New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5405 - 5509

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

5405 - The narrow path....

5406 - God's unfathomable nature can only be comprehended through love....

5407 - God becomes powerful in the weak....

5408 - God's infinite love, patience and mercy....

5409 - Mentally blind ones cannot tolerate sudden light....

5410 - Submitting one’s will to God's will....

5411 - Instruction by God Himself.... Light....

5412 - Source of mercy.... God's Word....

5413 - Return present, which God demands: Spreading of the divine Word....

5414 - The Word was in the beginning....

5415a - God’s love and care.... The assistance of His servants to awaken faith....

5415b - God's love and care.... The assistance of His servants to awaken faith....

5416 - God's love and patience.... Mediators....

5417 - Preaching the gospel to the poor souls....

5418 - Resisting the truth....

5419 - A free will - God's working....

5420 - "My kingdom is not of this world.... "

5421 - The bridge from realm of light is Jesus Christ....

5422 - Vineyard work is more important than earthly activity....

5423 - Lawful Return.... earthly walk....

5424 - Attribute of truth: Emanation of light ....

5427 - Satan's disguise where light is conveyed to Earth....

5428 - 'Forgive us our trespasses....'

5429 - The spirit of falsehood.... The suppressing of the truth....

5430 - The effusion of the Spirit means spiritual help....

5431 - The power of the living Word....

5432 - Thinking and acting righteously.... Love your enemy....

5433 - An early calling away....

5434 - Abide in love, and you thus abide in God....

5435 - "What you ask in My name.... " Answer to prayer....

5436 - The Bread of life, proper food, proper drink....

5437 - A stream of grace.... Faith.... Help in the beyond....

5438 - The power of satan.... Deepest darkness.... Eternal light....

5439 - The training of teachers by God Himself.... Servants....

5440 - The Power-redirection process....

5441 - Descriptions of the beyond only illustrative and comparative....

5442 - Spiritual shallowness.... urgency of helping....

5443 - Spiritual drought - Water of life.... Awakening of a spiritual hunger....

5444 - The loving person cannot deny God by conviction....

5445 - God as a mentor.... Truth - Light....

5446 - Spiritual compulsion.... Doctrines.... Truth....

5447 - What is the creation....

5448 - The spark of the Spirit.... Life....

5449 - In My Father's house are many mansions....'

5450 - Charity, a guarantee of God's presence....

5451 - The time of Grace.... serious reminder of the end....

5452 - Distributing of the light requires a desire for it....

5453 - Submitting the will to God's will....

5454 - A mission to proclaim the gospel....

5455 - God's will.... God's approval....

5456 - The only beatifying church....

5457 - Wave of awakenings during the last days....

5458 - The power of light from above.... The deceptive light of satan....

5459 - "Watch and pray.... " Constant temptations....

5460 - God-inclined will is the passed test on earth....

5461a - The inner Word.... Light.... Truth....

5461b - The inner Word.... Light.... Truth....

5462 - The divine law: Serving in love....

5463 - The will determines one's thoughts.... Responsibility....

5464 - Redemption of the souls from the depth.... A ray of light.... Jesus Christ....

5465 - Spiritual hardship can only be remedied by spreading the pure Gospel....

5466 - Testing the power of the divine Word in an adversity....

5467 - Satan rages with increased power.... Last days....

5468 - Forces of heaven are unusually active.... Help from people....

5469 - Everyone can hear God's speech.... in form of thoughts....

5470 - A guarantee of God's presence: Works of love.... Acceptance of the Word....

5471 - Shortening of the days.... No shortage for people....

5472 - An explanation of cases of possession....

5473 - The saving of just one single soul.... A large mobilization....

5474 - Participation in the redemption work....

5475 - The assistance of human beings in the beatification of creatures....

5476 - The awakening to life.... The duration of time.... 1000 years like one day....

5477 - Support by forces of heaven in the redeeming work....

5478 - The blood of Christ.... Guilt of sin....

5479 - Works of creation are solidified thoughts of God....

5480 - Behold, I am with you on all the days....

5481 - God.... Father....

5482 - Fatherly Words of blessing....

5483 - Bread and wine.... the right food, the right drink....

5484 - Thoughts are connecting-currents between the beyond and the earth....

5485 - Earthly hardship is often a revelation of God's love....

5486 - Transformation of the will.... the overcoming of matter....

5487 - Desire for light in the beyond.... Spiritual conversations....

5488 - A reminder to accept the divine Word....

5489 - An awaking to life....

5490 - The human being's task on earth.... Childship to God....

5491 - Earthly adversity should result in contacting God....

5492 - Communion.... Bread and Wine....

5493 - Comforting words of the Father.... Reference to death....

5494 - I am always close to you when you call Me....

5495 - The divine principle - love.... A decision between God and the adversary....

5496 - An unusual grant of strength in time of need through God's Word....

5497 - The redemptive path of the sentenced spiritual....

5498 - Bearing the burden of the cross in surrender....

5499 - The earthly task: Transforming into love.... The grace of God....

5500 - God as the Ruler.... Freedom of will.... The law of order....

5501 - The divine attributes in man.... Proof through Jesus Christ....

5502 - The lowliness of the spirit.... Humility.... Grace....

5503 - Loss of earthly possessions can result in spiritual treasures....

5504 - The reason for the spiritual decline.... Addiction to matter....

5505 - Fighting and wrestling leads to the goal....

5506 - The fountain of living water.... The key to the gate....

5507 - Every day is a gift....

5508 - 'Come unto Me....'

5509 - The love of the Father for His children....

The narrow path ....

B.D. 5405 from June 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I want to dwell within you, I want to reign in your hearts, yet with a love that is to fill you with bliss. I want to be within you. This My presence also makes you to My children, I thus have come to My own and they have received Me .... To you who are on this earth as My creatures belongs my whole love, it looks after you and leads you on paths that, admitted, are often stoney and need to be covered laboriously. I’m leading you and yet again, I’m standing at the destination, expecting you. So you thus have My everlasting help, and no one can say having never experienced My help. Though, if the one does not follow My loving urging and My love-call, that one will stay behind and the ones who follow Me will gain a lead by a wide margin .... and they will reach the destination .... I will personally press them on My Father’s heart and lead them into My house .... the child has found its way home to the father from whom it was away a long time by its own fault .... It now has finally returned back because it set foot unto the only path that leads to Me .... the path of love .... However, this path is not easily to walk, it offers no allurements, no feast for the eyes, it is not smooth and to be walked without any effort, but it needs to be conquered step by step, because it leads up steeply and because of the many obstacles that need to be removed before it becomes passable .... But it is passable because of a guide Who constantly walks along your side, supporting and protecting you, supplying you with strength when you’re about to fail. He comforts you full of love, He relieves you of the load you are to carry, He carefully leads you across dangerous cliffs, He is your constant companion. Thus you can reach the destination, provided you have the will for it. But now it is certainly possible for you to direct your look towards the broad path, and this broad path can easily appear desirable for you because it is bordered by joys and pleasures of all kind. The loveliest scenes tempt the wanderer to risk a jump from the narrow, hard passable path to the broad, tempting street where many bustle about in the worldly enjoyments .... The temptation is very big and a great many cannot resist it .... The one leaves the laborious path and will always be helped across to the broad path .... for everywhere there are figures who wave at the one and offer their hand to the one and are happy to be able to lure the wanderer away from the narrow path. The broad way, however, does not lead to the same destination .... it leads downward as certain as the narrow path leads up to the top.

This picture is making it clear to you that the last destination is only achievable by surmounting, that it costs a certain fight with one’s self and the obstacles that put themselves in one’s way. Hence, man can only get to the last destination if the one is serious about it, when the one disregards all the stumbling-blocks, when the one directs his eye nowhere else but to the top where I wave at the one, being the most glorious destination ....

(4.6.1952) I then will personally carry the one’s feet away across obstacles, the one then won’t see them but his look will beamingly cling to Me Who stretches His hand towards him, the hand of which he can hold on to, that will lead the one to the end of the path .... How different though is the life of those who walk on different paths .... how many joys and worldly pleasures can the one have, how many wants, sufferings and hardships the other one .... The days present themselves eventful for the one while the other one just sees miseries with one’s self and with others, and the first one will, beside one’s own burden, even carry the burden of the fellow human being, because love drives the one to it. But once the reward will come and this will be just according to how man’s desire was and the way they had furnished evidence for it. Whoever did endeavor spiritually, whoever did not forget Me, in spite of all the hardship, but perseveringly approached Me, will receive spiritual goods. But those who walked the broad path will all of a sudden see that it will terminate in the depth .... The depth will receive them all, for they have been descending unswervingly, the path that certainly may have been started with good intensions but may soon have been abandoned because of the temptations that dispelled all the concerns, because of the taking over of sin where My opponent is able to have an effect upon the souls of the humans. And the broad path has been prepared by him with the aim to ruin the humans.

And thus two powers are attracting you people and you can decide yourselves, you can choose yourselves whom you want to strive for. You can become My children, but you can also remain his children .... This is the decision you people on earth have to make. This decision is an exceedingly responsible one for it is decisive about your whole eternity. That’s why each one of the two rulers sends out their messengers. None of those who walks the broad path will exist who did not meet warners and admonishers, for they stand alongside the path, they know the Lord Who alone can offer salvation and this also inspires them to pass on knowledge to their fellow humans as well and to allure them away from the extremely dangerous broad path .... Only rarely are they successful to influence the wanderer in such a way that they leave the broad path and join the pilgrims on the narrow path. But My love and mercy seizes these and and I make the ascent easy for them, since they did surmount themselves. And to the conquerers a glorious crown will be in store .... they will be the first ones because they possess My whole love of the Father which I also intended to give away to the others, yet had to experience rejection from them .... For whoever walks the broad path walks without Me .... because the love for the world choked every love for Me and the fellow humans and thus the gap cannot be bridged over without love.

Walk the way of the cross of love .... be loving and suffering and carry your earthly weight in humbleness and submission and be aware that you will considerably shorten the path to Me by that, that your soul will become continuously brighter and clearer the higher you mount ....

Be aware that, some day in the spiritual kingdom, you will surpass those souls who did not act like you, you will be able to have an effect on those who remained behind in their spiritual development, that you then ought to, and can help them that they, too, get to the light. For I cannot arbitrarily transfer into the kingdom of light those who failed in the earthly life, who did not live according to my will, but let themselves be determined by the one who is My opponent .... Yet, they are not to be lost forever .... And this is your mission in some days to come, to snatch away the souls from the darkness, to help those attain bliss, even though they will never reach the degree of light that a proper path on earth will yield ....

Amen

Translated by: Fred Badertsher

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's unfathomable nature can only be comprehended through love ....

B.D. 5406 from June 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

As long as you stay on earth, My nature will remain an unfathomable secret to you for I, as the eternal love, can only be approximately understood by love. And you don't know this love, which is so radiant and effective that it signifies a creative power from which you also emerged as something of essence. If you were still in your original state then you would also be able to comprehend My love in your might and wisdom, because your own strength of love would constantly be creatively active and you would recognize yourselves as My image .... I could therefore not be so much of an inscrutable mystery to you because you would be able to rediscover My essence in yourselves and thus you would also be able to recognize Me .... But this way you are devoid of all creative power, you are devoid of the omnipotence and wisdom and thus so devoid of knowledge that you no longer possess the slightest knowledge about My nature and that it is difficult for you to profoundly believe that you are the products of the love of an exceedingly perfect Being. And neither can the knowledge of this be conveyed to you until you accept the characteristic which conditions a divine being with the power of realization and might, until you develop the characteristic within yourselves which is love ....

(7.6.1952) which is light at the same time. You still lack this creative power of love. And yet, it is within you, i.e., as My living creations you are also beings of equal substance which, however, still rests hidden within you as long as a dense opposing cover prevents it from being creatively active. The power of love is within you but does not manifest itself externally, because you yourselves, i.e. your will, has to pave the way for it .... because you should use your vitality to accomplish actions which correspond to your actual nature .... works of love, and thus develop the strength within you, that is. To a certain extent you need to return to what you once were, for you were perfect and became imperfect through unkindness. But you could not drive love out of you, only make it ineffective through the ever denser shell. And now you have to break up this cover the opposite way by carrying out works of love which perhaps are not yet caused by love, at first, but just by goodwill. But thereby the strength of love in you becomes effective, for a good action again ignites a ray of love in the person to whom the action is directed, and the fire of love in the heart, the good counter-thought, already has the effect of awakening love in the heart of the giver, and the will to love becomes stronger and stronger, the human being is driven to good actions from within, love in the human being's heart flares up and he feels that he enters into a bond with Me, the eternal Love .... For now he is incessantly urged to ascend .... What once had come between him and Me melts away, only the flame of love remains, which unites with the fire of eternal love .... and emits a bright light. The recognition of My love is no longer so impossible for the being, even though I will never be able to be completely fathomed .... Nevertheless, My fundamental being becomes comprehensible for the being because it recognizes the same substance in itself as soon as it has changed itself into love and, because with this realization, a brightest light shines at it at the same time, but its eyes will only be able to bear it when the soul has entered the kingdom of light, where the deepest knowledge it once possessed before its fall, is made accessible to it again ....

Amen

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God becomes powerful in the weak ....

B.D. 5407 from June 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I want to become powerful in the weak .... and give you humans the evidence that a Power from above works so visibly that it can no longer be denied .... I don't want to reveal Myself to the great and mighty, for most of them lack the humility which presupposes the working of My grace, and if they do something they believe they can accomplish it out of their own strength .... But I will reveal Myself to the weak, underaged little children of this earth, to those who recognize their weakness and call upon Me in deepest humility to strengthen them. And My strength will obviously work in them and they will perform signs and miracles, as I have announced that I want to become powerful in the weak. But in one thing they must be strong despite their weakness .... in faith in Me as the most loving Father and the most powerful Ruler of heaven and earth. In this faith lies your strength, to Whom I Myself bend down by fulfilling what the believing human being hopes for .... It’s not where I will appear, where I will be known with many words indeed and not alive, where people stand in knowledge through study, where they believe to possess the privilege of being especially distinguished by Me .... not in worldly heights, not in circles of great learning, not where pseudo-piety deceives people, will I give signs of My might and glory; but where an earthly child in silent love for Me devoutly lifts up his eyes and heart to Me and calls to Me in all simplicity, in childlike babbling, in the admission of his weakness and unworthiness — there I will make Myself known and transmit My power and love in all the fullness .... I will become powerful in the weak so that the worldly strong and mighty may recognize what I value during the earthly life. And I will make knowledge accessible to them which cannot be gained by way of study and yet far surpasses the latter, for it is the truth which only I Myself can distribute and also want to distribute to those who are worthy of it. But worthiness irrevocably includes humility, a believing childlike mind and a will seriously turned towards Me. You must be able to muster childlike faith, you must feel unable to fathom the truth on your own and therefore approach Me Myself for the truth and, firstly, this requires the belief that I can and will give you the truth. And this is a child's faith, for a scholar who is highly placed in worldly knowledge resists such faith, which destroys all his erudition if the pure truth should be conveyed to the human being in this way .... And, therefore, the humility of man's heart must also be filled, which comes from the realization: "Without God we are worth nothing ...." A heartfelt prayer then rises up to Me that I may have mercy on the weak little children, and I will hear this call. I lower My Spirit down and fill the weak, and thus I Myself become powerful in the weak, for My Spirit unfolds and works in a manifest way, and everyone who wants to, will recognize Me and attain faith in a God Who is exceedingly wise, loving and powerful ....

Amen

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God's infinite love, patience and mercy ....

B.D. 5408 from June 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I do not measure with the same yardstick as you humans do, for I am exceedingly loving, patient and merciful .... I therefore cannot eternally condemn either what has become unacceptable to Me, even though the sin of rebellion against Me is exceedingly bad and because I am eternal Love Myself and only want to provide My living creations with bliss upon bliss. But a rebellion against love is at the same time a disposing of love and therefore also a loss of light and strength .... At the occasion of sin the being was perfect and therefore able to also measure the magnitude of the sin; yet after it had sinned it was devoid of all knowledge. And this weak, blind and thus suffering being I took pity upon and I therefore cannot reject it forever .... I love it even though it has fallen, even though it had sinned against Me. It is true, My justice demands an atonement, a compensation for every sin, and this is provided by the spiritual being in the bound state where it has to endure unspeakable suffering due to the banishment, which is a torment for the once free spiritual being and is, at the same time, intended to lead it to Me again, i.e. to the once free state where it can be blissfully happy. My love, patience and mercy, however, is boundless and helps all the spirits to ascend through means which, measured against the great guilt, are gifts of grace, because they facilitate the path of ascent for the spiritual being which, in itself, is without strength and knowledge, and makes its development of ascent possible .... The great guilt of sin has the effect of complete blindness, and only My superabundance grant of grace makes the being able to change. Nevertheless, the being is not forced to ascend, it is merely strengthened; it can just as well reject My gift of grace, just as much a human being on earth ought to develop upwards in free will. in occasions where you people would condemn, I still allow My love and grace to prevail, I bear the faults and weaknesses of My children on earth in exceeding great patience, and again and again I pick up those who fall because I take pity on the state they are in and because I want to rescue them from the abyss towards which they keep striving. I don't force them but I use all the means which favor a return to Me, no matter how sinful a person may be .... My love seeks to persuade the one to return and to change his mind .... because I want to win him for eternity .... And I also achieve My aim, and whether eternities pass over it .... For My wisdom always finds ways and means to reduce even the strongest resistance until the being lets itself be seized by My love in free will .... until it returns My love and returns to Me forever ....

Amen

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Mentally blind ones cannot tolerate sudden light ....

B.D. 5409 from June 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

People languishing in spiritual darkness cannot tolerate sudden light, and they cover their eyes when they are struck by a ray of light .... The absolute faithless person cannot grasp the pure truth if it is offered to the one unprepared, for spiritual knowledge is an subject which has to be entered consciously, i.e. only the will to experience it makes the one capable of receiving it. But anyone who walks in complete darkness obviously has his mind turned towards the world, and his eyes are attuned to it and receive no other light than what shines towards them from the earthly world. Before the human being recognizes the truth the one must have dealt with it, but this also requires a turning of the thoughts towards this spiritual realm. Also, an unbeliever can certainly listen to information about spiritual things when given to the one, he then can be touched by certain thoughts, but now his will decides whether he persists with the thoughts and they impress him to the point where he continues to pursue them and finally allows himself to be captured by them. The spiritual eye thus gets slowly used to looking into the light .... and then its rays can become increasingly brighter and more luminous without now blinding and dazzling the human being. But anyone who stands in the light cannot comprehend ever having preferred darkness, and therefore he eagerly endeavors to carry light into the darkness and to have an enlightening effect wherever he can .... But it is far worse wanting to bring the truth to a person who is completely filled with erroneous teachings. This person is in a constant flashing of light, as it were, which always fades away and is therefore all the more glaring. But such a bright flash of light is followed by a that much deeper darkness so that the human being can no longer find a way out. But he is also not satisfied with a soft glow of light, he misjudges the true light, he passes by the pure truth because he does not look for it where it is to be found and because his spiritual eye has no visual acuity, for the illusionary light destroys it, just as the pure truth, the divine light, strengthens the eye and makes it capable to recognize everything in the darkness as well as in the kingdom of light, and thus there is no wall for the spiritual eye which it cannot penetrate. The person who stands in the right light of the eternal truth can grasp the deepest wisdom. But this person must be a believer and full of love .... The flame of love will spread a glow, a light which shines brightly through the darkness and which always lets a beneficent strength be felt wherever a still blind eye endeavors to see .... However, the light must not all of a sudden be brought close to this blind person in the spirit .... Loving understanding for the one’s spiritual weakness, for the one’s blind condition must bring about loving help .... now and then a ray of light and love must touch the one, which then will also tear the veil from his eyes for sure, and the initial twilight now proves to the human being that the right light is to be found in the acceptance of the truth, and the one will long for truth himself ....

Amen

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Submitting one’s will to God's will ....

B.D. 5410 from June 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A complete subordination of the will to Mine also ensures that you humans will reach the aim on earth, the degree of maturity of the soul, which guarantees eternal life. For if you are willing to live according to My order of eternity you submit yourselves to My will, and henceforth you are no longer adversarially inclined but you seek the connection with Me. But the subordination of your will to Mine happens in such a way that you acknowledge Me for the first time as the One Whose will is more powerful, and you now subordinate yourselves to this powerful will in everything, thus you want the same as I want, and you now consciously live with the resolution to constantly do what is of divine order, thus what is wanted by Me .... Then you live with Me and let Me have an effect on you, you don't resist, you let yourselves be guided by Me and thus are now also under My guidance .... The will to completely submit to Me is valued by Me, and My fatherly love, which has a mighty strength and will no longer let you slide back, will ensure for you to not fall any mo re. But anyone who wants to submit to Me must now pay attention to everything he encounters .... For My will now obviously becomes active in order to cause the one to be and remain of the same will as Mine .... He needs to be aware that nothing happens which could not serve the development of his ascent; he must not regard anything as arbitrary, he should recognize Me Myself in everything he encounters and now always behave in such a way that corresponds to My will, thus is not directed against My eternal order, against the love which underlies My eternal order. And now you also know what there is My will .... to live the earthly life in love for Me and your neighbor .... Therefore, if you practice love you already subordinate your will to Mine, and if you shape yourselves more and more into love, your will is bound to completely merge with Mine. Your thoughts and intentions will no longer be able to be anything else but good, because your will is now identical with Mine, as much as love being the divine principle is within you, as well as the bond with Me is established through love, which no longer allows for an opposing will now .... The will without love is more directed by the intellect, but where there is love, there the heart directs the will, and this imparts My will and the power as well to let the will get into action. But the conscious subordination of the will, however, will only ever be the result of faith in the God and Creator from eternity, Who is full of love, wisdom and power .... Only this faith transforms the previously resistant will, and the person gives himself to the most perfect being, recognized by himself .... The spiritual being no longer wants to be separate from Him but it desires unification, first unconsciously and then consciously it strives towards its original state again, in the condition of which it was, being of the same will as Mine, until a counter-will intervened to which that spiritual being became a victim of its own free will .... But the counter-will made the being miserable and caused it to think and act against the divine order and prepared a hapless state for it, a state without light and strength, which can only be remedied through a conscious return to the divine order, through an integration of the will into Mine, which then also re-establishes the being's original relationship with Me and brings it happiness and bliss, light and strength in all abundance and lets it reach the aim, set for it for the one’s earthly life ....

Amen

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Instruction by God Himself .... Light ....

B.D. 5411 from June 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I show you a path which leads to eternal life .... By this you must also recognize that it is I Myself, your God and Father from eternity, Who instructs you, for I alone can promise you eternal life and I alone can give it to you if you let yourselves be guided by Me .... Error is certainly present everywhere in the world and you cannot be warned enough about it, yet you yourselves also have the ability to recognize error as such when the truth is set against it .... you have the ability as soon as you develop it through conscious desire for the truth and calling of the One Who is the eternal Truth Himself .... And since I am also Love, I will truly not withhold the truth from the person who desires it ....

For once, make the concept of 'God' clear to yourselves, as far as it lies within your ability .... that God is the highest perfection and therefore has to be also exceedingly good .... but goodness always distributes, what is good and makes happy .... A being who knows the truth and yet does not comply with a plea for truth is not good. But the Being Whom you acknowledge as God can and will never deny you anything that could be a blessing for you if you seriously ask Him for it .... And now ask yourselves how serious your desire for the truth is and how you pray to the One Who can fulfill your requests.

I will never close My ear if an earthly child faithfully calls upon Me to send the truth to the one. Thus you yourselves have the guarantee by your will to receive the purest truth .... If this is directed towards Me, the God and Father from eternity, if you call upon Me I will incline towards you and give you what you desire. And just so that you will now recognize the truth as such, I will enlighten your spirit and give you clarity, or else I would not be the most loving and powerful Being, as to be the One I want to be recognized by you. I give you the truth and it will make you happy. And by this you will recognize as to Who instructs you, that you receive spiritual knowledge which gives you light, while before, it was dark within you; that you now have answers where you previously asked questions, that you are offered explanations where you were still tormented by gaps or incomprehensible knowledge .... Now there is light within you and you recognize the connection which you could not find before. You have gained something, a clear realization of your relationship with God, with your Father, and you will always be able to oppose this realization against the teachings which do not bring light but rather deepen the darkness. Moreover, your own heart will tell you as to Who the One is Who teaches you .... The way the intellect judges is not decisive, but as long as the heart feels My presence when I speak to it .... And this acknowledges Me where otherwise the human being would not hear My voice .... I, Who Am light and Love Myself, send forth My rays and thus illuminate the path you humans ought to take. And thus, by knowing what you need to do in order to become blissfully happy, by knowing My will because I Myself inform you of it, the light has thus been kindled in you, and this by Me personally, since no other being can emanate light but I, and therefore everyone who is enlightened can also testify of Me .... he who has the knowledge at his disposal which was not given to him from the outside but was bestowed upon him by My love itself through the living Word ....

Amen

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Source of mercy .... God's Word ....

B.D. 5412 from June 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

God's fountain of grace is inexhaustible and is at your disposal, for He knows how much you humans need it, how many events of grace need to be granted to you so that you will become strong enough for the work you have to do on earth, which your soul is to accomplish. You cannot do it by your own strength, you need to receive strength from God, and since you cannot acquire it yourselves, it is a gift, so to speak, which He offers you from the fountain of His grace .... to draw from the well of His grace unmeasured .... And no matter how ambitious the human being is, the one is too weak of one’s own accord to tackle the spiritual ascent of one’s soul, and therefore God's love takes pity on the one and assists where the human being is in danger of failing. It grants to the one an abundance of strength of grace which the one only needs to use, which is certainly offered to the one but cannot become effective until the human being wants it himself, until he utilizes it according to divine will .... This bestowal of grace can take place in many ways, it always originates from God, i.e. God Himself causes everything that can serve the human being to mature, and all these means and ways are God's bestowals of grace which he has not deserved but which are a proper gift from God. And thus every means which helps the human being to reach perfection can be regarded as a means of grace, and the fountain of His love is inexhaustible .... God will never stop helping people to mature spiritually, yet His help is not always accepted, the means of His infinite grants of love to people are not always made use of; they cannot always become effective because the human being's free will must not be eliminated, otherwise every gift of grace would have to guarantee a maturing, which, however, is only ever possible if the human being is willing to accept and make use of it.

And thus His divine Word is also an immeasurably effective means of grace, flowing forth from the inexhaustible source of His grace. The living water is unsurpassable in its strength and yields for sure the soul’s maturity to the human being, yet again only if the human being's will is ready to withdraw strength from this water, if he refreshes and strengthens himself, if he believes in the strength which God wants to impart to him through His Word. To be allowed to refresh himself at the source of His immeasurable love is truly a gift of grace which no one should spurn, for nothing else can give his soul such a boost, nothing else but His divine Word promotes its maturity and brings about the change of nature .... And no restrictions, whatsoever, are imposed on you humans, His measure of grace is at your disposal unlimitedly; you may always be certain of the divine help, you just have to strive for it of your own free will, for it depends on yourselves whether the grace can actually become effective. Therefore, don't pass by the fountain of life, look for the path to the source of the living water and, when found, take a rest there and receive divine gifts of grace, so that you will not have lived on earth in vain, so that you will mature on your soul and reach your aim on earth ....

Amen

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Return present, which God demands: Spreading of the divine Word ....

B.D. 5413 from June 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You are experiencing My love on a daily basis, My Spirit is constantly active in you, you hear My Word, you receive strength and grace in an extraordinary measure, you can always and constantly draw at the source of eternal life, I personally guide you on all your paths, I sustain your body so that it serves the soul for its maturing; I watch over you who love Me because you shall become My children, I send you My messengers of light for protection against evil; I will not let a day pass by without giving you a revelation of My love, for I am with you and will remain with you until the end of the world .... But how can you make this credible to your fellow human beings who experience none of this themselves, who have distanced themselves from Me and who do not recognize Me even if I move close to them? How do you want to prove My Being to them so that they can believe in Me and establish the bond with Me themselves? .... They don't notice My love because they walk along blindly and a spiritual light cannot be ignited in them against their will. And they do not live a life of love because the world and its pleasures only awakens and strengthens their selfish love. And therefore they cannot believe either, for faith comes forth from love. But I have given you the task to instruct your fellow human beings and to convey My Word to them. And with this instruction you will now learn that only My Word can be a testimony of Myself to them, for I address people Myself through My Word, and then they will no longer be able to deny Me either, provided they are willing to hear My Word. The unwilling will hardly come to believe in Me, nor can they receive proof of Me against their will. But you should take care of the willing, of those who were pushed away on their path of life into My adversary's kingdom, who stand in the midst of the world and, being completely devoid of light, can fall prey to him if a light bearer does not take care of these people and impart to them a small bright glow for the time being, which awakens them from a long sleep of death and (the glow of which) they now want to increase if they are willing to accept more light. Those you can now instruct on My behalf, and they will also feel addressed by Me in letting Myself speak through you, by imparting My Word to them which you yourselves have received from Me. The immense abundance of grace which My love has showered upon you shall take effect on your fellow human beings through you; you shall be the mediators between them and Me, because I Myself cannot influence them directly where it is still so dark that My light would thus blind them. But you receive the evidence of My love daily, you may daily accept from My hand what is of unspeakable value for the eternity, you hear My Word and receive strength and light in abundance, which you now ought to work with again for the blessing of your fellow human beings .... This is the return present from you which I demand, that you make use of the gift My love gives you, that you speak on My behalf and thus give Me the opportunity to influence people who have not yet found the path to Me and yet are not unwilling to take it. There is no bond between them and Me as yet, but it can be aspired to as soon as you let Me speak through you.

Therefore spread My Word, go out and teach all nations; do it by seizing every opportunity where you can proclaim My working in you, where you can pass on the spiritual knowledge you have received .... don't leave unused what is of immense value for the development of the Spiritual .... work with the pound I have lent you, be diligently active in My vineyard, proclaim the kingdom of God to your fellow human beings and receive My blessing for your activity .... Then you will make yourselves worthy of the unusual gift of grace, then My Word will make its way to people's hearts and resonate with all who are of good will ....

Amen

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The Word was in the beginning ....

B.D. 5414 from June 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

In the beginning was the Word and it will remain so for all eternity, for the Word is I Myself, Who am without beginning and without end and is still the One Who pronounced the Word in the beginning of everything that was created by Me, wherein My power was expressed. My Word resounded for that which I created, i.e. it heard My address within itself, it recognized its ability to think, it was able to exchange itself with like-created beings, and that which came alive in it as a thought was My Word, the transmission of My will, My knowledge and My love to the being which had taken its origin in Me ....

I have been in existence from eternity, there was no limit for Me, inconceivable light and power radiated from Me, yet My Word, the disposition of the abundance of My thoughts, found no echo because apart from Me there was nothing of substance which was capable to receive what flowed forth from Me, which formed the resonance, as it were, for My Word but which, in turn, could not have been different from the way I Myself was because, otherwise, it would not have been able to bear My emanating blaze of love.

Therefore the act of creating a being like Me was a desire corresponding to My fundamental nature, for love, the epitome of My nature, wanted to give, to make happy, to give away its inherent power. And Love therefore created a vessel for itself into which it could disperse itself .... My love created a being, in equal perfection, and now I disposed of Myself by transferring My will, My thinking and My love to this being, and the transfer of that which had its origin in Me was 'My Word .... "I Myself entered the being created by Me, and this being was now able to think, want and act like Me because My Word instructed it, because My nature was reflected in this being created by Me.

In the beginning was the Word .... Only through My Word did the first-created being recognize itself and it also recognized Me; in fact, only through My Word, through the disposing of Myself, was it able to recognize itself as a being, it was able to form its own thoughts that were, however, first conveyed to it by Me Myself, which in turn was the Word spoken by Me within, expressing our unity. For I was the creating Power Who was able to create beings according to My image, I was the original centre Who radiated His power into infinity and was able to utilize it according to His will. The 'giving' principle in Me therefore demanded a 'receiving' being in order to make it happy. But this being had to be able to recognize Me, and I made Myself known to it through the Word .... which was the same as My emanation of love which gave life to the created being, enabling it to work in wisdom and power as a free externalized being .... to recognize Me Myself and out of this realization to also carry My will within itself .... For the Word is the imprinted thought which emanates from Me and is imparted to the being and which determines it to its activity ....

The Word was in the beginning .... Only the created one by Me needed the Word, the transmission of My thoughts in a form to be received by the being, through which it now remained in constant contact with Me and also in constant bliss. And since that which was called into life by Me can no longer pass away in eternity, neither will My Word pass away .... It will always be the expression of Myself towards My creatures, it will never be changed, ever .... Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Word will endure for all eternity ....

Amen

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God’s love and care .... The assistance of His servants to awaken faith ....

B.D. 5415a from June 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I will give you a sign of My love and care, I will advice you so that you earthly, too, will walk the right paths, I will lead your thinking properly because I want you to be active for Me and I therefore give you the possibility also to work for Me and My kingdom. My Spirit will lead you and you will find Me Myself where I want to lead you to; the earth requires from you, the heaven gives it to you because you are striving upwards and it will come true for you from above. Therefore believe and hope and be always aware that it is I Who directs and guides everything and Who will give you what you need i.o. to be able to serve Him the way you want to ....

Amen

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God's love and care .... The assistance of His servants to awaken faith ....

B.D. 5415b from June 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Again and again you receive the evidence of My love and grace anew, for I come to you again and again, I convey My Word to you again and again and fill you with strength and light so that you can take the path which leads to perfection. I will stay with you until the end of the world .... I know that you need Me, that you constantly draw strength from My Word, I know that you need comfort and encouragement and therefore I reveal Myself to you, for you ought to be able to believe in a God of love Who will not leave you alone in your spiritual and earthly adversity. For faith in Me also makes you feel moved towards Me, faith in Me also influences your fellow human beings to seek contact with Me. And this is My purpose through My obvious proclamation, through My transmission of the Word from above, that you inform your fellow human beings and try to persuade them to believe in Me .... Without faith people are separated from Me, there is no connection between them and Me, they have completely isolated themselves and have stepped outside of My flow of love .... The result is a cooling down and finally a complete solidification of the spiritual substance, and this means ever greater distance from Me. Faith in Me, however, reduces the distance and finally cancelling it completely. Therefore I do everything that can help people to believe in Me .... I seek entrance into people's hearts who open the door for Me through their faith in Me, and I never leave them, I constantly attract new human children to Me by appointing them to convey My Word to their fellow human beings so that they, too, will learn to believe in a God of love Who also speaks to them through mediators. For only when they believe in Me can I have a direct effect on them, and the connection is thus established for the blessing of their souls. I will therefore not allow a connection to perish once it has been established, again and again I will come forward with My love and grace, I will no longer allow a separation, I will try to strengthen the faith, to again and again exert My influence until I achieve that the earthly child continuously calls to the Father, that it is aware of My presence, that it completely hands itself over to Me and thus has completely removed the distance between Me ....

And for that you ought to help me, for I need you first as long as people have not yet found Me on their own .... You should encourage them to turn to Me by themselves, you should first teach them to believe, and it’s through My Word at that, which comes to you from above, which again and again demonstrates My love and grace to you and lets you speak with conviction of what you have received from Me and have recognized it as the truth .... I give to you in abundance so that you may distribute to those who have nothing .... Therefore, when you are touched by the radiance of My love your faith will be strengthened so that you can also transfer this faith to your fellow human beings now and thus establish the connection between them and Me .... I come to you because I want to find the path to your fellow human beings through you. So let Me often be present to you and listen to Me, for My love wants to give you gifts, it wants to supply you with spiritual goods so that you can constantly be active for Me and My kingdom, so that you can distribute to those who are in need ....

Amen

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God's love and patience .... Mediators ....

B.D. 5416 from June 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I must grant you humans My help with tireless love and patience, for you need it badly, without My help you are completely at the mercy of My adversary who only pursues one aim, to pull you down into darkness. And I take pity on your adversity, your ignorance and your lack of strength to resist him, and therefore I constantly endeavor to convey knowledge and strength to you, to draw your attention to the danger you live in. And therefore I constantly look for mediators of this strength from Me, people to whom I can convey it directly and who then give to their fellow human beings what they urgently need; I look for people who establish the connection with the kingdom on their own, which can convey strength to them .... I look for people who receive light and strength from My hand .... My Word, which imparts light and strength to them. You humans are dead as long as you do not possess that which gives you life .... But I want you to live, I want you to be constantly active and to find your beatitude in this activity. Therefore you must also constantly receive strength, and since you can only receive this strength from Me you must unite with Me, you must establish the contact which ensures you the supply of strength.

Yet you do not seek Me but flee from Me, you do not let yourselves be bestowed by Me but reject My gifts of love .... You don't recognize the adversity you are in and exist as a living corpse, so to speak, for you value your earthly life as 'life' and yet are dead in the spirit. And you all don't know how long your earthly life is still granted to you, you don't know that you all only have a short life span left, and that’s why you do nothing to secure an eternal life for yourselves, you do nothing to gain strength in order to give life to the spirit within you .... but My love follows you and up to the last minute of your life I send My messengers to you, up to the last minute of your life I stretch out My hand towards you, I try to grasp you and am always ready to draw you to My heart, yet I can only entice and call you but I cannot force you .... You must come to Me yourselves and I truly make it easy for you by always reaching out to you, that I am always close to you, that I address you through the mouth of My messengers and point out to you the imminent end, your responsibility and your fate in the eternity .... I truly give you grace for justice, you turned away from Me and I showered you with grace without measure .... You only needed to be wanting and you could be unspeakably happy. I want your bliss because I love you, yet I cannot prepare a blissful fate for you against your will. And so time will pass by and your end will be according to your will .... Let yourselves be admonished and call upon Me before it is too late .... I will not leave you without help, but I am waiting for your call ....

Amen

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Preaching the gospel to the poor souls ....

B.D. 5417 from June 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Present the gospel to the poor souls by means of your thoughts .... You don't know what beneficial effect you can have on those who entered the kingdom of the beyond imperfectly, for what they did not accept on earth has to be brought close to them in the beyond so that they might decide to accept it and thus their development can increase. They must learn to believe, for without faith there is no progress on the other side .... But whether they still remember what they refused to believe depends on their degree of love, on the works of love which still secure them some knowledge and realization. Then it will also be easier to present the gospel to them in such a way that they accept it and thereby come to believe in Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer. But it is far more difficult to impart the knowledge of truth to complete ignorant souls, for they have to be introduced from the start, so to speak, because they lack all basic truths, because they cannot remember anything they were told on earth about God. Their unkind way of life has robbed them of all memory of the divine teaching of love, of Christ's act of salvation and of the human being's task, and therefore they have to proceed with utmost love, again and again the souls have to be reminded that they can only become blissfully happy if they believe in God, Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ, Who died for people in order to redeem them from the bondage which was the result of sin .... They need to be faced with the fact that only love helps them to believe that, on the other side too, they will have to help the suffering souls, that they have to practice mercy and can call upon Jesus Christ for strength to do so, Who alone can free them from their wretched situation .... This is a work of love for the poor souls which is highly credited to you, for the hardship is great and only love can remedy it .... Therefore remember often your loved ones who have preceded you, help them by sending loving thoughts after them, by talking to them in your thoughts and informing them of what you know, you who truly believe in Jesus Christ and thereby have the right knowledge .... Share with them the knowledge you receive from above and don't leave them in their distress, they will thank you eternally for it and also help you if you are in earthly distress .... For only love redeems, only love gives strength to souls which are incapable of helping themselves due to their complete lack of strength and who therefore depend on your love, which you can give to them in the form of mental instructions and heartfelt intercession and which will never remain without success ....

Amen

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Resisting the truth ....

B.D. 5418 from June 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You don't know the resistance people execute towards Me; you don't know how they resist accepting the truth; and therefore you also don't know how difficult it is, by bearing in mind their free will, to wrest people from their delusion, to make them soft and compliant and to break their rigid mind so that they, for the time being, are willing to listen to what My love presents to them. But one day the hour will come when everyone will reflect and also remember spiritual benefits the one has experienced in life .... but one day the hour will come for everyone, and that this hour may approach the one while still on earth, everyone should appeal to Me from the bottom of one’s heart, everyone should appeal to Me for truth, for enlightenment of the spirit while still on this earth. The one will then also recognize My merciful love which caused Me to repeatedly offer him the truth, and the one will regret every hour he did not make use of because he rejected what I offered him .... but My plan is fixed .... to sound a wake-up call of such a volume that will make those who walk in darkness straighten up and take notice .... I can only ever influence people in such a way that I cause them to reflect; but anyone who walks along indifferently and thoughtlessly accepts and advocates error will have to be brought into a situation where his thoughts are stimulated by unusual events which he cannot dismiss but has to comment upon. Every thinking person will be touched by My influence, and those people especially who feel affected by themselves, who are directly touched by an unusual intervention. I only want people to wake up from their sleep and I will also achieve this. But what they do then, after their waking up, that they will do consciously .... and that is decisive for eternity .... I have mercy on anyone who walks in a state of sleep and I will help the one to open his eyes and thus can feel and behold the morning light, for it will touch him beneficially and give him strength for his development. But absence of light will cause all life to wither away. But I want you humans to live .... that you are found in knowledge, in the light, that your soul unfolds and becomes beneficially active in all directions .... But every resistance against the truth is resistance against Me .... how then can I give you life if you yourselves refuse to accept the life-giving gifts from Me? I cannot force you but I will not refrain from anything that could still make you become wide awake and reflect .... And if I achieve that you reflect, I will also have won you over for Myself, i.e., your resistance will be broken, you then will desire the truth yourselves, which I will always offer you if you seriously desire it ....

Amen

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A free will - God's working ....

B.D. 5419 from June 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I will obviously become effective in those who subject their will to Mine and yet, people do not recognize Me, simply because they do not allow Me to be active in them, because they have not yet completely absorbed My will. Anyone who calls upon Me in his heart that I may give him perception of the truth, that I may enlighten his spirit, will soon feel in his heart where the pure truth is, he will feel addressed by Me, he will feel an inner satisfaction, for the realization of the truth makes him happy, yet first of all, the desire for the truth has to be in him. Without this desire even the divine truth remains unrecognized, without this desire the right bond with Me is missing .... Nevertheless, I continue to influence those who do not yet know the truth but who acknowledge Me Myself and strive to get close to Me, and My influence consists of stimulating their activity of thought .... At the outset, the human being must recognize one’s own inadequacy before appealing to Me for help, and therefore the one is also bound to occasionally be afflicted with doubts which he alone is unable to dispel, doubts which only I Myself can solve. He needs be confronted with problems and to recognize his inability to solve them. I will not let a person fall, even if he abuses the freedom of his will, and My loving care for his spiritual ascent will be with him until the end of his life. And where the one means fails I still have many others which I apply, yet I do not touch one’s free will, it is just that people will often have to be dealt with quite harshly who cannot be persuaded to think for themselves but only accepted their fellow human being's products of their thoughts but without their own judgment or esteem. They will often be confronted with experiences which could make them wonder, and with some pondering they could only win. But if they also let such means on My part pass by, then they remain in spiritual blindness, and they move on wrong ways because they cannot find the right path in the darkness. Anyone who wants to receive has to open one’s heart, but if the one keeps it closed My Spirit cannot flow out; yet I then will not keep the one in darkness but he himself will prevent the light from entering. And he will take the darkness along with him into the spiritual kingdom, he will regret a thousand times for not having accepted the light, and the darkness will torment him until he is led to a little light through love .... Darkness is tormenting but the light is blissful .... and I will give light to you humans so that you will become blessed ....

Amen

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

B.D. 5420 from June 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

My kingdom is not of this world, and if I have called you to work for Me and My kingdom, this means that you should enlighten people about their actual earthly task, the fulfillment of which will not secure the earthly kingdom but true life in the spiritual kingdom, in the kingdom where you can behold Me in all the glory, in the kingdom where nothing reminds you of the earthly kingdom you have left. Your work therefore consists of leading people to Me, Who does not have His kingdom on earth but in the eternity .... It is a work which not everyone can carry out because it first of all requires a detaching from the earthly world which then results in a proper striving towards the spiritual kingdom. The overcoming of matter must have preceded before the spiritual awakens the desire in the one to deliberately strive for it. Only then does the human being shape himself in such a way that he is suitable to work for Me and My kingdom, so that he can consequently carry out the right vineyard work, to present the same aim to fellow human beings without regard of person and class and to bring them through enlightenment about Me Myself to the point where they accomplish the same on themselves .... to again detach themselves from the earthly world and to take up the fight against matter. Vineyard work, work for Me and My kingdom is, simply put, leading people to gain faith in Me and My teaching preached on earth through Jesus Christ .... For this is the signpost to the destination .... to the entrance into My kingdom, which is not of this world .... And so every person is a servant in My vineyard who makes it his business to spread the pure doctrine of Christ .... But mind you: the pure doctrine of Christ .... For My kingdom can only be found through the truth, and only the pure teaching of Christ guarantees the truth. Many people can certainly have the will to lead their fellow human beings to God, thus to Me, and they also do a certain amount of vineyard work, yet the success can only ever be in accordance with the degree of truth, which is why the right work for Me and My kingdom requires workers who are fully and wholly instructed in the truth, and these are thus the chosen ones amongst the many called ones, all of whom could be active for Me if they fulfilled the conditions, enabling them to be chosen for a mission of utmost importance. For the work for Me and My kingdom does not just determine the earthly lifetime but the whole of eternity, but it has to be carried out in the earthly life .... I certainly bless every willingness to help and I assist where the full realization of the truth is not yet present, but then I demand a full devotion to Me, I demand the subordination of one’s will to Mine in order to then be able to influence you in such a way that you receive what you still lack in order to be able to count yourselves amongst the elect .... But only those people are chosen who have a full knowledge and now use it to help their fellow human beings onto the path which leads into My kingdom, which is not of this world .... Thus the chosen ones are the knowledgeable ones who have received their knowledge from Me Myself and are now eagerly active for Me .... And their activity will now be as My will and My wisdom determines, because I alone know about human hearts, how and in what form they have to be dealt with in order to reach the destination. I Myself prepare My servants who submit themselves to Me in free will in order to be active for Me .... The diversity of people, of the living conditions and their spiritual attitude towards Me also requires different processing, different abilities and different opportunities, which I know about .... But one thing always remains the same: the truth .... it cannot differ, it must always and forever remain unchanging and be offered to people as the pure teaching of Christ. Since the first and greatest commandment in this teaching requires love for Me and for one's neighbor, but since knowledge of the truth also arises from love, every person who lives in love will irrevocably know the truth .... so that one’s conduct of life of the person who works for Me and My kingdom is decisive as to whether he lives in the truth, as to whether he is a chosen one who now can also successfully work for Me on earth .... People who find each other in love will not have different opinions, they will not advocate different teachings, they will recognize themselves as My servants on earth, for love makes them capable of vineyard work, love gives them what the intellect alone cannot give them .... a knowledge about the truth and therefore also the ability to represent the truth, to spread My teaching of love, which alone can lead to eternal life, which alone paves people's way into My kingdom .... you must accept nothing but love as an explanation for My Word: Many are called but few are chosen ....

Amen

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The bridge from realm of light is Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5421 from June 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

In the name of the crucified Savior it is said to you, that the kingdom of heaven is opened for everyone, who recognizes Him as the son of God and Savior of the world, but it remains closed to those, who do not acknowledge Him .... You people should know, that the two worlds were strictly separated before His crucifixion, known as the kingdom of light and of darkness, that there were two very different areas, that had no connection with each other, because they were completely opposed to each other. One explanation for this is to search in the complete turning away of the created spiritual from God, which let arise then a world in God opposing order, while the spiritual standing with God remained in the divine order and thus also in an area of perfection, of light and of unchecked force .... No connection could exist between these two worlds, because the contrast was too great, because the distance to God had to have a negative effect in every way, it would be a striving for opposite poles in a way, but never would be strived for one pole .... It lacked any connection between the kingdom of light and the realm of darkness, what is even more understandable by the declaration, that the ruling forces of both areas were completely opposite to each other and follwed completely opposite aims .... : highest perfection in freedom and light and strength and gagging of the spiritual, which is destined to the highest activity ....

So there was an unbridgeable gap between these two worlds, which could not have been finished eternally by the side of darkness, but well on the part of the spiritual world remaining in divine order, whose inhabitants were in the knowledge and consequently knew the only possibility, to build a bridge .... A being from the spiritual world had to venture into the dark spheres and had to initiate a path from there, which could then be followed by every being, who wanted to get into the kingdom of light. This being, descended from the height, had to establish the divine order, while it himself lived in this divine order first time and then gave this knowledge to the inhabitants of the dark world, the people on earth, that they also led a different way of life till now, animated by his example, that they also went in the same direction as the man Jesus, instead of opposed, Whose aim was above, that means it was the return in the kingdom, which He had left, to redeem the people living in darkness .... The will upwards always finds the right path, but the people lacked this will, it was directed downward, because the action of negative forces is always successful in the realm of darkness, and these forces pursue only one aim, to take away all knowledge of the being, to prevent it from returning to God. The will of the being could stop the prince of darkness and his work, but he does not do it .... He himself is so weak and unresisting exposed to any unfavourable influence ....

That did the world of light know, and it offered an originally created spirit, to oppose to the bad influence of the enemy of God, His will and His love .... Now there were fighting two children of God against each other in the same way, two images, called in life by Himself, because they were no longer of the same will and the same love, otherwise they would not have faced as an opponent .... But this fight had to take place in such a way, that the light being put on the envelope before, which deprived It from divine strength .... It had to fight as a human being against the one, who had caused being as human of all fallen spirits .... Was He stronger than that one, then its power was broken too, then there was also a hope for the people to defeat the opponent of God, and then a way was also initiated, that lead back to the Father’s house. The soul of the man Jesus, whose body was surely earthly, brought something back from the height and beamed it out on earth .... divine strength of love .... Love is not taken away from any creature, it can be inflamed any time, but it can also be suffocated by his own will .... And this love is the bridge to the kingdom of light, for love is directed upward to God, Who Himself is the eternal love. Love always seeks the pole of love and is now never working against God. Love moved a being of light to get down to the earth, and the love remained in connection with eternal love .... And the bridge was built between the kingdom of light and the realm of darkness by Jesus Christ. But it is not to be seen by the beings on the dark earth, who do not make use of His guidance, who do not connect to Him in faith, to have found the right leader to the kingdom of light, who do not reciprocate His love , who do not recognize the Master in Him, Who has overcome His opponent, and who take shelter to Him thankfully for that, who do not see The One in Him, Who is Lord over life and death, over light and darkness .... which do not recognize Him as God’s son and Saviour of the world .... The gap between the kingdom of light and the realm of darkness remains exist irrevocably for anyone, who does not go the way, that Jesus Christ has opened to him and only leads to the Father .... For this is still completely under the influence of God’s opponent and will not be free of him, until he is willing to go into the law of eternal order, until he gives up his resistance and allows himself to be redeemed by Jesus Christ, Who alone is the way to the Father .... Whose infinite love found a way, that leads out of darkness to light ....

Amen

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Vineyard work is more important than earthly activity ....

B.D. 5422 from June 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Nothing shall stop you from being active for Me if you have offered yourselves for service to Me. Once you have been accepted by Me your service is also assigned to you, you are given tasks which you ought to fulfill and, as My servants, you now have to do proper work, you have to be eagerly active at the salvation of erring souls which are in great need and require help constantly. This work for Me and My kingdom you must put before every other activity, and I will bless your will to serve. You can certainly fulfill your earthly duty as well and I Myself will help you if you just always go ahead with the spiritual work first, because it is far more important and, since it has to be carried out voluntarily, not many people will be willing to do it. What you do for Me and My kingdom will never harm you in an earthly way, for I will make sure that your work is blessed, that you also achieve what is necessary for you earthly, that you can also meet the earthly demands placed upon you.

But don't value the earthly life too highly .... Be faithful servants to Me who always want to fulfill their Lord's will and who therefore can also work beneficially amongst their fellow human beings. Let this be your constant concern that your fellow human beings need your help and that you can give it to them if only you constantly follow My words which impel you to instruct your fellow human beings, to point out to them the end, to convey My teaching of love to them .... You can help them as soon as you try to remedy their spiritual hardship, as soon as you try to persuade them to believe, as soon as you convey My Word to them which can save them from all adversity .... And let this work be always the most urgent for you to be accomplished first, then your earthly work will also be blessed, for I alone can give and take, and I will always be a good father-of-the-house to My servants Who sustains them and helps them in spiritual and earthly adversity ....

Amen

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Lawful Return .... earthly walk ....

B.D. 5423 from June 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The path through the earthly life for the purpose of the upward-development of the spiritual is the only possibility for it to enter the original state again, which it once gave up voluntarily. That is why every being has to cover this path, because a sudden return to God is not possible, but everything has to reach God again in order to be able to fulfill the original purpose of working with Him in power and light as a God-like being. The being's will once robbed it of its strength and light and it stepped out of the divine order which was based on the being's perfection. This divine order must again be acknowledged by the being, and therefore it must first in the bound will and finally in free will incorporate itself into the order again, to regain the lost perfection and to use the power in divine will, which is now at its disposal again. The path through the earthly life is therefore a return to the order, which also takes place in the bound will but can fail in the state of free will .... that the being then consciously turns against the divine order again, thus falls back where it (actually) should ascend.

Consequently, the earthly life as a human being is extremely important, because in it the decision is made as to whether the former perfection will again be reached or whether the being will again lose the degree of maturity it reached in the bound state .... As a human, the being itself decides in regard to its fate during the eternity, or rather, it again postpones the state of perfection, the deification of its soul, for eternities and will therefore still be unhappy for eternities, because there is no beatitude without perfection. The earthly life therefore is the last opportunity for an infinite long time, even though God does not give up this soul either and it is also granted bliss in the end .... the being has to spend eternities in a state of torment, by the absence of light and lack of strength, because God cannot act against the law of the eternal order and therefore cannot supply light and strength to the being who does not integrate itself into His divine order .... By looking at your earthly life from this point of view, you humans then will also become aware of the great responsibility you bear for your soul, for the spiritual being who ought to strive towards perfection .... All the possibilities are available to you, you can reach the aim on earth .... yet not without your own will, for it was this one that distanced itself from God, and therefore it must also strive towards God again in order to restore the order which the being once overturned, which understandably also had an effect on itself, shown as an unhappy state, which is by no means caused by God and therefore has to be abolished.

The fact that you humans lack all knowledge about this is the consequence from it, for knowledge is light and this you gave up voluntarily. But you can again reach the light if you strive for it. Just the desire already to receive knowledge of the meaning and purpose of your earthly life will also lead you to knowledge. But you then should also do everything you recognize as caused by God, which corresponds to His eternal order. You thus will consciously strive for perfection, your earthly path then will be successfully covered, you then will integrate yourselves into the divine order of your own free will and approach the original state .... You voluntarily strive towards God and thus return to the One from Whom you once took your origin .... You return to the father's house, where you are awaited and received with full love, so that you now will never again leave Him, Who loves you and wants to prepare bliss for you without end ....

Amen

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Attribute of truth: Emanation of light ....

B.D. 5424 from June 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You will always be permeated by My spirit if you appeal to Me for it. Therefore you will also always think and act correctly if you request enlightenment through the spirit first, for I will grant every spiritual prayer .... I will not let you take the wrong path if it is your will to take the right one, otherwise you could doubt My love, but it is constantly concerned that you will not go astray .... Thus it is My will to guide the spiritual beings, which distanced themselves, back to Me. And anyone whose work is conducive to this process of return works for Me and in My will. However, the return of the fallen spiritual being, which is embodied as a human being on earth, can only take place through spreading the truth, for no being will ever be able to reach Me on a path leading away from Me .... But error and untruth can never be the path to Me, since I Am the eternal Truth. And thus understand that I Am sending the truth to Earth because it is the only path to eternal life .... And this truth shall be spread .... The knowledge about meaning and purpose of life on earth, about the purpose of Creation, about My eternal plan of Salvation .... about My teaching of love, which is effectively the key to eternal beatitude. You must be taught by the eternal Truth Itself if you want to know the truth and thereby enter the right path, which leads upwards. However, it is now also a fact that much is being circulated on earth as truth which completely deviates from the teachings which a servant, who is permeated by My spirit, directly receives from Me .... You humans must therefore be careful and only accept that which is consistent with the Word conveyed to you from above .... You must test it and keep what is good .... and appeal to Me for spiritual enlightenment before every examination, then you will clearly recognise what originated from Me and what came from My adversary. For My adversary, too, seemingly gives you light, he disguises himself with the aim of outdoing My bearers of light who receive purest truth from Me. I have given you free will and will certainly respect it, but I also gave you intelligence, and your will and intellect must now be used for examination.

Nevertheless, a criterion for purest truth exists which highlights every error: The truth disseminates light .... a bright and clear understanding of spiritual correlations. It provides logical explanations and solves difficult problems; it can be addressed as most profound knowledge which comprises all fields .... Truth is not patchwork, it is not a conjecture, it is conviction; it does not merely assume but maintains, it makes no concessions but is unchanging and definite .... Consequently, anyone who receives the truth from Me can provide information in My name, for he will speak on My behalf, he will know about My teaching of love .... he has heard the Gospel directly from Me and thus can also distribute it to the world .... He is a bearer of light because I give him light and instructed him to fulfil a mission of spreading the light throughout the world .... spreading the light .... Understand this .... your fellow human beings should not just be admonished or warned but be instructed; realisation shall be imparted to them, although they will only accept it if they fulfil My commandments of love .... But precisely in this respect they shall be given a light, that they cannot find the path to Me without love, that they live in the dark without love, that they can receive light but that they are not receptive without love. People must be instructed in the truth which comes forth from Me .... And by its emanation of light .... by the effect of the light .... you will always be able to recognise whether I Myself reveal the right knowledge to you, whether that which you shall spread has come forth from Me Myself .... Whether the path is brightly and clearly visible, whether all obstacles can be recognised so that they can be avoided, whether the path ascends and whether the cross is to be found when the traveller is in doubt as to which way to turn .... A right light does not allow darkness to arise anymore; a right light can only emanate truth, because the truth comes forth from Me Myself, as I Am the light of eternity.

Amen

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Satan's disguise where light is conveyed to Earth ....

B.D. 5427 from July 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Satan works with much cunning and trickery and disguises himself so that he is difficult to recognise, for he often works in the same way as My chosen people in order to undermine My working. His constant effort consists of rendering ineffective the glow of light which I give, to extinguish it or to prevent My light from affecting you humans .... For truth is a danger to him to be recognised as My adversary, this is why he will often make use of the same means in order to then gain followers for himself who will no longer pay attention to My soft light. He only ever intends to undermine My influence on people, he puts himself in the forefront and wants to be acknowledged as being divine, because he believes himself to have won his gamble if he can dethrone Me and occupy My place in people's hearts. And he will also be very successful as soon as people deprive themselves of their realisation by merely possessing one of My adversary's faults, as soon as they are spiritually arrogant and therefore don't come to meet Me with profound humility which then will also protect them from ungodly influence. My adversary often confuses people's thoughts, showering them with praise and words of approval which dispel all humility, and anyone who lays claim to such words will already have been defeated by him, he will have fallen into his hands and become a welcome object for his plan of endangering the pure truth, the light from above, by seemingly working similarly which, however, does not originate from Me but will be feigned by My adversary as such in order to confuse people and with this working simultaneously also reject the working of My spirit, which is the pure truth. Thus you will also understand My warnings about false prophets .... For wherever true prophets exist there will also at all times be false prophets who appear or become apparent, who always come forward in similar ways and yet have not been sent by Me. And the certain sign of recognition for My adversary is the fact that he will always turn up where a great spiritual action has been initiated, that is, where the world of light clearly makes contact with the earth and where divine activity is undeniably recognisable.

This is where the adversary will take up room, namely by entering the circle of those who strive towards Me and effectively laying claim to the divine gifts of grace himself, in order to continue and slowly but surely work against it until he has succeeded in repressing the truth and placing his work in the forefront .... The truth certainly asserts itself yet does not compel acceptance where the will is only weak and therefore allows itself to be captivated again. Free will, which is respected by Me, makes it indeed possible for My adversary to spread himself because he meets with no resistance, but I will never let My children on earth be deceived by a deceptive light which they can recognise because it does not emanate real light .... However, I have always and forever warned you about false Christs and false prophets, therefore pay attention to this, for thereby I Myself have also confirmed them .... They will come and have already arrived .... and in the last days you will still hear often about them; yet wherever false ones exist there also have to be true ones, and therefore you must check them. And again I say to you: Use the abundance of light of what you are offered as divine truth as a criterion .... if you verifiably receive something which conveys to you understanding, thus light, then it originates from Me and the prophets are genuine, i.e. work on My instructions .... but if you are offered indistinct concepts, which is an illusive light which in fact appears to be the same but on closer inspection turns out to be a work of deception, you should reject it as My adversary's work of deception, who in the last days will try to influence all those he fears to lose with increased vigour. For he takes advantage of every opportunity which enables him to displace Me from people's hearts, but he can be recognised .... for he lacks wisdom, and therefore everything which he ignites lacks wisdom as a deceptive light due to the will of people who are still enslaved by him because they still share his characteristics .... spiritual arrogance, worldly mindedness and selfish love, and who therefore wear a mask under which My adversary can conceal himself ....

Amen

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'Forgive us our trespasses ....'

B.D. 5428 from July 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Forgive each other as I forgive you .... You humans still let enmity reign far too often, you are still unable to love your enemies and forgive their sin, you are still angry with them and don't wish them well, even if you wish them no evil you don't exercise patience and are quick-tempered if you are being offended .... and are therefore still far from living as followers of Jesus .... Love has not yet become powerful enough in you as to leave no further room for hostile thoughts .... You don't see the brother in your neighbour otherwise you would forgive him and not take the offence quite so seriously. And yet I Am supposed to forgive you your trespasses .... after all, you act just as hostile towards Me otherwise you would be without guilt .... My love for you is greater than great, and your sincere prayer for forgiveness of your sin will release you from it. And yet, if you want to achieve My forgiveness, I require you to fulfil the condition that you, too, will forgive those who trespass against you .... I expect this because you should, after all, firmly resolve not to sin again .... and in order to make this resolve you must also love your neighbour who has sinned against you ....

You should love your neighbour as yourself .... You should not hold any sin against him, for every hostile thought is unsuitable to awaken reciprocated love, whereas the love you give to your enemy will also awaken positive feelings in him .... Every unpleasant thought towards a person is picked up by evil forces and transferred onto the latter, and this cannot have any good results because evil only ever begets evil and therefore only evil will be returned, which rapidly increases the strength of evil and thus has a negative effect. You, however, should meet evil with kindness in order to weaken and change evil into good .... You should transmit positive thoughts and wish even to your enemies only good because thereby you disperse evil forces, because good thoughts have a redeeming effect, thus they pacify resentment and hatred, awaken positive feelings in turn and are even capable of changing an enemy into a friend, because strength of love always has a positive effect. Therefore you shall only find My forgiveness if you have also forgiven your debtors, for how can I possibly show you clemency if you still judge harshly and have enemies because you maintain the enmity yourselves? If My love forgives you your trespasses then your love should also make allowances .... Think kindly of your enemies, forgive those who have offended you, and always let the love in you be the judge, and this will surely want to forgive, for wherever love exists no feelings of hatred and vengeance can prevail, where love exists that is where I Am Myself and I truly don't judge unkindly, I forgive you your trespasses as you forgive those who trespass against you ....

Amen

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The spirit of falsehood .... The suppressing of the truth ....

B.D. 5429 from July 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The spirit of falsehood works so powerfully on earth because he recognizes that he is approaching a dead end, and even before that he tries everything to extinguish the light which illuminates his activity brightly .... He seeks to suppress the truth .... And yet, My light is stronger, for I have light-bearers on earth who recognize him and his activities well and who protectively place themselves in front of the light which was given into their hand from above in order to illuminate the path on earth which leads to the destination, to Me, the eternal Truth. I give My messengers of light the strength to ward off the enemy, I open their eyes so that they will also recognize him if he comes to them under a mask to seemingly guard the light but in reality to take away its illuminating power. The light which I guide to earth is so important for people on earth that I will never allow for it to be extinguished where the desire for light is recognizable. No person will need to walk in darkness who desires light, I therefore place light-bearers along the edge of the path where everyone can fetch light. It is understandable that these light-bearers are now being attacked, for this evil spirit hates everything that spreads brightness on earth and in the beyond as well. He wants darkness because he himself is dark in his spirit. And he will try to extinguish the light, he will attack the bearers of light openly and hidden, but he will also approach them as a friend in order to mix untruth with truth, in order to thus dim the light so that it can no longer produce a shine. But he will only succeed where people are of a dark spirit, where he can deceive them with the deceptive light which emanates from himself and which he offers as light from above. For he wants to counteract, he wants to displace the light-bearers by handing out seemingly equal gifts which have no luminosity. But he will only be successful where people are satisfied with phrases, with partial knowledge, because the desire for clarity and truth is not present .... But whoever desires light also recognizes the deceptive light and avoids it .... Therefore My light-bearers may be unconcerned, they cannot be displaced because I Myself bestow strength upon them and because the light from above will flow to them in ever greater abundance and every person who desires light, the truth, will move towards the shining of the light. My light cannot be extinguished because the supply is absolutely essential, and I bless everyone who serves Me as a light-bearer so that the darkness cannot cover the earth completely but, instead, brightly illuminated paths can be recognized everywhere which lead upwards to the One Who Himself is the Light and the Truth from eternity ....

Amen

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The effusion of the Spirit means spiritual help ....

B.D. 5430 from July 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

When My Spirit flows over you it is always a sign of My love and grace, it is a sign of My willingness to help you in great spiritual adversity .... mind you: out of spiritual adversity, that is .... I have to tell you this again and again, that the spiritual hardship on earth causes Me to be unusually effective, for what I give to you will only ever be a spiritual goods, and a spiritual good will only ever reduce spiritual hardship. Earthly adversity, however, is meant to make the spiritual adversity recognized, and I will also remedy earthly adversity when it is time, when it has exerted a favorable influence on the human being's spiritual state; for I only allow earthly adversity to come upon people so that they will gain a spiritual advantage from it ....

But if I effuse My Spirit upon a person I give spiritual help, I give knowledge and strength .... certainly also knowledge of the cause of his earthly adversity, which the person then can also remedy with My support which is fatefully sending him help, thus he is active himself, so to speak, to master the earthly adversity. You must therefore make a distinction between the answer to prayer .... after an appeal sent to Me in earthly adversity for help, which will then be given to him in a way which does not seem unusual .... and the help offered to the human being in the form of spiritual possessions which give him the strength to master every difficult situation in life through the right spiritual attitude towards Me, where therefore the help is to be found in the fact that the human being enters into the right order by himself and then the earthly adversity is eliminated by itself, so to speak .... The effusion of My Spirit certainly always means enlightenment of the spirit, and thus the human being can now recognize the cause of earthly adversity and control it, but the effusion of the Spirit must never be understood as a purely earthly instruction, earthly admonitions and advice, which an enlightened person can indeed give of his own accord but must never be presented as God's Word, as received from the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God only dispenses spiritual goods .... My Spirit speaks to the human being's soul through the spiritual spark, it tries to instruct it spiritually and to motivate it to again enter My eternal order. It influences the soul in a spiritual way, so to speak, and creates the state which then eliminates all earthly adversity by itself. But without the human being's will to establish the order My Spirit will never help him to put an end to the earthly adversity, for the adversity is only the means to make the human being realize that he is found in a wrong way of thinking and lives a disorderly way of life, and thus the cause has to be recognized first, about which My Spirit enlightens the human being in order to then consciously strive for a change, for which I impart strength to the human being through My Spirit at all times ....

Amen

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The power of the living Word ....

B.D. 5431 from July 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The living Word, the Word which is received by direct communication with Me has, as a direct radiation, an immense effect and is therefore also felt extremely invigorating where the will to hear Me speak personally, exists so that the Word can let people become believers where it is listened to without resistance. And this power works in such a way that it touches the human heart and makes it soft and compliant .... The heart accepts what is offered to it and allows it to take an effect upon it ....

For I touch the heart with My Word Myself. Grasp it, I touch it, and it feels the benefit of My touch, and it gives itself to Me without resistance, yet only when one’s will is ready to listen to Me, when it no longer offers its own resistance to the light that is conveyed to it .... How unspeakably stimulating and awakening My Word can be in this case, it can give life to a still dead being, it can suddenly change the darkness of one’s spirit into radiant light, it can give the being understanding for everything that was previously incomprehensible to it. And therefore a complete change can take place in the human heart through My Word, provided that the effectiveness of My Word is permitted by one’s will, that My emanation of love can affect the soul and that it behaves completely without resistance; consequently, it is willing to let itself be shaped by My loving hand, so to speak .... What a thousand words of a human being are not able to achieve, My Word can .... that the scales fall from the being's eyes and it suddenly is in the possession of the brightest knowledge, since it is My power of love which now becomes effective in the one, and this power of love cannot be surpassed. Therefore, when I tell you humans that My Word is blessed with My power, then understand that it is a direct emanation of power on My part and must always have its effect if the human being itself does not cancel the effect through resistance; for the human being's will alone decides its effectiveness, which is why, however, My Word never loses power as such but always has a revitalizing effect as soon as the human being dedicates itself to it. Now, if this Word of Mine is brought close to the souls in the beyond and they willingly allow it to have an effect on them, they can often find a sudden enlightenment of their spirit, they can feel being impressed extremely strong as soon as they just accept this Word by the willingness to be instructed, or to receive explanations about questions which they are occupied with. My Word exerts an enormous impression upon all souls which desire it of their own free will. And that’s why you humans can do no greater love service to the souls in the beyond than to convey My Word to them, which you received yourselves from Me. The power of My Word will be experienced by all the souls who assemble with you in order to listen to it .... I Myself speak to them through you, and if they are of good will they will recognize Me Myself and their ascent in the kingdom of the beyond will be assured, for the power of My Word will give them a lift ....

Amen

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Thinking and acting righteously .... Love your enemy ....

B.D. 5432 from July 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You ought to think and act righteously. This includes meeting all people with love and not excluding anyone, for all people are My children, who should love each other .... thus you should not deny your love to any person while granting it to another, because you should not make judgments if one of your brothers has done wrong but leave the judgment to Me, as I Am truly a righteous Judge. It is certainly difficult for you to feel the same love for all people, but if you consider that you all have only one Father, if you consider that His love created all of you and that His love always and forever belongs to His living creations, even if they don't want to know Him .... if you are aware yourselves of being seized by the Father's love and feel constantly sheltered by His loving care, then you should not curtail your Father's love, but this is what you would be doing if you acted and thought unkindly of your fellow human beings who are, after all, My children too whom I love .... Even those people you think you can't love have a soul, although it is frequently pitiable because it lingers in profound spiritual hardship .... precisely because the human being is bad and thus does not awaken love in you. Were you, however, able to see the hardship of such a soul you would, if you only had one spark of love in you, want to help it with deepest compassion and would not rest until you have reduced this soul's suffering. Then you would only see the soul, the human being as such would no longer seem detestable to you but you would support him like a completely blind person and forget whatever he has done to you. And you should always remember a fellow human being's soul if he cannot awaken love in you .... The soul's torments are inconceivable, and I have mercy upon every soul and would like to help it .... Nevertheless, I cannot infringe upon its free will, I must allow it to take its own path .... you, however, can grant it love and thus so influence a person that he, too, can ignite love in him and thereby reduce his soul's spiritual hardship. Hence, you can help where I Am effectively powerless as not to endanger the person's free will. And you will only think righteously if you help a fellow human being, who is still bound in sin, to attain the level which you have climbed already, for you were helped by My grace when you were still weak and My grace also wants to help those who are still below yet held captive by My adversary .... And you should help to loosen the shackles, you should lovingly bring the children who have gone astray back to Me, the eternal Father, you should help them to find the same that you have found through My love and My grace ....

Amen

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An early calling away ....

B.D. 5433 from July 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I still have to show great mercy and bestow many graces in order to save people from the final fall .... I have to call many people away prematurely and approach many in unusual adversity, or else they would be at the mercy of the one who wants to ruin them. There will be great lamentation on earth, for people who are still alive don't know that it is an act of grace on My part when I end the lives of those they bemoan, they don't know that they should thank Me because in merciful love I do a work of charity for them, they are not aware that the time still granted to themselves will soon be over .... But I know about every human emotion, I know where there is still the possibility to mature in the kingdom of the beyond, but which then would no longer be possible on earth but would for sure result in a fall into the abyss if I left those people alive. Believe it, you humans, that I endeavor to take care of your souls with love and patience, do believe that I don't condemn but try to save until the end and that I know very well which person is in danger of being lost if I don't throw the last lifeline to the one .... (which is) the physical death, in order for the one to still be able to awaken to life in the spiritual kingdom .... My love never ceases, and the greater My children's spiritual hardship on earth is, the more My love and mercy will show, even if you humans don't recognize it. I don't want your downfall, I want your ascent, I don't want you to sink into darkness but I want you to enter bright heights, and what I can still do for you and your eternal life I truly do in the time until the end, even though it appears to be cruelty to you because you don't know about the depth of My love which embraces all My living creations. I will not leave you to My adversary without a fight, yet I can only confront him with love and thus also call you away out of love when you can only expect death on earth, a spiritual death, which is so dreadful that I take pity on you and want to protect you from it. You humans will be able to experience My grace and mercy until the end, yet where I confront pure devils this grace and mercy of Mine will also be rejected, and then they will create their own fate, for if I’d call these people away prematurely they would not be able to ascend in the spiritual kingdom either, because they would constantly strive towards the abyss and would one day still have to re-take the path of banishment, the path through hard matter that is, which will always be the abode of that one spiritual, that is completely hardened up and requires an infinite long time until its resistance is broken and thus can strive upwards again. This is irrevocably the fate of those who fail on earth, and therefore My mercy and grace will still try to protect you humans from this fate .... therefore much suffering and adversity will still have to pass over the earth before the end has come ....

Amen

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Abide in love, and you thus abide in God ....

B.D. 5434 from July 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Remain in constant contact with eternal love by being uninterruptedly active in love, and you will always be flooded with strength and be able to work for the blessing of your fellow human beings. To whoever God gives an office He also gives the strength to administer it, yet the supply of strength depends on a person's degree of love. But the assignment of an office also has the human being's activity of love as its basic condition, from which therefore can be seen that love must not be eliminated, that love is a first and will always remain so. And therefore you should first strive to increase your degree of love, you should provide care to your fellow human being's adversity, you should help him spiritually and physically, you should comfort the sad, lift up the despondent, strengthen the weak, you should do everything that helps to reduce suffering and with loving, kind encouragement help fellow human beings to bear their suffering, who lift themselves up by your love, thus always feel the strength of love. Only this way you will maintain the connection with eternal Love, only this way it can fill you more and more and radiate its spirit upon you, only this way you will also be permeated by the strength which enables you to carry out the work in the vineyard of the Lord until your hour has come, when God calls you away to work in the spiritual kingdom. As long as you live on earth you can increase your degree of love yourselves, for you do not lack vitality which you should use to work in love. In the spiritual kingdom you lack the strength to do so if you are not mature yet, and therefore your fate will then be a very difficult one; on earth, however, you have complete freedom and can act as you please, for the strength to do so is at your disposal. Use it well, only do good, that is, don’t waste your life's energy on evil deeds or don't let it lie uncultivated through idleness, for one day you will regret bitterly for not having used your strength for right, God-pleasing deeds .... And keep in mind that you draw God Himself to you as soon as you practice love, for God Himself is in every work of love .... God is Love, and therefore you should live in love so that you live in God, the eternal Love .... But God Himself will then be in you as well and fill you with His power, which can show itself physically and spiritually but will always help you to ascend. For if you are physically filled with strength you will now likewise use it to be lovingly active, because God Himself is now active in you, because He impels you to give love .... to radiate what is within you. And your bond with God will be inseparable, for this is the strength of divine love that, when filled by it, it chains everything to itself with irresistible power, so that the human being can never ever separate himself from eternal Love once he has united himself with It, once his nature has changed into love. He then has become perfect and will no longer need the school of the spirit on earth, he will then be called away by eternal Love and then be allowed to dwell close to It, constantly permeated by It’s power and be unspeakably happy, for he will then be able to be active in God's will, with His light and His power ....

Amen

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"What you ask in My name .... " Answer to prayer ....

B.D. 5435 from July 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Every call that ascends to Me from the depth will be heard if it arises from the human being's heart in spirit and in truth, i.e., if it is not just a formal prayer which will never reach My ear. Consequently, all My living creations have the fullest guarantee that I will help them if they ask Me for it. And therefore there wouldn’t need to be any misery and hardship, neither spiritually nor physically, neither on earth nor in the spiritual kingdom .... For I gave you the promise: "Whatever you ask in My name I will give you” .... Yet how seldom does such a prayer ascend to Me, to which I can give fulfillment. As long as My living creatures do not have the right living faith in Me, they will not be able to pray intimately to Me, and they will only attain this faith when they live in love .... This is why their requests are timid, they lack the conviction that the Father wants to and can help them, and therefore the prayer is not as fully effective, it is uttered hesitantly and doubtfully, and My love cannot bestow itself to the extent as it would like to .... I am not alive enough in people's hearts, and therefore they do not speak to Me as is necessary in order to experience My gracious help. People themselves prevent Me from helping them because they would not recognize help as My working without the right faith and thus would not be able to gain an advantage for their souls, but which every spiritual or earthly adversity is intended to bring them. I grant every heartfelt prayer and no being, be it on earth or in the beyond, calls upon Me for help in vain. Yet in order to be able to call sincerely, the being has to believe .... It has to believe in a supreme perfect Being Who, in Its immense love, wants to help and is also able to help due to Its incredible power and might. This faith has to be gained without fail otherwise the adversity cannot diminish. The adversity, however, was not imposed upon the being by Me Myself but is only ever the result of its own imperfection, which can be remedied through adversity and suffering if the being itself endeavors to become free from the adversity. The being has plunged into the abyss of its own will but can ascend at any time if only it sincerely appeals to the One Who has the power and the will to help, if the being acknowledges Him and wants to ascend to Him .... And if the adversity is ever so big, there is One Who can banish every adversity if He is called upon from the bottom of the heart. There is One Who only waits for this call from the depths, Who rushes to the aid of every being who desires Him, Who stretches out His hands to every being in order to pull it up, if the being but takes hold of His hand in faith in Him Who can save it .... I just require My living creations' faith in My infinite love and might in order to then let them participate and distribute the gifts of My love without measure .... Yet without faith I cannot provide anything to a being. And therefore I try everything to revive faith in My creatures .... Once I approach all of them Myself, I help everyone to be able to believe, for I will not demand anything from people which would be impossible for them; but there is one thing they must do themselves .... they must want to believe, they then will also be able to believe, because I cannot force them to believe against their will .... But then all adversity will be over, for then there will be nothing more they could not ask for from the One in Whom they believe and Whom they now call upon in their hearts, to Whom they send up a prayer in the spirit and truth, by convinced faith in His love, His wisdom and His might ....

Amen

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The Bread of life, proper food, proper drink ....

B.D. 5436 from July 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You have been assigned a task which you can doubtlessly fulfill, if you are willing to serve Me. You should only pass on what you receive from Me .... you ought to distribute to those who are poor in spiritual possessions, who need spiritual nourishment which they can only draw from My Word, which is conveyed to you from above. Many are hungry for the bread of life, but many fill themselves with wrong food and accept so much of it that they refuse the bread of heaven when offered to them. And you must first try to get them to abstain from the wrong food, and this is a job for you which has to be done with much love and patience .... to first make your fellow human beings' aware of the fact that they can harm themselves by accepting wrong food and therefore they should very carefully examine what is offered to them .... I know the great spiritual hardship of those who have thus been given the wrong food and I want to help them through you. By spreading the truth you can cause many blessings, for even though you receive little approval from your fellow human beings, even if you experience open rejection .... you not only spoke to these people on earth but countless beings in the spiritual kingdom heard your words and they often accept them more easily than people on earth, because they suffer greatly from hunger and thirst which, however, is quenched by what you distribute, because it is right food and right drink for every starving soul. But what is done to the beings of the spiritual kingdom has an indirect effect on people of this earth again, for they are constantly surrounded by them and can often exert greater mental influence than when you speak to your fellow humans as human beings. Do believe it that no work you do for Me and My kingdom is done in vain .... You yourselves cannot see the effect and therefore also cannot weigh it, yet My Word, which you pass on by love, works by itself, and countless souls feel the power of My Word. For this reason you must not slacken, you must not become lukewarm and sluggish in your vineyard work, also, you then will successfully carry out your ministry and help many struggling souls on earth and in the beyond. Only truth can bring them salvation, but error ties them up, and therefore these chains have to be loosened through the transmission of the truth, through the transmission of the Word which comes from above; and even though this work seems too small to you, i.e. not very successful .... A single redeemed soul who has thus been introduced to the truth has a host of ignorant souls behind it which it can instruct again and likewise redeem from darkness. Therefore, pursue eagerly your work which I have assigned to you and do believe that it is not done in vain, that the blessing of your activity extends to many beings, that you help your fellow human beings and also the souls in the beyond if only you always hand out what My love and grace has given to you .... if you are undauntedly and tirelessly active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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A stream of grace .... Faith .... Help in the beyond ....

B.D. 5437 from July 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

It is an immeasurable flow of grace which is still conveyed to people before the end of this earth and which also touches the souls in the kingdom of the beyond, so that all who have the will to accept My grace can still become blessed. My love and mercy is turned towards all these souls and wants to impart a degree of realization to them upon which they then can build up more easily, for I don't want them to spend eternities in constant darkness and great agony. Now that’s why I first want to help people on earth to believe in a continuation of life after death, since only then will they try to make use of their earthly life when they don't consider their life to be over with the death of their earthly body .... The belief in a continuation of life can awaken a sense of responsibility and at least stimulate the thoughts to activity, and it is then also possible to approach these people with the gospel which, however, is flatly rejected by those who don’t believe in life after death. Every person who seriously deals with this question will be given clarification, for I Myself want them to be able to believe and will assist where just a serious thought of it can be recognized. The closer the end is, the less people deal with such thoughts which are nevertheless most important for their souls. But I send messages from above to people, I bless connections which are established from earth to the spiritual kingdom, to the kingdom which will be every person's subsequent abode, to the kingdom which is outside of the earth and which shelters all the beings which preceded you humans .... And whoever is of good will, who seriously desires the truth, will receive clarification from beings of this kingdom so that the one will learn to believe and give clarification to his fellow human beings as well. There is life after death but as to how the nature of this life is, you humans yourselves shape it into an extremely blissful life or into a life of darkness and torment. But the moment you believe that there is no end for you, you will also live consciously on earth, i.e. always in regard to life after death, and you will make an effort yourselves to shape yourselves in such a way that you can expect a blissful life. I help every individual to attain knowledge, but always bearing in mind your own will that your faith will not be gained by force. There will never be a hundredfold proof presented to you, but when you allow yourselves be touched by it, My flow of grace is so extremely effective that you will also learn to believe without proof, since I allow you to look into a domain which is certainly closed to you but which can always be entered by people who strive for the truth and unite themselves with Me .... The beings in the spiritual kingdom are also willing to make contact with you as soon as you call them by means of thought, and they will truly instruct you correctly if you have a desire for the truth. And your thinking will not deviate, you will learn to believe with conviction what you previously were still in doubt with .... The proper life actually begins with your death when you are received by a spiritual kingdom which, depending on your will and your way of life on this earth, is a kingdom of light and bliss .... a kingdom of light and bliss or else of darkness, from which you must wrestle your way up for the light if you don't want to remain in the abyss ....

Amen

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The power of satan .... Deepest darkness .... Eternal light ....

B.D. 5438 from July 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Satan’s bondage extends over the whole earth, and therefore darkness is spread over the whole earth, for he is the prince of darkness and his uninterrupted activity is aimed at extinguishing the light which flashes here and there on earth and threatens to chase away the darkness. Light is his greatest enemy, for only where there is darkness he can stay, there he can work and unfold all his might and cunning. His kingdom is this earth, his kingdom is the world that holds the immature spiritual that is to be set free from his bondage. In this kingdom he has unlimited power as long as the light is denied access, for without light the spiritual will not find the path that leads out of bondage. Therefore he will try to prevent the spreading of the light, which is to be understood as follows: He undermines truth wherever he can, because truth is light which has taken its origin from God. So he stands as the prince of darkness in the battle against God, Who is the eternal light. Where the light once can shine his dominion is over, and therefore light must constantly be brought into the darkness, the truth must be brought to the beings who live in error, in complete ignorance and therefore also have to suffer under satan’s power as long as they are in darkness. Truth can certainly prevail but only when people voluntarily profess God, the eternal Light, and therefore become bearers of the light from God themselves. That’s when satan has lost all power .... But he will not give up his position of power so easily, and he will fight against the light until the end .... He will take action against the truth everywhere and also find great support on the part of people who are still darkened in spirit themselves and willingly allow themselves to be led by him. And since these people are in the majority it is not easy to take action against error and lies. The darkness is too deep and the light still too faint to completely chase away the darkness on earth. It is the majority of the people who are its followers .... You humans, consider this, that he still has power over the whole earth because people themselves do not strive towards the light but feel comfortable in the darkness; you then will also understand that he makes good use of his position, that he lets the cover become ever denser because people themselves support him, because they themselves defend themselves against the emanation of light, thus his effort is to oppose the truth with the heaviest lies and error so that God cannot be recognized and losing His followers. It will remain a battle between light and darkness; the number of those who demand light and therefore also receive light will always be small, whereas the masses prefer darkness and the untruth can be offered to them ever so blatantly, they won’t resist it. For satan has the masses behind him, whereas it is just a small flock that strives towards the light and whose aim is God Himself, the eternal Light. But one day the light will break through with victorious force .... The heaviest darkness will then not be able to withstand it, the eternal Light Itself will then appear with such radiant force that everything that opposes It will perish .... That’s when the untruth will be exposed and everything that does not strive for the eternal truth will be subject to destruction, but satan will lose his power, he will be bound so that he cannot poison the pure atmosphere which now has come into existence by God's will .... so that he cannot diminish the luminous power of the light that now shines for humanity on the new earth, who will feel happy in the light of truth and need not fear the darkness for a long time ....

Amen

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The training of teachers by God Himself .... Servants ....

B.D. 5439 from July 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I need many servants and handmaidens, for My vineyard is large and there is much work to be done, yet I can only employ willing servants who are devoted wholeheartedly to Me for this work, servants who fulfill My will in everything, who only abide by their master's instructions since I alone know what work has to be done in order to be successful. Whoever acts arbitrarily is not suitable for My vineyard work, nor does he do Me any service by doing so, instead, he is far more likely to spoil what was still good before. In everything you, My servants and handmaidens, ought to fulfill My will and thus abide by what is clearly recognizable to you as My will .... You ought to lovingly proclaim to your fellow human beings the gospel which you have received from Me .... But for this work I train My teachers Myself .... And thus only those shall teach whom My wisdom has recognized as suitable for it and whom My love has put into the degree of knowledge that they can teach now on My behalf .... Although every person is able to preach love, I want people to gain a degree of knowledge through you, whom I therefore send out into the world; it goes without saying that they can only gain this knowledge if they fulfill My commandments of love, yet the knowledge of the correlations shall also be made accessible to people so that they learn to love Me and thus also fulfill My commandments of their own accord. The meaning and purpose of the earthly life shall be explained to people, they shall know why they are on earth and what they should do in order to successfully live their earthly life, they shall know about the correlation of everything created, to which they themselves belong, together with Me .... from this knowledge they shall come to a realization which will yield them blessings for their soul .... I want you, My servants, to instruct people so that the truth will be brought close to them, because they live in the midst of error and lies and therefore lack all knowledge which would influence their way of life for the better. But in order for you to be able to carry out such an instructional activity for your fellow human beings also presupposes corresponding knowledge on your part, and therefore only someone who has received this knowledge from Me Myself is suitable for it. Only someone who has been given light by Me can be a bearer of light himself, and this is vineyard work of utmost importance, for the activity of such a worker is a weeding out of weeds, so to speak, a cultivating of the field into which the good seed is then to be planted .... a preparing of the human heart for the reception of My Word, which I Myself convey to the earth .... Much work is still to be done, and therefore I accept everyone as a servant who makes this Word guided to earth his own, who receives it into his heart and, by wanting to serve Me, likewise passes it on. The end is near and much land still lies fallow, countless laborers are still needed, yet they should not act on their own authority but always await My instruction which they will but feel in their hearts, if they are willing to carry out the proper vineyard work for Me .... to spread My pure Word, which I only convey to earth because people are without knowledge, without proper understanding, and because I pity them in their own spiritual darkness, I therefore send messengers towards them for this reason, who are to bring the gospel to them in My name, the pure divine teaching of love, which alone shows them the path to eternal life ....

Amen

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The Power-redirection process ....

B.D. 5440 from July 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You humans on earth cannot fathom what is happening in the universe, for an exchange is constantly taking place, a supply of power from God into the countless earthly and spiritual creations. Power stations are everywhere, so to speak, i.e. spiritual beings filled with light which receive and absorb an abundance of power from God in order to again pass it on to where light and strength are needed .... It is an uninterrupted outpouring of power from God and an uninterrupted distribution of it into His creations. But since nothing happens without meaning or purpose, the process of redirection takes place in a lawful order, and the will of God, the Lawgiver of eternity, is just as active in His light-beings as it is in God Himself, yet it is entrusted to them to carry out the divine will. The existence of the entire spiritual and earthly creation has therefore been entrusted to His light-beings who are in the possession of the highest perfection, because the uninterrupted supply of power also impels these beings to uninterrupted activity and this activity of theirs again consists of arranging and providing for that which depends on the supply of power from God in order in turn to be able to be active in God's will. The perpetual supply and redirection of power produces a perpetual life, but it also gives prove of a life, for there is no standstill, which would be equal to death .... There is nothing lifeless in the entire universe as long as it is fed by God's all-animating power; but there is also no interruption of the supply of power, there is no weakening of power, the power is just passed on in different intensity which also signifies more or less pulsating life .... which is why the creations in the universe are also of different kinds, starting from the still complete material to the complete spiritualized creations. But nothing is completely without the supply of power, so that life itself is made noticeable everywhere, even barely recognizable at times. Thus the outflow of power from God touches His children to the fullest extent, i.e. the spiritual creations which have attained a highest perfection, who receive His radiation of love directly and use this power in their urge to love in order to enliven the spiritual world filled with light, in order to constantly release it and thus to start the process of redirection which, as a final result, is to bring the return of power from God back to Himself again in the form of beings who have attained the last perfection and are allowed to receive His power of love again as children of God ....

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Descriptions of the beyond only illustrative and comparative ....

B.D. 5441 from July 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Everything above and beyond your earthly life will remain a mystery to you, even if it is revealed to you by your Heavenly Father's love and kindness, for it can only ever be explained to you such that you can understand it while you are living on earth. Despite explanations you can only form an impression as far as it correspond to your intellectual capacity and knowledge, and you also try to apply this knowledge to the sphere which is still closed to you .... Yet you fail to consider that your knowledge is indescribably limited and that even the earth you inhabit is incredibly small and poor compared to the splendours of many other creations in God's kingdom. You don't consider that you are lacking all means of comparison in order to give you humans full understanding of this supernatural world .... Thus it is also impossible to give you an explanation which totally corresponds to the truth .... You can only receive comparative descriptions from which you can see that, just like on earth, laws have to be complied with, and that the divine order in the spiritual kingdom must categorically be observed if higher development is to continue in the beyond. Furthermore, it is impossible to convey spiritual impressions to people on earth or even approximately explain them .... No words can describe to you humans the state of the beings in the beyond and how they feel ....

These emotions are the effect of what they experience, what they behold and how they feel in view of the indescribable creations, irrespective of whether these are of a blessed or wretched kind .... Trying to explain this to you humans is only possible by using analogies, thus earthly concepts are given to you which indeed allow you to recognise the meaning and purpose but which are not the reality. The death of the body is not the end; the soul continues to live in spheres which it has created for itself as a result of its earthly life. Its fate can be a happy or a wretched one .... but be it as it may .... it can only ever be figuratively brought home to you humans, and every such explanation, every description, is only ever a faint attempt to solve a problem with concepts that are known to you .... in order to increase your sense of responsibility towards the soul, whose fate in the beyond is shaped by you humans on earth ....

The knowledge of otherworldly things is withheld from humanity, and neither will it ever be able to penetrate an area which may only be entered when a human being's spiritual development has reached the degree which enables his spiritual vision .... But even then it will still not be possible for him to intelligibly describe his impressions and emotions to his fellow human beings, because the earthly kingdom and the spiritual kingdom are two entirely separate regions where one is no longer responsible for the other .... thus where the applicable laws in one world are completely revoked in the other .... Even so, the spiritual kingdom is a reality, and everyone will be able to realise it himself when he discards his earthly shell and enters this kingdom, and then he will understand that the people on this earth could not have received an explanation which totally complies with the truth ....

Amen

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Spiritual shallowness .... urgency of helping ....

B.D. 5442 from July 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A spiritual mission has to be accepted and carried out entirely voluntarily, for all coercion hinders its effect. But the free will to do so emerges from love, from love for Me and for the neighbor, otherwise the human being would never offer himself for such a mission which only has pure spiritual intentions and pursues a pure spiritual purpose. When a person's love for Me and his neighbor impels him to lead him to Me, because he knows that the distance from Me has a wretched effect on his fellow human being's soul and because he knows that I take pleasure in every soul which returns to Me again, then only will he succeed in his mission, because love is the strength which brings about success .... I can only make people aware of their spiritual adversity, the will to remedy it must awaken in the human being's heart and spur him on to further action. Although I Myself Am always the driving force, it is My love which I bestow upon you, who want to be of service to Me, which constantly stimulates the desire in you to help those who are in need .... And My love can influence you in this way because you are of good will ....

The danger of spiritual shallowness is immense among people, nothing else leaves a deeper impression, whatever they encounter .... Everything is viewed pure earthly, but there is never a spiritual meaning or explanation recognized. Humanity cannot be influenced more in any other way, even the greatest catastrophes only affect them inasmuch as their own possessions are lost as a result, yet those who are not affected only take note of them but the events do not leave a deeper impression. Scorn and derision only affect those who believe they recognize a spiritual connection; people are so superficial and it is unspeakably difficult to touch their hearts so that they open themselves up to the spiritual influence and come to a realization. It is also unspeakably difficult for you, who have taken on this mission, to be heard by the people of the world .... And yet, you are the most likely to make them think, because you live amongst them and yet walk a path which is unknown to them. They have no desire to follow you on this path and yet they wonder where your path might lead to .... The very fact that you walk amongst them and think and act differently from them can stimulate them to think, and that’s what is necessary in order to be able to continue to have an effect. But I know about every soul, about its degree of maturity, I also know that only a few are still to be won and I do not leave them to their fate but send you across their path. I Myself can only influence them through you, and that is your mission, that you create the connection between them and Me, that you give Me the opportunity to speak to people without coercion of will .... They will not recognize Me but listen to the Words as emanating from you, and yet, something will stick because My power is effective where I am but listened to .... No encounter you will have is arbitrary, just as no happening around you is pointless and purposeless at all, yet the human being's will itself decides the effect on himself, on his soul. I am pleased about your cooperation yet you, too, have to carry out this work of your own free will, which is why I cannot prove the importance of your work to you by means of unusual signs but only demand your belief in it, that I need you in the last days before the end because there is immense spiritual hardship on earth and in the spiritual kingdom as well and that I bless you for your will to help and your loving cooperation ....

Amen

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Spiritual drought - Water of life .... Awakening of a spiritual hunger ....

B.D. 5443 from July 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You ought to seize every opportunity to be active for Me and My kingdom. A spiritual hunger should be awakened, you should distribute samples and to be able to always be certain of My blessing from faith in Me so that your work may be successful. It is a great spiritual drought, a spiritual desert where no life thrives, and you ought to bring fruitfulness into this desert .... an undertaking which seems almost impractical and yet is possible if the living water is supplied to it, if something truly life-awakening is carried into the desert and the emerging seed is nurtured carefully, if My Word, the true water of life, is carried with much love and patience to wherever human hearts are barren and empty and in need of a new revival. The spiritual hunger in people's hearts must be stirred and therefore the bread of heaven must be presented close to them so that they will reach for it and refresh themselves .... Only a few make the attempt, yet they will never regret it, for they receive something precious which they do not want to give away at all. No spiritual gift remains ineffective once it has been received as nourishment for the soul. Whoever receives it in the desire for spiritual nourishment will certainly be strengthened and gratefully recognize it as bread from heaven, the one will supply his soul with living water and truly turn a desert of a heart into fertile soil, the one will feel the flow of divine love and open himself to it, and he will never ever go hungry again, for as soon as he desires nourishment for his soul he will also receive it. I will send My messengers to him so that they will give him what he needs for his soul. And that’s why you should be constantly active, for the spiritual hardship is enormous and only My Word can give people what they need in order to reduce the spiritual hardship ....

Amen

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The loving person cannot deny God by conviction ....

B.D. 5444 from July 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Whatever you do to those in need you have done to Me. As soon as love impels you to help your fellow human being in spiritual or earthly adversity, you also love Me, for love encompasses everything and thus you can no longer exclude Me, Who Am eternal Love Myself, when you feel love within yourselves. It does not matter whom you turn your love to; love always remains something divine, it is always a sign of an approach to eternal love. Therefore I accept every act of love as done to Me and return love in increased measure, which is why the willingness to love will always increase more and more until the human being's nature has completely become love. Therefore, a loving person cannot deny Me as the eternal Love if he is seriously confronted with the question as to whether he believes in a God Who is love impersonated. He cannot do so with conviction, but there is the possibility that he does not seriously ask himself this question, that he thoughtlessly denies an Eternal Deity in order to oppose .... So he could actually believe if he wanted to, yet he lacks the will that would otherwise result in a confrontation with this problem. Being able to believe presupposes the will to believe, as soon as the will is present, previous misgivings melt away immediately when he mentally deals with a teaching that must be accepted and also can be accepted with good will. The objection 'I cannot believe' is an untruth because then the will to believe is not yet present. Conviction can come very easily to a loving person because faith arises from love; in contrast, it is difficult for a completely unloving person to gain this faith, and therefore love has to be practiced first if the will to believe exists, which, however, will rarely be the case with an unloving person. But without faith there is no beatitude, for I cannot give Myself to a person and reveal My glories to the one if the one does not acknowledge Me, thus believes in Me as a loving, exceedingly wise and omnipotent Being. The acknowledgement of Myself causes Me to give abundantly and I prepare an undreamt-of glory for the souls, yet they can only take possession of it by believing in Me .... But it’s not Me Who denies Himself to the human being, it’s the one himself who does not accept anything from Me, since he does not accept Me, since he denies My Being. Yet I will not give up on even the most unbelieving soul, again and again I approach it and try to make Myself known .... Once I will succeed, once even the most unbelieving soul will know that there is a Being to Whom it owes its existence, and once it will also recognize Its perfection and long for Its love. It will then also be capable of love and willing to love, and it will then be able to believe firmly and without doubt and approach Me in this faith; it will long for Me and also find fulfillment, it will voluntarily come to Me and I will accept it because it now loves Me and believes in Me ....

Amen

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God as a mentor .... Truth - Light ....

B.D. 5445 from July 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I am your Mentor, and I truly instruct you the proper way. I give you light .... And thus the battle against darkness starts out from Me, for to bring light into the darkness means, to tackle the darkness, to dispel it with brightly radiating light which penetrates into all corners if access is not denied. But to bring light means to bring the pure truth to those who still languish in error, in the darkness of the spirit. The truth, the eternal light, emanates from Me and is directed against the one who is an enemy of truth, who wants to spread error and lies in the world in order to dethrone Me. He will not succeed forever because the light has such a strong luminous power that it exposes every intention of My adversary. It will clearly and distinctly reveal all correlations and thus also the battle between light and darkness with its cause, and this will happen all the sooner where the truth is brought to humanity, which will appear acceptable to all those who want to know what was not explained enough to them: About the meaning and purpose of the earthly life and their own earthly task .... This former one opens up and the light can thus shine into one’s heart. The one accepts the truth which I give him through My servants, whose Mentor I Myself am. Nevertheless, I Myself bring the truth to those who desire it, even if they receive it from a human being .... Yet it is I Myself Who speaks through this human being. And since the darkness is spread over the earth very heavily I have to kindle small lights everywhere, i.e. I have to take abode in the spirit of many people in order to address people, and I do this wherever believing, devoted and loving people speak in favor of Me, be it in congregations, be it in small circles .... wherever My name is mentioned, wherever I Myself, can dwell amongst them through their will, as it were, there I can also express Myself through the mouth of the one or the other, and this one will then be able to speak spiritually and speak on My behalf and My kingdom, and what he says will be the plain truth. For wherever there are two or three gathered in My name, there I am in their the midst and I will truly know how to prevent My adversary from gaining the upper hand, if one of them were his representative .... The truth will find access everywhere, but as to whether people feel comfortable in brightly lit rooms is up to them .... Many retreat into darkness again because they believe they can do without the Light, the pure truth. For My adversary also fights with tenacity and all the means at his disposal. He is also not afraid to seemingly accept the truth, to present himself as a servant of Mine as well, but only to try to trip a person at the first opportunity by clearly changing over to the opposite .... to reject everything he had previously advocated .... Wherever there is still darkness, wherever there is a lack of clarity and understanding, My light has not yet penetrated, there My adversary is at work. On the other hand, where illuminating enlightenment can be given, that’s where the truth is represented, that’s where people speak for Me, Who is the eternal Truth, and those are the one’s you should listen to.

Untruth, error and lies have an adverse and serious effect in the beyond because the soul has no clear realization, because all its thoughts and intentions are confused and it cannot find its way out of the darkness without help. Only the light-of-truth shows the way in this kingdom, and anyone who does not possess it is poor and wretched .... That’s why I want to instruct you humans while still on earth and guide you to the pure truth so that on earth you will not wander around in darkness and even more so in the spiritual kingdom, where it is even harder for you to accept the truth than on earth .... But you can only become blessed by the truth, for the truth is light and light is bliss ....

Amen

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Spiritual compulsion .... Doctrines .... Truth ....

B.D. 5446 from July 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

One characteristic of the working of My spirit is hearing the inner voice. I Myself communicate with you so that you can understand Me, so that you can even hear My voice audibly within if you have reached a specific degree of maturity which allows for the latter. Hence you can hear My Word within yourselves which My love, wisdom and omnipotence pours into you in the form of brightest thoughts, and which also reveal My love, wisdom and omnipotence to you .... Kind admonition, comfort and advice will therefore reach your spiritual ear and teachings of wisdom will be conveyed to you, explaining My reign and activity in a way that you can also recognise My omnipotence, for all My revelations I bestow upon a person are merely intended for you to recognise Me Myself, to recognise a Being Which is exceedingly kind, wise and powerful. Consequently, if I reveal Myself to a person who is able to hear My voice within himself, he must also receive Words which allow Me to be recognised in My nature, and thereby you human can make the test, if you doubt the authenticity of such Words which are presented as having been 'received' from Me. Every human being should be able to hear My voice within himself, yet only a few people exist on earth, especially during the last days, to whom I can speak so that they will hear Me. Although anyone may feel himself addressed by Me, I will not deny Myself to any person, however, whether his soul is sufficiently prepared so that it can hear and understand the voice of My spirit is the only decisive factor, as to whether the spiritual knowledge presented to people as My revelation is My spoken living Word. For the intellect can also produce words which are pleasing to Me, a person's thoughts can aim towards Me and desire to hear My speech, he can want Me to express Myself in a way he desires. In that case the spiritual information is produced through human will, and although it is not in contradiction to the divine principle it is nevertheless not the divine Word My spirit would like to impart to the soul, but the soul can neither hear nor understand this because it has not attained spiritual maturity as yet.

This person is indeed influenced by My spirit or he would not express God-opposing views, however, My voice, My living Word, is always received without forethought, in a manner of speaking, the recipient receives My literally imparted Word .... Words with profound meaning through which all people shall be guided into realisation; Words which are profoundly significant and are intended to enlighten people who are still living in spiritual darkness. If I speak through the spirit to people who are to pass on to their fellow human beings what they heard from Me, then I will truly speak in a clearly understandable way which also testifies to My love, wisdom and omnipotence, otherwise I Myself would not be recognised in the Word that flows forth from Me. However, the intention of My Word is for humanity to learn to recognise Me .... Consider these Words seriously if you conduct an examination of spiritual knowledge which claims to originate from Me. If people can recognise an exceedingly kind, wise and powerful God and Father of eternity in it, they can unhesitatingly accept them as coming from Me. Nevertheless, only very rarely reveal Myself to a soul which had so sharpened its spiritual ear in order to perceive the voice of My spirit and to repeat word for word the message it receives from the spirit .... A genuine Word recipient is never intellectually active himself and his spiritual knowledge includes all areas, because I first want to introduce himself and through him subsequently all people to the truth, because he shall become a true proclaimer of the truth, for only this can make My nature identifiable to people. It is imperative that anyone who wants to recognise Me must know the truth, so that he will learn to gain a living faith, i.e. that his inner faith will become conviction, which before was merely traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge. I, however, want to be recognised, because I want to be loved .... For this reason all My revelations will only aim to achieve to give people a truthful impression of Me, so that they will be able to love Me if they inwardly visualise this picture which is, however, only possible if purest truth is conveyed to them. And the unusual way of transferring the truth through a person's indwelling spirit is always the most unmistakable characteristic that a person hears My voice within himself, that he receives the living Word from Me Myself, Who is the eternal Word Himself ....

Amen

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What is the creation ....

B.D. 5447 from July 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

What is the creation .... Ideas and thoughts emerged from Me, they took on form, and My will of love solidified these forms, as previously still purely a spiritual substance, they became condensed into something visible .... into matter, which is therefore spiritual power solidified in itself, whose point of origin is I Myself .... My ideas and thoughts, however, did not flow into infinity purposelessly but were founded in My love and wisdom; they were the means recognized by Me, as it were, to change a wrong state of the spiritual, once created by Me but who had fallen away from Me in free will.

No cause remains without effect .... My created visible and invisible worlds were the effect arising from the cause .... the apostasy of the spiritual from Me .... the effect that came forth. In My wisdom I recognized a path upon which the fallen-away could again return to Me .... This path rose before My spiritual eye as thoughts and ideas, and through My will of love I turned them into reality, for My love is power, and what I wanted at will came to pass. I now saw the ideas before Me in reality, they had taken on shape and I animated these forms with the spiritual, thus I shaped the spiritual itself into the creations, so to speak, which now became a visible reality as solidified substance ....

Hence the material creation is the spiritual power condensed into a form which solidified because it had turned into a certain inactivity, due to its refusal to accept the supply of power from Me which would have enabled it to be active, which was its purpose before the spiritual substance's apostasy. The spiritual substance resisted Me deliberately; it was at the belief that it could exist without My supply of power and thus became incapable of any activity, which therefore resulted in the solidification of the spiritual substance .... or also: My will bound or solidified the spiritual substance and, as it were, let it take the path which intended a change of will .... The course of upward development in creation began with the aim of the return of the fallen spiritual to Me ....

Everything that arose through My will and My power of love, be it the spiritual or the material creation, first emerged as a thought but was an immediate reality already because no time was needed once wisdom and love moved such thoughts within themself which corresponded to My perfection and therefore were no longer capable of any improvement. The condensed or bound state of spiritual power needed only be a temporary one because it meant a decline for the free-created spiritual, so to speak which, however, could restore the former freedom to the spiritual, having given itself into weakness voluntarily and has to attain the original state again in order to be blissfully happy. Moreover, My ever-outflowing power from Me is also ever-acting, which means that it can only have positive success because it is always constructive but never destructive .... It just must not find any resistance which then also excludes a negative effect but which, according to the law of eternity, cancels out the effect, as this resistance .... rejection of My power of love .... exists. Just as long will the spiritual substance also remain in its solidification, for it is My power of love alone that redeems the solidified spiritual substance, My power of love alone returns the life which was once within it and leads it back to the purpose it was able to fulfill in the beginning .... My power of love dissolves hard matter and spiritualizes it again, and the thoughts and ideas set apart from Me have proved to be successful and achieved that which is the meaning and purpose of every creation work .... they have returned the spiritual to Me again, which once voluntarily distanced itself from Me but could never separate itself from Me because it cannot exist without Me ....

Amen

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The spark of the Spirit .... Life ....

B.D. 5448 from July 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

It is the Spirit who makes alive .... It is My Spirit, a part of Myself, who slumbers in you and is to be stirred to wake up, who does not push Itself to the front but patiently waits until you cause It to express Itself .... But then It will announce glorious things to you, for It is divine and therefore knows everything and can also reveal everything to you that you desire to know, and far more .... My Spirit is the divine spark Who rests in every human heart and Who is the only one Who gives the human being the proper life, if it can be active in the one. And to let this spiritual spark become an infinite sea of fire is the purpose of your earthly life or also the fulfillment, for then you will be filled with divine spirit as soon as the spark in you, who is a part of Myself, has become a bright flame of love. For then you will have accomplished unification with Me, the little spark of love will have united with the fire of eternal Love, and I will be present in the human being in all the fullness, the one will live in and with Me ....

At the beginning of your embodiment as a human being your soul came from below, that is, its substances have passed through the material creation because they belonged to the fallen spiritual which had to first develop itself to the top again .... Likewise, the body is still of very immature spiritual substance and both, the soul and body, would hardly progress upwards during the earthly life if the spark of God in the soul did not take care of the guidance .... or also .... if I were not always willing to let My Spirit, My power of love, flow into the human being, which also results in the attainment of the final aim always, although this grace is not being used by every person .... For My Spirit can only express Itself when the human being listens to It of his own free will, My Spirit can only express Itself when the human being's heart shapes itself into love and thereby can hear the subtle voice of My Spirit .... Thus It awakens him to life through love, i.e. he allows It to be effective, My Spirit becomes active and now guides the human being unto the right path .... My Spirit instructs him, the human being is taught divine wisdom from within, because it is not earthly but spiritual knowledge which he now receives, knowledge which originates from Me Myself, which is therefore conveyed to the human being through the voice of the Spirit. But in order to be able to hear this voice the human being's spiritual ear has to be trained, that is, the soul has to shape itself in such a way that it understands what the Spirit is saying to it, and this shaping happens through loving activity .... A person who lives in love has the ability to inwardly hear the words which My Spirit imparts to the one; but the soul has only regained this ability, for it once possessed abilities to a high degree which it lost due to its past apostasy from God .... But love restores all its divine characteristics, and therefore the human being can accomplish much more if the one makes an effort to live a life of love, for it is his original state into which he enters when he unites with eternal Love through love, when he can now work in union with Me and thus also accomplish everything. But the soul would never reach this aim on its own, therefore I placed a small spark of My eternal Spirit into the soul, and blessed is he who allows himself to be guided by It, blessed is he who lends an ear to its voice .... blessed who establishes the connection with the Father-Spirit from eternity .... for he shall live forever ....

Amen

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In My Father's house are many mansions ....'

B.D. 5449 from July 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

In My Father's house are many mansions .... Can you understand the meaning of My Words? That I promise you a dwelling in My Father's house but at the same time want you to know that a suitable abode is prepared to accommodate every one of My living creations .... that I want to tell you, that what you have not yet achieved on earth you can still strive to achieve in My kingdom, because I have countless possibilities to improve your development in the spiritual kingdom. I have not just the earth at My disposal, but all My creations are places to attain full maturity for the still imperfect soul until it has finally developed to the point that, in heavenly bliss, it will be able to take possession of the most magnificent spiritual creations, for wherever it stays is in 'My Father's house', in the sphere of My infinite love, and it will always stay where the Father has prepared a dwelling place which corresponds to its degree of love and its ability to reign and work in the realm to which it was assigned by Me.

In My Father's house are many mansions .... No being is homeless, the eternal home accepts all souls, yet this home has many different aspects .... it can exhibit the most magnificent flower gardens and wonderful palaces, but it can also include infinitely vast barren regions which take ages to wander through .... yet even in these barren regions paths branch off which lead to areas full of flowers, and it just depends on whether the ramblers pay attention to these paths, whether they attentively try to find a way out from this barren region and also take this way out .... Everyone will be accepted in My eternal home, and everyone has the right to take ownership of a dwelling. But what it consists of is entirely subject to their will.

And therefore I say: In My Father's house are many mansions .... For every human being, every being, prepares its own place of abode depending on the degree of its perfection. Yet no matter how poor his dwelling is .... through his will and his work it can really quickly be transformed, and the most delightful homesteads can arise if only the soul has the desire for it and diligently strives for fulfilment. In that case it will be supported by countless helpers who will create and work with the soul, and it can become a paradise-like dwelling place where previously was a barren and bleak region .... One day every soul will return to its true home, but as long as it is still imperfect it will feel homeless, although it will have already entered the kingdom from whence it once had come. However, I have many schoolhouses, and higher development will advance for sure, even if it often requires a long time .... One day the lost son will return home and reside in the mansion he once owned, he will stay in the Father's house where all children are gathered around the Father, he will be lovingly received by the Eternal Love, Which will give him a seat next to Himself ....

Yet infinite times will still pass by until all My children have found home again, until they can take up residence in My house; infinite times will still pass by, yet I will not abandon any one of My children .... The Father's love attracts them, and not one of My children will be able to resist this love forever ....

Amen

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Charity, a guarantee of God's presence ....

B.D. 5450 from July 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Works of neighborly love, accomplished in complete unselfishness, secure the union with Me, for I Myself am Love, and whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him. Thus you have a guarantee for My presence if you practice love. And again, love is the surest weapon against satan, for where there is love he flees and thus can no longer harm you. Now, it is understandable that the human being, as long as on earth, is not perfect, that he will again and again fall back into his weaknesses and faults, even if he seriously strives to live in, and according to, My will .... And then, My adversary will also try to again and again trip the one; he will want to influence the human being to sin, he will try to catch the one where he is weak .... But I will also be ready to protect the one to the same extent, certainly taking into account the free will. However, just as evil currents touch the human being from his side, the waves of My love also touch him, and without touching the free will a loving person's heart will nevertheless allow itself to be influenced more by My illumination than by the one of satan because, by means of one’s will, the human being has already confessed himself to Me .... It is a battle between light or darkness which, however, is decided by the human being himself, and darkness will never ever win the victory over a person who wants to be good, even if the one is sometimes afflicted by a weakness of will. I then will supply him with strength and he will also accept it ....

Accordingly, there are also undeniably people on this earth who are suitable for a mission which applies to the spreading of the pure truth. And I choose these people Myself, recognizing in My wisdom as to whether they are suitable for it and whether My adversary will also use all of his arts of seduction just there .... His power is not stronger than Mine, in contrast, My love is stronger than his, and this love of Mine seizes and fills the human heart which is willing to serve Me. For the latter is decisive as to whether I will grant him My protection .... since he has voluntarily offered his service to Me and will therefore also rightly enjoy My full protection. Moreover, it must surely be possible for Me to convey the pure truth to people .... But if no human being were safe from My adversary's influence, it would not be possible to give the pure truth to humanity either. Nevertheless, you should always examine seriously and not accept what seems doubtful to you .... But anyone who strives for the pure truth will also receive it and recognize it as such, despite all counter-efforts of the one who campaigns against the truth but can never prevent Me Myself, being the eternal truth, from coming to people in the Word, as I have announced through My Word: “I will remain with you until the end of the world ....“

Amen

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The time of Grace .... serious reminder of the end ....

B.D. 5451 from July 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The time of grace will soon be over, for even the longest time will come to an end one day, and I have truly had patience with you humans and again and again granted you a period of time in order to still save you from ruin if you use this period for the salvation of your soul. For the sake of these few the end will not come sooner, as it has been planned from eternity, even though humanity's spiritual state has long since reached a level which justifies the destruction, i.e. disintegration of the earth. Yet, as long as a single soul is still capable of improvement I have mercy and patience and delay the judgment which was announced to you humans through seers and prophets. And yet, even the longest time will come to an end one day .... and according to the plan of eternity everything will come to pass that was told to you before.

Yet no matter how often I call these admonitions to you, you don't believe them and do nothing to improve your spiritual state .... And suddenly and unexpectedly will happen that incident, which means the end for you humans who don't listen, an end which you cannot escape but which will affect you extremely painfully. For it is not the end of your existence, yet the continuation for you who are unbelievers, is an agonizing and endless long time until you once again reach the level you already where when you started your earthly life as a human being.

You humans be mindful, let yourselves be warned and admonished, do no longer live thoughtlessly but seriously consider the state of your souls. And be aware that for many of you there is no further life in the spiritual kingdom of the beyond but that you will remain on earth after the death of your body but that you are banished into solid matter, incapable of living and yet are not annihilated .... You humans, imagine an exceedingly harsh imprisonment and you will do anything to escape it .... know that an inconceivably harsh imprisonment awaits you if you don't believe My words and mend your ways, i.e. live a way of life according to My will in recognition of My Self .... if you don't believe in Me and keep My commandments. You will have to languish for an infinite long time, whereas here you only needed to control yourselves for a short time, give up the pleasures of the world and acknowledge Me as your Lord in order to then be able to live in freedom and bliss for eternities ....

I want to save all of you from this dreadful fate, yet only your will can prevent it. And therefore I approach you again and again and present to you what fate you are facing .... Yet once My patience and mercy recedes, for My law of eternity is unchangeable and must come to pass .... Only a short time is still granted to you until the end .... Use it well and work while there is still day, for the night is coming when you can no longer work ....

Amen

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Distributing of the light requires a desire for it ....

B.D. 5452 from July 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You who desire the light will receive light. And that’s why My sun of grace also shines into the darkness, rays of light flash in the abyss as well so that the desire for light will be awakened in the souls who have dwelled in darkness for an infinite long time and cannot remove themselves from it on their own. But as soon as a ray of light flashes, the desire to escape the darkness is aroused in some souls, and to these souls will also be offered the opportunity; they will be lured out of the abyss, as it were, and slowly follow the ray, often hesitantly, and they will be led to where there is light in abundance, though not visible to them in its full brightness because they could not bear it as long as they are still dark in he spirit .... Light beings constantly descend to the depths in order to bring up those who are willing to follow them. It is not an act of force nor an extraordinary-seeming process which could determine the souls of darkness to follow them but, like on earth, the soul must be willing to accept a gift presented to it .... Once its resistance against Me has diminished, it will then perceive the light as a benefit and it will then also voluntarily follow the messengers of light, even though it only sees compassionate souls in them whom it should join. And this willingness is the requirement to be touched by a ray of light .... For the will of every being in the abyss is known to Me, and I constantly send them willing-to-help souls in order to lift them up into spheres where they are now offered the opportunity to acquire light for themselves and to improve their lot.

(31.7.1952) All souls in the kingdom of the beyond who have reached a certain degree of maturity, who can receive light, carry out redemptive activity, for every soul must possess light itself if it wants to pass it on to those who still dwell in darkness. But redemptive activity can also be carried out on earth by people who, by a way of life according to My will, are likewise able to receive and pass on light. As soon as they with true neighborly love take care of the souls who still live in spiritual darkness, they are joined to the crowd of people who are active in redemptive activity, and they, too, are recognized by the souls in the kingdom of the beyond as a source of light and strength and are therefore surrounded constantly, for wherever just a loving thought is directed to the souls in the beyond, it is recognizable to them as a ray of light.

But where there is love there is also wisdom, light, which chases away the dark spiritual state. Where there is love, there the souls who want light are drawn towards it and where there is love, there they will also be allowed to receive it always .... The moment the will and desire for light has become active in them, they will never let up, they accept hungrily what signifies nourishment for them, they strengthen themselves with it so that they will always be able to continuously receive more and are now likewise inspired by the will to pass on or to point souls of darkness to where light is emanated. Yet nothing can be administered without desire .... The beings are to be wanting freely, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom .... in free will they must return to Me, yet loving help will always be given to them, for the light wants to spread out and illuminate everything that was previously dark .... I want to make all beings happy with My light of love, who willingly open themselves to receive My light within themselves ....

Amen

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Submitting the will to God's will ....

B.D. 5453 from August 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I acknowledge all of you as My servants on earth as soon as you just submit your will to Me and are therefore willing to do the will of your Lord and Master. You will then have consciously entered My service, and I Myself can then be active through you, i.e. you will now carry out what I Myself would like to do for My earthly children, but for which I need mediators because My direct acting would mean a compulsory faith. And thus you represent Me Myself, you do everything in My behalf which you perceive as an assignment from Me within you, you work for Me and My kingdom, you carry out spiritual work which indeed does not yield earthly profit, but will nevertheless one day be rewarded personally by Me. Whatever is performed for My kingdom will always be work which is not recognized by worldly people, which is not valued earthly and is regarded as a waste of time, as it were, and yet it is the most important work because its effect extends to eternal life, because it can result in eternal successes which will remain when the body passes away. But anyone who has subordinated his will to Me also recognizes the importance of his service for Me and will conscientiously carry it out, even though he will not receive an earthly recognition for it. But he should consider himself as a fighter for Me who goes into the battle against My adversary .... He fights for a holy cause, he fights for the eternal life of many souls who depend on his help against the enemy. For by subordinating his will to Mine he has much strength at his disposal, because he draws it from Me and is therefore fit as a fighter for Me and My kingdom .... You humans can achieve nothing on your own but everything together with Me .... And the human being must possess this faith in order to offer himself to Me for service. He feels weak himself but is fully confident that he can do everything with My power, and he wants to utilize this power of Mine for Me, he wants to help increasing My kingdom by bringing the souls who once fell away from Me and, instead, turned to the one who is My adversary. And I accept him (the one who wants to help) because I need many servants and because I only find but a few who want to serve Me of their own free will. The army of My fighters is indeed small but nevertheless strong because it can make unlimited use of My power .... And I will bless the small number of those who want to serve Me through love, and their work will not be in vain .... I will also protect them against all the attacks by My enemy who again and again tries to run against them because he knows that they pose a great danger to him and his might. He will use all means to make them apostate to Me, yet My servants recognize and see through him .... For I enlighten their spirit, and everything that is dark they will recognize and fight against. Therefore, whoever wants to serve Me, let the one turn himself over to Me in full trust, and from now on his life will be rooted in My love and grace; and every way he will take, he will be guided on and accompanied by Me .... and he will be able to go wherever he wants, I will always walk beside him and never let him fall into the hands of the adversary .... For to My servants I am a good Housefather, Who truly rewards faithful work ....

Amen

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A mission to proclaim the gospel ....

B.D. 5454 from August 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

And it is My will that My gospel shall be spread throughout the world, for humanity has no knowledge of what it should be doing in order to become blessed. No doubt, they know My teaching superficially and you will not pass on anything new to people, yet that which is still dead within them, which were only words without meaning and spirit, is to come alive. You ought to enliven people with My Word which comes from above, you ought to inform them of My working which is the result of a living faith, of a life of unselfish neighborly love and the most intimate union with the One you want to proclaim to them. You should teach them that not everything they would like to dismiss and banish into the realm of fantasy and legend, is to be rejected, that profound truth was only disfigured by human will and that you bring this truth back to them in its purest form. For there are seekers amongst the masses of people, and to these you are bringing precious gifts which they appreciate well and are happy to find .... And since it is My will that you proclaim My gospel, I Myself will promote your activity in every way .... I will show hungry souls the path to you, anyone who desires light will see it shine and enter its ray, and I will guide your thoughts so that they will always want what is right when they do spiritual work and thus serve Me. You just feel yourselves like beings with inferior labour power and yet, even the smallest achievement can be of greatest blessing, a tiny stone can be started rolling and have a mighty effect, a single word of truth can draw ever greater circles and set in motion countless spiritual beings which intervene in people's thoughts, providing further enlightenment and thus can kindle light where it is still dark ....

Carry the gospel into the world, speak where it is appropriate and know that I will always stand by your side if you are active for Me and My name. For the time is mowing towards the end. Therefore help redeeming all those who are of good will, for you who live in truth yourselves because you receive it directly from Me, are also able to spread it out, for anyone who wants to distribute must possess it himself, and therefore I will provide for you abundantly so that you can pass on My gift, for there is great hardship amongst people and you should be active constantly to remedy this hardship. And I will give you My blessing, and all the souls whom you lead out of spiritual darkness into the light of eternal life, will thank you for it as well ....

Amen

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God's will .... God's approval ....

B.D. 5455 from August 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Being Lord of heaven and earth, as Lord of the kingdom of blissful spirits and also of the deepest darkness, I truly have the power to release and bind, i.e., to make all the unfree ones to become free and to prevent My opposing forces from using their power, if it is not (being used) according to My will. And yet I withdraw My will as much as possible because I want all beings, whether good or evil, to stand on their own, because I want them as independent beings to freely determine their state, because I want them to become perfect one day. Therefore I often allow what does not correspond to My will, yet always for just the purpose that the being itself recognizes the wrongness of one’s thinking and acting and changes one’s nature by oneself. But if it is according to my will, everything has to obey Me, and even the darkest powers jhthen cannot offer Me any resistance. And I would also be able to prove this power of Mine to people on earth, yet I am far more interested in My living creations' love than their fear, which would certainly result in obedience as well but which is no pleasure to Me .... I want to win the love of My creatures and even the beings from the deepest darkness shall feel My rays of love from time to time so that they voluntarily turn to Me again. And that’s why I don't always let My might take effect, even if the actions of people and also that of the spiritual in darkness did often require an intervention of My might .... Yet I weaken the effect of too great of abuses by My adversaries, i.e., I leave My creatures the freedom to think and act according to their will, even though what they do is often bad above bad .... But I protect those who are attacked by them by weakening the effect or turning it into the opposite .... hence, for example, in that what a person inflicts on his fellow human being with evil intent serves that one for the salvation of his soul. Then the human being has apparently achieved what he wanted to do, to harm his fellow human being in some way, yet his soul can derive a benefit from it which abundantly outweighs the earthly harm .... And yet I did not prevent the former from carrying out his intention .... I certainly could but I don't, because only in this way can the being itself come to the realization of its sinfulness. And yet, nothing happens in the entire universe without My knowledge .... And this shall always give you humans the certainty that nothing will come upon you but what I Myself recognize to be good for you. In this respect, even the evil forces serve Me, for they too do nothing which I do not know .... And they cannot harm you humans as long as you are in contact with Me, but they can gain control over you if you detach yourselves from Me by unbelief and lack of love .... My adversary will then certainly have you under his control, yet that, too, I will allow because I don't want to force you to turn to Me, but the voluntary return has to take place which then can certainly be postponed for an infinite long time because this is your free will.

You should therefore never blame the evil forces if you have fallen prey to them .... they cannot force you, just as I do not force you to follow Me, nor will they be hindered by Me in their activity unless, in a case of danger from their side, you reach out your hands to Me in desire .... You then can be certain of My help, as truly as I am Lord over heaven and earth, over the blessed kingdom of spirits and also over the kingdom of darkness .... whosoever calls upon Me, I will deliver that one from their hands, and the one will never again need to fear the forces that want to destroy him ....

Amen

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The only beatifying church ....

B.D. 5456 from August 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

There is no ‘only beatifying church’ if an organisation is meant by this. Anyone belonging to the church founded by Me on earth will become blessed, because his eternal bliss is already guaranteed by the fact that he is a member of My church, that he therefore lives in a faith which has become a living faith through love. It is not the ‘church’ that ensures a person’s beatitude but faith and love .... which might well be entirely missing in spite of belonging to a church supposedly founded by Me but established by people as the ‘only beatifying’ church. Indeed, true members of My church can emerge from every church or school of thought as this is solely determined by faith and love, but no human being can ever belong to this church of Mine who cannot demonstrate its characteristics .... the working of My spirit, which is based on faith and love. My kingdom is not of this world and although My Words were undeniably spoken to the people of this world they nevertheless had a spiritual meaning, because they were meant to help establish My spiritual kingdom, they referred to the kingdom outside of this world, which is everlasting. What I demanded of people was to guarantee their eternal life in the spiritual kingdom, My demands should in fact be fulfilled on earth but not with earthly actions in which the soul could stay detached .... rather the soul has to comply with My will ....

Only the soul has to change itself, and if it genuinely strives to do so it will already be a member of My church, because then the person also has faith and his inner impulse for willing pursuit is My spirit, My voice, to which he will listen and strive to follow. And this working of spirit is proof of membership to My church .... which will later result in blissfulness .... I brought the pure Gospel to people, I enlightened people about everything required to enter My kingdom which is not of this world .... I taught them to love and thus showed them the way which leads into the kingdom of bliss, I gathered around Me all those who so far had been taught wrongly, and thus I was their preacher representing His church and wanting to give its beatifying effect to the people who listened to Him .... Therefore I founded the true church while I lived on earth, and I admitted everyone into it .... Jews, Gentiles, tax collectors and sinners .... and to those who believed in Me, who accepted My teaching and lived accordingly, I sent My spirit after My death, the attribute of My church, which cannot be overcome by the gates of hell ....

But where is the working of the spirit in the church which calls itself the ‘only beatifying church’? My spirit can certainly express itself even there, as long as a connection with My church has been established first, because I alone pour out My spirit and only where the conditions are met which result in a working of My spirit. And that is where the true church of Christ can also be recognised, because no matter what is done to its people, they cannot be defeated or driven away even if hell itself takes action against them .... My church is invincible because it is My work .... it is the only spiritual church which leads to beatitude. No self-righteous Christians can be found in it because they exclude themselves from the community of believers and are therefore not true followers of Christ and neither are they devout representatives of My name when they are put to the test. And this test of faith will be demanded of them, it will be demanded of all who call themselves believers, and then it will be proven who belongs to the true church, the church which I founded Myself. Then the working of My spirit will be proven as well as the strength it can give to those who come under attack for My name’s sake but who gladly acknowledge Me before the world when the decision is demanded.

And then it will also be proven how little the church, which calls itself the only beatifying church, lives up to its promises .... how all its members will leave who did not belong to My church, who then recognise its weakness but not the spiritual value of the church which was built on faith as strong as Peter’s .... Because every one of My Words was and is to be understood spiritually and can only be understood as such when My spirit can work within a person. But then he has a living faith and he will only strive for the kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

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Wave of awakenings during the last days ....

B.D. 5457 from August 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A large wave of spiritual awakenings is moving across the earth, for the end is near and during the last days many souls shall still be won for the spiritual kingdom. The love of God is infinite and helps wherever people are without strength because they live without love. God's outpouring of grace flows constantly to people, and where a heart merely opens to receive this flow of grace God's strength becomes evident and the human being testifies to Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... For that reason God's Word is proclaimed everywhere, but it can only take effect on people if it is preached by someone filled by the spirit of God, who will give life to the Words and therefore also affect the listeners. And during the last days such preachers filled by the spirit of God will arise ever more, and thus they will have been awakened .... The Lord of Heaven and Earth reveals Himself in every way, he speaks through the mouths of many people, yet only if a spiritual awakening has preceded. But then the spirit within the person will impel him to be eagerly active on behalf of God and His kingdom .... But God's adversary also works to the same extent, and his endeavour is the same: to let people speak on his behalf so that darkness will be spread and that God shall lose his power. The human race lives in confused thinking, it no longer has the gift of discernment, it accepts and rejects entirely arbitrarily, for it is incapable of recognising truth as truth and error as error. And this inability is used by God's opponent by trying to intersperse the truth with errors .... Where divine revelations are conveyed to earth, where the spirit of God can work in a person, that is where the pure truth exists, and this will also be protected by the One Who wants to reveal Himself through it. The adversary can only exert his influence where the desire for truth is not predominant, where therefore God, the eternal Truth Himself, does not assume first place or where still earthbound thoughts emerge, so that the spirit of God has no unrestricted reign in the person .... Then it recedes and the hostile power gains influence over a person's thoughts although he believes himself to be instructed by the spirit of God. In that case, however, one cannot speak of a spiritual awakening either, the will might have been present yet he failed to do what is necessary in order to give life to the spirit within himself .... Many people want to hear God speaking and God is also lovingly inclined towards those who desire to hear His Word. Yet whether they will be able to hear His voice depends on the shape of the soul, which is the spiritual ear for God's voice. But the will to hear God's Word can also inspire the intellect to form divine Words, which is not to be condemned since the human will does not think anything anti-divine .... Nevertheless, it is not God's Word which is delivered by the human intellect .... On the other hand, however, a person can deeply desire God's Word and, filled by this desire, hear Him without being aware that it is God Himself Who speaks through Him .... In that case, he is unconsciously of service to the Lord as someone who is spiritually awakened .... and he speaks the truth, because his desire for it is, at the same time, also a desire for God, which He always grants ....

The awakenings during the last days before the end will particularly emerge where the proclamation of the Gospel is felt as an inner need. That is where the spirit in the person is already working, and then it will clearly express itself insofar as that an unusual talent will come to light, yet only during his service for God and His kingdom. Then a person without any special oratory gift will be able to make good speeches, a person without any special previous knowledge will be able to offer informative clarifications; he will have fluent answers to questions about spiritual things .... The spirit of God will visibly take effect, the person will belong to those who are awakened, who vividly stand up for the Word of God because they will be inwardly impelled by the spirit which continually strives towards the Father-Spirit, which always reveals the divine will to the person and urges him to implement it. This kind of awakening will particularly emerge in congregations where the desire to hear God's Word predominates, and where God therefore speaks to the congregation through a person .... And the congregation will listen to this person, because the working of God in him will be obvious. But he will speak in his own words, nothing abnormal will come to light, even though he will show talents which he otherwise does not possess. Yet he will not speak in a psychic state, he will not speak automatically, hence he will not be forced to speak such that his mouth forms words uninfluenced by his intellect .... Such proclaiming can also take place but it is not to be regarded as an awakening of the spirit, it is more likely the taking possession of the human will by a being which wants to express itself. In the right kind of awakening the spirit illuminates the human being's intellect at the same time, it corrects his thinking, thereby enabling the person to speak spiritedly to his listeners, not like an automaton, which brings forth one word after another and betrays a strange power speaking through him .... If this power is evil it can cause tremendous damage; if it is good, the spiritual results can also be good yet they must never be judged to be the same as the working of God's spirit in a person, which is such a bright illumination of divine strength of love that it is recognisable through increased knowledge and great diligence for God and His kingdom. Hence this applies to the proclamation of the divine Gospel in the congregation, which needs to be paid special attention to during the time of the end. But the spirit of God can also express itself in solitude, it can educate an individual person and impart knowledge to him for a purpose .... Then the spirit of God within a person has equally been awakened through the person himself. And this kind of awakening is also associated with a mission .... the knowledge which is subsequently received by the person shall be passed on, for the Gospel shall be spread in all purity with divine support .... God Himself takes care of people who received the Gospel in a spoilt form and who therefore no longer have the right kind of faith; he will, however, give it back to them by imparting the pure truth to them. To these spiritually enlightened people is God speaking directly, they hear His speech within themselves like clear mental Words, they receive impressive instructions with the purpose of passing them on to people .... Thus God speaks through these people, yet again not in a way that the human being serves God in the form of a speaker but that he, after having received the divine Word, has to activate his own will to pass the divine Word on. This working of the spirit is insofar significant as that it establishes a foundation again, so that people can be introduced to the fundamental truth, so that God Himself can instruct the human race and thereby every doubt can be refuted, every error exposed and every wrong interpretation corrected .... so that the pure Gospel can therefore be proclaimed by God Himself, received through a person in whom His spirit can be active, and recorded by his will to be of service to God and to people. Spiritually awakened people will always serve God with enthusiasm and conviction, and that in different ways .... Thus the spirit of God is always active in them, which guides their thinking and intentions correctly, which provides them with unusual strength to seriously work for the kingdom of God .... And such awakenings will happen frequently during the last days, yet where this is possible the spirit of God manifests itself unusually, because His love and wisdom recognise what is beneficial for the salvation of the human race. He knows His servants and assigns to them the work they are capable of doing. He works in public like in solitude; according to His wise Judgment He appoints positions to those who are capable of administering them well .... And thus the tasks he gives to His servants are different; yet they all work for His kingdom and are of service to Him, and the work of every individual person will be blessed ....

Amen

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The power of light from above .... The deceptive light of satan ....

B.D. 5458 from August 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

An exceedingly bright light shines where the divine truth is guided to earth. And where there is light, the path is also clearly recognizable and the human being cannot go wrong. Hence the truth is the signpost to Me .... Truth, however, is not readily accepted and therefore people often take wrong paths where they could easily find the right path .... But this is a sign that the end is near, for in the end the darkness will be so extensive that no-one will find the way to Me anymore, for satan rages as he has never raged before. He knows that his time is up and therefore he does everything to extinguish the light, to darken the path, because in the darkness he still has the power, while the light lets Me be recognized clearly and people who walk the illuminated path stretch out their hands longing for Me .... My adversary therefore loses them for good .... And thus you humans also know that and why action is being taken everywhere against the pure truth which originated from Me Myself .... You will now understand that the acceptance of the truth is a rarity, while being in superior numbers, people reject what alone could be their salvation .... It is true, a light bearer cannot be attacked because I personally protect the one, he will be harassed from all sides to drop the light; by means of dazzling and deceptive lights one will want to make the gentle glow of the heavenly light fade, they will often want to cover it because they fear the glow if it illuminates the night in which people feel comfortable because they shun the light in their sinfulness .... Satan will send companions to the light bearers who seemingly place themselves in the light but, mind you, they try to block it so that it loses its effect. But the light from on high has a great power .... It will always illuminate the path that leads upwards. It will chase away the many shadows and dark figures so that they cannot harass those who walk this path with their eyes turned towards Me. For even though satan has great power in the end, he succumbs to My light of love from above, and that is why all who are in his service flee from it, they seek out deceptive lights which only blind their eyes and thus make them feel the darkness even more strongly than before. My Word is truth, My Word is the light which shines so brightly that all untruth is exposed; and therefore no-one need fear the darkness who receives My pure Word from above into one’s heart .... Satan has lost power over the one, for I have already taken possession of the one and will also no longer abandon the one eternally or let the one fall into his hands ....

Amen

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"Watch and pray .... " Constant temptations ....

B.D. 5459 from August 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Words of love also harbor the divine Spirit within them. You may therefore accept everything as good that discloses love. However, you must nevertheless examine the source of these words and not blindly assume a divine origin, since such a belief can easily lead to error. Hence examine everything and keep the best and ask your heart what it says about it, for the heart will not deceive you if you sincerely desire to be found in the truth. True, you will also receive admonitions from the kingdom of the beyond, because the light-beings regard you as their co-workers and the souls you want to help also take an interest in your earthly fate, for already more mature souls can foresee and are urged to make you aware in order to avert disaster from you, at the same time, even though they don't know the day or hour since the concept of time is unclear to them. Yet they will not consciously instruct you wrongly, for they love you and only want to do you good. That’s why they will not be hindered if they want to warn you, because their will is good. But you humans should always be vigilant, you should not walk blindly and you should remain united with God .... But you then will also peacefully go your way despite of earthly adversity, for it will affect you less the more you are united with the One Who alone can help you. Furthermore, it is good for you if you pay attention to everything that can cause you unrest .... Watch and pray .... For you are always in danger of being harassed by the tempter. But to watch means to keep a constant lookout for the approach of the enemy, to be vigilant means to not put yourselves in danger, to recognize the danger in time and to .... avoid it .... Often something seems insignificant and yet it can have dire consequences, it can be a real danger for you if you don't watch and pray for protection and help. For the enemy of your soul lays snares to catch you, and the unwary and gullible and reckless fall into them and become his prey .... Therefore watch and pray, lest you fall into temptation .... The power of satan is tremendous, but the love of God is even greater, and it is for all those who are of an earnest and good will and humbly ask for His mercy. No harm will then happen, He will protect them earthly and spiritually and protect them from temporal and eternal ruin, and the beings in the beyond will also intervene to help if they know their charge being in need ....

Amen

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God-inclined will is the passed test on earth ....

B.D. 5460 from August 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Those of you who looked for and found Me will never ever lose Me again. Admittedly, as long as you live on earth you are exposed to My adversary's influence, yet once a person's will has turned to Me I will have taken hold of him and prevent his relapse into the abyss. However, I Am talking about a serious person's will who strives to Me in a fully conscious state .... Where this seriousness is not yet present My adversary can certainly still succeed in pushing him away from Me, for there are people who, through upbringing or discussions with others, have more or less become followers, who thus join their fellow human beings but not because of the inner desire to hasten towards the Father they recognised in Me. But where this inner desire has awoken in a person My Fatherly love becomes active .... I constantly coax and call this person, I take hold of him and never let go of him again. He is already released from Satan's chain even though the latter will not stop in his efforts to win him back until I recall the person into My kingdom. A will which is seriously inclined towards Me is the most certain guarantee that a person will gain Me and My kingdom .... For I give him strength because I long for My child Myself and his will has already passed the test on earth. It is merely a matter of decision for Me or for My adversary .... The serious will is the decision, precisely because this will had turned away from Me in the past and the return to Me must therefore be accomplished willingly .... I judge the will and not mere words which are not serious but most certainly recognisable by Me as mere words, which are voiced by the mouth or are thought but which the heart is unaware of .... Nevertheless, once the will for Me has awakened the human being will incessantly strive towards higher spheres. For as soon as he receives My strength as a result of his change of will he will use it for spiritual striving. He will have effectively joined Me already, I will be walking next to him, I will just not be recognised by him as long as he is still weak in love .... But once the love in him grows stronger My image will become increasingly clearer until he has accepted Me Myself through the love in him and then he will also recognise that he can no longer descend into the abyss, because I do not relinquish what belongs to Me and voluntarily has become My Own. You will never ever be able to separate yourselves from Me again if you passed the test of earthly life, insofar as that your will has chosen Me. Then earthly life can only contribute towards a higher maturity of soul, you will be consciously of service to Me and faithful to Me until I recall you into My kingdom when your hour has come ....

Amen

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The inner Word .... Light .... Truth ....

B.D. 5461a from August 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The divine spirit instructs you correctly and if you allow it to speak you cannot live in error, for then God Himself will reveal the pure truth to you through His spirit, He will give to you what you ask for or what you need .... For He gives with love and wisdom as it benefits each person's soul. Consequently, wherever God's love and wisdom is working you humans only receive that which helps to advance your soul's maturity. And at the same time the attribute of divine activity is shown, if it helps the soul to progress, if it therefore has an educational value so that it helps a person to attain perfection. You can use this as a guideline if you are in doubt as to whether you should accept something as divine activity .... Everything that helps a person to become psychologically mature is good and should therefore be acknowledged as being imparted to a person through God's spirit. Nevertheless, it still has to be scrutinised in which way God's spirit has affected the person who wants this spiritual information to be acknowledged as divine revelation. God's spirit puts thoughts into order, in a manner of speaking, it enlightens a person's thinking, and thus he can't help himself but to think and speak as is right. His intellect starts to function in the right way, and one can therefore speak of virtuous thinking which is in accordance to God's will, which can result in many blessings for fellow human beings, because the former will never speak anything but good and on behalf of God and is therefore also especially blessed. And God will always guide his thoughts correctly if he wants to speak on His behalf and His kingdom .... Hence, the divine spirit certainly works in every person yet not so conspicuously that God expresses Himself through a person's mouth .... that therefore the divine voice Itself speaks in a person, who indeed speaks on behalf of God and His kingdom, yet not as an obvious instrument which is consciously of service to Him ....

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The inner Word .... Light .... Truth ....

B.D. 5461b from August 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I certainly speak mentally with many people who desire to hear Me, and they can indeed consider themselves addressed by Me, yet there are also instances when I manifest Myself in extraordinary ways for the sake of a special mission .... But these extraordinary instances do not infer that all mental knowledge of a person, even it corresponds to My will, was imparted to him through the 'inner Word' .... It concerns the transference of the pure truth to earth .... This requires a state which excludes all error; hence a person, who receives the pure truth from Me through the inner Word, must first have shaped himself such that he is able to hear the Word, audibly or mentally .... Time and again I have to emphasise the fact that I know a person's heart and can only assign a mission to him if he is capable of accomplishing it. And I only rarely find this ability because people's willingness to love is only small and only love can develop the ability in a person to accept spiritual messages. In the last days it has become urgently necessary that the truth should be conveyed to people because almost every religious dogma has been distorted. To convey truth therefore means: to correct misguided teachings and to explain the correlation of everything in existence; to bring people the truth means to provide people with a right concept of their Creator and Father so that they will believe in Him and be able to love Him ....

Through the transference of truth it is intended that people learn to think and conduct themselves correctly and to comply with their purpose of earthly life.

The truth is something so hotly disputed that it is truly not easy to give it to all people, for as long as people don't desire it seriously or if they fail to recognise it, it will therefore be rejected by those who think wrongly because they live entirely without love. For love and truth cannot be separated because they are the eternal Deity's concepts .... Hence, it should be understandable to you that the transference of the pure truth to a person requires very special abilities, that not everyone is suitable for it, although I would like to impart the truth to every person I cannot do so by means of My direct speech, because not every person is able to hear Me since his soul is not shaped such that it can perceive spiritual sounds with its spiritual ear. Only few people are capable of this and of these few only some individuals offer their services, and this mission of receiving the truth form Me and spreading it on My instructions is only possible in free will. And again I reiterate that light is meant to be spread .... that the spiritual darkness on earth motivates Me to send light to people, but light always signifies knowledge of the pure truth .... I want to illuminate people's spiritual state, hence I must convey the kind of information to them which corresponds to the truth. And this is only possible by revealing Myself through My direct communication to a person who is suitable to accept it. But merely the will to be of service to Me is not enough, it also requires the faculty of hearing .... not everyone who has the will is suitable, just as, vice versa, the soul's ability to understand My Word is not decisive if the will to be of service to Me is lacking. Therefore it follows that I have only a few servants and handmaidens who are able to achieve this mission, but that I take particular care of these few and won't allow them to be prevented from implementing their mission, because this is urgently required during the last days before the end, when only the pure truth can guard against the fall into the abyss, and therefore the pure truth has to be conveyed by Me to earth so that all those of good will can still be saved ....

Amen

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The divine law: Serving in love ....

B.D. 5462 from August 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Only one law counts in heaven and on earth: To serve in love .... A serving love is infinitely blissful, it is a wanting to please in infinite many ways. Whether on earth or in the spiritual kingdom: Anyone who serves in love has reached a degree of maturity where the one becomes aware that he is seized by God's love, and this blissful certainty stimulates the one into ever more eager activity in love, and the one now fulfills his actual purpose of his own accord, because now the divine will also fills the one through God's presence, which is the certain result of the working in love. Where ever the law of love is fulfilled, everything is also in divine order, for the law is built on love .... Disorder only occurs where love is lacking, because negative forces are at work where the divine power of love cannot become effective. There, however, decay, decline, destruction and chaos can also be recognized. Love, then, is the sustaining, the constructing, the promoting and the ordering power .... It can be absent or also be turned into the opposite .... But the creatures then step out of the order and are unhappy. And every unkind action destroys what love builds up, that is why you humans should be extremely careful that you don't want to make yourselves weak, hat you don't want to deprive yourselves of the strength you have at your disposal when you live in love. Love is strength and always has a positive effect, which is why it is also exceedingly blissful. Nevertheless, love can also seemingly inflict wounds, but then eternal recovery is the aim, and thus it nevertheless remains love ....

And this is why Eternal Love sometimes resorts to means which appear unloving in order to ensure eternal healing for its living creatures, this is why God's salvation plan includes events that do not reveal God's love and yet are determined by His infinite love .... But where disorder has occurred, order must be created again, the principle of love must prevail in heaven and on earth if the living creatures are to be granted a blissful fate. Everyone should serve and please each other, love should be the driving force for all actions, then God, Who is present in every work of love, will always be present, and then no harm can be found but bliss and peace instead will reign where there is love ....

Amen

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The will determines one's thoughts .... Responsibility ....

B.D. 5463 from August 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Thoughts are born out of the human being's will, for according to one’s will, the spiritual forces in the beyond can work and direct their thought-currents towards the human being .... Thoughts are always expressions of those forces which are accepted where the human being's will corresponds to the one of the spiritual transmitter .... Hence the spiritual forces intervene in organic activity as soon as the human being himself forms thoughts .... and the content of these thoughts is the spiritual material which the spiritual forces possess. And thus the human being's thinking is stimulated by these spiritual forces, as it were, only they cannot have a compulsory effect on the human being's thinking but, instead, the spiritual forces become active according to the good or evil will, so that it is therefore up to the human being himself which spiritual knowledge he mentally accepts, whether it touches him from the kingdom of light or from the kingdom of darkness, whether it is truth or error, for through his direction of will he himself also determines the beings who impart their thought -material to him. The will determines one’s thinking .... So the human being is responsible for one’s own thinking. And therefore there is only one way to be relieved of one’s responsibility: That the human being trustingly hands himself over to God and the beings of the light-world so that his wanting and thinking will be directed correctly .... Thus the human being need not fear misleading thoughts, he then will be guided and led into a right thinking, light-beings will then take over responsibility, and they will truly exert the influence only on the human being that promotes good and right thoughts. He needs not fear anything if he commends himself to the heavenly Father before every decision, before every activity in thought that requires right thinking, if he appeals to all good beings for protection and help. His thinking will then be right, for the beings of darkness will thus not find access, they then will not be able to cause confusion in whatever area. A good will turned towards God protects the human being from erroneous thinking.

You humans, however, still have hours when your thoughts, i.e. your will, is again turned towards the world and this is used by God's adversary to invalidate what good beings have imparted in you. Doubts then set in, and the opposing forces then take immediate effect. A worldly desire can hand you over to these opposing forces, for the bond with God, with the light-world, that is, is loosened by every thought that is still directed towards the world, by every desire that does not have spiritual aims. For this reason every person should observe himself to what extent he is still earthly-minded; in decisive questions, he should loosen every earthly bond as much as possible, he should without reserve devote himself to the spiritual light-world, and he will then be certain to be cared for by it always, he will speak and think as is right before God and also feel the inner firmness as soon as he represents the thought material which was imparted to him in this union ....

Amen

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Redemption of the souls from the depth .... A ray of light .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5464 from August 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

It is indescribably blissful to have opened the gates into the kingdom of light for a soul who was still held back by dark forces and was wretched before. It was not God's grace that opened the way for it, but it’s will turned towards the light, and His grace helped it to escape the darkness. The darkness must release every soul who longs for light itself. It is an everlasting effort on the part of the light-world to awaken the desire for light in those beings. That is why rays of light flash everywhere, also in the abyss, but they do not beneficially touch all beings, just those whose resistance towards God has somewhat diminished, and for these souls the rays of light also shine occasionally because God knows when the time has come, when the souls are accessible to the light. But the light never applies force, it only stimulates the souls' will to follow the ray of light. The beings of the light then step into the path of these souls, unrecognized that is, but offering them their help, and it is then again up to the souls whether they accept the help .... Still, they often remain in resistance, and then it is again dark around them, and they now feel this darkness even more agonizing, and their desire for light becomes ever stronger. But just as darkness torments a soul, the time for it to receive light is no longer far away .... And the already more mature souls around it eagerly endeavor to provide it with light. For souls who enjoy the bliss of light themselves turn again and again to those souls of the depth in full mercy. Love grows with the abundance of light they receive themselves, and therefore a redemption of the souls from the abyss will also certainly take place.

But since the free will of every being has to become active itself, often a long time passes .... Yet indescribable joy is felt by the helpers when they have succeeded in drawing a soul into their circle and their hardship has now come to an end .... For now there is one more helper who participates in the redemption work. To have helped a single soul also means to have again prepared its followers the path which leads upwards. For every rescued soul whose love now has certainly been kindled, wants again to help its own and it remembers the hardship of those in the abyss. And its will to help will never remain unsuccessful because it evaluates its own experience and starts where it has suffered itself .... that it preaches faith in Jesus Christ to all those it wants to help .... If the distress of a soul who has been instructed about this becomes unbearable, in its distress it nevertheless then turns to Him itself, Who has been presented to it as the Redeemer .... in its great distress it calls and finds granting. For Jesus Christ only waits for the call which expresses the soul's will, in order to help it. His name is the greatest strength and the greatest mystery .... also faith in Him can still be found in the spiritual kingdom, and every light-soul endeavors to awaken this faith, its love gives it strength, and it will not diminish until the kingdom of light again opens its gates for those who desire to ascend from the abyss, for Jesus Christ's mercy and love is infinite, and His salvation work is continued in the spiritual kingdom because He wants all His creatures to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Spiritual hardship can only be remedied by spreading the pure Gospel ....

B.D. 5465 from August 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Only the concern for people's spiritual state must be taken seriously, for this concern has to be remedied by people themselves. By no means can pressure be exercised but instead the human being's free will has to decide to actively work for the soul's maturity, and this free will can indeed be influenced, but never be forced. But in the last days the human being completely submits himself of his own free will to his adversary; this is why the souls' state of maturity is particularly dismal and My love accomplishes little, the end comes ever closer and the earthly world with all its attractions and goods will perish; and only the souls will remain, which are in such dreadful shape that they cannot be admitted into My kingdom since due to their attitude they are part of My adversary and therefore Satan's servants. Only a few have reached the degree of maturity because their will had turned to Me of its own accord and therefore people also recognise Me. Their souls' became receptive to light, they recognised the importance of their earthly task and lived their life on earth accordingly. The general public, however, lives superficially and does not consider the soul's life after death because it does not believe in it. And that is the great hardship which motivates Me to send a light amongst people everywhere, to instruct My messengers everywhere to proclaim My Gospel and to lead people back to faith, which is absolutely essential so that people will be able to turn to Me when they are in trouble.

Nevertheless, whoever wants to spread light must have received it from Me Myself first .... I can only use those people for the distribution of the Gospel who have light themselves, who let themselves be permeated by Me with the light of eternal life, with the one and only Truth. I cannot send everyone into the world, for even if there is good will to work for Me, only the spreading of the truth is useful and that can only be received from Me Myself, i.e. a human being can only realise the truth if My spirit is able to work in him, and this working of the spirit necessitates the fulfilment of conditions. However, everyone who is willing to fulfil these conditions is accepted by Me as a labourer in My vineyard. For there is great hardship on earth, and I only want to control this hardship through My faithful servants on earth, time and again I want to awaken people who receive My Word directly and pass it on to those who are willing to listen to it. People's souls are in great danger, they are completely immature and soon will have to depart from this earth .... Their state of maturity, however, determines their fate in eternity. Only My pure Gospel can still save people and raise their state of maturity. For it originates from Me, it harbours spiritual strength and can have a revitalising effect on the souls, providing the human being willingly allows himself to be affected by the strength of the divine Word .... He will bless the hour when My Word was made accessible to him, for only My Word can save the soul from eternal death ....

Amen

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Testing the power of the divine Word in an adversity ....

B.D. 5466 from August 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

When you are in distress, when you are burdened by spiritual or earthly worries, you all should test the power of My Word. My Word will always be the right help for you, it will convey comfort and strength to you, it will lift you up, it will be a counsellor you can truly rely on, for I Myself am with you in the Word and I will never leave you without help, without advice and without strength. My Word will also show you the path you ought to take in order to get rid of your worry, through My Word I will also tell you when and where you act wrongly and how you can get back on the right path when you have left it. My Word is always the bond between us, and if you thus accept My Word within you, you draw Me to yourselves, and you will then also present your heartfelt concerns to Me, I can gain insight into your world of thoughts because you let Me be present in you the moment you listen to My Word in your desire for Me. Try it out if you are burdened with worries of any kind .... Take refuge in My Word and the burden will fall off you, your heart will become light and free if you sincerely desire that I Myself speak to you. The power of My Word is strong enough to take away the burdens that weigh you down. My Word is My address to you which will truly touch you in such a way that you will be relieved of all worries and anxiety, you just have to let it take effect on you, you have to let Me speak to you, because I would like to give you comfort and strength at all times but can only do so if I am approached for it actively. But anyone who takes refuge in My Word in the adversity of body and soul professes faith in My love and My might to be able to help the one, and the one will certainly be helped. Let Me speak to you again and again by the Word so that I can now influence you with My grace and My power.

The bond you enter into with Me in the desire to hear Me Myself in the Word will also enable you to grasp everything I want to say to you, you will recognize your faults, you will recognize the cause of your worries and My will will become apparent to you as to how you can deal with your faults and weaknesses .... I help you in word and deed to master your worries, for all evil will only come upon you that you take refuge in Me and appeal for help to Me and that you listen to Me when I speak to you .... I am with you personally in the Word, and therefore My Word will fill you with strength the moment you need such ....

Amen

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Satan rages with increased power .... Last days ....

B.D. 5467 from August 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The signs pointing to the end will grow .... And Satan's activity will emerge ever more distinctly, for all those who are striving towards Me will get to feel his hostile actions. He will try to plunge them into doubt and confusion, and often not without success. Even so, I will protect My Own and highlight his activity so that it will be evident to anyone who seriously aims towards Me. They are the signs of the time, for the forces of darkness work incessantly because the end is approaching .... Therefore I say to you: watch and pray and simply turn to Me at all times, then he will not be able to harm you. Light and darkness fight each other because the darkness hates the light and will therefore always manifest itself as a shadow where a bright light is shining. But I also have the power to dispel such shadows, and the light will shine brighter than ever. Yet you may never enjoy harmony, it will remain a constant battle with My adversary for as long as you live on earth. Up to the end he will make an effort to harm you because he knows that he has lost you, and because he believes he can regain you again. Hostilities on the part of his enslaved followers will mount ever more the brighter you shine, which he can see full well. Nevertheless, he hates the light because he hates the truth, and as a result he fights the truth .... Therefore, for as long as your effort on earth is to spread the truth, to carry My Word to your fellow human beings, he will also pursue you as an enemy and will try to corrupt you. And he will publicly attack the truth, he will try to defame you all, who support the truth, he will portray you as imposters in order to also undermine the spiritual information you advocate .... and yet, he will not succeed against you because I Myself stand behind you and the truth. However, he will succeed in scattering you, My representatives, he will succeed in isolating you because cooperation is not to his liking since he expects to be more successful by fighting the individual. Yet even then I will still protect the light, the pure truth, which he will not be able to invalidate. However, you should watch and pray .... for you are always at risk of weakening if you don't call upon Me for protection against all hostilities by the adversary. For the end is near, and even if he rages with increased power .... his time has come to be bound, as it is written. And the truth will prevail and help everyone towards beatitude who listens and accepts the light which I let shine in order to help them escape the spiritual darkness, the night of death, to attain light, to attain life and, through the truth, become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Forces of heaven are unusually active .... Help from people ....

B.D. 5468 from August 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

In times of deepest spiritual hardship all the forces of heaven are active to help people on earth. Without such spiritual help they hopelessly sink down into the abyss, without spiritual help the forces of darkness pull them down, for unassisted they are weak-willed and do not fight for their spiritual life. The soul's life is in danger and help can therefore only be brought to people spiritually. And therefore the beings of light try to intervene in people's thoughts and spur them on to fight against their spiritual downfall .... they try to influence the human being so that the one learns to recognize the world for what it is, so that he recognizes its worthlessness and its transience .... Only then will the human being think about what exists outside the earthly world, what will happen to him after the death of his body. Yet the light beings do not often succeed in awakening such thoughts in people unless they are helped by a fellow human being who comes forward with such questions and thoughts where several people are gathered, unless areas are touched upon in the form of conversations which then give rise to questions and thus enable the light beings to enter people's thoughts. All forces of heaven are active and truly work diligently on sick the humanity as soon as their work is supported by a human being on earth, but this can only happen when devout people turn their faith outwards so that it can be recognized by fellow human beings. A sincerely believing person cannot keep silent about his faith to his fellow human beings because it makes him happy and fills him with the desire to be able to pass it on to everyone. A person must first be penetrated himself before he passes on of it out of inner impulse. And that’s why the light-beings will first express themselves where they recognize the willingness to be taught, and they will not miss such an opportunity because they can now impart to countless souls what they lack. For the open-minded person will not miss any opportunity to pass on what he has received and what makes him happy. The activity of the spirit-world is exceedingly active in the last time before the end, for at the same time it is also a counteraction against satan, who unscrupulously seeks to misguide people and is also supported by his servants. It is a battle that will not cease and will flare up particularly fiercely in the last days. But according to God's will the light-beings appear in an unusual way and where there is only the slightest possibility to achieve spiritual success, He Himself assists in an extraordinary way now and then. It is a matter of snatching the soul from death, of awakening it to life and keeping it alive .... And He blesses all in heaven and on earth who work for it, who become active in order to save souls from eternal ruin, and because the time until the end is not long anymore, He often assists where only a willing soul offers to be active for Him. But everything must proceed within the framework of nature, the law of eternal order must not be bypassed. But you humans need only to be wanting and you will be helped, you will be able to escape satan’s power, for the light-beings are always willing and will meet you with great love; similarly, people on earth are also willing to take part in the redeeming work and to provide enlightenment where it is required .... The end is near and, with it, the last Judgment .... but beforehand, God's mercy seeks to save those who still walk in darkness, and powerful is His love and His might, and no-one needs to be lost... yet He does not use force, for a person's will is free ....

Amen

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Everyone can hear God's speech .... in form of thoughts ....

B.D. 5469 from August 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I impart to you the Word of love, of comfort and of encouragement, and wherever you lack knowledge I will always enlighten you, but you must establish a connection with Me yourselves otherwise I cannot speak to you .... However, My speech will not always be heard by you, rather, your thoughts will noticeably shape themselves in such a way as I want to speak to you, providing you pay attention to it and wait until My communication has been received by you. For this much I want to say to you: As soon as you merely think of Me, speak to Me in prayer or call upon Me for help My love will already be with you .... You will not speak in vain, but I hear all your thoughts and will also answer you. However, only few people wait for My answer, only few people are so profoundly devout that they are convinced of My reply, therefore I can only seldom make Myself known to a person so that he can recognise My clear answer in his feelings and thoughts .... Not a single word you speak to Me in deep devotion goes astray, and not a single word will be left unanswered by Me ....

Even so, your soul very often disregards something which would make it extremely happy. You have not developed your spiritual ear as yet and therefore don't perceive the response of My love .... All those of you who make contact with Me in heartfelt prayer can consider yourselves addressed by Me .... but if you also want to understand My speech, which you all yearn to hear, then you must train your spiritual ear, for you all should strive to achieve this task, because it would make your earthly life considerably easier since it is truly blissful to be able to hear My speech which, without exception, applies to all those of you who enter into heartfelt communication with Me. You would all draw much strength and comfort from My speech, which will only ever be perceived by you in the form of feelings and thoughts, which could provide you with inner serenity and the feeling of security, hence you would truly be comforted and strengthened by My Fatherly love which constantly applies to all of His children. Consequently you should, after you have prayed to Me in spirit and in truth, wait and remain in thought of Me and you will sense My presence, and your soul will receive the gift of My Fatherly love .... For I draw all those towards Me who call upon Me, who enter into heartfelt conversation with Me, and I want to give to them whatever makes them happy ....

Amen

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A guarantee of God's presence: Works of love .... Acceptance of the Word ....

B.D. 5470 from August 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I am always present to you as soon as you carry out a work of love. And this shall also be your guarantee that you then will also think and speak correctly, because I Myself will not allow your mouth to express error. Therefore, a good person who always endeavors to fulfill My commandment of love cannot possibly think wrongly .... But one thing is certainly possible: That he was previously led into a wrong knowledge and does not ponder about it, as to whether it is actually the truth .... that he therefore represents teachings as truth because the right truth has not yet been conveyed to him and he does not doubt it. But then only one impulse, an awakening of his intellect is enough and he will now be taught by the spirit within, the way it corresponds to the truth. I Myself also allow doubts to arise in people who are lovingly active in order to then be able to convey the truth to them through My Spirit. But by means of perception, he will always come close to the truth because his activity in love guarantees it, because I Myself am in him when he carries out works of love ....

This is why you, My servants on earth, will rarely encounter resistance from loving people when proclaiming the pure gospel but, on the contrary, you will experience great resistance where the person is without love .... And this is self-evident because I Myself am Love and also Truth .... My adversary, however, is of a dark spirit and devoid of all love and, therefore, the characteristics of that one who can work in the human being are quite obvious .... Without love, therefore, truth can neither be recognized nor accepted, and thus your first endeavor should be to convey the teaching of love to your fellow human beings, to draw their attention to the effect of a life of love and the consequences of the opposite, for love is and remains the fundamental principle without which there can be no truth and also no faith. To know everything else is not as necessary than to be aware that no one can become blessed without love. But as soon as a person lives by love, other knowledge will also be made accessible to the one and he will recognize the truth of it by means of a bright spirit, because the presence of love in him is the key to wisdom. You can achieve everything once you live by love .... You attract Me through every work of love and, together with Me, the truth at the same time, the knowledge about spiritual correlations; you will be introduced to the deepest secrets and will also be able to understand them, because your spirit is enlightened through love and brightly and clearly informs you of everything that makes you happy and promotes your spiritual development. Therefore practice neighborly love and thereby be found close to Me Myself, and you will truly feel My closeness to be blissful, for I will give you everything you need and which will help you to become blessed ....

Amen

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Shortening of the days .... No shortage for people ....

B.D. 5471 from August 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

People's spiritual development is only progressing minimally, a frightening state has occurred, only a few people are increasing their degree of maturity but the entirety remains on the same level with visible deviations downwards. And if in the eternal salvation plan the end of this earth would not have been foreseen, even the people with a higher degree of maturity would be thrown back into the abyss again. But God has shortened the days for the sake of the elect .... The complete degeneration and apostasy from God can no longer be stopped, therefore a shortening of the days is no longer a shortcoming for the fallen humanity, yet it is still a salvation for those who are only able to hold their own with difficulty, who have to struggle terribly in order to resist the onslaught from below. Humanity is heading towards the end because it is accelerating it itself, because the days are being shortened for the sake of the believers' salvation; it is just accelerating the end because it is clearly recognizable that there is no longer any salvation for people and therefore the days are not being shortened for them so that they could still become blessed .... They have finally decided in favor of God's adversary, and that’s why His children only, shall still be helped so that they will be able to withstand the last tribulation on this earth. And so salvation will come suddenly and unexpectedly for these children of God .... before they falter, for satan will not stop until he is bound .... All possibilities will be exhausted beforehand to still promote the spiritual development of people .... but to no avail, as God knows from eternity .... People will not be accessible to any admonition and warning, they only know one aim, to live on earth in joy and enjoyment .... and everything that could hinder them from doing so they reject and are hostile towards it. They mock God and even more so His servants. The time has come of which it is written, "It will be as in the days of Noah, they ate and drank and courted and let themselves be married .... until the day of judgment.” People truly lose nothing anymore when the earth is destroyed, for what they possess is worthless this way, and what is of value they no longer strive for, but the sooner the life of these people is ended, the sooner they start on the path that will one day lead upwards again .... It is no longer an extended time, for for the sake of the elect the days will be shortened .... Remember this when you, who want to remain faithful to God, find your living conditions unbearable, keep in mind that you will receive strength to persevere until the end and that this end will not tarry, for the promise that God will shorten the days for the sake of the elect will be fulfilled in order to help them attain eternal bliss ....

Amen

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An explanation of cases of possession ....

B.D. 5472 from August 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I always want to instruct My children correctly and give them knowledge, and it is My will that they also instruct those who are ignorant: It is a great danger for people if, in cases of earthly adversity, they do not turn to Me personally but want to master their adversity with their own strength and dogged defiance and thus actually succeed .... But then it was not their own strength but their attitude, the unconscious inner rejection of Myself, allowed the forces of darkness to supply them with strength from below and thus also to seize the human being's soul in order to gain ever more and more influence. The human being need not be recognizable as bad on the outside, but by pride and arrogance and in earthly wealth the signs are recognizable that the power from below has taken possession of the one. Omission of good deeds with no self-interest, insensitivity towards the hardship of fellow human beings and excessive hedonism always reveal the worldly person who has no relationship with Me but who cannot be proven to have openly violated the law either .... Before his fellow human beings the one appears as proper and just but his soul is without love and without faith in Me. And his end is not a blissful one, the earth keeps him bound, he still desires its goods in the beyond because he has nothing else and his worldly greed was big .... Thus this human being was bound by dark forces and yet, they did not succeed in making his soul submissive to the extent that he committed downright evil actions. True, they prevented him from reaching Me but they did not have him completely in their possession as yet .... And therefore they now try to continue their efforts where the same dispositions, the same thinking and weak will can be recognized, which is most likely to be found amongst the earthly descendants; and this can be successful for many generations, but a thinking turned towards Me can also weaken their (his) effect or make it completely impossible. These people can also be oppressed just temporarily, but then so strongly that one can speak of a case of possession. These forces rage particularly badly when they recognize their unsuccessfulness, when people strive towards Me again and again in their thinking and wanting. And this can be possible as long as the soul of the former has not yet found redemption, as long as it allows these forces to take abode in what originates from it through its own wrong wanting and desire. People themselves could indeed free themselves through heartfelt prayer to Me, through a living connection and profound faith .... Yet this they lack and reject My gifts of strength, influenced by those forces which fiercely fight for the souls. But as soon as the soul is redeemed in the beyond the power of the dark force is also broken. And therefore I especially urge you to help those souls because they are too weak on their own .... Give them knowledge of Me and My love, that they will call upon Me for help and this will be granted to them and, at the same time, the souls on earth who are under the influence of the forces which were once granted power over a person who did not call upon Me for help but drew the strength from My adversary in order to master the earthly life, will also find deliverance.

Amen

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The saving of just one single soul .... A large mobilization ....

B.D. 5473 from August 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The work which you, My servants, have offered to carry out is not yet complete. There are still isolated people whose souls are willing to accept My Word and still, My Word has not yet been conveyed to all of these souls .... But I will not rest until the last soul to be saved has found its way to Me, and no sooner will I let the Judgment come upon the earth until then, because every soul is unspeakably dear to Me and I want to win it before the end comes. But the judgment is imminent .... So you, My servants, have the task to eagerly keep an eye out for how you can still win souls. You must not let any opportunity pass by you, and if just one thought arises in you you should also carry it out, for it is My voice which directs you hereto and there, which you should follow as soon as it sounds within you. And don't fear that you might lack the strength to do what you want to do for Me and My kingdom .... Just be willing to serve Me and you will always receive strength .... And know that everything will come about as it is advantageous for your mission. You have given yourselves into My hand and I truly guide you right; by your will you have given Me the right to guide you and thus can also be unconcerned for you no longer go wrong, even though it sometimes seems you do. Your earthly life unfolds according to the task of being active for Me and My kingdom. The time of your proper activity though still lies ahead of you, for I need you by your full commitment, and you will also gladly do your work because you master what I demand of you. Don't forget that just one soul can already move Me into an act of salvation which requires My helpers' great work, because a single soul possesses My love to an extent which is incomprehensible to you humans, and that a single soul, if I can win it, will cost a large mobilization of light beings and people on earth and yet, nothing is too much for Me if it is saved thereby from satan’s shackles. But I know these few souls which can still be saved and will lead them to you or let you take the path to them. And therefore always feel guided by Me wherever you go .... I know where work can be performed for Me and My kingdom, I know where your redeeming activity is needed and I know where you can have success. I will not leave one single soul in its spiritual distress which is still capable of change, for its salvation is My gain, its life is My bliss ....

Amen

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Participation in the redemption work ....

B.D. 5474 from August 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

It is not to be a law for you but you ought to serve with an inner joy and participate in the redemption work. Not the promise of a reward should motivate you to that but love should urge you to do what helps the souls on earth or in the beyond to be released from satan’s bondage. An unselfish will to help will always result in success, because love then is the strength which achieves everything. And thus you will always receive My blessing if you want to help completely unselfishly .... And My blessing means that I Myself will help where your strength is too weak. There are many unredeemed souls who have no one on earth to remember them with love. And therefore the path to the light is infinitely difficult for these souls, and they become ever more obstinate where they should give up their resistance in order to reach the light. But I show them all the path they have to take, but again, I can only do it in such a way that they don’t compulsorily recognize that path as the right one. I certainly do send them messengers of the light but they are not recognized by them as such, and therefore they are rarely listened to and their teachings are not accepted as a gain of success. But these souls can only be guided onto the right path by means of instruction, and since they don't believe those and have to put up without the strength of intercession they remain in darkness for an infinite long time .... You, who help in the salvation work, I inform of their hardship in order to stimulate your hearts to intercede, but which I, in turn, do not demand of you, because only a prayer of love gives strength to those souls, but love cannot be demanded. Yet I describe the hardship of these souls to you as immense and yet you cannot measure their torment from which I would like to release them and also want to do so if you contribute to it, if you give them loving thoughts and want to help them from within .... An unbending will can thereby become soft, a hard defiant spirit can become pliable and draw strength from you because you want to help it. Consider that you are all children of My love and that you are all close to My heart .... but that you, who dwell close to Me, are far more blessed than your brothers who languish far away from Me in powerlessness and darkness .... Carry light to them, impart strength to them, for you who receive abundantly from Me, can give to them, and love shall stimulate you to do so, you will thus prove that you are My children, that I Myself can work in you, as it were. And then the work on the fallen brothers will not be in vain, you will then show them a path which they will willingly take and I will stretch out My hands towards them so that they will safely reach the destination .... so that they, too, will return to the father's house they once left voluntarily ....

Amen

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The assistance of human beings in the beatification of creatures ....

B.D. 5475 from August 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I am close to all of you who long for Me heartfelt, My flow of grace flows to all of you, I take a hold of all of you with My love, and I truly give you the bread of heaven for the proper strengthening of your soul. I am within you and with you .... You are all My children because you childlike ask for the presence of the Father, because you speak to Him in your adversity and implore His grace. And just as you offer Me your heart, I will likewise accept you into My heart; of this you can all be certain who believe in Me and seek contact with Me. Yet not everyone approaches Me like this, and that is because they lack the faith in a God of love, in a Father Who longs for His children. And My desire for these apostate children is so tremendous that I constantly try to win them back, for My love cannot change forever and applies to everything I have created. But you came forth from the same love and therefore must feel intimately united with those who are far away from Me. You are more likely to have access to them because they can see you whereas they cannot see Me ....

Do you understand now that I place My hope in you, that you help Me win those children for Me? I must in no way prove Myself to them as existing, I must step back until they have gained faith in Me .... But you may step forward at any time, you can get in touch with them at any time and try to lead them to faith by sharing your inner experiences with them, by trying to convey to them what you have received already from Me .... I am indeed still with you and also in the midst of those who don't want to acknowledge Me as the Father and God .... yet their hearts are still closed, and thus I can only be present outside of them but never within them and thus cannot have the effect I would like to have for them from within My love. I have been wrestling for the souls for an infinite long time and My love has not yet diminished and will not cease, ever, for I cannot help but embrace everything with My love because I Myself am Love. And that’s why it makes Me blissful to always give, to bestow, to liberate and to redeem .... I constantly seek to please and will never stop bringing help to the bound one until one day it will allow itself to be saved by its own free will ....

I am a Being Who can only ever be blissful, because there is nothing which could dominate Me or impair My working .... My ultimate aim for what I have created is bliss, and My everlasting activity to achieve this aim is also bliss .... for I clearly foresee that I will reach My aim, and since I cannot rest there will never be a standstill as well, insofar as My activity would remain unsuccessful .... from the point of view of you humans because you don't know My eternal salvation plan. But nothing disappoints Me because I am aware of everything and because every event already presupposes the next one. Yet I always let everything created by Me participate in the process which is to bring back the lost to Me. Likewise, you humans in an elevated stage of maturity are also active helpers to Me, and your bliss is also dependent on it. You, too, do not only live for yourselves but for those creatures who ought to be redeemed through you .... But since you have already found Me yourselves, it is your own inner urge to also show the path to Me to others as well, to lead them to Me and also together with Me to rejoice in the bliss of those who were previously wretched. It is a work of compassionate love which you do to them, and it is a work of heartfelt filial love which you do to Me .... that you bring “children” to Me who were lost and for whom I long. Everyone who feels called to do so has made a covenant with Me and I will bless the one for it. You all are My children and stand in My grace, and if you commend yourselves to Me I will watch over you and not let you go astray. The world may well judge but I never judge eternally, only that who resists Me, judges itself because it then cannot be touched by My ray of love and is therefore wretched .... Yet even this wretched one will be blessed one day, for My love will not let anything become lost forever ....

Amen

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The awakening to life .... The duration of time .... 1000 years like one day ....

B.D. 5476 from August 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I want you all to become blessed .... that you will find your way out of the state of death into eternal life. I want it, and I will also achieve it, for My love is your guarantee for this, which applies to you for all eternity .... Yet you must also do your part, you must want to live, you must not feel comfortable in the state of death or you will not be able to escape it. Therefore you yourselves determine the duration of the state in which you still live, the state of lifelessness, even though you still possess earthly life. But your spirit is dead and I want to awaken it to life so that you will be eternally happy. I promise you eternal life but I do not determine your will .... And for that reason you can live but also reject My offer. Hence, as long as you oppose Me with your will you cannot be blissfully happy either, and therefore My love is always intent on changing your will, on always guiding your thinking in such a way that you recognize the state you are in and voluntarily change it. And this can only be achieved by supplying you with the truth, which you can still reject indeed which can also cause you to reflect, which already signifies a gain. And therefore I will never cease to give people the truth, I will constantly give what can bring a spiritual advantage to you humans, for even if the greatest number of people still reject My gift there are always some who accept it and to whom I can bestow eternal life again .... But for Me time does not exist, for Me a thousand years are like one day .... and whatever I don't achieve on this earth a new redemption period shall bring about, to change the will of those who are still opposed to Me until they long for My love and strive towards Me of their own accord .... For I will not rest until the last spiritual being that once originated from Me has found its way back to Me. My will is unchangeable, My love never ends, and My wisdom and might creates all the possibilities for the return of the spiritual being. But its will determines the time .... it can remain distant from Me for endless times and thus be doomed to spiritual death for endless times, but once it will awaken to life .... Once it knows and acknowledges Me as God and Father from eternity, and it will then also make use of every opportunity to reach Me, and it will then live an eternal life in bliss ....

Amen

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Support by forces of heaven in the redeeming work ....

B.D. 5477 from September 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You only have a short time left to work in My name. Yet this time can still be well utilized because all the forces of heaven support you and therefore you will not carry out unsuccessful work. The spiritual community of those who want to be active in redemption will be increased from the spiritual side; each one of you will have helping forces at one’s side which the one cannot see but which will guide and direct him to those who are in spiritual need. Each one of you is spiritually cared for and influenced, as it were. His activity therefore does not only rest on his shoulder but it is carried by beings full of light to whom the will of redemption is inherent and who therefore determine every human being of equal will for the right and blessed work. There will be no standstill because you have the will to serve Me and to be co-workers in the redemption of erring souls .... And yet, you will have to overcome obstacles because My adversary will use every opportunity to prevent you from this work, to hinder you and make you tired of fighting. He will try but you are not alone, and he will be no match for the light beings protecting you, and therefore it may well seem as if your work is not progressing, yet in the meantime the beings of light will continue to work until you have overcome the obstacles and can reconnect to beneficial activity again. The work you are to accomplish in the last time before the end is too important for Me as that I would seriously let endanger it. You will always act in accordance with My will, because you carry My will within yourselves through your willingness to help, which you always demonstrate to Me, and thus you can calmly allow yourselves to be guided by your feelings, which instruct you correctly and are always placed into your hearts personally by Me, to you who want to serve Me .... Just for a short time your activity will be as it has been until now .... Soon, however, changes will occur which would seem not yet credible to you today. Soon you will become more public, that is, larger circles will have knowledge of your spiritual activity and desire information, and you will be able to give it to them in My name, and I will bless you and your work. But as long as you are still active in secrecy you should use every opportunity to inform your fellow human beings that they live in the last days .... As often as you can you should mention it, for people will soon remember your words when everything will happen as you have predicted .... But for the present all powers of heaven will move, and wherever but one willing soul is found it will be seized by their love, and My grace will likewise take effect on those who do not resist and allow themselves to be taught by you. The time is approaching its end .... The time limit for this earth will soon have expired, yet extensive work still awaits you. Yet you need not accomplish anything on your own, I am always with you with My power of love, and the beings of the light will carry out what I instruct them to do .... they will protect you in adversity and danger, they will support you so that your work will not remain unsuccessful ....

Amen

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The blood of Christ .... Guilt of sin ....

B.D. 5478 from September 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

For you, My children on earth, I shed My blood; for you I took the most difficult path because I wanted to help you ascend from the abyss which you could never have left by yourselves .... for you I died on the cross .... The sacrifice I had wanted to offer God-Father was accepted, it was offered for you .... Thus you humans on earth shall gain from it; what I had begged from God and for which I made the sacrifice should benefit you earthly children, because in the state you were at the time I descended to earth you urgently needed help. But I also knew that not just the people during My life time on earth were in need; I knew that, as long as the earth exists, human beings could not fulfil their earthly task because they were too weak and I took pity on the whole of humanity, even those of the past and in the future, and I included all human beings in My act of Salvation, I gained unlimited blessings for all people, which they now can use in order to reach their goal on earth. Sacrificing My life was an act of utmost compassion, I had accepted a state of suffering entirely consciously and voluntarily, which I would have been unable to bear without the divine strength of love, but I took pity on humanity's awful distress and was willing to endure anything in order to help.

Although I knew that this act of Salvation would culminate in My Being's complete deification it was not the reason for My action. I was purely moved by My love for the suffering spirit which had deserted God, which was so very distant from God and therefore unhappy. Love filled Me with such might that I was able to find the strength therein for the act of mercy, that I suffered and died for humanity in excruciating physical pain. I sacrificed My life on the cross for My unhappy brothers who, like Me, had formerly come forth from God but who had left the path of their destiny. I knew the bliss of God's nearness and had mercy with the fallen wretched spirit .... But I also knew of God's love for all His living creations and wanted to bring back to Him what had voluntarily distanced itself from Him .... My love for God, as well as the love for everything which had emerged from Him, was overwhelming. Only because of this love had God accepted My sacrifice .... And My love asked God for forgiveness of the guilt which clung to the fallen and could not be redeemed in any other way, since it consisted of heartlessness.

Hence only love could make this sacrifice, and therefore it was not the death on the cross as such but the love for humanity which was proven by this death which was accepted by God as atonement .... I shed My blood for you humans and thus made

Amends for your actions, I took your sin upon Myself and suffered for it .... But you also have to do your part, you have to be willing to become redeemed by My crucifixion. You have to want that this act of grace was also achieved for you, you have to make use of the blessings by acknowledging Me and My act of Salvation and willingly join those for whom I have died on the cross. Without this acknowledgment and your will, you are and remain blemished by this guilt of sin and chained to him who has caused your fall. I have indeed accomplished the act of Salvation for all of you but only your own will can bring it into effect for you because you cannot be redeemed against your will from a sin which you voluntarily committed. You have to step beneath the cross of Christ, you have to acknowledge Me and call to Me, you have to confess your guilt to Me and request that I carry it on your behalf and remove it with My blood .... And all your guilt will be forgiven for the sake of My love ....

Amen

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Works of creation are solidified thoughts of God ....

B.D. 5479 from September 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I am present in every smallest living being, in every little plant, in every grain of sand, and there is nothing that is not inspired by Me, there is nothing that is not permeated by My power that gives proof of Myself. For nothing could exist without Me, nothing could remain in existence, because My power alone ensures the existence of that which came forth from Me. My power and My will brought into existence that what arose as a thought within Me. My will consolidated all thoughts, and they became a form which endures until My will withdraws and the spiritual substance, the power from Me, is turned into a new form. The form can change but the power within nevermore, ever, it can just increase and become effective in ever more colossal forms. Everything is power from Me, yet the power can become effective in different degrees, and this depends on the purpose which My wisdom has recognized as expedient. For nothing is without meaning and purpose what I let come into being, and where a purpose is to be achieved My love and wisdom determines every process which serves the achievement of the purpose. I always make and create with this aim in mind, for all the phases from the beginning to the end appear before My eyes in a flash .... And My will and My might carry out what Love and Wisdom recognize as purposeful. Whatever exists in the universe, nothing is created arbitrarily; My plan is determined in profound wisdom and My creative will won’t diminish, ever. New creations will arise constantly because My immense power wants to be active and will only ever be active in such a way that an aim will be achieved in a positive sense. For the power emanating from Me is love .... something unspeakably blissful, constructive and stimulating which can never let things arise which have a negative effect, even though a negative success might seemingly be recognized but which, seen in the right light of realization, still is and remains positive. For there is nothing in which My power is not involved, though a negative will can use this power in a wrong way which I allow, but even then only with the certain aim of a one-time reversal of this free will permitted by Me. For everything came into being in order to change a negative will, every visible creation work has the intended destiny of contributing towards changing a negative will into a positive one. And for this purpose I also dissolve material forms when they have fulfilled their purpose and form new ones again according to My will, but all of which have to serve My will in a positive way .... to direct the spiritual with a wrongly directed will towards the final aim, which is a complete change of will.

(9/4/1952) But contrary to My will, creations can also be dissolved by the human being who, as being in the last stage of development in the possession of a free will, thus can now act either way, according to My will but against it also. The spiritual in the human being then does this under a bad influence, it subordinates itself to the will of the opposing power which, having a wrongly directed will itself, wants to work destructively whereas My power has a constructive effect. Such destroyed creations release the spiritual, bound within them, prematurely which thus needs new forms again in order to be able to continue its course of development. And now My will is at work again to create these forms for it directly or also indirectly by people who carry My will within themselves, being active in creating and shaping according to their ability. The ability to create and shape gives proof of the original power slumbering within them, it proves the origin from Me. Yet the original purpose of the creatures which once came forth from Me was a different one, and they must irrevocably fulfill this original purpose, even though it may take eternities until they have reached the aim .... Thus everything was called into life by Me; yet not everything enjoys life, it sought death instead but cannot perish eternally, it can only remain in a state of death, as it were, but which shall be changed into life .... Yet I am also present in the seemingly dead, in the most solid matter, that is, because it would not be visible to you if My power were not within it. It’s just that its effectiveness is so small that this matter does not allow any change to be recognized for a long time; yet since My power is never completely without an effect, it nevertheless brings about a change even if only after an infinite long time. In cases of a decrease of the resistance of the wrongly directed will, My will also intervenes with increased power, to the extent that 'God'-willed destructions by natural forces thus give the spiritual substance the freedom in a shorter time, which then continues its course of development into new transformations of a lighter kind. My will is always decisive, and a certain order always underlies the emergence and passing away of My creation works, and My adversary is deprived of all power over creation works... But I gave a free will to the human being .... the one of which can be turned towards My adversary just as well than towards Me. And therefore My adversary uses his influence over the human being by trying to determine him to destroy that upon which he has no power. And he wants to destroy it because the spiritual in it matures and is lost to him who once drew it into the abyss from which I want to bring it back up again so that it can fulfill its original purpose, so that it can be permeated with an abundance of strength and now is inconceivably blissful ....

Amen

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Behold, I am with you on all the days ....

B.D. 5480 from September 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Behold, I am with you always until the end of the world .... I will not leave you humans alone because I know that you then would be lost, because you alone are incapable of fulfilling your earthly task .... I descended to earth because I knew from eternity that you were defenseless at the mercy of the one whose will called you into life by using divine power and because I wanted to help you against his bondage. I ascended into heaven again, as a human being I had to leave you, I could not remain with you humans in a bodily form forever but I promised you My Spirit which would remain with you until the end of the world .... I may no longer be amongst you physically but I am always and constantly with you spiritually so that you need never feel abandoned by the One Who can be a true helper for you in every adversity. Call upon Me so that you consciously put yourselves under My protection and also remain aware of My presence always, and you will master every earthly and spiritual adversity, for you will then do it together with Me and I will accompany you on every step, you will never be alone .... provided you don't want to be alone, and it is entirely up to you whom you want to join, Me or My adversary .... He will always be with you, he will harass you or lure you towards him .... But I am always ready to offer you protection against him, if that’s what you want. But since your will is decisive I will not visibly intervene if he oppresses you, instead, I will await your call which has to be sent up to Me in spirit and in truth in order to always be heard. I am with you until the end of the world .... What a comforting promise lies in these words that you need never feel lonely, that you will never be abandoned by the Power Who can and also wants everything because It loves you .... Who only waits for your call to make you happy with Its presence and to give you what you need .... Light and strength, love and grace in abundance ....

Amen

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God .... Father ....

B.D. 5481 from September 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Don't let Me be the distant God for you, to Whom you only pray for help at a specific time when humanly decreed instructions require you to do so, but call Me to you at any time, always let Me be close to you .... regard Me as the Father Who longs for His children with tender love, and speak to Me like a child speaks to its father .... fearlessly, trustingly and simple, so that My heart will take pleasure in the children's stammering. Only when you humans stop searching for Me in the distance, only when you sense My presence, will the right bond with Me have been established with the result .... that My love will take effect in you, who are My children and who should also avail yourselves of your childship. Then you will no longer walk alone on earth, then you will have the most loyal friend and helper by your side, then you will learn to think correctly and also make correct use of your earthly life, because then I will give you instructions which you will receive mentally and you will also act accordingly, for a true child carries out what its Father asks it to do ....

Learn to recognise the Father in Me .... For I want to be loved by you and not just feared as God .... Then you will also pray such that I can grant your prayer, because thereby you will be expressing your love and faith ....However, you will never speak as intimately and trustingly to God as you will be able to speak to the Father. For then you will only speak the words you learned traditionally, as laid down by ecclesiastical faith which can only too easily remain a formality, a prayer which is not sent up to Me in spirit and in truth. I do not grant lip-prayers, I want to be addressed as Father by My children, I want to hear your heart speaking, then I will also lovingly draw close to it and grant its prayer. Admittedly, you humans first have to learn to recognise a God and Creator of eternity in order to awaken faith in you, but then this faith must come alive through love .... you must learn to love God as your Father, then the relationship between us will not be a dead or formal one, then you will establish a heartfelt bond with Me, which I expect of you so that I will be able to embrace you with all My love. Then you will have taken a big step forward on the path to perfection, and then I will never ever let go of you again and My devoted Fatherly love will guide you towards the goal .... You will enter the eternal home, your Father's house, as My true children .... you will come into the Father's inheritance .... You will be able to work and create in light and strength like Me and in accordance with My will, and you will be indescribably happy ....

Amen

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Fatherly Words of blessing ....

B.D. 5482 from September 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You, My children, have My blessing. A bond of love shall embrace you, now and forever. No matter what earthly hardship still approaches you, submissively endure it in My will. Lift your eyes up to Me, from where help will always come. And let the spirit speak in you, it will always convey Words of love and solace from Me and you will sense that you are never alone, that I spread My hands upon you, that I take hold of you in love and lead you to the goal .... Yet also speak to your fellow human beings in favour of Me .... Remember that they suffer great hardship as long as they don’t possess Me Myself and help them to attain Me, help them to gain faith in Me, so that they, too, will trustingly look up to Me in every adversity. For I want to help all people, I want to pull all of them to My heart, I want to be the good Father Who guides and protects everyone, Who draws close to them as soon as a mere silent appeal penetrates through to Him. Promote Me and My kingdom amongst your fellow human beings, impart to them the Words you receive from Me and establish a faithful community together, become members of the church which I Myself founded on Earth, which is based on a firm and unwavering faith. Such a community will bring about many blessings because I Myself dwell in the midst of you if you remember Me with love, if you, by calling upon My name, let Me stay among you, as I have promised you with the Words: Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there Am I in the midst of them. And My Word is truth and therefore always assures you of My presence when your thoughts are with Me, when you speak to Me or about Me, when you long for Me with a loving heart. Then I will be with you and will place My hands upon your heads with a blessing .... My blessing follows you wherever you may go and My love grants you strength and grace ....

Amen

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Bread and wine .... the right food, the right drink ....

B.D. 5483 from September 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

An infinite beneficial effect emanates from the food which the heavenly Father offers you directly to strengthen your souls, to provide healing for sick souls, to make you all strong and resilient in the final battle on this earth. His sanctified Word strikes your ear and touches your heart, His sanctified Word resounds in its purity and truthfulness and sets the soul in vibrations directed upwards to the Father .... His sanctified Word entices the distant, the despondent and mourning find rest in hope, the sick find healing for their souls, His Word emanates a power that proves its outcome. He offers you the bread of heaven and blesses it to you who receive it with faith .... He breaks the bread for you and distributes it, He hands you the wine, the power of His Word .... You are in truth His guests to whom He gives the Lord's Supper if you receive His living Word from above, open your hearts and let it take effect on you. This bread from heaven is noble, and therefore it must not be mixed with inferior additives, it must remain pure the way it originated from God. And thus it can also be recognized as His Word because its effect is obvious. For it brings about a change, the power of the Word is active, and where a power is active a change in that which is touched by the power is always recognizable. Now, where a heart is touched by the divine Word there must be an effect on the human being's soul, if it is ill it must recover, and if it is healthy it must become strong and receptive for the divine light of love, for the wisdom from God .... or also .... an unbelieving person whose soul is ill .... must become a believer when the power of the divine Word touches the one, which is tantamount to a complete transformation, and when the person is a believer .... thus has no need for recovery .... the power of the bread of heaven must work in such a way that the one comes to the realization that divine knowledge now fills the one, which in turn is to be regarded as an effect of power .... Such an effect can only be expected from the pure food of heaven, from the bread of life, from the Word which comes from the sanctified mouth of God and is conducted to earth in the purest form in order to achieve this very effect .... God did not arbitrarily designate His heavenly food as bread and wine, because only a strong food and a strong drink helps the soul to recover and strengthen itself. Everything else that the soul receives will not fulfill the purpose that the bread of heaven is to fulfill. Also, it can certainly appear to be food which, however, does not have the slightest building-up effect and therefore only delays a soul's recovery or disguises its state of illness. A great deal can be offered to the soul and yet it is not the right food and the right drink, and the soul itself will not feel satiated and strengthened either, it will not have a firm, convinced faith and will not have the right knowledge for the time until it receives the pure, unadulterated Word of God, which can have such an effect on the soul that it recognizes it as the right bread of heaven and now desires nothing else but this food, which is doubtlessly offered to it by messengers but nevertheless by God Himself, so that the sick soul will be cured and now live forever ....

Amen

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Thoughts are connecting-currents between the beyond and the earth ....

B.D. 5484 from September 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The connection from the earth to the spiritual world can exist at any time because thoughts can go back and forth, i.e., because thoughts are basically the connecting rays which are sent out in the spiritual kingdom and can be picked up by people on earth and also sent back again in another form. So the connection from above to below continues to exist and cannot be denied. But for the most part these connections are still unconscious to the human being, for as long as he is not yet a believer and has attained a certain realization through love he is not aware as yet about the connection between the spiritual and the earthly world. And that’s why he cannot control which kingdom he is in contact with by his thinking .... For the thought currents the one receives can come from the kingdom of light as well as from the kingdom of darkness, but he can determine them himself through his will. As soon as he believes he also desires light, his will is turned towards God as the eternal Light and now will also secure him its supply from the kingdom of light. His thinking will be good, for he consciously accepts good thought-currents and rejects what is brought to him from the kingdom of darkness. His will directs the heart to accept and pass on to the intellect what touches him as a flow of thoughts from the kingdom of light.

This way then is the good, God-willed thinking to explain that inevitably comes from a person who lives in faith and love. The desire to serve God will now drive such a rightly-thinking person to share his knowledge, his thoughts, with his fellow human being to guide him into the same thinking, as it were, because it makes him happy himself. And this will is pleasing to God .... And also, it will always find support, for a right will is the first thing to let people reach the top. Now, every good thought originates from God, so to speak, it can never be dismissed as ungodly, it is the power emanating from God which is picked up by light-beings and passed on until it touches the human being's heart and is accepted by it .... And such good thoughts will also never fail to have an effect on fellow human beings who are of good will .... But nevertheless, there is a great difference between the thought-material gained through intellectual activity .... thus the use of spiritual strength through the intellect .... and the direct transmission of spiritual thought-material through God's great love ....

(11.9.1952) The intellect ceases its activity for the time of the transmission but, instead, the soul becomes active as receiving device. The spiritual ear opens itself and the thought-currents from the spiritual kingdom are flowing out and are collected. The rays from the light-kingdom touch the spiritual ear, this directs it to the soul, it feels addressed, it 'receives', passes it on to the intellect, which receives it mechanically, activates the bodily organs to hold it, and only afterwards deals with what it has received, i.e. allows it to become spiritual property through its own reflection, by intellectual activity. Receiving always presupposes a giver or transmitter, in contrast to a self-production, to a result by one's own work, in this case active intellectual activity. God Himself wants to give something that people do not possess and cannot create for themselves either .... For this reason He conveys His Word to earth and through the Word a knowledge which corresponds to the truth, which no human being could get to arise through one’s own strength, that only needs to be accepted in order to possess it. God instructs the human being, the light-world instructs him .... but always through the Spirit which rests inactively in the human being until the human being's will determines It to divest Itself .... until the spiritual kingdom is more important to the human being than the earthly kingdom .... until man enters into a bond with God and thereby finds access to the kingdom from which the truth comes to the one ....

(12.9.1952) But if God Himself instructs the human being, the truth as the right knowledge, will be given to the one .... He is not required to work on his intellect but those thoughts arise from the heart which the spirit awakens in the human being .... who, because It is part of the divine Father-spirit, can only produce truthful thoughts which the soul's ear hears and recognizes, which is why it has to recognize them because, at the same time as the truth, the ability to judge what is right and true is also given to the human being. A person whose intellect is diligently active through heartfelt prayer to God for His enlightenment, can certainly consider himself to be taught by God .... He then believes to have worked out the mental result himself, but it has nevertheless come to him through his spirit, yet in a not unusual way. But it is different though when the truth is conveyed to earth by God, when God instructs a person through the inner Word .... This one thus receives extensive knowledge directly through literal transmission which he did not possess before, which does not slumber within him subconsciously and which he does not gain through works of thought .... And yet it comes from within, for it is the divine Spirit in the human being that speaks to the one, that imparts the knowledge to the one in such a way that it touches the soul as a spoken word, that it emerges in the heart as a thought, which is not formed by the human being according to one’s own will, but which forms itself into words of deepest meaning, which the human being, as a willing recipient, writes down as heard .... This is an unusual process insofar as no other source can be discovered than the human being's innermost part; it is the living water which flows out of the body of the one whom God Himself instructs through His Spirit .... For the divine Spirit is the original source, which truly has an abundance of the water of life .... Yet humanity passes by it, only very few refresh themselves with the water of life, only very few people know about the pure truth from God and strengthen themselves with it and thereby also have contact with the spiritual world from which the light comes, the truth and the life ....

Amen

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Earthly hardship is often a revelation of God's love ....

B.D. 5485 from September 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

My love for you is boundless and yet you often believe you have reason to doubt this .... You often feel abandoned by Me, earthly adversity approaches you overwhelmingly and you know no way out .... But I then have withdrawn from you just seemingly in order to be sought by you, because again and again I want to reveal My love to you anew by helping you. For the adversity is never so great that I cannot remedy it .... I want to reveal My love to you .... because I want you to return my love; your faith in Me and My might, your reverence for Me and your obedience are nothing without your love, for it alone lets Me find My children. And where there is love, there is also faith and reverence and obedience, but love is the most powerful aspect because it alone makes you happy. Just consider all that I do to win your love! .... Yet, if I prepared the most beautiful earthly life for you, if I also gave you everything that makes you happy on earth, this would just increase your love for the world but not for Me, Whom you don't see because your eyes are directed towards the world. For this reason I often have to withdraw from you, even though just seemingly; I have to let you fall into worldly abandonment, into a state of hardship and suffering, you have to recognize your own powerlessness and also the unkindness of your fellow human beings in order to then look for Me, to call for Me and then also recognize My great love for you after I have released you from your adversity. Your love will then awaken in you also and become but stronger, because you will recognize your most faithful friend and brother in Me, the helper from all adversity, the Father Who dearly loves His children ....

You will not be able to resist My love forever, yet I cannot force your love in return, therefore I woo you with all patience without ever slackening My love, which created you after all. And every loving thought from you increases My love because it is a sure sign that I will soon have won you for eternity. Therefore know that you are never abandoned when you are in earthly adversity, know that I will immediately come to you who are calling for Me, know that I then want to only kindle your love, that I long for your call, for your love, like a father who wants to embrace his child in order to make it happy with his love. But love does not want to be one-sided, only returning love makes you happy, and this is what I want to receive from you .... I always desire you, yet you sometimes have to get into adversity, for you are in the midst of the world and your desire is still very divided, it is often directed towards earthly things .... and sometimes I then resort to means which are intended to turn you towards Me again, in order to then come forth with My love again, in order to show you My love again in such a way that you will also become inflamed with love for Me, so that you will become and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

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Transformation of the will .... the overcoming of matter ....

B.D. 5486 from September 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The spirit which still keeps you bound to the earth opposes Me, for everything you desire belongs to him; it is a spiritual, still in his possession that is far away from Me yet, which he wants to prevent from returning back to Me. Even you as a human being are considerably advanced in your development already and yet, you are still under his control as long as you have not yet learned to despise matter as something that is still fully and completely belonging to him. You need to know about the spiritual connection, you need to know that everything visible to you is an imperfect spiritual, therefore is part of My adversary. Now, if this also holds your senses captive, then you are still in his domain, compliant towards him. But if you can free yourselves from it .... from the desire for that which belongs to him .... then you will also escape his control, then you will lift yourselves from the earth into the kingdom of the spirit, as it were, which belongs to Me and which, according to your destiny, you ought to inhabit in order to be able to work and manage in it according to My will. On earth you shall accomplish this transformation of your will, you shall learn to despise the material world, you shall learn to see it for what it really is .... a conglomerate of immature spiritual substances, still in opposition to Me, which are to purify themselves .... You should therefore place yourselves above matter, because you are the spiritual being ranked the highest in the development on this earthly material world, and you should strive to sever the last ties with this world but, instead, establish a bond with the kingdom where I am Ruler, where everything is spiritualized and unspeakably happy. You should consciously free yourselves from My adversary's dominion and come to Me .... But as long as matter still captivates you, as long as you feel a desire for it, you are not free yet from his dominion and therefore not yet suitable for the spiritual kingdom, for I want to possess your undivided love, I want to capture all of your thinking; only then I can work in you when you are completely free from his entity. But freedom, strength and light will then be your share, the spiritual substance in you will then have liberated itself from his power and lifted itself up to Me, from Whom it now can no longer separate itself eternally. As long as you stay on earth he will constantly tempt you, yet without the desire for matter you are immune to his temptations, you then will have overcome matter, you then will only desire the goods of the spiritual kingdom, and in possession of these goods you will be strong and thus also victorious over the one who is My adversary .... But having overcome him means having become My child, to be aspirants of My kingdom that is not of this world, which gives you bliss that is immeasurable and which truly outweighs the difficult battle on earth against the adversary but which can never be acquired other than through a battle ....

Amen

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Desire for light in the beyond .... Spiritual conversations ....

B.D. 5487 from September 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The desire for light in the beyond is very strong in those who have recognised that the degree of bliss depends to a certain extent on awareness which they, however, are lacking. These are beings which cannot be denied to have possessed some integrity on earth, which had made an effort to do what is right and fair yet did not believe in a higher Power, in the continuation of the soul's life, in a spiritual kingdom. This unbelief also made them unreceptive for spiritual knowledge on earth, they lacked the will to believe. As a result they considered everything of a spiritual nature that was presented to them by believers as unreal and untrue. They lacked the will to learn something about it because of their unbelief, but also because earthly life appeared so extraordinarily important to them that they only worked and achieved for it .... In the kingdom of the beyond, however, they gradually begin to realise the reality of the spiritual realm and yet they are unable to clearly recognise their own existence and situation.

They don't know what is real and what is unreal, they see vague images which they don't understand, they are stimulated to think and yet cannot cope on their own .... And they long for light, for clarification and are grateful if it is given to them .... But their lack of faith makes it more difficult for the teachers in the spiritual kingdom to be believed, because everything seems unacceptable to them due to the attitude they had on earth. Nevertheless, they constantly strive for clarification, they want to know the truth and therefore it will also be conveyed to them. Thus they concede that the kingdom of the beyond is real, because the knowledge of earthly life had not been entirely taken away from them. They are already convinced of a life after death and this conviction impels them to untiringly look for what they are missing .... for light .... and they linger wherever the information can be given to them .... And yet they can only be given light once they are stimulated by love to work with it .... The reason why so many a soul is without light, without knowledge, for an indescribably long time despite its desire for it is due to the fact that it has no sympathy for equally suffering souls .... because it only wants light for selfish reasons and therefore it cannot be provided with it as yet.

But people who had endeavoured to be of service to their fellow human beings on earth, be it through inventions, advice or instructions, will also want to do the same in the kingdom of the beyond and therefore can often be very quickly given the right knowledge, because then they will also want to be of service and be able to work for the benefit of uninformed souls. Yet knowledge will not be forcibly imparted to any being, it has to be sincerely desired and keenly sought after .... Then it will still be up to the soul to form its own opinion about the imparted light; but this will not fail to have the desired effect if the soul has the sincere will to use it correctly .... The teachings of people on earth can therefore result in great blessings if they always remember that numerous souls are present and take part in every spiritual conversation, that the instructions should therefore also be conducted in a spirit of love which affects these souls as well and removes all wilful rejection from them .... Anyone in possession of true spiritual knowledge shall also pass it on to all who are in need of it .... and often consider the souls in the beyond which are sometimes more willing to accept it than people on earth, who, in their illusive life, would still like to reject everything that relates to a life in the beyond. Good and bad conversations are echoed in the kingdom of the beyond .... Always remember this and constantly try to think and speak such that the souls in the beyond will be able to learn, that they will gladly listen to you and always derive a benefit for themselves, and you will always be surrounded by souls who also want to be of service to you, their strength permitting .... You can spread light in every way, and you will always find grateful students in the light-hungry souls of the beyond, and your work for the kingdom of God will be blessed ....

Amen

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A reminder to accept the divine Word ....

B.D. 5488 from September 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Do not close yourselves off to divine words of love which should touch you with inconceivable force and which you reject because you do not want to believe that God reveals Himself. In a time of complete darkness on earth He Himself appears extraordinarily in order to draw people's attention to the great spiritual misery. He addresses people personally by using a human being who, as a mediator between God and people, is willing to receive His Word and pass it on. You humans should not reject this Word of His, you should listen to it, consider it and take a stand on it, you should accept the possibility that God Himself wants to speak to you and not reject it unless you are fully convinced that it is bad which, however, is never possible with the Word conveyed to you from above, which touches every person of good will beneficially. His Word emanates a gentle light, it is full of love and wisdom, and the listener quietly feels drawn to the original source of love, to God, Who addresses the one through His Word so that the human being is bound to recognize Him. And anyone of good will won’t be able to avoid this impression, because God Himself is the Word and thus also radiates something divine to the human being. Only the good will is required of you humans, the divine Word then will also have an effect on you and you will recognize His revelations in it. He wants to reveal Himself to you humans so that it will become light in you, for the light emanates from Himself, and if you live in the light nothing can happen to you anymore. But you still live in darkness and do not recognize the danger you are in .... You are still completely ignorant and therefore also take wrong paths which lead away from God to your own ruin.

You are in great spiritual adversity and will perish in it if you don't accept God's help, Who wants to inform you through His Word so that you will choose the path which leads to beatitude, to eternal life, whereas you previously took the path of death. Don't close yourselves off from the divine Word, listen to it with good will and accept it as an extraordinary gift of grace from God which shall save you from eternal ruin ....

Amen

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An awaking to life ....

B.D. 5489 from September 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I want to awaken you to life .... My Spirit shall come alive in you, a rebirth is then accomplished, the soul has entered into a new state of consciousness, it starts to work on itself to disintegrate its outer shell, always in communion with My Spirit, which gives it the guidance for this, which imparts strength to it and to which it now subordinates itself and seeks to shape itself according to My will .... Look at the little plants on earth, as to how they thrive and spread as soon as a ray of sunlight touches them, how they strive towards this light, how they open and grow and prosper .... Likewise, the soul is also touched by the ray of My spiritual sun and it surrenders to its effect, it unfolds, all the powers within it are awakened and become active, for My Spirit now never omits it, My ray of love touches it as soon as it just turns to Me as the eternal Light .... it breaks the shackle, the shells which still surround it, it frees itself from everything which could prevent the influx of My light of love, it works on itself and crystallizes itself with My support, as it were, it also knows that I Myself guide and lead it, for My Spirit within it instructs it correctly .... And it shapes itself into love .... As a result the strength from Me also becomes overwhelming in it, it is filled by My Spirit to the same extent as it is filled by love for Me and to the neighbor, it was awakened to life and will never die in eternity, for the soul, once entered into the proper life, can no longer sink back into spiritual death, My power is too enormous in it and this power always flows back to Me again.

At the beginning of your embodiment as a human being you are still dead in the spirit, the soul is still inactive, it only pays attention to physical life, it has only directed its senses towards the world, and the spirit-spark within you is at rest in complete inactivity. True, it certainly originates from Me, and what is from Me is life .... My Spirit never rests, ever, and yet, I do not have an effect upon a person's soul against his will, hence My Spirit only touches his soul when it becomes active in love through its will, thus it thereby opens itself to My emanation of love which causes the part of Myself, the spirit-spark in the human being, to become active, the latter of which it then no longer relinquishes. For where My radiation of love was once able to touch the soul, it thus has also entered the stage of life already, and it rejoices in its life and no longer relinquishes it. There is no passing away of what I have created, but there is a condition of death which is extremely agonizing for the spiritual .... That is why I want to awaken it to life to the point where it can enjoy its existence, so that it feels its existence as a bliss, so that it can be active in light and strength. This alone is life, the use of strength from Me in love and wisdom, and you humans should all gain this life .... I Myself bring you life if you want to accept it from Me .... Therefore be wanting, and you will live for eternity ....

Amen

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The human being's task on earth .... Childship to God ....

B.D. 5490 from September 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You humans are given a task on earth but you do not consider this and do not feel accountable as to whether you make correct use of your life on earth, that is, whether you live according to God's will. But you only have a short time and once you have finished your life on earth, you will have no opportunity anymore to accomplish your set task. With immense effort you can certainly still ascend in the kingdom of the beyond, yet you will never be able to attain what you could easily have attained on earth .... the childship to God, which makes you the most blissfully happy being in the spiritual kingdom. You can receive an excessive abundance of light on earth and, after physical death, enter the spiritual kingdom as beings of light; for God offers you such an extent of grace that you can lose all weakness and work full of strength, providing it is your will. Attaining the degree of light is not impossible for anyone, and the fact that it need not be difficult is Jesus Christ's gift of grace, Who acquired it for the human race on the cross. Thus anyone can request strength from Him, and every person calling upon Jesus Christ will irrevocably reach the goal. But which one of you humans lends his ear to the messengers of God when you are informed of this; which one of you humans strives consciously towards attaining childship to God on this earth? It only requires you to shape yourselves into love, for which the strength will be conveyed to you humans if you seriously want it and appeal to Jesus Christ for His support. Very little is expected of you humans but an incredible amount is offered to you and, yet, only a few strive for this degree which results in a life of supreme beatitude. You should become children of God, desire the Father with all your love, you should adapt yourselves to His fundamental nature, that is, become love as well. However, your nature is still governed by too much selfish love, and this only considers earthly life but not life after death. You don't ask yourselves why you live on earth, you don't try to ascertain the reason, instead, you look at life as an end in itself when, in fact, it is merely the means to an end. For this reason you let your time on earth pass by unused, you use your vitality wrongly, i.e. you only use it to attain earthly possessions which are transient. But you do not think of your life after death, of the soul's intransience and one day will have to pay a bitter price when you realise that you have irretrievably lost something that you could easily have won .... However, God respects your will, He neither determines nor forces you, but He always warns and admonishes you. Through His servants on earth He constantly informs you of the purpose for your existence, He sends messengers to cross your path who shall proclaim His will, He confronts you Himself in the form of suffering and adversities and shows you the fleeting nature of earthly things .... He leaves no stone unturned in order to lead you into realisation, yet He allows you to keep your freedom of choice .... And precisely because of this you will have to justify yourselves to Him, for you would be able to reach your goal were you to use your will correctly ....

Amen

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Earthly adversity should result in contacting God ....

B.D. 5491 from September 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Everything on earth is given to you for you to achieve perfection .... You can mature in every situation, but you can also obstinately and with bitterness regress in your development because you have free will, which will never be compelled by external influences to adopt a specific attitude. You have to want to ascend from the bottom of your heart, then everything will also serve you in your aim to become perfect. For then you will be seized by God's will to love, Which only ever creates opportunities for you to shape yourselves, and to Whom you merely have to give yourselves in order to be raised up. You all are granted a measure of grace; how can you possibly fall or relapse in your spiritual development if you make use of this grace? For the blessings are a reliable and effective means of help, they are a special kind of help which only aim upwards, for whatever is offered to you by God's love will also lead to Him.

Divine gifts of grace contain exceptional strength and therefore should not be spurned. Hence every earthly adversity should also be considered as a blessing, because it can lead to progress if it is considered as such, if the adversity makes the human being aware that he ought to direct his gaze upwards in order to appeal for help from the One, Who can and always wants to help. With this prayer you establish contact with God, which always signifies another step upwards, for turning to Him in itself is already demonstrating your will, which is being tested by God in your earthly life. But it is worse for you humans if earthly hardship does not result in contact with God .... Then you will often also receive help, but from the one to whom you, due to your will, still belong, whom you have not turned away from. Then God will not be able help you, but you will always receive help, as it were, from the one whom you willingly serve due to your attitude. God wants to be recognised, and He will often come to you in the shape of suffering and adversity .... But as soon as you take flight to Him, as soon as your thoughts turn towards Him, you can also be absolutely certain that He will help you, that He will not leave you on your own if you are in serious difficulties. No thought fades away, no call remains unheeded, for the slightest thought affects Him and motivates Him to help you. And everything He does is only determined by His love, which applies to you and your perfection. There is no adversity which could not be resolved, for nothing is impossible for Him, yet He shapes everything in a way that it will help you achieve perfection, if only you always think of Him and commend yourselves to His grace ....

Amen

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Communion .... Bread and Wine ....

B.D. 5492 from September 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

So then come to the Lord's table in a believing devotion, gather together in My name and receive My bread and My wine .... listen to My Word which I convey to you from above through My servants, the Word which I Myself speak to you who want to hear Me. And your soul will be strengthened, it will refresh itself at the source of life, I will personally offer it bread and wine, the nourishment it needs in order to reach perfection .... It is the manna which is offered to you from heaven, the proper food for you, and nothing on earth can replace this heavenly food, and the soul who was sick and weak before will recover and become strong .... I Myself as a Physician and Savior of all sick and weak truly give you the best remedy, for I know what the soul lacks, I also know what exclusively can help it .... My Word, which is the direct emanation of Myself, My Word, which is light and power and which you humans urgently need if you want to fulfill your life-task on earth, to become what you once were in the beginning. Even though by means of your own fault, your have lost everything that revealed your divine origin; you have divested yourselves of everything that is characteristic of a divine being, you have become weak and miserable, darkened in spirit and powerless, you have no realization and therefore can no longer be active the way you once were destined to be. But you cannot perish either, you cannot disintegrate into nothing but you remain in existence as spiritual beings, only in a degree of imperfection which makes you completely incapable of becoming active according to My will. But I don't want you to remain in this degree of imperfection, I want to help you to become again what you once were, and therefore I want to impart to you at an already reached degree of maturity that which can shape you into completely different beings .... I want to impart strength and light to you, I want to supply you with spiritual nourishment which, like bread and wine, can awaken your soul's life that lies in a deep sleep and ought to awaken again, to My joy and its own as well. Without nourishment, without the supply of strength, it will never be able to rise, yet it may constantly feast on the bread of heaven, and a truly refreshing wine will be handed to it which will take away its weakness, it will recover from illness and weakness, it will be strengthened into a new life as soon as you humans only ever approach My table, which I continuously set with gifts of My love .... My servants will give you bread and wine from the heavens, and thus you will have supper with Me and I with you, if only you let Me enter when I knock, just as you open your ear and heart to accept My gifts of love, for it is My will that you become healthy in your souls, I want all of the weakness leave you, I want you to become light and bright, which can only happen if you let yourselves be given food and water by Me Myself, if you listen to My Word which is commanded to you from above and if you also comply with this Word of Mine .... if you let the strength of the bread and the wine work upon you .... if you live a life of love for Me and your neighbor according to My Word .... You then are in truth My guests with whom I take supper, you then receive bread and wine and you will no longer be dead in spirit, you will live for eternity ....

Amen

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Comforting words of the Father .... Reference to death ....

B.D. 5493 from September 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

It is an undeserved grace that you humans can take refuge in My arms when you are in distress. You always know that I have an open ear for your requests and concerns, but you also know that I am waiting for your call, that I want to hear My child's voice which resounds to Me in every mental plea .... I want you to come to Me in every earthly and spiritual adversity so that you will certainly receive My help now. I will stand by your side in small and great adversities as well, but do you actually know what I have in mind with you? Do you know whether the help you desire is suitable for the maturing of your soul? Precisely, because you don't know this, you should pray: “Father, Your will be done” .... You should indeed ask Me to help you, but not in a particular way, that is, for I truly know best what is good for your soul. After all, you children possess My love, you all shall reach the aim on earth to find the union with Me .... Now, everything that serves this purpose I give to you because I want you to become blissful. Indeed, you should present all your small and great worries and needs to Me; you should come to Me with all your concerns, and if you have profound faith and express this faith in prayer I will also grant your requests, for a profound faith is already a higher degree of maturity and the union with Me will have already taken place through love, which first gave birth to a living faith. Consequently, you then are to experience My often miraculous help. But as long as a living faith is not yet present, as long as you are still weak in faith and therefore weak in love also, I often have to deny you what you request, yet only ever out of fatherly care towards your soul's maturity .... Yet you should always trust in Me that I will regulate everything the way it is good for you .... But don't regard the physical life as the highest of the goods but just consider it necessary for the soul, and if you therefore remember the soul and its state after death and take care of and manage its life, even death need not frighten you, for it will thus be only the gate into the most illuminated eternity for you; yet, you will never desire to return to earth, ever. Only then will you live and be unspeakably happy in My presence ....

Amen

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I am always close to you when you call Me ....

B.D. 5494 from September 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

I am always close to you when you call Me. There is no separation between Me and you if you remove it yourselves by turning your thoughts towards Me, by speaking to Me, be it in love or also in adversity. Every thought draws Me to you, and your will keeps Me put as long as you devote yourselves to Me. True, at times you may let Me wait longer until a call from you reaches Me, but I will never let you wait, for My love for you is powerful and always unites with you if you turn to Me. But in My love I am always willing to give, for through My gifts I want to permanently bind you to Me. Therefore My gifts must become indispensable to you, and I achieve this by letting you feel their effect so that you will never ever want to do without them. However, you must first desire My gifts because otherwise you cannot feel any effect. But you will only desire something you lack and only if you suffer from the lacking .... And it’s this way the conditions of distress can only be explained which should make you aware of this very lacking so that you want to remedy it and appeal to Me for the granting of what you lack. I want to give, to constantly hand out, because I possess everything and can bestow unmeasured treasures .... For I am driven by love to give you what you lack. Yet My wisdom imposes a restriction on My love, for giving can also be detrimental if it would prevent you humans from the development of your ascent. You cannot receive more than you are willing to utilize .... Therefore you must ask for in order to then be able to receive, unmeasured .... My gifts to you therefore depend on your will only, and I will never turn you down if you desire gifts of love from Me. I am always close to you when your thoughts seek Me, when you commune with Me, when you merely strive towards Me of your own will, then I am with you .... Therefore you should never doubt My will to help, you should never be weak in faith; you should not call for Me fearfully or timidly but always be certain that I am only waiting for your call in order to be able to approach you, in order to distribute out of the abundance of My love, in order to make you happy, to strengthen and to complete you .... For everything I give you contributes to your perfection, if only you use it properly, if you desire it, because you feel that you need it .... I know your weakness, I know what you lack and I will give you with full hands .... Accept it if it is offered to you or request it, for you cannot do without My gifts of love if you want to become blissfully happy, if you want to attain the perfection which will allow you to stay close to Me forever but which you can never attain in a condition of absence of strength and light .... Therefore always require light and strength and make contact with Me, the eternal source of light and power, seek Me and let yourselves be drawn by Me and My love .... Desire Me Myself and I will give Myself to you, because I love you to begin with and will love you for eternity ....

Amen

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The divine principle - love .... A decision between God and the adversary ....

B.D. 5495 from September 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The divine principle in you must prevail, otherwise you will not become free of the power of the one who thinks and acts contrarily to God. But the divine principle is love .... and every unkind action, every unkind thought still marks you as belonging to God's adversary. But you then are weak and of a dark spirit. Physical strength is no proof of spiritual strength, lively intellectual activity is no proof of an awakened spirit .... yet the kindness of the heart, an obvious activity of love in complete unselfishness proves that the divine principle prevails in a person, and his spirit is then awakened also and he is full of light and strength .... But you humans do not strive for spiritual possessions, they are not a reality for you, for your way of thinking is still too materialistic, and you still value human intellect and physical strength too highly which, in reality, are but nothing and worthless. Precisely, it’s these earthly advantages that could help you to a quick spiritual ascent, if used for what God requires of you to mature your soul, if you used your physical strength to be active in neighborly love, if you utilized the ability to be intellectually active in order to progress spiritually by turning your thoughts to Him, Who created you, and seriously approach Him for clarification about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life .... You were given the intellect to acquire knowledge, not only in the material but also in the spiritual sphere. But the latter is not appealing enough to you humans, for the one who still keeps you in bondage entices you with earthly-material goods and tries to portray all spiritual knowledge as useless because he deprives you of your belief in a continuation of life after death. But if you would let the divine principle reign within you, you then would also recognize him who wants to harm you .... For love illuminates your spirit and gives you a light where it was dark before .... Love must flare up in you if you want to think and act rightly .... This is why there is great earthly hardship in the world, because love has grown cold, because God no longer reigns in it but it’s His adversary instead, who wants to set all people against each other, who drives them to think and act in a loveless way .... Now this is why there is so much spiritual hardship amongst people, because unkindness blinds them completely, because there is no faith left amongst them which can only arise from love and which would teach people to think and act in a completely different way. God or His opponent .... You humans have to decide between the two .... Love or hate .... Light or darkness .... Power or powerlessness .... Freely out of yourselves you must choose your Lord .... But God is love, and therefore you can only find God through love, you can only unite with God through love .... And if you disregard love you grant God's adversary power over you and lose yourselves to him for eternity, who abandoned the principle of love in free will, who became ungodly because he completely renounced all love, who therefore sank into deepest darkness and would also like to keep you humans in it if you don't offer him resistance .... Free yourselves from his control by letting the divine principle prevail in you, by shaping yourselves into love which will let you become God's children and thus most blessed creatures who are united with their Father for eternity ....

Amen

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An unusual grant of strength in time of need through God's Word ....

B.D. 5496 from September 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Open up all your hearts when My Word touches you and know that it is an unusual gift of grace which My love still bestows upon you before the end. Be aware that it is a gift of strength which enables you to survive the coming time unharmed of your soul, where you will find it difficult to resist the forces of darkness. You are facing the end but no human being needs to fear bodily death once the soul is ready to enter the kingdom of the beyond, and I want to make this readiness possible for you by giving you My Word, for as soon as you receive clarification about your task on earth, as soon as your actual purpose becomes clear to you and you are of good will, you will also lose your fear of bodily death because you are certain of it that you cannot die in regard to your soul and that this soul will one day enjoy eternal life. I give you light and strength and enlightenment, the means to achieve your aim, I give you spiritual strength which you may request and receive without measure. Open your hearts if My Word touches you .... For this imparts strength to you in abundance. Life will soon be over for every one of you humans, except for the few whom I will call on the last day, whom I will fetch into a realm of peace, whom I have chosen as the stock of the new generation .... But all others can no longer expect a long life, and blessed are those whom I call away from earth before the last day, for these are not condemned to banishment on the new earth .... Yet there will still be unspeakable hardship before the end comes .... But I want to make this hardship bearable for everyone and I therefore give you humans that which helps you and gives you strength .... My Word. Open your hearts if it touches you and you will feel that it is a gift of love from your Father in heaven, and every earthly adversity will seem small to you as soon as you are connected to Me through listening to My Word. And don't sever this connection with Me, cling to My hand firmly, live according to My will, obey My commandments of love for Me and your neighbor, call upon Me in every adversity of body and soul, let Me always be present to you through constant activity in love .... Obey what My Word tells you to do, but then accept the promises also... know that I fully stand by My Word and will give you whatever you ask of Me .... For you shall approach the end with your soul strengthened, you shall look up from where He will come Who announces Himself to you through His Word. Much hardship will befall the earth but also much grace and blessing will be granted to those who open themselves, who want to receive a means of strength from the Father's hand and who therefore need not fear the end because they are able to persevere even if hell and its inhabitants will attack the confessors of My name .... For I Myself Am and will remain with you who want to be Mine, and I protect you against all attacks by My adversary. For I Myself come to you in the Word, and you should therefore open your hearts, you should hear My knocking if I desire entrance, for I want to bring you a good gift, My Word, which gives you light and strength so that your soul will not suffer any harm ....

Amen

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The redemptive path of the sentenced spiritual ....

B.D. 5497 from September 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The sentenced spiritual shall be redeemed from its judgement .... everything that is still bound, that has not yet reached the original state of freedom, is still in judgement, and it remains in it until the power of love bursts its fetters .... until it redeems itself or allows itself to be redeemed through love .... When, however, love liberates the spirit from a bondage, from a fetter, then this fetter must have been put on the spiritual by something that opposes love, by hatred and unkindness, that is .... thus by the one who is devoid of all love and therefore is the adversary of God, Who is Eternal Love Himself.

Once upon a time a complete free spiritual being emerged from God, a being who was created in highest perfection and possessed light and power in all abundance and were freely available to it. It had emerged from eternal love, and thus its original substance was love .... Now, love also guaranteed fullest freedom and freedom in turn had to be able to develop in every direction .... And this one who was able to think, want and act freely also had to be able to distance itself from God, and it distanced itself from God by turning itself into the opposite, into a being who turned all the divine characteristics, which were positive, into the negative and who thus became God's adversary. The reason for such a wrong will was traced to arrogance, because the being felt excessively strong due to the unlimited receipt of power from God. This being, however, no longer used this power according to the divine principle of love, but did so in a God-opposing sense instead .... It created beings in great numbers whom it certainly brought forth from within itself through its might and its freedom of will but who no longer possessed a freedom of will since its will created them in accordance with its/his own loveless thinking and wanting .... The beings were in bondage to him and yet, because they had emerged from God using His power, they were God's creatures as well .... But God's love took care of these creatures: What was created with an absence of every love was permeated by God's power of love .... Light and power, realization and freedom, that is, were given to the intrinsic beings; however, now the free decision of will was also demanded of them, according to which they could remain in their free, light-filled state but could lose it as well ....

(30.9.1952) The intrinsic beings, who now turned to God's adversary again in free will, also lost their realization and their power with this decision of will .... For divine love could no longer flow through them because they rejected it, i.e. openly resisted the power from God. They therefore entered a state which could not be called free, for the power which was now available to them through God's adversary had to be used by the beings according to his will, to act lovelessly .... Therefore they were in a certain judgement and subject to a power which allowed its will only to be applied and forced the intrinsic beings to act according to the same will. It was bound, by their own fault, that is, and therefore also had to endure the misery and torment of a subjugated being. But the love of God followed the lost ones .... The love of God devised a way out for the enslaved spiritual beings .... Their might and power was stronger than that of God's adversary, for where the latter acted in blind hatred and wrong thinking, God worked in love and wisdom and He devised a plan of return for the spiritual beings who, although still under the adversary's control, were nevertheless wrested from his power, insofar as God shaped these spiritual beings into creations of the most diverse kind, that His will of love seized the spiritual beings whose will of course was still turned towards the adversary, but made this will unfree ....i.e. that God prevented them from being obedient to His adversary. He bound the will and determined the intrinsic beings to do what God wanted .... The spiritual beings entered a state of compulsion, free-will activity was impossible for them, but activity according to the adversary's will was also denied to the spiritual beings; on the other hand, in the state of constraint they slowly developed upwards .... they were forced to carry out constructive activity and thus to integrate themselves into the law of love from eternity, which always results in an upward development. True, they were still under a judgment now because they were deprived of their free will but always with the aim of the redemption from the bound state, once, and from the power of the one who is without love. But the last aim can only be reached by receiving God's love. The spiritual beings must allow themselves to be permeated by it without resistance so that, aglow with love, they will now recognize the Deity and long for it and strive towards it with all of their will and all their strength. The beings are then in a state of freedom again, they are no longer under a judgement, they are full of strength and light through love, they are neither bound by God to do His will nor under the compulsion of God's adversary's will .... They can use their own will now, and this will, being a result of love which now fills the beings completely, is bound to be always the same as God's will, so that they now move entirely within divine order, that their wanting cannot be any different from the one of the divine order and will use the strength and light for blissful activity for God and with God .... that they now can participate again in the redemption of that which is bound, that they turn their love towards that which is still under judgement and thus influence it in such a way that it feels the desire for freedom within itself and then also slackens in its resistance against God .... Who responds to every such impulse by easing its condition by loosening the fetters, by always allowing the external form of the still bound spiritual substance to become softer and easier to dissolve and thus continually help the bound one to once again attain freedom. Releasing and redeeming is the mission of all spiritual beings who are already in the light, who are filled with love and therefore cannot help but constantly give love, to bring help to the spiritual beings who still suffer in bondage and can only attain beatitude again when they are free, like they were in the beginning ....

Amen

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Bearing the burden of the cross in surrender ....

B.D. 5498 from October 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Everyone must carry his cross for the sake of one’s soul's salvation. Whatever hardship and misery, illness and affliction is imposed on you, bear it in submission to My will and it will truly bring you salvation .... But in times of great adversity I will stand by you as the bearer of the cross and you can confidently burden Me with it, that I will carry it for you .... My love does not deny you any request and relieves you as soon as you call upon Me for help in strong faith. Thus the cross will never be heavier for you than you are able to bear, it is well measured for your strength but it is the final compensation for your guilt, for whose sake you live on earth and which you should have paid off as much as possible before you depart from earth. Sickness and suffering are the soul's act of atonement, which it took upon itself, which it was willing to bear when it was presented with the earthly path before its embodiment .... It consciously consented to it, even though it lacks any recollection on earth due to the freedom of will .... But it was willing to take up the cross in order to redeem what is within its power. Therefore don't grumble and complain if your cross weighs you down, but call upon Me for help and you will no longer feel its burden to be so oppressive, you will joyfully straighten up again if the cross seemed to weigh you down .... You will continue to carry it with renewed strength as long as you still walk on earth, yet you will feel that I walk beside you and support you and help you carry it if you become weak. But what you achieve by carrying the burden of the cross is not yet comprehensible to you, for with physical eyes you cannot see any success worth mentioning, yet your soul shouts for joy and rejoices because cover after cover is detached from it and ever brighter light can flow unto it, because the burden you carry still takes away the last dross which burdens the soul, and because you now give the soul a certain freedom and it continually floats lighter and lighter towards the final aim .... because it is therefore light-hearted, for the body took the burden from it and carried it for the soul .... Although I don't want you humans to suffer on earth, in order to spare the soul unspeakable suffering in the kingdom of the beyond you have also been given a period of time on earth when your body can suffer for the soul, because you have previously expressed your will to help the soul while it is still on earth and to protect it from an agonizing state after the death of the body. Yet you can always reduce this suffering yourselves by faithfully calling upon Him Who will always help you carry the cross if it becomes too heavy for you, because He loves you like a father who rushes to the aid of his children when they call upon him ....

Amen

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The earthly task: Transforming into love .... The grace of God ....

B.D. 5499 from October 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Nothing unfulfillable has been assigned to you humans in earthly life when required to change yourselves into love .... For you are supported by Eternal Love and therefore it is easily possible for you to fulfill your earthly task; yet Eternal Love can only bestow blessings upon you constantly and you need to do nothing more than utilize these blessings. If used, you then will ascend with ease, but if you leave them unnoticed and therefore unused you then will be without strength to ascend, and then Eternal Love cannot help you either, because there is still resistance within you which makes your strength of love ineffective.

If you sought to connect with Eternal Love by activity in love you could attain a degree of maturity in a short time already .... You ought to shape yourselves into love, that is your task of life, and for this it is only necessary that you first have love of your own free will for a good intention and put this will into practice by serving your neighbor, by giving him help if he needs such .... Through this unselfish work of love already, the connection with God Who is Love from eternity, takes place .... And now through this connection, the path is created for a constant receipt of strength of love .... i.e., God as Eternal Love now provides you with the strength to constantly perform works of love, because this strength also influences your will, which in turn always feels more impelled to work in love. The human being becomes willing and able to love as soon as he has just once performed works of love of his own free will. Again and again God leads the human being into situations where he can be lovingly active. In His love He does everything to help the human being to perfection; He takes care of all the human being's feelings and determines the individual's fate accordingly; His gifts of grace are unmeasured and they all only aim at the human being's maturity of the soul, yet the human being must allow himself to be guided, he must follow his feelings, he must be wanting what is good and never pass by opportunities which stimulate and require his willingness to help. For all these are graces through which God wants to help the human being to mature .... to work in love in order to establish the union with God and then to draw unmeasured strength which secures his ascent. Believe in God and think of Him and you will also be able to feel His presence, because His love and grace constantly tries to influence you and is also able to do so if only you are of good will and strive to fulfill His will ....

Amen

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God as the Ruler .... Freedom of will .... The law of order ....

B.D. 5500 from October 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth, and I use this power not to judge but to redeem. Heaven and earth are subject to My will, i.e., the spiritual and earthly world is governed by My will .... And yet, I also allow the beings who emerged from Me freedom of will as long as they don't use their will with completely adversative intent, as long as they don't act against Me openly. My will then can indeed oppose their will, yet only ever in order to induce them to have the right will, because this alone signifies beatitude, in the spiritual as well as in the earthly kingdom. I certainly govern everything, yet because I also love everything that has emerged from Me, freedom of will has also been given to all created beings, so that I therefore wanted to create co-governors in the true sense which, however, were not meant to rule over equal beings but only lovingly uphold the order which I recognized as wise and good and therefore had established .... And this law of eternal order extended over all spiritual and earthly creations, because these could only become blissful if the divine order was maintained, which represents the principle of love .... My will, My regency, is therefore equal to the law of eternal order, and therefore it cannot be spoken of as a judicial office, of ruling under compulsion, as long as the eternal order is not overturned .... But where the intrinsic being who emerged from Me opposes My eternal order, My will comes forth, and then I rule in accordance with this will by binding the will of the one who abuses it .... but only in order to weaken or prevent the resulting consequences, because these will strike back and severely affect the being who caused them by a wrongly directed will. But the will only remains bound until the being is able to remain in divine order again; its will will then be tested and, as it were, the condition where it can submit to My will in its own free will, will be re-established, as it were, by assigning the ruling power over to it, thus not forcing it to remain in divine order, where I am also not obviously recognizable to it as the ruler of heaven and earth, so that it can move within or outside My order of eternity completely at will, though by this signifying its own decision .... but the right decision of which can earn the power of rulership over endless creations which, however, it uses and exercises under the principle of love ....

I rule over heaven and earth, but always in love only .... All power is given to Me .... I only exercise it by the principle of love, for even that which I bind and judge shall then find final freedom and is only bound or judged because it has lost its own love and therefore also wisdom in free will and it shall regain the divine attributes through means which I recognized as being successful and therefore also use in My love, even though they do not always appear to be based on love .... I rule in power and glory but always in love and wisdom ....

Amen

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The divine attributes in man .... Proof through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5501 from October 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

There are hidden powers in you which you only needed to bring to light in order to be able to create and work in an unusual way. You are of divine origin but you no longer know anything about it, you gave away all your divine qualities when you fell away from Me ages ago. But your original nature is divine and only needs to emerge again, which alone is given into your might and your will. Your will is free and can mean both fullness of strength or lack of strength for you as well, for your will determines your attitude towards Me and thus also towards love within you. Love releases all bound powers within you; love lets all divine qualities in you emerge again; love is power and light in itself, and therefore all the lack of strength and all the darkness will leave you humans and you will be able to work in strength and wisdom. There are limits set to the human being's ability as long as he is only what he was at the beginning of his earthly career .... a being closely connected to matter, that still lies completely in spiritual darkness. Naturally speaking, his abilities can develop, they can also become particularly prominent in connection with lower forces when a person obviously surrenders himself to a satanic influence .... But they can also take on a striking upswing through contacts with the good spiritual world, powers can develop which far surpass human natural abilities. And yet it is then the state which would only be natural, because the original abilities come to a breakthrough which characterize your most unique nature, the divine origin .... Everything is then possible for a human being, he can work beyond human strength, he can make right everything that is wrong .... he can heal the sick, work miracles, speak in wisdom, he can look into the realm of spirits, connect with them in the most natural way, he can put himself anywhere he wants to, at any time, he can see through people, past, present and future are visible to the one .... he can do everything that is only possible for a god, for the one is My child, he is a divine creature who contains all the abilities within himself .... And all these divine qualities lie buried in the human being. He torments himself and wrestles during his earthly life, he is blind in spirit, he does not know what he is capable of with the right attitude towards Me, with a conduct in love ....

The man Jesus has certainly shown humanity what a person is capable of who brings love to its highest development within himself. But how few take Him as an example, how few follow Him .... therefore how few transcend the limits of the natural and can work supernaturally in supreme bliss .... These powers slumber in all of you and want to be awakened; all of you can raise treasures that make you happy, all of you could change the pitiful state of your humanity into a supernatural one .... For all of you could work and create like gods, if only you would do one thing: to shape your heart to love .... For love is a proof of God, love divinizes everything, love is the power which makes everything possible for you, which unites you with Me so that you can make use of My power, of which nothing is impossible .... But without love you are bound, without love you are blind in spirit, thus without love you are without strength and light and therefore ungodly. Yet you are beings in the possession of a free will and therefore you determine your state yourselves, you determine yourselves to whom you turn, to the prince of darkness who makes you wretched or to the One from Whom you emerged in light and power ....

Amen

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The lowliness of the spirit .... Humility .... Grace ....

B.D. 5502 from October 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Those who feel poor in the spirit draw Me towards themselves, for they are humble and in need of help, they feel weak and unworthy and ask Me for mercy .... They are humble and therefore find grace with Me. I lean towards all the weak if they call upon Me, for nothing is too small and too insignificant for Me, and My merciful love protects and strengthens the weak and helpless; I draw it up to Me so that I will never let go of it, ever .... But who is low in spirit, who is so deeply humble that he finds grace in My sight? The one who recognizes himself as standing at a far distance from Me, who bends his knees before Me in spirit, who fully submits himself to Me in order to be accepted by Me in grace .... who only ever seeks to gain My love and yet feels unworthy of My love. The humility of an earthly child attracts Me immensely, for humility towards Me also conceals love for Me, a love which does not dare to come to Me uncalled. And yet, the soul calls Me unconsciously by its humility. For a gentle light emanates from it which attracts Me because something divine already beams at Me, because spiritual lowliness is the sign that the soul has recognized Me and that the recognition also results in a turning to Me. Whoever feels spiritually poor has won My love for eternity, and My grace will unstoppably overflow, for it is the humble upon whom I bestow My grace .... I know the human being's heart thoroughly, I am not deceived by gestures, I know everything the soul thinks and wants, and nothing remains hidden from Me what remains unspoken but still moves the thoughts and is always obvious to Me. And therefore I can bestow but also restrict grace, I can lift up the child kneeling before Me and I can let the one fall who, with an arrogant spirit, certainly presents himself to the world as humble but never testifies to true humility .... That is why grace flows to so many people without measure, while others go along empty. Yet I would like to give all people an abundant measure of grace, I would like everyone to recognize their spiritual poverty, I would like them all to feel their remoteness from Me and from the bottom of their heart stretch out their hands to Me imploringly, because I then would be able to make them happy with My grace, for anyone in possession of My grace will soon be in possession of Me personally, because I will never leave out anyone who is in the right relationship with Me, who comes begging to the father like a child calling upon Him for help and strength. Anyone who feels important and exalted of oneself will fall, anyone who believes himself in the depth because he recognizes himself as weak and sinful will be lifted up by My love and will always be My own, he will be able to receive a rich measure of grace from My hand and therefore safely ascend to the top ....

Amen

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Loss of earthly possessions can result in spiritual treasures ....

B.D. 5503 from October 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You will find ample spiritual compensation for everything that is taken from or denied to you if you only strive for spiritual perfection. You will never make a spiritually inappropriate request, for every spiritually directed thought is pleasing to God and therefore always successful. The more you humans are involved with matter, the less spiritually minded you are, and therefore it first has to be taken from you in order to change your thoughts. Hence it should only ever be considered a means for perfection if you are forced to forgo material possessions. Yet you will never have to go without, because you are able to receive spiritual possessions all the more if only you want them. You may certainly possess earthly matter but it must never be your master, you must always be able to sacrifice it, which only comes easily when the value of spiritual possessions is recognised. And you humans will only recognise this when you experience earthly hardship, when human help is not available but spiritual help always has to be requested in order to then also be felt as extremely invigorating.

Whatever earthly goods you own can be taken from you, but you never need to fear the loss of spiritual possessions if you care to own them. The request for spiritual goods will always be fulfilled yet there is no guarantee that earthly goods will remain your own, only if you use them well, that is, in accordance with God's will, and thus are active and work for the benefit of your fellow human beings will God also bless and increase them for you. In that case, however, you will have already detached yourselves from matter, you will no longer desire it with every fibre of your being but work with it for the benefit of your fellow human beings. But you won't complain when earthly goods are taken from you, for God knows why He allows it, and even the loss of such belongings is beneficial for you. For then he will shower you with spiritual gifts of grace, and your will only has to be willing to use them for your own and your fellow human beings' perfection. Consequently, never grieve over material possessions which were taken from you, they are of no value in eternity; yet their loss can bring you possessions of lasting value which are able to make you very happy on earth and one day in the spiritual kingdom. What you create and amass spiritually will stay with you and signify a wealth which is everlasting; but gladly and joyfully let go of the earthly material goods you own and exchange them for spiritual possessions, for the time will come when only these goods will be useful to you, when everything you still own today will disappear ....

Amen

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The reason for the spiritual decline .... Addiction to matter ....

B.D. 5504 from October 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

An essential cause of people's spiritual decline is the ever-increasing addiction to matter. It is like a disease which has overtaken people, which leads to death, it is like a fetter becoming ever harder which threatens people's lives, for it is not earthly but the spiritual life, the life of the soul, which is in danger. For the excessive desire for matter finds fulfillment, as it is always the human being's will itself which determines the state the soul. Hard matter will one day be its fate, which the human being so eagerly strives for. The human being cannot be made to understand that the desire for matter, for earthly possessions, means a step backwards, for he strives for something he had long since overcome, which meant a hard captivity for his soul, which was felt as bondage and therefore as torment by the soul and every release from it, every progress in the state of compulsion brought relief to the spiritual.

And now the human being strives for that from which his soul has fled because it was a fetter. Everything earthly material serves just the body, yet for the soul only if it is overcome, if it stimulates the human being's love to activity, to giving, of the disposing of one’s belongings out of love for the neighbor. Matter then can also be useful for the life of the soul, but it must always be a detaching from it, not a desire for it by self-interest. As long as earthly goods are desired, the desire for spiritual possessions does not exist or is only present to a very small extent; the soul, however, cannot take along anything earthly into the spiritual kingdom, but certainly spiritual possessions which alone prepare it for a blissful state. If only people would consider that the very next day could end their earthly life and that they would therefore make provisions for their stay in the spiritual kingdom .... if only they would consider that all earthly possessions are worthless to them and that what lives on in the spiritual kingdom passes over in utmost poverty, which the human being on earth is responsible for himself, which he could easily have averted by collecting spiritual treasures on earth .... if he would consider that the earthly life, even if it lasts a long time, is only a moment in time compared to eternity, but that the soul has to suffer from what the human being missed on earth .... Yet he can only be reminded again and again of the idleness of his life, he can only be admonished again and again to think ahead and not to waste all his earthly life's energy on goods which are and remain completely worthless. He is in possession of a free will and intellect and can therefore only be instructed but not be forced to live his life in such a way that the soul will recover and enter the spiritual kingdom vigorously. Therefore, again and again people will be deprived of what they so ardently desire on earth, again and again they will be made aware of the transience of earthly possessions, and blessed are those who realize that their purpose in the earthly life is different from the striving for earthly possessions; blessed are those who reflect and gather spiritual treasures, blessed are those who create and work for the soul's salvation, for they will be rich and blessed in the spiritual kingdom and will now be able to create and work because their wealth is imperishable ....

Amen

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Fighting and wrestling leads to the goal ....

B.D. 5505 from October 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You will reach your aim on earth, the perfection of your soul through struggle and fight. This perfection cannot be given to you out of My love but you yourselves have been given the task to shape yourselves so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom as perfected. And this task requires your will to struggle and overcome everything that characterizes you as imperfect beings. Therefore you have to wrestle .... to apply all your strength, you have to fight a battle with yourselves .... And this battle is often more difficult than fighting against an enemy which confronts you from the outside. For you still love the enemy you have within yourselves, otherwise it would be easy for you to drive it away .... Love for your faults and weaknesses does not allow you to proceed seriously enough, and therefore you are required to wrestle and fight seriously in order to be able to emerge as victors, in order to achieve your aim on earth, that your soul has attained the maturity which is a prerequisite for entering the kingdom of light. And it will be understandable to you that the less you still love your defective ego the easier the battle will be for you. Therefore you must try to get to know yourselves in order to also detest that which still clings to you, which you ought to overcome. Only when you realize that you are imperfect you will seriously strive to become the way as is My will, and then you will fight and struggle consciously, you will strive for perfection, and the strength will also flow towards you so that your battle will end victoriously. But anyone who still pays too much attention to the world does not know himself either, and therefore he does not make any effort to accomplish an inner change. His life will seemingly be easy on this earth, he has no inner scruples and misgivings, what he does he considers to be right because he only considers the earthly advantage but not the damage his soul will suffer as a result of his actions. For he does not recognize his state, his destiny and his earthly task. The human being has to seriously take himself to task, only then will he fight against his wrong love, against all urges and faults which still rest within him as consequences of the former sin. To struggle and wrestle are indispensable if the human being wants to attain perfection, but with a serious will he will be victorious and his fate will be a glorious one ....

Amen

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The fountain of living water .... The key to the gate ....

B.D. 5506 from October 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

The source which lets the living water flow to you will never run dry, for you humans are very much in need of strength for your soul which you can only find at My source of love and wisdom, and therefore I Myself will never stop the flow of the water of life, I will never let a wanderer move on without a refreshing drink who hopes to find this refreshment at My source. I never deny Myself .... yet you humans have a free will, you can also quench your thirst elsewhere if the path to the source of life seems too arduous to you, if you prefer to go downwards even though the source which truly refreshes you is above. You have a free will, and what you ask for will be given to you .... But there is only one source which lets the water of life flow out which imparts strength to your soul. You must receive it from Me Myself, for I truly offer you the right food and the right drink .... And this nourishment will contain the strength for every soul, and it will feel that it gets well if it was ill; it will feel that it becomes strong where it was previously afflicted by weakness which made every ascent difficult for it. But where will you humans find the spring of life, the source from which all of you can draw, from which you can gather strength for your way upwards? Where am I to be sought, Who has opened up this source for you? You don't need to walk far on earthly paths, you only need to open the door to the heart for yourselves through loving activity, where this source arises for all of you, where you can enter into direct contact with Me, Who now feeds and waters you, Who now offers you full cups of the most delicious water of life so that your thirst will be quenched eternally .... Whatever is brought to you from outside can only become the right nourishment for your soul when you yourselves desire to drink from the fountain of life .... For you must first accept everything from Me before it serves you as the right food and the right drink .... You must go to the source of life, for what you receive elsewhere has no good effect on your soul, yet it can make the soul unresponsive for the right nourishment and therefore harm it. And thus understand correctly, My water of life is not denied to anyone, My source is not inaccessible to anyone, yet the human being must want to reach it, he must possess the key to open the gate and he will be allowed to refresh himself. always and constantly. But the key to this is love .... For only the one who has love is drawn to that source from which love flows towards him again .... Love seeks Me and also finds Me, love is nourished by the Eternal Love, love pushes towards the original source of love, the fountain of love and wisdom is opened to the human being, from which he can now draw for all eternity ....

Amen

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Every day is a gift ....

B.D. 5507 from October 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Every day is still a gift for you which you should use wisely, for you will never be able again to catch up on that which you neglect to do on earth, even if it is still possible for you to continue your higher development in the spiritual kingdom. However, you can achieve far more on earth because you have strength at your disposal which you will lack in the spiritual realm if you have failed on earth. It will be a completely different situation for your soul once it has left the body if it has no spiritual strength to take along, which it is certainly able to acquire here on earth and which will signify an incredible wealth for the soul in the spiritual kingdom. Here on earth it can be active and gather spiritual possessions every hour and every day .... but in the beyond it requires support from loving beings in order to receive just a small gift of strength, and ruefully it will remember the time it wasted on earth the moment it realises what it had neglected to do. Every day you still live on earth is a gift from God, where you can be freely active and able to acquire much for yourselves, yet you will only gain spiritual possessions by using this time in keeping with God's will, hence you are always admonished accordingly, because every day will be irrevocably lost if you don't live with eternity in mind, if you only use it to meet worldly requirements, since you only attain earthly possessions which are transient.

The end will come to each one of you before long, only a few will live to see the final end, but the majority will already be recalled before they descend into the abyss. For the last days will make great demands on a person's free will who should work for his soul but only takes cares of and works for the body. Only few people will avail themselves of the last days as is necessary to be able to enter the realm of light, however, most people fail to consider their soul, they don't listen to the admonitions and warnings which God's love and mercy still sends to them, they do not believe .... and that will be their downfall .... And God's mercy will prematurely remove those from earth where the possibility still exists that they will be able to ascend on the other side, if only under far more difficult conditions than on earth. Yet where this prospect is no longer given people will keep their physical life until the end in order to then approach a dreadful fate due to their total failure .... to be engendered into material creations again for the purpose of advancing again from the abyss to the pinnacle .... Every day is still a gift for you humans which you should use to the best of your ability .... Live life according to God's will and only be active and work for the life of your soul, for the earth will disappear and with it everything that exists on it ....

Amen

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'Come unto Me ....'

B.D. 5508 from October 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

All of you who labour and are heavily laden can take refuge in My arms .... For My love wants to embrace all of you and nobody who comes to Me in his distress and appeals to Me for help will be pushed back by Me .... I want to comfort and give strength, I want to heal wounds and fortify the weak, I want to awaken hope and confidence in all hearts, I want to bestow My blessings upon everyone, because no one's soul can recover without grace. 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... I will give you rest ....' However, someone who is weak in faith might well hear these Words but he will not accept them as being spoken to him too .... he will continue to carry his burden, which I would gladly take from him if he handed it over to Me. Come to Me .... your own will must impel you to Me, for I only placed the burden upon your shoulders so that you should find the path to Me .... Every adversity is a coaxing call from your heavenly Father Who, in His love, longs for your love, for your coming to Him, in order to be able to please you. And thus, psychological distress shall also lead you to Me, you should entrust everything to Me, for it is My will that you should let Me know what troubles you .... Admittedly, I know all your afflictions and problems, yet I can only help you when you present them to Me, because it is My will that you conduct yourselves like children to the Father, it is My will that you always take the path which all good children take .... the path to the Father Who, in His love, wants to relieve them from every worry and support them with help and advice in order to make them happy now and forever. Take refuge in My arms at all times, they will shield you protectively, carry you across cliffs and stony lanes, they will take loving care of you as long as you live on earth. Put your trust in Me always and forever, for I will push no-one away from Me, even if they are sinful .... I want to release you from sin and guilt, just come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... Call upon My mercy and I will answer your prayer, I will extend My hands to you to make your path to Me easy, for I want to help and heal you, I want to please the sick and weak who can no longer help themselves on their own, and you all shall recognise in Me the One Who has redeemed you because of His boundless love for you ....

Amen

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The love of the Father for His children ....

B.D. 5509 from October 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Anyone who is devoted to Me with love can calmly walk his path on earth, he will not go astray, for his love draws Me to the one and he truly has the right companion on all his paths. Thus I require love for Me in order to be able to be a faithful and proper guide for the one. And love for Me is expressed in his thoughts, which reveal his attitude towards Me. Love for Me can be recognized where the will is willing to serve Me and to live according to My will. The innermost will, the direction his free will takes, is always recognized by Me and, in accordance with this will, My love also flows towards the human being, which truly is always willing to give. Therefore you humans only sin when you consciously oppose Me, when you do wrong which you have recognized as wrong. But as long as you are willing to not grieve Me in rebelling against Me, as long as you are ready to put My will before everything you think and do, I will also look upon you with eyes of love and you can live in peace. The measure of love you show Me is left up to you, but My love and care also corresponds to this measure, of which you may now be completely certain if you love Me .... But the expression of My love is My Word, My speech, which you hear if you listen in the silence of your heart, wanting to hear Me .... Again and again I can only assure you that My love would like to prepare bliss for you if only you were able to endure it. I can only tell you again and again that you would perish if My love wanted to seize you with all the ardor I have to give .... Yet I only give you as much as you are able to accept without perishing. Nevertheless, I will always remain the most inaccessible, most holy Being for you, Who certainly would like to bestow all His glories upon you but Who, even in His glory, in His unfathomable nature, cannot be recognized nor reached and Who, in His infinite love still draws even the least one to Himself in order to make the one eternally blissful. The love that unites Me with you, My creatures, is immense .... And, if you allow it yourselves, this love raises you to divine beings .... which again, just requires your love, freely given to Me .... My love will always be intended for you, and you can feel it at any time if you voluntarily devote yourselves to Me .... but then it will take a hold of you and will never let go of you, forever .... it will pull you up to the highest height, and you will always feel My love above you, you will always strive towards Me and, in constant desire for Me and My love, you’ll find your bliss through constant fulfillment ....

Amen

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