New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5295 - 5404

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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God accessible to all people.

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

5295 - Feeding the divine word.... God always wants to give....

5296 - God's dwelling in the heart of man....

5297 - Watch and pray.... God's protection against evil forces....

5298 - Redeemer work on souls in the afterlife.... expression of them....

5299 - God's spark....

5300 - Reason for lack of realization.... will.... truth....

5301 - Free will is fundamental eternal law.... Attaining beatitude....

5302 - Unusual gift of grace.... task of service....

5303 - Purpose of earthly life: Change of will and character....

5304 - God makes demands, but also gives all the means for beatification....

5305 - The last day will come suddenly and unexpected....

5306 - God’s word incomprehensible?.... precondition....

5307 - New Testament and Appendix....

5308 - The human being is responsible for the will....

5309 - "I am the way, the truth and the life...."

5310 - What comes from above must radiate light....

5311 - Infinite love and patience of God in the development of the spiritual....

5312 - "No one can serve two masters...."

5313 - Change of will through intercession....

5314 - Love is the key to the spiritual kingdom....

5315 - Divine principle: love....

5316 - God's act of mercy before the end.... bridge....

5317 - Serious reminder to break away from matter....

5318 - The souls' hardship in the beyond.... Intercession.... Change of will....

5319 - Mental influence of spiritual beings.... connection from earth to the beyond....

5320 - Scrutiny of genuine revelations....

5321 - Cosmic currents.... (astrology)....

5322 - Consequences of unkindness in the beyond....

5323 - Justice.... Recompense in the beyond....

5324 - Brutal battle of faith.... Fortification of faith....

5325 - Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth....

5326 - God's blessing rests on every redeemer's work....

5327 - Faith struggle.... safest protection....

5328 - God’s word gives knowledge of His will....

5329 - Serious reminder to remember death....

5330 - Blow of the spirit.... unusual supply of grace....

5331 - Earthly knowledge in the beyond?....

5332 - The state of souls in the beyond.... Misguided belief - unbelief - love....

5333 - God - light - truth - life....

5334 - God-focused will must be active....

5335 - Special mission: Fighting for truth....

5336 - My kingdom is not of this world....'

5337 - Fight for truth.... light....

5338 - Conversion work on souls from the depths through love....

5339 - Preventing the Judgment through prayer?....

5340 - Remodeling the earth gives new development possibilities....

5341 - Arrogance....

5342 - Redemption from darkness.... loving will to help....

5343 - God.... father....

5344 - The spirit's efficacy....

5345 - Healing process.... Free will....

5346 - Work for God and His kingdom.... teachings....

5347 - God's wooing of workers for His vineyard....

5348 - Christ problem.... visible God....

5349 - God's merciful love goes after the lost....

5350 - Redeemer work.... understanding for spiritual need....

5351 - Unleashing spiritual forces.... Eruptions.... Period of redemption....

5352 - Darkness of the spirit.... work of love.... distance from God....

5353 - Effect of atheism in the beyond....

5354 - Shine of light recognizable to the souls in the beyond....

5355 - "I stand at the door and knock...." revelations....

5356 - Incarnation and redemptive work of Jesus....

5357 - Union with God through love....

5358 - Strength of love.... Healing the sick.... Performing miracles....

5359 - God's help in earthly trouble.... work in the vineyard....

5360 - See again in the afterlife.... maturity....

5361 - Fall of the angels.... good friday message....

5362 - Reason for the revelations: learning to know and love God....

5363 - Easter message....

5364 - Small herd fighting at the end of the earth....

5365 - Reunion in the beyond in the kingdom of light....

5366 - Source of life.... garden of Eden.... living water....

5367 - God's Word, an inconceivable grace in the last days....

5368 - Faithful prayer makes the will of God inclined....

5369 - God takes care of earthly things....

5370 - Tests of faith to fortify belief....

5371 - Strengthening of faith through love work....

5372 - God’s word.... book of the fathers.... taught by God....

5373 - The heart as God's abode....

5374 - Instruction for teaching ministry by God Himself.... Mission....

5375 - God wants to work in man.... redeeming activity....

5376 - I know Mine.... good shepherd....

5377 - Tests of faith to fortify belief....

5378 - The will is judged even if the deed cannot be accomplished....

5379 - Merciful Fatherly love for the fallen beings....

5380 - Immutable will of God.... plan of salvation from eternity....

5381 - Great need through faithlessness....

5382 - Rage of satan at the end....

5383 - Serious admonition.... The final phase of the earth....

5384 - Communion....

5385 - God speaks through nature....

5386 - Teaching ministry in end time.... difficulties....

5387 - Urgent need for mission:.... truth....

5388 - Transformation work of the earth is intended to create order....

5389 - Misguided teaching about the Trinity....

5390 - "I will take up residence in your hearts...."

5391 - God’s word can be defaced.... test of will....

5392 - Spiritual drought.... desert.... work of the servants....

5393 - Danger of disbelief and untruth....

5394 - The Word (grace) recipients' advantage compared to the atheists....

5395 - Separation between God and creatures impossible....

5396 - Truth is not accepted without faith....

5397 - Serious wake-up call....

5398 - Last Judgment....

5399 - Will to help the souls of darkness....

5400 - Awakening the spark of God in man....

5401 - Maturing process always requires new creations....

5402 - Characteristic of the inner Word....

5403 - Word-conveying to the souls on earth and in the hereafter....

5404 - Return to God.... God's working in man....

Feeding the divine word .... God always wants to give ....

B.D. 5295 from January 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My word from on high goes to you .... you are given visible evidence of My love for you humans, you are granted an unusual grace .... you will be introduced to the truth which originates in Me. Everything you desire to know will be explained to you, but knowledge will also be made accessible to you which you do not directly request from Me .... I place you into a state of light who previously dwelled in darkness, I impart knowledge to you about which the human being as such cannot obtain truthful enlightenment by other means .... And My greater than great love for you, for My living creations, which are in spiritual hardship, which have little or nothing to cause them bliss but suffer from many deficiencies, prompts Me to do so. My love constantly urges Me to give and make happy, and I distribute unmeasured where a heart willing to receive is found which accepts My gift .... Yet only when you have received people will you feel the bliss of spiritual possession, but you will not strive for it as long as you have not received a taste.

I will give .... and you shall take from My abundance .... And therefore I will never deny Myself to an earthly child willing to receive My gift if it desires it. The connection with Me, which it establishes itself through its request for light and strength and grace, also guarantees the granting of light and strength and grace. And therefore the fountain of My love can never run dry, which the child can refresh itself with at any time. I always want to give, but do you humans also always want to receive? How often do I stand ready with My grace and only wait for the suitable vessel to let My flow of strength flow into it because My love urges Me to do so. How often would I like to speak to you humans and I cannot find an ear that listens to Me .... But if I hear the call for My loving address, My voice will never be silenced .... I will always reveal Myself and let My spirit flow into the vessel which opens because it desires My strength of love. And thus you humans always receive light and strength, i.e. truth, and through it the strength to further your spiritual ascent. You look for Me and I let Myself be found and pull you up to Me by virtue of My love, which you keep at the bottom as long as My strength of love cannot touch you. It is infinite love which again and again prompts Me to communicate with you, which wants to help you because you are in need of help, and which therefore touches you in the form of My word as soon as you are willing to receive it and let Me speak to you .... It is love for you, My living creations, which applies to all and which seeks to communicate itself through you to all people, for you all are in the hardship of the souls which I want to control by trying to supply you with what you lack in order to be blissfully happy .... My word, which is full of strength, which provides your souls with recovery if it becomes effective in you, if you are not only hearers but doers of My word .... Then you will be full of light and strength and you will live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's dwelling in the heart of man ....

B.D. 5296 from January 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I want to dwell in you .... I want My living creations to be completely permeated by My spirit, I want them to be filled with My fundamental substance, with love, so that I Myself irrefutably dwell within them and they have, as it were, become the envelopment of Myself, which signifies unlimited bliss for the being. I would like to dwell in all human hearts and be able to call all My creatures My children who have received the father within themselves .... Inconceivable beatitudes emerge from such a relationship of a child with the father, and to procure these beatitudes for My living creations is always and forever My aim and My striving. This is why the visible and the spiritual world were created .... the visible world in order to give My living creations the opportunity to achieve a deification of their nature for the first time, the spiritual world in order to offer these deified beings undreamt-of bliss. And in this spiritual world I Myself will then visibly present Myself to My children, in this spiritual world the child's relationship with the father will first take shape and through constant intercourse increase love to highest ardour until a complete fusion with Me can take place, which signifies unimaginable bliss for you. In the spiritual kingdom a constant ascent is certain as soon as the soul has found Me on earth or only in the spiritual kingdom. But until this turning to Me has occurred, often endless times pass, and during this time I struggle for every soul by wooing its love, because only love changes the will which previously did not belong to Me. But the change of will and conscious turning to Me then also guarantees the attainment of the final aim, the union with Me on earth already or also in the spiritual kingdom.

I want to take abode in your hearts .... The short time of earthly life shall bring it about that you have found your way to Me, and that is why earthly life is often difficult and arduous, yet once the aim has been reached you will be fully compensated for even the most difficult earthly life, for the spiritual kingdom will open up to you in a glory that surpasses all imagination .... For no human eye has ever seen and no human ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me .... I only require your love, then the kingdom of beatitudes will belong to you, then you will enter the father's inheritance as My children, for then you will have truly become My children, because you have shaped yourselves through love into My image and now also possess light and strength in all fullness, which you now use in My will for the indescribable bliss of yourselves .... Let Me enter your hearts, open wide the door to Me .... become what I Myself am in My original being, become love .... so that I can abide in you and you in Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Watch and pray .... God's protection against evil forces ....

B.D. 5297 from January 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I will hold you with a firm hand, I will guide you on the right path, I will always walk with you and not let any enemy approach you, I will always protect you from danger, for I do not want you to suffer harm, just as I do not want you to go astray. Nevertheless, you will always be besieged by forces which want to harm you, which are only waiting for you to let go of My hand for once, to walk the path without Me in order to then quickly push you away from Me in order to harm you. Hence you must always be on your guard but not against him, instead you must always make sure that you don't move away from Me, for as long as you are close to Me he cannot approach you, he cannot harm you as long as your gaze is turned towards Me. You need not fear him, no matter how cleverly he thinks he can use .... I have bestowed the gift of knowledge upon you who want to serve Me, and thus he will not be able to deceive you, even though he camouflages himself and tries to win you under a mask. I am with you and know what he intends, and I truly do not hand you over to his power. I only want to constantly warn and admonish you to keep watch and pray .... that you consciously unite with Me and call upon Me for protection and help if you believe yourselves to be in danger. He will not triumph over you, yet he can still cause you inner battles through temptations but you will always remain victorious as long as you stick to Me, as long as you never leave Me out of your thoughts and prayers .... Then you will take refuge in Me, then I will protect you and he will have to leave without having reached his aim. For I am the lord even over him who wants to oppress you .... and where I am, there his activity is in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work on souls in the afterlife .... expression of them ....

B.D. 5298 from January 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Every service you believe to render Me, which you want to render Me, is pleasant to Me, for I evaluate your will. You humans cannot imagine that the connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth and vice versa can be established at any time and will also be established through your thoughts, which are constantly touching emanations from the spiritual kingdom, regardless of whether they are good or bad, for the kingdom of darkness also affects you in the form of thoughts. Earthly, through death, a separation has occurred between the people of this earth and the kingdom of the beyond, but spiritually there are no boundaries if you do not erect them yourselves through wrong thinking or complete turning away from the spiritual world. Only the material outer form is no longer present, but the soul, the actual beingness, is always accessible to you. You draw it to yourselves through your thinking and willing, and if you are now of awakened spirit, if you are not completely unenlightened, you can contact those who were close to you on earth at any time. You can talk to them in thought and they will always hear your speech, they will also answer you if you make an effort to understand their answer. For it is no longer the bodily organs which convey the answer to you but you must try to understand their language and thus, to a certain extent, communicate with them spiritually. Perfect beings from the spiritual kingdom can express themselves to you through the spirit, less perfect as well as immature beings of the beyond make themselves known in a way which is even more similar to earthly communication but which you humans can also understand.

All beings want to express themselves, no matter whether they are above or below you according to their maturity, only what they want to tell you is different. The high beings, the inhabitants of the kingdom of light, want to give you .... constantly hand out strength to you because they know that you lack it and want to help you to become blissfully happy. But the beings which are still imperfect want your help .... They, too, want to communicate with you in the hope of receiving something from you because they feel poor and miserable as long as they are still completely ignorant. And these souls often don't understand that you don't listen to them, they don't know that you can no longer hear them with physical ears, and therefore you are constantly surrounded by souls .... by those who are in need and also by those who want to help you in earthly as well as in spiritual adversity. If these souls succeed in making themselves known to you, if they succeed in making themselves understood to you, they will be extremely happy and constantly stay close to you .... I don't refuse them if they want to express themselves, but I also bless everything you do out of love in order to provide these souls with the requested help. You humans don't know the hardship in which so many souls languish .... Wherever a being seeks to escape this hardship, wherever it finds a path through the adversity which finally leads to Me, I will stand by these souls and will never condemn what love wanting to help undertakes and what also brings certain help to the unhappy souls .... which can therefore be regarded as a work of salvation if it is only intended to help the souls in the beyond with deepest seriousness and best will. But the best help remains the intercession you humans should offer to those souls, for it enables Me Myself to mercifully incline towards the beings, and all souls you include in loving intercession will certainly be lifted up from the abyss, because the strength of love helps every soul to ascend ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's spark ....

B.D. 5299 from January 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spark of God in the human heart is the light which is to be kindled in you so that it will become bright in you and you will attain knowledge. Love alone kindles the light, love awakens the divine spirit which was placed in you as a spark of eternal love, of the father-spirit from eternity, in order to spread out and fill your whole human being, in order to unite again with the original light, with the fire of love which God Himself radiates into infinity .... Eternal love is not divisible; everything that can be addressed as love is this all-encompassing emanation of God, and everywhere love is practiced God Himself, because love can never be outside of God but is the original substance of Himself. Love, however, is strength, it is something effective, something living, love is, so to speak, an ever-active stream of fire which constantly brings forth life. Thus a spark rests in you as soon as you see the light of day as a human being, and your task in earthly life is to let this spark of God flare up so that it will likewise awaken life in you ....

He is the actual life of God, which only gives the apparent life of the body the right meaning. It is the spiritual, which is imperishable but first has to be awakened in the human being before it appears as strength. It is that which connects you with God, which identifies you as part of God; it is placed in you but left to your own will, which must ignite it and let it flare up into a bright flame .... It can also remain buried until the end of life if the human being does not want to recognize his togetherness with God and completely distances himself from Him .... The connection certainly remains because God's spirit is indivisible, yet the human being himself feels nothing of it, it is dark and cold in him, he feels neither the brightness nor the warmth of a light, and thus the divine flow of love's strength, His spirit, is not perceived by the human being, and he is dead in spirit, without the urge to be active, without strength, although he lives on earth. Only the spirit from God creates true life, God's strength of love, which can only fill the human being when he ignites the spark of God in himself through love .... Only then will he enter the stage of life, the stage of activity, where the strength from God appears, where the human being matures in realization and faith and love generate an abundance of divine spirit in him .... increasing light and strength. To awaken and nourish the divine spiritual spark through love is the human being's most important task in earthly life, for then he will establish unity with God, the eternal love, and consciously unite with Him in order to never ever detach himself from Him, from Whom he will never be able to separate in eternity either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reason for lack of realization .... will .... truth ....

B.D. 5300 from January 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Humanity's guilt of sin of its past apostasy from Me, of its resistance to My love and of the creature's arrogance against its creator is the reason for the spiritual darkness, the lack of realization in which most people find themselves. The darkness of spirit also imprisons the will which is therefore always directed downwards and rarely turns towards the light. The light comes from above, but below is and remains darkness. Now everything must be clear and full of understanding to a person who stands in the light, he must possess knowledge which enables him to always provide information, and this knowledge must always allow the love, wisdom and omnipotence of Him to be recognized, Who stands at the centre of all knowledge .... Who is the eternal light .... Where My love, wisdom and omnipotence appear questionable, where ambiguity or gaps are recognizable, where I am portrayed as a distorted image, there is still darkness that My image does not shine through clearly and radiantly and therefore I am not recognized as the God of love, wisdom and omnipotence. As long as a person is still occupied by doubts, questions or unclear concepts he is not yet in truth, in light, for this reveals everything to him, truth chases away all doubt, truth answers all questions and enlightens the person so that he is also able to recognize it as truth. But therefore the will for truth is also a prerequisite, and this will will always arise when the human being strives to be good of his own free will, when he ignites the spark of love within himself, which will then always point the will in the right direction. Anyone who strives downwards of his own accord, who inclines towards evil and is therefore held under the spell of lower forces, neither seeks the light nor has the ability to recognize the truth, for his will keeps him bound in darkness, he feels comfortable in wrong concepts, lies and error please him and he does not seek to escape from them .... But anyone who strives towards the light soon enters spheres where it is bright and he can recognize everything, his desire for light increases because the urge for loving activity also increases .... It is only the will which can be held responsible for the human being's spiritual state. The fact that the human being is initially in darkness is the result of his past sin .... but he can rise from the abyss if he wants to .... But the will is free and will never ever be determined by Me, yet people will be helped in every way, which is why anyone who desires it can reach the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will is fundamental eternal law .... Attaining beatitude ....

B.D. 5301 from January 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I cannot redeem people's guilt against their will; I cannot make them blissfully happy as long as they are imperfect of their own volition. I cannot grant them eternal life as long as they prefer spiritual death. I can do everything apart from enslaving the will of that which I created out of My strength of love. For I created perfect beings which are inconceivable without free will. However, the fact that they gave up their perfection, that they therefore also lost their realisation and strength, was the result of their free will, which could just as well have increased the perfection insofar as that My created being could have striven freely of its own accord for light and strength, thus demonstrating its perfection lawfully, i.e., of its own free will. Freedom of will allows for moving upwards as well as downwards .... Hence, the fact that the spiritual being fell was its own fault .... Now it must voluntarily strive upwards again in order to attain the original state, and I can never take this free will away from the being again, otherwise I would offend against Myself, against the fundamental law of eternity. Do you now understand why I cannot arbitrarily help you humans to ascend? Why you must achieve the transformation from the abyss into higher spheres yourselves? Do you now understand why I can only ever influence your thinking so that you direct your will towards Me and thus consciously strive to reach Me? Do you understand why My love is constantly concerned that you, who had already spent an infinitely long time before you were allowed to embody yourselves on earth, will finally reach your goal?

You were truly granted an extensive period of time in order to achieve this change of will and nature, yet one day even the longest space of time comes to an end, and you are facing this end .... I cannot arbitrarily shape you such that you can enter eternal life, you must lend a hand yourselves, for it is always My will to accept you into My kingdom, My will would never reject your will if it desires to reach Me, just as it once turned away from Me and pulled you into the abyss .... Worlds will vanish before the last spiritual being has accomplished this transformation of will .... Nevertheless, My love wants to help you humans so that you will not remain distant from Me for eternities to come, so that you will not remain for eternities in a material form, which either keeps your will bound or, as a human being, gives you the final opportunity to reach your goal of uniting yourselves with Me again .... You should know that you, as a human being, are at the last stage of your development on earth, that you can release yourselves from the material shell in order to then enter eternity as a blissful spiritual being. Know that you can become blessed if you want it, but that I cannot help you attain beatitude against your will .... Let yourselves be admonished and warned by My Fatherly love, take advantage of this short time and shape yourselves such that you can unite with Me, that you become what you were in the beginning, blissful beings who were able to be work in an abundance of light and strength .... Consider your purpose and seriously strive to reach your goal as long as you live on earth, for the day will come which concludes your earthly course of life, the day will come when the time has expired which you were granted for your complete redemption, for your ascent into the kingdom of light .... Use the time before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unusual gift of grace .... task of service ....

B.D. 5302 from January 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You have received an unusual grace which enables you to do unusual work, work which does not affect earthly but spiritual life, work which is not meant to be done for a short time but for eternity, because it concerns the life of the soul after the death of the body, which is to be secured through this work. What you receive is something immense and yet it is so inconspicuous in earthly terms that worldly people smile at it because they cannot appreciate the great significance of your task. And it must also appear insignificant to the world, after all, people should not feel compelled to reach for spiritual treasures which can only become real spiritual possessions of their own free will and which can therefore only be acquired by people who are turned away from the world and seriously seek Me. These will also recognize My visible involvement with you, they will reverently let My expression of love also affect them, they will, as it were, receive through you and yet the same as you receive from Me. What I offer you does not lose its value and also remains the same forever .... It is My word which endures for all eternity .... Therefore, anyone who works with My word will always be able to demonstrate success with those whose thoughts are spiritually directed. There his activity will always be successful. But he should also go to the children of the world and try to snatch them from the world with My word. My word has strength and can also have the effect of totally changing a worldly person .... but only if the will is undecided, thus not completely opposed to Me .... Then My word defeats the undecided will, it turns to Me because My word touches it beneficially ....

Now you, My servants, who receive My word, you have a mighty weapon, you can fight with the sword of the mouth, with My word, and you can therefore venture into the territory of My enemy, you can make mighty breaches there, you can draw over from his camp those who follow the sound of My word because they feel its power .... You are well equipped for a campaign in favour of My kingdom. You will never lack strength yourselves, for you draw it directly from Me in the form of My word which is constantly sent to you, which will not let you weaken, which will let you fight joyfully and whose effect is also recognized by the brothers in the enemy camp. For they are your brothers as long as they still need help, as long as they do not openly oppose Me but are only hired followers of My adversary. To draw them over into your camp is a beautiful and rewarding task for you, for every single one you snatch from his control is your friend for eternity, and every single one is My creature which I woo, which I want to win back again and to which I send you to guide it, to tell it about Me, to impart My words of love to it, which I send to it through you .... Your task is unusual but My activity towards you is also unusual through which you can fulfil this task .... You will never lack strength and My blessing will always rest upon you if you want to make use of the unusual gift of grace, if you are willing to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purpose of earthly life: Change of will and character ....

B.D. 5303 from January 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You humans have to go through a process of revival or you will be unsuitable for the spiritual kingdom, for the spheres of light. This means that you humans, the way you are in earthly life, don't have the necessary maturity to reside in the kingdom of light. You need a completely different attitude in order to become an acceptable occupant of the spiritual kingdom, and you are meant to achieve this state on earth, which is indeed possible. Hence you have to go through a certain process of transformation, and you have to undertake it of your own accord.

Your character cannot be forcibly changed, thus your state at the end of your earthly life is determined by yourselves, and corresponding to your willingness to change your soul will leave your body .... either receptive to light or still surrounded by dense layers which cannot bear any emanation of light .... But who knows this, which person ponders this when he is informed of it and takes changing his character seriously? ....

Every person has to refine himself, he has to discard faults, weaknesses and bad habits and teach himself humility, gentleness, peacefulness, patience, compassion; every person has to shape himself into love in order to combine all these virtues within himself, then he will have shaped himself such that he can be admitted into the kingdom of light, then his nature will be deified, then he will have adjusted himself to My fundamental nature and thereby will have enabled Me Myself to enter into union with him, for everything that had separated us will have been consciously removed. The transformation of his character is the path which leads to Me, he will have achieved his earthly goal and discarded the last heavy cover as soon as he leaves his body in order to then live eternally as a blissfully happy spiritual being. Only then will the real life begin .... Let these words come alive in you: Real life begins for you when you enter the kingdom of light .... Everything prior to this has only been the ladder, the preparation time for the actual life which, however, has to be acquired during this preparation time. You humans eagerly and undauntedly work for earthly life since you consider this alone important, and you regard it as an end in itself. Yet you do not consider the actual life because you do not believe in a continuation of life after the death of your body.

Oh, you are fools .... Your purpose of life is an entirely different one than just working for your body's well-being. You are informed of this time and again yet you don't believe it, and therefore you don't change your character either, and that is your downfall .... For if you are not suitable to enter the kingdom of light, but I neither can nor want to destroy you since you originated from Me, you will have to carry out your transformation elsewhere, and that can also mean a great fall and a gradual ascent corresponding to My eternal plan, if the opportunity of attaining maturity in the beyond is not available to you .... Sooner or later you will have to undertake this change of character in the stage of a human being, not even My love can release you from this. The stage of a human being is, however, the final stage in an incredibly long process of development through all creations on earth. As a human being you will have to accomplish a conscious change of will and character if this process of development is to reach a successful end with your physical death on earth .... Then your earthly course of life will irrevocably come to an end ....

Nevertheless, progress can continue in the spiritual realm, the soul can still recognise its wretched state in the spiritual kingdom and try to improve itself, but this necessitates much help from the beings of light or through human intercession. But the being can also slide down again into the deepest abyss because it did not recognise and try to change itself .... Then it will have to accept an appalling fate in order to join the process of change after an infinitely long time again, when it has to prove itself once again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God makes demands, but also gives all the means for beatification ....

B.D. 5304 from January 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

He Who created the world, He also ensures its existence as long as it is necessary .... He Who created you humans will also ensure that you receive what you need, for He created you for a purpose .... just as the whole of earthly creation was created for a purpose: .... to guide the lost spiritual substance back onto the right path so that it may reach its aim, the reunion with the creator and father of eternity from Whom it once originated. If He has now created all things for this reason, if He has given you humans life in order to reach His aim, He will also do everything that is necessary for the preservation of the human being as well as the works of creation. He will provide you humans with strength, He will enable you to fulfil the task which leads to the aim. But you humans must believe that you have a task as long as you live on earth and seriously ask yourselves whether you live in accordance with this task, whether you make the fulfilment of the task your concern. You can never object that you are hindered, that you lack the means, that you are unable to accomplish what is required of you, for He Who makes demands on you for the purpose of beatification also gives you everything so that you can comply with His demands .... He has given you intellect, vitality and free will and, as the most important supplement, an unlimited supply of grace by virtue of which you can do anything you want .... You need not lack anything if you are only serious about fulfilling the will of Him Who called you into being .... And He will give you much more if you approach Him yourselves, for His love for you is unlimited and wants everything that serves your beatification. You only need to want to, then His love can be constantly active for you, then His wisdom and omnipotence can work in and around you, and He will shower you with His grace so that you can reach your aim. You don't need to worry about your earthly life because He will maintain it if you only think of spiritual life. You can leave everything to Him, for He regulates your earthly course, He smoothes all paths for you, for He is powerful, wise and exceedingly loving, and He arranges everything as it is good for you. He cares for His children like a father and will never allow them to suffer as soon as they trustingly hand themselves over to Him and His guidance. But He will never act upon you contrary to your will .... Therefore give your will to Him, submit yourselves to Him Who created you for the sake of a purpose, don't believe that you alone can maintain this earthly life of yours by your own strength but recognize and submit yourselves to Him Who is your creator and father from eternity .... Make yourselves His own and you will truly achieve everything with your devotion, you will thereby enter into your original relationship again, and the meaning and purpose of material creation and your earthly life as a human being will be fulfilled; you will be again what you were in the beginning .... beings filled with light and strength who are indescribably blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The last day will come suddenly and unexpected ....

B.D. 5305 from January 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

A sudden end is being announced to you .... This has to be understood in a way that no-one is able to determine the day, that no-one knows the day which only My Own will be able to discern in view of the immense, almost unbearable adversity that has also been announced as an event occurring before the end. Many people certainly know that the time of the end has started and that it, sooner or later, will finish with this day .... they know this because it is talked about everywhere but they don't believe it so firmly as to prepare themselves for this day. Worldly people will be seized by a tremendous craving for pleasure, ever more greedily they pay homage to worldly pleasure and unscrupulously enjoy themselves at the expense of others, their wishes and demands become ever greater, and they sneeringly laugh at those who, in their belief in Me, ignore worldly pleasures, and cause them harm wherever possible. The world lives in sin .... And this shall be your certain sign, for you will experience things you wouldn't believe possible .... The evil conduct of your fellow men will reveal the hour on the world clock ....

And despite the fact that you will be able to observe everything and that the signs of the time are completely obvious, you, too, will be taken by surprise, for the end will come sooner than you think .... The end will come from one day to the next, that is, the activity of the world will pulsate extraordinarily sprightly and make people believe that they are on top of life, that they are in control and can shape their life to their liking .... My Own will closely watch this commotion and anticipate the downfall, yet they, too, believe that the Judgment will still be delayed in view of people's seething joy of life although their nature is appalling and heartless. However, the harassments by the latter will grow and I Myself will stop them .... For this reason I will come suddenly and unexpectedly even for My Own, for the sins of worldly people are disgraceful, Satan oversteps his authority and therefore his hour has come .... When no-one expects it the day will come which has been determined from the start .... the last day on this earth, which brings fear and horror for those people who belong to Satan, but which also signifies deliverance for My Own from utmost adversity .... the day of Judgment, when it will come to pass what has been proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word incomprehensible? .... precondition ....

B.D. 5306 from January 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Anyone who listens to Me will not lack understanding either, for I speak to those who are receptive and choose the words so that they can understand everything, otherwise My word would remain ineffective in their hearts. And thus My word has always gone out to people, it was never offered to them such that it remained incomprehensible to them, it was always directed to people who needed it and always in the form which was of use to them. And yet, it was always the same word which will endure for all eternity. I give good and digestible food to My children on earth, food which ensures the prosperity of My living creations and which therefore can be accepted by everyone who desires it. I only give good gifts .... My word which makes My will known to them so that they will become blissfully happy by fulfilling My will.

For this reason My language can always be understood, irrespective of who offers it, if only the offerer makes use of My word, which I spoke directly or through prophets, which I made the content of My teaching when I lived on earth .... if he, so to speak, lets Me speak through himself, if he speaks for Me and wants to win his fellow human beings for My kingdom. Then his language will be the same as I once spoke and it will also be understandable for everyone. For I will truly not require the human being to listen to something incomprehensible if he desires to hear Me or My word. I always take the individual's comprehension into account, and My word can be understood by everyone if he has the serious will to do so.

This, therefore, is a prerequisite, otherwise even My clearly spoken word remains incomprehensible, because this corresponds to My eternal order that the core of truth remains veiled to the one who does not strive for the truth .... And so I summarize once more: My word will never be incomprehensible to the one who seriously desires it, yet it will appear like foolishness to the one who does not want to fathom its meaning ....

The gift of teaching in My name, filled by My spirit, is an obvious sign of this, for the preacher will speak the same words with convincing force, because it is I Who now speaks through him .... His words will give light to those who want to hear Me, he will, as it were, radiate the light from Me into the hearts of willing listeners. Yet even if they speak with angelic tongues the words remain without impression on those who are hostile to Me, for they do not understand them. Nevertheless, My word is not incomprehensible but their hearts are unsuitable to receive it and therefore their intellect cannot grasp it either, which, however, is easily understandable. When My spirit expresses itself in a person it always means that a light is given to you, and that in many ways .... that you accomplish something for which the working of My spirit, thus My strength of love, is required. Thus an unusual ability appears which therefore has a faith-strengthening effect on fellow human beings because it testifies to divine strength. But fellow human beings would never acknowledge divine strength if My spirit expressed itself in a way which gives the human being no light but darkness, thus something completely incomprehensible. What comes from above must be bright, thus full of light ....

This should give you food for thought when you judge the gifts of the spirit or confirm or deny the working of the spirit. Where confusion arises, there is no light, but will-o'-the-wisps flash, which are the works of satan. And he likes to instigate confusion, even amongst those who believe, as long as these believers themselves have not yet recognized the truth, as long as their fire of love is still too weak to spread a bright glow of light in which no shadow can then exist. Satan’s power is great but no human being can be forced by him into his domain of darkness if he seeks light and strives towards the light. I also want to protect him from seeing a false light as a ray of light from above, for a false light does not emit any light, it remains dark, and where there is darkness there is ignorance and consequently also never My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New Testament and Appendix ....

B.D. 5307 from January 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

In the New Testament you read the Word of God which was proclaimed by the human being Jesus and which, after His death on the cross, was also preached by His disciples. Jesus' sayings as well as those of the first apostles were preserved rather untainted even though minor deviations have crept in which, however, do not significantly change the pure teaching of Christ. But comments had been added which had not been voiced by Jesus or the apostles which, at later times, gave rise to doubt about the authenticity of the New Testament's content. No accurate evidence can be produced for the authenticity of the letters which were added to the Gospel either, yet they effectively correspond to the divine Word and should therefore not be discarded, just like everything else in keeping with the divine teaching of love taught by the human being Jesus on earth may be considered and acknowledged as God's Word. However, this does not imply that there are no errors in this appendix, for as long as human hands are at work which do not belong to a spiritually-awakened person, God's adversary has also the power to make these hands work for him, albeit not in an obvious manner. And thus human hands carried out the compilation as well as the translations; human hands accomplished the written as well as the printed work, and even if it was done in good will the spirit of God was nevertheless not always at work and able to exclude and correct what was wrong ....

Yet He protectively shielded the divine Word .... in order to preserve it as unadulterated as possible, and where no God-opposing intentions existed this Word indeed remained pure in print and scripture. Not even the abovementioned deviations could change the pure meaning of the divine Word, they could not lessen its value. Furthermore, it will always be possible for a spiritually awakened human being to recognise what is divine and what has been added by the human side. And he will appeal for clarification and also receive it, for anyone who is looking for truth will find it, anyone who desires it will receive it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The human being is responsible for the will ....

B.D. 5308 from February 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Whether good or evil comes to blossom in the human being is his own will, which cannot be forced from any side, even if the human being claims to have to act under a certain compulsion. His will can resist compulsion at any time, even if he is physically too weak to offer resistance. Yet he must always answer for his will, for it is and remains free, and a person's direction of will shapes him into a good or evil being, the direction of will determines his way of life, his attitude towards God and his fate one day in eternity, for what the human being does as such he does consciously as directed for or against divine order, and God judges this conscious will according to justice.

But for this reason He also takes care that the human being is informed of His will during his earthly life, to which the human will should submit if it wants to live in divine order. What goes against divine will is evil, and this is also perceived as bad by the human being, for he usually acts in secret as soon as he is surrounded by people who are concerned about divine will. And if he acts openly in front of them then his will is consciously directed against God, then he is undeniably recognizable as a representative of the one who is against God. And the effects of his actions will always be to the detriment of his fellow human beings, he obviously acts against love and causes suffering to his fellow human beings, he drives them into adversity and misery and thus abuses his free will to commit bad actions for which he will one day have to answer. Since he himself as a human being has the same feelings as his fellow human beings, he also knows that everything which harms his fellow human being is bad, and he can never portray his actions as right and conscientious, he can never absolve himself of guilt, although he does not want to acknowledge an eternal judge over him .... And if he believes to possess the right of the strong over the weak, he himself would also have to bow to a stronger person and approve of his bad deeds, which, however, is never the case but only drives him to increased uncharitable action .... His will is wrongly directed, of his own accord, despite recognition and knowledge of the laws of eternal order, which are constantly placed before his eyes by the conduct of good people who let him recognize his actions as through a mirror .... A bad person is always given the opportunity to reflect, his God-opposing way of life is always held up to him so that he will recognize himself and try to change .... But his free will must always be active, which can be good and need not be bad ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

B.D. 5309 from February 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

"I am the way, the truth and the life ...." From Me comes the truth, I show you the right path through the truth, and this leads to life, to eternal bliss .... There is no second way but through truth, there is no second life apart from Me, and there is only one Who can promise you life .... Who purchased it for you on the cross. I lived and fought for the truth, and I died an agonizing death for the only truth, so that every one of you humans can recognize it as soon as he believes in Me. My path is easy to follow for anyone of good will .... I have preceded you on it .... it is the path of love which infallibly also leads to the recognition of truth. Since I only preached love I constantly showed you the path; since I Myself lived out the teaching I was also able to proclaim the pure truth, for everything in Me was light and bright, I knew everything and was therefore also able to impart the right knowledge to you. But you can only receive the truth from Me because it originates from Me and therefore also leads back to Me again. Anyone who wants to possess the truth has to request it from Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself .... Without Me you will remain in spiritual darkness and take the wrong path, a path which leads downwards ....

You humans know that I have an adversary who wants to destroy where I build, who wants to extinguish the light, who wants to spread darkness over people so that they cannot recognize Me. This adversary tries everything to obfuscate the path to Me, to eternal life, so that it shall not be found .... And this adversary is an enemy of the truth, just as he is an enemy of Me .... For the truth reveals his plans, his activity and his detestable nature. Consequently, he takes action against the truth and his efforts will always be directed towards making Me Myself unrecognizable to people. He will work against Me wherever he can. Thus he is the antichrist who will stop at nothing to push people away from Me. The antichrist first works against the truth .... From this it follows that the pure truth will always be fought against .... that the representatives of the pure truth will be attacked, whereas the servants of the antichrist will be recognized as proclaimers of truth and masses will stand behind them, where the bearers of truth will only be isolated because action will constantly be taken against them. The path to truth is narrow, and it is only trodden by a few .... The masses of people walk on broad paths, and this alone shall be a sign to you who leads these masses .... Anyone who wants to follow Me on the narrow path of truth will not have many followers, for most shy away from the arduous path. But I Myself lead the way and I Myself am love, and anyone who follows Me must also have love within himself, and then the path will appear bright and clear to him and he will walk it unconcerned about the hardship, for his aim is Me and eternal life .... Do not seek the truth where the masses are .... I Myself walked My path on earth and was always surrounded by only a few, while most people rejected Me because I brought them the truth and it was unpleasant for them, because My adversary stood behind the masses and worked against the truth and only ever fights against it where he can. But anyone who stands in the truth recognizes his activity and it will never deter him .... For as soon as he follows Me he takes the right path and will live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What comes from above must radiate light ....

B.D. 5310 from February 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You must constantly make it your business to increase your state of maturity, you must constantly strive for perfection, you must constantly strengthen the bond with Me more, you must strive for a complete union with Me, then the separation between us will be more and more abolished, then My flow of strength of love can constantly flow into you, then you will be filled with My spirit .... i.e., that is, nothing will be impossible for you anymore, and then you will also be able to accomplish feats which seem to be supernatural because they can only be achieved with divine strength but which you can now use without measure because it will flow over you without restriction if you want to use it. But now I also want your fellow human beings to take note of what a person in closest contact with Me is capable of, so that they, too, will strive for this state of maturity and thus enter into the relationship with Me, which is their aim on this earth. Therefore, every spirit-filled person will in some way bear witness to Me and for Me .... he will heal the sick who believe in Me, he will hear My voice and thus be able to preach filled by My spirit; he will prophesy, i.e. be able to look into the future, but just as he will be able to see through his fellow human being's thoughts; he will know about things which his fellow human being does not know but only ever give knowledge of them where people's salvation is endangered, just as every spirit-filled person will only ever use his spiritual gift for spiritual life, for Me and My kingdom .... He will try to spread light and therefore be placed into the state of light by My spirit beforehand, which will then enable him to radiate light to his fellow human beings. Yet a spirit-awakened person will never deepen a state of darkness by spreading divine gifts before his fellow human beings which are not recognizable to them as such .... A light must spread brightness, otherwise it is no light .... The prerequisite is that the fellow human being wants to see and recognize .... But where this prerequisite is given and it nevertheless remains dark, there cannot be light, there cannot be spoken of the working of the spirit, which is the emanating strength of My love. People's degrees of maturity are certainly different and therefore also allow for different expressions of My spirit, yet it must always be possible to recognize My divine working if it is to help people achieve spiritual perfection as a life-awakening grant of grace.

Anyone who is therefore of an awakened spirit will be alienated by what is erroneously presented as spiritual activity and eagerly advocated if he cannot recognize any light from above in it himself, if he looks in vain for an effect which promotes the human being's maturity of soul and is, as it were, confronted by an inexplicable process which gives him no inner satisfaction. And such a process would be, for example, a proclamation in an incomprehensible language, the utterance of a being from the spiritual kingdom which seeks to make itself known on earth through a human being .... This being can certainly make use of a human being in order to express itself, yet these are never beings which are intended to bring light to people on My behalf, it is not an outpouring of the spirit upon such people but rather a reaction of a weak earthly spirit to the oppression of a spiritual being which, in rapturous devotion, renounces its own will and therefore is a welcome form for those spiritual beings through which they can express themselves, and in the way they are able to do so themselves ....

Everything that comes from above, which is imparted to people on earth in My will, must radiate light, people seeking light must also receive rays of light .... Where the shining of light is missing there is no working from the kingdom of light, and people should not put themselves into a state through fanatical worship where questionable forces can make use of them. The desire for recognition often plays a major role, and every error, every weakness, is exploited by these forces, yet always in such a way that a spiritually awakened person can recognize where the messages come from .... Zeal is certainly to be praised but it is not always appropriate, it does not always produce such results as correspond to My will, which is in a sense anticipated. I let My light shine where it is desired, but the adversary also knows how to light deceptive lights which, however, do not emit any light; and you will always recognize from this that only the eternal light spreads a radiant glow and that the prince of darkness can never illuminate the darkness.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Infinite love and patience of God in the development of the spiritual ....

B.D. 5311 from February 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spiritual's course of development requires infinite love and patience on the part of the heavenly father, regardless of whether the spiritual is in the stage of bound or free will. The return of the spiritual substance to Him is a process which takes an infinitely long time because the individual substances first have to find each other again, which were once banished as the tiniest entities in the works of creation, and this finding and unification takes place in the state of bound will .... As a human being, in the state of free will, this unification of substances has already been accomplished and the spiritual being has its self-awareness again; but now it is to purify itself completely, it is to unite with God, its creator and father from eternity, which it can certainly do .... But it can also fragment again, i.e. strive downwards, it can develop regressively and completely disregard unification with God and yet not be hindered in its will. It can only be won through love and prompted to strive for eternal love. And this reclamation requires infinite love and patience on the part of the father Who does not want to lose His children but cannot force them to belong to Him. But God's love is boundless .... it does not tire, it does not become impatient, it is not angry and it never gives up what it believes to be able to separate itself from Him. And He also inevitably wins it, yet endless times can pass over it, and that to the detriment of the spiritual being itself, which just spends an endless time in an unhappy existence, be it as a human being or also as a still bound spiritual being .... And therefore God's love will constantly come to its aid and support it in every way. He will constantly let new creations arise so that the course of development in the law of compulsion can be covered uninterruptedly, but just as He will also help the spiritual being as a human being with all love to find the path to ascent. What can happen from God to further it happens, but the human being's inevitable free will determines itself how long the spiritual is still in the bound state, i.e., how long time it needs until the union with God and thus the separation from all material form is accomplished. God's love will never stop looking after the spiritual substance, even if it appears as if it turns away from people, for it will never relinquish what has belonged to it since eternity, which should only join it fully consciously in order to be able to feel unlimited bliss, which is otherwise denied to thespiritual substance, because only a creature which has become love can feel God's love and His courtship for this love will never stop ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"No one can serve two masters ...."

B.D. 5312 from February 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

No one can serve Me and the world at the same time .... Anyone who turns his eye to the world cannot see Me because I keep Myself hidden as long as the human being's mind is only focused on the world .... For I and the world do not belong together, the world is My adversary's kingdom, but My kingdom is not of this world. Therefore, anyone who wants to find Me has to leave the world behind, he has to turn away from it, because I can be found in the opposite direction, because My kingdom lies elsewhere than the earthly world. I am one lord, and My servants cannot serve another lord at the same time who gives them opposing commands, which therefore are not in accordance with My will. But the human being shall decide, he can choose his own master, he is not forced into service for one or the other, he has free will and this must drive him towards the master whose servant he wants to be. Yet there are not two equally good lords between whom he is to choose, but the kingdom of light is ruled by the one, the kingdom of darkness by the other. Therefore it should certainly be easy for you to make the right decision, yet in your delusion you often don't recognize the kingdom of darkness because many dazzling lights deceive you, because the prince of the world attractively presents his kingdom to you, whereas My kingdom can only be recognized with spiritual eyes which you still keep closed. But if you voluntarily decide in favour of Me an exceedingly bright light will shine upon you which will no longer cause any desire for the world to arise in you .... And with joy you will serve your lord, with eagerness you will fulfil everything He instructs you to do, you will no longer feel like His servants but His children to Whom you completely submit your will. And you must gladly and naturally turn away from the world because the kingdom no longer appeals to you, which gives you no true light, which lies far away from My kingdom, which is not of this world. Yet I demand complete devotion from those who want to serve Me, I don't want them to still look back to the kingdom they left, I don't want them to also serve the one who is My adversary, for I demand unconditional loyalty from My servants, I demand love for their lord and master, because only then can the work be done properly which is absolutely necessary, which I have instructed My servants to do because they shall support Me, because this work has to be carried out by people who are completely devoted to Me ....

No one can serve two masters .... And therefore you must decide, you must question your heart to whom it urges you, you must renounce your love and desire, which still apply to the world, if you want to serve Me, if you want to enter My service, then you must change your love and desires, you must direct them towards spiritual goods, towards the kingdom in which I alone am ruler, and your decision will be right and earn you a blissful fate in eternity, in the kingdom which will remain when the earthly world passes away and which is your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Change of will through intercession ....

B.D. 5313 from February 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The realm of darkness holds its souls imprisoned because it doesn't require much strength to keep these souls tied up since, due to their weak will, they don't offer resistance .... However, this resolve can receive strength through intercession. You humans must realise that a loving prayer on behalf of these captured souls can be infinitely successful, they thereby begin to feel the arising desire to become free from Satan's chains. Often this desire only emerges in them for moments which, however, become increasingly longer the more often these souls are thought of in loving intercession. Then it is as if they awoke from a deep sleep, they become active and look for an opportunity to escape from their chains, for they experience the darkness as a constraint and desire light. Once this change has occurred as a result of loving prayers these souls will be willing to seek, and the tiniest ray of light will let them rush to its point of origin. They will start to come to life .... Even so, the prince of the nether world won't let them go that easily .... Therefore light and darkness will alternate in the beginning, from time to time they will come to realise their state and then wander about again in complete ignorance. For this reason these souls must be treated with kind-hearted patience, time and again they must receive an influx of strength through prayers, they must be called through loving thoughts and thus, time and again, be pulled out of their dark sphere, they must receive mental explanations and references to Jesus Christ, their Redeemer, so that they will turn to Him themselves and appeal to Him for help and mercy. Although the souls in the darkness are difficult to instruct and often obstinate, they nevertheless feel the benefit of a loving prayer and this also gradually softens their hardened heart, that is, through loving intercession a person can wrest such souls from the darkness and he will always be successful if he does not stop with his will to help, which also improves the soul's will. Evil souls often fight each other in the kingdom of the beyond, yet no dark soul will ever cause harm to a person who prays for them. A person's love will pacify even the most agitated soul, just as, in contrast, it revives and stimulates the weakest soul into improving its state. Loving intercession by people on earth is an immense redemption factor which is recognised far too little by people. Whenever these unfortunate souls are remembered, their desire for light arises and that always signifies a change of the souls' will, which is subsequently taken into account. The soul itself must want to be redeemed, and this resolve often arises as a result of a person's loving intercession .... Hence, love can still be practised even beyond death; souls can still be rescued from the darkness, for the strength of love can achieve anything ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love is the key to the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 5314 from February 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You will only be able to comprehend Me through love .... There is no other way you can win Me, no other way to recognise Me but through love. And thus you have the key which will open the door to My heart for you, the gate into the spiritual kingdom, to your Father's house. Without this key all access will remain blocked, everything My love, wisdom and omnipotence has created in the spiritual kingdom will remain hidden from you, without this key all knowledge of truth will remain concealed, you will lack all divine wisdom because without love you will be engulfed by darkness, since only love will give you light .... thus leading you into realisation. You would be incredibly mighty if you would heed My Words and live a life of love .... For love is also strength and nothing would be impossible for you if you would change your nature into love. Hence, with these Words I Am giving you the promise of an abundance of light and strength, of blissfulness, through the inflow of My Fatherly love, if you just unite yourselves with Me through deeds of love, if you just reciprocate My love for you .... Yet you don't believe My Words or you would all endeavour to live a life of love.

Why don't you put it to the test .... Let go off all selfish love, look around yourselves and wherever you see hardship try to bring help, wherever you find people suffering physical or psychological ailments try to heal them, give to them earthly and spiritually whatever they need, give them food and drink, and let go of your possessions if you thereby can ease the hardship of people in need. Try it and you will experience the truth of My Word, you will grow in strength and light, you will rise above your own earthly suffering, nothing will affect you which previously appeared to weigh you down, you will feel the strength of love in yourselves and the happiness of your union with Me, which you establish with every deed of love, will compensate you a thousand fold for what you have given away .... You will recognise Me and feel My hand holding you, you will feel the flow of My love's strength pour into you and, being spiritually brightly enlightened, you will be able to hear and behold what otherwise is hidden to you humans ....

Take the test and believe My Word, practise love .... and you will win Me and never ever lose Me again .... Believe Me, for I truly won't instruct you wrongly, I want you to become blessed, and since only love is able to turn you into happy beings I constantly just urge you to love ....

Yet then you will have to combat the spirit within you which is lacking all love and to which you owe your earthly existence .... He impels you to selfish love, he wants to extinguish the divine spark within you, he wants to prevent you from living a life of love. Hence you will have to fight it, that is, you have to fight your own cravings which only increase your selfish love and weaken the true love towards Me and your neighbour, so that you will be unable to experience the strength of love yourselves .... Fight against it and follow Me, accept these Words in your heart and act accordingly, and your fate will be the complete union with Me and infinite bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine principle: love ....

B.D. 5315 from February 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The divine principle must prevail in you .... Your being must become love. You emerged from God's love, consequently you are also beings capable of love which should now also use their ability, which means nothing else but that they can use an abundance of strength in a God-ordained sense, because through such utilization of strength the being is creatively active, thus constantly awakening new life and thus the strength is constantly increased. A being without love, however, is powerless and, as it were, dead, it has left God's flow of love-power, which is not its purpose. For everything God has created, which has emerged from His love, is meant to live, i.e. to be continuously active. But only love makes the being capable of living. If you humans therefore want to speak of true life, love must dominate you, it must drive you, your whole being must be filled with love, then there will be no more death for you, then you will live forever. For your existence on earth as a human being is not life, but only regulated activity according to divine will gives the human being the right kind of life which lasts forever. You can become powerful through love, yet again this does not apply to physical strength but only the strength of love makes you powerful, it can accomplish things beyond human ability because it is divine. But since you came forth from God, His strength is also hidden in you which only needs to be turned outwards, i.e. it can appear through your activity of love .... Then the strength from God becomes active, it flows through you, and what you now accomplish is His will and contributes to the increase of strength again. (12.2.1952) What you once were you must become again .... what originated from God must return to Him again as the same as which He sent it out into infinity, as love, the original substance of God, which understandably was also the original substance of every being created by God, until an ungodly principle wanted to join it, which caused eternal love to withdraw until the ungodly in the being was eliminated by the being's will, until the being was so pure again that eternal love could fill it again, that it could take possession of what had belonged to it since the beginning. True life must first enter again into the being created by God, which without love is only a dead creature, like a form lacking the right content .... Love lets it awaken to life again, and the created being becomes what it should become, a child of God, it becomes His image, a powerful and light-filled being which can work unrestrictedly according to its own will, but which is also the will of God. For through love the being is merged with God and cannot want anything other than what God wants, and therefore always and constantly creates and works according to divine plan in constantly increasing beatitude. The divine qualities permeate and fill the being, for love deifies everything and no longer allows any relapse. The fact that the being was initially able to fall away from God, that it gave itself over to love, only came about because God demanded a free decision of will from it, which was only possible when all divine abilities and values were loosened, which would have forced it to make a positive decision .... It had to be able to choose positively and negatively in a state of complete freedom of will .... This decision could bring it to fall, but afterwards also to an undreamt-of height, in that it could rise from a creature of God to a child of God .... But the fall robbed it of love, thus of knowledge, light and strength. But through love it can become again what it was, and this is the aim of all spiritual beings which cover the path of ascent in creation and, as a human being, through shaping itself into love, again submit the once required decision before God in order to then be accepted as a child of God into His kingdom, where light and strength and undreamed-of bliss are granted to it again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's act of mercy before the end .... bridge ....

B.D. 5316 from February 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Great salvation has befallen you, for I obviously take care of you and lead you to faith. My love for you humans determines Me to manifestly announce Myself to you, and therefore I fill such people with My spirit whose hearts offer Me no resistance .... who make an effort to live in love. I seek to seize all of them who are of the same will, and I direct My immense flow of grace to them. I make it easy for all of them who allow themselves to be touched by My grace to believe in Me and yet I don't force them to believe, for a certain willingness has to be present first or they will not feel touched by My flow of grace. I know My own .... Yet all souls will thank Me and praise Me if one day they will be able to appreciate this salvation of which I dignify them, for it is an act of grace of utmost significance .... And eternal love inclines itself towards the weak, sinful human race in greatest mercy and seeks to save it from deepest delusion. For My gift of grace is intended for all people, it is to be regarded as one of the last means to still win souls for eternal life before the end of this earth. If you humans were able to assess the infinitely vast distance you humans are from Me, only then would you recognize My great love which still builds a bridge across the endless gulf between you and Me .... The bridge has now been created, but whether you step on it is up to you. But only a few people are pillars of this bridge, they are of willing hearts and want to serve Me. They are the ones who make it possible to build a bridge from Me to earthly people, and for the sake of these few I take pity on them and entice people with My call of love to take the path across the bridge to Me; for the sake of these few the messengers of the kingdom of light will also come to meet you in order to faithfully guide you if you fear the narrow, arduous ascent .... Only a few will want to take the path, but much grace and strength is available to them, for I take care of all those who muster even the smallest will to reach Me. It is a path of salvation which helps you all to recover, it is the path which has been made practicable for you all .... which Jesus Christ has taken, Who has reached His aim in union with Me and Who can also safely lead you humans to the aim if you join Him, if you choose Him as your guide .... It is the path of love which you will all recognize if you make use of My gift of grace from above, if you hear what I Myself proclaim to you through the mouth of man, that you should only fulfil My will which consists of living out My teaching of love .... Obviously I help you by letting you hear My voice so that you will believe .... I Myself come to you and urge you onto the right path .... Come to My urging, listen to Me and follow My words and you will reach the aim, to Me, Who calls you because I love you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious reminder to break away from matter ....

B.D. 5317 from February 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

This is the commandment of the hour that you try to detach yourselves from matter and strive for the spiritual with a stronger will. Earth with its earthly-material goods is still desirable to you, but nothing of it will remain when the time has come for My announcements to be fulfilled, when the end of this earth is here and your life comes to an end. Then only what you have collected in spiritual goods will count, and only this wealth will make you able to enliven the new earth or to work with it in the spiritual kingdom .... But anyone who has nothing to show of spiritual goods, who was so closely connected to matter that he completely forgot the spiritual, will become matter himself. He will be condemned to a new banishment because only earth can become his abode, because the spiritual kingdom cannot receive him since matter still keeps him bound ....

Seek to detach yourselves from it, free yourselves from that which is your undoing, you have long ago overcome hard matter .... do not let yourselves be captured by it again, but seek to become free from all form .... Strive for spiritual life, a state of freedom, light and power .... And if you are willing to do so, then don't hesitate, for you won't have much time left .... Matter is so enticingly presented to you by My adversary that your will constantly weakens .... Think about the fact that everything you can see and grasp is transient, seriously consider the worthlessness of that which still seems desirable to you, and contrast this with an infinitely long time .... in darkness or in the brightest light .... You can create both states for yourselves, and therefore choose seriously .... Drop matter and seek contact with the world, which offers you something far more beautiful than the earthly world, which is soon approaching its end. Don't let yourselves be beguiled by its illusory goods, the decay of which you will all still experience, for for the sake of your souls I will still let you clearly recognize its impermanence, so that you will be shaken up and think about your fate after the death of your body .... I warn you full of fatherly love because I would like to spare you unspeakable suffering but can only warn you but not force you to listen to Me.

Leave off the pleasures of the world and turn your mind upwards, call upon all spiritual beings full of light for help if you are too weak to solve yourselves, be of good will to strive upwards and you will be helped. But do not delay, for the time is hastening and it will come as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The souls' hardship in the beyond .... Intercession .... Change of will ....

B.D. 5318 from February 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The hardship of needy souls in the beyond is immense, for their situation is frequently insufferable because they are surrounded by dense darkness from which they cannot escape. However, the more a soul suffers the sooner it might analyse itself, reflect on its guilt and look for help, on account of which it will then pursue even the smallest ray of light in the hope of deliverance. Only when it tries to get away from the darkness can it be guided into the light. Prior to this it would be unable to understand the instructions, but also still too stubborn to accept the latter, so that every loving effort would be in vain. Every soul's will can be recognised by the beings of light, and accordingly they will guide those poor souls to the light who desire it, for these souls are then in a state when they can be given help, since they are willing to accept it and also request to be helped .... Then the act of Salvation can take effect on these souls, even on those from the abyss. Then Jesus' love and mercy has also affected individual souls in the abyss, and to bring release to them is an extremely rewarding task, to which you humans can contribute greatly with conscious intercession and mental instructions of those who approach you for help.

The souls in the beyond know that people on earth still have energy of life, which they lack completely, and therefore gather around people in order to receive strength from them. Admittedly, they don't know how the strength flows to them, nevertheless they ask people for what they are lacking, for what they don't have but are able to discern in people. Their severe hardship keeps impelling them toward people on earth, even though they often have but a faint memory of the knowledge they had on earth. Consequently, instructing these souls is not easy, since their poor intellectual capacity has to be taken into account and, in view of their guilt, their state of maturity lacks all awareness. Nevertheless, they hunger for explanations and are patient listeners when they are given to them.

There is immense hardship in the kingdom of the beyond which, however, can be eased by you humans if you are willing to help them, if you take pity on these souls and your willingness to help gets motivated. For your loving thoughts are already experienced by them as a perceptible influx of strength, and therefore they will never leave a person who helps them with loving thoughts and an appeal to Jesus Christ to help these poor souls. The divine Redeemer is always ready to raise the souls from the abyss, yet the law of love cannot be avoided, and if the soul itself is still unable to love, He will be satisfied with loving intercession and accept it as if it were offered by the soul itself .... And they will find salvation through His love and mercy .... People could contribute vastly to rescue souls from the darkness .... They all are appealing to you, as soon as they enter your thoughts you will know that they can be helped, that they are already in a state when they want help and that people's loving efforts will not be in vain .... Help them, save them from their plight, and thereby contribute towards the souls' salvation who neglected to work for their perfection on earth, and who are therefore in utmost distress in the beyond, which only people's love can help to alleviate ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mental influence of spiritual beings .... connection from earth to the beyond ....

B.D. 5319 from February 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

People are constantly influenced from the kingdom of light so that they mentally deal with that kingdom which lies outside the earthly world, which cannot be grasped with earthly senses but which irrefutably exists even if it cannot be proven. But every human being knows that there is a realm which is still closed to him as long as he is unbelieving, for even if he would like to deny it he cannot do so with the certainty which could provide him with evidence, and there is no proof that that realm does not exist. The beings of light, however, endeavour to influence people mentally in such a way that they deal with the state after their death .... that they consider the possibility of a continuation, and then they can also continue to influence people through ideas which people explain to them as their own assumption. The human being's train of thought must be directed towards his existence after his death .... even though he would prefer to believe that there is no longer any existence after death, thoughts will nevertheless force themselves upon him again and again, and this is the work of the beings in the spiritual kingdom who want to help him attain the right realiz

ation. But it will constantly become more laborious and unsuccessful the closer the end is .... For the kingdom of darkness also tries to take hold of people's thoughts and teaches them in the opposite sense .... it only presents the tangible to him and seeks to destroy all belief in a continuation of life. And precisely these people will often experience things which are a visible influence of the beings of light which could lead to faith if the person is of good will. The kingdom of the beyond will make itself felt, people will at times be harassed by beings or even receive small signs which they only needed to pay attention to in order to become aware of visible spiritual contact with the world which they deny .... The time of the end has come where people will be influenced in many ways, for it shall be made easy for all people if only they possess the slightest desire for truth. The last days are a final time of grace when extraordinary things will happen because it has become much more difficult to believe due to the general lack of love which does not allow a living faith to arise. That is why there is visible intervention from above, that is why beings of light instruct people who are turned towards the light, and that is why beings from the beyond also come to people's aid who, although they cannot yet instruct them as bearers of truth, nevertheless want to announce their continued life to those with whom they were connected on earth. For this reason the connections from earth to the spiritual kingdom are also permitted in order to restore the faith of completely unbelievers in a continuation of life after death. For this faith alone can cause the human being to change his will and nature, and faith can be gained by everyone who seriously strives for truth. It is a time of united activity of the beings of light and people on earth who believe .... For the aim of both is to make people believe that life does not end with the death of the body but continues in spheres which the human being chooses himself through his life on earth. Only this faith awakens the sense of responsibility and also determines the human will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Scrutiny of genuine revelations ....

B.D. 5320 from February 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Great things shall be revealed to you through My love. You can always grant credence to My Words because I will also let you realise that it is I Myself Who speaks to you. And I speak to anyone who, in profoundest humility and love for Me, wants to hear Me and attentively listens to the voice in his heart, which will certainly ring out in him. However, My Words must sound in your heart, they must arise from the heart, either clearly audibly as a spoken Word or in the form of thoughts which the intellect did not bring forth, which therefore are not gained through intellectual activity but reach the human being's ear in a flash and thus can be retained. You should scrutinise yourselves if you believe yourselves to have received divine revelations. I reveal Myself, as surely as I Am God, your Creator and Father of eternity, for I want to make Myself known to My living creations and therefore do not hide from them. Understandably, not every person will be able to hear My voice if he has not complied with certain preconditions. Therefore you will always have to investigate whether and how My voice is heard, which shall guide you into truth, which shall reveal My nature to you as far as you can understand it. I Am a God of love and will truly not withhold My Word from any person, for I would like to shower all My living creations with My grace in order to help them to become My child. Therefore I knock at the door of every heart and desire admission .... With all My love I seek to attract the love of My living creations, and where love is present the door of the heart springs open all by itself and lets Me enter .... And that is where I will remain, that is where I will take up abode, for love draws Me in quite mightily and keeps hold of Me .... And where I can dwell, My presence will be recognisable .... I reveal Myself through the heart to the person who has welcomed Me. Then I will have no other goal but to permeate this person with My spirit, to lead him into realisation, to brightly and clearly illuminate his thoughts, to guide him into truth and to fill him with strength which enables his richly blessed activity for humanity .... This is how I express Myself, and My presence can be recognised by the fact that a bearer of light is among you humans who can explain all your questions which relate to Me and My kingdom, who is initiated in My eternal plan of Salvation, who draws your attention to My spiritual influence, who brings My love but also My righteousness to your attention, who points out the consequences of a right and wrong way of life and life after death .... in short, who works among his fellow human beings for Me and My kingdom, who constantly distributes what he receives from Me .... light, strength and blessings, which he conveys on My instructions. I have revealed Myself to him and he reveals Me to you in turn, he wants to impart the same to you which he has found through his love .... Understand this and then make your own judgment as to when My presence, My Words should be acknowledged .... And never forget that I manifest Myself in order to be recognised .... that you therefore must always recognise My love, My wisdom and My omnipotence, the quintessence of My Being, in every revelation which is supposed to come from Me, otherwise it is not of divine origin .... For by revealing Myself it is My will that you humans should also recognise Me, so that you will love Me, because you can only unite yourselves with Me through love and this is and will remain the purpose of every revelation of Mine. Therefore test everything and if you appeal to Me for help, you will always identify what is right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Cosmic currents .... (astrology) ....

B.D. 5321 from February 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spirit in you must be active, if you want to have clarity in all things, if you think right and move into divine truth. The right understanding can not be given to you people, but you must satisfy the preconditions first, that ensure you fully understanding, and this condition is precisely that you awake the spirit within you, that he might teach you, guide your thinking in the right way and give you an understanding of higher wisdom, that you as man alone can not understand only with your intellectual thinking .... It is a completely useless starting, to want to enter into divine secrets of creation without help of the spirit, that, as share of God, knows everything and can you people also communicate the knowledge. Without activity of the spirit you will never get an insight into the divine plan of creation and salvation, or, as the knowledge therefore is supplied from the outside to you, you can not comprehend it. But what the spirit of God gives you about it, is the most full truth and will increase your knowledge, because it started from God, it is a direct supply of the truth, which has its origin in God .... The whole creation, earthly and spiritual, has become form by God’s will, founded in His love and aim-determined by His wisdom .... Therefore it is every creation in its origin and its usefulness considered full of wisdom and inserted to the whole creation, as God regarded it as curative for the upward developing spiritual of eternity. Each act of creation is the completion of another, and the whole spiritual and earthly creation is an incomprehensible spiritual complex, that awaits its dissolution.

Man is only able, to take the tiniest fraction in his sense, (02/21/1952) and so he must be content with explanations, that give him only a faint notion, that only outline its purpose and aim, what is the result of God’s creative hand. It is not the man’s intention, to want to fathom the deepest secrets, while he is still in earthly-material body on earth, because his mental horizon is limited, because he lacks any power of imagination, to be able to understand existing creations outside the earth. But countless stars are visible to his bodily eyes, they circle also as creations of God in the infinite universe and move in infinite distance of man in lawfully established tracks. These stars are probably obvious to him, but not to explore with his intellect. There are those worlds, where either a kind of education or the advancement of human souls is going on, because there are countless spheres, that serve those in countless different maturity standing souls to stay. Watch all the stars, that your eyes see, as training stations of the spiritual, than you will have already clearly explained meaning and purpose of the stars .... The whole creation, all stars in earthly material or spiritual nature, are driven by a will, and they all are under the law of of eternal order, whose author is the divine Creator Himself. Nothing can happen illegally in the entire universe, everything must take place legally, otherwise God Himself would expose the creation for dissolution, as He acted contrary to His law. This knowledge man must have, to be able to understand now, that there might be neither arbitrary world events nor arbitrary cosmic events, because any event is already calculated to the eternal basic law and so it appears, as God has recognized it expediently since eternity for spiritual development. In times exaggerated mental research man probably believes, to be able to detect a certain rule and to have discovered and now to be able to guarantee a knowledge for future events. You can probably recognize a certain legality and now subordinate to this law, but then the man himself inserts into the law, but not, that he thinks he can dominate the law, by wanting to calculate, what should be hidden from him naturally .... by bringing the fate, the life of a man in connection with the circling stars and their run by divine law ....

You people ask yourselves, whether it would be good, you could know ahead of your course of life, all the events and details .... and do not ask yourself at last, how then your free will would be to defend, ask yourselves, whether you could then talk probably of a life’s mission, of a spiritual upward trend in free will .... All this would be invalid, if you would be able to make calculations by the course of the stars, that should determine your earthly life .... There are divine laws, by which the life, the fate of the man is organized, but never more people can inspect in this law, never more there is the knowledge about it available, otherwise God would not hide the future for the people just as a law too, that is founded in His wisdom and love.

But undeniably correlations exist in the whole universe between some creations, and also each star radiates certain forces, which are caught by other heavenly bodies, that is not without influence. These are cosmic currents, naturally indicated by divine laws, and these currents have an effect on humans from time to time, more or less stimulating him, but also sometimes crippling, so a purely natural influence of the stars on people can not be denied, but that does not influence the spiritual development in any way, only can be physically felt. And these cosmic currents may also have a constructive or destructive effect, but natural disasters can not be calculated timewise with the fullest certainty, otherwise even those temporal definite predictions would cause the greatest confusion among the people and therefore mean an obstacle for spiritual development in free will. People can also sometimes be exposed to cosmic influences, but never more they are pushed to decisions, that are determinant for the spiritual development. But the desire to reveal hidden things can not be satisfied by suggestion (people) (Suggestion was crossed out and people was written about it) .... because what God keeps hidden, the people can not detect, unless God Himself shows it to them, to help them to the height .... so He Himself makes known future things, to protect the people from the danger of a fall in the depth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Consequences of unkindness in the beyond ....

B.D. 5322 from February 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Unkindness has far-reaching consequences on earth as well as in the beyond. For it surrounds the soul with the densest of covers, so that no ray of light can penetrate it and it forever remains in darkness. Light is everywhere, yet where it cannot penetrate the human soul there is darkness. Love, however, radiates light and illuminates the soul from within, the covers dissolve, and then the light from outside can exert an effect .... the soul becomes enlightened .... Thus, on earth ‘enlightenment’ denotes knowledge of the eternal truth, of the meaning and purpose of earthly life and ever-increasing love for God .... But in the kingdom of the beyond receiving light is guaranteed to the soul who became enlightened on earth through love .... Darkness has gone forever, everything is revealed to the soul, no uncertainty exists for the soul any longer, nothing is incomprehensible or impossible, for due to love it has become full of light and strength itself ....

Hence, unkindness is the soul’s eternal ruin, for a soul who still languishes in profound darkness is wretched. It has become a victim of the one who is devoid of love himself and also wants to prepare this state for souls who allow themselves to be influenced by him, who are full of selfish love and only ever treat their fellow human beings unkindly, because they are seduced by Satan, because he wants to transfer his own feelings into people in order to enslave them. Unkindness is the death of the soul .... it poisons people’s thoughts, so that the results of thinking are lies and ill-will which generate acts of hatred and, in turn, will result in evilness again. And neither can it be otherwise, for where there is love there is God .... where unkindness and hatred reveal themselves there is Satan. And he reigns, so that he can truly be recognised as the souls’ greatest enemy, who not only pursues and tries to gain people on earth, but with increased malice works on and tries to influence the souls in the beyond in order to hasten the hardening of their hearts and pull them ever deeper into the abyss.

And because heartlessness has such a frightening effect in the beyond it can only be countered with love .... souls in the beyond need to be given lots of love, which effects the ailing soul like medicine by which it can be healed if people do not stop giving them love .... Even the most stubborn souls of darkness can be changed by rays of love, unwillingly at first, yet once they feel the blissful relief they will not let go of it again .... Love is the most effective weapon against the opponent who cannot endure it, who takes flight and therefore will rather drop his victims than allow himself to be touched by rays of love. For this reason you should fight against unkindness and know that it will lead into ruin, whereas deeds of love will open the kingdom of light for you, and with love you can also help those to attain the light who still languish in darkness as a result of their loveless and unkind way of life on earth. Only love can help them and release their restraints, only love can make all of you blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Justice .... Recompense in the beyond ....

B.D. 5323 from February 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

There is justice, there is recompense, if not on earth then in the spiritual kingdom, where the soul will reap what it has sown .... You humans should consider that no-one can take anything that does not belong to him, that he will have to give account down to the last cent, and that he has to pay for what he acquired unlawfully .... Bear in mind that I cannot remit anything because I Am a just God, and that you therefore burden yourselves with considerable guilt if you believe that you can commit sins with impunity. Sooner or later the day of retribution will come for everyone who lives on earth without scruples because he does not believe in Me as a just God and hence accumulates one sin after another.

Earthly life soon comes to an end for everyone, only spiritual treasures will remain, and woe to him who has none to show .... He will arrive on the other side naked and poor and wander around in utmost misery and darkness .... which is the recompense for an earthly life if it was not lived in accordance with My will and the commandment of love for Me and other people, if the person only thought of himself and lived to please My adversary, if he indulged in worldly pleasures giving free rein to his passions and instincts .... Anyone who only thought of himself on earth will be on his own on the other side and no-one will offer him love, just as he ignored those who needed his help on earth. He will have to pay every cent, for no-one can pay his debt for him except Jesus Christ in Whom, however, the soul completely devoid of love does not believe .... You humans, consider your earthly life from this point of view and understand that you should not live thoughtlessly, for sooner or later your physical life will be over and the soul will have to remove the guilt it was burdened with .... and that every tribute you paid to the world has been taken away from the soul, and its poverty in the spiritual kingdom will be the result thereof.

You should know that there is recompense for every hour you applaud My adversary, for every hour you pay homage to the pleasures of the world and completely forget about Me .... for earthly life was given to you for the perfection of your soul. But what are you doing? You only take care of your body, you satisfy its every desire, you intoxicate yourselves with worldly pleasures, you only too willingly fall into the traps laid by the enemy of your souls .... You take from your soul and give to your body .... and you will have to pay for it a thousand-fold. For you will suffer grave hardship when you enter the spiritual kingdom where only the soul’s everlasting possessions will be of value .... It will suffer acute poverty, and no-one will help the soul if it does not approach Jesus Christ Who, however, is unknown to the soul in its darkness. Only He can help the soul, yet eternities can pass before the soul becomes aware of this and turns to Him. It can carry its burden for an infinitely long time because My justice cannot unburden it as long as it does not request Me to do so itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Brutal battle of faith .... Fortification of faith ....

B.D. 5324 from February 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You urgently need to fortify yourselves for the final battle of faith, because you will be unable to meet the demands placed upon you without a firm and unshakable faith. Much will seem insurmountable to you if you do not avail yourselves of My strength, the strength of faith, for the enemy of your souls will proceed against you almost inhumanly by using those who are in authority on earth but who are full of cunning and trickery and declare war on everyone who still has faith. The satanic power will openly take action so that you will clearly recognise which hour has struck, so that you will know that it is the final phase of the end time and that it will only last for a short time, until you are delivered from this power which, however, won't be able to harm you if you can call a firm faith your own. The enemy will take such clear action against Me Myself that this alone will show you that he is overstepping his authority and I told you that then the end will be near .... For the human being lives on earth in order to choose between two powers and therefore must also have knowledge of both powers .... But as soon as one power prevents the knowledge of the second power from reaching people, it is overstepping its entitlement and that not with impunity .... And this time must first come, because I will not intervene earlier than necessary in order to still provide those souls with the opportunity of changing their will and faith which are taken aback by the satanic power and reflect on their inner selves. People must be dealt with very firmly, because they don't listen to the Father's voice when He talks kindly to them .... However, Satan's voice can still have an influence on individual souls and cause their return to Me, but only if a person still harbours a spark of faith in a God and he would rather hand himself over to this God than to the one whose ruthlessness he now recognises. The strength of faith of My Own will make him thoughtful since they, despite tremendous difficulties, will not renounce Me and the more they are threatened the more they will profess My name. You must fortify yourselves for the final battle of faith, for your own sake but also for the sake of your fellow human beings who can be helped by your faith to believe in a God Who can and wants and also will help when the adversity has become beyond endurance and Satan has accomplished his work .... when My Own are threatened with death and only I can bring them help .... Then I will come and fetch My Own, I will stop their adversity and plight but, at the same time, also judge everything that opposes Me on the last day of this earth .... Then My Own will rejoice and praise Me and the horror of death will seize the others, then the day will have come of which it is written that I will judge the living and the dead, the believers and the unbelievers, for My Word will come to pass because it is the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation to gather spiritual treasures on earth ....

B.D. 5325 from February 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The wealth of spiritual good cannot be desired enough, for it alone creates beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond when the soul has discarded everything it possessed on earth, when it dwells in the spiritual realm where only spiritual good is of value because it alone is imperishable. You can acquire this wealth on earth but only if you ignore earthly wealth, because you cannot be granted both at the same time. You must know that two masters offer you their goods but that the goods are completely opposite as well as the masters who want to distribute them. Both have a different sphere into which they want to draw you .... and both areas are far apart so that you will have to decide which one you prefer. That is why both lords entice you with their goods .... but one of them is transient while the other lasts forever .... You should consider this when you are confronted with the decision .... Do you only want temporary happiness? Or do you seek eternal happiness? Then you must also choose the father and creator of eternity, Who wants to provide you with everlasting treasures if only you confess Him. He will give you plenty so that you need not suffer any lack, and He will also provide you with the perishable goods which you need to maintain your body, as soon as you first desire the spiritual gifts. But as long as your eyes are blinded by the treasures His adversary offers you, you will not see the mild splendour of the spiritual gifts. Therefore you must turn away from them and be content with the fulfilment of earthly needs, which the father and creator of eternity assures you, so that you will live on earth and not become incapable of acquiring spiritual wealth. For He is truly your father Who cares for your spiritual and physical well-being but Who will never give you goods which are perishable for you, even if they seem indispensable to you during your earthly lifetime. They only cling to you from the outside and yet block the access to the soul for those who would like to provide them with spiritual nourishment. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, everything else will be granted to you .... But you will never be able to find the kingdom of God if you seek it in the world, which is the kingdom of His adversary .... And you will lose everything you have gathered in earthly possessions, for none of it will follow you into eternity. But the spiritual possessions can no longer be taken away from you, they will follow you into eternity, they are the soul's share which it will take with it into eternity ....

And therefore it cannot be presented to you loudly and admonishingly enough that you should acquire spiritual treasures on earth, that you should create wealth for yourselves which signifies an inconceivable blessing in the spiritual kingdom .... a wealth which will always increase, although you use it to constantly distribute, to give to the needy, to whom you want to practice merciful neighbourly love because you yourselves are driven to do so by love. Acquire this wealth on earth so that you will not have lived in vain .... Decide in favour of the lord, Who offers you good gifts, receive from His hand what His infinite love offers you and make all those happy who are poor and need your help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 5326 from March 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Every redeemer's work finds My blessing .... Anyone who is seriously willing to help and to reduce the spiritual hardship on earth as well as in the beyond can also be certain that he will always find My support and that I will bless his work. The will is always decisive, not just the word, i.e. the thoughtless utterance of a good intention which lacks the will. Again and again I emphasize that I need labourers who are active for My kingdom, who are to carry out an extremely urgent work in My vineyard. And this work is always to be understood as the release of the bound beings which, as human beings on earth, still walk on wrong paths or, having entered the beyond immaturely, have to endure an unhappy fate there in spiritual darkness. To release everything that is bound, to lead it out of darkness into light, to change the wretched state into a blissful one .... is redemptive work which will always be blessed by Me because it is done of free will, because love for the wretched person is the reason for this redemptive work. And thus only that which is done out of love can be regarded and evaluated by Me as redemptive work .... And thus you also have clarification as to whether and when My blessing is certain for you .... I will approve everything that helps even one soul to ascend. Whether you speak words of love to your fellow human beings on earth, whether you bear witness to Me and My working, whether you admonish them to work on their souls .... whether you pray for the poor dark souls on earth or in the beyond and mentally instruct them in order to help them .... as well as only your intention is to help, you act well and righteously and will always experience My blessing. There are only a few people who seriously work for Me and My kingdom, who have the well-being of their fellow human beings or the deceased at heart, there are only a few who know about the great spiritual hardship and want to control it, and My love also applies to these few, which makes all work easier for them again and lets it become successful. A spiritual vision into the places of darkness, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, would certainly shake people up and perhaps also make them willing to help, yet this would then be conscious work which would be done out of fear, because people still lack knowledge and have to acquire it through works of love. Every person who lives according to My will will become knowledgeable, and the spiritual hardship will also be recognizable to him very soon. But too little attention is paid to My will, i.e. My commandment of love is not fulfilled, and the effect of this neglect is so dreadful that the fetters around the souls become ever more oppressive and they have to be helped to get rid of them. But only a loving soul can provide this help again, and therefore every worker is welcome to Me who is driven by love to work for salvation .... For where only one soul is rescued from darkness My love will reward it a thousand fold and bestow My blessing on those who thus want to serve Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faith struggle .... safest protection ....

B.D. 5327 from March 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

In the time of the battle of faith you are abandoned by all people who could protect you. Then you will only have one in Whom you can entrust yourselves and Whom you can call upon for help .... But then My strength and might will be revealed, then you will know that you have a father in heaven Who protects His children and cares for them when people condemn you to live in want, when they take everything away from you and your fate truly looks precarious. Then your gaze should only be directed upwards, then you should let Me Myself be present with you and all adversity will come to an end. What seems impossible to you will be accomplished, what is beyond your strength you will be able to achieve, and it will almost seem as if every law of nature is suspended in you if you intimately unite with Me and make use of My strength. You don't understand this yet, but you should know that much that you need not fear this time, even if you are surrounded by devils .... You will be untouchable for them because I protect you and My protection will also be visibly expressed, because you will escape everything that is done against you as if by miracle. People will not be able to help you, for those who would be willing to do so are powerless themselves; but where there is power satan rages, who wants to win the final battle against Me by every conceivable means. Satan opposes Me and for the sake of people's final decision I allow him to do so, yet he will not be victorious and you, My faithful, will certainly be severely harassed but not defeated. But then earthly adversity will push you towards Me, you will gladly come because you know that your father will help you, and I will reward this faith with certain help and My intervention wherever it is necessary. You will be attacked from all sides, both unbelievers as well as those who want to be believers will attack you first, but since everything spiritual will be opposed you will still be joined by those from that camp who don't want to give Me up, and this will increase the hatred of the unbelievers and hand you over all the more to their brutal attitude .... Yet there is a lord Who also has power over these devils, and if this lord is on your side you truly need fear nothing. For this reason I strengthen you with My word beforehand, for this reason I inform you of what still awaits you, and for this reason I assure you of My protection and My help so that you will become strong in faith and fearlessly face the coming time.

The end is near but first the battle of faith will break out .... But then you will know what hour the world clock has struck, then you will also know that My coming is no longer far away and with it the last judgment which will bring an end to all adversity of My own, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word gives knowledge of His will ....

B.D. 5328 from March 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Only My will needs to be observed and followed in order to gain My pleasure for you. And My will is very easy to fulfil, for it only calls you to love, it demands something from you which is not unnatural, since you came forth from love yourselves .... Just as I once created you, so shall you become again, and this necessitates love .... Thus you can only please Me if you shape yourselves as you have been since the beginning. And therefore you must fulfil My commandments of love which include My will. And therefore I convey My word to you humans so that you take notice of My will, and My word will always call upon you to live a way of life which testifies to love, My word will prescribe to you in detail what you should do and what you should refrain from doing in order to become perfect. Therefore you cannot live on earth without My word, for it first brings you knowledge of Me and My will, it points you to your original state and your task in life on earth, My word encourages you to seek contact with its giver, and once you have entered into this contact your will is also willing to submit itself to Mine. To want what is right in order to gain My pleasure is what you have to do in order to fulfil your earthly task of life. You must take My will as your guideline, then you will reach your aim. Anyone who takes notice of My word will then also let himself be guided by Me, he will acknowledge Me and make an effort to do what I ask, he will endeavour to live in love, his upward development will take its course and the aim is certain to him .... He becomes again what he was, a powerful being which has united itself with Me through love and can now have an unlimited effect itself and is inconceivably blissful ....

Amen

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Serious reminder to remember death ....

B.D. 5329 from March 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

None of you humans knows how long you will live on earth, none of you knows when the hour of your recall will come, and none of you knows whether you still have the time to prepare for your end. And you humans should always remember that you could already stand before your judge tomorrow, that He will demand an account from you for your earthly way of life, for the use of your will, for your actions and omissions .... And you should also imagine the consequences of your conduct on earth and therefore seriously endeavour to live in such a way that you need not fear the hour of your recall, your last day. The fact that you are allowed to live on earth is a grace which you should make use of or you will bitterly regret it, for you can gain an infinite amount on earth but also lose an infinite amount. You have the strength to work for a blissful life in eternity, but if you use this strength wrongly, so that you only want to make your earthly life beautiful, then your recall from earth will be a misfortune for you, because you will lose everything you own and will not be able to display any of the possessions which are of value in the world of the beyond. Then you will never be able to return to make up for what you have missed, you will have to create a bearable fate for yourselves with great difficulty because you lack the strength which was abundantly at your disposal on earth. You are still alive and indifferently ignore indications of your end, admonitions and warnings, the life of your body makes you secure but you don't think about the life after death .... Seriously consider the hour of your departure from this earth and ask yourselves what you may take with you, ask yourselves what spiritual possessions you have acquired. Will you have much to show for it? Will the thought of death frighten you? Will you be able to stand before your judge without fear because you have lived according to His will? Seriously consider your situation and change it if it does not seem satisfactory to you, for there is not much time left and no one knows when he will be called away .... None of you can prolong his life by just one hour when his time is up, but each of you can achieve it that there is no hour of death for him but only an entrance into eternal life .... Everyone can gather riches on earth which he takes with him, which are imperishable and guarantee him a life in the kingdom of the beyond .... and what is therefore possible for you, that you should try to achieve, for on the other side it will be unspeakably difficult for you to make up for the shortfall you have through your own fault if you don't recognize your purpose of earthly life, if you only work for the life of the body but not for the life of the soul on earth .... Use every day that is still given to you, for all too soon the hour of death will come for you when you stand before your judge ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blow of the spirit .... unusual supply of grace ....

B.D. 5330 from March 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

An immeasurable flow of grace is pouring over humanity and hearts are opening everywhere which allow the flow to flow into them in order to utilize it according to My will. It is a time of grace of such inconceivable significance, the gates to eternal life are opening, the kingdom of light constantly radiates light down to earth, and this light shines into receptive human hearts which open themselves to My grace .... It is the time of activity which I announced to My servants on earth, when everyone shall do his work in My vineyard, which feels My command in itself, to which My spirit speaks openly. Wherever a heart beats towards Me in love this voice will be heard and the person will feel urged to be active for Me and My kingdom. Then My spirit will also work in him and give him the gifts he needs for his service on earth .... I shake people up from their sleep of death and sometimes I have to let My voice resound very loudly .... I have to let people experience unusual things so that they will look within themselves and find the path to Me, often only after severe suffering and great tribulation. For people sleep even though they are active and active in an earthly sense .... But the spirit sleeps, and to awaken it often requires a very rude shaking .... Again and again and everywhere I reveal Myself, and anyone who has once recognized Me I have also won over for eternity. But the fact that they first pay attention to My revelations can often only be achieved by way of suffering, and therefore humanity is oppressed and burdened by adversity and sickness, by sorrow and misery, and good for those who then seek Me, to whom I can then reveal Myself through My spirit, to whom I can approach through My servants; good for those who will then find Me if they earnestly seek Me .... I can be recognized by anyone who wants to recognize Me. But I keep Myself hidden from those who are completely aloof from Me, whom I cannot give My spiritual strength to against their will because I don't want to force them to believe. Yet I kindle My little lights everywhere and place them such that their light shines far away and illuminates the path people shall take in order to reach Me. Anyone who seeks the light, be it on earth or one day in the kingdom of the beyond, will also find it, for I am the light Myself and I let Myself be found by anyone who earnestly seeks Me. Yet as long as you humans still stay on earth I can only approach you through a human being .... Thus My light will shine where a person accepts Me into his heart, where the light of grace from Me finds an open vessel into which it can flow. But there I am Myself, and there I also work with My love, omnipotence and wisdom, there the human being will be able to accomplish unusual things because I want to reveal Myself through him .... My spirit blows wherever it wants, but it works everywhere so that no human being will be denied the means of help which can still save him from the end. For the end is near and therefore My strength and supply of grace is immense, after all, many souls still need to be won before it is too late, before the last day has come for this earth ....

Amen

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Earthly knowledge in the beyond? ....

B.D. 5331 from March 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

All earthly attained knowledge will be of no use to you, for it will only adhere to you for as long as you live on earth. When you enter the kingdom of the beyond, you will lose all memory of it if you have not spiritually acquired a degree of maturity which makes you suitable for the kingdom of light, where you are brightly and clearly aware of everything and, in an urgent situation, will also be able to make use of the earthly knowledge you retained. Yet an unbelieving soul departing from earth is in a pitiful position, for the more earthly knowledge it possessed the more aware of its wretched state of lacking all knowledge it will then become, of remembering little or nothing at all and of being unable to show off in any way. Such souls also frequently lack the recollection of their living conditions on earth and only regain their memory if they make an effort to ascend, to reach the light. But then such a soul will also be extremely grateful for every illumination and thereby realise its state, its omission on earth and also often its guilt. You are repeatedly informed of the fact that you create your own fate in eternity on earth .... that you should beware of striving for earthly wealth, fame and honour and excessive earthly knowledge on earth, because all this is transient .... Earthly knowledge will not protect you from spiritual darkness; on the contrary, earthly knowledge can greatly contribute towards darkening your spirit, this should always be a warning to you, for it will be difficult to gather knowledge in the spiritual realm for a soul which had previously never been receptive for that which the spiritual kingdom wanted to offer it, because it had made itself incapable for receiving spiritual knowledge.

Yet a soul in possession of spiritual and earthly light can work with it exceedingly effectively in the spiritual kingdom .... For it will also be able to help people on earth with advice in their earthly difficulties and make use of its earthly knowledge where it is needed. The souls of darkness are also often influenced by forces from below to express themselves and to come to the fore with their apparent knowledge, yet in that case it is not the soul itself but the dark forces expressing themselves through the soul which are deliberately trying to spread error amongst people in order to confuse their thinking in favour of the dark power. This is the reason why connections from earth to the spiritual realm are detrimental if the spiritual conditions are not present so that spiritually striving people consciously contact the world of light if they want to be instructed and through prayer for protection from error and evil beings don't give dark forces any opportunity to express themselves .... Only beings which are enlightened themselves are able to distribute light, and these beings should be consciously called upon .... And they will gladly share their knowledge and give it to those people who want to receive spiritual wealth, because this alone is valuable and everlasting and because this is all the soul can take with it into the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The state of souls in the beyond .... Misguided belief - unbelief - love ....

B.D. 5332 from March 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Many people find it inconceivable that they could have direct contact with Me, which is proven by My direct communication, by hearing My Word in the form of thoughts. This is indicative of their distance from Me as well as their lifeless belief, a belief which was in fact traditionally adopted but which is not alive .... It is academically accepted knowledge which only seldom is contemplated so that a person forms his own opinion. People could deduct from such adopted knowledge that the eternal Deity has to and will reveal Himself, but faith in an eternal Deity is weak and thus religious doctrines are not taken seriously enough to achieve spiritual progress, which would result in a person trying to establish contact with Me. First I have to be sincerely acknowledged by a person before I can reveal Myself to him ....

And this assured faith in Me is missing in a great many people, which is the reason why they live in spiritual darkness and will enter the spiritual kingdom in this darkness.

What they failed to do on earth they will have to make up for in the beyond without fail .... they have to think .... and due to their own fault are frequently too weak to do so. If labours of love follow them into eternity they will not be entirely without strength regardless of their unbelief. Their strength rests in the fact that they will not completely lose their recollection of the knowledge they dismissed on earth and are able to think about it. Whereas unbelieving souls without deeds of love following them will find themselves in dire distress, for they are unable to think clearly and cannot come to terms with their thoughts. Nevertheless, even these souls can be educated in the spiritual kingdom by other souls who are able to intelligibly present to them what they need to know ....if they are willing to accept their teaching.

To render intercession for these souls is a labour of utmost love and compassion, so that they may receive strength of will and find access to circles where enlightenment can be given to them. Deeds of love can make good every deficiency and give the soul faith, but the spiritual darkness will only disappear when they have acknowledged Jesus Christ, for only He can redeem their guilt which resulted from their unbelief on earth. Misguided thoughts can soon be corrected where love and faith existed on earth, but unbelieving people first have to be introduced to knowledge, because they did not want to accept it on earth themselves, even if they upheld it before their fellow human beings.

I cannot give souls instant enlightenment if they do not acknowledge Me and if their love was not intended for Me or their fellow human beings .... I can only give them the opportunity to acquire knowledge, providing their will no longer opposes Me .... In that case My merciful love is also willing to give them light when they ask for it. Then the Gospel is brought to them again, which they can then accept or reject of their own free will. And depending on their will for good and their desire for instructions My teaching will enlighten them and the ascent will continue. But it will suffer great torment in darkness until an unbelieving departed soul from earth is touched by a ray of light and follows it, but as soon as it has experienced the benefit of light it will also be willing to change its nature, and it will always desire more light until it receives it .... The darkness only rarely releases souls, but I know when I can open the gates and set the souls free. I know when they are receptive to a ray of light and I will help them to find the way that finally leads to Me and to eternal joy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God - light - truth - life ....

B.D. 5333 from March 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Light flows to you from My abundance of light, because you are not blissfully happy without light, because darkness of the soul is equal to death, for only where there is light is there life. The divine light of truth dispels all darkness, and therefore it has to be accepted if it is offered to you humans by a light bearer, for it is a gift from Me which gives you My love because I take pity on your darkened state. Now bear in mind that I know about this dark state and want to help you, bear in mind that I want to snatch you from darkness, that I want to help you into a state which makes you happy, and that I especially want you to be able to see Me, but I am not visible in darkness but certainly visible in light .... Consider that I Myself am light .... thus it is impossible for Me to dwell in darkness, otherwise darkness would already be dispelled .... Furthermore, consider that light also always means truth, that I Myself am also the eternal truth .... And then you will understand that untruth, error or lies, can never lead to Me because they are the product of the one who rules over darkness. You can never assume that you will also reach Me through untruth, you cannot assume that I will let Myself be found by people who avoid the truth and want to remain in error. Anyone who prefers darkness will remain in it, anyone who wants light must also want Me Myself and cannot be at My adversary's beck and call ....

You seriously have to decide for Me or for him. Everything that does not correspond to the pure truth is his work, and if you acknowledge him you also commit yourselves to him and cannot possibly reach Me, the truth and eternal life. If you persevere on earth by not wanting to accept the truth for the sake of what was offered to you by My adversary, then you will take the darkness with you into the kingdom of the beyond .... And there you will only become truly aware of it because the light from Me cannot shine in you and everything is dark apart from Me .... And this darkness in the beyond is extremely agonizing, yet it cannot be taken away from you without the will for truth, which, however, is even more difficult to muster than on earth, where I repeatedly step in your way, where My bearers of light constantly want to kindle the light in you and only demand your willingness in order to be able to carry out My mission. You must move in truth .... Thus I can only illuminate the untruth for you by confronting the truth with misguided teachings, by enlightening you and by the doubts which arise in you again and again, which only the pure truth can chase away. Bear in mind that truth is light .... that the light emanates from Me and that you will only find Me if you follow the light, if you receive the truth within yourselves which reveals Me .... but that I cannot be found outside of truth because My adversary's kingdom is already there, where pure truth is disfigured because he seeks to separate you from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God-focused will must be active ....

B.D. 5334 from March 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I know My own and My own know Me .... I know their hardship and worries, I know the degree of their strength of faith, I know their will and also that they strive towards Me, thus they have also recognized Me and know My love and grace. Thus a bond has already been formed which can never be loosened again, for I will never ever let go of what has become Mine. My creature's will, which is meant for Me, is truly already enough for Me to take hold of My creature and never release it, even if it first has to be formed before it can completely unite with Me. But since the will once turned away from Me caused the apostasy from Me, the will turned towards Me will also certainly result in the return to Me, for the wrongly directed will was the sin or caused the sin, and to correct it is My aim which I will never again let out of My sight. Hence your will is already enough for Me, but you should not let your will alone be enough for you, you must put your will into action, you must strive for perfection, because this alone must be your work and I can certainly support you with My strength and My grace which, however, must be fully consciously utilized by you again. I will no longer let you fall once you have expressed your will to Me that it is directed towards Me.

And now I constantly help you to activate your will, yet you yourselves have to accomplish the work of transformation of your soul, which I cannot do out of My power due to the law of eternal order. This is why I often affect My own in a way which is painful and distressing, yet only ever for the sake of success, which consists of complete unification with Me, but which has to be achieved by you humans yourselves and cannot be forcibly established, i.e. My greater than great love cannot unite with you as long as your soul's degree of maturity is still inadequate; but neither can it shape you into a perfect being all of a sudden. But the fact that you will reach your aim as soon as you are willingly devoted to Me is certain, for I will not abandon any of My own, and I use all means which can accelerate the aim if the human being recognizes them as means of love and grace on My part. And I truly don't make it difficult for you if only you take hold of My hand and let yourselves be guided .... Complete devotion to Me, complete subordination of your will to Mine will bring you to your aim extremely quickly, and therefore you should only ever let Me rule and otherwise make an effort to fulfil My will .... to live a life of love which will bring you ever closer contact with Me and finally lead to complete unification .... that you are now Mine and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Special mission: Fighting for truth ....

B.D. 5335 from March 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

As a result of your willingness to serve, your mission is carried out conscientiously and you are true workers in My vineyard. Therefore you were given tasks which are not suitable for everyone, which require a special willingness and are of extreme importance .... You shall fight for truth .... It is certainly very necessary to preach love, since no-one can gain beatitude without love, yet spiritually enlightened people can handle the preaching ministry, even if they have no fighting spirit .... anyone can inspire love who has love himself .... The battle for truth, however, requires a special aptitude, knowledge of truth and a fighting spirit which supports what is right and true, as well as an extremely strong faith in My Word .... for a person can only endorse what he recognises as truth, what he does not doubt because it has been conveyed to him by the ‘Eternal Truth’.

In order to support truth convincingly he first has to be firmly convinced of it himself and this, in turn, requires a life of love .... so that My spirit can work in him. Hence his love for his fellow human being has to motivate him to convey the truth to him too, and therefore he will proceed against falsehood and error with passion .... These are the kind of servants I need on earth during the last days before the end .... And this mission is so important that I will help these servants especially by preparing the field of their activity in every way .... by helping them in spiritual as well as in earthly difficulties, by smoothing their path of earthly life, and by strengthening and encouraging them into ever more wholehearted spiritual activity to make their mission successful. The presence of lies and error make it difficult for the light to penetrate ....

Where a field is covered by weeds, good seeds cannot develop and the field has effectively become worthless to its owner. And therefore My servants first have to remove the weeds, which is an extremely laborious task that requires perseverance and strength .... Where lies and error have established themselves in human hearts, the cleansing process can only be carried out with unyielding vigour .... the representative of truth must relentlessly uncover everything that contradicts the pure truth, consequently he himself has to own what he wants to give to his fellow human beings .... He should not uphold the result of his personal thinking .... albeit it can also be true if he is enlightened by My spirit. Yet the extraordinary work of My spirit within him should give him the self-confidence to take courageous action against error and falsehood. And, being enlightened, he will know where error and falsehood are present .... he will confront them with pure truth and not allow himself to be disconcerted by opposition, by hostility or persecution, he will boldly fight with the sword of his tongue and be fully convinced that he has the truth ....

I need servants on earth who fear no-one and will do anything for their Lord .... I need people with a strong faith and a firm will, with an absolute love for truth and a realisation of the immense spiritual hardship. And when I find them I will prepare them first by conveying the truth to them and acquaint them with their mission. I will educate them to become fearless advocates, I will enlighten their spirit Myself so that they will clearly recognise where and when their intervention is necessary, where and when they are confronted by lies and error in order to publicly denounce it. Not every labourer in My vineyard can cope with this task, because the opposition has already grown too strong, because people are happy to live in falsehood which allows them a comfortable life, whereas pure truth requires self-denial, which they don’t want to muster. Knowing this, My servant therefore has to honestly reveal the consequences of incorrect thoughts and misguided teachings and should not shy away from telling the supporters of error the truth to their faces. For good seed cannot be sown and flower until the field has been cleared of weeds, which are useless and have to be relentlessly destroyed. Truth must and will prepare the way, and therefore I will bless every bearer of truth and support his work for Me and My kingdom, just as I will smooth his earthly path so that he can carry out the work for which I have chosen him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

My kingdom is not of this world ....'

B.D. 5336 from March 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My kingdom is not of this world .... Therefore pay only little regard to the earthly world, only let it affect you as far as your earthly task in life requires, but constantly strive for My kingdom which can be found beyond the material world. My kingdom is the kingdom which lasts forever, whereas the earthly world vanishes with the death of your body; but you can already possess My kingdom on earth if you turn away from the pleasures and commodities of the world and raise your thoughts to Me, if you send them into infinity, questioning Me and opening yourselves up for My reply. Then you already enter the spiritual kingdom which will be your abode one day, then the spiritual kingdom will be of greater value to you than the earthly world, and then you will also receive the wealth which belongs to this kingdom but which cannot be physically received by you. My kingdom is not of this world .... Understand that I want to call you into this world with these Words, which is your true home and which also wants to admit you again after the death of your body. My kingdom is the realm of light, which you will only be able to enter if you have become receptive to light, if you aspired on earth for My kingdom and thus became aspirants for the kingdom which belongs to Me and wherein you may behold Me one day.

These Words of Mine clearly allow you to understand that you should not ardently desire the earthly kingdom, but that you must rise above it if you want to be admitted into My kingdom .... I want to explain the difference to you, I want to tell you that this world does not belong to Me but that My adversary is its master and that I thus place My kingdom in opposition to the earthly world .... I want to entice you over into My kingdom because I want to give you what the material world does not offer .... an eternal life in bliss.

Earth is the valley of suffering and tests; it is the place where imperfect human beings are meant to become perfect. Nevertheless, the earth is not a permanent abode; it is just a stage of development of extremely short duration compared to eternity. And the human being himself, his earthly material cover, is transient; it only serves the soul, which ought to achieve higher development, as a temporary abode. Only then will the soul enter the spiritual kingdom which is everlasting but which can still be My adversary's realm if the soul has not achieved spiritual progress on earth, and thus will enter the kingdom of darkness ....

Yet you shall strive for My kingdom, the spiritual kingdom in which I Am King and Ruler, where only light and happiness exist, where I Myself give in order to delight all who have entered My kingdom .... Therefore pay only little regard to the earthly world, strive for the kingdom which reveals to you splendours which you humans could not dream of, the kingdom whose splendours I have promised you with the Words 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things which I have prepared for those who love Me ....'

Amen

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Fight for truth .... light ....

B.D. 5337 from March 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My pure truth also has to find its way into human hearts, for it still finds resistance everywhere where people are satisfied with spiritual knowledge of little value. There the entrance to human hearts is still blocked and the path must first be cleared. But pure truth has the characteristic that it is superior to error in strength, that it becomes victorious when man seriously weighs truth and error against each other. But if the human being does not have the will to do so, then even the most delicious things cannot be brought to him, then he cannot be helped spiritually either, then his path does not lead upwards but remains flat in the best case, if it does not lead into the abyss. The term 'truth' is taken far too lightly .... People are content with a knowledge or a belief that does not correspond to the truth and do nothing themselves to come into possession of the truth. They are indolent, and this is because they want to acknowledge the earthly world as truth, because they regard earthly life as an end in itself and because the pure truth would prove their previous wrong thinking to them. They don't want to hear the truth because it impairs their desire for the enjoyment of life, because it makes them responsible for only earthly thinking, because the truth demands something of them which they don't want to achieve .... And all these are resistances which oppose the pure truth but which have to be removed by the human being's will itself. And moving this will to do so can only be achieved through advice and warnings by eloquent representatives of truth, and I, as the eternal truth, will support every such effort and bestow the gift of oratory upon My representatives on earth who seriously stand up for Me and My kingdom and for the pure truth. Where My blessing and My strength are involved, success is also certain .... where I Myself can speak through the mouth of a servant on earth, there the words will also ignite, stimulate thought and finally be recognized as pure truth, which is why I repeatedly call out to My servants on earth: Don't get tired of proclaiming the truth, carry My word out into the world, spread the truth and speak where you are offered the opportunity, for spiritual progress also depends on the acceptance of truth, and never can a person on earth reach his aim who takes a wrong path, who is misguided by error and lies and does not accept what I Myself want to convey to him through My servants. The last aim of a person on earth wants to be Me Myself .... But how else can you reach Me, Who am the eternal truth, if not through the truth? How can I let Myself be found by those who accepted My adversary's spiritual knowledge and don't want to exchange it for the pure truth? The truth is light, but you can never reach the light if you reject the truth, and you can never be blissfully happy in darkness .... And because I see spiritual darkness on earth, I want to kindle light everywhere so that people will find the right path to Me .... But the lights are where I can guide the pure truth to earth, because I find willing, truth-desiring people to whom I can impart the truth, which they can then pass on so that the great spiritual hardship (darkness) will be reduced, for you humans will never feel happy in the darkness of spirit. Therefore, accept the light, open yourselves to the truth which originates from Me and thus come closer to Me, the eternal truth, Who can give you light without measure if you desire it yourselves .... For light alone is bliss, light is truth, I Myself am light from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

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Conversion work on souls from the depths through love ....

B.D. 5338 from March 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I want you all to become blessed .... Therefore I give you every opportunity to reach the aim, beatification. I take no pleasure in My living creations' decline, I don't want them to suffer, I don't want them to perish either, to fall into My adversary's hands, for although he will not keep them forever he can nevertheless hold them in his power for a long time, to the creature's immense suffering and indescribable torment. And where there is only one possibility to shorten this state of misery, to snatch the souls from My adversary, I Myself will create opportunities and do everything to enable the being's ascent to height. Moreover, My love also desires the spiritual being which once fell away from Me, because it originates from My eternal love and is therefore My share. Love, however, always knows ways and means, no matter how hopeless success may seem. The satanic influence in the last time before the end sets all forces of heaven and earth in motion to do counter-work, to put themselves in a defensive position and to be active for Me to the same extent as satan works against Me. And now the strength of love proves to be exceedingly beneficial and its effect is a redeeming one, i.e. the love of a being of light or also of a human being on earth is able to break fetters which satan has forged .... Love can snatch souls from him because it is a weapon against which he is powerless. The strength of love could redeem the entire spiritual world in an instant, yet the law of eternal order applies here too, that love cannot work if it meets with resistance .... and that therefore the will which opposes Me must first be broken before love can take effect .... And countless beings of light and people on earth who are devoted to Me struggle for this will ....

Again, love must bring about this change of will, and it will not remain without success. Never before has the battle between light and darkness raged as it does now before the end of the old earth, for satan drives the forces in bondage to him to utmost activity, and the beings of light also set themselves up for battle against them. Yet they do not fight against each other but for the souls of people on earth .... And both forces seek to gain influence until one force wins the victory. Yet even what seems to be lost can still be retrieved if a person's love fights for this being, if a person of his own free will follows him with his thoughts into the darkness, if he tries to snatch the soul out of it and mentally influences this soul such that it hears the call of love and feels charitably touched and turns around .... Then the strength of love is able to work miracles, it can change a soul and awaken the desire in it to flee from satan’s realm, to flee from darkness to light, and the desire can also be followed by action as soon as the human being supports the soul with his love ....

I rejoice in every such work of conversion and help as far as it is possible without coercion of will, for I Myself desire those souls which satan wanted to snatch from Me and which I could not hold back by virtue of My power but hand them over to you humans to rescue them from adversity through your love. You humans don't know what kind of power you have yourselves when you fight with the weapon of love .... It would truly be possible for you humans to redeem hell if you would all accept the fallen souls with deepest love in order to help them up .... And I would bless you all for it .... but your faith is too weak and therefore you neither know about the great hardship nor about the possibility to alleviate it. And you yourselves are in danger of entering the kingdom of darkness one day because you don't believe .... yet take care that you will at least be followed by works of love, take care that you will be remembered with love, that you will find help to ascend from the abyss to the height .... For I don't want you to perish, I want you to become blessed, so that you can enter heights of light and triumph over satan, who wants to increase his kingdom and yet is powerless against the strength of love ....

Amen

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Preventing the Judgment through prayer? ....

B.D. 5339 from March 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You humans would certainly be able to prevent the forthcoming Judgment, you would be able to stop an act of destruction of this earth if you sincerely appealed to Me for it, yet with a prayer which is not merely voiced by the mouth but is deeply felt within your heart instead. However, such a prayer presupposes faith in Me and you lack this faith, although most people would have to admit this unbelief if they seriously gave account of their thoughts to themselves. Many people certainly still mention My name with their mouths but their hearts have had no knowledge of it for a long time already. For this reason you are incapable of a prayer that could persuade Me to stop the announced Judgment. Moreover, people don't believe in it either, and thus they do not use the grace of such a true prayer which alone would be able to change My will. And if I announce the forthcoming event so definitely then that is only because I Am aware of people's state of faith and have known their will from the start. I cannot forcibly change their will, but it turns to My adversary and totally away from Me. Up to a certain limit I allow free reign to people's will, yet as soon as this limit is exceeded I will intervene and deny people any further opportunity to descend infinitely deeper. I know when I must put a stop to it, when I must break My opponent's power .... Consequently, I also know how to remove people from his power and influence, and I know that banishment into hardest matter is far more advantageous and promising for the apostatised spirits than allowing people in this low state of mind to keep the old earth and thus also their life where they become complete devils through his influence. Furthermore, I have already approached every individual person in order to win him over for Myself .... Every single person had enough opportunities to turn to Me in order to get to know Me and to experience My Fatherly love if he so wanted .... Countless means were used by Me, I coaxed them with Words of love, I admonished and warned them through suffering and adversities, I came close to them in joy and pain, I spoke to them through a human mouth, I steered their thoughts to spiritual spheres .... My adversary, however, won them over for himself through the world and its matter and they paid no attention to Me apart from a few who recognised and loved Me and who therefore need not fear the end either .... But these people also know humanity's adversity during this time and they recognise the fact that and why I will bring an end to an epoch which can only result in a lower spiritual state and never in a change for the better, in faith and in spiritual advancement. Through profound faith and heartfelt prayer you could certainly achieve a lot, yet you only desire the world and its possessions, and therefore you will perish because the time has come ....

Amen

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Remodeling the earth gives new development possibilities ....

B.D. 5340 from March 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spiritual needs new opportunities for development, for the old creations no longer correspond to their purpose because they are not valued or used for service in the right way, as it corresponds to My law of eternal order. Human will prevents many opportunities for service or prematurely interrupts the course of development of the spiritual in certain creations, human will changes the natural purpose of the creations brought into being by Me for the purpose of maturing the spiritual, and thus the whole process of development has come to a standstill which I want to lift by creating new works, by dissolving existing creations and completely reshaping the old earthly surface so that progress is guaranteed for all spiritual. In addition, countless spiritual entities will also be released which, bound in firmest matter, await their next transformation. An order is re-established through the re-emergence of creations of the most diverse kind, only to accelerate the process of development and to bring success. The wrong thinking and will of men, which has its cause in self-love, will understandably also have a wrong effect on that which surrounds man, be it solid matter, plants or animals, in which the spiritual often cannot reach the degree of maturity which is the condition for the next deformation. Natural law is disregarded where people hope for material advantages; people no longer move in My order themselves and thereby also disrupt the spiritual in the various creations, which is why a complete integration into the eternal order has become necessary and this also requires a work of transformation of greatest magnitude, which therefore shall for the first time offer the possibilities of development for all spiritual from the lowest to the highest degree of maturity. People's wrong will has also brought about spiritual chaos which irrevocably entails dissolution and re-creation.

Ignorant humanity only sees the effects of destruction on people and therefore does not recognize the great blessing which the spiritual substances in the preliminary stages derive from a new formation of the earth. But I know about the adversity of all spiritual substances and also remember them with love, which are still far below, so that I will give them the opportunity to also ascend in order to exchange the bound state with the state of free will one day. I give all spiritual beings the opportunity to reach ascent, yet I take away the freedom of will from the spiritual being which, after an infinitely long time of grace, after already having progressed as a human being, but nevertheless creating a new course of development for it again, and even if this is a state of torment it is nevertheless the only path which can lead to complete freedom ....

Amen

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Arrogance ....

B.D. 5341 from March 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Do not exalt yourselves above your fellow human beings but serve them .... Only then will you practice true discipleship of Jesus, only then will love be active in you which eliminates all arrogance, which teaches you to regard your fellow human beings as brothers and which compensates for every difference in rank or status, which only exists in the world but is not tolerated in My kingdom. Servant love will trigger true happiness in you, in servant neighbourly love you are true followers of Jesus, the human being on earth, Who exemplified the right life to you, Who truly possessed light and strength and power in all abundance because He had received Me Himself into His heart, and Who nevertheless made no use of this strength by ruling and allowing Himself to be served by His fellow human beings .... He served His brothers in deepest love and humility; and this elevated Him to ruler over worlds and countless creations, for I Myself took His external form and filled Him with light and strength. Arrogance is a characteristic of one who has fallen into the deepest depths out of arrogance and lust for power. And if you humans are arrogant you willingly lend your ear to him and let yourselves be seduced by him, you accept his characteristics, his vices and are in bondage to him. Do not place yourselves above your fellow human beings, who are in truth your brothers, because you all have only one father and as His children should love and serve each other out of love for Me. Arrogance will easily cause your downfall, for anyone with an arrogant spirit will very soon no longer recognize Me, Who am eternal love, because there is no love in him. For true love is one with humility but not with arrogance. Serving in humility always testifies to profound love for Me, which is expressed in serving neighbourly love. And you will truly gain far more if you serve with humility than if you rule with arrogance. For you can only gain earthly power through arrogance, yet spiritually you will gain nothing, indeed, you will only lose the little you possess. For arrogance is My adversary's share, thus it only strengthens his kingdom, and it is not difficult to guess what this means for you humans. But My kingdom is not of this world, therefore serving neighbourly love can certainly result in an apparent earthly loss of goods, of reputation and power, yet it acquires spiritual values which are everlasting and will one day be credited to the soul in My kingdom, which now stands far above those who ruled on earth and oppressed their fellow human beings in light and fullness of strength. He who exalts himself will be humbled .... Remember these words and don't believe that what you create for yourselves on earth through arrogance will remain with you .... which you, so to speak, acquire unjustly. For the one who wants to rule takes .... he takes what is not his due, he appropriates a right and abuses his power .... Servant love, on the other hand, gives unceasingly; in words and deeds it gives itself to those who are in need and who need its help. Servant love is true humility and therefore pleasing to Me, servant love is true following Jesus, which leads safely to Me, to the father from eternity ....

Amen

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Redemption from darkness .... loving will to help ....

B.D. 5342 from March 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

All beings shall enter the kingdom of light and be blissfully happy. But I can do nothing else but show them the path, quietly urge them on and send them guides who can directly influence them as long as they still don't want to acknowledge Me Myself. On earth it is possible to take the right path almost effortlessly, which the soul will only recognize when it enters the kingdom of the beyond without strength and lets the many unused opportunities pass its spiritual eye, once it has recognized what it missed in earthly life. On earth, therefore, it is not difficult to reach the aim, the state of maturity, which allows entry into spheres of light. But it is unspeakably difficult for a being which has departed from earth immaturely to ascend in the beyond. It is not impossible but requires a far greater will which only a ray of light can bring about, because the being suffers unspeakably under darkness. The light attracts every being if it is not completely opposed to Me and then shuns the light. But if there is still the slightest possibility of a change of being, a ray of light beneficially touches the soul, and what the soul once desires it will also achieve. The soul which seeks the light is not irredeemably lost and help can be brought to this soul. But without help it is unable to take a step upwards because it lacks all strength. Whether it can be touched by a ray of light at all always depends on its resistance against Me or on the abandonment of this resistance .... But I know the hardship of every soul as well as the degree of its obduracy and resistance .... My love is also with these beings in the abyss and constantly affects them, yet only a few let up in their resistance and surrender to the effect of love by no longer rebelling and demanding a change of their present situation. Then the path to ascent is already disputed, then the soul is hit by rays of light which give it a renewed will to live, and if knowledgeable beings now instruct them in this state they absorb these thoughts and usually process them with the success that they desire increased light and their state noticeably improves and the will to ascend is stimulated in the beings.

You humans on earth can release many souls from the darkness through good thoughts and loving will to help, which these beings feel as a force of attraction and now appeal to you for your help. They will then take every opportunity to escape from the darkness, for the strength of your love erects a partition between the being and its dungeon master, satan .... you yourselves push a wedge between the two through your love, and now the being is able to have a different will than before .... and this will first unconsciously and after realization consciously turns to Me, the lord, Who can release it from its imprisonment and Who is now also welcome to it as lord, to Whom the soul now voluntarily submits itself. To have redeemed a soul from darkness is indescribably blissful once you know about the hardship of such a soul, which has no comparison on earth. And again I tell you that you can contribute an unspeakable amount to redeeming hell, to helping beings out of darkness and bringing them to Me, if only you want to help and turn your love towards these wretched people who can no longer help themselves on their own and, being bound by satan, cannot release themselves from his power .... Your love is strength which breaks their bonds, your love is able to work miracles if it applies to the souls in darkness, and your love enables you to redeem yourselves on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

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God .... father ....

B.D. 5343 from March 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I am your God and father .... Perhaps you will still acknowledge Me as God if you mentally deal with your origin and your being. Thus you can come to the conclusion through intellectual work that you acknowledge a creator and sustainer from eternity Who is the original source of strength for you and Whom you now call God. But I want to be recognized by you as father.... And this cannot be achieved through intellectual activity, this requires the activity of the spiritual spark in you, which .... as a divine part itself .... clarifies the right relationship with your creator of eternity for you, but which you first have to enter in order to recognize Me as father and yourselves as My children. A person who certainly acknowledges God but does not know the purpose and aim of his earthly existence will hardly know the connection between himself and God, and he will also not be able to intellectually establish a bond between himself and God .... For this is the activity of the spirit which, as a part of Me, pushes towards Me again, thus strives to come close to its father-spirit again, with which it indeed remains inseparably united but which also impels the soul it inhabits towards unification, because it, as an external being, lacks the bliss of unification with Me. Hence the union with Me is like the relationship of a child with its father, whereas the isolated being is only God's 'creature' and thus also regards God as a being distant from it. But I want to be united with My living creations, I want to accept them as My children in order to make them blissfully happy. I am indeed your God but I want to be your father. For you emerged from My love, not just from My power .... and love seeks constant contact because it wants to make happy .... But love is a free feeling which can never be forced .... For this reason I must first be recognizable to you humans as God, Whom you shall now learn to love and Who then returns your love as father. Then you will also feel this fatherly love, it will fill you with emotion and make you yearn ever more intimately for the father. As long as you only show reverence and obedience towards Me as your God I will not yet appear as your father, for I desire your love in order to then deal with My children in a fatherly way and make them happy with My love .... Then you will no longer stand isolated in creation, even though you are independent creatures, then you will have drawn Me to you through your love, and the connection between us can never be severed because it has always existed, you were just unaware of it as long as you only saw Me as God and creator, but Who is and will remain your father for all eternity ....

Amen

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The spirit's efficacy ....

B.D. 5344 from March 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

It is the effectiveness of the spirit that you strive towards Me again and again, that you have made it your task to fulfil My will and now also adjust your earthly life according to this task, that you don't just live for the world but feel a spiritual life in this world which brings you ever closer to Me. The spirit from Me is active in you, and everything you now want, think and do has been influenced by the spirit in you. Thus you must now mature spiritually, for My working of the spirit is a strength which inexorably pushes you upwards. All people who are serious about the fulfilment of My will can therefore feel inspired by My spirit, I Myself can now be active in them because My spirit is My share from eternity.

It is a sure sign of My working in a person when he listens to spiritual speeches, engages in spiritual debates and often mentally occupies himself with Me, the creator and sustainer of everything that surrounds the human being. Anyone who thinks of Me and tries to fathom Me will also be influenced by My spirit, for I take hold of every person who turns his thoughts towards Me and he will hardly be released from My hands again, for they hold him with love and bestow gifts upon him which he will no longer want to miss once he has received them. And to confirm this I also speak to him when he listens within and asks Me questions in his thoughts. Then he certainly believes that he can answer his own thoughts and does not know that I Myself give him the thought because he seriously longs for the truth. And thus a person can build up a spiritual kingdom within himself in the midst of the world, provided he pays more attention to this kingdom than to the world .... provided he therefore seeks Me and My kingdom .... Then he also takes possession of My kingdom, only in the belief that he has to set himself a task which entitles him to feel like an aspirant of My kingdom. And this thought, too, is the working of My spirit, because it stimulates the human being's will into right activity. Then his thinking will be bright and clear, and he will also receive according to his achievement and his will to achieve .... spiritual good in abundance .... His thinking will correspond to truth, and therefore he will also be able to transfer it to his fellow human beings, and thus his task has now also become comprehensible to him: to impart spiritual good to his fellow human being which My spirit has supplied to him. And this task delights and satisfies him. His whole life is now filled with the endeavour to be active for Me and My kingdom, to help his fellow human beings attain the brightness of spirit which makes him so happy that he is urged to provide his fellow human beings with the same happiness. For where My spirit is active there is no standstill of activity, instead, constant work begins for Me and My kingdom in order to make contact with Me Myself, because the spirit constantly pushes out of Me towards Me ....

Amen

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Healing process .... Free will ....

B.D. 5345 from March 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My plan of Salvation includes everything that can help the redemption of the imperfect spiritual beings. For everything visible arose for their sake and everything that happens can help these spiritual beings towards ascent if it is utilised correctly. And thus spiritual creations can fulfil the same purpose too but only for spiritual beings with a specific degree of maturity, thus for those which have already overcome matter and are liberated from every material form. Nevertheless, the possibilities for development won't stop in the spiritual kingdom either, the soul can constantly rise higher and always increase in strength and light. The soul's ascent in the spiritual kingdom is assured once it has entered the right path, but on earth it can time and again be pulled back by matter, because My adversary's power still affects everything that is to attain final maturity on earth as a human being. Thus matter is the stumbling block which can make a soul fall. Yet this, too, has been known by Me for eternity and therefore I make a special effort to influence the human being so that he learns to recognise what matter actually is, so that he will not let himself to be dominated by it. By the end of his life the human being must have overcome matter, that is, it must not burden his soul in the slightest, the soul must have liberated itself entirely from the desire for things which belong to the earthly-material world .... Then it will be able to enter the spiritual kingdom unburdened and continue its higher development in spiritual creations which will spiritualise the soul ever more and provide it with inconceivable beatitudes.

Thus My eternal plan of Salvation concerns all spiritual beings, but a healing can only be spoken of in souls which are still bound in a form of the earthly material creation, which are not yet free and ready for the kingdom of light. The healing process of the spiritual beings therefore takes place in the earthly material creations as well as through the events of a person's earthly life, which are intended to change his will and for this reason can also have a beneficial effect. And the hardship and suffering which the individual person has to endure is especially beneficial .... if it means that the soul will find Me and thus results in a successful healing process. There is no means I will not try if it can affect the human being's soul beneficially, in order to result in an awakening in the kingdom of light after his physical death, however, the process takes a lawful progression, it is not arbitrarily encouraged, instead, its success depends on the human being's will. For the human being's will is also influenced by My adversary and has to make a free decision. Admittedly, the human being will not pass his test of earthly life if he disregards all possibilities which could help him to progress but, after an infinitely long time, he will inevitably have to face the same test again, and this so often until he has finally chosen Me .... It is just that his redemption will be the result of an inconceivably long existence on earth which he, however, could just as easily have attained within a very short time because it only ever depends on his will and not on insufficient redemption possibilities how long it takes the soul to reach maturity .... I will do everything for My living creations to become My children but I do not force their will, and thus they create their own fate, they can get better according to My eternal plan of Salvation, if they are willing to achieve this themselves ....

Amen

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Work for God and His kingdom .... teachings ....

B.D. 5346 from March 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

In untiring care for your fellow human beings' souls you should be active for Me and My kingdom .... Then I will bless you and your work shall not be in vain. My call has reached you and you have declared your willingness of your own free will and thus become My helpers, for the redemption of all My living creations from bondage is My aim, and you support this work of redemption by informing them of what I give you .... the knowledge of My will and people's earthly task. What people do afterwards is a matter of their own free will, but the fact that they know about it is absolutely necessary for the decision of will.

And to convey this knowledge to people is My constant concern, which you therefore share with Me if you make it your business to instruct your fellow human beings about My will .... Contact only has to be established between Me and earthly people, then the transmission of what I want to give to people is certain. And if contact is now also established from person to person a constant cycle of My strength of love, My word of love, can take place, I can speak through one person to all people and draw everyone to Me who does not oppose the truth or My strength of love. There is always a lack on earth but in My kingdom there is an abundance of light and strength and grace. Therefore the earth should receive from above .... People on earth should stretch out their hands longingly towards the spiritual kingdom and accept what is abundantly offered to them .... yet they feel nothing of their lack and therefore they also ask for nothing. But if a person recognizes the hardship his fellow human beings are in due to this seclusion from the spiritual kingdom, because they cannot establish contact so that the gifts of grace could flow to them, if a person consciously opens himself to this influx of grace from above, then he will also receive unmeasured and can now also utilize his wealth, he can give the same to his fellow human beings and thus pass on the flow of strength of grace for humanity's great blessing. And only in this way is it possible for people to take notice of My will when they are indirectly or directly instructed from My kingdom about Me Myself, My love, wisdom and power, about the purpose and aim of creation and about their destiny on this earth. If they now learn to know and recognize Me, then they will also learn to love Me, and anyone who loves Me will also gladly fulfil My commandments .... In this work of teaching you shall support Me, for your fellow human beings are only receptive to wisdom from human mouths .... And yet you are disciples of Me .... You certainly speak with your mouth and yet only what I put on your tongue, as soon as you seek to instruct your fellow human beings with the firm will to serve Me .... thus I Myself speak through you and you are only the form which offers itself to serve Me as a shell. And I bless you for your will, which you subject to Me .... You may receive much in return, spiritual possessions and blessings in abundance, with which you can now work for Me and My kingdom. And thus My spirit guides you so that you will be active in My will and save the souls of your fellow human beings from spiritual adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's wooing of workers for His vineyard ....

B.D. 5347 from March 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I still need many labourers for My vineyard and therefore I want you to recognize the vineyard work as important and try to win servants to whom you present people's great hardship and encourage them to participate in the work for Me and My kingdom. You should speak fearlessly as soon as you feel the urge to testify about Me and My word. You should not fear people who have no faith and ridicule you, nor people who pretend to be believers and want to call you heretics .... You should remain calm and serene and yet mention My activity. You should tell people that I train servants for Myself but that they have to voluntarily offer themselves to Me for My service .... you should tell them that everyone is called and only needs to have the will to be chosen, that everyone can serve Me if only he wants to. I still need many labourers for My vineyard, for there is not much time left and much work shall still be done .... But love shall inspire them to want to serve Me, not wages .... otherwise you cannot be good workers for Me. Yet I will reward those a thousand fold who want to help in the last days before the end, because the adversity is immense and cannot be remedied by Me by virtue of My might as long as I have to leave people free will so that they can attain perfection. But you can influence your fellow human beings, you can present everything to them, you can free their hearts from error for the time being, you can cleanse the field of weeds in order to then spread the good seed, My word, which will then blossom most beautifully. And then the great spiritual adversity will also be remedied for the one you have successfully worked on in the vineyard; then you will have rescued your fellow human being from spiritual darkness, for My word will bring him light as soon as he willingly accepts it into his heart, thinks about it and is now active in accordance with My will ....

Amen

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Christ problem .... visible God ....

B.D. 5348 from March 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You confess Me, and thus I also confess you before My father .... One day you will experience for yourselves what this means when you enter the kingdom of peace, where love emanating from Me radiates towards you, where the father embraces you with His love because you have found Him through Jesus Christ .... because you have received strength from the treasure of grace acquired on the cross and have accomplished your change of nature with this strength and thus have become love. But without acknowledging My act of salvation you would never find the path to eternal love, for you are too weak of your own strength and irrevocably need My help, My grace and My strength, but I can only give it to you if you acknowledge Me as redeemer of the world .... as God's son, Whom eternal love sent to you humans in order to save you ....

A being, which came forth from Me, ascended to earth and received Me, the father, in all fullness within itself. It allowed itself to be completely permeated by My strength of love and was now also able to show the earthly children the path to Me, but it only leads via this being, via Jesus Christ. You cannot switch off Jesus Christ, bypass Him and believe that you can also reach Me in another way. You have to join Him, you have to follow Him, you have to confess Him before the world .... Then you will also safely reach your aim .... Jesus Christ leads you to Me, He brings you to the father, Who has taken on form through Him, Who now presents Himself to you visibly in Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world .... You will find this difficult to understand but only as long as you still don't know that My fundamental nature is love, that I am a spirit Who fills the whole of infinity and Who thus manifested Himself in Jesus Christ in order to be a visible God to you humans, to Whom you can entrust yourselves like children, Who is your father from eternity and also wants to be loved by you as father .... I and He are one, for it was My infinite love which drew Me to My earthly children, which rescued them from the deepest night, from satan’s bonds through death on the cross. The fact that I used a human form was necessary because I, as a spirit, could neither suffer nor offer you a visible work of salvation on the cross as long as you were unable to see spiritually yourselves and only that which was accomplished humanly was impressive to you. Yet this human form was also My work, the soul sheltering in it was My work, only it was externalized as independent in order to bring itself to the highest possible perfection, which the man Jesus also achieved on earth through His love for His fellow human beings and His death on the cross. But love was I Myself .... Who therefore sheltered Himself in Him as the eternal deity until Jesus ascended to heaven transfigured ....

You humans cannot separate Jesus Christ from Me, for I was in Him and therefore He in Me .... Jesus Christ was love Himself, therefore He was also God, Who is love in Himself .... And all beings which shape themselves into love are likewise merged with Me and will be allowed to behold Me in Jesus Christ, Who received Me on earth in all fullness, Who already accomplished the merger with Me on earth and can no longer be apart from Me eternally ....

Amen

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God's merciful love goes after the lost ....

B.D. 5349 from April 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My love and mercy know no bounds, and My mercy turns to the weak, the sick and the brooding; in infinite patience I pursue those who distance themselves from Me, and full of long-suffering I bear their sins and try to persuade them to repent; I try to heal the sickness of their souls, and I use all means to win the love of those who still offer Me harsh resistance, who do not yet feel love for Me. For I do not leave My creations even if they voluntarily separate themselves from Me, I constantly remain the father to them Who wants to save His children from eternal ruin. I go after them .... And this is why My working on people is so obvious and will be even more obvious towards the end of this earth, because the danger will become ever greater that people will lose themselves to the one who is My adversary and who wants to plunge them into ruin. People blindly walk into their ruin because they don't listen to the messengers I send their way, they ignore My divine words of love and only have eyes and ears for the world through which My adversary entices and seduces people. But My calls of admonition and warning will sound ever more urgently, and none of the apostates will be able to ignore them, for they sound mightily and testify to Me and My power .... What no human being is able to recognize as love on My part anymore is still love from Me, because I want to win people before it is too late .... All will indeed be Mine one day, even if it still takes an infinite amount of time; but I don't want them to suffer more than is necessary for their ascent. They have already travelled a long path which was full of torment and suffering, and only a short stretch of the path is still missing until they reach Me .... but if they now turn back before the end, then there is a danger that they will have to travel the infinitely long path again and that unspeakable suffering will be their fate once more. But I don't want them to suffer more than is necessary .... Yet I leave people free will. But My voice will sound until the end, and if it is not heard, since it sounds tenderly and softly, then I will speak with a voice of thunder and have to be listened to. But even then the human being is not yet forced to obey My voice .... For this reason I do not speak from the clouds in order to prove My being but I speak through the elements of nature which everyone can certainly recognize as My voice if he wants to but which he can also reject as a natural occurrence which only worries people but does not give rise to a change of will. Yet My love will not rest until I see My aim fulfilled, until all My living creations have found their way back to Me, until they long for My love themselves and I am now their fulfilment .... My love will also reach it in a shorter or longer time, as the human being himself uses his will ....

Amen

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Redeemer work .... understanding for spiritual need ....

B.D. 5350 from April 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

With the realization of the spiritual need, the will to help and the willingness to participate in the work of redemption also increases. Then the condition is also created to be able to constantly receive strength and thus also to be capable of the work of redemption. And then I place the human being Myself in the area of redemption which he can master, then I let him become sighted so that he will now be active where he is needed. I constantly endeavour to save and help .... My saving hand reaches into the deepest depths, and anyone who allows himself to be pulled up by it will never regret it, for it will guide him such that he can now prove to himself whether he is worthy of My saving love. And therefore I need servants who are willing to serve and to whom I entrust the work on these lost souls, because they have to be humanly instructed and guided in order to ascend to the light. In order to be able to instruct them, knowledge must have been made accessible to My servants, which I therefore convey to them Myself in order to make them suitable. But what this work of salvation achieves is incomprehensible to you humans .... but you should know that it is necessary, that you are assured of My reward and the gratitude of the redeemed souls, but that you will only be successful if love stimulates you to be redeemingly active. The feeling of compassion and love would certainly awaken in many people if they could recognize the spiritual hardship of the souls, both on earth as well as in the beyond; if only they could take a look into the kingdom which is still closed to them, they would be able to see and hear spiritually .... Yet this knowledge must be withheld from them, the spiritual kingdom must remain closed to them as long as they still dwell on earth, because the convinced knowledge would make them unfree in their thoughts and actions. Yet anyone who lives in love has also reached a certain degree of maturity which gives him full understanding for the spiritual hardship on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom .... This person cannot be told urgently enough to participate in the salvation of souls, for this is the actual task of the human being on earth, to cast off the spiritual darkness and attain the light. And where people themselves are too weak-willed, their fellow human beings shall help them with love, they shall carry the light where it is still dark, and much blessing will result from it, both for the saved as well as for their saviours, for every work of love has an effect as strength and light, and every work of love brings bliss one day in eternity ....

Amen

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Unleashing spiritual forces .... Eruptions .... Period of redemption ....

B.D. 5351 from April 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Unimaginable forces are at work to establish the old order which, at the end of a period of salvation, will be so impaired that the spirits' higher development will be totally out of the question. A condition in which everything that is bound in matter will strive upwards again must be created, and this condition will necessitate a total transformation of that which hitherto sheltered the spirits .... The old creations must be dissolved and replaced by new ones which will be used again in divine order, according to divine will, and thus also fulfil their task of helping the spirits to mature. Many forces are already at work to initiate the immense action ahead, for everything will proceed according to divine order, including the disintegration and transformation of the old earth's surface .... From time to time spiritual beings, with an abundance of power and strength, liberate the spirits which are still bound in the most solid matter; they loosen the chains which the spiritual substance would never be able to burst by itself, and, in a manner of speaking, clear the way leading upwards .... It may change its external shape, making it easier to dissolve, so that the higher development of the spiritual substance, which was bound for an infinitely long period of time and has finally eased its opposition to God, can start. Such a process of activating strength by the beings of light happens wherever eruptions occur; they loosen chains where, according to God's will, it is time to do so. These forces give freedom and bind at the same time, because the entirely free spirits would destroy everything in their urge to be active and, according to God's wise judgment, only partial destructions may occur, as long as the final act of disintegration does not take place, at which time everything will be transformed according to God's will. But, for the time being, visible destructions will only happen where people are given a sign of divine power and strength .... for the time being these eruptions shall simultaneously signify God's calls of admonition and caution for the living, so that they will seriously become aware of their own task in life and strive towards ascent. Yet such manifestations of strength by the spiritual world will follow in ever shorter intervals until an immense divine intervention causes such powerful changes, that every person should be able to recognise the One Who is Lord over Heaven and Earth, over life and death .... After that it will only be a short time until a work of destruction ensues whose final consequences will no longer be witnessed by the human race, only by those whom God will fetch to Himself because they believe in Him and love Him .... because they had recognised their task on earth and tried to do justice to it. Then a new period of redemption will start, for untold spirits will have entered the path of higher development, the old order will have been established again, and peace will reign on earth for a long time to come .... until one day Satan gains influence again and uses his power once more, because people themselves concede to it .... Nevertheless, a long time in bliss and peace will pass by, and countless spiritual beings will reach their goal .... to become free from all matter and to enter the spiritual kingdom, where light and bliss exist forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Darkness of the spirit .... work of love .... distance from God ....

B.D. 5352 from April 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The further people distance themselves from God, the darker their spirit is and the less able they are to muster the understanding for spiritual teachings. And the degree of distance from God is always determined by the degree of love they possess. Where love, the divine in the human being, is not developed, God Himself cannot work with His spirit, therefore there can be no light and no power of knowledge. It is difficult to proclaim the gospel there, for it echoes in people's ears and does not reach the heart, it sounds to them like an empty sound because the heart, being incapable of love, rejects it and only the ear hears it and thus it remains without impression. Once such a person has accomplished a deed of love and is subsequently given spiritual instructions he will already be willing to accept them. And that is why the human being should first be stimulated to work with love through good example, by bringing fellow human beings in need of help closer to him, by drawing his attention to hardship and misery and urgent help. As soon as compassion begins to stir, the spark of love is not completely buried, and it can flare up with the activity of love, which can then make him inwardly happy and move him to further works of love. A person who has accomplished a deed of love is now also soft-hearted for a short time, and then spiritual instructions or conversations can fall on good ground. But a person who is devoid of all love, no matter how highly developed his intellect, will never confess or even think about it. He would not be able to recognize spiritual truths as such because this requires the heart, not just the intellect. The distance from God will become ever greater the closer the end comes because the activity of love will also become ever weaker where ego love predominates and ego love determines people's thinking and wanting. And it will become increasingly darker on earth, for the spiritual light will only break forth in a few places, and no other light can conquer the darkness than only pure truth, which has its origin in God, the eternal light. Therefore, it is the truth which enlightens the human spirit and which alone should be preached to people. Truth alone is able to convince where there is an earnest will to find enlightenment .... Truth signifies light and the power of realization for the one who seeks the truth. For he already turns his face towards God and will also learn to recognize Him through the truth imparted to him, whereas this remains incomprehensible to the one who does not desire it because he still turns his back on God and is therefore unable to recognize anything divine. Darkness holds him captive and will not release him in the beyond as long as the soul does not try to escape it of its own accord. But then it is considerably more difficult to reach the light, although it is not impossible. For the soul's defensive will is widely recognizable and prevents the spiritual light from becoming effective until the soul's desire for light is awakened, which, however, can take an infinitely long time because free will is also respected in the beyond and only love is valued there as well ....

Amen

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Effect of atheism in the beyond ....

B.D. 5353 from April 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

How poor are those people who have no faith in God as Creator and Father of eternity, Who accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus Christ in order to release His living creations from a degrading shackle which they allowed to be placed upon them of their own fault. How poor are those who go through earthly life without faith, for they own nothing but the transient possessions allocated to them by destiny in order to be able to accomplish their task in earthly life and which are now most important to them, which they eagerly try to increase instead of overcoming matter. The right kind of faith would give their life a different purpose, for they would work for eternity, for the soul's life after death; however, without faith they only think of earthly life, it is a state of continuous concern for transient things .... People create for death, not for life .... They are already poor on earth and enter the kingdom of the beyond, which they don't want to believe in on earth, even poorer .... they arrive naked and wretched in the beyond and immeasurable pain and darkness is their fate. Yet they created their own fate, for they did not remain without knowledge about God as Creator and Father, about Jesus Christ as Redeemer .... They refused to accept the teachings of it although they could have done had they been willing to receive clarification about their purpose of earthly life.

This will is the foundation of faith .... the human being must want to believe and then he will also be able to do so .... The knowledge of God is made accessible to every person sooner or later, and if he thinks about what the reason and purpose of his human existence might be he will surely be helped by God to come to the right realisation, for that reveals his will to know the truth .... Every person knows that he cannot provide evidence to the contrary and should therefore not deem himself entitled to reject what is proclaimed to him about God, about His act of Salvation, about His unlimited power, wisdom and love. Hence he should try to receive clarification, and this effort will be rewarded to him because God Himself takes care of the one who sends his questioning thoughts into infinity .... He will be able to believe and through his faith gain immense riches, whilst a person without faith will even lose his earthly possessions. He is poor in the true sense of the word, for nothing will give him hope and confidence; nothing will give him strength when he suffers adversity if he cannot believe in God as Father, in Jesus Christ as Redeemer, Whom he has to strive for in order to become eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Shine of light recognizable to the souls in the beyond ....

B.D. 5354 from April 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The beings in the spiritual kingdom are indescribably happy when they see a flash of light, especially when the beings are in darkness which is a torment for them. Then they follow this shine of light and it will always lead them to where the light has its origin .... where beings of light distribute to those who want to receive light. Such emanations can always be sent from the spiritual kingdom, for light-hungry souls are always ready to receive what light beings offer them. But people on earth who are willing to receive can also establish a connection with those beings of light which are also recognizable as rays of light for the souls in the beyond and which are therefore also welcomed by souls in the beyond because they hope to receive light through them. A light will always flash up where people on earth mentally seek the spiritual kingdom, where they mentally converse with beings of light, asking them or communicating their thoughts to them. Then a bright light shines forth which shines so brightly that it beckons many souls out of darkness or twilight who feel beneficently touched for a short time and always feel relief when they come close to such rays of light. These souls are not denied access to the light, but they themselves are free to take advantage of it. Not all souls can muster the understanding for the act of a light transmission from the spiritual kingdom to earth. The significance is explained to them by spiritual guides but they are never forcibly induced to accept light. Yet for the most part they do not leave such light transmissions without an impression, they will again and again return to the place and to the people where connections to the world of light are established, and they participate in it to a certain extent by being attentive listeners and absorbing and thinking through everything that is comprehensible to them in terms of spiritual teachings .... They satisfy their hunger and thirst by accepting the bread of heaven which beings of light offer to people on earth and which every being in the beyond may also claim for itself. People on earth don't know how to help these souls which dwell in darkness by consciously directing their thoughts to God, to the world of light and also directly to those beings which need their help in order to be able to be spiritually instructed. Every thought upwards has an effect as a ray of light, and every ray of light attracts countless souls which want to escape the darkness. And the darkness on earth as well as in the beyond is dispelled by people who walk in the light themselves, i.e. who seek the truth and live in love .... Light constantly emanates from them which makes the souls in darkness happy and attracts them until they are allowed to receive light themselves, until they are allowed to participate in the teachings from the kingdom of light to earth and have finally overcome the darkness ....

Amen

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"I stand at the door and knock ...." revelations ....

B.D. 5355 from April 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I allow you humans to gain insight into My reign and activity, I announce to you what is to come, I warn you against indifference, I entice you with words of love, I show Myself to you as a loving father, and I ask nothing more than that you reflect on everything you encounter .... I want nothing more than that you recognize Me and learn to love Me. Everything I do is done out of love for you, My children, so that you will return to Me and never leave Me again. I laid down My life for you in Jesus Christ in order to bind you all the more firmly to Me, so that you call upon Me in Jesus Christ and I can now help you.

And I informed you of My plan of salvation, I revealed Myself to you because I want to win your love which makes you My true children. For your return to the father's house will only make Me happy if you meet Me with a loving heart, if you unite with Me through love, Who is the eternal love Myself. I want to be recognized by you, and therefore I must express Myself such that you recognize My love as the fundamental principle, for then you will feel drawn to Me and return My love. And then the source of strength from eternity will also enter into function .... and the eyes of love also recognize its effect as everlasting signs of divine fatherly love .... I want to win you for eternity .... Therefore I will not let any opportunity pass by where I do not knock at the door of your heart and desire entrance. Whoever opens the door to Me, I will come in and take supper with him and he with Me .... In order to gain the trust of My children I therefore have to perform obvious signs and miracles so that the believers will grow stronger and recognize in Me the one in Whom they should believe, the one Who did everything for you humans in order to save you from the night of death. But even if the world sees miracles it always finds explanations of a purely natural kind, for it does not want to believe, it certainly wants to live but already here on earth and does not believe in a life of the soul after death. And it, the world, no longer acknowledges My reign and activity and therefore also attaches no importance to the predictions about the end of the earth and the last judgment. And now two warring parties are facing each other .... the will to live dominates the one who never believes in the end of the world, and the will to serve Me dominates the other, who therefore can also confidently expect the end as the last sign of My being, as the last revelation to My own. And then I Myself will come and reward the faith of My own, for I manifestly show Myself to them in the firmament, and I call to Myself those who have My name written on their forehead. I call them and give all those the right life, a life of peace and bliss in the paradise of the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation and redemptive work of Jesus ....

B.D. 5356 from April 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I came into the world to redeem people and to open the gate to eternity for them. I came as a human being as God's emissary and yet was God Himself in this human being; I gave a soul, a child of Mine, an external form in order to then indissolubly unite Myself with this soul and thus take abode as God in this external form. Yet only a few people recognized Who sheltered in this form; only a few people likewise established the connection with Me in their heart and were thereby also able to recognize Me in the human being Jesus, for love gave these few the light, love recognized eternal love and worshipped it.

And so also I died on the cross .... The human shell had to suffer death with all pain and agony. But eternal love made the sacrifice in this human being Jesus, eternal love took all torment and suffering upon itself, otherwise the sacrifice would not have been made voluntarily .... Love died for people on the cross, and thus it was I Myself Who suffered for you for the sake of the overwhelming guilt of sin which I wanted to redeem. I, as God, could have deleted this guilt, erased it from the book of retribution; I could have redeemed the guilt out of immense mercy; yet My perfection prevented Me from doing so, for justice is also part of My nature and this relentlessly demanded atonement for people's guilt of sin. All of you would have had to suffer unimaginably in order to pay off this great guilt and would never have been able to endure on earth what would have cleansed you from guilt. And therefore a soul of light, an angelic spirit called into existence by Me, offered Itself as a human being to atone for the great guilt and to make amends to Me. And He accomplished the work .... He accepted Me into His heart and thus drew on the strength of love to offer the greatest sacrifice of atonement a human being was ever capable of on earth. He was My son .... I His father .... But through love the complete fusion took place, He and I, we became one, for love filled Him such that everything spiritualized itself, that body, soul and spirit became one and could indissolubly unite with the father-spirit of eternity. As long as you humans cannot fathom love in its essence, God's incarnation will also appear incomprehensible to you, and only those who let love flare up into a bright flame will be able to solve this problem. Only this person can understand that eternal love manifested itself in a human being and thus enabled Him to sacrifice His life for people's sins in dreadful agony, for love gave Him strength, love was Me Myself .... I Myself descended to earth and saved humanity from deepest adversity .... Love redeemed the guilt of sin, but the human being Jesus made the atonement because eternal love could not suffer but help was to be brought to humanity and this help could only be provided by a human being who was full of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Union with God through love ....

B.D. 5357 from April 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My will is and always remains the union of you humans with Me through love. Love alone establishes the unbreakable bond between us, and love alone abolishes every separation between us. But you have to kindle love within yourselves, it cannot be imparted to you as a gift of grace, it is solely your own feeling which you have to let become divine if it is still ungodly before, that is, if you are still completely immersed in self-love. Then you must change this feeling into a completely selfless love which will make you happy because it will already lead you close to Me, because you will already draw Me to yourselves and I will no longer leave you until you are so permeated by love that you will feel Me Myself in your heart, so that I can take abode in you and then remain with you forever ....

You must establish this union with Me, then you will fulfil My will, and then you will also have reached your aim on earth, the union with Me, the transformation from My living creation into My child. Therefore I only gave you the commandment of love for Me and your neighbour .... It is not difficult to fulfil as soon as you have overcome your self-love. Yet precisely this self-love still clings too much to all of you, and anyone who is completely immersed in it can only free himself from it with difficulty, and therefore it is also unspeakably difficult for him to unite with Me and to reach his final aim on earth. For selfish love seeks fulfilment in the pleasures of the world, selfish love prevents giving, it prevents the human being from working with love and will therefore also be an obstacle to recognizing the creator and father of eternity .... No-one will try to reach Me who is still full of selfish love, and thus he will also lack the truth, for there is no light in him which spreads an illusion. In no way can I influence a person who only thinks of himself and has no understanding for his fellow human being's adversity. Only when he renounces what appeared desirable to him for his own good will he ignite the spark of love within himself and approach Me, for love is solely the means of bonding between the human being and Me, and a union between us can never take place without love, but it is the purpose and aim of every human being on earth, because the union with Me first earns the being beatitude, whereas selfish love drives the human being towards My adversary who stirs it up ever more and promises the human being everything the world can only offer ..... But I think of your former life, which can only be blissful in union with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of love .... Healing the sick .... Performing miracles ....

B.D. 5358 from April 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

A person with love also has strength and will be able to do anything, if he does not lack in faith. Love certainly activates faith but faith has to be awakened first, that is, the person first has to think through what he is supposed to believe, then love will also give him strength, so that he will no longer doubt and thus also be able to accomplish everything. Thus love is the most valuable quality, for it makes all things possible. But you humans do not appreciate the power of love .... You could perform miracles, you could heal the sick, you could banish every worry, truly nothing would be impossible if you would develop the love within you to utmost perfection and believe in its strength. And thus it is not a gift I bestow on you when you are able to do everything but it is the result of your strength of love, it is the natural consequence if you acquire My strength through love. Hence you should not systematically aim to acquire such gifts .... to heal the sick, to perform miracles etc .... because it is not an ability you can learn, you only have to increase your love, you have to strive for spiritual perfection, which then demonstrates itself in such abilities ....

Only love will accomplish everything. Anyone who completely shapes himself into love and thereby also acquires convinced faith draws from Me Myself, he feels himself as My child, as part of Me and therefore cannot think other than that his every deed will succeed because I Am by his side. But his love has to arise from his heart, it has to completely permeate the human being, it has to make him happy to give what his fellow human being needs. True love is totally unselfish, it no longer wants anything for itself, it constantly gives and is dominated by the principle of giving, and yet it provides indescribable joy .... And this kind of love can accomplish anything it wants to happen, which, as a result of its profundity, emerges as a surge of emotion in the person .... A strong, living faith places its hope in Me to fulfil its request, and it will not ask in vain .... A human being can avail himself of My strength too and accomplish the same, but only if he is permeated by love. Then I do not give him the strength but he has acquired it himself through deeds of love, and that gives him the right .... He has returned to his original nature, he has not taken something unlawfully but has become what he was in the beginning, permeated by light and strength, for love in itself is light and strength, consequently the human being has to be permeated by light and strength if he has love. Hence, it is only necessary for you humans to shape yourselves into love in order for you to accomplish everything like gods; and that you will only want what corresponds to My will goes without saying, because love is also the source of wisdom and cannot do anything other than what is My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's help in earthly trouble .... work in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5359 from April 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I will help you in every adversity of body and soul .... Don't doubt this but be firmly convinced that I know about all your worries and gladly take them over, so that you can go about your work without worry, to serve Me and to proclaim the gospel to your fellow human beings, for which I have chosen you. I want to take care of you earthly and spiritually, and My words shall always apply to you: Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest .... You shall always find help from Me, but especially when you strive spiritually and endeavour to fulfil My will. I don't want you to worry about your daily needs, I don't want you to look anxiously into the future, neither do I want you to have physical infirmities which prevent you from working for Me and My kingdom .... I want to relieve you wherever possible so that you don't suffer damage to your soul. Yet you must patiently endure the small cross which is still imposed on you, for it will help you enormously and you will follow Me if you take it upon yourselves without grumbling and complaining. I give you the strength for it and always go to your side to help you when you become weak. Therefore do not be despondent, no matter what comes upon you, it is My will and will always be for your good. But as soon as you trustingly turn your gaze towards Me I am also ready to help, for I will not disappoint My children's faith. And I also want you to go through life cheerfully and joyfully, by which, however, I do not mean worldly exuberance but the joyful tranquillity of a person who feels secure in God ....

You can also be joyful, for you have found Me and will soon have reached your aim, you can rejoice and be glad, for My sun of grace shines over you and illuminates your earthly existence, it lights up all your ways and awakens you to life .... You need no longer fear death, for you who are Mine will arise to life, and the hour of your departure from this earth will be welcome to you. But until then you shall still be efficient labourers for Me in My vineyard and I will always fill you with strength so that you will be able to do your work for Me and My kingdom. Therefore do not worry but believe and trust in Him, Who is your father from eternity to eternity, and He will truly banish spiritual and earthly adversity because He loves you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

See again in the afterlife .... maturity ....

B.D. 5360 from April 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

There will be a blissful reunion in the spiritual kingdom for all who leave earthly life in a certain maturity and are therefore able to see with spiritual eyes, i.e. the good will see each other again, but the bad will not until they themselves have also changed and want to be good. A certain level of realization is necessary for the beings to be able to see themselves, because complete loneliness, being dependent on oneself, should also have the first great educational effect, that they reflect on their state until they have come to a result where they can be helped further. Evil beings are indeed together with equally evil ones, but each being remains unrecognizable to the other. They only know each other by their actions as opponents and therefore are always at enmity with each other. But the souls which are still capable of improvement, which are secluded without faith and yet cannot be counted among the entirely bad souls, must be brought to the realization of their pitiful situation in order to finally strive for a change of it, which then already means a step upwards. Loneliness particularly torments such souls who long for their loved ones and cannot find them. But these can be close to them and want to help them, yet they remain invisible to the immature souls until, after a change of heart, they show their willingness to be enlightened. Then their loved ones often meet them, but still unrecognized. Only when they have reached a certain degree of maturity are they allowed to reveal themselves to the soul, and this is an unspeakable happiness which is also always an incentive to ascend for the souls which only now recognize the reality of the spiritual kingdom and are willing to completely integrate themselves into God's will .... A premature reunion in the beyond would have a compulsory effect on the beings insofar as they would now have to believe in the soul's survival, whereas they very often do not yet know of their own death, they only believe themselves to have been transferred to another region and therefore often rebel against their fate. But they have to come so far through their own reflection that they turn to Jesus Christ for help .... And they have to gain faith in Him themselves when they are made aware of this by beings willing to help. They must recognize their adversity, their powerlessness and also the way out .... Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Only then can so much light be conveyed to them that they will see for themselves; but without this faith they are darkened in spirit and recognize nothing but an extremely desolate barren region which they constantly wander through in hardship and agony, for they live in want and suffer dreadfully and find no way out until they judge themselves and try to change or even sink even deeper through defiant rebellion and completely harden their feelings. They are never abandoned by their loved ones, but according to divine law they are denied access until the soul calls upwards, until it desires an improvement of its situation and its thoughts become soft and pleading. Then help is granted to it from all sides, and it can very quickly ascend to the heights and see all its loved ones again ....

But an indescribable happiness is granted to those who depart from this earth in the light and find all their loved ones over there who have entered the spiritual kingdom before them ....

(continued on 15.4.1952 No. 5365)

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fall of the angels .... good friday message ....

B.D. 5361 from April 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

All of you who walk on earth have been seized by My love and opportunities have been created for you to be able to enter into the original relationship with Me again, you were granted a time for this transformation from a completely God-opposing relationship to reunion with Me .... All graces were made available to you to achieve this aim, and My never-ending love helps you where you are in danger of failing .... but there is one thing that even My greater than great love for you cannot do .... your will to change out of My power .... Your will is the factor which has to be reckoned with, which alone has to accomplish the change and can just as well fail. For your will is weakened by the one who is My adversary and who, having plunged you into the abyss through sin against Me, would also like to keep you in the abyss and therefore obstructs your path to Me in every way, who thus would also like to keep your will weak and thus incapable of accomplishing the change of being .... But the will is weak because the being, which is still under its control, is also devoid of all love and therefore cannot develop any strength, for love is strength in itself and would infallibly also give the will the necessary strengthening .... The entity which belongs to it is completely weakened in will and unable to redeem itself from its dominion over itself. And I brought help to this beingness ....

Can you humans now understand what moved Me to descend to earth and bring you salvation? I was the same in the beginning as the spiritual that was pushed into the abyss by Lucifer, I had emerged from God's love as an angelic spirit and recognized God as the epitome of all power and strength and glory from eternity .... As an adversary of Lucifer I stood by Him who had created us out of His power of love .... I too could not see God, but My love for Him was My bliss .... But I was also filled with love for the spiritual beings which had fallen away from God and let the plan mature in Me to participate in their redemption from the power of darkness, because I knew about Lucifer's power and his influence on the weak-willed spiritual beings. I wanted to help him in a way that alone could defeat the adversary .... I wanted to make use of God's strength in order to be able to take action against him and achieve the aim of wresting the beings from him and thus return them to God from Whom they had originated. I wanted to acquire the strength for this fallen one and turn it towards them so that they would become strong-willed and be able to free themselves from satan’s power. Weakness of will is a lack of strength of love, thus it is the result of an unloving attitude .... If I wanted to impart strong will to these beings I had to try to persuade them to love and first awaken their love again through My love .... I had to free them from his control by paying him the purchase price for the soul he held captive .... Although he himself never gives his consent, he never releases the soul, yet the soul now has the strength to liberate itself, which he cannot prevent it from doing if it makes use of My strength, which I willingly convey to it if it is willing to accept it, thus to make use of the blessings acquired on the cross. I paid this purchase price for all souls through My suffering and death on the cross .... Every soul can regain its freedom if only it turns to Me .... if it gives its will the right direction, if it acknowledges Me and My act of salvation and calls to Me for help .... In order to strengthen the will of these beings I died on the cross, I opposed satan’s power with an overwhelming love and defeated him, so that even the hardest fetter can burst who stands by My side ....

Two beings which emerged from the eternal strength of love wrestled against each other .... But I made use of this strength of love, I fought for God and with God, love completely filled Me and My earthly body thus became the bearer of the eternal deity, My soul of light joined It at the same time as the body, and the unification had now taken place which every individual being created by Him was also destined to enter from eternity in order to be able to work as perfected beings in light and strength and bliss.

The originally created spirit had fallen away from God, he received light and power in excess and misused them to work against God .... God's strength also flowed through him, but he used it in a negative sense and thereby distanced himself more and more from God .... But using the strength from God in His will also leads to complete fusion with Him, which I achieved as the man Jesus on earth through love .... Love is the strongest power and must also influence the will so that it turns towards God .... And I, as a human being, acquired this allocation of strength for people's will on this earth through My suffering and death on the cross, through unspeakable pain and immense agony, and everyone can make use of this strength who acknowledges Me and brings love to fruition within himself. Every person will want to escape from his previous master and will also be able to do so who calls upon Me as saviour and redeemer for help, for I will not let him fall into My adversary's hands, I will loosen his shackles and set him free .... But I can only do this as soon as the human being's will strives for redemption itself .... against his will I cannot release him .... But My love is infinite and will wrest every soul from the adversary, love will achieve that every being's will will once change and turn towards Me .... And this is why I died on the cross, so that the fallen being's weakened will will be strengthened, and thus I redeemed the world from satan’s bondage ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reason for the revelations: learning to know and love God ....

B.D. 5362 from April 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You will be shown the path you should take and it is your task to let yourselves be guided and to always remember that you are only the instruments of Him Who wants to make Himself known to your fellow human beings through you. He can only win you humans if He introduces you to the truth, because the truth lets you recognize Him as a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence, as a perfect being Who also has to be loved above all else and returns love in abundance. But you humans will only show your love for Him when you have recognized Him for what He is .... as a kind and righteous father Who only ever wants to please His children and therefore wants to win them over for Himself, and this recognition of His nature can only be given to you through utmost truth, because every untruth, every error, distorts or obscures the image of God and this means as much as that doubts arise in the heart which also reduce the love for God. The truth has to be offered to people, which originates from God Himself .... And therefore God uses willing people through whom He can speak to all people .... He only introduces you to the truth because He wants to win you over for Himself, and you should always acknowledge that it is evidence of immense love and mercy when He seeks contact with you humans, when He wants to speak to you Himself and does so wherever He is heard. But He knows people's hearts, He knows their will, their state of maturity, He knows their innermost thoughts and therefore also knows who is willing and able to accept the truth from His hand. He now directs this to you humans who want to serve Him, who participate in the spreading of His word. He leads those into your path in whom He sees the prerequisite that they want to recognize and accept the truth .... He certainly has the truth ready for all people, yet not all people desire it and accept it. And therefore they will not find the path to Him either, they will still have to take many wrong paths until they reach the right messenger of light who can and will give them enlightenment. Nevertheless, you will also have to instruct such people, for although they will not adhere to you, although they will sometimes laugh at you and mock you, something of what they have heard will nevertheless remain in them and one day it will come to the surface of his thoughts when the hour has come for him to make a decision for God or against Him .... And then the words he hears can still be his salvation, he can suddenly come to recognize the truth and stand up for it with fervour, because the truth has an effect which no-one of good will can ignore. And therefore you should quietly work on all who are led into your path, for these are called and can be awakened by you, they can also come to recognize the truth if you lovingly offer them the divine word which is full of strength and which reveals God's nature to them and can also move them to love Him ....

You should be His servants, you should let yourselves be guided by Him, receive His instructions and work as a blessing among your fellow human beings; you should make yourselves His own so that He can speak to people through you in order to save them from spiritual adversity, in order to lead them out of error into truth, through which alone they can become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Easter message ....

B.D. 5363 from April 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Let Me arise in your hearts and then walk with Me in blissful togetherness. As long as you still walk the path without love I am dead for you .... but you, too, are dead in spirit, you live well on earth but move in spiritual darkness, in a state which is equal to death, for the life of the body can be taken from you at any hour, then you, i.e. your soul, will be enveloped in a dreadful silence of the grave, in darkness, and it will be completely devoid of all strength .... Awaken it to life already on this earth by joining Me, by providing your soul with strength from Me .... Let Me come alive in your heart and you will never die again, there will be no more death for you forever. Seek to be spiritually reborn, thus to experience a spiritual transformation, so to speak, so that you can leave the grave of your physical shell at any time and step out into eternal life in the most radiant light ....

My resurrection on the third day has provided you with the evidence that death can be overcome by every person who follows Me in truth. He, too, will rise who has accepted Me into his heart through love, for he will be powerful and full of light .... he will be able to break through the material shell and now live a spiritual life, he will not be able to die according to his soul but only leave the body behind which was only a shackle for him. And I will receive him in My kingdom, I will introduce him and show him the glories which no human eye has ever seen and no human ear has ever heard of; I will prepare a dwelling for him as I have promised. The glories of the heavenly father shall be revealed to him, and he shall live forever .... Let Me rise from the dead in your hearts, only then you too can rightly say: Jesus Christ died for Me, Jesus Christ redeemed Me .... Only then will you no longer need to fear death, for there is only one life for you, you have been taken up from the grave of your sin into the light, you can walk in heavenly realms, you can enjoy the bliss of the spiritual kingdom united with Me, you experience the nearness of Him Who redeemed you, everything that covers your spirit has fallen away from you, you are free and you will live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Small herd fighting at the end of the earth ....

B.D. 5364 from April 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My small flock will have to stick firmly together at the end of this earth in order to strengthen and comfort each other, in order to form a strong wall together when the forces of darkness want to run to tear it down. There will only be a few who remain faithful to Me, for I already call away those who would not be able to cope with the final onslaught, whose faith certainly belongs to Me but who do not let it become so strong that they can offer resistance. I know who will firmly stand by Me and prepare them such that they can be a support for their fellow human beings, that they can be an example for them and help the still weak in the battle against darkness. I will bring My own together and protectively hold My hands over them, for the world will always oppose them and would also press them hard before if I did not stand by their side and bring them help when they are in need. I lead them all ways and My spirit guides them so that they will always walk as it is My will, and I always strengthen them with My word .... I Myself speak to those who want to hear Me, and they will never be without strength. For when I speak to them I Myself am with them, I am present to them and also to all those who listen to these words of Mine and receive them into their hearts. Yet the closer it gets to the end the smaller the number of those will become who desire to hear Me Myself, who let Me be present in them. And therefore I say to you: Eagerly seek to win souls which you can still bring to Me, still court them now before it is too late. You can still be openly spiritually active, earthly power does not yet impose any restrictions on you, you may still speak without shyness, you can only find enemies in your fellow human beings who want to fight you, but you can still work for Me and My kingdom on My behalf .... But the time will come when barriers will be set for you, when you will be attacked and have to endure this hostility because you are not allowed to defend yourselves. The time will come when people will try to prevent you, who are active for Me, under threat of punishment. And then you must already have done so much preliminary work that it will quietly bear fruit; you must already have scattered the seed everywhere, you must have made many people acquainted with My word which is imparted to you from above. And the seed will sprout and spread through My blessing ....

Do preliminary work wherever and however you can, do not let earthly work keep you from spiritual activity, spread My word, spread the news of it everywhere and bring the gospel to your fellow human beings; do not be satisfied with the activity of the public churches; be eagerly active yourselves and advertise outside the church, for there is great need .... Many people seek and cannot find what is right .... Give them knowledge, and the will of the individual will then have to decide how to utilize this knowledge. Be faithful co-workers with Me, for I will supply you with the people you should work on in the vineyard; I will bestow upon you the gift of speech so that you will use every opportunity to win people for Me and My kingdom .... in order to still supply My small flock with sheep which recognize in Me their shepherd whom they want to follow ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reunion in the beyond in the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 5365 from April 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

It is an incomparably happy moment when the soul passes away from earth and enters the kingdom of light, the spheres where impurity no longer exists, where the soul is embraced by a flow of joy-inducing light, where it is approached by exceedingly beautiful beings who show the soul an extent of love which almost overwhelms it. The emanations of light correspond to the soul's state of maturity, thus always to a degree that they will indeed cause inconceivable bliss but not consume the soul, which could indeed be caused by an excess of light if a soul is not yet receptive to it .... In infinite expanse it sees the most marvellous creations, for now its spiritual eye is able to behold spiritual creations which no longer consist of matter and yet arise just as real and are by no means self-deception.

And amid the beauty it sees it will find its loved ones who had passed over before in the degree of maturity suitable to the kingdom of light .... People cannot imagine the bliss of such reunion, yet in the spiritual kingdom the soul is able to take in profound impressions without fading away and can consciously experience the bliss it receives from God. In its heart it will sing His praises and give thanks, just as it will, if the kingdom of light has become its home, always come aglow with love for the Father, Who has prepared all these blessings for the soul ....

Its co-operation with souls who have the same degree of maturity increases its strength and willingness to be active, and it applies this to far less mature souls to help them attain the same bliss. In merciful love it takes care of those it knew well on earth, who still dwell in lower spheres, who neglected their spiritual development on earth due to their unbelief and unkindness, and who are therefore still wretched in darkness or twilight .... It certainly can identify these souls and also approach them and offer its help, yet it will not be recognised in turn, and thus its help is frequently rejected ....

Yet a light-soul's love and patience will constantly approach these souls and sooner or later gain influence. The bliss it receives through God's perpetual emission of love, the incomparable creations of the kingdom of light and its co-operation with beings to whom it is attached with joyful love provide it with the constant desire for redeeming activity. It finds its own happiness in giving what it receives itself; its longing for God finds constant fulfilment and it cannot but want to make others equally happy.

It is impossible to describe the splendours of the kingdom of light to people on earth, because only a fully matured soul can endure the abundance of light and therefore also understand the beatitude, which the as yet imperfect person does not appreciate. However, he can and should believe that there will be a reunion in the kingdom of the beyond, that death is not the end of the soul's actual life, and that these souls will recognise each other when they have attained a certain degree of maturity which, however, many souls still do not possess. And therefore it can take a long time for many a soul until it will experience the happiness of a reunion with its loved ones, yet the desire for this is frequently the reason to strive for ascent. The souls' strength of love is constantly at work to release the souls from the abyss and to help them achieve beatitude, to help them enter the kingdom where they are surrounded by radiating light, where they can behold God and every hardship has come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Source of life .... garden of Eden .... living water ....

B.D. 5366 from April 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The life-born is open and the most effective strength of grace constantly flows out of it from above. The fullness of the divine word imparts this strength to you because it flows from the original source of strength itself and consequently cannot be anything ineffective. You humans understand that you are in contact with the original source of strength, you are in a garden of Eden where God's love fertilizes everything with His water of love and magnificent flowers and trees grow, where His divine word arises in your hearts and yields glorious fruit .... And there it is good, there the sun of the spirit shines down on you, and life awakens all around you, and the eye of God rests pleasantly on His creation and His creatures .... For He is pleased that they use His strength, that they seek refreshment at the right source, that they long for the water of life, that they gratefully draw from the gift of life which He has opened up for His creatures. What could be better than to be allowed to enter His garden, to seek the source of love and to draw strength from it for the path of life on earth? What could be more beautiful than to be allowed to look into the spiritual kingdom, to be served by the beings of light and to receive the nourishment for the soul under their care, which is lovingly offered to them by them? Although the entrance into this garden is not so easy to find, it is to be sought in the will to reach the source of life; yet it will also be found for everyone who, weary and seeking strength, looks around for help .... Before his eye the gate will open through which he shall enter, and whoever now goes on with a joyful heart will be shown the path by rays of light which leads to the eternal born of life .... And he will be able to draw with full hands and experience strengthening, every weakness will fall away from him, he will look up and see what he did not see before .... pure truth will be imparted to him, he will recover his soul, henceforth he will constantly want to drink from the source which God's love made him find and he will be constantly satiated, he will delight in the clarity of spiritual knowledge, he will recognize God's infinite love and full of love his heart will beat towards Him, he will feel first as a guest and then as a child of God who may take from His abundance without restriction .... He will hear God’s word when and where he desires it, for the source of eternal love will never run dry and no-one will be denied to feast on it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's Word, an inconceivable grace in the last days ....

B.D. 5367 from April 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You humans are truly offered an immense grace if My Word from above is passed on to you, for this Word is an inconceivably valuable means of help during the spiritual adversity of the last days, because it gives you the pure truth from Me through which you can attain beatitude if you accept it in your heart and live your life accordingly. My Word will always have an exceptional effect if it is consciously desired and received, yet even if it is made available to people who did not directly request it they will instinctively feel the strength of My Word by just paying a little attention and thereby opening their heart. My Word will affect them like a speech from another world to which they pay attention because they suspect something extraordinary and don't want to close their mind to it. They could gain infinitely much from it; they could receive a measure of grace which would result in their spiritual maturity within a short period of time. Yet generally they will be distracted by the world again and then carelessly bypass a gift of grace without having gained any benefit for their soul.

Oh, if only you humans would believe that I have spoken to you Myself if My Word was passed on to you, so that you would listen to My Words and then make use of the little time you have left to live on this earth .... so that you would still seriously consider the life of your soul after the death of the body! I cannot help you in your adversity other than through an obvious gift of grace, you yourselves have to accept this gift and utilise it to the best of your ability. Then you will also be able to work for your fellow human beings' benefit, then you will be able to impart to them the same things you have received through My love, Which speaks to you through My messengers, you will be able to enlighten them just as I have enlightened you, and you will be able to give them the same instructions and make them aware of the working of My spirit .... You yourselves will derive rich benefits from this because My blessings, and those of your fellow human beings who found the truth through you, will follow you. During the chaos of the last days many people will still be grateful to you if you instruct them in My name .... And for this teaching ministry I Am now preparing you, My chosen few .... For you believe My Words, yet you, too, will be seized by doubt as you follow world events and wonder why I remain silent while the world continues to sin without inhibition and is not prevented from above. I will manifest Myself without fail and call people to order with a voice of thunder ....

And precisely for this reason I will still offer you humans an abundance of blessings in advance, which could provide you with a degree of maturity that would enable you to safely expect and survive the end. Yet you barely take notice of My gift of grace, and only few recognise it for what it is, a final call of loving admonition to the children of this earth who are facing their last decision .... I will constantly send My Word to earth so that you, who are My Own, will recognise that I Am not withdrawing but watching over all of you. And I will always come to you in Word and Scripture and on the last day in My full glory, when My Own will require comfort and strength and help which only I Myself can bring to them. Then everything I had announced before so that you shall become strong in faith will be fulfilled, and those who remain faithful to Me until the end, who believed My Words and used My gift of grace correctly, will be admitted into the kingdom of peace. For the end will mean the beginning of a new life for them, a life in peace and bliss in the paradise of the new earth, which I had promised to all who believe in Me, who love Me and who keep My commandments .... The last day on this earth will be the first day in beatitude, for I will come Myself to fetch My Own when their lives are in danger on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faithful prayer makes the will of God inclined ....

B.D. 5368 from April 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Trust in God's help in every adversity of body and soul and give yourselves completely to Him. The hardest will to the contrary can do nothing against His will, and you should humbly submit yourselves to His will, you should accept everything from His hand with the firm confidence that it will serve you for the best. You should let Him rule, then it can only be good for you. Divine love endeavours to win over every individual, yet the means are different because the will of His creatures is also different. And to give this will a certain direction, experiences approach every person such that they cause him to express his will because it is necessary. This is why people will not all experience the same fate but always differ from each other, and each person can then take a different approach to it, and this will help him to mature spiritually, providing the person always recognizes God's will and submits to it ..... Nevertheless, you can ask for help even though you submit yourselves to His will, for a believing prayer has great strength and makes you inclined towards God's will, a believing prayer can avert what is intended to serve you for education, for a believing prayer is a manifestation of humility and weakness which pleases God and stimulates His love to fulfil the prayer. And therefore, in every adversity of body and soul, turn trustingly and confidently to Him, to Whom nothing is impossible, Who, full of love, draws close to a pleading earthly child if it calls upon Him .... Entrust yourselves to Him and He will help if it does not harm your soul, He will help if you believe, for He will not let a firm faith fail ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God takes care of earthly things ....

B.D. 5369 from April 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I will take care of your physical well-being if you strive for spiritual well-being, which is the meaning and purpose of your life on earth. I have given you this promise that I will provide you with everything you need if only you seek My kingdom and its righteousness .... if you strive to walk righteously before My eyes and to acquire the degree of maturity for your soul which entitles it to enter the kingdom of light. And I stand by My word, I take fatherly care of your earthly life, because I can certainly take over this care but I cannot promote your ascent development out of My abundance of power, which presupposes your free will. But you should not be prevented from spiritual striving by earthly worries, you should only be able to devote yourselves to your spiritual task completely carefree; therefore you can trustingly burden Me with every earthly worry, I want to carry it for you, I want to help you in every adversity, as a loving father I want to do everything for My children that makes earthly life bearable for them, I want to provide you with food and drink, with clothing and shelter, I will give you health for body and soul, and you shall want for nothing if only you make an effort to fulfil your task in earthly life, to always and constantly strive to shape your nature into love and thereby come close to Me Myself as your father of eternity. To anyone who seeks to win Me I will give Myself and everything else that will make him blissfully happy .... But on earth he has to prove his will, his love and his desire for Me, he has to live according to My will, he has to fulfil My commandments which only demand love for Me and for his neighbour. Then he can truly be certain that I will take over all care for his physical well-being, because I don't want My earthly children to be held back from spiritual striving by worries of any kind. And even if it seems as if My love has withdrawn, even if it seems as if I don't remember you .... wait patiently until I obviously make Myself known to you .... Often I want you to become aware of help from above, which can only happen when you seemingly hopelessly face adversity. There is no adversity so great that I could not banish it, and there is no love as profound as Mine, which is always ready to help, but which often waits until the moment when it expresses itself in order to be able to reveal Myself to you in My love and might .... But don't let yourselves be put off by the fact that I sometimes keep Myself hidden .... I know exactly what you need, just as I know how I can help you so that it will be a real help for you .... But don't forget your soul, whose hardship is truly far greater if no help is brought to it. For the soul will continue to exist when your body passes away, and the care you have given to the soul can no longer be taken away from it, they are treasures which it will take with it into the kingdom of the beyond and which are incomparably precious compared to what the body needs in order to live on earth. But you need never worry and look anxiously into the future .... what you do for your soul is the only thing that matters, leave everything else to Me, your creator and father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Tests of faith to fortify belief ....

B.D. 5370 from April 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are persistently subjected to tests of faith but only in order to fortify your belief, for as yet it is still as weak as that of a child compared to the demands that will be expected of you in the coming time. Time and again you will therefore experience adversity during which you should prove yourselves insofar as that you should turn to the One Who alone is able to banish your problems. The adversity will disappear like a formation of clouds if you trustingly hand yourselves over to the heavenly Father and commend yourselves to His grace. Thus you have the certain means to master every adversity, you need only tell Him your problems and sincerely appeal for His help .... and you will be helped .... But first you need to mature this firm faith so that He can and will help you .... Such faith will banish all adversity. However, this requires your awareness of His presence, your bond with Him must be so close that you will never feel alone, but that you will always sense that He, your Father of eternity, is walking next to you and then you will be completely convinced that He will help you .... A life without a fight, without earthly or spiritual adversities would not improve your spiritual development, for your strength only gets fortified through battle, strength is only put to the test through opposition and finally becomes victorious. This is why earthly adversities cannot be excluded, they are effectively merely tests to build up your strength, which you need to cope with in order to become strong in faith. For you will require great strength of faith during the coming time, when only that person will remain calm and confident who became so steadfast through his strong faith that he is aware at all times that he is in the heavenly Father's care and therefore stands above everything that is approaching. Nothing happens in your existence which He is not aware of, and nothing can happen to you without His will .... but whatever comes upon you is His will and is always beneficial for your soul .... Firmly commit these words to your memory, then you will always feel cared for by the heavenly Father's love, and you will not doubt his help for one moment if you are in trouble. Everything is beneficial that turns your thoughts to Him, Who is merely waiting for your call in order to be able to help you. It is His will that you should turn to Him, He wants to be your constant companion, He wants to be asked for advice in every spiritual or earthly adversity, He always wants to help you but is only able to do so if you, through your faith in Him, have also freely professed Him .... But then you will be in good care, then you will be able to await even the most difficult destiny, it will turn out for the best, you will receive earthly help and spiritually derive the greatest blessings from what the Father sends to you in order to win you over forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Strengthening of faith through love work ....

B.D. 5371 from April 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You strengthen yourselves enormously in your faith if you live a life of love and are always intent on serving Me and your neighbour. Whatever you undertake, you should always be driven by the will to help, love should always determine you and inspire you to think, speak and act. Then you will enter into closest contact with Me, and the result of this is a firm and unshakeable faith which fills your whole being, a faith which gives you inner peace and security, that you are under My protection, that you, as your father's children, are never abandoned and lonely, that therefore nothing can happen to you but what I deem good for you. Love must be deepened in you so that your faith will become stronger. You must help your fellow human being and want to make him happy, you must alleviate suffering and reduce hardship, you must want to support him with advice and action and divest yourselves of what he lacks if the hardship is thereby reduced. You must support him spiritually, help his soul to believe, give him a good example through loving actions, you must instruct him and take care of him if he is weak in faith and does not recognize Me correctly .... You must do everything you want to be done for you in the same adversity. And you yourselves will have the greatest blessing, for you will thereby kindle a light within yourselves which will then shine upon all those around you. You will be able to prove the strength of a strong faith to your fellow human beings, you will be able to achieve great things as a result of love and the faith arising from it. Then there will be neither lack of strength nor fear, neither worries nor anxious questions .... You will feel safe in Me because I must be where love is and My closeness will give you peace and security .... Don't let up in your activity of love, give and make happy, and then let yourselves be made happy by Me, Who gives you everything and fails you nothing if you only believe ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word .... book of the fathers .... taught by God ....

B.D. 5372 from April 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My word applies now and for all eternity .... And even if you humans try to change it when My spirit is not yet active in you, it will nevertheless always be conveyed to you from above in such a pure and unadulterated way that its outcome will be very recognizable .... that you will believe and know that I Myself speak to you as I spoke through the man Jesus and once also to the fathers who were able to hear Me Myself because they maintained contact with Me and were obedient to Me. My word is from eternity to eternity. My word testifies to Me Myself and therefore cannot pass away nor be changed, for as soon as people change the word it is no longer My word but the work of men using My word. But I want to be heard by you, I want to speak to you so that you will recognize and love Me .... I want to be and remain united with My living creations and testify to this through My word .... But if My living creations want to sever their connection with Me themselves they cannot hear Me either, and then they will only hear what My adversary offers them, who certainly also makes use of My word but which has become completely powerless due to his influence. For if the word, which has been shaped by his influence with the addition of human beings, still possessed the strength My word contains then all people would truly already be redeemed, then the strength of the word would already have penetrated people's hearts and let them recognize who and what they are and what they shall become again. But thus My adversary darkens people's intellect, and even if they accept the word they feel no divine strength in it, and for that very reason they alienate themselves from the word and at the same time also increasingly more and more from Me. My pure divine word, however, is blessed with My strength, and this will be noticeably felt if a person desires to hear Me .... And so that he desires it I allow him to first take notice of what My adversary offers him .... And even if it deviates considerably from the pure truth, it nevertheless has Me, the God and creator of eternity, as its content, and the person of good will will undertake to seek and find Him .... And if he seeks, he desires the truth, and then I will also let Myself be found and speak to him Myself in the form which is beneficial to him .... I bring the truth closer to him in different ways, yet I Myself am always the one who distributes it if I am desired. Everyone will hear My word, because the intellectual activity, which is now correctly guided by Me, is very well able to discard as error or lie what does not originate from Me, whereas it happily accepts what originates from Me. Then that person who takes notice of My word through reading or hearing from the book of the fathers is also taught by Me, for My spirit instructs him and My word permeates him with its strength and awakens him to life. And therefore all people can find Me and receive My pure divine word if only they want the truth to be brought to them .... Then My adversary's activity will be unsuccessful, then he will recognize the truth in the midst of a mass of human work, of additions which human will has added on My adversary's impulse, then he will be able to distinguish truth from error, and then he, too, will have been taught by Me and My word will have been imparted to him, just as it originated from Me and will also remain in existence for eternity ....

Amen

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The heart as God's abode ....

B.D. 5373 from April 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Your heart shall become an abode for Me, you should prepare it such that I can take up residence in it and remain with you forever. Cleanse it from all ungodly things for I want to reign in you alone, for only when you have completely removed all other influences and belong to Me alone can you become aware of My love. I want to dwell in you and look after you in every way, I want to direct and guide you, I want to educate you and motivate you to be lovingly active .... My spirit wants to be effective in you so that you will become eternally happy .... And thus you know what is expected of you in order to become happy .... constantly dispose of impurities so that your heart will become a dwelling place for Me .... Look within yourselves and seriously examine yourselves as to whether bad habits and flaws make your heart unworthy of accepting Me Myself in it; make a firm decision to fight against them and, above all, appeal for My help so that you will not be defeated in this battle, that bad habits and flaws will not cause your downfall and thereby deprive you of My presence in you .... You must ask for My assistance because you are too weak to fight evil on your own. Without Me you cannot achieve anything, but with My help you can accomplish whatever you want. My adversary will take advantage of your weak will and you will truly be at his mercy if I don't help you in your weakness. Hence you must remain in constant prayer for help against your enemy's influence, and this prayer will truly provide you with the strength to liberate yourselves from him. I will face him Myself and he will take flight from Me, he will certainly return with a large crowd of sinister characters as soon as you show your weakness, yet he will no longer be able to dominate you, I will prevent him from influencing you as long as you yearn for Me and My love, as long as you wish that I Myself will remain in you. And so you should always pray 'Lead us through the temptation and deliver us from evil ....' You should always call upon Me and, through this call, testify to your desire for My presence, and no call concerning your salvation of soul will bypass My ear unheeded. Then I will be able to be and remain in you, then My spirit will be able to work in you, it will bring you light and in this light you can never go astray again, in this light you will also always recognise when you are approached by something hostile and subsequently it with a reliable weapon .... You will be able to confront it with My strength which defeats everything, for then I Myself will live in you and govern you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Instruction for teaching ministry by God Himself .... Mission ....

B.D. 5374 from April 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I place each of My servants into a position in which he can work most effectively for Me, and that means that I determined every person's destiny in accordance with this activity for Me and My kingdom. It means that I also determine the nature of his activity, depending on his suitability, his degree of maturity and his willingness. Working for Me requires a certain amount of knowledge where it concerns the spreading of the truth, thus anyone who is chosen to carry out the vineyard work of proclaiming the pure Gospel must also be intellectually capable of recognising errors and take action against them. He himself must have the kind of knowledge which stands up to intellectual scrutiny. I can only use servants for a teaching ministry on earth who acquire this knowledge themselves, that is, who voluntarily desire and accept it from Me .... I Myself must be able to teach them, and this in a way that they will completely understand it and can also support it rationally, although the information will at first be received in the heart .... However, most people with good intellectual thought are not devout enough as to hand themselves over to a higher power in order to let themselves be instructed by it .... And therefore it is difficult for the truth to be accepted amongst people, since those who receive it from Me Myself are not accepted by their fellow human beings because their power of judgment is not being trusted, in fact it is more likely to be denied to them. But anyone who receives the pure truth by hearing My Word in his heart will also be granted realisation and strength of judgment by Me together with the pure truth. Nevertheless, being instructed by Me is not possible without the person's free will .... on account of which I can only impart My Word when this free will requests it from Me. Hence you will understand that only a few people can be initiated into My plan of eternity, who can pass the pure Gospel on to their fellow human beings so that everything is understandable to them.

However, once I have found a recipient of My Word who unconditionally hands himself over to Me in order to be of service to Me, then I will also watch over him with much love, for I consider him a capable instrument for Me which is able to accomplish a great mission. And thus I will also give him additional skills which can facilitate his ministry, which protect him from falling prey to error himself and thus could endanger his mission. I give him a stronger sense for truth and error. I watch over him because I watch over the truth which on My instruction shall be passed on to humanity. The truth is clear and pure, without embellishment, without additions, the truth can also be accepted by every person who wants to know the truth .... But if a seeker of truth hesitates to accept something then he does not understand that which he is offered, then he feels an inner resistance to that which does not correspond to the truth. And this feeling is placed by Me Myself, the eternal Truth, into the heart of a person who wants to be of service to Me, who is willing to work as a bearer of truth on earth and spread the pure Gospel throughout the world .... I instruct him Myself, and this truly in a way that he will understand and accept everything he receives from Me. If subsequently something comes to him from outside then his heart will tell him what he should accept or reject .... For then I will also speak through the heart Myself. Everything that comes from Me will appeal to him and make him happy, and that which leaves him indifferent does not come from Me .... even if it also endorses Me and My kingdom it nevertheless has not originated from Me directly and cannot lay claim to absolute truth .... Nevertheless it need not be directed against Me but it can be surrounded by many additions which therefore no longer reveal the pure truth. The pure truth will meet far more often with opposition than acceptance, even so, I instruct bearers of truth for Me, especially during the last days before the end, and anyone who listens to them also listens to Me .... anyone who rejects them also rejects Me .... And therefore it is I Myself Who places the sense of rejection into the heart of the recipient of truth when a cloudy light approaches him, and then he shall listen to Me and only endorse that which he has received from Me Myself .... Then he will never spread anything wrong and faithfully carry out the work which he himself has offered to do for Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God wants to work in man .... redeeming activity ....

B.D. 5375 from April 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I always and constantly want to be able to work in you, I want to control your thoughts, I want you to start everything with Me, that you turn to Me for advice, that you are completely filled with love for Me and your neighbour and thus also aware of My presence in you .... I want you to live in Me and with Me .... Your task in earthly life is the connection with Me of your own free will, thus you fulfil your task if you constantly occupy yourselves with Me in thought, if you grant Me the right through your will to be constantly present to you. And your earthly life will be a blessed one, for then it will always be a living out of My word which conveys My will to you. Thus you, so to speak, place your own will under Mine, you work for Me and with Me, you consciously stand on My side .... you do not live in this world for nothing, which is meant to bring you the maturing of your soul. You reach your aim and have become Mine .... The separation between us has been abolished and can never happen again, because I will no longer let you go away from Me .... And anyone who once belongs to Me will only work for Me, he will redeem himself because this will has been placed in his heart as soon as he has submitted himself to My will. He also wants to lead his fellow human beings to the same aim, he wants to give the fallen children back their father, he wants to help them achieve the same beatitude, he wants to provide them with My presence and will speak for Me and My name from that moment on. And this is the working of My spirit in the person who is united with Me .... He is delighted to be admitted to redemptive activity and feels driven from within to intervene where it is necessary. For he himself has become knowledgeable through his bond with Me, and he also knows about his fellow human being's adversity which arises from his distance from Me and which he therefore wants to remedy by trying to bring it close to Me. And because his love for the unfortunate spiritual person drives him to help, his will to help is blessed, i.e. he will not be unsuccessful. Whatever he undertakes with the intention of bringing redeeming help will be blessed by Me, for love justifies everything and will never be without effect. Thus I certainly work through the spirit in the human being, yet the human being himself wants the same as I do .... he wants to lead to beatitude which such have not yet experienced, who are still immature or bound by the will of the one who is My adversary. And anyone who has once grasped the will to participate in the act of salvation will always be offered ample opportunity, for he is recognizable to all those who encounter him in spiritual adversity .... He will be recognized as a messenger of light by people on earth as well as by souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are of good will .... They will surround him and ask him, they will not let up in their desire to be allowed to partake of the blessings which this messenger of light distributes. But I will ensure that his light will shine ever brighter, that he will be recognized on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and that all who are still unredeemed will find access to him, so that they will be redeemed through the love of those in whom I Myself can work through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

I know Mine .... good shepherd ....

B.D. 5376 from April 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I know My own, and My own know Me .... I am truly the good shepherd, Who does not hand over His sheep to the enemy, Who is concerned about the life of everyone, Who does everything to protect His flock from the incursion of the wolf, Who Himself lays down His life for His sheep .... Full of love My eye rests on all people, I want to lead all of them to their home stable, I want to protect all of them from the attacks of the enemy who wants to snatch them away from Me .... I want to make Myself known to all people, offer them My protection, care for them and preserve them. I want to give eternal life to all people ....

But now there is a time when almost no-one heeds My call any more; My flock has scattered, the enemy has driven into their midst and caused My sheep to lose their way, to move away from their shepherd, to climb to worldly heights, to lose their shepherd and no longer find their way back to Him .... They don't seek Him but always distance themselves more and more from Him, and even if My love calls them they no longer pay attention to My voice except for a few who recognized their good shepherd in Me and don't leave Me. But I will not let any of My sheep get lost. And so My call will sound with such strength that it must also be heard by those who are far away from Me .... And I will go after each one of My sheep and pave the way for him that leads back to Me, I will protectively place Myself before the fearful ones who fear the enemy so that no harm will come to them .... I will bend down to those who have fallen to lift them up, to pull them out of the abyss .... All will hear My call, for it will resound over the whole earth and indicate My nearness, so that everyone can turn to Me and will also be accepted by Me if only he wants to follow Me. I am the good shepherd, I certainly cannot prevent My enemy's activity but I can grant protection to everyone who stands behind Me, because the enemy cannot attack Me himself, but he can attack you as long as you don't adhere to Me, if you turn away from Me and go ways where he can pursue and reach you. My call of love does indeed follow you but it does not force you to turn back; you must follow it voluntarily, then the adversary will truly not be able to harm you, then you will be under safe protection and I will guide you safely to the homeland where I will never leave you again and you can live in blissful peace .... All you humans, pay attention to My call, for it will soon sound; turn back before it is too late, let your shepherd guide you and entrust yourselves to Me; do not leave the path I have taken but follow Me, then truly nothing of hostile power will be able to happen to you, for I Myself hold My hands protectively over you and you will reach the aim .... you will be able to enter your father's house .... you will live blissfully in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Tests of faith to fortify belief ....

B.D. 5377 from April 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are persistently subjected to tests of faith but only in order to fortify your belief, for as yet it is still as weak as that of a child compared to the demands that will be expected of you in the coming time. Time and again you will therefore experience adversity during which you should prove yourselves insofar as that you should turn to the One Who alone is able to banish your problems. The adversity will disappear like a formation of clouds if you trustingly hand yourselves over to the heavenly Father and commend yourselves to His grace. Thus you have the certain means to master every adversity, you need only tell Him your problems and sincerely appeal for His help .... and you will be helped .... But first you need to mature this firm faith so that He can and will help you .... Such faith will banish all adversity. However, this requires your awareness of His presence, your bond with Him must be so close that you will never feel alone, but that you will always sense that He, your Father of eternity, is walking next to you and then you will be completely convinced that He will help you .... A life without a fight, without earthly or spiritual adversities would not improve your spiritual development, for your strength only gets fortified through battle, strength is only put to the test through opposition and finally becomes victorious. This is why earthly adversities cannot be excluded, they are effectively merely tests to build up your strength, which you need to cope with in order to become strong in faith. For you will require great strength of faith during the coming time, when only that person will remain calm and confident who became so steadfast through his strong faith that he is aware at all times that he is in the heavenly Father's care and therefore stands above everything that is approaching. Nothing happens in your existence which He is not aware of, and nothing can happen to you without His will .... but whatever comes upon you is His will and is always beneficial for your soul .... Firmly commit these words to your memory, then you will always feel cared for by the heavenly Father's love, and you will not doubt his help for one moment if you are in trouble. Everything is beneficial that turns your thoughts to Him, Who is merely waiting for your call in order to be able to help you. It is His will that you should turn to Him, He wants to be your constant companion, He wants to be asked for advice in every spiritual or earthly adversity, He always wants to help you but is only able to do so if you, through your faith in Him, have also freely professed Him .... But then you will be in good care, then you will be able to await even the most difficult destiny, it will turn out for the best, you will receive earthly help and spiritually derive the greatest blessings from what the Father sends to you in order to win you over forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The will is judged even if the deed cannot be accomplished ....

B.D. 5378 from April 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The will is judged even if the deed cannot be accomplished .... Yet it always has to be said to you that the will cannot be expressed through words, instead, the will itself is assessed by Me .... What you feel in your heart, what arises in you as a wish which moves you into action .... whether to do good or evil .... that is the will which determines your spiritual process of development and for which you will have to be answerable one day .... The will has been placed into you, otherwise you cannot be described as beings, and this will in you is free, it cannot be determined by anyone .... Understand this correctly: the will in you is not subject to compulsion, even though you can be prevented from implementing your will. Therefore, I say your will is judged, which thus can aim towards right or wrong. And therefore it can never be disputed that you humans have free will .... even if you often cannot accomplish what you want because other people or I Myself oppose your will and the strength of this will either lets you carry out or prevent your intention. The fact that My will often opposes people's will merely serves for their spiritual perfection but it will never be able to enslave the human being's will. The will, however, is determined by the human being's thinking. And again, this thinking can be right or wrong depending on the degree of love which is kindled in a person. This love is divine strength and flows to every being .... A heart which allows itself to be touched by this strength also accepts the flow of kind thoughts and direct its will correctly, whereas the influx of unpleasant thoughts originating from a heartless sphere will, understandably, be caught by an equally heartless person, therefore his will is inclined towards evil even if the human being cannot implement it .... His will, however, is enough to make him sinful, that is, his thoughts and intentions oppose Me and consequently result in appropriate consequences. And thus it can only ever be stressed that right thoughts and right intentions can only be summoned by a loving person, for love puts everything right, the human being must surrender himself with all his will, because through love his thinking can only be good and inclined towards Me, Whom he recognises as his Creator and Father of eternity. His will must aim towards everything that leads to Me .... even if it is prevented by an opposing will .... because I Myself will pull a person who, by way of love, has acquired the right to possess Me .... And since every person is capable of loving and thus can think and want correctly he is also accountable for this will of his .... and therefore everyone will be judged according to his will.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Merciful Fatherly love for the fallen beings ....

B.D. 5379 from May 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

When you have sinned I nevertheless will not withdraw My merciful love from you, instead it will take hold of you firmly so that you will find your way back to Me again, so that you will recognise your wrongdoing and sincerely want to avoid everything that is not right before My eyes. I know your weaknesses, I know the temptations you are subject to due to your imperfection, but I also know your will which applies to Me and which I thus also value and therefore help you lift yourselves up again when you have fallen. And I bless everyone who makes an effort .... who will not let up in his endeavour despite all temptations, despite failing frequently. Time and again I give him strength because My love for My living creations never stops, which nevertheless belong to Me even when they are sinful. Yet you should fight with all your strength against the one who wants to seduce you .... you should time and again prove yourselves worthy of My love, you should not reject My love but always and forever request it, you should not want to become sinful and therefore repeatedly commend yourselves to My love and grace, you should appeal to Me for protection against the tempter, you should not exclude Me from your thoughts, your daily work, you should often strengthen yourselves, because you are too weak, with My Word ....

You should always maintain contact with Me so that I can have an effect on you at all times, and you will become ever more steadfast when you are faced by temptations, which will keep confronting you because the tempter will not slow down fighting for your souls until you have defeated him yourselves through Me, Whom you long for with all your heart and Whose love will not let go of you .... For as long as you live on earth you will have to wage this battle, because your earthly life is the last opportunity during which the adversary can and will influence you because he does not want to lose you, and only when you become completely free from earthly cravings will the temptations become less .... But I know every stirring of the heart, I know who has the will to live a life that pleases Me, I know who is still weak, and yet I must allow My adversary to try to exert his influence on you .... I have to leave the decision to you, I must not prevent you from doing what displeases Me, but I will never close My ear to the appeal of a child if it wants to be accepted in My Fatherly favour again. I know of your weakness and provide you with strength as often as you request it. Hence you should not be despondent when you have fallen but come to Me repentantly, and My merciful love will never deny itself since it is, after all, always willing to forgive if a child genuinely desires it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Immutable will of God .... plan of salvation from eternity ....

B.D. 5380 from May 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

God's will is unchangeable, and what He has proclaimed to people on earth through His word will come to pass because He is the eternal truth. And therefore His word can never be changed either, because God's wisdom always chooses the means which promise the most success, even if they remain unused due to the human being's free will .... What God had foretold through seers and prophets must come and can only be stopped or postponed if people's will completely submits to divine will, which, however, God already foresaw from eternity as not happening and therefore also gave and could give the constant predictions until today. It is the time of the end, for a redemption period has expired, and this always necessitates an act of violence, the details of which were also predicted by people who, on divine instruction, enlighten their fellow human beings about it. The divine will is eternally fixed, for only rarely does a person approach Him with the request to exercise mercy and to mercifully change His will. Such a request will also be granted, but even then the event which occurs in truth is still intended in God's eternal plan of salvation, because God knows everything and has also included such a case of granting in His plan and thus His will nevertheless remains unchangeable. As far as people themselves are concerned, they often cause Him to withdraw His will and leave people to their own devices for a short time, i.e. they can act by virtue of their free will in a way that is often completely contrary to God's will without being prevented from doing so .... However, it is precisely such actions which cause God's will to manifest itself, albeit to the greatest sorrow of people who have brought this about themselves. Through their actions they have done something contrary to God's will, which from eternity determined the divine will to express itself. And because He knows from eternity everything people do and think in the individual redemption periods, because He knows if and when they will find their way to Him and when they will oppose Him .... God can also determine the exact time when what He intends to do will happen. Yet it will never be announced to people, yet they will be informed if possible when His righteousness will come forth and He wants to restore His order on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... He will draw people's attention to the upheaval which will take place for everything spiritual on earth and in the universe, so that the eternal order will be restored, without which spiritual maturing is impossible. His will is unchangeable, and therefore you humans can safely expect the day which shall bring you the evidence that everything on earth has been planned since eternity, that although no-one can state the day but you can all believe that it will come suddenly and unexpectedly, because everything will come as God has proclaimed through seers and prophets, because He, as an exceedingly perfect being, has recognized the necessity of it and thereby a new stage will be initiated for the benefit of all who have not yet reached the aim on earth .... For God wants all His creations to be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Great need through faithlessness ....

B.D. 5381 from May 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are truly in dire straits if you don't believe in a creator of heaven and earth, in a God and father of eternity, a righteous judge Who controls all of infinity, Who also created you and therefore also wants to be acknowledged by you humans. Without faith in Him you live a useless life, for you do not fulfil your purpose in life, you completely isolate yourselves, whereas you should make an effort to find unity with the one Who created you. And what you do on earth of your own free will will also be your fate one day .... You will walk in isolation, perhaps for eternities, where no-one will help you to find your way out of adversity because you don't want to, because in your ignorance you don't know a path which will lead you out of your loneliness. You cannot measure the adversity on earth but it will be your fate, for without faith in God you will not seek Him, you will not desire Him Who alone can save you. Faith in God changes your thinking and your will, faith in God drives you to Him, and only then can you receive strength from Him and fulfil your earthly task. Without faith in God your thinking and will is only directed towards where earthly goods can be gained, for then you know nothing better than what the body demands, you are enslaved by matter, you are servants of him who, to a certain extent, sees in matter that which belongs to him and also wants to keep that which seeks to detach itself from matter. You are at his will, whom you indeed also do not want to acknowledge but nevertheless serve him, who then also pays you the reward .... eternal bondage .... from which you will find your way out with difficulty, from which only God's love can release you, but this requires your will again, which, however, first requires faith in a God and father. You are in great distress and don't recognize it as long as you stay on earth. But one day you will recognize it, and then it will be unspeakably difficult to remedy it, and you will need much help and then you will have to look for loving beings who are willing to help you. And be happy if you find such, if loving intercession is given to you which can lead you out of the adversity. Blessed are you when a loving being succeeds in bringing you to your senses when you change your thinking, on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But before that you will be in dire need and have to bear the suffering you have caused yourselves. Again and again God comes to meet you and tries to make Himself known to you, yet you pay no attention to Him .... God offers you His love but you reject it, God sends messengers to you who are to instruct you in His name .... you do not receive them, and all the effort of these messengers is in vain .... And therefore God will manifest Himself in an unusual way, He will reveal Himself through the forces of nature, He will speak to people with a language which must be heard and will give many food for thought .... For He will take pity on humanity which is facing a fate that is extremely difficult and sorrowful. And His love wants to bring help to people before it is too late .... He wants to awaken faith and thereby avert the fate from them which, however, will inevitably be theirs if they remain stubborn and don't want to acknowledge Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Rage of satan at the end ....

B.D. 5382 from May 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Satan will rage incomparably at the end of days because he knows that his time is over. He believes that he will still win the victory in the short time left because all signs among people speak in his favour. He has the majority in his power and this determines him to take action against Me with open sights. He openly attacks Me, he does not shy away from acting against Me with brutality, he uses means which alone characterize him as an enemy of souls, for he seeks to exert coercion by driving the body into extreme adversity so that the soul will succumb to his pressure. The adversity will be overwhelming and fill the weakly believing people with doubt .... Yet it shall not make you waver, and therefore you will also experience such visible strengthening and comfort from My side, you will experience things which will make you rejoice and be glad even in greatest earthly adversity .... You will be allowed to see Me Myself and also be able to speak to Me. You will feel My presence in many ways, which will never remain without impression on you and enable you to resist all challenges by My adversary and earthly power. You will certainly have to struggle, yet the battle will not depress you but revive your strength, for you know that you are fighting for a holy cause and this knowledge has become a conviction in you, your faith is firm and can no longer be shaken. And if I tell you this, then you may confidently expect what is to come and always be certain of My help. I still require great soul work from you on those who are weaker than you, and therefore I predict all this so that you will not become fickle when all earthly signs are recognizable, when earthly power brutally acts against the believers, when it also begins to look threatening for yourselves .... All this must come, for these are My adversary's weapons which he has sharpened .... Yet you need not fear Me as long as you acknowledge Me as your commander, as long as you allow yourselves to be protected by Me through your will to belong to Me eternally and not to deny My name. The power of the enemy of your soul fails due to this will of yours, and he will be defeated by you even if he pushes it to the limit. For I Myself come and capture him when there is utmost danger, but I will not let you fall into his hands who believe in Me and want to be faithful to Me. The time is near when all this will happen, and it cannot be urged upon you urgently enough to gather strength for these days of adversity, to maintain the connection with Me and to fetch the strength from My word, which you can receive unmeasured if only you want it. And don't forget that I am always there for you, no matter how often you call Me, but don't forget that I also want to be called .... For I am constantly willing to help and give, yet My gifts shall also be desired in order to be able to be of true help to you .... With giant strides it is coming to an end .... Make full use of the short time and you will easily be able to fight the last battle on this earth if only you make use of My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonition .... The final phase of the earth ....

B.D. 5383 from May 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Your well-ordered life will only last a little while longer in order to then be plunged into a chaos which you cannot escape with your own strength. For then the earth will enter its final phase, it will be approaching its end .... This prediction has to be taken very seriously, since it is intended to make you aware that your time, too, is coming to an end, that you don't have a long lifespan left and many will even have to brace themselves to be suddenly recalled before. Every day you are still alive is a gift you should value, for every good deed you do in one day will increase your strength, which you will sorely need to make use of in the coming time. However, anyone who thoughtlessly lives without love and faith will be completely without strength or hand himself over to the one who will certainly provide him with strength but will not protect him from the end, from the last Judgment, from the renewed banishment in solid matter. Don't sell your soul for a price which will truly not make up for the hardship the soul has yet to go through when its earthly life comes to an end .... I cannot admonish you often and seriously enough about this, because I want to prepare a blissful fate for you. Yet you humans don't believe what I repeatedly let seers and prophets proclaim to you .... you don't believe it and I cannot force you to believe. You are truly worldly-minded and incredibly distant from being spiritual, you are completely immersed in matter and this matter will overwhelm you, it will completely imprison you again because you don't want to let go of it as long as you have the strength to hold on.

Try to imagine just for once imprisonment in hardest matter and being unable to free yourselves from it. The thought would give you tremendous strength to avoid this fate, yet you lack belief in it and I cannot give you this belief, you will have to acquire it for yourselves through a life of love .... Then the whole context will become clear to you and also the significance of your earthly life as a human being .... And you would be alarmed as to how much you deviate from the task given to you for the time of your existence on earth .... Do good works, force yourselves to do so, learn to do without for the sake of your fellow human being, alleviate suffering and hardship, comfort and refresh those who are sick and weak, lend a merciful hand wherever you see misery .... you won't just do it for others but also for yourselves, for your soul will come alive and every good deed will gain you spiritual enlightenment .... you will attain spiritual vision and recognise My great love where you still see today the merciless reign of a power which only wants to torture you on earth .... Listen to My repeated call of warning and admonition and don't let it bypass your ears unheeded, let go of your desire for material things, only consider the salvation of your soul and don't worry, for I will also take care of you in an earthly sense if only you seriously take care of your soul, which is in utmost danger because the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Communion ....

B.D. 5384 from May 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The spiritual communion, the link of the spiritual spark in yourselves with the eternal Father-Spirit, can only be established through love .... You can certainly associate with Me in thought through heartfelt prayer, in which case you call Me and I draw close to you, but it remains a call from afar as long as you are without love; no heartfelt relationship has yet been established which, however, will instantly happen through actions of love. Then you will be closely connected with Me at the same time and in this state you will be able to take supper with Me, i.e. I Myself can provide the nourishment for your soul .... I can give you the bread of heaven, My Word, which you can only hear when you allow Me to be present in you, thus when you entered into communion with Me. To commune therefore means to accept flesh and blood .... My Word and its strength .... from My hand, for which it is absolutely essential that a human heart is alive with love or My presence is unthinkable .... No human being will ever be able to speak of My presence who does not prove his love to Me through unselfish neighbourly love. No human being will ever be able to unite with his eternal Father who does not regard his fellow human being as his brother, who is without love for him and therefore can never love the Father either, Whose child is the fellow human being ....

You should realise that only love unites the child with the Father, that the human being only enters the child relationship through love, and that the child will then receive the gift of food and drink at the Father’s table and need never again suffer hardship .... And the most delectable gift a human being can receive is My Word, it is truly refreshing and strengthening, and where My Word is spoken My presence is proven, whereas, alternatively, My presence is unthinkable without an expression of strength. And since I Am strength and light Myself I also reveal Myself to people as light and strength, by being present in anyone whose actions of love allow My presence in him. But light and strength flow from My Word, light and strength are needed by the souls for higher development, thus light and strength are the nourishment I offer to the soul when the human being takes supper with Me, when he is My guest and in closest relationship with Me finds a response to his love ....

This alone is to be understood as Communion, only in this way do I want the Last Supper to be understood to which I invite you all, which I instituted with the Words: ‘Take and eat, take and drink .... this is my body, this is my blood ....’ You should take the nourishment for your soul from My hand and this necessitates the close relationship with Me which cannot be established in any other way but through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God speaks through nature ....

B.D. 5385 from May 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I must speak to you humans in a language which is understandable to all of you. You yourselves force Me to do so, for you don't listen when I speak to you with gentle words, when I want to win you over with love, and yet it is necessary that you listen to Me. And thus I speak loudly and audibly so that every person can recognize Me and pay attention to My voice. I shake the earth violently and let nature speak for Me, and there will be a great panic and great hardship will come upon people .... I am apparently merciless because countless people will lose their lives in the process; yet this, too, is a work of salvation for the souls, and I will be a lenient judge for those who are called away and, to a certain extent, perish through no fault of their own and give them every opportunity to still mature into bliss in the kingdom of the beyond. Yet great adversity and tribulation will arise on earth, for now My adversary will take possession of the weak and undecided, whom it is not possible to escape without calling upon My name .... I will make Myself known to people through the elements of nature .... They can also recognize Me, but as long as they resist a higher power Which holds the fate of every individual in its hand, they will not call upon Me for help either, and this resistance against Me can have serious consequences .... They can completely surrender to My adversary and be in his power again for endless times where the call of My name could release them from it. But anyone who awakens from his sleep through My voice, who sees his saviour in Me and appeals to Me for help, is not lost, even though he still has to endure earthly hardship .... he follows the voice which calls him, and that is his blessing. I bring Myself close to everyone, I call them to Me with a soft admonishing voice, and anyone who does not want to hear it will hear it louder and be terrified. But I announce it beforehand so that you humans will know the truth of My word, so that you can prepare yourselves and experience strengthening if you believe and follow My words. I already show you beforehand which means I use to save people from the complete fall into the abyss. For it is a work of mercy, even if you regard it as the opposite .... I want to save you and therefore must let My voice resound louder so that you will hear .... It comes as surely as the next day comes, and just as surely the day follows after a short time when this earth will change .... the last judgement will come for all people, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Teaching ministry in end time .... difficulties ....

B.D. 5386 from May 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Your office of teaching in My name will not be easy in the time to come. You will not be believed, everything spiritual will be dismissed as trivial, you will be ridiculed and taken for fools who advocate an unlikely cause, they will doubt what you proclaim to them of My working of the spirit within you ....

People live without faith, and where they still claim to possess it it is only idiom .... They completely lack faith and it will be difficult to revive it again, because people's thoughts are rarely spiritually directed, because they don't concern themselves with what still lies ahead of them, because they are only interested in earthly life and regard everyone as a silent enemy who draws their attention to their soul's life. You will have a difficult time .... and yet you have to exercise your ministry to spread My gospel to the world.

For people shall have knowledge so that they will recognize Me when I reveal Myself to them audibly. Your hints and indications must have preceded it so that it will not pass them by without making an impression, they must have knowledge of My will to fulfil the commandments of love, and if only they possess the knowledge of it they will also recognize My voice when I express Myself through the forces of nature. Your task will not be easy because it constantly requires you to speak on My behalf, to spread your knowledge, and because you will often not find an opportunity due to the rejecting attitude of fellow human beings who want to prevent you from mentioning your mission. Yet again and again I send people your way to whom you can communicate; again and again I let unusual things happen which stimulate people's thinking so that they will willingly listen to you if you bring them My word .... I Myself will lead people to you whom you should instruct and you will joyfully carry out your ministry, for which I will give you the strength for the sake of the souls you should save and who want to be saved by you.

Only you yourselves must not become lukewarm and indifferent, you yourselves must be faithfully devoted to Me and want to be active for Me, then the vineyard work will make you happy, you will carry it out eagerly and conscientiously and also be successful, for I want to bless you and your work and likewise those who listen to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgent need for mission: .... truth ....

B.D. 5387 from May 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You shall never lose Me again, for My love and grace will keep you so that you can no longer fall. And you will complete your mission and never work alone but always with Me, for I will not leave you because I know your will.

The work is urgently necessary, it has to be done as a counteraction, for the antichrist's actions necessitate that the pure truth is guided to earth as he undermines it in every way. The truth must not be withheld from people who desire it, it must find access to human hearts, and it must therefore be conveyed by Me through a human being and also be able to be spread as an obvious gift from heaven. The word, which is conveyed to people from above, has its purpose, and therefore My eye carefully watches over it and also over the one who receives it from My hand, so that he fulfils his task for the immeasurable blessing of those who accept My word, which is therefore conveyed to them directly by Me through a human being.

My adversary fights against the truth with all means. His weapon is that he confuses people's thinking, that he makes Me unrecognizable to people; lies and deception are his means with which he tries to win people over. He disfigures every teaching which testifies to Me, he distorts every image of Me, he alienates Me from people who alone are not strong enough to recognize his falseness and fight against it. He presents himself as God and promises people all goods if they pay homage to him, which is only ever possible by concealing the truth, by misguided teachings, by completely misrepresenting the purpose of life as well as the value of earthly goods. People much prefer to acknowledge the lie and error than the truth, and therefore My adversary's activity has to be counteracted, a work which, again, can only be done by people, because even the most divine truth may not force acceptance but every person must be free to accept or reject it. It is a gift from above which is offered to people and yet a human being has to be the mediator because I don't want to express Myself so obviously that the human being is forced to believe. And yet, it is I Who conveys something delicious to earth .... the pure truth, which has an exceedingly beneficial effect on all souls of good will. Without truth everything falls prey to My adversary, without truth I will no longer be recognized, without truth the path to Me is blocked, then the adversary will have people under his control and there will be no more salvation .... But I want to snatch the souls from him and there is only one means: to make the pure truth accessible to them. And therefore I need a person who receives it from Me Myself, who wants to serve Me and pass it on, who is full of desire for truth himself and is therefore suitable for this mission and will also carry it out with My help and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformation work of the earth is intended to create order ....

B.D. 5388 from May 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My creations on this earth no longer fulfil their purpose because human will often unjustifiably intervenes and destroys before the spiritual substance contained therein has matured .... Likewise, the human being is no longer aware of his earthly task and misuses his external form, which is only meant to serve the soul to mature .... He misuses it for other purposes, he mostly uses his vitality in the wrong direction, he accumulates matter and thickens the shell around his soul instead of practicing active neighbourly love, in his ignorance he also prevents the spiritual from being of service, which is still hidden in matter .... He interferes with the process of development everywhere because he is completely blind in spirit due to his way of life and neither knows about his own task nor about the task of all My works of creation. A chaos has occurred in the development, the maturing of the spiritual is only deficient, there is no longer an order which corresponds to My will and My eternal law .... There is a state of spiritual confusion wherever people dwell who are no longer connected to Me through love. Such a state leads to complete decay, to the decline of the spiritual, which has already overcome the state of compulsion. But whatever moves outside of My eternal order does the will of My adversary .... who cannot intervene destructively himself, who cannot influence the spiritual substance in the state of compulsion either and therefore uses the human being's .... spiritual substance in free will .... in order to carry out his intention to prevent the spiritual's ascent development. And therefore I Myself must confront him in order to restore the eternal order, I must wrest from him what he already believes to possess and what is also already all too willing for him .... I must first free the human race from its unfavourable influence by carrying out a divorce .... by fetching the people who fulfil their earthly task to Me for the time being and also removing the others from his influence by banishing them into matter again, into which My adversary can no longer have an effect for a long time. And I have to renew the works of creation, I have to give the spiritual in the state of compulsion, which is in ascent development, the opportunity again to be able to carry out its development unhindered by destructive human hands, looked after by the human race which has proven its love and loyalty to Me through hard tests and does not exert an unfavourable influence on the works of creation which I hand over to it for care. Order will be restored as soon as the work of transformation on this earth has been completed .... The upward development will continue undisturbed as long as My adversary is bound, as long as the most solid matter harbours the spiritual substance which carries a will that is completely opposed to Me, and there will be peace on this earth again and I Myself will be able to dwell in the midst of people who love Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Misguided teaching about the Trinity ....

B.D. 5389 from May 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

People have a completely wrong concept of the divine Trinity due to the misguided description of a Divinity which consists of three persons. Every thinking human being will deem such an explanation unacceptable, thus it will either be accepted without thought or it will be rejected, whereas a correct explanation can be accepted by every human being since it reveals the essence of the eternal Deity and considerably adds towards enlivening faith in God. The concept of God has already become so vague to people that they find it difficult to have faith, and if they are now expected to understand the Deity as three persons as well the concept becomes even more confused and faith will waver. Indeed, rightly so, because in order to believe in a three-person God, the intellect has to be completely detached. But God has given the human being intellect for the purpose of assessing what he should believe. But with divine assistance, i.e. through the spirit of God, the intellect can certainly acknowledge a Divinity if it is truthfully instructed. In that case even the keenest intellect will not refuse to agree.

But this truth reveals God’s Being in the manner that unites love, wisdom and strength within Itself, that one is unthinkable without the other .... that love is the fundamental concept from whence wisdom emerges and both express themselves through the strength of will. Love is the creative principle which gives rise to everything; it is the birth giving strength. However, it does not create aimlessly or arbitrarily but it proceeds with wisdom. Whatever God’s wisdom knows to be good and right is accomplished by His will if love urges Him to do so .... It is the concept of a supremely perfect Being .... Because love, wisdom and omnipotence are evidence of a perfect Entity, Which cannot be exceeded further. Love, wisdom and omnipotence are proof of Divinity, they provide the human being with a concept of the eternal Deity’s substance, but they are not three different divine persons united within one Being ....

The misguided doctrine of God’s Trinity has considerably contributed towards people loosing faith, because a description like that had to result in instinctive rejection and thus the grace of prayer was not used, which could have provided the sincerely seeking human being with clarification. The object of their prayer was questionable, people thought it strange to call upon three persons which they should believe to be as one God. Immense confusion has been caused, it was an evident influence of Satan, who forever attempts to undermine the truth, to obscure the essence of God and to estrange God Himself from them.

The fact that this misguided teaching was accepted in the first place testifies of the darkened spiritual state of those who, due to their complete lack of enlightenment, did not possess any means of discrimination and hence had been excellent tools in Satan’s hands to distribute this teaching and with this to endanger the faith in a manner as rarely a misguided teaching had achieved. In order to believe in God as a supremely perfect Being, this Being also has to introduce Itself to people such that they can recognise His perfection, also the intellect of a human being who is looking for the truth has to understand such concepts, otherwise he could not be held to account ....

God is not content with blind faith, He demands every teaching to be deliberated and responded to, because faith can only become alive when it has become an inner conviction. When this option is excluded from the start, when people are presented with a misguided teaching for unconditional acceptance, only blind faith can be demanded and achieved by this which is of no value before God. On the contrary, it is far more damaging to the soul, especially when God’s image becomes distorted and thereby the love for Him cannot arise, which is absolutely essential in order to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I will take up residence in your hearts ...."

B.D. 5390 from May 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I come to you and you do not receive Me .... When I want to speak to you, you don't listen to Me, when I call you, you don't follow Me, and when I want to take up residence with you, you close the door of your heart and don't grant Me entrance. And I have to go on to the next door to experience the same thing there again. You don't know the lord Who approaches you, you don't know what delicious gift He wants to bring you, what beatitudes He has prepared for those who accept Him. And yet I send My messengers beforehand so that they shall announce Me. But anyone who does not recognize the lord does not believe what His messengers say about Him either, and all My servants' advertising for Me is in vain where people's will is directed against Me. The people of the world have turned their eyes elsewhere and always keep their house open for the pleasures of the world, for the one who is lord of this world, and now he can rule and reign in it as he wants .... Do you humans know what great danger this is? Do you know that it will be difficult to drive this lord out of you and that his aim is to destroy you? That this is why he nests with you, so that you will no longer be able to resist him? Do you know that you are too weak to clean the house from the inside on your own, that you need help if you want to get rid of him who only brings you harm? But I want to bring you peace and can only enter a dwelling which is cleansed of all evil. And that is why I come before and knock on your door .... to give you time for cleansing .... I knock .... I bring you My word so that you may now live according to this word and thus accomplish the cleansing within yourselves, so that you prepare a dwelling place for Me in your heart which is worthy to receive the lord of heaven and earth in it, and therefore I bring you a good gift when I come to your door and knock, and blessed is he who opens to Me and accepts My gift.

Blessed is he who invites Me to come in, so that he will never let Me go, so that he will receive Me into his heart's dwelling, which I want to have prepared as My temple, so that from now on never leaving you. Therefore, when My messengers come to you, listen to them, let them bring you news of their lord and saviour, Who also wants to be your lord and saviour, Who wants to make you happy with good gifts, Who wants to win you so that He will never lose you again .... My messengers will knock at every door, for I send them ahead so that I will find open doors when I Myself come to you .... Listen to them, for they proclaim My word to you, they want to prepare you for My coming, so that I don't knock on your door in vain, for the time is only short .... Then every opportunity will be over, then the prince of the world will have completely taken possession of you, because you alone, without My help, will not be able to free yourselves from him .... Call Me to come before it is too late and one day you will bless the hour when you made this call to Me .... For I will come and help you, and if you want it yourselves, I will take up residence in your hearts, so that no enemy can harm you any more for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word can be defaced .... test of will ....

B.D. 5391 from May 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Let My spirit become effective in you, then it will also always be possible for you to grasp the right meaning of My word and you will recognize it as soon as it is misinterpreted. But the human being must also be free at all times to oppose the truth, otherwise the truth would be compelling but then My adversary would not be able to unfold the power and thus the human being would also not be able to pass the test of will, which is the purpose of his earthly existence. Where light and darkness fight against each other there will also always be a battle between truth and lie .... and if this battle is to be brought to a conclusion then the human being himself must decide, he must choose between truth and error and thus also be presented with truth and error. Thus My adversary will always try to disfigure what I convey to people as truth, and I will not prevent him, because the human being himself can very well recognize truth as such as soon as he is serious about it. And the right seriousness belongs to the test of will, to the right decision. You humans are completely at liberty to turn truth into a lie, but it is also possible for you to recognize the lie and arrive at the pure truth. The latter is the light which is to be kindled in you but which cannot shine in you without your will. Therefore, if it is dark in you, then it is up to you yourselves, who are nevertheless able to escape the darkness and this is your purpose of earthly life. But if My word were withdrawn from My adversary's influence in such a way that it would have to give every person unmistakable light, then a compulsion of will and faith would be exerted on the person, it would give him light against his will, and there could be no question of passing a test of will. And yet, My word remains unchangeable and always the same, only its meaning can be understood or interpreted correctly or wrongly. But that person who wants light will never remain without light .... My word will never remain incomprehensible to the one who desires to understand it. My spirit will work in him and I Myself will instruct him and he will always recognize the truth, he will understand My word correctly as I want it understood ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual drought .... desert .... work of the servants ....

B.D. 5392 from May 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The earth has become a barren desert, no real life thrives, spiritual drought has set in, people no longer walk in the valley of life but in a wasteland where no noble fruits of life can flourish. It has become a valley of death, for he who relies on the earth lacks the strength that guarantees eternal life. It could be a garden of Eden, earthly and spiritually it could bring forth glorious fruits, yet the spiritual sun must then give off light and radiance, and earthly people consciously withdraw from this light and its warmth. And that is why even good seed cannot sprout if it is scattered .... People do nothing to create a spiritual Eden and make themselves and their fellow human beings happy with it, they do nothing to make their field of life suitable for receiving the good seed, and they do nothing to water the garden so that the seed can sprout. Their hearts are cold and loveless, they are indifferent towards God and their fellow human beings, they stifle all good impulses with worldly thoughts, they close their ears to the divine word, and thus they walk on stony or sandy ground and cannot extract anything from it that could give them strength and help them to recover .... They are sick and need much medicine for their souls .... And that is why God sends labourers who with honest intentions want to cultivate the sandy desert; He sends His servants to the people who, on His behalf, lend a hand to a work that is extremely important .... to make fertile farmland out of the barren sandy desert .... His servants have a difficult ministry because they find little understanding, because worldly people are not willing to be disturbed in their spiritual indolence and because they regard every work of help for their soul as a disturbance. And yet the divine word shall be scattered as seed into human hearts .... Where it falls on fertile ground good fruits can be achieved, and fellow human beings can also be impressed by the success and likewise want to create a fertile environment for themselves .... The good example can inspire imitation, and God will then also bless the effort, since it is still necessary to transform the desert, to sow fallow ground with good seed .... to convey the word of God to people who are willing to accept it. Although only a few will receive it with their hearts, these few will awaken much life, for everywhere they speak again the divine word will have an effect, delicious fruits will come to light .... people will change, where there was hatred there will be love, arrogance will give way to humility, people will raise their eyes upwards, they will no longer look downwards at the world's hustle and bustle; they will seek the one of Whom the word testifies, they will make an effort to live for His pleasure .... The desert will be transformed into a garden of Eden, but they will only see it in all its beauty with spiritual eyes as soon as they have laid aside the body and can now recognize the fruits of their striving. The labourers in the vineyard of the lord have a difficult office, but incomparable success will beckon them if God's blessing accompanies their work. And God will bless everyone who wants to help in this time of spiritual drought and thus works for Him and His kingdom .... He will bless everyone and give him strength so that his work will not be in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Danger of disbelief and untruth ....

B.D. 5393 from May 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Recognize the danger of unbelief and you will also recognize the danger of untruth. People without faith have no connection whatsoever with the kingdom of light and strength, they are completely isolated in the midst of creation which, however, is only the product of the one in Whom they should believe. And therefore creation will also remain without impression, although it is God's language it will not be able to say anything to people, it will not be understood as a testimony of God, for without faith every bond is missing .... Man stands outside of Him Who created him .... Only faith connects the creature with its creator .... only faith makes everything appear meaningful and purposeful which, without faith, is regarded as a natural phenomenon which has no connection with the human being who lives in it. Only faith can bring everything to life, only faith does not turn the creature into an individual being which stands isolated in the midst of creation, but only faith allows us to recognize the infinite multiplicity of beings which develop upwards in creation, and only faith allows us to seek a connection with the creator and also with all creatures ..... But this conscious connection must be established if the creature dwelling in the abyss wants to reach its creator, which is the aim and purpose for every being that was placed into creation. For the whole work of creation is only a process of development upwards .... to God. Without faith it is not possible to reach God, since a conscious striving is necessary and this requires faith.

But what are the consequences of unbelief? The essence inevitably remains in the depths .... But the depth is a negative realm, while the height is where God is, Who can only ever be and work positively. Unbelief keeps the freely created bound, unbelief keeps what was once full of light in darkness, unbelief causes the once powerful being to remain weak and powerless, for a negative force once drew it into its realm and turned living beings into something dead, which, however, can attain its state of life again if it seeks contact with the original source of light and strength ....

You humans are in the middle of this upward development process, you have already covered great distances and have now reached a decisive stage .... to establish the connection with the positive power, with God, in free will and to strive towards the original state again. But what is demanded of you must be explained to you, and you must believe it in order to be able to become active .... Only faith encourages you to use the abilities bestowed upon you and to make proper use of them. Without faith, however, you remain inactive, and since you are in a state of free will you cannot be forced into activity, thus you cannot experience a transformation either, your negative strength cannot be changed into a positively working strength .... Something wrong cannot be corrected if you don't want it yourselves because you don't believe that this is the purpose of your earthly life. And thus you remain in darkness without faith ....

And thus you humans will now also understand why the transmission of truth is so absolutely necessary, because a right faith can only be gained by supplying the truth .... The truth alone, if it is presented to the human being in all purity, gives right light and stimulates the will to be active .... the truth alone can awaken a faith which breaks through every spiritual barrier; the truth presents God to people such that they learn to love Him and long for union with Him. Hence truth stimulates them to establish the connection with Him, for pure truth makes faith easy for them, pure truth is light and strength because it originates from God Himself and leads back to Him again. Nevertheless, faith has to be demanded because the pure truth cannot be proven either, in order not to inevitably lead the beings to God. Yet the pure truth is easy to believe because everything which originates from God has a life-awakening effect and is also perceived as truth in the human being's heart. But anyone who is taught wrongly cannot believe either, or else his faith will not stand up in the hour of testing .... God was and is and will remain for eternity .... And faith in Him also achieves union with Him. But only the person who is informed about Him in truth will be able to believe in Him, for truth can be believed, whereas untruth gives a distorted image of God and therefore cannot give birth to a living faith .... which becomes even more understandable by the reference that untruth is the adversary's means who wants to prevent people from recognizing God and striving towards Him .... And thus the compelling necessity arises that truth is conveyed to people on earth so that they can believe if they have the will to do so, and through this faith strive for and establish the connection with God in order to one day unite with Him eternally. It is necessary to take action against lies and error, because what started from below, from the kingdom of darkness, which harbours everything that opposes God and wants to deny it the ascent to God, can never lead upwards ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Word (grace) recipients' advantage compared to the atheists ....

B.D. 5394 from May 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

The font of life was opened to all of you who receive My Word directly or through My messengers; you are all recipients of grace who have been approached by Me and been given what you need in order to become blessed. You may all refresh yourselves with the living water; you may accept My evidence of love, My Word, which all may hear who want to hear it. You receive knowledge which enables you to recognise the correlation of everything in existence; knowledge, which explains My reign and activity to you and, because you learn to recognise Me through My Word, you will also learn to love Me .... And you will recognise your task on earth and try to accomplish it .... You have a considerable advantage over people who lack all knowledge of Me because they don't want to accept anything from My hand, who reject My gift of grace from My messengers, no light can shine for them because they run away from it, and thus they cannot learn to recognise Me either and their life on earth is, and will remain, a standstill because it is dark in them. You have an advantage compared to them and should therefore take merciful care of them .... You should try to kindle a light in them and work with the gift of grace wherever possible. You may always refresh yourselves .... but they are going hungry, albeit of their own will and therefore self-inflicted .... Nevertheless, you shall give them food wherever you can. Living water constantly pours forth from My font of life; distribute the refreshing drink when you encounter a tired and hungry earthly wanderer. Many a person in his wretched state will accept the refreshment after all, and many a person will feel refreshed and never forget that he received strength. Offer the delectable gift to everyone .... even at the risk of it being rejected; yet no-one shall be able to say that My gift of grace was denied to him. All those of you who receive My Word should at least cater for one wanderer out of gratitude to Me, you should distribute in the same way as I distribute My gifts to you .... you should offer with love what you find enjoyable yourselves, you should try to make My Word palatable for your fellow human beings. And I will bless every person's effort; I will pour out My flow of love upon all those who want to curb the immense spiritual adversity, who help with the redemption work during the last days before the end .... I give without limitation; you may take abundantly and in turn pass it on again in My spirit of love wherever you see spiritual adversity .... The delectable water ceaselessly flows forth from the font of life, it has an enlivening effect on every person and every person may access the source .... But you shall carry the living water to anyone who does not come by himself so that he will also taste the strength inherent in the water of life, so that he, too, shall be awakened to life and will always desire more. Repay Me the love I grant to you by giving you My Word in this way. For there is immense adversity and I want to curb it with your help, because I must speak through a human mouth in order to gain people's will .... Be diligent labourers in My vineyard if you want to serve Me, everyone can work within his own circle, and as My servant he will always be blessed by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Separation between God and creatures impossible ....

B.D. 5395 from May 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

There is no separation between you and Me .... and whether you keep your distance for as long as you do and widen the gulf between you and Me more and more .... you cannot separate yourselves from Me, for what has emerged from Me inevitably remains My share for all eternity. There is eternally no separation, only your will can resist My touch of love, and you feel this as a detachment from Me; you believe to have completely separated yourselves from Me by not believing in Me. My flow of love no longer touches you because you resist it yourselves, and thereby you deprive yourselves of the strength which makes you happy. Thus, in a state far away from Me you are also without faith, you are wretched creatures and yet remain My own. But My love can no longer shine through you to your sorrow, even though you don't want to feel the sorrow as long as you live on earth .... But you are miserable creatures because you can have everything and yet possess nothing due to your inner rebellion against Me, Who can offer you everything. And yet I do not give up on you, instead I use all means to reduce your resistance against Me in order to break it, yet not by force. For the time being I have to let you feel your lack of strength. As long as you have strength at your disposal you don't seek Me, but if you lack it then you might think of Him Who possesses strength in all abundance and can provide you with it, and you appeal to Him for it. Thus, lack of strength on earth can lead you back to Me again, but it can also let you distance yourselves even further from Me if you rebel against your fate because you still don't want to acknowledge Me. But then I still have many other means, and if they all fail to effect the change of will and you depart from this earth with resistance in your heart, then you will have to become soft and compliant through a hard fate in the beyond, and even then I will still stretch out My hand to pull you up to My father's heart .... You only have to come to Me of your own accord .... This is My condition from which I do not deviate; you have distanced yourselves from Me of your own accord, your will was directed against Me and must now find its way back to Me again. You have to call for Me to fetch you, you have to re-establish the communion with Me which you once gave up yourselves. The separation has never been completely accomplished, even though you believed that you could separate yourselves from Me .... The bond remained in place precisely because a separation can never take place, for My strength certainly emanates and lets all creations and creatures arise but it always returns to Me again because nothing exists apart from Me which could draw this strength to itself. You can indeed distance yourselves from Me infinitely far in order to return to Me again one day, and only the conscious bond with Me is bliss, because then My strength of love can touch the creature in all its effectiveness and the permeation of the creature with My strength makes it into what it was intended to be from the start, into My image, which can work in abundance of light and strength and is inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth is not accepted without faith ....

B.D. 5396 from May 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

It is a vain attempt to introduce people to the truth who are completely without faith. For in them there is neither desire for truth nor willingness to love and therefore also no ability to recognize truth as such. For this reason an attempt must first be made to induce them to reflect on their origin .... for only such reflection can move the human being to ask the question: Why and for what purpose is My being as a human being, and by whom have I been called into being?

Only then is it possible for faith in a creator from eternity to awaken, and only then can the truth be communicated to man with the prospect of being recognized. However, 'faith' is not the unquestioning acceptance of a doctrine of a God and creator, but the inner affirmation of a being Who created, sustains and governs everything. Thus, man must come to the inner conviction through reflection that a being exists to Whom creation owes its existence. Only this conviction gained through reflection can be addressed as faith, because although no proof can be produced, the human being nevertheless represents this inner realization because it appeals to him and is thus also acceptable to him, i.e. his intellect can also profess it. Faith gained in this way is also a guarantee for the attainment of truth, because the human being now also mentally makes contact with the being Which his heart acknowledges, and now the deity Itself intervenes and informs the human being more and more of Its being, because It reveals Itself to him as soon as he has acknowledged It. And now the degree of love is decisive in which way God can reveal Himself to the human being .... A seeking human being is already more distant from the earthly world and is no longer bound by matter, his spirit will enter areas which are far removed from the material world .... But as soon as he detaches himself from matter the spark of love is also ignited in him, he no longer thinks of himself but feels himself placed in a community of similar beings, like himself, who all have a purpose to fulfil on earth but who are also weak and ignorant like himself .... And what he now seeks he does not seek for himself alone but he also wants to utilize it for his fellow human beings because he feels that ignorance is a great shortcoming which makes them unhappy .... Thus love will always be kindled in a person if faith in God is awakened, and the attention of truth is now also guaranteed, only it can be conveyed to the human being in different ways, yet always such that it is acceptable to him and he feels so impressed by the truth that he demands more and also represents it to his fellow human beings .... God can only reveal Himself when He is acknowledged, but then He will give with full hands, He will distribute the truth to everyone who desires it and, once again, love will increase in the hearts of those who receive the truth because they will now recognize and learn to love God, Who reveals Himself in His nature, Who kindles a bright light in all those who strive for the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious wake-up call ....

B.D. 5397 from May 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You don't have much time left .... Time and again I have to say this to you for you don't take My Words seriously, you are living in the midst of the world and cannot believe that everything around you will cease to exist one day and that only that will remain which is everlasting .... your soul. Time and again I want to admonish you to seriously envisage what kind of state your soul will then be in. Time and again I want to warn you against focussing your every thought and intention on acquiring earthly goods, on improving your earthly situation .... it is a futile effort, for you will not keep anything when your time has come, the time when you will either be recalled or when everything around you disintegrates. You really should believe that you are wasting your energy, that you work for nothing, that it is merely temporary prosperity which might still provide you with a few comfortable days of life but which is unfavourable for the soul if you don't consider it first and diligently aim to gain spiritual possessions. You may certainly enjoy a good living standard if you use your earthly possessions correctly, if you share them with those suffering poverty and hardship, if you manage your possessions beneficially, if you regard them as having been received from Me and show your gratitude by practicing active neighbourly love, by alleviating hardship in an earthly and spiritual way and thereby live an exemplary life for your fellow human beings and motivate them to also live a life of love .... Then earthly prosperity will have positive consequences, then your soul will not have to starve, then you are considering your soul first and need not be afraid of the forthcoming events .... But woe to those who only pay attention to their physical life .... it will be taken from them and the poverty they suffer in the spiritual kingdom will be a dreadful burden to them ....

Believe that you are facing immense events, believe that you are only granted a little time longer, make every effort to attain spiritual possessions before it is too late .... Everything you acquire of an earthly nature will be lost to you; take care that you will possess spiritual goods; I seriously admonish you so that you cannot say that you were not informed of that which is irrevocably granted to you .... Don't turn a deaf ear to My advice and warning, they are My loving calls which come to you through a human mouth and intend to protect you from a dreadful fate and which I will repeat in a different way for those earthly children who are unwilling to listen and believe .... My admonishing wake-up call will very soon resound so forcefully that it will make you tremble. I want to speak to you once more through the forces of nature and call to you from above: Wake up, you sleepers .... pluck up courage and stop being feeble .... don't look for worldly pleasures and everything of a transient nature; try to gain My kingdom and consider your true Self .... consider your soul, whose fate in eternity is prepared by yourselves .... Once again I Am telling you: Shortly after this final wake-up call the last Judgment will follow and the disintegration of Earth and the end of everything that lives on it will take place .... That is why you humans are in such great danger, because you don't want to recognise and believe that your end has come or you would yet prepare yourselves and pay no further attention to the world and its commodities .... The time I have granted to you is over and until the very end I will still try to save souls, hence My love constantly calls to people to take stock of themselves, to do penance and to turn back, for I don't want them to go astray .... I only want them to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Last Judgment ....

B.D. 5398 from May 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Listen to Me when I speak to you humans through the mouth of a servant: An inevitable judgment is about to happen to you. Nothing can avert this judgment from you anymore, for the time is fulfilled, a period of Salvation has expired and a new one shall start again, so that higher development of the spirits will be able to continue, since it has considerably slowed down due the human being's free will, who is no longer aware of his real purpose and therefore does nothing to further his complete maturation on earth, who even frequently prevents the progress of the spiritual substance bound within matter because he is spiritually utterly unenlightened. You humans, pay attention to the call from above: The last Judgment is about to happen .... Your lack of belief will not halt it, for it was planned by My love and wisdom from the start, firstly, in order to help the still bound spiritual substance to achieve freedom one day, and for another, in order to place the more liberated spirit, the human being, into a state he has created for himself through his will .... Freedom or renewed banishment, blissful activity in the spiritual kingdom or languishing in the matter he himself desired during his life on earth. You humans, listen to Me and believe Me, you are approaching the end .... I already announced the end to you long in advance so that you could prepare yourselves. But now the time has come when My announcements will be fulfilled, now the day comes ever closer which will be the last day on this earth for all of you .... the day, when the external shape of the old earth will be completely changed, which means destruction and annihilation of every work of creation on it.

You humans know of this, because the prophesies about the end of the world did not remain concealed from you, yet you never want to associate this with your time, you never believe yourselves to be affected by it, until the day takes you by surprise. But I don't want you to be taken unawares and experience this day entirely unprepared .... And thus I keep giving you the information from above time and again, I inform you through a human being's spirit what is about to happen to you. I would tell you far more, but if you don't believe this then more knowledge will not benefit you either, because you would only misuse it for worldly gain and this would not help your soul. Nevertheless, you should at least know that you can avert the worst from yourselves if you appeal to Me for help. Even if you call upon Me at the last minute you will still receive help, although in a different way than you expect. I will send My angels to fetch those who speak My name with complete confidence that they will be helped, yet I will not thwart My eternal plan of Salvation .... it will proceed as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... The last Judgment will be the end of this earth, the goats will be separated from the sheep, the realm of the earth will receive all that pertains to Satan and I, as good shepherd, will gather My sheep and lead them to green pastures, the earth will be desolate and bare, without any life whatsoever .... it will wait for the working of My love and then new creations will emerge again which will reshape it into the paradise of Eden once more .... a new earth will arise which will be inhabited by a happy human generation, and all hardship will have ceased for those people who proved their love and loyalty to Me in the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Will to help the souls of darkness ....

B.D. 5399 from May 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Remember what My spirit proclaims to you and know that you will be taught correctly by My spirit .... Trustingly surrender yourselves to My guidance and always do what you feel urged to do, for I express Myself through your feelings as soon as you make an effort to fulfil My will and serve Me. It is an unspeakably difficult struggle in the kingdom of the beyond; the darkness is so dense, countless souls languish in it, and only a small number of those would like to liberate themselves from it, who find the state in darkness unbearable and strive to change their situation. And you should help these few, for without help they will not be able to free themselves. It is a work of mercy which you do for those souls, but your will to help is never without success. For even if the souls in darkness sometimes find it difficult to accept your teachings and explanations .... they nevertheless think about it because the light they see close to you is proof they cannot deny, and because they also long for light. You are constantly surrounded by crowds of such souls who feel at ease in your proximity, even though they are now also harassed by beings of the deep who try to pull them down again. Remember the souls surrounding you with love, from which they now draw the strength to resist. Your love keeps them bound to you as with chains, so that the beings of the deep do not succeed in pushing them away, back into darkness. These souls are constantly occupied in thought with what they hear from you and only a loving thought from you is enough to also keep them close to you, and My love truly creates opportunities for them which are helpful for their progress. Thus there will always be beings of light amongst them, unrecognized by them but imperceptibly guiding them into right thinking, and the work of salvation will continue because I Myself bless it, because it never displeases Me if you want to help people. Do not fear the evil powers, for My might is truly greater where the will is good, where the principle of love prevails. Light is where My word resounds, and My word will always be your most secure protection against the evil powers .... and because you fight with a weapon and work with a means which I Myself gave into your hands, the forces of darkness cannot approach you unless you grant them access yourselves through sinful thoughts and evil will, thus you surrender yourselves to the evil influence without resistance .... But this is prevented by your guardian spirits, which are always with you and prevent the bad beings from entering because you want to serve Me and help the poor souls. Believe and trust Me and My words that I will protect you from every danger as long as you are active in My vineyard .... Believe that My spirit guides you correctly and that it will also warn you if you are in danger of taking the wrong path .... Your will to help even earns you protection by the beings you want to redeem, for they sense your love and form a protective wall around you against those who wish you ill .... Love awakens counter-love and also increases the strength in the beings, and by this they recognize the truth of what you explain to them .... they also feel the strength of My word, and only rarely does a soul, once it has heard My word in love, reject it. Therefore, if you convey My word to these souls I Myself am with you and bless you and your activity, I bless the beings which surround you and your effort will not be in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Awakening the spark of God in man ....

B.D. 5400 from May 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My spirit shall become effective in you .... A spark of My spirit is within you, thus something divine slumbers within you which can have an effect on your thinking, wanting and acting if you allow it yourselves. You yourselves decide whether this spiritual spark can become active in you; it is entirely up to your will to awaken the spirit in you to life, for it is indeed within you but it awaits the fulfilment of the conditions under which its activity is permitted. Neither My omnipotence can determine My share in you to be active nor My greater than great love, for the law of eternal order underlies everything, also the human being's shaping with all his abilities and not least the human being's free will, without which a perfect creature is unthinkable and which therefore should also strive to enter the state of perfection again. But it is also not possible for the opposite pole to prevent the divine spiritual spark in you from working if you want it to do so yourselves. You alone determine your attitude towards Me and also towards My adversary; thus you also have free will which can just as well act badly as well. I now know every individual human heart and follow its spiritual development; but I also recognize My adversary's attempts to bring the human being under his influence, and his influence is often so strong that it does not remain without effect, that the human being becomes weak to want what is right and is inclined to give in to the one who wants to steer his will in the wrong direction. The human being is weak without My support .... for this weakness of will is the natural consequence of his distance from Me due to his past sin against Me .... He can want to be right but needs a grant of grace from Me to do so, which is fully at his disposal in his acknowledgement of Christ. Therefore he must acknowledge Christ, Who made the most difficult sacrifice for humanity's strengthened will. For I demand a free decision of will from the human being during his earthly existence, thus I also have to offer him the guarantee to be able to relinquish this free decision of will if I want him to reach perfection. He must be able to use his will in every direction, otherwise I could not make such a demand of him. And your spirit from Me will provide you with the necessary help for this if you grant it the right to do so. The spiritual spark, which is part of Me Myself, always affects you in My will, so that such human being can certainly rightly say that he is guided by divine will, which has given the spirit within itself the right to express itself.

Therefore it is always My concern that you place yourselves in a state where the spirit can work in you, because then you will already be relieved of all responsibility, for as soon as My spirit works in you, you also already submit yourselves to My will, thus My will can be active in you, yet you have voluntarily inserted your will into Mine, not forced by My will ....

My spirit, however, can only work in a person who consciously places himself under Christ's cross .... i.e. the once weakened will could now also receive the strengthening from the divine redeemer through the acknowledgement of Christ and His act of salvation to think and act in such a way that the precondition for My working of the spirit was fulfilled .... The human being who awakened the spiritual spark within himself belongs to the earthly children redeemed by His blood, he already made use of the graces acquired through the death on the cross to shape himself into love; his will was turned towards the divine redeemer and thus towards Me as the creator and father of eternity, because the strength for this flowed towards him, because he opened himself for the reception of grace ....

Turning to Jesus Christ and acknowledging the act of salvation inevitably also entails the rightly directed will .... for people's weakness of will was the reason for Jesus' great mercy to come to their aid; the will has to be strengthened without, however, being made unfree, now the human being can accomplish something he was previously incapable of doing .... For satan had bound free will to the extent that his influence on people was so strong that they succumbed, which, however, they would not have needed if they had made use of the strength of love .... Thus the will was also free before the act of salvation, only completely weakened by satan’s influence. And thus the will of a person who does not believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will show the same weakness; he will need a great inner struggle to direct his will correctly and often will not be able to do so, yet he will neither be able to be forced from above nor from below in a certain direction of will.

But what he cannot do by his own strength will be easy for him with Jesus Christ .... he is, as it were, released from his weakness of will, he noticeably feels the influx of strength, his will now moves in the right direction, the divine principle in him gains the upper hand .... the spiritual spark flares up and My will has now entered him, because his spirit is My share and cannot think and want otherwise and now transfers his thinking and wanting to the human being, who now lets himself be guided and freely strives out of himself towards Me .... who is now in truth redeemed from My adversary's bonds because he has recognized Me as God and father of eternity, Who came into the world in Jesus Christ in order to redeem people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Maturing process always requires new creations ....

B.D. 5401 from May 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

My kingdom is vast, countless worlds are at My disposal in order to successfully complete the maturing process of the spiritual substance; all these worlds only serve the purpose of returning the once apostate spiritual substance to Me. Thus it will also be understandable to you humans that one day the aim, the liberation of all spiritual substances, will be reached, that one day even the earthly material worlds will be spiritualized, but that infinitely long times will still pass until even the last spiritual substance has found its way back. If you now look at the earthly creation around you in the knowledge that you yourselves are the keystone of an infinitely long path on this earth, then you can also imagine how much time is still necessary in order to allow the spiritual substance still bound in hard matter to reach this keystone, and you will understand that eternities will pass until the process of redemption is over .... You will also realize that there can be no return to Me outside of the order established by Me, that there can therefore be no sudden redemption through My love, but that a slow upward development only directs the spiritual substance such that it itself gives up its resistance against Me and finally longs for unification with Me .... Even a sudden reversal of My adversary would not be able to overturn this eternal order of Mine, because he no longer has the power over the bound spiritual substance to transfer his changed will to it, since like him it is something independently externalized which also has to develop itself. My adversary, however, can only be expected to turn back when he recognizes that he has been deprived of the spiritual which he thought was firmly in his possession. Only his own lack of power and strength changes his will and his thinking, but as long as spiritual things are still in bondage to him, which as a human being are at his will by violating the love for Me and his neighbour, he will also still persist in his resistance against Me. And that is why so many infinite works of creation have the task to serve the spiritual's ascent development. And these works of creation exist as long as there is still unredeemed spiritual substance, for as long as spiritual substance is bound in the works of creation My adversary has no power over it. Only the human being is exposed to his influence and therefore he causes hopeless misfortune among people in particular ....

He determines them to resist Me and thereby draws a new apostasy from Me. He strengthens his power and those who help him to do so are people who do not believe in Me. But he also pushes himself towards believers and seeks to wreak havoc there. Satan is by no means willing to return to Me, yet any means are acceptable to him if he can thereby increase his power. He seeks to cause confusion everywhere and thereby win people again who are close to having finished the process of development. He seeks to spread darkness wherever he can, because the light exposes him, because he loses the battle where the truth is exposed.

One period of redemption comes to an end, a new one begins again, and this will repeat itself as long as spiritual substances are still held captive by matter. But this spiritual must also be given the opportunity to free itself, only that the creations need ever lighter substances because the resistance in the spiritual decreases and requires ever shorter time to dissolve the form. And the creations changing in this way always signify new redemption periods, which now makes the destruction and transformation of the earth as well as other celestial bodies more understandable for you humans. For My wisdom overlooked everything from the beginning until eternity .... Wisdom and love are constantly endeavouring to release the unfree spirits from their wretched state and to prepare a fate for them where they must have regained their original nature in order to be indescribably happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Characteristic of the inner Word ....

B.D. 5402 from May 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

A huge battle has erupted between the forces of the kingdom of light and those of darkness, for it is the end time of this earth, the earth is faced by an upheaval for the sake of the spiritual beings which are now the focal point of this battle. The prince of darkness is aware of the fact that his power is at stake, that he has very little time left and therefore he does whatever it takes in order to fortify his power. This battle between light and darkness is waged by the darkness with cunning and trickery, and many people who allow themselves to be beguiled by illusion and disguise will succumb to it. There is no risk where My messengers of light can intervene, yet Satan, too, sometimes avails himself of a garment of light and then it becomes difficult for uninformed people to recognise him as they only pretended to have established the connection, but they are inwardly still so separated from Me that I cannot manifestly help them .... who therefore willingly succumb to My adversary's enticements and temptations because he somehow appeals to them in a worldly sense and thus their reaction is also worldly. In times of spiritual darkness a ray of light is certainly exceedingly soothing, for the light comes from above, from My kingdom, and the shine it emanates will always cause a happy feeling in the darkness .... Yet My adversary often works similarly .... he wants to do the same yet his strength is not sufficient .... he knows that people are searching for light and thus equally approaches them as light. However, this light fails to disperse brightness .... it is merely a deceptive light, it is effectively a phantom which disappears if it is carefully inspected.

Nevertheless, it is a fact that Satan often appears in a garment of light in order to confuse people but he is only able to do so if people's will gives him a foundation he can subsequently hold on to .... This will never be the case where heartfelt love for Me guarantees My presence but it can easily happen where a degree of unkindness prevents My presence and allows My adversary to enter .... this is why a completely devoted servant to Me need not fear Satan's activity, in contrast, someone who is still, if only slightly, captivated by the world needs to be extremely careful. For Satan slips in where I Am not present but he can never make himself at home where My presence is assured. My adversary tries to darken people's spirit through untruthfulness .... through errors and lies, whereas I, wherever I Am working, by means of purest truth provide enlightenment, bright and clear understanding about all spiritual problems and about My reign and activity, about My eternal plan of Salvation .... Yet one thing is not possible for My adversary: to make himself known through the inner Word .... And now pay attention: What are the characteristics of the inner Word, of the expression of My love for you, of the transference of strength which affects you in the state of receiving My Word ....? My Word affects your heart and speaks to your heart, thus My Word can only be felt, and this feeling will be formulated by the person's intellect if he is willing to believe divine emanations, if the person therefore consciously listens within to hear what I reveal to him .... But it is also possible for a person's tongue to speak, impelled by a force while the person's intellect is excluded and this force avails itself of a person's mouth in order to make itself heard. This manifestation of strength can indeed be caused by a being of light, but forces of darkness can likewise avail themselves of the opportunity if a person opens himself in order to make contact with invisible forces. Then it depends on the will which forces take hold of him; the person's tongue is set in motion and, impelled by this force, he speaks .... yet I Am not the One Who speaks, although good forces can also convey to a person spiritual knowledge which corresponds to My will.

However, My Word is My direct emanation, which can indeed be passed on to the person's heart through a being of light yet always such that the spiritual ear perceives My Word, that therefore the person is addressed by Me and he hears Me .... and not that his physical ear hears what his mouth utters. Can you understand that? When I speak the spiritual ear hears Me, the addressed person perceives My Word in his heart. If, however, an entity speaks through a person the person hears himself speak, and this in such a way as if the mouth speaks mechanically, which is indeed the case, because a being avails itself of him in order to express itself. This being can speak on My instruction and people can likewise derive much benefit from such statements, but it is also possible for evil spirits to interfere, which happens if a person's thoughts are earthly inclined or if he, due to weakness of will, entirely hands himself over to spiritual influences, if his state becomes like a psychic one, that is, if he can no longer control what is voiced by his mouth .... In that case he is just a mechanical mouthpiece for spiritual forces, and then care will always have to be taken to accept the spiritual results as truth .... then it requires serious scrutiny if error is not to be spoken of as truth. Anyone who hears My Word is addressed through the spirit within him, which is a part of Me Myself .... And if the spirit in the person expresses itself, it can only be heard by the person's spiritual ear and not by his physical ear. The spiritual ear, however, is a matter of emotion; the person feels My Words in his heart even if he cannot audibly pass them on to his fellow human being. If, however, it is My will that he shall impart My Word, then the person will be able to convey his feeling to the intellect which grasps the sensed Word and formulates it to be understandable .... For My speech is an illumination of strength, it touches the human being's soul, and this strength is formed by My will into the Word for you .... All people can certainly feel themselves addressed by Me if they love Me and want to get in contact with Me, who thus expect an expression of love, for I draw close to all My children who call upon Me and I listen to them; I also answer them, I comfort them, give them advice, admonitions, warnings, I assure them of My help, and if they attentively listen within they will also perceive the gentle voice .... yet always in a way that they believe themselves to be saying these Words which they would dearly like to hear.

However, if a person is chosen to spread the truth throughout the world, to proclaim the Gospel to fellow human beings, he needs to receive it from Me first, and this happens through the inner Word .... through a process which first necessitates that the human being's spiritual ear is so trained that he hears that which I emotionally impart to him as 'spiritual Word' .... that he does not expect to be spoken to such that he hears it with his physical ear but that he, in profound faith of My love, waits for My speech, that is, that he opens himself to the flow of My love's strength and perceives the contact like spoken Words which the heart then conveys to the intellect, thus providing the intellect with the necessary understandable explanations in order to be able to process the spiritual language. Such Word-reception is a commitment for a mission, for the recipient accepts spiritual knowledge from My hand, I make Myself known to him, and this takes place in such a simple way that another person rarely notices anything peculiar and that the only evidence of My illumination of love consists of written down proclamations of wisdom, which testify to Me as a Being. And therefore it should not be difficult to recognise My Word, because by transmitting My Word to earth I intend to portray Myself to people such that they learn to love Me, but this is only possible if I reveal Myself to them as a most loving Father, if I explain to them that My reign and activity is solely determined by love and that they are therefore being informed of My eternal plan of Salvation .... Consequently, that which is imparted to a person as My Word has to be informative; it must not cause confusion, it must not sound incomprehensible, not effusive, it must sound clear and pure, intelligible and therefore pleasing for all people. It must also affect those people to whom it is imparted like a ray of love, it must touch people's hearts and meet with a response in those who open themselves .... a person must feel himself addressed by Me and thereby feel deeply impressed .... I Myself must be recognised as the Giver of the Word because I reveal Myself through My Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Word-conveying to the souls on earth and in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5403 from May 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Convey My word to all who want to listen to it, and you fulfil My will, you fulfil your mission, you are active for Me and My kingdom, then you make it possible through your will that I Myself approach people and also the souls in the beyond, that I Myself can speak to them, which cannot happen without your cooperation because they are still too distant from Me and therefore would not tolerate My direct address or would not recognize it as such either. My working of the spirit is alien to these souls, for they hardly believe in Me Myself and even less in the fact that I could make Myself known to a person through the voice of the spirit. And therefore it is good if you speak to them and make use of My word, which indeed also came to you through Me but which can also be regarded by people as your own thought product who don't want to believe. And yet, the strength of My word is so strong that once it has touched the heart it will not remain without effect. It gives the soul light which it lacked until now and which it feels extremely beneficial. For I Myself speak to the soul if it accepts My word, even though it flows out of your mouth .... I Myself come to the soul and bring it something delicious, I bring it nourishment which it had to do without until now and which it nevertheless needs in order to be able to live .... And what you, as mere intellectuals, do not succeed in achieving through your speech, My words will achieve .... right thinking turned towards truth, which now leads the soul to realization. My word can bring about a great transformation where only the slightest will exists to be truthfully instructed, and therefore your task is to convey My word to wherever you know people who are still without realization, where I Myself have no access and yet the soul longs for truth. Anyone who seeks clarification will also find it in My word, for I will instruct him Myself even though it is you who speak. Always make use of My word if you want to achieve greater success .... You can certainly also represent the knowledge of truth with your own words, yet it will be far more difficult to win souls than if you let Me speak Myself by reciting the word directly conveyed to you by Me to your fellow human beings, which then already carries the strength within itself and therefore does not remain without influence.

You have an inconceivable treasure with which you can work .... you have enlightenment in all matters, I Myself am always ready to fill the gaps in your knowledge, and therefore you will always be able to hand out where hunger and thirst lead the souls to you .... My word is a true refreshment for them, My word gives strength and light, My word testifies to Me Myself and revives the faith in Me which was lost, but it also strengthens it where it is still weak. My word must also carry this strength within itself, because everything that comes forth from Me is strength within itself and the effect can be felt by every willing soul which gives up its resistance against Me, which longs for light, which I deny to no soul .... Therefore carry My word out into the world .... Let Me speak through you where a desiring soul tunes in to hear the truth .... Then you will fulfil your mission on earth, then you will be faithful servants in My vineyard and you will serve Me according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Return to God .... God's working in man ....

B.D. 5404 from June 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You should accept Me into your heart so that I can work in you. Once upon a time you placed yourselves apart from Me and thus there was also no strength left in you, since the strength starts from Me and is directed to where it finds no resistance; but you resisted Me and, in a manner of speaking, rejected My strength of love, and thus you became powerless through your own fault, you were also no longer permeated by My light of love because you also resisted My love, and thus it was also dark around and in you and your state was an unhappy one, because everything that is far away from Me cannot be blissfully happy. And thus there is only one way to attain beatitude if you consciously join Me, just as you once consciously separated yourselves from Me .... You must grant Me, that is, My emanation of love and strength, access into your heart, and everything will be as it was in the beginning again .... With good will you can also do it, for you need do nothing else but kindle love within yourselves and now constantly maintain the fire of love .... Then I will come to you Myself, because I am love Itself .... And once I can enter your heart I will truly work in it so that you will never ever desire to separate from Me, for I will now direct your thinking, feeling and willing towards your bliss, towards the life which lasts forever; I will illuminate your spirit so that you will never ever be able to sink back into darkness .... My spirit, which is in you, will now become active and introduce you to the truth .... You only have to prepare a dwelling place for Me in your heart, you have to receive Me Myself, which is only possible through loving activity .... through your desire to be active together with Me, Who am love Myself .... Let your will of love become active .... Then you will already make use of My strength, and then you will draw Me to yourselves so as never to give Me up again .... I am truly always ready, if a call of love touches My ear, to radiate love, to make happy and to enlighten every human heart which wants to let My spirit work in it .... For I gave you the promise: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." Whoever wants to receive Me into his heart shall find out for himself how this promise of Mine is to be understood .... for My spirit will explain everything to him, My spirit will guide him into truth, My spirit will prove My presence to him .... and with Me he will be blessed and abide forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers