become discouraged or abandon yourselves to the impression of their words but know that it is not possible otherwise, that understanding can never be there. And this is why error is so widespread in the world, because people no longer know love, because they are only worldly-minded and lack all understanding, yet I still try to win a few for the truth and therefore send you amongst people to whom you are to convey it. And therefore you should be eagerly active in spreading it and know that it is always My will when you speak, even if you receive little attention or have little success ....

Amen

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Spiritual low at the end .... busy work needed ....

B.D. 4347 from June 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will only understand the hardship your fellow human beings are in at the end of days when you will experience the destruction of the old earth and see its countless victims and now realize what fate they will face through the banishment into the creations of the new earth. You have indeed been informed of it but since you have not yet experienced something similar, how the act of destruction will take place, you are not yet aware of the extent and the effect of this work of destruction, if you truly believe in it. But you also lack faith, although you see people's state of distress every day and you constantly have evidence that the world is ripe for destruction. Yet this state will worsen considerably towards the end, and yet people will not believe in an end precisely because they are so spiritually low, and a sign of this is that they are completely turned away from spiritual knowledge. So when a certain degree of low has been reached the last day has come, which I have announced in word and scripture. And then there will be no more help and salvation for people who are completely distant from Me, the judgement will be irrevocably passed upon them and it will be: banishment into solid matter. Only the spiritually awakened one knows about the fate of people who apostatize from Me, yet he finds no faith and his admonitions and warnings are unsuccessful. And therefore it is also pointless to prolong the time until the downfall of the old earth, for the last days will no longer bring about any conversions, the apostasy from Me is far more likely to increase, and the adversary has an easy game to win people over, after all, he entices them with matter, and thus they create the state for themselves through their desire for it, which causes them the most bitter torment. Humanity's hardship is immense, it lives on and could still change, yet it lacks will, it lacks love and thus also lacks the strength to want and act correctly. And that is why people's hearts still have to be diligently worked on, much seed still has to be scattered so that some fields can still be cultivated, so that they can receive the seed and bear fruit. Do you now understand why I still need many labourers for My vineyard, why I still advertise shortly before night falls, and why I promise good reward to those who enter My service at the last? Much work is still to be done in view of the great spiritual hardship, and whoever is now willing to help I accept and assign his activity to him. For where a heart can still be won, My love is also intent on granting all help so that the soul will be spared the dreadful fate and can leave earth as a blissful being on the last day. For this reason you, My servants on earth, should be restlessly active and work for Me and My kingdom, you should always remember the great spiritual hardship and try to reduce it wherever possible, for the end is approaching you with giant strides; it is the last time and your work is therefore so urgent and important ....

Amen

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Earth rotations .... Earthly tremors ....

B.D. 4348 from June 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

For a considerable period of time already the earth has been rotating around its own axis with extraordinary speed. Admittedly, the constant rotations are by no means noticeable to the human being, but only because he is on earth and they can only be observed from outside the earth. Nevertheless, changes in the cosmos are perceptible which are caused by this phenomenon. It is like a regular trembling which can be felt more or less faintly when the body is in a resting position and susceptible to the slightest movement. This phenomenon will lead to the total dissolution of Earth after an incredibly long period of time but will be hastened through human intervention on account of which the conclusion of this epoch can be traced back to human influence, even though it has been included from the start in the divine plan. The earth would actually have an inconceivably long lifespan, i.e. its existence would be guaranteed for an infinitely long time, yet God's will allows itself to be determined by human will, God allows people to accomplish what will cause them even the greatest harm. In His plan of eternity all changes in the cosmos are established according to His wisdom and love. But the scientifically educated human race does not want to know anything about a change with inconceivable consequences, and yet it constantly takes place.

This change .... an excessively fast rotation of Earth .... will also trigger the natural disaster which has been proclaimed by seers and prophets since the beginning of the period of Salvation and which is now revealed again through the spirit of God. This process is humanly not easily explainable, however, simply said, the rotations will increase and stop for seconds, which will manifest itself as earthly tremors of such tremendous effect that people will believe that the end of the earth has come. No equivalent to it can be found on earth, for it is an expression of power which comes from the universe and is unknown to earthly science. The consistency of the stars activates such forces, and the interior of the earth will be affected by them and to a certain extent therefore be moved beyond the law, which always manifests itself in a destructive manner, yet is sporadically allowed by God for the purpose of dissolving even the hardest matter in order to release the constrained spiritual substances within. And this act is approaching soon but will only be the spectacle of a few seconds, yet with preceding signs which by themselves can already be called catastrophic because they generate indescribable panic amongst people and therefore will have to be considered as being within the timeframe of the catastrophe. Nevertheless, everything is eternally predetermined and God's plan will come to pass, as it is written ....

Amen

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Oppression by earth-bound spiritual ....

B.D. 4349 from June 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The still earth-bound spiritual in the beyond continues to press people and impels them to actions according to their nature. But it is only earthbound when it is still earthly materially minded, when it cannot detach itself from the things it strove for in earthly life, when the earth, so to speak, does not let go of it and again and again confronts the being with its goods. These beings now look for a possibility to carry out their will in people of the same mind. They press him and exert great influence on him if the human being does not defend himself or asks spiritual beings for help to protect him from this influence. But mostly they are people who have the same urges themselves, and then they are willing objects for the spiritual oppressors who now want and act like them. God warns people of such spiritual seducers and advises them to always take refuge in Him and ask for protection and help. A pleading thought is already enough that beings of light stand by him, that he soon recognizes the evil influence and withdraws from it. The human being's soul must try to fly over these spheres in order to come into contact with beings of light, then it will be able to resist these powers, for then it will find support and also have increased strength at its disposal, it can even help earthbound souls to likewise ascend into other spheres, and the souls' distress will subside if they are prayed for. If the human being's will is recognizable, an earthbound being will stay close to the human being through the benefit of prayer and, through the latter's striving towards light and ascent, recognize its own wrong idea and seek to change. This is why such earthbound souls can also be helped through silent intercession and mental instructions which will not go unheard in the kingdom of the beyond, as soon as a person remembers the souls languishing in darkness and wants to help them ....

Amen

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Various mission of the workers of the lord ....

B.D. 4350 from June 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

In a spiritual way you can receive unlimited knowledge from all areas, nothing will be withheld from you, and therefore you will also be equal to all objections, you will be able to refute every counter-argument, because the spiritually imparted knowledge simultaneously gives you the ability to apply it in the right way and therefore you need not fear any opponent. If spiritual knowledge is imparted to you, beings of light are active which are in fullest wisdom and distribute their gifts to you such that they can take root in you, thus they become your spiritual property. For only then can you use the knowledge in free speech when it has become a conviction in you, which also includes understanding for it. To impart knowledge to you alone is futile if it finds no ground in you where it can consolidate itself. Therefore not only instructions from above are necessary but you must also start spiritual work yourselves, you must think through what you have received with heart and mind, only then will you have the right use for it and be able to apply it if you are offered the opportunity. And God constantly provides this opportunity. He will lead the people into your path to whom you should offer the spiritual knowledge, He Himself will give you the ability to speak for Him, He will instil in you the urge to spread the knowledge, and He will also bless your work so that it will not remain unsuccessful. But every labourer in the vineyard of the lord has his special mission, depending on the zeal he develops in his service for God. Everyone who offers himself to Him will be found suitable, but the strength of will of the individual is decisive as to which circle of work is assigned to him. Every task is different, but every activity is necessary, so that none of the labourers in the vineyard of the lord may feel unimportant, even if a small circle of people is only assigned to him as a field of work. Every word which comes from above and is passed on is a blessing for humanity, and God needs many labourers who carry His word further, who speak where they are given the opportunity. The gospel can be spread, the divine teaching of love, but also profound knowledge can be conveyed to people through messengers who have been instructed by God Himself in the truth. And understandably, the task of those who thus want to fulfil their mission on earth will be of different kinds, according to their knowledge, their will and their degree of maturity. But anyone who has to fulfil a great mission will also be given the strength to do so as soon as his will subordinates itself to divine will, thus he is willing to be active for God and His kingdom. For it is more necessary than ever to convey knowledge to people which corresponds to the truth, because the end time will have such a confusing effect on people's thinking that only the pure truth will provide an explanation and it will also be requested by many people. Then you humans, who want to serve God, shall be active, then you shall utilize your knowledge and pass on the gift of grace, then you shall speak on God's behalf and with His support, and you will also be enabled by Him to do so because God wants the truth to be spread ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Servants of God children of light .... spiritual intercourse ....

B.D. 4351 from June 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Children of light are all who serve Me and want to be faithful workers for Me in the last time before the end. And they are also looked after and guided by beings of light on all their paths. Therefore they will also certainly reach their aim and their work will also be successful. But their mission is of utmost importance, and therefore it cannot be carried out by a person who has not yet attained the maturity of soul which is necessary in order to be able to receive My word in contact with Me. My servants must indeed take the same path on earth, i.e. they must likewise attain maturity of soul in free will, they must overcome matter, i.e. they have to be purified through suffering and strokes of fate and thus travel a difficult path as a human being until they attain the maturity which makes them suitable for their mission, yet their souls are willing and the desire for the spiritual kingdom is particularly strong in them, and thus they can also be granted help from the spiritual kingdom which will accelerate their ascent. And every one of My servants has his guide who, full of love and devotion, looks after him, who guides him and influences his thoughts, who constantly takes care of him and tries to impart spiritual wealth to him, at first mentally, until the connection with the spiritual kingdom has been established such that the beings of light can express themselves audibly according to My will. And thus My servants will be educated and taught by Me directly as well as by the beings of light on My behalf, so that they will be able to carry out their teaching activity in the last days before the end, which will be extremely necessary. For humanity will long for truth in view of the great adversity which will befall the earth, and only My servants will be able to give the pure truth, because they, as children of light, know the truth themselves and are now also able and willing to impart it in order to help their fellow human beings in their love whose great spiritual adversity they recognize. For the children of light endeavour to illuminate the darkness, and deep darkness lies over the earth, humanity lives in dark night and needs the light. And thus the spiritual world is diligently active in order to make use of the connection with earth, which is established through My servants, in order to bring the gospel to people through their mouths, which is why My servants must therefore also constantly be ready to be a speaking organ for these beings of light, just as I Myself also want to speak through them where the desire for Me is so great that I want to express Myself. I can embody Myself in beings of light, yet for people on earth it will only be a purely human act, they will only hear My servants and accept My word as the thought material of the one who utters it .... Yet light always emanates from My servants, and the light is beneficially felt by all who aspire to light .... These will also recognize My word as the voice of the father from eternity, it will not remain without impression, and thus souls will still be saved through the love of My servants on earth before the end will come, and therefore I bless My servants as well as their activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unity with God .... School of suffering ....

B.D. 4352 from June 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You cannot grasp how much I yearn for unity with My living creations which motivates Me to constantly let you go through a school which shall result in your soul's maturity, for unity cannot take place without a specific degree of maturity. My love is truly only concerned for your well-being, yet the fact that I use means which let you doubt My love is due to your own will, albeit unconsciously, for your attitude towards Me provokes this use because you won't conform to the laws of order which promote your maturity of soul without suffering .... because you won't live up to the law of order, which cannot be avoided if you want to mature fully. And thus My teaching methods will become increasingly harsher the further you distance yourselves from love .... But now the time of learning has come to an end and every human being will have to take the test. Anyone who passes it will become blissfully happy in unity with Me, however, anyone who fails cannot be spared repeating the school, which he will have to attend under harder conditions if he wants to reach the goal one day. I won't let My living creations fall, and sooner or later the final union must and will take place, nevertheless, it can still take infinitely long periods of time in view of the fact that the human being determines the time of his redemption himself, for he voluntarily has to enter into unity with Me, I can only ever support him but will never force him.

Let Me tell you that I love all My living creations and that My love will never cease, but I will nevertheless bring My eternal plan to fruition even if you humans cannot discover any love therein. But it concerns you, your spiritual ascent, it concerns your eternal life .... At the moment you, who live on earth, are still spiritually dead with the exception of a few who are spiritually reborn. As yet you don't feel the life within you, and if you finish your earthly life in this state you will descend into a weakness which is the equivalent of death for you, you will be in utter darkness and completely without control and strength but conscious of the fact that you exist .... This state is so agonising that My love wants to save you from it, and this is why I try to motivate you into coming alive on earth already, I try to enlighten you so that you will strive towards the state of life of your own free will. All obstacles in your life shall help you become active, and activity is life. Earthly activity comes to an end at the moment of physical death, but you shall be active in the spiritual kingdom and for this you must have passed the school of the spirit successfully which also has to be a school of suffering for you or you will not reach full maturity. Nevertheless, you have My assurance that I love you and that every event which causes you sorrow is only based on My love. I want to bring you up to become My children because My Fatherly love does not want to lose you and because it is My will that you, My living creations, should not live far-away from Me but unite with Me and become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Disintegration .... Work of destruction .... Renewed banishment ....

B.D. 4353 from June 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Spiritual progress can never be achieved in a world of hatred and unkindness, and therefore the earth is failing in its real purpose of helping the spiritual substances embodied in it to attain higher development. Therefore the time has come for the manifold creations, which are intended to accomplish this purpose, to be dissolved and to release the spirits for the purpose of receiving new forms. For humanity, however, this disintegration signifies a fall from its already achieved advancement into the deepest abyss; it signifies a return into hardest matter and a repeated process through all works of creation on the new earth. But due to their lack of love people are completely ignorant and have neither time nor will to dwell on what lies ahead of them if the information is presented to them. They do not concern themselves with spiritual problems and this, too, is a sign that the time of the disintegration of the old earth has come. They are not open to any relevant clarification, they only live for their earthly interests and refuse all spiritual conversations. Consequently, admonitions and warnings are fruitless.

If, however, there is no further likelihood for a spiritual change to take place on earth, if a spiritual forward motion is completely out of the question, then only a complete decline can be expected; but God will not allow this to happen, instead He will transform the earth prior to it. This certainly involves a complete work of destruction yet it is intended in the plan of eternity in order to provide the completely degenerated human race, that is, the bound souls within, with the possibility of higher development again, because God's infinite love will never let anything fall completely, even if it is still totally opposed to Him. Earth's final destruction is therefore an act of supreme compassion at the same time, yet it will come to pass without fail in order to prevent an even further decline of people who, due to their heartlessness, have already severed every connection with God and widened the gulf between Him and themselves and thus lack all strength for higher development. And this is why God will come to their assistance, He will deprive them of their external cover and confine the spirits again, so that the infinitely wide chasm, which was established by people's free will, shall become less again in the state of compulsion, so that the spiritual substance will come closer to God again in the constrained state and once again receive the opportunity to use its freedom of will correctly in order to attain God, if only after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Leadership of God .... demons in the end time ....

B.D. 4354 from June 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

All steps are in vain if you don't let Me walk beside you so that I will guide you correctly and you won't take the wrong path. A perpetual battle of the demons for your soul takes place and thus they stand enticingly by the path, seductively they try to distract you so that you no longer pay attention to the path and imperceptibly take a wrong path which leads you far away from the aim. If you let Me walk beside you, the demons will not dare to approach you, the abundance of light emanating from Me will blind them, they will retreat and let you pass by unmolested. Bear this in mind that you are constantly surrounded by forces which do not want you well, but that you need not fear them under My protection, for then they are powerless and you are stronger than they are. In the end time they rage particularly fiercely and do not even stop at the spiritually striving person, for the light which radiates from you, if you seek or spread the truth, irritates and outrages them so that they try to extinguish it and therefore harass you severely. But you are safe with Me, for I guide you in such a way that you reach your aim by a short path. But the path is more arduous, it is not even and bordered by landscapes which edify your eyes, the earthly path is a hard pilgrimage path, and although it is lovely to look at, danger lurks behind the beauty. But with Me you pay no attention to toil and hardship, you do not look around you but only above you, you look forward where your eyes behold glorious things which you seek to reach. And therefore you must not set off on your path alone but constantly call upon Me for My guidance, you must always walk in My company, then the earthly path will be easy for you, the hostile powers will not be able to harass you so much, even though they repeatedly try to determine you, to dismiss Me and to continue walking alone. Your will must be strong and remain so, then you will be victors .... your will must be My will, then I will strengthen it and hold you if you are in danger of falling. The demons' battle for your soul will intensify the closer it gets to the end, but you will also stand firmer in your faith in Me and meet every temptation with resistance, and the power the enemy uses against you will be ever less, for the light of My presence will shine ever brighter and the dark powers will sense ever more clearly that they are confronted by the lord of creation, Whom they cannot force. And they will flee you the closer the end comes .... Then your strength of faith will be so profound that nothing will be able to deter you or make you apostate, for then you will know that I Myself will come to you in a visible way and lift you up, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Supplement and explanation regarding no. 4348 ....

B.D. 4355 from June 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Explain the process to yourselves like this: The faster the earth moves, the shorter the period of time it takes for one rotation, and the stronger becomes the atmospheric pressure that is caused by its movement. Normally this atmospheric pressure should be felt on the earth's surface, but this is not the case. Hence this is already a scientifically unexplainable deviation from the natural laws, therefore it follows that the natural laws applicable to earth lose their validity outside of it.

Nevertheless, this fast rotation affects the earth's surface insofar as a crust is being formed which is a suitable growth medium for vegetation, therefore a continuous habitation of the earth's surface is only possible due to its perpetual rotation, due to the generation of a force which affects the ground, that is, which does not spread outward and dissipates but works from the outside towards the interior of the earth. This force is life-giving but cannot be explained by human intellect, precisely because it arises and is effective beyond the law. Were the earth to stop its velocity all life on it would solidify, on the other hand, however, an increased velocity would encourage abnormal growth but also penetrate and affect the interior of the earth and bring about eruptions which would endanger the earth's core and jeopardise its continuation. Such increased velocity is currently happening and its effects will also soon become apparent. If the final result is to be avoided the excessive energy has to find a sphere of activity .... it has to have an explosive effect in places, which consequently takes the form of a natural disaster. This will slightly reduce the speed of the rotations, the newly generated energy will find new soil which it can animate with plants and animals and the continued existence of earth will be guaranteed for a brief period of time again, until human determination once again triggers forces which have not been completely ascertained as yet and which have an all-destructive effect, because they can effectively be described as adverse forces, i.e., they work from within towards the outside and the opposing actions of both forces signifies total destruction, which can certainly be explained to but not understood by people .... Spiritually advanced scientists will easily be able to understand this process, for they no longer look at the activity of natural forces beyond the law with so much disbelief, because they know that the sphere beyond earth is an area which cannot be fathomed with earthly reasoning power, because they are subject to other natural laws than those applicable to earth.

Every celestial body is a world unto itself, and in every celestial body the will of God's love has expressed itself differently, because His countless thoughts are implemented by His might and strength and every thought testifies to most profound wisdom. According to human opinion such manifold diversity of God's creations cannot exist, since the power of imagination is limited, but God's thinking is not limited and no obstacles exist for His creativity. The fact that the human being, the inhabitant of one of God's countless creations, would be able to completely ascertain God's reign and activity is entirely out of the question, for he instantly rejects what appears to be impossible but what is always possible for God. Thus, the timing of the movements of earth, its path and its composition can certainly be calculated and explored, yet only ever as far as the earth's applicable natural laws which are known to people form the basis of it. Anything over and above this is beyond his knowledge and intellect. But an 'over and above' does exist, or earthly science would be able to accurately determine when and in which form as well as for what reason the final destruction of earth will happen. It is incapable of establishing this, however, it is not proof that the destruction of earth will not take place. Here faith is placed in opposition to science .... anyone who values science more negates what faith affirms .... God proclaims the end of this earthly period; He proclaims a total change of the earth's surface along with the disappearance of all life on, in and above the earth .... This process is completely unknown to science .... hence it is an indication that a supernatural activity caused by God will happen; although not beyond natural law from His point of view yet for people who do not know all natural laws, all forces to the point that they can indicate and calculate such an event, but that investigations also have to be conducted on the basis of faith if they are to produce truthful results. Only then will the researcher also receive access to the area which otherwise remains closed to people, then he will be assisted and enlightened by spiritual co-workers, then he will also be able to have an insight into God's plan of Salvation, and much will be comprehensible and acceptable to him which his intellect would otherwise have discarded ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Educational tools .... admonition to love ....

B.D. 4356 from June 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Understand that all means have to be used if My rescue work on you is not to be in vain. I have to use ever harsher means of education and people will be affected by ever more oppressive hardship, I will grant them ever less joy of life, for it is necessary because the end is approaching. People remain apathetic in their attitude towards Me, which is not for and not against Me; I have to rouse them from the lethargy of spirit so that they turn in one direction; they have to feel a pressure on their will which, however, has to decide for itself. Increased joy of life does not fulfil this purpose, and therefore adversity has to approach them, and thus I am prompted by you humans yourselves to show Myself as a strict God where I want to be recognized as a loving father. And yet, My love is also the reason for this means of education, for it applies to your salvation from spiritual night. You don't have much time left on earth, and if you knew your fate in the world of the beyond you would gratefully bless the suffering I send to you in order to win you over. But thus you grumble and complain and doubt My love and also My existence. And if you are given clarification you reject it without thinking about it, you become bitter and don't pay attention to your fellow human being's hardship because you only think of yourselves. Yet every act of love shown to your neighbour would ease your fate on earth, it would enlighten your thinking, let you recognize Me and give you strength. But without love you will sink deeper and deeper and the end will take you by surprise .... Let yourselves be warned and listen to My voice, don't just remember your adversity but look around you and try to help where it is necessary. For only love can save you, only love will I kindle in you, then you need not fear the end, then you will be saved from eternal ruin, then you will use the short time on earth in the right way, you will receive strength and persevere despite all adversity, you will recognize Me and remain faithful to Me even in the last battle on this earth, you will stand firm until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Marriage .... In the presence of God and before the world ....

B.D. 4357 from June 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You have to find each other in love otherwise a union is not blessed by Me. Marriage is togetherness; it is a living together in most heart-felt harmony. Marriage is a state which cannot be lawfully created but its prerequisite is always profoundly unselfish love which, once it is kindled within the heart, can never be extinguished again. Because the right kind of love unites the hearts, it is not a physical love which looks for fulfilment in the intoxication of senses, it is not a demanding love. Ever-giving and happiness-imparting love is the foundation of a marriage which is blessed by Me.

Marriage is a sincere community of two people whose hearts feel pure love for each other .... A marriage like that cannot be undone because true love can never cease. And this marriage will take place as soon as two people commend themselves to Me for the blessing of their bond. Then they are husband and wife before Me and they shall remain together until death separates them. Anyone who gets married in this way will always have a sense of belonging to the other person even if external circumstances separate them. My blessing will rest upon them because the most sacred feeling, having its source in Me, was the cause of the relationship, which is the primary condition for a marriage intended by Me .... But pure love is rarely to be found on earth these days, although marital bonds are nevertheless still formed. This is not against My will because humanity should reproduce itself, given that countless souls are awaiting their embodiment in order to cover their last stage of development in the world of matter. Hence the marriage between two people has to be given an externally recognisable form, a structure which incorporates certain laws, obligations and rights. Without them people would contravene My necessary order too easily and thereby jeopardise their children's correct education which, however, is of utmost significance for their spiritual development. The legal form of the marriage ceremony is therefore in accordance with My will, but whether My particular blessing rests on it depends on the degree of mutual love between both husband and wife, whereas it depends on My blessing whether a wedding ceremony is being conducted before people or in My presence.

If a marriage ceremony is conducted for other reasons without deep mutual love, then the relationship will certainly be valid before the world, and I would not withhold My support if it is requested, but it is not a marriage in the true sense of the word which is pleasing to Me, it is not the state of union wanted by Me which, due to love, becomes an act of happiness that will be blessed by Me. Because the giving principle will always be predominant in the presence of pure love, consequently I, Who Am love Itself, will never be excluded from a marriage like that, and My spirit will govern the people and work in those who step before Me as husband and wife and ask for My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right direction of will .... commandment of love .... truth ....

B.D. 4358 from June 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You children of My love see in Me your father of eternity Who will never ever withdraw His love from you, Who is aware of your spiritual and physical adversity and wants to help you in every way. I am particularly concerned about your spiritual hardship, for the ultimate aim is final unification with Me, which you can only achieve if you become perfect. I always want to help you achieve this, and for this purpose you have to walk the path through earthly life. If you now live through the last stage of your development on earth as a human being, where you should use your free will in the right way, My concern will only ever apply to this right direction of will. And therefore I will influence you in every way so that you will come to realization and strive towards Me of your own free will, so that you will seek the truth and also be able to recognize it. I will never let a person fall who tries to do what is right, and I will put it into his heart what is right and what is wrong before Me. My commandments, which only require love from you humans, will constantly be your guideline for your way of life, and if you fulfil these commandments you cannot go wrong, you must reach your aim. But if you place humanly decreed commandments above My commandments of love you will not reach your aim .... For your soul only shapes itself into perfection through love, but nothing other than loving activity contributes to the soul's maturity. Love work enlightens the spirit and gives the human being the ability of realization and the feeling of resistance against everything that is wrong. And thus every person who desires the truth will recognize what contradicts the truth if he is active in unselfish neighbourly love. What was not given to people by Me as a commandment will seem unacceptable to him, and his will of rejection will increase the more willingly he fulfils My commandments of love. Then I will come to his aid by presenting the truth to him through word or scripture, and his heart will agree, his intellect will become active and his thinking will be stimulated, and thus he will be introduced to the truth by Me which will affect him beneficially because he can affirm it with heart and intellect. Doubters are pleasant to Me, for they seek the truth and will therefore also find it, yet anyone who, without thinking, accepts what is offered to him by fellow human beings is not a seeker of truth and the light of truth will never shine for him. For this reason I will never condemn a person who cannot believe blindly, rather, I will bless him and help him to develop a strong, convinced faith, for he is truly more serious about gaining his soul's salvation than the gullible, all-accepting person who does not take a stand on the spiritual knowledge imparted to him. The latter will never attain the truth, but I Myself offer it to the former, and truly, such that he will no longer resist accepting it because he recognizes it as truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Luminous phenomenon before the catastrophe ....

B.D. 4359 from July 1st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

My intervention will be preceded by a major spiritual campaign, which will be intended to fortify the faith of My Own and will be a final indication of the forthcoming natural event. My heavenly messengers will be instructed to show themselves to My Own in the shape of luminous phenomena which clearly and distinctly can be seen in the firmament so that all self-deception is excluded, and My Own will detect the same phenomenon whereas unbelievers will see nothing and ridicule all references to them as fantasies.

And this will be the last sign .... Then you will be able to safely prepare yourselves for the hour of My manifestation through the elements of nature. Then let go of all earthly things and just take care of your souls .... Then receive My Word with complete devotion, let Me speak to you in the Word and form a deep and heartfelt bond with Me so that I can be present with you in utmost hardship which will befall you very soon afterwards. Then just take care of those around you who fearfully observe the changes in nature, briefly explain it to them and refer them to Me, speak of Me as a God of love Who looks after every person and excludes no-one who calls to Him for help ....

And then wait for Me, don't be afraid when My voice resounds with such force that people will tremble .... Stay calm and collected and know that nothing will happen to you if it is not My will, and that I have promised you My protection if you unite with Me in prayer. Then I will be present with you and you will distinctly feel My closeness .... And then that which I have proclaimed to you through My spirit will be fulfilled .... For My Word is and remains eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Parable of the good shepherd ....

B.D. 4360 from July 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I want to give you a parable, and you should learn from this how I want My Word to be understood: My earthly children are like a flock of scattered sheep which an enemy's ill will had chased from the shepherd's view into all directions. And the shepherd, who loves his sheep, goes in search for them. He looks for them in the most hidden places, he scales mountains and clambers down gorges, he calls and cajoles and does not rest until his flock is rounded up again. He helps the lambs that lost their way and cannot return by themselves, he follows the long tracks where they already went too far, he takes the tired lambs and carries them back on his shoulders, he leaves none to their fate, to his enemy, who might rob him of it and add it to his own flock. Because he knows his sheep, and his sheep know him and follow his voice .... And the good shepherd's heart rejoices when he has found all his sheep again, when his full flock is in his stable, when every lost lamb has found its way home ....

You all are My sheep, you belong to My flock, which nevertheless has free run and therefore can also go astray if it strives for another goal but Me. The hostile shepherd is My adversary who tries to turn you away from Me. And he will often succeed .... My sheep stray from the path I take with My flock, they seek to scale the heights .... You humans seek honour and riches and for their sake leave the path. You fall into ravines and pits, vices and lusts capture you, step by step you descend into the abyss and can be grateful if you get caught by hedges and undergrowth .... if second thoughts arise in you which you don't ignore and are thus spared the deepest fall until your Saviour arrives.

Still others graze in strange pastures; they go astray and don't find their way back to their stable .... These are the people who thoughtlessly wander through earthly life, who are beneficiaries of actions which do not correspond to My will but give them great earthly advantage. They do not deem themselves bad, they are half-hearted, neither for nor against Me, they wander through the earthly valley oblivious of their earthly task, they have to be startled and chased back, so that they take refuge in My arms again Who, as a good shepherd, is ready to receive them at anytime.

I have to search for My lost lambs everywhere .... My call has to be heard everywhere and thus My voice has to sound time and again .... time and again I have to approach people in My Word and call them back into the Father's house. My Word is the call of the good shepherd, My Word is conveyed to human beings with love, My Word penetrates into all corners, wherever it finds entry into people's hearts. And anyone who does not follow My call will stray ever more or descend ever deeper .... And yet, the arm of the good shepherd will reach him one day, even if it takes ages .... Even the person who has resisted Me for a long time will return to Me one day .... one day he will tire of his wrong path and allow Me to lift him onto My shoulders, one day he, too, will willingly follow the good shepherd, the sound of His voice will entice him .... He will recognise it as the Father's voice and follow Me, and I will guide him into the Father's house and prepare a feast for joy for him of finding again what had been lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of satan before the end ....

B.D. 4361 from July 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The demonic influence is particularly strong in the last days before the end and you humans will inevitably become ensnared by it if you don't turn to Me and seek My support. The adversary is granted great power which he uses in every way and even exceeds the limits of his authority. Yet the power is not given to him by Me but people themselves grant it to him because they do not defend themselves although they are able to do so because they have abundant strength and help at their disposal from Me. And since the human being's will is decisive they give My adversary the upper hand themselves. But I do not diminish his power but likewise leave no means untried to persuade people to turn to Me and thus to escape My adversary's power. Loving beings on earth as well as in the beyond support Me and likewise try to influence people, again and again presenting My love for My living creations to them and My willingness to help if people feel too weak to offer resistance. All dangers of the world are shown to people and at the same time the high aim is presented to them so that they shall decide between Me and My adversary. But he already believes himself to be the victor and will nevertheless succumb to them and with him his followers whom he will drag into the abyss. The last battle will be waged with all fierceness and he will win many who will defect from Me and join his camp, for his power is great. But again and again I tell you that you can acquire far greater power if you approach Me for it. I only wait for your call, for your prayer, in order to be able to strengthen you, for as soon as your will turns towards Me, as soon as you speak to Me in thought and send up a pleading appeal to Me, you will be helped. And if you have to go through adversity then understand that it is only a means to induce you to make this plea, because without adversity you think too little of Me and easily run the risk of eliminating Me, and then My adversary will have an easy time with you. But you should defend yourselves, then you will not be defeated either, because even the smallest counter will secures My strength for you, which you can increase indefinitely yourselves. Don't fall prey to the demons, don't grant them the victory which is only a supposed one, for in the end I will remain victorious after all, and My own will rejoice and triumph and receive the reward of their loyalty .... And My adversary will be bound and with him all who were in bondage to him, and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Original state .... fall .... love .... perfection .... will ....

B.D. 4362 from July 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You fulfil My incessant striving for your love if you let the flame of love flare up within you and express it in active neighbourly love. Then you join Me, then you are Mine, because you have now adjusted your nature to My original nature again, from which you emerged. For you are the product of My love, and what gives birth to love can only ever be love again. Yet as a freely placed being with free will you were also able to change and invert your nature, otherwise you would have been imperfect creatures if you had to remain in the state in which I created you. For this is the sign of the perfect, that it is full of power and strength in possession of free will. How it now uses the will as well as the power is left to the being itself. The fact that the use was now contrary to My will only earned the being itself the withdrawal of strength and free will, because as a divine creature it could not remain imperfect but was offered an opportunity by My never-ending love to change again into perfection. If it now wants to reach this original state again, it must become again what it was .... Love .... And thus the feeling of love can never be something contradictory to My will, just like all actions which are carried out on the basis of this feeling. Love is what stamps the human being into a God-like being, love is also the bearer of strength, and the being will be powerful again if it has shaped itself into love. Love wants to be active, it wants to create and build up, and love will never want to destroy or take anything away, therefore the being's original state was bliss in its fullest measure .... The fact that the being created by Me was able to fall even though it was endowed with the richest power of realization can be explained by the fact that the love for Me and self-love were equally inherent in the being, because the free decision was necessary, for the being was created perfect and first had to prove itself through a test by striving for perfection itself. Thus it had to be able to fall into the abyss, just as it was able to assert itself in the height through wrong or right use of its will and its strength .... The beingness, which is embodied as a human being or in the creations of earth, failed .... and its love became a wrong love .... self-love prevailed and the being fell. For this reason love must be correctly directed, it must be meant for Me and express itself again as strength, the being in the stage of free will must use the vitality at its disposal in giving, constructive activity, in unselfish neighbourly love, and this is the purpose and aim of earthly life, that the human being shapes himself into love in order to accept his original being again and become partaker of eternal bliss. Therefore, don't suffocate the little flame of love if it flares up in you, nourish it and let it become a bright flame which spills over into eternal love, which makes you perfect beings, which you have been since the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer: "For the sake of Jesus Christ", "in His name ...."

B.D. 4363 from July 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

He who allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross turns all love towards people who call to Him for help. He will not leave anyone in distress, for He has spoken the words to you: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He will help you carry the cross, He will take the burden upon Himself for you, He will stand by you in word and deed if you believe in Him and that He died for you, that He suffered so that you need not suffer. You should turn to Him, for He Himself calls you with the words: "Come to Me ...." He promises you His support, His comfort and His strengthening. And so heed this call and accept His offer of love. He will truly not let you plead in vain, He will be your comforter in adversity and suffering and take the burden from your shoulders which weighs you down because He loves you. His love is unchanging, it is divine love which knows no limitation, He does not apply the measure of people but knows no measure, He gives where only His grace is required, and you can entrust yourselves to His love. And therefore you should always turn to Him when you need help, for He and the father are one, the father of eternity has chosen His shell as abode, He has united Himself with Him for eternity. And thus you call upon the father when you call upon Jesus Christ, you call upon the most powerful spirit from eternity Who can truly fulfil everything for you and also wants to fulfil everything in order to testify to His love and His power. He embodied Himself in the man Jesus, He Himself spoke the words through Him to you: "Come to Me, all of you." And thus every call you make to the cross-bearer Jesus Christ is meant for the father Himself from eternity .... And thus you will not make a wrong request, for the sake of Jesus Christ you will be helped in every spiritual and earthly adversity. In His name you should pray, for His name is blessed for all eternity, and whoever speaks His name in all devotion will also feel the blessing of the name upon him .... He will be helped, he will receive what he asks of God for the sake of His hallowed name. Therefore call upon Him when you are in need, remember His words and keep in mind that they were spoken in love and will also be kept in love, for His promise also says: If you ask the father in My name, He will give it to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Union with God .... renunciation ....

B.D. 4364 from July 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The complete union with Me gladly and joyfully lets you renounce everything that belongs to the world. For then your soul will already be in the spiritual kingdom, it will feel My nearness, it will feel My strength and be permeated by My love, and everything earthly will sink into nothing, even if it still lives on earth. Its desire for Me is so strong that it no longer listens to the body if it still harbours worldly desires. But what belongs to the world prevents the soul from uniting with Me, and you humans can judge from this what you should avoid and what you should strive for. As long as the connection with Me is maintained, as long as your desire is for Me and spiritual contact, as long as you desire to be taught by Me, as long as you communicate with Me and entrust all your needs and worries to Me, you will not be in danger of falling prey to the world, for then I will own you and I will truly no longer allow My possession to be disputed. But the world will no longer be desirable for you, even though it demands the tribute from you, which you have to give because you stand in the midst of the world and have to maintain your place until I Myself relieve you. But if there is a danger that you will forget Me above the world, if you are willing to give Me up in exchange for something earthly, then caution is advised, then watch and pray so that the tempter will not overpower you. I am always close to you, but if you do not call Me I will not come forth for your sake either. I will not deny you anything as long as there is no danger for your soul, yet for the sake of this I must sometimes take away what you possess in order to induce you into a close bond with Me. Therefore you should be careful and flee everything that belongs to the world if you want to possess Me completely, if you strive to unite with Me. You only give up a little, but what you receive will compensate you a thousand fold. Flee the world so that you may take the spiritual kingdom in return, which is far more glorious and offers manifold joys and bliss. And be content with what I give you, for if I give you meagrely on earth I have a far more beautiful life in eternity in store for you, for I give you what the world can never offer you if you voluntarily give it up and ask for nothing more than just to be united with Me ....

Amen

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Free will .... Destiny ....

B.D. 4365 from July 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Nothing happens in human life that doesn't affect eternity. Every action, every omission, every thought, every direction of will has an effect on the soul's development, and therefore everything that occurs in human life belongs within the scope of destiny. The human being has free will and the use of this will is decisive for eternity. Every deed or omission, every thought, is first preceded by will, and its decision determines his course of life. For although he is unable to control every event in an earthly way, since God has reserved the right for Himself to direct his course of life according to wise judgment, his will has nevertheless already been taken into account and forms the basis of his destiny. The human being's free will is being doubted because it cannot always carry out its intention, yet the intention cannot be denied the human being even if the opportunity to implement it has been removed from him. The direction the will takes determines the soul's development, the failure of a once prepared plan does not revoke the will, and for this will the human being has to be answerable one day, even if the implementation did not come about. Changing a wrongly orientated will into the right direction is the purpose and task in life. And this is why even the slightest happening benefits this change of will and is God's will or permission, regardless of whether it is the result of a wrongly or correctly used will. And thus it should be understandable to you humans that you will have to accept every stroke of fate as being predetermined a long time ago and only conducive to your higher development. You must therefore ask yourselves to what extent it was encouraged by your will and whether this will was right or wrong, to what extent it corresponded to divine will and thus you must try to derive a benefit from even the smallest experience, so that your destiny will truly affect you in an educational way and, if it is arduous, will also be successful for your life in the beyond. You are always in God's hands, that is, He takes care of your course of life, after all, He wants to draw you close to Him and win you for eternity. If you accept everything from His hand, always remembering that they are educational means which are used by a loving Father for His children, then you will always want, think, speak and act according to His will, and your earthly life will not be lived in vain, for then you submit yourselves to God's will and can't help yourselves but use your free will correctly .... as your task in life requires ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mediation - responsibility .... invitation to communion ....

B.D. 4366 from July 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The office of mediator is a responsible one, and anyone who is to carry it out must have a strong will to constantly establish the connection with the spiritual kingdom, to constantly let Me speak in the word and to constantly distribute what he receives from Me. He shall impart from Me to people who do not come to Me themselves and whom I want to help to find Me. He shall make My will known to them and thus serve Me by doing the work as My servant which has to be done in order to make human hearts receptive for My emanation of love, for My word with its strength. For without the latter they cannot become blessed. Human hearts have to be worked, like fields they have to be cultivated and inseminated so that the field will bear fruit at harvest time. It is work which has to be carried out by people who represent Me on earth, for it is My word which is to be planted as seed in people's hearts. I Myself must speak to them, however, through you, because I Myself cannot yet express Myself until the human being has reached a certain degree of maturity of the soul. As long as you have to represent Me on earth, as long as people have to speak to people, yet on My behalf and with My support. And if you want to be faithful labourers for Me, servants who only carry out their master's will, your work will also be blessed, it will not be done unsuccessfully but the seed will sprout and bring forth glorious fruits. Yet you must not become lukewarm and indifferent in your activity for Me and My kingdom, and therefore you also bear a great responsibility once you have placed yourselves in My service .... You must let Me speak to you so that you can speak .... And this has to be caused by your own will that I express Myself to you, for contrary to your will you will not hear My voice. And therefore you have to let your will become active again and again, for My word will only sound in you if you turn your heart upwards of your own accord, if you open your heart and ear and thus prepare yourselves for the reception of My word. I will hear the slightest call and heed it, I will not leave your desire unsatisfied, I will always come to you if you open the door of your heart to Me and desire to be fed by Me Myself. I will always keep the lord's supper with you and thus distribute it in order to give you the opportunity to administer your mediatorship, in order to impart to you the gifts which you yourselves shall now distribute to the poor in spirit .... I need you, you My servants on earth, you should carry the invitations out into the world and call everyone to the lord's supper, for I want to fill everyone with the bread of life, I want to feed everyone with the food they need in order to successfully cover the pilgrimage on earth. Bear the news to them that the table is laid, that everyone shall feast on it and that they cannot become blissfully happy without My nourishment .... Convey My word to them and be such faithful workers for Me, whom I will reward one day, as I have promised ....

Amen

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Crossroads .... inner voice .... right guides ....

B.D. 4367 from July 8th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Man goes his own way and for the most part does not keep to the direction that is given to him. He also has no fixed aim in mind but relies on luck that the path will lead him to where he hopes to find advantage. And this aimless wandering leads astray, for invisible forces push him away from the right path as soon as they are not resisted, and he hands it over to himself as long as he lets himself drift. His willpower is small and will also be lacking if he comes to a crossroads and has to decide which path to choose. Then he chooses the most comfortable one and does not consider that a flat path does not lead to the height which he must reach if his earthly course is not to have been in vain. But if he would pay attention to the inner voice he could certainly make the right decision, for it always announces itself when the human being's will is undecided and gives him the right direction in which he should move. This voice also presents to him the advantages of the path he cannot take, and truly not unclear or unfounded. Anyone who allows himself to be warned or instructed by it is doing the right thing, for the inner voice is an expression of the right guide Who knows all paths and wants to lead the human being to the aim by the shortest route. But anyone who disregards the voice, who ignores it or acts against it despite better knowledge, must also accept the consequences of his own actions and will. Although he will sometimes walk more easily, his path will be long and unsuccessful and lead away from the aim, for this can only be reached by an arduous path, and only overcome resistance will allow the human being to mature his soul, for earthly life remains a struggle if it is to be successful for the soul ....

Amen

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Transformation of earth .... Change .... Disintegration ....

B.D. 4368 from July 8th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You must always remember that nothing on this earth can last forever, and therefore even earth itself will not last, thus it has to change if it will not completely disintegrate in its fundamental substance. The latter will occur after an infinitely long time, but a transformation of earth will take place shortly. Just as earthly matter achieves its higher development through the dissolution of an existing form in order to rise again in a new form, so the earth as such is also subject to temporary changes, and all creations on earth will enter a new stage of development. Not just the constrained spirits within every work of creation strive to ascend but matter itself has to undergo this path of higher development by becoming increasingly softer, thus sheltering the spirit which, due to its maturity, is able to escape its form faster. Consequently hard matter, which has already existed for a very long time, has to be dissolved eventually too. Its development has to be continued in softer matter and new hard matter needs to be produced to shelter the spiritual substance which, in the stage of knowledge .... as a human being .... had failed and joined God's adversary.

Such total transformations of earth's external forms only take place within certain periods of time and are therefore unbelievable to people, because each such transformation happened so long ago that the truth can no longer be ascertained and upheld. Although a developmental period is infinitely long it will nevertheless come to an end one day.

People cannot verify or calculate the time when the end can be expected and neither can they deny it, but God wants people to believe in it because He Himself has revealed it to people through His Word and, through seers and prophets, has pointed it out time and again. That the destruction of earth, i.e. its total change, is only a matter of faith is due to the fact that the human being has to bring about the change of his soul in utmost freedom of will, and this would be instantly restricted if the timing of the end could be calculated. The beginning and end of an earth period are so far apart because the human being has to decide to believe it or reject it completely, without being forced into either. But as soon as he thinks about it and observes the growth and decay in nature he can see the process of disintegration and transformation repeat themselves so often that he will also apply this change to the creation 'earth' and find it easy to believe in an end. But he will never be told when it will happen because such knowledge would be detrimental to the soul. God, however, reveals that the end of this earth is approaching soon and good for him who believes His Word and prepares himself. The day will not come unexpectedly for him; the thought of the end will no longer terrify him in view of the blissful state God has promised His Own after the transformation of this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New earth .... creations .... paradise ....

B.D. 4369 from July 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The new earth will again be shaped according to God's infinite love and His unsurpassable wisdom. All creations are again bearers of the spiritual, which can now continue its interrupted course of development and also bring it to a speedy end, because matter is of a shorter life span, i.e., it is also in constant change; the becoming and passing away changes in a shorter time, and therefore the spiritual can very quickly leave the form and move into the next form. And again, the task of every single work of creation is to serve the preservation of other creations. The people of the new earth will be constantly active in an overwhelming will of love and thus also need all works of creation so that they can fully fulfil their serving task. In addition, matter itself will also have no great resistance, with the exception of the hard matter of the fundamental creation, which, since it contains the God-opposing spiritual within itself, which was condemned to a new banishment, is an almost indestructible mass, which would again need endless time to dissolve, if God in His great mercy did not accelerate the release according to the wise plan for the spiritual to be redeemed.

(10.7.1948) On the new earth the transformation of the spiritual can go faster because people have already reached a degree of maturity that even the still bound spiritual in the animal and plant world voluntarily submits to them. It senses people's love and therefore gives up resistance much more easily, it serves them voluntarily even if it is under the law of compulsion and therefore also progresses more quickly upwards. And so matter on the new earth is also more quickly transient, i.e., the coming into being and passing away of ever new creations is in rapid succession, but therefore all creations are also particularly attractive to look at, and they delight people in their versatility and eye-pleasing forms. Anyone who still inhabited the old earth, thus belongs to the raptured on the day of judgment, cannot marvel enough at the variety and glories of the new earth, and it is a true paradise for him because only good forces are at work and any influence by forces turned away from God is impossible. These people will best be able to measure and appreciate the wonders of God, for they still remember the old earth with all its good and bad. The following generations will only hear about the old earth and, the further time advances, the more self-evidently they will look at the creations of the new earth, and thus the love for God will then also wane, although a long time will pass where the new earth can still be called a paradise, where love dwells amongst people and God Himself dwells amongst His own. To experience this time is truly worth even the most difficult earthly life, for God Himself has set a limit for people, He will keep His tribe turned towards Himself and faithfully guide it through suffering and adversity until the end of this earth. And He will shorten the time so that His own will become blissfully happy. But everything will be forgotten by the inhabitants of the new earth, for beatitude will outweigh the time of tribulation a thousand fold. And therefore the admonition must be called out to people again and again: Hold out and remain faithful to God .... He will reward you eternally .... and His love will give you strength if you need it ....

Amen

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Words of God to "servants" on earth .... representatives ....

B.D. 4370 from July 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

As long as you reject My word you cannot call yourselves My servants either, for they truly know the voice of their lord. But you must also never assume that I withhold the ability to recognize My word from you, that you do not have the gift to understand My word as I want it to be understood, instead, you must feel guilty insofar as that you only pass on spiritual knowledge adopted by people without first having asked Me for enlightenment of the spirit. But if I send you My messengers who are to announce My word, My will, to you, you must not reject them without seriously examining them, for you are always obliged to examine them, no matter from which side spiritual knowledge is offered to you. Accepting unchecked knowledge will cause you to fall into error, and this applies in particular to knowledge acquired through study which is passed on to you as it comes forth from people. And you should always consult Me when you approach an examination of spiritual knowledge. I will certainly not leave you in wrong thinking if you are seriously interested in truth. But how can you assume that I don't speak to people when you know about My promise that I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth .... My love for you and My concern for your salvation is so great that I also offer you the truth without this desire for truth .... whether you want to accept it is up to you, you will not be forced to do so but only lovingly admonished by Me to listen to My messengers and then rely on your inner voice which will truly guide you correctly. Approach the examination of what is offered to you as the only truth without any prejudice. Don't fear the influence of demonic forces but consider that only love is ever placed in the foreground, that the word conveyed to earth from above is nothing other than Christ's pure teaching of love as it was taught on earth and as it was recorded by My first disciples. Whatever deviates from this truth offered by Me has been added or wrongly interpreted by people, and therefore I always impart the unadulterated truth to you, I enlighten you as I want My word to be understood and constantly only seek to instruct you in the pure truth so that you will reach the aim through the truth, so that you will gain eternal life through it. If you want to be My servants then you first have to acquire the pure truth yourselves, you have to be properly instructed yourselves in order to be able to teach properly. And you have chosen a responsible office for yourselves, you want to lead people to Me and I bless this will. But so that you will also be able to do so I will show you the right way to accept the knowledge you want to spread from Me. And if you are Mine you will also recognize My voice or I will reject you as My representatives on earth. For if you want to be of service you must obey your lord and comply with His will .... Yet your will is free, I can only warn and admonish you, but I will never forcibly try to determine you ....

Amen

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Signs before the catastrophe (Anxiety of people and animals) ....

B.D. 4371 from July 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

People will be seized by immense anxiety shortly before I appear through the forces of nature. The event will announce itself such that people and animals will feel nervous and inwardly sense that something is about to happen in nature. Strange behaviour amongst animals will be particularly apparent, they will attempt to flee in a certain direction and suddenly turn back as if driven by an invisible power. And this behaviour will cause apprehension in people who realise that imminent danger is approaching against which they cannot defend themselves.

And thus everyone will worriedly wait for what is to come. And you, My servants on earth, should make good use of this time for it will be a short reprieve when people will still listen to your words because they will be looking for an explanation for the unusual sensations experienced by people and beasts. Then draw their attention to My Word, prepare them for My appearance and refer them to Me so that they will take refuge with Me when the hour has come that I will speak. At the same time you should unite with Me in thought so that you may be strong and able to support those who are unbelieving or of little faith.

You have to prove yourselves and will be able to do so if you call to Me in advance and in the hours of greatest need. I will draw your attention to the signs in advance and give you the opportunity to observe your environment so that you will see that everything I told you will come to pass, that an oppressive feeling and restlessness will burden people, the cause of which you know and thus you will be able to speak effectively where necessary. And once again you will experience a situation where the person who lives in love will believe you, whereas the heartless person, although listening to you, will derive no benefit from it. Until the hour comes when I will speak from above .... And there will be raging and gusting in the air, no one will take notice of the other any longer but only be concerned for his own life. Every person will try to escape but hear the same raging and gusting from all directions and, depending on his attitude to Me, he will be affected by the event .... he will stay alive or be killed by the natural disaster, as My wisdom has recognised and determined since eternity ....

Even though it is seemingly calm and there are no recognisable signs as yet .... do not believe that you are safe because the day of the natural event will come without fail, and the unbeliever will be able to see it for himself, if he still has time to think about it .... I have spoken and revealed it to you through My spirit, and I will speak through nature with a voice which can be heard by everyone. Anyone who does not believe the first voice will have to hear My voice from above .... But even then he will be at liberty to witness it as a mere play of nature or remember My predictions and believe that I want to reveal Myself so that you, who do not acknowledge the voice of the spirit, should hear Me. And blessed is he whose life is spared as he will still have a short time of grace at his disposal which he will be able to use to make up for what he has neglected up to then, in order to prepare himself for the end, which will soon follow the event in nature ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right prayer .... 'Father, Your will be done ....'

B.D. 4372 from July 11th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

No prayer rising up to Me in complete trust of My help is in vain. For this trust testifies to faith in My love and My might. And through such prayer a person has also established the right relationship with Me .... he approaches Me like a child to its father. A father, however, will never deny himself to his child unless the child appeals to him for something completely unwholesome in which case the father will protect it but also instruct it accordingly so that the child's trust will not be disappointed. This instruction happens in a way that second thoughts will arise in a person as to whether his prayer was appropriate, that he doubts his right to make such a request, and then a true child will always add to its request 'Father, Your will be done ....' And I will grant what is good for him and satisfy his wish in a different way, for My love wants to give and please if I Am called upon in the right way. This is why you should always try to increase your strength of faith, for then the fulfilment of every wish will be granted to you. Greater strength of faith will always be accompanied by ever more activity of love, more activity of love assures you increased knowledge, and thus a person who is knowledgeable and lives in truth will not appeal for something which is harmful to him and therefore always find fulfilment because he believes. You should know that you cannot but think correctly if you gained the right faith through love and, in this state, send a prayer up to Me. Remember My promise 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ....' And thus you may at all times present your wishes to Me as true children and I will never disappoint your faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faculty of judgement dependent on love life ....

B.D. 4373 from July 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Anyone who wants to test and judge the value of what is offered to him through My impartation has to be in love himself if he wants to be capable of testing, otherwise every person would pass a different judgment but always rejecting it, for love alone enables a person to seriously test with truthful success. The serious will can certainly exist to think correctly and thus want to eliminate what does not correspond to truth, yet only love enlightens the spirit, and only then will much be understandable to the human being which he previously did not grasp and therefore rejected. Without love his ability to judge is weak, his thinking is on the wrong track, his view is clouded for everything that is right and true, he is still too subject to the influence of those beings who fight the truth and will therefore fight against that which is guided to earth by forces of the kingdom of light, and therefore his judgment can never be legally binding and need not frighten or influence the representative of pure truth. Just pay attention to whether a person is lovingly active if you want to assess the value of his objections and the credibility of his claims. Don't be misled if you are attacked by doubters or scoffers, and only take the judgement of someone seriously who leads an exemplary life of love and who is serious about the pure truth. You should listen to him and debate with him and you will succeed in convincing him of the truth of what I communicate to the human being through you. You will win him as a follower of My teaching, he will become a convinced believer and stand up for the pure truth from Me. Again and again you will have to resist sharp objections, again and again you will have the opportunity to outdo a person's acuity of intellect as long as he is not in love at the same time, for love sees more sharply than the brightest intellect, and the most difficult problem can easily be solved by a loving heart, it recognizes and understands everything that is incomprehensible to the other person and therefore its judgment alone is legally binding.

(12.7.1948) If hostile resistance now arises against you, if your spiritual work and its results are portrayed as erroneous, your own thought product, if they want to prove you wrong, don't shrink back and don't let yourselves be intimidated but let them speak and express their opinion and you will find many points of attack which will give you the opportunity to refute everything they put forward. And I Myself will put the words into your mouth and be a sharp opponent to them, Whom they cannot overrule. And again and again you are told that you can beat them at any time if you stand up for Me and My teaching, for then they will no longer have you as an opponent but Me Myself, and they will truly be no match for Me, no matter how clever and superior they think they are. I will win over those who earnestly strive for the truth, but those who only want to hostile you or render you harmless will only expect defeat but no gain if they presume to criticize My word and pass judgement, which they are incapable of doing. Then he will not attack you but Me Myself if he takes a stand against My word, and therefore I will also answer him through you if it is necessary ....

Amen

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The Flood .... Last days .... Worldly progress ....

B.D. 4374 from July 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Shortly before the end it will be just like it was at the time of the Flood. People will have a great liking for all worldly pleasures, they will indulge their physical longings and vices, they will lead an immoral and unethical way of life and send no thought to the One above, Who is Lord over heaven and earth. For they will have no more faith .... The spiritual level will be the lowest ever since the beginning of this developmental period. Mocking and blaspheming they will confront the few believers with hostility, pursue them and deny them everything they need for living. They themselves, however, will feast and gorge themselves, they will live and love .... but their love will be

false and their way of life wrong, for the devil's servants will populate the earth in the last days, and the disintegration of earth will merely end a state which no longer allows people's higher development.

It will be a time of sinfulness which will go beyond all imagination. God will be completely displaced and those who believe in Him will be in danger of being killed .... And God Himself will put an end to this period, the last day will arrive suddenly and unexpectedly amid the ecstasy of the world in which the people of the last days constantly live .... Hence, prior to this an apparent progress will be noticeable, everything of a worldly nature will be offered to people, their demand for worldly things will be extreme and everyone will unscrupulously grant himself whatever his mind desires; the strong will fight the weak and the winner will be the one who heartlessly acquires what he doesn't deserve, because he is supported by Satan himself who bestows material favours on him and incites him to increased enjoyment of life.

Sin will escalate to an alarming extent and Judgment will come to pass when no-one expects it. For once people have reached this level of development they will have to be devoured by the earth, as they will have become true servants of the devil and completely deny God. And then the hour of accountability will come to all sinners, the day of God's Justice will arrive, the Day of Judgment will come to all who belong to God's adversary and the day of Recompense for the few who are faithful to God, who persevere and don't fall prey to the temptations of the world .... as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... A salvation period will come to an end because humanity will be ready for its downfall.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Office of the right servants of God ....

B.D. 4375 from July 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I have assigned an office to each one of you who want to serve Me, which you shall carry out conscientiously so that I can bless you as My servants and receive you into My kingdom as faithful servants when your hour has come for Me to separate the soul from the body. For your stay on this earth is no longer of long duration, even if you experience the last end. The world is now already ripe for destruction, yet a few souls are still to be saved, for which I need you. And this alone is your task, that you spread the truth which you receive directly from Me. This is why again and again I lead people to you to whom you should proclaim My gospel, to whom you should draw attention to My working on you and to whom you can give clarification to questions they ask concerning their afterlife and the purpose of their earthly life. There are many questioning people for whom a correct answer is a great help in their spiritual development, and for their sake I still hesitate with the last work of destruction and give them time and opportunity to find Me. But you, My servants on earth, must take care of these people, for I can only speak to them through human mouths and give them the right answer. Take this task seriously and be faithful co-workers with Me in the short time you still have on earth. For soon the time will be over, soon you will have overcome what oppresses you, soon you will be allowed to receive the reward I have promised you as My co-workers .... soon suffering and hardship will have come to an end. Believe this and create and work and make use of every opportunity to inform your fellow human beings that they should also prepare themselves for a speedy end. Inform them, even if you don't find faith, and consider that every unused opportunity can mean the loss of a soul, that you can bring light into the spiritual darkness so that the soul finds the path which leads to Me. And thus be diligent in your activity, put your spiritual work before every earthly work. And the latter will also be blessed to you so that you can easily master it with My support, for I need you for spiritual cooperation and bless you if you serve Me conscientiously and joyfully ....

Amen

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God's care for His servants ....

B.D. 4376 from July 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will travel the path by My hand until the end and no worry need oppress you if only you believe. You have entered My service, consequently I also take over all care for you, both earthly and spiritually. I possess your will to become Mine, thus you are not compulsorily determined by Me to want, think and act, yet I direct this will, which you have placed under My control yourselves, to think, want and act correctly. Thus you will always do what is beneficial for your salvation and you can confidently drop every worry which still applies to your earthly life. I determine your further life, I arrange it according to your mission for Me, for you still have a great deal of work to do, and so that you can accomplish it I will take special care of you, so that your earthly path will not be too arduous, so that you can happily and cheerfully carry out the work for Me and My kingdom. And thus you need not worry about the way you should spread My word, I already walk the paths with you where you are compelled to speak, and you need not do anything else but follow the inner urge, that is, to speak if you feel impelled to do so from within or to remain silent if you feel moved to do so. It is always My voice which tells you to do something or not to do something, and you should only ever follow the inner urge, then it will also be right how you act, then I can work in you and do it because you want to fulfil My will, and thus I place My will into your heart.

(15.7.1948) I want to help you achieve inner peace so that you can carry out your work for Me undisturbed, because it is unspeakably important in the coming time. Consider this and believe that I want to give you inner peace for the sake of your work and that therefore all worry is superfluous. What you need, you will receive; what is withheld from you, you don't need, for I know the benefit and harm of all things for your soul and truly give to you as it is beneficial. Whoever wants to follow Me, let him take up his cross .... so don't let your little cross you believe you have to carry be pressed down either, burden Me with even the smallest load if you need help, I am always willing to take it off your shoulders, but be diligent in your work for Me and My kingdom. As you measure out, so shall it be measured out to you, therefore give spiritual gifts to your fellow human beings so that their souls need not go hungry, and show them much love so that they will imitate your example and thus be won over for My kingdom .... and you will receive the same .... What you hand out spiritually and earthly will be repaid to you a thousand fold, earthly you will not need to live in want and spiritually you will be provided for in abundance. And thus you can go your earthly path without worry until the end has come, which is imminent for all of you ....

Amen

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Serious reminder .... (Silencing of the voice?) ....

B.D. 4377 from July 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

A serious reminder is coming to you from above before the turmoil begins which will rob you of all calm deliberation. Get ready, the day is drawing to a close .... Take these words of Mine seriously, don't pass them by lukewarmly and indifferently but regard them as a final indication of My imminent intervention. And prepare yourselves in all earnestness for the fact that you are approaching an exciting time when My call will seem like a redemption to you, because you feel abandoned by Me, because you no longer hear My word from above. I draw your attention to this time and therefore speak to you once again urgently that you should familiarize yourselves with the thought that a complete change of your situation in life is inevitable and that you will experience great adversity, but that this has to happen before I Myself appear. But then be steadfast and only remain turned towards Me in your heart, call out to Me, and if I don't hear you, call out louder .... I want your call to reach Me, but I want to be called upon in the heart and pay no attention to what only the mouth speaks. You will not hear Me for a long time because you are unable to listen to My voice within yourselves, yet I am always with you and always ready to help. Therefore your prayer should be heartfelt and trusting in My help, and I will hear you and reveal Myself so that you will have strong faith and endure the earthly adversity.

(16.7.1948) I will give you proof that this will happen, which will convince you. I will reveal Myself to each of you, My servants, in the same way so that you can no longer doubt the truth of My words. You shall hear My voice at the same time which will once again remind you of My words. But I want to strengthen your faith and you shall pass every test of faith; therefore I work on you extraordinarily, even though you do not yet possess the maturity of soul which allows the extraordinary to appear. But it is coming to an end .... And I need you, but you shall stand firm even in the most difficult time, and you shall constantly work for Me and draw strength for it from Me if you can no longer receive it in the form of My word. For at times you will lack every opportunity to withdraw into silence in order to hear My voice which mentally touches you. But the sounding word can sound everywhere and at any time, and therefore you should especially strive for it, and your longing for it shall be awakened when you no longer mentally hear Me. Yet believe that I am nevertheless close to you and know about your desire .... and also meet it as it is beneficial for your soul. But a time will come when you, who have penetrated spiritual knowledge, will also have to pass tests of faith, when you will have to acquire the gift of grace you have received, when I will seemingly withdraw from you but you will force Me to you through firm faith, when I will let Myself be found by the one who earnestly seeks to win Me .... And therefore you should call louder if I don't answer your soft call, for thereby you prove your faith in Me that you don't cease to call when I supposedly don't hear. I open the door to the persistent caller and let him in and he will receive what he desires from Me ....

Amen

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Inner voice difficult to hear .... Turmoil - silence ....

B.D. 4378 from July 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will always hear My voice if you hand yourselves over to Me and, with a desire to hear My Word, attentively listen within. I have always given you this assurance and will never withhold with My gift of grace if you sincerely desire it. Yet as long as My voice is not audibly heard by you but only affects you mentally and thus requires full attention and seclusion from the world it will depend on yourselves as to whether you will hear it. This is why I draw your attention to the forthcoming time which will make such great demands on you that only the strongest resolve will be able to manage to withdraw itself and listen to My voice in seclusion. The adversity of the forthcoming time will often deprive you of your inner tranquillity, even though I will help every labourer to fulfil his task if he is willing to serve. I Am always close to you and if you, despite utmost distress, stay aware of My presence, you will always hear My voice too, for then your faith will be stronger than your earthly hardship, which you will banish anytime. Yet I want to draw your attention to the fact that you can expect considerable turmoil which will restrain your every thought with the effect that it will be difficult for you to make contact with Me .... But then read My Word, draw strength from My Word, and you will noticeably feel that I Am close to you ....

Keep trying to retreat within yourselves and, in seclusion, listen to the voice of your heart, and you will succeed if your will and your desire for Me is powerful. But first draw strength from My Word, use the time, don't become half-hearted and indifferent but believe that great danger lies in wait for you, that you will be shaken out of your worldly tranquillity and that a large world event is in the making. Always rely on My help and you will never call to Me in vain, for I will answer you who, as My children, call upon the Father in your time of need ....

Amen

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Last Supper .... Spiritual meaning .... Flesh - blood ....

B.D. 4379 from July 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The constant desire for nourishment at the table of the Lord assures you His love .... And thus I repeatedly invite you to take communion with Me, as often as you desire it. My table is always set for all who are hungry and thirsty and want to be refreshed, and they will be able to satisfy themselves with the bread of life, with the manna that comes from heaven. Every nourishment at My table is communion, it is the unification with Me without which the offering of My flesh and My blood .... of My Word and its strength .... cannot take place. Thus you, who receive My Word directly or through My messengers, are communing when you desire to accept My Word in your heart. Then My spirit will unite with the spiritual spark within you, then marriage will take place, the union, the spiritual communion. Then I will give you the bread of heaven Myself, I will give you food and drink, I will take supper with you .... you will experience the same event as My disciples, for whom I broke the bread and offered the wine with the Words: Take and eat, this is my body, take and drink, this is my blood ....

Do you now understand the meaning I attached to these Words? How immensely important it is that you take communion at My table, because My flesh and My blood will give you the strength to reach eternal life. You have to be nourished with food for the soul so that it matures, so that it safeguards its eternal life .... it constantly has to receive strength which it can only receive from Me directly and which I will give every time it unites with Me. Then I will break the bread and offer it to the soul, and when it thus eats My flesh .... My Word .... it is permeated by strength .... the blood .... with which I have blessed My Word. No one who longs for food for the soul, who wants to be My guest, need ever starve and go without .... I will come to him Myself and invite him, I will stand before his door and knock and if he opens it for Me I will enter and take supper with him .... I will feed him at My table and he will be truly satisfied and never need to go without ....

And thus, everything I said on earth should be understood in a spiritual sense. I taught My disciples and they understood Me and carried My Word into the world. And since people were taught correctly they understood and lived in accordance with My will, in accordance with My Word in complete understanding of it. Consequently, My church, the community of believers, was established entirely in My spirit at first.

But later this was no longer enough for the overzealous representatives of My Word, they wanted to excel before the world. And thus events, which were only intended for the soul, were visually presented to people and associated with external actions, which at first could not be condemned since they were carried by the spirit, since people took My will and its fulfilment seriously. But people changed and with them changed the characteristics of My church .... What was meant to be a profound inner experience became an external action which was placed at the fore and the deeper spiritual meaning became lost .... until the simple process of spiritual communion, of union with Me and the direct acceptance of My Word, was no longer understood by people. So now they no longer believe that a direct transmission of My Word is possible, although I Myself clearly and comprehensively promised them My direct working through My spirit, although I Myself .... the Word that had become flesh .... referred to the sustenance with the bread of life, with the manna from heaven .... People no longer understand the simple meaning of My Word and in their blindness don’t want to accept the simple explanation either. But anyone who wants to hear and understand will realise it, and the truth will be plausible to him, he will strive to establish a connection with Me Myself, he will be My guest, and I will take supper with him and he with Me ....

Amen

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"Where two or three in My name ....“

B.D. 4380 from July 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I am in the midst of My congregation, i.e. of those who believe in Me and are in living contact with Me, who have entered into this connection with Me through works of neighbourly love and thus draw life-awakening strength from Me .... Spiritual life is meant by this, and thus I am in the midst of those who come together in spiritual striving. "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them ...." Thus is My promise .... but what does it mean: in My name? When can they lay claim to My presence, for it is not a specific place which guarantees them this presence but people have to be in a state which corresponds to My way of life on earth, they have to take Me as their example and thus live 'following Jesus' and in this endeavour gather together to remember Me and to draw strength from Me in prayer. Then they will be mentally united with Me and can ask for the same things Jesus asked for, and they will find an answer in every adversity. I Myself am close to them, for their striving to follow Me attracts Me; they have the aim of belonging to Me and their way of life will then correspond to My will. They must be fully convinced of My mission, they must see in Me the divine redeemer Who lived on earth, but they must also recognize the deity in Jesus and thus call upon Him as God. And My name must be sacred to them and for the sake of My name they must also always expect their prayer to be answered .... People must believe in the power of My name which guarantees that I Myself am amongst you if you faithfully pronounce it and remember Me. For the sake of My name I have assured you the fulfilment of every request. I am present to anyone who is deeply devout and speaks My name with fervour, and thus I will always be where people are together who have found each other in faith in Me and also want to work together for Me and My kingdom .... They will never lack strength because My presence always means the supply of strength for all who desire strength ....

Amen

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Divine order .... basic law .... love ....

B.D. 4381 from July 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Immerse yourselves in My teaching and you will realize that I have only taught what establishes the eternal divine order, that I only enlighten you humans about the eternal fundamental laws which may not be violated if no disorder is to be established. Everything that is against it has the effect of decline and destruction, whereas according to My eternal order there should only be structure and progress and this triggers beatitude in the being which fulfils My law. This is why I gave guidelines on earth, because humanity had already violated the divine order so often that it no longer recognized the divine will as well as the meaning and purpose of the fundamental laws given by Me. I taught people above all the first fundamental law, love .... I taught them that divine order will always be established where love spreads, that they can never sin against divine order if love determines their will, thinking and actions. I further taught them that knowledge will also be where love is, because according to My order wisdom emerges from love .... If a person takes My teaching seriously he will live a life of love and as a result also know about everything, about My plan of eternity, about My fundamental nature, about his earthly task and the purpose and aim of every work of creation .... He will know about My will and do everything I ask and thus live in divine order. Spiritual ascent, maturity of soul, will be the effect of My teaching which I gave to people. And therefore it is necessary that My teaching is proclaimed to people again and again, otherwise no spiritual progress will be recorded amongst humanity. This is why My word continues to be conveyed to earth as soon as human will has distorted and mixed My pure teaching, which I preached on earth, with human thoughts which do not correspond to the truth. Then disorder occurs, which is destructive, and again and again I stop people to restore order and impart the pure truth from above to them. And if a person has an earnest will to live in order he will also pay attention to My word from above and make an effort to live it out .... enter the state of divine order and live his way of life according to My will. And he will recognize the eternal truth, he will enter the state of light, because light and wisdom are also absolutely necessary where divine order is spoken of, because light and wisdom trigger beatitude, which is the ultimate aim of everything that lives on earth ....

Amen

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Aim of man .... love to God .... counter-love ....

B.D. 4382 from July 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

It is a high aim set for you humans as the crowning of your earthly life that you gain the father's love, i.e. that you feel it, that it flows through you with all strength and makes you blissful creatures. To reach this aim is your task in life, for you yourselves must enter a state which makes you worthy of God's love; although His love belongs to all His living creations and never ever ends, He can nevertheless only bestow it upon you if you fulfil the conditions which allow an overflow of God's love. You must shape yourselves into vessels which can receive God's fatherly love, you must shape yourselves into beings which, having become love themselves, can unite with eternal love. You must change yourselves into creatures which take on their original nature again, beings full of love and strength, light and wisdom. These beings emerged from God's strength of love and His fatherly love belongs to them for all eternity. However, God's love can only have an effect in full reciprocation, for love which is one-sided will never make people happy but constantly courts reciprocal love. God will not rest until He receives love from His living creations, only then can His strength of love take effect on people, only then will the human being have gained the most beautiful, the father's love, which constantly gives and constantly makes happy. Anyone who reaches his aim on earth, that he shapes himself into a receptacle which contains the outpouring of divine love, is filled by His spirit, which now works in the human being as strength of love. God's emanation of love takes shape in His word, which is conveyed through His spirit to people who make themselves worthy of God's love through a life of love. Hence the highest aim on earth is to reach the state of being able to hear the divine word; this is the evidence that God's love embraces the human being, that He expresses it in His word and that therefore every recipient of the divine word has also acquired His love, thus the aim set for him on earth has been reached and that he can now already work as a being of light on earth and enter the spiritual kingdom upon his passing away, as is his destiny ....

Amen

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Presence of God .... love .... God’s word ....

B.D. 4383 from July 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

My activity towards you must be proof to you that I am close to you, that you have gained My favour and that I give you a sign so that you are aware of it. But nothing that happens is without meaning and purpose but is based on deepest wisdom. Thus My activity towards you must also correspond to a specific purpose. But the purpose must also be clear to you, otherwise you would carelessly pass by My gift of grace, thus My activity would be without success for you. I approach you Myself such that you feel My presence, you may gain insight into My eternal plan of salvation, I inform you about My reign and activity, I impart profound knowledge to you, I constantly instruct you and thus express My love for you. I am always ready for you and express Myself as soon as you desire My gift of love. But you accept this greatest miracle, My gift, which My love offers you, as a matter of course, thus you certainly hear My word but do not feel the strength because you are not touched by My love as it should be felt by you. Again and again I offer you My love but you don't reciprocate it to the extent I demand, you owe Me much love and therefore won't feel the bliss of love either, which, however, would be your share, which I would like to prepare for you .... And yet, I will remain close to you because I will not give up on you and strive to win your love. And thus you will constantly find Me ready if you call Me, you will constantly receive My word if you desire it, and you will also be allowed to feel My love if you give Me your love, if you unite with Me through loving activity and thus, as it were, pay Me the tribute I demand .... if you offer Me your heart so that I can take possession of it. Then you will feel the bliss of fulfilled love, and you will become aware of My nearness and make yourselves happy, and your desire will increase the more I provide you with the outpouring of My love, with My word, which I constantly impart to you because you need it if you want to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Research .... truth .... way of life ....

B.D. 4384 from July 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

A result in accordance with research can only be accepted as truth if the researcher himself has entered into My will, thus he subordinates his thinking, wanting and acting to Me, i.e. he always asks for My assistance, which he also undertakes. Then the result of his research work can also be accepted without hesitation, then he has undertaken his research with the assistance of My spirit and his train of thought has been correctly guided by it. Consequently, you humans could form your own judgment if you take this moment into consideration and honestly endeavour to stand in truth, so that you can at least rightly condemn what is brought to you by people who obviously live a way of life which contradicts My will. For such people will never ever be able to give truthful information about things which are still unexplored. Thus they will also be unable to instruct their fellow human beings as long as they are unsuitable as teachers because they are without knowledge themselves. A right way of life is the first prerequisite for his intellect to work in the right direction. This is why a deeply believing person who fulfils My commandment of love will be able to solve all still unsolved problems much more easily, and his research will produce results which can be accepted without hesitation, just as every person will think correctly as soon as his way of life is right before Me. This knowledge will make it easier for you to assess human thought material which is conveyed to you as truth and which you have to examine before you accept it. Although the sharpest intellect was active it may have produced error if the intellect was not paired with love. The intellect can indeed try to justify logically what it represents, nevertheless love will see more sharply and discover where the intellect has drawn wrong conclusions. And therefore the judgment of a loving person must be respected more, and the person who listens to the voice of the heart, to what seems emotionally acceptable to him, will be truly wise .... For he will be closer to the truth. Again and again it has to be emphasized that love and truth cannot be separated from each other, that love is the key to wisdom and that truth can never be found outside of love despite the sharpest intellectual activity. But you humans must be on your guard that error is not presented to you if you search for truth and do not take the path to Me. For then you will be blinded by seemingly most luminous knowledge which, however, as illusion can never endure a serious examination. But if you want to test it, then pay attention to what I tell you .... always use love as a standard and your judgment will be right. Then you will be able to accept or reject without hesitation, then you will test with Me and I will truly inform you and guide your thinking correctly ....

Amen

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Work in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4385 from July 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Teach the ignorant, enlighten the erring, help the weak in faith and build up My own, and you carry out your ministry according to My will, you work the fields of My vineyard. And your activity will not be unsuccessful, everywhere you will be able to lend a hand, for the soil must be cultivated, the weeds must be removed, weak little plants must be raised up and find a foothold, and even the plants which thrive well must be cared for if they are to withstand every storm and delight people's eyes and hearts. But it is important that good seed is scattered on My field, and your lord will provide you with it, and you should not take any foreign seed on it but only that which you receive from Me for sowing. Then the field will also bear good fruit at harvest time and the scours will be filled if My labourers are eager for Me and provide for a good harvest. And thus your activity is of utmost importance, after all, human hearts shall be made receptive for Me Myself, for My word, which I want to offer them, which shall take root in their hearts as good seed. But I tell you that I will reward the work of My servants as I have promised. Those who make themselves available to Me as faithful servants at the end of this earth period must gain their faith from themselves, and I value this especially highly. I reveal Myself to them in the word which I convey to them so that they can carry out their work. Anyone of good will recognizes it as My word, and consequently he will also not act wrongly if he endeavours to procure good fruit for Me with this pure seed of Mine. He will be so stimulated by My word for his activity that he will have much success .... He cultivates the fields according to My will, and once the seed has penetrated deep into the soil the good results will soon become apparent, and the fruits will be gathered at harvest time according to your diligence and labour.

Amen

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Power of the word before the end .... need ....

B.D. 4386 from July 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Drink from the source of life, refresh yourselves with the bread of heaven and thus receive the strength from Me which you will urgently need in the coming time. For it is a great action with which I initiate the last phase on this earth, it is something so powerful that you must be full of resilience if you want to remain in control of the situation. I have set the time since eternity .... it is fulfilled .... Humanity has reached the spiritual low which causes the end of this earth, and therefore I prepare you to experience this end in a state of soul which corresponds to My will and ensures your entry into the kingdom of light. I want to protect the few people who strive towards Me from spiritual decline, I don't want them to succumb to the hardship of the time, that they doubt Me and completely lose their faith due to the great adversity if they have no explanation for it. For no human being would be blessed if I did not want to stay in contact with them through My word and impart to them the knowledge about what is about to happen. For unbelief is far greater, and despite My enlightening word it is already difficult for the believers to stand firm in the coming time. Yet My word will give you strength at all times, you will constantly find the support in My word which gives you stability when adversity weighs heavily upon you. My word will be spiritual nourishment for you, and through My word you will also know that you will be helped in every earthly and spiritual adversity. And I want to keep you in this confidence until the end .... Whatever may come, it will all pass quickly, it will be a time full of excitement that you will no longer have an earthly estimate of time, and if you only ever keep to My word and constantly draw strength from it, the end time will not cause you any spiritual damage but you will mature and with increasing maturity of soul feel the earthly adversity less and less until the end is there, which will bring you earthly and spiritual salvation. I only ever admonish you to maintain the connection with Me if you don't want to become weak. For all strength emanates from Me, in Me you will find a faithful helper, a support Who cannot abandon you, to Whom you can entrust yourselves without hesitation and Who alone can reduce and avert your adversity and also does so if you faithfully appeal to Him for it. And as soon as you let Me speak to you, as soon as you listen to My voice within you or receive My word in another way, you will be filled with strength and feel My presence, for I Myself am with you in the word, and where I am every adversity will be bearable. But I will remain with you until the end, as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Personal Words ....

B.D. 4387 from July 27th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The spirit imparts My Word to you, and this is what you should listen to. I will always speak to you providing you first speak to Me in spirit and in truth. Thus I do not reply to mere words spoken by your mouth, but what you feel and think in your heart will find its way to Me and give rise to a response. If you ask Me in this manner you will mentally receive My answer. Then you can confidently believe that your thoughts originated from Me and take them to heart. I want you to understand everything and not start to doubt .... Therefore I also want you to know what kind of relationship you should have towards one another. I want to give you a Word of advice which you should seriously consider so that you then can make a free decision.

I want you to establish the most heartfelt harmony of souls between yourselves, I want you to establish a pure relationship which is supported by mutual love, a relationship in which each one of you is willing to give to the other and every requirement is excluded. I want you to stay together until you are parted by death, because your earthly path is only brief. You aspired towards a mutual goal and should also try to reach this goal .... spiritual marriage, which survives everything, which signifies union in the spiritual kingdom, which consists of mutual activity and the same consciousness of strength. However, this union requires the same degree of maturity and thus the same emanation of light, consequently also the same love and the same knowledge .... And for this reason two people's endeavour on earth, who want to work together in the spiritual kingdom, must enable the direct transmission of light and strength, of spiritual knowledge. My spirit has to be able to be effective in them and to teach them, i.e. they have to receive My Word through the voice of the spirit. And it is certain that only through actions of love will you awaken the spirit within yourselves, who then will teach you.

People who are joined together by true, pure love open the door of their hearts to the spirit within themselves, which is part of Me. They shape themselves into receiving vessels for My spirit and can be constantly taught. And thus you are destined to travel the path of ascent together, because by living in emotional harmony you will be very receptive for the strength of spirit, for My emanation, for My Word, that will then be conveyed to you directly. Anyone who receives My Word directly has to pass it on, and the more he loves his fellow human being the more eagerly he will do so. Moreover, the lovingly offered Word will be accepted where love has been aroused again. And love should be practised because it is strength in itself, thus increasing love also means increasing strength.

Your course of life is but short, and therefore every day should be used by you to work together on behalf of Me and My kingdom. But mutual activity also necessitates complete conviction in regards to spiritual questions, to the deliberation, comprehension and assessment of what is presented to you as truth through the spirit. However, correct thinking always requires the working of the spirit, and My spirit can only work in the presence of love. Hence you should never allow love to become unrequited, because the partner will lack understanding for spiritual truth when he stands outside of love. For love of Me you should make an effort to show love to other people, hence you have to practise giving, joyful love, and when it is thus returned it will cause an exchange of strength with earthly and spiritual results. And this is what you should achieve by reminding each other to love, by being sincerely affectionate to each other, by strengthening the feeling of togetherness to a point that you can no longer imagine life without each other .... Then you will experience the greatest miracle on earth, you will both hear the sound of the Word at the same time .... Then there will be no more separation for you, then My spirit will be constantly working in you, then every doubt will have come to an end, the truth of My Word will be shining so brightly for you that you will be completely filled by it and you will joyfully work together for Me and My kingdom.

Therefore you should submit yourselves entirely to My guidance, you should not wilfully do anything but what you are urged to do from within yourselves, you should only ever let yourselves be guided by your feeling, because I place My will into your heart and the prompting of your heart is the expression of My will. If you comply with this you will submit yourselves to My will, if you oppose it then your will is stronger. I would like to caution you about this, for My will always leads to the goal, whereas yours will always leads away from the goal or lengthen the path such that you will waste time, because the end is coming soon ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Heartfelt prayer .... God's help ....

B.D. 4388 from July 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Always rely on My help if you are in spiritual or earthly need; I am always ready when you call Me. And stay with the thought that I prepare you for the time of your activity for Me. This thought will be an explanation for you in all situations of life, for great demands will be placed on you which you can only fulfil with My help and therefore you must always seek contact with Me .... And you must learn to always turn your thoughts towards Me, even though you are moving in the hustle and bustle of the world, when you are approached by incentives of all kinds or hardship and oppression. You must learn to concentrate so that your soul can lift itself up into the spiritual kingdom for a short time in order to fetch strength again and again. You must learn to say a short heartfelt prayer at any time which, rising from your heart, will always reach My ears. The earthly world must never become stronger than the spiritual kingdom, you must educate yourselves to this if you want to consciously serve Me and be active for Me. For this reason you will also be confronted by temptations of all kinds which you must withstand, which must not push you away from Me. With Me you will be able to cope with everything, but without Me the world will tie you to itself again and you will succumb to it. But anyone who commends himself to Me at all times need not fear becoming a victim of the world, for I hold My protective fatherly hand over him and every temptation will only serve to strengthen his will. But again and again I admonish you through My word to seek refuge with Me and in the spiritual kingdom, where you will always be granted help in earthly and spiritual adversity if only you believe, for I will not leave My servants on earth in adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of prayer ....

B.D. 4389 from July 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The power of prayer is not used enough because you humans do not have the right faith and therefore you cannot test it enough. You could request everything and also achieve everything if you believed, if you presented your requests to Me without doubting and confidently awaited their fulfilment. Prayer is the bridge to Me which I Myself have built for you and which you may enter at any time in order to reach Me. A right prayer, a prayer in spirit and in truth, will always be heard and not remain unsuccessful, and the strength of your faith also guarantees you certain fulfilment, consequently the fulfilment of your requests does not depend on My will but only on your strength of faith, and consequently you yourselves determine to what extent your prayer will be heard. Again and again I tell you that you should turn to Me in all matters, and thus you could truly have a far easier earthly existence if you would make better use of the strength of prayer. But if you say the prayers as you are often taught, you will constantly be able to ask and wait in vain for the fulfilment of your requests. Then your prayer will not reach My ear, for it is not a true prayer, it lacks the strength of faith. Then I cannot work with My might, for I Myself have taught you the right faith, I have made it a condition if your prayers are to be answered. I cannot release you from this condition, I must demand faith in Me and My working, otherwise I Myself would be unfaithful to My law of eternity, otherwise I could not mention the power of faith either. You could achieve everything and only need to put it to the test, yet you must first acquire profound faith, you must be so convinced from within that you will never make a wrong request, that I can and will help you. And I will grant you every earthly request if you pray in the right way .... in the belief that I will grant you what is not detrimental to the soul and that you are fully convinced that I will only give you what is helpful to you because I love you .... Thus you must also be able to do without if My love denies you something .... this attitude must also be represented in a right prayer, then your prayer will be right and you can always count on your requests being granted, because I Myself have given you the promise: Ask, and it shall be given you, knock, and it shall be opened to you.

Amen

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Spiritual decline .... Signs of the end ....

B.D. 4390 from July 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Spiritual decline is increasingly more noticeable and this alone ought to explain to you the earthly adversity, for the latter is the only means which could wake people up and prompt them into changing their way of thinking. People only strive towards acquiring earthly possessions and allow themselves to be controlled by matter rather than the other way round so that they would win in their battle against matter. Hence I constantly bring the foolishness of their endeavours home to them by showing them the transience of earthly things. Yet less significant happenings are to no avail, the individual person won´t change his thinking and ignores the life of his soul, for he only takes his earthly existence into account and has completely lost faith in an afterlife. Humanity is descending ever further, faith is becoming increasingly more superficial and a bond with Me, their God and Creator of eternity, ever more seldom. And this will become particularly evident in a short time. The day of a complete change in living conditions, the day when everything will experience a transformation, is coming ever closer because My will is clearly moving into action. People will be unable to protect anything unless I protect it for them, and they will be defenseless in the face of My might and experience serious difficulties.

But blessed is the difficulty if it only has an earthly effect on a person, if his soul is not in jeopardy .... if the person has faith .... Then he need not fear this earthly tribulation, then he will only be able to gain despite his earthly losses. But this will be the start of a trying time for unbelievers, for their loss of earthly possessions will cause them indescribable suffering and they will have to give up all hope of regaining them. Spiritual possessions will be no substitute for them, for they don´t strive for but reject them when they are offered to them. But this suffering has to befall earth, it is inevitable and only the prelude to the final event, to the complete destruction of the old earth which will be experienced by all of you if I don´t end your life prematurely because I consider it favorable for your soul. The believer will see and recognise all signs of the end, the unbeliever will pass them by, he will only take notice of the earthly hardship and its effect on earthly life and increasingly turn away from God. And thus, there will soon be a separation between spiritually aspiring and utterly worldly-minded people and this, too, will be so obvious that the spiritually awakened person will recognise the last days by this alone. The end is approaching with giant steps and you will experience the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Great need .... divorce .... grace period ....

B.D. 4391 from July 31th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Take note of the fact that a new time is beginning, a time of privations and hardships such as the world has never experienced before .... And you will be at a crossroads, for you can take two paths, the aim of one is a new, improved earthly world which you desire and therefore also believe you can create .... The aim of the other is the kingdom outside of earth which promises you a better life after the death of the body. And only a few will take this path, the aim of which, however, is certain, while the masses flow onto the earthly path which leads to certain ruin. Believe My words that the time has come and prepare yourselves already now to give up everything and to be satisfied with the simplest way of life, for you still possess much compared to the coming time when only a few will keep their possessions but will not be able to enjoy them because fellow human beings will take away what I leave to them. No-one wants to hear that an ascent is only illusory, that you will only live in bearable circumstances for a short time, that a great change lies ahead of you which will rob you of all joy of life and present you with a hard challenge. But it will certainly come because the time is fulfilled. And if My grace already points it out to you beforehand, it is only for the purpose that you should free yourselves from earthly desire, that you should not make plans for the future but strive with increased eagerness for spiritual possessions which alone will make the difficult coming time bearable for you and be of use to you. For you can work with them when the adversity is great and people are in despair. But I cannot turn them away from you, after all, you humans completely forget your God in your pursuit of earthly possessions. You only think of your body and let the soul go hungry, and thus I take from you what you intended for the body and offer you, however, delicious good for the soul as compensation. If you accept it you will be saved for eternity, if you reject it your body and soul will be lost, for you cannot maintain your body with your own strength. But I have decided to put an end to this and only give you one last period of grace in which you should become aware of the seriousness of your situation. And therefore I constantly point this out to you until the day will have come which will change everything .... For what I have proclaimed will come true, and I only send seers and prophets to you humans so that you will wake up and seriously think of your soul, which is in greatest danger ....

Amen

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Redeemer .... faith .... free will .... compulsion ....

B.D. 4392 from August 1st 1948, taken from Book No. 51

As long as you do not want to believe, you will not be able to believe. Every person can shape his soul's life according to his will, i.e. no constraint is imposed on his thinking, feeling and willing, it will never have to move in a certain direction but the person chooses the direction himself. But in order for his chosen direction of thought and will to be the right one, corresponding to My will and My eternal order, help will constantly be granted to him, it will be offered to him, so to speak, so that it will be easy for him to take the right direction if he first surrenders himself to the controller of infinity, irrespective of the form in which he acknowledges Him, i.e. if he believes in Him for the first time .... Even without any instruction he can intellectually ask himself the question of his origin, and this question will also be answered mentally such that he will be guided onto the right track .... his thinking will come close to the truth because I Myself want the human being to know the truth. And if he mentally entrusts himself as a thinking being, as a work of creation of a Master still unknown to him, he expresses the will for truth and it will become his. Wanting to believe also secures the ability to believe, yet the human being should never consider himself capable of intellectually fathoming the truth and thereby exclude Me and My assistance or completely reject Me and yet stand in truth .... If you were able to prove My existence as well as everything I demand of you to believe, the act of free will, which is the meaning and purpose of your earthly life as a human being, would be invalid, for the human being has to submit to an all-dominating being because he feels inferior to Him. Then he is, so to speak, driven by fear if he does not openly resist and thereby plunges into the depths again. But I do not want this decision on the part of the human being, instead, he must strive towards Me in utmost freedom, he must want a power above him to which he voluntarily submits himself. Therefore he must certainly be able to believe but he must not be forced to believe, thus My existence must not be able to be proven to him. And thus a person's whole soul life is left up to him, i.e. thinking, feeling and willing are not subject to compulsion but to the person's direction of will, which now also makes it understandable that a battle is waged in the spiritual kingdom for the human being's will by both powers between which he is to decide. For the apostasy from Me came about through the influence of a counter-power which, however, was originally also the product of My love, fully equipped with everything that characterizes a divine creature. That and why this being turned away from Me can likewise only be figuratively explained to you humans. But the apostasy let the being become My adversary, under whose influence countless spiritual entities rebelled against Me, thus they fell abysmally. I woo this apostate spiritual being with all love, but the adversary wants to wrest from Me what I already partly possess again. And therefore a spiritual battle rages incessantly which will certainly end with My adversary's complete defeat but also with the relapse of many beings into darkness because they have abused their free will again .... thus could not be forced by My adversary either but freely decided for him themselves. Now people who could not believe despite their will would have to be regarded as forced beings, as excusable .... But coercion neither comes from Me nor from My adversary, which is why it is therefore possible for the willing person to believe but faith must never be able to be proven. But once the human being has gained faith by virtue of his will he will also gain the knowledge of truth, which can only be gained by way of faith. For I must be acknowledged as the eternal truth in order to be able to distribute it. People who doubt My existence can use their intellect no matter how eagerly, they will draw wrong conclusions and get carried away into completely wrong thinking, for they research and ponder without Me and hand themselves over to My adversary's influence, who now uses every opportunity to wage the battle against the light .... against the truth .... truth. Freedom of will is the explanation for everything ....

Freedom of will is also the explanation for the greatest mystery, for the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ .... The fact that I descended to people was merely due to the fact that My adversary's power had become too great because humanity was too weak to use its will in the right way and to resist him. Coercion never took place on the part of the adversary, but people, since they lived without love, which is strength in itself, were no longer able to give their will the right direction because they no longer recognized it. The adversary took advantage of people's weakness of will and exerted an ever stronger influence on them. They would have been able to resist if they had lived a life of love, and therefore people had to be given an example of what the human being is capable of if he increases the strength within himself through a life of love and transfers this strength to his will. Faith sinks as soon as the degree of love is low, on the other hand doubt rises as an attack signal from the adversary, and soon it overgrows faith and suffocates it. A person therefore had to show his fellow human beings what their task in life was and how they could fulfil this task .... a person had to use the will in the right direction and draw the strength for it from love .... It is a simple solution, and it is also understandable that the products of My love took pity on Me as creator and father of eternity, that they, although of their own will, no longer became free from their tormentor who misused his strength, which he drew from Me, for shameful activity. It must also be understandable that I sought a way out for the wretched creatures, that a work of mercy met My approval which love wanted to accomplish for the wretched. I love all My creatures and seek to win them all back again. Under compulsion it would be a work of the moment, but I do not use compulsion for the sake of the perfection of that which has taken its origin from Me. On the other hand, I was satisfied with one proof of rightly used will which a person's deep love wanted to provide Me with for his fellow human beings. I saw the great love of this one person and for the sake of this great love mercy took the place of justice .... I redirected the strength of love as willpower to the weak people who entrust themselves to Jesus in their weakness and turn to Him for help. Thus I regard the people who commend themselves to Jesus as united with Him, as a member of Him; I no longer make a separation between these sinful people and Jesus but I regard them as a whole whom I forgive their sins for the sake of Jesus' great love .... i.e., whom I take away their weakness of will, whom I give strength for the right use of their will. I help them to use their will correctly but do not force their will through the supply of strength .... The human being still has to redeem himself from the state of apostasy from Me, now he can do so if he appeals to Jesus Christ for help, thus acknowledges Him and asks for the supply of strength for the sake of His act of salvation .... This is the only way to look at the act of salvation. Only the love of the man Jesus was decisive, which He expressed through His death on the cross. Furthermore, He proved to people that death is something overcome for a human being Who was so perfect through love that He was able to enter eternal life, that He therefore did not die in reality but lived in elevated light, which He proved to people through His ascension .... Thus I accepted His love, and for the sake of this love I help the debtors to become free of their guilt through the use of willpower, although the complete redemption is still up to the human being himself, that he freely decides in favour of Me and strives towards Me ....

Amen

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Right prayer in spirit and in truth ....

B.D. 4393 from August 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

If God does not hear your request, if you do not find fulfilment, then you have not prayed correctly, and therefore you must call once more and present your adversity to Him if you ask for the adversity to be averted. For you only need to believe that God will not leave you without help and you will also be helped. Then there is always a lack of trust, faith is not deep enough, and thus God does not hear your call, i.e. He does not heed it, so that you should recognize what you lack. He will avert spiritual and earthly adversity from you if your prayer reaches Him in spirit and in truth, if you trustingly speak to Him like children speak to their father and present your adversity to Him. If you are in this right relationship with Him, the fulfilment of every request is also assured. But a right child leaves the kind of help to the father in the knowledge that His wisdom and love will always do what is right for the child, and therefore the request for help is sufficient and the human being need not worry about the kind of help he receives. And thus God will also remedy spiritual hardship if it is possible, for (then) spiritual hardship, the hardship which does not concern earthly material things but the state of soul, the right application and utilization of spiritual gifts. Feelings and distress of faith are often imposed on the human being by God in order to bring him to spiritual development, and they are therefore at times a blessing, but are likewise averted through heartfelt prayer, because God never denies His help to the human being who takes refuge in Him like a child. Trustingly pray to Him and faithfully expect the turning away of what oppresses you and you will not be disappointed, for God will not let a profound faith be put to shame ....

Amen

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Spiritual mission .... truth .... end battle ....

B.D. 4394 from August 4th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will be full of wisdom if you are to work for Me and My kingdom. To the extent that you use knowledge, to the extent that you teach your fellow human beings yourselves, you will receive spiritual possessions and your knowledge will increase without limit, for then I will always work in you and provide you with everything you need, with spiritual and physical nourishment, as I have promised you. And then your mission will be recognized by the one who only has the will for it, for your wisdom will obviously come to light, the treasure of knowledge will be astonishing which cannot conceal its spiritual origin. But if you teach people will also be hungry for spiritual food because they are in utmost need. And they will open their hearts and listen to you, yet with varying degrees of success. To many My word will be an explanation for the hardship caused by the great event which has affected them, they will be thoughtful and also consider My word in their hearts. Others again will certainly listen to it but doubt it or have little faith in it; the adversity certainly moves them to accept it but they are not a hundredfold with their heart but also look towards the world and its goods are more desirable to them. And still others reject you completely, they reject every spiritual word, every teaching which touches spiritual areas, they have lost all faith through the event because they never carried it in their heart before, because they only believed outwardly and this faith was a formal faith without any value. And they will speak against you, they will try to harm you and yet initially achieve nothing because you will be protected by those who acknowledge your knowledge, who have accepted it and found it beneficial. And thus your work will be successful in the beginning until a power comes to the helm which will prevent your freedom of speech through measures and laws which are directed against everything spiritual. Only then will the great adversity begin, which will mean the final end .... Then a battle will be waged on the part of the world against every believer, against every school of thought, but especially against you who spread the pure truth. But then I will obviously stand by you and appear such that you will still gain many followers and your work can be continued, for then you will be able to prove to your fellow human beings what strength lies in faith and love, which an unbelieving and unkind person can never have at his disposal. There will be an open separation of believers and unbelievers, two camps will form which fight against each other .... My army will be small in number yet strong and resilient, for I Myself, as the commander of the army, will always be on My own' side, whereas the adversary will certainly be outnumbered but he will be unable to do anything against My own who fight with Me and for Me. But the last battle must take place if the separation of spirits is to be accomplished before the last day dawns, the day of judgement and the dissolution of the old earth. Those who remain faithful to Me until then will experience My coming in the clouds, but those who have fallen away will certainly live earthly lives of luxury, but they will be torn out of their frenzy and fall into the pit of hell, into the deepest abyss, when the end has come. Therefore withstand all temptations and challenges of the world, serve Me with all eagerness, let Me feed and water you daily with My word and pass on what you receive from Me. And you will be true servants to Me on earth in the last days, and your work will always be blessed by Me ....

Amen

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Different schools of thought .... Christ’s teaching ....

B.D. 4395 from August 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The absolute truth cannot be represented by any school of thought as long as it cannot show that the origin of its dogma is based on the Word from above, although not everything taught by each spiritual movement can be called an error. Their followers will always be sincere people if they abandon ecclesiastical organisations and turn to such a school of thought. And therefore they are repeatedly offered the opportunity to come closer to the truth, because once they have recognised it as such they will hold on to it and hence be more faithful members of spiritual groups than the followers of the church which is officially made out to be My institution, but who are for the most part mere supporters or formal believers, never desiring to delve deeper into eternal truth, into My teaching of love, which I describe as the core of the church founded by Me. Only the Word from above is pure truth and this Word was received and spread by Jesus on earth, consequently His is the only true teaching and will remain so for all eternity. Hence the person who preaches Christ’s teaching is My representative on earth and will be able to inform every school of thought to what extent they have the truth and which opinions are misguided. However, during the last days the real advocates of My teaching need not concern themselves with other denominations or religious groups because they will all be fought against by earthly authorities and will lose their supporters with certainty, too. My servants shall merely gather the deserters and try to win them over for Me and My kingdom; they shall impart the pure truth to them and take every opportunity to enlighten misguided people ....

(05.08.1948) And I will provide them with the opportunity to do so, I will send them to those who can still be won over, who are still undecided and only need the truth in order to take the right path. The truth speaks for itself and no one will be able to undermine it, but where misguided teachings have occurred people can always be expected to leave when they are confronted by hardship, which they can avoid through devotion of faith. Because in the last days great hardship will only be suffered by those believers who want to remain faithful to Me and will thus be treated with hostility by the world. The world will demand the complete rejection of faith in a God and Creator of eternity Who governs the fate of every human being, and the hardship of anyone relinquishing his faith will be resolved. People who endure will have to suffer in remarkable ways. But anyone who has true faith, who lives within the truth he has received from Me Myself, will also stay faithful to Me because he will know that such hardship won’t last forever and will then give way to a joyful state of bliss. He will know that the earth is experiencing its end and so will the people who relinquish their faith for the sake of worldliness. The truth received from Me has given him the knowledge of things to come and this knowledge will give him the strength to endure to the end.

Only truth gives strength, only the person who lives within truth will endure, and for this reason it is so urgently necessary to impart the truth to people because this alone will enable them to understand everything that will happen. Anyone who does not know the absolute truth will become unsure, he will doubt everything and prefer the world and its pleasures to his doubtful knowledge. But I want to give people the pure truth in order to help them survive the final end by firmly believing in Me, in My wisdom and love which wants to prepare a paradise for My Own after the destruction of this earth .... Anyone instructed by My Word of My eternal plan of Salvation will understand everything, always keeping his eyes on Me he will be able to glance into the spiritual realm and receive strength and grace to endure until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Demonic influence .... truth bearers ....

B.D. 4396 from August 5th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The demonic influence will be particularly noticeable where the light seems to break through, where the truth comes to light, where bearers of truth try to correct erroneous thinking, where therefore the truth from God is conveyed to people through messengers of God who receive His word directly. As soon as willing listeners are found, the adversary's activity is obvious, for a counter-spirit will always find its way in and try to disparage the truth through objections, resistance will always be offered to the bearers of truth, be it through words or through obstacles which clearly betray an influence from below. Wherever the truth seems to penetrate, open hostility will be directed towards the bearer of truth, and often under the guise of piety the servants of God, His representatives chosen by Himself, will be branded blasphemers in order to weaken the strength of their words. And all love from person to person dwindles, although the servants of God endeavour to carry out their mission in love and want to make people happy with the truth. Nevertheless, again and again attempts must be made to pass on the word of God, the light from the heavens, and also to convey it to people who believe themselves to be in the light, who believe themselves to be in the truth because they unquestioningly accepted what they were commanded. It is an unusual task to instruct people who are active as teaching forces themselves and yet it is necessary to inform them of God's activity on earth in the last days. If their will is good they will not close themselves off to knowledge which indisputably has to be called too profound and thorough to dismiss it as a person's own thought material. And God's messengers are called to give enlightenment in all circles, to knock on all doors and to give light where there is darkness. But darkness is spread over the whole earth, and even where there is apparent light, it is only blinding light which obscures the right path and leads astray. The fact that the light is now lit from above in order to brightly illuminate the right path is particularly necessary in the last time, for where there are blinding lights, there many people gather who are looking for the right path and cannot find it. This is where the right leaders must stand with their light, which sends its rays far and wide and breaks through the darkness of the night. The fact that there will always be people who try to extinguish the light should not distract God's servants, for the light from the heavens cannot be completely extinguished because God Himself protects it. Moreover, the demonic forces can always be recognized because the light from above shines through everything and also the masks of those who dare to speak against the word of God. But God will grant His representatives the strength to take action even against the best speakers, He will enlighten their spirit, He will put the right words into their mouths so that they will refute with skill whatever is said to them. God Himself will speak through His servants, yet people will always be free to profess His word .... For even if His working is obvious, He does not force people into faith but leaves them their freedom, yet He will always provide His servants with strength to counter the demonic forces so that they cannot exert coercion but people freely decide ....

Amen

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Destiny according to the will ....

B.D. 4397 from August 6th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

He Who gave you life also knows your will and shapes your life according to this will. Hence you only have to expect your fate according to your will, which I recognized from eternity, but this does not exclude that you have to answer for this will, for it is free and you are not forced to think, want and act. Therefore, if you are willing to live for My pleasure your life will also give you every opportunity to carry out this will, you will put Me first in every situation and always raise your eyes to Me. And since I have known about this will since eternity your fate is accordingly. Again and again My hand will reach out to you which you need only grasp, you will always feel Me close to you .... Life's fate drives you towards Me and you let yourselves be driven of your own free will, you don't resist, your aim is Me and you will reach this aim. But even if I know about your wrong will from eternity, I will nevertheless not make it unfree during your earthly life. Even now you can use it for or against Me; again and again fate brings you into situations where you could find Me of your own free will, and there is no coercion from any side. But the fact that you turn away from Me of your own accord and direct your eyes to where I am not is not My influence but your inner urge for which you have to answer. Thus I certainly know your direction of will but give you ample opportunity in earthly life to change your will. And if you only make the slightest effort and enter into My will I am willing to support you and strengthen your will. The fact that I know about your wrong direction of will does not justify the assumption that you now have to act in accordance with the wrong will, but just as I have taken away your recollection of the past stages, so I will not allow you to be influenced by Me and My will of the opposite effect .... your will may not be forced in any way, which is why it is even easier for you to live to please Me than it is for your fellow human beings. The circumstances, the situations in life, will always drive you to act correctly. If, on the other hand, your will is stronger, then you will also bear the responsibility for your actions and thoughts; thus you can never claim to have been forced by fate and My will, for I make it particularly easy for you but leave you complete freedom. I know every person's direction of will and treat everyone equally with My love and grace .... But My own who experience the end nevertheless have to enter into My will of their own accord, even though they seemingly have no resistance. They are certainly granted freedom of will but the temptations are extremely strong which they nevertheless withstand because they strive towards Me and have Jesus Christ as their support and giver of strength Who will safely lead them to the aim. Therefore, every individual person can reach his aim, but whether he wants to reach it is up to him, only no-one can claim that he has to act as he does because this is due to fate .... I relax all My laws where I seek to win souls, and every soul can freely decide without any compulsion of will until it enters the spiritual kingdom. But the fact that I know about its decision has nothing to do with the human being's free development .... I certainly help him but I do not determine him, yet he himself determines his degree of maturity and his life in eternity ....

Amen

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Worker in the vineyard .... heresies - truth ....

B.D. 4398 from August 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You have a wide field of activity at your disposal which you shall work on according to My will, counting both the number of people as well as the misguided teachings which have taken hold amongst people. Thus you can keep an eye on every spiritual direction and will have to work everywhere in order to cleanse the field of weeds along with the new seeds which are to be scattered on all sides. And you will be able to do so if you have the firm will to serve Me. My spirit will support you, its working will be so obvious that a mission from above must also be recognized by people who want to reject you, for your teachings are too plausible if they are seriously thought through. Yet it will be hard work which requires a strong will, patience and perseverance, for every school of thought will confront you with its teachings and each will want to lay claim to truth. The opponents will use their intellect where only the heart is testable .... And this is the sign of absolute truth that it has to be felt, that it is emotionally recognized as truth but then also accepted by the intellect as truth, whereas a misguided teaching will be emotionally rejected by a person demanding truth if he simultaneously uses his intellect for examination. In order to understand this correctly, the human being must not only believe something to be possible, but must also be fully convinced that it is so! If a man now approaches an examination seriously, he will be in doubt as soon as a teaching is not pure truth, whereas pure truth fully satisfies him and also gives him the certainty to think right. And thus it is your task to shake people's thinking, to make them doubt the truth of what they possess. Misguided teachings can only be fought against if the pure truth is held up against them and the human being is stimulated to think about the value or unvalue of what he represents. If you now stand in truth yourselves by receiving My direct word from above you will also have to recognize and denounce every deviation, and your inner conviction will also let you speak with conviction. Hence you will represent what you feel emotionally and can justify intellectually, whereas a misguided teaching cannot withstand both tests .... You have a great deal of work to do and cannot do it yourselves because the spiritual darkness has already become too great for a ray of light to penetrate. But you have the light from above whose rays are bright and penetrating, you work on My behalf, thus with My support, with My strength you carry out the work in My vineyard, and I truly give you everything into your hands which you need for successful work .... You are active as My tools, you are My servants who need only constantly fetch instructions from Me in order to carry out the work according to My will. For the field must first be cleared of weeds before it can receive good seed ....

Amen

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Abundance of grace .... Unchanging Fatherly love ....

B.D. 4399 from August 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You receive an abundance of grace for as long as you receive My Word directly from Me. You cannot value this grace, for as human beings you lack the right concept the of the infinite love which is reflected in this gift, nor would you be able to endure the magnitude of My love on earth, were you capable of assessing its profundity. I speak to you .... a miracle is happening to you, an obvious disclosure of My love, omnipotence and wisdom, which is even noticeable to your fellow human beings .... You humans, being surrounded by earthly matter and, in fact, only capable of understanding material things, can enter into conversation with the greatest spirit of eternity; you can accept instructions which will stick with you even when you are completely in the material world again .... they have become your possessions, they are spiritual treasures which will never fade away. If you thus receive My Word you are embraced by the most faithful Fatherly love, it leans down to you, it gives itself to you and makes you indescribably wealthy, for to possess My love is the most desirable goal for My living creations, even if they cannot understand it as human beings. You hear Me and therefore I Am present to you. And if I Am with you, you can get everything from Me, I hear every plea, every call, and I will not deny you anything because I love you and prove this love to you by speaking to you, by being with you in the Word. Which father who loves his children would not grant their requests? Which child would not be happy being close to the father who loves it? I shower My children with an abundance of grace if they listen to Me and want to receive Words of love from Me. And I will not leave your side, I will always and forever remain close to you, for I will not abandon My children but strive for ever more heartfelt contact until they are inseparably untied with Me forever. The happiness of love is unknown to you, for you cannot endure it on earth. But this much you should know: there is nothing more blissful than fulfilled loved, love which gives itself, which does not deny itself and which strives for heartfelt unity .... I give this love to you, and although you cannot feel it, you nevertheless possess it if you receive My Word, if you attentively listen to what I say to you through the voice of the spirit. Then you will be embraced by the love of the Father, and it will never let go of you, for you came forth from My love and My love for you will not diminish in eternity, it will not change, it will remain as it was in the beginning, unchangeable, and it is yours for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love .... radiance .... God’s word ....

B.D. 4400 from August 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You are children of My love who got lost to Me, who became unfaithful to Me and thereby gave up their right of childship. And as a result you have fallen into adversity, adversity which shall drive you to Me again. For you have to do without My love and cannot be blissfully happy without My love because you have lost your strength and power and are therefore weak, miserable creatures in need of strength. But I love you nevertheless and want to make you My children again, I want to win you back so that My fatherly love can take effect on you. And I will not deviate from My plan, even if eternal times should pass over it, for My love for you is exceedingly great and cannot eternally decrease. This has to be said before the following so that you understand the situations a person sometimes has to get into in order to return to Me completely again .... My love was spurned by the being which was the product of My love, and consequently I could no longer transfer strength to the being. But without the transfer of strength it lacks all realization, it is without wisdom, without knowledge, and consequently cannot carry out any right activity, and thus it cannot redeem itself either. And it would be eternally banished from My proximity because it would not be able to bear My light radiation .... (9.8.1948) Everything that contributes to My emanation of love having an effect on the being is determined by destiny, i.e. the human being's whole course of life unfolds in such a way that My guidance is always evident, that the human being, if he wants to, can therefore recognize the guiding strength which proves My existence to him. Now it can certainly be assumed that the individual's life takes place according to law, that the individual events and circumstances of the human being repeat themselves naturally and approach the individual in a certain order, that therefore an intervention and guidance of a deity can be doubted or that it is a thought developed by the human being himself that a controller of the universe is involved. And therefore another sign has to be offered to the human being from Me so that every doubt is stifled. Such a sign or speaking evidence of My existence is My word through which I reveal Myself to the human being, which cannot be denied. This sign reveals a being capable of thinking, which expresses Itself to Its creatures. Once the connection of a creature with its creator is obvious to the former, then the individual's fate in life cannot be regarded as coincidence either, then a planned unwinding of the individual's life must be far more credible, otherwise all order could be overturned, for where My spirit and My will do not prevail everything will fall into chaos, and thus people would also soon distance themselves from all regularity and sink into chaos in a short time, there would be no ups and downs of life's destiny but only a perpetual downward drift, nothing would dissolve and change but only worsen, whereas I, as the controller of destiny, will again and again take care that the human being, after a low, will also reach bright heights again and will always be able to recognize Me Myself again, especially when he listens to My word and compares it to his earthly course of life, which will then become explainable to him in connection with My word and prove My guiding fatherly hand .... I want to win you humans back as children of My love, you shall recognize My love for you, love Me again and strive towards Me of your own free will .... And therefore you must have the opportunity to recognize Me and My working, which can only ever happen in daily life but which only affects you when it does not pass you by monotonously but also brings you inner shocks of all kinds. Then you look for a guide and entrust yourselves to Him. Then you seek Me and I let Myself be found .... And thus I regain what was once lost in order to never let it fall again, because it is closely united with Me and will never voluntarily separate from Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of darkness against all that is light ....

B.D. 4401 from August 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Once you have decided for Me your fate is sealed and you will reach the aim. Yet you will have to go through adversity and tribulation until the end, even though every individual can reduce the measure for himself through faithful prayer and the right attitude towards Me. The battle of darkness against the light is constantly increasing, and especially the bearers of truth are severely harassed by immature spiritual beings which want to suppress the truth and spare no means to achieve this. But it is a gift of grace, like the transmission of My word to earth, My direct activity, and it will never be able to be prevented by the forces of darkness. And thus every bearer of truth should realize that he possesses the greatest and strongest weapon against the spiritual enemy, that he has Me Myself by his side as constant protection and that against Me all hostility is powerless and cannot achieve anything. And you have so little faith in Me .... Firm faith in My help makes you strong and resilient, but you worry and doubt and thereby become weak in the battle of life. Surrender all suffering to Me, call upon Me to help you, to carry your cross, and wait patiently for My help .... and it will come to you .... The battle against darkness has to be fought, yet the victor will inevitably be the one who fights with Me, only he must not separate himself from Me, otherwise the forces of darkness will press him too hard and he may be defeated. He must remain united with Me, then the enemies will soon give up the fight because they are no match for Me and you, as My bearers of truth, are obviously under My protection. Stick to Me and I will hold you so that you will not fall ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Overcoming matter in free will ....

B.D. 4402 from August 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Whether you allow yourselves to be dominated by matter or free yourselves from it is entirely your own free will. Even if matter is taken from you through My will this does not yet signify your detachment from it, it can only lead to it. For you must relinquish all desire of the heart for it, you must remain completely untouched or make an effort to no longer feel the thoughts of matter painfully but to also be able to think of lost possessions with equanimity, only then will you have overcome matter. But you must also not seek to regain what you have lost full of zeal and forget your actual purpose in life. Admittedly, you are not denied to create earthly and to exploit your earthly work, you should be active and utilize matter for useful things, thus help it and the spiritual in it to ascend, yet your striving for this should never put spiritual striving on the back burner or make it completely impossible. For then you will still be under the spell of matter, then it will control you and you will not be able to get away from it in eternity. For it will also pursue you into eternity, even after the death of the body you will still desire it with all your senses and have to live an agonizing life in the beyond, because the desire for matter constantly fills you and you are now dominated by sham goods, which signifies a state of torment for you; you will never see the desire fulfilled and will not lose the state of torment until you yourselves withdraw from the desire to possess earthly goods. Becoming free from matter on earth is so desirable as it allows you to enter the spiritual kingdom completely carefree, for to the same extent as you give up earthly goods, thus detaching yourselves from them in your heart, you receive spiritual goods which are far more valuable and make your entry into the kingdom of the beyond a state of bliss .... And I want to help you achieve this by taking from you what you would hardly want to voluntarily relinquish, I want to liberate you from matter, yet it is always your free will, and you can always misuse it and eagerly strive again to increase or regain what you have lost. Then My help will have been in vain and matter will control you. But what you don't achieve on earth will cause you far greater difficulties in the spiritual kingdom, yet one day you will have to overcome them if you want to become blissfully happy, only this can take an infinitely long time, for in the spiritual kingdom you don't have such aids at your disposal as on earth, and it requires a particularly strong will which you will rarely muster in the spiritual kingdom, which is why you don't control matter but matter controls you and makes you incapable of ascent development if you are not granted help through prayer from a loving heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Measure of charity: self-love ....

B.D. 4403 from August 12th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

What you want to receive, what you wish to be given to you, you must also give to your neighbour if he asks you for it .... This is love for your neighbour, which is measured according to your love for yourselves. If you give from abundance and don't feel the need to make your fellow human being happy, this is also not neighbourly love according to My will. The feeling of love must always drive your actions and therefore I have given you the standard of self-love as a comparison, for the degree of neighbourly love is also determined by how you give. Just as you wish to be given, you should also give out if you want to find favour in My sight. And if you are thus meagre with evidence of love, if you only ever want to receive it yourselves and never satisfy your fellow human being's desire, you will not fulfil My commandment which demands love and then you cannot receive what comes forth from Me as evidence of My love either .... you can never receive My word directly, and if it is offered to you by worthy representatives of My teaching you will accept it without understanding; you will certainly listen to it but it will not penetrate your heart because the spirit in you is not awakened as a result of unselfish activity of love. And thus I tell you again and again, observe yourselves, practice love and sharp criticism of yourselves, in what degree of love you are towards your neighbour, and then put aside your self-love and sacrifice .... give what is dear to you and what you don't want to part with. And if your heart tears itself away from what you would like to keep and love drives you to renounce it, then you will already have progressed far in your development, for then the spirit within you will be active which will introduce you to all wisdom. And you will receive spiritual as well as earthly goods just as you distribute them; but anyone who is frugal and leaves his fellow human beings destitute, although he has the opportunity to make them happy through actions of love, will also go empty-handed himself, for he does not fulfil My commandment, on which I also make the measure of My gifts of grace dependent, for My word says: "As you measure out, so shall it be measured out to you ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of the servants of God .... carrying the light forward ....

B.D. 4404 from August 14th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I have chosen you as My servants and thus you should faithfully administer your service and do whatever spiritual work is incumbent upon you. And if you have been commissioned to spread My word you should not be timid but always speak in My name, in My stead, wherever possible. For the world wants to be conquered, people's attention must be drawn to the spiritual kingdom because they themselves no longer know where and how to find it. Everywhere are people who desire the truth, everywhere are people who live in love and who want to make contact with Me, only due to insufficient faith and insufficient realization they cannot do the simplest thing .... listen within or recognize My word in their thoughts. They wait and hope that the truth will be conveyed to them, thus you, My servants, must convey it to them and thus speak where the opportunity presents itself. It will never be unnecessary, you will always be able to give and the listener will be able to win, every word you impart to them from Me will increase his knowledge and mean light for him. And if he only seeks truth he will find truth, for the word Itself will speak to him. But anyone who rejects it does so on his own responsibility .... he will not be offered the pure truth again straight away if he spurns My gift and does not listen to you. The spiritual darkness is great, and anyone of good will seeks to emerge from the darkness and follows the faintest ray of light which occasionally breaks through the darkness and touches him beneficially. And around him it will soon become light until the sun of the spirit rises brightly and he has escaped the night. You, My servants, will therefore often have to carry the light into the darkness, you will often be offered the opportunity to work for Me and My kingdom, only you must not become lukewarm and indifferent and place the world above My kingdom. Your work will only start to the full extent when people are roused from their sleep by My voice from above, by My utterance through the elements of nature, by which I will soon make Myself known to all doubters and also to the believers, so that they will increase in strength of faith. Then you will have an easier time speaking, for they will not oppose you so much, they will listen and take your words into consideration, for their souls are frightened and receptive for every word which reaches them from Me through you. Then I will need many labourers for My vineyard, I will need you to work the field and sow My seed so that I can then reap the harvest on the day of judgment .... But even before that you must be eagerly active in order to win people who will join you in the difficult time before the end and likewise be active on My behalf. For the field you have to cultivate will be large, and in order to prepare a good harvest many labourers still have to be hired, for which you should help by spreading the pure truth in My name. Even if the work often seems unsuccessful, it is not done in vain, for the coming time will ensure of its own accord that all words will come to people's remembrance and they will seriously take a stand on them. Peace still seems to be in the world, a state where people only seek to acquire earthly matter and goods and disregard spiritual goods. But soon they will realize how transient and worthless earthly goods are. And they will pay more attention to the spiritual, and because of this time you must already be restlessly active in My name, and your work will be blessed ....

Amen

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Material and spiritual creation .... activity of the residents ....

B.D. 4405 from August 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The visible world contains the unredeemed spiritual and therefore has material creations in which the spiritual is to mature. The material world is therefore necessary as long as there has to be a form which serves the spiritual as an envelope, which it is to feel as a constraint, because the urge to get rid of this form is cause for an activity and this again necessary for maturing. The beingness in the form serves through this activity according to its destiny and through serving, even if in a state of compulsion, slowly develops upwards. If the beingness were not bound in a form, it would remain inactive because it is still in resistance to God and is therefore powerless, whereas as a living being, for which the outer form is necessary, it also receives the life force which enables it to be active. Therefore a constant change is noticeable in the material world, because activity always means a change of what is to be addressed as matter. This perception is obvious in the stage as a human being, where a perpetual activity is a condition if the physical life of a human being is to be maintained. A state without activity is already a state of death, although the body can still be called alive, but inactivity is a sign of unused strength, which is then completely withdrawn from the human being, because an inactive earthly life violates divine order and must have a corresponding effect. Upward development can only take place through activity, but this is the purpose and aim of earthly life, both for the human being as well as for the whole of earthly creation, in which the spiritual has to be active in a serving way ....

(15.8.1948) And thus earthly creations will exist as long as spiritual things still have to be redeemed, which takes eternities. Every earthly creation is only the image of a spiritual work of creation, it is the form which the spiritual can see in its weak degree of realization, whereas the purely spiritual is only visible to the being which is mature, which is in realization, in light and can see everything spiritual as with bodily eyes. These creations are far more magnificent to behold, they are of a diversity and design that could find no comparison on earth. The one who sees can only enjoy constantly and is himself in a consciousness of power which drives him to creative and formative activity. Spiritual creations also require no space and are therefore also unlimited in their extension. "What no man's eye has ever seen and no man's ear has ever heard, I have prepared for those who love Me ...." This promise is fulfilled when we look at those creations which testify to God's undreamt-of love and wisdom and are accessible to every being standing in the light. Since they are pure creations of light, they also radiate light in all directions and are therefore sources of light which illuminate the universe, even though the creations themselves are not visible. The light radiation, however, manifests itself and penetrates into the universe to take its path to lightless material creations, thus to become visible as 'spiritual' to beings which certainly need light but are not yet able to produce it themselves as light bearers or to receive direct light radiation from the spiritual kingdom. Creations which shine are to be regarded as spiritual creations, thus not consisting of earthly material substances but only visible to the spiritually able to see, whereas an imperfect being can only behold the light which these spiritual creations radiate. Spiritual creations can also become form as soon as they come into an area of directed matter, when therefore a new creation is to come into being through God's will, which again must hold directed spiritual, and these creations are placed into the universe by the light beings as their own idea, yet according to divine will. For matter is spiritual which has become form, which is always first condensed somewhere but is originally spiritual, thus strength from God. At which moment the spiritual takes on form, i.e. matter comes into being, is beyond the knowledge of the being which, embodied as a human being, lives in the midst of material creation and whose knowledge corresponds to its degree of maturity. Only as a being of light does it understand the process of the emergence of matter, so that at the same time it also possesses knowledge of the spiritual creations and can itself be active in creating and shaping. Then it will have solved and answered many questions which it could not solve as a human being, and there will be no end to its praise and glorification of the eternal creator ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them ...."

B.D. 4406 from August 16th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

"And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them ...." But all the forces of the underworld will storm against you who want to spread My teaching. But then you will be assured of My protection and My strength will be at your disposal, you will be able to speak and testify of Me, and My working of the spirit will manifestly appear. But the battle of light against darkness increases in the last days before the end, and where a light shines the forces of darkness seek to extinguish it; where truth is the prince of lies comes and seeks to displace the truth. And My messengers on earth must stand firm, they must not allow themselves to be frightened, for I, the light of eternity, stand behind them, and I will not tolerate that the vessels of My spirit are rendered unfit to receive that which is to be conveyed to people in their great spiritual hardship as an emanation of strength from Me. And every path is marked out for you, every step corresponds to My will, because you have placed yourselves at My service of your own free will and thus I can now transfer My will to you, so that you will only carry out what I tell you to do and what you inwardly feel urged to do. Therefore, if you are to speak for Me, if you are to convey My word to people, you will only ever act as I instruct you, and therefore you can be unconcerned even if the world, i.e. the representatives of error, want to take action against you or strongly harass you with counter-speeches. You speak for Me and in My name, and thus what you say will also have strength and a convincing effect where the will for truth is still present. But the others are representatives of the prince of lies and they will not succeed in silencing you as long as I speak through you. For you are the representatives of My church which I founded Myself and which is only built on profound faith and a life of love .... But this will not be able to be overpowered by the gates of hell, even though it seems as if they have the upper hand .... Numerically indeed, for humanity is under their spell, people no longer stand in truth because they no longer stand in love. And thus they follow those who serve the prince of the underworld, and they close their eyes and ears to the light which is offered to them through My representatives on earth. But I will win the final victory and those who shunned the light because the darkness was more appealing to them will sink into darkness. But you should always be mindful of the fact that I protect those whom I have chosen as My representatives and that you should therefore speak freely and openly as required by the truth conveyed to you by Me.

Amen

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

B.D. 4407 from August 17th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

To you, My faithful, I call out: Avoid the world, for it is a danger to you; consider that My kingdom is not of this world, that My kingdom has nothing to do with this world. But humanity is under the spell of the world and seeks to destroy Me and My kingdom, but it will not succeed, for where My spirit is active, where My true church is, the world has already lost its appeal. The followers of My church only seek Me and no longer allow themselves to be beguiled by pomp and splendour, which is this world's characteristic. Therefore I want to proclaim to you that all striving for external splendour, all building up of material works which are to be consecrated to Me, is useless, for I Myself intervene destructively again because humanity no longer recognizes Me but shall recognize My hand which gives a clear sign of My will. But you should free yourselves from all externality if you want to be true servants to Me, you should only strive for My kingdom alone, you should not allow yourselves to be tempted to regard your knowledge as untrustworthy due to the objections of those who are still in the midst of the world; you should only look for Me alone and let yourselves be taught by Me and reject and drop everything that is still connected to the world. If you want to fight for Me and My kingdom you must see everything in My word, and you will need no external form, no actions visible to the world; you need only unite with Me in thought, receive My word and pass it on in love to those who are of the same spirit as you or who are still to be won over for Me, who are not pleased with the show, who are inward and seek. Tell them about My kingdom, which is not of this world, share the gospel with them, for you will be successful with them. But anyone who still looks towards a behaviour which obviously has a pagan character is not a candidate for My kingdom if he still attaches the slightest value to this behaviour. I am not in the world, I am not in the show, but I dwell where the world is not respected, where a believing heart is ready to receive Me, and I take possession of this heart, I take possession of it and never leave it. And therefore you, My servants, should also avoid all external appearances, you should only withdraw into silence and establish contact with Me, and My kingdom will be with you, I Myself will come to you in the word, and great blessings will arise from every contact with Me. My kingdom is not of this world .... recall these words and you will know what to think of events which obviously have a worldly character and therefore have to be condemned by those who belong to My true church, the church which I Myself founded and which alone will remain in existence for all eternity ....

Amen

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‘No-one can serve two masters ....’

B.D. 4408 from August 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

No-one can serve two masters .... Anyone who wants to make contact with Me will never be able to look towards the world, for I can only be found beyond the world, and if I should allow Myself to be found then the desire for the world must be put aside, it must be completely ignored, for the world belongs to My adversary, it is his domain where he has free reign. And he really does not aspire to lead people to Me by way of the world, instead, he seeks to displace Me, he constantly tries to place special emphasis on the world so that I should be forgotten. So if anyone amongst you is serious about his higher development he cannot possibly still pay tribute to the world .... even though he is still in the midst of the world which makes great demands on him which he has to comply with, yet there is indeed a difference between duty and personal worldly longing. The former is entirely according to My will, for on earth you are given a task, but apart from that you can also fully accomplish your spiritual task, the maturing of your soul, if the desire for the world does not prevail, which happens when earthly pleasures and cravings predominate the desire for spiritual possessions, so that thereby the human being forgets about Me and, indeed, even the thought of Me is uncomfortable leading to his dismissal of Me. Anyone who strives to create an excessive sense of well-being for himself, i.e. for his body, be it through satisfying physical cravings, sensory and carnal desires or through an accumulation of material possessions without thinking of his neighbour, who therefore only strives for himself, is held captive by the world, he is My adversary’s willing tool, and he will never find the path to Me if he does not discard the longing for the earthly world, internalises himself and aspires towards spiritual wealth. Both together are not possible, for then he will serve two masters and will not serve either well. If you are looking for Me you must gaze heavenwards, for I Am above and not below .... Below is My adversary’s realm where you still linger with your body, but your soul can always lift itself up into My kingdom, to Me. Even though the body is still in My adversary’s realm, the soul can nevertheless always rise into spheres beyond the earth, and that is what I demand of someone who wants to find Me, serve Me and thus be one of My Own. Then the spiritual spark in him will unite itself with the eternal Father-Spirit, for if he strives towards Me in all seriousness his heart will also be awash with love, which has nothing in common with worldly love. This love will manifest itself towards the next person, in which case the human being is making contact with Me already .... he renounces what belongs to the world, he gives and thus serves his neighbour and, because I decreed this commandment he also serves Me as His Lord. Worldly love, however, is a form of selfish love, the human being should combat this love if he wants to attain bliss. Consequently, he must also combat his love for the world and try to fulfil the soul’s wishes which, driven by the spirit within, will apply to spiritual possessions and demonstrate love for Me. For I alone Am the Master you should serve if you want to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Without God no truth .... enlightenment of the spirit ....

B.D. 4409 from August 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The deepest wisdom remains hidden if you don't receive it from Me. What can people teach you, what knowledge can you receive from them, if you switch Me off, that is, if you don't first ask Me for spiritual brightness, which at the same time also guarantees you the power of judgement. For if you are offered knowledge by fellow human beings you must first ask yourselves what the origin of this knowledge is and then check for yourselves whether it will stand up to your criticism. But every examination must be preceded by My call, otherwise you will only examine with your intellect and then hardly recognize the truth. Yet I must expressly admonish you to call upon Me in spirit and in truth .... You humans do not realize what this saying means. You speak with your lips or even in your thoughts but your heart is not present, and such a call does not touch My ear .... But if your heart is present, then you really speak to Me as a child speaks to the father. Then every word of yours is life, and then I hear you because it is My spirit which speaks to the father-spirit and through which I give My child an answer, and truly, such that it is understandable to it. Thus I can also impart the deepest wisdom to you because you are able to grasp it, for My spirit works in you. I want to instruct you and impart knowledge to you in abundance which will make you blissfully happy already on earth. I want to kindle a light in you whose rays you will feel beneficially. But you will never be able to receive such from people unless the same knowledge is imparted to you through My messengers who are active on earth on My behalf. But I convey them to you as confirmation of what you mentally receive through the call for enlightenment of the spirit. For they, too, are taught by My spirit, and what comes from Me must always be and remain the same, and it will also always be recognized as the father's word, which has the same origin. Therefore, anyone who is taught by Me will be truly wise and able to teach other people, even if they have high worldly knowledge. Spiritual knowledge can only be possessed by the person whom I teach directly or indirectly Myself, spiritual knowledge originates from Me and flows to those who, as My children, strive for the father's love, which is now expressed in the form of My word. And thus spiritual knowledge can only be received through My word, which is why people stand in fullest truth to whom I can convey My word through the inner voice. They will pass on My word, and yet the call must also now be made again in spirit and in truth if the human being wants to recognize the word offered to him as emanation of Myself, and consequently, wisdom will be encountered where My word is received, knowledge which is blissful in its profundity and which nevertheless becomes fully comprehensible to all who strive for truth and trust My guidance with complete faith. But the knowledge brought to the human being from outside has to completely correspond to the directly commanded word, otherwise it has to be rejected as error by those who strive for truth ....

Amen

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Inner voice ....

B.D. 4410 from August 19th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

If you believe you will also be able to hear My voice in your heart. But one thing has to be taken into account, that it sounds so subtle and quiet that you have to listen attentively, which requires a heartfelt immersion and complete detachment from the world. Anyone who waits for Me to speak out loudly will be disappointed if he waits in vain. And yet he could hear Me, for I am always ready to speak to My children on earth. And I always reveal Myself if I am approached in prayer. Anyone who is able to pray intimately and commune with Me is also able to hear My voice, for it is a continuous communion with Me which he now conducts if he immerses himself in everything he desires to hear. I know My own, and anyone who wants to speak to Me belongs to My own if his heart impels him to do so. But My own shall be properly instructed, therefore I Myself will answer their questions which they put to the spiritual world. And if it is necessary that you receive clarification about it, I will announce it to you and it will be as clear as day before your eyes. But how many questions are sent up to Me which I would like to answer and also do so but which are not understood because the questioner does not pay attention to his thoughts which surround him and which he only needed to receive. But such questioners are often erratic, they don't listen to their heart and therefore cannot hear My voice either. Then I can only give them an answer through My messengers, I can have the same conveyed to them which My messengers have heard. Yet again and again you humans should try to hear Me directly by sincerely praying for enlightenment of spirit and mentally entrusting yourselves to Me, so that I don't necessarily need to audibly make Myself known to you but your thoughts are right and you can therefore feel enlightened if you pay attention to your thoughts and understand them as My answer, which they then truly are if only you believe ....

Amen

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Fight with the sword of the mouth .... assistance of God ....

B.D. 4411 from August 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

My spirit will be upon you if you testify for Me and My kingdom. Therefore do not fear any spiritual debate which earthly-minded people conduct with you but firmly believe that it is not you who speak but that I Myself speak through you, because it is necessary that people are instructed in such a way that they should become suspicious. The battle with the sword of the mouth will be waged victoriously by My own because I Myself am with them and no-one can resist Me. Yet people are still free to acknowledge Me and My working, and thus it is also My plan from eternity that My gospel will indeed find entry to people everywhere but it is still the individual's free will whether they want to become My followers through the gospel. The truth comes from above and can also be recognized as a mission from above, and thus people are truly offered the pure gospel which they could and will accept without hesitation if they have the right attitude towards Me and always approach Me in prayer for My advice and support. Then the truth is acceptable, they will seek spiritual debates and again and again seek clarification where it is still dark in them. But those who are still blinded by the glamour of the world, who still desire earthly goods and strive for offices, are not My true disciples, and the pure truth will not be particularly palatable to them, they far prefer to persist in erroneous views and teachings which are more pleasing to their worldly mind and leave the pure truth unnoticed, which is why they will not feel the benefit of light either and every extraordinary reference to Me will remain without impression. I offer the bread of heaven to everyone, anyone who accepts it as food for his soul will recover and draw strength, he will mature in his soul, increase in realization and completely turn away from the world, for his foot has already entered the kingdom which is his true home, which is far more desirable to him than this world. My working is too obvious to him, he gives credence to all My revelations and constantly increases in wisdom and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fire of love .... divine ....

B.D. 4412 from August 20th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

The fire of love is unquenchable once it has taken hold of the heart, for love can touch the human being in many different ways (many different degrees). Love is an eternal fire that ignites without any cause because it is the elemental force that brought everything into being and sustains everything. Thus a tiny spark of this divine elemental power glows in every human being which, depending on the human being's will, can ignite into a gigantic flame, but it can also be smothered or take on a different form insofar as love in the human being develops into a variety which no longer has anything divine about it .... that it becomes self-love, thus it is a spark which only glows but does not strike a flame which consumes what comes close to it with its embers. A right fire will have an exceedingly beneficial effect and radiate an invigorating warmth, it will shine in a wide radius and illuminate the darkness of the night. And so right love will also revive every person who is touched by it. For true love is not selfish love which only seeks to satisfy itself but it shares itself with the neighbour, it is like a ray of fire which consumes everything that comes close to it. And it cannot be smothered but flares up ever brighter because it is something divine which does not diminish but always increases. Therefore, true love cannot diminish, even if eternities pass by, it remains unchanging, and once it has taken hold of an object it will never ever let go of it .... Therefore, don't fight against this most sacred feeling, let the flame beat ever higher within you, give it ever new nourishment and know that love is a cleansing fire at the same time which removes all dross from the soul. The flame of love seeks to unite with eternal love and thus to consume every obstacle which separates it from the eternal fire. And you should constantly nourish the love in you, you should open your hearts and allow the flame of love to enter, you should not try to smother the smallest little flame but let it take hold of you and glow through your heart, for it is the divine which is to be ignited in you through your will. But anyone who has love is also close to God, thus you should not fight against this feeling which stamps you as divine beings and which should completely fill you if you want to merge with eternal love. You must become love, only then can the union with God take place, Who is eternal love Himself. Only then will you have reached the aim, you will have changed into love and thus entered your original state again, as is your destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Do not hide from Me ....

B.D. 4413 from August 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Do not hide from Me, for I will always know how to find you. No-one will be able to escape from Me, for My arm reaches far and My eye sees sharply; but I want you not to fear Me but to trust Me, to openly confess where you stand in order to be able to help you in times of need. For I am a God of love, not a God of wrath. But he who fears Me and hides himself from Me has not yet recognized Me. But who hides from Me? .... Anyone who believes he can deceive Me, who does not confront Me in utmost truth, who speaks and acts differently than he thinks, who wants to appear before Me as My child and yet turns his eye towards the world. For he hides his true face under a mask. Yet I know him and only want to warn him so that he will drop the mask and turn to Me with open eyes, asking for help so that he will remain truthful .... Do not hide your face from Me, you who believe in Me but do not desire to hear Me Myself, but who accept the evidence of My love, who do not reject Me but do not seriously strive for Me either. Are you not afraid that I will find you and uncover what you want to hide from Me, even though I am a God of love and not a God of wrath? Are you not afraid of the truth that will one day come to light? Why do you hide yourselves and not openly confess Me? Since I am obviously talking to you? You hide behind walls which are supposed to represent My kingdom, but you do not seek Me behind them, for you know that I am outside .... What are you looking for? Is the wall only meant to hide you from Me? My gaze penetrates it and thus I see you after all, and I want to draw you out of hiding because I want you to come to Me, to confess Me before those who likewise keep themselves hidden .... I will bless those who approach Me with their heads held high, who do not fear the world and do not fear Me as God, but love Me and therefore approach Me with complete trust .... I will bless those who only acknowledge Me as lawgiver and place no power of earth above Me, I will bless those who desire to hear Me and to whom I can express Myself in direct form .... But those who hide I do not respect, but I know where they hide, and so they shall know that they cannot deceive Me, that I see through all walls and know every hiding place .... that I will not be deceived, for I see into the hearts of men and pay no attention to what the mouth speaks. But let anyone who understands Me take these words to heart, for My love sends them to anyone who needs them .... because I don't want to lose anyone but want to win all who believe in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly worry unnecessary .... God's Fatherly love ....

B.D. 4414 from August 22nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Why do you worry about your earthly life which I have shaped for each one of you from the very beginning? You cannot change it in the slightest, because My will has determined it as My wisdom judged to be good for you, and whatever comes upon you will be beneficial for you. Therefore travel your earthly path without worry, for every day goes according to My will, and every happening was intended from the start. However, this is not to say that you should do nothing and neglect your earthly task, for this also belongs to your designated destiny, and all activity results in blessings. But do not worry about the outcome of your actions; and thus you may also place all burdens upon Me which I will gladly carry for you; you may confide your every wish to Me, express all considerations, I want to relieve you from every anxiety, for you shall travel your earthly path calmly and cheerfully, because whatever may come upon you, I know every incident and have predetermined it, and what I do is truly right. All worry is unnecessary once you have handed yourselves over to Me, once you have commended yourselves to Me and My grace. Then I, as your Father, will take care of your every worry, My children. Your soul, however, you must take care of yourselves .... This is a worry I cannot take from you, I can only advise you and offer you every opportunity, which you should use for your soul's salvation. The more you take care of it, the less you need to worry about the well-being of your body, because I will take care of that, as I have promised. And by this you shall also recognise the truth of My Word, that I will meet your every need which you, as My children, will have, for as such your requirements will be small, whereas the children of the world make great demands, which I must deny you for your own sakes. Yet I will not let My children starve, for they shall always recognise the love of their Father in Heaven, and in realisation of My love they shall trust Me and their faith shall become so strong that I can give them everything they request, for the sake of their profound faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual work more necessary than earthly .... God's care ....

B.D. 4415 from August 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Creating lasting values for eternity is far better than any earthly activity, unless it consists of works of unselfish neighbourly love which follow the soul into eternity. Anyone who has been given a spiritual task should put it before everything else and be constantly active for God and His kingdom. Again and again you will be told how urgently spiritual cooperation is needed in the end time, again and again you will be informed of the great spiritual hardship which requires your work to remedy it, and again and again you will receive admonitions not to become lukewarm and indifferent in your service for the lord. And you must strictly abide by His word and work diligently for His kingdom. A time will come when all earthly activity will be impossible for you because you will have to use all your strength to spread His word, and you will also be able to survive then because God knows all your needs and will provide for you if you are active for Him. It is His will that much preliminary work is done as long as the actual spiritual activity cannot yet be carried out. And this preliminary work consists of eagerly spreading that which is sent to you from above as His word. Work diligently, don't miss any opportunity, speak where appropriate and try to give written information about His extraordinary working on you for the benefit of humanity. And you can be certain of divine blessing, He will not leave you in adversity, He will also help you earthly and remove every worry from you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Words of love characteristic of spiritual working ....

B.D. 4416 from August 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

My working of the spirit can always be recognized by the fact that I speak to My living creations with love, that I certainly admonish them and send them warnings but always with words which speak of My love, which is why My living creations, My earthly children, should also trustingly come to Me if they have a concern for Me. Therefore, My working of the spirit can never be regarded as the work of satan by those who don't want to believe that I make Myself known to the earthly children. For satan certainly puts on a mask, he hides behind lies and misleading speeches which are intended to feign piety, yet love never speaks out of his conduct nor out of the words people utter through his influence. Moreover, he is not able to make himself known in a way that reveals supernatural activity. With people who are in bondage to him he will indeed be able to work extraordinarily and perform signs and wonders, but always in a God-fighting sense and all too clearly recognizable as to which power he uses. The person's affiliation to him will also become evident through his way of life, because it completely contradicts My will. But where My spirit is active serious striving towards Me is also evident, and My words of love can only be heard because love is practiced, but love belongs to Me and is never My adversary's weapon. Thus, as long as love is practiced and taught My spirit is active, and this activity also guarantees My presence. But love will always enliven My word, it will be able to be considered the crowning glory, thus it will testify to Me Myself and thus also to Me as the originator of that which is revealed to people through My spirit. And thus you can believe every prophet and regard him as My servant who urges you to love, who imparts the teaching of love to you as received from Me. And you humans need have no doubts whatsoever about the truthfulness of My word, you can place faith and trust in those who speak for Me, for they do it on My behalf, impelled by the voice of the spirit, which is the expression of My love from eternity. Therefore, anyone who hears this voice and can reproduce the words should not deny the working of the spirit but believe that he has been instructed by Me to teach his fellow human beings, that he is enabled by Me to do so by being trained for a teaching activity and that he only reproduces what is conveyed to him through the voice of the spirit, which is My voice. And you should listen to him and believe that he speaks on My behalf, for he is merely the organ which, through his will and his life of love, is enabled to express Myself through him.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace and love grants ....

B.D. 4417 from August 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

All who do not turn away from Me are partakers of My love and grace. I truly have no other aim than to make blessed those who came forth from Me and fell away from Me before eternal times. Whoever accepts My help will also become blessed. An abundance of grace is available to the apostate, and My never-ending love constantly directs this treasure of grace to him. You can become again what you once were, and your former destiny also remains the last aim. Like Me you shall be active in creating and shaping in highest bliss, in possession of My strength of love and in constant contact with Me. Because of this high aim you walk through this earth, for the distance from Me is still too far, but you can reduce it if you have the will to do so, for this will is free. You can achieve everything if you want it yourselves, every help will be granted to you, all aids are at your disposal, yet you have to want it yourselves, and the achievement of the aim depends on your will. In order to stimulate your will into the right activity My word will be conveyed to you and this is a grace of highest value, for through My word My will will be made known to you, through My word you will be instructed about the effect of the right or wrongly applied will. Through My word you increase in knowledge and can now lead your way of life at your own discretion. And thus the supply of My word is a grace which expresses My profound love for you and enables you to reach your aim. But again, it is only up to your will whether you accept or reject My word. The acceptance of My word also guarantees you the attainment of the aim, but if you reject it there is no possibility of reaching the aim, for then you will lack everything .... grace, love and strength .... If you don't listen to Me, then I will also turn My face away from you, although I will not completely let you fall, but then a period of redemption will not suffice for you, an earthly life will not shape you into aspirants of My kingdom .... Then you will still have to live on earth for an infinitely long time in any form, and your redemption from the form will take eternities, because you yourselves do not have the will to let yourselves be helped and I never force the will, for you were free creatures and as free creatures you will have to travel the path to Me again if you want to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's care for His servants ....

B.D. 4418 from August 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

He Who has taken you into His service also determines your ways, and you may safely entrust yourselves to His guidance. And therefore you need not worry about your future, you need not make any plans or arrangements concerning your earthly life but you can always rely on the help of the one Whom you want to serve. Providing for yourselves is completely unnecessary, for you don't know what is coming; but He knows, and He arranges everything well and correctly. And thus He will also assign you your mission at the right time and take care that you are earthly available, that everything is so far arranged that you can devote yourselves entirely to spiritual work if it is necessary. He will provide you with people who will support you in every way, He will guide you along the paths you should take and where your help is needed. For then all your wanting, thinking and acting will be under His guidance, because you are willing to surrender your will and thus He can already work in you. Therefore rely completely on His guidance and you will not take an erroneous path ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious exhortation to soul work ....

B.D. 4419 from August 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

A rich treasure is at your disposal, but people pass it by indifferently. Every hint of it is well heard but leaves no impression. You receive information from all sides about an imminent change of life, yet you don't believe it and the time passes which is still to be regarded as the last time of grace. You humans derive no benefit from it, you pay no attention to My voice which touches your ear in various ways. And thus I will let it sound so loudly that you will have to hear it, even though you will still not be forced to pay attention to it, for your will is free. But the time has come which signifies the end because people are no longer willing to change despite their ability to change. They live entirely without faith, they are so distant from Me that they are without any spiritual supply of strength and thus cannot achieve spiritual progress. Their earthly life has become completely pointless, for they don't value it for eternity but it is only an end in itself for them, thus it contradicts My eternal order. And therefore I want to put an end to it so that the earth will arise anew again, so that the spiritual development of the people inhabiting it can continue again and I can dwell amongst My living creations again and let My strength of love flow into them because they love Me and strive for My presence. And so the last time has irrevocably come for this earth .... it is an extremely serious time for all people, for it is full of responsibility because it brings life or death .... yet not only for the body but for the soul, which has to suffer eternally or can also become blissfully happy. You humans, listen to My word, take it seriously, prepare yourselves, try to gain faith by seriously thinking about what you hear through My messengers; don't resist if you are urged to work with love, for this alone will bring you salvation, it will bring about an inner change and is life for your soul. Pay attention to the hardship around you and help where possible, put self-love aside and pay more attention to your neighbour who is in the same hardship as you. Help him and you will also be helped, and believe that the end is near. Then you will also make better use of your life, you will deal with the thought of death and the soul's continuation of life, and your earthly life will be steered on the right path by itself, because then your sense of responsibility will grow and you will strive for the salvation of your soul. I only ever want to admonish you for your own sake to think of your soul and let its well-being be more important to you than the well-being of the body, to which I give what it needs if only you strive for light, for truth, for Me .... For the time you still have left is passing quickly, yet you can still achieve an unspeakable amount with good will, because I help everyone who believes in Me and seeks to fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers