New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4548 - 4679

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

4548 - God spark.... enlightenment.... truth - love - instruction....

4549 - Spreading error in the end time.... God's counteraction....

4550 - Redemptive work of Christ.... "descended to hell...."

4551 - Question ‘Why’.... (Anthroposophist Cologne).... Fall of the angels.... Sin....

4552 - Announcement of the end....

4553 - The human being’s imperfect state corresponds to his will....

4554 - Requirement of grace spiritual and earthly....

4555 - Commandment of charity....

4556 - Fatherly care for His servants....

4557 - Purification fire in the end time: suffering and misery....

4558 - Resisting the truth.... "Seek and ye shall find...."

4559 - The doctrine of re-incarnation.... (Tantra-message)

4560 - Mental knowledge of worldly origin.... Truth - Error....

4561 - Passing on the divine Word....

4562 - Sudden turnaround.... call upon God....

4563 - Field of activity of the workers in the vineyard of the lord....

4564 - Stream of grace in the last days before the end....

4565 - Training the truth bearers.... fighting with sword of the mouth....

4566 - Don't fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul....

4567 - Serious questions for the teachers who fight God's servants....

4568a - Gospel good news.... disciples of the end time.... faith....

4568b - Gospel good news.... disciples of the end time.... faith....

4569 - Effectiveness of divine truth only after overcoming the world....

4570 - Spiritual cooperation....

4571 - Beatification.... knowledge.... God’s word direct.... conditions....

4572 - Spiritual and earthly co-workers in the redemptive work of Christ....

4573 - Destiny according to human will....

4574 - Assessment of duties according to degree of love....

4575 - ‘They ate and drank....’ just as it was before the Flood....

4576 - Confessing before the world - living faith....

4577 - Overcoming matter....

4578 - Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

4579 - Worker in the vineyard of the lord.... activity....

4580 - 'I will send you the Comforter....' (Explanation of apparent contradictions)

4581 - Food and drink for the soul.... bread of heaven....

4582 - Spiritual maturation of those who are to fulfil a mission....

4583 - Redemptive work of Christ....

4584 - Earnest exhortation to faithful work in the vineyard of the lord....

4585 - "My kingdom is not of this world...."

4586 - God's involvement in the work for His kingdom.... self-will - God's will....

4587 - Warning against rejecting the divine Word.... 'Test all things and....'

4588 - The working of the spirit.... Scrutiny.... Proof: Oratorical gift.... Truth - Error.... God's messengers....

4589 - Task of God's servants: enlightenment about living faith and truth....

4590 - Doctrine of re-incarnation.... Misguided teaching.... Celestial bodies....

4591 - Love condition to be able to believe God’s word....

4592 - God’s word proof of His presence....

4593 - Mission of the last disciples of the end time.... preaching the gospel....

4594 - God speaks through the heart.... the opponent of God through the mind....

4595 - Presence of God.... voice of the father.... right children....

4596 - Announcement of judgement.... as in the time of the flood....

4597 - Simple and spiritual sense of the teachings....

4598 - Commandment of love proof of truth.... content of the divine word: gospel....

4599 - "Keep My word.... come all ye to Me...."

4600 - Keep My word!.... remember the end!....

4601 - Test the spirits.... Act of Salvation.... Criterion Jesus Christ....

4602 - Eternal damnation....

4603 - Success of the forces of light or darkness is determined by man through his will....

4604 - Wooing for the love of God....

4605 - False prophets.... light.... darkness and dark figures....

4606 - Prediction for the end....

4607 - 'Satan prowls around like a roaring lion....' 'Watch and pray.... '

4608 - "I will not leave you orphans...." (John 14)

4609 - Conviction of the truth can only be found within the human being himself....

4610 - Commitment of those who receive the word of God....

4611 - Forfeiting the gift of grace....

4612 - Prophetic spirit.... God's plan of salvation - end time....

4613 - The weak will not experience the end....

4614 - (Easter Maundy Thursday)

4615 - (Good Friday)

4616 - (Easter Sunday)

4617 - (Easter Monday)

4618 - Sins of the fathers take revenge on the children....

4619 - Love wins....

4620 - The working of the spirit in the wakeful state.... Evidence: reasons....

4621 - No partial knowledge.... light beings as teachers.... only truth....

4622 - Visible appearance shortly before the end as proof of God's love....

4623 - Adversity and suffering as educational means.... Increase of strength....

4624 - Spiritual concentration before acceptance.... Strict self-criticism....

4625 - Right knowledge awakens faith and love for God....

4626 - Saviour of body and soul....

4627 - God's blessing on His servants....

4628 - Effect of the divine word on man.... previous intimate connection....

4629 - Working of love.... using of God's gift of power.... "He who abides in love...."

4630 - The dying Saviour's last Words on the cross.... Audible Word.... Appearance....

4631 - Agonies of a renewed banishment in solid matter....

4632 - Trust in God's help.... love and protect for His servants....

4633 - People's fear.... Natural disaster and its consequences....

4634 - Power of faith.... obvious help.... last means of grace....

4635 - Battle of faith.... Publicly professing Christ.... 'I will shorten the days....'

4636 - Promise of most faithful fatherly care.... visible appearance....

4637 - Blessed activity for the kingdom of God.... exhortation to busy activity....

4638 - Prayer bridge to God.... thoughts bridge to the spiritual realm....

4639 - 'There shall not be left one stone upon another.... ' Great adversity....

4640 - God’s word most effective means for the healing of the soul....

4641 - Spiritual rebirth....

4642 - Lord's supper.... guests of the lord....

4643 - Battle of faith.... The strength of Jesus' name.... The coming of the Lord....

4644 - Experiencing the downfall as if in a dream state.... memory, new earth....

4645 - Think not earthly.... admonition of God to take up His word more often....

4646 - God's will - guideline of life....

4647 - "You will be able to accomplish even greater things...." promise....

4648 - Thirst for knowledge.... perk of asking questions....

4649 - "I will not leave you orphans...." (John 14)

4650 - God's overflowing love.... How should love for God be like?....

4651 - Destruction of the earth act of mercy by God.... seers and prophets....

4652 - Receiving the announcements in an alert state.... light forces....

4653 - Suitability for spiritual work - dedication of the world....

4654 - "Become like the children...."

4655 - "What God has joined together...." Connections blessed by God....

4656 - Instrument of God.... holding up the errors right of the disciples....

4657 - Realization of the eternal Godhead....

4658 - Outpouring of the spirit.... task spreading of the teaching of love....

4659 - Radiance of God.... instruction from within.... gift of speech....

4660 - Working of the spirit (pentecost) mediator.... truth - error.... mission....

4661 - Announcement of the Judgment.... Doubts.... The approach of a star....

4662 - 'Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation....'

4663 - Task of those who became knowledgeable at the source of wisdom....

4664 - Demonstrating the love of God through labouring charity....

4665 - The world wants to see miracles and does not see the greatest miracle of all....

4666 - God as teacher.... truth bearer....

4667 - Value of spiritual thoughts....

4668 - Eternally cycle....

4669 - Spreading the pure truth.... God's love, omnipotence and wisdom....

4670 - The reason for God’s remarkable action....

4671 - Incomprehensible value of the word of God.... supply greatest gift of grace....

4672 - The soul matures through suffering.... God’s care.... World and God....

4673 - Consistency of the pure word of God.... change man's work....

4674 - Love epitome of divinity.... reverse love....

4675 - 'That day and hour knoweth no man....' False prophets of the last days....

4676 - Sphere of activity for workers in the vineyard of the lord....

4677 - Purpose and aim of the earth walk.... instructions and help of God....

4678 - Endlessly long course of the soul before embodiment as a human being....

4679 - Deep faith in truth of divine word.... "Ask and it will be given to you...."

God spark .... enlightenment .... truth - love - instruction ....

B.D. 4548 from January 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Your faith shall be rewarded, what you ask for shall be granted to you if you present your request to Me in right trust, for I want you to recognize your father in Me so that you may love Me .... The spark of God within you will guide you into recognition, for it is a part of Me and as such knowing and testifying to the truth. It teaches the human being from within and therefore he needs no teacher as soon as he asks Me for the truth himself, as soon as he calls upon Me as the giver of truth to enlighten his spirit. Thus he gives the spark within himself the authority to teach him, which always first requires the human being's will for truth, but which must be paired with the will to love, otherwise he cannot be appreciated for the truth. For truth is divine, it is a gift of grace imparted to those who unite with Me, thus live in love. This is why lies and error are so widespread in the world and truth is so rarely found, because humanity is devoid of all love, thus far from Me and therefore also far from the truth, since I am both love and truth Myself. This is so simple to understand that it cannot be otherwise, and yet this simple realization is not peculiar to people, precisely due to a lack of will to love. Yet as soon as the human being earnestly asks for right thinking he can be certain that his request will be granted, for I want to guide the truth everywhere and bless the person who desires Me Myself. And then I will guide the right representatives of My teaching who will then enlighten them on My behalf, I will guide the thoughts correctly so that every enlightenment will be comprehensible, I will stimulate the thoughts into constant activity so that the beings of light will also be able to carry out their heavenly mission, and the human being will be introduced to the truth and also be able to believe with full conviction what is presented to him as truth. Thus I will come closer to you Myself in truth, you will recognize Me and learn to love Me and never ever will you sink back into darkness once your spirit has been enlightened ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading error in the end time .... God's counteraction ....

B.D. 4549 from January 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Error will always break through more easily than truth, because it is more appealing to people, i.e. it takes into account people's state of imperfection. Truth will only satisfy those people who have the inner drive to ascend, who are therefore no longer turned towards the world and its stimuli and also deal with the demands which are not so pleasing to the body, if truth demands this. And yet the truth will triumph .... For all who cling to error will perish, while truth also guarantees eternal life. (26.1.1949) For truth is divine and will continue to exist for all eternity, but the fact that error will spread everywhere in the last days to such an extent that truth will only prevail to a vanishingly small extent is the reason why God Himself, as the eternal truth, embodies Himself again in the spirit of people who want to serve Him as bearers of truth. For the few people who are still open to the truth need special care so that they will not suffer harm in the midst of an environment which is touched by influences from the kingdom of darkness. They need increased strength, they need direct instruction from the kingdom of light. And therefore God gives them extraordinary consideration and sends His word to them in a way which is indeed extraordinary but which could also be explained naturally for people's sake, so that they will not be forced to believe. God Himself instructs people in truth through the mouth of a servant who places Himself at their disposal, so that purest truth is guaranteed and all error is excluded. But the belief that what is offered is truth has to be won by the human being himself, otherwise even the deepest truth will remain ineffective. The examination as to whether God speaks through that person can certainly be carried out by every conscientious and truth-desiring person, for the divine teaching of love will underlie every word and this will never ever use a countervailing power to push people away from God. Everything that has God as its aim, everything that testifies to God's love, that teaches love and promotes perfection, is divine, thus it originated from God Himself, and the standard can be applied to it at any time. And therefore everyone can undertake such an examination, for if he is of serious will he will feel the divine in his heart, because what originates from God works as strength in the heart of the person who desires God and thus also the pure truth. Anyone who is willing to do so is capable of testing, for he tests with the support of God Who gives everyone the power of realization so that the truth will break through and displace error, so that the flock of His own in the last days will have a strong support in the knowledge that God Himself dwells on earth in the spirit of those who are willing to serve Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemptive work of Christ .... "descended to hell ...."

B.D. 4550 from January 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

He who allowed Himself to be crucified took upon Himself the sins of all mankind and offered God the atonement for them. This act of greatest human love was unique, for never before has a human being suffered as Jesus did, Whose love was exceedingly great and was returned to Him in the most shameful way. He appealed for the love of His fellow human beings, He did good to them and helped them earthly and spiritually, but this demonstration of love was not enough for Him, He wanted to bring help to humanity for eternity, He wanted to show them the path to eternal beatitude. His love, however, was disregarded and the most shameful thing that could only be done to a human being was done to Him .... He was crucified like a felon .... Satan himself did the work on Him, for those who carried it out were His servants. But the powers of darkness are also subject to God's will, they were to a certain extent involved in Christ's work of redemption, only in evil will, which is why they therefore brought guilt upon themselves, although the work of redemption was accepted by God as atonement for humanity. The will to love of the man Jesus, Who allowed Himself to be nailed to the cross out of mercy for His suffering fellow human beings, was highly valued, for He suffered unspeakably as a human being because everything that was done to Him was perpetrated in hatred and His soul was most sensitively affected by it. He gave love and reaped the deepest hatred in return, He wanted to lead people upwards, to the light, and the darkest figures of the depths met Him and tried to pull Him down; He consciously took the cup and drank it, although His human nature trembled and He prayed to God in deepest fear: "Why have You forsaken Me ...." He suffered as a human being, as a pure, sinless human being, Who knew nothing but love and therefore had all power at His disposal .... He did not use the power, but He allowed Himself to be crucified and conceded to the worst fellow human beings the right to dispose of His body .... And they did it to His indescribable agony .... He atoned for the sins of humanity because He wanted to redeem them.

He knew that sin was the greatest evil, that it determined their fate in eternity, and thus He tried to draw people's attention to the great danger they were in due to their sinful way of life through word and deed, yet people neither accepted His teaching nor changed of their own accord. And thus Jesus made the sacrifice by handing over His body, which completely immaculately bowed under the burden of sin, which earthly collapsed because thousands of souls clung to Him, who tried to pull Him down into darkness. But He was stronger, the power of love was stronger than death, He even overcame death and became its victor .... He did not shake off the souls, but He sought to convince them of the power of love .... He also brought salvation to those who were no longer on this earth .... He descended to hell before He ascended to heaven. His love penetrated the deepest depths, and whoever accepted it was saved, he was redeemed from the chains of death. God as the eternal love also wants to save the lost, and therefore He accepted the love of a human being which was so profound that it applied to the whole of humanity and which He wanted to express through His exceedingly agonizing death .... God accepted this sacrifice of love and granted redemption from the unfree state, which was the result of sin, to all those who acknowledge Jesus as saviour and impose their sins on Him. For His love is greater than His wrath, and everything that walks in love finds grace before His eyes and also His mercy. For the sake of Jesus' blood, His gaze turns to the wretched and He forgives the greatest guilt ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Question ‘Why’ .... (Anthroposophist Cologne) .... Fall of the angels .... Sin ....

B.D. 4551 from January 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It remains perpetually unfathomable for human beings what moves God to rule and work as He does, because human intellect cannot comprehend what motives form the basis for God’s expression of strength; neither can it comprehend the interactions because it can only see and feel the result of what primordially had happened in the spiritual realm, in a world, of which all visible creations are mere weak reflections that cannot even comparatively be referred to and which were only created as a result of what had taken place a long time ago in the realm of God’s created spirits. These were the purest expression of His strength, consequently they too were powerful and strong, they were of the highest perfection. God’s creative will had transferred itself to His created beings too, with the result that all His thoughts urged to express themselves in them as well and therefore a creative will of unimaginable extent inspired these beings which now became active without restriction. In other words, new creations were produced which surpassed themselves; however, these new creations were always inspired beings and of greatest perfection too, therefore also cognitive and in possession of free will.

The first entity which came forth out of God outshone everything with its light and strength because it had developed from God Himself and found its bliss in the constant use of its unlimited strength. Its creations increased and its bliss grew immeasurably, God had imposed on it no limitations. However, He put it to the test because He wanted the entity to become aware of itself as the carrier of God’s outgoing strength .... This test required that the entity .... Lucifer .... should depict God to his creations as their origin, in order that he too would continue to always consciously accept the strength, which enabled him to be creatively active, from God. Thus he was meant to acknowledge God as his Creator and source of strength and his bliss would be unlimited for all eternity. He was not put to the test merely for the sake of this acknowledgment but he was expected to make a decision of his own free will that was intended to elevate him from the perfectly created being to a perfect being of his own volition, so that he too could use his power and strength as a truly divine being within the will of God ....

And he failed .... He did not want to be the recipient but the source of strength himself, and the amount of strength at his disposal seemed proof enough to him .... Therefore he volitionally separated himself from God, although a separation from Him was not possible since he couldn’t exist without God. And since his will, with the use of God’s strength, had created innumerable beings, he considered himself as their creator and of enormous strength and power; consequently he volitionally separated from God in arrogance and lust for power, thereby becoming sinful and pulling all of his creations into sin too. Although they themselves were still innocent they were completely under the influence of him who had given them life.

And these were now given the right of self-determination by God, they were permitted to see the light and in their perfection also recognised their origin, they could therefore also stay with God and participate in His glory. However, only few followed Him, that is, only few chose to stay with God of their own free will and, as His angels, were constantly with Him and worked for Him in the spiritual realm. The greater part, however, fell .... they followed their creator, freely chose to accept his will as their own and by doing so fell into a state of spiritual darkness .... His awareness was taken from him because the effect of the strength reduces as soon as the entity distances itself from God ....

But everything was and is strength out of God which eternally cannot be lost and therefore must return to Him in a way that God’s wisdom has judged to be effective. And this way is the progression through the earthly physical creation, which God had brought into being for the purpose of leading the fallen spirit back to Him. The spirit moves through this creation with a bound will, that is, in a state of compulsion on the slow path of upward development until it reaches the stage when its free will is returned to it and it is once again confronted with the decision to choose the power it wants to adhere to.

The being is burdened with the sin of its past opposition to God but can release itself by using God’s strength which it once had rejected; however, it has to acquire this through works of love and by consciously requesting it from God in prayer. It has to use its free will during its earthly life in the right manner .... it has to turn towards God again and acknowledge Him as eternal Father and Creator .... Then it returns once more to the state of light, it becomes a recipient of strength and can work again in accordance to its will which now is also God’s will .... and it shall be able to create and shape for its own happiness and thus be eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Announcement of the end ....

B.D. 4552 from January 29th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You must prepare yourselves for the end. I constantly send this admonition to you; time is rushing by without you becoming aware of this time in all seriousness. Anyone who has My word is certainly focused on it, but you also still pay attention to the world because you stand in the midst of it. But if you knew how close you are to the end then the world would no longer entice you because you expect something better after the end of this earth. And you can believe that there is not much time left because My word is coming true. I do not speak in vain through My servants on earth, and I do not let them speak anything that is against My will if they speak for Me, if they are active for My kingdom and for My teaching, if they stand up for My word from above. If I want the truth to be spread and thus convey truthful knowledge to earth, I will not tolerate the spreading of error through the same mouth which also endangers the pure truth. And therefore I keep telling you again and again: You can believe it that the end is near .... Your soul will sense it by feeling differently, by being sad where the world's joys are offered to people, by being anxious where the world looks to the future with hope. Your soul feels correctly because it senses the end, it senses the intensified struggle in the spiritual kingdom which also oppresses and frightens itself, and it will not be satisfied with earthly joys and earthly goods because it recognizes their worthlessness in view of the end. Pay attention to this inner voice, let your soul instruct you, i.e., pay attention to your feelings, and prepare yourselves for the fact that a sudden change will come, that the worldly peace will be disturbed and a fire will start to flare up which will usher in the end. Listen to what I tell you and believe that every day will bring you closer to the event which I keep announcing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The human being’s imperfect state corresponds to his will ....

B.D. 4553 from January 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The fact that I gave you your earthly life does not justify the assumption that I placed you in the imperfect state which is causing you problems on earth. Every one of you is shaped according to his will, that is, not according to your will on earth as a human being but according to the characteristic of your will prior to your embodiment as a human being. Despite the fact that your will was not striving towards higher spheres I have given you the opportunity to nevertheless attain a certain degree of higher development by constraining your will, so that you were able to be actively of service in the state of compulsion which thereby reduced the vast distance from Me. Afterwards I released your will, which is shaped differently in every individual person, depending on his inner opposition to Me. And you humans are shaped according to this will of yours on earth, equipped with different physical abilities, traits and feelings, so that you have the greatest possible opportunity to mature fully during your life on earth, for the option of entering the spiritual kingdom at the end of this physical life is open to everyone. Thus I did not give you flaws and weaknesses, but you yourselves brought them along in misguided love, otherwise you would be able to discard them instantly were your love not wrongly directed. None of you sufficiently consider the fact that you possess free will and that this free will is the cause of your embodiment on earth. In the past the spiritual beings sinned of their own free will, and of their own free will they must recognise their sins and make

Amends for them by consciously striving towards Me, against Whom they had transgressed. You humans on earth have almost reached the goal, for you are already considerably closer to the state which once was your fate before your apostasy from Me. However, your will decides the final achievement .... You must try to master all faults and weaknesses, vices and cravings yourselves, for you do not lack the means for help, the grace and strength from above. Yet if you love yourselves the way you are, you will never reach the final goal. Know yourselves and try to change .... for one day you will have to give account as to how you have used your short lifetime on earth. My love offers you every opportunity to mature full but it always respects your freedom of will ....

Amen

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Requirement of grace spiritual and earthly ....

B.D. 4554 from February 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Ask for grace and it will be granted to you in abundance. Without grace you are weak and unsuitable for the work on your soul, without grace you can certainly create and work earthly because vitality is at your disposal but it should also be blessed in order to be used for the right activity. Therefore you should also ask for a blessing for your earthly activity and thus commend body and soul to the blessing of your heavenly father. For without divine blessing, without God's grace, you will have little success spiritually as well as earthly. And if you have earthly success you are in danger of falling prey to God's adversary, for he, too, can favour your work if you are at his beck and call. And beware of this, don't let him become your helper, don't use his strength to increase earthly success but turn to the heavenly father in humble prayer that He may take you into His protection and support you spiritually and earthly, ask Him for His grace, for strength for spiritual striving, and your earthly striving will likewise be blessed. Body and soul need help, for as a human being you are still too imperfect to be able to help yourselves by your own strength, yet with the strength from God, with His grace, with His support, you can create supernatural things. But this grace has to be requested, the human being has to consciously turn to God for help and thereby admit his weakness to Him; he has to acknowledge God as the source of strength Who, in His love for His living creations, is willing to help and does not refuse any request for strength. He Himself has called upon you with the words: "Come to Me, all of you .... I will refresh you". He wants to pour out His measure of grace upon you who are in need of it, He wants to help you in your upward development, in your spiritual and earthly striving. And you will be able to achieve the greatest success if you comply with His call, if you take refuge in Him when you are weak and feel little capable of spiritual and earthly activity .... Then call upon Him to bless your will and give you strength, that He may remain with you always and constantly with His grace, so that you may reach the aim .... to mature in earthly life for eternity ....

Amen

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Commandment of charity ....

B.D. 4555 from February 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A commandment has been given to you by Me, and you must fulfil this commandment in order to become blessed. This commandment includes all commandments which were given individually by Moses so that people would stop their sinful activity which consisted of constant offences against their neighbour. Everything that violates love for the neighbour is sin and thus the term 'sin' is also completely clarified, for every violation of the commandment of love for the neighbour is also an offence against Me Myself, a denial of love for Me, Who is the creator of all people and thus also the father of His children, who are to live in love for each other. You can only prove your love for Me by loving your neighbour, for how else will you be able to love Me if you don't see Me, if you don't love the neighbour you see and who is the living testimony of My love, wisdom and power? If you don't see the product of My love in him it will also be difficult for you to love Me as creator, for love for Me first arises from active neighbourly love which brings Me Myself close to you and also awakens the feeling of love for Me in you. What you do to your neighbour I consider done to Me and seize you with My love in return, which signifies the supply of strength and light for you. And since you need both in order to mature on earth you absolutely have to fulfil My commandment of love, otherwise your earthly life will be an idle run without success and without ascent upwards. And don't be content with doing nothing bad but make an effort to do good deeds for your neighbour. Help where help is needed, distribute spiritual and earthly gifts, take care of the individual's need and truly be a brother and friend to your neighbour, a helper in every adversity. Then you will also awaken reciprocated love and thus also lead your neighbour to Me, because only love can establish the connection with Me in such a form that My strength will flow directly to you, and because only through love can the union with Me take place, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life ....

Amen

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Fatherly care for His servants ....

B.D. 4556 from February 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Only a few allow themselves to be taught by Me directly, and I want to be a true father to these few, for I see their will which applies to Me and is willing to do everything for Me.

(3.2.1949) They shall be little burdened by earthly worries, yet for their own sake they will have to endure many adversities but they can also always be certain of My help. And thus the short time will pass until the commitment for Me and My kingdom. But then their work for Me will provide them with ample compensation for what they lack in earthly possessions, for they go about their work with eagerness and are truly living representatives of My word. Whatever your situation in life, you will all experience an upheaval, high and low, poor and rich will be affected by the effects of My appearance through nature, and everyone will shape his further life himself through his attitude towards Me. The hardship will be almost unbearable at first, yet everyone can receive help if he knocks on the right door as a supplicant, if he comes to Me and asks Me for advice and help. But anyone who wants to reshape his life without Me will remain on the ground or rise up with strength from below and quickly ascend. But woe to them, for they have sold their souls for the sake of the short time of life they have left until the end. Anyone who comes to Me will not remain without help, yet the help is of a different kind, because all suffering is also meant to fulfil its purpose of helping the soul to mature, and earthly wellbeing is truly not suitable for this. Yet the fate will be bearable for everyone who walks with Me and always directs his steps towards Me before he engages in worldly activities, which is demanded of him in every way. Therefore do not fear the coming time, you who want to serve Me and also you who believe and pay attention to My word from above, know that My will allows everything to come to pass and that I know well about the hardship of the individual; know that I protect everyone and help them who believe in Me and want to be Mine. And know that the time until the end is not long anymore and that you will experience the end more maturely the more you have gone through suffering which, however, will always be bearable for you because I am with you and will remain until the end, because I can speak to you in the word which will be your source of strength in every spiritual and earthly adversity ....

Amen

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Purification fire in the end time: suffering and misery ....

B.D. 4557 from February 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You will be tested enough and have to go through purification fires, yet it is only for the salvation of your souls, which have already become too lukewarm to do active work on their own in order to develop upwards. The weakness of the will becomes more and more evident the closer the end is, and therefore the will has to be stimulated into utmost development, which can only happen through suffering and affliction if the human being does not decide to live a life of love by himself and thereby all too much suffering can be avoided. The fire of love purifies the soul in no time, and therefore you humans are offered much opportunity to practice love for your neighbour, for hardship will require help in every way. If only you humans look around you, your will can be stimulated into serving neighbourly love. And you will truly receive the greatest blessing from it, for at the same time the suffering which is imposed on you for the purpose of maturing the soul will be reduced. Always ask for strength and reinforcement of will, ask for grace, i.e. help from above in every spiritual and earthly adversity, give everything you can spare to your suffering neighbour and don't be afraid to get into trouble yourselves as a result; always share out what you receive yourselves and thereby help alleviate hardship when the great adversity has set in, which is inevitable for you humans because you are close to the end. And you will mature yourselves and also awaken love in your fellow human beings which will now also promote their maturity of soul. You cannot be left without suffering as long as the will to love has not yet become active in you. But if you yourselves feel that hardship oppresses you, you will also have compassion for your neighbour's hardship and intervene to help if you are of good will. And therefore don't grumble and complain about suffering but know that it is an opportunity for you to mature and at the same time an incentive for loving activity and that the end time necessitates such and that all events find their explanation in the end time. Yet if you request strength from above, if you humbly carry what is imposed on you, you will also overcome the great adversity and only ever derive benefit for your soul from it .... one day you will bless the adversity which made you mature for eternity ....

Amen

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Resisting the truth .... "Seek and ye shall find ...."

B.D. 4558 from February 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It is a difficult start to convey My word to those who believe themselves to be in possession of the truth and yet only advocate misguided teachings as truth. And My servants on earth will have a difficult time with them, they will be denounced as heretics and false prophets, and the former will be believed more and nothing will be accepted which is conveyed to people from above and shall be spread. Nevertheless, you, My disciples of the last days, shall proclaim My word wherever you are offered the opportunity to speak, and you can always be certain that I am with you and support you in every way. For there are people of good will everywhere who desire the truth and cannot find it where you believe to possess the truth. There will be people everywhere to whom the word from above speaks to the heart and who therefore also accept what is offered to them and recognize it as truth. Everyone is free to accept or reject, yet where obedience is rendered under coercion, where people cannot freely decide for themselves, you will not achieve much unless a person is so intimately united with Me that he will not be satisfied with what is imparted to him from that side. He will be guided into right thinking, he will recognize the truth of his own accord, but never where My word from above is rejected, instead, he will look for Me and I will let him find Me, I will supply him with My right representatives who will enlighten him and introduce him to the truth. But make an attempt everywhere to spread My word, make no distinction but speak everywhere you find access. It is the individual souls in the midst of the masses who recognize Me in the word, the sheep who recognize the voice of their shepherd and follow it. And if you find a person to whom you make My word accessible and who listens to you, you have achieved much, for this person is saved for eternity, he now stands in truth which lets him find the path to Me. Speak and advertise everywhere, and even if the success is small you are nevertheless the helper for some souls in greatest spiritual adversity, for error will not make a soul happy but only block its path to Me. But if it seeks Me it will also seek the truth and recognize it in My word which you offer to people in My name. But anyone who rejects it harms himself, yet it is his free will ....

Amen

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The doctrine of re-incarnation .... (Tantra-message)

B.D. 4559 from February 6th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Whatever you would like to know, ask Me, and I will answer your questions as soon as you put them to Me .... It is of utmost significance for all people that they aim to achieve full maturity of soul during their earthly life and that they firmly believe that one day they will have to give account to a God of justice of how they had used their earthly life. This belief encourages people to be spiritually very active. Thus, it is understandable that a belief in frequent opportunities for higher development through repeated incarnations on earth will make the human being indifferent to his psychological task. This belief is dangerous, because it effectively lessens the endeavour for highest possible maturity of soul while, at the same time, it questions My justice. How should I call this or that person to account, unless I allow every human being to re-incarnate on earth? How should people, who transform themselves into love in accordance with My will during their earthly life be rewarded if I give others, who failed to do so, the opportunity to incarnate themselves again once or several more times for the purpose of achieving higher development? In that case, every person would eventually have achieved the same degree of perfection ....

The degree of light determines the degree of bliss in the spiritual kingdom. Hence, the strength of light, which the person has achieved on earth in free will, determines the sphere of activity allocated to him in the spiritual kingdom, where he can consistently increase in wisdom and strength, and also in happiness. In turn, his activity consists of transmitting light and strength to beings who are in darkness and without strength, who require help on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. This activity is tremendously gladdening, so that you cannot compare it to any activity on earth. It follows, that every being capable of distributing light and strength to needy souls wants to be fully active, because it thereby makes itself extremely happy, seeing that it receives the strength from Me and is thus effectively a relay station for My emanation of strength. Every being seeks to implement this happiness-inducing process as soon as it has but a shimmer of knowledge, thus no longer moving in deepest spiritual darkness. Then, it will never again voluntarily exchange its abode in the spiritual realm with that on earth, it will never again desire the physical body, since the opportunities of ascent in the spiritual kingdom are equally available when the will to love has awakened in those with but a flicker of knowledge.

The soul can certainly embody itself if it has the will to do so and its cause for incarnation is a noble motive .... such as wanting to help its fellow human beings, or to atone a considerable guilt which prevented the soul from achieving a higher degree of maturity. Then the re-incarnation is not due to My will but the will of the soul itself is the decisive factor. However, since every soul knows that its past memory will be taken away, such incarnation is of utmost danger for the soul since it can just as well fail in free will. It has to walk the path of development like any other human being and its carnal instincts will be particularly strong when it is faced with the same temptation that had caused its guilt in the first place. If a soul compares this with its activity in the spiritual kingdom, which slowly but surely also results in the degree of maturity, while the spiritual benefit of a repeated incarnation is doubtful, it much rather prefers its fate in the spiritual kingdom. Nevertheless, it remains in contact with earth in as much as it takes care of the souls’ destiny on earth, always helping where it had failed itself, but the assumption that the same soul has embodied itself on earth as a human being again, is wrong.

It must always be contended that people on earth will be offered every opportunity to progress, that the flow of grace is unlimited. Due to the act of Salvation, a person’s will can receive enough strength to make failure impossible, and that it is therefore entirely up to him to achieve the high degree of light. Such privileges may not be wilfully rejected in order to then request them anew. The human being has free will. One day he will have to give account of how he has used it and accept the consequences, which consist of a variable fate in the beyond, which he then cannot simply avoid with a repeated embodiment. The success of this is questionable again due to the fact that his past memory will be taken away from him. Admittedly, his will makes the choice, thus he will be incarnated if he so wants, but this will is rare and therefore one cannot speak of frequent incarnations. Besides, this doctrine is a danger to people, in as much as they do not take their earthly life seriously enough in view of a repetition which, however, fails to happen ....

Amen

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Mental knowledge of worldly origin .... Truth - Error ....

B.D. 4560 from February 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The world separates Me from people and many fall prey to it despite My obvious expression of strength. Even though they recognised Me they abandon Me and don't consider the fact that I will call them to account one day. But the world does not only signify pleasurable activities or material possessions. The adversary can also use other means if he wants people to desert Me, if he wants to keep the truth from them and make them inclined towards his misguided teachings. Then he will use worldly minded people to speak in the guise of an expert and confuse the one who was offered My Word from above so that he will no longer be able to recognise it because he no longer allows himself to be taught spiritually but instead in a worldly way. It is his own fault that this weakens his power of judgment, for the person to whom I convey My Word is offered a gift of grace which he should appreciate as such. When he is offered something precious he should turn away from worthless gifts; he should unhesitatingly relinquish the latter in exchange for My gift. If, however, he is unwilling to do so then he is not worthy of My gift and it will be withdrawn from him again. Hence the world is stronger, for where falsehood and error exist, the world is in the forefront; on the other hand, truth comes from Me, it is cut off from the world and is therefore only recognised and desired by those who have no further dealings with the world, that is, whose heart remains untouched by the enticements of the world, by all possessions of worldly origin. And so, mental knowledge which deviates from the pure truth likewise belongs to the world, because it did not originate from Me. Avoid the world and its representatives if you want to receive gifts from Me and when you are offered My gift of grace relinquish everything else, for it is the most precious endowment you can receive through My love .... You cannot excuse yourselves if you have refused My gift, for you are not incapable of recognising the truth as such if I offer it to you, yet you are unwilling to accept it and thereby also lose your power of judgment. And this is your fault for which you will have to justify yourselves. If I approach you, you must not place Me on par with those who cannot offer you anything of great value because they are not taught by Me. However, if you do so, then you are unworthy of My gift and it will be taken away from you again and truly not so easily offered to you a second time. Spend some serious thought on this and hold yourselves to account as to what you will give up, and let yourselves be warned and admonished, for you are in danger of losing an awful lot just because you don't want to renounce what is worthless, what is offered to you by the world and what therefore cannot last for eternity ....

Amen

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Passing on the divine Word ....

B.D. 4561 from February 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A word-for-word rendition of the information you receive through the inner voice will always have the greatest impact, even if you are also capable of educating your fellow human beings yourselves people will nevertheless be less able to close themselves to the direct Word from above, for this reason written distribution is a blessing. And therefore I will bless every work which concerns the distribution of My Word and help you in every way, for it is particularly necessary that people take notice of My extraordinary working, which they can ascertain through the written Words if they are of good will. Anyone who wants to reject it will reject it in any form. But in the written rendition people will recognise My spirit, My voice, and open themselves to its effect, for My Word speaks for itself, no explanation needs to be added, it will always be understandable to people because I speak to every individual person Myself if he attentively and, with a desire for truth, accepts it in his heart, thinks it through and pays attention to the feelings he experiences as a result. You humans have so many means of help at your disposal, all of which are gifts of grace from Me to make the path of ascent easier for you .... However, My Word offered to you from above is the greatest and most effective means of grace which will guide you upwards for sure, for it is blessed by My strength, it is a direct emanation of Me Myself which must always have an extraordinary effect on you, it just depends on your will to let it take effect on you. And this is why many people shall receive knowledge of it, many people shall experience the blessing of My Word on themselves, they shall be born again, they shall live again and forfeit everything lifeless, all formalities for My Word. They shall recognise Me Myself in the Word, believe in Me and learn to love Me, they shall accept Words of wisdom which they can never ever be offered elsewhere if they did not originate from Me. They shall know that I, as the Creator of eternity, do not forget My living creations, that I as the Father do not leave My children on their own, that I want to help everyone to return to the Father´s house, and that they desperately need My help and that they therefore should approach Me in prayer and appeal to Me for grace and strength in order to be able to shape themselves into love .... that they must know My will in order to fulfil it. Every work concerning this endeavour is blessed, for the time is rapidly approaching the end ....

Amen

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Sudden turnaround .... call upon God ....

B.D. 4562 from February 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You can certainly expect a sudden change, for My word will come true in no time at all. And if I announce this to you in advance you can also adjust your life to it, you need no longer worry too anxiously about earthly things which you will lose again if it is not My will that you keep them, or which I will give to you if I deem them necessary for you. And I will fatherly look after everyone who works for Me and give him what he needs for life. And he will join Me ever more firmly and recognize Me by the smallest event; he will never ever walk on this earth without Me. Wait for the hour of your commitment, and then be faithful workers for Me .... (10.2.1949) For the end is near. Always remember My word that I will not leave you in adversity, for the whole world will be plunged into unrest which will also affect you and which you nevertheless should not fear because you always know that I am around you, because My presence protects you from every spiritual and physical danger if you work for Me. Anyone who looks up to Me will have peace in his heart, yet all others will follow world events full of worry and anxiety and fear for their body, for their physical well-being, which appears to be endangered. But I call to you again and again: Only remember your souls .... Seek to come into harmony with your God and creator of eternity, abide by His will, fulfil His commandments and appeal to Him for mercy and grace .... then you need not fear whatever may come. Then you will also always be helped, yet without Me you are at the mercy of all forces of darkness which assail you and unleash all evil urges in you, which is what affliction is suitable for if you don't carry love within you. Don't let My adversary gain the upper hand, take refuge with Me if you are in danger of succumbing in the battle against him, or call upon Me to protect you from his temptations. The time is approaching but I will inform you beforehand so that you will believe in Me and turn to Me if you recognize the truth of My word. There is still calm before the storm which you can still make full use of to strengthen your faith, to let Me speak to you and to closely unite with Me .... But it will change extremely quickly and your peace will be greatly shaken. And thus you should repeatedly draw strength from My word, you should not slacken in your work for Me and My kingdom, you should work on your soul and persevere in constant prayer so that you will never walk alone but tie Me to you and be strong and unconquerable in My presence when My adversary wants to test his power on you. For he will still use the time he has left until the end to persuade you to fall away. And therefore I announce this to you so that you will know how to protect yourselves, so that you will take refuge in Me, Who will always help you if you call upon Me ....

Amen

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Field of activity of the workers in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4563 from February 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You have placed yourselves at My disposal and are accepted as labourers in My vineyard. Much work awaits you so that you must not be tardy but serve Me eagerly if you want to please Me. But your activity will become dear to yourselves, you will shortly receive the assignment from Me and endeavour to carry it out successfully. You will take your mission seriously in realization of the profound spiritual hardship your fellow human beings are in, and thus you will be exclusively active for Me and My kingdom and yet also be able to exist on earth, because I will take care of you when the time of your activity for Me has come. For I will never ask you to do work which would be impossible, but I will assign to every one of My servants the work he can do for Me and which gives him so much pleasure that he will gladly and successfully carry it out. And thus there will be fear and worry, hardship and misery around you, yet nothing will affect you as long as you preach the gospel as My disciples, for then you will be outside of matter, it will no longer affect you and therefore not burden you either, it will not fill your thoughts but you will have detached yourselves and accumulated spiritual goods which you will hand out to the poor and needy. And you will be happy in your activity, you will recognize that spiritual goods constitute the only wealth and can bring true peace and joy to the heart. And then I will accompany you on all paths, always directing your steps to those who need you, who require comforting encouragement and whom you shall instruct in My name. And you will realize how great the adversity is, how few people listen to you, how many reject what I would like to send to them in love; you will experience that the father is not listened to by His children, that they ignore or laugh at all good admonitions and warnings, you will be able to observe much false play, untruth will get in your way everywhere, lies and error will be eagerly advocated by people, they will pay homage to idols and not recognize the true God .... And I will make Myself known to all those who are still undecided, I will speak through you so that everyone who hears you will be able to hear Me, and whoever now recognizes Me will be blessed, he will make use of the time until the end, and you will not have worked in vain. Therefore be diligently active in My vineyard and serve Me, you who have offered yourselves to Me in free will ....

Amen

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Stream of grace in the last days before the end ....

B.D. 4564 from February 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

An earthly life rich in grace can bring you to the highest level of perfection, and therefore every person shall open himself to the influx of grace in the last days, which will flow exceedingly abundantly in order to compensate for the short earthly time people are still granted until the end. I Myself will approach all people in various ways and offer them My gift of grace. The more distant they are from Me, the more often they will be given indications from above; the less they direct their senses spiritually, the more often they will be offered the opportunity to contact messengers from the spiritual kingdom; the strangest coincidences will cooperate in order to also inform them of supersensible activity, and the threads which originate from the spiritual kingdom will be guided everywhere. Every person will be able to establish contact with spiritually awakened people, and no one will be able to say that he has remained without knowledge. All those whose way of life is not right will receive warnings and admonitions, and I will especially take care of those who are misguided but not opposed to Me. And what gentle admonitions and advice cannot achieve, adversity and suffering will still bring about where My adversary is not already completely ruler. I woo every soul and know every person's innermost disposition, I help and lift the fallen from the depths, I try to guide it upwards and am always and constantly ready to distribute My blessings which are expressed in the form of My word, in spiritual and earthly help and which everyone can request and use if he only wants. You humans can still reach a high degree of maturity if you make contact with the spiritual kingdom, if you request the influx of My grace and allow yourselves to be considered by Me and all beings of light who look after you and stand by your side, as soon as you call upon them to help you on the path of ascent. The time until the end is only short, and therefore your earthly life will be rich in inner struggles, in adversity and suffering of all kinds, because you should raise your eyes to Me so that I can let Myself be found. As soon as you establish contact with Me in prayer or in thought you will open yourselves to the influx of grace and then you need no longer fear the end, then you will also recognize Me in suffering, you will believe in Me and no longer turn your thoughts away from Me; then grace will already have taken effect on you and you will consciously strive towards Me. As soon as you include Me in your thoughts you will already be on the path upwards and you will no longer sink back because I will hold you. And you will long for My word .... Then you will no longer be in danger, for My word is the greatest means of grace which never remains without effect. The greater your desire for My word the further you will progress in your development, for the desire for My word is equal to the desire for Me Myself and also results in unification with Me, which is the aim of your earthly life. The end time will still bring much suffering and affliction, but also consider this as a means of grace of inconceivable value .... endure everything and come to Me in every adversity, then you will be able to achieve the greatest success, and the short earthly life will result in the maturity of your soul so that you need not fear the end ....

Amen

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Training the truth bearers .... fighting with sword of the mouth ....

B.D. 4565 from February 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Everything you receive from Me is necessary for you to know if you enter into a teaching activity in order to serve Me. There should be no gaps in your knowledge, even if you are not able to provide exhaustive information about everything, yet you must be knowledgeable in all areas, after all, it is important to be able to meet objections and also to provide evidence that you have been instructed by forces which possess extensive knowledge which you demonstrably did not have at your disposal before. The fact that your intellect has also been specially trained by Me in order to grasp the context and thus also to provide appropriate clarification is likewise a gift of grace which I bestow if the will to serve Me is recognizable and allows for direct instruction. For you must be prepared that you will be asked cross and transverse questions in order to test your knowledge on the one hand or to make you fail if you are confronted as an enemy of truth. Admittedly, the opponents also claim to strive for the truth but they prove themselves wrong otherwise they would have to agree with you, because the truth, if it is seriously sought, is also recognizable as truth. Yet the truth is inconvenient to them and therefore they host you as bearers of truth and try to render you harmless. And therefore I educate you such that you can refute every objection, that your knowledge will also make your enemies suspicious and they cannot reject an activity from above with conviction, even if they do it with words. And therefore I repeat the instructions again and again in order to train you as living representatives of My word who can rationally substantiate everything and thereby defeat the adversary; who therefore fight for Me and My kingdom with the sword of the mouth .... I will make you able to speak, and not only driven by My spirit, but the intellect will also receive and likewise profess the knowledge which the spirit has conveyed to it through the heart. Then the human being can indeed be convinced that I direct his thoughts correctly and unhesitatingly devote himself to solving the most difficult problems, if this is demanded by opponents, and he will always be able to understand and explain himself, for which great knowledge would be necessary if it had been imparted to him in a scholastic way. I want to make you fit for the work in My vineyard, and all areas shall therefore be opened up to you. For the opponents will approach you from all sides and want to reject your teachings. But a good teacher invalidates all objections which are held against him with hostile intent, a good teacher is even able to convince the adversary, and he will always spread his knowledge even if the intention to reject it prevails and the teacher is hindered in his activity. The truth itself asserts itself, and that the truth has its right representatives I will see to it, Who is the eternal truth Myself and wants to guide people into truth. I will provide My servants on earth with every ability which ensures successful work for My kingdom, I will impart knowledge to them which has a convincing effect and can be recognized as divine wisdom by anyone who seriously examines and allows himself to be taught ....

Amen

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Don't fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul ....

B.D. 4566 from February 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Don't fear those who can physically harm you but only the one who tries to pull your souls into the abyss. Yet you can even face him with courage if you call Me to your side, in which case he will not be able to do anything to you because then you have a shield that makes you invincible, thus your soul will be protected from all danger. The world, however, will badly oppress you and the authorities will try to destroy you, because they will rise up against anyone loyal to Me since they don't want to acknowledge Me as Lord and therefore demand all power and veneration for themselves alone. You will be badly oppressed and can nevertheless face every battle undauntedly and without worry, because I will go into battle with you as your commander-in-chief and fight on your behalf just as you fight on My behalf and for My name. And victory will be yours .... Do all you can to attain an ever deeper and steadfast faith, then you will also lose all fear of those who can only kill the body. If you pay more attention to the life of your soul you will also remain completely unaffected by everything of a worldly nature, enticements and threats .... you will only live according to My will, and if the demands of the worldly powers oppose My will, you will recognise them as Satan's emissaries and stop being afraid of them, for your faith will give you the strength to resist them; then you will no longer dread the world and its advocates but increasingly more side with Me as the One, Whom you fear and love at the same time.

Anyone of weak faith will be anxious and also observe earthly proceedings with worry; I Am not constantly present to anyone of weak will. He still pays too much attention to the world, albeit he does not desire it he will nevertheless not remain unimpressed, it will still occupy his mind, it will still hold him back from spiritual striving. And he will be afraid and hard pressed by the earthly powers. I would like to help him dispose of his fear, I would like to call to Him: You will always find a Saviour in Me if only you have complete faith in My love and My power. I can achieve everything, and I want whatever is beneficial for you. Believe this and know that I will always stand by your side when you are threatened by Satan's advocates who want to push you away from Me. And once you have become aware of My presence you will lose all fear and courageously confront the enemy. You will be strong due to your faith in Me and will no longer fear your physical death because you will know that death does not exist for those who believe in Me .... that therefore your body can be killed but never your soul, but that I will also protect your physical life as long as your hour has not yet come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious questions for the teachers who fight God's servants ....

B.D. 4567 from February 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You will be called to account if you harass My servants for their spiritual activity, for they have been commissioned by Me and if you attack them you attack Me. They only carry out their master's order, thus they are not responsible for what you accuse them of .... that they tell you the truth to your face, which you do not want to hear and even less want to be conveyed to your fellow human beings. I demand an account of your actions and thoughts from you, who want to be recognized as proclaimers of truth in the world and yet dispute the pure truth which originates from Me. Let yourselves be serious about the truth and first try to come into possession of it yourselves, only then will you have the right to stand up for the truth and prevent carriers of misguided teachings from their activity. But if you have to be taught yourselves and try to make the bearers of truth harmless, if you persecute and attack them, your nature will be directed against Me and you will incur great guilt for which I will hold you responsible. Pay attention, if you act in good faith, to how things look in the world: .... Where do you find the spirit of love? Where do you find intimate connection with God, convinced faith and true neighbourly love? .... Where do you find the working of the spirit, i.e. wisdom and clear knowledge in spiritual matters? How do you explain the great suffering in the world? .... How do you solve the great riddle of creation? .... What do you know about the nature of God, about His eternal plan of salvation? .... Who else but I Myself can impart the knowledge of this to you through My spirit? .... And where can you find a working of the spirit? Answer these questions in all seriousness and then don't deny the connection with Me to those who can enlighten you about it. With a grateful heart accept what I offer you from above in order to help you gain knowledge, and if you doubt then examine but don't reject it unchecked, for truly I say to you that I protect My servants and will not tolerate that spiritual knowledge conveyed from above is rendered ineffective by you by trying to prevent it from being passed on to fellow human beings and threatening and persecuting the bearers of My word. What you want to take from them I will give back to them, and obviously you shall recognize My working and My help. But if you want to serve Me, if you want to fulfil My will, then first awaken your spirit to life through loving activity; only then will you have the right to judge and proclaim yourselves as judges over those who spread false teachings or appear as false prophets. Only then will you yourselves know how to distinguish truth from error and be true servants to Me on earth, but never ever condemn those who now confront you as bearers of truth in order to make My will known to you. Time is inexorably pressing towards its end, an aim has been set for you on this earth, and soon you will have reached the point in time when your opportunity of development on earth will come to an end .... Let yourselves be enlightened about this, don't live thoughtlessly into the day, reckoning with the fact that you still have much time left; be aware of the great responsibility you bear for your own as well as for your fellow human beings' souls if you use the time right until the end, and imagine every day as the last .... Then you will eagerly strive to increase your soul's maturity if you have the will for good, for Me, and then you will never again be able to act and think as you do now, when you are still blind in spirit so that you don't want to accept the light which would break through your spiritual darkness. Take My warning and admonition seriously so that one day you will not feel bitter remorse when it is too late ....

Amen

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Gospel good news .... disciples of the end time .... faith ....

B.D. 4568a from February 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The gospel shall be good news for every person if you bring it to them in My name. And if he feels charitably touched by it, it will certainly penetrate his heart and take root. Then it will be a ray of hope for him that a beautiful future is within his reach, the gospel will spur him on to strive upwards, always with the aim of eternal life, of final unification with Me and thus of eternal beatitude. Therefore My gospel shall be joyfully received, and by this you, My disciples of the last days, also recognize My own and know very well how to distinguish them from the adversary's followers. For those who feel unpleasantly touched by the gospel, who feel it to be a restriction of their pleasures of life, who should detach themselves from earthly matter and yet are still too attached to it, still belong to My adversary, and you will hardly be successful with them. You don't bring them glad tidings and therefore they reject you or hostilely attack you. There are two camps which are so obviously recognizable that it will not be difficult for you to separate them, that you will dedicate yourselves to the former with full commitment and let the latter go their way after a futile attempt, yet no-one shall be able to say that he has not heard of My eternal teaching of salvation, and My word will be conveyed to everyone in a form that he can freely decide to accept or reject it. But anyone who joyfully accepts it will receive great blessings from it, and you should always convey more and more to him according to his desire for it. It is good news when I give you the promise that you will not die but have eternal life .... For death is a terror to everything that lives. But I promise you eternal life, and therefore a blissful fate is in store for you which shall fill you with joy, and therefore you can be grateful when My message of salvation is imparted to you .... The most severe suffering on earth will be bearable for you with the prospect of your fate in the beyond, if you believe. And so that you can believe I will show you the right path .... The path of love which leads you to the aim you hope for, which fills you with joy and joyful expectation .... And therefore My gospel is good news from above which shall reduce all terrors of earthly life for you and give you strength to bear what I impose on you so that you will become blessed ....

Amen

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Gospel good news .... disciples of the end time .... faith ....

B.D. 4568b from February 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You, My disciples of the end time, will be taught directly by Me like the first disciples to whom I brought the gospel in its purest form. I know you as I also knew them from eternity, I saw in their hearts the flame of love which gave them the ability to hear My voice in their hearts .... I also know about your willingness to love and can therefore also speak to you through the voice of the spirit and thus instruct you in order to make you suitable for the office of being active for Me as disciples of the end time. When I ascended to heaven My disciples were to carry the gospel into the world in order to inform all nations of My will and My way of life on earth, so that they should fulfil it and live accordingly. But now the time I granted people for this has expired, now I will come to earth again to reap what My disciples have sown, and it is still necessary to do diligent work in the last hour, for which I again choose disciples who are suitable to sow the last seed so that the harvest will be great. It is still necessary to gather the last ones who want to come to Me and to proclaim to them My teaching of love, which alone leads to the light .... I Myself want to speak to the last ones once again and need suitable forms through whose mouth I can express Myself. Hence I need disciples again who are permeated by love for Me, who have shaped themselves through love such that I can use them as a vessel to pour My spirit into them .... that I Myself can speak through these disciples to all who want to listen to Me. But My disciples of the end time must be particularly strong in faith. I don't physically approach them like I did the first disciples, I am only present to them in spirit, and they must believe this or they will not be able to hear My voice. It is particularly commendable to muster this faith in the last days, for neither signs nor miracles confirm it, and humanity's unbelief is a strong obstacle, after all, My disciples are only to be found in very few places in a world full of unbelief in a God and therefore also in a working of the spirit in the human being. Yet faith in this is a prerequisite for hearing My word within themselves, and nothing is at their disposal but the mere transmission of My life on earth. I am certainly constantly close to these chosen ones but I cannot influence them extraordinarily in order to gain their faith, instead, it must be and remain free and still apply to Me .... I value this faith extremely highly, and My love is especially meant for those who approach Me with such a believing heart and offer their services to Me to help redeem people in the last days before the end. This willingness to serve comes from a loving heart, and I recognized the love and will of those whom I chose as My disciples of the last days and whom I now train for their activity. For they shall bring the truth to humanity as purely as it can only come forth from Me Myself, thus I Myself will bring the gospel to people again, for the time being in the spirit of My disciples, until I will then speak through them to the people who listen to My disciples. And it will still take a short time for My disciples to exercise this ministry, therefore diligent work is required. There are still so many who are to be won but only a few who feel touched by My word which is conveyed to them through My disciples. But for the sake of the few I will once again send My disciples into the world in order to gather the last harvest into the scourges .... to save the last souls who still want to be saved by Me ....

Amen

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Effectiveness of divine truth only after overcoming the world ....

B.D. 4569 from February 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

For people, the world is the real, the spiritual the unreal, to which they pay no attention. In the world of appearances they see reality, and they are therefore accessible to everything that comes from the world or leads to it. The spiritual realm, however, is a dreamland for them, which touches them dimly from time to time, but is not taken seriously. And thus divine truth is only valuable and significant to the person who has already broken with the earthly world, who has recognized it as a world of appearances and no longer desires it. This is why so few people can be given the truth, because the world still holds most people captive and even the spiritually striving person is often plagued by doubts when he also turns to the world. Divine truth can make a person infinitely happy if it is the only good he finds desirable; therefore it fills the human being's heart and no longer leaves room for thoughts of the world. But before this state occurs in the human being, the intellect must assert itself, i.e., it must simultaneously incline towards truth with the heart, profess it, and this can only occur when the earthly does not excessively claim the intellect, when it can turn to what the heart strives for. The human being is in a completely closed area when he is concerned with spiritual things, then access to the world is blocked and the human being's soul is happy, even if the human being himself is unaware of it. Then divine strength can have an effect on the soul which, however, immediately diminishes when the world approaches him again and he pays attention to it. Therefore, whoever wants to connect with God must withdraw into his little chamber .... he must seek solitude or keep quiet contemplation within himself .... he must switch off the world, otherwise the spiritual kingdom cannot exert its effect on him. But in the midst of the world he will not find what is good for his heart which longs for God. Admittedly, the human being can also enter into silence in the midst of the world, listen within himself, but then he is only physically in the world, his soul, however, withdraws into spiritual realms, then the human being himself is stronger than the earthly world, then he does not desire it but puts the spiritual world before the earthly one, and then he will also succeed in rising into spiritual spheres at any time, even if his body is still bound to earth.

In order to be able to spread and represent the pure truth, this preceding must be taken into account. It is extremely difficult to introduce worldly people to divine truth because it seems so unreal to them and the worldly person in his sobriety rejects what is not tangible or visible to him. And it often takes a long time for the divine word to become effective in such a person, until he mentally engages with it and thereby puts the world aside. And it is difficult to preach about the end of the world, about the last judgement and the great spiritual hardship to people who are completely worldly minded and have little contact with the spiritual kingdom. The preacher will always appear to them as a fantasist, and he will not feel the effect of truth until he ventures into spiritual realms himself and allows these spheres to have an effect on him. Then he will separate the spiritual and the earthly world, and only then will he be accessible to the pure truth from God and it will make his soul profoundly happy ....

Amen

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Spiritual cooperation ....

B.D. 4570 from February 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

In a spiritual relationship cooperation is necessary, one is dependent on the help of the other, because spiritual work will rarely find support from the worldly side and therefore spreading it is more laborious and requires the support of those who are of the same spirit. And now the will of the individual is decisive as to how far he is an efficient labourer for Me in My vineyard. The work for Me and My kingdom must be done entirely of free will, no-one may be under compulsion to have to do something against his will, yet the richest blessing will be received by the one who is driven by his heart, who is active for Me out of love for Me, for he himself will increase his spiritual wealth, he will take pleasure in the treasures he works with and it will urge him to also make the wealth accessible to others. Therefore he will constantly want to cultivate spiritual exchange and already need people for this who have the same striving, and the union of these on a spiritual basis is assured. If a spiritually striving person were unable to communicate his field of work would be limited and let him tire, yet people who strive towards Me are found everywhere and seek spiritual fellowship in order to be able to exchange My word, depending on their activity. One shall be the support of the other .... and I assign to everyone the work he can do if only he wants, yet I don't force his will, because love for Me shall determine him to be active for Me. If he carries this love within himself then he need not be stimulated from outside, then he will push himself to work for Me and My kingdom, and he will receive the richest blessings and be diligently active for Me ....

Amen

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Beatification .... knowledge .... God’s word direct .... conditions ....

B.D. 4571 from February 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I want you to be blessed. And therefore everything that is and happens around you is only a means to this end, yet you are free to use these means or to disregard them. It is now extremely important to be clear about the consequences of not using My means of grace, and thus it is necessary to gain knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation, of the meaning and purpose of creation and the meaning and purpose of earthly life, of the original relationship which existed between Me and My living creations and the present apostasy relationship which has brought you the state of wretchedness from which I want to redeem you. The knowledge of everything is a necessity because it shall determine the life of every individual. As soon as the human being knows everything he is already in a state of great grace, because ignorance is the natural consequence of the relationship of apostasy, thus it proves a great distance from Me which, however, shall be reduced according to My will, and the complete state of darkness must gradually change into a state of light in order to become the original state again, the state of beatitude. Right knowledge will also prompt the willing human being into a good way of life, into a change of life in love, into an alignment of his being with My fundamental being, which is love in itself. Consequently, it will be My constant endeavour to convey the right knowledge to the human being, and from this it follows again that I must speak to them because I alone know about the truth, because the truth originates from Me and the person stands in the truth who receives it directly from Me. Yet it cannot be conveyed to every person directly, because the hearing of My word is only possible in a certain degree of maturity and because, when this degree is reached, the human being himself must have fulfilled preconditions which correspond to My law of eternal order, thus they cannot be circumvented if My word wants to be heard within himself. A good way of life according to My will will also usually result in faith in the possibility of a direct connection with Me, for this is the prerequisite that the human being opens himself to My word, that he desires to hear My language. Loving people will often converse with Me of their own accord, they will believe without special knowledge that I am, and they will long for Me. I can speak to them and will always be understood by them, only they will regard their spiritual knowledge thus received as their own thoughts, they will certainly also represent their thoughts as truth but never fully convinced as My word, as My utterance, as long as the process of a direct transmission is alien to them. But if, as a special gift of grace, people are offered an explanation about it which is intended to stimulate them to strive for a state themselves which enables them to hear Me directly, I will give people the opportunity to increase their knowledge and thus to change the state of darkness into a state of light; but then all conditions I have attached to it must have been fulfilled first, which are: a life of unselfish neighbourly love .... a profound faith in Me and My love which wants to enter into contact with its creatures .... an earnest desire to attain truthful knowledge .... and now a conscious preparation and listening within in order to be able to hear Me Myself in the form of light-filled thoughts or also spoken words which resound. Anyone who cannot believe this direct working of Mine is also unable to hear My soft voice, for his inward listening will not take place with depth and conviction; he therefore does not hear because he does not open his spiritual ear. And it is this faith which people lack, even if they would otherwise be enabled by their way of life in accordance with My will. But the fact that people have lost the knowledge of it is only evidence of their great distance from Me, which is an obstacle to knowing My powerful working but which nevertheless does not exclude My working as soon as the will exists to hear Me Myself. Yet the pure truth, the right knowledge, cannot be conveyed to people other than through the living inner word, and therefore I bless everyone who establishes this connection in order to receive and spread the pure truth for the blessing of his fellow human beings. For only when the pure truth is made accessible to people can the spiritual darkness be broken through and the path be taken which leads to beatitude, because only truth alone helps to achieve beatitude and because it is My will that all people shall become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Spiritual and earthly co-workers in the redemptive work of Christ ....

B.D. 4572 from February 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Spiritual and earthly co-workers participate in the work of salvation which Jesus Christ started with His earthly life, for previously it was not possible for a human being to break all bonds during earthly life because satan exercised his power in an unheard-of way. But through His death on the cross his power was broken. But he still has so much power over those who do not acknowledge the saviour Jesus Christ. But the work of redemption has been accomplished for all, and thus even now those souls can still come into the blessing of the death on the cross who decide in favour of Jesus Christ before the end. However, people's thinking first has to be trained so that they will attain the right recognition of Jesus' great love and grace as a human being, so that they will then also learn to recognize Him as redeemer of people and consciously place themselves under His cross. This true realization can certainly be conveyed to them by knowledgeable beings who look after people spiritually as well as earthly and who therefore make it their task to influence people's thinking by conveying their thoughts. The spiritual co-workers first turn to those people who feel the urge within themselves to dedicate themselves to the work of salvation by using their strength, who therefore want to continue the work on earth, as it were, who offer themselves to God, who want to serve Him and who are therefore also accepted by Him as suitable labourers. And now an exchange of thoughts takes place between spiritual and earthly beings, for the redemption of the spiritual can only be the result of a correct transmission of pure truth which informs people of their purpose of existence and slowly educates them into a change of love, which is and remains the sole purpose of life. Consequently, the spiritual co-workers will endeavour to awaken and strengthen faith in Jesus Christ through the mouths of men, i.e. earthly people who serve God, if it has become weak.

(25.2.1949) The beings of the spiritual kingdom who stand in the light are always ready for redemptive activity, since they have become love and their love is also meant for the unredeemed. But on earth people who want to participate in Christ's act of salvation have to be so filled by love for God that they voluntarily place themselves at His disposal for this activity, because then they first have to be prepared for their work in order to be able to carry it out successfully. What is the light beings' share in the spiritual kingdom must first be acquired by people on earth, since they are still imperfect. They themselves must belong to those who make use of Christ's act of salvation with His grace in order to acquire the ability to also lead their fellow human beings onto the path of following Jesus, so that they, too, will be redeemed and saved from spiritual death. Anyone who teaches love to his fellow human being is unconsciously working for the redemption of erring souls; but anyone who consciously assumes the office as bearer of truth and passes on spiritual knowledge which he receives from the spiritual kingdom continues Christ's act of salvation, he follows Jesus and draws many souls with him onto the right path upwards. In the last days many beings of light influence people in order to win them as mediators between the spiritual kingdom and earth or to be able to use them. But few people accept the spiritual teachings and surrender to the influence of their caretakers. Only a few people recognize the significance of the work of redemption to such an extent that they endeavour to cooperate and continue the work of redemption themselves. But where the connection with the spiritual world and the earthly world is established a flow of grace and love flows towards people which is full of healing power, thus anyone who lets himself be carried away by it will end up where his soul's true home is .... in the sea of God's great love .... in the house of the father .... in the kingdom of the blessed, where all redeemed souls dwell in the nearness of God, in eternal light ....

Amen

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Destiny according to human will ....

B.D. 4573 from February 26th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I inform you that your destiny certainly takes shape according to My will, nevertheless it adapts itself to your will, so that your will effectively determines the sequence of all happenings, because it requires the necessary opportunities to achieve maturity in order to subordinate itself as quickly as possible to My will. A will that is utterly devoted to Me assures a person maturity of soul and he will be able to enter the beyond as a being of light when his last hour has come.

However, as long as he still resists Me he needs to be tested and always and forever encounter oppositions in his earthly life, unless he has completely handed himself over to My adversary, who will help him in every way during his time on earth. But he shall not take pleasure in his easy earthly life, for after his death he must atone for it a thousand fold. And thus a person who is granted a difficult destiny can know himself to be loved and cared for by Me; he need only ever trust in My help and My strength and humbly accept his destiny and his soul will benefit from it, the extent of which will only be recognised by him in the spiritual kingdom. Wherever suffering and worry can be found, that is where I Myself Am at work to change the individual person's will, that is where My presence, My guidance and My activity are recognisable. Hence, the immense suffering going on across earth should not be regarded as a sign of being abandoned by Me, but as a sign of My never-ending love and concern for you. I will not turn away from you even if you distance yourselves from Me, I constantly try to win you back for Me and therefore let you endure adversity and destitution, because your wrong will requires Me to do so if I want to help you attain beatitude. Every individual person's destiny corresponds to his will, which has been known to Me from the start, and the extent of suffering you have to endure corresponds to the maturity of your soul, which is also known to Me and which I constantly seek to raise. You can pass away from the earthly world in various degrees of light; this is never limited, but I know your will and where the possibility exists to attain a high degree of maturity of soul I make use of all means, and strokes of fate, oppositions in life and suffering and sadness should be regarded as such, for they can be of immense benefit to you if you completely submit yourselves to Me, if you subordinate your will to Mine, if you humbly endure everything you are granted. For I love you, you are My living creations and I want to win you over for Me, for eternity ....

Amen

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Assessment of duties according to degree of love ....

B.D. 4574 from February 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You should use all your energy to attain everlasting riches, that is, everything you think and do should be based on helpful neighbourly love, then the salvation of your soul would be assured for eternity. My demand may seem impossible to achieve to you and, yet, I don't expect too much from you, nothing that cannot be done. However, consider the fact that your daily fulfilment of duty can be understood differently, that you can do your duty without the slightest feeling of love for your neighbour, thus you are of service to him as a matter of duty, but that you can also carry out every action by being inwardly impelled through love and that these actions, although they are also daily duties, are assessed differently by Me and raise your maturity of soul. Love is everything, it values every action. Consequently, a person can be ever so dutiful due to his correct nature, yet without love they will only be actions of the body which I only reward in a worldly sense but which do not gain him spiritual wealth, for this entirely depends on the degree of love with which these duties are being accomplished. Thus you could gain so much more if you used all your energy of life for active neighbourly love, so that everything you do is motivated by the will to help where your help is needed. The actions you have to perform, where your free will is therefore excluded, are merely actions for the world, although they can also incorporate a spiritual character .... hence, duties that are demanded are indeed acts of neighbourly love but are, since they are dutifully performed, valued in a purely worldly sense by Me, because the love of the heart is absent. I pay attention to the heart and won't be deceived by pious words or expressions, I know how far the heart is involved; but I bless everyone who complies with human demands purely because he is willing to help, who carries out every work of duty with inner joy to help his neighbour and who therefore also turns his duties into a voluntary activity and thereby utilises his energy of life which will result in abundant rewards in eternity. For he truly gathers spiritual possessions on earth and will not enter the spiritual kingdom poverty stricken, but, full of strength, he will also be able to work over there wherever his love impels him, whereas even the most hard-working person on earth will stand at the gate of death without strength and in a poor state because he only worked for the world, because helpful neighbourly love never impelled him to be active on earth but he only ever fulfilled his worldly obligations, admittedly by diligently fulfilling his duty but only because he had to and not voluntarily. This is why the same activity and the same amount of work can lead to entirely different success .... it can be purely remunerated in a worldly sense but also lead to everlasting rewards, and you should aim for the latter, so that your life on earth is not a waste of time, for you will never be able to catch up in the beyond on what you neglected to do on earth ....

Amen

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‘They ate and drank ....’ just as it was before the Flood ....

B.D. 4575 from February 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

As the end comes closer it will become again as it was before the great flood. People will be seized by an increased lust for life and be influenced by the world with all its attractions. People will no longer be able nor want to control themselves and will therefore unscrupulously enjoy life in sinfulness. For they will not desire harmless pleasures, instead, sin will prevail everywhere, selfish love will displace all neighbourly love and thus people will become sinful by harming their fellow human beings merely to satisfy their body’s every wish. Other people’s possessions will not be respected and thus all laws will be violated. The increased pleasure of life will stifle the voice of conscience and what the world has to offer will be relished to the full .... The world, however, is My adversary’s realm and thus only bad can come from the world, it can only denote a danger for the soul, for the satisfaction granted to the body must be atoned for by the soul, it must pay for what the body demands. People may therefore seemingly delight in the pleasure, only those belonging to My Own will know which hour has struck when people seek to intoxicate themselves in the ecstasy of pleasure. Then the end will be very near, for I have long announced to you already that it will be like before the great flood .... They ate and drank, they married and were given in marriage and took no notice of the admonitions and warnings from above. And it will be difficult to preach the Gospel to these people, for since they only pay attention to and aim for earthly life they lack all understanding for spiritual life, and therefore they mock and ridicule every bearer of truth who will try to convert them. Yet in the midst of euphoria comes the last Judgment .... It will be dreadful for all who look upon the world as their God, for they will fall from the height into the abyss, from joy into immense fear, they will fall from heaven into hell .... For the world and its attractions was their heaven, but the world will be destroyed .... and harshest incarceration will be the fate of those who used their freedom on earth wrongly, who live in sin and also die in sin. Beware of the world for it is a great danger for you .... at the moment it certainly still offers much that is desirable yet it is better that you refrain from it and strive toward the heavenly joys which come afterwards, and do without, so that you can enjoy the delights of heaven in all abundance. Don’t belong to those who only love themselves and want to provide the body with every pleasure. The euphoria is short-lived, yet it will be followed by a dreadful awakening, as it is announced in Word and Scripture .... The human race, however, is in great danger, for it is already dazzled by the world’s deceptive light, and it will not stand still in its demands but it will increase them .... It aims with giant strides towards the final end .... it seeks life and will find death, it seeks joy and walks into ruin ....

Amen

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Confessing before the world - living faith ....

B.D. 4576 from March 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who professes Me will also feel connected to Me, he will not look for Me in the distance, he will not have a formal faith but his faith will be a living one, otherwise he would not have the strength to profess Me before the world. And this is what will matter in the last days before the end, that people have grasped the concept of God, that they are therefore convinced that they can make contact with their creator of eternity. Thus they believe in Me and are permeated by My strength through this faith, they no longer fear the world and its rulers but only Me, Whom they also love because they have recognized Me as eternal love Itself. These are the ones who will endure until the end because they do not feel alone in earthly adversity and distress but are so intimately united with Me that they always come to Me with every concern and every worry. Their complete trust in My help earns them help, and thus they also resist the world and those who want to shake their faith; they confess Me freely and openly and in this strength of faith are unconquerable even in the face of the strongest enemy. I will obviously support them in the last days before the end, for My adversary will test himself on them with all his strength, he will appear as a tempter wherever he suspects success. He will influence worldly people to take harsh action against the small flock of believers, and so that the battle will now be waged in all brutality he will promise them worldly pleasures, well-being and happiness with the devotion of faith. And the temptation will be great because the believers will be severely distressed by worldly rulers and their measures against everything spiritual. Then only a living faith will give the strength to resist. And the loud confession before the world will fill the human being with strength again, and by this he will recognize the truth of what I have proclaimed to people through My word .... And he will remain faithful to Me, he will persevere even in the most difficult time and endure the battle waged against faith, he will remain Mine and never ever separate from Me. And I will reward him for his faithfulness, as I have promised, I will fetch him and lead him into the paradise of the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Overcoming matter ....

B.D. 4577 from March 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Learn to despise the goods of the world, do not let them become the content of your life, but stand above matter, seek to fathom and grasp the spiritual. Matter is endlessly far behind you, don't close the chain again by likewise demanding back and joining the spiritual in matter through your desire, which would be a step backwards for you who have reached the last stage of development on earth. For your desire is decisive as to how your soul ends. If it cannot separate itself from material goods then these will still pursue it into the beyond and seek to draw it back, then the soul can also still sink in the beyond and finally be conceived into matter again, which means unheard-of and endless agonies for the spiritual. Earthly life is given to you to overcome everything that belongs to My adversary, of your own free will you should take the step into the spiritual kingdom which, however, requires giving up matter, a detachment of the heart from things which still harbour undeveloped spiritual substances and therefore cannot find entrance into the spiritual kingdom. As long as you are still burdened by it your ascent into the spheres of light will not be successful, you will, as it were, be held back on earth by the essence which is embodied in matter. For this entity still resists Me and also wants to prevent all spiritual substances from joining Me, which is why the influence of matter on the human being is very great, which is why the human being's greed is directed towards matter and fills his entire striving. Yet this striving does not correspond to the purpose of earthly life, rather, you should eradicate it from your hearts, you should strive for spiritual possessions, you will be far more delighted by these, and no earthly possessions outweigh the possessions you spiritually gain by giving up and overcoming the former. Your primal element is spiritual, which was banished into matter through wrong direction of will, which causes it torment as a fetter in order to awaken the desire in the spiritual to become free from matter. If you have reached this stage as a human being you have already largely succeeded, yet you still have to pass the final test of completely detaching yourselves from everything that can be addressed as matter and instead desire the spiritual .... the union with Me, from Whom you have taken your origin, but Who is in Himself a spirit in highest perfection. You must unite with Me in order to become the primal element again, which can work freely and completely unbound in utmost abundance of strength. You must distance yourselves infinitely far from the spiritual, which is bound in form, you may no longer desire form if you want to be active as spirit in all freedom, and you will now understand that all form, all matter, is an obstacle for you to reach this completely spiritualized state, but which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. Therefore practice renunciation, become masters of all visible things so that matter does not overpower you and pull you back into darkness, into banishment into solid form, which is your fate if you have not overcome matter ....

Amen

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Bliss in the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 4578 from March 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bliss of those who discard their physical shell and are allowed to enter the kingdom of light, their eternal home, is beyond your grasp. Having left all sorrows behind, they are no longer weighed down by difficulties nor plagued by enemies. Fear and sadness are unknown to them; their eyes only see beauty, exceptionally charming surroundings, magnificent formations of My creative will, and figures of light approaching them in order to introduce them to the kingdom of peace and beatitude. And in this environment they may stay and occupy themselves according to their own will. Their bliss rests in this freedom after a state during which their souls were still constrained and surrounded by earthly matter. Their hearts are able and willing to love and they are so aglow with love that this alone makes them happy already, for they find constant fulfilment. They join souls which resemble themselves, that is, which possess the same degree of maturity, and these associations increase their bliss, because unity out of love also increases the individual being’s strength as well as the urge to be active which results in joint kind-hearted activity which makes them exceedingly happy since the activation of strength results in increasingly more strength. The influx of strength, however, is a feeling of utmost delight, for it is the evidence of being close to God .... My living creations feel Me and, depending on their degree of maturity which enables the permeation of light, also get to see Me Myself in a way which is endurable for them. Their inner bliss intensifies, for their longing for Me increases constantly and is always granted .... No-one on earth can understand what that means, because earthly love is just a pale reflection of spiritual love and already the most desirable on earth, in the spiritual realm, however, it surpasses all other glories the soul is offered, because it signifies the constant influx of light and strength and therefore also the constant nearness of God. However, once My living creations have entered the kingdom of light, I Am the epitome of bliss for them and they will never ever abandon Me again. Then everyone will receive the reward for the love he showed Me on earth .... I constantly increase their happiness, I permeate the soul with My love and provide it with constantly new delights .... because ‘what no eye has seen and no ear has heard, that is what I have prepared for those who love Me .... ’

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Worker in the vineyard of the lord .... activity ....

B.D. 4579 from March 3rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I have chosen you for spiritual cooperation in the last days before the end, I have assigned you an office which you can well administer according to My will if you entrust yourselves to Me, that is, if you completely place yourselves under My guidance. You should therefore not want it yourselves but let yourselves be guided, thus let everything come to you, don't worry, don't worry and don't look anxiously into the future .... you should only hand yourselves over to Me and let Me rule alone, and everything will come about as it is My will and as it is conducive to the work for Me and My kingdom, which you are willing to carry out. I want to arrange everything for you, I direct all your steps, I stand by your side with advice and action, and you will feel My will in your heart, i.e., if you devote yourselves to Me your will will also be Mine, you will think, speak and act driven by the spirit within you which will never ever teach you wrongly. I have chosen you because I know your will, that it will be subject to Me and thus My spirit can also work in you. Hence you can always be assured of My protection and care and speak without hesitation as My spirit imparts it to you, you can carry out every thought which arises in you, for you are now only the form which I have chosen for Myself in order to let My spirit radiate, you are in truth the labourers in My vineyard who only carry out their lord's will and only carry out every earthly activity in the interest of the mission which is incumbent upon you. You are constantly guided and bear no responsibility for your actions and speeches because you have offered yourselves to Me for service and now I, as your lord, assume all responsibility for My servants as long as they want to serve Me in love and faithfulness. And I possess this will of yours and bless you for it, for I need you for this mission on earth, because the end is near and you are to proclaim it everywhere, because you are to speak on My behalf to all people who are of good will so that they prepare themselves for the end which is imminent, as it has been decided since eternity ....

Amen

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'I will send you the Comforter ....' (Explanation of apparent contradictions)

B.D. 4580 from March 5th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

My spirit will guide you into truth, as I have promised: I will send you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, which will guide you into all truth and will remind you of everything I have said to you .... Thus anyone allowing this spirit of Mine to become effective in him will also know the truth and can accept everything conveyed to him by My spirit. Think very seriously about this for once and you will know what originates from Me and can be believed by you. As soon as you recollect My Words which I spoke on earth to My disciples as well as to all other people, you will not be able to dismiss the fact that you can receive the pure truth in the way I told you with the Words: I will send you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth .... And prior to My Words I said that I will take abode in those Who prepare their heart for Me, that I will not abandon them, that I will reveal Myself to those who love Me and keep My commandments ....

It therefore follows that My revelations must come from within, that I, once I have taken abode in a person's heart, will also manifest Myself therein with the result that the person will hear My voice through the inner Word .... And this is proof again that you may unhesitatingly trust this voice, for it is the expression of My love for My Own, who are counted as My Own because they accepted Me Myself in their hearts, because I was able to take abode in them. Hence you possess My Word, the announcement of My will, the truth in its purest form. Therefore you need not be taught from outside if you acknowledge Me as your Teacher and entrust yourselves directly to Me. Direct communication between you and Me is therefore possible, and in order to be truthfully educated you must acknowledge this first. Then you will strive to receive the truth from the original source and will also be able to believe with conviction what is imparted to you. For this knowledge comes to you in a fully conscious state; I speak to you and you hear Me.

But I speak to you through your heart and your heart hears My voice, not your physical ear, which can only hear externally spoken words. If you inwardly hear My Word then you will know that I Am expressing Myself; alternatively, if you hear the Word from outside then you need to ascertain its origin, for anything can be offered to you from outside, My adversary also approaches you from outside, and then you should seriously examine it, and if you examine it seriously then you also have the will to find the source of what you are offered in Me. If you therefore want to hear Me speak I will certainly grant your wish, in which case every Word you receive will be true if it is imparted to you through My devoted servants. Let this be a sure sign to you: that I will answer your every question if you present it to Me.

You are all always taught in a way that matches your maturity; you can only grasp profound wisdom once you have reached a specific degree of maturity, when the explanation from the spiritual kingdom can be given to you unveiled, which will be understandable to you if you compare it with My activity on earth, where I always spoke to people in parables, in metaphorical language, in order to explain it to them. These veiled teachings are intended to stimulate a person's thinking, so that he penetrates spiritual knowledge and does not just superficially accept it with his physical ears. If I impart My Word unveiled, as I do now, then the degree of maturity which guarantees the correct understanding is a prerequisite. Words to that effect will not differ as soon as both the veiled and the direct Word from above come in unveiled form from the same source, as soon as every teaching has originated from Me.

But first you must examine this and you need only appeal for My help in order to pass the right judgment. Bear in mind that the adversary works as well, and especially when people try to escape from him, when they strive for truth in order to learn to recognise and love Me. Then he will always try to extinguish or obscure the light and be very active where the opportunity presents itself.

In order to help you humans and to undermine the activity of this said power I provide you with information through bearers of light where impure influences have led your thinking astray. That which comes from above is truth, and that which comes from below are errors and lies .... Where direct inner spiritual activity can be recognised it can only be the working of forces from above which receive and forward My illumination. However, where forces avail themselves of a human form in an unconscious state, caution is advised, for a passive form can also be used by a dark force, if only for a short time, yet fellow human beings themselves often determine the statements made through this form with their own thoughts and wishes, which are instantly picked up by these forces which will then audibly express themselves through this form. For, as soon as some of the listeners have strong willpower their thoughts will also exert a strong influence and, depending on their truth, they will be seized by either forces of light or of darkness and audibly expressed. For this reason the human being should always let go of his own knowledge when he receives spiritual knowledge, he should humbly and like a small child without knowledge allow himself to be taught, then purest truth will flow to him, because no resistance exists to prevent it ....

Many will take exception to the fact that a seeming contradiction comes to light, yet My spirit has always revealed the same to people, it was simply not understood by everyone in the same way, and even those who received My Word were not free of their own thoughts as soon as they turned their eyes towards the world and associated world events with the spiritual information. Besides, My eternal plan of Salvation was unknown to people at the time I lived on earth, and the explanations I gave to people about future times were presented such that only someone who had completely shaped himself into love would have been able to form a correct idea about the last days, about the last Judgment and the end. The others lacked realisation and a clear portrayal would not have been beneficial for them, since the especially announced judgment was still ahead of them, the destruction of Jerusalem, which likewise signified the chapter of an era for these people and was nearer to them than the end. So people were certainly informed of a renewal, of a spiritual change, but with an additional remark which related more to the change of people than the transformation of Earth, because the knowledge of the latter would have been detrimental to their spiritual state ....

But now I approach those people who will live through the final chapter on this earth .... I approach those who have attained a certain degree of maturity and therefore also the understanding for the coming events. To these I provide complete clarification and instruct them to inform their fellow human beings of it. However, they will only be believed by those who become discerning and spiritually enlightened through genuine striving for perfection, who know My plan of Salvation and realise that there is no other option but a total transformation of the earth, for the sake of the souls which have fallen to the lowest point and yet shall be redeemed one day. Right now I speak to the people of the last days, but even in the past My Words were not contradictory .... As Jesus, the man, I said what I saw and was prevented from seeing how the end would happen .... I saw the converted human race but not the transformed earth because it was God's wish to keep people uninformed at that time ....

The fact that Earth must remain a place of education for the spiritual substances and for how long, that it therefore must continue to exist, was certainly meant to be explained to people, however, the transformation of the earth's surface affects the higher development of the spiritual substances bound in matter and the renewed banishment of a soul which, embodied as a human being, has not passed the test of faith and will .... Neither was comprehensible to humanity, it only differentiated between an earthly world, as it existed, and a purely spiritual world, and it was merely explained to people that the earth, as a world of matter, cannot be excluded as yet and that the development on this earth must still continue for an infinitely long time. For Earth as a planet will not cease to exist after the last Judgment, it will merely fulfil its mission in a completely new formation and thus a new developmental period will start with a paradise-like state .... with those people who are lifted up to heaven before that, because they will prove their loyalty to Me during the last battle of faith, because they will persevere until the end and therefore become blessed in heartfelt unity with Me and the spiritual kingdom of light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Food and drink for the soul .... bread of heaven ....

B.D. 4581 from March 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bread of heaven is offered to you which cannot be handed to you more deliciously, for My love Itself has prepared it for you and distributes it to you as it is digestible for you, as you are receptive for the food which shall serve as nourishment for your soul. The fact that you need nourishment to help you mature is something I have to present to you again and again so that you don't neglect to take it in; yet the form in which I administer it to you depends on how you utilize the spiritual nourishment, for whatever you receive you must not let lie idle but use it for your ascent development. You cannot accomplish any work if you lack strength, and thus you must also be strengthened in order to carry out the most important work, the transformation of your soul. And I want to give you this strengthening by offering you the bread of heaven. Your body demands food and drink every day, and you will not deny it what it needs for sustenance. Your soul indeed also admonishes you about it, yet it only quietly and modestly makes the request so that you usually ignore it and neglect the soul in order to provide for the body all the more abundantly. And thus I Myself come to its aid, I want to give it food and drink but need your consent that you turn to the soul, that you therefore also use the gift which comes from above according to its purpose. Then it will constantly receive nourishment and experience strengthening which will do it unspeakable good, through which it will mature and reach the aim set for it during its earthly life. What I offer you from above cannot be replaced by earthly food, just as no food of the body can nourish the soul, for the soul is something spiritual and also requires spiritual substances as nourishment which cannot be supplied to it through earthly food. I Myself must feed it and it can always be My guest, I will never give it meagrely. But I cannot give it anything if the human being desires nothing, if he does not pay attention to a delicious gift from above. And therefore the human being's will is required to accept the nourishment for his soul from My hand. The spiritual nourishment, the bread of heaven, has to be requested, and if the desire for it exists My gift will also be used correctly. I certainly call everyone to My table in order to give him food and drink, yet I demand hunger and thirst so that My gift of love will be received with desire and gratitude and draw strength from the soul so that it can develop spiritually and change into a being which resembles Me, so that I can unite Myself with it and it will be eternally blissful ....

Amen

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Spiritual maturation of those who are to fulfil a mission ....

B.D. 4582 from March 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I will guide your steps, if only you willingly entrust yourselves to My guidance. There is no danger greater than the one Who can save you from it, there is no enemy stronger than Me, and there are no paths which are impassable if I walk beside you. Therefore there must be no worry and fear for you, for I am always ready to stand by you, whatever it may be. However, the paths I lead you must be taken, and everything must approach you as My love and wisdom has determined from eternity, because it enables your maturing and also gives other souls the opportunity to come into contact with you, which you are to help the erring ones to reach the truth, which you are to direct them to Me. Your spiritual task requires a certain state of maturity which your fate in life enables you to reach. Yet even though it may seem difficult, with My help everything is easily surmountable, and I will never ever leave you who have united with Me through your will ....

There are so few people who are in direct contact with Me so that I can look after them with a mission which is unspeakably urgent in the last days before the end. There are so few who fulfil all prerequisites to make My working in them possible and to be able to use them as My instruments. And therefore I will take everyone who is willing to serve Me into special care, even though I will also apply special educational measures to him, yet only for his best in order to make him suitable for his task. Yet I will never leave him without protection and help, which is why you should start and end every day without anxiety as long as you direct your gaze upwards towards Me and thus unite with Me through your thoughts. Every thought of yours draws Me to you, and if I give you My word as evidence of My presence, every anxious worry will truly be unnecessary, for then you will nevertheless know that I am close to you and can come to Me with every worry and every question, I will support you in word and deed and always be there for you, for you are My children whom I look after with My fatherly love and truly will not let you take the wrong path .... to whom I give strength to overcome everything, so that you can fulfil your mission on earth until the end ....

Amen

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Redemptive work of Christ ....

B.D. 4583 from March 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Christ's work of redemption has been accomplished and yet countless souls go into eternity unredeemed. Countless souls do not make use of the grace which the man Jesus acquired on the cross for the whole of humanity, and they remain under satan's control, they remain bound by his will; they cannot be redeemed from his power because they themselves do not want it, because they cling to God's adversary who does not release them in order not to deprive himself of his power. Jesus Christ was humanity's greatest benefactor and yet only few know Him, and even those who speak His name know nothing more than this name, they know nothing of His sacrifice of love which He offered to God in order to help sinful humanity, who, pressed to the ground by the burden of sin, had neither the will nor the strength to redeem themselves .... Humanity was sinful because, as a result of the former sin of the arrogance of the spiritual, it had to walk through earthly life with the aim of maturing the soul. It was, as it were, the product of sin .... God created the human form in order to give the fallen spiritual being the opportunity to develop upwards again into a spiritual being which turns away from sin and consciously strives towards God. It is certainly possible for the human being's spiritual being to change during earthly life so that it can enter eternity in God's image, so that it can be redeemed if it has the will to do so. Yet as long as the human being is under the influence of the one who was responsible for his past apostasy he lacks the will for redemption and also the strength which he can only receive from God and which God only gives to the being which does not misuse the strength to work for His adversary but uses it correctly according to His will. The man Jesus, Who had penetrated God's deepest wisdom through love, knew about this weakness of the human being, about his bound will and about the power of God's adversary. He knew this and took pity on His helpless fellow human beings to abandon them to their dark fate, and thus He wanted to strengthen the weak, raise up the weak-willed and impart strength to them to free themselves from the enemy's shackles. And thus He offered a sacrifice for His fellow human beings, He acquired grace and strength for them and strengthened will through a work of love which He offered to God as a sacrifice of atonement in order to make redemption easy for them. He died for humanity on the cross, He wanted to redeem His fellow human beings .... from their weakness and from the sin of their former apostasy from God.

He has accomplished the greatest work of love, which no human being on earth can measure in its value and depth. All people can become free from their tormentor, they can cast off all fetters and enter the spiritual kingdom 'redeemed' in the deepest meaning of the word, if only they acknowledge Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world, present their weakness and burden of sin to Him and ask for His help. But they do not respect Him .... they don't believe in His might and power and don't request it either, and consequently they cannot make use of the blessings of the act of salvation either, and Jesus Christ died for these people in vain, their state of sin has remained the same, and if they die they are so exceedingly burdened with the old sin of former rebellion against God as well as with an extremely weakened will which always lets them fall more and more into the hands of God's adversary. And the work of redemption of the man Jesus was accomplished in vain for these souls, to whom no other help can be given and who therefore enter the kingdom of darkness bound, if they lose their physical life. Satan has gained victory over these souls because they have placed themselves into his hands although they were given the opportunity to request Jesus' help, Whose love for humanity was so great that He wanted to be everyone's saviour because He knows about the dreadful torments of those who enter the beyond unredeemed ....

Amen

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Earnest exhortation to faithful work in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4584 from March 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Don't let your spiritual activity hold you back, bear in mind that it is extremely important, that you have to fulfil a task which cannot be given to every person and therefore the few I have deemed suitable for it also have to be diligently active in view of the many souls in need of help in spiritual adversity. Notice how earthly things come first with people, how little time they find for a quiet contemplation within themselves, how rarely they touch upon spiritual things in conversation and how dismissive they also are towards spiritual debates. And you must recognize the spiritual low in which the souls stand. Then consider that you are all close to the end, what state the souls are in if they are to withstand the last great onslaught, if they are to decide for Me or for the earthly world .... consider which decision is safe .... The adversity is immense and shall still be controlled to the best of our will and ability. You can still persuade many souls to turn back if they are made aware of the truth, and I have chosen you for this work and admonish you again and again to be faithful labourers for Me and to make use of every opportunity to cultivate the field and spread good seed. Don't let yourselves be held back, serve Me first before you serve your fellow human beings, for I am truly an efficient lord and will not let your effort and work go unrewarded. Consider that earthly goods cannot replace what I have to offer you, and consider that you yourselves have more delicious goods to distribute than you can ever gain through earthly activity. Consider people's spiritual poverty and help them by distributing spiritual treasures, for they are truly in great need even though they live a regulated earthly life and can give the body what it desires. Cover their spiritual needs and you will truly have accomplished a work of neighbourly love which will be thanked and rewarded by those souls for all eternity. And don't let yourselves be captured by the world which wants to influence you with all its charms, which My adversary uses to make you unfit for the work for Me and My kingdom. Remain faithful to Me and serve Me, and I will always support you and be with you with My grace ....

Amen

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

B.D. 4585 from March 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

My kingdom is not of this world .... Thus I have to warn you again and again against this world if you want to enter My kingdom, for you can only possess one thing and you have to renounce one thing for the sake of what you desire. If you now prefer the earthly world to My kingdom, you will certainly live in joy for a short time and all your wishes will be fulfilled by My adversary; yet you will miss out on the kingdom which offers you eternal bliss. You make a very bad exchange but you will never be able to compensate for it, for anyone who has once been captured by the world will not be able to get rid of matter in the kingdom of the beyond either and will finally achieve what he strives for again, he will fall ever deeper because he is drawn by matter and has become a slave to it through satan's cunning, for what gives you pleasure in the world are means he uses to lure you to him, and as soon as your heart desires it he has already gained victory over you .... My kingdom is not of this world .... If you therefore want to enter My kingdom, then turn your back on the world, learn to despise it, only fulfil your duty, but turn your eyes upwards and you will soon see a light shining which will make the earthly world appear dark to you. And then every desire for the world will be stifled, for the light from above has an all-pervading radiance and attracts everyone who has not already become a slave to the world. But it is your free decision, you should choose for yourselves which kingdom you want to possess, you should turn to My kingdom out of innermost impulse and thereby also prove the desire for Me, you should despise the world as My adversary's kingdom and withdraw from his influence by fighting against earthly desires and direct your heart and mind to where I am enthroned as ruler, to the kingdom of light, which is your true home ....

Amen

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God's involvement in the work for His kingdom .... self-will - God's will ....

B.D. 4586 from March 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Your thoughts and actions are guided by My will as soon as you carry out spiritual activity and thus consciously want to serve Me. Hence you will not undertake anything contrary to My will, and therefore the inner connection with Me through prayer or heartfelt thoughts is enough for Me to grasp you and guide your thinking correctly, and then you need not fear to act wrongly. Anyone who wants to work in My vineyard and is willing to listen to Me first will now also be assigned the work by Me, and that is through the voice of the heart. Therefore, as you are urged from within, so is My will, accordingly you should now also act. If the inner voice holds you back then you should follow it as well, yet don't fail to carry out what I prompt you to do. Speak when you are urged to do so, for I am always at work and you never speak out of yourselves when spiritual matters are up for discussion. For this is My working, that I lead you into opportunities where I can speak through you. Every opportunity shall be used, because every door shall be opened and because you must contribute to it by lending Me your human form, which I now use in order to speak to people, in order to influence the spiritual state, which can only be raised through the mediation of truth .... Thus you must spread the truth, you must mention My working and, with firm faith in Me and My presence, fearlessly and without inhibition preach My word to those who are still of dark spirit. You will not take a step without Me .... you can be sure that nothing is by chance and every path is marked out for you ....

Everything you think and do is My concern, for you don't know how unspeakably important your mission is, how I want to approach humanity through you and how necessary I need you for this office of a mediator in order to preserve people's freedom of will and faith and yet to bring them help because they don't want to help themselves. I approach all who lack the right realization and who still have a steerable will, who are not yet hardened of heart and therefore can sense who speaks to them through you if they want to feel it. And you often have to take strange paths which you, as it were, choose yourselves and yet only obey the voice of My spirit which urges you onto this path. There is no coincidence for you, for your destiny has been determined since eternity, and anyone who serves Me is especially prescribed by Me every path he has to take. And therefore you should not worry about what and how you should act. Carry out what is in your will, what appeals to you, and then you will always do what is right as soon as you have given your will to Me beforehand, as soon as you entrust Me with the task I give you through your heart. Then you will act sensitively and it will correspond to My will. But you should not start anything without Me, you should always listen to My instruction, i.e. pay attention to what seems emotionally right to you and also do it, you will act in accordance with My will and be active for Me and My kingdom for the benefit of your fellow human beings ....

Amen

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Warning against rejecting the divine Word .... 'Test all things and ....'

B.D. 4587 from March 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Truly, I say to you that you cause yourselves inconceivable damage if you disregard the Word I impart to you from above, if you content yourselves with teachings given to you by uninformed leaders which you will only understand if you take My Word from above to heart. First you should strive towards light, for only true light illuminates the path you need to take in order to reach your goal. In darkness you will miss the right path, in darkness you will follow the sight of lights flashing up and these are only deceptive lights which distract you from the right path. You must desire true light, that is, you must try to gain the right realisation, to adopt knowledge which corresponds to truth, and thereby form an accurate image of Me as a most loving Father and Creator of eternity, in order to then strive towards unity with Me from Whom you originated in the past. Consequently, you must be instructed of the truth. But truth can only be imparted to you by the One Who is the eternal Truth Himself or by someone who received the truth from Him directly. Strive for this sole truth and do not be satisfied with knowledge which has not emerged from the eternal font. I cannot exhort you strongly enough not to ignore it when My love reveals itself to you and conveys purest truth to you. Test all things and keep what is good .... Take notice if you are offered the gift of God's Word and consider in your heart what your position should be. Don't reject it without examination but bear in mind that you might well reject a great gift of grace, and therefore examine what you are offered. If you can then reject it with inner conviction, then you are not at fault, yet a serious assessment should precede it so that anyone of good will and a heart capable of love will recognise the Father's voice speaking to him. You are offered the most precious gift of grace My love has in store for you .... Make use of it, let the grace take effect in you, listen to My Word and live accordingly and you will very soon realise that it is eternal truth which comes from Me Myself and will make you truly knowledgeable; you will feel the brightness within yourselves and clearly recognise the path to Me, you will be able to believe with conviction and also endorse Me before the world because your faith is a living one which only the pure truth can achieve. And so I admonish you once more: don't reject My servants when they offer My Word to you. I Myself impart upon you the most valuable gift of grace, the eternal truth, because only through truth can you become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The working of the spirit .... Scrutiny .... Proof: Oratorical gift .... Truth - Error .... God's messengers ....

B.D. 4588 from March 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A large structure must be made to waver, and this undertaking shall be tackled by you, for which I Myself will give you the instruction as well as the strength to accomplish the work. Error has crept into all places where truth is expected to be, where people believe they know the truth, and now it is up to you to expose this error, which you would be unable to do by yourselves, by using your intellect alone, yet with My help you can do so, and therefore you shall teach in My name what I have proclaimed to you through the spirit. Each one of you shall make an effort to let My spirit speak in order to gain possession of the pure truth. And if this cannot be achieved you should pay attention to what My messengers reveal to you, who are directly instructed by Me again through the voice of the spirit. Every bearer of truth will uphold the same spiritual knowledge, that is, once the truth is conveyed to someone it will always yield the same results; the spirit, which is in contact with the Father-Spirit of eternity, will proclaim the same to everyone. Thus, the origin of different results must be investigated. That which originates from My spirit will forever remain the truth, which never changes, regardless as to how and in which form it is offered to you. The working of My spirit guarantees you purest truth, and thus you need only examine when My spirit is at work and where false prophets portray themselves as My disciples and representatives on earth. And you can easily ascertain whether the spiritual information, which claims to be true, is accepted consciously or subconsciously. If I pour out My spirit, no process is being displayed for curious spectators, for I do not approach you humans such that you would even in the slightest way be forced to believe. No-one will notice anything extraordinary, unless he considers the fluent gift of oratory as something unusual, but in that case I refer to My Word 'Take no thought how or what ye shall speak .... For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit...' Then you will already have a sign that My spirit is at work in the one who thus speaks well. However, if other exceptional signs are quoted as evidence, don't believe that it is I Who manifests Himself in this way. Every now and then you might well be able to observe phenomena which point to My life on earth .... if particularly devout and devoted people thereby contribute towards enlivening their fellow human beings' weak faith .... Yet the working of the spirit mainly refers to the transfer of My Word, because through My Word humanity shall be guided into truth and because My Word also makes My will known, the fulfilment of which results in the direct working of the spirit again.

The human race certainly seeks and tentatively strives for truth, but it does not take the right path in order to find it. However, every person carries the truth within himself .... Every person carries the spiritual spark within himself, which is part of Me and can impart purest truth if the person looks within and listens to the expression of the spiritual spark, to the Word, which thus comes from Me because the spiritual spark is My share for eternity. Understand, you humans, you must look within yourselves and not wait for what is brought to you from external sources! But since you no longer fulfil the conditions needed for the manifestation of the spirit, since you are no longer capable of perceiving My Word in you, hence, since you no longer come to Me, I come to you by sending you a messenger who hears the expression of his spirit, My Word, and shall inform you of it. Now it is indeed conveyed to you from outside, but as an unmistakable gift from above, which can be recognised by everyone providing he makes the effort to seriously examine it or allows himself to be guided by his inner spirit, thus does not offer resistance if My Word inwardly appeals to him. And every seriously truth-desiring person will find My Word appealing, because My strength of love takes effect in the one who strives towards Me as the eternal Truth. Thus I Myself come to meet him and draw him close to Me if I don't meet with resistance. Therefore, take notice of the working of the spirit and accept the offer of the one who, in a completely conscious state, listens to the voice of the spirit within, for you can believe his results, since he is taught by Me directly through My spirit. Beware of false prophets as they, too, mention My name and yet have no direct connection with Me, who therefore deem themselves capable of instructing their fellow human beings but have no knowledge themselves. Beware of those who receive their knowledge in a way where I Myself cannot be at work, because forces from below push in without being rejected by the recipient's will .... where the human being forfeits his will and his will is subsequently seized. In a conscious state they might well be of good will, nevertheless, their chosen path is wrong. Come to Me, make contact with Me in spirit, listen within and appeal to Me with all your heart for the working of My spirit .... and your prayer will be granted, you will be taught in absolute truth by Me directly or through My messengers .... But you will always be taught by My spirit and guided into all truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Task of God's servants: enlightenment about living faith and truth ....

B.D. 4589 from March 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Your task consists of standing up for the truth, of enlightening and opposing the truth wherever you recognize error, so that you shake the certainty of those who believe error to be truth, so that they become thoughtful and the beings of light have a mental effect on them. Furthermore, your task consists of making the difference between living and dead faith clear to your fellow human beings, so that they are not content to pause over customs and formulas but shape their faith into a living one and establish a living connection with Me. You humans cannot hear My voice in you as long as you do not actively strive for a change of nature which, however, never happens without the firm inner will and prayer for grace and strength. Only then will life begin in you, only then will the soul remember the purpose of earthly life, and only then will it fulfil its task to develop upwards. But this will and prayer in spirit and in truth is rarely found among people, and yet they think they are believers because they comply with the church events and requirements; yet their souls do not achieve any significant progress, the change of nature does not take place, and the working of the spirit in the human being is an impossibility and likewise the supply of pure truth, which is why error is widespread in the world, which again signifies an unhappy state of humanity because truth alone is light and light alone is blissful. Satan's power is great, and it also extends to where the truth from Me should be represented, where the gospel should be taught in all purity, as I Myself preached it to people on earth. And this is why he also has such great power over the supposed believers, because they don't join Me closely enough themselves, because they certainly speak of Me but don't have Me in their heart; because they certainly pray but mostly with their lips and not in spirit and in truth. For the length of a prayer does not increase its effect, and a heartfelt thought is more likely to be heard than well-placed words of long duration. The adversary lurks everywhere and tries to bring people down, and he is very successful where the will to reach Me is not serious and firm. But who musters this will, I hold him firm that he does not fall in the temptations of the adversary. I give him strength and he will remain victorious. But where is the will so serious that the hot, pleading request rises up to Me: Lord, draw Me to You, help Me against all adversity of body and soul; give Me pure, unadulterated truth, and let Me recognize and love You .... Where is faith so alive that the heart speaks these words and not only the mouth? .... I want this living faith, and where I find it I will certainly be constantly present, for I will not let such a heart fall into My adversary's hands. But he tries to prevent you humans from intimate contact with Me, and thus he first tries to obscure the truth, he spreads error and gives you a distorted image of Me. And because your will is weak you let yourselves be influenced by him and you believe His words more, who portrays Me as a God of vengeance and wrath and not of love and reduces your desire for Me. He is present to you but I am far from you, for your heart does not draw Me, it belongs to the world which is his kingdom. And your faith is dead .... it is only a confession with the mouth but not a firmly convinced faith that I am and want to unite with you as My living creations. Faith is missing because you do not know the truth. And therefore you, My servants, should fight for the truth and take action against error, and I will always be present to you with My grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Doctrine of re-incarnation .... Misguided teaching .... Celestial bodies ....

B.D. 4590 from March 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Do not be mislead by supposed contradictions, rather, see the reason in the fact that your ability of comprehension does not always suffice in order to understand something properly, and that there need not be a contradiction, but you only suppose it to be. It should be sufficient for you to know that I will never teach you wrongly and that I will always give you the information such that it will benefit your soul ....

The doctrine of karma does not encourage you to increase your spiritual endeavour. It is far more likely to encourage you to conduct your life half-heartedly in the spiritual sense. For this reason alone it is of little benefit for the soul, and it does not meet My full approval that you humans count on a return to earth and as a result become negligent in your effort. Although I support the soul's higher development in every way, and wherever I recognise a reliable opportunity to advance your soul's maturity I Am willing to give My consent, but it always has to be on the basis of My lawful eternal order and never for the sake of a deliberately created opportunity .... Hence it must be understandable to you that I will not inform you of a repeated process of development on this earth, which presupposes your total failure during your earthly life, but that I would like to protect you from this failure, and therefore caution, warn and instruct you in order to prevent a failure.

It would be a wrong instruction if I were to offer you the prospect of another path to reach your goal while the right path is still ahead of you, thus you should, and could, walk this path with correct use of your will. I only inform you of the infinite number of previous embodiments because I want you to become aware of your great responsibility for the short path of earthly life. This knowledge is only intended to increase your effort, but you should not draw the wrong conclusion and neglect your endeavour in the hope of repeating your incarnation on this earth if you do not reach your goal. My spirit will definitely enlighten you, and if you ask Me faithfully I will let you know through My servants to what extent your thoughts are correct.

If you knew of the endless many opportunities to achieve maturity on the innumerable celestial bodies in the universe, you would never come to the conclusion that a soul will be returned again to earth. However, the immature soul has to go through many more embodiments indeed where it is able to prove itself and thereby make further progress. Thus the doctrine of re-incarnation is in fact based on truth but it does not mean that the soul will be born again in the flesh on this earth. It merely indicates the many opportunities of higher development on other creations, where the soul, either in physical or in spiritual form, is again presented with a task, the fulfilment of which will assure its ascent. It is an exception if a soul returns to this earth again to fulfil a spiritual mission, it cannot be generalised. Souls having passed away in a state of immaturity will also deem themselves living on earth. The areas they occupy make them believe that they were transported to extremely dreary, barren stretches of land, but they are actually on another planet which is suited to their souls' maturity and which is inhabited by the most primitive creations, resulting in a meagre, depressive stay for the souls .... This is an opportunity for purification of very materialistic minded people, who have to overcome their desire in order to be placed on another work of creation for the purpose of further ascent, depending on their will.

You still love this earth too much and therefore associate the word 're-incarnation' only with this earth as the dwelling place for a re-incarnated soul. But you should consider My love's incredibly extensive work of creation, which only came about for the countless spiritual beings who have to take the path to perfection, and who will take this path in some form or other .... in physical creations, as long as the soul is not yet spiritualised and receptive for light, and in spiritual creations, where the spiritual soul can constantly ascend too, where it purifies itself ever more and makes itself receptive for the emanation of Myself.

Imagine eternity, behold the starry sky whose countless stars are the creations of My will of love, destined to accept souls in need of development .... and you will realise that this earth is not the only carrier of beings who are supposed to ascend and that it is truly not necessary to return the failed souls to earth again, although it is the only place for achieving the childship to God, but it cannot be deliberately and repeatedly chosen as a place to mature.

And thus the doctrine of frequent re-incarnation on this earth will have to be declared as a misguided teaching, which needs to be opposed as being harmful for souls, because it weakens people's will and endangers the being's sincere change in view of the expectation to be able to make up for any neglect in a repeated life until ultimate perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love condition to be able to believe God’s word ....

B.D. 4591 from March 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The stronger your love for Me, which is expressed in active neighbourly love, the more receptive you will be for My word, wherever and in whatever form it is offered to you. Then you will recognize the father's voice in My word which, however, will remain alien to you and leave you untouched if you lack love. And this is the solution to the riddle why so many people pass by and remain unimpressed by the word which is offered to them from above. They don't have love and therefore don't press towards the father like children, which is why they are also unable to hear the father's voice. And therefore you should first preach love if you want to be successful with the greatest evidence of My fatherly love .... with My word, which is to change people. You should only acquaint them with the commandment, the observance of which signifies a way of life according to My will. Only then will the human being be able to be guided into truth through My word, i.e. the knowledge which is now imparted to him will now be understandable and believable to him. For faith is only the result of love, without love it is not possible for the human being to believe what spiritual knowledge is conveyed to him. And thus a high degree of love must fill the human being if he wants to hear My voice resounding within himself. You all could provide yourselves with the evidence if you believed these words and seriously made an effort to increase your degree of love. But your will is not enough for this, and you also make too little use of the grace of prayer to strengthen your will, to gain strength for loving activity, and thus you will never be able to penetrate the deepest knowledge which is soundly offered to you by Me Myself if you possess the necessary maturity. Hence you will only ever have to believe but you will not be able to provide yourselves with the evidence of the truth of what is imparted to you through My word. You must believe but you can also do so if only you live in love. Then your faith will be a convinced one, even without proof, for love is always the strength which enlivens everything and also turns faith into a living faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word proof of His presence ....

B.D. 4592 from March 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Believe My words and do not trouble yourselves with doubts and questions of all kinds. My word proves My presence to you, and thus I dwell where My word is sincerely desired and accepted. And therefore I am in the heart of the one who listens to Me and blessed are those who let Me speak to them. But who is He who makes Himself known to you through the voice of the spirit? It is the spirit, Who is from eternity and will be for all eternity, by Whom you were radiated into infinity as the tiniest spark, Who placed you as isolated beings in the midst of His creation and Who gave you the ability to think and want on your own authority. He gave your thinking and willing freedom, so that your development may now be an act of free will .... I Myself now instruct you in which way you should accomplish your development. Thus I Myself am in closest contact with you and am always present to you, consequently I will not want you to get lost to Me and keep you as long as you do not strive away from Me. And I will be victorious .... Do not fear My adversary but only give yourselves to Me and the adversary will lose all power over you .... If you hear Me Myself within you, you should drop all doubt and only ever receive the answer from My word. And I apparently manifest Myself to those who desire an answer for the sake of their souls because they are unable to hear it within themselves. Trust in My help .... it will become yours ....

Amen

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Mission of the last disciples of the end time .... preaching the gospel ....

B.D. 4593 from March 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Your mission is a very important one, since many people are outside church communities and therefore also outside spiritual teachings which should help them to progress. Now you are to bring the gospel to them, you are to inform them of My will and of their obligation and responsibility towards the soul. Most of these people's thinking is turned towards the world and therefore the spiritual realm is completely alien to them. Therefore you will first have to instruct them, you will have to direct their thoughts towards the life of the soul, into the spiritual kingdom, which is still unknown to them as long as they know nothing about it. As soon as you touch the sphere which is alien to the human being, the interest is awakened and the desire awakens to receive information about these spheres. And according to the strength of the desire he will now be instructed. You therefore have a beautiful task to enlighten completely ignorant people and to awaken the interest in them in order to then constantly impart to them a knowledge which you have received from the first source. This task can only be accomplished by people who desire the truth themselves and receive it in direct contact with Me .... These are therefore My last disciples, the disciples of the last days, whom I send out into the world again to bring the gospel to people. I know very well that it is far more difficult for them to believe and to represent their faith to the world, and therefore I give them the gift of speech so that they will recognize Who He is Who makes Himself known through the spirit. My disciples have to be strengthened, I have to approach them so that they themselves will be and remain profoundly faithful, I have to take special care of them and give them obvious signs from time to time that I Myself am present to them, otherwise they would become weak and would not be able to complete their mission. Furthermore, I must give them the understanding for the messages from above so that they will stand up for My word with zeal and conviction, so that they will be true representatives of Christ's teaching, which I present to them in all purity from above. For there are many who need a hint; there are many who need spiritual guides; there are many who find a clear word of My love beneficial and now mentally deal with it; there are many who want to believe but cannot because they have not found the right teachers .... there are many who are grateful for right enlightenment and willingly listen to My messengers .... and to these you shall bring the gospel as it comes forth from Me; you shall inform them of what is about to happen and of My infinite love, you shall complete the work My disciples once started, you shall fulfil your mission eagerly, so that My adversary will be ousted and the prey he already believes to possess will be snatched away from him .... You shall be My rightful representatives on earth in the short time you humans still have until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God speaks through the heart .... the opponent of God through the mind ....

B.D. 4594 from March 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Obviously I want to manifest Myself to you, yet if you still don't recognize Me even then because your will of rejection is stronger, My enticements will be in vain. Do not resist My grace, do not step out of the glow of My sun of love and pay attention to what is happening around you. For I will become clearer if you do not understand My language of love. Anyone who wants to be active for God works for God with every thought and every action, anyone who puts the world first works for God's adversary .... And this is the yardstick for determining which will motivates a person to be active, for if a person's will applies to Me he is also My labourer and, as My servant, will also be fully provided by Me with spiritual and earthly possessions. But anyone who works for Me should do so with his heart and not just with his intellect, for his intellect is truly not enough if he wants to pass judgment. Anyone who wants to serve Me will never be abandoned by Me with My grace, and he need never fear that an opposing power is stronger than Me and can overpower him. Anyone who thus desires Me has already withdrawn his will from My adversary and can no longer be determined by him to act and think wrongly. He just has to pay attention to the heart's feeling and not allow the intellect to rule, for I speak to you humans through the heart and your heart will truly always let you recognize what is right, whereas the intellect is the door where My adversary seeks entrance and often finds it. Keep this door closed in front of him, withdraw into the chamber of the heart where it is light and bright, so that the sun of My love sends its rays into it and gives everyone who wants to serve Me what he needs in abundance. Become like children, listen to the father's voice and follow it, and no harm will come to you, because then the father will be constantly present to you and protect you in every adversity and danger ....

Amen

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Presence of God .... voice of the father .... right children ....

B.D. 4595 from March 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I am with you if you hear My voice mentally or also audibly, as your maturity of soul allows. And you must feel My presence, otherwise it is not a living connection which you have entered into with Me through prayer. And thus you will also gain the conviction that you are in divine care, that nothing bad can approach you and that you are therefore My charges. Anyone who is not aware of this doubts My presence and thus My direct working on and in you, he also has no part in Me, he is distant from Me due to his resistance which results from his unbelief. Anyone who desires Me also possesses Me, anyone who doubts Me prevents Me Myself from approaching him. Thus you humans create for yourselves the relationship in which I stand with you. The God of love is always ready for you if you grant Him access into your heart and if you thus want to receive Me you need never fear that My adversary will intrude, thus you yourselves determine through your will who will take possession of you. And you will by no means be able to be satan's prey as long as you strive towards Me and are willing to serve Me. Humanity is spiritually blind, it does not grasp the miracle which takes place where My word is conveyed from above to earth. And where I therefore work the world steps in and wants to extinguish the light from the heavens, it cannot bear the radiant shine and seeks to darken it. Where I work My adversary lurks there for the opportunity to cast shadows on the light, and the human being's will encourages him. They shun the right light but chase after the will-o'-the-wisps, and soon they are unable to distinguish a right light from a will-o'-the-wisp. My spirit would enlighten them if they only paid attention to what the heart tells them. But they only let their intellect speak and it leads them wrongly. And thus only he will reach his aim who allows himself to be instructed by Me through his heart, who believes like a child and thus also recognizes the father's voice, whether it sounds to him directly or through messengers .... it is always My word which wants to inform people and testifies of Me. Anyone who does not recognize this word of Mine is not Mine, he does not have Me as his father but the one who works against Me, who wants to push the children away from the father's heart and who also has great power if the child isolates itself from the father, if it becomes apostate to Him. Don't fall prey to him, otherwise your will will be weakened and you can only be helped through heartfelt contact, through conscious striving for My presence and unconditional submission of your will. Then My adversary's activity will become apparent to you and My love will be victorious, for it applies to you as long as you live on earth and also in eternity ....

Amen

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Announcement of judgement .... as in the time of the flood ....

B.D. 4596 from March 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

And thus you should continue to adhere to Me and desire My strength, for the day of terror is drawing ever closer for all people, whether they belong to Me or not. For they see themselves at the mercy of a power against which they cannot fight with their will. And I want them to tremble and shake, to consider the possibility of appealing to that power for help so that they establish contact with their creator and sustainer of eternity. People's thinking is so confused and few are content with the silent love for Me which earns them firm faith, strength and spiritual progress, few live a life of humble submission and devotion to Me. The world takes its toll, and only a few are those who join Me so closely and, driven by the spirit within themselves, flee to Me in every adversity and distress. And it is like at the time of the flood of sin .... they have no respect for God and are therefore doomed. But I still want to save the few and also encounter resistance where I direct My flow of grace .... For satan rages and fights with all weapons because he knows that he has not much time left. Be careful that he does not deceive you and open your heart and eyes for the ray of love from above, for it is a source which must not be underestimated, and anyone who has once drunk from it will no longer be able to do without the living water, and if he spurns it he will have to pine away and remain lying by the wayside, for nothing else can offer him a substitute. Where My spirit is at work, there you will find yourselves and accept My gift of grace, and do not fear that I, as your father, will provide you with food that does not agree with you. Accept and eat, for the father, Who loves His children, offers it to you, and He will truly not treat you badly but only grant you what brings you closer to His heart.

Amen

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Simple and spiritual sense of the teachings ....

B.D. 4597 from March 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You cannot grasp the depth of the instructions which are given to you through My love and grace, for you only understand the simple meaning but not the spiritual significance which every word of Mine still contains. But the simple knowledge is enough for you, for it fulfils the purpose of bringing the soul to maturity if the will is used correctly. Yet if you were to grasp the profound meaning of what I speak to you from above, your bliss would find no limits. It would be an everlasting vision into the spiritual kingdom, which is unsurpassable in its most glorious creations. But I mostly only let you receive earthly enlightenment so that you first fulfil your earthly task, which is why your spirit is certainly kept awake but does not exclusively concern itself with things which are still too early for you and only become comprehensible to the already more mature person. (26.3.1949) But with increasing maturity your capacity for comprehension also increases and the limits which are a condition in the state of imperfection can be exceeded. Then the soul is already open-minded and it can receive wisdom which is too high for the intellect alone. Then My teaching of love, which is in itself quite simple and comprehensible, will again and again illuminate and profoundly explain new problems, it will be recognized as an inexhaustible source of wisdom, it will bear witness to its founder and as a brightly shining light break through the darkness of night in a wide circle, i.e. give enlightenment to all who want to find their way out of their spiritual blindness and do not shy away from the light. Every word I have spoken on earth has eternal value, it is unchangeable and yet can be understood differently without, however, being able to be declared erroneous in one opinion. Yet a person's state of maturity determines the different interpretation, and thus every word of Mine can also be interpreted differently without being a wrong judgment. Yet a spiritually awakened person will always be able to recognize agreement, thus no open contradiction will come to light which could lead to unbelief. But spiritually immature people often take offence at words which they would like to portray as a contradiction because they are incapable of understanding them. These, therefore, can hear or read My word and only grasp the purely worldly meaning. Hence they will not increase in realization and profound wisdom either, and consequently My word will then only trigger a weak feeling of happiness in the listener's heart, which, however, could be unspeakably happy if the human being's state of maturity were higher. For then the degree of knowledge and the ability to recognize will also increase, and the human being's wisdom will constantly grow, although only the teaching of love, which originated from Me, will ever be presented to him ....

Amen

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Commandment of love proof of truth .... content of the divine word: gospel ....

B.D. 4598 from March 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Only one basic law applies to the awakened one in the spirit: to believe unconditionally what is made known to him by the voice of the spirit. Then he will always stand in the truth. To the spiritually awakened person the voice of the spirit will only proclaim that which is in harmony with Jesus' teaching of love, which is therefore only an explanation and justification of His commandment of love and can therefore irrevocably be regarded as God’s word. For even the most profound wisdom, which surpasses the simple gospel as it is known to people in terms of content, only ever emerges from the fulfilment of the commandment of love and again only testifies to God's love and wisdom, thus it does not contradict His teaching. Therefore, where love is taught the spirit of God must be active, otherwise God's adversary would already be in the process of turning back if he imparted the same teaching to people with the aim of uniting with God. It is so clearly evident that everything which points to God must also have God as its origin, and therefore you humans need not anxiously check which forces instruct you if you accept direct instructions from the spiritual kingdom, for all forces which try to educate the human being to love are also God-bound and work in God's will. If such a teaching does not meet with human approval, if it is rejected or accepted with reluctance, then God's adversary eagerly uses the opportunity to render it ineffective by scattering doubt upon doubt into people who want to recognize God's working and therefore do not recognize the adversary's working either. The beings of darkness will always use increased strength where the light from above wants to break through. You humans must always bear this in mind and not allow God's adversary access to you through doubt. Again, only one thing can be said, that God does not hand people over to the power of the adversary who wants to reach Him. For God is love, God is the father of His children, and the father's love will never let a child come to harm which trustingly hands itself over to Him and appeals for protection and grace. And this is a sure sign of the working of the spirit in the human being that he will also withstand the greatest temptation because he is permeated by the strength of the spirit and can also resist the strongest onslaught which is undertaken by God's adversary against him. For the truth will prevail because God Himself is the truth and His word will endure for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Keep My word .... come all ye to Me ...."

B.D. 4599 from March 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Adhere to My word and don't ponder and question whether it is to be understood differently than you feel in your heart. You can always draw comfort and strength from My word, and thus you need not live in fear and worry but can banish them at any time by letting Me speak to you. As the father of My children I know everything that moves them and presses them, and I stand by and wait until My children trustingly approach Me and ask Me for help. And I do not deny them what they ask for .... I have an answer ready for every anxious question, and I repeat what I said when I walked on earth: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened ...." Don't let yourselves be weighed down by worldly worries which will dissolve into nothing again by themselves, but only remember your soul which will always receive strength, to which the strength from Me is imparted through My word, which is why receiving My word is the most necessary thing for you which you must not neglect. And that is why I so often let hardship and suffering come upon you because I want you to withdraw the strength from My word so that your souls will be strengthened. I want you to maintain an everlasting connection with Me, that you don't put Me aside and let the world come to the fore. And if you are in danger I will approach you in the form of suffering and affliction. And then let Me speak to you .... And I will speak words to you which truly give you strength and comfort and shall be evidence of My presence, of My knowledge about your adversity and of My love. I only want you to come to Me of your own accord in order to feel your trust which makes Me happy, and I want to remind you of all My words which I spoke to people on earth who were in the same spiritual and earthly adversity. And you will recognize Me Myself in the word, because you recognize the divine origin through the gift of strength, and thus you will also be firm in your faith, which I want to help you achieve through My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Keep My word! .... remember the end! ....

B.D. 4600 from March 29th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The probationary period will soon be over for each one of you, for it is coming to an end. You will begin to lull yourselves into security again, and this is dangerous for your soul which turns to the world again as soon as it believes itself to have escaped the impending disaster. And into this security the call will sound: Remember the end .... Then suddenly people will remember My admonitions and warnings when world events prove My announcements with surprising clarity. And now you have to prepare yourselves for the end with increased will, pay all attention to your soul's life and, through increased activity of love for your neighbour, gain the strength to resist the earthly battle. Whatever you tackle, be it spiritual or earthly work, you must first intimately unite with Me in order to be able to carry out the work, otherwise you will be too weak in view of the great adversity among people which paralyses all strength if I don't assist you and give you strength. Keep to My word, I call to you more urgently than ever: Keep to My word, consider that My word is the emanation of Myself, Who placed My strength of love into this form in order to give you an effective means which you can use at any time when you are in need .... My emanation of strength must truly be unsurpassable in its effectiveness. You need only try it out and immerse yourselves in My word if earthly suffering weighs you down. Then a heavenly calm will come over you and you will leave everything to Me in the firm confidence that I will help you .... And I will help you .... I will direct your thoughts and always guide you along the paths which will enable you to reach your aim, be it spiritually or earthly, for I will also take care of you earthly in the coming time. Keep to My word and don't let any doubts arise in you, for undoubted faith will let you become master over all opposition, undoubted faith will be victorious, for undoubted faith will let you become aware of My presence and all fear will disappear in you, because where I am there can be no defeat and because everything will be surmountable for you if I stand by your side with My love and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Test the spirits .... Act of Salvation .... Criterion Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 4601 from March 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

By the contents of the proclamations it is easily established whose spirit reveals itself, and attention must always be paid as to whether and in what way the divine Redeemer is mentioned, because this is of greatest importance in the scrutiny of mystic proclamations. If Jesus Christ is acknowledged as Redeemer of the world then it is the most certain guarantee that the proclamation has come from above, that the spirit of God speaks through a person who is receptive to Him, hears His voice and passes it on as His Word. In that case the human being need not have the slightest qualms anymore and he can be certain that purest truth touches his ear and that he fulfils God's will by distributing the Word from above. Then he will have reached a particular degree of maturity which allows for a direct transfer of truth, for the act of Salvation is a mystery which can only be unveiled when the necessary understanding for it exists in a human being. Only when a person is in contact with the spiritual kingdom himself, which enables a direct communication, will he understand Christ's act of Salvation, that is, he will be able to comprehend and explain the problem of 'Jesus Christ - God', because the miracle which turned Jesus Christ into a divine man is paralleled by this person's spiritual activity, even though to an incomparably lesser extent. Nevertheless, Jesus' divinity is no longer a question for him, and he can also explain it to his fellow human beings with conviction, because the act of God's spiritual working is taking place in him which is evidenced by the received spiritual knowledge from above. Anyone who therefore conducts an examination in order to establish which forces are at work during such a transmission will soon become convinced of the truth providing he is not impervious to the Book of the Fathers or rejects it. God will not leave His Own in doubt, and He will never leave a person who desires the truth in ignorance. And so He Himself advised people to test the spirits whether they are of God, and at the same time specified the criterion of truth and that of error.

For this reason people can unhesitatingly advocate the truth of the received proclamations from above, not even the slightest doubt need trouble their heart, for Jesus Christ offers Himself as a touchstone, because His adversary will never acknowledge Him and His human manifestation or inform people of Christ's act of Salvation. Jesus Himself says 'I Am the way, the truth, and the life ....' Thus anyone who walks with Him, who speaks on His behalf, who professes Him, must also know the truth without fail and cannot go astray. Consequently, proclamations pertaining to Him and His act of Salvation can never be inspired by the adversary, who will not mention His name. They must absolutely be acknowledged and judged as divine working, otherwise faith in God's Word as well as the process of the working of the spirit would be invalid which, however, gives evidence of itself through the reception of spiritual proclamations. Anyone who hears the voice of the spirit within himself will also be able to refute all objections yet only find credence where the spirit can likewise be at work, albeit not as obviously as with the recipient of spiritual proclamations. Someone who is influenced by negative forces will seek to portray everything of a divine nature as implausible, for it is the sign that God's adversary is at work by trying to plunge people into confusion, because he fights the truth and would like to extinguish the light from the heavens. Therefore you were given an indication which you need only pay attention to in order to be able to judge clearly and to reject the evil influence, so that you can endorse the truth within yourselves as well as towards your fellow human beings. And you can rest assured that God Himself will support those who are working for Him, because it is His will that the pure truth shall be spread and continue to exist, but that He will also separate the chaff from the wheat ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Eternal damnation ....

B.D. 4602 from March 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

God's mercy knows no bounds, God's love is infinite, His patience immeasurable, and for this reason His living creation cannot be lost forever or He would not be perfect. For this reason it is wrong to speak about eternal damnation, if it is to be understood as a concept of time which intends to describe something that is never-ending. For this kind of eternal damnation would then signify something completely lost to God .... thus a spiritual being would finally be relinquished to His adversary, which originally had emerged from God and was taken away from Him by His adversary .... But in that case this adversary would be greater than God, to a certain extent he would be the victor and superior to God's might and strength which, however, is and never will be possible, for no being is able to surpass His perfection, might and wisdom.

What has emerged from Him will eternally remain His in possession, it will just be separated from Him for a time, that is, it has distanced itself from Him to the greatest extent due to its own will. Yet even this distance is not a permanent condition because the being, in order to be happy, has to be affected by God's emanation of strength and .... if it lacks the will for this itself, it will be seized by God's love and mercy which wants to provide it with the state of bliss. Hence eternal damnation would contradict God's love and mercy, or they would be limited, whereby God's perfection would suffer a loss. An utterly perfect Being has no human weaknesses, but eternal wrath would be an inferior human attribute, just as every eternally lasting state of punishment could not be called a divine principle, for the Divine is characterised by love .... Love, however, saves and helps; it forgives and will never push something away from itself forever.

In contrast, the adversary lacks the divine principle of love, and it will always be his objective to pull the spiritual beings down to himself forever. He is the one who causes confusion to people's concept of eternity, who tries to portray God as merciless and harsh in order to stifle people's love for Him .... he is the one who does not know mercy himself and therefore unhesitatingly aims to render the souls miserable, who wants to deprive them of every opportunity of help in order to corrupt them forever. And he finds many followers of his doctrine of eternal damnation .... who do not recognise God in His infinite love or they would be unable to believe this teaching. Yet the truth will always be conveyed to people and the error glaringly brought to light, so that God will be recognised and loved as the most perfect Being, so that people will join Him and abhor His opponent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Success of the forces of light or darkness is determined by man through his will ....

B.D. 4603 from April 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It remains a constant battle between the powers of light and darkness as long as the spiritual is not completely redeemed. The struggling human being is influenced by both sides, the kingdom of light tries to influence his will and impart the knowledge of truth to him, the dark forces try to push him away and confuse his thinking, and the human being has to decide for himself so that he remains free in his will and actions. And he can make this decision with his heart or also with his intellect. The beings of the kingdom of light speak to the heart, the beings of darkness speak to the intellect, yet the heart and intellect can also feel pleasantly touched by the influence of the beings of light, and then his decision is completely valid, the beings of light are granted victory and the powers of darkness are rendered ineffective forever. But God's adversary will not give up the fight so easily and he will fight with all means, not even shying away from blinding those people in the garment of light who are still accessible to his influence. Although he will not be able to penetrate with his influence, i.e., to completely win such people over for himself, his influence reaches so far as to prevent them from working for the kingdom of God, he makes them, so to speak, unfit for it and has thus gained much. God's grace is an extremely effective antidote, but the human being must not reject it in false knowledge, otherwise the adversary will win his game. But the most effective means of grace is God’s word, which will always and in all situations of life radiate strength to the one who receives it with his heart. Therefore, whoever holds the word of God against His adversary will also be victorious over him, for he is no match for the divine word because it is an expression of God's strength from which he escapes. Consequently, the human being can emerge victorious from his struggle if he makes use of God's strength which is available to him unmeasured in His word. With it he can defeat the strongest enemy .... if he uses the divine word himself, he represents God Himself to a certain extent and therefore cannot be defeated. His will, his heart and his love must be fully turned towards God, then God Himself will fight by his side and victory is assured. For what is more understandable than that everyone who wants to go to God also enjoys His protection and finds support from God in every way. And even if the powers of darkness always harass the human being .... God will not let those fall into darkness who seek the light and consciously strive towards it .... and He will also save those who are still weak-willed, who cannot resist the dark forces themselves and yet want what is right .... Help will come to them at the right time ....

Amen

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Wooing for the love of God ....

B.D. 4604 from April 3rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who wants to win God's affection must court His love, thus do everything that is pleasing to Him. He must deeply unite with Him, long for the closest union with Him and only ever listen to the expression of His will which is, as it were, placed in his heart. To be loved by God is a state of bliss that is incomparable and is also only consciously felt by a few people. God's love is indeed meant for all His creations but its strength will be differently effective depending on the relationship between the creature and the creator. And therefore the human being himself must shape the relationship such that he is able to feel the strength of divine love. God is always ready for love, and the human being should make use of this and acquire His love through heartfelt devotion and acceptance of God's will. He should let himself be drawn by Him, he should give up all resistance, he should open himself to God's emanation of love in order to then be able to receive what will make him unspeakably happy. And all this requires complete surrender of the world with all its joys and goods .... furthermore, it necessitates the surrender of everything of earthly value to the human being, the sacrifice of all pleasing things in order to exchange them for God's love, which alone wants to fill the human being's heart. What you love on earth you must give away if you want to receive Him into your heart and enjoy His presence. And if you are able to sacrifice, God will reward you for your love .... And if you separate yourselves from covetous possessions for His sake, His eye will rest upon you with pleasure and you will feel His strength of love. And you will not regret it, for what you give you will receive back a thousand times over. God's love is a most delicious gift which allows nothing else to arise beside it, and it is up to you to receive this delicious gift when nothing else seems desirable to you and you only strive to be blissfully happy in union with God. Then your heart will be shaped to receive Him Who can already give you the highest happiness on earth and one day in eternity .... Then His love will belong to you, which you will feel in its strength ....

Amen

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False prophets .... light .... darkness and dark figures ....

B.D. 4605 from April 3rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Spiritual darkness is spread over the earth and people feel comfortable in this night and do not desire the light of day. They don't know the benefit of full light, which would be true knowledge for them, therefore they also don't strive for the brightness of spirit and flee when the light breaks through the night with a bright glow, and therefore their ability of knowledge also remains undeveloped, they constantly move in darkness and get lost and don't come closer to God as the eternal light. And thus dark figures can also operate unhindered and ply their unclean trade, false teachers and prophets can make themselves heard because they are not recognized as false and take advantage of the darkness of spirit to spread error in places where there should be light and error is now presented as truth. People are blind in spirit and want to guide other blind people, and if a light shines for them, then they extinguish it so that their dark deeds will not be revealed. And this is how it looks on the whole earth because the time is fulfilled, or else, the time is fulfilled because a dark night lies over the earth, which has to give way to the morning. And although the end is near and people should recognize this end by the signs, they remain unaffected by it and think that what seers and prophets have proclaimed will pass them by. But what false prophets tell them they believe, and therefore everything lies in the battle against each other .... true and false prophets appear against each other, truth and lie want to assert themselves, light and darkness fight for supremacy, and good and bad forces seek to gain influence, and the human being is at the mercy of the powers according to his will. And since the earth is in darkness, people's will is also weakened and they will not fight against him who is the prince of darkness and who opposes every light. And thus the adversary's power will soon become apparent, for people's thinking becomes confused and can no longer distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. The evil forces are extremely active and find little resistance, on the other hand the light-filled spiritual world is denied its activity because it is not allowed to work against people's will and this will turns towards God's adversary. It is the time of the end. It can be recognized by the fact that people no longer know the father's voice when He speaks to them. They no longer have a share in Him, Who is the light and from Whom they have distanced themselves .... Wherever He approaches them they hide until it is dark again in their surroundings, then they emerge again and continue to walk the lightless path which leads astray. And so it is also understandable that they do not recognize the guides on the path who would like to lead them into brightness but cannot do so against the will of the blind in spirit. And so the end comes, a new day dawns, but only for those who desire the light, for the others, however, an endlessly long night comes ....

Amen

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Prediction for the end ....

B.D. 4606 from April 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Pay attention to what I say to you: You will only live on this earth for a short time in order to then, according to your degree of maturity, either have the new earth as your abode in a different form or dwell on it as a human being in paradise. And no matter how unbelievable it may seem to you, you will soon be able to convince yourselves of the truth of My proclamations and experience something which will shake you tremendously and perhaps also make you a believer. And therefore I repeatedly point out to you that the end will soon be reached and that you create and work in vain if you strive to gain earthly-material goods. And I admonish you ever more urgently to remember your soul, which alone benefits from your earthly activity if it was exclusively active in the service of neighbourly love. And therefore don't let the desire for the world grow strong in you, for the world will not last much longer, then you will have worked in vain. I will announce to you that the time is near and you will feel by yourselves when the hour has struck. You will be attacked as ridiculous fantasists and you will be rejected everywhere, yet don't let this disturb you but hold on all the more tenaciously to what I have told you and soon you will feel that I direct all your paths and that I know everything and also see the distress into which you often fall. And the more life burdens you with its demands, the more you are expected to do, the more certain you can expect the end, for My word will come true .... You should also know that it will only last a short time and that you therefore have to devote all your strength to your soul in order to make productive use of the short time. I will still give you a last characteristic as soon as the last event is approaching. But I call out to My servants on earth: Not much longer, then the time will come and you will inwardly rejoice despite all hardship, after all, you now recognize the truth, and you also live in hope of a speedy end and then a more beautiful life in eternity, I will not let your faith be shattered, and I will safely guide you through all adversity and not rest until I know you are safe, until I recognize that you can cover the time until the end without danger for your soul. Then I will release your will for a very short time, that is, I will allow an apparent worldly improvement and it will become apparent that the end is near because it is so proclaimed by seers and prophets so that people will recognize by the signs in which hour they live. Then you only need to commend yourselves to Me and appeal to Me for mercy, and the suffering will pass you by so that you can serve Me where I need you and where the last souls are to be saved. And then the end will come, the day when I will sit in judgment and the souls will all be called to account and receive their just reward, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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'Satan prowls around like a roaring lion ....' 'Watch and pray .... '

B.D. 4607 from April 5th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Wherever I know a child is in danger My love is willing to grant every help and I will rescue it from the control of the one who is My opponent and the enemy of My children. Wherever a soul struggles and intends to fulfil My will My adversary's power truly need not be dreaded, for I caringly attend to those who push towards Me. And I will not abandon My children in their distress, I will erect a wall around them over which no-one will be able to climb unless I open the gate Myself and lead them to you .... Satan prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour .... Remember these Words and don't be surprised, for the time of the end has come when he knows that he has not much time left, and when he makes every effort to achieve My living creation's downfall, when he uses means which aim to help him to succeed. How often have I pointed the dangers you are in out to you, for a fierce battle will start between the forces of light and darkness. You will all be subjected to this battle, but especially those who lead a spiritual life next to their earthly one. For they are involved in thoughts of Me and therefore particularly provoke My adversary's hostilities in order to stop them. His battle strategy is often successful because he knows people's weaknesses and uses them against them in order to overpower them. You humans, however, have unlimited blessings at your disposal. You can gain victory over him with My help. Don't fear him but courageously stand up to him; know that you are strong and unassailable if you love Me and send a quiet thought to Me that I will remain with you in your battle against him .... And he will take flight from you because he cannot stand My presence. You are stronger than he is as soon as you enter the battle with Me .... I have no share in that which emerges from the nether world. I stay with My children, and even if these children of Mine only voluntarily place themselves at the Father's disposal, are obedient to Him, as soon as He informs them of His will regarding the work in His vineyard.

I call those My children who recognise the Father's voice and pay attention to His call .... and, if I give them a task, who are always willing to stand up for Me, thus to actively teach if I educate them as a teacher. Hence, whoever wants to be accepted as My child must also come to the Father like a child and get from Him the instructions for his journey through life. And if I then ask that My teaching shall be spread when I Myself send My teaching to earth through the voice of the spirit, then this teaching must be sacred to him and he must accept and highly value it as the purest truth from the heavens.

In that case, however, it will also always remain the best and most sacred to him which he will no longer renounce, because it is strength from above which will also automatically pull him upwards. But to relinquish My gift very seriously violates the obedience owed to Me by a child and consequently cannot be a blessing either. And then you will be able to recognise the adversary's influence and have to protect yourselves from it. This is why I draw your attention to it and indicate the signs by which you will be able to recognise him: he will appear as an angel of light to those whose faith is still weak and dazzle them, their eyes will get increasingly weaker and, in the end, no longer recognise what is right, because they only too willingly listened to him and let themselves be deceived by his mask. However, he will only have control over you if you doubt the pure truth. Then he will use your uncertainty and lead you astray .... 'For he prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour .... ' But you shall watch and pray so as not to fall during the temptation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I will not leave you orphans ...." (John 14)

B.D. 4608 from April 6th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I will not leave you orphaned .... I don't want you to be alone in the world and feel lonely in spirit, and therefore I have promised you that I will come to you and take up residence with you in order to be your constant comforter and protector in spiritual and earthly adversity. Believe these words and feel safe and secure in the knowledge that I am always around you, Who guides your every path, Who is vigilant that you do not harm your body and soul. For what I say is truth and cannot be eternally overturned by people who want to criticize and falsify My word. If I have given you this promise to care for you like a father, who will already be abandoned on earth for the sake of My name, then rejoice that My word comes true and that you have the most certain evidence of it through the voice within you which constantly announces My nearness to you and lets you hear true, fatherly words of love. Believe this voice and don't let it be drowned out by voices which come from outside. You have something delicious if you are allowed to hear Me Myself within you, and only then will you understand the words correctly: I will not leave you orphaned .... I want to lift up the depressed, the afflicted, the anxious and those who feel weak, and I will take special care of them. I will never deny My help to anxious people if they ask Me for it, for I am a God of love and a true father of My children. But I will also never speak against Myself, I will not give two commandments which contradict each other and I will not send messengers in My stead where I can speak Myself, where a child asks Me Myself for clarification and help in spiritual distress. For I am always present to the child if it seeks to fulfil My will. I truly don't need representatives where I can express Myself .... Therefore do not fear but only believe .... He who knows everything is close to you and holds you so that you will not fall ....

Amen

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Conviction of the truth can only be found within the human being himself ....

B.D. 4609 from April 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Nothing can give you the conviction of truth if you don't try to find it within yourselves, that is, if you don't have the will to attain knowledge of the eternal wisdom from God. Even convincing words do not give you the assurance as long as you do not let the spirit speak within you, thus you are given information from within. Only then will the words conveyed to you from outside be accepted by you because you emotionally confess them, and only then will you be able to believe with conviction. If I convey My word to you but you don't directly request clarification from Me it is no proof of truth for you, and you humans will always oppose it with your own wisdom and be undecided as to what you should believe. Firm faith can only come when you want to believe yourselves, but you will never be forced to believe, instead it is merely the product of free will, so that faith can be acquired in itself if the will exists to be convinced. Thus the human being must want to believe in order to be able to believe .... the human being must feel so touched by the divine, which speaks from My word, that he will then use every opportunity to increase his knowledge and seriously think about it if it is offered to him from Me. Then he will recognize in a clear spirit what he can accept and what he must reject.

Amen

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Commitment of those who receive the word of God ....

B.D. 4610 from April 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Every person who has first recognized this as true has the duty to stand up for what is visibly divine spiritual good, otherwise he is unworthy to receive the bread of heaven if he does not respect the delicious gift and does not value it for what it is. If the divine word is offered to a person through God's great love then it is an act of mercy of utmost importance, then a flow of grace pours over the person for which he cannot be grateful enough, for the path upwards becomes easily passable as a result, it is brightly illuminated and thus easier to tread and leads to the aim. Thus it is an extraordinary privilege which God grants to the human being because He recognizes in him the ability to work with the gifts now imparted to him according to God's will. It is merely up to his will how he uses the gift of grace from above, because no compulsion is ever exerted on a person by God, yet all possibilities are made available to him to be obedient to divine will. With the acceptance of the gift of grace he therefore also enters into an obligation to a certain extent .... that of the right utilization of what God's love presents to him. He must therefore give something in return,

(10.4.1949) his willingness to carry what he receives to his fellow human beings, he must give his will and his strength in order to promote the spreading of the spiritual good. He must be constantly active as a labourer in the vineyard of the lord. Only then will he prove himself worthy of those privileges and be blessed on earth and in the beyond. Now it is a difficult start to want to impart these gifts to people who are only materially minded, as it is work in general which requires love, patience and perseverance if it is to be successful. And that is why the worker for the kingdom of God also needs increased strength so that he does not become tired and sloppy in his activity. Therefore, he must first adhere to the divine word himself, he must satisfy himself with the bread of heaven in order to receive strength for his earthly path and to generally stand up for what he brings to his fellow human beings. For as soon as he seriously works for the kingdom of God he will also have to expect hostile resistance, and he must be prepared for this. But the resistance comes from the one who is against the truth. And thus it is understandable that every person who seriously works for God will be presented with opposing knowledge, that the lie and error will obviously show themselves where the truth is represented from God. And now the battle begins between light and darkness .... A good worker in the vineyard of the lord will always be able to cope with this battle because he possesses the power of knowledge and the ability to judge clearly. Nevertheless, he will be badly pressed and only find and accept support and strength for resistance in the word itself. And therefore he himself must constantly accept heavenly nourishment because only then can he withstand the enemy's attacks. Therefore this is also an obligation to make use of God's delicious gift of love as often as possible, to let it work on him and to let the strength emanating from the word of God constantly radiate through him in order to now also be and remain suitable for the task he has chosen for himself, in order to be able to offer resistance when the enemy will proceed more and more against the supply of pure truth from above. For his aim is to extinguish the light and let people sink into greatest darkness in order to win them over completely for himself. God, however, stands by everyone who wants to serve Him and strengthens him with His strength and His grace through the constant supply of His word ....

Amen

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Forfeiting the gift of grace ....

B.D. 4611 from April 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I want you to see and give you light, and you seek to extinguish the light which comes from above and which alone gives you illumination of spirit. I have opened your eyes and let you see into the light, and you have therefore

(11.4.1949) received an extraordinary gift of grace. You entered My will and were therefore able to receive a gift from Me which can only be given to someone who willingly gives himself to Me and has therefore given up all opposition. I gave you soul food because I love you and want to draw you to Me and because only a well-formed soul can approach Me. I therefore gave you the bread of heaven, My word .... I enlightened your spirit so that it could instruct you from within, so that it imparts knowledge to you which corresponds to truth, because I want you to escape spiritual darkness, so that you clearly recognize what you are, where you come from and what your purpose is, so that you recognize your origin, your relationship to Me, your father and creator of eternity, and so that you know what task you have to fulfil in earthly life .... I am with you with My fatherly love and you do not recognize Me and try to withdraw from My influence. I gave you light and you withdraw into darkness again .... And I cannot keep you, for I do not force your will, but it turns to a false light which shines incredibly brightly and lures you into deepest darkness, because it does not last, for it will not satisfy you in the long run because it is not from Me and does not correspond to My will either, Who offered you the purest truth which may not be rejected if the human being does not want to forfeit a gift of grace which is extremely precious and significant for eternity. You will never ever be able to see this way, you will never ever be able to receive the truth which you can indeed receive from within, but only if you listen to Me. And I came to you Myself, I spoke to you through the mouth of a disciple, and you had to recognize My word and accept it as the only truth. As soon as the same is offered to you from another side I am likewise with you Myself, and then you will not reject the first but only find the confirmation of the pure truth. But if knowledge is imparted to you which does not correspond to the former, then stay away from it, don't reject what is intended to make you happy, what is visibly My spirit's working and testifies to My presence .... Test yourselves how far you surrender to Me, how far your will submits to Mine .... Examine yourselves and listen to the voice of the heart and want to possess the truth .... for the will for truth strengthens your ability to recognize and gives you the right understanding for everything you are offered ....

Amen

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Prophetic spirit .... God's plan of salvation - end time ....

B.D. 4612 from April 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Throughout the ages the prophetic spirit has been effective in order to point people to the end, and constant indications were needed because people did not have the right attitude towards Me and thus also towards spiritual life, which made their earthly course of life an unsuccessful one if they were not helped in some way. They had to be made acutely aware of the fact that earthly life will come to an end one day. The death of the individual, which could also surprise them, no longer frightened them, thus a complete passing away of earth had to be held out to them so that they thought of their end and changed their way of life, i.e. directed their thoughts spiritually. The reference to the end merely aimed at a serious self-examination of the state of the soul as long as the human being was not yet completely without faith. But faith was a prerequisite, otherwise even an end of the world, a downfall of the old earth, would never frighten people because an unbelieving person would consider it impossible. But if faith has been lost to man, such indications are also unsuccessful and prophetic proclamations are, according to human opinion, fantasies of religiously minded people, which could not be granted the slightest probability. Therefore, the reference to the near end will also remain without impression, and that is the time when the end is really to be expected. For as soon as the earth predominantly supports unbelieving people it no longer fulfils its actual purpose as a maturing station for the spiritual, since a spiritual life is hardly ever lived anymore .... and only the smallest flock of My own lives a way of life in serious striving towards Me which corresponds to My will. This small flock now has something extraordinary to champion; it will be able to convince itself that the prophecies of the seers and prophets will come true and that a tremendous change will take place in the cosmos which, however, is eternally foreseen in My plan of salvation because it is necessary for the spiritual's ascent development. Only the unbeliever will doubt, but the believer will recognize the true end by the signs of the times. Only the unbeliever rejects the proclamations which hold out the prospect of the downfall of the old earth, but the believer knows that the time has come, just as he is convinced that seers and prophets proclaim the truth and that it must one day come true. Every person can easily convince himself of how far humanity has fallen in its spiritual realization, how far the adversary is recognized as lord amongst humanity, how weak faith has become on everyone's part and already recognize from this that the end is near and that the time has come when I must intervene in order not to still leave the small flock of believers to the adversary, in order to reward them for their faith and loyalty which they prove to Me in the midst of the unbelievers. The end is near and you only have little time left .... you can firmly believe this and be firmly assured of the truth of My word .... For My word must come to pass, and it will come to pass because the time has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The weak will not experience the end ....

B.D. 4613 from April 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The weak will not experience the end .... I certainly know the nature of every individual person's soul; I know their will and their degree of maturity, which is also the extent of their strength of will in the last battle of faith. I know that this final acknowledgment of Me will require immense strength which only few people will be able to muster, and that it will necessitate an utterly living faith in order to stand firm and remain faithful to Me. For this reason the gates of paradise on the new earth will be opened to those who are faithful supporters and acknowledge Me, so that their demonstrated love for Me until the end will be rewarded.

But people of weak faith will not survive this last battle on earth. I shall avert the risk of their apostasy from Me so as not to let them fall into My adversary's hands and in order to give them the opportunity of continuing their development in the kingdom of the beyond which, after the end of this world, will no longer be possible for a very long time. They will not be able to cope with the demands and strains of the last days and will end their purely physical life before this time, for they will not oppose Me, but they will merely lack the profound, living faith which would enable them to be true advocates of Christ. And there will be many who will indeed choose Me, who will carry the faith in a God of love and wisdom within themselves, yet who will not increase it sufficiently to entrust themselves to Me without worry and appeal for My help. These souls will be taken from earth by Me or they would go astray for a very long time.

The strong, however, will remain faithful to Me until the end and will be raptured by Me before the destruction of the old earth. This process has to be plausible to you, and it should be equally understandable to you that the weak souls will not inhabit the paradise of the new earth, which can only bear spiritually mature human beings who permit My presence amongst them, as I have promised you. There has to be a separation of the goats from the sheep in the end. The old period of development will end with the banishment of the failed spiritual essence into solid matter, and a new era will start with a mature human generation, which will already find itself in a state of bliss on earth because it will have endured and have been sufficiently tested by Me on earth. This level of a soul's maturity allows for My presence amongst My children. But weak and still immature souls would not be able to endure My presence. Consequently, the new earth will not be a suitable abode for them; nevertheless, they will continue to ascend in the spiritual kingdom and, due to their prematurely finished life, will also enjoy privileges in the spiritual kingdom which will help their ascent. This is the separation of the spirits, which has always been proclaimed through Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

(Easter Maundy Thursday)

B.D. 4614 from April 14th 194, taken from Book No. 53

Overcoming death through Jesus Christ ....

The world has been redeemed from sin. People should rejoice and exult if they were aware of this great grace which spares them an unspeakably difficult fate in the beyond if they make use of it, that is, if they ask for forgiveness of the guilt of sin by believing in the redemption through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ accomplished the act of salvation, which is so significant for all beings on earth and in the spiritual kingdom, and people take so little notice of it and do not value this inconceivable grace .... Jesus allowed Himself to be crucified out of love for His fellow human beings and rose again from the dead on the third day .... He overcame death and wanted all people to share in the sacrifice which His love offered for people, He wanted them to become conquerors of death too, so that they no longer needed to fear death and could therefore enter eternal life because He broke down the barriers through the act of salvation, the full significance of which cannot be grasped as long as man remains on earth. He has overcome death .... and thereby a spell has been broken .... People who were unfree due to the past sin of rebellion against God, whose will was under the influence of His adversary and who were unable to free themselves from him, are now able to free themselves from God's adversary through Christ's crucifixion if they call upon Jesus Christ for help in every adversity for the sake of the act of salvation which the man Jesus accomplished for His fellow human beings. Thus Jesus is God's intercessor for all those who believe in Him and strive to live as followers of Christ, i.e. to be loving and to fulfil His commandments. Then he does what God has given him to do during his earthly existence, then he frees himself from the bonds of death, for to be in bondage to God's adversary is the certain death of his soul. Jesus overcame death .... He was a human being and also died as a human being, although He was filled with the spirit of God and was also able to avert the most bitter death, which He had chosen Himself, by virtue of His unlimited power. He offered the sacrifice to God as a human being and thereby overcame His adversary by selflessly only thinking of His fellow human beings' suffering and guilt of sin and wanting to ease their fate, which is and was the result of sin. And God accepted the sacrifice .... He forgives the guilt of those who call upon Jesus as mediator for His grace and intercession. But accepting the sacrifice and forgiving the guilt of sin secures the awakening to life in eternity .... Thus there is no longer death, for after bodily death the soul enters the kingdom of light for eternal life. But only the souls of those who acknowledge Him, who believe in Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... People should be triumphant that death has now been overcome and that Jesus has accomplished this work, for now death has lost its terror because there is an awakening in the spiritual kingdom, because God's adversary no longer has power over the human being if he surrenders himself to the divine redeemer and appeals for His help, for strengthening of the will and the graces of the work of salvation .... for the forgiveness of the guilt of sin which the human being brought with him as an inheritance of the once fallen spiritual, to which he himself belongs .... He is redeemed from this sin through Jesus Christ, and he should rejoice and be glad when he considers the love of the man Jesus, who accomplished the most difficult thing on earth of which a human being was ever capable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

(Good Friday)

B.D. 4615 from April 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Death of the cross .... work of redemption ....

Jesus gave His life on the cross, He took upon Himself the most disgraceful death, which was punishment and atonement for the criminals, who were denied any improvement. He condescended to this death which He could have averted from Himself by virtue of His power and glory, for the fullness of God's spirit dwelled in Him which He, however, no longer used in view of the work of mercy He wanted to accomplish in order to help His fellow human beings. Out of His deepest love came the will for this deed, the love was so strong that the human will also experienced a strengthening through it which made Him capable of this work. Love drove Him and His human will carried out what love commanded Him to do. And thus He took torments and humiliations upon Himself which contradicted His divine nature and which therefore tormented Him unspeakably but which also strengthened His will to redeem people from this morass of sin. He took pity on the great spiritual hardship in which humanity languished, who, as a result of sin, no longer knew anything about their fate on earth and in the beyond, who were heading towards immense suffering in the kingdom of the beyond and were completely unaware of their state. He took pity on their lack of light and their complete dependence on the one who was to blame for their descent into the abyss. And He wanted to pull them back, He wanted to give them the opportunity to walk towards a blissful state in full freedom of will. He wanted to impart strength to them where they were too weak themselves, and He only acquired the gift of divine strength to strengthen the will through His death on the cross .... He wanted to distribute wealth into whose possession He first had to place Himself through His sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity. Sin weighed upon it, its effect had to be lessened; but God's righteousness did not allow for the redemption of the greatest guilt of sin without a sacrifice, if the eternal deity did not want to lower Himself towards His creatures. And in the realization of this eternal order the man Jesus decided to make a sacrifice to God as far as it was possible for His human body. His love for humanity motivated Him to do so, and therefore God accepted the sacrifice because love redeems everything, because love is the strongest power and appeases God's wrath, i.e. His justice is fully satisfied where love is the driving force of every action. But the sacrifice was excessive .... It exceeded the strength of a human being and was therefore also valued excessively, in that full forgiveness of the guilt of sin is assured to those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world, who unite with Him in thought and will to follow Him ...., who therefore seriously endeavour to live a life of love, just as Jesus did on earth, in order to show people the only path to eternal life, which is only recognizable through a life of love and which was crowned by Him through the most painful death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

(Easter Sunday)

B.D. 4616 from April 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Spiritual work .... predictions for the end ....

The grace you receive is indescribably great if I speak to you Myself and you thus enter the circuit of My love. But you must want to serve Me in full awareness, you must have offered yourselves to Me as a servant of your own free will, otherwise this immense grace cannot flow to you. You must want to work for Me and My kingdom. This assurance of will has to be given first, only then can the working of My spirit begin in a form which is unusual and therefore only rarely recognized by people as My working. But once this process takes place through the human being's will, I protectively stand behind it and ward off all spiritual forces which want to intervene in a disruptive or disintegrating way. And so hear the following: Humanity certainly takes pity on Me and I hear every call for help and mercy; I also recognize the will and the striving of My faithful, but I clearly see the influence of My adversary in its effect and the complete failure of the greater part of humanity .... and My mercy also applies to it, only the path to salvation is different than you humans imagine. And therefore there can no longer be any delay, that is why My plan of eternity is unalterable, and that is why I constantly draw people's attention to what will come in a short time. Anyone who knows about My eternal plan of salvation is active as a co-worker for My kingdom, otherwise this knowledge will not be conveyed to him or he will not be receptive to it. This is why the information about it will always meet with resistance and yet it is profound truth, because My word has to come true, which predicts the end from the start of this era, which will occur when people's spiritual state has reached a degree that an end only signifies salvation for the spiritual, because My mercy will not allow anything to be lost forever and therefore everything that happens is based on My love for the unredeemed. My plan of eternity is not comprehensible to most people and therefore not acceptable, yet they shall acknowledge My word. But they will not be able to deny that an end has been prophesied and repeatedly confirmed by seers, and thus only the point in time is undetermined which, however, will never be determined by people but by Me Myself. And thus I will provide you, who are unbelievers, with the evidence, yet to your horror, because you lull yourselves into a sense of security due to your unbelief and will therefore be very frightened, for it will come as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

(Easter Monday)

B.D. 4617 from April 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Sin against the spirit "All sins are forgiven you, except those against the spirit ...."

You detach yourselves from the letter too heavily and thus do not penetrate the spirit of the word, which is why much of what I have left you as My word is incomprehensible to you. For this reason you must again and again make use of Me as a teacher Who can and will introduce you to the truth, thus explain everything to you truthfully.

The working of the spirit in a human being is visibly a characteristic of the eternal deity's participation in the perfection of every individual creature, just as it is therefore also a visible expression of its emanation of strength. If I now work in a person through My spirit, the connection between Me and this person can no longer be denied, because the spiritual spark which rests in the human being's heart is inseparably connected to the father-spirit from eternity and now awakens to activity through My approach, thus it 'works in the human being'. However, the working of My spirit in the human being will always mean help on the path to perfection, it will mean a turning of the thoughts into the spiritual kingdom and an urging of the soul to unite with Me, thus an upward progress in spiritual development .... The spirit will make the soul inclined towards all ideas and help it to overcome the desire for matter, the spirit will give the soul enlightenment about its purpose and its former destiny, the spirit will reveal the essence of all divinity to the soul, it will impart clear and profound knowledge to it, thus it will give it a light which is incomparably blissful when it can first work with all luminosity .... The working of the spirit in the human being is therefore a divine revelation .... I take care of the human being Myself and give him a small concept of My glory, and thus I am present to him as soon as he adjusts himself such that My working can take place in him, irrespective of whether the results of My working are obvious manifestations or signify inner enlightenment by mental means. But the human being has then always entered into a volitional connection with Me and has carried out the will by shaping his heart into love, thus into a dwelling place worthy of receiving the eternal deity, Which can now reveal Itself from within. Such an act of demonstrable spiritual activity testifies to Me Myself, thus it is also to a certain extent a proof which surpasses faith. Anyone who has once gained this conviction, because the evidence of My existence and My presence has been provided, understandably stands on a level of development which should make a descent impossible, because this is almost impossible with the realization of truth .... and yet, as long as he lives on earth as a human being he can himself step into the shadow and darken the light .... he can sin against the spirit .... and thereby transgress in the grossest way by rejecting Me again and thus repeating his former apostasy from Me .... He can consciously prevent the working of the spirit, despite better realization he cannot make use of his knowledge, thus he can favour a spiritual regression, fully aware of committing an injustice. He has gained the evidence and conviction of My presence and yet turned away from Me again. Thus his will has again been captured by the adversary whom he had already escaped, and he does not defend himself against him. Only the person who recognized Me and My working through the spirit, who appropriated the wisdom imparted to him as mental knowledge by also having gained the inner conviction intellectually, thus was able to believe and in this firm faith committed himself to it, can sin against the spirit. He received and also made use of My grace in the richest measure and now lets it become ineffective; therefore he cannot expect mercy either, because he pushes away the deity Who, in Its infinite love, had brought Itself completely close to him and pulled the veil from his eyes. And this sin cannot be forgiven because he then also closes himself to Christ's act of salvation, because if he rejects My spirit he also rejects the divine redeemer, thus he no longer wants to believe even though he was able to believe. Thus he also forfeited the blessings of the act of salvation by not making use of Christ's help before he sinned, for the divine redeemer would have dispelled the first such thoughts and put them right if only He had been approached for help. He was in the kingdom of light before and stepped out into the darkness .... He was equipped with the abilities to recognize the truth, and the truth did not please him because it obliged him to redemptive activity which he does not want to carry out because love grew cold in him. This is very rare in people who have experienced My working of the spirit within themselves, therefore it is also unforgivable because it is an open resistance against Me which cannot find forgiveness, which means that he has to stay far away from God for endless times until he turns to Me again and has to acquire the grace again to be looked upon by Me, i.e. that I approach him again. This sin cannot be forgiven out of grace and mercy but it has to be carried away in total guilt, it irrevocably entails a new banishment and thus the whole path through creation, because it is a renewed apostasy which is not inferior to the former apostasy of the spiritual from Me, because it is committed in fullest realization, because a person in whom My spirit can already work is also in the light and therefore commits a grave sin if he betrays Me again against the one who influences him as My adversary, who is recognized by him and to whom he nevertheless is at will .... Thus not forgiving a sin means that the guilt cannot be taken away from him but has to be carried away by himself, which is why he need not be regarded as eternally lost, only eternities will pass before he finally confesses Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sins of the fathers take revenge on the children ....

B.D. 4618 from April 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Throughout generations the sin of the fathers will affect the children .... This is how you have been taught and you have often come into conflict with the teaching of a God of love and mercy Who forgives the sinner and remits his punishment if he sincerely repents. You cannot understand that people have to suffer who are not guilty of anything themselves and are therefore the victims of those who sinned against God. And yet, God's wisdom and love is at work here too, even if in a way you cannot quite understand, the essence of the soul before its embodiment as a human being speaks here, which chose a sinful human being itself for its implantation into the flesh. These souls are particularly impulsive, they are still in an extremely deficient state despite their endlessly long course of development, despite multiple and agonizing deformation, they have not yet given up their impulsiveness and are now instinctively striving towards a related human soul where they hope to have the opportunity to live out their impulsiveness. They are not infrequently filled with the same desire which caused the human being to become sinful, just as they often stimulate it as soon as they have taken up residence in a body (mother's womb) and then sin naturally has the strongest influence on a newborn child, which is why one now speaks of predisposition and inheritance of bad dispositions. No soul comes into such a body which has already reached a certain degree of maturity because its course of development should not be endangered, as well as it has already previously expressed its will to strive towards God. But such a burdened soul can very well free itself from its predispositions on earth, it can recognize its own faults and impulses through an apparently blameless earthly fate and try to free itself from them, and then it will also be able to receive grace in every way, that is, help from above, in order to carry out its will. But for the most part such souls live out and increase the sin of the fathers, yet always in a certain freedom of will, for coercion is not imposed on them. But they believe themselves to be under compulsion and thus seek to reject all responsibility, they don't wage the slightest battle with themselves and therefore succumb to every temptation which they could, however, resist but just don't want to. But the will is inclined towards evil from the start of embodiment, and this will has chosen the form for itself which should become the bearer of the soul, which, however, never excludes that the soul can now let the will become active as a human being and free itself from sin .... that a link of the chain will then be broken and the fathers' guilt of sin can also be redeemed for the sake of such a child. For the will of an impulsive person is strong in itself, only wrongly directed. But if it is directed in the right direction, then it can also triumph over everything and thus become a saviour of his ancestor and reduce his suffering and hardship in the hereafter.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love wins ....

B.D. 4619 from April 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You have been shown a path which is easily passable but which you should travel together with Me, Who always wants to be with you as your friend and guide if you allow Me to stay in your hearts. You do not yet know your future path of life, it is still hidden from you, because you should do completely uninfluenced what you would later have to do under compulsion, but which will bring you far more blessings if you act of your own free will .... There is no other path for you, you have entered the right path and must follow it to the end in order to reach the aim. And I will always push you back if you want to deviate, and you will not oppose My loving guidance, for I announce My will to you through the heart. And therefore you will carry out what you are urged to do, and it will truly be according to My will .... It is an immutable law that love will prevail, and therefore the one who carries love within himself will be stronger. For the sake of this strength of love My will is the same, because I approve of everything that comes forth from love, thus also a desire which concerns unification, for if love generates this desire it is a feeling placed in the heart by Me which you humans need not resist but which you can confidently fulfil with the awareness of My blessing. I want you to serve Me together, thus I also want your union; yet the desire has to come from within yourselves and I will take care of it when the time is right.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The working of the spirit in the wakeful state .... Evidence: reasons ....

B.D. 4620 from April 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It is intended for you to receive My Word in the wakeful state, for this gives you the evidence of My working in you through the spirit. You should compose yourselves in prayer and enter into heartfelt contact with Me by excluding the world from your thoughts, you should completely hand yourselves over to Me and listen within to My voice. Then it will speak to you gently and subtly, depending on your maturity of soul it will be either audibly or mentally, yet always coming forth from Me and not from you. In this prepared state you are incapable of achieving the kind of mental work which corresponds to the content of My proclamations. You are in the state of a listener and not of a speaker. And if you want to clarify the difference: the listener can remain passive whereas the speaker needs to be active. Depending on his state of maturity his spiritual ear is developed such that he can understand My incoming Word although it sounds extremely gently in his heart. The depth of feeling is therefore the decisive factor for an effortless reception of My Word, and accordingly will be the proclamations' depth of content, which are intended for him and through him for his fellow human beings; this is why you must differentiate between spiritual knowledge which shall be conveyed to fellow human beings and the Words I grant to My children as a loving Father if they suffer fear and adversity and are in need of comforting Words, which certainly provide the evidence of My compassion to all people yet are particularly given to those who call upon Me in their distress for help. I will always answer those who want to hear Me and speak to them through the spirit .... as I have promised you. You are meant to hear Me, yet in a fully conscious state, for I don't conceal Myself behind a form which is so weak that it gives up its own will and in an unconscious state allows an unfamiliar will to take possession of it.

I constantly caution you strongly against the results of spiritual beings which manifest themselves in this way, which instantly seize a weak will with their thoughts and then try to transfer these to people. But I also caution you against preventing the obvious working of the spirit or to deny My working in a person who clearly and in an aware state receives revelations from above. And I want to give you a reliable characteristic of My working which you can always use to make the test .... My Words, which I spoke to people on Earth, will be explained such that they can be logically substantiated to every scholar, every person having become academically knowledgeable, and these reasons will never contradict themselves, because it is My Word, which always remains the same and its meaning testifies to profound wisdom. Anyone who has truly penetrated this Word of Mine will hear Me Myself speaking, thus recognise My presence, if he reads My Word or it is audibly conveyed to him. And this feeling of hearing Me Myself speaking is the most certain guarantee for My working and is intended to dispel the person's every doubt. For I approach people in the Word, I Myself Am the Word, and those who believe in Me and want to be My Own will hear Me. My Word will affect them like a loving Father's voice which is obeyed by a child and therefore is also loved by the Father and will be endowed with His gift of grace as often as it wants to receive it. Therefore let yourselves be guided and taught by your feeling, for I Myself place this into your heart and error will never influence you such that you are willing to diligently defend it. For I protect everyone from obscure or deceptive feelings if he has the sincere will to work as My disciple during the last days, because I need these true labourers in My vineyard and therefore also grant them the ability to distinguish between right and wrong ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No partial knowledge .... light beings as teachers .... only truth ....

B.D. 4621 from April 23rd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I tell you that you need have no doubts about the truth of the proclamations offered to you from above, because I Myself watch over what spiritual knowledge is imparted to you and because I will never ever tolerate erring or untrue forces making use of you in order to impart their spiritual knowledge to people. Many beings of light are certainly willing to participate in people's instructions, and these beings of light are so knowledgeable themselves that they can be unhesitatingly recognized as teachers and the value of divine revelations can be attributed to their impartations. For as soon as a being is receptive to light it dwells in the kingdom of light and, since it always receives light, can also constantly emit light. These will only impart purest truth to people, moreover, they always act in My will, which is also their will. They are commissioned by Me for their teaching activity, thus it is not possible to speak of partial knowledge, for the knowledge they possess far exceeds that which they impart to people. Thus they can very well provide a teacher for people, they will never impart worldly or (wrong) spiritual teachings which do not correspond to the truth. At the same time they will also be able to give people the ability of realization, which they are equipped and also entitled to do by Me, because pure truth is to be imparted to people and this can only happen in such a way that beings which have spiritual knowledge also transfer it to people.

(24.4.1949) As soon as a person has prepared himself to receive spiritual gifts, as soon as he is in contact with the spiritual kingdom and receives mental knowledge in a fully conscious state, beings of light are his teachers, for this spiritual state completely corresponds to My will, it is a degree of ascent development which all people should strive for, thus such people will not allow themselves to fall into the power of beings which want to impart misguided mental knowledge to them and harm the souls instead of leading them towards perfection. Consider seriously what you expect of Me if you assume that a person who wants to serve Me is influenced by evil forces. You then either deny Me love or wisdom or power if I could not or would not prevent such. I want My living creations to recognize and learn to love Me, thus I will not want or know how to prevent a person striving towards Me from being offered untruth if I endow countless beings of light with the ability or the power to convey the truth to those who desire it. I want people to turn to Me and can only achieve this if people learn to recognize Me. For this purpose the truth has to be offered to them without fail, and therefore I, as the eternal truth, will do everything in My power to impart it to people and to push back the beings of darkness, which can therefore certainly also exert their influence on people but only if they abandon themselves to them through a way of life which contradicts My will. For these people will have no desire for the truth and therefore it will not be offered to them, especially since they do not consciously establish a spiritual connection either but only gather purely intellectual thoughts and those ignorant forces try to influence these thoughts in order to obscure the truth and spread lies and error. But you can easily check this, for what points to Me is good, what leads away from Me is the adversary's influence, who fights against Me and wants to defeat Me but will never achieve victory over Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Visible appearance shortly before the end as proof of God's love ....

B.D. 4622 from April 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A visible sign shall prove My presence to you if you receive My word from the mouth of a disciple whom I Myself have chosen as an instrument. If you listen to him you will have an apparition which will remind you of My crucifixion and yet make you happy. You will feel Me close to you and a holy awe will seize you before My love which so visibly manifests itself to you. And every one of My words will penetrate your heart and remain unforgettable to you, an overwhelming bliss will fill you, and full of devotion you will assure Me of your love and want to serve Me, and I will accept your resolution because I need labourers in the last time before the end. But I have won you for eternity .... Anyone who has once felt My nearness no longer takes any other path than the one which leads to the aim, to Me, and I have won his soul for eternity. I already draw your attention to the fact that I will express Myself because I do not want you to regard something as a coincidence which is to prove Me Myself and My love for you, and if this promise of Mine comes true, you should reckon that you are only granted a short period of time which you should use to unite with Me ever more intimately, and firmly believe in an end and in My return in the clouds. Then I will physically appear to all those who persevere until the end and fetch them to Me. And your bliss will find no limits, because then you will always be allowed to be close to Me and thus constantly enjoy My presence ....

Amen

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Adversity and suffering as educational means .... Increase of strength ....

B.D. 4623 from April 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The time ahead of you will require all your strength if you want to do justice to the demands life expects of you. I must repeatedly inform you of this in order to make you understand that you can increase the measure of strength yourselves and that it is your own choice as to whether earthly life is difficult or easy for you to bear. For this reason I often let you experience hardship and adversity in order to educate you for this time, when you will only be able to master life if you obtain the strength from Me, if you appeal to Me for it or acquire it through neighbourly actions of love. I constantly remind you of this time by placing you in positions of feeling helpless and abandoned, so that you will turn your eyes and your heart to Me, Who always wants to stand by your side as your guide and advisor. Yet it always necessitates a prayer, as this demonstrates your will towards Me. I will not provide you with strength against your will, since this would make you unsuitable for the battle of survival in the time to come; however, the slightest pleading thought to Me will call Me to your side, then you will noticeably feel the influx of strength and your faith will become stronger, and that is My intention. Only your heartfelt union with Me with make life bearable for you, for then no earthly worry will depress you because you will leave everything to Me and truly not do badly, because a child which unconditionally entrusts itself to the Father will never be disappointed by Him. And thus you can also be certain of being helped in every way, by merely believing in My love and My omnipotence, for I will truly not leave anyone in adversity who takes refuge in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual concentration before acceptance .... Strict self-criticism ....

B.D. 4624 from April 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You must first create a spiritual focal point before you are able to accept My Word. This part has to be observed, otherwise earthly thoughts will still stop the spiritual influx by coming to the fore and being accepted, although with serious aspirants they are only briefly disruptive because the powers of light assert themselves and prevent the earthly world from exerting a strong influence on the person, that is, they soon direct his thoughts to the spiritual realm.

Thus it can indeed cause minor discrepancies, vague definitions or indistinct and poorly worded sentence structures which, however, are of no importance and thus do not devalue or make the great spiritual knowledge appear dubious in any way. Yet care should always be taken only to regard a proclamation as such if the spiritual bond has been established whereby the recipient has therefore totally detached himself from earthly experiences. You are still too much under the influence of the world, consequently your thoughts still revolve around matter; you are still too preoccupied with worldly things and therefore cannot always liberate yourselves from spiritually meaningless notions and traditions, but you will always have to break down a barrier first, i.e., you must leave everything behind you in order to stay in the spiritual kingdom, and the more liberated and carefree you enter it the more receptive you will be for the treasures which are offered to you there.

However, the separation of spiritual knowledge from earthly notions will come easy to you, and therefore you can unhesitatingly endorse the truth of that which was imparted to you, and you need not take offence to that which is spiritually irrelevant. Therefore you will not spread error, you should only ever scrutinise yourselves as to whether and when you are prepared to receive My Word, that is, when is the inner contact established so that you can hear Me Myself .... I know of your will and take account of it, therefore I protect everyone who wants to be of service to Me and in complete desire for truth appeals to Me for the same .... And for this reason you can unreservedly accept what you are offered in this form ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right knowledge awakens faith and love for God ....

B.D. 4625 from April 29th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Penetrate spiritual knowledge and you will not lack evidence of My might and glory and My love. As soon as this knowledge is made accessible to you, every connection will become clear to you and everything will appear to you to be well-founded; you will recognize that a being looks after you, My living creations, and is active for you, and this in unsurpassable wisdom. And you will learn to love Me and strive towards Me. The darkness of spirit, the complete ignorance of spiritual things also has an effect in an impersonal relationship with Me, mostly in complete unbelief and total rejection. Only knowledge awakens faith and love, even if knowledge remains unproven, yet the idea that it could be as spiritually knowledgeable people portray it awakens in the human being the desire to enter into an intimate relationship with the being, Who thus shall preside in perfection over the whole of creation with all beings. Spiritual knowledge must be presented to the human being if love for Me is to be ignited and become a bright flame. Spiritual knowledge indeed first emerges from love for Me, yet if it is first conveyed to the intellect from outside it can then also penetrate the heart, thus determine the human being's thinking and will, and then the light will shine brighter for him and also warm him from within, only then will it become a true light which can no longer be extinguished; then the intellect is, as it were, the stimulus for an act of feeling, for the transformation of the inner human being into love .... a love which at first is meant for the unknown controller of infinity, but which slowly also extends to everything created. And this flame of love illuminates the spirit, and this now gives man enlightenment in all spiritual questions. The thus knowledgeable human being will no longer want to lose or discard his knowledge, for it satisfies him and spurs him on to spiritual debates. But the person who has become knowledgeable will also no longer lose his love for Me as the creator and sustainer of eternity and thus also establish the right relationship with Me, he will want to remain united with Me and strive towards Me, and his whole being will demonstrate the change towards love, for true knowledge leads to love and thus to beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Saviour of body and soul ....

B.D. 4626 from May 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You should bring all your cares to Me, for I Am truly the greatest Saviour and able to take every ailment from you, Who is able to grant health to your body and soul and bestow you with an eternally indestructible life. Even though you are required to use earthly medications, without My blessing the objective of these medicines will be defeated; whereas I can also bless the sick person to become healthy in accordance with My will without external remedies. And I will do this as soon as I recognise that his suffering is no longer necessary, as soon as it has achieved its purpose and contributed towards the purification of the soul. For the sickness of soul is related to that of the body. You humans have no idea what a large factor physical illness plays in the soul's higher development and how grateful the soul will be one day that it was allowed to take this path in the flesh, and a much shorter path of earthly life resulted in its greater maturity.

Therefore, when you suffer you should only ever pray 'Father, your will be done ....' Then I will do My part just as you do yours, I will come to you as Saviour of body and soul and your recovery will be ensured. Bear your fragile body for the sake of your soul's strength and know that it will find it much easier to develop and look for unity with the spiritual kingdom if its body does not offer resistance, which it always does in a healthy state. Then the soul will be beautiful when it leaves its physical shell .... But in order for you to become conscious of My presence and My work, the healing process will happen quickly if you completely devoutly expect the miracle, if you thus believe that nothing is impossible for My might and strength and that My love is always intended for you and therefore also wants to help you. Firm faith is the best remedy which will never fail .... Bring all your cares to Me and you will be set free from them, but come with a strong, unwavering faith and I will not let it be destroyed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's blessing on His servants ....

B.D. 4627 from May 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who makes it his task to serve Me and thus works for the kingdom of God without striving for worldly interests can also constantly be assured of My approval and My support, for his work will then be subject to My guidance and will be right if he commends himself to Me and My grace, thus requests My blessing for it. For his thinking will be guided from the start if he places himself at My disposal of his own free will. Only few people are willing to carry out spiritual work, because the material attitude makes spiritual work seem unattractive, and therefore I give all My love to the few who give themselves to Me with their labour, and I will support their work in every way. The only thing that should always be taken into account is that the feeling of the heart should be more important than the results of the intellect, for I speak to My servants on earth through the heart, and they should always pay attention to their feeling if they have previously commended themselves and their work to Me. Then every question will be answered by itself, every indecision will be clarified, and the work will progress and result in fullest satisfaction. And then every earthly activity will also be blessed, because My labourers are worthy of a right reward and I cover their earthly needs as soon as they are active for Me. My kingdom is not of this world .... and as long as you still dwell on earth you should try to establish the bond with that kingdom and you will derive the richest blessings, because My kingdom can grant you everything, spiritual and earthly treasures; because anyone who wants to work for My kingdom need not live in want either, for I will take care of his life so that he can carry out his spiritual activity unhindered for the benefit of all who take notice of it and whose mind is spiritually directed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effect of the divine word on man .... previous intimate connection ....

B.D. 4628 from May 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

My word must touch you well and wisely so that you recognize it as My word, for if eternal love expresses itself it also emanates love, and thus I make Myself known in wise communications which are intended to help you recognize and love Me again. My word must therefore appear good and wise to you in order to be accepted as My word. And you will recognize it emotionally .... you will also feel My presence with My word, it will not seem different to you as if I Myself speak to you, and then you will know that the living word is with you and the bond with Him is established by you. Anyone who has My word and does not recognize it only reads it with his eyes and intellect .... i.e. he does not first put himself into the state of union with Me, and thus I cannot be present to him either, and My word is only a letter without life. The intimate dialogue with Me must have preceded it, the desire to hear Me Myself must fill him, otherwise the heart cannot hear Me and then even the word, which is brought to the human being as My word, will remain without effect on him. Yet if it speaks to him alive, the kindness and wisdom of what reaches his ear will only be a revelation of My being to him, and not the slightest doubt will afflict him that he has been addressed by Me Myself. However, I do not communicate Myself to all people in the form of profound knowledge, not all people are able to receive wise instructions, yet they are always loving words which reach the ear of the one who wants to hear Me. I always help and advise and, through the manifestation of My will, indicate the path which leads to the kingdom of heaven. And since only I Myself know this path and can truly give you humans the right information, My word, even if it does not contain profound instructions, can always be recognized as wise and well-founded, for even the simplest instructions must be meaningful and purposeful, otherwise they would not have Me Myself as their starting point, otherwise they would not prove Me, Who am present in the word Myself. You will feel it and can trust this feeling with certainty, for what I give to you shall also be recognized by you as My gift. And you can be assured that My word, which is conveyed to you from above, contains the strength to give the human heart the feeling of My closeness as divine emanation, if only the human being accepts My word in heartfelt unity with Me. If you want Me to speak to you, then you will also hear My word and know that it is My word .... But whatever does not come from Me will not seem satisfactory to you, you will miss kindness and wisdom and the will of rejection will be stirred up in you as soon as you are devoted to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working of love .... using of God's gift of power .... "He who abides in love ...."

B.D. 4629 from May 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Again and again love must be preached to you without which you are and remain powerless. Loving activity puts you in possession of strength, but this does not mean the vitality which every person possesses even if he does not observe the commandment of love. But this vitality enables him to work with love, so that he can therefore also easily gain possession of spiritual strength with which he then succeeds in the soul's ascent development. For this reason love should also be preached to people, because everyone is capable of performing works of neighbourly love if only he wants to. And he should use this in order to secure something for himself for the time after his death, when his vitality is withdrawn, whereas the spiritual strength, which he has thus acquired through loving activity, remains with him and he can use it to work in the spiritual kingdom on his own perfection and on the souls which are still under him in their development. Fulfil the commandment of love .... This admonition cannot sound urgently enough to you, for you are lukewarm and indifferent and don't attach much importance to My commandments. But you don't realize that every act of neighbourly love results in an approach to Me, that this is, as it were, inherent in a work of love, that if you love you draw Me to yourselves, otherwise you would consciously strive for an approach to Me and gain an unspeakable amount for your soul, for eternity. To work with love is already to make use of My gift of strength which is granted to you if the will awakens in you to carry out a work of neighbourly love .... Therefore, working with love is already a joint activity with Me, and if you imagine that I am always present to you when you are lovingly active then the desire for Me and the awareness of My nearness must already impel you to constantly work together with Me .... You can achieve nothing without love, nothing is of value before My eyes without love, and if you achieve everything on earth and are without love in your heart you need not take pleasure in it, for it is worthless for eternity, it is of no use for the development of your soul, and poor and empty you will enter the spiritual kingdom .... No works of love will follow you, and one day you will bitterly regret this .... The loving human being, however, can be poor on earth, earthly goods and earthly happiness can remain denied to him, yet his soul can rejoice and exult because it has found union with Me, because I am constantly close to it and every work of love proves My presence: "He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ...." Without love there is no union with Me, only love unites. The loving human being aligns his nature with My fundamental nature, which is love in itself; he will be able to work with greater strength on earth and in the beyond because love is strength which emanates from Me and enables ever new deeds of love. Use the strength of life and be active in love .... Again and again I call this admonition to you, for only love redeems you, it sets you free from the adversary's shackles and earns you unity with Me, Who is eternal love Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The dying Saviour's last Words on the cross .... Audible Word .... Appearance ....

B.D. 4630 from May 5th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It requires a particularly high degree of maturity in order to be able to audibly hear My Word, therefore I can only impart a limited amount of knowledge to you at first, albeit to an extent which certainly enables you to work for Me and to proclaim the Gospel to other people. Even so, the end is approaching and humanity is facing the last events on this earth. People are completely ignorant and neither able to accept My Word nor to recognise it when it is offered to them. In their spiritual blindness they no longer know about the blessing of Christ's act of Salvation, they don't believe in Him and will therefore be hopelessly exposed to My adversary's control if they don't change their thoughts and actions before the end. And in order to revive their faith again, where this is still possible, something extraordinary will present itself to people which was mentioned by Jesus on earth .... signs and miracles will take place .... The cross of Christ will visibly and so clearly appear in the sky that it will startle people who don't believe in Him, whereas My Own will cheer and rejoice and their faith will become greatly strengthened. This will give rise to an unusual desire for clarification, so that right and wrong assumptions will prompt My servants to intervene and instruct people of the truth. And for this you will require special knowledge which I would certainly like to pass on to you but which you can only receive in the above mentioned state of maturity that the audible Word demands. This knowledge cannot be conveyed mentally, the spiritual ear and eye have to be open so as to be able to assimilate the impressions experienced by the dying Saviour on the cross and expressed with Words which no human ear heard and which consequently remained completely unknown to the human race.

The reason why this knowledge was withheld from you is based on the fact that only few people would have been able to grasp the profundity of these Words and that it requires an extremely strong faith to have come alive through love in order to understand them. But shortly before the end there will be people who will have gained this living faith through love and to whom the meaning of Jesus' divine Words will be comprehensible. It is My will to offer them a precious gift by transmitting these very Words, and therefore I require a suitable vessel into which I can pour out My spirit .... a servant on earth who is devoted to Me, to whom I can reveal Myself, to whom I can clearly and understandably pass on Jesus' Words on the cross through the inner voice, so that he will convey them to his fellow human beings and thus make them accessible to humanity. As soon as the appearance is visible in the sky My Own will step forward and speak on My behalf, they will cheer the cross of Christ and perceive His Words like a gentle chord within their heart .... but by this time these Words must already have been conveyed to earth, they must have been received by the audible Word and be comprehensible to My servant and find their confirmation through those believers who likewise heard it in their heart but consider it as spoken from above. But I will inform people in advance so that they become aware of the great miracle. And anyone being spiritually enlightened will feel uplifted in his soul and experience a tremendous flow of strength, and I want to give this strength to all those who demonstrate their loyalty to Me in the last days, and I want to give them a means which will so increase their strength that they will endure the most difficult battle and persevere until the end .... until I Myself arrive and fetch them home into My kingdom, until they enter the realm of peace, the paradise on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Agonies of a renewed banishment in solid matter ....

B.D. 4631 from May 8th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

No words can describe to you the agonies which a renewed banishment in solid matter entails for the spirits, because this state is inconceivable for the human mind. The spiritual substance perceives itself as a being and yet is unable to use its will although it is aware of it as evidence of its existence as a being. The spiritual substance is held captive and was originally created as something that was able to be freely active, hence its helplessness and weakness and constrained state result in inexpressible agonies which usually make it revolt even more instead of becoming submissive to God's will. Humanity is in possession of free will and is approaching this very painful state .... It would still have enough time to avert this destiny from itself yet it is not open to any presentation by knowing people, and it is completely lacking faith in retribution, in the soul's continuation of life on account of which instructions will not be able to achieve anything and thus the adversity of most people's souls is extremely severe.

As yet the human being is still lord of creation, he is effectively in charge of it and able to avail himself of the creations according to his will .... but one day he himself will be a work of creation again, at first a lifeless, immovable object which can be used but also remain unused throughout an inconceivably long time .... one day he will be very far behind that which he is at the present time and an infinite length of time will pass by until he has evolved into a human being again, into the being which is endowed with free will and the strength to use this will. However, the many stages it will have to pass through, the countless torments it will have to endure in a bound will and the activities it will have to accomplish are not comprehensible to a person and therefore hard to believe for him. And yet he himself is responsible for the fate of his soul after his body dies. As yet he still has the strength to carry out deeds of love which will avert this bitter fate from him, he still has the opportunity to take notice of God's will by listening to the divine Word, and if he complies with this will his nature will change and gain the right to a state of light and freedom after his physical death. As yet he is still able to use his intellect, he can think about himself, his Creator and his purpose of life and, if it is his will, he will also be able to believe .... God approaches every person with His grace and gives them a small incentive to move in the right direction, to choose the right path.

If the person is not opposed to it then he will let himself be pushed onto the right path and the true goal will be assured to him. Yet God also pays attention to opposition, that is, He does not force a person against his will .... but the person also bears the responsibility for his soul, he himself prepares its fate which will be extremely painful, and to its inexpressible regret it will have to take the path of a renewed banishment, for God's grace may not be rejected given that this also means a rejection of His love and thus a distancing of the soul instead of coming closer to Him, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life. Only a few people will take the right path during the last days, and thus the adversity is gigantic and urgently requires corrective action. This is why God's servants on earth should mention the dreadful fate which will await the human soul if it does not change during the last days before the end. Time and again the end shall be described to them as approaching imminently, for time flies and demands utmost activity in order to still save those souls from the downfall which accept the admonitions and warnings and are willing to do what is good. For the day will come unexpectedly and will throw countless people into ruin, into death, i.e., into the constrained state within matter from which they will only be able to release themselves after an infinitely long time. Be warned, you humans, for it concerns eternity, it concerns you yourselves, your souls, which are in acute danger and yet can still be saved if you are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Trust in God's help .... love and protect for His servants ....

B.D. 4632 from May 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Oh all of you who are so of little faith and despondent, throw yourselves upon the heart of the divine saviour and redeemer so that He will lift you up and give you comfort and strength, and you will receive in abundance what you ask for. Let yourselves be considered by His love, see in Him your father from eternity and approach Him as His children, leave behind everything that belongs to the world when you go to Him and ask Him to take up residence in your heart, to fill it and remove everything that hinders His stay with you. And He will hear your supplication, He will make you happy with His presence, He will draw you to His heart and protect you from falling, He will stand by you in all temptations of body and soul, He will never let you be oppressed again if you commend yourselves to Him and His grace. Don't worry about earthly things but only worry about your spiritual well-being, only consider your spiritual development important, and if God needs you for the work in His kingdom then don't let yourselves be held back and follow His call, for then you will come ever closer to Him and your life will be secured spiritually and earthly. You should banish all worry from your heart, for it is only a lack of trust in the one Who loves you from eternity and truly will not let you perish. What seems to be a worry to you is only a test of your faith, and if you pass it all earthly worries will fall away and you will realize how thoughtful your father in heaven is of His children and how He respects all needs and provides for them when necessary. For His love belongs to you who want to serve Him according to His will. He will not abandon you but constantly be around you, He will help you in every adversity so that you will remain faithful to Him until the end, which will come as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's fear .... Natural disaster and its consequences ....

B.D. 4633 from May 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

All disbelievers will suffer inconceivable tribulation when I manifest Myself through the forces of nature, for they will experience a spectacle of development by tremendous forces against which the human being himself will be completely powerless. People will be seized by mortal fear, and even My Own will be affected yet be miraculously strengthened by My help as soon as they lift their thoughts up to Me. The disbelievers, however, will have no support to hold on to and will be hopelessly exposed to the elements of nature. In view of death a few will call to Me in heartfelt need, and their call will reach My ear and denote earthly or just spiritual rescue, if their hour has come. Yet then they will still have gained their eternal life.

But in the main, people will be senselessly scared, that is, they will be incapable of thinking of God, they will try to save themselves and face the same difficulties everywhere, for the whole of nature will conspire against them, all elements will be in tremendous uproar, water, fire, storm and light will leave their natural order and cause an unimaginable amount of devastation which will cost countless human lives. It will just be a short action but have extremely far-reaching consequences for all survivors, for only now will there start an earthly time of hardship which surpasses all previous experiences. People will have to change their way of life completely, they will have to make use of everything left to them, they will have to rely on themselves and cannot expect any earthly help for a long time, since they will be completely cut off from the world and contact will not be able to be established again in a hurry.

The magnitude of the disaster will be incomprehensible, yet I constantly draw your attention to the fact that you should not abandon yourselves to earthly possessions, that you should not consider them important and forget about your soul, as it entirely depends on its maturity how you will bear up to the aftermath.

Proclamations of this nature meet with little belief and yet should be taken extremely seriously, for they will fulfil themselves literally. And every day is still a gift of grace which you should utilize, not in an earthly sense but spiritually, for only your spiritual possessions are of lasting value. Nevertheless, I promise My protection and My help to all of you who believe and want to be of service to Me. Don't let My Words depress you but know that everything, even the most difficult, can be endured if you hand it over to Me, if you ask Me to help you carry your burden .... I will not leave you and will help you persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of faith .... obvious help .... last means of grace ....

B.D. 4634 from May 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The might and power of God will visibly manifest itself in those who are strong in faith and pray to God for help in great need. What seems impossible will become possible; what is humanly impossible will be accomplished by people through the power of faith in an almighty God and creator of heaven and earth. And no prayer will be in vain if it is sent up to Him in spirit and in truth and in firm, unshakeable faith; and where this faith can be found every adversity will also be bearable because it will be averted through precisely this faith. Every person who feels like a child of God and trustingly raises his hands to Him will feel the father's love. Now that God's activity, His love and His omnipotence are so clearly recognizable, the weak believers will be strengthened and the unbelievers will become suspicious, and this is a last means of grace for those who do not want to believe. A serious admonition approaches them once more, proof that a God lives to Whom they can also commend themselves and Who will draw close to them with equal love if they acknowledge Him as father and humbly bow before Him. The strength of faith can give everyone food for thought, for God's help is too obvious to be denied because things happen which go beyond the scope of the natural .... God will help all who sincerely appeal to Him for such faith, who do not slacken in their struggle for it and who are of good will. For these are His own who long for Him and whose striving only applies to unification with God, which will lead to the aim. The miracles will also take place in them which are based on the strength of faith, which testify to God's overwhelming love for His own and also revive the faith in His coming in the clouds, from which they now draw the strength again for the last battle on this earth. Their profound faith will endure everything because they are fully convinced that God will come and fetch His own into His kingdom when the adversity becomes unbearable. And God will not let such faith be put to shame ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... Publicly professing Christ .... 'I will shorten the days ....'

B.D. 4635 from May 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You will still have to endure a harsh battle when you have to confess Me before the world. You will be expected to renounce all earthly possessions completely, you will be dispossessed and have to do the kind of work that seems to go beyond your strength, you will be prevented from doing what is important to you, you will be pursued and pressured without reason and will find no peace from the pursuits of your enemies who are likewise My enemies and thus fear no avenging hand above themselves. And you will wonder why I allow all this to happen without calling them to account, but you will also be surprised that you are not as deeply affected as it seems to the world, so that you will nevertheless remain cheerful and bright and full of confidence and hope that the hour of retribution will come for you as well, and that even these pursuits will come to an end one day. And thus you will speak out ever more convinced on behalf of My name and confess Me before the world. And I will shorten the days so that you will become blessed .... Always remember My promise that it will only last a short time before you will be delivered from the hands of your tormentors, remember that you belong to My chosen ones after all, whose every suffering will be rewarded for their loyalty's sake; and remember that through your confession lost souls shall still be won and saved for Me and My kingdom just before the destruction of earth. And for the sake of these souls take the cross upon yourselves which, admittedly, will weigh you down but it will nevertheless be bearable since I will also provide you with exceptional strength. The battle of faith will be difficult and therefore you already have to prepare yourselves in advance by strengthening your souls with the right nourishment, by accepting My Word and with it the strength with which I have blessed My Word. For when you accept My Word you unite with Me and therefore have to be permeated by strength and thus will be and remain resistant against your enemies until the end .... until I will come and deliver you from all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promise of most faithful fatherly care .... visible appearance ....

B.D. 4636 from May 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I will continue to work in you, I will give you signs and perform miracles on you which you will recognize as miracles yourselves, although this will remain hidden from your fellow human beings. I will draw you to Me because you will no longer resist Me, even though you are too weak to ascend to Me by yourselves. I want you to feel that I am a loving father Who does not leave His children alone in adversity. And you shall have faith in Me and gain a firm belief, and then you will be true pillars for Me on earth, you will stand up for Me and My kingdom and confess Me before the world. I will not detach Myself from you even if you loosen the firm bond, if you believe that you have to pay tribute to the world and therefore sacrifice more time and vitality to the world. Again and again I come before you and cause you to tighten the bond, for I no longer leave you because I know that your will is meant for Me, even if the world wants to take you over. I keep you and no longer leave you in the hands of the lord of the world, for you have become Mine of your own free will and you will remain Mine because I want it that way. And with this assurance you can always be happy, you need not worry and fear for the future, you need no longer fear for your souls, you need only commend yourselves to Me, raise your thoughts to Me and give Me your love, thus long for Me and My presence, then you will also be inseparably united with Me. Yet this bond, which you have established of your own free will, cannot be severed by Me, and so that you will not sever it yourselves I will always make Myself known to you .... I will manifest Myself, I will be with you in spirit but also visibly approach those who love Me especially. For I want to win all your love in order to make you eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessed activity for the kingdom of God .... exhortation to busy activity ....

B.D. 4637 from May 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Promote Me and My kingdom incessantly and don't let your failures discourage you. You yourselves must feel permeated by My strength and therefore always and constantly receive My word, and the strength flowing towards you will impel you into activity, you will have to speak wherever the opportunity presents itself to you, out of the fullness of your heart. Then you will also be suitable labourers for My vineyard, you will be active for Me and My kingdom, you will speak to your fellow human beings in My name and also direct their eyes into that kingdom from where richest blessings for their souls come. No earthly activity equals that activity, no earthly success can outweigh spiritual success, and no earthly work will be as blessed and meet My approval as the work for My kingdom. And thus you also know that you are not walking uselessly on earth if you apply yourselves to this activity, you also know that the most beautiful task has been assigned to you and that you only have to be diligently active if you want to gain My love and satisfaction. But it is by no means a condition for you, you will not be forced into this activity, otherwise it would lose its value and could not earn you a blessing for your soul. Inner joy and the desire to serve Me and your fellow human beings should drive you, and then the spiritual work will also make you happy and give you inner peace, even though, earthly speaking, it will bring you little advantage. But My kingdom is not of this world .... Always keep these words of Mine in mind and you will understand that spiritual work will never exist or be recognized before the world, that it has nothing in common with the world and its activity, that it has to be carried out quietly and diligently and yet will result in far greater success than any earthly activity. And therefore don't tire, don't become lukewarm and indifferent, consider the hardship which spiritual work requires and remain sprightly servants to Me who always fulfil My will and serve Me in diligent activity and whom I will therefore bless now and in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer bridge to God .... thoughts bridge to the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 4638 from May 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The bridge to Me is prayer, the bridge to the spiritual kingdom is the thoughts which grant the beings of light the right to connect with you. Enter this bridge often, come to Me and hold intimate dialogue with Me, entrust all your needs and worries to Me, and thus make Me your confidant, your friend and brother Who wants to share everything, joy and sorrow, with you, and you will soon reduce the gulf between yourselves and Me because you always know a path which leads to Me, because you have found the bridge which removes every separation between Me and you. And likewise seek to reach the spiritual kingdom by letting your thoughts wander to where your true home is, where your soul shall once dwell when it relinquishes its earthly shell and no longer lives on earth. Try to find a connection in the spiritual kingdom while you are still on earth, so that the entrance is not blocked for you, for the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom clear the way for you, they help you to find it, so that you don't go astray or lose your way in the darkness .... The inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom constantly surround you but they can only make themselves known to you if you call them in thought or give them the permission to take care of you through your will. Every spiritual thought is a call for them, an authorization to transfer their power to you and thus to help you on the way up. You now establish the connection with the kingdom, which is a completely different sphere and which you cannot reach otherwise. Thus there is a bridge from you to that kingdom which cannot be seen and reached on earth but which nevertheless exists and wants to exert its influence on you. Pray to Me and send your thoughts upwards, and your soul will leave earth and approach its home, it will strive to return to its origin, it will certainly still leave the earthly cover on earth, it will leave matter behind and rise into spiritual spheres from which it will never return empty, for it will always be considered by beings of light, it will always receive grace and strength from Me Who will meet everyone who enters the bridge to Me. I truly have no greater joy than the return of My children who were once lost to Me and who now come to Me voluntarily in order to be and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'There shall not be left one stone upon another .... ' Great adversity ....

B.D. 4639 from May 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

A time will come when everything that was laboriously acquired and built up shall be lost; a time will come when people will realise that everything which was intended to provide them with physical prosperity is worthless and they will be completely destitute, because they lack spiritual wealth whose possession lets people get over the loss of earthly goods. I constantly draw your attention to this time for it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... not one stone will be left upon another .... The fact that such a dreadful work of destruction shall take place as an act of God might sound incomprehensible to worldly-minded people, nevertheless it is inevitable, firstly, because it is intended to have an educational purpose and then it is also designated in the eternal plan of Salvation to enable the spiritual substances at a lower stage of development to attain other forms. It is necessary for people to be extraordinarily severely affected for they pay almost no attention to their spiritual development anymore and shall be given final encouragements, although they can also ignore them if they are unwilling to change and to ascend. They can only be treated even more harshly for they are no longer open to gentle admonitions and everything which hitherto was inflicted upon humanity for this purpose remains unsuccessful. However, the forthcoming time will involve a drastic change, so that people's thoughts will automatically turn to the meaning and purpose of earthly life and nevertheless cause a change in a few people, which will be truly beneficial for them.

The adversity will be so severe that it will awaken the willingness to help in those who still have a spark of love in their heart, and this spark will find nourishment and grow into a flame, for anyone who only wants to help will also actively help and ease his neighbour's difficult fate, because he knows himself how much distress every individual person's fate is causing. And those who are willing to help will also be helped by Me, they will receive help as a sign of a higher Power where no way out can be found anymore, Which lovingly draws up close to people to reveal Itself to them. For earthly help often seems impossible but that which is impossible for people can still be accomplished by Me, and thus even the greatest adversity is not hopeless because nothing is impossible for Me. And thus the love which is given to one's neighbour will bring forth good fruit, it will gain My love, and this signifies help and grace and an exceptional flow of strength, on account of which My Own need not lose heart, for they will not feel the adversity so much because they will be full of strength and always have Me by their side as a Helper Who, for the sake of their faith, will work evidently in order to still gain the few before the end who are weak in faith but nevertheless of good will .... They will receive strength and survive that time of need without damage to their soul. My Own, however, will be protected by Me and can anticipate this time without worry, for it will not last long ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word most effective means for the healing of the soul ....

B.D. 4640 from May 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Whatever you receive from Me cannot but be good and must result in spiritual progress for you if only you make yourselves worthy of what you receive through your will. The will alone without the deed is admittedly of little significance if it is possible for the human being to act according to his will, yet even a serious will is considered where the possibility of implementation is limited or the strength to do so is lacking. But then strength will be supplied to the human being for the sake of his will, and this supply of strength is effected by the word which is conveyed to you by Me Myself. My word is a gift of love and mercy .... I see your struggle, you who are willing, and I see your lack of strength, you who only have a weak will, and I want to come to your aid and consider you on the path of My eternal order, which is why I do not arbitrarily supply you with strength but make it dependent on you again, on your will, which has to be turned towards Me, but then My love and mercy is always concerned about your salvation and gives you what you need. Thus, if My gift is good, you must now also fully rely on the means I give you .... You must believe that it is the right, only effective remedy for you, through which you, who are ill in your soul, will recover. If you are sick and turn to the first saviour of the world, you must also have the rock-solid faith that He can and will make you well. Everything I offer you is medicine for the soul .... always regard everything, your earthly life, suffering and affliction, your whole fate and also the evidence of My love, as remedies whose certain effect you must not doubt .... and you will recover and be released from every affliction, for My word also has its healing power earthly, so that everyone who receives and accepts it as My gift of love will also be physically strengthened by it according to the strength of his faith. How easy it would be for you to shape your earthly path of life, how easy it would be for you to develop spiritually if you accepted My word as what it is .... which contains the greatest blessing, the miraculous power, if you know how to use it. Anyone who has My word should not fear or doubt, every fear and worry should be alien to him, for through the receipt of My word he has certain proof of My presence and thus also the best means of protection against every difficulty in life .... he should only believe and trust, he should always know that he is cared for by My love and only remain at My will .... be active for Me and My kingdom and repay My loving care with eager work. He could calmly and equanimously cover his earthly path of life, which he never travels alone but in constant company of Me, because I want to speak to him and he should work with My words again, because he serves as a mediator between Me and people who are still distant from Me and whom I want to win. Therefore, anyone who has My word need only comply with this task of administering the mediator's office and he will always be able to be certain of My blessing, My love and grace, he will not need to starve spiritually and physically and will always be lovingly cared for by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual rebirth ....

B.D. 4641 from May 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The decisive moment in earthly life is the will's inclination towards God, for from this moment onwards the soul begins to change, it is effectively the turning point, the start of return for the once-fallen spirit to God. The sooner this conscious direction of will happens in the human being's life, the greater the perfection he can attain before passing away; however, it is also possible to achieve a high degree of maturity within a short period of time if the human being realises at a much later time that he, as God's living creation, ought to strive towards unification with Him. In that case he can pursue changing his soul with an intensified will and equally still mature fully. And so every occurrence in human life will only ever be the cause for a change of will, but once the latter takes the right direction the soul is no longer at risk of slipping into darkness again, for God will draw it to Himself as soon as it has made its decision known to reach Him. This decision of will, the deliberate turning of thoughts to God, is effectively the human being's spiritual rebirth, for the soul enters a new life, it no longer lives in the purely earthly-material world but penetrates deeper, it searches for truth and finds it, because God Himself manifests Himself as the eternal Truth by mentally influencing the soul which longs for Him .... Such a born-again soul must be nurtured and cultivated like a tender seedling, it must be kept alive with the lightest of nourishments and slowly invigorated and strengthened until it finds its own way in life and can effortlessly travel the path of higher development. The change of will is the act of rebirth, it has thereby started on the path which leads to eternal life, even though it still can present many dangers and obstacles .... worldly temptation and difficulties .... which will nevertheless be overcome by a strong soul. It is merely a question of whether the soul will receive this necessary strength or whether it must starve and will thus find the path of ascent difficult. This, again, is solely a matter of will, but once a will strives upwards towards God it will also be seized by God and constantly positively influenced, yet without being coerced. The most effective influence is the Word of God, which includes strength and life and nourishes the reborn soul and helps it to mature. A person whose soul is born-again will also always be receptive for receiving the divine Word, be it directly through listening to it or through reading divine revelations, or through mental connection with the Primary Source of wisdom, through conscious connection with the One Who is the eternal Truth Itself. He will quite frequently withdraw into solitude, that is, he will look within himself and his thoughts will be influenced from above in the right direction .... his soul will receive nourishment and increase in light and strength. But a person whose soul is born-again will also live in love, for this is the consequence of a correctly inclined will. And thus he will mature and approach perfection, which is the reason and purpose for his life on earth, as soon as he has voluntarily detached himself from the power which held him captive and from which a person must release himself. However, in order to do so he will always have grace and strength from above at his disposal which he will use for his spiritual rebirth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lord's supper .... guests of the lord ....

B.D. 4642 from May 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

My guests are those who listen to Me, who desire My word and receive it into their hearts. These are the ones I feed with nourishment for their souls, and these are the ones who take supper with Me as I have promised; they are My guests who are invited to My table and who are now provided with everything that is refreshing for the soul, to whom I give food and drink according to their hunger and thirst. And My guests will never be disagreeable to Me, I will never withhold from them what they need, My will will never diminish, and therefore I constantly send My messengers to invite the guests to My table .... I Myself go and knock at the doors and hold supper everywhere, for I Myself prepare food and drink and can therefore administer the soul's nourishment everywhere, yet one thing I require is that My invitation is gladly and gratefully accepted, otherwise I pay no attention to the guests because they do not do their host the honour which He well has to claim ....

(18.5.1949) My table of gifts is always laid and I distribute without limitation, and I will never turn away anyone who wants to come and be My guest, yet I never give where there is no desire, even if people lie starving on the ground. I certainly let them come into contact with My messengers, I let them request to come to Me in order to receive strength and refreshment, yet their will itself must decide whether they want to accept My invitation or do without. But blessed are those who follow the call of My servants, who let themselves be entertained by Me and provided with food which is exceedingly beneficial to them. They can receive food and drink from Me, delicious nourishment for their souls, true bread from heaven and delicious wine, prepared by My love, as it is agreeable to the soul. And therefore no soul will need to hunger and starve if it is only willing to be My guest and therefore comes to Me of its own free will .... Then it will receive the bread of heaven, which is My word, from which it shall draw the strength .... the wine of life, in order to be able to cover the earthly path and reach the aim, eternal beatitude. My word is food and drink for the soul, My word is the right wine of life, it is My flesh and My blood, it is the most delicious thing I can offer you humans as long as you stay on earth. If you now want to take supper with Me, you must let yourselves be taught by Me, you must listen to what My love presents to you, you must receive the eternal truth from My hand with a hungry heart, listen, what the voice of the spirit in you proclaims, which is My voice that resounds in you if you want to hear Me, for I truly give you the best for your souls because I want to draw them to Me and therefore shape you such that you endure My nearness. I will come to you Myself and feed you, for My word is the right food and the right drink, and anyone who hears My word and lives accordingly will become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... The strength of Jesus' name .... The coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 4643 from May 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

For the sake of My name you will have to suffer. All those who profess Me before the world will be subjected to awful threats and tribulations, for it will be people's aim to eradicate My name, to suppress the knowledge about My life on Earth and the act of Salvation, in order to make people lose faith in it. However, they will be met with unyielding resistance by people who stand up for Me and My name and profess Me aloud before the world. Then a sharp divide will be formed between all those who still believe and those who deny Me, and My small flock will have to come forward if it wants to stand up for Me, and this will be the start of suffering for those who will remain faithful to Me until the end. For whatever wickedness can be done to My Own will be done, and My Own would never bear up against this were they not strengthened by Me as a reward for their good will. You will have to prove yourselves, for a hard battle will be waged on account of faith. But as soon as this battle starts you will know that it is the last occurrence before the end, that you must therefore persevere if you want to become blissfully happy. Furthermore, you know that I will always be close to you during this time and provide you with extraordinary strength until I finally come Myself in order to rescue you from utmost adversity. Hence you know that it will only last for a short time, as I have promised you that I will shorten the days so that you will become blessed. And this knowledge, the firm and unwavering faith in it, will make you strong and immune, and you will endure all difficulties with such indifference and courage that I will reward the fact that you must suffer for the sake of My name and yet remain faithful to Me. And if you then devoutly pronounce My name it will have an incredibly invigorating effect. This will make you realise that you truly know the truth and, with utter conviction, profess Me before the world even more and humbly accept everything people do to you, who are of service to the one who, as My adversary, wants to push you away from Me. Indeed, you will suffer but nevertheless be victorious, and your reward will not fail to materialise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Experiencing the downfall as if in a dream state .... memory, new earth ....

B.D. 4644 from May 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

As in a dream state you will experience the downfall of the old earth after your rapture, thus you will see the work of destruction and also be able to comprehend its extent, yet you will remain unburdened by it yourselves so that you no longer take anything heavy from the old earth into the kingdom of peace, which is now your abode until you are transferred back again to the newly formed earth where a new life begins for you in constant contact with Me. Nevertheless, you had to witness the downfall of the old earth, because the knowledge of it shall remain with you for the instruction of your children and your children's children. You should keep the memory of the old earth with its creations, with its spiritual state amongst people, with the sinfulness, the battle of faith and the end, so that the new generation will also take note of it and the knowledge of it will influence their attitude towards Me, as it shall also serve in later times to warn and admonish people of a spiritual decline which would inevitably result in this effect again. On the new earth nothing will remind people of the old creations anymore, and it will mean miracle upon miracle for the inhabitants of the new earth to compare the new creations with the old ones, and there will be no end to bliss. And in a dreamlike way the old earth with all its experiences will appear before their eyes at the end and yet will not leave their memory because it is good for people to remain in this memory. What still seems completely impossible to people today will have to be experienced by those who are faithfully devoted to Me, and the fact that they withstand this last great adversity will earn them a state of bliss in the paradise of the new earth, which is why they will only live through the last horrors as if in a dream, because otherwise it would not be bearable for them after the time of suffering which the battle of faith means for them in the end. But those whose faith is strong are kept upright by the hope of My coming, of the rapture and the paradise of the new earth, and I will not let this faith be destroyed .... I truly prepare a fate for them which fully compensates them for all suffering, for I Myself am among them with My love and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Think not earthly .... admonition of God to take up His word more often ....

B.D. 4645 from May 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Move all My words in your heart, think about them and pay attention to the feeling they give you, and then want to do the right thing and live to please Me, and you will derive the right benefit from My word, you will have spiritual and earthly blessings and progress in your development. I cannot give you any better advice than to accept My word as often as it is possible for you. Then earthly life will no longer cause you any difficulties, for as soon as you occupy yourselves more with the spiritual, as soon as you live more with Me, earthly life will go by your side, hardly burdening you and mastered by an invisible hand; you certainly live on earth but are not unusually burdened. Try it, use every opportunity to hear or read My word, and then consider what you have heard, let Me speak to you lovingly by giving Me an ear when I want to speak to you. Every thought of accepting spiritual knowledge offered by Me is a hint from My love which I give to you in order to promote your development. And you must pay attention to this, even if you lack time, for I can very well also extend the time if it is necessary, and the short span of time you sacrifice to Me will never be lost, but far more likely a great spiritual gain for you. Again and again I say to you, don't think earthly .... For the advantage you gain from it is again only earthly and therefore not lasting. But what you create and acquire spiritually is extremely valuable for eternity. But one day your earthly life will be over, one day the way you have used your earthly life will have an effect, the work you have done when your vitality was at your disposal. And then you will be blessed to possess a supply of spiritual possessions, and so that you will constantly increase them I admonish you again and again and call upon you to take My admonitions seriously and to receive My word from above more often, because it is the most precious gift I can bestow upon you and because it has an extremely beneficial influence on you. Let Me speak to you and ponder My words in your heart, and your earthly life will be a peaceful one, richly blessed by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will - guideline of life ....

B.D. 4646 from May 20th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who does not take My word as a guideline for his life will not take the right path, for then he will go against My will and not observe My commandments which My word informs them of. If you want to follow My will I have to inform you of it in a certain way, and I will also make sure that the knowledge of it is made accessible to you, yet it depends on your will whether you accept or reject it. Every word of Mine shall serve you as a guideline, and it is truly not difficult to live in accordance with My will, for My yoke is gentle and My burden is light .... I do not ask you to do anything that is unworkable, yet there is an obstacle which makes even the easy to do seem difficult .... your will, which must completely submit to Mine. And if your will has not yet entered Mine you will have to use force .... then you will seize the kingdom of heaven. Then you will have to wage an inner battle in order to change your will, which is still turned away from Me, into one which is completely subordinate to Me, and then it will be easy for you to do everything I tell you to do through My word. I cannot deviate from My conditions for attaining maturity of soul, yet I make them easy for you and give you strength to fulfil them. Yet you must take notice of them and not inwardly resist My requirements, you must make My commandments your own intention, of your own free will you must make an effort to live in love, and thus all commandments I give you for the time of your earthly life are also fulfilled. Your way of life must be based on My word; that is all I require of you, but it requires knowledge of My word, it requires an inner life in which you deal with spiritual questions, where you have to take a stand with what I require. Therefore, if you want to reach the aim you cannot live thoughtlessly into the day, you have to think about your purpose of earthly life and your task and criticize yourselves as to how far you fulfil the task of life set for you. And then you will always have to keep My word before your eyes for comparison, for My word gives you all guidelines and will always show you the right path .... the path which leads to the aim, to unification with Me, your God and father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"You will be able to accomplish even greater things ...." promise ....

B.D. 4647 from May 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The master's works shall always serve as an example to his disciples, and a striving disciple will also reach the aim of equalling his master in his achievement. And so also I have said to you: "You will accomplish even greater things". So there is the possibility of the disciple surpassing his master .... You will certainly doubt this statement but I repeat it and add that nothing would be impossible for you if only you muster the will to work with Me and My strength. A person can rarely muster the faith for this, but he will be able to achieve supernatural things, but only because he believes. Once you attain this profound faith, which can move mountains, you would never again lack strength, you would never again be afflicted by doubts and you would truly be even greater than the man Jesus, for He has told you this and His word is truth. But as long as the human being does not muster this strong faith which is able to do everything, no human being will surpass the God-man Jesus, to Whom the elements obeyed through His faith and His love and Who subjugated everything to Himself because He worked with Me and knew no limitation of His strength from Me. I Myself was active in Him, but I was also the strength which is without beginning and without end and which therefore can also express itself without limitation without diminishing. But now you, My disciples of the last days, shall provide the evidence for Jesus' words, you shall subdue all powers through an exceedingly strong faith and likewise work without limitation for My honour and My glorification and thus practice works which bring honour to the master's school .... you shall work miracles by virtue of your faith, constantly using the strength from Me. Only a strong faith is able to do this, and therefore I try to help you achieve this strong faith. I let you get into trouble from which I often miraculously deliver you after heartfelt prayer to Me. You shall recognize your master in it and now willingly do the work He instructs you to do, and if you now strive for highest perfection your works will also become ever more perfect until they resemble those of the master. Jesus Christ was your master, Who instructed you and admonished you to follow Him, and Who gave you the promise which shall spur you on to strive .... that you may accomplish greater things .... But who makes the test? Who seeks to reach that degree of love which means complete union with Me and thus also unlimited emanation and reception of strength? Where the strength from Me is active every success is assured, and in this confidence the faith will also be firm and unshakeable, the human being will know and feel that he will be helped whatever he undertakes, and this confidence will enable him to achieve great deeds .... He will be able to accomplish supernatural things and thus be a true disciple, as I need him in the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Thirst for knowledge .... perk of asking questions ....

B.D. 4648 from May 22nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

If you let yourselves be instructed by My spirit there is no limit to your knowledge, nevertheless, your will remains decisive as to how far you want to accept the knowledge. As soon as you ask, you will receive an answer, yet even questions which occupy you unconsciously will be answered by My spirit, albeit not always at the time when you are moved by questioning thoughts. Yet I know what is useful for you to know, I know your receptivity and also how you utilize the knowledge you receive. And this is of great importance because nothing happens according to My eternal order without meaning and purpose and thus wisdom is also guided to where it finds the right use, where work is done with the knowledge of pure truth. As soon as you want to be active as teachers, the knowledge imparted to you will encompass all areas, to the extent that you need it in order to be a wise teacher to your fellow human beings. Nevertheless, you can greatly increase your own level of knowledge if you express the desire to receive deep knowledge. I leave no questions unanswered and also invite you to ask questions .... And therefore every spiritual debate is of value where unresolved issues are touched upon so that I can now provide clarification through the spirit. A person with a thirst for knowledge would still be able to draw from the source of wisdom, thus there would be no limits to his knowledge if he allows himself to be instructed through the spirit, whereas it is not possible for the intellectual person to transcend these limits. Make use of this advantage and increase your knowledge and you will be able to receive and pass on great blessings, for knowledge is light and light makes the person happy who does not want to walk in darkness. People who are still children of the world have little desire for light and therefore have no interest in answering spiritual questions. But anyone who already directs his gaze into the spiritual kingdom will be happy to receive enlightenment from there, and his thirst for knowledge will increase the more it is quenched. For this is the characteristic of spiritual activity, that the human being is not satiated but feels a constant desire to expand his knowledge. And I gladly comply with this desire, for it is the evidence that the human being's soul strives towards Me, that it pushes towards Me, that it is hungry for light, thus it wants to make contact with the eternal light, even if the human being is not aware of it. And therefore I will take every striving for truthful knowledge into account, I will hand out where it is desired, I will give spiritual wealth and train whoever entrusts himself to Me as a pupil according to the will of utilization for teaching activity .... For where My spirit can become effective the human being can penetrate the deepest depths of wisdom .... where My spirit is active I Myself am at work and truly instruct the human being in the right way, so that he can radiate his knowledge again if he teaches in My name ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I will not leave you orphans ...." (John 14)

B.D. 4649 from May 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

"I will not leave you orphans ...." I will be your father, to whom you may come in every need of body and soul .... I will stand by you with advice and help .... I will take over all your worries, for your body and your soul; I will guide all your steps .... I will always be with you so that you will never be alone and feel abandoned .... I will not leave you orphaned .... Consider this word of Mine. Can you have a more comforting assurance for your life's journey? Must not all worries and cares fall away from you if you remember these words, that you are constantly certain of My protection and My love? Whatever may come your way, you need not fear anything in the certainty that no burden lies on you alone but that I will help you carry it or even take it off you completely if it is good for you. My word has to be enough for you, and if you show Me all your childlike love you will also be filled with rock-solid faith, and then you will no longer feel orphaned and abandoned, then you will be aware of My presence and you will be completely without worry. And then you will also be able to hear Me through the voice of the spirit, for once I am present to you and you are aware of it, I will also express Myself and the ear of love will hear Me .... Be blessed if you receive My word, then feel like My children to whom the father lovingly speaks, and know that you will then be free from all worries, for where I am and take care of you as father you can completely leave yourselves to Me and only occupy yourselves with yourselves, i.e. do the work on your soul .... You can use all your strength for active neighbourly love, for spiritual work and be active for Me and My kingdom in My name, then everything earthly will take care of itself for you, because I am the one Who walks invisibly beside you and does for you what is incumbent upon you. Just believe it, don't doubt it and know that every promise by Me will come true if you have first fulfilled the conditions I attach to it. And thus I only require your true childlike love in order to take you into My special care as a father, in order to consider you as My true children in such a way that you can travel your earthly path free from all worries. I demand faith in Me and love for Me, and you will truly feel My fatherly care and constantly be aware of My presence, for I don't want to leave you orphaned, I want to come to you and take abode with you so that you will hear My voice and constantly remain united with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's overflowing love .... How should love for God be like? ....

B.D. 4650 from May 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You cannot measure My love which I have for My creatures and which determines Me for everything that happens and what I allow. It is like a mighty hearth of fire, it is like an enormous flame, it is like an ember which consumes everything that comes within its range. And again, My love is gentle and mild, which solicits reciprocal love with all tenderness, which never decreases, which never fails itself, which always and constantly wants to please and gives up nothing that belongs to Me. My love is of such strength that it also achieves everything it wants and is so certain of its success that it does not force anything but waits for the counter-love which is voluntarily given to Me. I want to possess your love, your complete devotion to Me, I want your will which shall turn to Me of its own free will, for then you will also love Me, then I will have won you for eternity. But what should your love for Me be like? How can you recognize that you love Me? If you have a high, holy feeling in your heart towards Him, Whom you do not see and Whom you do not know and yet believe in Him, that He is and you are His creatures. This holy feeling, however, must not only consist of mental excitement, but it must be a silent vow to belong to Him and to be at His will .... it must be a silent vow to work with Me using all strength. Therefore, anyone who makes this vow to Me will also feel drawn to everything that has emerged from My hand from that moment on, for he now has love within himself because he attracts Me Myself through his love, and thus he is also devoted to his fellow human beings .... he feels love for his neighbour which is expressed in unselfish activity for him. And thus he demonstrates love for Me through active neighbourly love, because one emerges from the other. Then My love can also shine upon him, yet only to an extent he can bear, but it will increase immeasurably, for My love knows no limits, just as My living creations' love can and will increase once they have been permeated by My strength of love and have found unity with Me, once they have become My own for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Destruction of the earth act of mercy by God .... seers and prophets ....

B.D. 4651 from May 26th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

My love, grace and mercy will certainly still apply to the individual human being but no longer to the whole of humanity if this is understood to mean the continued existence of the old earth, which you humans want to accept as an act of mercy. It is much more an act of mercy that the destruction of the old earth takes place, because thereby new possibilities are created again for the maturing of the still imperfect spiritual as well as of the souls of people who have already fallen into darkness and yet shall find their way back to Me, to the light. My principle is the redemption of the spiritual from darkness to light. But if the earth is completely darkened then it is no longer suitable for the purpose it is meant to serve, and then new means have to be created which My wisdom alone can judge for their expediency, and human intellect is not sufficient to weigh the pros and cons. Yet My love and mercy still wants to give the souls the opportunity to complete their course of development on earth before the destruction of the old earth, because this is of utmost importance. And therefore I inform you of what is about to happen in an extraordinary way by initiating you through revelations into My plan of salvation from eternity .... And this is a significant act of My love, grace and mercy for which you should be grateful and make use of every opportunity to bring your souls to maturity before the end is here. I inform you of this, however, you have to find the belief in it yourselves, otherwise you would forcibly change, which could not be called an upward development. But pay attention to the signs which I have constantly pointed out to you through seers and prophets .... heed them, and you can recognize for yourselves that the time has come when My announcements will be fulfilled .... that the time of the end has come which shall determine you to utmost work on your soul.

(27.5.1949) I have not announced the end through seers and prophets without purpose, and the sole purpose is that the human being should always bear the end in mind as being imminent and adjust his way of life accordingly so as not to get lost on the day of judgment. The fact that a long time has passed so far without bringing the end does not justify the assumption that people of the present time will not experience the end either, on the contrary, it is ever more probable that one day My prediction will come true, because My word is truth and remains .... that the time will therefore draw ever closer. However, you can be completely certain that you people of the present time are the ones in whom My word will come true, that the present time will therefore bring about the event which is written .... You can expect the last days with certainty, and you need no longer imagine a long earthly life, even though the world does not want to know about an end, that is, those people who are worldly-minded and only turn their thoughts towards material gain. The end will also come for them but they will not prepare themselves for it and will therefore be surprised and despair when it becomes obvious to them that they can no longer expect anything from the earthly world. And therefore it shall be spoken wherever the opportunity presents itself, even if the announcements are not believed. Yet when the hour has come for My word to come true, a few people will still turn their thoughts to Me and also be able to be certain of My help in spiritual adversity. And this is the purpose of My predictions, and therefore they should not be rejected, for soon you humans will recognize the truth of them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receiving the announcements in an alert state .... light forces ....

B.D. 4652 from May 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You should accept the announcements from the spiritual kingdom with an alert mind, you should unite with Me in thought and consciously expect My answer to every question you want answered, thus let yourselves be instructed in full awareness through dialogue with Me. For then My spirit will take effect in you .... whereas such proclamations have to be received with all caution which a person unconsciously accepts, thus where the will is eliminated or is forced under its influence by a stronger will, by a spiritual power, because it does not defend itself, which it can very well do in a conscious state. People who are not introduced to spiritual knowledge are unable to judge whether the will is used by a good or bad force, and therefore they often accept error as truth, whereas they do not recognize pure truth as such .... (28.5.1949) Then they also portray proclamations as being given from above, because they certainly want to be in contact with forces of light but by not complying with My requirements they deny these forces of light the influence themselves. But My requirement is to consciously enter into contact with Me; furthermore, My requirement is to also fulfil the conditions which result in a direct approach on My part, such as: a way of life according to My will .... a life of love .... Desire for truth and now an inward listening in order to hear Me. From this it follows that not everyone can hear My word, that therefore also receptions from the spiritual kingdom in an unconscious state require the fulfilment of these conditions if they want to lay claim to truth.

(29.5.1949) But usually people who abide by My conditions are strong-willed and therefore do not surrender their own will, so that spiritual forces cannot make use of it, thus an unconscious state switches off. And the listeners have to distinguish whether the way of speaking of those who want to receive announcements from above is, so to speak, automatic, thus an external will obviously comes to light, or whether the person speaks naturally as if it were his own spiritual product. For I certainly express Myself through the mouth of a human being, I certainly choose the form for My working but never in a conspicuous way that the human being's nature appears completely changed. For the human being should be able to believe freely, and therefore I also let My form speak freely from itself, except that I put the words into its mouth .... that I therefore speak through it Myself after all. Why should I, if I want to speak through a form, turn this form into an automaton? You humans love extraordinary appearances and only then believe, even though the same is naturally offered to you. But you do not consider that I do not take from My works what characterizes them as My work, free will and the awareness of themselves. But if a spiritual being makes use of the human being's will then it eliminates free will and the human being loses his self-awareness. This can never be regarded as My working, which is why I seriously warn against accepting explanations and teachings of this kind as truth. Although not everything needs to be wrong if the human being's will is seriously turned towards good. Yet caution is always advised, for My adversary will always fight the truth, for which no means is too bad for him and he will also try to assert himself disguised as an angel of light ....

Amen

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Suitability for spiritual work - dedication of the world ....

B.D. 4653 from May 30th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Those who feel called to work for Me by hearing My spirit's utterance as a spoken or mentally conveyed word must continue to be eagerly active and not lose themselves to the world. Nevertheless, the world is still their environment, i.e., as long as they stay on earth the world also approaches them with its demands. But it can be overcome if the heart frees itself from desires and wishes of any kind. The love that develops in every human being can be directed rightly or wrongly. If it belongs to the world then it is a wrong love which has to be fought against if the human being wants to be in contact with Me and thus active for Me. Thus the love directed towards Me is the right one, and this love must fill a person who wants to work as My servant for Me and My kingdom. There must only be room for Me in his heart, thus no concession can be made to the world, and that is what is difficult for the human being and why only rarely is someone suitable for spiritual work, for a service which requires unconditional devotion from the world. Therefore I have to choose My workers for Myself, I have to train their ability to tear the love for the world out of their heart, however, not compulsorily, but I have to try to change his will so that he surrenders to Me and is no longer turned towards the world. And thus the world's goods must be presented to him as worthless and impermanent, which is only possible if they leave him unsatisfied so that he no longer desires them. If a person has a very worldly attitude he lacks spiritual contact with Me, and then he will also never be able to accomplish spiritual work. But it often takes a long time before a person has recognized the worthlessness of the world, and therefore workers will rarely be found who offer their services to Me of their own free will. For the world approaches people again and again and seeks to capture their thoughts. And it will always mean a battle which, however, has to be carried out for the sake of the soul's salvation, and this battle always has to end with the defeat of My adversary who is the prince of this world and against whom this battle is therefore waged. No matter in which form this battle takes place, the success will always be a spiritual maturing, but the cause is worldly desires and their fulfilment. Therefore, consider every disappointment, every failure, every suffering through material losses as a means to overcome desires and cravings, and surrender to it without complaint, for it helps you to overcome everything that hinders you from being a good and eager servant in My vineyard .... it helps you to free your heart and prepare it to receive Me, Who truly offers you something that surpasses worldly pleasures. Give up the world and exchange Me for it, and you will gain the most delicious if I Myself am within you and bestow spiritual wealth upon you, which is truly refreshment for your soul and cannot be compared to what the world offers you. Serve Me diligently and make yourselves worthy of the privilege of having been accepted as labourers for My kingdom .... Use your service diligently, so that one day you will be rewarded as faithful servants and be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Become like the children ...."

B.D. 4654 from May 31th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

"Become like children ...." I am pleased with the quiet, humble love of children who trustingly approach Me, who press towards the father's love and seek a response from Him. Become like children .... If you truly feel like children and direct your steps towards the father, if you seek refuge with Him, you will enter into the right relationship in which you stood in the beginning and which you resolved yourselves of your own free will. If you now return to the father the spell is broken, you become free children of God again, you have found your way back to Me and can now be blissfully happy in My presence. You must feel it alive within you that I am your father, that you are My children who emerged from My love, who eternally possess My fatherly love .... you must be happy and calm in your thoughts of Me, remain untouched by all adversity and affliction, firmly trusting that the father will protect you from every danger of body and soul. Only the right trust characterizes a child's relationship with its father, and until you place this trust in Me you are not yet in a child's relationship with Me, then you are still far away from Me and I am a stranger to you and not constantly present. Where a heart opens itself to Me, where it communes with Me in the desire to receive Me, to hear Me and to feel Me, there is no longer a gulf between the child and the father, it is with Him and the father is constantly with His child, the father hears every request, every question, and He considers the child as it is helpful to Him. Therefore, first of all strive for the right of childship which arises from the right relationship with Me. For if you are My true children you are also entitled to many rights .... that the father will continue to care for His child, that He will help it spiritually and earthly towards perfection, that He will instruct it and feed it with nourishment for body and soul. As My true children you can demand everything from Me, I will deny you nothing and constantly make you happy with gifts of love which I always have in store for My children. Become like the children! .... Leave all self-conceit aside and humbly come to Me with a loving heart and accept the abundance of My love which I want to bestow upon all My living creations. This relationship between children must still be established on earth if you want to become true children of God with all rights in eternity. And once you have handed yourselves over to Me as weak-willed little children I will never let you leave Me again, I will watch over you and prevent all evil from gaining access to you so that you can no longer get lost to Me or hand yourselves over to My adversary. I am your father from eternity and only wait for the moment when you lift your hearts to Me full of childlike love. Then I will have won you back eternally and you will be free. For the father does not keep His children under compulsion as soon as they are subject to Him in love, since their will is now the same, and they will only want what is My will and can never ever lack My will ....

Amen

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"What God has joined together ...." Connections blessed by God ....

B.D. 4655 from June 1st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

What God has joined together, man shall not separate. What I have blessed must therefore remain indissolubly united for all eternity. But how can My blessing be recognized? Not an earthly bond guarantees My fullest approval, a spiritual agreement of both parts must obviously be recognizable if people want to claim My blessing and believe themselves to be in possession of it. People who are spiritually of different kinds, who do not find themselves in the same spiritual striving, can indeed likewise enter into a union which also has its earthly justification, but they are by no means to be regarded as united by Me, even though they believe to fulfil all conditions through ceremonies and religious actions which are intended to secure My blessing for them. I certainly consider the union to be closed and never approve of a separation, yet I reserve the divine blessing for Myself and distribute it to those who approach Me together in prayer, who want to travel their path of life together with the same striving for perfection, for maturity of soul and with the same love for Me, Whose commandments they want to fulfil and Who is their aim on this earth. Consequently, many marriages can be considered concluded, but only a few are blessed by Me. In order to be united forever before Me I make demands on the will of both partners that they want to belong to each other for time and eternity, that one wants to be the support and staff of the other, that they therefore love each other without self-interest and are driven by the desire for union to enter into a bond which does not consist of external formalities but of intimate communion physically and spiritually. The desire for union will be all the greater the deeper the spiritual harmony of the souls is, which is therefore expressed in the same thinking, the same acting and the agreement of words and speeches which have Me as their content, thus testify to spiritual communion. These are therefore also destined for spiritual cooperation by Me and will consequently be able to be completely certain of My blessing if they offer themselves to Me for spiritual cooperation. And the blessing will be easily recognizable which rests on those people who work together for Me and My kingdom, for they will not suffer any hardship, they will be fully satisfied spiritually and earthly, and I will obviously be with them in every adversity and danger. But such a bond must not be severed, even if it is not earthly sanctioned, thus earthly it would be very easy to dissolve .... For what I join together man shall not separate .... Do you know why I brought you together, why I allowed your paths to cross when I made it possible for you to come together and yet spiritual agreement was recognizable? Thus you may not separate again on your own authority or carry out a separation which could withdraw My blessing from you if I did not prevent you from carrying out your plan. A separation may only take place if I Myself separate you for the sake of your soul's salvation, if I, in order not to endanger your salvation, take each one of you into My care as long as spiritual differences arise, thus an agreement no longer exists that it no longer allows for spiritual cooperation. But then this union will nevertheless not be dissolved, because what I unite can never be dissolved by people and because My blessing will rest on every union which was concluded in spiritual striving and found My approval ....

Amen

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Instrument of God .... holding up the errors right of the disciples ....

B.D. 4656 from June 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Where My grace flows to you in such abundance that you are taught by My spirit, there is also a certain justification to draw your fellow human being's attention to his faults without being accused of self-conceit. This is, so to speak, the office of the one who receives the pure gospel, that he carries it out into the world, that he thus opposes the right to the wrong, that he passes on My word in the same sense as he receives it. Anyone who is enlightened by My spirit also has the gift of righteous judgement as soon as he is active as My disciple, thus working for Me and My kingdom amongst his fellow human beings. He will recognize people's faults and weaknesses and also know their cause and effect, he will also recognize the truth of My word by the latter, for through My word I initiate the spiritually enlightened person into knowledge which explains everything that is and happens around him. And thus it will not remain hidden to him why My word is not fully accepted, for he knows that the cause of this is the human being's way of life himself, his will and his wrong attitude towards what I demand of people through My word. And therefore he is also entitled to reproach his fellow human being for his faults and shortcomings so that he will change. He even has the duty to draw people's attention to them, even though he is rarely listened to with pleasure and a change in this respect is also rarely striven for. Nevertheless, My disciple is in the right, for I make use of him in order to speak through his mouth to those who are unable to hear Me Myself. And again and again you should be told that your ways are entirely subject to My guidance, that you are only the tools for the work I Myself want to do for My living creations, but that I cannot approach them directly and therefore need you as mediators. What you notice in your neighbour, what you recognize as being contrary to My will, what appears to you as error and vice, you should also reprimand or kindly and patiently draw the fellow human being's attention to it, so that he will now work on his soul himself and try to adapt himself to My will. For I train you as teachers .... therefore instruct your neighbour, enlighten him where he errs .... be it in wrong knowledge or also in wrong assessment of himself; make him aware, but in love, not in anger. And you will only administer your office correctly into which I Myself have appointed you, for it merely concerns the recovery of the souls which are ill, and anyone of good will will listen to you and not become angry with you, he will recognize that he has to keep your office and your own nature apart, that you only do to him what you have to do in order to be obedient to Me. For your office obliges you to be at My will ....

Amen

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Realization of the eternal Godhead ....

B.D. 4657 from June 2nd 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The clear realization of the eternal deity, the awareness of Its existence and Its supremely perfect being, can only be gained by people who live in love. It is only given to them to form a true picture which they cannot express in words because it is merely a matter of feeling. Yet their feelings will correspond to the truth, because love cannot produce anything other than truth, because a person who lives in love cannot think and feel anything other than true and thus the concept of God is also comprehensible to him .... However, the intellect is not particularly challenged in this process, instead the heart becomes more active insofar as it is the seat of sensations which are then certainly conveyed to the intellect and received by it and, since they were not produced by the intellect, become conscious to the human being as sensations. But such mediations from the spiritual kingdom can only touch a heart which is formed for love, for this is receptive and willing for spiritual currents. A heart devoid of love will not open itself and will therefore remain insensitive and therefore also without knowledge. For the knowledge of God is spiritual wealth which originates from God, Who is love Himself, and is only given to the one who seeks to assimilate himself to His fundamental nature. For this awakens the spirit in him to life, which is a spark of the eternal spirit of God. The eternal deity can therefore certainly be fathomed, even if not in its full depth, as long as the human being still dwells on earth. It can be fathomed to such an extent that the human being becomes aware

(3.6.1949) that a supremely perfect being created him and that this perfect being is connected with himself, thus with imperfect creatures which, however, have only become imperfect through their own fault. Thus the human being recognizes a creative power for the first time which demonstrates all the characteristics of an entity .... Furthermore, he recognizes in the countless creations a supernatural working of this strength and thus the will and wisdom of the being, as well as the original cause of creative activity, love ..... He can therefore now believe in this being out of inner conviction, because he has gained the knowledge from within as a result of a life in love. And then he will be introduced to deeper knowledge by this very being, which will make the eternal deity ever more understandable to him, because the meaning and purpose of everything that happens will be explained to him and he will thus be initiated into God's eternal plan of salvation and thus penetrate the secrets of divine activity ever more deeply with God's approval, because God Himself wants to guide people into truth and gives fullest enlightenment if they make themselves worthy of it by fulfilling the divine commandments, by living a life of unselfish neighbourly love. Then it will become easy for people to recognize the eternal deity .... Problems which are unsolvable for those who approach them intellectually will be easily solved by all those who dare to solve them with a loving heart, for God reveals Himself to them and also makes Himself known ....

Amen

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Outpouring of the spirit .... task spreading of the teaching of love ....

B.D. 4658 from June 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It is given to you to speak in My name, that is, to proclaim My kingdom, to spread My teaching of love throughout the world and thus to be spiritually active. And thus you must first be convinced of the truth of what you should pass on to your fellow human beings, you must have received the spiritual knowledge you receive from Me with heart and mind, thus you must be able to affirm it emotionally and intellectually. This is what I want to achieve with you, that no doubt will move your heart anymore, that you will be able to believe and become knowledgeable in order to be a suitable and wise teacher for your fellow human beings who is beneficially active in My vineyard. Your mission is not bound to time and place, you will constantly and everywhere have the opportunity to stand up for Me and My name, and you should make use of these opportunities and utilize everything you receive in spiritual wealth. I constantly distribute My gifts to you, so you should also constantly give what you acquire, what you possess, what makes you happy. Then you will be able to determine the gift of speech in yourselves, yet only as long as you speak for Me and pass on My word. And you will recognize My spirit by the fact that your intellect does not whisper the words to you but that you speak from within, that you speak with full conviction about things which are completely foreign to your knowledge. And it will appear plausible to all those who again have the serious will to stand in truth. I pour out My spirit upon you as soon as you want to serve Me and work for Me and My kingdom .... And what he now imparts to you is purest truth and well worthy of also being presented to fellow human beings, because the spirit from Me will give you nothing but purest truth, for it is a part of Me to which nothing is alien and which also wants to make knowledge accessible to you to the greatest extent. Heart and intellect shall be active in receiving the knowledge imparted to you by the spirit, and heart and intellect shall pass it on, i.e., it shall be offered with love in such a form that it also appears to be intellectually acceptable to the human being and he likewise attunes himself to it affirmatively. You will often have the opportunity, for I will supply you with souls which are willing and able to receive and utilize spiritual knowledge from above. As soon as you are convinced yourselves you will also be able to speak with conviction and then more easily win fellow human beings for My kingdom. And yet you also have to request My grace in particular so that I Myself will work through you if you are active for Me. And I comply with every request for spiritual progress, for enlightenment and strength to reproduce My word, for anyone who works for Me truly does not ask in vain .... he will be allowed to utilize a measure of grace which is unlimited, and it is only up to him how far he uses it for the spreading of truth and in My will. And he can always be certain of My blessing ....

Amen

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Radiance of God .... instruction from within .... gift of speech ....

B.D. 4659 from June 5th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You need constant instruction in order to change the state of ignorance, in which you start earthly life as a human being, into the state of knowledge. You need to be constantly instructed because you are not receptive to the extent that you could immediately tolerate brightest light; you need to be slowly introduced to the right knowledge so that your heart and intellect will grasp it and your soul will derive the right benefit from it. Therefore teachers must be given to you who are qualified to guide you into truth. These teachers can be trained by Me Myself, but they can also indirectly receive everything they need to know if it is their firm will to enter My service and be active for Me and My kingdom, for this will guarantees that they will be taught correctly and thus also be able to carry out their teaching activity in accordance with My will. For I want the truth to be spread, I want people to step out of the darkness of spirit into the bright light; I want them to learn to recognize who and what I am and what task they have to fulfil as My living creations on earth. Thus I am the right teacher who imparts the right knowledge to those who want to be active as teachers again .... But you cannot hear Me in any other way than through the spirit .... I certainly speak to you, yet My word does not sound to your ears from outside but you have to hear it inwardly. And thus I am also at work where the instruction happens indirectly, thus through intermediaries. It is always My spirit which first has to work in you in order to make what has been imparted to you effective, in order to make your intellect receptive and to awaken the feeling in your heart for the depth of truth. Where My spirit is not at work, the deepest wisdom can be offered to you, it would leave you completely untouched and fall on your ears like empty words. My spirit first enlivens the dead word, My spirit is the strength which flows through every word so that it can have an effect on the human being and thus is also perceived as divine. My working of the spirit is the sign of sympathy for you, for only when you open yourselves to Me do I take a share in you by helping you to perfection through the working of My spirit. Then you will be able to understand everything you receive directly or through intermediaries, you will be able to leave the state of ignorance into the most enlightened state, for then you will be in direct contact with Me if I work in you through My spirit. My spirit is simply the emanation of Myself, the gift which is not material, which cannot be seen or grasped but only felt, which is therefore something effective but not visible, and which nevertheless proves Me, thus it is a living testimony of Myself. My spirit is the emanation of My love .... My love expresses itself in the form that it radiates a tiny spark of what it is itself into the human being's heart, who thereby can develop into a divine being and always progresses more and more towards perfection. But to be perfected means to be in the brightest knowledge in the spiritual realm, to have overcome the state of lightlessness and to have become a being of light with My help, which can now dwell in My vicinity and, constantly permeated by My spirit and My love, is exceedingly blissful for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working of the spirit (pentecost) mediator .... truth - error .... mission ....

B.D. 4660 from June 6th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Whatever is given to you at this time speak, for you will not speak from yourselves but it is I Who speaks through you .... And by this you can always recognize the working of My spirit, that the disciples called by Me Myself, if they offer My word to people, cannot be defeated by counter-speeches, that they are able to refute every objection without first preparing themselves for spiritual debates. Anyone who has My word and wants to spread it is active in My name, he speaks for Me, on My behalf and only passes on what he has received from Me. Thus he is only the mediator between Me and people to whom I want to speak and cannot do so directly because they do not allow it due to their wrong direction of will or their souls' inability to hear My voice within themselves. But I want to approach them, I want to set their soul into vibration, I want them to reflect on their earthly task, I want to gently and softly persuade the soul to turn to Me in order to become blissfully happy. And therefore I need you to speak to them through you, and therefore it is not you who speak, and this is also recognizable to every person that you are inspired by a strength which is unusual and touches the listener beneficially as soon as he is not already completely captured by My adversary. Then people will rebel against you and everything you speak, they will hostile you, and then it is more advisable to shake the dust off your feet and turn your back on them. But anyone who is searching or still undecided listens to you and noticeably feels the strength of My word ....

Thus My spirit impels you to speak and thus you will never say anything wrong, but neither will you fail, for My spirit enlightens your thinking and thus it certainly appears as if your intellect is very active, whereas you are merely an instrument which cannot speak otherwise because I Myself am active in you. Thus you have the evidence of My working in the gift of speech of a person who otherwise does not know how to speak like that, and also in the lightning-quick refutation of all objections which are opposed to My word. For mostly people are trained as teachers who have little spiritual knowledge because their hearts are more receptive for truths which do not agree with the spiritual knowledge which is offered to people and represented as truth. But the pure truth, as it is offered to people by Me, sometimes deviates greatly from it and is therefore little received; people tenaciously hold on to misguided teachings and are therefore understandably little suited to accept corrections, thus to question the spirit from Me within themselves and let it take effect. But where He is active error is denounced, and therefore zealous representatives of truth must be sent to people .... those who are still completely uninfluenced if they are instructed by the spirit within themselves. They must give in to the feeling of the heart and accept everything as purest truth what the spirit proclaims to them from Me,

(7.6.1949) but which they can easily grasp if they are without spiritual knowledge, i.e. if they were not previously impressed by erroneous teachings, which they then must surrender if they are offered otherwise. The strong will for truth will indeed accomplish this, for the sincerely desiring person easily recognizes error and frees himself from it. I do not demand thoughtless acceptance of spiritual knowledge, and therefore I give understanding reasons and explanations from which every examiner can gather that what he is offered is not human thought but spiritual working. And thus if I speak through a servant devoted to Me to people who listen to him they will not go away empty-handed but will be able to receive instructions which will provide them with clarity in many doubts and questions, providing they desire the truth, thus they want to be taught. And they will always be able to say that they have been taught by God, for it is I Myself Who speaks through those people whom I have called to be My disciples, who allow My spirit to take effect in them and to whom I can therefore convey the pure truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Announcement of the Judgment .... Doubts .... The approach of a star ....

B.D. 4661 from June 7th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You have been informed of an approaching Judgment but you doubt this and do not take My Words seriously enough, or you would not make further earthly arrangements and only prepare yourselves for the day when My proclamations will come true. Although you do not know the day, it should suffice you that I, as your Creator and Father of eternity, have revealed it as shortly forthcoming, that I thus have informed you that it is time for you to prepare yourselves or I would not constantly repeat the admonitions and warning, but leave you without notice. And therefore you should pay heed that the deadline grows ever shorter and is expiring very quickly everywhere. All earthly worries are in vain for I will take care of My Own so that they will have what they need. The others, however, will not be able to hold on to anything, even if they associate with My adversary, even if they, at present and with his help, are prosperous in a worldly sense and continue to increase their possessions, be they earthly goods or honours or worldly wisdom. My adversary will not be able to protect them on the day of terror, since I want to bring people to their senses through the forces of nature, so that they will think of their God and Creator and entrust themselves to Him in dire adversity.

Then everything will fall prey to the forces of nature, nothing will be left for people except what I want them to keep. And therefore they should endeavour to gain My grace, they should unite with Me through deeds of love and heartfelt thoughts, they should speak to Me and listen for My answer, and they will reap a far greater reward than if they worry about their body's wellbeing, about earthly wealth and earthly progress. You should believe that soon will come to pass what I already predicted long ago; you should believe that there is not much time left and no longer worry how to gain earthly profits, for this worry is futile, as you will very soon realise.

I will give you, who spread My Word, a sign so that you will support it with full conviction. I want you to know that a star is approaching earth with great velocity, and that this appearance will happen shortly before I bring the constant proclamation to fruition. Then you, who are informed, will know that the hour is at hand. Then you should live only in accordance with My will, inform your fellow human beings of the forthcoming event, turn everyone's attention to it and closely unite yourselves with Me so that I can give you the strength you need during these perilous hours. Do not fear but only believe that I will deliver you from all hardship, so that you will be able to fulfil your mission for which I have prepared you .... so that afterwards you will bring My Gospel to your fellow human beings, for many of those who emerged unscathed will accept My Word with a hungry heart. You should realise that you do not have much time left until the end .... And preceding this end everything I constantly proclaim will come to pass. Believe it and prepare yourselves, for time is running out and I will appear very soon ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation ....'

B.D. 4662 from June 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You should be vigilant and pray, so that you will not fall when you are being tempted .... My adversary's onslaught against those of you who want to remain faithful to Me will be relentless in order to estrange you from Me. He uses all means and not least of all those which intend to disable you from establishing contact with Me, so that he will have an easy game as soon as you are weak. He lies in wait for opportunities to cause your downfall and only someone with a strong will, someone who is able to send a thought up to Me for help will not succumb to him. Call upon Me in every adversity of body and soul .... this is what I call pray and watch .... direct your thoughts upwards where he cannot follow you and you will safely escape from him and place yourselves under My protection. He will try to shackle you to earth with all his might, to that which is his share and which belongs to his realm .... he will want you to abscond from Me, from spiritual striving, he will cause you to doubt and want to confuse your thoughts through adversities and dreads, so that you won't find your way back to Me, so that you will engross yourselves in earthly things and forget about Me .... Watch and pray .... and detach yourselves from the one who is My adversary, and attach yourselves increasingly more to Me, Who is your eternal Father and Who can truly offer you more magnificent things than he can .... Watch and pray, for you are constantly surrounded by the tempter trying to catch you. A vigilant person will be able to recognise and escape from him .... And be joyful and happy in knowing that I Am your constant Protector Whom you can turn to when you are threatened by danger, for I hear the faintest call coming from your heart and will support you so that you will be victorious in your battle against him. But anyone who places too much trust in his own strength and believes that he can do without My help will succumb, for he is overestimating himself and failing to consider that the adversary's strength is greater than his. You will win with Me but succumb without Me and fall prey to every temptation. But to walk with Me means to allow My presence through prayer and kind-hearted activity .... Then you are protected against all incursions by the enemy, then he will be powerless against you, for then he would have to fight against Me and I Am far more powerful than he is. Watch and pray, then he will have lost his target, he will avoid you, because then you will be surrounded by light which emanates My presence and that is intolerable to him .... Call upon Me in every temptation and I will always be with you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Task of those who became knowledgeable at the source of wisdom ....

B.D. 4663 from June 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

I have initiated you into My eternal plan of salvation, you have received profound knowledge, you have taken note of the purpose of all My works of creation and of the human being's task during his earthly life, you have penetrated knowledge which you should pass on to your fellow human beings, thus you also recognize your own special task which, however, depends on your free will. Consequently, you are enlightened and of sound mind, which means that you can record progress in your spiritual development, which thus demonstrates a certain degree of maturity, and thus you no longer need to fear that you are on the wrong path, for the knowledge you possess proves to you that you have walked the right path, otherwise you could certainly also believe but would not find any coherence of spiritual knowledge and thus would never be able to instruct your fellow human beings. Right knowledge must also be able to be passed on, but the ignorant person cannot find his way around himself and thus would never be able to instruct his fellow human beings in an understandable way. If you now pass on My word, if you have the opportunity to speak to your fellow human beings about it, it will be recognizable where you have taken your wisdom from .... the water of life, which is My word, can only flow from the source which originates from Me as the eternal truth. This source contains all strength within itself, it is a spring which is never exhausted, from which all people can refresh themselves, and thus My word, which originates from Me, is also the true source of strength for all people, which enlightens the spirit and makes the human being knowledgeable. Knowledge is light .... You can now truly say that it has become full of light in you, that the connection of Me with everything created is explainable to you and that you have recognized My love and wisdom through the knowledge imparted to you, that you no longer stand empty and ignorant in life but the great mystery has been revealed before your eyes, that I am no longer the mysterious, unknown or alien God to you but the father Who is constantly concerned about you, Who guides you into all truth and wants to strengthen and refresh you for earthly life and Who therefore gives you His word, the source of wisdom and eternal fountain of love .... For it is not a piece of knowledge but comprehensive and clear and proving divine working, the most wise plan of salvation, of the spiritual substance which once fell away from Me, is revealed to people's eyes .... Love and omnipotence are recognizable, and anyone who is thus instructed by Me will also be wise and able to instruct his fellow human beings, for he only imparts to them the pure truth from Me .... My living word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Demonstrating the love of God through labouring charity ....

B.D. 4664 from June 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Only that is valid before My eyes which has love as its principle. You will ask yourselves in what way I want love for Me to be expressed, and I can only ever give you the answer: through active neighbourly love .... You should never harm your neighbour, you should never cause him suffering, you should never let him ask in vain if he needs your help, and you should never let him live in want of his soul, for this is a special work of neighbourly love that you come to the aid of your neighbour's soul while it is still languishing in darkness. What you do to your neighbour I regard as proven to Me and reward you accordingly .... I give you My love in return, and to be allowed to receive My love truly means everything as long as you live on earth. You will not always feel My love physically, it is something spiritual and can only be felt as blissful, you will only be aware of it at times, or else you will have constant evidence of My love and grace through the acceptance of My word, which I Myself dictate to you as a sign of My heartfelt fatherly love. Anyone who has this word of Mine can know himself loved by Me even if he does not know the feeling of bliss on earth .... Then I have My wise reason for this, for I truly know every person's life of feeling, I know how easy it is to lose the bond with earth and only want to dwell in spiritual regions .... This is not beneficial for the soul, and therefore I still keep the hearts imprisoned, I burden them with earthly worries and thereby prevent them from sensations which would cloud the soul's clear vision but which is absolutely necessary because I Myself want to take abode in the heart and be heard and this should happen in a state of sober thinking. I come to you Myself, I occupy the heart of the one who has prepared it for Me and now instruct him from within, without external influence and external teachers .... Thus I express My love through this .... What is more understandable than that I also demand love, which you should now demonstrate towards your neighbour? (11.6.1949) Therefore, what you should do in order to please Me, in order to also gain My love, can only be borne by love for your neighbour, for you can do nothing else for Me Myself but acknowledge what has emerged from My strength of love and thus, if you want to love and honour Me, also love what I have created. And since I created the human being in My image and therefore, even if he has become imperfect, he shall shape himself into My image again, he is also worthy of the love of his fellow human being. You are all My living creations and should love each other, then you will also give Me as the father the right pleasure, then I will also be able to embrace you all with My infinite love, for then you will already accept the being which can join Mine, which is pure love in itself. Understand that without love no-one can become blissfully happy, because love is divine and a God-like being belongs to beatitude. And therefore you should be good towards your neighbour, you should helpfully try to remedy every need, you should not offend him, not harm him but always consider him your dearest brother to whom the father's love belongs again. Every thought, every action, every word should only ever radiate love, then you will gain My pleasure, then I will accept this love for your neighbour as love for Myself and return this love to you with all sincerity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The world wants to see miracles and does not see the greatest miracle of all ....

B.D. 4665 from June 11th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It seems strange to you that I do not appear in great glory, that I do not make My presence known through eye-catching unusual appearances, but simply and without splendour merely express Myself through My Word where I Am able to be present. The world wants to see miracles but My Own see miracles everywhere and therefore will also recognise Me in plain clothing. They feel My spirit which gives evidence of itself that it is not a deceptive light, but it spreads a soft yet bright light that radiates from the heart, where I Myself can dwell. The world wants to see miracles and fails to see the greatest miracle of all ....

For is it not a miracle that you may hear the voice of God, that I Myself can speak to you like a Father speaks to his children? Is it not a miracle that I personally answer questions which arise in a thinking person and which he is nevertheless unable to answer himself? Is it not a miracle that you yourselves have the teacher within you Who educates you in purest truth and grants you wisdom? You, who look for God in the distance, will never be able to grasp this miracle and therefore you will be unable to believe, for you do not allow My working within yourselves and thus I cannot make Myself known to you either. Yet My Own, who have established a relationship with Me through their thoughts, who always feel Me close to them, are impressed by the miracle, even though the miracle keeps itself hidden from them, that is, they cannot comprehend the full extent of their experience. For they should remain open-minded in their relationship with Me, so that they speak and commend themselves to Me as a friend and brother without any sense of excessive awe. And therefore I Am closer to them than to those who want to behold Me intellectually and yet will never be able to find Me.

But I will also appear to some in an obvious manner, and they will then be able to bear witness of Me and portray Me as truly existing, and through their faith they will also help to strengthen the faith of those who are still weak but not without faith. My Word will speak for itself and give evidence of Me to the world. The substance of the Word conveyed from above to earth is a far more obvious miracle than any extraordinary process which people would like to experience as 'proof of God'. My servants on earth who remain simple and receive My Word without trance, who equally simply pass it on again as they have received it from Me, are not affected by inner excitement, yet their souls experience the merciful, unusual event and will be enlightened, even if the human being as such is unaware of it. I know why My servants must have this apparent insensitivity and thus it is also My doing, not in order to disadvantage but to benefit the soul. And therefore do not allow such thoughts to reduce the value of the messages but know that I Am present with you Myself when you hear My voice, and that this presence of Mine is truly the greatest of miracles which, however, only few people believe or experience consciously. For the world wants to behold and be in awe but not quietly listen and be grateful for every genuine secret revelation which the conveyance of My Word from above signifies to people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God as teacher .... truth bearer ....

B.D. 4666 from June 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Anyone who undergoes My instruction will increase his knowledge and be a suitable labourer for Me in the last days before the end. For the knowledge he receives from Me will take root in him and never ever disappear from his memory. My way of teaching is adapted to his later activity, and the frequent repetitions are therefore necessary so that the knowledge becomes so firmly anchored in him that he can never lose it. And it will become apparent in debates of a spiritual nature that My disciples are fully instructed and can represent My teaching completely and convincingly. If I Myself am their teacher, knowledge and full realization are guaranteed. This is why you humans can adhere to what is offered to you by such a disciple without hesitation as long as you are of good will and believe that I reveal Myself to those who love Me and keep My commandments. Then it will also be easy for you to believe that I want to convey the gospel purely to humanity again and again and that I choose as mediators precisely those who are receptive and willing, who are able to hear Me Myself and to whom I can therefore convey the purest truth. But anyone who is taught by Me listens, and you hear My word in its purest form. Admittedly, I can only communicate Myself directly to a few, and only a few believe that I communicate Myself directly to a human being .... Yet it is the time of the end when true faith in Me is only rarely to be found. As soon as humanity is distant from Me due to a lack of love, it also does not believe in such an obvious working of My spirit and thus of Me Myself, and therefore it distances itself more and more from the pure truth and can no longer recognize it as such if it is offered to it. For this reason, however, I constantly advertise for servants on earth who are willing to accept My word and spread it, so that truth will take hold again amongst humanity, so that the darkness will be penetrated by light, for humanity languishes in the darkness of spirit and is heading towards ruin. I recruit servants on earth and bless everyone who allows himself to be taught by Me, whom I can train as bearers of truth and who is now eagerly active for Me and My kingdom, for there is not much time left and salvation shall still be brought to the few who are not against Me in spiritual adversity through the supply of pure truth, so that they will find the path to Me and enter it, so that they will still become Mine before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Value of spiritual thoughts ....

B.D. 4667 from June 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Every spiritual thought is beneficial for the soul, whereas earthly thoughts only benefit the body, but only if this is the intention, since earthly thoughts can also have a negative effect, that is, they are detrimental for body and soul. However, people are usually only concerned with earthly thoughts and completely exclude spiritual thoughts, then they can neither attain realization nor be guided into right thinking, and their earthly life is idle, for it does not fulfil the purpose .... it does not promote the soul's ascent development. Anyone who reflects on the meaning and purpose of earthly life and then lives his life according to the knowledge he has gained about the soul's continuation of life already mentally enters spiritual spheres and constantly draws from the gift of life for his soul. He will also certainly come to the right realization, he will have to stand in living faith and believe that he will not cease to be with his bodily death, for otherwise he will find no explanation for his life in the flesh, and he will seek the explanation in continued life, thus he will feel called to new activity in the spiritual kingdom and live accordingly. The belief in life after death can be gained by everyone through reflection and contemplation of the works of creation, which do not pass away but only change in order to continue in a new form. This belief cannot be proven, but the firm conviction can take root within oneself that the human being is only temporarily on this earth in order to then enter the spiritual kingdom to fulfil the duty towards God, which is a different destiny than on this earth, which only signifies a transitional station for the spiritual, which should now create and work in all freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Eternally cycle ....

B.D. 4668 from June 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

It remains an eternal cycle from the abyss to the ascent and vice versa as long as the spiritual being's upward development continues, yet with the excretion of that which has completed its development on earth as a being of light, that is, which has reached the state of perfection again in which it was in the beginning. But as long as this development is not yet completed it can ascend as well as descend, yet always with the aim of becoming a being which has finished the cycle and now constantly dwells in the height. Then there is only an ascent, a constant approach to God, then a relapse to the abyss is excluded, however a voluntary descent is possible as a helper for the unredeemed spiritual, which is apparently also a decline but can never lead to the abyss, thus it can only be a work of redemption, which only a true child of God can achieve, thus it is no longer to be regarded as the course of development of an imperfect being but as the help of a being of light. Therefore, as long as earthly creations exist everything is in the cycle of becoming and passing away, of dissolving and re-emerging, and the still immature spiritual being step by step reaches the height .... to the stage as a human being, where it can thus rise to the final height or also fall abysmally in order to begin the cycle again. But by no means does the being have to sink as a human being .... just as it will not necessarily rise either. Therefore a stage of solidification can also occur, thus a persistence on always the same level of development, which, however, can only be in the beyond, thus outside of earthly creations, certainly beginning with the stage as a human being where it is granted freedom, since it is no longer in a state of compulsion, which always signifies an ascent development from God. The human being himself determines whether he continues the cycle, whether he steps out of it or remains on the same level for a long time, thus often delaying the final decision for eternities and then not interrupting the cycle but continuing it with all probability, because he is more likely to sink than to rise .... The short earthly life as a human being is sufficient to complete the upward development with a degree of light which only allows a constant ascent. But if it is not utilized properly, so that this degree of light is not reached, then the spiritual must continue to move in divine order in bound will, regardless of whether in earthly creations or in the kingdom of the beyond .... it is not free and thus continues the cycle until the aim is once reached .... The state of bound will always ensures an upward development, the state of free will, however, can endanger it and thus also result in a backward development, but the time always comes for the deeply fallen to move upwards again until it has once ended the eternal cycle ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the pure truth .... God's love, omnipotence and wisdom ....

B.D. 4669 from June 14th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Unhesitatingly devote yourselves to the forces which impart announcements to you whose content corresponds to My commandments of love, and don't doubt the truth of what is offered to you from above. For I Myself am behind this extraordinary work through which great knowledge is imparted to you. It is My will that the truth is offered to you because you desire it yourselves; furthermore, it is My will that you also pass it on to your fellow human beings, which is why I enable you to have a teaching effect. Yet know that again and again you will have to expect onslaughts regarding the authenticity of the proclamations as a divine mission and that you will be unable to provide any other evidence than that a God of love gives His spirit to those who ask Him for it. And believe firmly and unshakably that I am a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence and therefore will give everything to My living creations which I recognize as good for their souls because I love them and want to make them happy. But pure truth is always the most necessary for the soul, and since I alone can only distribute truth I will not withhold it from those who approach Me for it in childlike trust, thus never ever let children who trust Me fall prey to error without preventing it. Believe in My love which wants to give you everything that is good, and believe in My omnipotence which can give you everything I want, and believe in My wisdom which truly knows the right way and the right means to guide you, My living creations, into the right knowledge which shall help you to become perfect. But what I give to you will also make your fellow human beings happy who, like you, are unable to hear Me yourselves. Therefore share it with them, pass on the delicious knowledge you receive from Me and don't let yourselves be disturbed by the objections of those who doubt or try to fight your spiritual knowledge, for you receive it directly from Me, whereas your opponents represent something which was conveyed to them from outside through teachings or thought products by people who did not let My spirit work in them, otherwise it would be the same mental knowledge you receive from Me. As soon as you believe in a God of love and omnipotence you can leave yourselves to Him without hesitation, He will guide you correctly, He will give you what you need for the salvation of your soul, and He, as the truth Himself, will only convey the pure truth to you and make sure that it is spread. Just always remember that I love you, My children on earth, and want to make you blissfully happy, and then you will never doubt that it is I Myself Who teaches you, and your faith will become stronger, just as you will also penetrate the truth ever deeper and thereby become able to work for Me and My kingdom by also conveying My word to your fellow human beings as purely as you receive it from Me .... you will be able to fulfil your mission for which I have called you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The reason for God’s remarkable action ....

B.D. 4670 from June 15th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

_(12th anniversary of receiving the Word) 15.06.1949 The spiritual poverty of the world is immense and has once again reached the same low level as it was at the time of Christ's coming because people are no longer able to hear My voice. They can no longer hear Me nor do they want to hear Me and therefore live their earthly lives without purpose and aim, although they are pursuing earthly goals and are very busy indeed. Yet they cannot find contact with Me anymore and keep themselves apart from the One Who should be their only goal. They no longer acknowledge Me because they no longer know anything about Me, and thus feel no love for Me either which would otherwise elevate them from their low spiritual state. It is a desperate situation because their ignorance results in an agonising state in eternity, which they could escape if they would utilize their final earthly life appropriately. I know what dreadful fate awaits the souls, I see the people in their blindness head towards the abyss, I call to them with Words of caution and alarm, I send guides along their way to return them to the right path towards Me. Yet people's will persistently aims towards the abyss, they do not accept advice, they resist and withdraw from My support .... they revolt against Me Whom they should love with all their heart, to Whom they should rush like children to their father.

They follow the attractions of the world, they purely live an earthly life, and thus I cannot come closer to them and they cannot hear My Word by which I want to win them for eternity .... And yet I will not let them fall, and if they do not want to hear Me Myself I will try to approach them in other ways .... I will send messengers to them whom they do not openly reject, and through these messengers I will speak to them Words of love and of concern for their souls. I would like to come to My children but they do not accept Me .... And thus I choose a cover, I hide behind those who support Me but who also associate with people who are still distant from Me. And thus I contact and reveal Myself to them as well, even though they do not recognise Me and only hear My messengers voice. Can you now understand why I appear in remarkable ways by transmitting My Word to earth, by speaking through My devoted servants? Can you now understand the extensive hardship which I would like to remedy and therefore use every means in order to establish contact with worldly people?

There is not much time left and urgent help is necessary if I don't want My living creations to go astray, if I want to save them from repeating their path through the creations. You cannot imagine the implications of this harsh spiritual poverty but I take pity on people who could still have many opportunities to accomplish the purpose of their earthly life and who do not think of what will become of them after their death. I have compassion for them and yet I cannot help them in any other way but by means of My Word. I can only advise them and inform them of their deficiency but I cannot force them to live in accordance with My will. Nevertheless I can tell people that I will indeed use every means to help them and that I therefore will embody Myself within the spirit of those who want to help Me save the people. And thus you should believe those whom I send to you as My messengers, you should believe that the spiritual poverty is enormous, that I nevertheless take care of each one individually who will not resist Me .... that I Myself will approach him and that he can recognise Me, if only it is his will. Let Me help you and don't reject Me, turn around, retreat from the abyss .... there is still time but I only give you a short time until the end .... Be warned and follow My servants sent by Me, and recognise in this your Father's great love Who wants to encourage all of you to return to the Father's house in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Incomprehensible value of the word of God .... supply greatest gift of grace ....

B.D. 4671 from June 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Nothing can prove My love to you more vividly than My word, nothing can lead you more safely to the aim than My word, nothing gives you as much insight into My reign and activity as My word. And therefore My word should be desired with all senses, it should be requested as the most precious gift and accepted with heartfelt gratitude, for nothing else can replace it .... It is the emanation of Myself and consequently must also be of greatest effectiveness. And yet, it is not recognized and used according to its value, and the human being remains distant from the aim he should strive to achieve. For truly, I say to you that you must do the will of the one Who created you, you must not close yourselves off or turn away from Me, and if you want to do My will you must listen to Me. As My children you must listen to what the father says to you, for only love determines Me to reveal Myself, and you must not reject My love or you will remain powerless and ignorant, thus remaining in spiritual darkness. But if you listen to Me you will enter a state of light from which you will never be able to sink back into darkness. You can only constantly increase the degree of light because, if you listen to My word, you will come into contact with the source of light. (18.6.1949) You will now be constantly fed with light and strength, for if you listen to Me, thus receive My word, you receive Me Myself, Who is the word from eternity. You do not yet understand this and are therefore not aware of the great grace which the transmission of My word signifies for you .... that I Myself make contact with you in a certain visible form, that you have evidence of a body of thought in your hands which contains comprehensive knowledge, that you can therefore provide evidence of having been instructed from above. This applies to My directly received word where I obviously reveal Myself. But even if you receive My word in another way it will radiate its strength to you who receive it in your desire to hear Me. Through your heart's desire My spirit will pour over you, your thinking will be right, your knowledge will correspond to truth and everything imparted to you through My word will be understanding. You always make contact with the source of light and strength if you request light and strength, and the supply always happens through My word, regardless of whether it is received directly, through reading or through hearing My messengers. I Myself am present to you in the word, and this alone guarantees that you will not go away empty-handed. In the word I Myself descend to you and, as father, bring My children the bread of life which they need as nourishment for their souls .... The word means everything .... food and drink, light and strength, love and wisdom .... and whoever has My word can no longer perish eternally, it is My flesh and My blood, bread and wine from heaven, it is the outflow of My love, for the word is I Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul matures through suffering .... God’s care .... World and God ....

B.D. 4672 from June 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Whatever serves to benefit your soul has been foreseen since eternity. Therefore you can regard every difficult and upsetting, joyful and edifying experience, which only aims to achieve your psychological maturity, as having been imposed on you by Me. And if you consider the course of your life from this point of view then nothing should bother, burden or frighten you .... for all is for the best .... Every experience enables you to mature, you can derive benefit for your souls as long as you always recognise Me as the One Who allows it to happen, and remain in contact with Me by constantly glancing towards your Father above, Who wants to shape you into His children on this earth.

Fear and worry are unnecessary if you hand them over to Me and ask for My help. You are never alone if you allow My presence next to you, if you do not want be alone and never exclude Me from your life, if you leave your thoughts, needs and actions entirely to Me, if you let Me take care of them, so that I will guide you and you are merely the executor of My will. You could travel your earthly path carefree and without worry if only you would always walk with Me .... Yet the world frequently stands between you and Me and separates us, the world is close to your eyes, and you neglect Me even though you want to belong to Me. The world is still too important to you, you do not realise its triviality because you are still involved with the world. However, as soon as you are able to value Me above the world, as soon as you are able to put Me first, the world will no longer burden you, it will not disturb you, you will be able to cope easily and be master of everything that approaches you on a worldly level.

Make the attempt, let Me take care of you and entrust yourselves to My protection and care with complete faith. First fulfil your duty towards Me by living in accordance with My Word and working for Me and My kingdom. Then you should also inform other people of My will by always reminding them of their true destiny, by motivating them to improve their souls and by passing on My Word, which you have received from Me and which will enlighten them where they are still in the dark. Draw your fellow human beings' attention to the fact that I Am in charge of all people's destiny, that nothing happens to people without meaning and purpose, that higher development is the purpose of every experience, and that everything is bearable if I Am approached for help, acknowledged as Controller and Creator of eternity and prayed to for My Fatherly care. Caution them not to forget Me for the sake of the world, then every individual person's earthly path of life will be easy and safe and his soul will derive benefit from every experience. For I only want your soul to mature when you have to go through suffering, but you can make it bearable for yourselves if you take heed of My Word and always allow Me to walk with you. For I Am your Father and only want the best for My children ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Consistency of the pure word of God .... change man's work ....

B.D. 4673 from June 19th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

What is from Me will last for eternity, what is of human origin is impermanent, i.e. it changes in a shorter or longer time. And thus My word will remain in existence for eternity, thus My pure word will always be conveyed to people in the same form, yet human will can change it, and this changed word will be reshaped again from time to time because it is not the pure teaching from Me. But you humans will only be able to judge whether what you are commanded is truth if you are enlightened by My spirit, if you make yourselves worthy and capable of being taught by My spirit by living according to My will, thus allowing its working in you. Then it will be possible for you to distinguish truth from error if you use My word, through which I Myself speak to people on earth, as a standard and then compare it with the serious will to recognize the truth. Then you will also understand the meaning of My words and also clearly recognize what is human additional work and it will not be difficult for you to differentiate. Then consider what you feel to be right .... and it will be right, for I Myself guide your thoughts and draw your attention through doubt by speaking to you through the voice of the spirit which expresses itself in the individual's life of feeling. I place doubt into your heart as soon as you carry the serious desire for truth within yourselves, because I want My only true word to be recognized as divine and therefore also want people to learn to distinguish My word from the human word, which they can do with My support, and I will indicate to you the characteristics where My activity begins and My adversary's activity ends .... (20.6.1949) What is from Me can easily be recognized by the love which speaks from every word. This must always be taken into account, after all, only My commandments are given which are based on love for Me and for the neighbour. Therefore it can easily be checked whether what is demanded of people is harmful to their fellow human beings if it is not fulfilled .... Human beings added other commandments to My commandment of love and through these also contaminated My pure teaching, because human statutes thus made My commandments pale and were sometimes more respected than those. In order to justify these humanly issued commandments another meaning was attached to My words and thus the pure word of God was changed, which resulted in a deviation from the pure truth and changed continuously. The explanations of what I spoke as a human being on earth now had to conform to the teachings or human statutes if My word was not to be completely eliminated. And thus error came upon humanity which was only recognized by those who allowed My spirit to take effect in them. But error cannot exist forever, again and again truth is conveyed from above to earth, and again and again action has to be taken against error, yet whether it is successful is up to the human being's will, who can profess both truth and error. Yet only that which comes directly from Me and remains unchanged can be recognized as My word .... Every change is man's work and will also not remain in existence, but My word will remain in existence for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love epitome of divinity .... reverse love ....

B.D. 4674 from June 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The most sublime feeling is and remains love .... But not everything that you humans understand by love is to be recognized as love .... For love can also be a perverse one which cannot claim to be sublime. Love is the divine principle, thus it is actually the epitome of divinity, it is something that cannot be defined, it is the essence and characteristic of God, it is the great power which is inexplicable to human beings and which caused everything to come into being because it has a creative and enlivening effect. It is therefore the original being of God, it is something radiating from God, which is found in all His creations and should come to full development in the human being. Right love draws upwards, it seeks union with eternal love, the original source of life and all strength. Again, it is only possible to grasp this in people in whom true love has come to fruition, otherwise this remains an incomprehensible concept because people can certainly feel the feeling of love in their heart but usually give any desire the name 'love', which, however, is only a wrongly directed love, a desire for union with things which appear desirable to the human being. But such a wrongly directed love is not strength-giving, whereas right love is strength in itself at the same time, which again can only be made understandable to a loving person. For only a loving person can recognize this strength because he not only lives an earthly life but also a spiritual life, thus he seeks contact with the kingdom where right love is emanated and the strength of love has a more spiritual effect insofar as it is used for loving activity, thus it certainly stimulates earthly activity but never seeks to achieve earthly success with it but unconsciously strives for spiritual ascent. The strength of love can achieve everything .... Anyone who brings love to its highest development is able to work miracles because he is filled with divine strength for which nothing is impossible. The fact that people cannot prove this to themselves is due to their limited willingness to love. They could provide this proof at any time, yet the most sublime feeling, pure divine love, which is completely selfless and only seeks to please, this love is alien to people, and thus the union with eternal love, which results in the supply of divine strength in abundance, is only rarely established. For it is understandable that everything which conforms to God's original nature, which is love in itself, can also develop divine abilities, because the human being is a part of God which only has an anti-divine relationship with Him through its own will. If it changes its will .... thus it shapes itself into love, which it previously lacked, then it takes on all divine characteristics again which it originally possessed and lost through its own fault. As soon as God's thinking creature, the human being, realizes what it actually is, as soon as it recognizes its belonging to God and tries to make itself worthy of it, it approaches the original source of strength again, for eternal love recognizes its will and draws it towards itself. But then the human being is also active in love, for the supply of strength expresses itself in activity in love, because God and love are one and, where God is present, it cannot be active in any other way than in love. This means as much as approaching God and receiving strength in all fullness. Love is the most sublime feeling which can move a person, for it is divine emanation into the heart of a person who is of good will .... Love which turns to earthly things, which are therefore still to be regarded as matter, is not strength-giving but strength-sapping, and since the human being has no spiritual supply of strength he uses the strength of life to gain what his wrongly directed love desires. Thus he gains nothing but loses, because what he gains is transient and he forfeits imperishable values which he should create for himself with his vitality. Right love makes the human being happy,

(22.6.1949) right love is not a demanding but a giving love, it distributes without wanting to receive and yet constantly receives the more it distributes. For right love is a united working with God and therefore must also be capable of everything, thus it will always be victorious, i.e. stronger than any other strength or power, it will conquer evil, it will appease anger, it will achieve everything because it is patient and long-suffering, and thus even God's adversary will not be able to resist the strength of divine love and one day declare himself defeated, because he, too, will long for God's love and surrender to it without resistance, just as all spiritual beings sense God's love and allow themselves to be redeemed by it by no longer resisting it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'That day and hour knoweth no man ....' False prophets of the last days ....

B.D. 4675 from June 24th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

No seer and prophet will ever be able to predict the time of an impending judgment, for this is not permitted by God due to being detrimental for people. For this reason no person will ever be able to predict the day when a judgment comes upon people. Nevertheless, their attention shall be drawn to it, and so God proclaims through a human mouth, through seers and prophets, as soon as a judgment is approaching. The announcement of a judgment on its own should therefore be believed, but if a definite time of the judgment is given, the prophecy can rightfully be dismissed as wrong .... In that case false prophets will have appeared which need not be listened to, for such announcements are generally made for the sake of earthly advantages and then you must be cautious. However, if God avails Himself of a person in order to inform humanity of His eternal plan of Salvation, He will not merely inform him of His intention, of the forthcoming judgment, but He will also provide him with the general knowledge which makes the necessity of a judgment comprehensible to God's servant, so that he can convincingly substantiate these prophesies to his fellow human beings. But regardless of how determinedly he will stand up for the truth of the proclamations, he will never be able to state a precise date, because God reserves this right for Himself. Nevertheless, each such proclamation can be accepted as absolute truth, and time and again the Book of the Fathers will confirm that the announcements completely correspond to it, consequently, the fulfilment of these announcements can be expected with certainty and the forthcoming judgment taken as established fact, even so, humanity shall remain uncertain as to when God will manifest Himself; however it shall always be prepared, otherwise the announcements conveyed to people by God's love would defeat the purpose and the judgment would befall humanity suddenly and unexpectedly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sphere of activity for workers in the vineyard of the lord ....

B.D. 4676 from June 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The sphere of activity of a person who wants to put all his strength into My service is vast, for I will hand over a field of work of greatest extent to him. Extremely fit workers are needed whose activity extends to everything that promotes spiritual development. And thus every worker for Me and My kingdom will also have the opportunity to proclaim My word everywhere, he will be guided by Me such that My water of life will seep everywhere where it can have a fruitful effect. He is in My service, and thus he receives assignments from Me which he will also always be willing to carry out, and I place these assignments into his heart, i.e., he will always act as he feels urged from within. Thus he will carry My word to where it is needed, he will fertilize the field of life, he will work on his fellow human beings' hearts in order to scatter good seed which will bear fruit when the time of harvest has come. Spiritual development has to be promoted, therefore I have assigned spiritual guides to you humans who bring you the gospel in My name, who proclaim My word to you, which is the source for your hearts, for your field of life, from which the living water flows, without which it cannot bear fruit. And it will require much work, for human hearts are often like stony ground which first has to be cultivated in order to receive the seed. Still others have received bad seed and must first be cleansed of weeds. They have certainly received spiritual good, but not according to the full truth and must be instructed so that they give up the wrong and exchange right knowledge for it. This, too, is a work which servants devoted to Me must carry out .... fight against misguided teachings in order to set pure truth against them. This is the task I set for those who are devoted to Me and want to work according to My will, whom I therefore train as true teachers who have an office to administer. It requires great love for fellow human beings and profound faith but also results in richest blessings, because it brings salvation to many souls which, in their ignorance, step into the light, guided by My servants, whom I Myself send to you humans. Their mission is important and therefore also blessed by Me, for they work in My name, they work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose and aim of the earth walk .... instructions and help of God ....

B.D. 4677 from June 26th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The purpose and meaning of earthly life is the upward development of the human being's soul, which begins earthly life as a human being in a state which is not God-like and is meant to develop into a God-like being. This upward development can only take place when the human being moves in divine order, i.e. fulfils God's will. God's will, however, is that the human being discards all his faults and instincts which he possessed at the beginning, that he shapes himself into love in order to become similar to God, Who is eternal love Himself .... If the human being lives in divine order then the state of ignorance will also disappear, the human being's knowledge will increase, his knowledge will correspond to truth, his thinking will always be right, his will will turn towards good, and every activity will be based on love for God and his neighbour .... the human being's soul will become perfect, as is its destiny, and finally be able to discard the earthly shell in order to enter the spiritual kingdom light-heartedly as a being of light which can work in all strength and wisdom for its own happiness .... This is the purpose and aim of the earthly walk. In order to reach the aim, that is, to do what is necessary to become perfect, the human being must be instructed, which can happen in many ways: He can receive instructions from outside which first stimulate him to think, whereupon the instructions can be continued from within, i.e., the activity of thought is constantly stimulated by spiritual beings which stand in knowledge and the human being can, so to speak, hold dialogue with those beings which now instruct him truthfully, even if mentally .... thus the human being will always think and want correctly as soon as he is serious about truth. And thus he will now be informed of what the human being is, of his relationship to the eternal creator, of how he should change this relationship and what his fate in eternity should and can be. The responsibility for his soul has to be presented to him so that he now leads an appropriate way of life. Instruction offered to him from within, if the human being is of good will himself, that is, if he thinks in a God-oriented way, will always correspond to the truth. However, since people who are distant from God also want to teach, thus they want to transfer their wrong thoughts .... which must be wrong because they are not turned towards God .... to their fellow human beings, it is understandable that people will be offered many misguided teachings which contradict each other, and there will then always be a battle on earth between error and truth. And therefore God now comes to the aid of people who demand Him .... He imparts His word to them as guarantor of truth .... He teaches people directly by revealing Himself through the inner voice to the person who desires to hear Him. Thus He trains teachers who pass on His word, the truth He received from Himself, to their fellow human beings. And through His word He makes His will known to people, He instructs them what to do and what not to do, He gives them the commandment of love and introduces them to knowledge which is extremely valuable for the soul's development. He clarifies error, warns and admonishes and thus constantly helps His children to perfection on this earth like a loving father. However, His word, which is directly conveyed to earth, is and always remains the same as He Himself preached to people at the time of His life on earth, for His word never changes for ever .... If it undergoes a change due to human will then He will always convey it to earth again in all purity, and thus His word will remain in existence for all eternity. But the word changed by people will constantly give rise to divisions because it changes again and again as soon as it has once deviated from the only truth. God will always ensure that perfection is possible for the human being in the short time on earth, even though He leaves him free will to make use of every possibility. Yet error and lies make perfection on earth impossible, which is why the pure truth has to be conveyed to people, and everyone who seriously desires the truth will be brought close to it. Therefore the human being only needs to want to experience what is right and true and God will supply it to him. Depending on his maturity and ability to recognize, he will be instructed directly or indirectly, as God in His wisdom recognizes to be effective for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Endlessly long course of the soul before embodiment as a human being ....

B.D. 4678 from June 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Keep the soul's infinitely long course through all creations in mind so that you become aware of the responsibility you now bear towards the soul as a human being. In the stage as a human being you are deprived of recollection, thus you only have to believe what is conveyed to you through announcements from the spiritual kingdom. But you are taught by knowing beings who give you nothing but truth, and thus you can never say that you remained completely ignorant of the soul's life before its embodiment as a human being. It is constantly pointed out to you, and you constantly have the opportunity to increase your knowledge about it, and thus, if you seriously imagine what lies behind you, you must come to your soul's aid so that it can complete its course of development on earth. The many stages before in the bound will have been overcome by it, and the path constantly led upwards. But now as a human being there is the danger of sinking again, and you have to avert this danger from your soul by being attentive and now consciously striving upwards. The knowledge of the earthly life before the embodiment as a human being will certainly increase the sense of responsibility, but the human being cannot even begin to imagine the agonies a new embodiment means for the soul, for the spiritual. For this reason I provide people with the knowledge of the whole of creation and its actual purpose, and I also instruct them about the fate of those who fail in earthly life and are now faced with their final decision, who create or determine their fate in the beyond themselves through their will. As soon as they believe, these instructions will not remain without impression, and the human being will make an effort to live in accordance with My will .... then he will avert the greatest danger from the soul, and it will eternally thank him for it. But anyone who does not believe pays no attention to these words either; for him there is no kingdom in the beyond, for him there is neither eternal life nor spiritual death, for him there are no preliminary stages, just as there is no survival of the soul after its death. And it is these who consciously go to their ruin, who will certainly have to cover the path through the whole of creation once again, for neither the agonizing state in solid matter nor the infinitely long time the spiritual has to remain in every creation until the final redemption from form is imaginable to them. They will have to feel in themselves what they are warned of through My love again and again. They don't believe and therefore have to experience it if all admonitions and warnings remain unsuccessful and they don't listen to My word, which cannot sufficiently describe to them the great adversity which awaits them after their death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Deep faith in truth of divine word .... "Ask and it will be given to you ...."

B.D. 4679 from June 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

To possess profound faith in the truth of My word is the surest means of help in all adversity. For then you will be able to remember every word of Mine and be full of confidence in My support, then you will draw comfort and strength from every word and nothing will shake and depress you anymore, nothing will seem so difficult to you because I have given you the assurance that I will arrange everything for you and always take care of you. Faith in My word is the greatest wealth you possess, for with it you can achieve everything, cope with everything and resist every enemy attack, for it is at the same time strength-giving and will chase away all weakness. But again, such profound faith is also a special grace which is granted to all of you but is used by very few. If you ask for this grace then you will also be able to believe, for then you will also want to believe, and I bless this will and help you to gain strength of faith. And if you then accept My word into your heart it will seem like a convincing, comforting speech which touches you beneficially, and you will not feel any doubt but only listen to Me attentively and feel comforted and strengthened by My word .... But then you will also be able to believe, for as soon as you believe to hear Me Myself My word is also sacred to you, you will not doubt it, and you will have gained infinitely much if you carry this faith within yourselves. For My word is the only truth, and if I promise you something, if I give you the assurance that I will help you, every adversity is already taken from you as soon as you believe that I am love and truth Myself and that My omnipotence is truly sufficient to grant you everything you ask for. But I Myself have given you the promise: "Ask and it shall be given you; knock and it shall be opened to you ...." So is there anything you cannot achieve if you turn to Me in believing prayer? You who have My word, you only need to believe in this word of Mine, and you will lack nothing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers