New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 4914 - 5021

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

4914 - God speaks.... God Himself is the word....

4915 - Unifying spirit - soul and body.... struggle against matter....

4916 - Defence of the divine word sign of the end....

4917 - Redemption through Christ is an act of free will....

4918 - Recognizing God's sign of change of will.... exceeding authority....

4919 - Humility - Arrogance.... Danger....

4920 - "I will put the words in your mouth...."

4921 - Unwarranted doubts.... truthfulness - servant of God....

4922 - "Worlds will pass away, but My word endures...."

4923 - Blessed end after great need....

4924 - Inability to recognize the announcements.... work for God....

4925 - Spiritual or letter sense.... communion....

4926 - Key to wisdom is love....

4927 - Feebleminded people.... obsession....

4928 - Extraordinary events are signs of the approaching end....

4929 - God's love.... revelations.... mediator....

4930 - Love for God - love for neighbour.... worker in the vineyard....

4931 - God’s word undeserved grace....

4932 - God's will: Fulfilment of the commandments of love....

4933 - Earth life purpose transformation of the being to love....

4934 - Passing the test of will in earthly life....

4935 - Divine power - living faith - miracle work....

4936 - Strength of faith of a living but wrong belief....

4937 - Limits of knowledge.... crossing them....

4938 - Power transmission through the word of God....

4939 - "In the name of Jesus Christ...." teachings....

4940 - Prediction of the natural disaster.... Dead stretches of land....

4941 - Increasing darkness before the end....

4942 - 'Thou art Peter, the rock, and upon this rock I will build My church....'

4943 - Divine revelations oblige.... near end....

4944 - The power of the word.... ineffectiveness....

4945 - Source of life.... holy communion.... flesh and blood....

4946 - Willful decision in earthly life....

4947 - Antichrist.... The faith is in danger....

4948 - God speaks to the people.... power of the divine word....

4949 - Effectiveness of grace dependent on the will of man....

4950 - Earthly life purpose: serving in love in free will....

4951 - Answering prayer in spirit and in truth....

4952 - Unlimited grant of grace.... effectiveness....

4953 - Grace....

4954 - Knowing God only through truth....

4955 - Small flock at the end.... gap widens.... God's help....

4956 - Rejecting the gift of God's grace.... darkness....

4957 - Love for the world - disease.... No-one can serve two masters....

4958 - Own will activity.... blind leaders and their followers....

4959 - Suffering proves God's love.... Fire of purification....

4960 - Love and faith....

4961 - Love for God and one's neighbour....

4962 - Taking advantage of the time of grace before the end....

4963 - Words of love.... Words of wisdom.... Teaching ministry.... Criticism on publishing....

4964 - Knowledge of the eternal plan of salvation.... difference of "word recipients...."

4965 - Destructive will of God's adversary.... Bound spirits - Human being....

4966 - The power of faith is grace, but it only becomes effective through the will....

4967 - God speaks as father to His children.... proof of love....

4968 - Test the spirits.... Satan's great power before the end.... Doubts....

4969 - Light - Shadow of death.... Deceptive light - God's help by means of sickness and suffering....

4970 - Embodied beings of light.... Lack of past memory.... Forerunner....

4971 - Examining deviating spiritual information.... (Spiritualism?)

4972 - Different schools of thought.... love guarantees truth....

4973 - Blessings of divine revelations.... "I am the way, the truth and the life...."

4974 - God's will - wisdom.... wrong will of man....

4975 - Working in the Lord's vineyard: spreading the word.... lightbearers....

4976 - Power of love.... power of faith....

4977 - False Christs and false prophets....

4978 - Ten Commandments.... First and second commandment....

4979 - Third, fourth, fifth and sixth commandment....

4980 - Dogma: Mary’s ascension....

4981 - Encouragement to believe in My task....

4982 - Seventh and eighth commandment....

4983 - Ninth and tenth commandment....

4984 - Accountability on the Day of Judgment.... Redeemer Jesus Christ....

4985 - 'Deliver us from evil....'

4986 - Love.... Pleasure of giving.... Reciprocated love.... Belief in Christ's act of Salvation....

4987 - Spiritual work.... God's blessing.... care of the father of the house for His servants....

4988 - Patience with fellow human beings who do not strive spiritually....

4989 - Working together in the kingdom beyond.... help the unknowings....

4990 - Love – power reception.... love has grown cold.... serious reminder....

4991 - Violation of eternal order.... fulfilment of predictions - last judgement....

4992 - Truth must proceed directly from the original source of truth.... "I am the way, the truth and the life....“

4993 - Spiritual coercion.... Dogma....

4994 - The Father's concern for His children....

4995 - The Father's concern for His children.... Childship to God....

4996 - Wrestling of evil powers for souls more violent before the end....

4997 - Death is conquered.... power of satan broken by death on the cross....

4998 - Forces within the earth.... eruption.... explanation....

4999 - Right preacher must be driven by the spirit of God....

5000 - It concerns eternal life....

5001 - God speaks again and again....

5002 - Light beings embodied as human beings .... Disciples of the last days ....

5003 - Battle between light and darkness....

5004 - A rock will be made to waver.... (Spiritual upheaval)....

5005 - Work in the vineyard.... seed - reaper.... harvest....

5006 - Apostasy of the spiritual from God humanly represented....

5007 - "What no man's eye has ever seen...."

5008 - Call to spiritual work in the coming time of need....

5009 - The path to God through Jesus Christ....

5010 - Strength of the divine Word....

5011 - God's help to rise.... God’s word....

5012 - Seers and prophets....

5013 - Recognize yourselves and your origin....

5014 - Spiritual poverty....

5015 - Spiritual action....

5016 - Path to perfection.... childhood of God....

5017 - Eternal life.... activity.... power from God - love....

5018 - Destiny according to will and resistance....

5019 - Gratitude....

5020 - Devils in the end time.... protection of God....

5021 - He who exalts himself.... arrogance.... honour....

God speaks .... God Himself is the word ....

B.D. 4914 from June 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

No one who seriously delves into the word of God will ever doubt that the connection between heaven and earth, from the spiritual to the earthly kingdom, can be established .... God’s word has to come from Himself and be conveyed to the human being, and for this purpose God makes use of people who are devoted to Him, who thus heard His word and passed it on to their fellow human beings. God’s word is the audible expression of His will which has to be made known to His living creations or they would not be able to live according to His will. Whether this word of His is handed down, whether it is read out of ancient writings .... it must once have been spoken by God, and people must have heard it directly from Him, who then pass it on to their fellow human beings on His behalf. The divine word is unmistakable evidence of His existence for the one who hears it from Him, yet if he then passes it on to his fellow human beings, faith in the existence of a being Which wants to reveal Itself to His living creations must already begin. But faith, in turn, should be a convinced one, and it is the human being's task during earthly life to create this inner conviction. But God Himself helps every person who wants to recognize Him. However, His word must first be acknowledged, i.e. seriously considered, otherwise the human being will not be able to make a judgment which can give him inner conviction. His word must be seriously thought through and then put to the test, i.e., The human being must live according to the divine word which reveals God's will, and then, as a result of his way of life, his ego will be able to judge, it will, so to speak, recognize itself as the creature of an exceedingly perfect being, and its faith in this being will now be convinced, i.e., it will be alive, for it is no longer improbable to the human being that there is a connection between the spiritual and the earthly kingdom; then he will soon be able to hear God's voice within himself, because God reveals Himself to everyone who believes in Him and wants to hear His word. The belief that God reveals Himself through the word is little found amongst people who, however, should only go back to the origin of what spread amongst people as the 'Word of God'. Once people have acknowledged that God has spoken and that His word, the scriptures and the tradition originated from Him, the assumption that He will no longer express Himself is also unjustified; rather, the ever-increasing spiritual adversity is the reason for a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence to reveal Himself again and again in order to strengthen people's weak faith, to revive it and to make Himself known. Anyone who believes in God is only a convinced believer if he also considers an expression of the God-being possible, because a living faith also considers the connection between the creator and His living creations to be irrefutable and the transmission or manifestation of God's will can also be derived from this relationship of coexistence, which then also explains and proves God's nature. God Himself is the word, and through the word He has given people the proof of His existence .... And thus He established the connection between heaven and earth, yet always only on condition that the human being seeks the connection to heaven from earth, i.e. that he is willing to enter into the right relationship which earns him the audible utterance of God .... God reveals Himself through His word to the one who wants to know God and who makes himself worthy of His love and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unifying spirit - soul and body .... struggle against matter ....

B.D. 4915 from June 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

In the recognition of truth from God lies the greatest satisfaction and the most secure feeling of security at the father's heart. For anyone who has come to know God through the transmission of truth is already united with Him in spirit, and he feels part of Him and therefore free and untroubled according to the soul, even though the body is still earthly bound. Thus the human being can indeed still suffer according to the body but only if he does not listen to the soul's ideas, if the earth still burdens him from time to time and he tries to cope with it instead of consulting the soul, i.e. if he seriously turns away from worldly thoughts and seeks help in adversity from the soul, which then presents him with the groundlessness of earthly worry and only refers him to divine love, which always helps where help is faithfully expected. For the soul stands in recognition and can only not assert itself with its knowledge where the human being's thoughts are still directed outwards instead of inwards. The feeling of security occurs immediately when the human being seeks solitude and establishes contact with God, a contact which the soul certainly maintains at all times but of which the human being is not aware as long as his thoughts wander. But if he joins the soul then it can immediately impart to him the peace and tranquillity which it possesses itself through the realization of eternal truth. For the soul is one with the spirit in itself, which is part of the father-spirit from eternity. Where spirit and soul are already one, the human being is only in distress according to the body until he also joins the spirit and the soul. But since the human being is in the midst of life, he is constantly exposed to external pressures which, however, are only intended to spiritualize the body as far as possible, to consciously enter into the right relationship with matter, so that he does not become its slave but its master. The human being must not allow himself to be disturbed by things which are purely worldly, and therefore he must constantly struggle with it, which will always and constantly oppress him and which he should conquer by turning away from it, by turning his gaze upwards and making God the content of his thoughts. Then everything oppressive will leave him, then he will feel the power and strength of God and feel safe in His care, then all shadows of worldly worries will leave him .... then he will abandon himself to His love and grace and find peace in God .... Yet the truth must already have had an effect on him, he must have recognized God and love Him, because otherwise the soul would not be able to unite with the spirit and then the body would draw the soul into the earthly battle. This is why the human being's first aim is to live in truth, because only a correctly recognized being is aspired to and the conscious striving towards God results in the unification of spirit and soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Defence of the divine word sign of the end ....

B.D. 4916 from June 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The most unmistakable sign of the approaching end is people's lack of openness towards My word, which is offered to them in purest form. For everything divine is pulled down or rejected as soon as the human being stands in opposition to it, as soon as he is inclined towards devilish forces, which is why he neither recognizes a deity nor feels beneficially touched by what emanates from this deity. A person addicted to the adversary cannot feel My love because he rejects it; and therefore this person cannot recognize My word as a gift of grace from a benevolent, perfect being. And if you look around you in the world, if you lovingly offer them My gift of grace, the all-round rejection of My word will have to give you pause for thought, for you can only conclude from it people's spiritual state who, in their distance from God, no longer recognize anything that comes from Me. But such a spiritual state causes an end to that which was originally intended to bring people into a high degree of maturity .... it causes the dissolution of earth, which was created by Me as a maturing station for the spiritual and now no longer fulfils its purpose. Anyone who is attentive must notice an obvious flattening amongst humanity, a complete lack of interest in questions concerning eternity, the outcome and aim of the human being and the rule and activity of a creator. Only rarely do such questions move a person, and it is only these few who live according to their destiny and thus now also recognize and strive towards Me. But the majority will become unwilling if only such questions are mentioned, and the closer the end comes the more obvious people's wrong attitude towards Me, their God and creator of eternity, as well as their love for that which belongs to the world, thus is part of My adversary. And people will increasingly succumb to his desire and influence, their way of life will increasingly contradict My will, and unkindness and hatred will prevail where love for the neighbour is to be practiced. The enmity on the part of My adversary's followers against the few who want to belong to Me and do not comply with their desire will become ever greater. Believing people will never be hostile towards each other but they will stick together the closer the end is because they will be strongly harassed by the followers of the world who are under the adversary's influence and want to tear Me out of their hearts. Don't be deceived by your environment which wants to win you over under a false mask .... Offer them My word and you will recognize their true spirit, for where I Myself confront them in the form of My word they rebel against Me, thus they reject Me .... they ridicule and blaspheme you who follow Me and stand up for Me and My word. And then you will also know that the time of the end has come, for satan will proceed against you with all cunning and power by trying to oust Me from your hearts in order to win his game. But anyone who has My word will recognize his false game and be of a watchful heart; he will draw the strength to resist from My word, whereas My adversary will certainly also provide his followers with strength but only ever to commit evil deeds in order to ruin them for ever .... until I Myself put an end to his doings and put him in fetters .... until the last day has come and with it the last judgement ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption through Christ is an act of free will ....

B.D. 4917 from June 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I wanted to redeem the world from its sins, I wanted to bring freedom to people, I wanted to redeem them from their bound state which was the result of their sins .... Yet the world did not accept My sacrifice which I offered to God for them as the human being Jesus .... The world remained in sin and sank ever further into the abyss. This explanation has to be given beforehand, otherwise the concept of a redemption through Jesus Christ would be incomprehensible to people who seriously think about it and consider the spiritual low of people in general. Christ's act of salvation does not restrict people's free will, i.e. humanity has not been abruptly redeemed from bondage, but only those people who want it themselves can place themselves into the blessing of the act of salvation, they can be beneficiaries of the treasure of grace Jesus Christ acquired for humanity through His death on the cross. All people could place themselves in the blessing of the work of redemption if they wanted to, and all guilt of sin could be redeemed .... Yet people themselves did not want it apart from a few who took refuge in Jesus Christ and partook of the blessings His love acquired for them through His crucifixion, which is eternally unfathomable like His love, which eternally never ends. Yet free will is never ignored, otherwise everything spiritual would be redeemed immediately but could never become perfect. And therefore also the acknowledgment of Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world is an act of free will and faith, which again can be gained through right use of the will. The work of redemption can only come into effect with the conscious call of Christ for help, which, however, presupposes faith in Him, thus also means a volitional turning to Him. If this act has taken place, then the overflow of strength and grace is also assured, which brings the human being salvation from spiritual adversity, which sets him free from satan’s fetters, from the bound state, which is the fate of all spiritual things as a result of the former rebellion against God, as a result of sin .... The will alone sets a person free if he turns to Jesus Christ for help. But where faith in Him and His divine mission is lacking, there can be no redemption, there humanity remains in sin and remains bound in satan’s power until one day he allows himself to be seized by Christ's overwhelming love, until he too sinks down on His cross and begs Him for His mercy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognizing God's sign of change of will .... exceeding authority ....

B.D. 4918 from June 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Recognize your origin in Me, your creator and father from eternity. Then you are already what you should become on earth .... children who long to return to the father. For as soon as you become aware that you originated from Me the divine principle, love, will awaken in you, for you recognize yourselves as emanations of eternal love and also long for it back. You recognize Me and are also no longer separated from Me in essence, even though the degree of your perfection has not yet been reached, yet will-wise you are Mine. A will turned away from Me prevents the human being from recognizing his origin, then the human being neither believes in a power from Which he emerged nor in the connection between a creating power and himself, if he recognizes a creating power. This is why the feeling of having come forth from God is already a sign of the change of will which the human being has accomplished, for he only acknowledges Me if he separates himself from My adversary. For this reason 'faith' will also mean striving upwards at the same time, however, only living faith is to be understood by this, because a dead faith has no effect, because a dead faith only expresses with the mouth what the heart does not yet acknowledge. Hence a person can certainly acknowledge Me as God, father and creator with words, yet his heart knows nothing about it and thus he does not establish the childlike relationship with Me which results in a right recognition. Then it is difficult to reach the aim on earth. The recognition of Myself and at the same time of yourselves is already a testimony of maturity for you, because it signifies a state of light which only occurs in a certain degree of maturity. And again it has to be said that only the human being's will is decisive as to whether it becomes light or remains dark in him, thus that every person can recognize Me as the outcome if he wants to. For I will never fail to approach every individual person and reveal Myself to him, yet I will not force him to accept these revelations but will constantly give him the opportunity to learn to recognize Me. Only someone who obviously resists Me remains shrouded in spiritual darkness, he makes no progress during earthly life and is subject to My adversary's power, yet of his own will.

The strength of My presence, which emanates from every revelation of Myself, can be fully sufficient to ignite the human being's heart and let a bright light radiate, yet if it only finds the slightest resistance in the human being's will it remains ineffective, because it is divine emanation which does not tolerate any resistance but does not break through victoriously either so as not to exert any coercion on the human being's will. But if the human being's will is willing My strength of love ignites an undreamt-of fire which comes to the human being's awareness as love for Me. And once love for Me has been kindled, the adversary's strength and power will be broken. I want to be recognized by My living creations as father and therefore also reveal Myself to them; I have to be recognized by them if they want to feel Me as present .... Only then will the process of development begin, the transformation of the being which is still bound by My adversary, until it has recognized Me and now also consciously strives towards Me. As long as people still receive the knowledge that there is a God Who created heaven and earth, it is also possible to attain a living faith in Him and to reach the aim on earth. But if this knowledge is withheld from people so that the human being remains completely ignorant of his outcome, of Me as creator and father, then the adversary unjustifiably uses his power and falls into the harshest judgment, then he exceeds his authority and prevents the human being's test of will, who is to decide on earth between Me and him, but for which knowledge of Me and him is also necessary in order to be able to decide. I want to be recognized but he does not, and therefore he would also prevent people from recognizing Me if I granted him this freedom. Yet as soon as he exceeds his power his judgment is also pronounced; he will be bound anew as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Humility - Arrogance .... Danger ....

B.D. 4919 from June 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I bestow My grace upon the humble, to the arrogant I deny it, for arrogance smothers love, whereas humility awakens it. And for this reason all My love belongs to the humble which showers him with grace beyond measure. Someone with heartfelt love for his fellow human being cannot be haughty to him but regard him as his brother and help him because of love; this is why the humble person will carry out deeds of neighbourly love, for which I will bless him and reward him in turn with My love and grace. An arrogant person's heart is hard and unfeeling, he does not serve but wants to dominate and will therefore be disregarded by Me, because this feeling, the need to dominate, was the reason for the past apostasy from Me which can only be atoned for through profound humility towards Me, hence humility also signifies returning to Me. The spiritual being had sunk very low due to arrogance, however, in the stage as a human being it has already ascended to a certain level but now it is in greatest danger of succumbing to arrogance again, of elevating himself, and this manifests itself in heartlessness towards his fellow human beings. The fact that the human being, due to arrogance, also deprives himself of all means to ascend further, that he thereby forfeits My grace, is the greatest danger to which I always draw your attention, so that you will not plunge into the abyss again of your own fault. Everything that is domineering still belongs to My adversary, who remains in utter opposition to Me and believes himself capable of overthrowing Me. Having once been the highest bearer of light he became My adversary because he elevated himself above Me .... he believed he was able to place himself above Me and plunged into the deepest abyss.

Arrogance is the first step into a bottomless fall .... humility, in contrast, is the ladder to higher spheres, the safest bridge to Me .... For the person who receives My grace will safely reach his goal, because My grace signifies help, My support and My guidance. Consider your past sin which separated you from Me, consider My greater than great love which wants to draw you back to Me; consider your weakness and imperfection and how very distant you are, then you will bow your head with utmost humility and longingly stretch your hands out to Me, and then I will take hold of you with My love and grace and provide you with everything you need in order to reduce your distance from Me, in order to return to Me from Whom you originated. But woe to you if you never become aware of your distance from Me, if you deem yourselves too exalted as to pray to Me with profound humility .... In that case you cannot receive grace, then you are still under the control of the one who made you fall, then you can never become free from the sin of your past arrogance, for without My grace you will never ever become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I will put the words in your mouth ...."

B.D. 4920 from June 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

What is given to you in the hour, that speak .... and do not fear those who call you to account, for they will have no power against you as long as I stand beside you, as long as I speak through you, and truly as they need. I will put the words in your mouth .... so you don't need to think about the meaning of your speech because you are only the mouthpiece through which I make Myself known to those who are against you. It will not be long before all those who fight for Me and My kingdom will be called to account, when they will be pressured to abandon their faith and deny Me. And you will experience the apostasy from Me on a daily basis because the earthly reward entices people and they betray Me for it. They will no longer profess Me, they will become apostates because they have long since been alienated from Me in their hearts. And then sharp action will also be taken against My own, against the small circle of true believers who want to remain steadfast. And then the strength of faith will become evident, for those who now turn to Me in their heart for help will become unshakeable in their faith and all fear of worldly power will disappear, they will speak for Me and constantly feel My nearness, and thus they will also speak freely of themselves, and yet it is I Who speaks and gives them the strength for open resistance. Anyone who works for Me in this time will be fought against, but anyone who is fought against has Me by his side as a fighter, for I know about everything that is still kept hidden, thus I also know who is in need for the sake of My name and come as a faithful helper in every adversity. And now My spirit's working will obviously appear, for My servants on earth possess knowledge that every worldly-wise person will be struck and the way it is presented will make him wonder. For I hear every objection, every question, every doubt and give the right answer. And without any preparation My servants will be able to explain the problems which wise people want to raise. Yet they are not the ones who speak but I Myself give speech and answer, and truly, no opponent is a match for Me. This time will come very quickly, for My adversary rises above Me and uses the last resort .... he seeks to destroy all faith and influences the earthly rulers to make decrees which are directed against the believers, which therefore signify a battle against all those who still adhere to Me. And this battle will not last long, it will be waged with all fierceness, and I Myself will lead My own to the final conflict from which they will emerge victorious, because I can never ever be defeated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unwarranted doubts .... truthfulness - servant of God ....

B.D. 4921 from June 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

If you are taught from above, you must not leave any doubt as to the truthfulness of what you receive through the voice of the spirit. This applies to the one who receives the divine word directly as well as to the one who receives it through God's servants. For one thing must not be disregarded, that the recipient is always considered by God Himself if he consciously makes contact with Him. Therefore, only a divine being can make Himself known if God is first called upon for enlightenment of the spirit, for His gifts of grace, for His word .... In order for the fellow human being to be convinced of the divine mission, in order for him to recognize the spiritual knowledge imparted to him as God’s word, all he needs is the same attitude towards God, which always guarantees that he will also be considered by God. A person who seriously strives towards God will therefore either not receive wrong spiritual knowledge or inwardly reject it if his will is good and he seeks the truth. No error can come to you from above, and no being can communicate itself to you from below in the same way if you direct your gaze upwards and want to be taught by God. And therefore every doubt is unjustified which is brought towards a right servant of God as soon as he represents the spiritual knowledge received from above. For then his spirit will also be so enlightened that he will be able to speak freely himself and his speeches will be in truth, he will not merely hold a dead conversation but His words will be life-giving as soon as he works for God and His kingdom. Doubts are only justified when worldly problems have been touched upon, because then the human being's own thoughts can prevail and, since his will is free, no constraint is imposed on his thinking. But every person can easily carry out this examination himself. What is of value for the human being's spiritual development is spiritual knowledge and guarantees purest truth. However, what is not of importance for the soul and its upward development can very easily be permeated by worldly thoughts and calls for caution. Anyone who is taught by God only works for Him and His kingdom, i.e. he only tries to influence people's souls and support them spiritually; he wants to instruct them in spiritual knowledge and inform them about the nature of God, he only rarely touches upon worldly problems and only when they are connected with spiritual development; he moves on a spiritual path and turns his back on the world .... And he only voices what he receives directly from God or what is conveyed to him by beings of light who carry God's will within themselves. Therefore you humans can believe without hesitation those who work for God and hear His voice .... their profound knowledge will give you the evidence that they are taught by God, and where God expresses Himself all access is denied to the forces from below ....

Amen

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"Worlds will pass away, but My word endures ...."

B.D. 4922 from June 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Worlds will pass away but My word will remain for eternity .... And thus you humans will receive My gospel in all purity as long as you inhabit earth for the purpose of maturing the spiritual substances within you. It will always be the same word, because I will never change and thus My word, which originates from Me, cannot change either. You humans can certainly make changes yourselves but then you will no longer live in truth, because every change of My word signifies error and then it is no longer possible to speak of My word, which originally originated from Me in all purity. That is why I have spoken the words: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for eternity." Yet these words shall never mean that a change is impossible for people, for then I would have to curtail people's free will if I wanted to prevent an erroneous teaching from spreading in the world as My teaching. As long as imperfect people inhabit the earth it will not be possible to eliminate error. But I want to help people attain perfection through truth, thus I must again and again purify My word of what people add in their imperfection; I must illuminate the errors and shortcomings of what people offer to their fellow human beings as divine teaching. Hence I have to look for willing servants on earth who are willing to receive My word again in its original form, which is only possible through direct transmission, through an obvious manifestation of My spirit in the human being's heart .... But this guarantees purest truth.

(28.6.1950) And therefore My word will always and forever sound in all purity in the hearts of a few people and be made accessible again by these few to fellow human beings who cannot receive it directly. Thus My word will not pass away as long as people are on this earth. But people will also always be presented with the educated word which no longer has the right to be regarded as My word. For the adversary works against Me, and thus he tries to enforce the pure truth with error in order to turn people away from Me. And they are too ignorant to reject that word which no longer corresponds to truth. They only adhere to the word: "Heaven and earth will pass away but My word will remain in existence for eternity", according to which they believe they have the guarantee that the word once spoken by Me cannot be altered .... But as long as I leave free will to the human being it is also possible for him to deform My pure word without Me preventing him from doing so. But then it is no longer My word which is offered to you humans. But My word will flow to you again and again from the source which is inexhaustible and only contains pure truth. And anyone who is serious will always find the source and draw from it; he will not go where the water has become turbid but refresh himself with the water of life; he will want to drink the living water and it will also be offered to him as soon as his desire for it is serious. My word is the true water of life as soon as it has not yet become cloudy, as soon as it is clearly and purely received by people from above, imparted by Me to those who present themselves to Me as pure vessels so that I fill them with My grace. My word is full of strength, which, however, can never be claimed of the word which has already experienced many changes due to people's will. This word is powerless, it can be listened to and will hardly make its way into the human being's heart, it will remain without effect because it has become human work which is worthless for eternity. My word shall be drawn from the source, it shall be desired and received directly from Me and I will not withhold it from anyone. Everyone can also feel the strength in himself while people remain apathetic towards the word, which is not My but My adversary's means to push people away from Me. And therefore he tries to contaminate it and mislead people because the pure truth is his downfall, which he very well recognizes. Yet I help people and guide them into the truth, because only the truth leads to Me and the truth alone makes them blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessed end after great need ....

B.D. 4923 from June 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

And your end will be a blessed one .... Don't fear the coming time with its struggles and suffering but face it courageously, for it will not last long and what comes afterwards shall already fill you with joy today, you who are Mine and carry Me in your heart. Do not be afraid, but only believe that I will not leave you, that I am always with you and ready to help in every adversity and danger. It will certainly be a time full of hardship and worries but always bearable for you who believe, for whatever you ask Me for I will give it to you so that you will not despair and become aware of My love which is constantly meant for you, and especially in the last time before the end. And for your sake I will shorten the days; they will fly by, and soon the end will be, the day when you will be delivered from all adversity .... And it will be a blissful end for you, regardless of whether you are transferred to the new earth or enter the spiritual kingdom beforehand. I know the will of the individual and will not abandon anyone who turns to Me and wants to come to Me. But the adversity must come if the last souls are to be given the opportunity to call upon Me for mercy and help. For a call coming from the heart will be heard by Me, and My love will take hold of everyone who calls to Me. Therefore you will also have to endure great adversity but you should not fear it because I will help you to bear it and there is truly nothing I cannot avert from you if you sincerely appeal to Me for it. But one day even this adversity will come to an end; and therefore always keep in mind that you are approaching an exceedingly blissful time and will forget all suffering on this earth, that you will behold Me Myself and sing My praises and give thanks to Me for My guidance which let you become blissful creatures to whom I bestow My love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Inability to recognize the announcements .... work for God ....

B.D. 4924 from July 2nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I am with you all days until the end of the world .... Yet you often don't recognize Me even though I am obviously working amongst you. And I cannot make Myself known to you as long as you still look with the eyes of the world, as long as you pay attention to what happens on the outside and don't look inwards. I would like to embrace you with arms of love but you strive away from Me and therefore you do not recognize Me. This is said to all those who are unable to recognize Me in the word which comes from above to My chosen servants. My voice is clear, thus it can be recognized as the father's voice. Non-recognition indicates a state of inability to receive My word, which is due to the fact that the intellect and not the heart is used for criticism and that the cold intellect can never judge correctly because My voice can only be heard by the heart. The heart and the intellect should certainly be active, for My word can endure intellectual scrutiny, yet only the heart's judgment is decisive. But I point you to My gospel that My disciples can be recognized by their love for each other. Love makes you all My children, but you must also testify to love for each other if you want to be My true disciples. Where one acts as the other's adversary, love is lacking and therefore also the ability to judge, since the human being without love is also without wisdom. For My sake you should love one another, otherwise I cannot impart wisdom to you, the only true knowledge from above. The evidence of My love falls like dewdrops into the open chalices

(1.7.1950) of loving hearts, and thus only one thing can give you the evidence that it is I Myself Who speaks words of love to people .... that the recipient walks in love, that he is a good, willing and unselfishly serving person who is therefore also in My grace. Loving people recognize Me, they recognize My voice, yet a heart without love never recognizes Me. Therefore love one another, want to be active as My disciples and hear My fatherly voice .... This to all those who doubt the authenticity of the word which is conveyed to them as a divine mission. But to My faithful co-workers I say the following:

(2.7.1950) Let time work .... time will accomplish much that seems impossible to you. You must not harbour any illusions that My pure word from above will be spread as it should and would also correspond to its immeasurable value. You must not forget that the forces of darkness are just as eager to undermine the pure truth, and you must consider that My adversary has been given great power for the last time on this earth, which he uses. Everything depends on the human being's free will; I certainly guide people but I don't force them .... What I give from above is intended for the individual as well as for all, everyone can feast on it, yet anyone who does not want to do so is not forced to do so by Me. Anyone with a hungry heart desires nourishment for the soul and also finds it, for I will provide it for him in some way as soon as he desires it. People could certainly be given abundantly, for there is much bread from the heavens at your disposal. If I would now prevent the opposing forces then this would be a certain coercion of will, both on My adversary as well as on people, who would no longer need to decide but would have to accept what is offered to them. The will of the human being alone decides. And even where one person's will seemingly harms his fellow human beings, there I still stand ready with My gift of grace so that no-one who wants to be fed at My table will fall short. I share My supper with everyone who wants to be My guest. And no human will prevents Me from doing so. But you, who are to serve the bread to My guests in My name, do not be unwilling when your sphere of activity is still small .... Very soon you will be able to develop yourselves, very soon work will be demanded of you where you can fully apply yourselves and you will also understand that until now I only demanded preliminary work from you because human will itself prevented you from eagerly working for Me and My kingdom. Very soon you will receive the call to place yourselves undividedly in My service. I want to bind My adversary for a long time .... Yet even this must not happen out of arbitrariness, for My love and My righteousness will always determine My will. As long as My adversary does not exceed his authority, as long as he only does what I have granted him and what contributes to a person's free decision of will, I will not dispute this right. But he will exceed the limits of his authority .... by wanting to prevent people from gaining knowledge of Me, of a supremely perfect being Who is love, wisdom and omnipotence in Himself and wants to be recognized as the creator and sustainer of all things .... He tries to prevent the knowledge of this, and I also leave him complete freedom in this until his measure is full .... And now understand that his first endeavour is to suppress the pure truth from above, thus to deprive people of the opportunity to gain knowledge of Me through the word of God conveyed to earth. Understand that he will always start where the truth from Me begins to assert itself .... And then you will also understand the many resistances you will face in the spreading of the pure gospel, which I could certainly overrule with My might and My will if it were not against My eternal order to use coercion, neither upwards nor downwards .... And believe Me that I bless even the smallest activity for Me and My kingdom which is done in compliance with free will despite the great oppositions which make your work for Me more difficult. You will still be allowed to do much work and therefore should not tire of working in small ways until I call you when it is time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual or letter sense .... communion ....

B.D. 4925 from July 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Everything I have spoken on earth is said for eternity and will therefore never lose the meaning I have given to My words. However, the fact that people themselves give them a different meaning must never lead to the assumption that I recognize this educated interpretation. Every person would have to come to the realization himself that and why certain interpretations of My word are wrong if only they would seriously think about it; yet they only adhere to the human interpretation and less to My word, which also allows for a different interpretation which should be thought through with the desire to recognize what is right and true.

(5.7.1950) It is certainly justified to quote My word unchanged as proof of the truth of a doctrine of faith, but it must always be kept in mind that it is not the word alone but the spirit of the word which gives the meaning in the first place, thus every word can also be applied if one wants to put a different meaning into it. What I have spoken only makes sense in connection with spiritual development and must therefore always be interpreted spiritually. It must be in connection with the whole, one word cannot be picked out at random and interpreted. My teaching is not incomprehensible, however, it also requires enlightened thinking, because My words only appear meaningless to an unenlightened spirit, thus the human being can only grasp the right meaning if his request for enlightened thinking has preceded it. No coherence can be found with merely intellectual interpretation, pure intellectual thinking gives My word a meaning which can sometimes even be contrary to what I want to say to people. For one thing has to be taken into account, that there is always a battle between truth and lies or error and that the representatives of both sides want to win people's souls, thus they try to influence their thoughts. And the forces of darkness will always intervene where the intellect alone is active, because it is not possible for them to take notice where the human being's spirit is enlightened by his will and his call to Me ....

(6/7/1950) You humans could all be instructed by the spirit within you and then you would also immediately recognize where My teaching is permeated by error; where the interpretation of My word is given according to the letter but not according to the meaning; you would also be able to correct any error yourselves through bright thinking, for then you would always be assured of My support which I grant to everyone who desires the pure truth. Yet the adversary endeavours to keep you in ignorance and will try to obscure the truth precisely where important doctrines of faith are at stake. One false doctrine entails another, and a wrong interpretation of My word means a false doctrine.

I cannot stay in an earthly-material form in any other way than that the spiritual substance which is bound in this form is a part of Me which, after the former apostasy, shall slowly return to Me again .... But I, as a supremely perfect being, do not occupy a form which is visible to you in order to be present to you in this form. I am always and everywhere present, yet whether you are aware of Me and can feel Me depends solely on your attitude towards Me. Consequently, you cannot unite with Me through a specific process but only through your self-shaping into love, which results in a direct connection with Me. You therefore have a wrong idea of the Last Supper with My disciples .... because you again only read the literal sense out of My words which I spoke to the disciples but not the spiritual sense .... I gave out bread and wine .... food and drink, I gave and the others received .... always I will be the giver and distribute the bread of heaven, the nourishment of the soul, which it finds in My word alone, which gives it the strength to ascend .... Do the same in My memory .... These words were the simplest indication of the fulfilment of the commandment of neighbourly love, which alone earns people the impartation of My word .... which alone secures My presence for them, so that I can therefore take supper with them as I have promised. My words, My actions were only figurative indications of what they should do in remembrance of Me .... And anyone who asks for the enlightenment of spirit will brightly and clearly recognize and understand the meaning of My words, for the awakening of spirit presupposes a way of life in love, thus also already the union with Me, which earns him fullest truth. Yet as long as people do not understand the spiritual meaning of My words, as long as they still believe Me to be bound in an earthly material form, their spirit is not yet awakened, and therefore they cannot distinguish error from truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Key to wisdom is love ....

B.D. 4926 from July 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Fulfil My commandment of love if you want to become blessed. Then you will also do everything that corresponds to My will, then your thinking will also be right and you will stand in truth. Then every doubt will fall within you, every question will be resolved for you and you will be able to believe with conviction. But you must also have the will to come close to the truth .... You may not allow yourselves to fall into self-created opinions, you must be willing to surrender your opinions, to exchange them for the pure truth, you must seek the truth .... This is a condition for standing in the truth, since it does not come to you without your desire. It will certainly be brought to you from outside through conversations or books or even through thoughts, yet you will only be able to accept it, i.e. to affirm it with heart and mind, if you are seriously willing to find it. For the truth, the knowledge about Me and My working, about the purpose and aim of everything that is, is a most delicious gift to you, since you once gave it up voluntarily when you fell into darkness due to the sin of the former rebellion against Me, which also meant a state of complete ignorance. You do too little yourselves to put yourselves into possession of the knowledge of everything again, and yet I am willing to convey the truth to you as a gift of grace so that you can work with it in order to become perfect. But on the other hand I also demand all your willingness to be introduced to the right knowledge by Me, otherwise the truth will remain withheld from you and you will not be able to recognize it for what it is. However, you don't need to research and ponder intellectually about the value or unvalue of the spiritual knowledge you receive, but only one thing is the key to wisdom .... love. Without love this knowledge remains closed to you, without love you lack the power of realization, without love you make yourselves unworthy to receive the pure truth from Me, otherwise even the evil, the unkind, would have to be recognized correctly and there would be no need for error in the world, which is nevertheless strongly represented in the world. Therefore I can only give you one commandment to practice love if you also want to be in possession of truth and become blessed. For you can only reach Me through love, because I Myself am love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feebleminded people .... obsession ....

B.D. 4927 from July 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You will all be shown the path that leads to eternal life. And thus no one will be able to say that he has remained uninstructed, it is just that the instructions can take place in many different ways. But it is often incomprehensible to you how souls mature whose bearer is of weak intellect, who have no right judgment and lack the ability to differentiate between bad and good .... people whose spirit is confused and who therefore cannot be called to account. These souls also have to fulfil their mission. They often don't need the earthly course itself in order to mature, instead they are merely a means to an end for their fellow human beings who have to take part in their fate and to whom such people are assigned for testing on this earth. The actual inhabitant of the body mostly withdraws while the body is occupied by immature beings which are not admitted to embodiment but want to express themselves, thus unlawfully influence a body to speak and act according to their will. Since these beings are immature, the people ruled by them are also without any intelligence and therefore inaccessible to rational ideas. Such a person's path of suffering is certainly credited to the soul inhabiting them, but the immature being derives no advantage from its wrongful embodiment. Nevertheless, such a process is permitted by Me because fellow human beings can test themselves on such an unhappy person, because they can practice love, patience, gentleness and mercy to a high degree and thus mature themselves spiritually, while the quietly withdrawn soul seeks and also finds spiritual contact with kindred souls who were granted the same privilege of inhabiting an earthly body without being allowed to carry out the actual function for this body but thereby ascend in their development ....

(8.7.1950) It is a process of the expression of will during the earthly change which nevertheless signifies a submission to My will, for the soul staying in the body is already without resistance against Me at the start of its embodiment as a human being. Immature forces make use of this voluntary relinquishment of will and thus join the soul, in a sense determining the human being's actions and speech which, however, lacks reason and therefore could not be spoken by a normally thinking and feeling being. Yet they are human beings .... which My will also allowed to shape, which also possess My love, even if this is little recognizable to their fellow human beings. They are human beings who appear unhappy to fellow human beings and are meagrely thought of by Me but who take this path as a means of purification for their fellow human beings and are also called to account in a different way. Yet they must complete their earthly path of life, and it may not be prematurely interrupted on the part of human beings, for it is a human life which was awakened by My will and whose purpose you fellow human beings do not know. They should be given love and mercy and also active help where it is needed. Through heartfelt prayer the forces which have embodied themselves in them can also be banished or changed, yet I must always be called upon because I alone know what these beings lack and need, and I am also the lord over the immature spiritual substances which oppress them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Extraordinary events are signs of the approaching end ....

B.D. 4928 from July 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Everything points to the end and if you humans pay careful attention to the events around you, you will also recognise that I Am speaking to you through them, that through them I want to draw your attention to the end and your special mission of being leaders in the final battle of faith. I want to strengthen your faith in My Word, but I also want to help your fellow human beings to gain faith, since they either cannot find it or are too weak to advocate it. I want to speak to all of you by every conceivable means so that you will not fail in the final battle of faith on this earth. Nevertheless, I will always take account of the fact that you live in an extremely materialistic world, that you have little contact with the kingdom which emanates the truth and that it is far more difficult for you to believe because you no longer carry Me in your hearts lively enough, since you distanced yourselves from the manifestation of Jesus Christ to such an extent that, due to your unbelief, you receive little strength. You do not accept the truth conveyed to you from the spiritual kingdom; you do not grant credence to the teachers, who are My servants. But I nevertheless do not want to let you fall and will approach you time and again with references to the end, with images by seers which will become public knowledge, with predictions by prophets which will also be heard by those who have no interest in the end and the last Judgment. I also know many people's struggle for faith and I would like to give them a sign too, which, however, shall not compel them to believe. I want to make them question and become reflective, this is all I intend to achieve with extraordinary events during the last days, for once they spend serious thought on it I will be able to approach them in My Word and instruct them according to the truth. They will only be open-minded for My Word if it is made accessible to them as My evident working through the spirit, for I can only give them the pure truth through My Word. And only through the Word from above can something be proven to them which they would otherwise find incredible, but it cannot be proven by the sign itself, because the sign only speaks to the intellect and not to the human being's heart. You humans must always be aware of the fact that you are living in the endtime, that that there will be an increase in signs which cannot be explained in an earthly way and which will visibly point to another world .... Anyone who recognises them as such will derive benefit from them, but anyone who bypasses these as well, will have to fear the final end because it will result in his downfall ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love .... revelations .... mediator ....

B.D. 4929 from July 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

This is My love for you that I constantly speak to you and choose the people through whom I can reveal Myself to you. You all cannot measure how much you need My encouragement, My admonitions and warnings, My teachings and explanations, since you are all in a state of ignorance which I want to remedy. I want to speak to you and you cannot hear Me. You live in a world where you are unable to hear My voice because it is drowned out by the voice of the world. Only a few open their hearts and hear what I want to say to you. And so these are the mediators who make it possible for a connection to be established between Me and you. I speak to all of you through these mediators, yet you humans do not believe it and doubt the word which originates from Me Myself and is now offered to you. The father speaks to His children and they do not recognize His voice .... There is great confusion amongst people, they see what is right as wrong, they recognize what is wrong and cannot be convinced of the error of it. They have no discernment and yet presume to judge divine transmissions. The darkness is great and yet they try to extinguish the light which I send into the darkness in order to help humanity onto the right path. And this circumstance, too, is a sign of the end, that they no longer recognize Me anywhere and equate My working with satan’s working, that they regard everything divine as satan’s work of deception but don't want to see his obvious counterworking. They themselves pass by a miracle apathetically and are, so to speak, themselves a slave to My adversary who clouds their view and seeks to obscure the light. Yet I protect My bearers of light, I do not tolerate them being attacked, they are active for Me and thus I also stand behind them and their activity. And no matter how much the adversary fights against the truth, against My servants and prophets, they are active on My behalf and therefore need not fear that I will leave them without strength, that they will be defeated in the battle against My enemies .... they serve Me, and as their lord I protect them from all attacks, just as I also equip them with all wisdom and thus give them a weapon in their hand with which they will gain victory over the enemy. For they will fight with the sword of their mouth and the shield of faith will cover them, I Myself will fight by their side, and thus victory will also be ours ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love for God - love for neighbour .... worker in the vineyard ....

B.D. 4930 from July 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The word of God comes to you and you are thereby in the knowledge of the truth, you are knowledgeable and can instruct your fellow human beings. Thus you are labourers in the vineyard of the lord. Work can be a joy to a person, but it can also be a burden, and the latter when it is carried out reluctantly, when it therefore gives him no pleasure. Working for the lord in His vineyard is a voluntary service, and what is done voluntarily also gives joy, even if the work is hard. To be active for God and His kingdom on earth is the most beautiful work for a person who loves Him. Therefore, the love for God is decisive for the joy the work gives people, and this love for God must express itself in serving neighbourly love. Man must serve God by helping his neighbour in his need. Then deep peace and inner bliss will fill him and he will be a faithful servant to God. What is now offered to you by God shall cause you to be of service to your neighbour, for it is spiritual good which is indispensable for your fellow human beings, which they do not possess themselves and which should therefore be supplied to them. Humanity is poor in this, whereas you possess immeasurable wealth, a treasure which you should constantly increase and with which you can make everyone happy with whom you share yourselves. Then you serve God and your neighbour. And then you will also fulfil the divine commandment of love, and you will be blessed by God Himself, Who has chosen you as His labourers because He knows about your will to work for Him. And therefore you have no cause for discouragement, you have no cause for doubt as long as you receive His word from above which proves His love to you and which you should repay Him with your love .... Be good and helpful towards your neighbour and thereby give Him proof of your love for Him, which will truly be repaid to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word undeserved grace ....

B.D. 4931 from July 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The transmission of the divine word to earth in the last days before the end is an undeserved grace. For during this time people are so distant from God that they would never ask for it of their own accord and also make no preparation to shape themselves in such a way that they could hear God's voice. But if God does not want to come to people's aid in an extraordinary way, even the few people who strive towards Him would be in danger of sinking into the abyss because the prince of hell has great power and people too little strength to resist. God counters his great power, which people themselves grant him through their attitude, with His grace .... so that it is not made impossible for people to escape the power that wants to overthrow them. God's grace, then, is an undeserved gift, an aid of immense value, which God gives to people even though they do not ask Him for it in prayer. But the bestowal of this grace is not connected with any compulsion to accept it. It is such a certain means to reach the aim on earth which God has set for the human being, but he is completely free to use it. It is a gift that does not oblige to accept it. It comes directly from God to the human being, yet whether he acknowledges it as God's mission is left up to his will. And therefore it cannot sound to people in such a way that it must be unmistakably recognized as God's voice, but it must also leave the human being the possibility to reject it as long as he resists God's grace. And therefore it will also be contested and doubted, it will be portrayed as His adversary's illusion who approaches people in a garment of light in order to deceive them. But again, it is easily recognizable as God’s word to the one who is in intimate contact with God through love. He will be able to believe with conviction and, as a child of God himself, will well recognize the father's voice. For the divine will be recognized by all those who strive towards the divine themselves and want to shape themselves into what they were from the beginning. And so only the faith of those who are good themselves and strive towards God can be cited as proof of the divine mission. The voice of the heart will tell them who speaks to them, because God reveals Himself to every human being through the heart, yet the heart has to be filled with love again in order to hear these revelations, which therefore recognizes God because He is love Himself .... And this love prompts Him to undeservedly bestow His gift of grace upon people in great adversity and to come to the aid of those who are oppressed by the adversary because they believe in God and seek unity with Him. He reveals Himself to them and His voice will always be recognized by them as the voice of the father.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will: Fulfilment of the commandments of love ....

B.D. 4932 from July 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

My will plainly manifests itself in My commandment of love for God and other people. It includes everything you should and should not do, and if you therefore fulfil these commandments you will approach your perfection. For then you will neither be able to sin again nor remain within the old sin which consisted of the fact that you had voluntarily distanced yourselves from Me, thus you denied Me love and consequently became heartless towards all living creations which originated from Me. And thus your love for Me, if you fulfil My commandments, signifies renewed unification with Me and illumination by My strength of love, so that your past nature of light and strength will be restored again and you will possess full realisation and be able to work and create in line with your own will .... so that you will be perfect again, that is, you will have shaped yourselves into divine beings again which you were in the very beginning.

For this reason you humans must first know My will, so that you can live accordingly in order to become blessed. You have to be informed of My will and thus you have to listen to My Word which clearly and understandably reveals My will to you. My Word familiarises you with My commandment of love, with your obligation towards Me and your fellow human beings; My Word explains your distance from Me if you don't try to reduce it yourselves; My Word informs you of My love, grace and mercy, of My wisdom and omnipotence, so that the flame of love for Me can ignite itself if only your heart is willing to love. My Word also describes your fellow human beings as My children whom you therefore should approach like brothers, to whom you should also give your love if you want to fulfil My will. My Word cautions and admonishes you and draws your attention to the consequences of a wrong way of life, of a heartless way of life, by failing to observe My commandments. You have to accept My Word if you want to become blissfully happy. But leave it to Me as to how My Word shall be conveyed to you, just be willing to accept it when I offer it to you, for you can only discover My will through My Word and only through living in accordance with My will can you become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earth life purpose transformation of the being to love ....

B.D. 4933 from July 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

In the realization of My will now also lies your task in life: to shape yourselves into love in order to assimilate yourselves to My nature, in order to take on your original nature again, which is necessary to stay close to Me, because otherwise you would have to perish in My radiance of love. The shaping into love then infallibly also results in the state of light, thus a constant increase in wisdom and strength. Earthly life is only a means to an end in order to achieve this transformation, which is an act of free will, thus it can be accomplished on earth but does not have to be. The human being is always offered the opportunity in earthly life to be active in unselfish neighbourly love; he can grasp every opportunity but he can also pass it by, yet the ultimate purpose of life is only the transformation of his nature which, at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being, knows little of the love which applies to his fellow human being but is only inspired by selfish love, which he should overcome on earth. It is a certain process of change which takes place in earthly life but which can also remain unsuccessful if the human being's will does not strive for success. But anyone who regards earthly life as an end in itself, who still tries to gain from it the physical pleasures it offers, who does not create for his life after death, will be in a miserable condition at the end and full of remorse think of the unused opportunities he missed of his own free will. He will be in the same state of maturity as at the beginning of his embodiment on earth or will even have regressed in his development if he allowed his urges and desires to break through unrestrainedly on earth and thereby acted contrary to My commandments of love, thus increasing his distance from Me even more. I gave the human being earthly life for perfection, for higher development, and it can bring him the highest success, yet he must also answer to Me for an unused earthly life, for a gift he disregarded or misused for new sin, for renewed apostasy from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Passing the test of will in earthly life ....

B.D. 4934 from July 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Earthly life is only a time of trial where you shall prove to yourselves that you use your will correctly. If you pass the test, only then will you have the right life, a life which satisfies you in everything, which makes you happy because it always brings you fulfilment of your desire. But your longing is of a different kind than on earth. You first recognize how futile earthly goods were compared to the joys of the spiritual kingdom, you no longer strive for anything transient but you recognize the value of the goods which are imperishable. But as long as you chase after material goods on earth, as long as your thoughts and intentions revolve around earthly pleasures or earthly possessions, your will will still be gagged by the one who is master of the earthly world, for that is his means of winning you over, that he entices you with the pleasures of the world in order to distract you from the aim which is set for you for earthly life. But then you will hardly be able to pass the test of will and also hardly be able to enter the spiritual kingdom for eternal life after your earthly demise. For the failed test of will will earn you a doubtful fate in eternity, a state of torment where you will constantly long for earthly goods in order to constantly have to recognize that they no longer exist for you, that you are therefore poor because you possess neither spiritual nor earthly goods. As long as you live on earth you should learn to recognize the unworthiness of earthly-material goods and try to detach yourselves from them, for only by turning away from them will spiritual possessions become accessible to you, because no human being can attain both at the same time and because the human being's free will has to decide which goods appear desirable to him. The human being's will is correctly used when he collects spiritual goods, when he does not allow himself to be tempted by earthly pleasures but constantly seeks contact with the spiritual world, when he renounces what the world offers him and instead allows himself to be spiritually thought of, when he therefore pays little attention to the body's wishes and instead considers the soul, when he provides it with spiritual nourishment and renounces earthly pleasures in order not to let the soul starve. If the human being seeks God He will also allow Himself to be found, because such a will is pleasing to Him and assures the human being God's love and grace. Then he will have passed the test of will and successfully lived his earthly life for the soul, and then a blissful life awaits him in the spiritual kingdom which will last forever and compensate him a thousand fold for everything he missed on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine power - living faith - miracle work ....

B.D. 4935 from July 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

An undreamt-of strength dwells within you which you only need to develop in order to be able to accomplish everything you want. As creatures which came forth from Me you are part of Me and therefore must also be able to dispose of everything which makes you recognizable as children of Me; like divine beings you must be permeated by light and strength as soon as you feel yourselves to be children of Me. You are, yet you are not aware of it, and that is because you wanted to break the bond with Me, which exists indissolubly between us, thus you mentally detached yourselves from Me, thus you accomplished the separation from Me in your consciousness. But you nevertheless remain what you are, and you only need to consciously re-establish the bond with Me in order to be able to work in all strength and power, as was your original destiny. This consciousness slumbers within you but can awaken as soon as you are of good will and practice love .... Love is the only means to reach your original state, love re-establishes your connection with Me, love puts you into a state of realization and thus you also become aware of what you are and in which relationship you stand and should stand with Me. Love also brings faith to life in you, and then it is possible for you to feel yourselves to be children of Mine and to change your hitherto ungodly nature of your own will again and to shine in purest divinity, to become My image and now also be able to accomplish in fullness of strength what you set out to do. You are divine products and can never deny the original being; but you were able to take on a different form yourselves through your will, thus disguising the divine in you, and thereby you became weak and powerless, blind in spirit and devoid of all realization. However, this is not your actual nature but only an assumed state, an illusory state, which I use all means to remedy, but which can only happen in such a way that you yourselves attain realization of what you were, what you are and what you should become, and you make an effort of your own free will to reach the aim, the state of perfection, which puts you into possession of undreamt-of strength and brightest light, so that you are already able to accomplish everything on earth, that you can already work miracles on earth if you take the transformation of your nature seriously, if you live in love, thereby attain living faith and consciously use your strength in contact with Me, as is My will ....

\+15.07.1950 Then, believing in My love and grace, you will also be able to work miracles, you will, so to speak, use your strength to bless your fellow human beings, appealing for My support, yet in awareness of the abundance of strength which will enable you to succeed in everything. As part of Me you also possess divine strength which you can increase indefinitely through your faith. But this is already a sign of unification with Me in free will. Your stay on earth will then only be necessary for the sake of your fellow human beings, you yourselves will have reached the degree which is necessary for entering spheres of light, and your activity will therefore only be a testimony for the unbelievers or those of weak faith. You are children of God but nevertheless first have to acquire the right of a child again because you have voluntarily given it up. Therefore, as long as you are without strength you are still under the burden of the former sin of wanting to separate from Me. Consider that you have not yet reached your aim on earth as long as you lack this strength, which can only be a lack of faith which only comes alive through love. Hence you lack love and faith, and to remedy this lack shall be your work, your constant striving and your innermost desire. And if you entrust yourselves to Me in prayer, if you ask Me to strengthen your faith and deepen your love, I will help you and fill you with strength as a sign that you are My children whom I have loved from the beginning and will continue to love for all eternity. You will succeed in everything by believing in My infinite love for you. And if you now consider that your faith, which enables you to perform miracles, can also save your fellow human beings from deepest spiritual adversity, if you know that it is My will when you use your strength to awaken or revive your fellow human beings' faith, that it is also My will when children of faith stand up for Me and My word in the last days and reinforce their speeches with signs of the strength of faith, then you also know that I bless everyone who is thus active for Me that he testifies to Me and My strength, who works miracles in My name on the sick and the weak, on people who are in great physical hardship but who allow the extraordinary work to take place through an even if only weak faith in Me. I need strong supports on earth in the end time as counterforces for the work of satan, who wants to eradicate all faith and who finds resistance in strongly believing people which he cannot defeat .... I need everyone who allows himself to be permeated by My strength in order to manifestly testify to Me and My kingdom, which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of faith of a living but wrong belief ....

B.D. 4936 from July 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Only a few people follow the right and true faith, hence the faith which utterly corresponds to the truth. But I also respect the faith of those who are not instructed in the truth, who also have a living faith in what they were taught, who therefore, for love of Me and their neighbour, gained a living faith to which they hold fast for fear that they might sin. They trust in Me and are convinced that I will grant their prayer, and I do not disappoint such faith, which goes to show that even wrong believers can receive remarkable help by virtue of their faith, but then it should not be assumed that what they believe is true, instead, merely the strength of a living faith can be recognised through it. Nevertheless I also try to convey the pure truth to them, for one day they will have to accept it in order to become blessed .... if not on earth, then in the beyond. Yet it will be far more difficult to get through to them with the truth because wrong teachings are too deep-rooted in them and time after time My adversary tries to combine new misguided teachings with the truth, and the more blindly people believe, that is, if they don´t think about the spiritual knowledge they are given, the easier it will be for him. Love, however, is the decisive factor, for love illuminates the spirit. In a loving person reservations will arise by themselves and the correctness of what is presented as truth will be doubted. This is why a loving person is often discerning and can detach himself sooner than others from wrong doctrines, or his faith becomes so alive through love that He sees in Me the most loving and powerful Being to Whom nothing is impossible .... which also gives rise to profound faith in the miraculous power of certain things, which I will not disappoint, even if he diverts from the truth and no doctrine can ever meet My approval which leads people astray. Everything is certainly possible to Me, yet only a person´s childlike love and unlimited trust in My help motivates Me to grant it to him, for I have given you humans the promise that I will not disappoint a firm faith, that I will give you whatever you request, if you pray in spirit and in truth. And a firm and indisputable faith also guarantees a prayer in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Limits of knowledge .... crossing them ....

B.D. 4937 from July 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

No limit is set for your knowledge, but you set it for yourselves through your will and your state of maturity of the soul. For you can change both your will and the soul's state of maturity, and therefore it is you yourselves who set a limit to knowledge. Ignorance, thus a lack of knowledge, is the result of your still great distance from Me; if you now reduce this distance of your own free will then you will also enter the state of realization, thus you will receive knowledge which corresponds to the truth and thus guides you into realization. And depending on your striving to get close to Me the state of light in you, which therefore corresponds to the knowledge of truth, will increase, and that unlimitedly from Me. As soon as you fulfil your purpose of earthly life, that is, as soon as you strive to become perfect, i.e. to shape yourselves into My image through a life of love, the penetration of truthful knowledge is a matter of course, because it results from living according to My will, from the transformation into love itself, that you enter the state of knowledge again from the state of ignorance, into a state of light which was originally granted to you and which you lost through your own fault. Love and knowledge of the pure truth therefore belong together, it makes the human being a divine being again, which he was from the beginning. Nothing remains hidden to the human being from Me, he can penetrate all secrets if only he chooses the right path .... the connection with Me, Who knows about everything, through activity in love .... Consequently, there are no limits to the human being's knowledge, for I will not withhold anything from anyone who researches with Me and about Me if he is worthy of the truth to the fullest extent through his way of life. For even such areas can be researched with My support which are unfathomable to the human being's intellect as soon as his will strives for it, but at the same time the will also applies to his perfection. For I set conditions for the distribution of pure truth, of knowledge, which I alone can impart. And these conditions must be fulfilled: The shaping into love is the first condition, otherwise the human being would not be worthy and also unable to receive the knowledge imparted to him by Me. He first has to shape himself into a receptacle of the divine spirit in order to then be introduced by My spirit into deepest knowledge which is unlimited for the one who wants to exceed the limits set by his intellect. Yet this will only be understandable to the human being who has created the evidence for himself through a life of love and serious striving for truth and has therefore already become knowledgeable. The intellectual person, however, cannot provide the proof, for he does not accept the knowledge gained through spiritual activity as truth either, and therefore he will never be able to exceed the limits of knowledge which were set for him as a human being ....

Amen

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Power transmission through the word of God ....

B.D. 4938 from July 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Being able to hear the father's voice is the result of a living faith which causes the earthly child to immerse itself in its innermost being and speak to Me in thought or wait for My address because it longs for the father's voice. My child can no longer lose this faith, only it can withdraw into silence more or less often and therefore also be more or less permeated by the strength of My word, which therefore also has a different effect on the soul's state, which is now strong or weak in the earthly life struggle. If the soul lacks strength it is no match for the trials of earthly life, it can offer little resistance and is dispirited and despondent. But if the soul receives strength, then the human being can cope with everything without difficulty. The supply of strength can only come from Me Myself, it is conveyed from Me to My own in the form of My word .... Anyone who always draws strength from My word will never be weak or unable to fight the battle of life, for he unites with Me in thought and desires to hear Me. And thus he turns to the right place, for only one can distribute strength and does so. Anyone who hears My voice and recognizes Me in it is also My child, which I will never leave without assistance. But it must come to Me of its own accord and want to hear Me. Only then will I express Myself to him, yet not always in the same way, because not all people can hear Me directly if their faith is too weak to believe that I make Myself known in the word through My spirit in the human being's heart. But then I will also convey My word to him through fellow human beings or through writings, but always recognizable to the one who seeks Me and wants to hear Me. But listening to My voice within oneself testifies to a profound faith in Me, which I value particularly highly and reward through the transmission of My word, which is blessed with My strength. And you should all make use of this directly received word, because you receive much strength from Me and can deepen your faith as soon as you let My word take effect on you. The strength of My word is immeasurable, yet My strength also reaches those who receive My word through mediators or the scriptures, for their will and desire for Me enables them to recognize it as My word and they likewise expose themselves to its effect, they receive strength and grace .... Anyone who recognizes My voice as the father's voice belongs to My own who can request strength at any time and will always receive it from Me. Therefore, often enter into silence and listen to what I want to say to you, and you will easily and freely go through earthly life, nothing will frighten you and nothing will oppress you, for you will overcome everything because you receive strength with My word ....

Amen

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"In the name of Jesus Christ ...." teachings ....

B.D. 4939 from July 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Whenever you teach in My name you teach correctly .... Yet it is not enough to merely mention My name, which can also be pronounced by anyone who does not have living faith in Me, but in spirit and in truth you must call Me to you, then you will also speak in My name, and your words will be right, your thinking will correspond to the truth, and you yourselves will be fully convinced of what you speak, thus you will also be able to successfully instruct your fellow human beings. But you must never exclude me .... Hence you should bring the gospel to people in the name of Jesus Christ, you should act as My messengers and try to make your mission credible to people by conveying the word which you receive directly from Me. You should speak in My name and glorify My name again by reporting My extraordinary working in and on you, so that fellow human beings will also learn to believe with conviction. You shall carry My gospel out into the world .... as true messengers of Me you shall preach love and also practice it yourselves in order to give evidence of the strength of love to all who are of good will. For the teaching of love has to be proclaimed again, just as I Myself taught it on earth. And therefore My spirit must be able to be active in you, I Myself must be able to dwell with you through your will. As soon as you devoutly speak My name I will be with you, and then everything will be guided and directed by Me, then you will be true disciples who will fulfil their task with My assistance, that is, who will spread the gospel amongst people. If you speak to them in My name, then the words are addressed by Me Myself to fellow human beings, then they will not fail to have an effect, for the willing human being recognizes My voice and is also touched by it because he feels that they are not human words but God’s words. You should never speak on your own initiative but always start the conversation in My name and you will be amazed at the success and effect of your speeches on the listener. For where I dwell through your will success is truly also guaranteed, even if it is not immediately recognizable, yet the words retain their effect and again and again enter the thoughts of the one to whom they apply with clarity. My name has great strength, and blessed is he who makes use of this strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prediction of the natural disaster .... Dead stretches of land ....

B.D. 4940 from July 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The last end will be preceded by an enormous event which is bound to make all people think who survive it. It will be an indication of the end, a small scale destruction compared to the final work of destruction of this earth, yet of such an extent as never experienced by humanity since the earth came into existence. It is a natural happening which will throw all affected people or those who hear about it into turmoil, for the consequences of the incident are too vast as to go unnoticed. So-called dead stretches of land will form which exhibit no life whatsoever because the vapours of the earth smother all life in these areas. An obvious influence by natural forces will be recognisable so that this phenomenon cannot be traced back to human activity because I want to reveal Myself through this happening in order to make the near end credible to people, which seers and prophets are constantly proclaiming on My instructions. People are faced by renewed suffering and yet cannot be spared this suffering as long as they still pay tribute to the world and only take notice of Me in passing. They must look for Me so that I can let Myself be found, which can only be accomplished by an event which can no longer be explained with people's activity. They must sense that a higher power is behind it and entrust themselves to this power in their earthly adversity. But in order to do so they must also be at the mercy of this power in order to take refuge in it of their own accord. They must physically be without help in order to noticeably feel the help from above ....

And for this reason a violent storm will arise which will uproot and lift everything off the ground; the earth will split open and from above and below people will find themselves at the mercy of the elements which they will be unable to fight as they will not have enough strength; an unbearable heat will, in fact, have already rendered people incapable and lethargic beforehand and so they will watch the first signs in nature without interest until they recognise their grim situation and then they will almost brutally fight for their life which they fear to lose. And I will help all those in their adversity who are of good will; I will provide them with realisation so that they can recognise My reign and activity in all happenings and as a result of this insight also instruct their fellow human beings and encourage them to turn to Me, and they will preach to them about My love, wisdom and omnipotence so that they will call upon Me when they are in danger. I want to be their Leader, and those who believe in Me and want to serve Me shall be saved during all hardship of the last days before the end. For shortly after this event follows the destruction of the old earth, as it is written. Yet people shall not experience this destruction unprepared, hence I will cast a shadow beforehand .... a final indication which should be given credence, so that people will not walk into eternal ruin, so that they will be able to save themselves if only they use their will correctly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Increasing darkness before the end ....

B.D. 4941 from July 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The shadows will darken as the end approaches. Darkness will increase amongst humanity, many more will turn away from faith who think they are too clever to be able to believe, for which all evidence is lacking. People will want to suppress faith with their intellect and a way will be sought to convince people of the untenability of faith. And humanity will sink into ever deeper night .... for it flees the light, and the brighter the light shines the blacker the night will be for those who step out of the ray of light, i.e., anyone who once had the grace to be touched by a ray of light and flees from this ray will not see day again for a long time, for he spurned a gift of grace from Me which My love offered him .... Anyone who has once taken notice of My word imparted from above, which appears clear and pure to him and which he nevertheless does not accept because he feels comfortable in the darkness of spirit, will not find his way out of the darkness for a long time, and not undeservedly. But in the end it will be conspicuous how action is taken against the light and its bright shining .... In the end all faith will be rejected, and all the more easily where false doctrines are openly recognized as such and believe to be able to justify the rejection of all doctrines of faith. In their dark spiritual state it will be impossible for people to recognize what is true, and therefore everything will be rejected which has to do with faith in a God and creator of eternity. And where a light brightly breaks through the darkness it will be regarded as a deceptive work and everything will be done to extinguish it .... Darkness will increase the closer the end is. But then the light from above must shine with all its strength to show the way to the few who want to escape from the darkness. But this light has been kindled by Me and is also maintained by Me, and it will not be possible for the powers of darkness to extinguish it. Again and again the light shines down to earth and the darkness, which is spread over the earth, becomes all the more obvious. And anyone who is permeated by light is no longer harmed by the darkness, his spirit sees brightly and clearly and recognizes Me, and that is why he also remains faithful to Me and confesses Me until the end. And therefore I seek to kindle a light everywhere which shines brightly into the darkness .... I seek to kindle living faith in Me and My love, in My activity and My truthfulness everywhere .... And anyone who has gained this faith can no longer fall back into darkness, he will not let himself be distracted by the intellect of those who want to take his faith away, for he knows more than human intellect can fathom .... he has attained the realization which cannot be gained by the intellect but only by the heart, and this realization helps him to persevere until the end, which is imminent ....

Amen

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'Thou art Peter, the rock, and upon this rock I will build My church ....'

B.D. 4942 from July 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I certainly established a church on earth but I did not want an organisation .... I say this to all those who interpret My Word 'Thou art Peter, the rock, and upon this rock I will build My church' such that I Myself Am the founder of worldly organisations which call themselves the true church of Christ. Like all My Words these, too, were intended to be understood spiritually, in fact, they are very easy to comprehend if the faith of My disciple Peter is understood as a rock, which everyone must possess in order to belong to My true church. My church is a purely spiritual foundation; it is to be understood as a community with a faith as rock-hard as Peter's, but never the amalgamation of people in a purely secular organisation, which has to be called secular because everything that proves the affiliation to this organisation must be outwardly recognisable and because further regulations or laws were decreed which inhibit a person's thinking and actions, which entirely contradicts My will. It is My will that people wanting to belong to My church should strive towards Me of their own free will, which necessitates faith in Me as well as love .... Neither can be enforced nor achieved through regulations; love for Me does not awaken as a matter of duty but through faith in My perfection, and although this faith can be taught, it cannot be demanded. The human being must bring himself to believe after he has received knowledge of Me, of his Creator and Father of eternity. A human being only becomes a member of My church through this self-attained faith, therefore My church cannot be an organisation with a mass of members who lack living, self-attained faith. For although faith and love are being preached, the listeners must nevertheless first activate their will in order to acquire the right of belonging to the church which was founded by Me.

And therefore I repeatedly emphasise that people could not have formed this church by establishing an organisation in which, like in any worldly organisation, leaders of various ranks work, to whom I have never appointed such a ministry, whose functions are more of a ruling than a serving nature and who are often not members of the church I founded themselves because they, too, only believe blindly what they were taught and as yet have neither acquired a convinced faith through deliberation nor a living faith through activity of love. Hence these believe themselves to be My representatives on earth, and yet they are unable to convey truthful knowledge to people because they don't possess it themselves. They feel that they are Peter's successors but they are not because their faith lacks the strength of a rock as soon as it is tested. The church founded by Me will prove itself .... not even the gates of hell will defeat it. But once the walls of the former are shaken, which is intended by My will, it will not survive and only blindly believing fanatics will remain steadfast but not on account of conviction but because of fanaticism which is not valued by Me as faithfulness. For I want people to think about everything they encounter, and it is My will that they shall acquire vision and don't remain blind due to their own fault. I also want them to think about My Words: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it .... I want people to reflect on how these Words of Mine are to be understood: It is My will that they should be truthfully interpreted and you humans also recognise when human interpretation does not correspond to the spiritual meaning which I have placed into My Words. And you will be able to recognise it if you dwell on it with willingness for the pure truth when you are taught by those who call themselves My representatives on earth. My true representatives are certainly informed of the truth and can therefore also provide their fellow human beings with a correct explanation regarding My Word and its deeper spiritual meaning. However, My representatives also belong to the church founded by Me, even though they are not members of an earthly organisation. My true representatives will also announce in My name to all spiritual organisations the end of their existence, because everything that has distanced itself from the real truth will fade away, even if people are convinced that that church will be invincible. Only the church which I Myself have founded on earth will be invincible, which is a spiritual community of those with a faith like Peter's and who, through this faith, shape themselves into My image, who can indeed have a living faith because they are instructed in the truth, who allow My spirit to be effective in them, which always is and will remain a sign of affiliation to the church I have founded ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine revelations oblige .... near end ....

B.D. 4943 from July 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

To be taught the truth by Me is a gift of grace which also obliges. Anyone who is richly blessed by Me should give away of his possessions to his neighbour, otherwise he is not worthy of My love and grace. And anyone who is showered with My grace is always willing to share himself and make his fellow human beings happy, just as he himself is happy. Whoever receives My gift of grace also stands in love and passes on what he receives. From this it follows that when I reveal Myself .... for My revelations are extraordinary gifts of grace .... I also want them to be spread because they are of immense value for the soul's development. Understand, you humans, that My word is the surest means for you to achieve your aim on earth of becoming perfect. Thus My word must not be disregarded, the living water must not dry up in the sand but a riverbed must be created for it, it must continue to flow so that many can refresh themselves with the water of life which flows from the fountainhead of My love. When I reveal Myself to a person it means that I give him proof of My existence and My bond with the person who longs for Me in his love, I reveal Myself to him, I let him become aware of My presence, as it were, I make Myself known to him .... But anyone who has recognized Me himself also gives testimony of Me to his fellow human beings, and this is what every revelation is intended to do .... to awaken or strengthen faith in Me. And since I wrestle for the souls of all My living creations, since I want to win everyone for eternal life, all people shall also gain knowledge of Me, they shall know that the eternal deity expresses Itself to every person, because all are children of Its eternal love. Therefore, every revelation on My part shall be mentioned, and fellow human beings shall believe in it or not according to their way of life, because the soul's ascent is a matter of free will .... He who receives much shall also distribute much. If the recipient of My word is now destined for a teaching activity, the measure of grace will be inexhaustible, for now he is active as a mediator between Me and people, he has a mission to fulfil, to pass on extensive knowledge, the spreading of which has now become necessary in order to reduce the great spiritual hardship. This knowledge concerns the purification of My already very educated teaching and, at the same time, the plight of people who live on this earth during the last days and are in a pitiable state due to their lack of knowledge, who, due to a way of life which contradicts My will and due to misguided thinking, are in utmost danger of being lost in the end for eternal times. By conveying the truth and through admonitions and warnings still willing people can be guided onto the right path, and this is the mission of the one who is taught by Me, who is the mediator between Me and people through the inner word. For this reason the knowledge which this mediator receives comprises for the first time the pure gospel, the unadulterated teaching of love, which I Myself, as the man Jesus, brought to people on earth in order to lead them back from the path of ruin they were walking on to the path of salvation. The gospel shall be proclaimed to people again as purely as it once came forth from Me, and therefore I must send My word from above to people again, they must receive it directly from Me, albeit conveyed through the mouth of a human being, because the presently educated teaching is used as My adversary's means and therefore causes more harm than spiritual success for the soul. I know how necessary it is to convey the pure truth to people, and I bless everyone who, in the last days before the end, as My true disciple, as an apostle of the end time, supports the spreading of the pure teaching, who wants to fight against error and lies and makes himself available to Me for this purpose. And thus the transmission of the pure gospel to earth through the inner word is a great revelation of Myself, for I Myself am the word, and whatever emanates from Me must also testify to Me as what I am. My word is recognizable to everyone who wants to recognize it .... But furthermore, the end is near .... And I want to announce this to people through seers and prophets. Therefore I need people again who, driven by My spirit, repeatedly present to their fellow human beings that the last time has come. They do not speak for themselves, they speak on My behalf, as My messengers, and this mission is also important, for people are to be disturbed from their rest and pointed to the future, which is decisive for eternity for every individual. My servants on earth will not have much success, nevertheless they shall be restlessly active and not miss any opportunity to mention My extraordinary working, My revelations. They shall make use of every day as industrious labourers in the vineyard of the lord, for time is pressing. The end is near, so near that you cannot believe it. Therefore call out to each one: Work and do while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The power of the word .... ineffectiveness ....

B.D. 4944 from July 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The power of the word cannot become effective as long as the human being rejects it. Therefore the word will also not be recognized for what it is: as emanation of the eternal deity, as long as the human being does not want it to bear witness to it. The inner defence is a visible influence of the adversary of God, for a good person feels beneficently touched because the adversary of God has no power over these people. The divine word is the direct emanation of God .... God's strength of love can certainly penetrate everywhere but it immediately becomes ineffective as soon as it encounters resistance, otherwise the word would exert a certain spiritual coercion on people who are still God-opposing. The opposition to God does not only consist of open rejection of God and obvious counteraction, but the person can appear outwardly as God-affirming and yet inwardly be full of opposition to everything that has to do with faith. And on such a person God’s word remains completely without impression. His heart remains closed because his intellect wants to deny what requires an affirmative attitude in order to be able to work as grace. Offering these people the pure word of God from heaven does not promise much success, and these are the people of whom it can be said that they are neither warm nor cold .... who do not have the courage to openly reject, who are considered believers and yet inwardly deny everything and often still influence their fellow human beings with their attitude. For these, therefore, the divine word is no source of strength, for they only hear it according to the letter and it has no spiritual meaning for them. These are the ones who also doubt the book of the fathers, even if they openly profess it. And therefore they will also read it without understanding, and it will confuse rather than enlighten their spirit. For the power is not able to penetrate to the heart. It is only a dead word, for life is missing because man himself is dead in spirit. And spirit must speak to spirit. God’s word is the current of strength which again touches the divine spark, but only if the human being is willing to do so. All resistance interrupts the current because God gives nothing that does not want to be accepted. And so it is understandable that the word of God is all the more effective the more intimately it is desired. The desire for the divine word also secures an inconceivable blessing for the recipient, and the power of God flows through him who opens himself to the flow of power through his desire for it. He feels what his fellow human being cannot comprehend, he will understand what is completely inexplicable to him, for he connects himself with God through his desire, a connection which the latter can never enter into because he is far from God and does not make use of His strength in order to be able to approach Him. For without the supply of strength from God the human being is a weak being, and he will achieve nothing on earth as long as he withdraws himself from this supply of strength through his will, as long as his will is still under the influence of the one who is God's adversary, who did not want to acknowledge God as the source of strength and therefore fell ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Source of life .... holy communion .... flesh and blood ....

B.D. 4945 from August 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You should always and constantly draw from the source of life, and you will never lack the strength to ascend. What you are offered is nourishment for your soul, which you urgently need on your path through life, and therefore you should not let your soul go hungry by indifferently passing it by when I want to feed you at My table .... I will give you bread and wine to strengthen your soul, and My table of gifts is always laid for hungry earthly wanderers who want to be My guests. I feed them and give them drink and let no one go from Me unsated who wants to be refreshed by Me. But I don't force anyone who resists Me to accept My gift, yet I advice him not to pass by the gift of life which opens up the most delicious things on earth to him. He should keep still for a while during his walk and think about whether his strength will suffice until the end of the path if he does not accept strengthening when it is offered to him. For he will bitterly regret it if he sinks down before the end and can no longer rise to continue the path. You humans all need strengthening, for it is not the body that should reach its aim but the soul. You certainly provide abundantly for the body but you leave the soul in want, and if a source of life opens up for it, it rushes past and you weaken it so that it cannot fulfil its earthly task of developing upwards, for what it lacks cannot be given to it by the world but only I can hand it the nourishment, the bread from the heavens, which alone gives it strength on the path upwards. The nourishment I give it is My word, which is conveyed to it from above through My love .... Anyone who accepts My word within himself will receive much strength and effortlessly be able to cover the ascent, for My word is such effective nourishment and such life-awakening drink that the human being no longer knows any weakness and is filled with strong will to reach Me, Who stands at the end of the path and stretches out My hands towards him in longing love for all My living creations. And thus My love is constantly intent on conveying the strength to the earthly children which can only be imparted to them through My word. I constantly want to offer them My word, My flesh and My blood, because they have to receive Me Myself in order to come close to Me, because without Me they cannot ascend and therefore I bring Myself close to them in My word so that they will become blissfully happy ....

(4.8.1950) No externally perceptible act is necessary in order to let Me be present, for the human being will only ever hear My word if he quietly listens within himself. Thus he will only be fed by Me with nourishment for the soul if he mentally establishes an intimate connection with Me which enables him to hear My word, and this intimate connection requires no external sign, no ceremony and no visible action. An open heart is all I require in order to let the flow of grace of My love flow in, in order to truly feed and water the human being, because his soul needs strengthening and I reward the intimate connection with Me by expressing Myself in the word. My word is the manna which comes from heaven, My word is the pledge of My love, for the only path to Me is love, which is taught to everyone through My word. My word is both a means and an end, for it leads to Me and emanates from Me as strength so that it helps the human being to ascend. The word proves Me Who is without beginning and without end, Who manifestly makes Myself known, thus giving My flesh and blood to all those who want to accept it from Me. And all of you shall feast on My gift of grace, all of you shall hunger and thirst for My address, all of you shall desire to be fed by Me and you will always receive bread and wine; I will always invite you to supper and provide you as My guests with everything you need for body and soul. And your soul will never ever need to go hungry if the spring from which the living water flows has been opened up to it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Willful decision in earthly life ....

B.D. 4946 from August 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Only the decision of will is demanded of you during your earthly life, but you have to express it with your heart, not only with your mouth. The human being's will will be directed upwards or downwards, and his way of life will correspond to this will, which thus expresses the direction his will has taken. Since the will is now free from Me, the human being determines the direction of his will of his own accord, thus he is not in a state of compulsion and therefore, in order to be able to decide, must have knowledge of both aims between which he is to decide. Good and evil can be his thinking, good and evil can be his striving, good and evil are the opposite poles which exert their attraction on every human being who lives on earth. Good and evil are the forces that try to influence human thinking. But the human being has to make the decision himself and thus I have also given him the ability to recognize good and evil, thus according to his feelings his decision should be the right one, yet this feeling is dulled by opposing forces through an irritating portrayal of evil which, however, is only successful where the resistance against Me is still great. Good as well as evil can be recognized, whether it wants to be recognized is up to the human being himself, who can think and want freely in all directions. Where the adversary lures the human being with earthly advantages and successes, graces without measure are available from My side, so that the battle between good and evil can never be called unequal and even the most primitive human being can just as well give the right direction to the will as the intellectually extremely superior one, for which My justice and My love is a guarantee. Yet the slightest affection for evil gives the adversary tremendous power which he uses in a frightening way, just as, conversely, the slightest devotion of the will to Me guarantees an extraordinary influx of grace in order to withstand all temptations and onslaughts of the adversary. The human being has free will and is not defencelessly at the mercy of the opposing powers during his earthly life, yet he has to make the decision himself because it determines his life in eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Antichrist .... The faith is in danger ....

B.D. 4947 from August 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The Antichrist will irresponsibly proceed against all who still believe in a God of heaven and earth. For he will force people to deny their faith which, on My part, is entirely a matter of the human being's free will. He will force them by threatening measures which appear intolerable to people, hence they will be too weak to resist. The faith is in danger .... This should make everyone think who is approached by Me through My messengers on earth, who receives My Word which I have conveyed to My messengers. The faith is in danger .... Do you know what it means having to make a public declaration and at the same time heading towards extreme earthly hardship? .... Do you know how people will pull every single religious doctrine apart with the intention to demonstrate its uselessness to you and how little you will be able to answer? Do you know how difficult they will make it for you to stand firm in faith of Me, your God and Father of eternity? How they will take and destroy everything that hitherto seemed irrefutable to you?

Everyone who determinedly rejects their demand of denying Me will be treated brutally, and in the face of this many will weaken and betray Me without resistance, for they lack the strength of faith which arises from the pure truth. I want to draw your attention to this time and enlighten you in advance, because I know every individual person's character and the spiritual adversity you will experience resulting from My adversary's activity, who can be distinctly recognised by the Antichrist's measures. And I want to inform you of his success .... since he will fight with much cunning and force he will find many followers .... He will succeed in doing what many before him had failed to do, he will shake the faith which seemed unshakable .... He will overturn religious doctrines with the greatest of ease for he will be an effective speaker and will show people the error of their thinking, and those who don't carry Me in their heart will cheer him on and agree with him, considerably strengthening his power even more.

He will achieve what no-one else has achieved before .... he will overthrow a power which was deemed insurmountable. But there is one wall he will not be able to pull down, he will meet with one resistance, namely wherever My fighters are under My guidance .... There he will fight in vain, for My fighters will be invincible since they will be protected by the shield of faith which is so alive that it is strength in itself and cannot be shaken. These fighters of Mine will draw the strength directly from Me, for they will be able to hear and even see Me and not succumb to any temptation .... they will be enlightened and therefore will also recognise what hour has tolled and how close it is to the end .... The right knowledge will provide My Own with the strength to persevere to the end; but the majority of people will lack the right knowledge, and when it is given to them they will not accept it.

But I know what will happen and want to help you, and Am only able to do it such that you will be informed about the battle of light against darkness in the last days before the end, about My adversary's great power and your heavenly Father's even greater love and grace for everyone wanting to remain His Own, who thus have the sincere will to belong to the small flock whose shepherd I Am and whom I therefore will not abandon during the worst battle of faith which the people of this earth will still experience before their end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God speaks to the people .... power of the divine word ....

B.D. 4948 from August 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

What is given to you at this hour, that speak, for it is not you who speak, but it is My spirit who impels you to speak in My name. And by your words everyone will recognize your mission who is of serious and good will. The time dictates that I appear extraordinarily, that My grace is with those who believe in Me and give Me their love. And I will make Myself known to them in the word, I will confront them again and instruct them and they shall recognize their father's voice Who speaks through a human being to all people. They are not words which the human being himself shapes into what they are through his intellect, they are words of love which I speak to you, which allow My spirit to be recognized and which flow out of My speaker's mouth of their own accord, who wants to serve Me and allows My spirit to work in him. You humans will need obvious evidence of My love because you will often still be afflicted by weakness in view of the external circumstances you get into shortly before the end. Then you will long for My loving fatherly words which give you strength and comfort in every adversity. And if someone from My ranks then appears and speaks to you, then you may believe that it is your father Himself Who has chosen him to be His instrument so that He can make Himself known to you. And if you believe and show Me your love you will also recognize My voice and it will make you happy. And what you hear are the same words I spoke to you when I lived on earth, they are words which shall help you to eternal life, they are words of encouragement and comfort, of encouragement to believe, they are words of promise, they are words of love through which I want to win you for eternity. And anyone who accepts them will become blessed, for My word is blessed with My strength and will enable you to stand firm even in the most difficult time and to persevere until the end, until you will be delivered from all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effectiveness of grace dependent on the will of man ....

B.D. 4949 from August 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Examine yourselves to what extent you are willing to be instructed in the truth. And if you seriously request it you will receive it, for then I, as the eternal truth, will also come close to you humans because your desire will then also apply to Me. And I alone am able to reveal things to you which human intellect cannot fathom. I alone can give you information on questions which human intellect is unable to answer. And I will also do so as soon as you ask Me for it and let My spirit work in you so that I can speak through it: I will draw you to Me through My grace .... for without My grace you will not find the path to Me, without My grace you lack strength. Hence the flow of My love has to pour out upon you and I have to pour out My grace upon you in fullest measure. Since I now love all My living creations, all My living creations will also receive equal attention from Me, yet not all of them are equally willing to accept My gift of grace and therefore determine the measure of grace which takes effect in them. Since I gave you a test to pass as free-willed people, it is understandable that this will may not be influenced by Me in any way .... Therefore, if the grace given to you were immediately and unhindered effective it would be like a compulsion on My living creations; thus grace would have to shape them into the beings they once were and shall become again. And My love would be the guarantee that all creations would be redeemed in no time at all, because My grace is exceedingly effective. The being would then have become through My will, through My help, but what it should and also can become through free will if it accepts My help. Consequently, I also have to make the effectiveness of My grace dependent on the human being's will turned towards Me in order to eliminate a spiritual imperfection. Thus the effectiveness of My grace is certain if it is desired, however, for an unwilling person who is still turned away from Me the grace remains ineffective until he willingly turns to Me again, from Whom he once willingly separated himself. My grace can be used without measure, My bestowal of grace knows no limit and ensures the spiritual ascent, the spiritual maturity, for the willing person in a short time. Thus every person would have to become irrevocably blessed if I had not imposed a condition for effectiveness which only consists of the will turned towards Me, of the conscious striving towards Myself. The flow of grace can therefore exert its effect if it is not resisted, so that the human being's will can also change if grace touches him and he surrenders to its effect without resistance .... if his will is therefore undecided as to where it should turn, thus the decision of will downwards has not yet taken place. The latter feels seized by My grace and its effect will be obvious and also recognized for what it is .... as an act of mercy by the eternal love Which wants to win back Its creations. A soul without resistance, even if it has not yet found the path to Me, feels the effect of grace and submits to it, a soul turned towards Me is impelled by it towards Me, but a soul still opposed to Me remains unaffected by grace because it may not be forced to give up its resistance but should do so of its own free will in order to become blissfully happy. Grace and will therefore relate to each other in such a way that the will determines the effect of grace but not grace the direction of the will. For I do not make the human being's will unfree through My love and mercy, but just as I never helplessly hand the human being over to the opposing force but again and again approach him with My grace so that he will test its effect, i.e. give up his resistance against Me and allow himself to be drawn by Me in order to also obviously experience the effect of My grace. I help everyone through My grace but I don't force anyone to let it take effect but leave the human being's will fullest freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly life purpose: serving in love in free will ....

B.D. 4950 from August 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

This is the purpose of your earthly life, that you humans serve each other in love, because only serving love is true love for your neighbour. The human being must not believe that he can manage without the help of his fellow human being. He needs his neighbour, just as he should help him. Because love should ignite in the human heart, the fellow human being must sometimes be dependent on help, otherwise he would not be given the opportunity to develop his love. What can be proven in the whole of material creation is that everything has its purpose, that therefore every work of creation serves by fulfilling its purpose in a state of necessity to contribute to the preservation and enlivenment of other works of creation .... This is also the human being's task, to serve, however in free will, thus out of love for God and his neighbour. And this serving love alone redeems the human being, for thereby he cancels the old sin, the apostasy of the spiritual from God in arrogance and lust for power .... But anyone who does not submit to this commandment of love for God and his neighbour is still full of arrogance, he does not recognize his purpose of earthly life and therefore remains unredeemed .... he cannot move in freedom after laying down his body, he has not made use of earthly life, he has lived it in vain .... even if it has brought him earthly advantage and he can look back on a busy life at the end. It is about the soul of man, not about his body. The body was given to him so that the soul could mature in him, the body was only the means to an end, for the soul is immortal, but the body dies, and the soul takes nothing of what it has acquired on earth over into the spiritual kingdom. Therefore, as long as the human being only cares for himself and lives apathetically next to his fellow human being, as long as he does not have an open heart and eye for his fellow human being's hardship, he is dominated by selfish love, which is a great obstacle for the soul's upward development. For this self-love pulls down, self-love is a wrongly directed love which never has a redeeming effect but binds the human being even more, which puts itself like a fetter around his spirit, which can never be brought to awakening through self-love. Anyone who loves himself will always look down on his fellow human being, and serving in unselfish neighbourly love is impossible for him, for the ruling principle is still in him and holds him back from every treatment of love. Now the deeper humanity is in selfish love, the greater will also be the earthly adversity which God Himself uses as a means to kindle the flame of love for the neighbour in the heart. Whose heart is touched by the hardship of his fellow human being is not yet hardened and his salvation is not in question. It must be earthly hardship when spiritual hardship has become so great that love has grown cold in people's hearts .... Then God seeks to warm people's hearts with the adversity of their fellow human beings so that they fulfil their purpose of earthly life, to increase their soul's maturity through serving neighbourly love, for only love redeems them, only love sets the soul free and gives it light and strength, only love pulls the soul up from the abyss to the height, only love leads it out of the darkness of night into light and freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Answering prayer in spirit and in truth ....

B.D. 4951 from August 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Ask for My help in every adversity and you will experience the fulfilment of My promise: Ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you. For I truly give you, who pray to Me in spirit and in truth, everything you ask for if it will bring salvation to your soul. Likewise, I will also give you information or an answer if you ask Me, for I will place the answer into your heart, i.e. you will feel what I want to tell you as an answer if only you pay attention to your inner voice after heartfelt prayer to Me. You can confidently entrust everything that moves you, everything that makes you undecided, to Me and I will take care of you and share every worry with you. No prayer will go unheard which is directed up to Me in spirit and in truth. Therefore, if you believe in Me, in My love and omnipotence, and let your prayer ascend in this faith, you must also trust Me that I will hear you in a way which is good for you. You therefore need receive no other answer than this: I know everything and already guide you correctly, I lead you and give you the right thoughts as soon as you only commend yourselves to Me, thus choose Me as your leader. If you let Me Myself be your advisor in every spiritual as well as earthly matter you cannot but act and think correctly. And therefore pray in spirit and in truth before every decision you want to make, and then decide as your heart drives you, i.e., as you feel it to be right, for this feeling is the answer I send to you after heartfelt prayer for My support. I only let every adversity come upon you for the purpose that you join Me all the more intimately so that I can make Myself known to you through My help, which you will then also regard as My help if you have prayed intimately beforehand. Lift up your eyes to Me from where help comes to you in spiritual as well as earthly adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unlimited grant of grace .... effectiveness ....

B.D. 4952 from August 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You will be granted a full measure of grace as long as you live on earth. And therefore no-one will be able to say that he was meagrely provided for by Me so that the light of realization was not perceptible. I step into every person's path and point him to the truth, which he will always accept if he has the will to ascend. In every situation of life he is offered the opportunity to enter the path, the path of love, which inevitably leads to knowledge. The whole of earthly life shows a chain of gifts of grace, aids which My love continuously gives to him so that he fulfils his purpose of earthly life. No-one needs to pass by when I want to bestow My grace upon him, he only needs to open his heart and receive the gifts of grace, he only needs to use his will in the right way and the grace I bestow upon him unmeasured will become effective so that he will become blissfully happy. The human being need not possess comprehensive wisdom but only live according to My will, which even the most simple person can recognize because it is placed in his heart what is good and what is evil. Even the most simple-minded person can listen to the voice of conscience and heed it, he can be good or evil from within, he does not lack the knowledge for it as long as he does not silence the voice within himself by consciously transgressing My commandment. Anyone who is bad also knows it, even if he tries to justify his wickedness or to conceal it. This person, too, will be able to experience My grace, he, too, will be placed in situations where he can reflect on himself and change. Then I will stand by his path again and hold out a measure of grace to him, but his will alone decides whether grace will take effect on him. Full realization, however, presupposes a willingness to make use of My grant of grace, it presupposes an opening of the heart to My flow of grace which then, however, will also take effect in such a way that the human being will be transferred from the state of ignorance into brightest light .... Only a person who is active in love will ever possess full knowledge, who has therefore given up all resistance and therefore also feels My allocation of grace and exposes himself to its effect. Every person receives grace, whether he is good or evil .... But it does not find any resistance in the good person, whereas the evil person is still full of resistance against Me and therefore does not accept My gift either. Yet I will not give meagrely to anyone because all people are My living creations whom I love and want to win for Myself forever. Yet I make the effectiveness of My grace dependent on the human being's will, otherwise it will not be a blessing for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace ....

B.D. 4953 from August 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Whoever has experienced God's grace in himself should also take care that others come into his possession, and this is already a sign that it has become effective in him. Therefore, a person should help his fellow human beings, just as he was helped in spiritual as well as earthly adversity. Help in earthly adversity is a work of unselfish neighbourly love and at the same time a sure means of securing a treasure of grace, and man then uses this again to help in spiritual adversity. God gives His grace to the humble. The humble person serves his fellow human being, and thus serving neighbourly love is always the path that leads to God's inexhaustible source of grace. God's grace is the expression of His love and mercy, it is a gift which is intended to lift the weak fallen person up to Him; furthermore, it is a means to resist temptations of all kinds, it is the source of strength which emerges from divine mercy and is available to the human being undeservedly, from which he can take and use according to his own will. The human being who is willing to love receives grace in abundance, which he acquires through his activity of love. But it also flows to the loveless person, only it usually remains ineffective because he does not pay attention to it. Thus the human being can accept or reject a gift that is offered to him, but he can also acquire a treasure, i.e. increase what he receives as a gift a thousandfold through his own will, i.e. through serving neighbourly love. Grace is everything that God bestows on man so that he may become blessed. All means of beatification are means of grace, because it is an act of grace of immeasurable importance, if God helps the fallen away from Him to reach a height again, which he could never reach by his own strength. God's infinite love and mercy helps the fallen one to strength, but does not force it upon him, but makes it dependent on his will to accept or reject it. Everything is therefore grace which promotes the spiritual's ascent development, except that grace cannot be rejected in the preliminary stages, whereas the spiritual, which is embodied as a human being, is free to make use of it or to disregard it. And it follows that every person can become blissfully happy if he wants to .... because everyone can also make use of grace if he wants to, and no-one will go empty-handed as long as he stays on earth as a human being. Yet no constraint is imposed on his will, otherwise God's grace would work in every person but this would not be a free ascent and thus spiritual perfection would be impossible, which, however, is the final aim of everything that became imperfect in free will and is therefore also unhappy as long as it does not use God's grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Knowing God only through truth ....

B.D. 4954 from August 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Anyone who has recognized Me will also remain faithful to Me in the last battle on this earth. For his soul no longer leaves Me because the spirit within it leads it to Me. Anyone who has recognized Me also knows the truth, for I Myself convey it to him, and this truth gives him the strength to stand up for faith in Me and My kingdom, thus to confess Me before the world. But the human being must have recognized Me first .... And to recognize Me means to form a correct, truthful image of his creator and father of eternity. A distorted image of Me will never give him the strength to stand firm in faith, for the opposing forces shake the foundations of faith too violently so that it collapses in itself if the object of faith is found to be defective. A God whose nature is not recognized as supremely perfect will be dropped as soon as the going gets tough. And therefore it is extremely important that people learn to recognize Me, which again is only possible if they are taught the truth. But the world is full of lies and error .... And a building which was founded on lies and error will never stand. Therefore such a structure must collapse in itself if its foundations are shaken. And I will make sure that this happens one day, because I, as the eternal truth, certainly allow people's will to be free if it distorts the pure truth, but I will never allow anything that deviates from the truth to endure. Truth will triumph and error and lies will perish .... There have always been people who recognized what was wrong and took action against it, yet My adversary always found favour when he brought error and lies into the light and undermined the truth .... People wanted to serve Me and yet they were the servants of the one who is My enemy .... Yet they were not forced into this service, again and again I let them be warned, again and again My spirit worked in those who seriously strove for the truth. Yet My voice was overheard and My adversary's voice was listened to until a stage was reached where the ascent to Me only became possible with difficulty, whereas the descent was all the more certain. And now I call a halt to all those who walk in darkness .... I will ignite a light for them again which will show them the right path, I will send light bearers towards them and let the lie and error be brightly illuminated, I will show Myself to people as I am in truth and not as I am portrayed by blind guides, I want to help all people to recognize Me, and therefore I reveal Myself .... Whoever recognizes Me remains faithful to Me until the end, and therefore you should learn to see everything that is false and free yourselves from it, for you can only follow one, Me or My adversary .... the eternal truth or the prince of lies .... The lie must give way when the truth appears; but whoever flees from the truth is not My, but My adversary's, share. And he will fail in the last battle on this earth, which will be waged as surely as My word is truth and can only be understood by those who have been taught the truth, who have been taught by Me Myself through My spirit, who recognized Me as eternal truth and therefore remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Small flock at the end .... gap widens .... God's help ....

B.D. 4955 from August 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The gulf will become ever wider between My own and satan’s children, for people are increasingly distancing themselves from Me and turning to the one who is the master of matter insofar as it still harbours the spiritual, which is completely of its own mind, i.e. of a will turned away from Me. Therefore you, who strive spiritually and turn your thoughts and aspirations towards Me, will always stand more and more isolated in the midst of the world, you will be shunned by the children of the world or scorned and ridiculed by your fellow human beings who have already become devils and are devoid of all love and faith. But then you will also realize that the end is not far away, for I have foretold you that in the end there will only be a small flock which is Mine, which recognizes its shepherd in Me and respects My voice. But the majority no longer know Me, yet not without fault, for My love also wooed them, yet they did not accept My love, they strove ever further away from Me and fell into deepest night because they shied away from the light which I offered them in My love. In the world, however, only will-o'-the-wisps shine and they chase after their appearance and splendour, they do what the prince of the world commands them, they strive for earthly possessions and seek fulfilment in the pleasures of the world, they only think of physical comfort but not of their soul. Again and again I step into the path of the individual, again and again narrow paths branch off from the broad path, paths that are difficult to pass, where I stand and try to pull them over from the path that leads to ruin. But they walk past Me with their eyes turned away, they do not see because they do not want to see .... But if they meet a messenger from Me they blaspheme and try to harm him wherever they can, driven by My adversary to whom they are in bondage through their will. My gift of grace is not appreciated and you, My servants on earth, will stand alone the closer it gets to the end. But you need not fear anything because I am always with you and therefore you will never be lonely. You will certainly stand alone amongst unbelievers but My own will recognize each other and stick together and draw comfort and strength from My word. And this word of Mine will compensate them for everything they have to do without. Those who are in bondage to My adversary are earthly well provided for, they lack nothing. And therefore they look down on the meagre, needy people and are without mercy. Yet My love does not abandon My own, even though earthly hardship approaches them in an unusual way. My own can be recognized by the fact that they certainly live in physical adversity but their souls are free from fear because they recognize Me as their father and are certain of My care. And thus they will often be strengthened and comforted by their fellow human beings; yet My help will also be obvious, just as satan is obviously effective. The separation will always be more and more accomplished the closer the end is, and the two camps will wage a battle with each other, the children of satan in hatred and unkindness, My own, on the other hand, still want to convert them and try to win them over for Me and My kingdom in love. But the gulf will widen until it has become unbridgeable, until the last end comes, the Day of Judgment, when the goats will be separated from the sheep and both will receive punishment or reward according to merit. For he who is not for Me is against Me, he who does not gather scatters .... He who believes in Me also confesses Me before the world .... but he who does not confess Me belongs to My adversary, and he will also share his fate, he will be condemned on the Day of Judgment, when My justice will speak, because the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

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Rejecting the gift of God's grace .... darkness ....

B.D. 4956 from August 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

God's grace must not be rejected .... Consider these words and then you will understand that people have to go through suffering and misery in order to reach the aim by another path, which they could effortlessly achieve by using My grace. I struggle for every soul, I don't want it to get lost and that is why I meet it again and again with My grace; I want to help it to reach the aim because I know that it is too weak on its own to seriously strive towards the aim of redeeming itself. Hence, where it lacks the strength to do so My love will bestow grace upon it without measure, and it need only surrender to the effect of My grace without resistance, it need only allow itself to be drawn by My love and thus make use of the gift of grace .... And it will be saved for eternity. Yet in their blindness people do not recognize My love and therefore also reject My grace. But I nevertheless have mercy on them and take their state of darkness into account, for I don't condemn people, only they don't free themselves from satan’s shackles, which are equal to condemnation because they signify complete remoteness from God. I have mercy on blind and ignorant people and therefore step into their path again and again. They certainly reject Me and My gift of grace but they lack the knowledge of what they are doing, and therefore I do not reject them but woo them on and on. But anyone who rejects My grace but has recognized it as grace sins against My love and cannot expect mercy. I will indeed approach him again and again but it will be far more difficult for him to recognize Me than before, because I will try to soften his heart with painful means and he will only be able to recognize Me with difficulty in such means. Suffering, too, is a gift of grace because it is meant to lead the human being to Me if he cannot find the path on his own or does not want to take it. And thus you will also understand that a precious gift will not be offered twice by Me to the person who rejects it and yet had the knowledge, thus knows its value very well. He will have to answer for the gift of grace he rejected. But he will also walk in darkness because the light I offered him has been extinguished through his own fault and now the darkness is far deeper than before. I guide the light from heaven down to earth, and whoever is touched by its ray can illuminate his inner being and chase away the spiritual darkness. It is an immeasurable gift of grace which I distribute on earth, and My wisdom can truly recognize it who can be the guardian of this light. Yet it is never My will that the human being absorbs this divine light and thereby creates brightness for himself .... Yet the fact that he can recognize it as light from the heavens if he wants to recognize it is the effect of this gift of grace which appears in every person who seriously strives towards Me and thus uses all means My love offers him. And thus ignorance cannot be used as an excuse when the human being has to answer for his rightly or wrongly used will. Instead, the soul's resistance to My love and mercy will become obvious and thus also its affiliation to My adversary, who also influences the human being from below and impels him to reject My gift of grace. The human being is free, he is neither forced from above nor from below where the spiritual development of the soul is concerned. And thus a gift of grace will never be forced upon him again if he does not stretch out his hands longingly for it, yet whether it will ever be offered to him again on earth is doubtful, for only a repentant soul which sincerely asks Me for it can be touched by the radiation of light again. Yet anyone who once rejects My grace will fall into deepest darkness and shun all light, because the prince of darkness will pull him down and he will surrender to his power and strength without resistance ....

Amen

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Love for the world - disease .... No-one can serve two masters ....

B.D. 4957 from August 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The love for the world is a creeping disease which will definitely lead to spiritual death. And thus you can appreciate that your Father in heaven will quite often have to resort to painful means in order to rescue you from this death, in order to enable your spiritual recovery, in order to make you relinquish the world and its pleasures and attain eternal life .... It would be misguided compassion were I to shy away from such means only to prevent you from suffering during your earthly life; it would be misguided love which would not be a blessing but only a disaster for your soul. My wisdom, however, looks ahead and My love tries to help you. The fact that you have to relinquish the world in order to attain Me is inevitable, and if you do not sacrifice it voluntarily I will have to take what is dear to your heart. And this is why you so often have to suffer on earth, even if your way of life is not blatantly evil. Yet you are still permeated by wrong love, by love for matter, by the kind of love which first has to be redirected if it is to make you happy. And as long as you don't eliminate this love from your hearts I cannot enter them, for where I stay all earthly longing must have been overcome.

And again I must say: No-one can serve two masters .... I Am not content with shared love, however, My adversary, the prince of the World, will not allow that you do not give him the sole right over your soul either. And thus the human being has no choice but to make a decision .... for Me or for him. But as long as he desires the world his decision is for him, who pulls him down into ruin. He will indeed give you plenty during your earthly life, but after your death you will be utterly poverty-stricken in the beyond, and torment and darkness will be your fate .... My gifts, however, are less enticing on earth for they consist of spiritual possessions which have little attraction for you humans during your earthly life, but after your death they represent an immeasurable wealth which makes you blissfully happy and turns you into children of the kingdom of light forever. I offer incomparably more than My adversary, yet his gifts dazzle you and make you hanker after them. But remember life after death .... remember the hour of your passing away is not known to you, that it can be very soon and that you then will lose whatever earthly goods you possess. Then you will have to fear the hour of death .... Yet you will yearn for it if you have gathered spiritual treasures, if you renounce earthly goods in order to exchange them for gifts offered by Me. Then you will long for the hour of death, for you know that when you leave the earth it will be the hour of entering eternal life. Earthly life will seem like a fleeting moment to you, and yet it is decisive for the whole of eternity. And therefore you should understand it when I afflict humanity with all kinds of calamities and take everything away that seems desirable to them. It is not cruelty but love and wisdom, which indeed realises and understands why you humans are in danger and wants to rescue you from it.

Anyone who must suffer should know himself loved by Me, but anyone who receives the possessions of life in abundance is already subject to My adversary, for I know his will and do not compel him to change it. Yet even these people will be approached by Me through their fellow human beings who shall touch their hearts so that they will change their nature into love. Then even they will still be redeemed with certainty. But if their hearts are hardened their good living standard will noticeably continue to get better, for the 'master of the world' will give to them in abundance, because they sold their soul for the sake of earthly possessions and their spiritual death will be assured to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Own will activity .... blind leaders and their followers ....

B.D. 4958 from August 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

People let themselves drift without any resistance. They are brought into existence as beings capable of living and thinking, who are to use their abilities for their upward development. They can want and act and should also use their gifts. For the most part, they let themselves drift like a plaything. What is done to them, they put up with without resistance, and thus there are always only a few who want and act and determine their fellow human beings with their will. And these few are not always good, i.e., they do not always determine their fellow human beings for the good. Rather, it is precisely those people who still spiritually oppose Me who have a strong will. Consequently, this will is transferred to them to the detriment of their fellow human beings and they do not defend themselves. This also explains the acceptance of the many misguided teachings which could very well be recognized by the slightest activity of one's own will and thoughts. But letting oneself drift without resistance is no defence against teachings which are offered to people by strong-willed and energetic fellow human beings. They therefore use their will too little and harm themselves, i.e. their soul. But I have given every individual the task to decide freely during earthly life and this decision inevitably demands his own activity of will and thought. One day you will not be able to excuse yourselves by saying that you only followed the instructions which were given to you as important for your soul's salvation. You will not be able to shift the blame onto those who taught you, even if they were given to you as teachers and also proclaimed the pure truth to you. For this too requires your mental attitude towards it, otherwise you would not be able to recognize it as truth. It is a matter of the upward development of each individual soul .... which certainly needs guides in order to reach the heights, but must not follow everyone who offers himself as a guide. Understand that there are many paths and that you should choose the right one. Therefore you must take care of the path yourselves and not blindly follow a guide who, if he is not good himself, can also take the wrong path. I not only demand accountability from these leaders but also from you, otherwise you could truly receive neither reward nor punishment for the right or wrong way of life on earth but only your leader would have deserved it. How can you claim that you have to be obedient to your leaders? You should only fulfil My will, and you have to get to know it yourselves, which can certainly happen through external instruction, but without your mental attitude it cannot lead to the revival and activity of the will. A good guide will always encourage you to think, and you can also follow him .... but a bad leader demands blind faith in him and his teachings. But I condemn blind faith, for it will not awaken you to life. A blind faith testifies to spiritual sloth, idle will and lack of sense of responsibility; a blind faith kills instead of enlivening, and it will never lead to eternal bliss. I Myself did not create you differently from your guides, I gave you a heart which is capable of love if you are willing and which therefore can also attain realization if the human being strives for it. But if he is weak-willed the guide should help him to use his will correctly, he should certainly support him by instructing him but also demand thought from you, otherwise his instructions are pointless. For every person must make the decision himself and one day also answer for this decision ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering proves God's love .... Fire of purification ....

B.D. 4959 from August 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Accept every burden of life and know that it is necessary in order for you to deliver yourselves from every impediment which is still encumbering your soul. One day you shall freely and without hindrance dwell in spheres that are permeated by light, by that time your soul must have discarded every layer or it will be unable to receive the abundance of light, otherwise the light would meet with resistance which prevents it from entering the soul. What you have to endure on earth only makes it easier for the soul to detach itself from its oppressing shell, so that it can repel what is still tormenting it, what is still tying it down and thus keeping it enslaved. But the kingdom of the blissful spirits knows no impediments, this is why it can only accommodate the pure and wholly spiritualised soul which is free of all impurities that could prevent the permeation of light. The soul must have attained its original state again when, being light itself, it was divine and in intimate contact with the eternal Deity, because it was part of It, a spark of the Eternal Light. All impurities must have been removed first, and that means that the soul must have experienced a fire of purification, which can be the result of intense suffering but also of profound love, but which is always successful.

Hence you humans should not complain if you have to suffer, instead, consider suffering as proof of God's love, Who only ever has your soul's purification in mind in order to provide it with a blissful fate once it enters the spiritual kingdom. Then the soul will bless the suffering and with tremendous gratitude look back on earthly life which, through suffering, resulted in the state of being receptive to light and enabled it to stay close to God in blissful happiness. On earth it is incapable of appreciating the Father's great love and kindness and often rebels against its destiny. Submission, however, guarantees more of God's love, but more suffering also assures higher maturity of soul and life in spiritual spheres in eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love and faith ....

B.D. 4960 from September 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

People lack love and faith and this is their undoing. Their hardened hearts, which only love themselves and cannot muster any feeling for their suffering fellow human beings, are also incapable of believing in a creator of heaven and earth, for faith comes forth from love, faith only comes alive through love. And that is why at the time of the end there is great spiritual hardship, the state of darkness and sin. For without love and without faith there is no light and no knowledge for people either; and therefore they succumb to God's adversary, the prince of darkness, who is devoid of all love and also extinguishes it in people. People are completely without life, for earthly life is only short and then they succumb to spiritual death, which is dreadfully agonizing because there is no extinction for the soul but life is inconceivable in the state the soul is in after its physical death. For love and faith alone are life-awakening, where love and faith are missing, there is death. For love and faith secure the union with God, but without God there is no life, without God there is darkness and powerlessness and thus a state of inactivity, the epitome of death .... People only believe what they see, and they only love themselves. They reject everything spiritual, which is not tangible or visible to them, precisely because they have no love within themselves which, as a divine principle, would also revive faith in God, because then God Himself could work in the human being and His presence would also become an inner conviction for him. But without love the heart is mute, it is far from God and does not feel His strength. And thus the intellect cannot be moved to acknowledge a being Which is the creator of everything that surrounds the human being. The heart cannot instruct the intellect because it is itself inaccessible to all instruction, for the lack of love prevents the working of the spirit which instructs the human being from within and emotionally presents the truth to him. Where love and faith are lacking, the human heart is silent and the soul is in great distress. But in order to shape the human being into love, much earthly hardship is necessary so that he will be touched by the misery of his fellow human beings and the spark of love will be ignited in him .... Only then will his own spiritual hardship begin to fade away, only then will his heart become light, and only then will his intellect consider the questions which provide him with information about his destiny, about his creator of eternity and his relationship with Him .... Only then will he learn to believe, and the more active love becomes in him the more convinced his faith will also become, and the spiritual darkness will give way to the light of day, to right knowledge and to life .... Love and faith determine life in eternity, but they also illuminate the human being's spiritual state on earth. For without love and faith there is no spiritual rebirth and no union with God, without love and faith there is no redemption, and the soul remains eternally in the night of death. For it is far from God and therefore cannot be blissfully happy either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love for God and one's neighbour ....

B.D. 4961 from September 2nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Whatever you want people to do to you when you suffer adversity you should also do to them .... That is the commandment of neighbourly love, which is the most important commandment for you because it includes the love for God at the same time. For whoever loves his neighbour like his brother also loves the Father above all else, Whose child is the neighbour. And thus you humans know what you ought to do in order to become blessed, for these two commandments are the epitome of My will, the fulfilment of which is your earthly task. If you pay attention to these two commandments of love for God and your neighbour you will be unable to commit a sin but will live to please Me, and I will bless you in turn by increasing your realisation and wisdom, light and strength. Yet you humans also know that you are repeatedly approached by the opponent in order to push you off the right path, in order to make you desert Me. And therefore he will try to prevent you from arousing My favour .... He will try to stop you from loving Me and your neighbour and time and again persuade you to transgress these commandments of Mine. He will make you conscious of the fact that you are more important, that you should think of yourselves first and thus let selfish love dominate, so that you will have no understanding for your fellow human being's hardship and neglect Me in favour of your own endeavours .... earthly possessions, which are temporary.

And thus you will have to decide, you will have to choose Me or My adversary .... you will have to fulfil My commandments or perish in selfish love, for My adversary only wants your ruin. But the love you give Me and your neighbour will make you happy, for this love is truly strength and increases spiritual possessions. Your one and only purpose in life is to help your fellow human being, for selfless neighbourly love is the right means of release for your soul, it is the purchase price for eternal beatitude. In the spiritual kingdom, however, love is natural, whereas on earth it is an effort to rise above oneself, because selfish love still constitutes a strong counterweight which, however, is wrongly directed love and locks the entrance to the kingdom of the blessed spirits. Love comes forth from Me and leads back to Me again, but anyone who is without love has voluntarily excluded himself from My circuit and is therefore at risk of falling prey to the one who is entirely without love because he is My opponent. That is why he has to be fought, love shall be practised and therefore My commandment always be complied with; you shall shape yourselves into love through selfless labours of love so that you will correspond to My fundamental nature, so that you will liberate yourselves from your enemy's bondage, so that you will unite with Me and be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Taking advantage of the time of grace before the end ....

B.D. 4962 from September 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

There is still a time of grace, for the end is not yet here .... The human being still has the opportunity to take the right path which leads upwards, and My means of grace are still at his disposal so that he can reach his aim. The human being is still free to do whatever he wants for the salvation of his soul. He can still strive upwards, he will be helped in every way if his will is directed upwards .... There is still a time of grace .... But soon it will be over, and then what has been determined since eternity will irrevocably happen, then that beingness will be bound in matter again, which at present still walks on earth as a human being. It cannot be made clear to you humans how immensely significant this is, and I can only influence you through warnings and admonitions, but you don't believe them much. And again and again I would like to call out to you: Use the time of grace, listen to My words which are conveyed to you through seers and prophets, that the time until the end is only short. Recognize My love in the fact that I repeatedly send you admonishers and warnings because I want to save you from the fate of a renewed banishment in My works of creation. Use the time of grace in which you can still change according to My will. As long as this earth still exists you can also appeal to My love and grace, to My patience and mercy, and you will never make a wrong request if you pray for your spiritual well-being and request My support. I grant it to you in abundance, yet I take pity on your state and your dreadful fate if you fail and persist in your resistance against Me until the end. It is still the time of grace when I will use all means which can still help you if you do not resist Me. Isolated little lights still shine which can illuminate the darkness of your path if you do not extinguish them yourselves. Again and again guides still step into your path, messengers from Me, who offer you their guidance on My behalf so that you will not go astray towards the abyss. I am constantly ready with My grace to help those who call out to Me in adversity or stand undecided at a crossroads; yet the time of grace will soon come to an end, and where each individual soul will stand on the last day, there it will have to stay for endless times through .... in light or in darkness .... Then My love and mercy will give way to justice. Then the gates of the spiritual kingdom close for those who did not use My time of grace .... Then the soul that has apostatized from Me must inevitably take the path that I wanted to spare it, the path through creation for the purpose of slowly returning to Me .... it must travel the path of ascent once again in greatest agony of being bound, because it did not heed My admonitions and warnings, because it did not avail itself of My grace, because it spurned My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Words of love .... Words of wisdom .... Teaching ministry .... Criticism on publishing ....

B.D. 4963 from September 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

In realising your task in life, which consists of distributing the pure Word of God, everything will cause your rejection that has not come forth from the primary source of truth. But they can nevertheless be Words of love with no indwelling God-opposing spirit, and everything that is not in favour of Me is good if it inspires love. In the spiritual kingdom the beings which are permitted to teach recognise each other by their radiance, it is therefore impossible for a still spiritually unenlightened being to intervene. The earthly child which willingly opens itself to the spiritual influx will be lovingly grasped and protected by the beings of light .... I, your God and Father of eternity, Am present in spirit to all those who want to be in contact with Me. I do not abandon these people, for they are My children who have already informed Me of their will. Hence they also sense My presence, they hear Words of encouragement and of comfort from Me, they hear Words of love, which I have on hand for all people who want to listen to Me. It is also My will that they speak to their fellow human beings of My love, I want them to actively stand up for Me, that they motivate their fellow human beings to establish contact with Me as well, that they therefore guide all those into a living faith who allow themselves to be led, thus who are willing to recognise Me. I also give them the ability to speak on My behalf so that they can be successful when they vividly describe My working in them by filling their hearts with profound love for Me and their subsequent hearing of divine Words of love. This has to be said to all those who can hear Me speak in spirit, to whom I reveal Myself so that they will learn to recognise and love Me. They shall proclaim that they themselves experienced My working in them.

However, not all are assigned the task of instructing their fellow human beings, the task of imparting the divine wisdom, the eternal truth to them. For this teaching ministry requires more, only the chosen ones among those I have called shall hold such a teaching ministry and it is them who must therefore first be instructed by Me for the teaching ministry before they can work on My instructions. Anyone who wants to proclaim wisdom must be wise himself and accept his wisdom from Me, for that which should address a person’s heart must also be acceptable to the intellect. Wisdom must be recognised as wisdom, for although it requires good will to do so first it must nevertheless also stand up to serious scrutiny, which can only be expected from truthful knowledge. The intellect must not be excluded where it concern the acceptance of My pure teachings of faith. Since I gave the human being the ability to think I must also provide him with knowledge which his intellect is unable to reject if the heart is open to My instructions. Consider this, then you will understand that not everyone can be a teacher for his fellow human beings, that a person must first have penetrated the wisdom himself before he can instruct other people. Furthermore, consider that all instructions spread through print or in writing are intended to be a blessing .... that you should therefore proceed very judiciously if you don´t want to endanger the pure truth, which cannot be taught by everyone who is not called to do so. For you endanger the truth if a serious seeker of good will discovers flaws which make My nature seem implausible or imperfect to him, because his intellect also wants to form an opinion. I, your God and Father of eternity, certainly recognise your will to be of service to Me and bless you for it, yet you should not step into the public domain without My specific instruction, since you have plenty of opportunities to work in privacy, that is, in the circle I Myself bring close to you. For I look into the human hearts and know whom I bring together so that they can find Me. Yet I also know what causes deliberate rejection if it is not offered to people in the right way. I certainly give evidence of My love to all those who desire it, yet not all of them have attained the degree of maturity in order to hear My Word audibly, just as not every soul is capable of repeating what My love conveys to it mentally. For this reason such souls are not called for teaching work, although they can be very beneficial by communicating their thoughts to people in their vicinity since, if they love Me, their thoughts cannot be wrong as soon as they speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom.

On the other hand, it is quite a different situation where it concerns the public distribution of spiritual information to the human race, which lays claim to having emerged from Me directly and which should be accepted as purest truth. Then those who seriously and with good will scrutinise it intellectually must also be able to accept it, because the pure truth, having originated from Me, can certainly stand up to any test, since it speaks for itself. Even the pure truth will meet with more rejection than acceptance, but the reason for this cannot be found in the fact that it is unacceptable for a person, but that the person, due to his God-opposing relationship, is no longer capable of recognising it. But even the person most incapable of recognising relentlessly uncovers what prevents him from accepting spiritual knowledge and is delighted if he encounters a target in order to doubt the pure truth. And you should not provide him with these targets if you want to work for Me and My kingdom. You can certainly be of service to Me and constantly present Me to your fellow human beings as a God of love and mercy; you should, wherever possible, influence your fellow human beings to practise love, by living a way of life according to My will you should be an example to them, you should strive spiritually and also strive to encourage your fellow human beings to do the same, you should sincerely unite with Me and pray to Me in spirit and in truth, and you will feel My emanation of love increasingly more, you will think, act and speak correctly and thus be My faithful fighters in the battle against the one whose aim it is to ruin all those who don´t resist him. And thus you should wait until you hear My call to carry out specific work in My vineyard, for the time is not far away when I will need those of you who want to be of service to Me, and when I will assign a task to everyone according to his ability .... and blessed will be the one who serves Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge of the eternal plan of salvation .... difference of "word recipients ...."

B.D. 4964 from September 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Let yourselves be introduced to My eternal plan of salvation, i.e., accept the instructions given to you by the bearers of truth, My messengers, in order to make the events of the last days understandable to you. Think about the fact that nothing happens which is not based on My wisdom and that every event has the purpose of bringing the spiritual to maturity. As soon as you learn that every event is based on the individual person's will insofar as the human being needs external events to change his will, as soon as you know that My love is only ever concerned about placing you into a state of perfection .... as soon as you therefore take notice of My eternal plan of salvation .... it will also be understandable to you that I will not let you, My living creations, walk on earth without spiritual care, for an ascent development, such as you are meant to achieve on earth, requires help, since you yourselves are too weak to ever achieve it without help. The spiritual guardians seek to draw you over into the kingdom of light without making your will unfree, because they love you. Thus they are, so to speak, My helpers in people's redemption who, just like I Myself, try to influence people's will so that it turns towards Me, so that contact is established between people and Me which is initially necessary in order to reach ascent. If this connection exists mentally, then the human being advances irrevocably. And therefore the beings of light will make every effort to guide the human being's thoughts into the spiritual kingdom and to inform him of the eternal plan of salvation, which will make My reign and activity spiritually and also earthly comprehensible.

This transmission of knowledge about the work of spiritual redemption is a great necessity and yet can only rarely take place because it can only be imparted from above in all truth and for this impartation listeners have to be found on earth who want to and are able to receive this knowledge spiritually, who therefore do not hear the words from above with the bodily ear but with the ear of the heart. Thus the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom must be able to communicate with the human being in their language, and the human being must be able to understand their language, which is always a matter of the soul and not of the bodily organs. The knowledge of God's plan of salvation is a higher realization, the imparting of which requires a special degree of maturity in order to be able to hear the language from the spiritual kingdom. Words of love can be conveyed to people who are worthy of them through feeling, words of wisdom, on the other hand, are heard by the spiritual ear, which only starts to function in a certain degree of maturity.

And now you will understand why a distinction has to be made with word recipients, with people who open themselves to hear My word within themselves. Again and again it has to be emphasized that words of love and words of wisdom can be received by people who are willing to love, that words of love certainly give the recipient the right to claim them for himself but also to mention them to his fellow human being because I embrace all My creations with My love and they should also know this. Words of wisdom, however, oblige the recipient to teach, for this higher knowledge is only conveyed to earth so that people will take notice of My reign and activity, so that they will receive information about My nature, so that they will recognize and learn to love Me. Only the full realization of Myself ignites love in their hearts, and since I court My living creations' love it will always be My endeavour to introduce people to the truth in order to also win their love for eternity. Therefore I bless those who want to receive the truth from Me directly or through My messengers of light in the spiritual kingdom and now also seek to spread this truth .... I bless those who open their spiritual ear, who shape their nature in such a way that they understand the language of My messengers of light .... I bless them because they have to do a most important work, because they are to participate in the work of redemption on earth in the great spiritual adversity which precedes the last end. And I will support them and smooth all paths for them so that they will contribute to the enlightenment of the spirit out of the profound darkness which is spread across the earth. There shall be light where only one soul longs for light, because heaven and earth work together and are active on My behalf ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Destructive will of God's adversary .... Bound spirits - Human being ....

B.D. 4965 from September 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Everything that is transient in the world belongs to My adversary, that is, all matter shelters imperfect spirits which My adversary once turned against Me and which therefore still oppose Me. Material Creation came into being through My will and he has no authority over it. And yet, this world belongs to him, for he can boast that the spiritual substances bound in matter are the product of his will. However, My will caused the emergence of material Creation in order to remove the spirits from their creator's control and he will never ever be able to destroy My work of love and compassion although it is his constant endeavour. He certainly would like to liberate the spirits from the bound state I placed them in for the purpose of attaining beatitude, for as free beings the imperfect spirits would never strive towards ascent but, under the control of My adversary, would continue to descend ever further into the abyss. For this reason I removed his power over these spiritual beings and created forms he is unable to destroy, because they are My consolidated will. Thus, My adversary has no control over the spiritual substances which are still bound in matter .... However, he tries to use it all the more on the final material form which shelters the spiritual being, on the human being in the stage of free will .... He cannot force the human being to become enslaved by him yet he can seduce him in every way and try to cause him to maliciously destroy material creations as well. Thus, he uses the human being in order to accomplish his will after all .... the destruction of matter .... It is, however, up to the human being to comply with his will or to offer him resistance. And in order to win a person over for his disgraceful plans My adversary enticingly presents that to him which he himself would like to be destroyed. He tries to arouse or to increase the human being's greed for matter and thereby also trigger instincts in him which do not shy away from destroying matter in order to enrich himself or to amass possessions, thereby taking their actual purpose of releasing themselves through being of service away from them, because the human being himself prevents the inherent spiritual substance from being helpful.

Consequently, what the enemy is unable to destroy he wants to prevent from developing further. He tries to give permanence to that which is impermanent, if his destructive will cannot reach it. And the human being obeys him only too gladly as long as matter is enticing to him and he constantly aims to increase it. If My adversary succeeds in tempting people into becoming destructively active, then the prematurely released spirits will wreak so much havoc that it will revoke the order, so that chaos will ensue which will also affect those people who want to withdraw from My adversary's influence. For the devious spiritual beings will cause destruction everywhere, which will always happen through My adversary's initiative who will once again exert his influence over the released spirits. This is why they will be bound again by My will .... Due to the individual person's impulse of preservation, people, whose material possessions were destroyed, will constantly create works for helpful purposes again in which the spirits which escaped from matter will be bound once more for their continued maturing. And these works will then be even more eagerly of service, because the inherent spiritual substance will sense the relief of having been integrated into the process of development again, which it involuntarily had to abandon. It will sense the benefit of order which forms the basis for all My creations, in contrast to My adversary's unlawful activity, which it is indeed subject to in a free state but which does not make it happy. The human being can, by virtue of his free will and My grace, which is at his disposal, resist My adversary and contribute considerably towards preventing him from destroying matter if he helps it to fulfil a serving function and only destroys it if matter is given a higher function of service. Then the human being will keep removing himself ever further from My adversary's influence, then he will completely submit himself to My will by releasing himself and also help the spiritual substance in matter to progress in its development by not granting My adversary any power at all over himself and also trying to release matter from him, by making sure that the human being's will always resists My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The power of faith is grace, but it only becomes effective through the will ....

B.D. 4966 from September 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The grace of the almighty God is unusually noticeable in the last days when earthly hardship takes hold of people which seems almost unbearable, and anyone who only turns to Him in his heart will be seized by His love and filled with His grace. The righteous person who professes God will increase in knowledge, and this knowledge alone is a grace, for it helps the person to gain strength of faith and, as a result, the power of resistance. The person who makes use of God's grace will no longer feel weak, he will live consciously in the hope of soon being rescued from adversity. Strength of faith is a grace, for the human being himself will no longer work on himself in this great adversity of the end time such that he will attain increased faith on his own; yet God sees the will turned towards Him and also helps where the human being is weak, He puts a faith into his heart which is unshakeable and which allows him to endure the last time on earth. He puts faith into his heart .... but this does not mean that God allows people to believe indiscriminately through His grace. The power of faith is indeed a grace, but it only becomes effective on the one who wants to believe and asks God for help in his weakness. Truly, every person could experience God's grace and mercy, but it requires a will turned towards Him, and this is recognizable to God at every hour. It will be a time of adversity which is not yet imaginable to you humans on earth, and good people will fear their fellow human beings who have become true devils. In this anxiety and fear they will become weak and call to God in supplication. Then they will obviously feel His grace, a confidence and peace will fill them and every weakness will be over .... They feel His presence and trustingly place themselves in the hands of God. Only the call in spirit and in truth is enough to be able to experience God's grant of grace in the last days, and from that moment on people will walk their path more easily because they feel that they no longer walk it alone .... Wanting to recognize God and striving towards Him also makes the human being a beneficiary of divine grace, then he can no longer be weak, then he will look at everything with the eyes of the knower and that calm will enter his heart which can be described as peace in God, for he is now constantly united with God in spirit, he constantly feels the father next to him, he constantly senses His strength and might, and he knows that the end is approaching, that every day can bring him salvation from earthly adversity, that he will be saved through a miracle .... He knows that the coming of the lord in the clouds signifies the end of his earthly adversity and he awaits it with a believing heart, for his faith now has the strength which enables him to persevere and remain faithful to God until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God speaks as father to His children .... proof of love ....

B.D. 4967 from September 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

They are words of eternal life which reach you through the heavenly father's love, they are words of grace and mercy, words of promise and warnings of eternal ruin; they are words of light, for they will lead you to realization, they will help you to perfection as soon as you pay attention to them and value them as the father's greatest gift of grace to His children. Anyone who longs for His address will also hear His voice, only he should also consider what he thinks after heartfelt prayer to Him as His voice, for the heart's inwardness, which longs for the father, will always resonate with Him Who loves His children exceedingly and longs for unity with them. Anyone who regards God as father and gives Him his childlike love will also hear His voice in his heart, for the father reveals Himself to him, He makes Himself known to him, for He is constantly present to him and His word is the surest sign of His presence. But you humans are still very far from God and therefore you do not hear His voice and do not believe those who have already established a heartfelt relationship with the father and inform you of His love for the children of this earth. He can only express Himself to a few so that they recognize Him in the word, yet His love and grace belongs to them, He draws them to Himself and never lets them fall again. The divine word is the pledge of His love, it is the evidence of His everlasting care for the human being's soul, which He wants to possess and which therefore has to shape itself according to His will in order to be able to dwell in His presence. Therefore He constantly instructs them, He constantly admonishes and teaches them and thus increases people's spiritual possessions which will one day benefit them in eternity, which guarantee the soul a 'life' in the spiritual kingdom, a constant activity according to God's will. Words which God Himself imparts to people on earth will never remain ineffective as soon as the human being desires them himself, i.e. shapes himself in such a way that he is able to hear the father's voice. Then they will also guarantee eternal life, for then they will not fade away at the human ear but echo in the heart and, as strength from God, also be life-awakening. Everyone can hear the divine word, but this presupposes an intimate connection with God, namely a connection of the heart, for words alone do not attract God's love. And God knows about His children's love and also considers them according to this love. He comes so close to them that they can feel Him and then also hear His words as clear thoughts through which He makes Himself known to them. Love for God expects His word, and He also gives Himself to a believing earthly child to give it proof of His love. His word helps people to become blissfully happy, therefore His word should be the first and last desire of the person who has recognized Him through His grace, then it will constantly resound in him and His strength will take effect in him .... he will live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Test the spirits .... Satan's great power before the end .... Doubts ....

B.D. 4968 from September 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You will experience ever more doubt and confusion thanks to My adversary's incentive who wants to pull you away from Me and also prevent the pure truth from establishing itself as it will glaringly highlight his activity. He is therefore always keen to isolate My followers and representatives on earth, to stop their connection with people who want to educate them and introduce them to the truth. He proceeds with great cunning and in a disguise which even My Own find difficult to recognise. He spreads his poisonous seeds all over the place to render everything which is intended to have a life-giving effect incapable of living. He instils severe doubts in the hearts of those who work for God and His kingdom .... But anyone in doubt should turn to Me directly and I, as the eternal Truth, will help him at all times, for it is My will that the truth shall be spread and that everything shall be denounced which does not correspond to truth .... I can certainly impart the truth to you directly, however, as long as you are not receptive for communications from the spiritual kingdom you will be instructed through My messengers, and you should scrutinise their credibility, their faithfulness, that is, their way of life according to My will. Then you will be able to form a correct judgment, then you will be beneficially affected by the pure truth and you will recognise that which does not and never can come from Me.

My adversary will put even the staunchest champions of faith under severe pressure with his weapon of deception and falsehood. He, too, pretends to be devout and devoted to God if he can thereby cause confusion. He does not eschew from using the mask he hides behind and presents himself as My representative on earth, yet it is easily recognisable for anyone who wants to belong to Me and is watchful. He can be recognised; consequently, not one of My Own needs to be afraid of getting caught up in his web of lies, as long as he genuinely wants to do what is right. He can only cause confusion in weak or undecided people who have not entirely escaped from his power. And he is only able to deceive them because they don't take an examination seriously and don't keep strictly to My Word, which always helps them to become aware.

Anyone who lives a life of love, who therefore lives up to My Word, cannot be deceived by illusive words of love, for My adversary will never preach unselfish love but always endorse that which will provide people with earthly success, even if the word 'love' is used as an excuse, for then selfish love becomes the driving force of action, which I never have preached nor ever will preach to people. The spirits which visibly or invisibly approach people must be tested, and they can certainly be recognised if the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ is mentioned to them .... if I Myself Am called upon in spirit and in truth for help with every serious scrutiny .... If complete clarification about Jesus, the Son of God, and His act of Salvation is demanded from these spirits they will have to speak up .... regardless of whether they are spiritual beings or embodied as humans. And every spiritual being which stands up for Christ and His act of Salvation, which acknowledges Him as the Son of God, is good and will never cause you harm. But if a being, be it human or spiritual, portraying itself as a saviour, as someone chosen by Me or as an anointed being designed to influence you, merely avails itself of Jesus' name in order to make you listen to it, then it is an emissary of hell which can only mislead those who are enslaved by it or the weak, who merely expect from it and its propositions worldly-material improvements, therefore they should not be spiritually acknowledged as My messengers. My adversary has great power, especially during the last days before the end, but it will never be so great that it could be detrimental to you, My faithful followers, for if you live a life of love you will be spiritually enlightened and recognise Satan's machinations .... However, many people are still captivated by him, and they themselves grant him the power he exerts over them. He will certainly still cause much confusion amongst people, yet My Own will not fall prey to him, and even the tiniest spark of desire for truth will find Me prepared to hand out My grace so that My adversary's activity shall be recognised and abhorred. You, who are true yourselves, should therefore not fear his mask .... a heartfelt thought sent up to Me makes his influence ineffective and you will brightly and clearly recognise what is true and what is false ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light - Shadow of death .... Deceptive light - God's help by means of sickness and suffering ....

B.D. 4969 from September 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Anyone who is not impressed by My Word is still subject to the shadow of death, he does not recognise the light and deliberately keeps his eyes closed because he prefers darkness and thus prevents the light from entering. He keeps his sights on the world where deceptive lights are constantly flashing and dazzling his eyes, so that that he either fails to see the gentle light shining from the spiritual kingdom or entirely ignores it for the sake of the secular light. He is enthralled by everything of an earthly nature and, if he is approached by a messenger of light with My Word which suggests that he should renounce earthly possessions for the sake of his soul's salvation, he turns away indignantly, because he has no concept of the life of the soul and does not want to relinquish the world because he feels comfortable in it, and thus he is approaching spiritual death. My Word could provide him with spiritual treasures, My Word could give him a light which soothes his soul, My Word could awaken him to eternal life, yet he is taken in by the world and only looks for and desires that which provides his body with comfort. He remains in the dark despite the world's deceptive light .... For this reason I want to help him learn to despise the world by presenting its possessions as transient and worthless, by allowing his body to grow weak and by reminding him of his physical death. Even that which a person deems most desirable I allow to fall apart and to shatter, I let the person suffer earthly adversity and distress, bear suffering and illness and make him realise that the world will not help him. I allow the person to plunge down from an earthly elevated position, I allow poverty to replace wealth, and only ever for the purpose of his recognising the worthlessness and impermanence of what he desires, and time and again I will make My Word accessible to him, so that he will try to find a substitute in it for the earthly things he had lost .... I let him experience darkness where no deceptive light will flash anymore, so that he will see the gently light from above and turn to it, so that he will escape from the night of death into the light of life .... This is why the suffering on earth will never end, because time and again I want to draw people to Myself who are still distant from Me and subject to the prince of the world, but whose course of life will soon be over without having resulted in success for the soul, on account of which it is embodied on earth. And in all places I will let a light shine in the darkness, and anyone who allows himself to be illuminated by its gentle glow will first move from the darkness into a dim light which he finds comforting and his desire for light will grow .... My Word will touch his heart, he will recognise it as a loving Fatherly Word, as the only path to life, and his soul will enter from the shadow of death into the land of light, into eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Embodied beings of light .... Lack of past memory .... Forerunner ....

B.D. 4970 from September 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Those who want to be of service to Me ought to know the following: the spiritual state of people who live in the last days requires special help by the beings of light which work on My instructions in the spiritual realm as well as on earth, where a large number of them are embodied as human beings in order to fulfil a redeeming mission. How the beings of light work and help them is clearly evident to people who accept the spiritual information given to them, because they know that people's spiritual hardship can only be remedied through the gift of My Word from above. In view of the wide-ranging spiritual decline it would be completely impossible for My Word to gain acceptance amongst humanity, because it would neither establish the connection with the spiritual world, nor would it want to or be able to accept proclamations from this world. Therefore the world of light has to take mediating actions, the beings of light must look for suitable vessels on earth into which they can pour the emanations of My spirit and thus .... where necessary .... beings of light descend to earth as human beings in order to become a link between people and the spiritual world .... in order to be mediators between Myself and people. Hence a large number of beings of light are embodied during the last days before the end, in which you humans live at present, in order to help you, given that you are deluded and ignorant, live a wrong way of life and are therefore in serious trouble.

You yourselves are unaware of the low spiritual level and its consequences, and if the knowledge is given to you, you won't believe it. Yet the world of light shelters inhabitants who look upon the activities in the darkness on earth with horror and want to rush to your aid in order to still help those who don't offer resistance and entrust themselves to their guidance. However, they are nevertheless human beings who thus want to help and inform you. This is why you don't recognise them, just as they don't recognise themselves as beings from above even though they, as human beings, sincerely strive to ascend .... They are human beings like yourselves and yet their will is directed towards Me, who cannot be harmed by My adversary anymore because they have already become My Own before they came to earth for the sake of the needy human race. They want to bring you the light they constantly receive from Me and which simultaneously is the strength to ascend. Yet neither are they aware of the fact that they voluntarily came to earth, for their efforts to ascend have to be clearly observable by their fellow human beings in order to encourage them to do the same. Were a being of light recognisable as such to people it would not be able to serve them as an example, for then people who are afflicted by all weaknesses and flaws would feel incapable of ever attaining this example. Only very special, elevated spiritual beings know of their mission and origin and also inform people of it, although they will find no credence.

But such elevated beings of light will be recognisable to anyone who wants to recognise them, for their mission always involves public and not private activity, for then not just individual people but all people shall be informed of supernatural activity, of the strength and might and glory of the One, Who is Lord over life and death and the whole of creation, Who does not want His living creations to descend into darkness and therefore sends an exceedingly bright radiating light from above .... And one such light will bear witness to Me and become a talking point. And once it shines you will know that the end is not far away, that humanity has been granted just a short reprieve, for if he is not listened to and his warning call remains unsuccessful then nothing can save the unspiritual world anymore .... then the end will have come without fail as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Examining deviating spiritual information .... (Spiritualism?)

B.D. 4971 from September 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Don't fail to appeal to God for clarification when you have questions or doubts in your heart, because He, Who is the eternal Truth Himself, also wants you to live in truth and brightly and clearly recognise it as such. You have the right to raise questions, as bearers of light you must be knowledgeable in order to be able to instruct your fellow human beings correctly, and thus you are entitled to criticise if you are not convinced that the spiritual knowledge you receive from external sources is the truth. In that case it is not just your right but also your duty to establish clarity for the sake of truth, in yourselves as well as in regards to those who spread error and claim it is truth. God always remains true to Himself and thus His Word will also always be the same, just as His will turns into an action in keeping with His plan of eternity. No-one will ever be able to claim to have received something from God as truth which deviates from His eternal Word, for His Word will never change. Whatever He announces through seers and prophets will come to pass according to His Word. But the meaning of His Word can be understood differently by people and therefore it is necessary to explain time and again how He wants His Word to be understood. And these explanations can only be conveyed to people from the spiritual kingdom, which repeatedly happens through divine revelations, through the direct transmission of the pure truth, by God speaking to suitable people through the voice of their heart directly but also by way of beings of light, which themselves live in absolute truth and also want to impart it to people on earth. Consequently, only the purest truth comes forth from God as well as from the kingdom of light to people, providing they sincerely desire it and the recipient himself accepts this truth without distorting it, which depends on his degree of maturity .... God does not deny Himself to anyone who appeals to Him for the pure truth, He grants it to him without reservation, yet the applicant is not always capable of receiving spiritual knowledge, that is, of understanding it as it should be understood .... The truth comes forth purely and clearly from the spiritual kingdom, however, a heart not entirely pure will cloud it and then pass on ambiguous spiritual knowledge; this is why the degree of maturity of someone who wants to spread the truth on earth will determine its purity. The spiritual information does not come spoilt from above; instead it is distorted by the human being's will if he lacks the necessary degree of maturity which shapes him into a proper recipient of divine truth. Hence this is the explanation for minor variations which nevertheless cannot be considered an error.

However, completely contradictory messages from the spiritual kingdom claiming to be irrefutable truth necessitate a serious examination. For then different forces will be the points of origin of the proclamations and should therefore be subjected to a stringent review. And again, the degree of maturity of the one who desires to receive spiritual knowledge has to be examined first, albeit this is not easy for you humans, since a person's inner nature is not so openly accessible to you as to be able to assess the person's quality. But then you must keep to the Word which was once spoken by God and which will never lose its meaning, even if eternities pass by .... If therefore an explanation completely deviates from this Word you can rightfully believe it to be a deception by dark forces which pretend to be knowledgeable and which only succeed with people who seek contact with the spiritual world without having the necessary maturity to be a receiving terminal for the pure truth. Hence their hearts are not yet pure enough in order to serve as a receiving vessel for the divine spirit but who are nevertheless spiritually arrogant .... since they want to be something they are not and so fall prey to the forces of the underworld. The latter will understandably instruct them regarding their raised questions, but not truthfully so as to deepen the darkness with error where light is sought. God imposed conditions which must be fulfilled if the human being wants to hear His Word in direct contact with Him, which guarantees purest truth .... and the first condition is to shape the heart into a worthy vessel of His spirit through selfless love .... Love includes profound humility, childlike prayer and the utter submission of will to the divine will. Anyone fulfilling these conditions can confidently establish contact with the kingdom of light and need not fear to receive error or not to recognise the truth as such. As a recipient of divine truth he will also be able to legitimately advocate it, and his teaching, his knowledge, will always concur with the Word of God, which eternally remains as unchanged as it came forth from Him .... He will always know the truth because he will be instructed by God Himself, the Eternal Truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Different schools of thought .... love guarantees truth ....

B.D. 4972 from September 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

It is a completely free matter of will in which school of thought people want to move and no restriction is imposed on them by Me. Yet they will never lack opportunities to take notice of different teachings and different schools of thought so that they can freely decide. But they will always have the opportunity to practice love, and accordingly they will also come close to the truth, thus they will join the school of thought which brings Me closer to them. Love alone guarantees them the truth, for even a teaching which corresponds to the truth will remain without understanding for someone who ignores love, just as, conversely, the loving human being is able to separate truth from error or lies and thus will find the right path to Me in every school of thought. It would be of little or no value if I wanted to cleanse a school of thought of all error, for the individual's way of life would very soon disfigure the pure again as soon as it was conducted without love. And thus even a church founded in utmost truth could show considerable deviations in a short time, because the human being with free will cannot be forced into love, but without love the truth could not exist either and thus even the purest teaching very soon becomes clouded where people lack love. Hence I can only preach love again and again and instruct My servants on earth to mention it first, so that people will now also realize where the truth is and where My adversary works by bringing error and lies underneath the truth in order to suppress it and thus also make Me unrecognizable to people. Therefore it is irrelevant to which school of thought a person belongs, because he will only ever live in truth if he lives in love, but this can only be preached but not necessarily achieved. For this reason the first and last commandment is love for God and neighbour, for only the fulfilment of this commandment guarantees a change in truth, it guarantees membership of the right church which I Myself founded on earth, for love brings with it the recognition of truth and thus also the right faith, the conviction that the human being is in truth. Therefore strive much more for a life of love than for a specific spiritual direction, and then you will also take the right path, the path of truth, which leads to eternal life, to Me, Who is love and truth Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessings of divine revelations .... "I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

B.D. 4973 from September 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You humans would not be able to measure the blessing of divine revelations if you did not research and ponder but only had to abide by what comes to you from above as an emanation of divine love .... But as long as you arrogantly believe that you have to gain knowledge for yourselves and don't want to accept what is given to you, you will not recognize what is true because it seems too simple to you. You don't appreciate spiritual knowledge which originates in the spiritual kingdom, you are prejudiced as soon as it reminds you of the church, which you don't want to accept, as soon as you are given information about questions concerning the gospel. But you also take offence at knowledge which surpasses earthly knowledge because you try to prove everything you should accept as truth. You research with your intellect where your heart only needs to listen, because you all have the truth within yourselves and could take possession of it if only you believed. And you seek to attain faith again on the path of research and brooding .... You want to try to fathom what you should believe, but you disregard what helps you to have a living faith.

(9/27/1950) A truly childlike mind will take you further than the sharpest intellect is able to take you, and what you ask for from the father in childlike simplicity you will receive .... Therefore you should first ask Him to guide you into truth. This prayer can only be carried out by a person who, through works of love, feels inwardly united with the eternal love Itself, Which is also the eternal truth. And from this it follows that love has to be practiced without fail in order to attain the truth. The entrance to truth is irrevocably love, which is why Jesus spoke the words: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." For the man Jesus embodied love and thus showed people the only path which leads to truth and from it to eternal life. Then every thought will be right, every thought will fill the human being's heart as living faith. Then the human being can only move in the truth without demanding and producing intellectual proofs. Then only the heart, the feeling, is decisive, what the human being can and wants to accept as the sole truth. And this feeling of the heart are divine revelations which are not obviously recognizable as such in contrast to those which testify to the working of the spirit to the one who is of good will. For obvious evidence of this would have to be regarded as compulsory faith, thus the human being must still be free to reject divine revelations, which he will always do if he does not seriously strive for truth and lives a life without love. God can easily reveal Himself to a loving person, for he receives the revelations with his heart which recognizes the father's voice. In contrast, the intellect of a loveless person is unable to recognize transmissions from the spiritual kingdom and thus he rejects them. Yet he will never reach the aim, the truth, by any other means, for God Himself sets the conditions under which He distributes the truth, and therefore anyone who does not fulfil these conditions will always go away empty-handed.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will - wisdom .... wrong will of man ....

B.D. 4974 from September 27th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I am the lord of heaven and earth, and the powers of light and darkness must be subject to My will, even though the latter rebel against Me and want to disobey Me. But only then can they carry out their will when I give My consent to do so, otherwise they lack the strength because they are not yet free creatures. However, once they have entered My will they will also be aware of being able to act according to their own will without being prevented from doing so, for then their will will also be Mine and they will be powerful through My strength. I alone determine and govern the spiritual and earthly world through My will. But the fact that I gave the human being free will does not mean that this will can oppose Mine, that it could annul it or render it ineffective regardless of My will, although I very often let My will become active in accordance with the human being's will. I do not force the human being, nevertheless, he does not determine My rule and activity, he only occasionally causes Me to tolerate what is against My will, yet only because My wisdom always finds ways and means to give even the human being's wrong will a beneficial effect. For My expression of will is always based on profound wisdom, whereas the human being often misuses his will because he lacks wisdom and therefore does not recognize the wrongness of his will. For the will will be wrongly directed as long as the human being does not seek contact with Me, for then his will will comply with Mine and wisdom and love will determine its direction. Anyone who submits his will to Me cannot help but think and act as is pleasing to Me. Then his will moves in My eternal order because he is guided by the spirit, which only influences the human being in My will, which lets it take effect. As soon as the human being allows himself to be guided by his spirit his will will come into contact with Mine, and then he will also be relieved of all responsibility, then he will have passed the test which is the cause of his embodiment on earth. He has recognized and acknowledged Me by submitting his will, thus he has given up all resistance and voluntarily professes Me by doing My will and thereby becomes free from all forms, from the bound state which was the result of the rebellion against Me in his own will, which turned away from Me and therefore became wretched ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working in the Lord's vineyard: spreading the word .... lightbearers ....

B.D. 4975 from September 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I only need willing labourers who want to help Me in My vineyard, who see the great spiritual hardship as a reason to place themselves at My disposal, because the work for Me and My kingdom has to be carried out by people and cannot be accomplished by My omnipotence and love. These people who want to serve Me are mediators between Me and their fellow human beings and are instructed to instruct them in the same way as I instruct them .... to convey My word to them in all purity as they receive it from Me. This is truly a necessity, it is urgent work in My vineyard to first cleanse the fields, that is, the hearts of men, from the weeds, from the false teachings which have been presented to people as teachings of faith. First the weeds have to be removed before the good seed can be sown, and thus a purification has to take place first, but this can only happen when something better is offered, when people can also recognize the better gift if they are to give up the old. It has to be made clear to them that and why a doctrine of faith is wrong .... And this is your work, you who want to serve Me .... And thus it is understandable that you yourselves must first receive a clear picture of the human being's actual task and of My eternal plan of salvation, which only makes all My efforts for My living creations comprehensible. The knowledge of this is a gift of grace offered to those who want to utilize it for their own and their fellow human beings' salvation. Anyone who earnestly wants to work for Me can raise a treasure of grace of immeasurable value .... All spiritual goods are available to him, and only his desire determines the abundance of what he receives.

(9/29/1950) He will call a spiritual wealth his own which allows him to constantly hand out, to make fellow human beings happy, for in order to be able to give something you have to possess it. And he will always find the right words when it is necessary to convince his fellow human beings of the truth of the words he has received from Me .... Only through truth can the human being attain eternal life, and because truth has been suppressed amongst people, because it is no longer taught purely but mixed with error, I want to come to their aid and smooth the path for them again, I want to let them find the right path which leads to Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself. But anyone who once walks the path of truth himself also sees where darkness and shadows obscure a path, and he endeavours to bring light to those who walk in darkness. He is called by Me to be a bearer of light, he can give people the truth because he possesses it himself, because he opens himself to the light of grace from above which has brightly illuminated him and made him an efficient labourer in My vineyard .... Everyone who wants to serve Me shall experience My blessing, and his knowledge will obviously be broadened, his intellect and heart will be active in him, he will endeavour to make My will, which he has recognized, known to his fellow human beings in the realization that only compliance with My will, life in My eternal order, an unselfish life of love, enables the human being to become similar to My fundamental nature, that only compliance with My will also leads him to the realization of truth and that only through compliance with My will can he unite with Me, the eternal love, and be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of love .... power of faith ....

B.D. 4976 from September 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The strength from Me also enables you to be extraordinarily active, yet you must take care yourselves that it flows to you. You have to request it with faithful trust that I will grant your request for strength; or you have to acquire it yourselves through loving activity, for then you will work with Me by uniting yourselves with Me through every work of love and can then use My strength without limitation. Yet you lack the belief that you are powerful if you live a life of love, and thus you do not use the strength which, however, is at your disposal. And even My words are not enough to bring the belief in this to life in you, even though you only need to try it out in order to convince yourselves of the strength from Me in you. In unity with Me you can achieve everything .... Yet I cannot force you into this faith, I can only inform you of it through My word; I can advice you to let faith revive in you and again and again try to imagine My presence which awakens trust in Me in you, so that you will consult Me when you need My strength, that you will ask Me to help you and lose every weakness of faith. I want you to be strong in faith when great adversity befalls you, which you will then be able to banish at any time through the strength of faith. Believe that you possess My love, that I, as your father, will not deny you what you need; believe that the father does not let His children hope for His help in vain; believe that you, having emerged from Me, are My share, thus you can also shelter the same strength within yourselves which is able to do everything because it is divine strength and is also unlimitedly at your disposal, My living creations. And use this strength .... Subordinate your will to Mine and then you will only use the strength to work in accordance with My will. Join in intimate union with Me and then want to do what your heart tells you to do, through which My will now expresses itself and then acts, and you will be able to do everything with My strength .... Believe in it and test the strength of faith, and it will be all the stronger the more you unite with Me through loving activity. For then I Myself will work in and with you and you will accomplish everything with My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

False Christs and false prophets ....

B.D. 4977 from October 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

And false Christs and false Prophets will come after Me, but do not believe them, even if they perform signs and miracles. I already informed you on earth of the machinations of those who misrepresented My pure teaching and introduced themselves as saviours of the world, who preached under the guise of piety and yet were anything but My followers. For they were not interested in love for Me and their neighbour, instead, they were only interested in power. False Christs and prophets only ever appeared for a purpose which was far removed from My will. They certainly preached the shaping into love but the preachers themselves did not strive for it, and so their words lost strength and truth, consequently, they could not be true prophets and proclaim Me accurately to people, even though they mentioned My name and used Me time and again for the sake of pursuing a purpose. This could only be followed by a time of confusion, a time when I was no longer properly recognised, even by people with better intentions. For the words of those proclaiming the Gospel no longer contained My spirit, now people were governed by a worldly spirit instead of being lovingly guided in My will on the right path to Me, the spirit of the Antichrist was already strongly represented and the fruits of his activity became evident: Distortion of My teaching of love, greed for power, pride, deluded thinking towards those who lived according to My will and to whom I was able to reveal Myself. These revelations meant nothing to them, they were suppressed because they undermined what people had built up, because they were the pure truth which the latter could not abide by, since they lived for the world and had worldly aspirations .... Anyone who seriously turned away from the world and towards Me also soon recognised the error and the danger it signified for humanity. However, anyone who does not recognise it has therefore fallen prey to the one who governs the world, who is My adversary and wants to corrupt people. False Christs and false prophets will arise .... Every person who does not know the truth has fallen prey to a false Christ, because he allowed himself to be misled by his apparently divine speeches, which lacked truth because the preacher himself did not live a life of love and therefore did not know the truth. Nevertheless, he portrayed himself as My representative and threatened them with temporal and eternal punishments .... He is a disgraceful prophet, for he thereby distorts My teaching of love, he falsely testified to Me, as I Am not a God of wrath but a God of love instead .... He neither speaks the truth nor is he able to speak it because he does not possess it .... Therefore he instructs people wrongly and yet educates them in the belief of knowing the only truth. My reference to false Christs and prophets mainly concerns teachers who spread errors amongst their fellow human beings, because they speak in My name and yet do not testify to Me correctly. But I want to highlight their activity and denounce their misguided teachings .... I want to help people of good will to gain realisation .... I want to send bearers of light amongst people who are authorised to speak in My name because I have chosen them Myself .... who are also capable of speaking in My name because I Am instructing them Myself. These will very certainly be recognisable as My messengers, as true bringers of light, and no-one of good will and who hates life will be able to call them false prophets. Only someone who wants to hold on to errors will not acknowledge them and portray them as Satan's emissaries, because he avoids the light. The world is approaching the end, and thus more false prophets will appear, but in the same way My messengers will also emerge as their adversaries, so that people will recognise the value and worthlessness of both if they want to put them to the test. Where false Christs and prophets are spoken of, genuine ones must also exist, and these are very recognisable, for they enlighten people and announce the Last Judgment. In contrast, the false ones confuse people and teach them to live, but not according to My will but for their own pleasure instead. Genuine prophets proclaim My Word in its purest form, the false ones use My Word as well, yet they always pursue earthly goals with it, trying to attain advantages, power and riches. Anyone who receives from Me will pass it on to his fellow human beings without demanding a reward for it, but those who ask for payment have not received the gift they distribute from Me. This, too, is a sign by which false Christs and prophets can be recognised, for spiritual gifts are priceless treasures which may never be valued in an earthly way or they will judge the one who allows himself to be paid for them. For every gift shall be distributed with love, even more so spiritual gifts, which My love has intended for people and conveys to them time and again so that they will be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Ten Commandments .... First and second commandment ....

B.D. 4978 from October 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You shall be given the guiding principles by which you should live on earth and fulfil My will: You always have to keep My Commandments of love in mind and then you will never be able to sin, because a life of love is at all times a life within My eternal order and then it is impossible to sin. My Commandment of love towards God and your neighbour incorporated the laws and the prophets, hence the Ten Commandments given to Moses were not eliminated by My Commandments of love but merely confirmed. The Ten Commandments were integrated at the same time in My Two Commandments, wherein I required love for Me and your neighbour .... You shall give all your love only to one God, thus only one Being should represent to you what you wholeheartedly aspire to, what you love and worship, what you strive to reach. Nothing shall exist to you that could replace or displace this most perfect Being, your God, because all else a person still deems desirable are gods which reduce the love for your God and therefore cannot be tolerated beside Me. Your love shall fully and completely relate to Me, your God, Creator and Father of eternity. Because as a result of this love your conduct in life, your will and your knowledge will be shaped. Anyone who loves Me more than anything else has gained everything, Me Myself, My love and eternal life close to Me .... This commandment is the first commandment, nevertheless it also includes the second commandment, love for your neighbour. Because the love for what I created is also an acknowledgment of love for Me, and therefore both commandments are not to be separated from each other. So that you will learn to believe firmly and steadfastly you shall sense My nearness and feel that I Myself Am speaking to you and take notice of all your thoughts and requests, even if they are not voiced. I will always share your inner life, I will know your questions and always will want to answer them just as soon as you give Me the opportunity, i.e. as soon as you mentally present the question to Me and patiently wait for the answer .... You will always receive the reply as soon as you attune yourselves to receive it, thus by listening within yourselves, from where the answer will emerge.

And thus hear the explanation of the commandment: Second Commandment. ‘You shall not take the name of your Lord in vain ....’ I Am and remain the highest and most perfect Being for you, Whom you nevertheless can contact at any time. I want you to unite with Me, to strive for unity with Me; I want you to call for Me because by doing so you inform Me of your will; I want you never to exclude Me from your thoughts, I want to be the First and the Last to you, I want you to share with Me everything that moves you, I want you to come to Me for advice and completely confide in Me, and humbly submit to My will .... But I do not want you to take My name in vain without the involvement of your heart .... I do not want you to live a life of pretence, I do not want you to appear to the world as My children who are sincerely devoted to their Father and in reality are very distant from Me. I do not want you to speak My name before the world and make the connection with Me absolutely impossible due to your attitude, due to your conduct which does not correspond to My will but which remains hidden from other people because you are constantly using My name in order to deceive them. You are using My name in vain when your heart and mouth do not agree with each other, when you mouth speaks differently than you heart feels. Then it is truly better for you to openly turn away from Me, because then you would lack all knowledge, whereas by mentioning My name you are admitting to know Me although you still dislike Me in your heart. You don’t mislead Me but you certainly mislead your fellow human beings, and thus you are playing a game of falsehood and deceit with Me. You should become conscious of the fact that the deceptive mentioning of your God’s name will double your sin, that you are more or less using Me as a cover for your wrong way of life, that you want to cause confusion amongst those who still believe and to whom I Am the highest and most perfect Being. I should punish you for every call to Me and every mentioning of My name from your mouth but I acknowledge your free will and put up with your sacrilege which, however, at times makes the believers wonder and doubt their faith. Therefore every mentioning of My name without sincerity is a temptation for the believer for which I will hold you to account one day. It is belittling Me, Whom you do not acknowledge and yet use to veil your true nature, Whom you thus try to turn into an accessory otherwise you would openly turn away from Me and not try to conceal your way of life. The deceptive mentioning of My name is a lie which will avenge itself badly when all sin will be revealed one day, it is a flagrant violation of the commandment of love for God and the next person ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Third, fourth, fifth and sixth commandment ....

B.D. 4979 from October 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

‘You shall keep the Sabbath Day holy ....’ This commandment is meant to make you conscious of the fact that you are indebted to Me, that earthly life was given to you for a specific purpose, that you should sincerely strive to make contact with Me .... that you should cross the bridge to Me, that you should leave the world behind and, through contemplation, heartfelt prayer and silent dialogue with Me, move yourselves into the spiritual kingdom: .... That you thus keep a true Sabbath Day, that you take a period of rest from the rushing and racing of the world, in which you certainly live but which should not turn you into slaves. In Me alone should you recognise your Lord, and it is Me Whom you should serve and thus you should frequently stop for an hour of rest, when your thoughts are with Me even when you perform your earthly duty and are constantly active. The more you can detach yourselves from the earthly world, the more often you connect with Me in thought, the more convincingly will you recognise Me as your God and Father of eternity and thus, by fulfilling this commandment of keeping the Sabbath Day holy, you once again simply fulfil the commandment of love for Me. But your love shall also apply to your neighbour. Who, however, is your neighbour? All people with whom you come into contact .... your love shall belong to all of them .... When I, through Moses, gave people the Ten Commandments it was necessary to make people particularly aware of their mistakes and bad habits, because their love had grown cold for all people in their surroundings. Even the children no longer practised love, it was a state of wickedness, depravity, and selfishness .... For this reason the commandment of love for your neighbour had to be presented to them in every detail. They ignored all divine order, and thus they had to be given several commandments which, indeed, are all included in the commandment of love for your neighbour but which also need to be observed by people today if they don’t want to infringe against love.

You shall honour your parents, offer them the love of a child and always be obedient to them. You should always remember that they, with selfless love, are preparing you to become human beings and thus enable you to live earthly life for the purpose of higher development, that they were given this task by Me, that you should thus repay the innate love they give to you and which is motivating them to physically and psychologically take care of you. You owe them your life and thus should honour them and return their care for you until the end of their life. Then I, too, will look upon you with pleasure and give you My love because by loving your parents you show a warm and loving heart which will also love Me, once it has recognised Me as the eternal Father from Whom all living creations emerged, who He wants to shape into His rightful children. Only love will turn you into My children, and anyone who loves and honours His parents will also love the Heavenly Father and be blessed by Him ....

Amen(04.10.1950) ‘You shall not kill ....’ This commandment also fulfils itself if your neighbour is looked upon with love. Because love will never damage him and even less endeavour to take his life. It does not merely concern the human being’s life on earth which the heartless person intends to take; it concerns the opportunity of development which can only successfully change the human being into a child of God on earth. You therefore burden yourselves with an irresponsibly severe guilt when you violate a human being’s life, when you forcibly end it and by doing so unlawfully rob the soul of My gift of grace. You are committing a double sin, against your neighbour as well as against Me, as in fact every offence against the commandment of love for other people is an offence against your love for Me, because you also indirectly refuse to love Me, Who created your neighbour. To end an earthly life should never be endorsed even if honourable motives give cause to it. Because once again it is decisive that the soul only received the body’s life for the purpose of higher development. You should not consider earthly life, the life of the body, as the most important and consequently only take the body’s life into account. But far less should you deem earthly life so unimportant that you think you may end it arbitrarily. The person who unlawfully takes another person’s life will be pursued by an inconceivable vindictiveness on earth and even in the spiritual kingdom and, furthermore, due to such acts of hatred and heartlessness he will lapse into deepest darkness himself for he will have devoted himself to Satan who, in order to prevent all higher development, endeavours to destroy the life that I awakened. He has transferred his willingness to sin to the person and thus has used him to commit an evil act which, however, the person could have refused to commit of his own free will. He was not forced to sin .... But when earthly rulers bring force to bear, when a human being acts in self-defence in order to protect his own life, when his inner being resists an act of most blatant heartlessness and yet is unable to oppose earthly law, the attitude of the person acting against this commandment will always be taken into account. However, if the person violates the commandment wholeheartedly he will be held fully responsible because he ignores My commandment of love and belongs to My adversary ....

Amen

Third, fourth, fifth and sixth commandment ....

‘You shall not commit adultery ....’ This area is particularly significant because it incorporates everything in relation to carnal desires. It concerns the sensual orientation, the active expression on the sexual level. Indeed, I Myself gave the right for this with the Words ‘Be fruitful and multiply ....’ I Myself created humanity such that the bodies of a man and a woman long to unite, nevertheless the final purpose of the latter is just procreation. And since the human being has free will it is up to him to control himself or to fully express himself without self-control. What on one hand is blessed by Me can, on the other hand, be a most welcome opportunity for the adversary to entice the person into sin, although he will always be conscious of it because every sexual activity, every fulfilment of carnal lust pulls the human being down and even places him below the animal, which only acts out its instinct in accordance with natural law. But the human being has his freedom of will because he should learn to control himself, because he should suppress his body in order to help the soul to ascend. The sensual instincts are the greatest obstacle for the spiritualisation of the soul. And yet I created the human being such that carnal desire can pester him greatly if he allows himself to be controlled by it .... if he has no will to resist the temptations which are always caused by My adversary. The commandment I gave to you, not to commit adultery, is a serious one .... And adultery is every impure way of life which in truth signifies an unlawful conduct against My law of order .... a misuse of the natural process of procreation for the purpose of awakening human life. Two people should find each with other pure, unselfish love, and a subsequent conception as a result of such love will never be a sin because it complies with My eternal law of order. However, all sensual passion without love is of utmost danger for the soul, which will lapse into spiritual darkness and only with utmost difficulty will be able to lift itself out of it. Carnal desire is selfish love to the highest degree which stifles all unselfish love for a fellow human being, because nothing is sacred to such a person, he does not honour and respect his fellow human being but merely takes advantage of him .... He takes what does not belong to him, and thus sins against the commandment of love for one’s neighbour in many different ways. Anyone whose soul genuinely endeavours to ascend also knows that he should not enjoy life entirely uninhibited because he will feel that his soul is pulled down and that it will have to make an incredible effort in order to lift itself up again. A right kind of marriage will never find My disapproval or I would not have created humanity to reproduce itself, however, boundaries can easily be exceeded, and every excess is a breach of the marriage wanted by Me through natural law .... the coexistence of man and woman for the purpose of humanity’s reproduction .... But I know people’s nature, I know their weakness of will and My adversary’s extremely powerful influence .... I do not condemn those who sin but I Am giving them the commandment for their own benefit, and anyone who follows it will also love Me and his neighbour, he will travel the path of ascent easier than those who give free reign to their bodily instincts at the expense of their soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dogma: Mary’s ascension ....

B.D. 4980 from October 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Your spiritual development depends on your attitude to truth. Anyone who looks for it will find it and progress without fail, anyone who rejects it or is indifferent to it cannot gain spiritual advancement, since he does not live with love either, which is closely connected to truth. People's response to truth corresponds to their response to Me, Who Himself is eternal truth as well as love. And thus you will understand that I will always endeavour to convey the truth to people, since error understandably has to retract away from Me. Every inaccuracy has to be rectified and misguided teachings exposed because they poison people's thoughts and consign the soul into the hands of the one who is the representative of lies. Hence it cannot be tolerated that people are offered error in form of religious dogma which they have to accept. Any doctrine demanding compulsory acceptance meets My disapproval, even if it corresponds to the truth, for faith in such a doctrine does not result in any benefit for the soul. It is far worse, however, if a misguided teaching is forced on people which is of no use for the development of the soul. No measure can ever meet My approval which restricts the human being's free will .... And every dogma is an infringement of free will .... In any case, it is inconsequential for the ensuing generations how the mother of Jesus left earth because, as long as people are not spiritually advanced enough to comprehend the process of a soul's spiritualisation, the portrayal of ascension will only result in darkness again. Complete lack of understanding will result in doubt and disbelief.

However, the ascension of Christ is a different matter. He was, after all, the divine Redeemer, Who had to be obeyed by every power and Who accomplished the act of Salvation for all human beings. Hence, all human beings should also receive knowledge of Him, and His earthly life from beginning to end should therefore be known and comprehensible to people. His ascension was the conclusion of divine activity on earth, his ascension was the culmination, it was the fulfilment of many prophesies and the completion of Jesus' life on this earth. But even the belief in this should not be demanded, but people should remain completely free to believe it, because only a life of love and profound desire for truth results in living faith .... Consequently, it is neither valuable nor advantageous to provide people with a new bone of contention, which human intellect cannot prove and which requires a higher degree of development in order to be understood and believed. This, however, is no longer found amongst people and therefore it merely increases the confusion when, in fact, people ought to be receiving knowledge ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Encouragement to believe in My task ....

B.D. 4981 from October 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The guarantee of My presence also lies in the connection with Me after heartfelt prayer. Every thought turned towards Me attracts Me, for only those who believe in Me send their thoughts to Me, and anyone who believes in Me can also be certain of My closeness at all times, for he will also endeavour to live according to My will, even though he is not yet perfect. He can always be certain of My love and grace, for I come to the weak and fearful in order to help them become inwardly strong. Only someone who is arrogant and does not believe he needs Me will turn away from Me. But this one does not call upon Me in prayer for love and grace. Therefore remain strong, My child, and fulfil My command and keep to My word which I, your father from eternity, the creator and sustainer of the universe, send to you from above as a blessing to all people who hear it and accept it into their hearts ....

There is only one God, a heavenly father, and He is in Himself love .... But true love does not abandon anything to ruin, true love embraces its children and provides them with every protection. But true love is also connected with wisdom and therefore also guides its children into knowledge, because it knows that knowledge deepens love, for which eternal love always and constantly courts. Children who meet Me in love are seized by My love and given wisdom .... Therefore, anyone who is taught by the father Himself need no longer fear error, he will not take the wrong path, for I Myself will guide him, I Who am the way, the truth and the life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Seventh and eighth commandment ....

B.D. 4982 from October 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

For My child, who is serving Me with loyalty and steadfastness, another sign of My love and grace: You were also given the commandment: ‘Your shall not steal.’ If you take whatever belongs to him you are quite obviously disregarding the commandment of love for your neighbour. You should respect your neighbour’s possession, indeed even protect it against his enemies, otherwise you do not feel the love for him that I require of you. You should love your neighbour as yourselves .... and you will be grateful to anyone who respects your possessions; hence you should do the same in order to gain your neighbour’s love too. Whatever you acquire unlawfully will not result in any blessing to you, rather it will burden you and weigh your soul down which wants to ascend. You shall not steal .... This does not just concern earthly commodities, which you should not take from other people. You can also cause him spiritual damage by denying him that which benefits his soul and what My grace is giving to all people and what can be given to him by each one of his fellow human beings. Thus, anyone who owns spiritual wealth has received this from Me .... However, your fellow human beings also have the same right to partake in it .... and you should not diminish this right by withholding from him things which are also intended for him. In that case you are more than less taking what belongs to him too, even if he has not yet taken possession of it. Your behaviour will then reveal no love for your neighbour and even less love for Me, your God and Creator of eternity. Any reduction of spiritual or earthly wealth is therefore covered by this commandment, and any negligence of love for other people will reflect on yourselves, who shall receive as you give, and who shall lose what you take away from people. And thus, psychologically and earthly you shall receive the reward you deserve ....

And in the same spirit you should understand the following commandment ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.’ Your mouth should always speak the honest truth, you should never damage your neighbour’s reputation, his standing amongst his fellow human beings, by telling lies. Any defamation is a sin against this commandment, with every lie the person is causing damage to other people and acting heartlessly and unfairly, to which he will have to be answerable. When you are asked to bear witness to your neighbour be truthful and full of love for him. Try to understand his faults and kind-heartedly point them out to him but do not take advantage of his weakness by trying to belittle him for your personal gain. You can damage the other person with a thoughtless word and awaken thoughts of retaliation in him which will stifle all love and make the person sinful. You should certainly remain truthful, thus not praise an undeserving person contrary to your better knowledge and conscience, but distance yourself from every act of unkindness, distance yourself from all belittling of other people for your own advantage. Any judgment of your neighbour that does not correspond to the truth is a flagrant violation of this commandment for it lacks all love and brings no honour to you humans. Every lie is to be condemned but when it is plainly intended to damage another person it becomes a double sin, a sin against the other person and a sin against Me, Who is the eternal truth Himself .... It is a violation against the commandment of love against Me and against your neighbour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Ninth and tenth commandment ....

B.D. 4983 from October 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

People who still languish in matter also desire it in every sense. But the purpose of the human being's earthly life is to overcome matter, to detach from it, to eradicate everything the world can offer to people, because only by overcoming the latter will the soul achieve the necessary maturity in order to enter the spiritual kingdom. To desire worldly things need not be a sin, although it hampers the person's higher development, but it can easily result in sin because greed tries to acquire the object of its desire and this frequently by dishonest means. The greater and stronger the passion for things which give the body a sense of well-being, the more the person's mind will focus on it and can trigger bad instincts and characteristics in him which will result in harming other people.

For that reason I gave you the commandment 'You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, house, servant, or anything that belongs to him ....' Everything that belongs to your fellow human beings should be sacred to you, you should not attempt to seize any possession from your neighbour and even the thought of taking it is a sin, because it betrays your will, your darkness of soul, which as yet does not know love. And although you try to hide your cold hearts from other people they are obvious to Me due to your longing, and as soon as you greedily think about your neighbour's possessions you do not see the other person as your brother whom you should love as yourselves. You should grant him the same right that you demand for yourselves, to respect your wealth; you should be pleased when your neighbour is successful and help him to increase his wealth; then you are winning the fight of overcoming matter, then you will acquire more riches than you could ever take away from other people, because your love for your neighbour will be rewarded by My love, and this will truly give you an everlasting treasure of grace which offsets all worldly possessions and joys.

Hence you should also respect and protect your neighbour's possessions and distance yourselves from greed if you don't want to infringe against the commandment of love for your neighbour, which I only gave you to make your ascent easier, because only through loving your neighbour can you gain My love and only through love can you become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Accountability on the Day of Judgment .... Redeemer Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 4984 from October 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Sooner or later all of you will have to give account of yourselves before My judgment seat and remember every hour you wasted and lost for eternity. Sooner or later all of you will have to confess your sins because they become apparent and cannot be kept secret any longer, for nothing remains hidden before My eyes. And thus I demand an account for all your thoughts, words and actions. And you should remember this Day of Judgment if you think that you can sin with impunity, this day, when all of you will have to be answerable about your way of life on earth. It will come without fail and take all of you by surprise because you don't expect it quite so soon. Yet it will come like a thief in the night, without warning and in silence, it will come when no-one expects it. And yet not unannounced, for long before I will have drawn people's attention to it, to the Day of Judgment, the day of the end and the destruction of this earth. The fact that you humans do not want to believe it will not change My plan of eternity, for this day has been predetermined according to My will and human will shall be unable to postpone it but must submit to My will. The reason why I speak to people time and again through servants on earth and in the kingdom of light is due to the fact that a day like that, which concludes an unimaginably long period of development, shall not come unannounced to humankind. The Day of Judgment is the conclusion of an earthly period which was granted to people for their salvation. During this developmental period people received a special privilege .... the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ Himself came to earth in order to help those people who wanted to fail in their process of development.

And thus people were able to redeem themselves if only they wanted to. If, however, their will fails then it will be their own fault, and as long as people live on earth I warn them time and again about this fault. Their fault only consists of the fact that they don't want to accept help but are too weak on their own. What they can do they don't want to do, hence they will also have to take responsibility for what they don't want to do. This is why everyone will be held to account on the last day, for they all had a measure of blessings at their disposal which could have helped them to ascend with ease. And the indications of the end through seers and prophets are part of theses blessings. But anyone who does not listen to them, who does not give credence to them, does nothing for his own redemption either. I always admonished and warned people through seers and prophets, and the often enough announced end of the old earth also explains the emergence of prophets in My name, because I won't leave people without warning and they are living in the last days, because the end is so near that all of you would be shocked if you knew the day and the hour. Time and again I draw your attention to it yet no-one shall be forced to believe it, but woe to those who listened to My Word and refused to believe it .... who recognised it as My Word and yet do not believe in the end and the Judgment and therefore do not prepare themselves for the end. Woe to them .... for the hour will take them by surprise when the last Judgment arrives ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'Deliver us from evil ....'

B.D. 4985 from October 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Deliver us from evil .... You are often approached by temptations which are indeed permitted by Me but which are always My adversary's activity, because he also fights for every soul and therefore tries to influence the human being to oppose Me, thus to encourage him to sin. These temptations are always an obstacle for the human being which can make him fall, yet I, too, won't leave him without grace as a countermeasure against Satan. I, too, will come forward, distinctly and recognisably, when the human being is facing a crucial decision, when he is pushed off the right path by My adversary's cunning and is still uncertain. Then a short quick prayer is enough, a thought to Me: Deliver us from evil .... I will clearly step forward by revealing the right path to him, and I will show him the darkness of the other path he was in danger of taking .... I will assist every person who merely sends a questioning and imploring thought to Me. I will certainly allow temptations to take place, for the adversary is also entitled to exert his influence, after all, it concerns the free decision of will, and for this the human being must be subjected to both influences, the good as well as the evil. Yet he need not succumb defencelessly, he will always be able to give resistance, because I will help him once he has taken the path to Me. And then I will show him very clearly which power wants to harm him .... I want to deliver you humans from all evil, I want to liberate you from the control of the one who caused your constrained state, it is My will that you shall become happy, that you shall no longer feel pressurised by the one who intends to ruin you, who entices you to fall and who spares no means in doing so. He will even appear to you as an angel of light if he thinks that this will be successful, he wants to possess you and uses cunning and trickery. And yet he will find his Master in Me, for once a soul has chosen Me it will never again fall prey to him. But woe to the person who is enslaved by him .... For he will hold him tightly until the latter beseeches Me for help, which will surely be granted to him. Deliver us from evil .... Often voice these words in your heart and you will always feel My help, for with this appeal you testify to Me, because you call upon Me to help you against the one who is My adversary and your enemy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love .... Pleasure of giving .... Reciprocated love .... Belief in Christ's act of Salvation ....

B.D. 4986 from October 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Awaken to new life .... Try to kindle the flame of love in you, constantly provide it with new nourishment and thereby ignite your love for God, which will make you eternally happy. Then you will be assured of eternal life, a state of abundant strength and light in unlimited freedom. Then you will be able to do whatever you want, you will have conquered death, for all lack of strength, all weakness will fall away from you and you will live and be blissfully happy. Yet this can only be accomplished by love and love cannot be given to you, you must kindle it in yourselves. You must help where help is needed and, animated by the feeling of inner happiness, constantly accomplish new deeds of love, then you will always keep the fire within you burning, you will feed it and be constantly active with unselfish love. Only the pleasure of giving spurs you into renewed kind-hearted activity, and you will experience this when you look into a needy fellow human being's eyes after you have helped him. This reward is far nicer than material payment, for it is reciprocated love which shines forth from these eyes. Then you will have kindled love in your fellow human being's heart again, a tiny spark will have been ignited by you and once again the flame of love will spread and communicate itself to other people. Only a united activity of love can redeem the human race from the state of spiritual hardship it finds itself in. Only loving activity results in light and grace and leads you to God, the eternal Love Himself. However, the closer it gets to the end the more love will grow cold amongst people, since they only live for their own ends and have no heart for the suffering of their fellow human beings. The distance to God will therefore become ever more obvious, the gulf between people and God will have almost become unbridgeable, the darkness in people's hearts impenetrable, for the light of love will not be able to shine forth and therefore not provide illumination, and the One Who would be able to help is not called upon, because He is not acknowledged .... Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, will be unable to distribute the blessings of His act of Salvation, He will not be approached for them because people don't believe in Him. And this is the worst situation, for then they will lack all strength and support without which, however, they cannot become happy. People no longer believe what they are advised to believe, and if they don't acknowledge the divine Redeemer they will not call upon Him either, consequently they are spiritually unenlightened and therefore suffer profound hardship. They are already in a state of death and could certainly be delivered from it yet never without love, never without divine grace, but the human will must always profess to it first. Try to awaken yourselves to life .... you are able to do so if only you wanted it .... Practise unselfish neighbourly love and you will find it easy to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of the world and as the Son of God, for then the spirit within you will enlighten you, so that you will be able to believe because you live a life of love. Awaken to new life, for the hour is close at hand when it will be decided as to whether the soul has chosen life or death. Make use of every opportunity to actively practise neighbourly love, and you will experience the beneficial feeling that you are infused by new life .... Then you will have conquered death and need not fear the final end, for then you will be living in light and truth, and you will live eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual work .... God's blessing .... care of the father of the house for His servants ....

B.D. 4987 from October 23rd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Everything you do for Me and My kingdom is spiritual work which I bless by giving your soul strength to develop upwards. Every work for Me is a step closer to Me, even though you are not aware of it, yet you are pushed towards the spiritual kingdom as if by invisible force, and this is My love which draws you. You can never sink into darkness because you have seen the light, you have recognized Me as the original source of light and strength, you advance in realization and therefore can never turn away from Me. Every lord who needs a servant also thanks him for his help, and My gratitude to everyone who is active for Me and My kingdom always consists of the fact that I increase his spiritual wealth, that I provide him with a treasure which will make him immeasurably happy on earth already and even more so one day in eternity. And My servants shall always have the certainty that they will be extremely well provided for by Me so that they will not need to worry themselves about what they need for life on earth. Spiritually and earthly I look after them, and spiritually and earthly they can therefore be without worry, for a faithful servant no longer needs to look after himself but he shall leave all care to the father of the house. Thus you will always be guided in order to be able to carry out your spiritual work, for I Myself assign the work to you and also lead the people to you to whom you are to proclaim the kingdom of God, to whom you are to convey My teaching of love with the indication of My direct working on you which enables you to work for Me and My kingdom. And you will feel to whom you should speak without reservation, just as a voice will warn you if people are hostile towards you and your work would be unsuccessful. I Myself instruct you to speak on My behalf and therefore always act according to your feelings through which My will is expressed. If you are subject to Me as faithful servants you will also always recognize My will, and you will only create and work for Me. Yet your earthly activity is also part of your ministry to spread My gospel, for I know very well whose sphere of activity is suitable for a blessed spiritual activity. Therefore, every earthly activity will also bring you blessings if you are willing to serve Me first, if you therefore don't forget Me above your earthly work. But a faithful servant relies on his master and does not worry, and everything will work out for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Patience with fellow human beings who do not strive spiritually ....

B.D. 4988 from October 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Be patient .... Many a soul takes its path through life in secret opposition to Me but does not openly express its rejection and therefore first has to be urged to make an open decision. But love is and remains the only path to realization, and therefore no soul can find its way to Me which does not have love within itself. And thus you need not be surprised if a person lacks understanding for the divine word who is not permeated by love for Me and his neighbour, because he also lacks wisdom, the knowledge about the strength of love, which increases ever more the less the human being is a slave to matter.

(25.10.1950) I certainly often approach people to urge them onto the path of love, yet I respect free will at all times, and you should do the same .... always show love to each other but leave your fellow human being free to decide, for often the will to convince is precisely what determines him to reject. Anyone who has no inner connection with Me or with the spiritual kingdom through good actions or good thoughts will never be able to hear the voice from there either. For good is only that which is done completely selflessly, where no calculation or earthly advantage is striven for. The goodness of the heart inevitably leads to Me and also recognizes the father's voice, but where the intellect only examines, the judgement is not very satisfactory. Nevertheless, I say again and again: Be patient with your fellow human beings whom you cannot convince of My word. So much escapes them that you have to show them love again and again, that you should bear their faults and weaknesses with forbearance .... But persevere on your path .... Through love you gain much strength, and although strength cannot be transferred to a fellow human being at will it nevertheless enables you to do unusual deeds spiritually and earthly. And thus you must influence those by your example who are not yet as far advanced as you, and you will achieve much. Even where you are hindered in the execution of your will, your will will be valued by Me and earn you spiritual progress. But your destiny is predetermined for all of you, and truly, you can mature on earth if you don't fail of will yourselves. And precisely where you overcome resistance you will mature most quickly and one day sing praise and thanks to Me for the many opportunities I have offered you for the purpose of maturing. The will towards Me alone is decisive for the soul's degree of maturity it achieves on earth. And this will is so often tempted because the adversary does not slacken in his effort to wrest souls from Me which have already decided in favour of Me. But where the will is good, victory will also not fail to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working together in the kingdom beyond .... help the unknowings ....

B.D. 4989 from October 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Heartfelt love unites the spiritual beings in the kingdom of the beyond who no longer dwell in darkness, and therefore they also work with united strength as soon as they want to accomplish something for which their own strength is insufficient; that is, they can certainly already be recipients of strength in the beyond but still to a limited extent as long as they are not yet perfected, that is, beings of light which are in direct contact with God. Nevertheless, they can already be active according to their reception of strength. But if they work in unity then everything they want is possible for them, yet their will is always equal to God's will. The common love of the spiritual beings mostly extends to the souls on earth and in the spiritual kingdom which still dwell in darkness. They seek to bring help to them, and where they do not succeed on their own they unite for joint work and also have great success.

(10/28/1950) All their efforts aim to bring light to the beings still in darkness, thus to enlighten them about their present and future state, but they can only do this in the form of mental transmissions. It is often difficult to exert mental influence on souls, especially those still on earth, because they turn more towards earthly life and also believe little in a continuation of the soul as well as in beings which are in the spiritual kingdom and want to have contact with people on earth. Then the strength of a loving soul is often not enough and it seeks help from equally mature friends in the kingdom of light. It is a process of extraordinary importance to transfer thought currents to the human being without forcing the will .... it is an application of strength which is not allowed to break any resistance. And that is why these thought waves play around the human being's soul again and again and seek to gain entrance into the human heart, which emotionally turns towards such currents once it has opened itself. The opening of the heart is usually a consequence of miserable situations in life, of sorrow and suffering and disappointments of all kinds .... This is why people's fate in life is often a chain of such sorrowful events, all of which are only intended to open the heart voluntarily when it is touched by currents from the kingdom of light, so that it will then be receptive for the thought currents imparted to it by the beings of light as an effect of love. This is why these beings often intervene in life's fate in a decisive way, yet not according to their own will but according to God's will, Who has entrusted people to them as His charges and thus also gives them the authority to influence them in such a way that their spiritual development is successful. And the light beings' work on the imperfect souls in the beyond is just the same, they have to be considered according to their respective state and their course of development in the beyond is also incumbent on guardian spirits who are in knowledge and therefore also see every possibility which could bring help to the souls of darkness. The process of development in the beyond can go further upwards, but it can also go backwards, because even then the being's will is still free. Thus the will can only be influenced completely without constraint, which can only be judged by a being of light and which is incumbent upon it according to God's will. But just as people on earth often unite in their work against God by adopting each other's views and also representing them to their fellow human beings, so united activity must also take place in the spiritual kingdom so that the human being's will on earth remains free and yet it is possible for it to change. Consequently, it is a perpetual battle of light against darkness which, however, is not fought with hostility and the will to destroy, as it is on earth, but is only waged with spiritual weapons by the beings of light struggling for people's hearts, so that they voluntarily submit to their influence, so that they allow themselves to be guided in their thoughts and actions, so that they turn their thoughts away from the earthly world and towards the spiritual kingdom in which they shall one day lead the right life which will make them eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love – power reception .... love has grown cold .... serious reminder ....

B.D. 4990 from October 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Every service of love has the effect of receiving strength .... If you humans would take this to heart there would be no weakness whatsoever for you, neither in faith nor in knowledge, and your life would be easy. You would receive back a thousand fold what you pray for out of love, and therefore you would not have to fear any earthly worries .... But what is the situation in the world? Adversity and misery, unbelief and ignorance characterize people's state, and all this points to the end .... Love has grown cold among people .... Hence they also lack strength, which is the result of the working of love. It is a weak humanity which passes away in spiritual darkness. Love has grown cold amongst people .... You cannot measure how serious this is for their souls, for they thereby prove their remoteness from God, because closeness to God inevitably means receiving strength, but closeness to God is only assured through loving activity. But what do you humans want to achieve if you are far from God .... Then every endeavour will only lead to the abyss, no matter how eagerly you create and work; for without God you are enslaved by the one who is His adversary and to whom alone you owe your wretched state. God alone is your salvation, if you do not seek Him you will be lost for eternity. God alone is strength and power and glory, and in His nearness you will live in bliss. But if you are far from Him, if your spirit is darkened, if you walk blindly and powerlessly on earth, and if you enter the spiritual kingdom blindly and powerlessly, your wretched state will increase due to your guilt. Love alone sets you free, love alone brings you closer to God, love imparts strength and light to you, love redeems you. Overcome yourselves, you who are still strongly stuck in selfish love, turn to your fellow human being and have open eyes for his suffering; help him, be constantly active in unselfish love. Then you will increase in strength and light, you will strive towards God Who reveals Himself to you through your activity of love, to Whom you unite through your activity of love so that He works with and in you. Love has grown cold among people .... Take care that you do not belong to those for whom there is no salvation anymore because they have left God. Seek to secure His nearness through loving activity and make sure that your strength increases, that you believe firmly and steadfastly and let your faith come alive through love. Then the earthly world will no longer burden you, you will live in constant striving for the spiritual kingdom, you will feel God's presence and be full of love and strength, and since you now live in and with God you will succeed in everything, your spiritual as well as your earthly work will be blessed .... Do not let love grow cold, so that you will not belong to those who have to fear the near end, who are far from God and become a slave to the one who is His adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Violation of eternal order .... fulfilment of predictions - last judgement ....

B.D. 4991 from October 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The end will come irrevocably and with it the last judgment .... For in My wisdom I recognized people's will from eternity and their behaviour which corresponds to this will but which does not show any upward striving. My law of eternity, however, demands a constant upward development, and all events on earth and in the entire universe are adapted to this law. If a constant infringement of My law of order is recognizable, then this will have the effect of restoring the old order, but in such a way that everything contrary to the law will pass away, thus also material creations which are not used according to the eternal order will dissolve in order to be incorporated into the order again in a different form. Thus people who have stepped out of order are also placed into the state which corresponds to My eternal order again, i.e. the spiritual substance in the human being takes on the external form which corresponds to its degree of maturity; thus it loses its existence as a human being and is banished again into an external form which had long since been overcome .... It is now undoubtedly certain that the human being completely misjudges his purpose of existence, that he only pays attention to his earthly life and no longer submits to My primal law of eternity, the law of love. The earth, which is only meant to serve as a maturing station for the spiritual substance, completely fails in its purpose and therefore can no longer continue to exist in its old form, because then it will move entirely contrary to law in the universe, in which all creations have their destiny assigned by Me and also comply with it. For the earth will now only be used to develop backwards, and thus its inhabitants will, so to speak, play into My adversary's hands. Only the will of the latter is still observed on earth, while My will remains unheeded or is totally disregarded. If people would turn, if they would make an effort to learn the truth and then turn to Me with the request for help to ascend, I would truly not destroy the earth but let people experience My greater than great love and mercy, I would neither let an end nor a last judgment come, for a good will and serious striving towards Me could achieve everything, even the lifting of an act which has been intended by Me since eternity. I would do it and only ever help you humans to reach the aim. But this will is no longer to be found with people, and therefore My plan of eternity has to come to pass, My announcements through seers and prophets, who foresaw the end, have to be fulfilled, precisely because they also foresaw where people are heading. And only My overwhelming patience has still saved the earth from this fate, because I still want to give all those the opportunity for a change of will whose hearts I recognize and to whom I want to be merciful. But the number of them will become smaller and smaller, and not long after that only two camps will be clearly recognizable, and the flock of My own will be so small that the end can already be recognized, for if only devils still animate the world it will have completely left its lawful order, just like the people on it, and there can only be an end to that which is visible to people as earthly creation, just as people themselves must be destroyed who misused their last maturing station and thus sinned again against the fundamental law of eternal order, against love .... This announcement will irrevocably come to pass, for people will no longer be of better will, they constantly strive downwards and also try to drag down everything turned towards Me. But I will prevent this, for I will let the earth arise anew again and people on it will live in order again, which is and remains the supreme law from eternity; they will live in love again and be My children in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth must proceed directly from the original source of truth .... "I am the way, the truth and the life ....“

B.D. 4992 from November 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The right path to truth is rarely taken, yet many believe they are on it and yet walk close to it or further away from it. But since I Myself am the way, the truth and the life, everyone must follow Me, then he will also be on the right path, he will stand in the truth and recognize everything that is error or lie. There is only one path, and this path is I Myself .... And therefore you humans must let yourselves be taught by Me and, in order to hear My voice, take the same path I took on earth, the path of love, which directly connects you with Me and thus also with the truth, since I am the eternal truth Myself. And thus anyone who lives in love can also feel instructed by Me if he asks spiritual questions, if he seeks the truth. I am the way, the truth and the life .... And anyone to whom I can be present as a result of active neighbourly love will not be able to think otherwise than right because he is filled by My spirit, which only knows and conveys the pure truth ....

Thus I Myself give the truth to people through My spirit. It must not be misjudged that only I, the original source of truth, allow it to flow to you directly or indirectly, which is why anything which does not demonstrably come from Me can be rejected as deviating from the truth by those who seriously examine it. But a direct or indirect receipt of truth takes place when a person's knowledge is increased without having been brought to him from outside or when he passes this knowledge on to his fellow human beings. All knowledge which was not gained scholastically but was, as it were, born in a person's heart is due to the working of the spirit and thus a revelation on My part which can only be purest truth. Anyone who receives this spiritual knowledge again, which was directly conveyed to a person, can and will only accept it if he also allows My spirit to work in him, otherwise it would appear incomprehensible and unacceptable to him, thus it would not signify truth for him. My spirit must be able to work in the human being, therefore I Myself am the path which leads to truth. And anyone who shapes himself into love, that is, who unites with Me through loving activity, will also make contact with My spirit of eternity and therefore also recognize pure truth as such. Hence love, which I exemplified to you on earth and which can therefore be called the path to truth again, cannot be excluded either. But the truth will always be the same, and all those who are instructed by Me in the truth, in whom My spirit can work, will call concordant knowledge their own, so that different schools of thought will never arise where only one truth is advocated .... For as soon as the knowledge deviates from each other the intellect alone has been active and has made the working of My spirit impossible in one or the other. What has been fathomed intellectually is to be rejected as contradicting the truth, but what is conveyed to the human being by the heart is spiritual working and the only truth. And thus you humans always have a sign of truth .... if only you pay attention to the source from which knowledge springs .... Remember that I am the way, the truth and the life, that pure truth can therefore only come through Me and from Me and that it will always be received by the one who lives and works in and with Me because he lives in love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual coercion .... Dogma ....

B.D. 4993 from November 2nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The greatest danger for a human being is spiritual coercion which prevents the recognition and free decision of his will’s direction. Every person is an individual being that has to perfect itself and, therefore, everyone is responsible for his own way of life on which depends the attainment of the degree of perfection. Hence everyone has to make a free decision and testify to Me of his will. I Am demanding this testimony and do not agree that one person should tell his fellow human beings how they must think, will or act. The freedom of will must not be violated, but it is violated when the objective of a person's will is determined by law and he is required either by promises or threats to move only in a particular direction .... I will never accept such coercion although I will not openly oppose it so as not to use coercion Myself.

The human being is a thinking individual who received the ability of free will and thought from Me purely for the purpose of making a decision during the last stage of his spiritual development on earth, in accordance with which he will then be rewarded in eternity. It is indeed good and in accordance with My will when a person informs his fellow human beings of the consequences of using their will in a righteous or wrong way. It is also My will when all manner of clarification is given concerning his relationship with his Creator. However, a good instruction concerning the divine doctrine of love and the importance of practicing unselfish love for one's fellow human being is quite sufficient. But it should all be done without coercion .... The human being should be educated but never forced into accepting a doctrine because he should use his own judgment and inclination in directing his will.

I gave the human being free will but if you take it away from him you will be using your own will wrongly, although you will believe that you work for Me on My behalf. I never gave My disciples the task to spread My teaching by way of religious coercion because an enforced faith would not benefit the soul’s higher development. I only ever require people to believe in Me as a supremely perfect Being, I only ever require their belief in My omnipotence, wisdom and love and its strength .... For if you believe in this you will experience the strength of love yourselves and will automatically recognise everything else you need to believe, because then you will be truthfully taught by My spirit within yourselves. However, enforced faith will not lead you to perfection. Enforced faith will rarely come alive, and I cannot look upon enforced faith as a decision of free will because your will has not yet become active, instead you will have acknowledged a school of thought as the result of your education without having properly evaluated it as to its worth or worthlessness.

I want you to believe that you can only attain beatitude through love .... but you have to acquire this belief yourselves; you can certainly accept the teaching of it but then you will first have to practise love in order to gain the certainty that love is spiritual strength, and only this inner certainty is assured faith which is life-giving because it was voluntarily gained. All coercion is a sign of imperfection because it violates the freedom which originally was the spiritual being’s characteristic and which it has to regain in order to become blessed. How can coercive measures which deprive people of spiritual freedom be considered to be in accordance with My will .... if a person is virtually duty-bound to believe something which, as far as I Am concerned, needs absolutely free deliberation and acceptance?

As supreme Lawgiver I gave people no other commandment than that of love, which also comprises the Ten Commandments of Moses, but which only will be fulfilled if love is voluntarily practised, otherwise it would bear witness against Myself or it would question the human being’s free will. However, people presume that they can establish laws without having the authority to do so. Thus they infringe upon the person’s free will .... Every law is coercion, and every kind of coercion is contrary to My will. As soon as a person no longer has freedom of thought, as soon as he is forced to believe in a doctrine, his earthly test of volition comes to an end, for he has to make his own decision and not an enforced one. And every dogmatic doctrine is coercion, irrespective of whether it is true or not.

Every dogma is a violation of free will .... which will not be free at the time of a spiritual decision, since the decision has already been dictated to him and can only be bypassed by committing a sin. I gave every human being the right of free choice; I merely require that he should seriously consider what he is asked to believe. If, in spite of serious deliberation, he cannot accept it with full conviction, I will not regard it as a sin; however, he will commit a sin if he affirms a doctrine with his lips without having asked his heart. Every person is responsible for himself, and it is presumptuous when one person intends to determine the faith of thousands with an instruction which must always be considered a dogmatic doctrine.

Anything that violates a human being’s freedom of will can never find My approval, since not even I Myself determine people’s acceptance of truth if their own will does not want it. I will certainly continue to teach people and transmit the pure truth to them, but everyone is at liberty to accept or reject it. And thus you should simply teach your fellow human beings with love but allow them spiritual freedom for their decision, because an enforced faith has no merit before Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Father's concern for His children ....

B.D. 4994 from November 5th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You children of this earth are My problem children, for you go your own way and don't feel drawn to the Father nor listen to the Father's voice which lovingly wants to regain you. The path you take leads far away from the goal, and thus I worry about you because I know where this path is leading to. Yet as My children you also have free will or you could not be My children. Free will is part of the state of perfection which you initially enjoyed, therefore I cannot forcibly bring you back to Me but only ever give you love which, once it touches your heart, will drive you back to Me.

But how often do you humans prolong your time of separation from Me yourselves .... And how often do you even exceed your appointed redemption period .... And then you once again will have to expect an agonizing state which, however, is not imposed on you by My wrath but by My love so that you will attain the goal.

Once again you humans face a turning point, the end of a period of time which was granted to you for salvation. I get increasingly more concerned about you since the short time left to you could still be used to help redeem you, you can still be released from the oppressive constraint if you would want it yourselves, if you would commend yourselves to My guidance without resistance. The time of grace will expire soon, the result of your resistance will soon make itself known, and you will have to bear the consequences of having made your own way without listening to the Father's voice. It clearly speaks to everyone, for I speak to you through all happenings, your whole earthly fate is the expression of My love; suffering, hardship and sorrow are Words of love from Me to you to remind you that you are My children who separated from the Father and should find their way back to Me again. And only something that inwardly stirs and discourages you drives you back to Me, with Whom you will find protection and help in every adversity ....

You have to come to Me yourselves, just as you separated from Me yourselves. And for this reason suffering and hardship will increase until the end, since they are the only means which can still result in success, since you don't listen to My gentle words of love in your heart and since My affectionate persuasion remains ineffective.

You travelled a long way until you became human beings .... Don't let this path have been travelled in vain, take advantage of your last available opportunities to make the decision in the state of free will with which you will become your Father's true children again .... Don't let your short remaining time pass by without changing your will, that is, without turning it in the direction where most faithful Fatherly love waits for you. Time flies and you are approaching a dreadful fate if you remain opposed and don't find your way back to Me, for My plan has been predetermined since eternity .... A new period of Salvation will start because everything has to take the path of higher development, so that all of My love's children will get the opportunity to come close to Me of their own free will .... to return to the Father's house which they had once voluntarily abandoned ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Father's concern for His children .... Childship to God ....

B.D. 4995 from November 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

All human beings are My children and I take hold of all of them with the same love, because My love for My living creations can never stop and knows no exception. And yet, innumerable people are still so far away from Me that they no longer feel the strength of My love, nevertheless of their own free will because they turn away from Me and the rays of My love can only touch a receptive heart. Hence they are like children who have left the Father's house, who moved to faraway places because they thought they could do without the Father's love. I want to win these children back again because My love yearns for them and because I also know that, outside the Father's house, they live in adversity and misery, since I know My children and their disastrous state which is their fate as long as they are separated from Me. I try to regain them and will invite their love until they are My Own again, until they are blissfully happy in the Father's arms .... Nevertheless, an infinitely long time may pass by before I reach My goal; however, I Am forbearing and patient, and My love knows no bounds. What I don't achieve soon I will achieve later, but sooner or later even the last child will have found its way back, if only after an endlessly long time. I will achieve My goal for certain; however, as long as they are distant from Me My living creations must still suffer indescribably and therefore I try to shorten their state of suffering by using every means to break down their obstinacy and by revealing Myself to them as the most loving Father .... but always bearing free will in mind, which they must keep as My true children in order to become perfect. They shall attain the childship to God and become akin to Me in everything, as true children they shall come into the Father's inheritance and create and shape with Me in eternal happiness. Only on earth can the souls achieve the goal of maturing into My true children. They are set the highest and most glorious goal .... Yet, how little it is striven for by people to whom I, as Father, want to prepare the most glorious fate. In the past they became enslaved by My adversary and allowed themselves to be influenced by him, and this situation of bondage must first be severed by them before they can be accepted into the Father's house, they must renounce this world which is his realm; that is, they should not desire the attractions and pleasures of this material world but must direct their will towards Me and, like lost children, yearn for paternal protection and paternal love. Then I will come to meet them in order to show them the way which leads them safely back to Me, back into the Father's house. One day every soul will return to Me, yet My love tries to shorten the time of distance from Me, because it is a time without bliss, a time of spiritual darkness and of weakness. And since I love all My living creations I also approach all people so that they will learn to recognise their Father and submit to His will. But someone who nevertheless opposes Me will not be forced by Me. However, he prepares a burdensome fate for himself, he deprives himself of heavenly blissfulness, he forsakes precious treasures for the sake of transient earthly possessions .... and he will still remain separated from Me for an endless time and will thus be controlled by My adversary .... yet always because of his own fault ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Wrestling of evil powers for souls more violent before the end ....

B.D. 4996 from November 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The demons circle around you and continually seek to disturb a connection which exists between the spiritual kingdom and the earth. And thus they seek to influence your will in order to cause a light to go out which shall brightly illuminate the path for you humans in the last time before the end. My messengers are often harassed by these dark beings because they hate and shun the light, because they cannot tolerate it in their darkness. But the beings of light protect you and do not allow you to succumb in the battle against the dark powers. It is a struggle of both powers for your soul as well as for the souls of those who have found the way to the source of life and want to feast on it. And both are trying to gain the upper hand .... It is the last time before the end .... And satan has great power .... But he cannot force people who love Me and strive towards Me. Yet he will always harass them and disturb their souls, and these are the temptations to which you, My labourers and servants on earth, are always exposed. Yet you should fear neither the temptations nor the tempter himself .... For My love protects all who are devoted to Me. And therefore you, too, should not allow yourselves to be confused and, without worry, continue to walk the path of truth, the path of light which leads to Me and which the adversary cannot obstruct despite cunning and force. For this path is My territory, and anyone who treads it is immune to all attacks of the enemy .... He cannot reach it because the bright light blinds him and his intrigue is always recognized if he tries to lure him away from the right path with cunning. Many demons surround you but they cannot harm you as long as you take refuge in Me in prayer, as long as you are devoted to Me in your heart and want to serve Me alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Death is conquered .... power of satan broken by death on the cross ....

B.D. 4997 from November 9th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

In the hour of Christ's crucifixion the great act of redemption of the spiritual from satan’s bondage took place. His power was broken, he lost control over the spiritual embodied as a human being, as soon as he wanted to be free from him. Through His crucifixion, through His blood, the man Jesus had redeemed the whole of humanity from the one who was My adversary and did not want to release the spiritual, which his will had brought into being by using My strength. Hence humanity was no longer in a hopeless state; it could detach itself from his power if it had the will to do so, because the man Jesus had paid the purchase price with His blood ....

With this explanation I want to make you humans understand that you are not hopelessly at satan’s mercy, that you can all liberate yourselves as soon as you acknowledge Jesus Christ as redeemer, Who sheltered My abundant strength of love within Himself which let Him become a divine being Which united with Me eternally. Satan no longer has the power to force a person's will if he turns to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ himself, he can certainly tempt him in every way but never forcefully influence him, otherwise his power would still be unbroken. Death is overcome .... death is a state of complete powerlessness, a state of ruin and darkness .... Death is overcome because Jesus Christ Himself has conquered it, because He gives eternal life to the one who participates in His act of salvation, who is therefore willing to make use of the graces acquired by Jesus .... who wants Jesus to have died for him too, that He also shed His blood for him in order to redeem him. Satan certainly still has great power but only over people who have no faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer. There his power is still unbroken until they also place themselves under the cross of Christ and ask Him for help against him. The love of the God-Man Jesus is without limits, otherwise He would not have become one with Me. And this love does not deny itself to anyone who comes to Him and asks for help. He stands up for battle as an adversary against satan if only the winning of a bound soul applies. And therefore every person's earnest prayer for protection and help against him will be heard and satan will only have power over a person if he willingly hands himself over to him. You humans can therefore firmly believe that Jesus' love is a thousand times stronger than satan’s power. And that His love applies to every bound being which only lifts its eyes to Him in its adversity. Satan certainly walks about like a roaring lion and seeks whom he devours .... But Jesus Christ as one with Me is also lord over him .... He is the Good Shepherd, Who guards His sheep from the enemy, and His sheep include all who are not against Him. He laid down His life for His sheep .... Therefore He will not let any of them fall into the clutches of the enemy if they confess Him in their hearts. For He has infinitely greater power because He has become one with Me and possesses all strength and power from Me. For He is My son Who, out of love, took humanity's guilt upon Himself and sacrificed Himself to Me. And if you humans call upon Him for help against your enemy He will also hear you and snatch every soul from satan which wants to escape from him. Only your will has to be directed towards Him, Who redeemed the world through His crucifixion ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forces within the earth .... eruption .... explanation ....

B.D. 4998 from November 11th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Research and brooding will not bring you closer to the truth but the instructions from above will, which My love bestows upon all those who desire the truth for the sake of truth and not for the sake of earthly success. I can truly impart the truth to you, and I will also do so if it is desired, however, the person who pursues worldly interests with it will never be able to deem himself in possession of the truth, which is certainly also understandable that I don't want to strengthen My adversary's power, who hides behind the world and its incentives and drives many a person to research and brood in order to win him over for the world, thus to alienate him from Me. Truth is and remains a divine share, and anyone who walks in truth is close to Me, just as conversely a person who has distanced himself from Me due to his excessive inclination towards matter can never stand in truth, because I and truth are inseparable. And therefore let it be said to you that the human being cannot penetrate areas which lie outside of earth by virtue of his intellect, that intellectual research will therefore not yield a truthful result and that pure truth can only be gained through the working of the spirit in the human being. And even if this deviates from the results of science it guarantees its authenticity because it is conveyed by Me Myself to people who allow My spirit to work in them. But again, it is only acceptable to such people, thus the recognition of truth presupposes the working of the spirit in the human being again, which is why it is not advizable to want to impart the knowledge of things gained through the spirit, which cannot be proven, to people who are still completely unawakened in spirit, for they don't grasp it, and what they don't grasp they pull down and hostile towards the proclaimers.

And thus processes within the earth cannot be explained to these people which they cannot feel themselves. Furthermore, only a few people are able to form a true picture of processes in the universe because this requires a spiritual faculty of imagination which necessitates a complete detachment from matter. No worldly-minded person can see spiritual processes which, however, are decisive for natural processes in individual material creations. Thus rotational movements can also increase through the influence of spiritual forces within the earth and yet be regulated again by precisely such higher intelligence in order not to overturn the existing laws of nature, i.e. to have an earthly-destructive effect, before this is permitted by Me that the earth is reshaped through this work of destruction according to My will. All movement comes about through spiritual strength, and as long as this strength still finds its lord every earthly process is also in divine order, i.e. without danger of a destructive effect, because the power controlling it inhibits where it wants to develop excessively. But at times they are given free rein, and then eruptions of the earth's interior are the result, because those forces seek an exit to reach the surface from the earth's interior. That is why these eruptions are more frequent and more violent the closer it gets to the end, because the forces of the earth's interior develop an unusual urge and are tremendously active. Thus the earth's revolutions are driven from within but regulated by counterforces until excessive influence from within results in earth tremors and eruptions, so that the laws of nature remain unalterable until I Myself dissolve them through My will when the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right preacher must be driven by the spirit of God ....

B.D. 4999 from November 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Every proclaimer of My word is blessed by Me if he is only serious about conveying My word to his fellow human beings in order to help them attain eternal life. Thus he speaks in My name, he feels that I want to speak to people and does so for Me .... he proclaims My word .... But what do you humans understand by My word? The word you want to proclaim must always have been spoken by Me once, otherwise you would not be able to call it My word. I must have addressed people directly or indirectly, i.e. through My servants and prophets, and thus revealed Myself to them. And you, as My proclaimers, must be fully convinced of this, otherwise proclaiming My word would just be more form which I do not value and which is also not pleasing to Me. Thus, again, only a person who is fully convinced of his sermon may deliver it to his fellow human beings if he wants to be My representative on earth, if he also wants to receive My blessing as a preacher of My word. He must have accepted My word within himself and live accordingly. Then I Myself will speak through him as soon as he speaks for Me. He then not only repeats what I once spoke to the people, but: I Myself speak to people again and again, as soon as he hands himself over to Me as a mouthpiece, of which I only make use in order to repeatedly convey My word to them. Anyone who therefore has a living faith in Me and is willing to work for Me with humble love constantly accepts My word, for it is I Who now guides his thoughts, Who gives him the words which once came forth from Me and which I always and forever repeat, because heaven and earth pass away but My word remains in existence for all eternity. You humans, who proclaim My word to your fellow human beings in My name, you allow Me to use your tongue Myself through your will, that you receive My word yourselves and at the same time pray it again for your own and your fellow human beings' blessing .... You are not yet quite aware of your ministry if you believe that you can only receive the word from the book of the fathers .... you would not be able to do this if you did not let Me Myself work in you, otherwise it would remain an empty word which does not have a power-awakening and power-giving effect .... The merely spoken word, which is not conveyed to fellow human beings in association with Me, cannot be touched according to the letter, yet it remains ineffective if you yourselves do not let Me work in you, and then you cannot claim to have proclaimed the word of God, even though it is the same in letter form .... I Myself want to reveal Myself and always do so if only the proclaimer, in deepest love for Me and in living faith in Me, wants to receive My word from Me Myself in order to pass it on to his fellow human beings whom he wants to help into beatitude. Love for Me and for his fellow human beings must impel him to proclaim My word, and then he will always speak driven by My spirit, for then he will not speak himself but I will speak through him and he will proclaim the pure gospel ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

It concerns eternal life ....

B.D. 5000 from November 14th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

It concerns eternal life .... the soul's life in the spiritual kingdom after the human being's death on earth .... it concerns eternity. Do you humans understand the implications of this? Consider the immense responsibility you have in earthly life, where you create your own fate in eternity, where all means are at your disposal in order to become blessed and which you ignore at enormous expense to your soul. Consider that you will be held accountable for your thoughts, will and actions on earth, and that you will not be able to undo anything, neither will you be able to catch up on what you neglected to do .... but that you will find utterly appropriate justice in accordance with your earthly life. Every thought, every action will automatically either divert the human being from the goal or lead him to it. And therefore he should always endeavour to gain God's pleasure in order to be able to stand before His Judgment seat one day.

It concerns your soul's salvation, and during your earthly life you only take notice of your body and its requirements but ignore your soul. God's love, however, does not want to let go of you, it does not want you to become eternally lost but wants you to have eternal life .... God's love will pursue you for as long as you live on earth. God will bear your faults and weaknesses with infinite patience, and His mercy will know no bounds. As long as you live on earth His love is yours and longs for union with you. And this union with the ultimate love will result in a state of happiness which He wants to bestow on you because you all are His children. It is a very difficult start to guide you into happiness as long as you do not have the will for it yourselves.

And yet, this will cannot be forced; you have to change yourselves in utmost freedom into your fundamental nature again, which you once possessed when you came forth from God, your Creator and Father since eternity. Then you will be God-like beings again who will be able to enter into unity with Him without ceasing to exist in His light. And this change of nature is your earthly task, your goal and your destiny. It is not difficult if you only want God, but it will be a hard fight if you adhere to the world. This is why the world is your enemy, your danger and your downfall. Consequently, you should avoid it, you should not fall under its spell, you should rise above it and only strive for the divine kingdom, which will truly offer you far more delectable possessions; you should ask for God, Who can and wants to give you everything that will make you blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God speaks again and again ....

B.D. 5001 from November 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

O you fools who believe you can determine the love of your God .... you blind in spirit who have not yet recognized Me, who have not yet felt My presence and who therefore cannot understand that I make Myself known to those who desire My word. You fools who do not know that I am the eternal word Myself and therefore have to speak when I am present to you and want to prove My presence to you. You certainly repeat what I once said when I lived on earth, yet as long as I Myself am not present to you they are only dead letters which you spread and which only come alive when you perceive them as signs of My presence, because then you will hear Me speak Myself, Who reveals Myself to you through the spirit. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God .... (and God is the word). I Myself am My word, and My spirit is in every word which testifies of Me. I speak to people in every place and at every time as soon as the human being opens his ear to Me, as soon as he desires to hear Me and listens for the expression of My love. And this love will never become exhausted, just as therefore My word can never cease to resound in the hearts of people who love Me. Therefore, anyone who believes that I only once made Myself known to the disciples, anyone who believes that I will now remain silent and will never again be in such close contact with people that they will be able to hear Me, is living in a great error which is very detrimental to himself, because he will never be able to hear My voice if he does not believe that I reveal Myself, that My love wants to express itself to you humans and give you a sign that I am present to you. Because I am an essential deity I must also be able to testify to My nature and thus speak to you humans. You, too, can only recognize another being if it can express its thoughts, intentions and feelings, otherwise it will remain dead and unrecognized by you. And since I want you humans to learn to recognize Me, I must speak to you.

(18.11.1950) What father who loves his children would remain silent if he knew they were in need? .... What father would make a vow to speak to his children only once and then remain silent forever? You humans do not know your father in heaven if you imagine Him to be a ruthless being with principles which lack all love. Just as a hen coaxes her chicks to protect them from danger, so I am always and constantly a caller and admonisher and how else but through My word, which testifies to Me Myself and My love and care for you? .... O you fools who believe that My love would diminish, that it could ever be spent .... that I, the word from eternity, could once be silent because I have already spoken to you once .... Consider how weak your faith is and how you measure Me with earthly yardsticks, how you attach to Me the weaknesses and shortcomings of an earthly person whose love is limited because he is still imperfect. My word will always resound and every person will be able to hear it who shapes himself according to My will, who prepares his heart to be a dwelling place where his lord can take up residence .... And if He is with him, if He is present to him, He will also express Himself and speak words of love and wisdom to him, as I have promised. And never ever shall you doubt it, otherwise My word spoken on earth would also be invalidated, which proclaimed My spirit to you until the end of time: "I will remain with you until the end of the world ...." "My Spirit will guide you into truth ...." And if you have a deep, living faith you will not regard Me as a distant God but as an over-good, loving father Who always wants to be and remain united with you and Whom you can then also hear, Who always speaks to you if you desire to hear Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light beings embodied as human beings .... Disciples of the last days ....

B.D. 5002 from November 19th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The will to serve Me links the human being to My flock of disciples who I instructed to proclaim the Gospel. Every person wanting to work as a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord is welcome by Me, because many reapers are needed during the time of the end. I only value free will and assign to everyone work they are capable of doing. Hence, I do not reject anyone because I need all of them. The work first of all consists of spreading My teaching of love, and this mission is extremely important because during the last days people will thoughtlessly spend their lives entirely without love. Understandably, someone who is to spread the truth must live a life of love himself, otherwise his words would have no effect on his fellow human beings. Hence I can only use people as labourers in My vineyard if they observe the commandment of love for God and other people themselves, because only those people are capable of accepting My instructions, but in fact, only those people voluntarily offer to be of service to Me. The first condition to be a suitable worker in My vineyard therefore consists of activity of unselfish neighbourly love, and I also grant My special love to such a person who lives a life of love himself .... I regard him as My child, for it has recognised Me as its Father and wants to serve Me obediently .... For this reason, every person can regard himself as My child who places himself at My disposal for spiritual cooperation, while the others are indeed My living creations which I love and never want to lose but which must prove themselves as My children first by fulfilling My will. Consequently, I send My children to their brothers and sisters who have not recognised their Father as yet and let them be taught by the former .... which is a mission of such importance that I will always work together with My children in order to save souls from their eternal downfall. Children who have already found Me shall also show the path to the others, so that these, too, can experience the bliss of My presence, which equally turns them into My children. During the time of the end even light beings must descend to earth in order to help people, because they are extremely strongly influenced by the opposite side and people are too weak to offer resistance. These light beings embodied as human beings possess strong souls which strive towards Me, even though they lack the past awareness of their origin. They will always strive upwards and will never let themselves be influenced by low forces; nevertheless, as human beings on earth they wage a battle with them but will emerge victoriously. Powerful psychological strength often suggests a soul from above, yet the soul is not aware of this, otherwise its mission would become less important, which must always be and remain a free decision of will. The soul might well suspect it as a result of increased knowledge, yet for the soul’s own sake this fact will remain hidden from it until the time of complete spiritualisation, shortly before its demise, when, during a spiritual vision, it will recognise its origin and will long to return, full of yearning, to where it will be blissfully united with Me again. Such an incarnated being of light can be of great benefit on earth due to its spiritual strength and its love for its fellow human beings, however, as long as it lives on earth it is just a human being who, like any other human being, has to go through a process of development in order to be able to increase its spiritual powers, for he shall be an example for his fellow human beings who can attain the same powers as him, if they are willing to do so. A person on earth can even muster these light beings’ greater willpower by availing themselves of the blessings of the act of Salvation, on account of which precisely this teaching is diligently endorsed by those who are to proclaim the Gospel. Jesus Christ as the divine Redeemer and His teaching of love shall be proclaimed to people, and for this I need My servants on earth, so that all people will find the strength to strive towards ascent and release themselves from their tormentor who wants to plunge them into ruin if they are not being helped. For that reason I will bless every person who wants to help these souls, who serves Me as a servant in My vineyard, who, as a spiritual assistant, spreads light in the darkness of night in which people walk without reaching the right goal. And spreading light means instructing people in the truth, which I Myself impart upon those who thus want to be of service to Me.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle between light and darkness ....

B.D. 5003 from November 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

A constant battle is waged between light and darkness, which is why even the pure truth on earth does not remain untouched but is constantly to be displaced by lies and error. It is the battle between light and darkness equal to the battle between truth and error. Both will have their followers and thus fight against each other, for truth wants to assert itself as a divine emanation against the lie, the product of dark power. Anyone who walks in truth will also walk in light, i.e. everything will be understandable and recognizable to him and also make God's nature comprehensible to him, whereas lies and error darken the human being, give him a completely unclear image and ultimately cause him to lose faith in a supremely perfect being. The lie is no match for the pure truth, and yet the lie has the best weapon against the truth .... the human being's spiritual blindness, who therefore can no longer recognize the truth when he is entangled in the lie and error. This is why the battle of light against darkness is waged with all zeal, because a single ray of light can break through the spiritual darkness and the human being will then recognize the untenability and doubtfulness of what he was offered, even though he is still incapable of recognizing the truth. But as soon as the human being starts to ask questions, he can also receive the answer, and the darkness decreases, a quiet twilight spreads before the human being, which he now tries to penetrate more eagerly. Therefore, before the pure truth is conveyed to the human being, he must be made aware of lies and error by being stimulated to think about the erroneous spiritual knowledge imparted to him. The first doubt about this is already progress, a victory that the light has won over darkness. The battle between light and darkness rages ever more fiercely the closer it gets to the end. For it is a fierce battle between God and His adversary, between the eternal truth and the prince of lies .... Through the lie the soul is separated from God, whereas truth inevitably leads to God. Only through truth can God win His living creations for eternity, whereas the lie bars the path to God and the living creature falls hopelessly prey to the father of lies, therefore the battle between light and darkness can only be waged successfully if messengers of light convey the truth to people, if they draw people's attention to satan’s activity, which clearly manifests itself in humanity's heartlessness and therefore can never ever lead to the knowledge and realization of God. And anyone who is not yet completely under satan’s control is also accessible to the pure truth and accepts without resistance what is imparted to him by messengers of light through God's greater than great love .... He will recognize the truth and also learn to recognize God as the eternal truth, he will turn away from darkness and seek the light, and his soul will not be lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

A rock will be made to waver .... (Spiritual upheaval) ....

B.D. 5004 from November 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Humanity will experience significant spiritual upheaval to enable it to recognise a misconception which, until now, it had endorsed as truth. I will noticeably draw people's attention to My Word .... I will destabilise a rock .... and people themselves shall be able to decide what they want to discard: My Word or an organisation which had established itself as a result of this Word. They will only be able to accept one of them, and every person will be free to make his own decision. I will only allow this to happen for people's own sake in order to release them from a coercion which enslaved their thoughts and will and thus prevented the decision of will, which is the reason for a human being's life on earth.

I want to make a rock waver .... and once the foundation is shaken the entire structure will crash, i.e. people will no longer feel committed but freely think and act at their own discretion. They will no longer fear a power supported by God, because only now will they recognise Me, Who is stronger than this power and does not support it. It will certainly mean spiritual chaos and at first the error will still want to assert itself, but then the truth will flare up like lightning and will clearly highlight wrong doctrines. They will not bear up to truth, for messengers of truth, bearers of light, will appear everywhere and be listened to, even though they will attract bitter hostility from the followers of the deposed power.

I Am revealing the forthcoming event to you humans and you can expect it soon, however, everything will take its time, and this occurrence, too, will point to the approaching end, for seers and prophets announced the end of a great city .... It will be a world-shattering event which, nevertheless, has a spiritual foundation and is intended to have a spiritual effect. It shall testify of Me before the world Who, as Eternal Truth, will never tolerate untruth and will proceed against it when the time is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work in the vineyard .... seed - reaper .... harvest ....

B.D. 5005 from November 22nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Much seed is sown and little fruit is produced .... Yet the fault is not to be found in the goodness of the seed but the soil which receives the seed is often unsuitable to let the seed sprout and bring forth good fruit. And therefore I need willing labourers who first cultivate the soil so that a good seed can be planted in it, and I need many reapers for the harvest who gather the fruit for Me and bring it to the sheds. The cultivation of the field has to be human labour; I can indeed give good seed, My word from eternity, but not every field .... the human heart .... I cannot shape every field through My will into good, receptive soil until it has subordinated its will to Mine, and this work must therefore be done by the human being himself, in which he should be helped by fellow human beings devoted to Me .... The field must first be cleared of weeds .... a mission which My labourers in the vineyard shall also carry out, to root out erroneous teachings and wrong opinions through correct instruction and to purify the heart so that it can receive good seed, My divine word, which can now unfold and grow and prosper according to the willingness of My servants on earth who want to spread My teaching of love, My word, amongst their fellow human beings. Much good seed is sown but not always accepted by the human heart. Then the seed falls on stony ground and does not take root there .... The word has been heard with the ears, but it does not reach the heart, it dies away and is spoken in vain. It is seed that has been wasted completely uselessly. But even then the seed can wither away if it has touched the human heart, if the emerging little plant is not nurtured and cared for, if the word is taken seriously by the human being for a short time but is forgotten again through external impressions and thus the little plant has no strength to sprout because the human being lacks the will to do so, because it is not watered with the water of love which is necessary for growth so that the little plant does not wither. How often is good seed scattered and does not come to fruition. And mostly it is the water of love that is lacking, for this alone allows the seed to flourish when the preliminary work has been done to make the field receptive for the seed, which is the pure word of God, My divine teaching of love. Anyone who follows this, who diligently practices love, will also supply the soil with the water of love in which even the most tender little plant has to grow, because it will always find new nourishment and finally be blessed by Me Myself by imparting ever new strength of love to the one who lives out My word as it is My will. Then the seed can bear fruit a hundredfold, again and again My word will be preached, also by those who first had to live it out themselves in order to experience its effect on themselves, which then makes him the living representative of what the word has given him himself. Then the seed will have fallen on good soil, then the field will have been cleansed of weeds, erroneous teachings will have been adopted, and only pure truth will animate the human being's thinking and starting, and his soul will live forever, for it will have developed into a fruit which is pleasing to Me ....

Amen

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Apostasy of the spiritual from God humanly represented ....

B.D. 5006 from November 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You are children of love, you emerged from My strength of love and are constantly cared for and looked after by My never-ending love. My love for you is boundless and will never let you get lost forever. But My love also gave you free will as a characteristic of perfection, otherwise My love for you would have been limited if it had denied you something which belongs to perfection. Only free will makes you divine beings who, having originated from Me, also had to be like Me. But at the same time free will made you beings with the right of self-determination who could now do and leave what they wanted of their own accord and affirm or deny their affiliation with Me themselves. This free decision of will also had to be granted to people so that they could prove their perfection, which required unconditional connection to Me. A perfectly created being had not yet reached the highest degree, for it first had to acquire it by remaining perfect of its own free will, wherever it was able to descend. The spiritual being's former apostasy from Me can only be portrayed to you humans on earth in this way if you want to understand why the spiritual being fell, why it became sinful against Me. It misused its free will and turned away from Me because it thought itself so powerful and exalted that it did not believe itself to be dependent on My strength of love. It had to be offered the opportunity to decide for a different aim than for Me in order to make a free decision of will. And this opposite pole was the first being of light emanating from Me which made use of My strength flowing to it without measure by creating beings without number with My will well, because I did not withdraw the strength from it. Its will, however, aimed to increase its own strength against Me in order to be independent of Me. It did not want to acknowledge Me as what I was .... as the original source of strength which it drew and which enabled it to create and shape according to its own will. Hence its free will turned away from Me, and it also placed this counter will into the spiritual creations which had emerged from My strength through it. Thus you were indeed children of My love but also children of an evil will which was directed against Me. And thus you once separated from Me of your own free will without, however, being able to completely separate from Me, because I keep you by virtue of My greater than great love, which will also win you back again, which will not let you fall but always lift you up again from the abyss if you strive towards it of your own will. But My love has no end .... and it wins you irrevocably. However, you determine the time yourselves ....

(24.11.1950) because you have free will .... Free will characterizes you as My living creations, as independent beings, and according to this free will you create the respective state for yourselves without being prevented by Me. But because I love you and want to win you I shape your destiny such that you can lift the separation from Me if you use your will correctly, that you strive for unity with Me and thus also accept your original nature again, that you are My children again in truth who have now decided for Me of their own accord and reject My adversary. But I also want to win him, and if eternities pass over it .... He, too, was a child of My love, emerged from My elemental strength and endowed with all gifts which made him a perfect being. Therefore I will not let him get lost for eternity either, I also court him and let him feel My love again and again, yet his will is still rigidly turned away from Me, and since I also give him free rein it is still a work of exceedingly great patience and mercy to allow his will the freedom and yet influence him so that he voluntarily surrenders to Me. Yet even if it takes eternities My love will triumph over the one who is still devoid of all love. One day he, too, will recognize My love and long for it, because it alone causes bliss and because no being can separate itself from Me forever but ultimately strives for the union which will make it inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

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"What no man's eye has ever seen ...."

B.D. 5007 from November 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

No human being can even begin to imagine the glories of the spiritual kingdom, which I expressed through My words: "What no human eye has ever seen and no human ear has ever heard, that I have prepared for those who love Me ...." They are unimaginable spiritual creations, they are unimaginable delights which delight the being there which has entered the kingdom of light and thus is redeemed from the sin of former resistance against its creator and father of eternity. But the still unredeemed souls create their surroundings themselves, for their will transfers them to where their thoughts dwell, and these are mostly still with earthly material things or on earth where they have dwelled and they still want to satisfy their desire. This is why the spiritual realms will still appear earthly to these imperfect souls, for they are not yet able to see spiritually and therefore only the images they imagine themselves appear before their eyes. The blissful beings, however, have overcome earthly matter and their desire is for spiritual treasures which, however, cannot be described to people on earth since they lack the power of imagination. When glorious delights are spoken of, it is first and foremost the connection with Me which creates delights of an incomparable kind for the beings. They receive light and distribute it, they move in spiritual creations which testify to My strength and glory. They are only active for Me with ardent love and also transfer this love to the beings which still dwell in darkness, in the spheres of imperfect spirits. Therefore, as long as you are given an imaginable description of the spiritual kingdom it is the state of souls which only know earthly concepts and are not yet mature enough for the kingdom of light. To understand the state of the blessed, on the other hand, already requires a degree of maturity which only rarely people on earth have. Figurative comparisons can certainly be used to give an insight into the activity of the inhabitants of the kingdom of light, but it will only be comprehensible to you humans when you are allowed to enter the kingdom of light yourselves, but then there will be no end to your amazement. You should always accept My word: No man's eye has ever seen and no man's ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me. Then every description will only seem figurative to you, certainly in accordance with the truth but not to be interpreted appropriately for someone who has not yet reached the degree of maturity which is necessary for entry into the kingdom of light ....

Amen

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Call to spiritual work in the coming time of need ....

B.D. 5008 from November 26th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

I want to make Myself known to you in earthly and spiritual adversity. You shall always feel Me, you shall always be aware of My presence and I will strengthen you when you become weak. You only have a short time left which you should spend in silent work for Me and My kingdom; but then greater demands will approach you, earthly as well as spiritually, for every earthly adversity also makes the spiritual work more urgent, because you should help your fellow human beings who are not aware of the cause and purpose of the suffering which befalls people. Then you will obviously feel My help, then you will also give Me the opportunity to reveal Myself to you through your faith and your love for your fellow human beings, so that you will be certain of My everlasting presence and can draw strength from this awareness for every activity. Soon your time will have come, the time when you can openly work for Me and My kingdom, the time when the hardship around you drives you to eager activity and you feel called by Me in your heart to work in My vineyard. Then speak where the opportunity is offered to you, speak when your heart urges you to do so, for I will lead the people to you who need My working through you. Then My blessing will be visibly with you and your paths will be smoothed so that you will not be hindered in your work for the spiritual kingdom. The hour when I fetch you home will still come soon enough, but before that I still have much work for you and need your full commitment so that this work can still be done before the end comes. Nothing will seem unusual what you undertake, but you yourselves will feel My hand and all who are of awakened spirit likewise. Yet nothing unusual will happen in front of the world, for of their own free will people shall listen to you and let your words have an effect on them, and you and they will often be offered the opportunity to do so, for the earthly situation itself contributes towards fellow human beings not remaining closed if you bring My gospel to them, and they prefer to receive it from your mouth, they listen to you because you speak to them in a living way and are permeated by the truth of it yourselves. You will still have much work to do but you will never be without help .... But until I call you, work in silence and your work will be blessed ....

Amen

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The path to God through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5009 from November 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The path to God is close via Jesus Christ but infinitely long without Him, for He offered Himself to serve as a bridge to shorten the infinitely long path for people who are separated from God by a wide gulf, who are so far away from Him that they would need eternities to reach God. But people's existence on earth is too short for this aim, and therefore the man Jesus, out of love for humanity in adversity, took a short path which was extremely difficult and arduous to cover but which nevertheless allowed Him to reach the aim. He took a path through His love and achieved with God that all people may choose this path who want to follow Him in order to reach God. It is a narrow, thorny path which only few people want to take, but Jesus Christ wants to be the leader of all those who trust Him and abandon themselves to Him and His guidance. And they only ever have to follow without resistance, they have to believe that He alone can help them to reach the heavenly father, they have to believe in Him Who walked the path of the cross for them of His own will, out of overwhelming love for humanity in order to lead it to beatitude, which can only be found with the heavenly father. His path was hard and bitter, sorrowful beyond measure and unspeakably difficult, for He carried an enormous burden on His shoulder .... He bore the sin of humanity because He wanted to bring it to the father so that humanity could find forgiveness. He had a heavy cross to bear, but His love was so great that He laid aside the cross, that He went before God to ask Him to accept His sacrifice for the sin of His fellow human beings .... And God accepted the sacrifice .... He forgave all people who hand over their guilt to Jesus Christ and ask Him for His blessing, for His help on the earthly walk, for guidance on the earthly path upwards, to the father, to eternal life. They can now reach their aim during earthly life if they choose the only path that leads safely upwards, the path of the lord, if they want to be true followers of Jesus Christ who entrust themselves to Him in their weakness and guilt of sin. But never without Him; without Jesus Christ the gulf is unbridgeable, and never again does the path lead upwards but always more and more into the abyss, if the cross of salvation is not heeded, which stands at the beginning of the path that safely leads upwards. And again and again He Himself steps into the path of the earthly wanderer, pointing him in the direction which leads upwards .... But he who does not listen to Him does not follow Him either. He will still have to wander in darkness for endless times, because without Jesus Christ no ray of light will touch him and without light he will go astray ....

Amen

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Strength of the divine Word ....

B.D. 5010 from November 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Immense strength will permeate you if you accept My Word with faith in Me and with love, if you want to hear Me and faithfully receive My Word. Then you will effectively force Me to be present to you, and My presence must also emanate strength, and although it is only felt beneficially by your soul, it is exceedingly grateful for it. Once a person accepts My Word consciously, the separation from him to Me will have been overcome, since hearing My voice is also the evidence of My presence. His will and desire to hear Me is sufficient for Me to be inclined towards him and speak to him in any form, in Word or scripture, directly or through messengers or also in spiritual conversations .... I will always reveal Myself to the one who wants to hear Me. Therefore you humans have a reliable means of eliminating the separation from Me by withdrawing into silence or by engrossing yourselves in a book containing My Word and when you thereby acknowledge Me as a Being you wish to be close to. Then you will inevitably draw Me close to you, for I perceive every heartfelt wish and will grant it. Nevertheless, My Word will remain lifeless for you if you merely read it without sincerely desiring Me .... For this reason, not everyone will draw the same strength from My Word; this is why it may greatly strengthen one person whilst another will not feel any effect at all, because his heart remained indifferent while his eyes and ears accepted My Word. You yourselves determine the effect of My Word, you can take possession of an abundance of strength or give sparsely to your soul, depending on your heart's degree of desire, for you either accept Me and allow Me to be present or you close the door to your heart and deny Me entrance, even if I knock at your door and wish to come in. For I often come to meet you by Myself if you do not draw Me to you through your desire .... I offer you an exquisite gift indeed, because I Myself would gladly like to speak to you; nevertheless, I will not force My gift on someone who does not want it, but once a person has felt the strength of My Word his soul will constantly long for it. He will never let Me bypass him but accept Me in his heart instead, so that I will remain there and constantly refresh the soul .... And so it will never need to go hungry and live in want, it will always be replenished with My Word and receive strength without limitation ....

Amen

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God's help to rise .... God’s word ....

B.D. 5011 from December 1st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Take hold of the hand which lovingly reaches out to you and let yourselves be drawn up from the abyss to Me. Even if you believe that you don't need help, accept My assistance, for you can rely on the strength to persevere when the ascent becomes more difficult, and then you will only be dependent on My help. Your earthly path is becoming increasingly more difficult for each individual, and without the supply of strength from above almost no further ascent is possible. But I want to give you this strength and therefore lovingly stretch out My hands to you which you should use to support yourselves if you lack strength. And if you are in darkness I will bring you light so that you will recognize the path you should take for your salvation. I approach you with My word and make Myself known to you by offering it to you in hours of weakness, in hours of spiritual hardship. Then you need My help, and I also obviously provide it. I am always close to you, but especially when you are in need, because I cannot reveal Myself to you in any other way than through help which proves My presence .... through My word, which you may always believe. Without My word you are in distress of soul, you are in the depth from which I would like to lift you up to Me. If you now hear My word you are no longer far from Me, you allow Me to be close to you, for I am My word Myself .... thus you desire Me if you desire My word, and since I will not deny Myself to any human being I will therefore stretch out My hands to him as soon as I meet him in the word. How and in what form you receive it is the same if you only desire it and let Me speak to you. Then you will allow My presence, you will name Me as your guide, you will accept My hand and thus also My help, and you will no longer be able to get lost, for with Me and with Me there is no downfall but only an ascent until you finally reach the aim. You are people without Me in great adversity, therefore don't avert your eyes from Me when I meet you, listen to My call which applies to you, let Me guide you upwards, for you are too weak on your own and will never reach the aim ....

Amen

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Seers and prophets ....

B.D. 5012 from December 2nd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

What the prophets are to proclaim in My will does not emerge from themselves but their spirit receives the instruction from Me to express itself, irrespective of whether the person has consciously or unconsciously found contact with the spirit within himself; a person can speak, impelled by My spirit, if he is in the midst of people to whom he would never speak of his own accord. Then the working of My spirit is therefore obvious, he speaks in full awareness, yet not intended beforehand, but suddenly, enlightened by My spirit, he sees things in the future before his eyes which he has to inform people of. These are the seers and prophets who will also appear more frequently in the end time when the end draws closer and closer. These people need not consciously be in service to Me and My kingdom, only their way of life will always correspond to My will, otherwise I would not use them as My instruments. But people who consciously offer themselves to Me for service can likewise work prophetically for Me if they are chosen by Me for a teaching activity. Then they will, as it were, be initiated into My plan of salvation, which also includes the knowledge of future events. Then the person who wants to serve Me will be informed of the events in the last days before the end, and then he has the task to mention them to his fellow human beings, even though he cannot be addressed as a seer because he lacks this gift to see future things. He only hears what the spirit within him proclaims to him and reproduces what he hears, which now also requires his faith for the time being in order to be able to be presented to his fellow human beings with conviction. So he is a prophet, so to speak, even if he lacks the gift of sight. People who have visions are only temporarily in this stage, in which they then also talk .... so they will mostly only have the visions when they are in the midst of people to whom they can communicate it at the same time. It is true that they are still conscious of their faces afterwards and can give an account of them, but then, as if in a kind of memory, the events which they had experienced before float before them. But the proclamations of seers and prophets always have to agree, providing both live a way of life which corresponds to My will, that is, that they live out My word. For false prophets can also arise who announce the future to people of their own accord but have no connection whatsoever with Me, who want to achieve earthly advantages and gain prominence. Don't believe them, for they proclaim error even if they point to the end. For My adversary also uses My words when he wants to deceive people, yet My word will always apply: You will recognize them by their fruits .... I draw your attention to the fact that many false prophets will still appear before the end, yet you can easily recognize them that they always try to adapt themselves to the desire of worldly power, thus that their aim is not Me but the prince of the world .... For anyone who wants to speak for Me will also always speak the truth, and he will only appear as a prophet when he has been commissioned by Me through the inner word or through the sudden working of My spirit, which will then also always be recognizable ....

Amen

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Recognize yourselves and your origin ....

B.D. 5013 from December 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Recognize yourselves for what you are .... as creatures which not only exist outwardly materially but contain spiritual substances within themselves which must develop upwards to a stage where they are similar to God again. For it was once similar to God and has lost its similarity to God through its own fault. Realize that you are the form in which the spiritual can attain God-likeness again if you live in God's will. And therefore you first have to acknowledge a God above you, a being Which called you into life and to Whom you, as His living creations, should show love and obedience, for then you will also fulfil His will, and then the spiritual substance in you will also reach its final aim on earth, it will assimilate itself to God's original being, Which is love in itself, and it will take on the form again which it had from the very beginning.

But you humans lack the recognition of yourselves. That is why you are ill, and you must strive for your recovery yourselves of your own free will. Therefore you can only ever be made aware of your defective state, your spiritual blindness and your wrong way of life, yet you yourselves must benefit from all admonitions and warnings which are repeatedly sent to you through God's love and grace .... You must reflect on yourselves, on your origin and on your purpose in life. Only then will you put your hand to your soul's work and live in God's will. Ignorance is a great obstacle, but people themselves do nothing to change their state of ignorance. They don't accept any instructions and their thoughts are exclusively turned towards the world; just as they also regard earthly life itself as the purpose of their existence, because they rarely acknowledge a continuation after death. It is their ignorance which makes them think and act wrongly, yet they do nothing to change this ignorance into knowledge. And thus, as long as you humans do not think about what and how you are and what your actual destiny is, you will only remain blind earthly wanderers who, to a certain extent, walk unsuccessfully through earthly life, letting the precious time pass by unused which could earn them a glorious life in eternity. Only the serious contemplation of these questions brings you spiritual brightness and lets your will become active to reach the aim which is set for you for this earthly life. Know yourselves and your origin .... Think about your destiny and your task in life .... Then eagerly try to comply with what you feel alive within you as a duty towards God, for He places this feeling into your heart as soon as you seriously endeavour to fathom the purpose and aim of earthly life, as soon as you, in recognizing yourselves, turn in your heart to the one from Whom you originated. He will help you to ascend, yet you must want it yourselves and appeal to Him for strength and grace. Then you will not walk the earthly path in vain, then the spiritual substance in you will mature and become what it originally was and should become again ....

Amen

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Spiritual poverty ....

B.D. 5014 from December 4th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

True filial piety must fill the human heart who wants to pray to Me in spirit and in truth. And only a deeply humble person has this filial piety who feels small and insignificant, who is aware of his great distance from Me and yet has the filial faith that I accept him when he comes to Me in prayer. He has nothing but this faith in My love which does not let him fall, and this spiritual poverty of his makes him humble, but I grant My grace to the humble and through grace he will become blessed. Spiritual poverty is therefore only the admission of his unworthiness and the desire for My grace and mercy, which everyone who lifts his eyes to Me in such humility will also experience. All who feel spiritually poor, who are aware of their deficient state, long for help and look for it where they hope for love and grace. And I praise them blessedly that they entrust themselves to Me in their spiritual poverty, that they recognize themselves and therefore also appeal to Me, for such a prayer will always be humble and always be heard by Me.

Amen

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Spiritual action ....

B.D. 5015 from December 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

A significant spiritual course of action will occur which will make people reflect on issues relating to the approaching end, since something will take place that was predicted by seers and prophets a long time ago. These prophesies are quite evidently fulfilling themselves and people are starting to take notice. For then they will pay heed to all the signs because they will begin to believe that the end is near. The spiritual action will have an earthly effect, albeit one originating from the spiritual kingdom, hence beings of light are engaged to bring humanity to its senses. The purely worldly minded person will see nothing but a natural event which by chance has affected people who are the focal point of spiritual activity.

But anyone who considers that nothing ever happens by chance will hesitate and recognise a sign which points to the approaching end. For God's reign and work is clearly visible; it is not people who manifest their will by implementing God-opposing actions but, instead, a distinct power can be identified which wants to emphatically express itself. This fact, and the way it manifests itself, will make people think, and depending on their spiritual maturity and attitude they will be more or less impressed by the event. The predictions of seers and prophets are fulfilling themselves .... And the powers of heaven shall move .... All spiritual beings are participating and decisively intervening in world events, because the time has come of which it is written: the sun will lose its shine, i.e. the glory will fade which wrongly shone long enough because ignorant people allowed themselves to be dazzled without objection.

But then a light will shine from above, and everything wrong cannot endure its radiance, but the light will emerge from the shadow of death .... that is, it will only come ablaze with light after a sick and decaying body has expired. Then something new will arise from the old, and many people will become enlightened, they will pay attention to the signs of the time and regard everything that happens on earth as God's will or permission. Heaven and earth will unite for the purpose of bringing light to people who live in darkness. And even if it is people's own fault that they live in darkness they will nevertheless be noticeably helped, so that they will be able to recognise God's might if they are observant and look for the light ....

Amen

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Path to perfection .... childhood of God ....

B.D. 5016 from December 8th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You can already reach perfection on earth if you voluntarily submit yourselves to Me, if you live according to My will, if you constantly move within divine order. Everything that is good corresponds to My will, but everything that is bad corresponds to the will of the opposite pole, which also influences you in order to make you submissive to its will. It is up to you yourselves to whom you want to submit yourselves; you are completely free, only the rightly used will leads to perfection, whereas otherwise you will be doomed to eternal death, a state of bondage in adversity and torment. Hence there is only one path to perfection .... a way of life according to My will, i.e. a way of life in love of your own free will. As soon as you make an effort in works of unselfish neighbourly love you will also live according to My will, and your soul will mature during your earthly life. Then the short earthly lifetime will suffice to reach a degree of maturity which will make it free from every bondage, thus suitable for the kingdom of light, which the soul can only enter if it is free from every cover impermeable to light. A soul's degree of maturity can still vary even then, but it is happy if it can inhabit the kingdom of light at all, where there is constant ascent and it can attain ever greater bliss. Yet even the highest bliss can earn it the short time of earthly life, as a true 'child of God' it can enter into fullest union with Me in order to never ever be separated from Me again and be able to enjoy the highest delights. This state of childship to God only requires a life of love on earth with utmost unselfishness, a constant striving towards Myself and intimate union with Me, which the human being establishes at all times if he works with love. The world must leave him completely untouched, he must accept suffering and affliction as My mission, his faith must be profound and unshakeable and his will must always bow to Mine .... he must always live with Me and let Me work within himself .... He must feel himself to be My child already on earth and love Me with all his heart .... Then he will also live entirely according to My will and depart from this earth as a true child of God. If you therefore know what you can achieve in the short time of earthly life, but how very few people make use of life for the salvation of their soul, then you can also imagine the state of remorse of the souls which neglected to make My will their own and now look back on a failed earthly life. For even My means of education often don't have much effect, and I cannot perfect the souls by forcing them. For this reason countless souls enter the kingdom of the beyond in a state of darkness and have to take an agonizing path there until they reach ascent, which, however, is far more difficult than on earth, where the strength of life is at their disposal to act according to their will, except that their will was wrongly directed. However, even in the spiritual kingdom the being's will remains free .... For this reason you humans should seriously work on yourselves so that you reach a degree of light which brings you realization, so that you will then safely ascend in the beyond and no longer have to fear the danger of sinking back into deepest darkness. You can achieve much on earth because strength and grace are at your disposal without limitation .... Use them and create a fund for eternity .... Live according to My will so that you can enter the kingdom of light, so that earthly life will not be lost for you ....

Amen

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Eternal life .... activity .... power from God - love ....

B.D. 5017 from December 10th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The power which awakens life is and remains love, for it alone establishes the connection with the original source of love, which is also the original source of power. Without God there is no life, therefore whoever wants to attain life must receive it from God, which can only happen through activity in love, through which God unites Himself with the human being and this union also results in an overflow of strength which guarantees life. The process of transmitting strength can take place in different forms .... It can manifest itself through the impulse to increased activity of love, it can be expressed as spiritual striving but also be felt as direct transmission of strength, as reception of the divine word, which is strength in itself and has a particularly life-awakening effect. As soon as the soul rises into spiritual spheres through thoughts or desire for God it begins to live; it is born anew and the spirit in it becomes active, and activity is life, thus a spiritual life begins for the soul, it enters a stage of its ascent development which never remains unsuccessful because something living is constantly active and constant activity signifies an increase of wealth which consists of spiritual treasures and is therefore of utmost importance in the spiritual kingdom, after earthly life. Therefore, Jesus Christ promised eternal life to the person who believes in Him and follows Him out of this faith, i.e. who lives a life of love on earth. This person will live eternally .... there will be no more death for him, for once he has become a recipient of strength from God he can no longer remain inactive, because the strength from God stimulates him into spiritual activity, into love and into constant striving upwards. But the connection with God always has to be established by the human being himself, which only love can achieve, but then the reception of strength is guaranteed and there will be no more death for the human being, then he will live eternally as God has promised ....

Amen

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Destiny according to will and resistance ....

B.D. 5018 from December 12th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Merely the destiny you require in order to change your will, to stop your resistance against Me, is imposed on you. Only I know the extent of your soul's resistance, and your earthly life will be shaped accordingly. The human being's relationship with Me can differ considerably, which cannot be judged by another person, because I also know a soul's most secret thoughts and notions, and therefore a person can be as close to Me as a child, then he will effectively be guided by My Fatherly hand and truly avoid the said abyss and safely reach the goal. Others, however, won't allow themselves to be led, they believe themselves able to walk alone and trust in their own strength .... I let these occasionally run into obstacles so that they will call for a Guide and enable Me to approach them. Others, again, reject My guidance and meet Me with suspicion, they don't believe in Me and walk through life alone. And thus they still resist Me, these are the people I have to deal with strictly and who are spared nothing in earthly life, so that they will still change before it is too late. I will only try to achieve their change of will, and this change may often come about through an event which you consider to be cruel and unkind of Me as long as you are still unaware of the fact that you have not only been created for this earthly life but that the whole of eternity is still ahead of you. And for the sake of this eternity I will use all means, depending on the severity of your resistance. But anyone who surrenders to Me will no longer need exceptional teaching methods, and I will place My hands beneath his feet so that his earthly path will be easily negotiable, although he, too, still requires trials in order to raise his degree of maturity, which impel him to Me until even the last distance from Me has been overcome, until he, in blissful unity with Me, can conclude his earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Gratitude ....

B.D. 5019 from December 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Your love for Me also results in your gratitude for everything I give to you, even if you don't put your feelings of gratitude into words it nevertheless is in your heart, into which I can look at any time. The mouth often voices what the heart is not aware of, and such words mean nothing to Me. But the heart can feel without expressing itself with words, and I only take such feeling into account. A person's heart, having received kindness, will also respond with love and be thankful to the giver. But to accept a gift without gratitude betrays innermost heartlessness, it betrays arrogance towards a fellow human being which makes him feel entitled to have received something. The same also applies to Me, so that the humble person always accepts My gifts of grace with a grateful heart, be they spiritual or earthly offerings I give to Him in My love. Humble childlike love is always evidence of gratitude .... Thus words are not necessary for Me, yet you should not fail to express your thankfulness towards your fellow human being so as not to hurt the giver and repay his love with unkindness. Although someone who only gives for the sake of gratitude certainly lacks the right love for his neighbour every well-intentioned gift should nevertheless be gratefully acknowledged so that the giver shall also learn to know the pleasure of giving, so that the giver's love will be kindled by the pleasure of the recipient, for a warmly felt gratitude can inspire further giving, which will always be a blessing for the giver and the recipient. Gratitude is inseparable from love, because a grateful word without love cannot be called true gratitude. But the life, thoughts and actions of a loving person constitute never-ending gratefulness towards the One Who created him, for his will also belongs to Him, He owns the love of his heart which, bowed down in most profound humbleness, receives every gift from Him with emotion. This gratitude is pleasing to Me, since I also possess the love of My living creations which will then always receive beyond measure, so that they become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Devils in the end time .... protection of God ....

B.D. 5020 from December 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You can live in a world of devils and still be closely united with Me. I want to give you this comfort so that you will not become weak in the last days which precede the end. For during this time you, who are Mine, will be surrounded by devils who will harass you greatly for the sake of faith. And if you mention My name to them you will stir them up and you will have to suffer much from their malice, because they will attack everything that stands by Me. And yet, this is precisely your strongest weapon, your strongest protection, that you remain faithful to Me .... Then you let Me always be present with you and no-one can harm you if I am with you. Thus I also dwell in the midst of devils but in the hearts of those who belong to Me, who love Me and believe in Me, in My love and omnipotence, who are therefore convinced that I will save them from all adversity, that I am also lord over all evil .... You will be closely united with Me and your longing will grow from day to day, and this desire for Me will inevitably draw Me to you. Therefore you need not fear, even in greatest earthly adversity .... For everything is possible for Me, I can save you from greatest danger and am also victor over those. The world will hate and persecute you. But I love you and will protect you until your hour has come when you will enter My kingdom. And I tell you for your comfort that your faith will also grow stronger the more it is shaken, because those who earnestly strive towards Me experience a strengthening of faith from Me Myself and their spiritual attitude towards Me takes on a form which is a true child's relationship, and thus their trust in Me is also very great, so that they only fear little earthly adversity because they are fully convinced that I will save them. I will not leave you if you do not leave Me .... But you, who are Mine, can no longer leave Me because My love draws you. This is why I am constantly present to you and always will be, and especially when hell opens up and takes action against you. Then I will fight by your side and victory will be ours ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

He who exalts himself .... arrogance .... honour ....

B.D. 5021 from December 15th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

He who humbles himself will be exalted. But anyone who allows himself to be honoured by his fellow human beings will truly have a smaller reward in the beyond, for he has already received his reward. You humans are only on earth because you are still imperfect, otherwise you would have already entered the kingdom of the blessed spirits, which requires the degree of perfection. But if you are imperfect, how can you then demand honour from your fellow human beings? How can you let yourselves be honoured, who could not yet exist before My eyes, if I suddenly call you away from this world? .... He who humbles himself will be exalted .... Consequently, an exaltation in My kingdom requires profound humility which you should not only demonstrate to Me but also to your fellow human beings, although this should not be understood as submissiveness and grovelling service. But you humans should never exalt yourselves above your fellow human beings. What distinguishes you in spiritual gifts, what you possess in talents, lively intellect or other abilities is not your merit but has been given to you by your creator and father according to your purpose on earth. Therefore, these gifts should not make you arrogant but only grateful to the one Who has endowed you so richly. But you should nevertheless remain aware of the fact that your soul is still unfinished and that it alone survives the body .... that all earthly gifts will therefore pass away just as you once passed away yourselves and that nothing will remain apart from your soul which gives you the right to be arrogant. Therefore it is not fitting on earth that a person should be shown excessive reverence, that people who are his brothers should bow down before him or lie at his feet in service. It is not fitting that a person should allow himself to be honoured and elevated to the status of a king if he has not been given such dominion. For even every earthly ruler should be regarded by his subjects as a loving, fatherly ruler if he wants to win their love and not just be feared. Then every subject will of its own accord pay him the honour that is due to him. But he, as earthly ruler, is set above people by My will. Yet even his arrogance is not a virtue but a weakness and a mistake before My eyes. You humans are all equal before Me, you should be like brothers to each other, you should serve each other in love, then you will move on earth like My true children and remain humble of heart .... For you should always imagine My walk on earth, how I walked amongst people with My disciples, to whom I stood by like a brother and friend and whom I also taught like a brother .... All power was truly at My disposal and I could create everything for Myself, earthly wealth and prestige before the world. I could have ruled like a king and claimed all honours for Myself; but I did not see the high, I only saw the wretched, the weak and bowed down to him; I knew no arrogance and did not seek honour and glory from men. I only gave love and also only demanded love from people. And whoever wants to follow Me should serve in love, but never want to rule in power. Only then can he be placed above great things in My kingdom when he has humbled himself on earth like Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers