New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5022 - 5135

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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

5022 - Exhortation to vineyard work.... spreading the gospel....

5023 - Characteristic of truth of the proclamations: Love, grace, mercy....

5024 - ‘Whoever loves his life shall lose it....’

5025 - Voluntary return in love to God.... unbreakable bond....

5026 - Spiritual influences, questions - truth....

5027 - Christ's descent to earth once and now.... Act of Salvation....

5028 - Battle of faith - Immense adversity - Professing Christ.... Saviour....

5029 - 'The powers of the heavens shall be shaken....' Reversal of natural laws.... Rapture....

5030 - Unusual need - unusual help.... feeding God’s word....

5031 - Connection between spiritual beings and humans.... 'form'....

5032 - Spiritism.... truth - error....

5033 - Suitability for teaching ministry.... awakened spirit.... ability to judge....

5034 - Insertion into the divine will.... will decision....

5035 - Process of development to perfection.... Jesus Christ....

5036 - Achieving the aim.... love.... will....

5037 - Fight against the enemy of souls.... call upon Jesus Christ....

5038 - Work of satan.... "I am the good shepherd...."

5039 - Love of the world - Satan's followers.... Love of God - Overcoming matter....

5040 - Revelations.... book of fathers.... living word....

5041 - Achieving beatitude - Free will.... Wolf amongst sheep....

5042a - Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin.... work of redemption....

5042b - Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin.... work of redemption....

5043 - Revelation.... living faith....

5044 - Spiritual work.... light.... knowledge.... plan of salvation....

5045 - Seers and prophets.... strength of will and faith....

5046 - God's promise.... earthly and spiritual....

5047 - Vocation.... task.... truth bearer.... sensitivity to untruth....

5048 - Explanation and reason for an arduous destiny....

5049 - Many paths - One goal.... True members of the church....

5050 - Volunteer God serving.... struggles of the soul....

5051 - Childship to God.... grace, power.... suffering and love....

5052 - Explanation of the awakening of the spirit.... hearing the inner word....

5053 - Light and shadow.... truth bearers....

5054 - Night - dusk – dawn - daylight....

5055 - God's blessing rests on every vineyard work....

5056 - "Where two or three are gathered in My name...."

5057 - Kind Fatherly Words of comfort....

5058 - Revelation of the divine will.... love commandments....

5059 - Outpouring of the spirit....

5060 - Plan of salvation based on free will....

5061 - Explaining the various characters of the Word-recipients....

5062 - Re-incarnation....

5063 - Individuality of each soul....

5064 - God's joy in the love of His children....

5065 - The eternal love.... reason for the revelations....

5066 - Spiritual community.... elevated work....

5067 - Will directed towards God.... shackles of love....

5068 - Practicing love the only task on earth....

5069 - Prayer in spirit and in truth.... Pious gestures....

5070 - Peace of soul.... presence of God....

5071 - Gifts of grace.... help to ascend.... love....

5072 - Overcoming matter.... Awakening of the spirit....

5073 - View in the realm beyond.... trial faith.... love....

5074 - Name of Jesus shall not be led in vain....

5075 - The housefather‘s care for His servants.... vineyard work....

5076 - Hardship of unbelievers on entry into the beyond....

5077 - The Lord's return.... Present time.... Witnesses of the new earth....

5078 - Prerequisite for truth: love - desire for truth - Free will....

5079 - Serious exhortation concerning the near end....

5080 - Struggle of faith.... confession only possible where there is love....

5081 - "Faith moves mountains...."

5082 - Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

5083 - Supply of revelations proof of reality of the spiritual realm....

5084 - Revelations.... truth and error.... previous knowledge....

5085 - I need you .... The Custodian’s concern for His servants ....

5086 - Influence of spiritual beings according to the will of man....

5087 - World only means for the purpose.... overcoming matter....

5088 - Exhortation not to forget God.... coming need....

5089 - Call of God secures divine revelations.... messengers of light - truth....

5090 - Contact of people with the world of light.... Process of mediation....

5091 - Spiritual community.... Working together....

5092 - Christ's suffering....

5093 - Resurrection.... (Easter Sunday)

5094 - Spiritual wealth.... "receive and eat...." work in the hereafter....

5095 - Preaching the gospel.... listener - doer.... doctrine of love....

5096 - Flashes of rays of light in the afterlife.... spiritual hunger....

5097 - Justice of God.... long-suffering - mercy....

5098 - God's leadership....

5099 - Childship to God.... Conditions....

5100 - Matter.... Loss of earthly possessions.... Free will....

5101 - Bridge to God - Jesus Christ....

5102 - School of the spirit....

5103 - God speaks through the mouth of man to all people....

5104 - God’s word most effective gift of grace....

5105 - Connection of heaven and earth.... love.... will....

5106 - Self-redemption.... only with Jesus Christ....

5107 - God's language from Father to child.... Words of love....

5108 - Proof of God’s word: love - wisdom - omnipotence....

5109 - Love - wisdom – omnipotence characteristics for revelations....

5110 - Immense storm.... sleep of death.... forces of nature....

5111 - Child relationship.... love.... humility.... right prayer....

5112 - Degree of love.... constant increase of bliss.... God unfathomable....

5113 - Blessing of love.... aim of the human being....

5114 - ‘I came to My Own and they did not accept Me....’

5115 - Battle of faith.... Fulfilment of promises....

5116 - God’s word truth.... living faith recognizes father's voice....

5117 - Justice of God.... long-suffering - mercy....

5118 - Acceptance of the divine word no compulsion.... free will....

5119 - Will to work for God secures protection by beings of light....

5120 - Spiritual mentor....

5121 - Power of faith.... love makes faith lively....

5122 - Spreading the gospel is a work of mercy....

5123 - Distance from God is a wretched state.... No separation....

5124 - God's courtship of the love of His creatures....

5125 - Process of development.... Law of compulsion.... Stage of free will....

5126 - Need of the last time.... many will still be recalled....

5127 - Vineyard work.... subordinating the will....

5128 - Strengthening the will.... receiving power through the word....

5129 - Power of God.... outpouring of the spirit....

5130 - Spiritual work.... disciples of the end time....

5131 - Pillars of the church.... Vineyard work.... Labourers - instruments....

5132 - The working of the spirit....

5133 - Glaring light.... knowing too much.... protection of the father....

5134 - Task of a mediator between God and humans....

5135 - Spiritual reception or mental work?.... Serious scrutiny....

Exhortation to vineyard work .... spreading the gospel ....

B.D. 5022 from December 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

Spread the gospel and I will bless you. You should try to change the ignorance of what helps people to become blessed through your work in My vineyard and bring light to people; you should instruct them in My name, you should only proclaim the divine teaching of love to them and admonish them to live in accordance with this teaching. People have become right worldly people who only strive to create wealth for themselves and no longer think of their neighbour. But they don't know that selfish love means the death of their spirit; they don't know that the human being's purpose on earth is to bring his soul to maturity through serving neighbourly love, and they don't know that they don't fulfil their task in the slightest and therefore earthly life passes by unsuccessfully for the soul. If you now carry My gospel to people you will also acquaint them with their earthly task, and you will advice and admonish them to make use of their life for eternity. Then you will bring light into the darkness in which people are wandering. And this is necessary so that they cannot say they remained completely ignorant of their earthly task. You must speak to them as human being to human being because they have long since dismissed the church doctrine; you must explain to them that earthly life is a means to an end but not an end in itself; you must point out to them their duties towards Me Who, as their creator and father of eternity, also has rights over My children and to Whom they must submit if they acknowledge Me as their father. Present to them the right relationship they should have with Me, explain to them the reason for their human existence and My infinite love and patience to win My living creations for eternity. Present My love to them and admonish them to love Me in return, which they can only prove to Me through unselfish neighbourly love. Draw their attention to the hardship around them where they can and should intervene helpfully if they want to gain My pleasure .... then you are true proclaimers of My gospel on earth, then you are My true disciples who are restlessly active in My name, who continue what I have started on earth .... to show people the path of love which they absolutely have to take if they want to become blessed. I can only speak to them through people, and thus you shall serve Me by working on My behalf for souls which are not aware of their purpose of existence but which I do not want to let go astray but want to help them through you so that they gain knowledge of My gospel and live accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Characteristic of truth of the proclamations: Love, grace, mercy ....

B.D. 5023 from December 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

If you know that I Am speaking to you, you will believe .... if, however, you are troubled by doubt, you will also doubt that I Am the Giver of what you receive. Therefore it is so important to conduct an examination first, that is, to pay attention to the characteristics which verify Me Myself as the Provider. The spirit within advises you correctly if you allow it to take effect with every examination. It will point error and untruth out to you when these occasionally accompany the truth due to the influence of evil forces. Call upon the spirit within for help and advice, that is, make contact with Me, the Father-Spirit of eternity, as soon as you desire clarification. The most reliable distinguishing features of the primary source of truthfulness are My mercy and love, which will always be mentioned. My loving and merciful nature lets none of My living creations fall as long as there is still a possibility for salvation. Nevertheless I respect the free will of these living beings and adjust Myself to it. This is why My proclamations seem improbable to you when they seem to be earthly, but, coming from the spiritual kingdom, they are indeed presented to you as truth. As soon as I Myself Am presented in such proclamations as an infinitely kind Being, not evil forces but beings of light which know the truth are portraying the events in the beyond in an understandable way to you, because as human beings you will never have a correct idea of the spiritual kingdom, since it far exceeds your comprehension. I will truly protect all people who try to find Me and are voluntarily devoted to Me from becoming entangled in a web of lies which might harm their souls. I Myself come close to anyone who seeks the truth, as I Am the Eternal Truth Itself, but I nevertheless address a human being in an understandable language, which they will also recognise as truthful in the kingdom of the beyond, even if they grasp different concepts there which can only exists in the spiritual realm and can only be portrayed to you humans on earth in comparable metaphors. Nevertheless they correspond to the truth and can therefore be viewed as being conveyed to people according to My will, as long as the one characteristic is not missing .... that I Myself Am always recognisable as love, grace and mercy, as the Father Who seeks to gain His children .... Then you need not be afraid of falling prey to error, for it will be I Myself Who conveys these proclamations to you from the spiritual realm, because I know when they benefit your soul's salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

‘Whoever loves his life shall lose it ....’

B.D. 5024 from December 20th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

The will to live means guaranteed victory over death .... Admittedly, you cannot prevent bodily death, but even physical death can be the transition into life if the human being’s will is strong enough for him to gain eternal life. This will to live has My approval, even though I said the Words ‘Whoever loves his life shall lose it, and whoever loses it will gain it ....’ Anyone who only thinks about how he can preserve his physical life will very soon realise that he is completely powerless and taken from this earth without being able to oppose it. Thus it is not this kind of will to live which will enable someone to be victorious over death ....

The soul’s true life has to be desired, and the human being’s will has to use all its strength to acquire it, then there will be no more death for the person for eternity, then he will live in light and strength and be able to be constantly active for his own happiness. Then he will have truly conquered death, and the soul’s separation from its body will be an awakening into new life, unburdened by the physical shell, free from all matter and yet with an inconceivable abundance of strength. This is the life people on earth should learn to love and only endeavour to gain one day, then they will long for their death, then they will want to relinquish their earthly life for the sake of true life in eternity. But people are still far too attached to their bodily life, they fear to lose it, they love earthly life and therefore will lose it and their fate will be death.

And again, not physical death is meant by this but the death of the spirit, into which the earthly life-loving soul will descend without fail. This death is worse than a human being can imagine, for he will then have lost himself, he will have lost his earthly life and his soul will be without light and strength, totally helpless and in profound darkness .... Spiritual death is an indescribable torment for the soul because it is conscious of itself, thus it is aware that it was not obliterated at the moment of death but continues to exist in an agonizing condition. The desire for pleasing activity can only ever be fulfilled by the living soul, for this requires strength which is only inherent in a living being, whereas a being without strength is dead.

However, what the human being accomplishes on earth with his inflowing energy of life need only consist of worldly activity, which will certainly increase material commodities but they are worthless in the spiritual kingdom .... Or it can consist of spiritual activity, which will produce everlasting treasures and thus also guarantee a life in eternity. And for this reason, the human being’s will should seriously strive towards eternal life, so that he then utilises his energy of life for the acquisition of spiritual strength .... then he will be victorious over death, then eternal life will be certain for him and he will not taste death for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Voluntary return in love to God .... unbreakable bond ....

B.D. 5025 from December 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 57

You will never lose Me again in eternity once you have found Me of your own free will. Then you can never ever strive away from Me because the bond between you and Me is unbreakable, it is stronger than every hostile attempt to snatch you away from Me. My love keeps you captive although you remain free wanting and thinking beings. But love is a binding agent that lasts forever. You can no longer detach yourselves from me, as I also never ever let go of you, because you are My share, which I Myself have created for joy. But unlimited is My joy only then when you have found back to Me yourselves, when your love for Me has caused your return, what is then the case when you come to Me voluntarily. That is why a being, which once has entered the union with Me through love, cannot sink back into the depth anymore, because My eternal love holds it. As long as the union with Me has not yet taken place, a falling away is certainly possible, but then the being strives away from Me out of free will, therefore cannot yet accept Me as found. And you will see from this how unspeakably important it is that you change to love because through this alone the union with Me can take place, which binds you to Me for ever, which protects you from sinking into the deep. Love means everything .... It is, so to speak, the key to eternity, to the kingdom of light, it is the way to Me, to the father, Who awaits you in order to be blissfully happy with you. If you have love, then you also have Me, Who am eternal love .... You can therefore assure yourselves of My presence as soon as you practice love, and then I will never ever leave you .... But every work of love presupposes free will, and therefore the test of will is passed, you have chosen between Me and My opponent, who prevents you from every work of love, if your will is not stronger. Whoever lives in love has escaped the power of My adversary, he has taken Me into himself, I Myself have taken possession of his heart and can work in him .... I am in him who lives in love .... and what belongs to Me I never leave forever .... Satan certainly has great power, but he does not succeed in alienating a person who lives in love from Me, because this person carries Me Myself in himself and he recognizes My opponent very well. Make yourselves mine through love, let yourselves be captured by Me through constant love work, and a blessed captivity will be your lot, My love will never leave you, you will belong to Me and still be free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual influences, questions - truth ....

B.D. 5026 from December 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

A person's heart is often moved by unvoiced thoughts which he himself is not entirely conscious of but which are obvious to Me at all times. I try to respond to them in the form of thoughts but only after a person seriously occupies himself with the question as to whether My answer can mentally flow into him, prior to this it is not possible. And therefore I require mental communication with Me, I require a trusting dialogue with Me, the presentation of everything the person is concerned about in order to answer him in an easily understandable way. The human being has to intellectually consider everything arising from his heart, then a clear responsive thought will come to him, likewise gained through his intellect, and he will understand what was previously unclear to him, he will feel that he received advice from Me and all doubt will perish, for he turned to the right Source Which enlightened him. He has to conduct all his mental activities with My support, then correct thinking will be guaranteed. However, it is far more difficult to impart knowledge to a person who is mentally inactive, knowledge, which is completely unfamiliar to him and of which he therefore cannot form an opinion in order to attain an answer. This requires the complete exclusion of all mental activity, because then forces will be at work which affect the spirit in the person, for which the physical organs are not required. These forces are, in fact, also in direct contact with Me because they effectively only pass on what they receive from Me. Hence they establish contact with the spiritual spark in the person, they effectively exclude the organic person and transmit a flow of spiritual currents into the person's soul. These spiritual currents affect the spiritual spark and establish its connection with the eternal Father-Spirit ....

Thus the spiritual influences originally come forth from Me, even if they are imparted to you through beings of light.

And such spiritual influences always signify thoughts of truth and clear realisation. I don't want to keep you humans in darkness about anything, I want to illuminate your innermost being, as soon as this is your own will. I want to make the eternal truth known to people because they can only become blessed through the truth. But it only ever concerns the life of the soul .... which shall be attained through the truth, not earthly-material life, for this life has to be lived by you as I recognised from the start to be expedient and successful for you. Therefore the instructions, which I impart to you Myself or through beings of light, will relate to your spiritual development, thus they should be considered by you as a Gospel, a teaching originating from God, which leads back to God again. A person who takes his spiritual progress seriously will therefore only ask spiritual questions in his thoughts, he will lead a second life alongside his earthly life, which will certainly show itself in his earthly life because his thinking, intentions and actions will betray his spiritual attitude. Whilst he therefore takes care of his spiritual life I will take care of his earthly life .... which I will arrange appropriately in order to further his maturing. In fact, the human being's wishes quite often diverge from My will .... I don't always let life proceed as he would like, yet I truly know best what will help him reach perfection. Then the human being will speak to Me often and desire an answer that pleases him .... Yet he should only be spiritually-minded and leave Me to take care of everything else. The light that has been kindled in him shall shine far and wide and not only illuminate one person's destiny .... it radiates from the spiritual kingdom to Earth and emits a bright shine. Light, however, is knowledge .... thus knowledge is conveyed to earth which has everlasting value, which is and must be helpful for all people or it would not be light from above. This is conveyed to you by forces of light on My instructions, and since it comes forth from the eternal Source only truth can flow to you. Consequently, with every examination you humans must consider whether spiritual thoughts or earthly questions are expected to be answered, if you become doubtful. You are only intended to spread spiritual knowledge amongst your fellow human beings, and this is imparted to you in all truth. However, earthly questions can also be answered, yet generally this answer only benefits the questioner and not another person, this is why someone who wants to be instructed from the spiritual kingdom is no longer paying attention to the world and is therefore a suitable recipient for spiritual gifts, which he then should distribute in order to help his fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Christ's descent to earth once and now .... Act of Salvation ....

B.D. 5027 from December 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

At the time of My descent the same hardship prevailed on earth as can be found amongst humanity now, for it lived in the same profound spiritual darkness as it does now. I took pity upon this state and in order to help people I came to earth Myself. I came as Saviour, and a path out of darkness into light existed for people which I Myself showed to them. All they had to do was to emulate Me and their spiritual adversity would be over .... I came as Saviour and released them from Satan's chains who had caused their immense spiritual hardship and from whom they lacked the strength to escape. The path I told people to take was possible for them to travel for I Myself went ahead of them as a guide. I Myself knew the path for I, too, had to take it beforehand, because I had embodied Myself within a human shell and therefore only expected from people what was possible for them to accomplish .... I took the path of love, and this path has to be taken by everyone who wants to awaken from the spiritual kingdom to the light of life, who wants to release himself from My adversary's chains, who wants to be redeemed from sin, which was the cause of humanity's profound spiritual hardship. I came as humanity's Redeemer into the world which, without My help, would have got lost in darkness. And I accomplished the act of Salvation for time and eternity, for the past, present and future .... therefore also for present day people, who experience the same spiritual hardship and require urgent help if they don't want to decline further and plunge into the abyss as a result of My adversary's doing.

For the danger is far greater now because people are not granted much time anymore, the time of grace allowed for the redemption of the human race will expire soon .... Humanity is facing the end of a developmental period, it is approaching a significant chapter, it has to make its final decision, to choose life or death .... The only options will be continued existence or to perish completely, that is, a life according to divine will or physical and spiritual death if the human being fails to make the right decision .... And once again I come as Saviour in need, at first spiritually, according to My promise that I will reveal Myself to those that love Me and keep My commandments. To those I reveal Myself in the Word and inform them of the approaching end. But then I will come again in the clouds, just as I once ascended to heaven .... I will come and, when they are in greatest distress, will help those who followed Me, who have taken the path of love I preached by fetching them into My kingdom, away from the earth whose only remaining inhabitants will be devils in great numbers. I will come as a Saviour again, yet My arrival will be the conclusion of My act of Salvation on earth, because I will have died on the cross in vain for anyone who has not recognised Me by then, he has not accepted My act of Salvation and will remain in My adversary's bondage for an incredibly long time to come. For he and his followers will be bound into matter, and spiritual death will be the fate of all those who refuse to acknowledge Me because they voluntarily submitted themselves to his influence, they ignored My act of Salvation and will therefore languish in the bondage of darkness due to their own fault ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle of faith - Immense adversity - Professing Christ .... Saviour ....

B.D. 5028 from December 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

Remain in constant faith in your God and Father, Creator of Heaven and of Earth and Ruler of the spiritual kingdom in Power and in Glory .... remain in faith in Him even in greatest adversity and profess Him before the world .... This is demanded of you humans and requires much strength, especially during the last days before the end. And only those people will endure who request the strength for it from Me and constantly accept it through My Word. You will all still get into great difficulties, you will be put under a lot of earthly and spiritual pressure to change your mind and to deny Me. Even you, who are faithful, will still have to pass tests of faith, although they are expected of you more for the sake of your fellow human beings than for your own sakes. You will manage to struggle through because you already have much strength, because you are in contact with Me and will not break this contact off, because I hold on to you with My love which you feel and return with all your heart. Nevertheless, you cannot be spared these tests of faith, after all, your steadfastness is intended to make your fellow human beings realise where you receive the strength from and how effective it is because you believe in Me. It will be like it was when I came into the world, where faith in Me was even lacking in those who were considered to be their fellow human beings' teachers and who, through their way of life, betrayed their shallow faith in a God of love, omnipotence and wisdom.

The same lack of faith will be in people now and those who are determined to make them deny God completely will find it easy and meet with little resistance, since people's faith is lifeless because they live without love. They don't believe in a God and Creator of eternity and even less in a divine Redeemer, Jesus Christ, in His act of Salvation and are therefore under the control of the one who wants to wrestle the souls from Me for good. He will not succeed for My love will not even let go of the lowest fallen souls. And therefore I allow Satan to do whatever he can think of in his hatred and delusion .... I allow it because I want to commence a new period of redemption as soon as there is no more hope that people will change on this earth. And thus he will rage until he goes too far, and you humans will experience the consequences and full force of his hatred, for he will fight those of you who belong to Me and wage a brutal battle.

Nevertheless, you should fearlessly anticipate this time, for I, too, will work extraordinarily, but with love and not hatred. And love will triumph, I will come to you as your Saviour when you are in greatest distress, but I predict this adversity time and again so that you will not waver in your faith but realise that everything will come to pass which I announced to you through seers and prophets, through My disciples of the last days, who work in My name in order to convey strength and comfort to you when you are in desperate situations. I Myself will always be close to you and this certainty will give you strength, and you will prevail until the end even in the staunchest battle of faith, I will fight by your side and victory will be ours ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'The powers of the heavens shall be shaken ....' Reversal of natural laws .... Rapture ....

B.D. 5029 from December 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

The gift of grace from above is strength from heaven; it comes from the spiritual kingdom of light, from heaven, in contrast to the expressions of strength from below, which originate from hell. Beings from the kingdom of light thus become unusually active as soon as the pure Word of God can be conveyed to people by way of God-serving and helpful people's will on earth who are receptive to the transmission from the spiritual kingdom and who accept the spiritual gifts .... The powers of heaven are moving .... they will be exceptionally active during the last days before the end. This explanation must first be given concerning Jesus' Words about the signs of the end and His second coming. He made a powerful statement, for He announced changes which, according to His Words, signify a reversal of natural laws .... His Words always had a spiritual meaning, yet in the last days a second meaning will come to light apart from the spiritual meaning, for inconceivable natural phenomena will also take place, which the human being will be unable to explain by virtue of his intellect. They will run counter to divine natural law but are in principle only humanly unknown natural laws again, and these events are described by the Words 'The stars shall fall from heaven .... The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light .... ' Scientists and the like will be unable to provide an explanation for this, they will be unable to throw light on the matter because their knowledge fails them where divine strength is at work. No-one will be able to fathom these natural laws because they only come into force at the end of a period of Salvation and the disintegration of physical external forms has become necessary. They are unnatural phenomena and yet intended in God's eternal plan, consequently part of His eternal natural law, which is completely incomprehensible to people who are as yet spiritually unenlightened.

Nothing is impossible to God .... hence He will always be able to be active and achieve everything, even outside of natural law; or else His omnipotence would be limited. Nevertheless, His activity always moves within divine order, for it is impossible for the human being as such to judge this; it would, however, be presumptuous to doubt it, because this would also doubt God's wisdom. And since God is Eternal Love Himself He will always implement His will such as it is necessary and good for His living creations, which He wants to gain for Himself. Things will happen before the end which you humans cannot possibly imagine as yet. And this can only be vaguely indicated to people with Words which announce unusual, indeed, almost incredible events. Even so, the Word of God is purest truth and will come to pass when the time is right. Then the strangest changes will occur in the cosmos, yet this present human race will only be able to observe them in the beginning; the end will not be experienced by them apart from a few who will be taken away and be able to watch the process of destruction of this earth and their inhabitants .... The old form and composition of earth will have ceased to exist, but the new earth will only shelter spiritually awakened people who will know the reasons for all events at the end of the earth, however, they will also know about God's power and glory, His greater than great love but also about His righteousness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unusual need - unusual help .... feeding God’s word ....

B.D. 5030 from December 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 57

An unusually great spiritual adversity requires unusual help from where alone this adversity can be remedied, although human will has to accept this help first. Thus everything is done from the spiritual kingdom to provide people with help, for the time is drawing to a close and God's mercy is exceedingly great, and He wants to bring salvation to all who have to expect a dreadful fate if they continue to resist the efforts to bring them light, so that they will recognize their spiritual hardship themselves and change. The state of adversity is precisely the great spiritual darkness, the ignorance in which people live, the indifference they show towards their souls and the way of life which is not suitable for them to become enlightened, because only a life of love can bring about light, that is, enlightenment of the spirit. As long as people are not aware of their actual purpose in life, their destiny and their deficient spiritual state, they only live a life for the world, and such a life is completely useless for eternity. Dark of spirit or with only a faint glimmer of realization they can enter the beyond, where an upward development is certainly still possible but not certain, since free will is still decisive there too, as it is on this earth.

But now it is the time of the end .... and that means that the gates of the spiritual kingdom are closing, that there is only an entry into the spheres of light or a banishment in the creations of the new earth .... that every soul which has not reached the light on earth is lost for an inconceivably long time, that it cannot continue its course of development in the spiritual kingdom but will inevitably be transferred into the state where it was an infinitely long time ago .... that it will be bound in hard matter again and has to cover the path through the whole of creation once more. God knows about every individual person's maturity of soul and His mercy seeks to save everyone from this fate of being bound, but your will determines itself and He does not touch it. He constantly comes towards you, His light is brought everywhere through bearers of light .... All people are offered the opportunity to contemplate within themselves, to questioningly occupy themselves with thoughts about life after death, all people will be given a ray of light through word and scripture which can ignite in their hearts, and no-one will be able to say that they have remained completely uninformed .... But the will of man is free .... But time passes with lightning speed and the last day draws ever closer. He who finds himself in darkness takes a wrong path that does not lead to the aim. And he should pay attention to the flashing of the light which, depending on his will, is enduring and also sends a beneficial brightness into his heart, if he opens himself to the ray of light which touches him as divine help, so that he will not get lost ....

(31.12.1950) Countless messengers of light step into people's path. They are active on earth on behalf of God, they enlighten where there is ignorance, they give light where there is darkness .... they bring people the truth which they have received directly from God, the eternal truth. And this is the extraordinary help that God Himself draws close to people, that He, recognizing people's great adversity, supplies them with what they lack .... the pure truth, which alone leads out of spiritual adversity. As long as people live in error, in ignorance of their purpose and outcome, they will also miss their purpose of earthly life and suffer spiritual adversity. And the soul has to bear the consequences of this ignorance. For this reason God, in His love and mercy, conveys the truth to them, His word, through mediators who place themselves at His disposal to help their fellow human beings. This is an unusual help because people no longer make any effort to contact the heavenly father themselves in order to receive the truth directly from Him. People believe too little and therefore this direct connection from the human being to God is no longer possible. Yet God's mercy and His love always devises new means where the human being himself fails .... He uses the willingness of a few people to help and spreads His word through them. And thus He kindles light to chase away the darkness which lies spread over the earth. This light shall also kindle the flame in the heart, love, and even that which comes from outside must first find acceptance in the heart, then the spirit will be illuminated, only then will the darkness disappear, only then will the spiritual adversity be remedied and salvation brought to the soul if people accept God’s word and let it take effect on them before it is too late, before night falls, which lasts endlessly and is exceedingly painful ....

Amen

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Connection between spiritual beings and humans .... 'form' ....

B.D. 5031 from January 2nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The beings of the spiritual kingdom make great efforts to establish contact with people on earth. They seize every opportunity to make themselves known, for every being of light is entrusted with people on earth for whose spiritual progress they care, but just as the beings of darkness approach the inhabitants of earth because many of them correspond to their nature, i.e. have dispositions which drive the soul towards darkness. Therefore there is a battle in the spiritual kingdom for the souls of people on this earth, and people decide this battle themselves. No soul can be forced to be good or evil, although the beings of light have great strength at their disposal and it would be possible for them to determine the souls according to their will. Yet they always respect the human being's will since it is divine law. Thus the beings of the spiritual kingdom wage a battle with each other which is decided by people themselves through their will. As soon as a connection is established with the spiritual kingdom those beings will approach the human being and make themselves known to him, to whom he himself grants access through his innermost attitude. Thus good people are protected by the beings of light, they cannot be forced into evil power or be induced by bad forces to do bad deeds. Only there is the danger that people themselves are not able to distinguish whether they are being instructed rightly or wrongly by proclamations from the spiritual kingdom. This danger exists when spiritual beings use a human form to make themselves known. In this case 'form' means a human shell which has given up its will, which therefore does not express itself in its actual essence, but where the soul steps back and gives a spiritual being authority over its outer shell. A good person is certainly protected by beings of light, but there are also strong spirits from the depths which are attracted by impure thoughts of individual people in the former's surroundings. Then a moment can suffice for that spirit to force its way into the cover and, because it recognizes the good disposition in general, it expresses itself under the mask of light and seeks to confuse the listeners in their faith and thinking. This danger should always be recognized when it concerns messages from the spiritual kingdom which do not relate to earthly but spiritual things. As soon as the human being, whose spiritual beings make use of him in an unconscious state, subsequently lacks memory, he himself has no knowledge about the beings using his body, whereas the beings of light leave a glimmer in him so that he can also reproduce some of what was conveyed to him by these beings in an awake state. Through intimate contact with God people can also reach the state of fully consciously receiving spiritual announcements, and they are constantly in control of their body, i.e. they do not switch off their own will, so that only good forces from the spiritual kingdom can approach the good person who longs for God and truth and every dark force is pushed away by the human being's will. But God evaluates people's will .... If it is in favour of Him, then people can also be assured of His special protection and they will derive blessings for their souls from every spiritual contact. For countless beings are close to earth, concerned about the spiritual development of those who were close to them on earth, and these souls' need to communicate is very great because they want to warn people against a wrong earthly way of life; therefore the spirits are also to be recognized .... Who only teach love and point to God, to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, who want to influence people in a good sense, and they will always protect the souls of these people from harm, thus they will also protect them from the attacks of evil ....

Amen

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Spiritism .... truth - error ....

B.D. 5032 from January 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Your thinking is right as long as you want to think correctly in order to come close to Me, for as soon as your will is meant for Me you are already living in truth and need not fear any error because you will immediately recognize it as error. Anyone who fully consciously hands himself over to My guidance can also be certain that I will guide him correctly, thus never to the detriment of his soul. However, spiritual progress also includes the right knowledge, that is, the ability to make a right judgement. In order to sharpen this ability, the human being must also be presented with negative phenomena on which he should apply his ability to judge. For not everything is good that gives itself this appearance. Especially in the end time a serious examination of everything that is supposed to come from above is necessary because good and bad forces want to participate in the transformation of the human being and understandably the latter appear under camouflage, as beings of light, where weak or gullible people receive their expressions. But these weak people are always joined by good people of strong faith who have a special feeling for the influxes from below and thus reduce, if not eliminate, the effect of the opposing force. And therefore I bring people together who have united themselves in spiritual striving with the beings of the spiritual kingdom, so that one always serves the other for instruction. Yet I promise My fullest protection against the forces of darkness to every person who desires Me. And thus people can certainly be led astray who are only driven by a purely earthly desire to derive benefit for their body from the connection with the spirit world, who therefore have no spiritual striving but only curiosity to quote the spirit world. For they will also hear enough of powerful error without being able to protect themselves against it, for only the human being's innermost attitude, the striving towards Me, guarantees protection. And thus everyone should examine himself to what extent he seeks the salvation of his soul and what kind of desire for knowledge he has .... And then he will also be able to answer himself whether and to what extent he stands in truth and whether his thinking is right ....

Amen

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Suitability for teaching ministry .... awakened spirit .... ability to judge ....

B.D. 5033 from January 4th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A teaching activity also requires one's own intellectual thinking, it requires being completely permeated by knowledge which the human being is now to pass on. Only the person whose will is first willing to increase his knowledge in order to be able to fulfil his task, who therefore first allows himself to be taught by Me before he can carry out his task, receives the assignment to be active as a teacher from Me. Hence he has to let his intellect and heart participate, he cannot only accept spiritual knowledge with his heart and switch off his intellect, thus be a mediumistic tool of the beings of the kingdom of light, but as an earthly human being he has to utilize the spiritual gift, thus submit it to his intellect so that he, too, professes it and can now represent it to his fellow human beings as logical and claiming faith. The intellect must not be switched off, because the eternal truth, which is the content of the teaching, is again first received by the intellect before it touches the heart of the listener. For humanity itself is not yet able to directly receive truthful spiritual knowledge, which is then first conveyed through the heart .... It still has to be brought to people from outside and thus first presented to the intellect, and therefore the spiritual knowledge has to be able to withstand every intellectual examination. Hence it is also to be understood that people are suitable for spreading My gospel if they possess a clear faculty of judgment themselves, if their intellect is awakened, although the awakened spirit is first required in order to be able to receive the truth from Me directly, in order to be instructed in higher wisdom as My pupil. Only then can a teaching ministry be administered correctly on which countless people's salvation depends, because only truth leads to the aim. Thus I prepare the disciples of the last days for Myself, I know how urgently necessary it is to spread the pure truth amongst people and I also know who is suitable for spreading it, both in terms of their soul and their physical constitution. Soul and body are in harmony with those who are to serve Me, yet their serving tasks are also different. I do not assign all of them to teaching activities because their abilities are different. Nevertheless, all who belong to Me can exert their influence on their fellow human beings by setting an example through their way of life, which is often more successful than speeches and teachings. Therefore everyone shall serve according to his ability, and everyone will be placed by Me in the place where he can work if love for Me and his fellow human beings impels him to do so. But anyone who is destined for teaching activity will be introduced to his office by Me Myself, and his will and his love for Me will also guarantee him the right success ....

Amen

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Insertion into the divine will .... will decision ....

B.D. 5034 from January 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

And the human being deserves special merit if he submits to My will, which guides him according to his earthly task. For the submission of the will is, as it were, already a walking with Me, and every exercise in word or deed is right, i.e. pleasing to Me. Nevertheless, the human being should be active himself, thus not leave himself completely inactive to Me in the belief that I will then guide him mechanically .... For the human being is an independent being which, like Me, can want, think and act and must also use this gift, only in accordance with Me and not in opposition to Me. Thus his thoughts and actions correspond to My will and he will want the same if he has aligned himself with Me through his attitude. If his attitude is good, his thoughts and actions will also be good because he will be driven from within, by My spirit, to do good and will never be able to act contrary to Me. The spiritual resistance is then lifted and the human being works together with Me, which can only be good working. Nevertheless, he must constantly control himself as to whether he remains turned towards Me or whether his will also digresses towards the world, which always means a distance from Me. Therefore he is never to be regarded as a slave of his will, which can freely turn to wherever it draws him. And this means that the human being constantly has to struggle and fight, that he has to turn to Me anew again and again and is not compulsorily subject to Me because he once professed Me. Admittedly, this battle is only necessary on earth, and it becomes weaker and weaker the more the human being unites with Me through actions of love and prayer, so that in the end no turning to the world needs to be feared because it has lost all appeal for the one who has found unity with Me in free will. The battle of light against darkness, thus of the good and evil forces in the spiritual kingdom, in order to win people's will lasts as long as it unites with earth, and these are the rights of both forces to influence the will in order to win it for themselves. My adversary has been granted this right and he makes use of it in every way. Earthly life was given to the human being for the purpose of a decision of will, thus both forces also have a corresponding effect on him, and the human being himself decides which force he will lean towards. Therefore it is of greatest blessing if the person striving towards Me sacrifices his will to Me, if he submits himself to Me again and again and thereby his turning away from My adversary is obvious. Then he will be seized by Me and safely guided upwards, and yet it is his own merit, because the decision is his own and he has triumphed over the power of darkness. His will, which is rightly directed, also secures him the supply of grace, which signifies constant strengthening of his will, so that My love is therefore always evident where the human being is in danger of becoming weak. I do not let the human being fall, I only require him to constantly strive towards Me so that I am also accessible to him ....

Amen

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Process of development to perfection .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5035 from January 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

All things press towards the perfection .... An eternal law will be fulfilled and the power and glory of God will be revealed. A work of redemption is taking place over an infinitely long period of time which you humans cannot even begin to comprehend but which nevertheless justifies all becoming and passing away, all creating and existing, because it is a matter of making imperfections perfect, of returning the power once emanating from God back to the original power .... to shape what has become ungodly of its own free will back into divinity as it was in the beginning. This transformation, the attainment of the original state, requires an endlessly long path. But God's love and wisdom recognized from eternity both the necessity and the means to achieve the aim .... And thus His plan of salvation has been determined since eternity, according to which countless periods of development serve to bring the imperfect spiritual substance, which once fell away from Him, back to perfection. Infinitely great is His power, unsurpassable His wisdom and inexpressibly deep His love for that which He has created .... This overwhelming love determines Him to make new attempts at salvation again and again when the spiritual resists God through its own will and threatens to fail on the path upwards. Then He ends one redemption period, so to speak, in order to let a new one begin. He is a God of love but also of justice, He cannot withdraw His love from any being, yet the strength of love diminishes in the beings which resist Him, otherwise free will would be in danger. And therefore it is an exceedingly lengthy process which shall bring the imperfect to perfection .... it can take eternities but it can also be completed in a short time with the success of the spiritual being's complete divinization, which inevitably has to take this path of development in order to reach God again as its origin.

All of you humans are such spiritual beings destined for perfection, you have all travelled the path and still have to go further until you reach the aim of being reunited with God. This path can be very long for you, yet as soon as you yourselves desire to give yourselves to God as the recognized father and creator of eternity, you already cover the last stretch of the path .... You are on the verge of perfection, for your will of resistance has been broken, the cause of your apostasy from God. God as the eternal love will not let you fall, no matter how much you are in sin; but you yourselves are walking a dreadful path as long as you wade in sin. And therefore you must call upon Him to lift you up out of an abyss which makes it difficult for you to ascend .... you must be free from a burden of sin which presses you to the ground and makes the path of ascent impossible for you, you must shake off your burden of sin and, because this is not possible for you alone, call upon your saviour, Jesus Christ, Who takes your sins upon His shoulders and adds them to humanity's great guilt of sin for which He died on the cross. You must call upon Him .... for He alone is your salvation, He alone helps you to perfection .... One day you will truly stand above in the light, but how long you need to do so is for you to decide. Alone you will never reach the aim, but with Jesus Christ you will reach it very quickly .... It is He Who has bridged the deep gulf between you and God, it is He Who helps all people to attain perfection and Who can still save in the last hour those who faithfully call upon Him for help. That is why He calls to all sinners to come to Him, to free themselves from their guilt in order to easily cover the path of ascent. He is close to everyone who acknowledges Him, who believes in Him and prays to Him in his adversity. He wants to be the redeemer for everyone, He wants to show every person the path, He wants to bring the truth to everyone so that everyone will find eternal life before a period of redemption comes to an end which signifies spiritual death for all who have not found their way to Him, to Jesus Christ ....

Amen

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Achieving the aim .... love .... will ....

B.D. 5036 from January 8th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I only have one aim, to make you humans My true children who adhere to the father with most trusting love and are always obedient to Him, i.e. who submit their will to Mine. What is of My spirit inevitably belongs to Me, and therefore I seek to gain it, because I cannot force it, I don't want to proceed against My law of eternity which does not make what was originally created free unfree. How and by which path you, My creatures, now find your way to Me is left up to you, but I will assist all with My grace who long for Me as their ever loving father from eternity. The freedom of will alone makes a person's diversity of thought, will and action understandable, and he also covers the path of ascent development in accordance with this. Every earthly wanderer certainly takes the right path to ascent if he strives towards Me as his aim, yet not all of them take the same step, not all of them have the same time and the same impetus, but they all reach the aim, albeit in different periods of time, provided My will does not prematurely call one or the other away from this earth. This will be understandable to anyone who seriously wrestles and wants to reach Me, that every path is different, that only one guarantees the right path, a way of life in love .... Love is the most effective stimulant, love is the strength which lifts the human being and makes the most difficult ascent easy for him, for love is the surest guarantee that I Myself will meet My living creations and lift them up to My fatherly heart, because I have now truly won My children if they have adapted their nature to Mine. Anyone who has love within himself truly does not need to laboriously climb a ladder to the top, he will be carried by the strength of love and will irrevocably land with Me. However, not all people take this simple path of love, which does not exclude the thorny nature, and yet they willingly strive towards Me. They also reach their aim because the will towards Me is a guarantee. They want, and I bless their will .... and thus they do what seems necessary to them in order to gain eternal life. They remain faithful to the teachings and precepts which were designated to them as the path to ascent by people who pretend to be guides on the way up. They do not detach themselves from the ceremony, but always in the belief that they are thereby acting in a manner pleasing to Me. Nevertheless, they are on the right path, even though this is not conceivable to them without external characteristics. Every person who strives upwards reaches the aim .... And thus let no one be distracted by the other whose will is serious to establish unity with Me .... I know the will of every individual and bless those who turn it towards Me. My blessing, however, means the giving of grace, thus help in every way so that My living creations will reach the aim, so that they will find their way to Me as My true children and be accepted by My fatherly love, because I Myself long for unification in order to make My children eternally blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Fight against the enemy of souls .... call upon Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5037 from January 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You will always remain victorious in the battle against evil if you call upon Jesus Christ for help. He knows the enemy of souls, who also confronted Himself as an enemy when He walked on earth and who determined people to crucify Him. He knows him and knows his treachery, his cunning and violence and his power, which he abuses to push you humans away from God and to alienate you from Him. He knows him and therefore presents Himself to him for battle as soon as you call upon Him for help. You are in constant danger, for he lies in wait for you and tries to harm you, he knows who strives towards God and especially tries to bring him down by wanting to deceive him with a mask, by pretending to be pious and yet being full of satanic thoughts. Jesus Christ, however, exposes his shameful game and gives clear power of knowledge to the one who entrusts himself to Him. No call to Him goes unheard, and no enemy is too powerful for Him to take action against him. He compels all and emerges victorious. Therefore you need not fear the enemy of your souls, no matter what he wants to do against you, for as soon as you call upon Jesus Christ for help, for His assistance, he will leave you of his own accord because he knows and fears the power of the divine name. But anyone who trusts in his own strength and does not believe he needs Christ's help is left to his own devices and has to take up the battle against satan himself. And he will be defeated, for a weak person is no match for his strength, which he also received from God and which he now uses in a completely wrong way. Jesus Christ always helpfully stands by you humans, yet you must come to Him and appeal to Him for His love and grace, you must believe in Him that He is a strong conqueror of satan, that He is therefore able to help you; and the help will not fail to arrive, He will deny the enemy of souls access to you as soon as you want to pay homage to Him, as soon as you hand yourselves over to Him that He may help you. For everything is subject to His power and He also controls the spiritual kingdom of evil, thus the forces of darkness have no power over you who call upon the divine redeemer Jesus Christ for protection against evil. Commend yourselves to His protection and His grace, and He will watch over you ....

Amen

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Work of satan .... "I am the good shepherd ...."

B.D. 5038 from January 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I will give you a sign by which you will recognize Who speaks to you, a sign which is irrefutable so that you will also acknowledge My direct activity. Yet you must pay attention to everything you encounter, for I always work within the framework of the natural so that you will not be forced to believe but it should be easy for you to believe. It is My will that you firmly live in the conviction to receive the pure truth, therefore I want to help you where this faith is in danger, where doubts arise in your heart, where you become weak due to satan’s influence. He certainly has great power but it never extends to My own who have the safest protection against him in My love. Therefore, if you are Mine through your will and your attitude you no longer need to fear him, for he only has power over the undecided and his followers as long as they do not call to Me for help. If I did not want to protect My own against him, then My love would truly be small or My power would be weak. Look around you and notice how he works where the world is placed before Me, where the desire for matter is predominant, where there is no love .... Everywhere he is the ruler and confuses people's thinking. But where the striving towards Me is evident, where I am the aim, where matter is only disregarded and the human being strives to fulfil My will, that is My territory, and satan has lost his power there, although again and again he tries to break in like a wolf who wants to steal My sheep. but I am the good shepherd .... remember these My words .... I am the good shepherd .... Do you believe that I abandon My sheep to My enemy? Do you think that I watch him break into the sheepfold to cause confusion in My flock? Then I would not be a good shepherd and you would have to doubt My word .... Even the lost sheep I seek to win back, how much more will I protect those from the enemy who want to be Mine? The power of satan is certainly great, but greater than this is My love .... Hence a limit is also set to his power, which is why you, who desire My love, need not fear him. Through your desire you determine your lord to whom you want to belong; everything you desire and still belong to him also makes you his servant .... But if you strive for Me and My kingdom, then you are Mine and will remain Mine for all eternity, otherwise My love and My power would truly be limited if My own were not able to rely on it in every spiritual and earthly adversity. I am the good shepherd and lay down My life for My sheep .... Do not forget this word and you will always know that you are protected by Me and need not fear My adversary ....

Amen

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Love of the world - Satan's followers .... Love of God - Overcoming matter ....

B.D. 5039 from January 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Only a person desiring to reach God lives a spiritual life, whereas a follower of Satan lives a purely worldly life on this earth, even if he seems to be a representative of God. Overcoming the world also means overcoming Satan, who is lord of the material world insofar as that the still immature spiritual substance bound in matter belongs to him, even though his power over it was removed from him. It is certainly still part of him because it shares his spirit yet it is inaccessible to his influence while it is bound in its form. Nevertheless it is his means in order to draw people .... the souls which have to make a decision between God and him .... over to himself. For the human being, who starts off spiritually immature, desires that which the world presents to his eyes. Yet he should rise above it .... Then he will belong to the Father of eternity but Whose kingdom is a spiritual one. Therefore, anyone who loves the world and its pleasures, who strives for material goods and only lives for their acquisition, belongs to God's adversary and also gives him authority over himself. But anyone who strives for God is no longer attracted to the world, he has surmounted the world, otherwise the desire for God would not have awakened in him. Consequently, turning away from the world is also a sign of a voluntarily aspired affiliation with God.

Satan uses the world to entice and therefore has a means of attraction which most people fall prey to because they love the world. Love of the world and love of God are not possible at the same time, and love of the world and neighbourly love will also rarely be found together as the latter would indicate a lessening of the former, and thereby you recognise the followers of God and the followers of God's adversary .... And as long as a person still pays attention to worldly possessions and still yearns for them he will be unable to find inner peace, the peace of soul. For peace of soul comes from God, and God is only with someone who turns his back to the world. The human being is certainly placed into the world and has to fulfil his earthly task, and that will also force him to keep in touch with the world. Yet it concerns the desire of the heart, it concerns the innermost attitude towards the world's treasures which will completely lose their appeal if a person is imbued with the need to strive for the spiritual kingdom and its treasures. In that case he will indeed continue to exist in the world yet only to fulfil the duties which earthly life imposes on him. The world, however, will no longer attract him, and that is the sign that he has overcome the world and with it its lord, that he has detached himself from God's adversary so as to be able to establish contact with God. No-one can serve two masters, and his desire clearly demonstrates to which lord a person is of service .... The earthly world and the spiritual kingdom are so far apart from each other that what a human heart desires is easily distinguished. And Satan can never dominate a person who, through his will, has already been taken possession of by God ....

Amen

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Revelations .... book of fathers .... living word ....

B.D. 5040 from January 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I am always with you if you want to communicate with Me, if your heart desires Me. But the world does not recognize Me, My fundamental nature is unknown to it, that is, I have become so alien to people whose thoughts and aspirations are still in the earthly world that they are unable to believe that I reveal Myself to My children, that I speak to them through the heart, that I am therefore in closest contact with them. And therefore you will always find resistance if you mention My revelations to the world. And this resistance will also occasionally cause doubts in your heart as to the truthfulness of what I reveal to you through the spirit. But always bear in mind that the followers of the world are not capable of judgement, just as they also lack knowledge, thus their resistance is easily understandable because it corresponds to their imperfect nature. But you should not let this resistance determine you to doubt My presence. Anyone who desires Me will also find fulfilment, I will also be present to him and also manifest My presence through My word. But thus I am also present to those who, desiring to hear Me, read the Book of the fathers, which is likewise a revelation on My part and will remain so as long as the earth exists. Thus anyone who reads it with love for Me in his heart will hear Me Myself speak, for the letters will come alive to him, they will tell him what I Myself want to say to him .... Every person will experience the expression of My love differently, and everyone will be able to testify that he has experienced it. For I look into hearts and where I discover a desire for Me and My love I am always willing to fulfil it. A follower of the world, however, does not long for Me because the world seems more desirable to him. To them the hearing of the inner word is incomprehensible and unbelievable, just as My word in the book of the fathers will remain charmless and without content as long as they are still followers of the world. Thus they will never be able to experience the blessings and the strength of My word and will therefore always be the enemies of those who are in close contact with Me and receive My word from Me. The closer it is to the end the smaller the flock of My own will become and the greater their opponents who are so far away from Me that I no longer exist for them, thus they also consider an expression on My part impossible because they no longer acknowledge Me Myself. But then My own shall have all the deeper faith, which I will reward them with such obvious signs of My presence that they will draw strength from it to resist their enemies, who are now also My enemies because they fight against Me, because they also want to rob My own of their faith and take brutal action against them. I remain with you until the end of the world .... I will truly not leave you who desire Me, and I will always be with you in the word as soon as you desire to hear Me ....

Amen

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Achieving beatitude - Free will .... Wolf amongst sheep ....

B.D. 5041 from January 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I truly only have but one goal, to give you humans beatitude .... But your blessedness first and foremost necessitates that you should want it yourselves. Try to understand that this is not up to My will but solely up to your own free will.

And this will is also sought by My adversary, who does not want to let go of you but cannot hold on to you if you want Me. Thus you can understand that and why he afflicts those people who strive towards Me, whose will has in fact already chosen Me but whom he wants to regain. Beatitude is only possible in unity with Me, which will be achieved without fail once a person has made his decision in My favour. Anyone who desires Me is no longer at risk, but as long as he lives on earth he will be confronted by all kinds of temptations, because My adversary will not stop fighting until then, even if he is unsuccessful.

My adversary works with cunning and force indeed; nevertheless, his spirit is dark or he would recognise the futility of his endeavour. I want to give you beatitude .... and by directing your will towards Me you humans give Me the right yourselves to draw you towards Me. But Satan, realising that you are lost to him, will not give in because he underestimates the strength of My love, since he believes that he can still wrest from Me what nevertheless belongs to Me. His method is to cause confusion, to plant doubts into people’s hearts and thereby shake their faith in Me. Yet, again, only your will is the decisive factor. If it belongs to Me then you will soon recognise his deception and turn away from him. What was incomprehensible will become clear to you, and you will liberate yourselves from his power, he cannot hold on to you because you strive towards Me. Hence, anyone who wants Me will reach his goal indeed, irrespective of Satan’s raging during the last days before the end.

Admittedly, at times he will be difficult to detect, for he frequently sneaks in disguised and takes hold of the most fleeting thought that could serve his purpose. He works with much cunning and force and people, who are not fully instructed in the truth, are used by him as tools because error itself grants him the cover he needs to conduct his battle from there. Pure truth will not let him arise, since he will always be recognised by those who live in truth. However, even the slightest error will grant him access, and then he will cause utter confusion, like a wolf that breaks into a sheep pen generates fear and terror. Yet even then he will still be unable to cause harm if My sheep take flight to Me, to their shepherd, Who protects them from all danger. Thus, again, only the will is decisive, and as soon as it is turned towards Me, Satan has lost all power over a person. Thus you should know that you will always be on the right path when I Am your goal, that you can neither fall nor trip since I Am walking with you because I Myself want to help you gain beatitude. Therefore, do not fear any adverse power but trust only in Me, your God and Father of eternity, hand yourselves over to Me and strive towards Me .... Then your will shall belong to Me and truly, I shall not let you fall into My adversary’s hands, who wants to alienate you from Me. My love will seize you, and the strength of My love will also conquer him, since nothing can resist My love forever ....

Amen

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Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 5042a from January 15th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Your being as a human being is the result of sin. You had to take on a subordinate form, a form which is impermanent, which was therefore only created by Me for the duration of your stay in it and which will always remain transient because its substance is matter, something immature spiritual which requires an exceedingly long time in order to enliven a human body like your soul. This external form of yours is a burden, a fetter, which imposes constraints on the spiritual being sheltered in it, thus the state of the spiritual is not bliss. It is in a state of judgement, and this judgement is the result of sin, of the former rebellion against Me and the turning away from Me .... Sin is an offence against love. Love is something divinely sublime, it is the original substance of Myself, thus an offence against love is also an offence against Me which cannot go unpunished according to divine justice. The sin cannot be undone by My love but it has to be atoned for or My justice would not be satisfied .... This act of justice takes place through the banishment of the spiritual substance, which once resisted Me, in a material form, which always means a fetter for it. Hence this bondage is a consequence of sin, and thus all spiritual substances which are bound in the material creation up to the human being are under judgment. It is, as it were, atoning for the guilt it has incurred through the sin of its former rebellion against Me. The process of atonement, however, lasts an infinite amount of time and would not end with the last embodiment as a human being either, since the guilt is inconceivably great and the atonement could not be made in the short time of earthly life ....

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Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 5042b from January 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

which this great guilt required. Thus an inconceivably great sacrifice of atonement had to be made, for according to divine justice satisfaction had to be made for Me; the sin had to be cancelled, so to speak, and an immense purchase price had to be paid for the freedom of the beings under ban. The guilt of sin had to be redeemed .... And this work was accomplished by the man Jesus for the whole of humanity .... You humans cannot measure the magnitude of this labour of love because you also lack all understanding for the magnitude of the guilt. All beings which still resist Me live in this guilt of sin, unconsciously in the bound state, consciously in the state of free will, as a human being, because the latter is also aware of his state of weakness, of his lack of strength and light, as long as he is still under the spell of sin. The fact that he usually does not want to admit this is proof of his lightlessness and also proof of his sinfulness, which does not always mean a sinful life on earth. The great sin of the former rebellion against Me is to blame for the banished state, and this great sin must first be redeemed before the being attains light and strength.

The man Jesus knew about the great hardship and the unspeakable misery in which the fallen spiritual being found itself; He also knew that it was impossible to atone for guilt during earthly life and that the being could not ascend in the spiritual kingdom either because the burden of sin always pulled it into the abyss and it could not defend itself against the forces from below. Jesus knew about the wretched state of the being who had become sinful through his own will, and He wanted to help him .... He wanted to take the immense guilt of sin upon Himself in order to bring him redemption. His love was superhumanly great that He accomplished a work which consisted of superhuman hardship and suffering. He brought Me a sacrifice of atonement. He redeemed all men from sin. But the free will of man is not eliminated .... The work of redemption must be acknowledged and claimed .... The human being must also carry his excessive guilt of sin to the divine redeemer's cross, he must recognize and confess himself before Him as a sinner, as a weak, inadequate human being who is and will remain bound if Jesus Christ does not have mercy on him and intercedes for him as a merciful mediator Who is willing to redeem his guilt, as soon as the human being believes in Him as redeemer, repentantly confesses his sinfulness to Him and asks for forgiveness of his guilt. Only the recognition and confession of one's guilt is the sign of faith in Jesus Christ. The human being must call to Him from the depths, he must implore Him for help in his spiritual need. He must entrust himself to Him, he must know and confess that he is in the depths and needs His help, he must stretch out his hands to Him and demand mercy from Him, then he will also recognize his guilt, his defective state, which is the result of the great sin, which was the cause of every human being's embodiment on earth, and in heartfelt prayer he must appeal to Jesus' support in order to ascend to Me, Who came to My children on earth Myself in the human being Jesus in order to redeem the immense guilt of sin .... And salvation will come to all who confess their sin, for by admitting their guilt they willingly detach themselves from the one who let them become guilty and request forgiveness, which will also be granted to them for the sake of Jesus Christ ....

Amen

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Revelation .... living faith ....

B.D. 5043 from January 17th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I am always present to you as soon as you seek Me mentally. Then the connection is established between the spiritual spark in you and its eternal father-spirit. But an instruction can only take place if you desire it, i.e. if you act as a receiving organ by listening to what My spirit announces to you, by paying attention to your thoughts if you do not yet hear My word in sound. Not every thought can be regarded as instruction on My part, but always those thoughts which arise in you after heartfelt prayer and questions to which you desire an answer. These are My answer and you should acknowledge them as such. Therefore it is you yourselves, so to speak, who cause Me to express Myself spiritually, as soon as you converse with Me, thus desire an answer to questions. I do not express Myself to those who neither believe nor want Me to speak to them, because they would not listen to an address or, if it undoubtedly sounded in their hearts, it would force them to believe, which would be completely worthless for the soul. And likewise, I will not give any obvious evidence by which the human being could certainly be strengthened in faith but would also, as it were, be subject to a compulsion of faith. A freely gained faith is far more effective and provides the human being with a blissful certainty of heartfelt unity with Me. My constant endeavour is to bring you humans to a living faith, therefore I must sometimes seemingly distance Myself from you so that you will believe .... yet you will not otherwise attain such faith which achieves everything it wants. I am certainly always present to you but sometimes I let the feeling of being alone arise in you so that you sincerely desire My presence in order to then also be able to feel it. For you alone determine when My presence reveals itself to you. It is only you who cause Me to speak, and thus you hear My voice as soon as you desire it. Whether you recognize it as My voice again only depends on yourselves, on the depth of your faith, which recognizes in Me a being full of love, Which wants to make Itself known to Its living creations in order to also gain their love. Faith in My love considers everything possible, even that a father reveals Himself to His children ....

Amen

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Spiritual work .... light .... knowledge .... plan of salvation ....

B.D. 5044 from January 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I speak to you through My spirit, always with the same love and unchanging patience. My words are only ever means of grace to help you attain beatitude. My love for you causes Me to reveal Myself to you, and in order for you to recognize Me I work in you, because My adversary also tries to influence you from outside but he can never express himself through the spirit in you. For the spiritual spark in you is only active when you establish the connection with Me through loving activity or heartfelt prayer. Thus spiritual activity is always the expression of Myself and therefore beyond all doubt. But the adversary can also influence the human being's thoughts, which he likewise regards as coming from within, and therefore it has to be examined what is to be understood by working of the spirit, which My adversary has no ability to do and never will have.

My adversary cannot let anything arise in the human heart but he can only awaken or bring to mind such thoughts in him which are already dormant in him, i.e. which have already impressed the brain through external events or thought activity based on experiences or knowledge imparted to him from outside. Hence something must be present in the human being which the adversary stimulates through his influence, and understandably he will only bring to mind in the human being that which is helpful to his striving to distance him from Me; thus he will never influence him in My will .... Spiritual working, however, brings mental results to light which the human being had not previously gained in any way and which can never be imparted to him from outside either, unless someone else's spiritual working is brought to his attention.

Spiritual work is an introduction to eternal truth, an elucidation of hitherto dark areas, a solution to problems that exceed human understanding. Spiritual work is also the gaining of a profound knowledge of the meaning and purpose of creation and of the creator's original relationship to what has been created. It is a higher wisdom which, however, mind you, comes to the human being from within, for even the same knowledge brought to him from outside only becomes realization if it is illuminated by the spirit in the human being, thus I can work in the human being through the spirit. Now My adversary can never impart this knowledge to a person who has never been given such knowledge before, who does not have the ability to do so, thus he can never give this knowledge to a person in bondage to him from within either, because he no longer possesses it himself, since he has fallen and this fall also brought darkness of spirit with it. He finds himself in completely wrong thinking and tries to transfer this to people, and he will only ever impart the thoughts to the human being which correspond to his darkness and push him away from Me. My adversary flees the truth and will therefore never convey it to the person he wants to distance from Me. Truth, however, is the knowledge which portrays Me as the most loving, omnipotent and exceedingly wise creator of heaven and earth .... Truth is the knowledge which gives light, thus brings the human being knowledge about My eternal plan of salvation. For the latter will also learn to recognize Me as a God of love, as I also want to be recognized by My living creations so that they will love Me again and strive for unification with Me, which is the first and last aim of all created things, because this unification signifies eternal bliss which I want to prepare for My living creations ....

Through the spiritual spark in the human being he is inseparably connected to Me, yet he only awakens to life from Me when he himself establishes the connection with the eternal father-spirit. And so that you humans recognize this, I work through My spirit in you who believe in Me and long for Me .... I reveal Myself to you in My love, wisdom and power ....

Amen

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Seers and prophets .... strength of will and faith ....

B.D. 5045 from January 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

It requires a special firmness of faith to face fellow human beings as a seer and prophet, for the earthly material world with all its representatives stands in such stark contrast to what is predicted by the prophets that this is rejected as fantasy and the prophet himself is ridiculed and mocked. And this attitude of worldly-minded people is also easily able to shake a seer and prophet if he is not firm in faith and again and again withdraws into silence in order to remain in contact with this world which has conveyed to him what is coming. The strength of faith of these mediators awakened by Me between Me and people must have such a convincing effect on fellow human beings that they believe everything to be possible, even the predicted event, because they believe their words. And therefore only people of strong will and faith can hold this office, who will not let themselves be shaken by threats when the going gets tough in the end. I will inform people beforehand, I will warn them and give them the opportunity to change their will .... Therefore I must also have organs on earth through which I can speak to people and inform them of what is coming. Through them I want to announce the near end and the preceding great adversity, which is partly caused by nature and partly by humanity itself, which has become diabolical; I want to inform them of the reason and the effect, I want to help people in every way so that they come to the right realization and tackle their soul's work. And therefore I make Myself known to people through seers and prophets, for anyone of good will will also know that they do not speak out of themselves but that I express Myself through them. For they represent a completely different world than the one in which people feel comfortable, they preach My kingdom which is not of this world, and their words are My words with which I still want to draw people over into My camp before it is too late. It will certainly be difficult for My servants in the end time to remain strong and firm in faith, yet they are My representatives whom I also fill with My strength and give them the ability to stand firm in the face of the world. They also have to be strengthened from the spiritual kingdom because people in the end time are so far removed from Me that they no longer accept anything spiritual and this attitude would deprive My servants of all security if they were not filled with the spirit and strength from Me that they are knowledgeable and able to meet all opposition as far as possible. Anyone who listens to them and takes their words to heart will do well, for the end will come irrevocably and the adversity beforehand will give him the proof that they are not just words which flow from the mouths of seers and prophets .... And the harder the battle is against Me, against faith and against all spiritual striving, the firmer will those stand whom I Myself have chosen to proclaim the end, the great adversity and the day of judgment. Their faith will be strong and also still defeat individual people and snatch them from the power of darkness. But woe to those who do not listen to them, for their end will be terrible ....

Amen

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God's promise .... earthly and spiritual ....

B.D. 5046 from January 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

What I have promised you will come true as soon as you live according to My word. Therefore you need not fear earthly or spiritual hardship, for I will provide you with everything you need for body and soul if you feel like My children and make an effort to fulfil My will. My promises are always linked to the fulfilment of My commandments, to the living out of My word in free will. I promise you eternal life and also take over the care of the body as long as you stay on earth. Thus I am lord over time and eternity, and My love for you, for whom I want to prepare a blissful fate, will never cease. But as long as you live on earth you have to acquire life in eternity. And therefore I give you strength and grace that you will be able, if you want it, to become happy. I will provide you with everything you need so that you can carelessly seek your salvation, so that you can work on your soul so that it will become mature for the entrance into eternal life. Through My promise I want to give you comfort and strength and confidence in every adversity, for My word is truth and comes true. Therefore there is nothing that may oppress you, for I promised you to bear every burden and to avert every adversity from you, I promised you spiritual and physical nourishment and finally heavenly bliss. You shall attain the vision of God and be eternally blissful in My love .... But I demand of you that you love Me and serve Me in humility and obedience, that you come to Me like children and long for My fatherly love .... Yet I require of you love for your neighbour, through which you manifest love for Me .... I only ask little of you in order to be able to give you immeasurably much, as I have promised that no man's eye has ever seen and no man's ear has ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me ....

Amen

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Vocation .... task .... truth bearer .... sensitivity to untruth ....

B.D. 5047 from January 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Anyone who feels called to work for Me and My kingdom can always be certain of My blessing, of My support, for whom I choose Myself will also be strengthened and enabled by Me for his office, and the inner urge to be spiritually active and to lead fellow human beings to faith in Me is the sign of his calling for Me, which he can now accept as completely certain. But his calling is connected with tasks, certain duties, which he has to fulfil in order to be a faithful and diligent servant to Me. His main task first consists of spreading the gospel, which he receives directly from Me in its purest form. Therefore he must first listen to Me if I want to convey the gospel from above to him, if I instruct him and make him suitable for his office. He must process what he hears from Me with heart and mind in order to be able to pass it on to his fellow human beings in a lively manner, since only a lively presentation makes an impression on the listener and can likewise stimulate him into eager spiritual activity. He must not become lukewarm and careless in his work because his knowledge matures according to his eagerness to work. And the realization of truth then also enables him to assess everything that is advocated as truth amongst people but is often far removed from the truth .... Anyone who is instructed by Me to spread the pure truth will also certainly be in fullest knowledge and have the ability to pass right judgment as long as he is a faithful worker for Me himself and seeks to fulfil My will. And thus he also has the duty to stand up against what he recognizes as lies and error by virtue of the enlightenment of the spirit .... He should be critical in his assessment of spiritual thought material, then he will certainly recognize the wrong emotionally, for I place this gift into the heart of the one whom I have called to work in My vineyard. You humans often think wrongly because you do not defend yourselves against the influence from below which aims to confuse your thinking. A right desire for truth and sincere love for Me protects you from this influence. Yet the desire for truth is not overly strong in you humans and therefore you often fall prey to the whisperings of those forces which try to instigate confusion in order to separate you from the eternal truth. For this reason I send bearers of truth amongst you humans who are to bring you the truth on My behalf and who are also permeated by truth themselves, so that they will pay attention where they are confronted by untruth. Thus you, who feel called by Me to spiritual work, should fearlessly fight against that which is not in harmony with the only truth which I Myself convey to you from above. This is a duty which is connected with your calling, otherwise your activity would be in vain to introduce fellow human beings to the truth. Remain eagerly active for Me and My kingdom and both your knowledge and your ability to judge will increase, you will brightly and clearly see every untruth, and then you should also not be afraid to openly take action against it, for I Myself place the right feeling in your heart and will always bless your work for Me ....

Amen

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Explanation and reason for an arduous destiny ....

B.D. 5048 from January 24th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

An arduous destiny on earth will profit the salvation of your souls. For every day brings you closer to the end and the end is near. And do you know whether you will experience the last days? Do you know that you won't be called back before the end and that your earthly life might only last a short time yet? Always consider that tomorrow could be your last day and that you will then be grateful to have reached that particular degree of maturity which entitles you to enter the realm of light. Consider that earthly life is only the means to an end and that it won't last forever. Everything is temporary, joy and sorrow, desire and pain. Only the soul is immortal and its suffering should be reduced. Therefore the body has to suffer as long as the soul lives on earth. Those who are spared suffering on earth cannot expect a painless hour of death because the soul will still have much ballast which it will take across into the spiritual realm. Yet the agonies in the beyond are considerably greater and can often last an endless time if a soul is hardened and thus will find little help.

People still have to endure much adversity because time is passing swiftly and rapidly bringing the end. Only the soul which has been purified by grief and suffering will have the strength to resist during the last days .... because such a soul can receive My strength, while a soul within a dense cover cannot be touched by My emanation. For this reason the human being should look at each day as a gift of grace and be grateful, he should use his time well since he does not know when it ends, because one day he will regret every day which has not brought him spiritual progress. Suffering and love mature the soul and therefore you human beings must patiently endure what is given to you as this is in your best interest; everything My will inflicts on you can lead you to perfection ....

Amen

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Many paths - One goal .... True members of the church ....

B.D. 5049 from January 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Complement each other but do not separate; walk together but do not take different paths if you all have the one goal to reach Me, to behold My countenance and to be blissfully happy in eternity. You should know that I assess every single person according to his inner nature and that I do not reject anyone even though he may not turn to Me, for he is an erring child which only requires My grace and mercy and not My wrath. Hence I will also help all misguided people and gently push them onto the right path which leads to Me. Every person is considered differently, yet this should not lead you to believe that he would therefore be unable to reach the goal. Anyone who merely asks for Me will also be pulled up by Me. Therefore do not fight against each other but fight together in the last battle on this earth. Then there will only be one troop for Me whose commander-in-chief I Am .... who believe in Jesus Christ and therefore have His name imprinted on their forehead .... I only take notice of one thing, and that is of importance, namely to what extent their faith is alive .... the fact that they profess Jesus Christ with their mouth does not yet include them in the group of My Own, but the fact that they are true Christians who live a life of following Jesus and have thereby attained a living faith is decisive in order to be included in My small flock whose shepherd I Am.

And as long as the congregations fight each other they lack this living faith, because then they will also lack the understanding of that which I regard as the church founded by Me. True members of this church of Mine understand each other even if they belong to different denominations and schools of thought, true members try to find each other and are happy to have found themselves, and true members are in innermost contact with Me Myself because they desire My Word and also recognise it as the right food and drink. True members of My church are not offended by outward appearances and attach no importance to them either, but they are permeated by love for Me as well as for their neighbour, consequently their spirit is awakened and instructs them correctly, so that they recognise each other and have nothing against each other anymore. Then they will strive to ascend together, and if the way up is difficult one will help the other, for then they will approach an elevated goal: they will return to the Father's house and I will come to meet them and show Myself to them, for I will draw near to anyone who genuinely desires Me, I will approach them as a friend and brother and draw all My children to My Fatherly heart, never ever letting go of them again ....

Amen

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Volunteer God serving .... struggles of the soul ....

B.D. 5050 from January 27th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

To be active in free will for Me and My kingdom, without any inner and outer compulsion, is the right redemption work which you, My labourers in the vineyard, should carry out for your own and your fellow human beings' blessing. I cannot determine you, just as I cannot prevent you from striving in opposition to Me; you must want to serve Me of your own accord and always be ready for Me, otherwise you will still place the world above Me and then you will not be able to be suitable servants. I know about your will, I know about your inner struggles and about the challenges which approach you from within and without, but I also enable you to nevertheless carry out spiritual work because I impart an extraordinary gift of grace to you which gives you strength and light so that you can certainly recognize the right path even if dark shadows obscure it. The last time on earth is a time of struggle of utmost importance, it is a struggle for every single soul on the part of the dark forces, yet you humans are not defenceless in the face of them, for I, too, am obviously active and always ready with My help where you are in danger of succumbing. Moreover, the time still doesn't last long .... A fierce struggle is a sign that it is necessary for the soul .... why it is necessary I alone know, therefore always recognize Me, even in your oppressive events, for nothing comes over you without meaning. Earthly life seems to go on calmly but the more the soul life of those who want to belong to Me is agitated. Earthly life seeks to win people over for itself, it seeks to turn all thoughts towards itself, and therefore the soul must also be aroused so that it does not remain inactive and finally becomes captivated by the world. Just recognize Me everywhere, even in suffering, then you will bear it calmly and devotedly, and your soul will mature and always grasp Me more and more, it will also feel My presence and be calm and peaceful despite the storm and struggle in earthly life. I constantly hold My protective hand over you, yet I will never force you or have a coercive effect on you that you should serve Me .... voluntarily, for love of Me, you must do what the spiritual hardship among people requires .... tell them about the pure gospel which is sent to you from above as an extraordinary gift of grace in order to help humanity .... The spiritual hardship is great, your work will often be unsuccessful, yet nothing is done in vain which is undertaken for the salvation of erring souls .... One day you will experience the results yourselves, and the souls you have rescued from spiritual adversity will thank you, for My pure word is blessed with My strength and will become effective wherever there is just the slightest will to recognize Me and to reach Me ....

Amen

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Childship to God .... grace, power .... suffering and love ....

B.D. 5051 from January 28th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

To achieve childship to God requires great self-conquest and constant work on his soul, i.e. constant control of his thoughts, speeches and deeds. The human being must strive for good from the heart and therefore also be completely in love, he must discard all bad characteristics, be pure and true in his whole being, he must remain in constant contact with Me, otherwise he is without strength even though he has good will. He must constantly draw strength from Me through loving activity or prayer, i.e. mental contact with Me with the request for strength. You humans can achieve much on earth but you must always be supported by My grace which, however, will never be withheld from you if only you desire it. Without grace you are weak, and without a request for strength you cannot receive it. Thus you must inevitably make contact with Me, but then you can also be certain that you will receive strength in order to fulfil your task on earth .... to educate yourselves to become children of God to whom all beatitudes are accessible in the spiritual kingdom. The childship to God is the highest degree of perfection you can attain on earth, therefore it will also be understandable to you that this attainment of the degree of perfection necessitates an extremely difficult earthly life, and then many a fate of good, devout people will be explainable to you who have to suffer exceedingly during their earthly life. Love and suffering crystallises the soul and makes it receptive to light, love and suffering loosens the dense covering and spiritualizes the soul so that it can enter the spiritual kingdom completely carefree. A quiet earthly life free of suffering can never produce the degree of maturity which gives the right to childship to God, to the state which allows a direct dwelling in My nearness, a being able to create, as it were, with Me and in My will in unlimited bliss. Earthly life is only short, and even if it were one of the most difficult and sorrowful, it nevertheless does not compare with that bliss which is part of the one who attains the degree of childship to God on earth. Yet again and again you should be told that you are only able to reach this degree with My support, with the impartation of grace and strength, and that you therefore always have to remain in contact with Me, for without Me you can do nothing ....

Amen

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Explanation of the awakening of the spirit .... hearing the inner word ....

B.D. 5052 from January 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Awaken the spiritual spark in you to life and you will no longer doubt that I, as father, speak to you as My children, for the spirit in you unites with the eternal father-spirit, it receives My word and passes it on to the soul, which thus now hears My word as it originates from Me. Hence the soul always hears My emanation of love which expresses itself in the form of My word; but the human being as such is not always able to understand the language of the spirit, and therefore the soul has to mentally pass on the imparted word to the human being, it has to adapt itself to his ability to (mentally) receive spiritual gift. Hence the soul can want the spirit to make itself known to it, then it will receive without restriction, but the human being need not know about it, even though he forms the soul's external cover, for it would often be incomprehensible to him, which makes the soul extraordinarily happy. But then the soul has already experienced an unusual strengthening, and it now seeks to influence the external human being in such a way that he willingly complies with the soul's desire. So then the human being's intellect withdraws and he begins to listen within himself, he tries to understand the voice of the soul and then he becomes aware of what the soul has received from the spiritual kingdom. Then spirit, soul and body are in harmony, and then the human being can receive undreamt-of wisdom because the spirit in him no longer rests once it has been awakened to life. Then the body cannot permanently remain insensitive to the divine word, it will be touched by the ray of My love and its strength will start to take effect, so that the spirit will become increasingly more alive and also the soul, which will likewise increase in light and strength, because every emanation on My part signifies light and imparts strength from Me to the human being. Then the soul will also succeed in making itself understood to the human being, in determining him, in paying attention to all impressions in the heart, and thus, if the human being listens within, he can clearly hear My word within himself and then also send it to the intellect. Then the heart and intellect will be active, then the spirit spark which has been awakened to life will have accomplished a tremendous change of nature, it will have shaped the soul and body according to its will, which is therefore My will, into a receptacle for the strength from Me, it will have determined the human being's soul .... thinking, feeling and will .... to submit itself to Me, and then the body, too, complies with My will, and thus the human being consciously becomes the recipient of My word, of My emanation of love, which is, so to speak, the elixir of life for the soul through which its eternal life is assured. Such a spiritual awakening can be accomplished according to plan if the human being's thoughts turn to Me of his own free will and he appeals to Me for strength and grace, for My spirit. Then, because the human being wants it himself, My strength will obviously flow into him, and then the soul as well as the human being's heart will be able to understand My word in an instant, because the strength of the spirit has an inconceivable effect that it can change a person into a receptacle for My spirit in an instant as soon as he only has the firm will to serve Me through this ability, thus to be redeemingly active for his fellow human beings. This will is the reason for a gift of grace of the most comprehensive kind. It allows no restrictions because My spirit is unlimited and its activity is only determined by the human being's will itself. And thus the human being's will also determines the nature of the working of the spirit and the way in which the gift of grace is to be evaluated, and in accordance with this will every person receives the gifts of the spirit in order to be a living testimony to his fellow human beings of the success of the right relationship with Me, his creator and father of eternity ....

Amen

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Light and shadow .... truth bearers ....

B.D. 5053 from January 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

In the twilight you do not feel the shadows, but you do when you stand in the light. The light should indeed shine through your soul in such a way that every shadow is consumed, nevertheless a shadow will creep in again and again, dark figures who believe that they can extinguish the light if they place themselves in front of it. They can indeed temporarily dim a light, but once it is kindled in a person's heart, the shadows will also be discovered and prevented from spreading .... A person who has once gained sight no longer allows himself to be dominated by darkness because he recognizes it early enough and meets it with the light which comes from above. Therefore do not fear the shadows, they are insubstantial and no longer a serious danger for a light bearer, they will always be there where a light shines brightly but can never exist in its glow. He who has made it his task to carry the light amongst people is also served by countless angels of light, because the human being wants to serve God. And thus he accepts the light directly from God, he goes among people with it in order to kindle little lights again everywhere in the hearts which are to illuminate the darkness of night that lies spread over the earth. And that is why the light bearer will always be accompanied by shadows until one day the night will disappear and the brightness of the day will embrace all people, until the light will shine so brightly that the night will be transformed into a radiant day .... Then there will be no more shadows. But as long as there is still night in the hearts of men, everyone who wants to put a light into the night will also be pursued by shadows. As long as it is still dark in people's hearts, as long as they walk in spiritual darkness, doubts will come from all sides if a bearer of truth steps amongst them and wants to enlighten their hearts. And doubts will be hastily nourished on the part of darkness because its endeavour is to extinguish all light. Lies and error will roll against the truth but dissolve into nothing before the bright shine of truth. For the light consumes every shadow. And every doubt which arises in the heart of man need only be submitted to the light from above and it will become bright in the heart, for a dark shadow cannot withstand this light. Where there is light there is shadow, and therefore don't wonder why so many people walk in darkness when they shun the light and want to hide in the shadow .... Then they forfeit grace to themselves, they prefer the night and remain dark in spirit .... until one day they, too, will feel the benefit of light and strive towards it, for without light no soul will find the path to eternal life, which, however, will always be illuminated by bearers of light so that everyone can enter it and the shadows of night will leave it forever ....

Amen

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Night - dusk – dawn - daylight ....

B.D. 5054 from January 31th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

He who does not know the night does not know how to appreciate the light either .... To ascend from the depths to the light always first requires a walk through darkness and a perception of it as torment. The soul seeks to detach itself from that which causes it agony, especially when a ray of light has touched it and awakened a feeling of well-being in it which it would like to increase, and therefore eagerly pursues the radiation of light, thus slowly flees the darkness. This change from night to light can take little but also a great deal of time, yet it is always an act of free will, thus it is left to the human being himself whether and when the soul allows this change to take place. For the human being is placed in the world with duties and tasks which his purpose of earthly life is to fulfil. Despite eager earthly activity he can keep his soul in darkness, for what gives the soul light are spiritual, not worldly goods. Thus a person can be continuously active but still deny the soul the only thing it needs .... the spiritual food which puts it into a state of light. Then it remains dark in it, then there is only the world for it as the human being sees it with his physical eyes. But if the human being is concerned about the well-being of his soul and provides for it according to its desire, if he thus gives spiritual food to the spiritual in him, then the soul will emerge from the state of darkness, the night will clear, a gentle twilight will give way to the dawn, and the sun of the spirit will then rise radiantly, illuminating everything and nourishing it with its vitality .... Then it has risen from deepest darkness to the light of day, and light means bliss. Man is certainly stimulated by his soul, but he does not always comply with this stimulation; then one says that his soul yields to what the body wants. As long as it is dark in it, the will can also be wrongly directed, because it lacks knowledge, the light, the knowledge of what is beneficial for the soul. Yet again and again it is influenced by the spirit within to follow the light after all, and then the human being need only provide the soul with the opportunity to receive rays of light... through reading or spiritual conversations, which are always a gift of grace from above and can kindle a light in the soul which is of good will. Light alone is bliss, darkness is torment .... and anyone who is still in torment is also still in darkness, and every illumination of the spirit eases the torment, for it signifies recognition of the truth, and truth makes free ....

Amen

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God's blessing rests on every vineyard work ....

B.D. 5055 from February 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I want to guide you and you should only let yourselves be guided without resistance. I know the hearts of those who want to work for Me and am with them with My love and grace, assigning to each one the work he is able to do for Me and My kingdom. You, therefore, who want to serve Me, do not take a path of your own will but My will guides you and you carry it out. And therefore you will also only ever act, guided by My will, as soon as you ask Me for advice before every activity and request My blessing. Then you can want, think and act at your own discretion, and it will always correspond to My will because it is active in you. Your task is to inform your fellow human beings of the blessing of spiritual activity, to admonish them to tackle their own soul work and to draw their attention to the urgency of it because the end is near. Anyone who has penetrated spiritual truth himself should also impart it to his fellow human being so that the life of the soul is promoted, because the body is transient but the soul is imperishable. Everything that is done to inform fellow human beings is blessed by Me because it signifies help for the erring souls to emerge from the darkness of night into the light of day. Your work should always be to bring light into the spiritual darkness, and every activity in this sense corresponds to My will. I Myself have kindled a light in many places, it constantly shines for you from above in the form of My word which gives enlightenment to all who desire it. And this light shall be carried everywhere where darkness still exists. Thus I will also bless every activity which applies to the spreading of My word, which is offered to you from above as evidence of My greater than great love for you humans. The fact that I speak to you humans expresses the urgency of extraordinary help, and yet you humans must participate of your own free will if My help is also to become noticeable and bring salvation to the spiritually blind people .... I need you, My servants, to be active as mediators, to receive My gifts from heaven and distribute them to your fellow human beings to whom I cannot speak Myself because they are unable to hear My voice. You should offer the full cups of the water of life, which you are allowed to draw daily, to those who are thirsty so that they, too, will find refreshment on their journey through this earthly life .... And you should also call to those to refresh themselves at the spring of life who want to hurry past it carelessly, you should point them to this spring which is open for the salvation of people's souls, accessible to everyone and promising refreshment. For people will all need much strength and fortification in the coming time and will only be able to receive it where the flow of grace from heaven pours out, where I Myself stand and call out to them: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you refreshment ...." I Myself send you out as messengers of light to step into the path of those who become weary and weak on their long journey through the valley of the earth and are in urgent need of strengthening. You shall illuminate the path for them and then they will also walk correctly .... on the path which leads to Me, from Whom they can now constantly receive their soul's nourishment. You shall be active on behalf of your lord to gather the weary and hungry of the street, you shall invite them to supper at My table .... you shall bring the gospel to your fellow human beings in My name, you shall be restlessly active as My disciples of the last days to proclaim Me Myself to people so that I will not find any closed doors when I Myself come to take abode with them .... And therefore I bring you together so that you are active together in My name, and I Myself will always be with you with My grace and My blessing and guide all your steps .... And whatever you undertake in My name will be right and blessed by Me ....

Amen

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"Where two or three are gathered in My name ...."

B.D. 5056 from February 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... You draw My presence yourselves if you call upon Me in your heart, if you come together for My sake, if you make Me the subject of your conversations. I am in your midst and intervene in your conversations Myself, for I fill you with strength and guide your thoughts correctly. Therefore you can always be certain of My presence and also that I will dispel everything that would like to oppress you from the dark side, for where My light shines the dark spiritual element which wants to harm you will flee. Then you will be inaccessible to its evil influence and open to the light radiation from the spiritual kingdom. Then you will also hear My word as it emanates from Me and feel its strength and effect. I Myself dwell in your midst and distribute My gifts of grace, considering each one according to need, and your soul shall rejoice because I Myself give it nourishment .... then you all dine at the lord's table .... I distribute and you receive, bread and wine .... My flesh and My blood .... you are My guests whom I have invited to the lord's supper and who have willingly accepted My invitation and are therefore abundantly provided by Me with gifts from heaven, with My word, which is delicious refreshment for your soul. If I am present to you, you will never need to go hungry, for your father truly provides abundantly for His children who love Him and want to be obedient to Him. If you now gather in My name, then you press towards Me, your father, like children, and My heart rejoices in your love and comes to you in order to also announce My love for you. I fulfil every call of a loving heart, every desire for Me,

(7.2.1951) for I want to speak to you and I want you to listen to Me. I am always with you if you grant Me entrance into the circle where you live. Where My name falls, spoken with the mouth or also in the heart, there is the place where I like to stay, even though you are not able to see Me with bodily eyes. Every thought of yours attracts Me, thus you need not doubt My presence. And where people gather to converse about My kingdom there is also the opportunity to express Myself, for their hearts are completely unresisting towards My divine strength and this strength loosens their tongues .... they speak, driven by My spirit .... their thoughts will be rightly directed because they can never ever be in error where I Myself am working. My working is certain if a person is devoted to Me with love. My blessing will always rest on spiritual conversations, after all, they are proof to Me that My children desire to know the truth, that they love Me and that their thoughts apply to Me .... Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them .... You should take these words of Mine seriously, for they are a promise from Me which can give you comfort and strength at any time .... that you will never stand alone if you remember Me. And then you can confidently expect all kinds of help from Me, for if I am with you I also see and hear your suffering, I know about your heart's every request and fulfil it according to your faith. I dwell in the midst of you .... The stronger this faith in My presence is, the stronger your faith in My help will be when you are in need. But I also want you to ask Me and thus prove your faith in My presence. And therefore I bless those who open themselves and listen for My answer .... who are willing to hear My voice if I want to speak to you. For I always speak through the mouth of your fellow human beings, be it in speech and counter-speech or also in direct address to the one who listens inwardly for My voice. I want to reveal Myself to you humans and am always willing to do so, but I do not always find people who are also willing to listen to Me. I will give them words of love and wisdom in abundance, words of advice and comfort, as I have promised, for if I am in your midst I will not keep Myself hidden, and since you are unable to see Me you shall hear Me. And blessed are those who believe and gather together in My name, for I will bless them and they will feel My blessing as strength which expresses itself in the desire for above, for Me and for eternal life ....

Amen

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Kind Fatherly Words of comfort ....

B.D. 5057 from February 8th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Look up to Me in every adversity and don't abandon yourselves to anxious thoughts which inhibit your spiritual striving, which weaken you and make you waver because you are effectively captivated by the material world. All earthly worry is superfluous providing you recognise your Father in Me to Whom you can turn with all earthly problems with complete confidence. Always bear My great love in mind, think of yourselves as standing within this abundance of love and know that no hardship exists which I cannot master and that I will provide you with everything you ask for to enable you to be of service to Me without worry. I always have an open ear for your requests and problems, and I will never let you call in vain because I want you to have a living faith to enable you to experience the strength of such faith. I want to help you and I will help you .... And if you firmly believe this, you will banish all adversity yourselves and join Me ever more intimately, which is My intention, so that you will stand firm and full of strength when the time of adversity comes upon you, which is inevitable for the whole of humanity. Seek help from Me at all times and look up to Me with absolute confidence, and My help will be obvious, because I took everything from you in order to provide for you without limitation ....

Amen

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Revelation of the divine will .... love commandments ....

B.D. 5058 from February 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You must fulfil My revealed will if you want to become blessed. And therefore you must avoid and detest everything which contradicts My will and thus, to a certain extent, constantly criticize your thoughts, intentions and actions. For these must always be in harmony with My commandments which demand love for Me and for your neighbour. Your will, thoughts and actions must therefore always be based on love for Me and your neighbour, it must drive you to a righteous way of life which will then always correspond to My will. Self-criticism is an extraordinary blessing, and where you only discover the slightest lack of love this already signifies a slight resistance against Me, a disregard for My will and a danger for your soul. You must constantly give account to yourselves for your thoughts, intentions and actions, you must work on yourselves so that you accomplish the change of nature in yourselves, so that you become perfect. My will is only to guide you into eternal order, and this consists of a life of love. If your way of life is determined by love, if you do good to your neighbour and always strive to fulfil My will, you will enter the eternal order again and become divine beings again, which you once were before you fell away from Me .... before you left My order. But now, in your contrary state, that order, My divine will, is revealed to you .... You will receive knowledge of it, the effects of the wrong as well as the right direction of will will be presented to you, you will be taught the right way of life and informed of the consequences of a wrong way of life, and now you can live your earthly life in fullest freedom of will but also have to bear its consequences. If you love Me and your neighbour then you will live according to My will, because then you cannot help but move within My eternal order, for love is primal law, it is perfection, light and strength. Then you will take on your original form again, you will become again as I created you, for you emerged from the abundance of My strength of love as supremely perfect beings which, however, had to move within My eternal will in order to remain perfect. However, the fact that they once misused their free will and fell away from Me increased My love for these beings, and since they irrevocably have to enter My will again in order to regain the lost perfection I constantly reveal My will to them .... I give the beings in the stage of free will as a human being the commandment of love for Me and their neighbour, so that they will find their way back to Me again, so that they will assimilate themselves to the original being again from which they once took their origin, so that they will become blissful beings again which they were from the beginning ....

Amen

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Outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 5059 from February 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I want to work in you and unfold My love and strength in you, I want to put you into a state where you feel My presence and are blissfully happy .... I Myself want to work in you, that is, My strength shall make you alive, it shall give life to your soul, for without My working in you it is dead, although the human being is alive. I want to awaken the soul to life, and since it cannot live without Me I Myself must be able to be in you, which also results in My working in you. But I Myself am spirit and can therefore only be with you in spirit. You don't need to experience Me in a physically visible way and yet I can have taken abode in you and give you life through My influence. And then you can also speak of My presence with conviction, for you bear obvious evidence of it: inner enlightenment through the spirit .... you mature in inner realization, you gain knowledge which can never be conveyed to you by a human being unless the same process has already taken place in him and he then imparts the knowledge thus gained to you. Thus My spirit awakens you humans to life, but My spirit is eternally inseparable from Me, and consequently, anyone who has been enlightened by My spirit must have received the light from Me Myself, he must have allowed My working within himself, which, in turn, is only possible if love indwells the people in whom I Myself want to work through My spirit. Without love the spirit from Me can never express itself, without love the divine voice in the human being falls silent, and without love there is also no understanding for what is conveyed to a person by a spiritually awakened fellow human being. For My spirit is an unheard-of fire of love, full of strength and effect, yet only ever when it is in its element, when it awakens in a heart which is capable and willing to love, otherwise the spirit withdraws and completely shuts itself off from everything ungodly in a person.

Thus, when the outpouring of the spirit is spoken of it always means closest union with Me so that My working can take place in the human being, so that I take care of the human being Myself and bring about his realization, that I make him a knowing human being who moves in fullest truth, who then purposefully travels his earthly path looking upwards, who turns away from the world and strives towards the spiritual kingdom because it became bright in him and he recognized the spiritual kingdom as his true home, which he now strives towards with all his strength .... He becomes alive in his wanting, thinking and acting .... He consciously works on himself in order to shape himself such that he can constantly unite with Me because My working in him makes him happy and he now no longer wants to separate himself from Me. Thus My working in him is evident when the human being strives upwards; then he no longer resists Me and accepts Me into his heart, and then he will be permeated by My love and My strength, he will stand in recognition and the spiritual darkness will have departed from him forever ....

Amen

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Plan of salvation based on free will ....

B.D. 5060 from February 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My plan of salvation has been determined from eternity but it is based on the human being's free will. However, I do not determine the human will in order to bring it into line with My eternal plan but I insert it into the human being's free will, thus he develops in accordance with this will. For I have known about him since eternity how he will be at the end of this redemption period despite most favourable influence and all possibilities for a change of will. In no way do I have a determining influence. Completely free will brings about all events on this earth. Everything in the entire universe does not happen arbitrarily but every event is based on My wisdom which directs everything in order to lead the being to the highest possible development, in order to achieve a change of will which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. Even the knowledge on My part about the failure of earthly life for so countless souls does not prevent the scheduled course of the individual redemption periods, for the souls have to come to a certain decision, although they also have to fail and exhaust a new possibility in order to reach the aim for once. Free will necessitates such possibilities, which I have very well recognized since eternity and which is why the course of development of every individual soul is planned to the smallest purpose, irrespective of success. For I cannot determine success, although I know about it when I want to know it. But for Me eternity is like a moment, and what is not achieved in one period of development can be achieved in ever-repeating phases of redemption, yet it always has to proceed according to plan, because free will cannot be eliminated, but just as My love and wisdom can never withdraw or conceal itself either and this always creates the most favourable opportunities to develop free will in the right way. The plan of salvation from eternity only pursues the souls' redemption and their return to Me .... When I reach the aim is of no significance to Me but extremely significant to you, because for you humans, as long as you are still imperfect, the concept of time plays a part, thus you can be in an unhappy state for an infinitely long time and thus have to live through periods of suffering which end with the moment of your soul's redemption, the healing, which is My plan of eternity and which I would like to constantly promote if your will does not oppose Me. The healing process can be extremely lengthy but it can also take place in a short time, which, however, you determine yourselves. And even if I know about the success or failure this does not determine My eternal plan of salvation, for I am eternally unchanging, and what My wisdom once recognized as right will also be carried out by My strength of love, because it irrevocably leads to the aim, even if eternities pass by .... One day the world will be redeemed and all beings will be united with Me, because nothing can eternally resist My love ....

Amen

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Explaining the various characters of the Word-recipients ....

B.D. 5061 from February 12th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My child, accept My Words without objection and allow them to take effect on you .... A task has been assigned to you which can only be accomplished by a human being who establishes contact with the spiritual kingdom with heart and mind, who thus takes the state of people's feelings on earth into account but desires the spiritual realm himself, and this is necessary in the last days before the end where people have broken off almost all contact with Me, where faith in a spiritual life and a spiritual future is almost entirely lost. I know of humanity's desperate situation and, in order to provide it with help, will have to resort to means which promise success without impairing free will. Thus one such means is the transmission of the pure truth from above through receptive mediators, but who can also be called mediators insofar as they gain easier access to people's hearts due to their personality. They shall, after all, win those over who are still distant from Me .... You should really consider that people striving towards Me are already within a sphere where My working is easily recognised but that people who are still distant from Me are outside of this sphere and that it is therefore necessary for someone to have access to both spheres in order to speak as they understand it and yet also about that which has originated from Me. I know why I chose you for this mission because I know the human hearts which first scrutinise everything intellectually before they accept it as their own, and whose intellect should therefore not be ignored in order to be able to influence the souls successfully. The redeeming work for such people is considerably more difficult yet not hopeless, for My grace works where it finds an open ear so that My gift of grace can also touch the heart. Thus it is My will that My working shall also be mentioned where the world is still exerting a strong influence.

During the last days proclaiming My Gospel in the hitherto usual way will reap little success, if it is not entirely impossible. People who live in the world and are also in touch with worldly people are not as quickly rejected if they speak on My instructions than those who have little contact because their spiritual sphere is already so different that worldly people cannot put themselves in that position and are more likely to feel repelled than attracted by it. These spheres are formed by emotions, which therefore can be good or bad, full of love or lacking love. It is always a person's character which shapes the sphere in which his soul is subsequently moving. However, if I assign a mission to a person who wants to be of service to Me, then I Myself will form the type of sphere surrounding him which corresponds to this mission, in which My willing servant can then be successfully active for Me and My kingdom .... which, however, is not to say that I avail Myself of a person who lives entirely outside spiritual spheres, since he would be unable to work in My name, but I spread a veil across the light which would break through too brightly and radiantly and which would cause precisely the kind of confusion amongst worldly people which would interfere with winning one of them over. I select people for such a mission who have voluntarily become My Own, who were seized by My love and who I can now use as a tool in the last days before the end. I Myself work in and through them .... And this shall be your explanation to the question why all people don't have the same emotions and nevertheless an abundance of strength becomes effective which is not obvious .... For I look into the heart and know a person's will, to which degree he is turned towards Me, and according to this will is his calling for My kingdom ....

Amen

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Re-incarnation ....

B.D. 5062 from February 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You are given a light from above where it is still dark within you. And My messengers are instructed to make the light accessible to all who desire it. Whatever contributes towards the enlightenment of spirit will be conveyed to them, so that they will indeed be able to distinguish between truth and error and always recognise the One Who is truth Himself. You, My earthly children, are destined for the greatest bliss I can prepare for you; but the degree of beatitude will always correspond to your will, for this is not determined by Me. Utmost bliss, however, also makes utmost demands on your will, for in order to achieve childship to God, which assures you the Father's inheritance, you have to be perfect too, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. I expect much of you earthly children, but I give infinitely more still. What I expect of you is complete subordination to My will and transformation to a high degree of love. For the degree of bliss in eternal life can differ considerably, it always depends on the degree of love you kindle and activate within yourselves.

Hence this activity of love determines the degree of maturity and therefore also the degree of bliss, so it follows that childship to God requires a life of utter love on earth, so that the human being's nature will be changed into love, into My image, into My true child, for whom I have prepared all delights, as I have promised. The soul's childship to God has to be the result of a single life on earth, because this high degree of maturity cannot be achieved in the kingdom of the beyond anymore, albeit even there a being will still be able to attain an undreamt of abundance of light. Nevertheless, a being of light can, if it re-incarnates in the flesh on earth for the purpose of a leadership mission, acquire its childship to God, but this necessitates an extremely sorrowful and difficult earthly life as well as a redeeming activity on earth, which was the reason of its repeated embodiment. Only beings with a high degree of light will undertake a repeated incarnation on earth, but purely for love of misguided human beings, whom they want to help in times of greatest spiritual hardship.

Alternatively, every light-receiving soul in the spiritual kingdom can also be called blissful to a degree, and this bliss suffices to trigger its will into helping beings who still languish in darkness, whose condition they know and want to remedy. No soul of light lacks this willingness to help, because receipt of light presupposes love, and love constantly wants to express itself. Every loving deed in the spiritual kingdom increases the beings' beatitude, and such a being will never ever desire to return to earth, after all it recognises a vast sphere of activity for its strength of love and also feels the ever increasing abundance of light and happiness. But no being will be returned to earth against its will, since this would contravene My divine order. Beings of light, even of a low degree, do not harbour this will, only exceptionally elevated spirit beings descend to earth in oder to carry out the above mentioned mission. As soon as a soul has but a modest degree of awareness it also knows about the opportunity of further development in the spiritual kingdom, for then its love has been kindled or it would still be completely in the dark .... But if a soul is still spiritually blind then its desire to return to earth might surface, but never for the purpose of spiritual maturing, it is only drawn to earth by its desire for matter which I, on My part, will not comply with .... For this desire can be more easily overcome in the kingdom of the beyond than on earth, and without the surmounting of this desire there will be no light, no spiritual progress.

Anyone who neglected to acquire a tiny spark of understanding on earth, which thus assumes deeds of love, will also be in profound darkness in the beyond, and to return him to earth would not be an act of mercy but an infringement of My eternal order, which pursues constant progress and excludes any kind of regression due to My will. However, in this case re-incarnation would be an unfair compensation for the soul's failure on earth, it would not be love and mercy on My part but a huge burden for the soul, which would have to accept the responsibility for a second time without any guarantee of achieving its goal. And it would not achieve its goal either, for repeated embodiment would understandably present it with far greater demands in order to balance the exceptional privilege, whereas its will would once again remain free .... Thus it would have to undergo a test of will twice, which would mean the same as if I would double a person's life time on earth and thus bypass an existing natural law .... Also, having failed on earth once, a soul would be constrained and its will weakened by My adversary again, since the path to Me, to the divine Redeemer, is blocked by Satan by means of the world, since it will have desired it as well as matter and will receive what it desires .... Only the being's will is decisive at all times, but this very will is not interested in embodiment on earth once the soul has but a glimmer of knowledge.

However, a soul which is still lost in utter darkness will not be allowed to re-incarnate because My wisdom knows of the danger and frequent futility of a repeated earthly progress and My love does not support regression but only advancement. My eternal law is development and progress .... I only encourage opportunities for higher development which, admittedly, could also be unsuccessful but then only due to the being's will. Regression can only be caused by the being's will, never by My will. Individual instances of re-incarnation to earth happen for a special reason but do not justify the assumption that every soul will be able to return to earth deliberately once it has completed its path unsuccessfully or with only slight success. Yet the fact that the soul repeatedly incarnates itself is certain, because it has to continue its higher development in the kingdom of the beyond and this always necessitates that it carries out its designated activity in a new embodiment on one of the countless creations which all serve as places to mature for the spiritual essence. But activity and tasks are of a different nature than on earth and cannot be explained to you humans either, merely the principles of redemption and maturity always consist of loving service.

Countless possibilities are at My disposal to beneficially influence the souls which had departed from earth in a still immature state. Life on this earth had promised exceptional success which, if unused, can never be made up again such that the beings can re-incarnate on earth any number of times; this is why the teaching of re-incarnation is misleading; thus isolated, justified instances should not lead to the assumption that every soul will re-incarnate on this earth, which would be far more detrimental than advantageous for the soul. The soul's free decision of will has to be made on earth, and with the help of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ it is certainly possible to do so during one earthly life .... Anyone who rejects Him has forfeited an exceptional grace and has to struggle in the beyond until he acquires the understanding and still accepts His help over there.

Jesus' death on the cross is of such enormous significance for the salvation of all souls that it only requires the human will to become redeemed, but a will that fails also has to accept the consequences: indescribably difficult higher development in the spiritual realm or descent into the abyss, with the result of a repeated path through the whole of material creation .... a re-incarnation of undesirable consequence .... a tormenting state of endless duration until the human state has been reached again, which will then gives him a new opportunity to make his free decision of will. No being will be lost forever, but the time it takes to achieve beatitude is determined by the human being's will itself. Yet the law of eternal order will remain, for it is based on My wisdom and love which will never change ....

Amen

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Individuality of each soul ....

B.D. 5063 from February 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

When My creative will became active My wisdom also realised the accomplishment of all that which My love and strength had created; I saw the fallen spiritual beings’ process of development as well as the partial relapse into the abyss, I saw a countless multitude of originally created beings fighting each other in the universe. I saw satanic actions everywhere in the spiritual kingdom and in the earthly-material creations .... I saw the rise and fall, I saw the constantly changing shapes and My wisdom recognised most clearly that the huge redemption work will be successful one day, which delighted My love and thus My will was incessantly active. I foresaw the achievement an eternity ago .... yet I also saw the countless originally created spirits which would remain opposed to Me and need an infinitely long time before they surrender to Me without resistance. But this did not trouble Me for time does not exist for Me, if only I reach My goal one day. Yet the plan of redemption for these spirits remaining in opposition to Me considerably deviates from the one for the less hardened spiritual beings, for the former require several infinitely long periods of development until their final redemption, and each one signifies a different process of redemption than the preceding one. For the sin keeps increasing the more often free will is misused, and the final stage as a human being also provides the spiritual entity with awareness, because I endow him with intelligence by virtue of which he can distinguish between right and wrong. Before a human being´s soul can be formed the individual soul substances must effectively have travelled through all creations, the soul will have gathered all minute particles which once belonged to a freely spiritually creating original entity, and this original entity receives, as a human being, the self-awareness again which it no longer possessed during the preliminary stages of development. Then the soul will continue to remain a self-aware individual entity in the spiritual kingdom, although it will then work and create in unity with equally mature souls .... It will recognise itself for what it once had been and is incredibly happy in this self-awareness. But the final test of earthly life can, although it is not too difficult, also be failed; in that case My work of redemption has not been possible during one course of development and the being will have to go through a second and far more difficult process of redemption, it must once again take abode in new material creations, the soul will be dissolved again into untold minutely small particles and, depending on its nature, engendered into various shells once more and the path of higher development will start anew.

A soul which deserts Me as a human being increases its sin many times over and must therefore also suffer considerably more than during the individual developmental stages of the previous period. Yet even then My infinite love will be at work again in order to help this soul to ascend, so that, at the end of its earthly progress in the law of compulsion the re-assembled soul can incarnate itself in a body of flesh with the purpose of passing its final test of will on this earth. Although at a later state of maturity this soul can undoubtedly look back upon an entirely different earthly progress than that of the period before, nevertheless it remains the same spiritual being but will only recognise itself as such when it reaches the specific degree of light when it receives its past memory again. Every soul entering the spiritual kingdom after its physical death remains what it is and can continue to ascend constantly higher and, in unity with equally mature spiritual beings, bring happiness to countless beings on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom; but it always remains the same being and will never lose its self-awareness again. If, however, it descends into the abyss, its thinking will become confused, it no longer recognises itself and if it descends to the lowest point it can also harden into solid matter again, thus starting the process of development in new creations on earth once more. The being only recognises itself during a specific degree of maturity, and this degree of maturity has been attained as soon as the soul is permitted to embody itself as a human being, on account of which the human being is in clear possession of self-awareness which the soul will not lose again unless it descends into profound darkness again, where it can no longer recognise itself for what it is and what it had been. I will collect every spiritual being again which once went astray, I want to regain it in the same condition as it once came forth from Me. I want to draw completely free, supremely perfect angel beings burning with love to My heart and I will achieve this goal even if takes eternities, for My love, wisdom and might is without bounds and My creative will shall never end until even the last spiritual being is redeemed and has become My child ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's joy in the love of His children ....

B.D. 5064 from February 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I truly take pleasure in My earthly children's love for Me and am always willing to kindle this love for Me ever more, because this also signifies increased beatitude for My children if they unite with Me ever more and receive the evidence of My reciprocated love .... that they hear Me, that they hear My voice within themselves as the most delicious gift. Only love prepares bliss, and therefore it must also be kindled in you, a fire must blaze up in you which spreads light .... your heart must long for unification with Me, for this is love, that you long for union with Me .... Every earthly child which acknowledges Me as creator and father of eternity also wants to be united with Me and thereby increase the strength within itself, it unconsciously longs for the state it was in at the beginning when it still loved Me as a sign of its perfection. It voluntarily left this state, it denounced its love for Me, it turned away from Me and became unhappy, since only love can cause true bliss. But I want to give you purest happiness again, I want to let you taste the delights of My love which, however, also requires your love in return in order to be effective. I want to excite your hearts so that they beat towards Me; I alone want to captivate your senses, I want every thought of yours to be only meant for Me, that you push towards Me and offer your hearts to Me, I want to possess you fully and completely and for all eternity. This is why I want you to let your love for Me flare up, that you turn all your thoughts towards Me, that I am the most desirable thing to you, that you seek Me with all seriousness and, once you have found Me, never ever leave Me out; I want your heart and soul to press towards Me and that I Myself can let My love radiate into you in order to make you blissful beings. And therefore I constantly court your love and rejoice over every child which allows itself to be drawn up by Me to My heart. And My fatherly love will never let go again what has once voluntarily surrendered to Him ....

Amen

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The eternal love .... reason for the revelations ....

B.D. 5065 from February 17th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Recognize the one Who speaks to you as the eternal love Itself, Who reveals Itself to you in order to help you. Don't doubt, you listeners, that I Myself dwell among you in the word but consider that an exceedingly great spiritual adversity causes Me to reveal Myself to you, that you yourselves are in this adversity because it is close to the end. You walk through your earthly life completely carefree and don't worry about what will happen to your soul after the death of your body; you only worry about your earthly life and about the preservation and comfort of the body, which is transient, but you don't pay attention to the imperishable in you. If you knew the dreadful consequences of your attitude then you would also understand how great the spiritual adversity is, and you would also understand that I want to help you find your way out of it. For this reason I try to present to you through revelations what fate you are facing, I try to make you understand why the effect of your wrong attitude cannot be other than an exceedingly agonizing state of suffering in the beyond or even a new banishment into solid matter. I try to inform you through revelations of My eternal plan of salvation so that you will understand why everything exists and that only your eternal salvation is striven for by My will. I Myself come to you and reveal Myself because you don't believe Me otherwise, because you cannot explain the context to yourselves humanly and intellectually and, in turn, cannot be taught truthfully by human beings either. But you shall recognize Me when I speak to you through the mouth of a human being, but it is only My instrument which I use and speak to you Myself because it is necessary. For there is not much time left until the end .... And especially in the last days My adversary will strongly harass you and try to distract you from the right realization, from the truth, so that you will become completely blind in spirit and safely approach eternal ruin. And because the night around you is so dreadfully dark, I kindle a little light everywhere to illuminate the darkness, and anyone who strives towards the light, who does not evade its effect and flees it, will be enlightened in spirit .... The truth will be revealed to him and the great spiritual adversity will be remedied for him. Therefore I reveal Myself to you again and again, and you should believe that it is I Who speaks to you .... your creator and father of eternity, Who cares for you as My children in danger and whom I therefore want to help before it is too late.

And when I admonish you to love you can very well recognize that eternal love itself speaks to you, for My adversary would truly not urge people to fulfil the fundamental law of love which he himself has transgressed and which he fundamentally opposes .... Only from Me does love emanate, and to Me love always leads back again .... Thus My adversary will not push you towards Me by teaching you love. And thus drop all doubts and unconditionally believe that only eternal love speaks to you if the words are good and full of wisdom, if they ennoble you and turn your thinking towards Me, Who is your most loving father from eternity. If your heart is touched by My word then you have the surest sign of My presence and also the right and the duty to believe what is proclaimed to you through My revelations .... For I am also the eternal truth, the light of eternity, Which shines into all hearts in order to displace the prince of darkness from them. I want to come to you as saviour in spiritual adversity and you should not deny Me entry into your heart, you should open the door wide for Me and let the radiant light fall in, you should dispel the night and walk towards a bright day .... you shall find Me through My revelations and then be relieved of all spiritual distress ....

Amen

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Spiritual community .... elevated work ....

B.D. 5066 from February 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Working together will always result in greater success, although every individual person's work for the spiritual kingdom is blessed and therefore it is also recommended to every one of My children to be constantly active in My vineyard. But as soon as My own join together to serve Me, one will complement the other and be able to help him where the other is too weak. Every activity, whether individually or in unity, is supported by beings of light from the beyond, and therefore you humans are guided in a way which the beings of light recognize as beneficial and which is also successful for the souls of My children. You all have to mature together, you have to learn to recognize yourselves, one of you has to serve the other as an example, but just as one of you should draw the other's attention to his faults, yet in love and brotherly care, so that one helps the other to ascend. I need an army of strong fighters who will stand up for Me before the world when a confession is demanded of you. And these forces should already unite more firmly beforehand so that one or the other is not attacked and made unable to fight due to My adversary's influence, so that one or the other does not slacken in his spiritual striving because he lacks every opportunity for activity, which he often does not recognize on his own. The spiritual union of My own also increases the strength of the individual, he sees, as it were, the effect of My grace and strength of love on his brothers and sisters and strives for the greatest possible perfection himself, driven by My spirit of love, which is visibly effective where My own are gathered in My name. But all of you are also given tasks which you should conscientiously fulfil .... to also bring your own surroundings back onto the path of light which they have left or not yet found .... each one should work in his own small circle ....

Amen

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Will directed towards God .... shackles of love ....

B.D. 5067 from February 20th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

It is enough for Me that your will is directed towards Me, that you desire the truth and, in order to be able to make contact with Me, strive to become like Me. Then My will is also ready to consider you, and you will effortlessly reach your aim .... the final union with Me, which will secure you light and strength for all eternity. Turning to Me in thought is successful for your soul, for I will not let Myself be called twice, I will come if only one thought of yours is meant for Me. For this thought is already the stretching out of your hands upwards. Your decision of will turns out in My favour, you turn away from My adversary yourselves, and I seize this opportunity to draw you completely to Me because you have given up your resistance as soon as you seek Me in thought.

My kingdom is not of this world .... If you seek Me in your thoughts you consciously leave the earthly world behind you, for the world does not allow thoughts of Me to arise, that is, anyone who is chained in it does not remember Me but is in bondage to the one who rules in the world .... A person who still belongs entirely to the world cannot make contact with Me because I do not exist for him as long as he turns his love towards the world. He can certainly know My teaching but he lacks faith in the truth of this teaching, and thus I do not exist in his thoughts other than an imaginary figure whose existence he lacks all conviction of. But if he seriously tries to fathom Me then he has already detached himself from the world, and then I can also pull him up, then nothing will prevent him from the right realization, then his love will turn to Me Whom he strives to reach. Thus I know when the separation from My adversary is complete and can then also exert My influence, whereas before the will first has to decide to whom it will incline. Again and again I step into a person's path so that he may take a different direction of thought which does not only apply to the earthly world .... I will make Myself known to him in some way so that he will think about the being Who let him come into being. And once he has arrived at this thought he will not let go of it again, then I will have put a silent shackle over him which, however, will not squeeze him but will constantly let him follow Me without resistance. He no longer wants to release himself from this bondage, he has voluntarily allowed himself to be captured by Me because his will sought Me and I allowed Myself to be found. It is the bondage of love, the strength which flows through him, which emanates from Me and resonates in his heart. And he will never want to escape from this strength of love because it benefits his soul, and this is My 'grasp', I hold with My love anyone who merely turns his thoughts to Me, for love is not a constraint because it only works where resistance is abandoned ....

Amen

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Practicing love the only task on earth ....

B.D. 5068 from February 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

There is only one path to Me which you must take, otherwise My kingdom will remain closed to you, otherwise the path will lead into the abyss. It is the path of love, which absolutely must be taken because it is the only path that leads to Me. To walk the path of love means to accomplish a change of nature in oneself, because at the beginning of the embodiment as a human being self-love predominates, which he must discard if the right love is to come to fruition in him, which characterizes him as a divine creature. It is unselfish neighbourly love which accomplishes this change of nature in you and which therefore must always and constantly be practiced if you want to come close to Me and be accepted into My kingdom, where highest bliss is your lot. Thus the task given to you for the time of your earthly change is to practice love, to always be unselfishly active in love, to give, to help and thus to constantly awaken reciprocal love .... I have not given you another task, for if you fulfil it you will do everything that is necessary to pass the last test of will on earth, for anyone who practices love strives towards Me Myself, Who is eternal love. Only through love will you re-establish the connection with Me which was your original fate, only through love will you become again what you were from the start, divine beings in full possession of strength and light. Love for your neighbour certainly requires a certain amount of self-conquest, because the human being has to sacrifice what he owns, because he has to detach himself from what he himself holds dear in order to give it to his neighbour who is in need. Yet he gains a thousand times more than he gives, for with every work of love he comes closer to Me Myself, with every work of love he reduces the distance from Me, and with every work of love he receives light and strength himself, the emanation of My eternal love. He gives earthly things and receives spiritual things in return until his gained wealth enables him to distribute spiritual things himself and he now already works for Me as My servant, which always first requires profound love for Me and his neighbour. Without love you cannot become blessed, but you all carry the spark of love in your heart and it can very quickly flare up into a bright flame, then it takes hold of everything and constantly gives the flame new nourishment so that it shines brightly and the path to Me is now visible to everyone.

Practice love, divest yourselves of what your fellow human being lacks and consider him to the best of your ability, then the awareness of My presence will also awaken in you, and then you will have exchanged something delicious for what you gave away .... Your love has attracted Me Myself, and the love within you now allows for a union which was not possible before .... love establishes the union with eternal love, which always results in supreme bliss ....

Amen

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Prayer in spirit and in truth .... Pious gestures ....

B.D. 5069 from February 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I take no notice of pious gestures; they are, after all, merely outer ostentatious covers which are intended to conceal the heart from onlookers. Anyone who truly sincerely thinks of Me and speaks to Me with simple, unembellished words considers every ceremony, every external movement or gesture to be strange; the heart does not need it, it takes the straight path to Me and exclaims its distress or its love and adoration of Me and I hear every thought which rises up to Me from the heart. But where an inner feeling is meant to be outwardly recognisable too much value is placed on other people's opinion, since I Myself have no need of such external testimonies and without them a person's heart lies openly before Me. In that case you only want to convince your fellow human beings of an apparently intimate relationship with Me, and thus you don't approach Me with an undivided mind but place too much importance on other people's judgment. But, in addition, your prayer will also lack depth of feeling, for heartfelt contact with Me lets you forget everything around you but also makes every external gesture seem absurd and derisive.

Therefore, as long as you still outwardly portray what should only move you within you still have not found heartfelt union with Me in your thoughts, which does not allow for external actions, because then you will be so completely seized by Me that you will forget the world around you, that you will be true children of your Father whose love for the Father leaves no space for anything else. You should certainly not forget your fellow human being and always have an open eye and ear for his problems, you should not carelessly ignore him if he comes to you full of grief; you should not neglect him, not be arrogant towards him but humbly stand by him with patience and compassion and do everything in your power to help him for love of him. However, if you desire to enter into heartfelt communication with Me your thoughts should only apply to Me, and nothing of an external nature should disturb or identify this heartfelt bond .... For I want to be prayed to in spirit and in truth and this should happen in private, where no-one is a witness of the communication of heart between Father and child .... And all pretence should fall away from you, for I Am the Eternal Truth and also want to be called upon in all truthfulness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Peace of soul .... presence of God ....

B.D. 5070 from February 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

And you will all find peace, the peace of the soul, which the world is not able to give .... You, who are Mine, if you intimately unite yourselves with Me, who have the will to serve Me and be efficient labourers for Me in My vineyard. This peace will suddenly come over you and you will be inspired by a profound faith, by a faith which will no longer let My presence appear unreal to you but which is so deeply anchored in you that you will always be able to communicate with Me and will never be abandoned by Me. Then the world will no longer disturb you, and My word, which you may constantly receive, will be your substitute for everything that is earthly denied to you. My spirit flows into you without interruption, and the body, too, now subordinates itself to the strength of the spirit, it no longer desires anything and leaves everything to Me when and how I think of it. Then you will have found the peace of your soul which no longer knows its own will but only to fulfil Mine, and which therefore is also continuously active and works with love. What still comes upon you before should not frighten you; the spirits of anger and wrath must be driven out of every heart which longs for peace of mind; a purely spiritual act must take place which often can only be accomplished by great excitement but which is of greatest blessing for the soul. And so that you will then prove yourselves I am always ready to help, which will send you strength and grace from above and show you that I am always present to you and that you are never abandoned. There is nothing I cannot remedy, and there is no adversity which is so great that I would not be master of it. Therefore every earthly worry is superfluous, yet spiritually you should always be concerned and do what I ask of you. Let My word be your guarantee that you belong to My own, for whom I always take care. And therefore believe and do not fear whatever may come upon you; I know about everything and also know why it comes upon you. And nothing happens without My permission. But I can also avert suffering from you and also want to do it so that you believe and always come closer to Me, so that you obviously feel Me and become aware of My constant presence and remain so when the adversity comes upon you which precedes the last end. But then you should work for Me and My kingdom and therefore stand in profound unshakeable faith yourselves, which then will also always be accompanied by profound peace of soul ....

Amen

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Gifts of grace .... help to ascend .... love ....

B.D. 5071 from February 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Where My grace is rejected spiritual ascent is impossible there, although earthly ascent can obviously be recorded, for the forces of darkness immediately intervene where resistance is offered to Me. This is why earthly advantage cannot be described as divine grace, for the world is not My kingdom and My grace is a gift from above, from the kingdom which is not of this world. Receiving My grace means as much as receiving strength directly from Me Myself, which is necessary for spiritual ascent and therefore must never be spurned. But people who don't believe in Me don't want to accept the term 'grace' either, which they regard as something degrading because they themselves are still of an arrogant spirit. Likewise, they will also reject My great gift of grace, My word, which they don't believe they need and which therefore only few people utilize as it should be utilized due to its transmission of strength. Spiritual arrogance rebels against the heavenly father's gift of grace, driven by My adversary who does not want the pure truth to arise and therefore also tries to prevent people from coming into contact with it in every way. Nevertheless, everyone is offered the opportunity to make use of My gift of grace; everyone shall draw strength from it, everyone shall mature in his soul and again and again receive new graces. For this need not be publicly recognizable .... The human being's rightly guided thinking is likewise a grace on My part, which indeed also has to be consciously accepted, but just as it should also be requested. For again and again desire lets new blessings flow to the human being and makes him resistant to every temptation which still approaches him in great measure who wants to escape from the adversary and find entrance into My kingdom. Again and again the means are used by Me which can bring success if they are used correctly. And therefore the human being's will itself is decisive as to how far he is in grace, for I am merciful to everyone who does not openly oppose Me. For I only want to promote the spiritual ascent, I want to help My earthly children to liberate themselves from everything that still belongs to the world in a short time; I want to constantly support them as saviour and helper. But I also want them to listen to Me and do what I advise them out of My love, which wants to grasp everything and also does so if it finds no resistance. But anyone who has once felt My love will not miss any opportunity to take possession of grace, for he recognizes its effectiveness and also wants to ascend as soon as he has only recognized Me once and knows about his aim on earth. And this person will also reach his aim and become blissfully happy through My grace ....

Amen

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Overcoming matter .... Awakening of the spirit ....

B.D. 5072 from February 24th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Anyone who is materially-minded and allows matter to dominate his thoughts too much can hardly become aware of the spirit within himself which is in complete opposition to matter. Thus anyone intending to awaken the spirit within him must first have overcome matter, that is, he should no longer be its slave but have become its master. It should no longer control him, he must be able to easily let go of it and thus give it away himself by sharing his material possessions with his needy fellow human being whom he can help by providing him with earthly-material possessions. This process of loving activity towards one's fellow human being is necessary in order to bring the spirit within alive, because the person will thereby shape himself such that My spirit can become effective in him, since the spiritual spark within is inseparably connected with Me, its eternal Father-Spirit. Understandably, the divine element within the human being, in order to express itself, must respond to something divine, because a connection between perfection and imperfection is impossible. Love, however, shapes that which is imperfect into a divine being. Without love My spirit is unable to make itself known in a human being, the person's love, however, becomes active towards a fellow human being and thus the former also demonstrates his love for Me and can subsequently also receive My manifestation of love. My strength can flow into him and express itself in the working of the spirit.

Selfless neighbourly love will only ever be practised by someone who has become master over matter, in which case the spirit is able to work in him. As a result I Myself enter into heartfelt contact with him because his spirit is part of Me. Do you now realise what you win if you release yourselves from matter? Do you realise the triviality of earthly goods if you gain Me by letting go of them? You give little and receive infinitely much in return .... the most precious becomes your possession .... My love, which pours into your hearts and grants you riches beyond measure .... Material things are indeed given to you as a test of your will, yet you can use them for beneficial activity .... you can relieve much hardship with it and thus be lovingly active on Earth. Then matter will provide you with spiritual possessions because you use it for doing kind deeds, then it will simply be the means in your hands used in order to attain spiritual treasures, yet only if you give it away, because material and spiritual possessions can never be acquired at the same time as long as the person still allows his heart to be held captive by matter. It has to be conquered, and that is your task on Earth if you want to awaken the spiritual spark in you and thereby also establish contact with Me, if you want to give Me the right to dwell in your heart. But then you will have won everything, then you will only work for the spiritual kingdom, then you will have passed your test of earthly life, for once I have taken abode in you I will not leave you again; then you will be permeated by My spirit and become aspirants for My kingdom which is not of this world .... Then you will return into the Father's house, to Me, from Whom you once came forth and Who will not rest until you have become His Own forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

View in the realm beyond .... trial faith .... love ....

B.D. 5073 from February 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

If you could see into the kingdom which lies beyond earth, which shelters all the souls which are secluded from this earth, then you would only realize how great your responsibility towards the soul is as long as you live on earth. Both the darkness would shake you to the soul, but the kingdom of light would also awaken a desire in you for those realms which you can very well provide for the soul if you live correctly on earth, i.e. if you use your will in the right way when you fulfil your earthly task. But that kingdom must remain closed to you in order not to compulsorily induce you into a way of life, for only free will is decisive for your fate in eternity. Both the kingdom of horror and the kingdom of bliss must remain closed to you, yet often enough you receive knowledge of it through My messengers. You can believe it or not, but as intelligent people you should always reckon with the possibility that what the proclaimers of God’s word teach you is truth, for you cannot prove the opposite either. And thus you should also take this knowledge about life after death in torment or bliss into account in earthly life, you should prepare yourselves such that you will not run the risk of being taken in by the kingdom of darkness. You should try to believe, because such an experimental faith is still better than faithlessness. You should live well, even if you cannot believe that one day there will be retribution for your deeds on earth in the spiritual kingdom. Then faith itself would also come, for it emerges from love. And to be good on earth means to live a life of love. Even if you cannot force yourselves to believe, you can still force yourselves to do good deeds, even if you don't feel the feeling of love in you at first. You can give, you can help your fellow human beings in every adversity, you can help them with kind words and looks and awaken love in them, and you will feel that it does you good to have done a good deed. Love will also flare up in you, and suddenly your thoughts will no longer be so dismissive of what is demanded of you to believe. For the forces of the beyond will help you to recognize, and only the forces of the kingdom of light which have an influence on a person who strives to be good. The forces of darkness, on the other hand, will always be able to work successfully where people live contrary to My will, who are unkind in words and deeds and therefore also of dark spirit. Faith will still die out in them because darkness seeks to keep their souls and therefore also withholds knowledge from them. But their fate one day is dreadful and yet cannot be averted, because it is again the human being's free will which creates this fate for itself. Light and darkness will always be in opposition to each other, and this alone should make people think that ignorance of life after death is a state of darkness, whereas the person who firmly and unshakably believes in life after death already possesses a light, for his faith is conviction. And he is also in the light because such faith is the result of love, and love is a fire which radiates light .... And light signifies realization, a knowledge which corresponds to truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Name of Jesus shall not be led in vain ....

B.D. 5074 from February 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My name shall not be taken in vain .... This has been given to you humans as a commandment, the observance of which demonstrates love for Me and its non-observance is counted to you as a sin against Me. For My name shall be holy to you, it shall be held in honour in heaven and on earth. Thus My name can be misused but always to the detriment of the soul of the one who tries to disparage Me. Hence My adversary can also allow himself to be abused and speak of Me in a derogatory way, that is, anyone who does not believe in Me, who denies Me, is My adversary and will also speak of Me in a way which hurts the believing person, and one day he will also have to answer for it, for this is an abuse of My name and testifies to opposition against Me. But I will not hinder him if he misuses My name or uses it as a cover for his piety. But as soon as he uses it as confirmation of a lie, as soon as My adversary tries to gain faith by mentioning My name, you yourselves must check extremely carefully whether you give him cause to resort to this means in order to win you over. You must check yourselves whether you yourselves are attracting the one who wants to ruin you for eternity through all kinds of desires and vices. Then his endeavour is to completely destroy your faith in Me, your faith in the deity in Jesus Christ, in His unlimited might and power and His greater than great love .....

(26.2.1951) My name is exceedingly holy and cannot be pronounced by a spirit of the underworld in its deepest meaning, i.e., it cannot be invoked as the name of God, the highest and most perfect being, because that dark being would then also acknowledge Me Myself as its God and father of eternity. But the name can be mentioned as 'only name', and this is a temptation which is often successful. Thus such a being can imagine people under this name but cannot deceive you as God as soon as you ask it to profess itself as God the father or God the son. It should be noted that every dark being will give way as soon as the name of Jesus is held up to it in living faith in Him as God's son and redeemer of the world .... Every evil spirit gives way to Jesus' deity, but the name, which is only lightly invoked as a name, is ineffective, just as, conversely, a being of the underworld can also adopt the name Jesus without wanting to introduce itself as God's son. The word without the spirit is only a dead word, but you humans should pay attention to the spirit and not to the dead letter .... Everything that is true must have life; a being which is in the night of death will never comprehend the full truth and thus also not the exceedingly great holiness of My name, thus it will also utter My name completely without realization, certainly in order to deceive people but unaware of where the deception lies, for it only utters a false name in order not to need to mention its own name, but it cannot grasp at all whose name it utters. Nevertheless, My name can be held up to such a being in profound faith in Me and it will flee the light and no longer oppress the human being. But you humans have to carry out the test yourselves .... you have to know whether you unite with Me so deeply and intimately that you allow Me Myself to be present in you. Then you will not have to fear any deception by dishonest spiritual beings .... And if you feel distressed or doubt Me, then call upon My name with faithful trust and deep devotion and I will chase every dark being away from you because you use the weapon I have recommended to you .... For no being will be able to withstand My name if it is not yet redeemed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The housefather‘s care for His servants .... vineyard work ....

B.D. 5075 from March 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I am love Itself, and love cannot deny you anything unless it would harm your soul. You must imagine My greater than great and infinite love if you become fickle in believing that I will help you when your trust is low and you are anxious in earthly adversity. I will not leave My own in adversity but will always release them from it when the time comes. But the fact that I let you get into earthly adversity is not arbitrary but a concern for your salvation of soul .... as well as a wise foresight of what will ease your path of life in order to be able to serve Me unhindered. You have entered My service and as My servants you are also left to the care of your lord. And I will always take care of you such that you can fulfil your service, otherwise I would truly be a bad householder. And I need you .... I need your work for Me and My kingdom, because salvation shall still be brought to many souls in spiritual adversity. Often you lack faith in it, often you become lukewarm and still consider the world too important, often you are doubtful about your important task, and then earthly adversities have to come again and again which strengthen your faith in Me and give you increased impetus for spiritual work. For it will have to be done ever more diligently the closer it gets to the end. And the fact that it is approaching the end is something I want to remind you of again and again .... It is only the calm before the storm which makes you become more indifferent at the moment, which sinks quiet doubts into your heart that the world will assert itself and that everything spiritual could be unreal. It is only a short delay, a short time, which shall be used to the utmost by My servants. And so that they can work unhindered, so that their work in My vineyard will not become a burden but a joy, I will take every earthly burden upon Myself and look after My servants like a good father looks after his children. And trusting in this you should not be anxious and timid, for everything is subject to Me and I can truly direct all events in such a way that they are a blessing for the individual. You should obviously recognize My concern and always become aware of My love, and you should repay Me for My love by eagerly carrying out what I have called you to do, by trying to supply your fellow human beings with what I offer you from above, because it is necessary that people are fed with nourishment from above which alone gives their souls strength and knowledge. You should offer them the bread of heaven which you receive from Me yourselves, you should distribute in love to your neighbour what My love gives to you .... Then you will work on My behalf, for the blessing of your fellow human beings, then you will be My true servants who can always be certain that I will take care of them temporally and also eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hardship of unbelievers on entry into the beyond ....

B.D. 5076 from March 2nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You all should help with the redemption of misguided souls. Everyone who believes in Me and thus also in the soul’s life after death, should try to convey this belief to his fellow human beings, too. Then he will do a work of merciful love for others, for he will save such souls from death. If you knew how much easier the souls’ fate will be if they have but a glimmer of faith when they pass from this earth, you would do anything to kindle this spark in yourselves, and the stronger it is the brighter will be the soul on entry to the kingdom of the beyond. Anyone who has faith himself should not rest until he has won his fellow human being over to the faith. He should work diligently and will thereby acquire a great reward, for the souls he has gained will thank him a thousand fold.

To soothe spiritual hardship is a true labour of love, the effects of which will extend into eternity. And spiritual hardship is experienced by all those people who lack faith, who are not convinced of an utterly perfect Being, who do not believe that they will be accountable to a Judge at the end of their earthly life, who thoughtlessly live in the world ignoring their task of developing their soul and who have not reduced their guilt of sin, which was the reason for their earthly life, but even increased it, because they fell prey to My adversary who wants to corrupt them forever. These human beings suffer severe hardship, yet their fellow human beings’ love is able to help them. Participate in Christ’s act of Salvation and try to enlighten your fellow human beings, since you know of the great love and mercy of the One Who has created you.

Do not portray Me to them as a punishing God but as a loving Father Who recalls His children into the Father’s house which they had voluntarily left. And help them to regain their faith, then you will acquire a substantial reward for yourselves, for you will accomplish a work in My vineyard which I will truly not leave unrewarded since I, after all, will regain My children, for whom I long and whose love I constantly invite. Help Me to regain these children, so that I can make them eternally happy with My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Lord's return .... Present time .... Witnesses of the new earth ....

B.D. 5077 from March 2nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You all shall be witnesses of My power and glory, you shall live to see My return, partly in spirit and partly in the flesh, for the time is coming to an end and it will come to pass as I have always and constantly proclaimed. You shall experience My return and bear witness of it in the paradise of the new earth .... For I will move those who remain faithful to Me onto the new earth, where they shall also proclaim My Word as they do now on My instruction .... I know who is suitable to do so and know full well how to protect My servants from the destruction, I will endow My disciples of the last days with extraordinary strength to enable them to successfully attend to their office, so that they will courageously fight all those who are hostile to Me and who also extend their hatred to My Own. And not one of them will pass away from earth until his mission has been accomplished. The last on this earth, however, shall be the first on the new earth, where their task will be the same .... To proclaim My Word, albeit in a different manner, for it will be gladly and longingly accepted, it will be recognised for what it is .... as the Father's evidence of love, Who wants to give pleasure to His children.

They will all recognise My voice when I speak through you to people. For they will have all passed their ordeal on this earth and remained faithful to Me. Hence their reward will also be substantial and pleasing, a harmonious life in the paradise of the new earth, which no person can yet imagine but which is granted to them so that My might and glory will manifest itself. And I Myself will be in the midst of them .... I will come in the clouds to bring them home and stay with them, because due to their demonstrated loyalty during the last battle of faith they will have become My children. For they will fearlessly confess Me, they will testify of Me without having seen Me. For this reason they will also be allowed to see Me in full glory before the very end. And what I proclaim will fulfil itself .... I will return, and you will live to see it ....

You do not yet believe that the time is so close at hand, that you will have to experience the horrors of the last days, and that this earth will be destroyed with My permission. You do not yet believe that the proclamations by seers and prophets concern the present time and that you humans of this time will experience significant things which no person can imagine, for this earth has never yet exhibited such. But humanity will soon watch the events with horror and bewilderment which will make an early disintegration of earth believable, and then it will rapidly progress towards the ultimate end. Yet My chosen people will survive the time because it is My will, and because even this time shall have its witnesses who will be selected to speak of it, so that My might and glory will become evident amongst the human generation's descendants on the new earth. For it will have to be preserved as tradition for the descendants, because even then a time will come again when sin will be prevalent and I will be ignored. Then their testimony shall warn and remind people what fate will await those who completely forget about Me .... Then they shall be told about the downfall of the old earth and the Last Judgment which decided over life and death, over happiness and damnation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prerequisite for truth: love - desire for truth - Free will ....

B.D. 5078 from March 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

If people lack the right realization it is always a sign that they also lack the warmth of love, the fire which radiates the light .... Anyone who desires the truth will be supplied with it, because I will not leave such desire unfulfilled. Therefore, anyone who does not know the truth has never looked for it either, because I, as the eternal truth Myself, also allow Myself to be found by the seeker. Every person who intellectually seeks to fathom something certainly believes that he desires the truth; however, his intellect cannot achieve it, the heart has to be involved, and this means that I Myself have to be called upon for support, because then I will express Myself through the heart and convey the pure truth to the seeker. Without love and desire for truth, without My support, a person will never attain realization, and therefore you can very easily recognize the fellow human being's relationship to Me, even if he has a teaching activity .... You, who are taught by Me Myself, who receive My word from above, have extensive knowledge and can certainly speak of true realization. Therefore you will also notice how much error is spread in the world, you will clearly and distinctly recognize it as error, and you will want to present your gained knowledge to those who are in error .... You will also be able to do so because I Myself support you, because I want the pure truth to find its way in amongst people. But stay away from places where people insist too much on their knowledge, for you won't achieve much there because the will for the pure truth no longer exists but they only want their knowledge to be the right one. You would have a difficult time there if I did not support you by putting words into your mouth with which you can make them suspicious. They will not be able to answer you with real wisdom but only make use of learned words which are not quite clear to them themselves if you desire information about them. And yet, truth is accessible to every human being, it merely requires the will to know it. However, where the will is bound by presenting a spiritual good as truth and making its recognition obligatory, pure truth can hardly find its way in, for the human being is unable to recognize that he thereby hands himself over to the adversary who wants to have his tribute paid .... darkening of the human being's spiritual state .... If a heart full of love, desire for truth and a completely free decision of will are required to attain the right knowledge, to possess the pure truth, then it can be seen from this how rarely people live in truth, for these prerequisites for it are rarely present, which will one day be obvious. Humanity walks along in complete blindness and could put itself into possession of the pure truth with the full inner conviction of what is conveyed to it as truth from above directly or through messengers. Yet love is increasingly growing cold amongst people, and this means that truth is also increasingly rare to find, because truth is inconceivable without love, because it is only given to the one who lives in love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious exhortation concerning the near end ....

B.D. 5079 from March 4th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The time of earthly change will soon be over for you humans, for you are approaching an extraordinary event which only a few people will survive. And this event has been set as a landmark for eternity, as the end of one redemption epoch and the beginning of a new one. Thus the people of this earth will have to expect a sudden end of their physical life, and their continued existence will only depend on the human being's will, for faithfulness to God alone guarantees continued life, yet only a few will muster the will to do so, and only for these few will there be a continuation of life in the paradise of the new earth, while all others will suffer death, physically and also spiritually, to a certain extent in accordance with their will, which demanded matter, which will now be given to them .... which will be given to the spiritual as a cover, to permanent torment. You humans don't believe in an imminent end of this earth, yet again and again you are told so that you will still make use of the short time and once seriously occupy yourselves with the thoughts of what fate you are facing. You humans create and work for your earthly well-being and will not be allowed to enjoy your material possessions for much longer .... You humans only live an earthly life and yet have its downfall so close at hand .... You humans research and ponder and try to solve problems, yet you are only ever occupied with worldly questions. But you don't think about what comes afterwards and don't ask about it. And thus no answer can come to you. And yet, again and again you will be informed by God through messengers of the idle time of your life, and again and again the near end will be presented to you. But you do not believe it, and the few who believe it will be ridiculed and scorned. But irrevocably the day will come which means the destruction of everything you can see. The day of the end of the old earth and the downfall of all life on and above the earth. An earth period is coming to an end, but you humans cannot calculate the hour of the end, even if you believe it. Yet again and again you are told that you only have a short time left until this hour. And you listen to it and doubt it .... Your earthly life is at stake and also eternal life .... Take these words into your hearts and process them in your thoughts, and do not be surprised by the day which will suddenly arrive and snatch you from the midst of the world's joyful frenzy. And if you cannot believe in the end, then imagine a sudden recall from earthly life, whether you would then be able to survive? Believe that life does not end with the day of death but that you can create another life for yourselves or even fall prey to spiritual death, which nevertheless does not mean extinction but only vegetation in endless agony and darkness. And God wants to protect you from this fate, Who wants to be a loving father to all His creations and finds little faith in them .... Again and again His word comes from above and calls to you humans: You don't have much time left, therefore use it well and work and create 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

Struggle of faith .... confession only possible where there is love ....

B.D. 5080 from March 5th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Not the intellect will be able to enlighten you about the value of the doctrines of faith if you have to decide whether to acknowledge or reject Me, but only a heart willing to love is capable of judging what corresponds to the truth. In the end, however, only few people will be filled with love for Me and their neighbour, for love has grown cold amongst people. And likewise, only few will confess Me before the world, because the intellect of those who live without love will tear everything apart and attack every teaching which points to Me as their creator and sustainer. And since until now the teachings of faith have only been presented to people in an unclear way it will be easy to portray them as untenable and to persuade people to reject them. Only love alone can give them the conviction to be in the right knowledge, for the loving human being has My support. I enlighten his spirit and he also has the will to remain faithful to his God and father from eternity because he has recognized Him as the origin of himself and also as the final aim which he eagerly strives towards .... To confess Me before the world therefore means to live a life of love at the same time, otherwise the human being would also lack the strength to resist. Anyone who has recognized Me also confesses Me to his fellow human beings, because love simultaneously results in the recognition of Myself and strength to resist. For him there will be no unresolved problems, to him everything will appear sunlit and clear what others believe to be incomprehensible and cannot be represented. Therefore there will be a great apostasy from faith in general, because every person will have to take a stand and publicly decide for or against religious doctrines which have Me as their content and therefore are to be eradicated. A difficult battle will be waged against My own, against all those who do not want to give Me up and yet have not penetrated deeply enough into the truth; and only a life of love will make the decision easy for them .... But love has grown cold among people, and accordingly faith has also become lifeless .... But a dead faith will not assert itself, it will be eradicated very quickly and the flock, whose shepherd I Myself am, will become ever smaller. Yet My sheep recognize My voice, they follow their shepherd. Blessed are those who want to belong to Me, who take all persecutions upon themselves and stand firm for love of Me .... I will guide them like a good shepherd towards the right stable, I will not let any go astray but I will also gladly accept the sheep into My flock who followed My call because they recognized My voice .... who accept or revive their faith when they see My strength of faith. Whoever still turns to Me in the last days before the end I will accept with joy and also enlighten his spirit so that he will recognize the love, wisdom and omnipotence of the one Who is to be denied, Whom the understanding of the intelligent does not want to accept but Who reveals Himself to His own who believe in Him and become blessed through faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Faith moves mountains ...."

B.D. 5081 from March 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You only need one thing: to revive your faith to that strength which no longer allows fear and discouragement. Then your life will be an easy one, for then you will overcome everything through this faith which makes you direct recipients of My strength and then everything will be possible for you. Nothing is impossible for Me and My strength and therefore also for you, if you make use of My strength precisely through strong faith. You are a part of Me and equally powerful to Me to the extent that you join Me; as soon as you don't stand apart but remain united with Me My strength must also flow through you and you must also be able to use this strength. Only your own doubt, your ignorance and your unbelief prevent you from using the strength from Me, which is at your unlimited disposal. "You will be able to move mountains, if only you believe ...." These words are not a figure of speech, but fullest truth. You are divine creatures in which I want to and can work if you do not oppose Me. My working, however, means to let the divine characteristics emerge again which slumber in you as a part of Myself but which you do not develop because your faith is weak. But to work extraordinarily in you without your faith would be harmful for your soul. You have to let faith come alive in yourselves, and you can also do this if you unite with Me through loving activity, for faith comes alive through love. Therefore, if you have little faith love is not yet properly kindled in you, selfish love still dominates you too much and you are not yet united with Me, which is why you don't fully trust Me either, which is why your faith is easily shaken.

Love gives life to faith, but you can practice love by divesting yourselves of what is dear to you and make your fellow human being happy with it by giving yourselves in order to receive something extremely valuable .... a strong faith which no longer lets you doubt My love, My wisdom and My omnipotence. And the more you change into love the more intimately you unite with Me, then you will be aware of My presence and now work and want with Me, thus everything you now tackle will also be possible for you to accomplish. Then you will only need to want and all elements will obey you, no power will be able to resist you anymore, for through a strong faith you make use of Me Myself, and you know that My strength and might is unlimited and that everything must and will obey My will, which is now also yours. Then you will also be able to move mountains, for there is no resistance to My strength and you will also be able to defeat it if you let your faith come alive through love such that I Myself can now work in you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

B.D. 5082 from March 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The work you accomplish for Me and My kingdom always involves participating in Christ’s work of Redemption. It is a continuation of what Jesus, the man, started on earth, it involves the spreading of the Gospel on His instruction and leading people to Him, the divine Redeemer Himself, and therefore it is a return to Me, the origin of all that has been created. This participation in the redemption work is so important and so extremely beneficial because influencing people directly from above has become impossible. Hence mediators, who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom as well as with people on earth and are thus able to convey the spiritual knowledge from above to them, are required to spread the Gospel .... This is the task of those who want to serve Me, who place themselves at My disposal as co- workers and whom I therefore send into the world with the instruction ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations’, i.e., speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, inform them of Me and My direct working in all of you whom I send to cross your path .... Take your work seriously as there is not much time left. And I Myself will smooth your every way so as not to hinder your work, so that you will always have the opportunity to work on My instructions for the benefit of your fellow human beings. So far you can only do the groundwork, for the hour of your public activity has not come as yet. However, you should even do this preliminary work conscientiously and diligently, and you should always want to do it, then you will also have the strength and opportunity to work for Me. For many people are hungry and live in want, they thirst for nourishment for the soul, and I Myself direct all threads and convey the bread of heaven to those who desire it. I give in abundance .... Hence you, too, should strive to distribute the delectable gift to those who do not approach Me directly and need to be fed by you if I don’t want to let them perish. This is the redemptive work which, in a manner of speaking, makes you Jesus’ fellow labourers, His followers and His helpers, for countless souls suffer great adversity. Whatever you do in order to spread My Word will be blessed by Me and will result in copious reward, even if, from an earthly point of view, it is not obvious to you. You must more or less feel like My labourers who only accomplish the Lord’s will. But you will feel My will in your heart, and whatever your heart urges you to do, you should instantly comply with, for it is My voice which speaks to you, which impels you to work for Me and My kingdom. Do not fear earthly hardship or earthly disadvantage but always trust that I know your every worry and will remedy it at the right time. Anyone who works for Me is most reliably taken care of, it is just not obvious so that the work for Me is not done in a compulsory fashion but voluntarily instead if it is to be successful for eternity .... Someone who expects reward is not suitable for redemptive work which only requires profound love for Me and his fellow human being if it is to be effective. You don’t have much time left, therefore you should ever more eagerly fulfil My will, which will forever consist of carrying My Gospel into the world .... of instructing those who lack knowledge and enlightening those who are misguided. For only the truth will have a redemptive effect, and therefore you should spread the truth which I convey to you humans from above because I love you and want to deliver you from the bondage of darkness.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Supply of revelations proof of reality of the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 5083 from March 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The necessity of My direct influence on you arises from the fact that faith in general has become rotten, that people find it difficult to believe what they are taught by the church and therefore reject both truth and falsehood at the same time if they are not helped in that the truth is conveyed to them in an unusual way and they can now decide for themselves to accept or reject it. People are to be excused if they are of good will and they are offended by educated teachings of faith which instinctively arouse resistance in them. However, they are not able to judge for themselves in order to recognize wrong and right teachings, although a loving person can have the right feeling for it. But the world has such a powerful effect on people that everything spiritual seems unreal to them, and therefore it is necessary to also let the spiritual become a 'reality', thus to convey an obvious proclamation, a divine revelation, to people which can make them believe in the spiritual kingdom. Through the revelations they receive clarifications, and these then also enable an examination of truth and error, which coexist in the world, which have to be recognized. The supply of revelations is a proof of the reality of the spiritual kingdom .... I Myself take care of people who want to believe but who are not touched by the church's teachings in such a way that they can believe .... What I demand of people to believe is well accepted with good will and only little knowledge. I want to impart the latter to those who have good will, and if they now listen to the teachings and act accordingly they will also learn to recognize and be able to believe. The spiritual kingdom is not so unreal if only a glimmer of realization is present, and it becomes ever more real the higher the person's realization rises. I Myself reveal Myself to people, I establish the connection with the earthly kingdom, with the person who also carries the desire for a connection with Me within himself. This person then serves Me as a mediator for all other people who are certainly capable of teaching but who do nothing to make contact with teaching forces because the spiritual kingdom is not yet a concept of reality for them. But the mediator can provide them with proof if they desire it, the mediator can convey spiritual results to his fellow human being, the origin of which is the spiritual kingdom .... the origin of which is Me Myself .... And thus people receive revelations from Me, and what they now believe has become their conviction; they now know what is truth and what is error, they recognize that not all doctrines of faith may be rejected, they know about the correlation and now become living representatives of what has become their conviction. And once they have recognized Me Myself as the source of all truth they will also speak for Me and likewise want to introduce their fellow human beings to knowledge which comes from the spiritual kingdom and yet is more real than earthly knowledge. Anyone who once stands in the light will no longer want to miss it but will take care that the light sends its rays even into the deepest darkness .... he will relinquish his knowledge because he has recognized it as truth ....

Amen

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Revelations .... truth and error .... previous knowledge ....

B.D. 5084 from March 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

When I reveal Myself I take into account the spiritual state of the person who allows Me to speak to him. The knowledge previously possessed by a recipient of My revelations will always be recognizable, i.e. the way of reproducing what is from Me, what spiritual knowledge he has received from Me, will mostly be in line with his knowledge but nevertheless need not deviate from the pure truth, even if his knowledge was not entirely free from error before. The announcements reach the recipient in such a way that they correspond to the truth purely in terms of content, even though someone who thinks differently can interpret the words as he wants them. The awakened spirit, however, recognizes the truth and will therefore always conclude that he is the right giver, he will recognize the messages as divine revelations. But if a person's spirit is still unawakened then he will sometimes also consider his own thoughts to be divine revelations, but only if they deviate from the pure truth, because this is My adversary's means to ensnare people in error, to confuse their thinking and to distort the truth. And for this purpose he again uses such people who fanatically advocate error, who are, so to speak, willing tools in the fight against truth. But these are to be recognized because they are more fanatics than good people. And no spiritual enlightenment will radiate from them. Anyone who listens to them and is hungry for truth will remain unsatisfied and unenlightened, thus he will not receive light. What emanates from Me gives light to the human being, and truth can already be recognized by this. I speak in the most comprehensible form to the one to whom I want to reveal Myself, and if he himself is willing and truth-loving he will also recognize himself where his previous thinking was wrong. He will accept the revelations with heart and intellect and become wise, because he will also become able to judge and weigh when the received spiritual knowledge is contrary to his old knowledge. My instruments will always be those people who show Me a heart full of love and zeal for service, because I can speak to them like a father speaks to his children. Love enlightens the spirit, and where it can work in a person error will soon be recognized as error, and the person will free himself from it because truth makes him happy and gladly gives up wrong knowledge. But I watch over My own and protect them, if they want to serve Me, from bad influence, and therefore you can always safely accept as truth what testifies to Me, what points to My act of salvation and to My infinite love for you, My living creations, who are in adversity and whom I want to help to beatitude. Wherever My love is recognizable My spirit is at work, and wherever My spirit is at work there is truth ....

Amen

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I need you .... The Custodian’s concern for His servants ....

B.D. 5085 from March 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I need you .... The adversity on earth is huge and can only be solved with your assistance, because I cannot influence people’s souls with My omnipotence, instead, their free will must be stimulated and you should assist with that. There is immense adversity and I only have a few fellow workers on earth who want to steer this spiritual hardship. But these few are under My guardianship, they are cared for by My Fatherly love and will never be without protection. If you knew how I value your spiritual work you would no longer have the slightest doubt about My paternal care for you, you would not worry for a moment but, with complete confidence, always expect help in earthly adversity. Since you should constantly do your spiritual work I will also make sure that you can accomplish it, since the help for many souls depends on this work of yours, which cannot be taken to them by any other means. This work for Me and My kingdom is very carelessly carried out on earth, for only rarely is the full extent of the spiritual adversity recognised. Only a few people possess realisation, only a few people know the meaning and purpose of life on earth and the meaning and purpose of Creation, only a few people are therefore capable of instructing their fellow human beings of this information and thus only a few people can be true proclaimers of the Gospel, because it is absolutely vital for this mission that the proclaimer possesses the knowledge himself. You can therefore assume that I exceedingly carefully watch over those who are suitable for this proclaiming ministry, because they have received this knowledge from Me Myself. Teachings which are already spoilt are not entirely effective as a means of rescue for the misguided souls, they can only profit from the pure truth, only the pure truth is the means to remedy spiritual hardship. And once a person has become a bearer of truth through his will and his love for Me, he will be a faithful fellow worker whom I truly don’t want to lose, because I would not like to lose the many still misguided souls either but want to regain them before it is too late .... I need you, My fellow workers on earth, and I keep telling you time and again that I educate My bearers of light on earth Myself, because they are to restore the kingdom of God among people on My behalf, but that these bearers of light are in My service and, thus, will also be looked after by their Lord in every way. Consequently, anyone who works for Me need not fear any earthly worries, anyone who works for Me should also hand himself over to Me with complete faith, he should look up to the Father like a child and always be certain that he will also be guarded like a child by the Father. And the strength of his faith will give him peace, even in every earthly adversity, which I will solve when the time is right.

Amen

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Influence of spiritual beings according to the will of man ....

B.D. 5086 from March 17th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You are constantly surrounded by beings who want to gain influence over you, whom you call upon through your thoughts, whether they are good or bad. You will always be influenced by beings of light or also by dark beings to turn towards or away from the light, and the more you strive towards the light the stronger will be the efforts of those beings. Then the dark forces will also be stimulated to increased activity to wrest from the light again what it desires. For the dark forces hate the light and seek to extinguish it. The beings of light, however, are all the more eager to protect where light has to be spread, and where a human being on earth is in contact with the spiritual kingdom as a bearer of light, fierce battles often take place, for both sides make every effort to win over those people, because the battle between light and darkness is particularly significant in the last days and every power hopes to gain the advantage for itself. The beings of light certainly have the power to suppress everything dark and to prevent it from working, yet the dark power is also granted the right to influence people's senses, and the decision is left to the human being himself, which is why the battle has to be limited to influencing both sides. Darkness, however, works with cunning and force .... It sets the most dangerous traps for the human being, it often deceives him with illusions, it seeks to confuse his thoughts, it does not fight openly but often hides under a mask .... And therefore the danger is very great for the human being who is not of firm will to reach God. The will alone decides which power will be victorious. Anyone who seriously desires to attain God gives the beings of light superiority over those beings of darkness through his will .... then the beings of light may use their power and displace the evil forces, but this is not permissible as long as the human being's will has not yet freely decided. Pressures from the underworld will still take place but only in the form of disturbances through which the beings take revenge for their failure. The human being has strong protection in the beings of light as soon as he voluntarily recommends himself to them, as soon as he calls upon them for this protection against the dark power. Thus he gives them the right and the power to make use of their strength, and the human being can calmly surrender himself to their protection. The world of light is always ready to help, it only waits for the call which can already be expressed through thoughts in a hot desire for good and the request for protection against all evil. Then the human being is no longer threatened by danger, for the power of the dark force breaks with this will for good, which includes the desire for God. He is only in danger as long as he himself is still fickle as to which way his will should decide. Then both forces will still struggle for him, the will, and good to him who decides right, for he will also always be helped to reach the aim because the world of light will help him ....

Amen

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World only means for the purpose .... overcoming matter ....

B.D. 5087 from March 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The world will never give you fulfilment, for in the end it will take away everything you possess of earthly goods. The world only considers your fleshly body but not your soul, and since the fleshly body perishes, the soul stands poor and bare at the gate to eternity if it has not created spiritual goods for itself on earth. The world only gives you in appearance, but in reality it takes away .... your right to eternal life .... You are indeed in the midst of the world, it has been given to you as a place to stay, so to speak, and the soul had to agree to spend a probationary period in this world. And it can also successfully pass this probationary period if the human being only regards the earthly world as a means to an end, as a means of testing, if he does not let it become master over him but always remains its master, if he does not make himself a slave to what surrounds him but always strives to overcome earthly matter in view of his earthly task, if he certainly uses it where it is at his disposal but in a God-ordained sense by helping matter itself to redemption ..... if he regards everything earthly-material as what it really is .... directed spiritual, which likewise walks the path of redemption and is grateful for every opportunity for serving activity. Then matter will never become master over the human being, then he will seek something for himself which is more desirable to him because it cannot pass away. Then he will supply the soul with goods which signify true wealth and will remain with it even after the discarding of the body of flesh. In this realization the human being does not regard matter as the fulfilment of his desire, it is only a necessary means for him to successfully cover the earthly path, and thus the world with all its incentives and temptations also loses its value for him. He knows that they are only sham goods and at the same time a strong danger of also losing the imperishable goods. That is why you should not love the world, for this love will only result in the loss of eternal life; you should learn to recognize it for what it is, as the realm of God's adversary, as a conglomeration of immature spiritual things which would like to draw the already more mature spiritual things down to themselves again. You should learn to recognize it as deceptive light in order not to let your souls recognize the true light; you should know that the world will pass away one day and that you therefore have to strive for that which is imperishable. Then the earthly world will lose all danger for you, on the contrary, you yourselves will be able to contribute a great deal to also help earthly matter to ascend by creating opportunities for it to be of service, i.e. by giving material things their purpose by creating useful objects so that the spiritual in them will be of service and thereby progress upwards. Seek to guide everything to its purpose and, in doing so, first and foremost remember your own soul so that it frees itself from earthly desires in the midst of the world, so that it learns to recognize the spiritual kingdom as its place of origin and strives towards it again with the serious will to achieve the reunion with God, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life ....

Amen

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Exhortation not to forget God .... coming need ....

B.D. 5088 from March 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The call from above goes out to all of you: Do not forget Me so that you will not be helpless and alone when the great adversity comes upon you. For in this adversity no one earthly will be able to help you, then you will only be dependent on My help, yet you will not call upon Him Who could help you because you have forgotten Him. But to forget Me means to be the servant of the one who is My adversary. For if you forget Me, My adversary has won you over and you must be in bondage to him. Yet he cannot help you in the great coming adversity and therefore you will be lonely and forsaken and inevitably abandoned to ruin if you don't still turn to the one Who gave you life in the last hour. For the adversity will become so severe and your helplessness in the face of it can make you remember Me, for I Myself come close to you through this adversity in order to remind you of Me. Nature will speak to you with a voice of thunder, its roaring and roaring will cause you to be terrified, yet you will not be able to escape, death will threaten you from all sides and people will not be able to help and save you from your situation, which I did not put you into without intention. You shall be reminded of Me again, Whom you well know but have forgotten .... you shall also recognize My reign and activity in the elements of nature .... You shall experience Me, for it is I Myself Who speaks to you through the elements of nature .... And you must listen to this voice, and good for him who recognizes it as My voice .... good for him who feels himself addressed and allows My voice to penetrate his heart .... good for him who does not let Me speak in vain but goes within himself and converses with Me .... I will teach him with love, I will reproach him for his sin, for having gone without Me in this world .... but I will also accept him into My little flock and he will never regret having followed My powerful words from on high .... Then you will firmly stand by Me and My adversary will no longer have power over you, for those who have then found their way to Me will also remain faithful to Me, they will never be alone and abandoned, and even the adversity will be bearable for them, because I, Who send them upon you humans for your own sake, can also remedy them again when the time is right ....

Amen

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Call of God secures divine revelations .... messengers of light - truth ....

B.D. 5089 from March 20th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Those who seek Me will find Me .... those who desire to hear God, I will reveal Myself to them, and those who long for My fatherly love, I take them to My Heart and give them in all abundance .... love and grace. So let this be the characteristic of My working, that the heavenly father always considers His children and that His children are those who want to make contact with Him. Thus a dark spirit can never answer when a person calls upon Me or asks Me, when he converses with Me and expects an answer from Me. His thoughts for Me, his prayer in spirit and in truth is also a guarantee that it is I Who reveals Myself to him. Whether I Myself or My messengers of light approach the human being is one thing, for the messengers of light are My servants through whom I convey to people on earth what is helpful to them. And thus these messengers of light are also guarantors of truth, because they do nothing but carry out My will and live in fullest truth themselves, thus they will also pass it on if the truth is desired. A direct connection with Me is implausible to people but therefore not impossible. Understandably, I will not reveal Myself to those who do not believe in a direct activity on My part, because they would not believe a revelation either and would only explain themselves humanly, which, however, is spiritual activity. But anyone who believes that I reveal Myself to people or through messengers of light, who prays to Me out of this belief, will not wait in vain for My answer. I approach him with joy because I see his willingness to listen to Me and his faith will bear abundant fruit. I draw near to every caller for Me and he can hear My voice if he listens into his heart and pays attention to what this heart gives back to him. Admittedly, he cannot perceive Me with physical organs, his soul has to pay attention to its sensations, and if the human being listens with deep faith the soul will be able to communicate the sensations to him, for then the body is likewise willingly turned towards Me and then I can also bestow upon it the ability to understand what the soul conveys to it in spiritual language. Hearing My voice is a simple process for a person who is deeply inwardly united with Me, yet it is difficult for a worldly person to understand, which is why few will only find faith who claim to receive announcements from the spiritual kingdom. For they must possess an ability which the worldly person lacks, which can only be acquired through faith and love for Me but which cannot be denied once it exists, because then testimonies from the spiritual kingdom will also be available which only the person who has completely turned away from God will not accept, who therefore does not acknowledge Me and also lacks faith due to his lack of love. Trying to convince him that I express Myself is a futile effort but it should not deter or tire a person from looking for Me, for I will let Myself be found as soon as his desire is sincere and his efforts persevering ....

Amen

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Contact of people with the world of light .... Process of mediation ....

B.D. 5090 from March 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The world of light wants to make contact with you .... but contact is only established when you yourselves want the same, and then a regular exchange of thoughts can take place which results in the greatest spiritual success for the people on earth who need the light. There are no other boundaries between earth and the spiritual world than those you humans draw yourselves .... It is up to you to abolish every demarcation, for your soul may rise unhindered into the spiritual kingdom as often and as long as it only wants to. Every soul can take countless treasures with it from the spiritual kingdom to earth, it is not prevented from doing so, but people themselves often prevent their soul from making use of these treasures because they don't intellectually recognize their high value. That is why it is far more difficult for the beings of light to make people understand the immense value of spiritual gifts than to convey them. For only when people know about it do they strive for the connection with the kingdom of light and request such gifts. And such a prayer, which also demonstrates faith in it, is the prerequisite for the light beings' activity to convey spiritual gifts to earth. It must be requested and expected with full faith .... Only then is contact established between earthly people and the world of light, and then regular spiritual communication can take place where knowing forces instruct the ignorant, where spiritual truths are conveyed from God to earth for the blessing of people who receive and pass them on. Then the human being himself will have exceeded the limits which he is authorized to do by God if he appeals to Him for support. The beings of light cannot communicate with him against the human being's will, consequently it is the human being himself who has to remove seemingly natural limits by wanting the beings of light to express themselves and by believing that they can express themselves. The beings of light are always ready and wait with utmost patience for you humans to become inquisitive and send your thoughts into infinity inquiringly, only then are they allowed to answer, and the answer will truly be such that it satisfies the questioner in order to stimulate him to frequent mental contact, which empowers the beings of light for constant mental instruction and everlasting stimulation in the spiritual field. Then the soul will often detach itself from earth and seek to penetrate spiritual spheres which are not closed to it either. And whatever truth is beneficial to people will now be imparted to them, and they will thereby attain comprehensive knowledge which will remain as spiritual wealth of every soul even once it has left its outer shell, the human body. What is offered to it from the spiritual kingdom is everlasting good, and it exceeds all earthly gained knowledge, although worldly people do not acknowledge it since no evidence can be produced for it. Yet the origin of spiritual knowledge is a purest source, it is the eternal truth Itself Which conveys this knowledge to people through the messengers of light. God Himself is active in His love and wisdom to guide people into truth and to secure wealth for them which will one day let them become blissful creatures in eternity. For He not only thinks of His own in earthly terms but He wants to prepare them for the spiritual kingdom, He wants to educate them to become inhabitants of the kingdom of light whom He Himself can permeate with His light of love and who should therefore already establish this connection on earth so that He Himself can work through His messengers of light .... The human being himself must want it, then the forces which can make themselves understood to him will also come closer to him, and he will gain infinitely much spiritual knowledge and strive ever more to become a true citizen of heaven, because the light flowing towards him fills him more and more and makes him long for the eternal original light from Whom he once took his origin ....

Amen

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Spiritual community .... Working together ....

B.D. 5091 from March 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A spiritual community can convey many blessings, for it distributes My Gospel in Words and deeds. However, I do not call members of an organised association a spiritual community but only people who, in spiritual unity, strive towards the same goal of coming close to the truth and thus to Me and who therefore also want to lead their fellow human beings to Me. For organisations can also exist without truly spiritually striving members, and I only acknowledge spiritual aspiration as the right desire for Me. An association of people who seriously discuss spiritual topics, whose hearts silently love Me and desire a bond with Me, is a spiritual community which is pleasing to Me, My blessing will always rest on them and the very spiritual work they do will be blessed by Me. Wherever they are together I dwell among them and guide their thoughts in the right direction, I intervene in their conversations Myself by expressing Myself through a person who is particularly devoted to Me, who will then effectively instruct the others and also be acknowledged because the others will feel that I Am at work, because they will feel addressed by Me and will be convinced that what they hear is true. A spiritual community will always render Me a great service, for they will achieve far more than an individual person can achieve by only working for Me and My kingdom. Yet every individual person should try to gain followers for Me, every individual should strive to expand the spiritual community and always lead new labourers to Me because many reapers will be needed during the last days and the work that still needs to be accomplished before the end will require every effort. Together you can be very successful, for people will always look at a solitary person with distrust and lend little credence to his words. However, as soon as other like-minded people join him everything he says and does becomes significant. Therefore try to find like-minded people with the same striving to be of service to Me and to do redemptive work on earth during the last days before the end. By doing so you will gain very much yourselves but you will also gain new souls which you can lead to Me, which you can prepare for their mission of becoming co-workers for Me and My kingdom, to whom you can proclaim the Gospel so that they will pass it on to all those who suffer spiritual hardship. What is not possible for an individual person can be achieved by many; they will find it easier to be believed and will always be strengthened by Me, for I bless all who are of service to Me ....

Amen

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Christ's suffering ....

B.D. 5092 from March 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Christ's suffering on the cross cannot even be remotely made understandable to people on earth, since in their imperfect state they cannot comprehend what it means for a perfect human being to fall victim to sin, for people's iniquity effectively triumphed over Him Who had not caused them harm. The spawns of hell made the enlightened soul of Jesus, the man, tremble, yet it did not defend itself .... It endured everything; nevertheless it was horror-stricken by so much dirt and evilness from people. It suffered indescribably, even far more than the body, by what it had to endure. The soul was surrounded by darkness and its light was unable to bear darkness; all the same, it did not flee because it wanted to drain the cup to the dregs in order to redeem humanity. It gave up its light, because otherwise that which the love of Jesus, the man, wanted to happen to it in order to offer God a sacrifice for humanity's sins could not have taken place. Thus it allowed its light to become ineffective and found itself in the midst of darkness which tormented and frightened it tremendously and increased its suffering a thousand fold, for the suffering of the soul exceeded the physical pain, which can only be understood by a perfect human being. Jesus, however, was as perfect as His Father in heaven is perfect .... and yet it was still on earth in the midst of sin .... His kingdom was the kingdom of light, the earth was Satan's kingdom, and in this kingdom the soul of light allowed itself to be violated. And the purest and most translucent Being Which ever lived on earth was horrified. It had to allow itself to be touched by hands it detested, because they extended from hell and took hold of it, it had to hear intensely hurtful words; it was effectively detached from its world and totally at the mercy of darkness, which had certainly been its own will for eternity in order to achieve the act of Salvation, yet it was nevertheless no less horrendous, for it was being terrified and tortured to the point of exhaustion .... This is why Jesus exclaimed: 'My God, my God, why have You forsaken me ....' At this moment in time it no longer remembered its mission, it only felt the separation from God, from light, for Whom it longed and for Whom it called in its distress .... It was the cruellest thing ever experienced by a person on earth, because He not only had to endure the body's suffering but also because the soul had suffered considerably more still, which humanity cannot understand. For this reason no human being, regardless of how much he would have to suffer, will be able to reach the extent to which Jesus the man had to endure, Who already knew about it long in advance and in His human nature prayed: Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but Thine, be done ....' It was also the will of His soul, which had completely subordinated itself to God, to accomplish the act of Salvation and it accepted its fate, for its love for the suffering human race was greater than great, but likewise the guilt of sin was so immense that only the most extreme pain and suffering could count as a sacrifice of atonement, which therefore was carried out by Jesus the human being. Yet the depth of suffering was as immeasurable as His love, which made Him take all suffering of body and soul upon Himself in order to redeem humanity from eternal death ....

Amen

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Resurrection .... (Easter Sunday)

B.D. 5093 from March 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

He overcame death, He rose from the dead on the third day, as He foretold to His disciples, and all prophecies were fulfilled .... the world was redeemed .... He broke the power of death, by which it is to be understood that He gained victory over hell, victory over satan, who had placed people in a state of death through his influence, who had caused the death of the spiritual substance in the first place, which could not bring itself to life through its own strength because satan kept it bound. And the man Jesus broke this power and was able to break it because He united with His father of eternity during His earthly life and thus took up the battle with satan with His strength, but He acquired the strength because He was full of love and thereby became a recipient of strength from God. As a human being He gave people the proof that it was possible to free themselves from satan’s chains if they, like Him, walked the path of love, which brought them into possession of strength from God which makes everything possible, including liberation from the prince of hell.

Jesus Christ was risen from the dead .... He gloriously emerged from the grave and entered into the midst of His own .... He certainly had to suffer earthly death beforehand because this was the crown of His work of redemption, because He wanted to offer God the sacrifice of atonement for the sins of men. The human being Jesus died, yet the transfigured spirit rose again from the grave and appeared visibly to His own in order to strengthen their faith .... The process which takes place in every human being whose soul has spiritualized itself through love, so that the physical shell falls, took place visibly in Him .... The soul arises to eternal life .... The soul cannot die, it can only still be in the power of God's adversary, then its state cannot be called life but it is still in the night of death, yet through its own fault. For the redeemer Jesus Christ sacrificed Himself for all people and acquired eternal life for them. And thus all people can also claim the graces of the act of salvation for themselves. If they do not do so by not acknowledging Him as God's son and redeemer of the world and appeal to Him for His help, then they are still in bondage to God's adversary and death has not yet been overcome for them. He showed Himself to His disciples, they saw Him because He presented Himself to them in a visible way. They and all those who were allowed to see Him had the maturity to be able to behold spiritual light, otherwise they would have passed away at the sight of Him .... He took His body with Him .... His soul could certainly have shown itself to His own in a recognizable way, but then people would never have believed Jesus' resurrection, which He promised to those who live according to His teaching. The resurrection of the soul was certainly meant, but as a sign of the truth of His words His body also rose from the dead, and this was all the more self-evident because His body had also spiritualized itself and no longer required further development on earth .... Body, soul and spirit had united and turned to God the father, and therefore He was also able to visibly ascend to heaven in all glory and thus give a last testimony of His divinity, a testimony that He has overcome death and gives eternal life to the one who believes in Him and follows Him through a life on earth in love .... For even this one will rise to eternal life, he will not taste death for eternity, because Jesus Christ has overcome death ....

Amen

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Spiritual wealth .... "receive and eat ...." work in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5094 from March 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Receiving the messages from the spiritual kingdom means immeasurable wealth if they originate from Me, the original source of all knowledge which corresponds to truth. For these gifts impart knowledge to you humans which is the basis for eternal beatitude; they provide you with wealth with which you can work on earth already and after your physical death in the spiritual kingdom. They are spiritual treasures whose value you will only assess once you have discarded all earthly things and find yourselves in a completely different kingdom than this earth is for you, where everything material is switched off and only spiritual work and creation takes place, where you need completely different treasures in order to be able to live a right life, and where these spiritual treasures will make you infinitely happy, for they alone guarantee you a life in eternity. They alone make you able to be active according to My will. And therefore I want to make the spiritual treasures accessible to you already on earth, I want you to collect them as long as you are on earth and acquire wealth which makes you the most blissful citizens of the spiritual world, as it has been your destiny since eternity. For this reason, however, I will not only distribute spiritual treasures to you but to all people and make your increased knowledge dependent on how you utilize the little knowledge, I will give to you so that you will pass on the gifts and then also receive all the more yourselves .... I want to convey the truth to humanity from above so that it will be received unadulterated and be a blessing for it. The fact that people themselves repeatedly distort it shall not prevent Me from always conveying it to earth in all purity, and its recipients will always have a great treasure at their disposal which they shall distribute to their fellow human beings, just as I have done with the words: "Receive and eat .... take and drink .... do this in remembrance of Me ...." You shall receive and distribute what My love offers you from above, My word, which you cannot measure in its value. Then you will already work on earth according to your former purpose, then you will increase your spiritual wealth many times over, and when you die you will be able to look back on a blessed earthly life, after all, you will have gathered spiritual treasures which you will take with you into eternity. As long as you stay on earth you are not fully aware of the value of spiritual gifts, nevertheless, you should believe what I tell you and eagerly strive to increase their possessions, and you will not be disappointed but realize that their value exceeds everything earth could ever offer you and that you gladly leave all earthly things behind for the sake of the spiritual possessions which await you on the other side and make you eternally happy. My word shall suffice you to believe that otherwise My gifts cannot be given to you to the extent that a profound faith guarantees. Therefore, acquire spiritual goods for as long as you are on earth so that you will enter the spiritual kingdom richly blessed when your earthly life is over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Preaching the gospel .... listener - doer .... doctrine of love ....

B.D. 5095 from March 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Proclaim My gospel to people and if they accept it all adversity will be remedied. However, they must not only be listeners but also doers of My word if it is to take effect on them and help them achieve peace of mind. But to be doers of My word means to live in love, to carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love, to overcome selfish love and thus change your nature so that it becomes pure love, as it was in the beginning .... Thus you lack love if you are in spiritual and earthly adversity, for then I will let the latter come over you Myself so that you will look within yourselves and also recognize your spiritual adversity. And thus proclaiming My gospel means conveying My teaching of love to fellow human beings and pointing out to them how extremely important a life of love is as long as the human being lives on earth. You will achieve everything with it, knowledge and strength already on earth and one day an eternal life in beatitude. My teaching of love is indeed known amongst people but it is not or only rarely followed. And therefore its effects cannot be recognized either, and the soul is in greatest distress because it sinks into the night of death when the human being ends his earthly life. As long as the human being lives, life after death does not cause him any concern. Nevertheless, he must already prepare himself on earth if he wants to awaken to eternal life, for earthly life was given to him for this purpose. Without love, however, his soul is already dead on earth, it lacks light and the constant darkness is equal to lack of knowledge. But light, i.e. knowledge about the eternal truth, comes forth from love. So how are people supposed to receive truth or recognize it as truth if they lack all ability to do so because they live without love .... Therefore teach them first that they should practice love, teach them that they must fulfil My commandments, teach them that they can only become blissfully happy through love, that only love opens up the knowledge of truth to them and that they can never come to Me if they don't shape themselves into love .... teach them that it is about the salvation of the souls and not about the well-being of the body and that only love helps the soul to ascend .... Then you will be active on My behalf as proclaimers of truth, and you will then work in a redeeming way if you yourselves exemplify a life of love to them and they can experience the truth of the divine teaching of love and its effect in you. You are unlimitedly empowered to introduce your fellow human beings to the knowledge which has its origin in Me, yet their capacity for this knowledge entirely depends on their way of life, for only love gives brightness of spirit .... thus only a loving person will have the understanding for the wisdom from above, which is why you should preach love to them first in order to then also be able to introduce them to higher wisdom, so that they will emerge from the state of ignorance into knowledge which will make them happy and let them strive for ever deeper knowledge. Love is the key to wisdom, wisdom is light that makes blessed. This is why the human being can only attain beatitude through love, whereas a life without love is a state of spiritual hardship which the soul only becomes aware of when it has to leave the earthly shell.

Carry My gospel out into the world .... Spread My teaching of love and exhort people to practice unselfish neighbourly love; then you will contribute immeasurably to the salvation of erring souls, then you will be My true disciples who are active on My behalf on earth in the last time before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Flashes of rays of light in the afterlife .... spiritual hunger ....

B.D. 5096 from March 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Spiritual hunger is often very great in the beings in the spiritual kingdom, especially when they are in dark surroundings and have noticed a relief of their state for brief moments through flashes of light rays. Then they long for light, then a desire is awakened in them which they can only fulfil by attending a circle where ignorant beings are instructed, since such instructions also signify an imparting of strength for the listeners as soon as they are accepted with an earnest will. The desire for such instructions will now constantly increase, and such spiritual hunger is evident to every being of light and will never remain unsatisfied. And thus continuous instructions can also take place in the beyond but they will always coincide with those conducted to earth, because here as there only pure truth is imparted where the beings desire light. Darkness will always oppress the beings and light will always trigger a feeling of well-being in them; yet the light must always be desired. This applies to people on earth as well as to the beings in the kingdom of the beyond, and the state of the beings on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom is accordingly. A soul which has already sought truth on earth will also desire truth in the beyond, and such can also be imparted to it, and according to its wealth of light it can also increase it itself, because it can give such to poor souls which still lack realization. And thus, anyone who has acquired spiritual knowledge on earth will not hesitate for long in the spiritual kingdom but also impart his knowledge to other souls which arrive in the beyond less rich. He will instruct them, and always in the same way as he himself was instructed .... And all who want to escape the darkness, who long for the light and are therefore guided by God to where they will be cared for by the messengers of light according to their degree of maturity, by those who already have knowledge and feel the benefit of spiritual wealth, will take part in these instructions. Every connection from earth with the spiritual kingdom also has an indescribably stimulating effect in the beyond, for the beings of darkness see the flashing of rays of light and they strive towards their exit and seek to join the circle from which the ray of light originates. Access is never denied to them as long as they want to receive themselves, yet overzealous people then want to instruct others before they have the necessary knowledge themselves, which they, however, also acquire as soon as they only have the serious will to acquire spiritual wealth. All will be considered according to their will, and thus every soul can expose itself to the radiation of light until it is completely permeated by light .... i.e., the gospel will also be proclaimed to every soul in the spiritual kingdom .... Anyone who accepts it inevitably attains beatitude, light, eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justice of God .... long-suffering - mercy ....

B.D. 5097 from March 31th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I am a God of justice and yet exceedingly long-suffering and merciful. I still forgive before I carry out the threatened judgment because I still want to give all people the opportunity to recognize their wrongdoing, to repent of it and make amends, so that My justice is satisfied and I can only give My love to My creatures. But once My long-suffering and mercy recedes, and then I irrevocably hold court to settle the good and the evil, and then I give free rein to My justice and reward or punish each one according to merit and deed. One day is the day of retribution, otherwise I would not be Who I am, for no human being on earth can sin with impunity, but just as all goodness is rewarded because I love My living creations. Hence love does not exclude My justice, and the last judgment on this earth is also an act of mercy because a complete sinking into the abyss is stopped, even though the being is considered such that it can one day reach the height for the purpose of which people are on earth. My justice has to triumph, otherwise I would confess to work against what is right and thus approve of evil or would have to leave it without punishment. My justice is so often doubted if My long-suffering and mercy are not immediately imposed on people, but this must and will happen one day. For My justice must be satisfied. And that is why I keep postponing the day that is supposed to bring the balance. My long-suffering and mercy shall be recognized by people who cry out for My justice, they shall know about My love which wants to save the spiritual beings in greatest danger and which is therefore often misjudged. But when the last day has come My love will step back and let justice take precedence. And it will come as I have proclaimed .... Every sin will find its punishment and every good work its reward, and My righteousness will be revealed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's leadership ....

B.D. 5098 from April 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I Myself want to guide you and you can entrust yourselves to My guidance without worry. Where you lack light on the path through the earth valley I will walk before you as a shining flame, and all darkness around you will fade away, clearly and distinctly the path lies before you which leads upwards, and in My company you cannot go astray. And all those who love Me will willingly follow Me; they will not turn an eye away from Me when I precede them, they will no longer look back to the world which lies behind them, they know no other desire than to return with Me to the father's house which they once left voluntarily and which now keeps its gates wide open to receive them again for eternity. Yet only those who love Me follow Me .... Without love in their heart they don't recognize Me, without love they cannot see the light emanating from Me either, without love they don't strive upwards but look for a broad path which is more appealing, which always presents them with new images beguiling their heart and senses .... without love they chase after deceptive lights and don't see that the path always leads deeper into the abyss; and they lack the right guide, for this they don't follow. It is love which lets you accept My guidance but which then also protects you from every wrong path, which safely leads you to the aim and which you should therefore practice on your neighbour until it flares up into a bright flame in your heart, until you have become love yourselves and have acquired the right to be guided by Me. Anyone who stands helplessly at a crossroads need only direct his gaze to where a gentle light shines towards him, he need only call in his heart for the guide and I will lovingly take him by the hand and gently urge him towards the right path. My light will fall into his heart, it will become bright in him, he will understand what was unclear to him, his spirit will bring him enlightenment and without hesitation he will do and leave as it is evident to him as good and right .... for the light from Me shines in him and shows him the right path.

To all of you who love each other and carry Me in your heart I will be your guide through earthly life, and you need not fear ever getting lost once you have given Me the right to guide you on your path through life. You are My little flock which I lead as the good shepherd .... And I will not let any sheep from My flock fall into the hands of the enemy, I will protect you from his influence, I will watch over you vigilantly and not let anything hostile approach you, I will be your protector on every path you take and carefully guide you over thorns and cliffs, and even if the path seems impassable at times, with My help you will overcome all bumps and difficulties, with My help you will reach your aim safely and unharmed .... I Myself will lead you into the father's house, which you will now never leave, because I am with you, Whom you love and Who returns your love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Childship to God .... Conditions ....

B.D. 5099 from April 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Nothing else can gain you childship to God than living a life according to My will, a life of love, an assimilation and integration with the eternal order, which is based on love. Becoming My child with all the rights of the Father poses prerequisites on the living creation which, as a human being, shall acquire this privilege, and these prerequisites may be easily fulfilled but, on the other hand, may also be incredibly difficult .... I expect people to fulfil My commandments, the transformation of their nature into love, so that everyone coming into contact with the human being can recognise him as My child. This commandment of love must be fulfilled; otherwise assimilation with Me, Who is the eternal Love Itself, is impossible. Yet this always applies to the innermost stirring of the heart, for the layers surrounding the still struggling soul will dissolve or harden accordingly .... and this heartfelt stirring must emerge in the human being entirely without force, then it is valuable, both for oneself as well as for the needy brothers, which must feel true love in order to value its strength. Love is the only means of redemption, love is the only path leading to Me and love must be practised by every person who wants to become happy .... I cannot digress from this condition of Mine because contact with Me can only be established through love and because this connection belongs to the state of childship to God. One is the result of the other, therefore also the fact that love provides light and strength to the one who practices it unselfishly. But light and strength are likewise part of My fundamental nature, just as both were possessed by you, My living creations, when you were still in a state of perfection. You were full of light and strength as long as you were permeated by love, but you lost them when love subsided. All these things are separate concepts for you humans .... light, strength and bliss .... yet they inevitably belong together, and a life of love, a compliance with My commandments, will return everything that you once lost back to you. And you can receive huge riches again if you adapt yourselves to Me as the eternal Love, hence, if you become again what you were in the beginning .... My children, who can delight in bliss because an abundance of light and strength dwells in them. The childship to God is the highest degree of bliss My living creations can acquire. I certainly make demands on you but they are not impossible to fulfil because I Am constantly by your side with My love and grace, because I do not expect anything from you which is beyond your strength; instead, I always adjust My demands to your spiritual state. Yet, as soon as you live a life of love, everything will come easily to you because love itself is strength and thus you can constantly increase your strength. Besides, through love you draw Me Myself to you, you draw the Father and the Father draws you .... And you will reach your goal for certain, you will become My children and take complete possession of My heart .... And I will not resist you, since I long for My children, they are the product of My love and I want to prepare immeasurable beatitude for them for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Matter .... Loss of earthly possessions .... Free will ....

B.D. 5100 from April 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Everything you call your own on earth can be taken away from you if it is My will, and you cannot protect yourselves from it but have to accept it. But I constantly draw your attention to the fact that you should not grow too fond of earthly possessions because they do not last long. However, you can secure for yourselves spiritual riches which cannot be taken away from you and which you can constantly increase, particularly at the time of great adversity which will come upon you. Then you will be able to hand them out and those who allow themselves to be given treasures from the spiritual kingdom will receive many blessings. For they will help you attain eternal life .... Earthly goods cannot stop you from dying, but spiritual goods can indeed prevent your spiritual death. All worldly things will be ruined and you humans are likewise at risk of having to relinquish your physical life; then all your possessions will be worthless. If, however, you keep your life then you will be differently minded, for then you will realise the truth of My Word which constantly alerted you to this adversity. I know who will be affected by it through My will. Nevertheless, My intention is not to harm you but only to benefit your soul. I know where every person is still vulnerable and I have to inflict painful wounds on him which kill his desire for matter, which cure him from the blight of this world. Many will indeed regard it as a cruel and harsh fate, yet one day they, too, will know better and thank Me for forcefully intervening in their lives which otherwise would have continued without achievement for the soul.

I see how humanity becomes increasingly more immersed in matter, how it only works and creates in order to add to it, oblivious to the near end. It is a completely pointless waste of strength, for very shortly everything will disappear before your eyes which you humans so greedily desire .... And you let day after day go by without acquiring goods for your soul, day after day you turn your eyes to the world and don't consider your soul's fate after death, which is so close to all of you, from an earthly as well as a spiritual point of view. Yet I can only ever warn and admonish you again, but I cannot force you nor can I give you such obvious evidence of the truth I reveal to you that you would change because of fear in order to escape the calamity. You must want to become blessed of your own accord, you must spontaneously desire to be united with Me, your Creator and Father of eternity, then you will also voluntarily fulfil My will .... you will turn selfish love, the love for the world, into unselfish neighbourly love; then you will strive for spiritual values and need not fear the end or the loss of earthly goods, which the coming time of adversity will entail. I know full well what I want to preserve or leave to the individual person, but you don't know it and shall prepare yourselves so that everything will be taken away from you and yet you will keep the everlasting wealth which can never be taken away from you .... Only attend to these possessions and you will at all times receive My kindness and mercy, My faithful care and Fatherly love, which always gives you what you need; which never leaves you, who want to belong to Me, in adversity .... This is why you never again have to dread the coming events, for you cannot lose anything anymore because you have gained everything ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bridge to God - Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5101 from April 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You all have to walk on the bridge which leads to Me because there is no other way to reach Me. The man Jesus built this bridge for you .... He saw the infinitely wide gulf which lay between you and Me; He knew that it could never be overcome by you humans, that you could never reach Me and that you therefore had to languish eternally far away from Me if you were not helped. Then He Himself reduced the distance between you and Me .... He built a bridge over the gulf which was now passable for everyone who was moved by the desire for Me to enter this bridge .... For all of you there is only this one path which Jesus has preceded you .... the path of intimate union with Me, which is found through love and prayer in spirit and in truth.

There is a bridge on which you humans can make contact with Me. You are no longer hopelessly banished from My proximity, you can approach Me at any time, and Jesus has shown you the path, He has exemplified the life to you which you also have to live if you want to unite with Me .... You stand completely powerless at the edge of the gulf, and once you have raised your eyes to where I am, where the wide gulf has an end, then you first have to appeal for strength to be able to cover the path, which is only short but difficult. You must therefore turn in thought to the one Who can provide you with strength if you do not acquire it yourselves .... you have to pray to Me for strength or acquire strength through loving actions .... And My love will never leave you without strength, you will never lack grace if only you want to receive .... For the sake of the man Jesus, Who in His love acquired you graces without measure through His sacrificial death, I hear the slightest plea of your hearts, a short heartfelt prayer to Me turns these graces to you, for you thereby testify to your will to reach Me, to overcome the gulf .... you want to come to Me and I will always help you, because I also long for you who are still far away from Me. I don't turn My eye away from you because you are sinful and have voluntarily distanced yourselves from Me, but I stretch My hands towards you which you only need to grasp in order to reach the aim. The bridge is indeed narrow and stony, it is a path which leads upwards but is not so easily passable, nevertheless, it is passable as soon as you let Jesus Christ lead the way, as soon as you choose Him as your guide and follow Him. Then the ascent will become easy for you, for He will help you carry every burden .... It is I Myself Who comes to meet you if you desire unity with Me and also accomplish it through love and prayer .... I Myself fetch My children across this bridge home to Me into the father's house and will never let them leave Me again, because My love for that which I have created lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

School of the spirit ....

B.D. 5102 from April 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You all have to complete the school of the spirit if you want to attain the eternal right to dwell in the spiritual kingdom as blissful spiritual beings permeated by light, who are able to create with might and strength in harmony with My will. This school of the spirit is your earthly existence, which frequently is an unbearably heavy burden for you indeed, but which then can also result in greater success if you only strive with good will towards your spiritual perfection and do not allow the tribulations of life to depress you, if you do not regard earthly life as an end in itself but as a means to an end. You always have to remember that the period of time you live on earth as self-aware beings is but short, but that this short phase is decisive for eternity.

Bear in mind that you are expected to make the free decision of will during this short time on earth, and that you are only able to make this decision if you are influenced by two sides and one side becomes victorious over you .... This, understandably, will require a struggle which you yourselves have to settle as human beings. Thus, your spiritual perfection is entirely in your own hands but it will be supported by Me in every way, even if it is not obvious to you. After all, I want to win you over and not lose you .... Hence, you also have to be convinced that I will shape every human being's fate such that he will be able to reach his goal, his spiritual perfection on earth, if his will makes the right choice. And therefore I also know the dangers he could succumb to and will avert them from him as far as possible which, however, does not exclude the possibility that he can nevertheless succumb to them by virtue of his free will.

But his destiny is always appropriate to further his highest possible perfection .... Earthly life is but a short episode, and even if it entails a most arduous destiny his suffering will not offset the beatitude which he can create for himself with correct use of his will. I do not deliberately abandon any of My living creations to their fate, I will always and forever look after each one, for I want the school of the spirit to be successful .... And if the person is always (consciously) mindful that nothing happens or is permitted without My will, which always aims to achieve spiritual success, then he will also always have the opportunity to enter into mental contact with Me to favourably dispose My will towards him, since I Am a Father to all My living creations, Who lovingly tends to His children if only a silent call reaches His ear, an appeal for help in spiritual or even earthly hardship ....

You are truly not alone .... Someone Who loves you is with you and only wants what is best for you .... Why do you not call on Him and confide your problems to Him? Do not allow earthly adversity to deter you from Me but allow it to push you towards Me, then it will truly no longer burden you so much, for I will help you carry the cross that destiny has placed upon you in accordance with My wise decision and in awareness of what serves your spiritual perfection .... Then the silent submission to My will is already your correctly undertaken decision of will, then you will no longer be opposing Me but you will have relinquished your resistance to Me and acknowledged Me .... Then you will have completed the school of the spirit with utmost success and your end on earth will be an easy one ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God speaks through the mouth of man to all people ....

B.D. 5103 from April 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I Myself want to speak through you to the people who are in need of My word and therefore lead you to those who now listen to you and yet have received My address. There are only a few whom you will be able to instruct, thus also only a few to whom I can express Myself, albeit through your mouth, so that the word from above will touch them in a not unusual way; there are only a few, yet I know them and knock at the door of their heart and desire entrance. For anyone who listens to My word listens to Me Myself, and anyone who allows the word to take effect in him has granted Me entrance, and My presence will now be a blessing for him .... You therefore have a beautiful task to work in union with Me for Me and My kingdom .... For it is not you who speak but I Myself speak through you, yet only ever with your will, for which I bless you if it applies to Me and the redemption of erring souls. First you must be convinced of My word yourselves, then you will want everything out of yourselves which is also My will, then you will be urged to speak of Me and My working on you, then you will want to communicate yourselves to your neighbour, and then you will have prepared everything so that I Myself can speak through you. Faith in Me is necessary in order to be able to speak with conviction, thus you first have to believe yourselves in order to then stand up for Me and My teaching with zeal, for I cannot express Myself through an unbelieving person, because the slightest resistance will render My strength ineffective, thus you would also be unsuccessful with your fellow human beings if you yourselves are in doubt about the truth of what you advocate. But the strength of My spirit fills you who believe .... I can speak to you and through you and let you feel the strength of My word again, and then you will be true representatives of My gospel, of My teaching of love, which will not fail to have an effect on your fellow human beings either. You yourselves cannot do anything on your own, a spiritual strength always has to animate you, and you yourselves determine which strength flows through you .... My representatives, My servants and disciples of the end time, stand in faith and desire for Me, and thus I can also fill them with My strength, and then they will want and do nothing else but My will .... They will be industrious labourers in My vineyard, yet they feel themselves to be servants of their lord, Whom they love and to Whom they want to be eternally faithful .... Thus they always carry out My Will, and everything they do I have, as it were, done Myself .... I work with and in them, and all vineyard work will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word most effective gift of grace ....

B.D. 5104 from April 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Whoever desires My grace will partake of it, and the measure of My grace is unlimited, because I love people and want to help them attain beatitude. But without grace no human being can become blessed .... Therefore you should use all means which serve to attain grace .... you should pray for the granting of grace, you should request all help from Me, you should also acquire grace yourselves through a life of love, you should always live pleasingly to Me on earth in order to thereby be candidates for the treasure of grace which is available to all of you but which also has to be consciously requested or it would remain ineffective in you .... You should call upon Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, Who is, so to speak, the treasurer of the graces which He Himself acquired for you on the cross. You should be aware of your weakness and request help so that you will reach the height, which you will never be able to do on your own. I love My creatures and want them to live but not to fall prey to death. But life requires strength, and since it concerns the life of the soul it must therefore be supplied with strength or it will perish and sink into spiritual death. But strength can only come from where it originates, from Me, the eternal source of light and strength. Consequently, you have to turn to Me and appeal for strength or acquire it through loving activity, since you thereby unite with Me and thus directly receive strength from Me, Who is eternal love. And I distribute it, I give to everyone who asks, because his request is the condition which secures endless influx for him. I give you strength directly or indirectly ....

But the most effective gift of grace, the gift from which you can directly draw strength, is My word, the outpouring of My strength of love and thus the surest means to reach ascent. I have bestowed My blessing upon this word, and everyone who accepts it experiences the wonderful effect of My word on himself. You humans all need a lot of strength and it is a special grace that I convey My word to you even without your will to accept it .... yet it can only become effective on you when you are aware of your state of weakness and seek and hope for help in the acceptance of My word .... Then the word will have become a source of strength for you. The word is an extraordinary gift of grace to you because it contains extraordinary strength which can be received by anyone who listens attentively when it is offered to him and eagerly moves it in his heart. My word is the connection between Me and you humans; I descend to you because you cannot come up to Me from your strength alone, for the path to Me is infinitely long as you are still weak. But where you are supported by My strength of love you will effortlessly reach your aim. But anyone who spurns My grace and therefore also rejects everything that comes from above as a visible sign of his unbelief cannot become blissfully happy, for in his weakness he cannot rise from the ground onto which My adversary threw him when he denied Me. And it is a denial of Me if My word is not acknowledged as originating from Me either, if the human being in his arrogance does not bow down before his creator, if he does not take hold of His merciful hand, if he believes he does not need His help and therefore cannot receive grace and strength either. Then he remains weak and unable to walk the path upwards, then he is heavily burdened with the sin of arrogance which presses him to the ground. And then he cannot be helped because he does not want to be helped .... For without My grace no one can become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection of heaven and earth .... love .... will ....

B.D. 5105 from April 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The spell of silence is broken, the world of light reveals itself, there are no boundaries that man cannot cross. Heaven and earth unite, and I Myself descend to man in the word .... There is nothing hidden any more, there is no unbridgeable gulf .... People can experience the truth as soon as they want to .... Take note, you humans, that I want to bring the truth to all of you and withhold it from no-one, but that a condition has to be fulfilled that you seek the truth .... Therefore, I will always open the sphere of life where the hunger and thirst for the living water is evident. Yet I will never force a person to accept the refreshing drink who does not desire it, even if it is offered to him against his will. This shows that I am certainly willing to hand it out, that I inform all people what they should do in order to become blissfully happy, but that I only offer it and do not exert any influence or coercion to make the person willing to accept it, which, however, would mean every unusual, unnatural event on the person's will. Extraordinary signs will certainly make themselves felt, things will certainly happen which seem miraculous to the believer because he considers everything that happens to be connected with My will, yet the unbeliever will not see anything strange in it, nor will I ever influence him in a strange way because this would never have a beneficial effect on his soul. Everything in spiritual judgment follows the prescribed course of development until it reaches a certain stage and until then My will is effective in it .... But once it has passed this stage My will withdraws and the human being can freely want and act. I don't approve of anything which means coercion for him, which would inevitably change his will and his thinking, as soon as people influence their fellow human beings, yet freedom of will is strictly respected on My part. Yet I bless every effort for the purpose of a change of will because it can lead to the aim .... for the return of a child to the father from Whom it had distanced itself .... And therefore I am looking for eager servants on earth who want to support Me in the end time, which has begun and is therefore significant for the whole of humanity. And their cooperation consists of carrying a light into the darkness everywhere, that is, of spreading the full truth which starts with Me as the eternal truth. The light now shines in many places, but where it is carried to by My servants on earth a spark of love must necessarily glow there, which now ignites itself at the light and becomes a bright flame, otherwise the light's access is closed, otherwise it radiates without effect on the human being's heart. Only a person capable of love can radiate light, and only a heart willing to love feels the effect of these rays, and his will to love becomes action, the ray of light becomes ever stronger and shines far out into the darkness. Therefore there can be no compulsion in the spreading of the light of love, of the eternal truth from Me, but love alone gives and love alone receives, but love is not subject to compulsion. And since truth comes forth from love, truth cannot gain access to people through compulsion, and thus it is also impossible for My will to initiate a spiritual action which would render people's will unfree by causing things to happen before people's eyes which contradict the laws of nature, thus they have to be recognized as unnatural. However, as long as such recognition is questionable, as long as there are also other explanations for unusual occurrences, there is no obvious compulsion to believe. Although indications are constantly given through My will which can make people think and believe, they must never be compulsorily influenced by the messengers of light in heaven and on earth .... Until the end messengers from above will instruct people, until the end every single soul will be struggled for, until the end every single person will have graces at his disposal without measure, and until the end I Myself will work among people through My spirit .... Yet until the end the human being retains his freedom of will which may not be influenced, although it can be recognized that he fails because he abuses his freedom of will again .... But then he must also bear the consequences according to My eternal order, which is irrevocable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Self-redemption .... only with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5106 from April 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

No-one will be able to redeem himself by his own efforts, and yet it depends solely on his will whether earthly life brings a person complete redemption from the bound state which was the result of his past apostasy from God. Redemption therefore means liberation from the power of satan, who separated the spiritual beings from God, who let them become sinful and unhappy. It was impossible for the once fallen spiritual beings to achieve this redemption on their own until Jesus Christ descended to earth to accomplish this work as a human being. He stood up as an adversary against satan and defeated him, i.e. His will was so strong that He resisted him, that He developed love as God's part in Himself to such an extent that God's adversary became powerless, because love is strength from God.

Every person is able to kindle this love, thus every person could also redeem himself if he wanted to .... But precisely this will is weakened by the past sin, the human being is inferior to God's adversary and his own strength is not enough to liberate himself from him, because the will to love is too small as an inheritance from the one who is devoid of all love. But through Jesus Christ the human being has been enabled to increase his will to love as soon as he avails himself of the grace of the act of salvation, as soon as he has Him as His support, Who died for him on the cross and paid the purchase price for all souls to God's adversary with His blood .... The latter can now no longer keep him bound if the human being wants to free himself. Thus the redemption of the human being on earth is certainly a work of free will which, however, only becomes active in the right direction when Jesus Christ is called upon for help as the redeemer of humanity. Then the human being redeems himself, which he cannot do without Jesus Christ, since satan still has him in his power, whose power was only broken by Jesus, thus the human being has to stand behind Him in order to get out of satan’s power. Self-redemption without Jesus Christ is impossible, but with Him it can very well be achieved, but the human being first has to muster the will to set himself free, otherwise even the divine redeemer cannot accomplish the work of redemption in him, even though He died for all people on the cross. Yet no human being is prevented from making use of the blessings acquired by Him, which is why the whole of humanity also participates in Christ's act of salvation, but this does not mean that people will be redeemed against their will ....

(18. 4.1951) They can freely give themselves to Jesus Christ but also remain faithful to satan, who to a certain extent participated in the creation of the spiritual world because he drew the strength for it from God but used the strength according to his will and thus also placed willful resistance against God into the beings, from which Jesus Christ wants to redeem them through His greater than great love .... The act of salvation is accomplished for all, yet no being is forcibly redeemed but it must be of its own will to be redeemed through Jesus Christ's blood .... otherwise the act of salvation has been accomplished in vain for this being, because it still recognizes its lord in satan and has no desire to escape his power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's language from Father to child .... Words of love ....

B.D. 5107 from April 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I Am close to all of you, so close that you are able to hear Me if you carefully listen to My voice within. And it is understandable that I speak to you like a loving father speaks to his children, simple, plain and yet full of love, so that My children are familiar with Me and that they will also recognise Me as a Father Who loves His children. And because it is My will that they shall understand Me, My Words sound in their hearts such that they can be grasped by every child again, that they cannot be misunderstood and that they will make the child happy. My abundance of love would express itself quite differently were you able to endure it, but for as long as you still live on earth the sound of My voice is adapted to your state of soul, and depending on each individual person it sounds audibly in his heart or affects his soul like the breeze of a thought. I Myself Am with all those of you who can hear My voice, I Am present to you and speak to you Words of love, of comfort, of admonition, and I educate you .... For you will always feel My presence as a flow of grace and strength .... He who desires a lot will also receive a lot .... He who opens his heart to Me desiring My love will also receive its flow without measure, and My love manifests itself in the Word .... The fullness of My love gives itself, the light of My fire of love shines into the heart of the one who opens himself to Me and wants to hear Me. Light, however, is wisdom, and the profusion of divine wisdom is inexhaustible and offers ever new treasures to the one who reaches out for them. Yet spiritual wealth will always be offered to you in such a way that you can grasp it, because I want you to understand Me when I speak to you. Therefore the light can shine in all places, I will make no distinction in the distribution of My gifts wherever they are desired from Me and the love of a child's heart appeals to the Father for them. And so My children will always understand Me, otherwise they would not recognise the Father, but He wants to be recognised by the child. This is why My Word is the living water which pours forth from the spring so clear and unclouded that each person can refresh himself with it, because each person will find which he needs for the development of his soul .... consolation and comfort, love and wisdom, grace and strength .... For as long as you live on earth you are still immature little children to whom I can and will only give according to their ability to receive My Word of love and wisdom. And thus you, too, should only ever consider yourselves as children and with gratitude accept everything you are offered by the most faithful Fatherly love .... Don't ask for spiritual nourishment you are as yet incapable of enduring, for spiritual knowledge you don't need on earth, you should not ask to ascertain the works of My omnipotence until you have gained the spiritual maturity which enables your spiritual vision .... Be satisfied with what I give to you, what I deem beneficial for you and what My love has in store for the children who have established the right relationship with Me and therefore allow Me to be present Myself .... Pray to Me like children and gratefully receive the gifts which are bestowed upon you by My Fatherly love as often as you desire them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Proof of God’s word: love - wisdom - omnipotence ....

B.D. 5108 from April 20th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Only that is to be accepted as My word which testifies to My love, My wisdom and My omnipotence .... For many things will be presented as My word in the last days which, however, you should not accept without examination, since My adversary is also constantly active in order to cause confusion amongst people whom he can best reach by misinterpreting My word, for this prevents people from recognizing Me Myself and therefore also from approaching Me with love and seeking unity with Me. A being Whose love, wisdom and omnipotence is doubted will never be aspired to; but since I want you to desire Me, I Myself must reveal Myself to you humans, I must make Myself known to you as your exceedingly loving, most wise and omnipotent father and creator in order to also win your love, which unites us forever. Everything that proves My nature to you, all thought material which contains My love, wisdom and omnipotence, can also be regarded by you as originating from Me, you can believe that they are revelations on My part which I send to people in order to win them over for Me forever. However, teachings of faith which only cast the slightest doubt on My love, wisdom or omnipotence have never ever come forth from Me and My will to proclaim to people is nevertheless expressed by My adversary through such teachings in order to suppress the truth and to lead people into erroneous thinking. I am a God of love and could never ever give people laws out of My love under the threat of eternal punishment .... I could never ever drive them into fear, because a loving father wants to win the children's love but not submissiveness on the basis of fear. Every teaching which also lacks divine wisdom is equally erroneous and does not contribute towards kindling love in people, for only something supremely perfect can be recognized as a divine being, only something supremely perfect can be the aim of spiritual striving, a being Which knows no beginning and no end and therefore also moves people's thoughts beyond death .... And if you humans therefore test spiritual knowledge for its truth, seriously ask yourselves whether you are able to recognize God's love, wisdom and omnipotence in it, and unhesitatingly accept what proves this to you, for I want you to recognize Me and will always present Myself to you in such a way that you will be able to love Me but need not fear Me. But if I am portrayed as an angry and punishing judge, then they are not revelations on My part, then the one who is an enemy of truth creeps in, but who fights with cunning and violence, who does not fight with an open visor but with a mask, so that you will not recognize him and should believe his words. Only one being, Whom you can love from the bottom of your heart, is your God and father from eternity .... Strive for this and you will always recognize His revelations which will always increase your love for Him, because the father Himself draws you to Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love - wisdom – omnipotence characteristics for revelations ....

B.D. 5109 from April 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You shall feel My love, you shall recognize My wisdom and experience testimony of My might and strength so that you believe that the eternal deity reveals Itself to you through the spirit. Nothing is meaningless what you experience, what happens around you and what happens within you .... And once you have been initiated into the secrets of My plan of creation and salvation then it will be easy for you to recognize My hand, My visible guidance, in everything that happens, for then you will also know that My love leaves no stone unturned to turn your hearts towards Me and that everything, even the most severe suffering, is merely an expression of My love which wants to win you for eternity. One day when you look back on your earthly life My wisdom will also be obvious to you, for then you will recognize the connection between every event and your soul's maturing process, and nothing will appear arbitrary to you anymore, instead you will recognize everything as purposeful and beneficial which brought about your maturing. But My strength and might will also become apparent to you if only you pay attention to your course of life, which often seemed unbearable to you and again and again became bearable due to circumstances which you humans on earth regard as coincidence or your own will, but which were directed by My will in order to help you ascend. All people could experience My love, wisdom and omnipotent activity in themselves and testify to it if only they were mindful in believing that I direct everything according to My will and that nothing can happen without My will or My permission. The fact that My love and wisdom always determine this only has to be believed until the human being voluntarily and consciously places himself under My guidance .... Then he will receive the evidence that everything is providence and nothing is coincidence, and he will find this evidence within himself .... for a person who consciously places himself under My guidance sees and hears what the other person does not hear. And therefore he can now also speak with conviction of My love and wisdom and omnipotence. He is able to do so because he has evidence of it, because his own life's fate again and again made him recognize Me in My being and therefore he gives himself to Me unconditionally because he loves Me .... And I reward his devotion to Me with My strength of love which now flows through him .... I work in him through the spirit .... I reveal Myself to everyone who has recognized Me as an exceedingly perfect being, who believes in My love, wisdom and omnipotence and therefore also no longer doubts that the eternal deity reveals Itself to Its living creations. Every revelation of Myself is also a testimony of My love, wisdom and omnipotence .... for My reign and activity is thereby made known, which always allows love, wisdom and omnipotence to become recognizable .... When I reveal Myself to people I openly enlighten them about My reign and activity as well as about the cause, the occasion and the ultimate aim of every work of creation, and My love, wisdom and omnipotence thereby become so obvious that there can no longer be any doubt that faith has now not only become belief but conviction .... that the human being has now come to recognize Me as soon as he himself allows Me to reveal Myself to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Immense storm .... sleep of death .... forces of nature ....

B.D. 5110 from April 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A mighty storm must roar over people in order to awaken the souls from their sleep of death before the last storm of destruction passes over the earth. Blessed are those who awaken and still eagerly go their way, blessed are those who recognize Me Myself in the storm and voluntarily bow down to Me .... for they will not be broken but will rise up again and strive upwards. I certainly touch all sleeping people beforehand with a gentle hand and try to disturb them, yet they pay no attention to My gentle touch and therefore they have to be roused, I have to touch them rudely if I want to prevent them from being eternally lost, that their sleep turns into death and that salvation to life is impossible .... I constantly endeavour to rouse people from their spiritual lethargy and therefore often knock at their heart's door, and where I am not heard I knock harder, through suffering and adversity I make Myself known so that they become mentally active and listen to Me when I approach them through My messengers. I only want them to think about themselves, about their end and their destiny, so that they will then most vividly realize that they also have a task during their earthly life. Even the thought of this can make them energetic, for it can determine the will to start the soul's work as soon as it has recognized that this is its actual earthly task. They should only awaken .... For then they will also look around them with clear-sightedness and discover faults and shortcomings everywhere, and they will take action to eliminate them. But as soon as the mighty storm rises over the earth, even the dullest sleeper will awaken but first take a long look around to see what has disturbed him from his sleep .... He will then not have much time left for his work, especially if he is tardy .... Yet all too clear are the signs which can still compel him to believe if he is not completely alienated from Me. I don't want their destruction, I only want their salvation, but anyone who doesn't want to be saved I will hand him over to destruction, which will then be his own fault. My messengers of love and sending call beforehand with a bright voice to those who are asleep: Prepare yourselves for the coming of the lord .... open the door of your heart to Him and let Him enter, ask Him for strength and grace so that He may have mercy on you, and open yourselves to His influx through His spirit .... Yet only a few follow their advice, only a few take their words seriously and expect Me and also the end; only a few listen to Me when I Myself speak to them through these messengers. And these will also recognize the signs of the storm and prepare themselves for it by calling upon Me as their father for protection and shelter in the coming adversity, by commending themselves to Me and My grace and can now also be without worry that I will forget them .... But the sleepers will be startled and afraid, for they are defenceless against the forces of nature through which I Myself will express Myself .... And My voice will sound loud and threatening and make all people sit up and take notice, it will point to the near end which is foretold in the same way as the coming natural event and will likewise come to pass when it is time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Child relationship .... love .... humility .... right prayer ....

B.D. 5111 from April 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The relationship you have with the heavenly father also determines your spiritual development, which depends on the supply of grace and strength, thus also on your request for them. A child's trusting relationship with the father also allows the child to ask for gifts of grace and it will always be richly rewarded, whereas a person who has an alien relationship with God does not approach Him for gifts of grace and can hardly mature without them. A child's relationship with its father is a state of love which includes complete trust which a good father will never disappoint. Love for the father, however, excludes all arrogance, the child approaches the father in humility and thereby achieves an unspeakable amount with Him .... The father's love for His children wants to give without ceasing and also distributes gifts where they are not requested. Nevertheless, the gifts of grace are only effective when they are consciously desired, and a conscious desire will always be the result of a right child relationship which ensures the human being every fulfilment, because God is eternal love Himself. The human being can never attain the degree of maturity on his own which is the purpose and aim of his earthly life, because in the beginning he is still opposed to God and, due to the influence of God's adversary, he still lacks the realization of God's love. But as soon as he believes in God at all, in a higher being Which created him, and trustingly hands himself over to this being, God rewards him for his trust and reveals Himself to him as a loving father in order to win the child for eternity. And now it is up to the human being's free will to also ask the recognized father for His support .... Then he will already have entered into the right relationship with Him, for the appeal to Him testifies to his humility and also secures him the fullest measure of grace. And now he can ascend with God's help, for God's love draws him and will never let him fall again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Degree of love .... constant increase of bliss .... God unfathomable ....

B.D. 5112 from April 24th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Every gift of love is pleasant to Me, for I assess the degree of love which allows you to think and act, just as it cannot be otherwise, for I, as the eternal love Myself, am attracted by every expression of love, whether it applies to Me or to the neighbour. And thus the union can only take place in love, the intimate connection which is indissoluble forever. What has once united with eternal love in free will can no longer separate from it and does not want to either, because it is the most blissful state the being created by Me can achieve. However, increases in bliss can be constantly achieved the higher the degree of love rises, the closer the being comes to Me, Whom it strives for on and on .... I eternally no longer distance Myself from My children and yet I constantly remain the aim of their striving to come closer to Me, because this, too, belongs to unlimited beatitude, to long for and to constantly find fulfilment of the longing. And thus I am seemingly unattainable to them and yet they feel the bliss of union, a state which you humans on earth do not yet understand, that constant longing and constant fulfilment never comes to an end. Yet everything limited would be imperfect, but I am the most perfect being and therefore must also be eternally unfathomable, eternally the aim of the beings I want to make happy. And this bliss will eternally have no end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of love .... aim of the human being ....

B.D. 5113 from April 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You cannot develop yourselves upwards if you don't cultivate love, if you don't change your nature which, at the beginning of embodiment, only knows selfish love which should be changed into unselfish neighbourly love. Every act of neighbourly love is a step upwards, but without love you will always walk on the same level, indeed, you are in danger of sinking backwards through offences against love, through acts of hatred and unkindness. But your aim is above, and thus you must strive to reach this aim, you must leave the abyss through a life of love and try to reach spheres where light flows to you from above, where you now clearly recognize the path you should take in order to become blissfully happy. Only love can bring you the light, only love puts you into a state of recognition, only love makes you see so that you can no longer miss the right path. Without love, however, you are blind in spirit and the darkness around you will not let you find the path which, however, you would not want to take without love either because it leads upwards but you love the depth. No other advice can be given to you than to practice unselfish neighbourly love, because everything else emerges from love .... a living faith and a most luminous recognition of truth, which impels you to ever more eager striving because it points you towards the eternal light, which is worth striving for. Nothing else can replace love .... And all good deeds you do without love, which you carry out for the sake of a purpose, which are only intended to elevate you in the eyes of your fellow human beings, are worthless for eternity, they don't take you one step further upwards, they are only done for the world and will also find their reward from the world. But right love makes good works immortal, they live on and follow you into eternity. For a right work of love is already a union with God, Who is love in Himself and Who therefore works with you if you are active in love. Right works of love are building blocks for eternity, they are the rungs of the ladder upwards to eternal happiness. Therefore don't be idle on earth and gather spiritual wealth through works of love, treasures which will follow you into eternity, for only love achieves that the soul creates a blissful fate for itself in eternity. Only love brings the soul to maturity, and only through love will a person's purpose on earth be fulfilled, so that his nature will completely change and become like God's original nature, so that he will already reach the aim on earth, the union with God, in order to be exceedingly blissful, powerful and full of light for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

‘I came to My Own and they did not accept Me ....’

B.D. 5114 from April 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I came to My Own and they did not accept Me, they did not recognise Me .... I Am rarely recognised by people when I approach them on the way, hence they either do not accept My offering as a divine gift or they pay only little attention to it. But I want to be recognised by people so that they can utilize My gift of grace properly and apply it for the benefit of their soul. I often knock in vain at the door of their hearts which remains closed to Him, Who brings the most beneficial gift, Who wants to give them a gift of incalculable value. They do not grant Me entry, they do not want to listen to Me and thus reject the most valuable gift although they are in urgent need of it. I came to My Own and they did not accept Me because they did not recognise Me ....

Many want to belong to My Own, many pride themselves about belonging to My church and yet do not know My voice when I want to gather them as a good shepherd and coax and call them .... They do not know My voice and stay away from Me .... But My sheep know the voice of their shepherd .... because I send to My Own Words of love from above, to those who open their heart and allow Me to enter as soon as I wish to enter. Only few recognise Me although every person would have the means to do so if they were willing to look for their eternal Father, because I would allow Myself to be found by them. But there is little longing for Me and thus they do not hear My Word either, which is the evidence of My Being and the visible proof of My love for human beings. And when it is made accessible to them by other people they lack faith and thus also comprehension for My love and mercy which give them the means to reach their goal on earth, to unite with Me by way of love.

It is easily comprehended by My Own who allow Me to speak to them and then make use of the gifts in accordance with My will. I can approach and reveal Myself to them and they will no longer doubt Me, they will accept Me anytime in their heart's abode and hear My Word directly. They will contemplate My Word in their heart and proceed accordingly .... And they will also understand My Word which I spoke on earth, that My kingdom is not of this world.

Because they are now aware of the kingdom of God, they recognise the Father Who wants to come to His Own and Who is not acknowledged by people who live without love. But whoever lives in accordance with My Word has love within himself and is lead by it to realisation .... he follows My call because he has recognised Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle of faith .... Fulfilment of promises ....

B.D. 5115 from April 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You will also have to assert yourselves in the world which will oppose and persecute you. That will be the start of the time of battle I announced to you and which will launch the final phase before the end. You will not receive any worldly help either, for those who want to help are too weak but those who are stronger are against you. Nevertheless you will have protection you can indeed rely upon .... because I Myself will be with you and will give you strength to prevail in the most difficult battle. Anyone who merely calls upon Me will experience My presence, for I will not leave My Own, although I will allow people to confront each other in battle. This final battle of faith must be visible because the spirits shall be separated .... because a separation must take place between My followers and the adversary's followers, and even the last people must make a decision, who so far had shied away from an open avowal due to weakness of faith or fear. They shall take heart in view of the strong faith displayed by My Own, unless they completely fall away for the sake of worldly advantages which My Own must relinquish for the sake of their faith. This decision will only concern the inner life of the individual, yet is insofar significant because this decision will also affect earthly life and, therefore, many people will fail. For anyone who still values the world too highly, anyone who loves his life on earth, who still pays too much attention to his physical comfort, will hardly be able to prevail because everybody will have to give up everything if they do not want to relinquish their faith in Me and My act of Salvation. Many will fall away from faith because they will have to profess Me publicly. But anyone who knows the truth, anyone with advanced knowledge, anyone whose life of love also provided him with My strength, will remain faithful to Me until the end, he will freely and courageously profess Me, he will speak on My behalf and even still be able to convince those who are weak in faith and yet of good will .... And despite the greatest hardship imposed upon him by the enemies he will not feel the adversity so much because I will stand by him and provide him with everything he needs for body and soul. The enemies will not be able to harm anyone who puts his complete trust in Me, for what they take away from him I will return to him in a different form, yet always in a way that he will live for as long as I still need him on this earth. And My small flock shall testify to the kingdom of God and His power until the end .... and My promises shall come true so that a strong faith will be able to achieve everything and that My Own will receive what they appeal for in this faith. It will be a gruelling battle but My Own will survive it, for they have a commander-in-chief by their side Who will defeat every enemy, and anyone who belongs to His camp will be victorious and need no longer fear any opponent once the end has come, the Day of Judgment, which will separate the righteous from the unrighteous, the good from the bad, My Own from the followers of Satan .... the day when everyone's reward will be in accordance with his works ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word truth .... living faith recognizes father's voice ....

B.D. 5116 from April 27th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My word is conveyed to earth in all purity .... You humans are not aware of what you receive, for you are indifferent to the truth and don't know that you absolutely have to accept the truth in order to become blissfully happy. You receive all kinds of knowledge from outside of which you have no certainty that it is the truth. And thus you are completely unclear as to what you should accept as truth, and on the other hand you are aware that you have to give yourselves an explanation and that you can decide for yourselves whether you are far from or close to the truth .... You can find it but you don't look for it, and therefore you also miss the great miracle which your father and creator works on you from eternity, that you hear His word directly from above and thus the purest truth is imparted to you from above, a knowledge which gives you information about everything that is unclear to you. It is an act of greatest mercy towards you humans, for your indifference towards the truth makes you unworthy of this bestowal of grace, yet I pour out My spirit upon a few devoted people in order to bring the truth closer to all of you, which you urgently need for your beatification. A connection has been created from the spiritual to the earthly kingdom, and therefore people have to adjust themselves spiritually in order to grasp the gifts imparted from there and let them take effect, they have to disregard the world as long as the spiritual influx touches them in order to feel its effect, otherwise they will also pass by the spiritual knowledge from the heavens unimpressed and not recognize its value. The truth comes to you and you pay no attention to it .... I Myself am the Truth, and thus I come to meet you in the word from above and want to be received by you .... Yet how often do you refuse Me the door, you keep it closed and do not grant Me entrance, and this always when My word is offered to you and you reject it, when the truth is brought to you and you prefer the world and for its sake take no notice of Me, of what My love and grace offers you. You certainly have the excuse that you don't know whether it is the truth, yet you don't take the trouble to examine it either, otherwise you would very well recognize the abundance of wisdom hidden in it, which can only come from a giver Who is wise in Himself and lovingly seeks to introduce you to the eternal truth .... You do not seek and therefore cannot find either .... for as soon as you seek Me I will also let Myself be found, and then I Myself will offer you nothing but the truth. Hence the indifference towards truth also extends to Me, and all you humans who pretend to believe in Me do not speak the truth if you simultaneously reject My word which originates from Me, for if you believe in Me alive you will also recognize My voice and gladly accept My word because it testifies to Me and only strengthens your faith. Anyone who believes in Me also seeks to fathom Me, and the words from above sound to him like a sweet promise and confirmation of My Self .... Yet only a few seek Me and will find Me, for the people of the world are blind and deaf and the light of My word does not penetrate their eyes and ears, and therefore humanity walks in darkness and only rarely can lights flash and illuminate the surroundings .... but anyone who prefers the night flees from the light and will remain in darkness forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justice of God .... long-suffering - mercy ....

B.D. 5117 from April 28th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I am a good and just God and yet I let My sun shine on the just and the unjust .... over good and evil, for I want to change the bad into good, but not destroy it. I am a God of love, and love sustains but does not destroy. I am a God of wisdom and have formed My creatures so that they shall exist eternally, but are not transient. But an existence in strength and light presupposes a state which corresponds to My original nature, thus can be called perfect to a certain degree. And into this state I try to place you, yet with due regard for free will as long as the human being dwells on earth. And therefore I let you enter the circle of light of My sun, the radiation of grace from My kingdom, during this time, but leaving you free as to whether you want to stay in it and perfect yourselves or whether you prefer to flee into the shadow and then also remain imperfect and enter the kingdom of the beyond imperfectly. The righteous and the unrighteous are touched by My sun of grace, the righteous and the unrighteous are considered by My love and need only want to become blessed. However, as long as the bad does not change into the good I cannot accept it into My kingdom because it would perish therein, for everything impure will be consumed by the emanation of love of the beings of the kingdom of light, which can only shelter perfect spiritual beings. This is why My long-suffering and patience will also have to be understood, which, as it were, calls My justice into question .... But the latter is not eliminated .... Once it emerges, but again only in order to establish the divine order, which may only be overturned to a certain extent in order not to have an illegal effect. Then long-suffering, patience and mercy step back and yet are not basically eliminated, for this act of justice is also an act of mercy in order to prevent a complete change into the opposite, in order not to let the essence fall into the deepest depth, from where the ascent to the height is almost impossible. As long as people dwell on earth they often violate divine order without experiencing an immediate punishment which corresponds to My justice. Yet the human being has free will, and any immediate compensation for his unjust action would curtail free will, since the fear of punishment would make him unfree and thus no ascent development would take place from within. This is why My justice on earth is not so obvious but nevertheless supremely My own, for every offence must find its atonement because this, too, is a law of order which cannot be overturned. Yet even the most severe punishment on My part is again proof of My love, since it is at the same time a means of education by which the being shall finally attain perfection after all, which is the first and last aim of everything that has emerged from Me, through My strength and from My love. And everything will reach this aim one day, even if eternities pass by .... everything created will one day become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Acceptance of the divine word no compulsion .... free will ....

B.D. 5118 from April 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

My spirit is eternally the same, My word never changes and My will always corresponds to the law of eternal order. And thus what My spirit reveals to you through the word will always and forever be right. My fatherly love is also always the same which embraces all My children, and all who desire in their heart to come to Me and make an effort to fulfil My will can count themselves among My children. The fact that every child feels differently and thus feels My fatherly love to a greater or lesser extent is due to the degree of its love for Me, which can understandably increase to the highest level but which is also little developed in many a child which longs for Me. Nevertheless, it is under My protection as soon as it has once willingly professed Me. And My greater than great love must be your guarantee again that I will not leave a helpless being, which strives towards Me, to itself or to My enemy. And therefore the will towards Me alone is already the assurance that this being will one day become Mine, because it already belongs to Me from the moment it has willingly professed Me. But for the purpose of purification and strengthening of will the being as a human being is often put to the test, and these tests also aim to stimulate its thinking, because only through reflection can the human being arrive at the truth or desire it and then also be considered. For as long as he does not possess the truth there is the danger of a wrong idea of Me which, however, first has to fall away in order to let the love for Me flare up into highest ardour, which then is the driving force for further perfection. But truth cannot be given to the human being without him desiring it, and it is only desired when the human being feels an ambiguity as oppressive and unsettling .... when it is dark in him he desires light .... and then a light will also be given to him, then truthful knowledge will be supplied to him which will help him attain perfection ....

My love brings you children together who long for Me and ensures that you teach each other and help each other to the truth. It conveys the truth to you from above, leaving it up to you whether you want to accept it, so that you will then also let your mental activity become active again, because everyone has to work on himself if he wants to reach higher maturity. This mental activity often has different effects .... it can also lead to rejection if My adversary intervenes and gains influence over a person for whatever reason the person himself has given him. My adversary will not win him because he strives towards Me and I will not let him fall. But he can still go astray until he lands on the right path again. He now matures in a different way but will still reach his aim. For I leave the human being free will and do not force him to accept the word conveyed to earth as My word. Yet he is not apostate to Me but merely arrogant towards his fellow human beings which does not allow him to recognize what is right. But he does not give up on Me and therefore also safely reaches his aim. I never want to put you humans into the position of having to accept My word from above, and therefore I must also leave everyone the opportunity to doubt it, for he will recognize it if he requests My support, the illumination of his spirit, in humility and love for Me .... My working of the spirit in the form of My revelation must not mean any compulsion of faith, otherwise it would be completely contrary to the purpose .... And this as an explanation for one of your questions ....

Amen

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Will to work for God secures protection by beings of light ....

B.D. 5119 from April 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You leave the earthly world behind you as soon as you prepare yourselves to receive My word, and thus the soul has lifted itself up into the spiritual kingdom where it is met by beings of light on My instructions in order to instruct it. These beings of light are also constantly around you on earth because you have taken on a mission which is the same on earth as it is carried out by the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom .... to pass on the truth which originates from Me. Hence these beings must stand in fullest truth and always influence you, the thinking and the will, which both correspond to the mission, the work in My vineyard. Thus your thinking and wanting is always under the control of those beings of light and yet you are not forced to think and want according to their will. Yet the will to serve Me is enough for the beings of light to direct you, and they rarely find resistance, which is why their work is also successful, both on you as well as through you on fellow human beings. This activity of the beings of light is observed by many souls in the beyond who are still immature and likewise want to make themselves known to earthly people but have no strength to express themselves. Their thinking is more earthly and therefore has no effect on a spiritually striving human being. Yet the latter feel the proximity of these beings as disturbing and disruptive. And that is why the beings of light endeavour to form a protective wall around people who are allowed to receive spiritual possessions through them according to My will. Thus they are always isolated from the still imperfect spiritual world as soon as spiritual instructions take place, which, however, does not exclude that these beings will arrive as soon as the transmissions from the spiritual kingdom are finished and then want to make themselves known. But everything imperfect will always have an unfavourable effect on the spiritual striving upwards but it will never gain power over it, for anyone who is to carry out a mission for the redemption of the spiritual on earth will always be protected by the beings which serve Me and only fulfil My will. And you, too, are entrusted to these beings so that those who still dwell in darkness themselves and therefore cannot distribute light to those who want to be active as bearers of light for Me and My kingdom will not have any influence.

Amen

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Spiritual mentor ....

B.D. 5120 from April 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Every soul has its spiritual mentor, its guide, who wants to help it to eternal life. He seeks to influence the human being's thoughts and turn them towards the spiritual kingdom, but he also shapes the human being's life fate such that it can lead to great success, yet with due regard for free will. This mentor knows what is beneficial for the soul's development and what could be disadvantageous for it, and therefore he will always endeavour to help the soul's progress, because he is united with it in love and the guidance over this soul has been given to him by God Himself. He promotes everything that serves it; what could be detrimental to it he tries to prevent, but always in wise knowledge and great love. As long as the human being remains on earth the spiritual spheres are closed to him intellectually; even if the soul can soar into the spiritual kingdom it still does so unconsciously to the body and is also unable to convey the impressions from these spheres to the intellectual being in such a way that he could form a picture which corresponds to the truth. The spiritual kingdom will also remain a mystery to the physical human being until the body has spiritualized itself to such an extent that the soul can communicate what it has seen and it remains in its consciousness. Then that degree of maturity is reached which makes a further life on earth unnecessary, which the spiritual leader would also like to reach as long as the soul still dwells in the body. But as soon as this degree of maturity has not yet been reached the mentor carefully guards the intellectual person against creating distorted images of the spiritual kingdom which could only confuse him but not further him, for the human being's intellect still has an influence on the soul as long as it has not already reached the degree of maturity that it is able to see spiritually. It can certainly dwell in spheres in dreams from which it draws much strength and knowledge but it will not take over the memory of it into earthly life as long as the body is not equally spiritualized. In a manner of speaking the spiritual mentor erects a wall and hides everything behind it which is still incomprehensible to the human being's intellect, whereas the soul can cross the wall unhindered and gain insight into the spiritual kingdom. And this boundary is carefully guarded by the spiritual side .... remains hidden from the human being's intellect what is unveiled to the soul .... until there is no longer any danger for the soul to fall into doubt when the intellect tries to shake it. A strong soul, which has become rich in knowledge, can now also convince the intellect and correctly refute every objection, yet it first has to have reached this maturity, then it can look unhesitatingly and consciously into the spiritual kingdom and also communicate itself to the intellect, which then likewise allows itself to be taught about it and does not oppose any doubts of faith. Anyone who seeks the truth will also find it, yet the human being should always leave himself to the spiritual guidance and not try to penetrate knowledge on his own authority, which can only harm him if he does not have the necessary degree of maturity to make proper use of the knowledge. His spiritual guide knows about the state of the soul and seeks to raise it as long as no resistance is offered to him. For he does not lack wisdom and love, and he considers his pupils in such a way that it is a blessing for them ....

Amen

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Power of faith .... love makes faith lively ....

B.D. 5121 from May 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 57

A believing earthly child achieves everything with Me, for I will not let its faith fail. And so you, who want to serve Me by spreading the gospel, must test the strength of faith if you want to be extraordinarily successful with your fellow human beings. You have to put into practice what you teach, and thus, if you stand up for faith, you also have to prove what a strong faith is capable of. With Me you are able to do everything .... And you should believe that you accomplish everything with My help, that I am present to you and work together with you, thus nothing can fail for you. If you request strength from Me I will never deny it to you, you may make unlimited use of My strength; you only have to believe that you do nothing on your own but everything with Me .... Then you can tackle everything and you will succeed in everything. Again and again I encourage you to develop this strong faith within yourselves, because then you will have gained everything on earth which you still need .... and because a strong faith is the testimony for the truth of My teaching which you should proclaim to your fellow human beings during the time which precedes the end. If you are so profoundly devout yourselves then you can also prove the strength of faith to your fellow human beings, and you will be recognizable to everyone as an emissary in My name, you will then prove the divinity of the teaching which you spread in My name. A strong faith will secure you many followers, but if you doubt the success of an undertaking yourselves how will you then win over your fellow human beings for My teaching. But a strong faith is only gained through love, for this makes faith come alive. You will be able to believe if you live in love .... Thus weak faith is still a sign of a lack of love, and this is what ails people who are unable to believe. Always bear this in mind: Love gives life to faith .... Then you will also have the simplest means to attain faith. Practice neighbourly love .... and thereby draw Me Myself to you, My presence gives you security and awareness of strength, and in this awareness you consider everything possible, whatever you want to do. And therefore also teach your fellow human beings that they can only attain strong faith through a life of love, but that strong faith is absolutely necessary in order to become master over all external onslaughts in the coming time, and that strong faith in My help is never without success, that the human being is even able to work miracles, for then he will no longer work alone but in union with Me, and he must succeed in everything .... For I will not let a strong faith go to waste ....

Amen

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Spreading the gospel is a work of mercy ....

B.D. 5122 from May 2nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You have a large field of work if you want to be active for Me, for you live in the midst of people who are partly completely turned away from Me but partly so indifferent and weak in faith that it is necessary to send true representatives of My teaching amongst them whose words can have an influence where the will is still good. There is an enormous amount of work to be done and only little success will be recorded. Nevertheless, nothing shall be left undone in order to save those, for as soon as they persist in their attitude, in their faithlessness or indifference, they will sink even deeper and in the end belong to those who will be lost for eternity. It is a great work of mercy to help them, to strive for their transformation and to awaken in them the impulse to work on their souls through example and good teachings. For there is spiritual darkness among people and they know nothing; the truth is far from them and partly prevented by erroneous teachings, and thus the human being is only worldly-minded and does not think of his actual earthly task. The field of work is vast, for you are always surrounded by people who need your help, and every activity results in a blessing, even if the success is not visible. The coming time of adversity will contribute towards your speeches being remembered, and therefore you should not fail to draw their attention to the coming time of adversity, make them aware of the near end, the danger they are in and mention My greater than great love which would like to avert this danger from them but requires people's will to do so .... You will certainly often experience resistance, yet this should not discourage you from repeatedly mentioning My teaching and emphasizing My working of the spirit on you, so that they will become thoughtful and the seed you scatter will not fall on completely stony ground.

You should be diligent workers in My vineyard and not do your work lukewarmly or indifferently .... For time is hastening, and the day when you can still work will soon be over. It is followed with the night, when all work is impossible .... Therefore use every opportunity to bring Me and My kingdom to your fellow human beings, teach them love which also produces living faith, explain to them their purpose of earthly life and admonish them to make contact with their creator and father of eternity; admonish them to establish the right relationship between children and to call upon Me in prayer for grace and strength, and don't hesitate to announce the near end to them, for they shall know what is in store for them even if they don't want to believe it .... The coming time will bring them the evidence that you have spoken right, and thus many things will come to their remembrance again and touch their hearts according to their will, and success will not fail to come. For the adversity is great and therefore help is urgently needed which you should bring to them in My name so that many will still be saved before the end comes ....

Amen

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Distance from God is a wretched state .... No separation ....

B.D. 5123 from May 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You can certainly revolt against Me but you cannot separate yourselves from Me, for you are a part of Me that can never ever get lost .... You, however, experience the distance like a separation and therefore think that you'll be able to detach yourselves from Me; yet the chains connecting us are untearable, they are merely shorter or longer but inevitably keep us together. All resistance extends the distance from Me, but every deed of love brings us closer together and unites us. If you therefore distance yourselves by resisting Me then My adversary will intrude and place himself between you and Me. Thereby you won't recognise Me anymore and comply with his will, for he lures you with that which you desire, with earthly goods which make My image grow increasingly fainter. Nevertheless you belong to Me and remain My possession, because I will not forfeit My claim on you. But My adversary and you believe yourselves capable of escaping My authority, yet then you will simply distance yourselves more and more from Me and find yourselves in a wretched state. For your distance from Me signifies a total lack of strength and light, it signifies the soul's death, it signifies a state of darkness which will also always remain a state of wretchedness. You, however, don't know the state of beatitude .... Hence you do not strive for it but content yourselves with earthly happiness which My adversary bestows upon you the more you turn away from Me. You don't know the true life, the life of the spirit which gives you light and strength in abundance .... you don't know the divine abilities you could possess were you associated with Me again ....

But I loved you from the very beginning and My love for you will not diminish; it wants to give and please, thus it also wants to lead you to the realisation of what you used to be, what you are and what you shall become again in order to be eternally happy. Yet whether you allow yourselves to be taught by Me is up to you, for I will not force any being to accept from My hand what makes it incredibly happy .... It can freely decide whether it wants to belong to Me or to succumb to My adversary's influence. However, since My love for you, My living creations, will never end, I will also pursue your love forever, and I will do whatever it takes to help you achieve beatitude, time and again I will come close to you and let you feel My love until, one day, it will beneficially affect you and you will turn to Me in order to receive more and more love, until you love Me too and voluntarily pull yourselves away from My adversary and strive towards Me. Then My and your happiness will be infinite, then there will be no more distance between us, then we will be firmly united by the bond of love and never ever separate again, for once something has found its way to Me of its own accord I will not let it go again, I will not let it fall again and the adversary will have lost all power, it is and remains My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's courtship of the love of His creatures ....

B.D. 5124 from May 4th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I constantly court your love by showering you with blessings so that you shall also recognize My love and reciprocate it of your own free will. Everything around you shall prove My love to you, and when you look at every work of creation you should be aware of the fact that it was only created in order to make you blissfully happy, for every work of creation was necessary for your ascent development, which had already reached a high degree when you were allowed to embody yourselves as a human being on this earth. You should be aware of the fact that the whole of creation only arose for the purpose of returning the apostate spirits to Me and that you yourselves are beings which accomplished this apostasy from Me. Just as you can observe a constant coming into being and passing away around you, so too has your soul gone through ever different forms which constantly experienced the process of coming into being and passing away; you have reached ever higher maturity in the state of compulsion, and the whole of creation was the means for this, since the spiritual essence in you could never have developed upwards by itself without My help. You should consider all this and know that your creator and father from eternity only intended great love for you to let the work of creation come into being, and that you should only reciprocate this love according to your strength in order to then also be blissfully happy again without limitation, as was your former destiny. I don't want to let you fall because you are indissolubly united with Me through My love, but only your reciprocated love will let you feel the happiness of My love; and therefore I constantly court your love which only restores to you the character of a divine creature which you have lost. Look at the creations around you in remembrance of Me, then let yourselves be touched by My rays of love and they will start to warm you, the spark of love in you will ignite, you will involuntarily have to think and act well if you let the creation affect you. For then I Myself will speak to you through it and your heart will be in a soft mood and willing to do deeds of love. And then you will already reciprocate My love which is directed towards Me through your neighbour, even if you are still unaware of it. I want to be recognized by you humans as a God of love, so that you long for Me and I can draw you up to Me at My father's heart .... Then our love will find fulfilment, it will be an everlasting blissful give and take ....

Amen

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Process of development .... Law of compulsion .... Stage of free will ....

B.D. 5125 from May 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Nothing is without purpose and goal .... Everything in existence was created by God and brought to life to fulfil a purpose. Consequently, everything also has its function; it has to serve in some way or other in order to fulfil its purpose. Even the smallest work of creation, the smallest living being, has its task which it has to comply with and effectively is forced to do so, because every creation is subject to natural law, thus it is unable to act unlawfully.

Nevertheless, even an accomplished task in the law of compulsion is effectively a service, for it will always benefit another work of creation, it is necessary for the emergence and preservation of same. And thus, nothing in the entire universe is without purpose, or was created for no reason.

The final purpose and destiny, however, is the liberation of the spiritual substance, towards which the whole of creation contributes in accordance with God's wise plan of eternity. The whole of creation only came into being for the purpose of liberating the spiritual substance, and every single work of creation complies with this destiny in the law of compulsion.

The human being, however, is an exception, he is indeed God's work of creation too, nevertheless, his thoughts, will and actions are not subject to the law of compulsion. The external human being, the physical body, is still subject to the law of compulsion, because this consists of spiritual substances which are still at the beginning of development. His soul, however, enjoys a certain amount of freedom, it is able to develop in line with its own will, thus God has not subjected it to this law. All the same, even the soul's development, its release from the constraint of earthly matter, depends on its will to occupy itself in a helpful manner .... thus, again, service is the actual purpose of its earthly life. And since it is not forced into a helpful activity, love has to develop within itself, which is the most certain impulse for helpful activity.

What occurred and was achieved during an infinitely long time in the law of compulsion shall now experience its culmination as human being, but of its own volition. The human being should serve with love in order to become completely liberated from the constrained state, which the soul regards as a limitation and restriction of its original abundance of strength and light .... The human being's soul can reach this goal on earth if it has the sincere will to do so, yet it does not have to attain it, because God gave it freedom of will to enable its free decision for Him or His adversary, who caused its loss of freedom and from whom it therefore has to liberate itself. Loving service is the key to liberation from this infinitely long captivity .... What the spiritual substance had to do in line with God's will during the long path through all of creation, it should now, in the final stage, do of its own volition .... it should serve because of love .... Thereby it demonstrates its divine origin, for love characterises the divine being and it shapes itself again into its original nature, it accepts again what it had voluntarily abandoned due to arrogance. As soon as the human being serves with love his offence against God will be cancelled, he will have left the state of sinfulness and will have found his way back to God, from Whom he wanted to distance himself .... (had distanced himself) he has recognised his childship and desires to enter into the right kind of relationship with the Father, and through love he will become a true child of God ....

Yet it all has to take place in free will, and this is his test of earthly life which he absolutely has to pass. The human being is able to reach this goal since he will receive help from God in every way, but he may also have completed the infinitely long process of development in the law of compulsion in vain if he, instead of progressing in the stage of a human being, comes to a standstill or even slips back. Then he will misuse his free will again .... he does not use the many opportunities at his disposal to reach the goal, and then he will also have to accept the consequences .... a repeated path through all of creation. One day he will surely reach his goal, but it is up to the being itself to decide the duration of its captivity, for God gave it free will which He respects so that it can become perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Need of the last time .... many will still be recalled ....

B.D. 5126 from May 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You only have a short time left for salvation, and if you do not make full use of it, you will be destined for a dreadful fate .... But I take care of the weak and undecided and help them to escape this adversity. Many souls will still leave their bodies before the last end comes because they would be incapable of offering resistance in the last battle of faith and yet shall not sink into the abyss either, i.e. they shall not belong to those who offer Me harsh resistance. I will still undertake a great cleansing action beforehand where many more souls will be purified or rendered harmless for further activity in order to prevent their complete apostasy, because I recognize their state of soul and do not spoil what is still suitable for improvement in the beyond. The time is only short and will be very difficult for all people except those who have devoted themselves to My adversary and are earthly supported by him in every way because they sold their souls to him. Yet I point out this time of adversity to you, and when it comes you should remember these announcements and draw strength and courage from them, because at the same time I also promise you safe protection and salvation who want to belong to Me. People can only kill your body, they can only harm you earthly but they cannot harm your soul, and if I also promise you protection for your bodily life, if I assure you of My help in every adversity, then you can expect what is coming without worry, you can let all events approach you with firm confidence .... I will always find a way out, even if no earthly help seems possible. For I am the lord over life and death, I am the lord over creation and over the kingdom of light and also of darkness .... Nothing can happen without My will and My permission; but what happens is only for your and your fellow human beings' salvation. It is still quiet and you humans don't believe that you are facing great events; you humans don't want to believe that completely different living conditions will arise and that you will have to muster much strength and trust in order to meet all demands made on you by hostile forces on My part. But it will come to pass as it is written .... The great tribulation will pass over the earth and you will realize that you live in the end time where you will have to prove yourselves. But you will always find one Who is willing to help you. And if you believe in this one and appeal to Him with a childlike heart you will emerge from every danger unscathed, for I will come when the adversity is greatest and save you .... And all adversity will come to an end, for now the final separation of spirits will take place. And thus you will no longer be able to be afflicted and live a blissful life in paradise on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work .... subordinating the will ....

B.D. 5127 from May 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The vineyard work is so versatile that all who are willing to do so can enter My service, for I assign the activity to everyone according to his ability, and everyone will be able to carry it out, although great eagerness to work is required. Yet there are only a few who are willing to work for Me, and their degree of maturity is so different that not everyone can do the same work and that I therefore train servants for Myself in order to be able to distribute the work such that it is successful for Me and My kingdom. The vineyard work has become extremely urgent, for the time of harvest is approaching and therefore I still need many servants who want to serve Me with love. But where will I find such? Serving Me is not particularly appealing to the people of this world, for apparently there is no advantage to be gained from it; moreover, this work also requires tremendous self-conquest .... The human being must serve, i.e. put his own will aside and let the lord's will alone prevail .... I make this demand of everyone who wants to work as My servant in My vineyard. He must completely submit himself to Me and only do what I demand of him. Yet people are self-willed and cannot subordinate themselves, and therefore they are also not suitable for a service which requires complete devotion of will. For only one works, and He is I, because I alone know what is good and right .... Therefore My servants must submit themselves to Me and only ever carry out My will. I don't want them to work arbitrarily without having obtained My instruction, I want them to listen to what I tell them and then eagerly work according to My will. Thus I want to instruct them first, only then shall they appear in My name and carry out vineyard work, i.e. work the field, the human hearts, to receive the good seed, My divine word, so that the harvest will be rich and I can praise My servants if they have brought Me a great harvest. Whoever wants to work for Me shall accept the instructions from Me, thus open his heart and ear so that I can speak to him. But anyone who tackles the work without being instructed by Me will not have much success, for he does not work for Me but for himself .... He only works for the sake of the reward he is given, and this will be meagre and only paid for the time on earth .... So he probably also volunteered for vineyard work but did not wait to see whether I would employ him as suitable for it. He worked because every job pays its wages, yet not out of love and loyalty to the lord, Whom he serves. And I do not value this work as work for Me and My kingdom. I certainly pay the wages, i.e. I maintain My servant as long as he works for Me, but beyond that he no longer deserves anything, for his wages are gone because he only thought of himself, but I need servants who want to serve Me out of love for Me and their neighbour, who carefully look after My vineyard and don't allow anything to get lost in it, who therefore are and will remain faithful servants to Me for all eternity. Anyone who wants to work for Me must completely submit to Me and only be the executor of My will, I must be able to take possession of him and work through him without finding resistance. Then he will be My hand which becomes active, then he will work in My stead, then he will be My right representative and work in the vineyard according to My will. And then he will also have much success, he will increase My kingdom, he will win many souls for Me and his activity will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strengthening the will .... receiving power through the word ....

B.D. 5128 from May 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You will always need strengthening so that you can offer resistance to the one who tries to pull you down into the depths .... Your will is weakened and can only be strengthened by Me, and you should consciously request this, then you will also be able to withstand all temptations of body and soul. The adversary works with cunning and force and you are no match for his power as long as you are on your own. Then you will certainly be defeated; yet you can defend yourselves, you can triumph over satan if you obtain strength from above, if you appeal to Me for strength and receive it through My word .... Make an attempt, go into silence in the soul's distress and immerse yourselves in My word with faithful trust in Me, then you will experience My direct working in yourselves .... You will be flooded with strength and lose all fear. Then you will have become master over satan and he will no longer be able to harm you. You often have to strengthen yourselves through My word, for it is the right food and the right drink for the soul which then exerts the right influence on the body, so that the human being feels strengthened mentally and physically, so that all restlessness falls away from him, thus he is spiritually and physically strengthened through My strength.

You, who are in possession of My word from above, have no reason to complain about lack of strength, you are direct recipients of the strength from above, because My word is blessed with My strength and there need not be any lack of strength for you if only you immerse yourselves in My word and thus intimately unite with Me and thus the strength can flow over to you. My word is the spiritual emanation of My eternal love and therefore can only have a life-awakening effect; furthermore, My word is the evidence of My presence, thus this evidence must also make you strong in faith that you can overrule all resistance, that you are able to banish the one who wants to tempt you .... You will always be stronger than your tempter as long as you let My word's strength take effect in you, as long as you immerse yourselves in My word by believing in My presence and thus let Me speak to you directly .... , then all weakness will pass away, then you will be strengthened by the strength from Me which is received by you with the word and lets you become a strong being which is able to offer all resistance and withstand all temptation. For I am with you with My word and every evil power gives way to Me, including the one who is My adversary and thus your enemy and who wants to win you over by exploiting your weakness so that you will fall. But I support you, and if you hold on to Me you will never sink, no matter how shaky the ground you stand on may be ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of God .... outpouring of the spirit ....

B.D. 5129 from May 12th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The strength of God, the most high, flows through you when His spirit pours over you, and this influx of strength is the most precious thing you can receive as long as you still live on earth, for it is a foretaste of eternal bliss, it is the awareness of nearness to God which, however, is often only felt by the soul and cannot be perceived by the external human being, i.e. his physical senses. But the soul feels the happiness of unity with Him, which the impartation of strength testifies to, it longs for this temporary happiness as a permanent state and strives for it ever more eagerly in the realization that its actual destiny is the uninterrupted reception of strength, that it is only perfect when God's strength flows through it without ever escaping from it. It is a child of God which has distanced itself from Him and thereby also lost the unlimited strength flowing to it, it will also constantly feel this loss of strength as a lack as soon as it has once become aware of its divine origin. If it does not yet have this awareness, then it will vegetate, even if embodied as a human being, as a being which is no higher than an animal .... but through its own fault. It resists every expression of strength which God's love turns towards it, it escapes from it in resistance to God. Then it is still in deepest darkness and does not recognize itself for what it is either. Then it lacks all contact with God, the spiritual spark in it is dead, as well as it itself has fallen prey to spiritual death, because without God's strength there is no life. This state is the fate of those who are still bound by the chains of satan, whom he still has in his power. And they will never be able to free themselves from him by their own strength, for they lack the divine strength which alone can defeat the adversary. God gives everyone the strength but He makes it dependent on the individual's will whether he utilizes the strength from God, whether he opens himself and makes himself ready to receive His flow of grace. He only looks for open vessels into which He can pour out His spirit .... He wants to give, and His gift should always be gratefully accepted. Then God's strength will flow down on you humans without restriction, which you may now use at your own discretion. The initially still slight resistance will soon give way and a joyful readiness to receive will arise, for God's strength awakens you to life, and life also means bliss, living means utilizing the strength according to your own will, which is then also God's will when His strength can work in the human being. Unimagined strength could certainly be received on this earth if people's lack of strength were recognized and they wanted to escape this state. The will alone secures them a supply of strength, and then the conscious striving begins to participate in God's supply of strength to a greater extent. Then the spiritual spark in the human being will awaken to life, and then a sinking into the spirit's state of death need never be feared, for then the human being will live for eternity ....

Amen

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Spiritual work .... disciples of the end time ....

B.D. 5130 from May 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You who want to work for Me and My kingdom will be drawn by My spirit, you will be permeated by the strength of My spirit and thus able to do the work for My kingdom. For you are His servants, you must also know His will if you are to carry it out. But how would you know your lord's will if it was not made known to you by Himself? And this manifestation of My will is done by My spirit which works in you who want to serve Me out of love for Me and your neighbour. The love in your hearts makes the working of My spirit in you possible, and therefore I can pour out My spirit upon every loving and willing heart and thus make My will known to people.

I need disciples of the last days, I need apostles whom I will send out into the world again with the task of presenting My teaching to all nations. I need people who live in My spirit and therefore also become knowledgeable and who give people an example of the way of life I demand of them on earth and the effect such a way of life has on them. They shall show their fellow human beings that only spiritual strength gives true life and that I Myself dwell there and let them recognize where a right way of life is lived. My disciples of the last days can have a great influence on their fellow human beings if they are not too hardened and have already become true servants of satan, for they are filled with the strength of the spirit, they can convey to their fellow human beings what has originated from Me .... they stand, so to speak, between Me and people, receiving and distributing the gifts which assure them eternal life, they possess spiritual wealth which their fellow human beings can also acquire if they desire it. Yet they must always try to put themselves into the state of love, otherwise My spirit cannot be effective but the strength of My spirit is absolutely necessary in order to ascend. This is why I send you to fellow human beings to preach love to them, to impart My teaching to them which gives them knowledge of what they should do and how they should live in order to become eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Pillars of the church .... Vineyard work .... Labourers - instruments ....

B.D. 5131 from May 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I have drawn you close to Me due to sheer love .... I have known for eternity who has surrendered his opposition to Me and whom I can therefore use to serve Me as an instrument in the last days before the end. As yet you don't know the hour of the end, I still spread a veil across the final things happening on this earth. Yet you, My loyal followers, shall be informed of My plan of Salvation; I will also let you know the time if necessary, so that you use the knowledge for the benefit of your fellow human beings without informing them of it, because the knowledge of the day and the hour would cause them harm, and thus I can only notify My most privy and loyal labourers and only in a way which will not restrict their faith and will. This is why I test My servants' hearts in advance, but I also give them the strength to pass every test, and thus the few will emerge who, in the end, will have to render a great service for Me and shall also be capable of doing so. I know your hearts, I know your will and I Myself come to bring you what you desire .... light and strength. And thus you will become strong pillars of My church on earth which no earthly and spiritual power will be able to pull down because you will firmly resist those who want to attack its foundations. I will need strong-minded and staunchly faithful people at the end of this earth ....

And I know such people everywhere and prepare them for the final battle that will be waged against Me and everything of a spiritual nature. However, the preparation will take place by introducing them to My eternal plan of Salvation, in order to explain My reign and activity as well as all events to them for the first time and in order to thereby strengthen their faith in Me, which will afterwards enable them to work diligently and successfully in My vineyard. In addition I will convey light and strength to them, i.e., extensive knowledge which will qualify their work as teachers and also give them strength and inner conviction to prevail against all hostilities from the side of darkness. I will educate an army of strong fighters for Myself, but whom I will also sustain and support until it has completely fulfilled its task .... until it has gained victory over the enemy in the last battle on this earth. I know you and your will and bless you that you have submitted yourselves to Me, I take possession of you and will never ever let you go again .... I need you during these last days because I want to influence your fellow human beings through you, whom I will send to you so that you can carry out your vineyard work on them .... And because I need you I will also take care of you until you have fulfilled your mission, until the end has come, which is imminent for all of you. I want to pour out My spirit over all of you so that you realise which time you are living in and My spirit will let you know when the day will come which is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The working of the spirit ....

B.D. 5132 from May 17th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The great secret of divine love is His spirit which is poured out on you. It is not possible for you humans to penetrate this secret until you are imbued by this divine spirit, for it is precisely this which enables you to think right, to think in all truthfulness, and only then will you begin to also vaguely understand divine love, then you will have a faint glimmer of realisation, for something Divine has touched you and kindled a light in you, because the Divine Itself is Light. The spirit of God is effectively the expression of Himself .... an emanation of His divine light of love into infinity, and depending on the state of maturity of the bound spiritual substance within His works of creation so will be the effect on it .... The expression of strength stimulates the spiritual substance which is still subject to the law of compulsion into constant activity, which takes place outwardly, i.e., it is visible to the human eye .... yet in the state of free will, when the spiritual essence is embodied as a human being, the effect of the divine emanation of strength is different .... Then it no longer affects the external, physical form but the spiritual substance bound within it, the soul of the human being, and thus awakens it to life, i.e., the spiritual strength impels the soul into an activity which promotes its perfection.

That is the strength of the spirit, the divine emanation of love, which irrevocably propels the soul towards God .... For it is light and strength, God's infinitely effective flow of love which has to deify that which is touched by it. God pours out His spirit .... The person who opens his heart to him, who simply wants to be touched by God's love, exposes himself consciously and voluntarily to His emanation of light, he enters His circuit of love, and God's strength, His spirit, permeates him, and depending on the human being's maturity of soul the abundance of the divine spirit will be recognisable in him. The less impurities are surrounding the soul, the easier it can be penetrated by God's light which reflects with an overwhelmingly powerful brilliance back onto the whole person, who spiritualises himself increasingly more the more he allows the flow of divine light and strength to enter him. However, the spirit of God does not lose itself in infinity but actually draws everything to itself and thus unites the soul which exists outside of divine love with itself again as soon as the soul allows itself to be affected by it, hence, as soon as it turns towards the Eternal Love in order to receive Its gift. Then no distance will exist between the Creator and His created being anymore, then the strength of the spirit will have achieved the unity, then the spiritual spark which once emerged from Him will have been consumed by the fire of the divine spirit of love, it will have united itself with its Father-Spirit of eternity .... as an overjoyed being it will be in the proximity of the One Who is the Light and the Strength of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Glaring light .... knowing too much .... protection of the father ....

B.D. 5133 from May 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The father's eye watches over His own. And He does not allow them to be in danger of losing themselves, He stands by them in every danger and draws them back to Himself again if they let themselves be blinded and are no longer able to recognize the path properly. Then He goes before them as a gentle light, which they willingly follow. To walk in darkness is dangerous for the wanderer; but likewise a glaring light is easily misleading, because it makes the eye incapable of rightly recognizing what steps into its path. And that is why the eye must first become accustomed to darkness again before it has its sight back .... You all very often turn to the glare and therefore often run the risk of weakening your eyes, you can no longer properly distinguish truth from error .... The soft light does not satisfy you and yet is only suitable for your soul. You are constantly trying to suddenly put it into brightest light which, however, is very harmful to it. For then it no longer recognizes anything around it and helplessly wanders around in a blinded state. Why do you humans want to penetrate the deepest truth as long as you still lack the ability to comprehend the initial reasons? Such light does your eye no good but only weakens it, and thus a certain knowledge is also unsuitable for the soul, because it can only be introduced very slowly, according to its degree of maturity, if it wants to receive blessings from the knowledge. For this reason the father watches over His own and often lets them fall into darkness, so that the eye will strengthen again and learn to distinguish, so that truth and error will be recognized again by people who became incapable of recognizing through their own guilt .... who demanded more light than is beneficial for their soul and do not respect the grace of walking in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of a mediator between God and humans ....

B.D. 5134 from May 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Receiving the living word also imposes obligations on the recipient which he must not overlook, for a divine gift is always bestowed for a specific purpose and must therefore also be utilized accordingly. This also includes that the recipient himself makes use of the divine gift, that he processes intellectually what has flowed to him through the heart. He must think through what is revealed to him, process it mentally in order to be able to convey it to his fellow human beings in his own words, if he is not able to directly convey what he has received. He must, so to speak, become the teacher of his fellow human beings, which requires a deep immersion in the knowledge conveyed to him from on high. He must beware of indifference and lukewarmness in his mission, which is inevitably connected with receiving the divine word, but in deepest earnestness utilize everything received, because it is a spiritual task which is to help people to the salvation of their souls. He must constantly distribute what he himself receives, and this the more assiduously the nearer the end. He has a great but also beautiful task to fulfil .... to act as a mediator between God and people .... and he should constantly be aware of this task, he should not forget that his love for his fellow human beings has earned him this task and that he must not let this love diminish but that it should deepen through the constantly increasing adversity so that his activity will continue uninterruptedly .... He should bear in mind that spiritual hunger is to be awakened in fellow human beings and that this is only possible when spiritual nourishment is offered to them and only then do they feel the inner teaching. Don't let the most delicious things you possess lie idle, constantly pass them on, create a course for the water of life which flows from the divine source so that it can flow wherever thirsty souls are, use every opportunity to inform fellow human beings of the influx of divine love and wisdom, of His word, which is invigorating and revitalizing for every earthly wanderer, and take it into your heart yourselves and live it out. And then you will be able to speak to your fellow human beings with innermost conviction and thus also convince them of the strength of the word which is conveyed to humanity from above in order to help them in greatest spiritual adversity. And instruct all who allow themselves to be instructed .... Work with the pound you have been given as long as there is still time, for people will try to hinder you and you will no longer be able to carry out your work as before. Then much seed shall already have been scattered which will sprout where the will is good .... Therefore create and work while it is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

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Spiritual reception or mental work? .... Serious scrutiny ....

B.D. 5135 from May 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 57

An endless abundance of spiritual knowledge can be conveyed to Earth without it being recognised by people for what it is .... For spirits are working in all spheres which want to communicate with people, and depending on people's degree of maturity are either received or rejected. No spiritual being is prevented from expressing itself if people are willing to listen. Yet people will likewise be granted protection if they don't want to be approached by evil forces. For force cannot be applied by the spiritual world, neither from below nor from above, and therefore it is always a matter of an individual person's own free will what kind of spiritual information he receives. However, you should know that spiritually awakened people, thus those who are in conscious contact with Me and appeal to Me for the pure truth, can never ever be deceived or wrongly instructed again .... For these people are surrounded by a protective wall of spiritual beings of light which only ever endeavour to deny entry to all impure spirits, because a spiritually awakened person belongs to the redemptive community once he has offered his services to Me and his redemptive work shall not be endangered by the darkness. But then it is a question as to what kind of mission the person intending to serve Me has and how far he has already penetrated the truth. A less informed person will be unable to grasp exalted wisdom, consequently he will not be able to judge its value either, to judge a truth which is as yet incomprehensible to him. In that case, however, his mission is not the same as that of a person who was instructed in the most profound knowledge should fulfil .... Furthermore, strict attention has to be paid as to whether 'spiritual receptions' or mental brain work are under discussion ....

You do well to remember that spiritual recipients, if they work on My instructions, will be spiritually protected from interference by impure spirits .... but that a person's own thinking cannot be prohibited when he uses his intellect in order to formulate his will and therefore 'spiritual reception' does not takes place. This person can also have good intentions but he does not allow himself to be led, instead he takes the lead himself .... You humans should strictly criticise yourselves, your should remain profoundly humble and let Me work in you, so that you don't offer the adversary any reason to affect you negatively. You are being educated by My spirit of love if your thoughts aim towards higher spheres. But then everything that still relates to earthly matters will have to be left behind, that is, you must completely exclude yourselves if you pose questions you want answered. Only then will those spiritual forces which impart absolute truth to you be able to step into action. Then pure spiritual thoughts will flow to you and you will be certain that you are being truthfully instructed. But if you take earthly impressions along the soul will still be influenced by the intellect, in which case the intellect can gain the upper hand, and according to its wishes you can be affected by thought currents which are not emanations from the kingdom of light and yet are considered such, this is why contradictory contents should always be critically scrutinised, as not to confuse you. You should learn to move within purely spiritual thought currents, you should only desire purest truth and only want to be spiritually instructed .... you should in profound humility desire to hear My Word .... then all earthly thoughts will step into the background, the beings of light will be able to take effect on you and educate you on My instructions. Then you will receive purest spiritual information whose content is consistent, and every one of you will think the same, because only one truth is sent from above to those who love Me and want to be redemptively active, who want to allow My working in them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna