New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5510 - 5608

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

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

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‘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

5510 - God's presence.... faith without love....

5511 - God's essence is love....

5512 - God’s word proof of His love and mercy....

5513 - Wrestling in the spiritual world.... intercession and recitation of the gospel....

5514 - God's call for power.... power from below....

5515 - Purification of the heart as the temple of God....

5516 - Grace and will....

5517 - Love of the world.... Serious admonition....

5518 - Awakening spiritual hunger....

5519 - Conveying the pure Gospel is necessary....

5520 - Attitude determines the spiritual sphere and its work....

5521 - Joint work from the spiritual and earthly realms before the end....

5522 - Childhood of God only on earth.... further development in the hereafter....

5523 - "He who believes in Me shall live for ever...."

5524 - World turn....

5525 - Proclaiming the gospel in times of need....

5526 - Spiritual hardship greater than earthly.... The adversary's activity....

5527 - Convinced confess in the struggle of faith....

5528 - Persecution of the disciples of the last days....

5529 - Love and faith are missing people.... proclaiming in love of success....

5530 - God Himself as teacher.... truth - light....

5531 - Spiritual reception - mind work.... worker in the vineyard....

5532 - Doubt.... elevated truth.... light.... shadow....

5533 - Fullness of the divine power of love could be received by every human being....

5534 - Participation in the redemptive work of Christ.... following Jesus....

5535 - Satan's activity....

5536 - Will to help and work of the beings of light....

5537 - God's blessing hand over those who want to help....

5538 - Wake-up call before the long night....

5539a - Presence of God.... love....

5539b - Power of love....

5540 - Why Jesus Christ and His work of redemption must be recognized....

5541 - Bridge from child to father....

5542 - Relief of faith through the word from above....

5543 - Redemption work.... success through love.... asking for blessing....

5544 - A fair amount of measure of grace....

5545 - Complete devotion to God ensures paternal care....

5546 - Spiritual compulsion.... Doctrines.... Truth....

5547 - True Christianity....

5548 - True Christianity.... Following Jesus....

5549 - Spurning the power of God.... (His word)....

5550 - Serious reminder to work on the soul....

5551 - Miracle-work of the child Jesus....

5552 - Interpretation of the words of Christ.... feeding the pure gospel....

5553 - Radiance of God's love is bliss.... restriction in life....

5554 - The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond....

5555 - Freedom of will.... Jesus Christ....

5556 - Spiritual adversity: untruth.... false picture of God....

5557 - Earthly task: Volition.... Wrong endeavour....

5558 - Care of people by beings of light....

5559 - Truth light effect.... error no bliss in the hereafter....

5560 - Compulsory state.... free will decision....

5561 - Serving in a state of compulsion.... and in love in free will....

5562 - "Receive and eat, this is My flesh...."

5563 - Let there be light....

5564 - The Father's voice....

5565 - Confused thinking - Spiritual adversity.... Free will....

5566 - God's commission to His disciples....

5567 - Impending turning point ....

5568 - Right directed desire.... (new year)

5569 - When is pure truth guaranteed through the working of the spirit?....

5570 - Counteracting of satan where spiritual striving is....

5571a - Formalities, ceremonies.... True church service....

5571b - Formalities, ceremonies.... True church service....

5572 - He knows that he has not much time left....

5573 - God's blessing on vineyard work....

5574 - Igniting the spark of God in man....

5575 - Opportunities for attaining the childship to God....

5576 - Evidences of connections to the spiritual realm....

5577 - God's spirit in the man Jesus.... following....

5578a - Free will.... (after talking about "fasting and praying"....)

5578b - Free will.... (after talking about "fasting and praying"....)

5579 - Purpose of suffering and misery....

5580 - Spiritual guidance on all paths....

5581 - Nullity of earthly worries....

5582 - Divine mercy....

5583 - Living connection - receiving the divine word....

5584 - Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard....

5585 - The fate in the hereafter is determined by the will of man....

5586 - God Himself will appear....

5587 - Humility....

5588 - False gods.... divine worship.... (antichrist?)

5589 - Sudden end amid the ecstasy of worldly pleasure....

5590 - Sudden retrieval....

5591 - Distress of souls in the deep.... intercessions....

5592 - "I am the light of the world...." light is truth....

5593 - God does not condemn but wants to redeem....

5594 - Serious admonition and warning of transience....

5595 - Will determines the grant of grace.... grace....

5596 - Effect of the divine word to the otherworldly beings....

5597 - Love is the Christ-life in man.... "My yoke is gentle...."

5598 - "I am from eternity...." Lucifer's creation....

5599 - Need of the secluded souls.... love of the people help....

5600 - Power of the divine word....

5601 - Good doctor of souls.... healing remedies....

5602 - Remember the soul after death.... pitiful figures in the afterlife....

5603 - Two different worlds....

5604 - "Many are called, but few are chosen...."

5605 - Awakening the dead through God's Word....

5606 - The Antichrist's influence before the end....

5607 - Rapture....

5608 - Offering guidance on life's way.... word of God....

God's presence .... faith without love ....

B.D. 5510 from October 18th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I am always there where I am remembered with love, where I am recognized and acknowledged as God and father from eternity. There I constantly dwell, and people will also be aware of My presence, for they will live in peace and faith. But I am also there where I am not yet recognized but where the heart is capable and willing to love .... My presence is only still unconscious to the human being. Yet his love powerfully attracts Me, which is certainly not meant for Me but for his neighbour but which equally touches Me and causes Me to draw close to him. And the person who does not yet believe in Me, who does not yet consciously join Me, will experience a change in his inner life, he will often let his thoughts wander into infinity, questions will arise in him which he would like to have answered, and through the mental answers which emanate from Me Myself he will be stimulated to constantly search more and more for the truth .... Love guides him on the right path .... love awakens faith in Me, love influences his thinking, love makes the heart receptive for right thoughts which, however, always come to him from Me, because I want to win a person who lives in love for Myself, i.e. I want him to be recognized and acknowledged by Me, so that he will then also consciously consort with Me as he did unconsciously before through loving activity. Love therefore establishes the connection between the human being and Me .... Belief in a God and creator need not result in this connection, for it can only be a faith in form if love is still lacking .... Then he indeed recognizes Me intellectually, yet the bond of love has not yet been forged in order to connect the two of us .... This is why countless people can still be far away from Me, even though they seem to live as believing christians, even though they confess Me with their mouths, even though they don't deny Me as God and creator .... and yet the bond with Me is missing because they lack love. And even if I try everything to kindle the spark of love in them, even if I constantly create opportunities for them where they could be active in love .... their hearts remain cold and they pay no attention to the earthly and spiritual hardship on earth. They don't recognize the spiritual hardship because they don't alleviate the earthly hardship where it would be possible for them to do so. And therefore the faith of the majority of people is dead .... They receive My gospel with their ears but the heart remains untouched, they are mostly only listeners but not doers of My word, for My word demands love, a love which may not only emotionally move the heart but should be proven through works of unselfish neighbourly love. My word demands loving activity through which you humans demonstrate love for Me .... Then your faith will come alive, then you will recognize and acknowledge Me and consciously enter into contact with Me, and then I will be and remain with you until the end of the world .... Then you will be able to call Me at any time through good thoughts and speeches directed towards Me, then I will dwell amongst you, then I will be present to you, because where love is, the eternal love Itself dwells and wants to make you humans happy with Its presence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's essence is love ....

B.D. 5511 from October 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to win your love because then I will have won you completely for eternity .... But you will only love a being Which you know and learn to recognize as lovable, Which appears perfect to you and Which inclines Itself towards you in love. And therefore I try to convey a true image of Me to you, I try to awaken your faith in My greater than great love for you, I try to enlighten you about the fact that you once came forth from Me, that I am therefore your creator and father from eternity. I seek to impart knowledge to you in order to stimulate your will to act and strive in accordance with this knowledge, for without certain knowledge you cannot become active yourselves. Only the knowledge of your outcome and your aim determines your will and your thoughts. But I do not only want to be acknowledged as that Which I am, but I want to be loved .... Obedience out of a sense of duty is not enough for Me, because only the union in love triggers beatitude and therefore I always and constantly court your love. If you now recognize Me in My perfection, which signifies love, wisdom, power, mercy, patience, justice in the highest degree, love for Me will also flare up in you, for as once divine beings yourselves all these qualities are within you, albeit still unresolved, since you pushed them back of your own free will due to your former fall into sin. But if knowledge is imparted to you, knowledge which gives you information about your actual relationship with Me, your God and creator of eternity, then you will also learn to recognize Me as God .... But as soon as love flares up in you, you will recognize Me as father and come to Me of your own accord with great desire. And I want to gain this love in order to make you eternally happy with My infinite love. For this reason I do not leave out any person on earth and approach everyone .... I want to direct his thoughts to the one to Whom he owes his existence, and then I want to influence his thoughts and will with My love, I want to draw him to Me and yet not touch his free will. And thus I will speak to him and My word shall bring him knowledge if he only listens to Me willingly. My word teaches him love for Me and his neighbour. He often cannot muster love for Me as long as he does not know Me well; but he knows his neighbour and should give his love to him .... I want to encourage him to do so, and if he complies with My suggestion love for Me will come of its own accord, for then he will already feel Me, Whom he has not yet recognized correctly, within himself, his thinking will be clear and in accordance with the truth as a result of love for his neighbour, and through correct thinking he will then also gain a correct image of Me and turn to Me without reluctance, he will mature in knowledge and thus also mature in love .... And I have now won him over for Me, for he who has once recognized Me will not let Me go, just as I will not give up on him who has taken a step towards Me of his own accord .... I long for My children's love and will never cease to woo them, for the father's love wants to give, the father's love wants to constantly make people happy, but it has to be reciprocated in order to be perceived as happiness.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word proof of His love and mercy ....

B.D. 5512 from October 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The supply of the divine word is an act of grace of utmost importance, for people are so far removed from God that they themselves make it impossible for them to be struck by a ray of God's light and love; yet this light of God's love penetrates in order to illuminate the souls and stop their turning away from God, in order to reduce their resistance and cause their return to God. It is an act of God's grace which testifies to His infinite love. The human race is ripe for judgment, or rather, it fails its test of earthly life and has therefore forfeited the right to stay on this earth because it does not use earthly life according to its purpose. Yet God's mercy applies to His creations which have fallen away from Him, and He will leave no stone unturned if only one soul can be helped to salvation .... And therefore He Himself meets these creations which have turned away from Him in the word .... God Himself is the word .... Thus God Himself descends to earth when His word is conveyed to earth .... He makes contact with people and gives them the most effective means which leads to the aim, to union with Him. As soon as the creature distances itself from God of its own free will it deprives itself of His strength of love, and it is incapable of doing anything for its higher development. Free will prevents a compulsory return to God, but by distancing itself from God the creature erects a barrier for itself .... And God's great love and mercy breaks through this barrier .... He goes after those who turn away from Him. This is a grace of unspeakable significance, for people reject God's love, but God nevertheless touches them with His stream of love .... He addresses people, He wants to win them over with words of love and mercy, with helpful instructions and indications of the end .... He does not repay like with like, for He sees the hardship of His creatures which they do not recognize in their blindness; like a faithful father He seeks to protect them from ruin.

(21.10.1952) He offers His help to people so obviously that they would also have to recognize His love and voluntarily turn to Him, yet the strength of His love cannot become fully effective because people's will resists it .... And there will only ever be a few who benefit and make proper use of the greater than great gift of grace. And these few will still be able to work amongst people as revivalists and professors of faith until the end, they will be able to speak with conviction and work for God and His kingdom with strength which they can draw from this undeserved gift of grace; they will have a beneficial effect amongst their fellow human beings and especially come to the fore when everything threatens to disintegrate, when there will be earthly and spiritual chaos and the near end is clearly recognizable. Then only those people will be listened to who have a living faith and represent the living word of God, who have received from the treasure of grace and can therefore also hand it out where greatest spiritual need dictates it. God's love follows people and in times of adversity they let it take hold of them, and then they will also be saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Wrestling in the spiritual world .... intercession and recitation of the gospel ....

B.D. 5513 from October 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

It is an incomparable struggle in the spiritual world, for the number of lower spirits increases immeasurably and they constantly multiply because the people departing from earth are completely under the spell of the one who rules the kingdom of darkness. It is a seemingly overwhelming task to redeem the souls from this kingdom; it is a struggle on the part of the world of light which is only ever conducted with love and requires excessive patience and perseverance, for again and again the dark beings are active to hold back a soul wanting to escape from them, which is why the struggle takes place, as it were, between the beings of light and the forces of darkness for the souls of people who are not yet completely hopelessly enslaved by God's adversary. But the will of the souls has to be stimulated so that it demands upwards, because then the beings of light can intervene with their power, whereas before they were not allowed to use any power at all. And this effort to direct the will of the souls is incomparably difficult and often also without success. Whatever the souls are reproached with, they are unbelieving and accept nothing. And yet they must not be abandoned by the beings of light because only perseverance leads to the aim. Nor can they face the souls of darkness in all their fullness of light so as not to force the will to listen to them. They must appear in the same envelope and illuminate their hardship as if from within themselves in order to induce them to change their situation. Their love touches them charitably, but the spiritual hardship of the souls is often so great that they are dulled and no longer accessible to any instruction. They can only be won over by repeated attempts, because their hardship also becomes more unbearable the longer they resist. If the beings of light are supported by people on earth through intercession or mental attention to the gospel, the souls will be more willing to listen to them because they receive strength which weakens their will to refuse, and then the light beings' efforts will also be successful. People's thoughts on earth can work true miracles in the spiritual kingdom .... As a result the souls are moved into a certain urge to be active, they feel a strength which they now want to use, and they suddenly have the desire to improve their wretched state, they look around, as it were, for an opportunity to escape their present situation, and they will also always find helpful beings .... beings of light which, however, are not recognizable to them as such, which now assist them in word and deed. The beings of light will not tire of guiding those entrusted to them to ascent, only the first beginning is often incredibly difficult before the soul's will is willing to listen to them. For then the opposing forces ceaselessly endeavour to influence them adversarially and reject all who want to help them. A person's prayer on earth can then have an unspeakably beneficial effect, for the strength thereby imparted to the soul is always used in a positive sense. It is as if the soul then recognizes the hostility of the lower forces and the light beings' will to help, and it already turns willingly towards the latter and away from the lower forces. Help must be brought to the souls from one side if they themselves have not yet recognized what is at stake. And therefore loving intercession is the surest supply of strength because it is also perceptible to the being which is still turned away from God as a benefit and it then uses the strength, i.e. changes its will .... thus, through the influx of strength it gives up its resistance and is now easier to guide and influence by the beings which want to help it to ascend .... The struggle for these souls is unspeakably difficult but yet not hopeless, and therefore the beings of light do not tire and do not let up until they have drawn the souls out of darkness into eternal light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's call for power .... power from below ....

B.D. 5514 from October 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

And again and again you will experience that you are unable to do anything without Me unless you call upon the one who is My adversary and your enemy but who gives you strength in order to destroy you. You will be able to overcome everything with My help, yet you must not rely on your own strength, for then you will already be caught in satan’s nets, who lets the feeling of your own strength arise in you in order to push you away from Me. Often you have to rely on yourselves alone in earthly adversity, no help comes to you from your fellow human beings and you yourselves feel too weak .... Then you should call upon Me and you can firmly rely on the fact that you will be led out of the adversity again if you believe in My love and My might. But it is fundamentally wrong to exert your strength to the utmost instead of calling upon Me in the belief that you will then be able to overcome the earthly adversity. You also receive your own strength from Me, and this can certainly achieve much after a heartfelt appeal for help. For I usually help in a natural way so that it does not work like a miracle, and yet it is My help which reaches you. But if the call to Me has preceded, then everything you undertake yourselves will certainly be good, for I will guide your thoughts as it is beneficial for you. Many people certainly achieve extraordinary things without having approached Me for blessing and help .... Their attitude can nevertheless be good, and My strength is active or fails according to this attitude. But the human being can have unconsciously entered into a bond with Me through his will to love .... in which case I will also support him in earthly adversity, yet only ever in such a way that he will also learn to recognize Me if he thinks about the obvious help. But anyone who is already My adversary due to his attitude, anyone who consciously and unconsciously rejects Me, anyone who believes that he does not need Me if his own strength is insufficient, will receive strength from below. And he will be recognized in the utilisation of what he has earthly acquired .... No serving neighbourly love will speak from his thoughts and actions, from all his works. His earthly successes will always become greater and greater, for My adversary will provide him with abundant strength in order to win him over completely for himself by firmly chaining him to matter, by stifling every good impulse in him in his desire for earthly goods, for wealth, honour and fame. Yet no blessing will rest on his activity, nor will he be able to become master over his fate which is imposed on him by Me. For again and again I will try to direct his thoughts towards the one Who alone is powerful in heaven and on earth, again and again I will show him his own weakness so that he will lean on Me and appeal to Me for strength and power, just as My adversary will constantly harass him .... Without Me you can do nothing, but with Me and My strength you can do everything .... But don't let yourselves be deceived by the opposing power which certainly provides you with all earthly things in abundance but wants to take away the life of your soul, who wants to render you completely powerless for eternity. For he does nothing in vain, he harms you wherever he can and you have to pay for every gift of strength from below, for he does not want your bliss but only your ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purification of the heart as the temple of God ....

B.D. 5515 from October 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to dwell in you: .... Therefore your heart should also be such that I can dwell in it, and I can only dwell where all ungodliness has been removed beforehand, I can only be in a temple of love, in a vessel which is worthy to shelter Myself in it. And it requires a great deal of work on oneself to shape the heart in such a way that I can dwell in it .... for as soon as a piece of rubbish is removed it spreads again, and the work has to be done tirelessly until the heart is adorned with the virtues which now allow Me to take abode in it .... I am full of love and patience, thus you must also be so; I am gentle and peaceful beyond measure, and thus you must also make an effort to become like Me; I am full of forbearance and understanding for all weaknesses and demand the same from you, even if you will not reach the degree which still shapes you into a divine being on earth. I forgive those who have offended Me and repay them with all kinds of gifts of grace, and thus you should not hold any wrong against a fellow human being, you should treat those who have offended you with equanimity and kindness, and you should give them love and thus also try to win their love .... You should always take My life on earth as an example, since I, as a human being, had to struggle with the same oppositions and yet remained victorious because love gave Me strength, which you, too, can receive at any time if only you give much love. Such a purified heart will soon realize Whom it contains, for love attracts Me so powerfully, love adorns the heart and nothing can remain next to it which could prevent My presence. And you should not judge .... You should leave it to Me, and I truly judge justly but still differently than you, because I also love that which is still distant from Me and want to win it one day. Try to live on earth according to My example and the attempt will be rewarded to you .... For anyone who seriously wants will also receive My strength in full measure in order to be able to carry out his will. Anyone who seriously strives for inner perfection will achieve it, for he will soon feel Me as his helper within himself, and together with Me everything will become easy for him, even the attainment of a degree of maturity, which shall be the striving and aim of all of you. Your heart will become and remain a dwelling place for Me, and I Myself will be present to you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace and will ....

B.D. 5516 from October 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

It is up to you to make use of My grace, yet it is at your disposal without limitation. Consequently, I cannot lead you towards perfection but you must do it yourselves, if only you have the serious will to ascend and this serious will also allows you to use all gifts of grace which are offered to you by Me. You must want .... My will cannot give you what you reject yourselves, yet I am always willing to give if only you want to accept it. And thus one person can certainly say that he is in great grace but then only because he was willing to accept it, whereas the other rejects the same measure of grace through his will which still rejects Me. I am truly just and don't arbitrarily consider one person more than the other, My love for My living creations knows no limitation, and precisely the one who is still turned away from Me is powerfully touched by My love and grace, yet My emanation of love usually remains ineffective, which, however, is not due to the degree of My gift of grace but to the direction of the creature's will. I give unlimitedly .... and all people could make use of this will of Mine to give and receive just as unlimitedly. But where there is resistance My grace is also without effect. Yet My ray of grace can suddenly strike the soul and change it. But then the change of will was already foreseen by Me, I recognized the human being as capable of change and willing to change .... Now I do not suddenly give him the knowledge, but the soul recognizes itself through the touch of grace .... So there was only a weak envelopment left to break through, which no longer withstood grace .... Every soul is touched when I bestow gifts of grace upon it, but whether it reacts to them is a matter of free will. A gift of grace will never and must never force a sudden change of will, and I very well recognize where this compulsion of will is eliminated, where the effect of grace is permitted by the soul itself. Grace approaches every person unusually, especially now in the time of the end, because I want to help prevent a soul's downfall. I touch all hearts with My love and grace. One feels it, the other remains completely unimpressed by it, yet not through My will but his. I can only ever offer the greatest gift of grace in an unobtrusive way, because every unusual way would already be a coercion of will again. But grace nevertheless remains so effective in itself that it brings about the transformation from the abyss to the ascent if it is not opposed, if the human being himself has the will to reach the ascent. It remains unreal to the human being as long as he does not want it, it is obviously recognizable to the one who wants to use it ..... Yet the latter also feels secure in Me, for the utilization of grace also inevitably leads to unity with Me, by Whom the human being feels seized and no longer wants to think and act against His will. I am always willing to give, and if you humans are always willing to accept My gift you will also ascend and complete your development of your own free will, for My grace signifies help, My grace signifies strength and blessing for everything you undertake ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love of the world .... Serious admonition ....

B.D. 5517 from October 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

People don't want to relinquish the world and so they try to make compromises which I, however, cannot accept. No-one can serve two masters .... especially not when both are entirely opposite in their nature. And thus, the world with all its pleasures and attractions is completely opposite to what you humans should strive for .... the spiritual kingdom, whose Lord I Am and will remain. You certainly live in the midst of the world but only in order to prove yourselves, in order to learn to overcome it, and not in order to savour it to the full and to satisfy your every corporeal wish, for then you will leave your soul dissatisfied to the same extent. You count on a natural decline of your cravings and wishes as you get older and think that you will still find enough time to consider your soul .... But do you know how long you will live on earth? Do you know whether you will experience old age according to your will? Have you any idea how poor and wretched you will enter the kingdom of the beyond were you to be recalled suddenly? Consequently, it is unwise to defer what is most important in earthly life to an uncertain time and thus you should realise that worldly pleasure, an earthly satisfying life on this earth, cannot be right in My eyes, otherwise you would not have to take into account that every day could be your last one. Every person with only a little faith in Me and a continuation of life after death will feel uncomfortable if he thinks about his sudden death, because he knows that he does not live in accordance with My will, but instead he silences himself with the world and its pleasures. Only total unbelievers have no second thoughts or qualms of conscience of any kind by getting out of the world whatever they can .... They have long quelled their indwelling silent admonisher which still makes his voice heard in those who are not without faith. My Words are intended for the latter to bear in mind that the world will not give them anything of lasting value for eternity, that they cannot take anything which seems desirable to them on earth along into the spiritual kingdom. They should bear in mind that they ought to detach themselves from worldly things and that they can easily do this if they develop the love within themselves .... Then they will find nothing desirable anymore if it belongs to the one who is My adversary and therefore devoid of all love .... Love will give a person the right realisation regarding the value and worthlessness of things, love alone is the counteracting force to the world, for anyone in possession of love makes contact with the Eternal Love and This becomes the goal of his wishes and cravings, the world will grow pale and no longer exert an attraction, the soul will receive more attention than the body, the human being will learn to overcome the world and live a meaningful and appropriate life on earth and need not fear a sudden recall either, for the soul will have found the path which leads to its true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Awakening spiritual hunger ....

B.D. 5518 from October 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Spiritual hunger shall be awakened among people. This requires the offer of tasty morsels which precisely contain that knowledge which was ambiguous to the human being. Every person can be touched somewhere, every person has a specific question which occupies him and if he can receive an explanation to it he will also open his heart for further knowledge, and then it will be most successful if the teacher does not deny him an answer, if all concepts are known to him and clear enough so that he can pass his knowledge on to another person .... so that he can satisfy the hunger of someone who desires the truth. The desire for truth has not yet been awakened in the human race, people casually dismiss what is incomprehensible to them, they don't desire clarification and therefore it cannot be offered to them either. But the reason for this can always be found in the fact that their thinking was not stimulated, that no samples were offered to them, that they were not impelled to express themselves, to clearly state their own thoughts; a question can be extremely interesting to them if it is asked at the right time and in the right way and the answer can be extremely satisfying if it is given by an authorised teacher who represents the pure truth and can pass it on. Then the desire for more knowledge will arise by itself in them, and only then can a famished person be nourished with the bread from heaven. An answer which betrays ignorance does not satisfy and can prevent people from wanting to find some kind of clarification; the pure truth, however, speaks for itself and therefore also to every person who wants to know it. And this person will always be offered the heavenly bread which is conveyed to him from above, he will no longer need to starve and live in want, he will always receive according to requirement and worthiness .... For enjoying the bread from heaven only requires the will to correctly revive the soul, it requires being receptive for what God's love offers him. Therefore you should, as true representatives of God and His kingdom, always proclaim His Word, even if there is no desire for it as yet, for He Himself will bless you if you speak and you will experience this blessing, because the listeners will want to know more themselves, they will look for every opportunity where the divine Word is proclaimed to them. What you received through God's great love yourselves must be distributed by you with love .... Then it will not fail to make an impression on your fellow human beings .... Then you will be promoting God and His kingdom and will render faithful vineyard work, for you are His servants, you should show the table of the Lord to those who want to eat and thus bestow good gifts; you should always proclaim the Word of God wherever the spiritually famished are sent to you, you should offer the bread of heaven to them and keep their spiritual hunger alive, so that time and again new nourishment will be requested for the souls who once have tasted the heavenly bread ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Conveying the pure Gospel is necessary ....

B.D. 5519 from October 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The Gospel needs to be conveyed to people time and again in its purity, because this alone has the strength to change people's will. The pure Gospel comes forth from God, it is His spoken Word to people, which will remain for all eternity .... However, as soon as it reaches imperfect people, they will either accept it in its purity and then live their lives accordingly or people will distort it according to their will, then it will lose its strength, for then it will no longer be God's Word but people's word instead. As long as the Word of God remains pure and unadulterated it will have a noticeable effect on people, since they will subsequently change their nature and consciously strive towards God .... If, however, the divine Word has been modified, people will remain the same, for they will have reshaped that which was intended to accomplish a change in line with their will and created something distorted, but which is still endorsed as God's Word, which nevertheless is completely without strength. Therefore, God conveys the pure Gospel to earth over and over again, and He admonishes people to abide by it .... The pure Gospel is the divine teaching of love which Jesus, the man, preached on earth to His fellow human beings and which will always and forever remain the same teaching of love. But since love is no longer practised on earth, people do not understand the divine teaching of love, and in places where the Gospel is proclaimed, love for God and one's neighbour is only preached as a side-line because, due to human influence, so many teachings and commandments were given to people that the fulfilment of these has become more important, but that the human being's change of nature, the real purpose of life on earth, was no longer striven for and yet people believe that they are good Christians because they endeavour to fulfil the lesser commandments and teachings. For this reason the divine teaching of love as Jesus preached it on earth must be mentioned anew time and again, this preaching of love must be given to people in its purest form again so that they can feel the strength of the divine Word if they live accordingly and thus change themselves into love. Admittedly, Jesus' divine teaching of love in its core can still be found if the human being accepts even the spoilt teaching with good will .... Hence anyone who always regards the commandments of love as the first and only important commandments and lives accordingly, will also soon brightly and clearly recognise the changes in the divine Gospel, and he will also understand why the pure teaching of Christ is repeatedly conveyed to earth again; he will understand that God constantly talks to people and imparts His Word to them in all purity, for anyone who lives in love is also permeated by the strength of love, anyone who lives in love will be educated by his indwelling spirit, and God's infinite love is his explanation for the fact that He will do everything in His power in order to guide people into truth and to lead them to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attitude determines the spiritual sphere and its work ....

B.D. 5520 from October 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Just as your attitude is, so are the beings who want to push themselves towards you and exert their influence on you. That is why you are in danger if you do not observe yourselves critically and follow impulses within yourselves which do not correspond to God's will. You will then be harassed by those beings who want to entangle you ever more deeply in thinking and acting contrary to God. A short call for help is already enough for the beings of light to assist you and ward off the evil forces, for then your will to think and act correctly is evident. Your will alone decides the sphere in which you stay, and therefore a right harmony can only be in you when you only connect with the world of light, when you constantly send out good thoughts which are caught in the kingdom of light and sent back to you again for strengthening and spiritual advancement. It is your will alone which wards off when something disharmonious touches the soul, your will determines the thoughts, and your will draws light or shadow. And the tempter lurks around you and only waits for you to change your attitude in order to then influence you to think God-opposing thoughts and turn away from the one you should strive for. Don't give him the opportunity to influence you, resist him by sending a short call upwards in every weakness of will, by turning to the father in the realization of spiritual hardship, Who will surely help you; resist him by calling upon Jesus Christ when you feel that you become weak and fear His afflictions. And know that every call you make will be answered, that God will not leave you in danger, because through your call you demonstrate your will to belong to Him, your father of eternity, Who loves you and Who will not abandon you to His adversary if only you turn your will towards Him. But always be vigilant and pray, for the tempter is always close to you and has an effect on you if you don't resist him. Therefore surrender yourselves anew every day to the love and grace of the heavenly father, surrender yourselves to the protection of the beings of light looking after you .... Do not want to fall, and you will receive the strength to live and think as it is God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Joint work from the spiritual and earthly realms before the end ....

B.D. 5521 from October 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Whatever can still contribute to the soul's maturity in the last days before the end has been planned since eternity in My plan of salvation, which is meant for the spiritual soul's return to Me. And even though the blessings are not utilized on earth, the souls in the beyond also benefit from them if they are willing, and I have also thought of these souls and again and again give them the opportunity to ascend. For I also foresaw from eternity the predicament these souls are in shortly before the end of earth, because countless souls leave earth immaturely and are now accepted by a dense dark sphere in the spiritual kingdom, where they would be helpless and abandoned if they were not offered help. To bring light into these dark spheres, to let sparks flash again and again, that is intended in My plan of salvation from eternity, and I also recognized from eternity that and how the willingness of earthly people to help is used to help these souls to the light. I have known about everything since eternity, and therefore everything will come about as it is predetermined, because I have known about people's will since eternity and have also shaped My plan accordingly. For the souls can also work helpfully on people again from the spiritual kingdom if the former have gained a certain realization and can then also mentally convey this again to the people on earth who are now entrusted to their care. Connection between the souls has existed since the primeval beginning, and precisely this connection allows and guarantees a successful influence from earth to the beyond and vice versa. Work which was not completed on earth can still be done in the beyond and also lead to a successful result, because actually no limits exist, spiritually speaking, and yet it is spiritual work which is and shall be done. And there are connections which are still unknown to people on earth but which are clearly recognized in the spiritual kingdom and spur them on to eager work. That is why it is often a great blessing when immature souls are called away from earth in order to attain a certain realization in the spiritual kingdom, which then enables them to progress and successfully work on souls entrusted to them, which still dwell on earth and are now more accessible to the instructions given to them by their fellow human beings due to the spiritual influence. Every person can attain faith if only he is taught in the right way, if the teacher knows how to win his trust, to overcome his resistance. But this always requires spiritual influence, the soul must first be touched by a strength of love which reduces its resistance. And this strength of love is often emanated by souls in the spiritual kingdom to their associated people and thus ensures the success of a person on earth who proclaims My gospel to the unbelievers. The connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth exists without interruption but it is particularly blessed in the last days because the work of salvation shall be continued on the souls which depart from this earth immaturely, and because the cooperation of spiritual beings and people signifies a redemptive work of greatest success which is constantly blessed by Me .... For the last days demand increased activity in order to separate the spirits .... in order to bring light to the beings of darkness and freedom and bliss to those who are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Childhood of God only on earth .... further development in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5522 from November 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The maturing process is always promoted by God, yet in the stage of free will the spiritual can also offer resistance, and then God's will steps back and the human being's will decides. If the human being's development does not progress or even regresses, then the human being's will has resisted God's effort to help him progress, and then the spiritual substance in the human being, the soul, must also bear the consequences .... a state in the beyond which is adapted to the still undeveloped spiritual .... without light and without strength. Resistance to God is always a lack of light and strength, because light and strength emanate from God alone and resistance to God always means a rejection of His flow of strength of love. This state can certainly also be changed in the beyond, but again only by giving up resistance against God, that is, by willingly accepting what is also offered to him in the beyond, but likewise without coercion. But on earth a great grace of God has been disregarded, His loving help has been rejected, and understandably this has consequences which can never be entirely revoked, which is why an improvement of the state of misery can certainly be achieved in the beyond but the same will never be achieved as was possible on earth .... the childship to God .... Furthermore, it is not possible to arbitrarily return to earth again in order to make up for what was missed .... The human being's free will has made a decision on earth, and life in the kingdom of the beyond is in accordance with it. Yet God's great kindness and mercy helps all beings to become blissfully happy, and this bliss is possible in so many degrees that the being's will is always taken into account. In order to attain a higher degree of beatitude a repeated embodiment on earth is not permitted, yet a soul, driven by love and its greater than great will to help, can request a re-embodiment from God in order to carry out a mission on earth which applies to the salvation of earth souls .... This also results in an increased degree of maturity which, however, has to be acquired through an extremely difficult earthly life. Moreover, the soul which now embodies itself on earth is already in a certain degree of light, so that one cannot speak of an ascent development of a still imperfect being which now wants to make up for what it missed through a repeated earthly life. For God also gives the soul the opportunity to ascend in the beyond, yet the conditions for ascent development must be different, because it left the granted allocation of grace, which earthly life as a human being was in itself, unused, because it failed in free will and therefore can only achieve beatitude under more difficult conditions. Countless spheres exist and countless degrees of beatitude .... All souls can become blessed and increase their degree of bliss through their own will. But the highest beatitude of a child of God remains denied to the soul which failed on earth, for it is possible to attain this degree on earth using God's grace in free will .... The childship to God is the crowning of an earthly life which is led entirely according to God's will, in most faithful love for God and neighbour .... childship to God is the heavenly father's gift to His children who made use of earthly life to divest themselves of the last dross, who, through a right life of love during earthly life, become what they were from the beginning .... divine beings full of light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"He who believes in Me shall live for ever ...."

B.D. 5523 from November 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

He who believes in Me will live for eternity .... These are My words which also gave rise to divisions because the spiritual meaning was not properly recognized. I demand faith in Me in order to be able to give people eternal life .... But what is meant by faith? Not the confession with the mouth, not the intellectual acknowledgement of My act of salvation, but the inner conviction of the truth of everything I taught you humans on earth is to be understood by 'faith', and this inner conviction can only be gained through love .... Thus faith also necessitates love, and thus love is the first thing. But it is also fulfilled by those who believe in Me such that I can grant them eternal life. Right faith therefore promises life because it includes love within itself. But intellectual faith does not lead to eternal life, and it is this intellectual faith which can still be found amongst people if need be but which I cannot evaluate such that it brings the human being eternal life. I want a living faith which, however, can only be gained through love. For the human being only lives when he feels certainty in himself through love, a faith which is truly happy, which now determines his whole will and thinking and results in a way of life which earns him eternal life. To believe intellectually is no evidence of maturity of soul, for the human being may have been pushed onto christian ground through education, thus he cannot reject Me Myself, My earthly life as a human being and My act of salvation with conviction, he regards everything as true .... And yet, his heart need not be touched by it, it is an historical occurrence for him which he cannot deny but it is not felt by him for what it is. It does not touch his heart, which is only impressed when love comes to unfold in him. Then faith in it will trigger beatitude in him, then something will come alive in him, only then will the human being feel himself in the midst of My working on humanity, only then can he speak of faith which leads to eternal life. I certainly first require faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, because only through Jesus Christ is the path to eternal life, because faith in God alone is not enough due to the burden of sin, which cannot be redeemed without Jesus Christ .... Therefore I spoke the words, "He who believes in Me shall live forever ...." Mind you .... I, Jesus Christ, as redeemer of the world, demanded faith, but 'faith' is always only to be understood as living faith through love, which is why people first have to fulfil the commandments of love which I gave to people in order to show them the path which leads to eternal beatitude .... But then they will also be able to believe and in this faith enter into eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

World turn ....

B.D. 5524 from November 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The turn of the world is imminent .... You humans do not know what this means, for a period of time is coming to an end which you do not believe possible. A new redemption period will begin under completely different conditions, an era will start which cannot be compared to the present one. A new world will arise, i.e., the earth will bear completely new creations, and people will be allowed to see these creations who still knew those of the old earth and enjoy God's miracles which testify to His infinite power and wisdom and His greater than great love. Humanity is approaching the end, for only a few will be allowed to experience and enliven the new earth. For it presupposes a state of maturity of its inhabitants, because life on the new earth will also take a completely different form, because people on it will be in contact with the kingdom of blessed spirits such that they will be allowed to communicate with each other, they will be instructed and therefore have a high level of knowledge, which only mature souls can endure, and therefore a high degree of development is a prerequisite which only few people on the old earth will reach until the end. The time is approaching its end .... And since people are only on a low level of realization they do not believe and grasp this and therefore do nothing to attain higher maturity .... They also partly expect that a better time will dawn, that people will change and thus a spiritual turning point will still occur on this earth, because such an end as is imminent does not seem credible to them .... They do not want to believe what will irrevocably come .... It is about spiritual upward development, not about an earthly ascent, which seems to be the most important thing to all people. But spiritual development is neglected and therefore makes life on this earth pointless .... Therefore it will come to an end, even though it seems inconceivable to people that this earth should pass away .... The state on earth has become intolerable, a darkness has spread over the earth which is almost impenetrable, the earth has become unsuitable as a schoolhouse of the spiritual and must therefore be changed so that its actual purpose will be fulfilled again. Where a tiny spark of light can still shine there is also a connection to the spiritual kingdom, and this connection will remain even if the earth passes away in its old form, i.e., this light will also be allowed to shine on the new earth, it will be taken over to the new earth because it already shone above the earth, as it were, and thus cannot be touched by its destruction .... People who seek intimate contact with God will survive the end of this earth, they will be raptured and brought to the paradise of the new earth because they will no longer be held back by the heaviness of earth but will find support in the spiritual kingdom during the last difficult days which still await the earth. These, then, will experience the spiritual turning point, but in a different form than people imagine .... Everything will be transformed, every work of creation will be dissolved and the spiritual bound in form will come to progressive development again in a new form on the new earth. Creations of the most glorious kind will delight the human eye and an indescribable rejoicing will sound from the lips of those who are honoured to see the new creations and compare them with the old ones on this earth. And come as it is proclaimed, the earth will pass away in its present form but it will arise anew and testify to God's wisdom, omnipotence and love to the human race which comes forth from the best of this earth, from those who recognize God, love Him and remain faithful to Him in the time of the most difficult battle of faith which will precede the last end .... You humans stand before the turning point of the world .... See to it that you experience it in the strength of faith and the light of knowledge .... See to it that you are among those who will be taken from this earth to bear witness to God's power and glory on the new earth .... Stretch out your hands to Him that He may save you from darkness, that He may fetch you to Himself into His kingdom, where He will again set you new tasks .... To glorify Him and His name, Who rules the world from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proclaiming the gospel in times of need ....

B.D. 5525 from November 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

And when you see the hardship around you, which will increase the closer the end is, then eagerly fulfil your ministry to proclaim My gospel, to give comfort and courage to your fellow human beings and to awaken the living faith in them. For as soon as they have faith they will also become masters of adversity, as soon as they have faith they will be helped .... But first preach love to them, for this alone leads to faith, and living faith is a strength which overcomes everything. The adversity will approach all people, albeit in different ways, for I want to rouse all people from their state of inactivity, I want them to awaken from their sleep of death and recognize what lies ahead of them. Everyone will be touched by My hand which wants to save him, and only those who have completely fallen prey to My adversary, who have hopelessly turned towards him, will be left out by Me, for standing under My adversary's influence they will remain completely untouched by My warning voice which they could hear everywhere if they opened their ear. Yet many are still undecided as to whom they should turn to. I still want to win them with your help. But those who are then still too weak and in danger of the adversary gaining power over them, I will call them away in order to stop their complete fall into the abyss .... Whatever you humans will experience, they are all means to save the lost person .... And you should vigorously help and work for Me and My kingdom .... You, too, will need much strength, and you can draw it at any time if only you turn to Me in faith, if you let My word speak to you, if you are willing to serve Me .... For I need you in the last days before the end, and I will truly not let you become weak and powerless as long as you want to participate in work which is extremely important and necessary in the coming time. Therefore, only see the confirmation of My word in the adversity around you and believe that you are always assured of My help where it is necessary to carry out a work of salvation for which I only have a few helpers. There is only a short time left until the end and much shall still be achieved in this short time, which is why I have to help with unusually harsh means in order to still save those who are of good will, in order to save them from an infinitely long stay in the abyss, but which is the lot of those who resist Me and are in bondage to My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual hardship greater than earthly .... The adversary's activity ....

B.D. 5526 from November 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The spiritual adversity is far greater still than the earthly one, for people no longer know the truth and every error is an obstacle towards ascent, every error is spiritual standstill or even regression, for error is My adversary's work in order to obstruct the path to Me, in order to make it impossible to find. Every error reinforces his power and provides him with new opportunities to spread darkness across the human race. Everything is an error which contributes towards complicating the realisation of Me, everything is an error which prevents people from seeking and finding contact with Me .... It is My goal and intention that people shall unite with Me, that they long for Me and seek to satisfy this longing of the heart .... My aim is to gain My living creations' love .... Anything that contributes towards this is good and never My adversary's activity. However, anything that prevents people from finding this contact with Me, anything that diverts their eyes from Me is My adversary's doing. And thus you can easily recognise him in everything you are offered, be they spiritual doctrines, messages from the spiritual kingdom or events of any kind .... You must always try to realise what is intended by this .... And if it leads you away from Me and towards the world or if it impedes your heartfelt bond with Me then you will also know that it is My adversary's work who tries to push you humans away from Me. He also uses means which are intended to feign My activity, he does not shy away from seemingly working for Me in order to convince the gullible, who do not recognise him and accept what he offers them. People's gullibility encourages his activity, for they accept anything without serious scrutiny at the slightest occasion which requires their faith. That is how cunning he is, to seemingly strengthen the faith and yet to divert it into the wrong direction .... The truth is constantly sent to Earth, it is constantly conveyed to people and yet, the worst errors and lies are far more likely to be accepted than just a glimmer of truth, which would enlighten their spiritual state. My adversary, however, stands on solid ground, he stands on ground which people themselves have made firm and tenable .... My adversary works where people believe they are entering My territory. This, too, is his cunning, which can only be exposed again through the pure truth which I send to people through My Word. Yet this, My Word, can only enter with great difficulty where My adversary has carefully closed all doors. And people themselves support My adversary and uphold his power .... This is why the spiritual adversity is so indescribably great and yet cannot be forcibly eliminated, because the human being has to strive of his own free will to enter the light, then he will soon be illuminated and the ground beneath My adversary's feet will begin to falter. Nevertheless, without the truth spiritual hardship cannot be reduced, for the truth teaches love, but anyone in possession of love will also recognise the adversary's activity and release himself from him, given that his love also gives him the strength to escape from him, since due to his love he establishes unity with Me and thus I support him by imbuing him with light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Convinced confess in the struggle of faith ....

B.D. 5527 from November 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

If you want to be true confessors of My name you must also have deeply penetrated My teaching of love; you must know that love is the first and most important thing, that love wants to be practiced in order to then also gain the strength to stand up for Me and My teaching. For only love recognizes Me, only through love does the human being gain the conviction that I am God and redeemer, only through love does faith come alive, and this living faith will then stand up for Me without fear. The confession of My name will be the crowning of the battle of faith before the end of this earth, and this confession is also your victory .... But who can confess Me with conviction before the world? Not only will your confession with your mouth be demanded but this confession will cause you great earthly adversity and tribulation, you will have to sacrifice much if you want to remain faithful to Me, for conditions will be imposed on you, sacrifices will be demanded of you which only someone who has accepted Me into his heart, who is so intimately united with Me through love that he feels My presence and this presence also gives him the strength and certainty to represent Me before the world even at the loss of everything he earthly possesses. This is a great test of faith which only few will pass, for the adversity in the last days is great and only those who are firm in faith and serve with love will not pay attention to it but firmly trust in the lord's help. But then I will also obviously dwell amongst people who want to prove loyalty to Me and yet are weak in view of the inhuman action against the rightful confessors of My name. And then the weak one will also be permeated by My strength, for I recognize his will and therefore help him in every spiritual and earthly adversity. I will always and constantly be amongst My own if they mention My name in faith, but I will also be visible to their earthly eyes where faith and adversity dictate it, for I want to help My own and will not let them fall into the hands of their enemies without protection. Many who still believe to be good christians and representatives of My teaching will lose the courage to confess, for they are threatened by the measures of earthly power and are not firm enough to resist because they are not strengthened by love, because they only intellectually observe the course of events but are not inwardly united with Me. And in this adversity, which becomes ever greater, I descend to earth with great splendour and glory .... to help My own now, to snatch them away from their oppressors and reward them for their faithfulness by leading them to a place of peace and bliss .... If the battle of faith will flare up so fiercely that people will be forced to take a stand, My coming is to be expected every day. For I have given you the promise that I will shorten the days for the sake of the elect, to shorten their suffering and to give them the reward for the faithfulness they have shown to Me and My word .... I come to redeem you from all evil ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Persecution of the disciples of the last days ....

B.D. 5528 from November 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Just like My first disciples you will be severely attacked when the time comes that people will have to decide for or against Me. Then everyone who is for Me, who defends Me and My name before the world, will be treated with hostility and you will need much strength in order to be able to resist their demands to renounce Me and to revoke everything you upheld until then. All the same, you will not be afraid, for just as My disciples you will, permeated by My spirit, gladly confess who your Lord is, and you will always want to remain loyal to Me, and since you know of My might and strength you will not fear those who are certainly able to kill your body but are unable to kill your soul. And I will bless you for upholding My name, for admitting to your fellow human beings that He alone is your strength. Although you will be persecuted just like My first disciples you will not feel quite so distressed by everything the enemy of souls wants to inflict upon you .... it will bounce off you because you are protected by the shield of faith. And just like My disciples you will even then still win people over for Me, who are led to faith by your example and who recognise in My name a strength to Which they willingly entrust themselves .... And they, too, will receive the reward I promised to all those who believe in Me .... they, too, will reap eternal life and be admitted into the kingdom of light. But only those will openly profess Me who have found Me, who became enlightened by My Word, who attained a living faith through love and are also fully convinced that I will deliver them from all adversity of body and soul ....

However, anyone who has not attained this living faith prior to the battle of faith will easily relinquish it; he will be enticed by the world and thoughtlessly abandon what should be his highest possession on this earth .... he will relinquish Me because he never properly recognised Me. But you, My disciples of the last days, you shall stand firm, and the strength to do so will be given to you in abundance, for your will to remain loyal to Me also guarantees My help and My unlimited flow of strength. You can only lose your earthly life but even this will not come to an end until it is My will; but then you will exchange it with a glorious life in the spiritual kingdom. But you will not let go of Me again regardless of how much you are promised by the one who can indeed give you earthly wealth but not eternal beatitude .... You will certainly still have to battle on this earth yet victory is assured to you, for you will fight with Me and on My behalf, you will argue for My name and My teaching, you will argue for truth, for light, for your happiness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love and faith are missing people .... proclaiming in love of success ....

B.D. 5529 from November 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You humans only lack faith .... How differently you would look at the world, your earthly life and your task on earth if you could believe with conviction in Me, Who called you and everything in the universe into being. You would consciously put life behind you, you would feel guided by Me and you would know everything brightly and clearly, because through faith you would also be able to attain wisdom. For faith has love as its companion .... Faith without love is inconceivable, and the fire of love also kindles the light of wisdom. True life can only arise in you if you have gained true faith through love. But you humans lack love and therefore also faith .... And you are dead in spirit, you certainly live on earth but you live in spiritual darkness and your earthly life does not earn you any success. For only spiritual success is valued, since every earthly success is void with the death of the body. Spiritual success, however, can only be recorded through love and faith .... You humans are in appalling poverty, and if you don't change you will also enter the beyond as miserable, where you will also feel it as torment, because nothing else will deceive you about your miserable state. And even then you can only awaken to life through love and faith .... In the beyond you will again be presented with what you should believe, but just as on earth you will reject it as long as you are without love. Love, however, can only be awakened through love, and you can now appreciate the hardship of the souls in the beyond who are not followed by love .... These souls can only be brought to faith with unspeakable difficulty, and an unspeakably long time can therefore pass before this is achieved. But all beings in the beyond and people on earth will always be told what they should believe, and now the degree of love of those who proclaim the gospel determines to what extent it will be accepted, whether and when it will be accepted. That is why you bearers of My teaching of love must be in love yourselves if you want to be successful. What you offer in love does not arouse the will to reject as much as what is only offered schematically without any personal emanation of love from the giver to the receiver. But if you yourselves are aware of the value of what you want to hand out, you will be inwardly urged to give the same to your neighbour, and this ray of love already ignites in your fellow human being's heart and can make it receptive and willing. In all love try to persuade people to believe in a God and creator of eternity Who, as father, seeks contact with His children and wants to win their love .... Speak of My infinite love for people and thus also try to kindle love in them, and people will also be able to believe and only win if they accept what you offer them. And if you yourselves exemplify a life of love to them so that they will emulate you and now practice love themselves, then their faith will also become a living one and their work on themselves will be successful, for then they will also be permeated by the strength of love and faith, and they will live and never ever lose life again ....

Amen

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God Himself as teacher .... truth - light ....

B.D. 5530 from November 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Much light shines into your hearts if you let yourselves be taught by Me .... This is what I say to all who accept My word sent to you directly from above if it is offered to them. Nowhere can you receive the same wisdom which enlightens your thinking, no-one can give you the same knowledge unless he has received it from Me first. For only I can impart the pure truth to people, and those who receive this word of Mine can consider themselves fortunate, as can those who receive it indirectly through My messengers whom I instruct Myself. Everywhere in the world people teach, everywhere people try to acquire knowledge through study, everywhere such knowledge is passed on from person to person .... But who guarantees that the knowledge corresponds to the truth? This refers to knowledge for which no earthly evidence can be produced but which is nevertheless the most important thing a person should know and which he can therefore, because it cannot be proven, only believe .... Yet even what is required to be believed can be error, and therefore the source should be sought precisely for this knowledge, as it has its origin .... the eternal truth itself should be approached for it, Who alone can distribute it. But where is the faith still to be found amongst people that the eternal truth reveals itself to people? And because this faith is lacking, all other paths are taken rather than this one .... to call God Himself for the right knowledge, so that I can now also distribute it. Nevertheless, I convey My word to earth and thus, as it were, bring My pure truth to every person with the urgent request to accept and evaluate it .... I only want to give you humans something good for which you cannot find a substitute if you reject My gift. For no other knowledge can enlighten you so extensively, thus no other knowledge brings you the light which can fill you with such strength. To be knowledgeable means: to have knowledge about yourselves, your origin and your aim. Knowledge of the connection of all things will make you happy, for ignorance is like deepest darkness, which oppresses you and makes you unfree. But light is bliss, light is life .... And once you are in the light it can no longer be taken away from you, for the knowledge of the pure truth is a gift from the father Who loves you .... But you should also gratefully receive His gifts. Again and again I will offer you the light, that is, the knowledge of the pure truth is inexhaustible and will be given to you as long as you sincerely desire it. I Myself am the light of eternity and also want to permeate everything that has emerged from Me with My light of love .... You should all be filled with My wisdom and be able to create and work in bliss .... But therefore you must also be able to control the area in which you are to work as precisely as possible .... You must know about all correlations and also let your will become active accordingly. Wrong information also lets you think and act wrongly, right information, on the other hand, lets you work in wisdom again. And therefore light will constantly be conveyed to you so that you can act correctly, so that it will have a beneficial effect on yourselves and your surroundings. You must know your beginning and your aim yourselves so that you will also help your fellow human beings to the final aim who are weak and dependent on your help ....

Amen

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Spiritual reception - mind work .... worker in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5531 from November 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

It is a blessed beginning to place your strength into My service, for as soon as a person offers himself to Me for My service he will also constantly enjoy My protection, then he will always carry out My instructions because there is no longer any resistance in him against My will. Complete subordination of his will to Mine is the first condition for him to be regarded as a servant of Mine, for resistance against My will drives him a different path than the one I show him. My will is to bring the truth to people .... therefore anyone who completely enters into My will is suitable to receive the truth from Me and pass it on to his fellow human beings. Anyone who has no will other than Mine cannot grasp any thoughts other than those which are entirely within the truth. This realization would be a sure means for you to check whether truth is offered to you or not .... But often people are not clear themselves how far they subordinate their own will to Mine .... they are still too much active with their intellect and then let their own will emerge, and then they are no longer suitable to receive and spread truth. They observe themselves too little and are therefore not aware that they do not 'receive' but produce themselves, that their intellect works where the heart should receive. And thus it can be explained that people who are considered to be in My service are given the pure truth .... but who do not find the right attitude towards Me, who let their own thoughts gain the upper hand, who certainly also work in the same direction of thought but who, as it were, are active as writers and exploit the thought material which they have made their own spiritual property. Such intellectual work will never have a detrimental effect on fellow human beings because such a person's thinking has already taken a right direction .... on the contrary, such intellectual work can also exert an educational influence on fellow human beings, it can be recognized as strengthening and awakening faith and will never incur My displeasure. For the human being works for Me and in My spirit. Therefore I also bless his activity and value it as the work of a servant in the vineyard of the lord. It is free work for Me and My kingdom but nevertheless not the fulfilment of a mission which is assigned to the person who has offered himself to Me for service .... For such a mission requires unconditional subordination of the will under Mine, it requires that the human being completely renounces his own will and only wants to do what corresponds to this mission .... Thus he allows My will to flow completely into his own .... Only such complete devotion can bring a work to fruition which I recognized as exceedingly beneficial and important but which has to be done by a human being in free will, because people's free will is taken into account. It is not an easy task as long as the world still has an effect on the human being, but it can be accomplished if the bond with Me is stronger than the bond with the world, if the human being surrenders to Me without restriction, if he no longer achieves anything for himself, neither recognition nor earthly compensation; if he only wants to serve the pure truth and puts spiritual work before every other activity .... if he is seriously willing to be a faithful servant to Me. Then I am his constant companion, then I Myself assign his daily work to him, then there is no longer any thinking and dividing of his own for him, then his thoughts are inspired by Me Myself, then he no longer bears responsibility for his actions because My will determines him, yet not under compulsion but in fullest agreement with his will, which he has freely subordinated to Me through his serving devotion to Me. Then the mission can be fulfilled on his part, then he is the organ through which I express Myself, and he now receives and spreads purest truth, for all opposing forces are silenced as soon as he has consciously entered into contact with Me, as soon as he is willing to receive My word, because it is his mission to be a mediator between Me and people, to give them what they need but which I Myself cannot hand to them so as not to force their faith. Anyone who makes himself available to Me for this mediator's office is then also My representative on earth when he speaks for Me and My name. And thus what he receives is also directly from Me, intended for all people, and if I want to provide all people with the pure truth, because they need it exceedingly, I will also ensure that it can reach them unadulterated, which is only possible if My servant and co-worker on earth always desires the truth and appeals to Me for protection from error. Then I Myself will stand by his side as protection, because I Myself will then be desired if the human being desires the truth ....

Amen

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Doubt .... elevated truth .... light .... shadow ....

B.D. 5532 from November 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Again and again you will doubt the truth of what you should represent as My word to your fellow human beings. You will doubt as long as you yourselves have not yet reached the perfection which enables you to see brightly and which would chase away all doubts. But you can only mature through your doubts insofar as your desire for truth becomes ever stronger and you therefore also desire the one Who is the eternal truth Himself. A person who is completely self-assured, who believes he cannot err, does not strive for more but is content with what he possesses .... and he falls back .... Admittedly, it demonstrates strong faith if a recipient of My word from above is convinced of the truth .... but even the most devout person is only a human being .... the most devout person is still connected to earth as long as he lives on earth and thus exposed to the influx of the earth-bound, which wants to contaminate what is pure. And these currents also touch his intellect from time to time, and then quiet doubts set in which, however, can quickly be chased away through a believing call to the one Who is truth Himself. They are shadows that want to darken the light that shines out into the night. And as long as there are forces which fight against the light because they cannot tolerate it, the human being is not safe from their influence either, yet only to the extent that he himself is truthful. This is why the person striving for truth will inevitably arrive at the truth, and even a doubt will only result in the truth becoming ever clearer and defeating every doubt. No human being will be able to say that the truth is unattainable for him as long as he lives on earth .... then you would not have received the promise: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, and he will guide you into truth ...." The truth is not inaccessible to you, it can come into your possession if you are serious about possessing it. For God Himself is truth, and He gives Himself to all who desire Him .... He wants His creations to stand in truth, because only through truth can they become what is His will .... His children. Hence He will also supply them with the truth and also give them the inner certainty that it is the truth which is offered to them. And even the doubts which arise serve to recognize the right truth and to hold on to it all the more firmly because it gives light which makes the human being happy ....

Amen

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Fullness of the divine power of love could be received by every human being ....

B.D. 5533 from November 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

My strength of love can flow through you in infinite abundance but you can also go through earthly life completely empty, and both lie in your will .... to be powerful already on earth or, if your will is not meant for Me, to be dependent on the supply of strength from below which, however, only has an earthly material effect, thus does not secure you any spiritual ascent. It is up to you in which state you stay on earth and also leave earth in the end .... The kingdom of light can open up to you immediately after you have left your body, because your soul is permeated by My strength of love and immediately finds admission into the kingdom of beatitude. For if My strength of love can already flow through you on earth it means that it has spiritualized itself during its earthly life, that it has reached the aim, which is the purpose of its earthly existence .... to have overcome everything which prevents the union with Me and consequently to have shaped itself into a vessel into which My strength of love can flow uninhibitedly. Thus I Myself am present in such a soul, since My emanation of strength proves Me Myself. You can now receive Me Myself in all fullness within you .... Consider this saying .... You could also become what the man Jesus became if you were equally filled with the love which the man Jesus felt for Me and His fellow human beings. But you humans on earth will not muster the will which the man Jesus mustered and which, again, had its foundation in the overwhelming love .... And yet it would be possible, for He, too, was a human being like you, and furthermore, He offers you His support if you have the serious will to achieve the aim set for you. But who will make the test and ask Him for such a victory? You could be strong, the elements would have to obey you and all the powers of heaven would be at your disposal if you wanted to work unusual things for the salvation of your fellow human beings; you could truly perform miracles and be completely permeated by divine strength if only you would completely shape yourselves into love, which means that you would like to receive Me Myself through love into you so that I could work in you with My strength which now completely fills you .... You humans go through earthly life suffering, weak and anxious and could instead courageously and powerfully and with your head held high control everything that is creatively subject to you. You could truly be the masters of creation and everything would have to obey you if only you had established divine order within yourselves, if only you would once again develop the love which was your nature in the beginning. You have renounced all strength because you have given yourselves over to love, and thus you are often still inferior to the creature which your will is unable to control. But if you want it, the powers from below are also at your disposal, but not for your own benefit but only for your ruin. You need not be powerless, for My strength is always at your disposal, yet in order to receive strength from Me and to be permeated by it, love must be in you, because My strength of love can only effectively touch a creature which has become love, so that it feels strong and powerful. Love is the strength, and love acquires the strength .... The strength is Me Myself, and love attracts Me Myself .... You could receive My streams of love in all abundance and then feel like children of the father, to Whom all power is given in heaven and on earth. No human being is denied this power, yet whether he attains it in earthly life is up to him. But the man Jesus has proven that love alone shapes the human being into a receptacle for divine strength of love, which He allowed to flow into Himself in abundance, and therefore I Myself was able to work in Him so that nothing was impossible for Him ....

Amen

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Participation in the redemptive work of Christ .... following Jesus ....

B.D. 5534 from November 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You humans should all make it your business to participate in Christ's act of salvation, for countless souls are bound which you can help to liberate. You can all participate in Christ's work of redemption, you can all help to redeem what is bound, for this is possible in so many ways .... But the most important thing is that you first believe that Jesus Christ is the divine redeemer Who took all your sins upon Himself in order to bring you deliverance. And now you must also try to transfer this faith to your fellow human beings, to all souls which are unbelieving and therefore remain bound and in satan’s power. Everyone who believes in Him as redeemer also calls upon Him, and His redemption is assured .... But without faith in Him the soul will not find a way out, it will not find a saviour who will bring it deliverance. Now every person who believes himself also knows about the significance of the act of salvation, and he should also impart his knowledge to the unbelievers. He will be assured of success if he himself represents the divine saviour by following Jesus, i.e. if he makes an effort to live Jesus' life, if he himself observes the commandments of love which were given to people by Himself in Jesus' teaching. If he lives in love he proves himself to be a true follower of Jesus and a representative of His teaching, he proves himself to be redeemed by Jesus' love and grace, and now he can also advocate Christ's act of salvation with conviction, he can point his fellow human beings to the blessings acquired through Jesus' crucifixion and thus help them to avail themselves of these blessings and become free from their bound state, from a state without light and strength and therefore a state of wretchedness. You humans can contribute unspeakably much towards the souls' redemption, for you can also lovingly present the gospel to the souls of the departed, you can also show them the path they have to take in order to emerge from their wretched state. You can also point them to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and awaken in them the will and desire to be accepted by Him, to confess their sins to Him and to appeal to Him for forgiveness .... Everyone who believes wants to transfer his faith to the unbeliever, and even if he does not always succeed he will nevertheless be able to demonstrate many successes, and his work for the spiritual kingdom will not be in vain. For he will always find support from the beings of light, who are likewise responsible for the redemption of the bound and who, in their love, will not tire of leading the beings to Jesus Christ so that they will find redemption from their torment ....

Amen

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Satan's activity ....

B.D. 5535 from November 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The demon from the underworld tries to slip in everywhere in order to spread hatred and instigate confusion, and he uses every available opportunity offered to him. He stirs up trouble between people, he sows discord and strife, he uses lies and thus deprives people of the peace they need in order to find God .... For he, who is God's adversary, wants to prevent this. And his influence may be powerful if people are not on their guard and instantly turn to God once they notice his approach. One thought upwards is already enough in order to offer him resistance, because his power will be broken where God's power is made use of. He detests it when a soul is at peace and tries to interfere with it because then all other attacks are easier and successful for him. You humans have no idea how hostile he is towards you, how he hates everything that strives towards God and that he will never tire in order to make you fall .... He is incapable of achieving anything as long as you live in love, this is why he tries to stifle the love in you first, he tries to inwardly agitate you and to spread poison, to awaken degrading thoughts about your fellow human beings and keeps stirring where his thought has been kindled in you .... He is dangerous in his heartlessness, his hatred causes immense harm, and you must always be on your guard and nip the first unkind feelings in the bud by calling upon Jesus Christ to release you from his control. He fears this call and therefore tries to confuse every clear thought in you .... everything that makes you restless and nervous in the world is his influence in order to confound your thoughts, because then he will find good ground for his evil seed. You humans should always bear in mind that the battle between light and darkness happens all the time and that this battle is waged in order to gain you. If you therefore consciously take God's side, the adversary will lose .... yet on your own your strength you will fail, because he will be stronger than you if you don't make use of God's strength through your call for help. Don't allow yourselves to be disturbed by fellow human beings, by events, by thoughts or experiences .... Deal with every restless thought by sending an appeal to God and peace will return to you, for then you will be able to resist every temptation, because your peace in God is a weapon you can use in order to displace the adversary. Take refuge in the One Who is stronger than all tempters together. Offer God's adversary no reason to triumph over you .... but always remember that, on your own, you are too weak to offer resistance but that you can achieve anything with God, Who will let no call go unheeded ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Will to help and work of the beings of light ....

B.D. 5536 from November 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Untold opportunities have been created to help the souls, on earth and in the beyond, who are still dark in spirit and therefore wretched. The light beings' activity includes helping imperfect souls on earth or those who had entered the spiritual kingdom in an imperfect state. Their every effort is dedicated to the redemption of the spiritual essence, to transmitting light into the darkness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. And since the acceptance of light cannot be forcefully achieved, the souls have to be confronted by events which stimulate their will to become active in some form or other. Hence they are, so to speak, providentially urged to express their will. They are approached by beings from the spiritual kingdom or by people on earth who inspire them to become mentally active, and every influence can lead to the soul's favourable change of will resulting in spiritual maturity. Therefore, everything that confronts the human being on earth can be suitable in achieving this. With the right attitude his whole life on earth can serve a human being's spiritual progress, and individual events can activate this said right attitude towards God, and then the person's earthly life will have resulted in his redemption.

But, likewise, the soul can also expect to be influenced in the spiritual world by the beings of light, who continue the task they did not succeed in doing on earth. The soul will also be mentally influenced in the spiritual kingdom since, irrespective of its environment, everything the soul encounters is for the sole purpose of stimulating its thoughts, so that it may become aware of itself and its wrong attitude and try to change. Thoughts are always kept active so that the being learns to recognise its own state and endeavours to change. Hints of that nature are also given by the beings of light who continue their work of salvation on the souls, because they are moved by their love to release them from their miserable state. Consequently, no person and no being in the spiritual kingdom is without support, only their efforts are not recognised as long as the soul is not aware of spiritual matters.

Very little is known about the relationship between the spiritual world and people, most people deny all contact and therefore do not utilise the knowledge gained through such contacts. And until then they will not believe that all events taking place in human existence are premeditated and can but need not lead to spiritual maturity, because it is up to every person himself to derive a benefit for his spiritual development from every experience. The souls in the beyond are likewise helped to ascend by the beings of light, yet always taking account of free will, because there, too, free choice for God or His adversary is the decisive factor for the soul's higher development .... But no soul will be abandoned if it decides wrongly .... It will always and forever be fought for until it makes the right choice of will one day, until it voluntarily confesses to be with and for God, Whom it has to, and indeed will, find one day in order to be blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's blessing hand over those who want to help ....

B.D. 5537 from November 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I am always present to you if you want to be active for Me and with Me. The will towards Me, the desire to be active according to My will, is also the guarantee that I will now take action Myself, that I will intervene Myself and that you can now act and speak under My guidance, and it will always be right. Let it be said to you that I will not let any power approach you as soon as you want to be at My will .... I only demand your will, and as soon as this is meant for Me I seize you and truly hold you so that you do not fall. And do you have a safer means than an impulse prayer to Me? A short call is enough if you are in danger and I will protect you from all attacks of the enemy of your soul .... But what will be more pleasing to Me than that you want to serve Me, than that you place yourselves under My will and consciously seek to live and work according to My pleasure? Everything you do in the spirit of love which demonstrates your love for Me and your neighbour, everything which testifies to your will to help is pleasing to Me and will always earn you My love and grace. And thus you can never think or act wrongly if your intention is to help, spiritually or earthly. But spiritual help is exceedingly necessary, and I have few people on earth who support Me in this work but whose support I need because help from the human side is always possible where My direct help, however, would restrict their freedom of will. I only have a few children on earth who want to be of service to Me, yet the spiritual hardship is overwhelming and requires loving help .... For this reason I will always hold My hand of blessing over you who have offered Me your help, who take care of erring people and also the souls in the kingdom of the beyond, whose salvation is also a work of merciful neighbourly love and can only be brought to them by loving beings. You should not trouble yourselves with doubts; as long as you only want to help, as long as you only have the will to distribute strength, to give enlightenment and to dispel the darkness in which the souls feel unhappy .... as long as you want to bring light, I bless you and your work and protect you from the attacks of the enemy, who will always be powerless where love opposes him ....

Amen

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Wake-up call before the long night ....

B.D. 5538 from November 21st 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Wake up, you who sleep during the day, for a night of endless duration is approaching for you who do not hear this admonition. Then you will be condemned to inactivity, where you can still create and work and yet you do not use your strength .... Wake up, let the light of day shine into your hearts so that they will joyfully beat towards life. O hear My call which is meant for all those who keep their sleep of death, who are spiritually dead, even though they are still alive on earth. But soon this life of your body will also be over, and then the night will inevitably come for you from which no more awakening will come, whereas it is now still possible for you. You humans who only live for this earthly world, do you really believe that you became what you are now for the sake of your earthly life? Do you seriously believe that your creator and God from eternity only called you into existence so that you could animate this earth? Is this earthly existence enough for you or do you long for a life that lasts forever and makes you blissfully happy? How miserable is your existence compared to the true life in the spiritual kingdom, and yet you value it higher than this, otherwise you would only create and work for spiritual life. What hardship you will be in if this physical life is also taken from you .... You will enter the spiritual kingdom without strength if you have the grace to be called away before the end, yet you will remember the unused time on earth in endless agony and remorse, which could have earned you everything if you had striven for the most important thing, the rebirth into eternal life .... But if night falls upon you, if you are still alive, then woe to you .... then you will no longer be what you were before, then your soul will be dissolved and banished anew into hardest matter, and you will not be able to escape this dreadful fate, you will be bound again in a form which you have long since overcome, and you will have to travel an endlessly long path again until you once more attain your self-consciousness, a path which seems eternal to you .... It is the night from which there is no awakening, it is the time when you lie in the grave, dead and yet not past .... where you can no longer work according to your own will, where you lie in a sleep of death which you cannot end yourselves, whereas now you can still use your vitality if you want to become active, if you heed My wake-up call and escape the night which certainly wants to keep you imprisoned but which you can chase away if you open yourselves to the light which My love and grace lets shine for you. Rise up, you sleepers, and let it become day within you, let yourselves be warned of the eternally long night and do everything so that it does not take you by surprise, for the night is no human friend .... seek the light, come towards Me as the eternal light, and believe that eternal life awaits you where it is light and bright and where you need fear no more night for ever ....

Amen

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Presence of God .... love ....

B.D. 5539a from November 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I am present in you .... This assurance is intended to prove My love to you, even though you are unable to grasp the full depth of what it means that I am with and in you. You certainly hear these words and also accept them in your heart if you are of good will and strive towards Me. Yet this proof of love you receive as a sign of My presence will remain incomprehensible to you, just as the awareness of carrying Me within you would crush you if you could understand what it means .... Your God and creator, your father from eternity, takes abode in a human heart .... Love in its full measure would certainly make it understandable to you, yet it would only ever trigger beatitude in the heart but still remain inexplicable to the intellect. My spirit, which fills everything in infinity, also flows through your body because otherwise you would not live on earth, yet the fact that it expresses itself in you, that it is perceptible to you, that it virtually manifests itself in you in the form of the word, that your will to love is able to grasp it, that it is and remains present to you as something of essence which knows all your impulses, with which you can hold a dialogue, which loves you with all its might and yet does not consume you with its strength .... this is a miracle you have never understood .... Therefore a miracle, because it cannot be grasped with human senses and yet can be undeniably recognized .... You humans can draw Me to you by virtue of your love and captivate Me .... and I let Myself be captivated by you because I love you and My love grants My true children everything they want. If they now desire My presence, then love for Me is also kindled in them, and then the miracle already takes place .... The highest and most perfect spirit of infinity bends down, He knows His child's desire and gives it fulfilment; He allows Himself to be captured by love, because love always urges love and because love always gives and makes happy. I am present to you as soon as you open your loving heart to Me and want to receive Me .... And I will stay with you because love can never cease to exist once I have taken possession of My child's heart, and because I will never give up what voluntarily gives itself to Me, and I will not rest until everything I have created is permeated by My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of love ....

B.D. 5539b from November 23rd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The strength of love is all-conquering. How gladly I would like to make you receptive to this most profound truth, yet you humans can only experience the effect yourselves through the exercise of love, and before that it remains incomprehensible to you that love can express itself as strength, and by virtue of his intellect the human being will never be able to explain and grasp this wisdom. The fact that all might and power is at My disposal is proven by creation and the ever-recurring works of creation which My will allows to come into being. But the power which has become active for this purpose is love .... and since you are My living creations, thus everything is in you which grasps My essence, you must also possess and be able to use this strength .... Yet it lies dormant in you, it has ceased to be active due to your past fall into sin, but nevertheless it is in you, since your being is the evidence of the strength of love resting in you. And you are free to unfold it again as it was in the beginning, and then you could create and work like gods according to your will .... But you leave it unused because your little realization does not contain the knowledge of the connection and because you yourselves do not fulfil your task to develop the strength of love within you into an all-conquering strength .... Your love is only an earthly love; it only ever turns to things which are transient, it has not yet entered the spiritual path where it only really comes to fruition .... it first has to be completely unselfish in order to be able to work as strength, and you humans lack this unselfish love, which is why you detach yourselves from earth with such difficulty, that is, your thoughts do not wander upwards into the kingdom which is still unknown to you but nevertheless your true home. However, as soon as the right love flares up in you you will also be able to penetrate that kingdom, then the strength will already start to work and it will become ever more effective the stronger it glows in you, and then you will accomplish things which seem to be beyond the realm of the natural to you humans and yet only correspond to your own nature. What could you humans accomplish if only you would change yourselves into love? Weak and powerless you let yourselves be driven by all events where you could intervene through love yourselves, where you could conquer everything by virtue of your love. All this is still incomprehensible to you and therefore unbelievable, yet if I tell you, you can accept it as truth and therefore only ever strive to develop the right, i.e. unselfish love, and you will very soon experience the effect yourselves, and nothing will oppress you any longer, because if you live in love you will be in contact with Me and thus nothing will be impossible for you anymore, because My strength is unlimited and is now also available to you without restriction. For I am love, the power Which accomplishes everything, and the union through love with Me also makes you beings which can accomplish everything according to their will ....

Amen

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Why Jesus Christ and His work of redemption must be recognized ....

B.D. 5540 from November 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The sinner is forgiven through Jesus Christ's death. The love of the human being Jesus took all the guilt of sin on earth upon Himself and atoned for it through His death. He paid the great debt with His blood, and every sinner can therefore receive redemption, provided he believes in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... Christ's sacrificial death was therefore offered for the whole of humanity, yet only a few participate in it, only a few consciously avail themselves of the blessings which the man Jesus acquired through His death. And therefore redemption, the release from all guilt of sin, is always an act of free will and must also remain so, the human being himself must want to become free through Him, otherwise he cannot reach God Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ. Faith in God is only an empty phrase as long as it is not proven. Faith in God also results in the recognition of one's own relationship to God. Believing in God as the highest and most perfect being also reveals the great distance between oneself and God, and this distance must inevitably be reduced because it was not there in the beginning when the being was created perfectly by God .... And man recognizes himself as a 'creature' of God as soon as he pretends to believe in God .... And thus faith must result in the being striving towards God again, that it wants to enter into the relationship again in which it stood in the beginning. But it must also seek a reason in the distance between itself and God and thus come to the realization that it has created this distance itself through sin .... consequently want to become free from this guilt .... But since the guilt is enormous, because the sin was directed against God, the human being is not able to pay off this enormous guilt of sin in his short earthly lifetime. He has to accept help offered to him, help which the God-man Jesus wants to bring to him, Whom sinful humanity took pity on and Who therefore offered a sacrifice of atonement in His love for people in order to help them become free from guilt. Only through Jesus Christ, then, is freedom from all guilt possible ....

(25.11.1952) Therefore you had to pay off an enormous guilt because your past sin was directed against God Himself. God is love, and anyone who sins against love sins against God Himself, and he makes it virtually impossible for love to take care of him because it was previously rejected. Hence the path to God is simply an absurdity, because a being which voluntarily distances itself from God cannot reach God on this path .... understand this, you transgress against love and can therefore only find forgiveness if you acknowledge love and turn to it .... And therefore the man Jesus took this mission upon Himself to pay the tribute to eternal love, which proved His profound love for God and people to Himself .... Only through love could a guilt be redeemed which was directed against eternal love. For this reason, however, you humans cannot ignore Jesus Christ either, you cannot exclude Him, for you can only enable the return to God through love, but if you practice love you will also brightly and clearly recognize Jesus the man's merciful act of love and acknowledge Him as your saviour, because love unites with everything that is love, and Jesus Christ was embodied love and thus accepted God Himself into Himself, Whose fundamental substance is love .... And thus God's strength of love manifested itself in a human being, it took shape, as it were; the strength, which emanated into infinity, which is everywhere in the entire universe, the strength, which is to be addressed as God Himself, yet not visible to anyone as such, chose a form imaginable to human beings and radiated through it, so that God Himself was in the man Jesus, that He must be acknowledged as God, for His whole being was God because it was love, and only the external form was human as long as He dwelled on earth, until even after His crucifixion this form was permeated by God's light of love and therefore was able to ascend into heaven transfigured and spiritualized, yet only visible to those whose souls already possessed a certain degree of maturity to be able to behold divine-spirituality without having to perish from it themselves. Divine justice had been satisfied, divine love had been reconciled through Christ's crucifixion, yet without acknowledging Jesus and His act of salvation the human being remains irrevocably in sin, which separates him from God, and he can never become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Bridge from child to father ....

B.D. 5541 from November 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to instruct you, I want to give you faith in My love, wisdom and omnipotence, I want to awaken in you a sense of responsibility for your souls, I want to reveal My will to you so that you live right and thus do for your soul what is necessary for it to live; I want to stimulate you Myself into loving activity in order to show you the right path you should take in earthly life .... I want to do everything for you that a good father does for his children whom He loves .... And that is why I give you My word, that is why I establish the connection with you humans on earth through My word as soon as there is the slightest possibility of gaining access to your hearts. I will not give you up eternally, yet according to the law of eternity I cannot give to you arbitrarily but only under certain conditions which must exist and yet are the result of you humans' free will. And therefore My word can only be conveyed to you if you have the will to hear Me yourselves; you must want to build a bridge from yourselves to Me, then I will build it without delay, because I am pleased when My living creations long for Me. I do everything to awaken this desire in you, again and again I step in your way until you become attentive and long for My nearness of your own accord, and then I speak to you .... You humans can hear My word in many different ways, however, I always bring it close to you as soon as you desire it. Hence your desire for My word guarantees you the supply of it, and what is then offered to you is also My word, for then I will address you Myself by giving you understanding and the ability to judge in order to clearly recognize and eliminate human error. Only your desire for truth, for the word of God, is necessary in order to also receive My word .... and then you will receive everything .... teachings, admonitions, instructions and precise knowledge of My will, which is all I ask of you to fulfil .... For I want to win you over for Myself, thus I will truly only offer you that which leads you to Me, which shapes you such that you can stay close to Me. In this faith you can always unite with Me, then you will enter the bridge which I have built to earth, and then you can always receive from Me what is helpful for your soul. And then your earthly path will not be an idle one, at the end of days you will be able to look back on a blessed life, for your soul will be ripe for eternity ....

Amen

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Relief of faith through the word from above ....

B.D. 5542 from November 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The path upwards will truly be made easy for you through the transmission of My word, for it will confirm what is doubtful to you and you will learn to believe, providing you want to stand in truth. For you can examine and form an opinion yourselves and will always be supported from above that you think correctly. You will be given explanations through My word which are acceptable if you are of good will, explanations which give you light, the correlation of all things will be explained to you such that you will become enlightened, you will find a satisfactory solution by diligently thinking about it, thus you will be able to believe what you are offered, always provided that you are interested in the pure truth, that you seek it. For a certain faith is the first thing in order to consciously strive for the above .... Faith in an exceedingly good, wise and powerful creator Who is the father of you all and wants to be acknowledged. Only this faith determines your thoughts, intentions and actions, for as soon as you acknowledge a being above you, Whom you want to join, you also fulfil His will, which is now revealed to you through My word. But through My word from above the connection between Me and you is also recognisable, you have, as it were, living proof of Me and My love for you, and it is now easier for you to establish the connection with Me such that you also feel that I am present to you .... I have become a living concept to you through My word from above, I am no longer the alien God to you Who was indeed taught to you but was not so close to you that you could hold a living dialogue with Him .... You can already recognize Me in My word alone, and My word gives you the evidence of My love for you, so that you can trustingly turn to Me in every spiritual and earthly adversity. I Myself descend to you because you have distanced yourselves from Me to such an extent that you are no longer able to hear Me and your faith is dead and powerless. And therefore I want to help you gain a living faith, I want to make Myself known to you so that you consciously strive towards Me and take the path which alone leads to Me .... so that you fulfil My will, which is revealed to you as My will and which only consists of fulfilling My commandments of love. What comes to you from above is so clear and understandable that you cannot reject it if you are willing to experience the truth. Anyone who does not have this will will never believe in Me as God and creator of eternity, and he will also never seek a connection with Me because then he will also lack love. Admittedly, I also address him through My word, yet the resistance he still opposes Me also causes him to reject My word, and then he cannot be helped either. Yet I especially take care of those who are willing in the last days before the end, so that they will find the path to Me and thus also to eternal life ....

Amen

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Redemption work .... success through love .... asking for blessing ....

B.D. 5543 from November 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I will bless you for everything you do for Me and My kingdom, yet not for the sake of blessing shall your work be done .... Consider that only a right work of love can be successful and that the work of redemption can only be based on love, otherwise the redeeming strength is missing. Therefore, your work has to be done entirely unselfishly, even though I rate it as the highest achievement, because it concerns the souls of beings which languish in adversity without help. For people on earth are also unhappy beings as long as they live in spiritual darkness, except that they don't recognize their state of misery in earthly life because they only pay attention to earthly things. But you can contribute a lot to give these people light, and I want to bless this effort of yours .... Nothing you do for your fellow human beings out of love shall be done in vain, for a labour of love cannot fade away forever, and even if it is not immediately successful the effect will not be absent, for in a shorter or longer time the human being's soul will remember your love and make use of it. Nothing is lost that is born of love .... But you should always ask for My blessing so that your work will be more effective, because My blessing means a great help .... And I will never deny you the blessing, after all, it is My will that you shall be successfully active, and My blessing will rest equally on your activity as well as on yourselves, for the work for Me and My kingdom shall give you pleasure, you shall not do it with the feeling of having to carry a burden, you shall do it gladly and voluntarily, precisely because love shall impel you to do it, and I will repay your love with My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

A fair amount of measure of grace ....

B.D. 5544 from November 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You shall receive a fair amount of measure .... I do not bestow My grace upon you sparingly but let it flow to you abundantly so that you can only ever appropriate it, so that you can utilize it for your upward development. Yet you should also value a gift which My love bestows upon you, you should regard it as a gift from your father in heaven Who wants to help you ascend through it, and you should make use of it because otherwise it will remain completely useless. And thus you should also regard My word as an extraordinary gift of grace which I bring to you in the last days through My disciples whom I have chosen Myself to serve Me. You should value My word more than anything else in the world, for it is a ray of love from the spiritual kingdom, it is something spiritual which shall touch you so that you, too, will become spiritualized while still on earth. It is truly a gift of immeasurable value, for humanity is so far away from Me that it no longer recognizes Me, but now it is given proof that I am closer to you humans than ever .... I address you Myself, therefore I must also be .... And you will feel that I speak to you Myself if you accept My word with good will .... My word is a grace of inconceivable effect and will infallibly lead you upwards, yet it does not force you, as all My blessings require your will in order to take effect on you. And therefore I can only admonish you again and again to accept My gift from above, not to pass it by or reject it when it is offered to you. And bear in mind that you are dependent on My grace because you are too weak on your own, bear in mind that strength and grace are at your disposal at all times and that you can release yourselves from your state of weakness if you want to .... But also bear in mind that you have free will and have to act of your own accord, that you therefore also have to make use of grace in order to emerge from the state of misery in which you live .... And if a person is completely ignorant I will give him enlightenment through My word, I will instruct him and show him all means, I will bring Myself close to him and stretch out My hand towards him .... but he must take hold of My hand and do what I ask and announce to him through My word .... Then he makes use of a grace of highest value and effortlessly achieves the aim set for him for earthly life .... He strides upwards and his soul frees itself from every fetter .... it becomes blissful through My grace ....

Amen

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Complete devotion to God ensures paternal care ....

B.D. 5545 from November 30th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Consider yourselves My protégés and an inner calm will engulf you. All responsibility is taken from you when you faithfully give yourselves to Me and leave Me to rule your lives. And I will guide you well indeed .... You should call on Me in times of earthly as well as of spiritual need but then faithfully await My decision because you don't know what is good for you; I, however, do know and treat you like a loving Father who only wants the best for His children. Therefore let yourselves be guided by Me and don't be worried, because I will truly guide you well ....

An earthly child's complete surrender to its Heavenly Father is a monumental event since it will achieve everything due to its faith in Him. This faith is not yet present where doubt and anxious worries about the future still depress a human heart, the human being has not yet handed himself over to Me and is therefore still carrying a heavier burden than necessary. I know all your worries, no thought escapes Me, I know your innermost feelings and thus I also know what a person needs .... And that is what I want to give to him .... But I also want to give him the faith which is still absent and thus I will not take his worries away until he has found faith and entrusts all problems to Me. But then they will leave him, then he will have no more doubts and reservations, then he will be fully at peace and certain of My help ....

Therefore, as long as the future worries you, as long as you still have anxious thoughts, you are not yet sufficiently united with Me to feel as My protégés because this perception eliminates all fear and worry. You might as well be indifferent about earthly demands as you are unable to master them without My help. Therefore, trust in Me and everything will turn out for the best. And if you cannot see the best in something then trust Me anyway because I can see what is good or bad for you, I rule with love and wisdom and only want the best for you. But only total surrender to Me, complete surrender of your will to Mine, safeguards My paternal care and you can stop worrying. You should always remember that, no matter what happens, nothing can happen without My will or My permission. And whatever happens is good because I watch over every human being, but even more so over those who want to serve Me and who, as My workers, also enjoy the protection of the custodian of the house .... Whoever takes flight into My arms like a child will be accepted as a child and he will enjoy the Father's protection and all His love .... Your earthly lives could be easy if you heeded My Words and handed your problems over to Me, Who loves you and wants to help you achieve inner peace and a living faith, Who is with you whenever you call upon Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

B.D. 5546 from December 2nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Spiritual freedom must be maintained, the human being may not be forced to think in this or that direction, he must remain at liberty to join any school of thought, only then will My will be complied with, for it concerns the free decision of will, which every person must make by himself without having been influenced in a compelling way. For this reason I will never ever sanction compulsory faith which expresses itself through dogma, which inhibits people's thinking and denies them any possibility of testing and of choosing .... Thereby the human being is impelled to think in a specific way and comes to completely wrong conclusions if the preconditions are wrong .... He can hardly find the truth which is only gained by a person who seriously desires it. The truth is made accessible to a person in earthly life because he is capable of thinking and only his will makes the decision as to whether he thinks correctly. He might well think correctly but he must always be active himself, that is, he must form his own opinion about everything that is presented to him from outside, and that requires his own intellectual activity and, even more importantly, his desire for truth, i.e. the will only to accept the right information. This will is absolutely respected by Me, it is always complied with because I, being Truth Itself, also want to make Myself accessible to My living creations. But I can never convey the truth to a person who does not want it, who only ever accepts what he receives from external sources. Every person must examine for himself, for error might just as well have been presented to him as truth, and the person is responsible for what he decides to accept. It is a mistaken objection to say that the majority of people are incapable of scrutiny .... The intellect alone is not decisive but the will to think correctly certainly is, in which case the person's intellect will also form a positive or negative opinion, because I Myself will intervene if he desires to know the truth. By comparison, highly developed intellectual thinking can easily fall prey to error if only the intellect is inclined towards the pure truth without involving the heart and will ....

Consequently, it is wrong to accept knowledge without examining it, to acknowledge teachings and to decide on a spiritual direction without scrutiny .... which already follows from the fact that not only one school of thought exists, but that ever new offshoots verify that an examination must take place as to which school of thought the truth can be found in. For every advocate of his school of thought has used his intellect to choose it but has no guarantee that it is the truth if he does not seriously deliberate on it and calls upon Me for support through My spirit .... Anyone who chooses this path can be certain that the pure truth will be conveyed to him, and he will also be able to endorse it as such with inner conviction. However, every individual soul is responsible for its decision, and the result will be according to its will .... But as long as people are pushed into a specific direction of thought, as long as individuals deem themselves called to present knowledge to their fellow human beings which they want to be accepted as truth but which they would reject themselves were they seriously to examine it .... so long people will be in a dreadful state, for only truth helps the souls to mature fully, they can only find their way to Me through truth and only through truth can they be released from sin and its consequences, for the truth comes from Me and leads back to Me again. But that which is not from Me, that which can be recognised as error with proper scrutiny, comes from My adversary, and he will really not help you to gain beatitude, he will not guide you to Me, he will try to push you aside, to darken your spirit and to make you dependent on him .... Only truth will make you happy, and you will only receive the truth if you appeal to Me Myself for it, if you are serious about receiving the truth from Me .... But this always presupposes your own action and no-one can bear the responsibility for you, no-one can relieve you of the decision which you must make yourselves for the sake for your soul's salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

True Christianity ....

B.D. 5547 from December 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

A faithful Christian must also live according to his belief, that is, he must follow Jesus Christ, Who exemplified to people the right kind of life on earth and thus requires faith in His act of Salvation in order to be acknowledged by Him as a Christian. The Christian doctrine must be followed from the heart, for Christ requires love from people, a love which lacks self-interest and has therefore a redeeming effect, a love which is willing to make sacrifices, a love which Jesus demonstrated through His death on the cross. Thus, to be a true Christian means to shape one's inner nature into love in the belief in Jesus Christ, for the human being is incapable of this change of character without faith in Him. He can indeed believe in Him and yet not live in love .... In that case, however, it is merely a conventional faith, an intellectual faith, which may well give credence to the existence of Jesus, the man, and perhaps even His crucifixion, but which has no idea about the significance of the sacrifice the made by the man Jesus on behalf of fellow human beings. For the understanding of this only comes to him when he practices love, because only then will his spirit give him the right understanding through his heart .... This is why 'being a Christian' first means to live a life of love, then the human being will also testify to Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of the world. However, a person lacking unselfish love will never be a Christian, even if he declares himself as such before the world .... For the concept of Christianity is not a question of believing that Jesus existed, the point is that the person lives as Jesus Christ had lived on earth in order to be able to rightfully call himself a Christian. This is why there is no true Christianity in this world anymore, despite churches and doctrines, for the spirit of Christ is missing. People are unredeemed because Jesus Christ can no longer be effective where love does not exist .... And love has completely grown cold among people .... Whether poor or rich, whether high or low, they all lack love, the most important aspect of Christianity ....

People no longer make use of Jesus' act of Salvation; they stand outside the circle of those who died on behalf of Jesus Christ. They certainly see the cross because they cannot deny Jesus Christ, the man, and His crucifixion, but it has become utterly irrelevant to them, they merely speak words without meaning and strength, because only love reveals the understanding in the first place but love has died away. For such people Jesus Christ died in vain on the cross and yet they call themselves Christians .... Not one of them realises the significance, not one of them makes the effort to be a true Christian, and many people contemptuously look down on those who, in their eyes, are heathens or unbelievers because they are not part of an official church or community .... And all these will one day have a dreadful awakening if they depart from earth in an unredeemed state and are required to give account of their way of live, if their degree of love is so low that it emits no ray of light on entry into the kingdom of the beyond .... Then they will have to look for the Redeemer of humankind first and will hardly find Him, because they will have lacked the right faith in Him and yet, without it they will never be able to become happy .... Oh, if only you humans knew what you are giving away on this earth because of your half-hearted attitude towards the most important things .... if only you knew how bitterly you will regret it one day .... You will never be able to become blissfully happy without love .... You must travel your path on earth as true Christians, you must follow Him, that is, keep His commandments, only then will your faith in Him be a living one, only then will you profess Jesus Christ before the world .... You will stand up for Him and, having been redeemed by Him, also be able to provide your fellow human being with the right explanation as to the fact that and why He has to be acknowledged, as to fact that and why eternal life is not possible without the redemption through Jesus Christ and that only the right way of life in the spirit of Jesus will be valued before God and not the outwardly displayed Christianity which, in truth, is no Christianity at all ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

True Christianity .... Following Jesus ....

B.D. 5548 from December 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to provide you with an addition so that you realise how exceptionally important it is that you acknowledge Jesus, the son of man, as God and Redeemer of the human race .... My love for you humans did not want you to stay in sin, isolated from Me, which caused your wretchedness. I Myself was unable to approach you since in your state your were incapable of enduring My presence or you would have perished in the fire of My love. Nevertheless, without Me it was impossible for you to be saved, and therefore I had to approach you in a concealed way, certainly influencing you with My strength of love yet in a garment which would not frighten you, from which you would not have had to escape .... in a garment which was similar to your own .... I had to approach you as a human being .... First, you should understand that the reason why I had to come to you was to help you. Then you will also understand why I came in a form similar to yours .... Yet even this stay of My Divinity in a human being had to proceed according to law, which was certainly possible but it was unknown to you .... that My spirit of love was able to manifest itself anywhere as long as the basic requirement had been fulfilled .... where love was present. Thus Jesus, the human being, offered Me the opportunity to manifest Myself in Him by living a life of love, for I can only be in My substance where love exists .... Divine love wanted to help you and therefore chose a form in which it was able to take abode without contravening the law of eternity which, however, would have happened had I embodied Myself in a sinful human whose love and will were opposed to Me. Love wanted to help you and since Jesus, the human being, was full of love He accomplished that which was of help to you .... He atoned for your guilt. Being a God of justice I was unable to simply write off an offence which had not been atoned for yet, but I was able to accept atonement accomplished on your behalf but only if it was carried out voluntarily and for love. This is what Jesus, the man, did and thereby became your Redeemer .... I, the eternal Love Itself, was in Him and therefore love made the said sacrifice .... I Myself died for you on the cross, for I Myself was in the human being Jesus.

You ought to look at the act of Salvation from this point of view, then you will also understand that you can only receive salvation if you believe in Jesus Christ as the Saviour, but this requires you to comply with His teaching, to follow him, otherwise your belief is a mere play of words, for true faith will only be brought to life through love .... If you want to be known as Christians then you must make an effort to live a life of love; you cannot adopt this name for yourselves if you live in complete opposition to His teaching, and His teaching requires love for God and for the next person. Thus, to be a Christian means to conduct yourselves in a Christian spirit, like the human being Jesus did on earth, to practise selfless neighbourly love and to always remember that you can only be redeemed by acknowledging Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... and by demonstrating this through living a life of following Jesus ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spurning the power of God .... (His word) ....

B.D. 5549 from December 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

God's strength must not be spurned if the human being wants to reach his aim on earth, which is the purpose of embodiment, the maturing of his soul. It is indeed a free decision of will to tackle this work, the human being himself must strive for perfection, yet the most important thing is the supply of strength from God in order to be able to turn the will into action. For even the best will is incapable of doing anything on its own, since the being is still imperfect, thus without strength, whereas in the state of perfection the will is already sufficient to be able to be creatively active. But the power is with God .... The state of imperfection is remoteness from God, i.e. lack of strength .... God, however, does not deny His strength to any being which desires it, because the desire already expresses the will to come closer to God again .... But without the application of strength the human being is completely incapable of taking a step forward, and then his will to approach God is also absent. This is why a spurning of strength from God is also a sign of resistance which the human being has not yet relinquished, which is why every person who rejects the word of God, God's direct transmission of strength, thereby admits that he still remains in resistance to God and does not desire to receive strength from Him. And such a person cannot progress in his development, his soul cannot mature, it remains at the stage of the beginning of its embodiment .... In His word God Himself comes close to people and imparts His strength to them, and then it is easy to reduce the distance from God, for the distance is bridged by God's love, and a flow of strength flows into the human being's heart who accepts His word into himself and lives accordingly, who thus now puts his will into action with the help of the strength from God which now makes the striving possible for him in the first place. But to reject strength from God means to once again offend against God's love, to reject a gift of grace which the human being does not have to demand but which is offered to him undeservedly through God's great love, which can change his state of misery into a blissful state in a short time, which can lift him up from the depths of the earth .... And understandably, such a rejection of a gift of grace will result in the human being being deprived of grace for a long time, that he will become increasingly distant from God, that his lack of strength will have an ever increasing effect and that he will fall prey to God's adversary without resistance, from whose power only God's strength can deliver him .... God wants to be called upon for strength, for help .... But He also comes to those who do not call upon Him, but He does not force Himself upon those who reject Him. Yet their state is hopeless, for no human being can free himself from satan’s power by his own strength, and no human being will ever possess strength unless he accepts it from God Himself, the original source of strength from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious reminder to work on the soul ....

B.D. 5550 from December 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Without hesitation you should tackle your soul's work, for you don't have much time left. When I call these words to you again and again, then see the urgency in it, see My love for you and see the danger you are in. I cannot give you obvious signs, signs which you have to believe, because this would not benefit you but would only be a compulsive compliance with My will for fear of what you now believe .... that the end will come and with it the downfall. I want to save you, i.e. protect you from this downfall, and therefore I cannot interfere with your free will, I can only persuade you and make you aware of what will irrevocably come but need not be feared by you if you are in a more mature state. You humans on this earth, remember the responsibility you bear for your souls, for the imperishable within you. One day you will bitterly regret it if you don't listen to Me and My words, for then you will no longer be able to make up for what you can still do now. And you will have to suffer greatly if you lack spiritual riches, if you arrive in the beyond naked and poor .... And no matter how short your time is on this earth, no matter whether you are called away before the end .... every day could bring you treasures if only you wanted to use it properly. Why don't you tackle your soul's work, enter into intimate contact with Me, appeal for My grace, ask Me for strength to be able to carry out what I have given you as your earthly task; hand yourselves over to Me, i.e., completely submit your will to Mine, want to walk rightly before My eyes .... From now on live life with Me so that you no longer leave Me out of your thoughts, so that you constantly think of Me around you, and My love will take hold of you and also help you where you are too weak on your own .... only want Me Myself to take care of you .... want you to fulfil your earthly task, and I will guide and lead you, I will no longer leave you alone, and your will will become ever stronger to enter Mine, and then every danger will be over for you, then you need not fear the end or a quick death .... And then your soul will be saved and it will go towards a new life in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Miracle-work of the child Jesus ....

B.D. 5551 from December 9th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I want to teach you what you want to have clarified, for I want you to have the correct information first before you instruct your fellow human beings, which is the task of those of you who want to serve Me. I want you to understand everything yourselves before you pass your knowledge on, for the other person is frequently not very patient, he desires an explanation, especially when he has doubts, and then you should also be able to provide it informatively. The problem of God's human manifestation in Jesus gives rise to most questions, because so far it has been explained such that it causes increasingly more confusion instead of illumination. My earthly existence as a human being did not differ in any way from that of other people, I just gave room to the development of love in My heart where others increased their selfish love and instead of 'giving' they 'desired'.

The spark of love smoulders in every human being's heart, but it can ignite into a bright flame just as it can be smothered. This, however, also differentiates people from each other, for love leaves its mark of divinity on everyone, whereas selfish love is My adversary's image who exalted himself and thus fell. Love is therefore the Divine in the human being, which appears only as a very tiny spark at the start of earthly life but has the capacity to expand infinitely. The spark of love was already recognisable in the infant Jesus because a soul of light had embodied itself in the child, which indeed had left all of God's glories behind in the spiritual kingdom yet not its love, and this strength of love expressed itself at times when the spiritual spark made contact with the eternal Father-Spirit, which happens with every loving child, but in Jesus it was intended to be obvious to people so that they would believe in the Divinity of the child Jesus. The working of the spirit is not prevented in an infant like that, it just rarely, if ever, surfaces because the human being's intellect and free will first have to strive for the working of My spirit themselves, which only consciously happens when he is old enough to make use of the intellect and will in freedom of thought.

The explanation for the miracles of the child Jesus, for the unusual events, can only be found in the high degree of love, for Jesus' soul came from above, it was a soul of light and love which was then wrapped in a human form and also prevented from its hitherto unrestricted work and activity in order to do justice to its human external form. The infant Jesus possessed a high degree of love .... yet the earthly-human nature asserted itself too .... the world, that is, My and His adversary also exercised his influence on this earthly-human nature since he was allowed to do so for the sake of the test of will. And then My spirit remained silent, for even the human being Jesus had to take this test of will, and the work of His soul's deification had to take place under the same conditions as with every other human being, albeit due to His love My spirit was and remained in Him.

Yet the highest degree of love had to be attained by the human being Jesus' own will .... and therefore My spirit withdrew during these years, it did not insist and impel Him, it allowed the human being Jesus complete freedom until, as a result of His intensified love, the ever increasing abundance of My spirit manifested itself as wisdom and might .... as outstanding knowledge and miracle-working. The human being Jesus had been chosen for this mission since eternity. A supreme being of light descended to earth; one of My children, living in magnificence, started His earthly progress, and thus this soul already had to permeate the earthly form of the infant Jesus, and everything remarkable in His youth was entirely natural and understandable, yet for people living in darkness equally incomprehensible, and so a cover was spread across the radiant light in later years and the actual mission began .... the deification of an earthly human being by means of love. I was indeed at all times able to work through My spirit in the human being Jesus, for all conditions to do so were given; yet for the sake of Jesus' mission everything divinely-spiritual withdrew, and this mission was accomplished by Him as a human being, Who took His strength entirely from His active love, which was just as difficult for Him to develop as for every other human being, because My adversary truly did not let his influence go to waste since, after all, Jesus' victory meant the adversary's defeat. But My adversary was unable to affect Jesus' free will, and this was wholly and completely aimed in My direction. And therefore He succeeded in accomplishing the work, for His will arose from His love for Me .... Love, however, is the strength which is stronger than death and therefore He also defeated the one who had brought death into the world .... Love was victorious and will remain so eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Interpretation of the words of Christ .... feeding the pure gospel ....

B.D. 5552 from December 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Christ's words, which He spoke on earth, can be interpreted in many ways and must be recognized as eternal truth despite different interpretations. For this reason, however, the interpretations must also correspond to the spiritual meaning which Jesus placed in His words, otherwise they are to be described as erroneous and contribute to the pure gospel being distorted in its meaning. And therefore there is a certain responsibility in wanting to interpret the scriptures according to one's own intellectual thinking when the spirit of God cannot work and enlighten the human being's intellect. But the working of the divine spirit is the result of a life according to God's will .... And so the person who feels called to interpret scripture must ask himself before his conscience to what extent he is fulfilling the will of God .... The interpretation of the gospel, of the words of Christ, must be carried out by the spirit of God Himself, then they will also correspond to the truth, for the word of God, the teaching of Jesus Christ, is a teaching of the spirit, it is a teaching which only concerns the spiritual kingdom and is intended to promote the human being's spiritual development. Consequently, worldly intellect alone cannot grasp God’s word in its profound spiritual meaning but the spirit in the human being must be active, which now directs all thoughts spiritually and leads the human being to the true understanding of Jesus' words .... If the word is only interpreted in a purely literal way, then contradictions can often be found, which, however, immediately disappear with a spiritual interpretation. But if they are wrongly interpreted they endanger the teaching of Christ, i.e. they often give cause for rejection, because again only the intellect judges and contradictions create a will to defend oneself. And thus it can be explained that Christ's teaching is often rejected because the teachers themselves could not be instructed by the spirit within themselves, because they themselves accepted and passed on a wrong interpretation which sooner or later had to lead to rejection, because only truth gives light but error always increases the darkness people suffer from. And once again the whole of christianity is in danger, the recognition and acknowledgement of Christ as redeemer of the world is weakened to the same extent as the truth is weakened, because only through truth does man become light and because only through truth does the courage to confess the saviour and redeemer strengthen, Whose work of love and mercy is so immensely significant that people would also fully confess Him if presented and explained correctly. People walk in darkness due to their sinful state and are not led out of darkness. They cannot find the way themselves because everything is dark but the right light can only be brought by God Himself through His spirit. Where His spirit works, there is light, and there is also a deep faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption. But where teaching activities are carried out without the working of the spirit, only error is presented to people and darkness cannot depart from them ....

And thus it will now be understandable to you humans why God directs the gospel to earth again in its purest form .... They are His words which never change, which always and forever remain but have not been explained in their meaning by human wisdom .... Now God Himself gives the explanation of His word; in a comprehensible and most loving way He seeks to introduce people to the truth. He speaks the same words to people again and enlightens the spirit of those who listen to Him .... He wants light to shine because deep night is spread across the earth; He wants you humans to recognize what you lack; He wants you to be instructed in truth and now also recognize and acknowledge Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world, because you can only become blessed through Him, because His gospel has to be accepted by you as He Himself proclaimed it to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Radiance of God's love is bliss .... restriction in life ....

B.D. 5553 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I embrace all My living creations with My love, yet whether they feel My love is up to each individual creature as to what extent it accepts My will, that is, whether it relinquishes its former resistance against Me. It can accept My illumination of love or also reject it. Accordingly, the creature will also become aware of My love or will not be able to feel it. In the state of compulsion the being certainly submits to My will, i.e., it cannot offer Me any resistance but it is not aware of what My strength of love signifies .... It lives well and is active but it lacks the feeling of happiness about its activity. But as a human being, in the stage of free will and the ability to think, it is up to him to allow himself to be permeated by My love or to close himself off to every influx of divine strength of love .... And then it creates the state of bliss or the state of blisslessness for itself, but the human being can only understand this once he has been touched by My love. For My illumination of love touches the soul and it feels happiness even if the human being has no purely physical perception. But as soon as the human being is aware of being able to enter into intimate contact with Me and thus establishes this bond, he is also filled with a quiet bliss, a peace is within him which cannot be given to him in any other way than through the supply of My strength of love. The human being feels secure in Me, everything unsteady falls away from him, he has allowed himself to be seized by My love and now also feels it in a way which is beneficial for him as long as he dwells on earth. He can only endure a certain amount in the earthly body if he wants to remain suitable for the earthly task given to him, and only when he has matured is he able to receive more, otherwise beatitude on earth would be obvious to some people and would mean a compulsion of faith for fellow human beings. But My living creations, the people on earth, shall freely strive towards Me of their own accord, they shall open themselves for My ray of love, they shall hand themselves over to Me without the slightest resistance in order to then be allowed to experience My whole fatherly love, which is unlimited and only ever wants to make people happy. Every person can feel it but he must give up all resistance, for all My living creations emerged from My love, My love will never ever change or diminish. And therefore it applies to everyone, yet it waits to be able to express itself, which is solely up to the human being's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The blessing of spiritual knowledge in the beyond ....

B.D. 5554 from December 12th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

My spirit is revealing spiritual knowledge to you which will, one day, make you indescribably happy if you work with it in the spiritual kingdom for the benefit of those who are still unaware .... Until people have reached the state of enlightenment pure truth is rarely to be found amongst them on earth and therefore not in the kingdom of the beyond either. For light stands for wisdom, the knowledge of pure truth, and every erroneous thought is a shadow obscuring the light, even if a soul is already translucent. But until the last wrong thought has been banished the light will still be cloudy at times, and the soul first has to make itself completely accessible to the truth, it must have acquired the correct information before it will be able to work with it as a bearer of light in the spiritual kingdom.

Being able to enter the beyond with spiritual knowledge is therefore an immense grace, since it is the equivalent to wearing a bright gown of light which shines everywhere and distributes light in turn. Then it can instantly carry out its real function, it can educate the ignorant and be of immense help where there is still darkness or twilight. For it will also be confronted by doubters and liars in the spiritual realm, nevertheless it will be able to enlighten them with its knowledge. Since this knowledge is the result of the revelations through My spirit it will have a power of conviction which a being can rarely resist unless it is a representative of the prince of darkness and flees from the truth. For such beings will also cross the path of someone who knows in order to extinguish a light in the belief that they are able to do so. And beings like that can only receive clarification from a bearer of light who has received his knowledge from Me ....

For this very reason My revelations, My Word, contain tremendous strength which can even pull down strong walls, for I will address these souls Myself if you lend Me your mouth, if you, due to My will, bring the Gospel to the souls in darkness in the same way as you have received it from Me. For it is the pure truth, and this will even convince a soul hitherto steeped in wrong thought since it feels an inner happiness, it more or less perceives the truth like a good deed, its understanding of it begins to develop, it can no longer doubt what it effectively receives from Me .... The strength of My Word will have a noticeable effect, the soul will suddenly become illuminated, and what it had so far failed to understand will suddenly become clear and will be joyfully accepted. Just as misery and confusion caused by misguided teachings are great, so gladdening and intelligible is the truth .... And truth will always be found where My spirit can be effective, what I reveal to people through My spirit will always be truth. Therefore you should remain aware of the abundance of blessings you receive from Me and work with this gift of grace, pass on My Word, carry light into the darkness, illuminate everyone, give them the truth which you have received from Me Myself, and work for the benefit of those who are still living in spiritual darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Freedom of will .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5555 from December 13th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I do not command the will in you, I allow it its freedom .... Nevertheless, I arrange everything such that your will is always given the opportunity to direct it correctly; thus it can enter into My will, for this possibility is the purpose of all events in earthly life. I will not send anything to the human being which would hinder his right direction of will, his right attitude towards My eternal order, yet his decision is completely up to him. You must know this in order to be aware of your responsibility, for nothing is intended to push you into a wrong decision but everything is intended to enable you to pass your test of will. And again, you humans can only be directed to Jesus Christ, Who will certainly help you to make the right decision of will as soon as you call upon Him for His support. The only danger of spiritual failure, of a decline on your path of development, is the weakened will, and you can strengthen this at any time in faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. And thus the human being who consciously places himself under Christ's cross, who therefore makes use of the blessings acquired through the death on the cross, will also always make the right decision, he will not think, want and act differently than in accordance with My will, because he now, as it were, walks the path of Christ, whose aim was Me, his father from eternity. Your counter will is broken with the devotion to Jesus Christ, Who now comes alive in you and prevents you from wrong wanting and thinking, Who pulls you upwards by virtue of His infinite love. And yet, your will remains free, for of your own free will you have to profess Him, of your own free will you have to make use of His help and His blessings; you will not be urged but neither will you be prevented from taking the path which He has taken and which certainly leads to Me. But once this free will has turned to Him you need no longer fear a relapse, for He Who redeemed you through His blood will never ever give you up once you have made the decision for Him .... Anyone who is weak-willed still lives without Him and therefore will hardly reach his aim .... For My adversary still works on a weak will, and often with success. Nevertheless, he cannot be forced upwards or downwards .... Therefore you bear the responsibility yourselves until you have handed it over to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, until you hand yourselves over to Him, Who then truly sets you free from the adversary's power, Who strengthens your will so that it now decides right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual adversity: untruth .... false picture of God ....

B.D. 5556 from December 14th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You will only be able to control the spiritual adversity if you spread the truth, for the spiritual adversity consists of the fact that humanity walks in error, that it is blind in spirit, that it lacks the right knowledge .... that it lacks the truth. For as soon as they correctly recognize the correlation between the eternal creator and people, as soon as they know the purpose of their earthly life, they will already have a certain degree of love, because then they will already love Me as their father of eternity, Whom they will learn to recognize as supremely perfect, as wise, powerful and supremely good when they are taught the truth about Me. Truth presents Me in such a way that they can love Me, but error gives a distorted image of Me so that people may fear Me but are unable to love Me. For if I am portrayed to them as a God of vengeance, as a God of wrath, as a God Who punishes sinners, then this is a distorted image of My nature, Who is, after all, love Itself. If I wanted to keep people under compulsion by means of commandments I would not be a God of love either, not a father Who wants to let His children work in complete freedom, but I would be a tyrant Who only ever uses His power and strength and behaves differently towards people than a father does towards his children .... For My only commandments are My commandments of love which, however, cannot be fulfilled compulsorily either, because love requires the human being's free will again. I do not plunge people into the abyss but they are in it and I want to pull them up to Me .... not I do condemn people eternally but they keep themselves distant from Me and are therefore in a dreadful state, and I want to redeem them from it by virtue of My love .... But how do people present Me? Also on the part of those who believe to be active for Me and My kingdom? What useless formalities are demanded of people and how insignificant is the most important thing seen .... the life of love, which alone is valued by Me .... The teaching of Christ, the divine teaching of love, which the man Jesus proclaimed on earth, is certainly still preached today, yet they are only words which fall on people's ears, they are words which are no longer spoken vividly enough by the proclaimers because they lack the power of persuasion which alone My spirit can bestow upon them if the proclaimer lives in love himself. But My spirit must first be able to work if My word is to penetrate people's hearts, and where My spirit works there will also be truth. But love has grown cold amongst people and therefore truth can no longer be found, nor is it recognized as such by people when a bearer of truth wants to bring them light. And the path to Me cannot be found, for it does not go via misguided teachings. You first have to learn to recognize Me in My nature in order to learn to love Me, and only the pure truth which originates from Me gives you light .... But then the spiritual adversity will also be remedied for all people who are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly task: Volition .... Wrong endeavour ....

B.D. 5557 from December 15th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You had to walk a difficult path before you reached the point when you were able to make the last test of will .... Your soul, which had previously been dissolved into countless sparks of soul in order to endure a process of maturing in a constrained state, has assembled itself again .... Once again you have attained your self-awareness and as individual beings you are about to make a free choice: to choose the Lord to whom you want to belong .... This decision is the purpose and goal of your earthly life, and this decision has to be made of your own free will. It cannot be made by someone on your behalf nor can it be delayed, it has to be made without fail by the end of your life, because this decision will determine your fate for eternity. Your attitude towards this task during your earthly life is therefore immensely serious .... it can result in light and bliss but also in death and destruction, and you alone determine this through your will. But you are hardly bothered by it, even when you are informed of the reason for your earthly life, even when your eternal fate is described to you as either glorious or dreadful. Because you don’t believe that sooner or later you will have to be accountable for your will. However, you cannot be forced to believe it, consequently the belief is rarely found amongst humanity and people only rarely accomplish their goal of deciding for the right Lord. Yet disbelief has its price ....

People increasingly forget their task in life, their every consideration merely concerns the world regardless of the fact that they will soon have to leave it. They face again what they leave behind. The memory of their past course of suffering through the material forms was taken from them because they will have to make their decision with freedom of will and may not choose the right Lord out of fear .... Hence there is an imminent danger that their decision will be detrimental to them, that they will devote all their senses to matter and by doing so also choose the lord of this world, to whom they will fall victim once more and whom they will also have to thank for being banished into hard matter again due to their wrong decision. Because they should turn their eyes towards heaven, they should strive to ascend and turn away from the world. Then the right choice was made, then the course through the whole of creation was successful, then earthly life will result in the being’s culmination, then the soul has found the right Lord and will hasten to meet Him .... Then the person has passed the test of will on earth and can discard the heavy earthly body and enter eternity as a pure spirit, then the former long earthly progress on earth has not been in vain .... The being has found its way back to its source, it has recognised the Father and surrendered itself to Him for all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Care of people by beings of light ....

B.D. 5558 from December 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The gate of heaven is wide open to you and the spiritual beings eagerly await you because they want to share the happiness of being close to Me. But they also fear for you because they see that you make no effort to enter the path which leads into the kingdom of heaven. Each one of you is entrusted to spiritual beings who are concerned about your soul's salvation and do everything to direct your thoughts towards Me .... They constantly surround you and try to influence you, they guide you towards each other such that you are stimulated by your fellow human beings to exchange thoughts, and their constant endeavour is to induce you into loving activity, to create opportunities for you where you can practice unselfish love so that you mature in your soul. But they can only ever gently urge you but never force you to act as is right. And therefore you humans can feel in spiritual care, yet your will must also be ready .... You must approach the gate of heaven, you must desire that it remains open to you and that you don't miss the path into the kingdom of heaven. For even if the love of your spiritual friends is overwhelming it must not affect you contrary to your will, according to divine law it must limit itself precisely in accordance with your will, for its effect of strength would suffice to shape you entirely according to My will, but this will not lead you to perfection. Therefore, the spiritual beings looking after you sometimes try to achieve their aim differently by imposing painful events on you with My approval which are intended to turn your thoughts towards Me. And I give these beings of My kingdom free reign because they are only active in My will and want to fulfil their educational tasks for the people entrusted to them, so that therefore every event is well established in My plan of salvation from eternity, but also the activity of My children, the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom, is included, for everything serves the redemption of the still bound spirits, and people on earth are in need of care, of help given to them by spiritual guides, so that their path of ascent will become easier. The luminous spiritual works with Me and in My will, it works with love and with wisdom .... And therefore everything that happens in human existence is purposeful. But whether it is evaluated solely depends on the human being's will, for this is free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth light effect .... error no bliss in the hereafter ....

B.D. 5559 from December 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The knowledge imparted to you through My word has a particularly beneficial effect on your soul because it is, as it were, like rays of light which touch it, which are therefore stronger than the surrounding cover and are able to penetrate it .... For the soul's adversity consists of the fact that it is dark within it, that no light can penetrate from outside and that darkness paralyses all will to activity. The soul's adversity consists of ignorance which deprives it of all knowledge of My Being, which it experiences as a dark state and which can precisely only be remedied when the knowledge of pure truth is supplied to it. And thus the person who has knowledge will always feel at ease in contrast to someone who still walks in ignorance, for it is not his intellect alone which has a plus to record but the soul is even far more grateful for it because it perceives the imparted knowledge as light, as a premonition of a state which is its aim on earth. The intellect wants to know everything explained, but the soul feels the happiness of being knowledgeable because this has an effect as light. This is why erroneous knowledge cannot benefit the soul, for no matter how much intellectual knowledge the human being accepts .... if it is not the pure truth, the soul will not derive any benefit from it, instead, the shells will thicken and ever greater darkness will spread to its sorrow. But such a soul will also not be willing to love and do nothing to change its state, i.e., the human being willingly accepts error through his direction of will, through his way of life, and does not recognize it as such, he brings his soul into this lightless state himself, because without love no wisdom, no light, can reach the soul either, but love is only the strength which loosens the soul's cover so that truth, the light, can now flow into the soul. A person who possesses knowledge which has brought him the right realization is therefore also active in love, because this is the prerequisite for receiving My word, which has imparted truth to him .... regardless of whether My word was offered to him directly or indirectly. And thus you humans can only ever be seriously advised to practice unselfish neighbourly love so that you can receive My wisdom in abundance, hear My divine words of love and thereby attain realization. Without love all words only remain an empty sound which fades away in the ears or which the intellect certainly allows to have an effect on it but which does not penetrate the soul. And thus a life of love is irrevocably necessary in order to help the soul into the light, in order to give it the knowledge which reduces its state of adversity and allows it to become active in its ascent. Without love it cannot receive the right knowledge, without love it is also unable to recognize the knowledge imparted to it as truth or error .... Without love it remains dark within itself and takes the wrong path because no light illuminates the path which leads to the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Compulsory state .... free will decision ....

B.D. 5560 from December 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Through endless times you moved in a bound state, you were deprived of all freedom of will, you were subject to divine law and had to act as God wanted, as it had to happen according to natural law in order to comply with His plan of eternity. You were not free .... because your soul was bound in its individual substances in the works of creation, the whole of creation is, so to speak, the shackle which held your soul captive, the whole of creation is the bound spiritual substance which is still in God-opposing will and therefore cannot expect freedom until it itself weakens in this resistance against God. But one day the time will have come for all bound spiritual beings when they will no longer be in a state of compulsion, when they will be granted a certain degree of freedom, when they will be able to think, want and act as self-conscious individual beings without being prevented from doing so; one day the time will have come when they will have regained free will and can now use this free will without hindrance. But then there is a great danger that free will will be used wrongly .... that resistance against God will rise up in the being again so strongly that it will turn away from God again instead of striving towards Him. The walk in bound will through the whole of creation was a consequence of turning away from God, it was a consequence of the resistance once given to God. But once this course is finished, and then freedom of will is given to the being again, because it is to prove the abandonment of its resistance against God freely out of itself in order to then be able to approach unimagined beatitudes. But if the freedom of will is abused, if a turning away from God is carried out again or the resistance is maintained, then there is only one way out for this being .... to walk through creation again in a state of compulsion, so that the resistance will finally be broken .... Every being has to give up its free decision of will once, namely in the stage as a human being, since it is endowed with intellect and, through God's great love, is also given the knowledge of what the rightly directed will consists of. If it fails during this time of earthly life, God will nevertheless not abandon the spiritual being, yet since He cannot compulsorily direct it according to His will, since He cannot compulsorily guide the being back to perfection because this contradicts His law of eternal order, because something that is divine and should become divine again can never be thought of without free will, again and again He creates new opportunities for it to reach its aim, yet always within the framework of legality .... which also includes a repetitive course through creation which keeps the beingness bound until its resistance decreases, which will certainly be achieved because God's adversary is deprived of that influence on the bound beingness .... He has no power over the spiritual, which is bound in creation, and that is why it also ascends with certainty .... But a free decision of will requires that the opposing power can also influence the being, and that is why in earthly life the human being is exposed to afflictions from his side; but at the same time great means of grace are at his disposal so that he can truly make a right decision. Hence every person bears full responsibility for his will, for God does everything in His love to make the decision easy for him. He will also be given knowledge about his earthly task, certainly in different ways but always in such a way that he can take a stand on it himself ....

(19.12.1952) He can think about it, but he can also refrain from it, but then he cannot excuse himself with not having known anything about his earthly task, for only the slightest desire for it will be granted to him. The human being will never be deprived of something which can contribute to a favourable decision of will, but neither will he ever be coerced. After the infinitely long course before in the state of compulsion the time of earthly life can be called exceedingly short, and yet it is enough for the human being to be able to decide in the right direction, to return to God, Whom he now recognizes as his father of eternity, or to sink back and turn to God's adversary again of his own free will .... And for the latter it is still a mercy if he is called away prematurely so that God's adversary does not completely take control of him. Then the soul can still come to realization in the beyond and free itself from the shackles of this power through God's great love and mercy. But anyone who still does not accept the redeeming help and sinks ever deeper will have his will bound again and will have to take the renewed path through creation, and this will continue until the soul finally takes the right path, until it once decides in free will as a human being for the father of eternity from Whom it once took its origin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serving in a state of compulsion .... and in love in free will ....

B.D. 5561 from December 20th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Through My grace and mercy you humans have come considerably closer to Me again, for your soul was once at the greatest distance from Me and would not have returned of its own strength, since the distance also resulted in a lack of strength. It is so easy to understand that only love leads you back to Me, but that you completely lacked love due to your former turning away from Me. Hence you can only return to Me if you let love revive in you again, and since you would never have done this voluntarily because My adversary's principle was in you .... unkindness .... and this therefore meant eternal separation from Me if I did not find a way .... a way which, as it were, forced you to serve .... you had to earn a reward through this service, even if you didn't do it voluntarily, a consideration which consisted of you being allowed to come closer to Me again; for your service was a building purpose, you contributed to the preservation of that which served you to return to Me. Even forced work has to be compensated somehow .... You therefore expected to be entitled to ever more and more strength being supplied to you .... which increased to such an extent that you were allowed to utilize it again after an infinitely long time according to your own, i.e. free will .... You were granted the stage as a human being where you should also use the life energy you receive to be of service, yet of your own free will, which always means an activity of love. Thus you were educated, as it were, through the long path of development to be of service, even though it happened in a state of compulsion, and you can now prove this education in earthly life by voluntarily doing what you had to do before .... You would never have voluntarily served in love in the state of greatest distance from Me, and I could never have forcibly transferred you into the state as a human being .... a slow upward development had to take place, for your own sake you should become again what you once were .... beings full of strength and light, with all the divine qualities you possessed in the beginning. But the epitome of strength and light, of highest perfection, is love. What you once voluntarily gave away you must acquire again, you must completely become love if you want to become perfect. And love serves .... and finds its happiness in it .... Therefore, what the being did not want to do when it fell away from Me, it had to do for an infinitely long time as fulfilment of divine law. Only in this way can it direct its own will to look for opportunities to be of service, which will then be valued by Me and rewarded with the state as a human being of free will, which can bring about a complete change to love and thus return to Me .... because love means unity with Me and therefore also light and strength in all abundance, thus unlimited beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Receive and eat, this is My flesh ...."

B.D. 5562 from December 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I have prepared the bread of heaven for all who will receive it from My Hand .... For I said to My disciples: "Take and eat, this is My flesh; take and drink, this is My blood .... do this in remembrance of Me ...." So I distributed and commanded them to distribute likewise in My Name .... How simple are these words to understand, and how are they interpreted. I broke the bread .... as a sign that I wanted to give them a nourishment, a nourishment that should not preserve and strengthen the body but the soul. The bread of heaven must be supplied to you humans, the manna which is to satisfy your hunger, which is to supply you with a strength you need to reach beatitude. I gave the bread to My disciples and they should do the same .... distribute what they had received through My love and grace: My word, which is in truth My flesh and My blood, for I Myself am the word from eternity .... And if I now convey My word to earth, if one chosen by Me receives this word of Mine directly from Me, then I hand him the bread of heaven at the same time with the order to distribute it to his fellow human beings, to those who are hungry and thirsty and are fully satisfied and watered with My word .... Do this in remembrance of Me .... A testimony shall be given of Me with the proclamation of My word .... For I must be recognized and acknowledged by people as redeemer, and people must remember Me in full faith that they have only been redeemed through Me, otherwise My act of salvation will not have the redeeming power for them through their own guilt. I demand faith in Me as redeemer of the world, and therefore My word can only be proclaimed correctly when I Myself am proclaimed to people, when people testify of Me through My word. The meaning of My words can only be grasped if My spirit can work in you humans,

(22.12.1952) which is the strength flowing to you from Me if you accept My bread from heaven .... I, in turn, can only give you this bread if you make contact with Me, and you establish this contact through love .... You can certainly receive My word with your ears but only when you are willing to obey it will the spirit of love awaken in you, and if you then come to Me, to the lord's table, with this spirit of love within you in order to take supper with Me, then My word, which is now offered to you, is a right food and a right table, then you will receive My bread and My wine in truth, you will eat My flesh and drink My blood, you will receive Me Myself within you, Who enters everyone who joyfully opens the door for Me when I knock, for the spirit of love is already working in him. But then you will also understand every word I spoke to people when I lived on earth, for then I will enlighten your spirit, I will give you an understanding for all correlations, I will make the spiritual meaning accessible to you, whereas otherwise you would only grasp the literal sense which will truly not bring you much blessing, for then you will only possess dead knowledge which is the same as worldly knowledge even though it touches spiritual things. Then you will certainly stubbornly hold on to Jesus Christ's words and believe to testify to Him through them. But I demand more from you, I am not satisfied with a form which is an apparent fulfilment of My words and yet does not come close to the profound meaning of what I said to My disciples: Receive and eat, receive and drink .... this is My flesh, this is My blood .... do this in remembrance of Me ....

Amen

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Let there be light ....

B.D. 5563 from December 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Let there be light .... Light came into the world because it was dark on earth and people could no longer find the path out of their spiritual darkness. There came the light from above to illuminate all those of good will .... God sent His Son to earth so that He could also bring them salvation with the light. And thus He entered into a world of hatred and unkindness and the people did not recognise Him as Light and Saviour. But His love for the wretched human race was so great that He wanted to deliver them from the darkness, that He wanted to release them from Satan's chains, who had caused the darkness through sin and pulled all beings into the abyss with him, where there was neither light nor freedom. The Son of God came as Redeemer for the enslaved human race .... The infant Jesus was born .... a soul from the kingdom of light had chosen a human form for Itself and came as an innocent baby into the world in order to start His earthly life, which ended with the greatest act of love and compassion in order to redeem the sinful human race. The adversity on earth was huge; the path to God was even obstructed to the righteous, because the sin of the spirits' past apostasy from God, which encumbered every human being, made the return to God impossible, since God's righteousness required an appropriate atonement for this sin which no person was able to render in earthly life. God's adversary triumphed, for all souls living on earth as human beings belonged to him .... He had pulled them into the abyss with him and would no longer release them .... And the righteous cried to God for help ....

They called for a Saviour. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, redeemed the world from his power, He paid for the sin of guilt with His death on the cross .... Yet even this act of Salvation had to be accomplished in free will, the atonement had to be carried out voluntarily, just as the sin against God was once voluntarily committed .... And therefore the being of light was unable to bring redemption to people, instead only a human being sacrificing himself voluntarily for love on behalf of his fellow men was able to accomplish this atonement, and therefore it had to be born on this earth as a human being and grow up with all human characteristics amongst his earthly brothers .... because the human will alone was decisive for this act of love, since a light being's love would have redeemed humanity long ago, were this to correspond to the law of eternal order. Thus, the being of light set aside Its Divinity, It became a human child with all human weaknesses and characteristics which He then consciously had to fight against in order to strengthen His will, so that He then sacrificed Himself without coercion as Redeemer of the human race in order to achieve the atonement for its sins .... And all angels in heaven hailed this infant and bowed down to Him .... The soul took abode in His body and spread a bright light .... The light came into the world .... God sent a Redeemer from above to people, the Saviour Jesus Christ came to earth in order to redeem the human race ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Father's voice ....

B.D. 5564 from December 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You should recognise the Father's voice in every Word that is sent to you from above. It is My spirit which speaks to you, it is My strength which flows to you, it is light from My light which shines upon you, it is the Word which My infinite love forms for you so that you can understand Me, so that you shall fulfil My will, so that you shall be comforted in times of need and be instructed in all truthfulness. Only I can impart this truth to you .... your God and Father of eternity, Who instructs you so that you learn to know and love Him. For I want your love .... This is why I speak to you, who are unable to see Me and therefore don't strive towards Me either if you have no knowledge you can believe in. But it is My will that you should believe in Me and therefore I do whatever it takes in order to help you attain this belief .... I reveal Myself to you .... You humans are unable to judge the full significance of this gift of grace, the Lord of infinity, the eternal God and Creator Who brought everything into being which is visible to your eyes and Who created an infinite number of works which are invisible for you .... He lovingly draws near to you, He speaks to the individual person but through them also to all people. He reveals Himself to you .... And only a few people recognise My voice ....

But these few are spiritually enlightened, for anyone who is able to hear Me, who recognises Me Myself in the Word I convey to earth is also permeated by the strength of My spirit and therefore looks at all happenings, at everything around him and his experiences with completely different eyes .... My spirit illuminates his thinking and also provides him with clarification about all correlations; he is no longer able to doubt, precisely because he recognises Me Myself if I address him through My Word. Where My spirit is working, knowledge can be found and knowledge is light which penetrates the darkness .... But where on earth can you humans still find light? People live in darkness, they are spiritually unenlightened, they don't stop to think, and were they to think they would not come to any reliable result .... The darkness which exists on earth can only be dispelled by light from above. However, I Am always willing to kindle a light in you, I Am always willing to permeate you with the strength of My spirit if only you were willing to accept the Words of My love, if only you opened your hearts to Me in order to let the flow of My love pour in, if only you humans desired to hear Me .... It is My wish that you should learn to love Me, therefore you must listen to Me, you must accept My revelations and you will become enlightened, then you will penetrate the mysteries of My eternal love, My eternal plan of Salvation, you will recognise yourselves and your earthly task, you will recognise Me and grant Me your love, and you will yearn to hear the sound of My voice forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Confused thinking - Spiritual adversity .... Free will ....

B.D. 5565 from December 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

People's thinking has become confused. And spiritual adversity has to be understood as meaning that they are without realisation, that they are far removed from the truth and therefore are also distant from Me, because they live without love, since love inevitably unites them with Me and the truth. How else could they be helped if not through constantly admonishing and motivating them to love .... But they cannot be commanded to love, it can only be presented to them as the most important commandment which has to be fulfilled without fail if the human being wants to reach his goal on earth. The human being has to know that he will not even move one step forward without love, yet it cannot be forcibly demanded or it would not be love, at best it would just be an act intending to feign love.

You humans should not forget that love is something divine, and that I gave you the commandment of love in order to show you the path towards the deification of your nature .... But by no means will I ever exercise the least amount of compulsion on you which, however, is implied in the true sense of the word 'commandment'. And thus I allow you to decide everything, you may exercise self-determination; I can only instruct you such that you will take the right path of your own accord .... And therefore I constantly endeavour to guide people into right thinking, to instruct them correctly, to convey My Word to them through servants who are wholeheartedly devoted to Me, to explain the pros and cons of everything so that they themselves will make the right decision and carry out what will lead them to the goal .... so that they will live a life of love and become again what they had been in the beginning. Yet I meet with unyielding resistance .... People don't accept My loving instructions, their thinking is so confused that they are no longer capable of understanding simple, clear information about the correlations .... and neither do they want to understand them ....

My loving Words bypass their ears and don't reach their hearts, therefore the strength of My Word can no longer be effective on people .... The spiritual adversity is huge because people's will has to remain free and they are no longer motivated from within; they have no desire for correct explanations, they are comfortable in their spiritual darkness, they don't desire any light .... and if the light comes to them they won't let its rays enter their hearts, they turn away and towards deceptive lights which flare up everywhere along the path .... And full of compassion I look upon My living creations unto which I would like to bestow happiness and who will not accept anything from My hands. I see them wander about, each one on other paths but not entering the path which indeed leads uphill, but with certainty towards Me .... I also see those who are looking for Me but who will not accept advice where I can be found, who have to travel many paths before they will find the right one .... I would like to spare all of them their wasted journeys, I would like to make their ascent to Me easier, I would like to provide everyone with a guide ....

Yet I can only ever call to them with enticing Words: Come to Me, all ye that labour, and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest .... I can only call but not force them to take the right path .... They don't listen to My call of love because they can't recognise My voice as long as they are without love. And this is what I describe as spiritual adversity, the fact that there is indeed help and that it is more than abundantly bestowed upon you by Me, but that you humans don't want to accept it and therefore determine the end yourselves which you are approaching; I Am able to help you, I also want to help you but you yourselves have to want to be helped .... For your will is free and shall forever determine your fate ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's commission to His disciples ....

B.D. 5566 from December 29th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

I send My disciples out into the world to spread the gospel of love, the gospel of the spirit, the proclamation of My word which teaches people love .... You humans on earth urgently need such a message of salvation, you urgently need information about your wretched state and advice and admonitions so that you can escape a huge danger .... You need enlightenment which corresponds to the truth, the gospel must be brought to you anew so that you will feel touched by its strength, so that the doctrine of salvation will also let your soul recover, so that a new life will enter and express itself in increased activity of love. Let the water of life flow into all hearts, My divine proof of love, My word .... It shall awaken you to life .... And therefore I instruct My servants everywhere to proclaim Me and My word, for spiritual hardship is everywhere, everywhere there are desiring souls and those who need to be saved, who are to be informed that they are in danger so that they become alert and don't walk along completely blind. And I consider people according to My discretion .... as they are willing to accept I distribute My gifts; I offer them to everyone according to his will to accept, I try to make the bread of heaven palatable to everyone, yet everyone needs differently prepared food, although it always remains the same food, the food which is beneficial to the soul, which alone awakens the soul to life. I will never hand out different truths, I will never instruct My disciples to impart different knowledge, different teachings, to people, I only ever hand out the same truth, only the form in which I present it is not always the same, because people's thinking, the individual's conceptual ability and ideas are different. But the truth is and remains eternally unchangeable .... And this is how My servants can be recognized who are active on My behalf, that they represent the truth conveyed by Me, that they are of the same spirit because they receive the truth from Me directly, that they lovingly endeavour to bring light to people who walk in darkness and that they also eagerly spread this light because they themselves stand in the light and feel its strength and truth .... Only a light bearer can radiate light, only a person introduced to truth by Me can spread the truth and thus as My disciple carry the gospel out into the world .... But these will also be recognized as My messengers by anyone who desires to stand in the truth, for he desires Me and I will truly bring the light to him and no longer let him sink back into darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Impending turning point ....

B.D. 5567 from December 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You can announce a new era to all people, for you are facing a turning point .... And it is also My will that you, My servants on earth, will always mention this announcement of Mine, I want people to obtain the knowledge of it even if they do not want to believe it. Their thoughts shall be guided to the forthcoming event, to the time which will even strike an unbelieving person as abnormal. They shall learn about a vast change in their living conditions, a very clear reference to the end, which will follow soon afterwards. They shall learn of this change because it could revive their faith once it happens, if they follow world events and all the signs you foretold them will be clearly evident. A new time is approaching and I don’t announce it to you humans for no reason .... The path you are taking is still far away from Me; only rarely, if ever, do I play a part in your life. Nevertheless, I want you to come to Me, to call upon Me, to always let Me lead the way, and not live your life without Me .... This is why I call you time and again until you hear it so distinctly that you will heed My call .... For this reason My servants on earth shall inform people of what is awaiting them .... that everything will happen differently than they wish and hope for .... Soon the last phase before the end will start, soon the final battle of faith will erupt but it will be preceded by a powerful upheaval of the Earth which should make all people think and which will nevertheless only be recognised by a few as a final call of warning and admonition from above. You humans should believe that you will still have to travel a difficult path but, with My strength, it will be possible for you, therefore I want to offer you My strength in advance, even to those of you who do not believe in Me as yet .... Call upon Me in times of need and you will manifestly experience My help, but do not succumb to the forces of darkness, don’t curse and complain if you are painfully affected by that which will and must come without fail .... Think about it when a decision for or against Me is expected of you. Consider the fact that I can give and take but only ever give to you that which will benefit you for eternity. Don’t let yourselves be enticed by all kinds of worldly promises, you will lose everything again .... but what you acquire spiritually will remain with you and give you eternal pleasure. You are facing a change in the world .... you are approaching a turning point both in an earthly and spiritual way, you humans are at the centre of a momentous event; hold on to Me, your God and Father of eternity, and you will remain safe while everything around you will perish, for I Myself Am your strength and power, I Myself Am Lord over life and death .... Anyone who is with Me, who stands by My side, truly need not fear anything, for he will live in eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right directed desire .... (new year)

B.D. 5568 from January 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

What you strive for will become yours .... All of you who desire Me, you will also reach Me, for I draw you to Me as soon as only your will is meant for Me .... But you who desire the world's goods will become its slaves, they will dominate you and finally take you completely captive so that you will remain bound in matter for an infinitely long time. However, if earthly possessions are taken from you, who have only directed your senses worldly, then accept this as an undeserved grace, for you can still find salvation from this bound state, you can still come to your senses and turn away from earthly possessions and strive towards Me in the knowledge of the imperishable. And therefore remember the value of what you strive for .... No matter how tempting it may seem to you .... give it up if it is transient, and seek to acquire that which has eternal value .... For your will will be valued, what you earnestly desire will be given to you. The earthly lifetime is short and especially short for the presently living human race .... And even if you are fulfilled in everything earthly, this earthly life is no compensation for the life in eternity which you will have acquired on earth. Earthly wealth will certainly earn you spiritual poverty if your wealth is not blessed by Me because you use it according to My will, in unselfish neighbourly love. But then your heart has long since freed itself from the desire for it, then you have long since overcome matter, which should also be your aim. But as long as you still desire riches spiritual treasures are little to be found with you, and then earthly wealth is a danger for you which you don't recognize. This is why I warn you against it, this is why I assure you that you will receive what you desire and that you should therefore direct your desire correctly so that hard matter will not one day become your fate of immeasurable torment. Remember these words of Mine and strive towards the right aim, direct your thoughts spiritually, seek Me and My kingdom, seek to acquire goods with which I want to bless you abundantly if only you desire them in your heart, and always be aware of the fact that your life on earth will not last forever but that life after the death of your body is ordered according to your innermost desire .... that you can enter the spiritual kingdom in full possession of light and strength, blessed with spiritual possessions, but that you will also have to bear the consequences of your striving on earth poorly and miserably, without strength and blindly, for endless times and will only attain spiritual possessions with difficulty, and this will never happen without loving help, because you alone lack the strength to improve your lot. Therefore make good use of earthly time, acquire what is abundantly at your disposal but requires your free will. And recognize as worthless everything that only creates comfort for the body but leaves the soul unprovided for. Use the time well, for it will not last much longer, the end is closer than you think; therefore create and work while it is still day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

When is pure truth guaranteed through the working of the spirit? ....

B.D. 5569 from January 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You can be confident that the truth is imparted to you, for God Himself, the eternal Truth, is instructing you, as it is written that you, in order to know the truth, must be taught by God. Therefore you should not doubt as long as you desire the truth and appeal to God Himself for it. And your most certain sign is the fact that you previously did not have the slightest knowledge, but that the knowledge you now possess was not imparted to you externally and yet, its profundity and wisdom surpasses all intellectual knowledge. You need not fear that you are instructed by forces which do not know the truth themselves, for God hears every call and answers it directly or through messengers of light, who work according to His will and only pass on divine knowledge, thus the pure truth. But forces trying to cause confusion are also at work, forces, which influence people who entitle them to do so by holding on to erroneous information, who therefore do not allow themselves to be instructed entirely without resistance. In that case doctrines can be spread which contradict divine truth .... The spiritual spark within a person is inseparably connected to the eternal Father-Spirit and its share is truth, because God Himself is Truth. If you are thus taught by the divine spirit within you, then you accept knowledge that arises from within yourselves, knowledge, which you can never acquire intellectually. So if you receive knowledge from within which enlightens you about spiritual correlations, knowledge, which clearly and logically explains divine-spiritual issues, then a source of this knowledge must be in you which cannot be scientifically explained, instead, it is the indwelling divine spiritual spark itself which is part of the eternal Deity .... And nothing but truth can be drawn from this source .... However, the intellect can be influenced by forces, as it is possible for a human being to purely intellectually try to penetrate the spiritual realm and be likewise inspired .... that is, he can be affected by surrounding thought currents, which also originate in the spiritual realm, but the realm from which they originate cannot be controlled. Earthly knowledge can merge with spiritual emanations; a person's intellect can want to think in a specific way, and according to this will the forces intervene and support him .... And then there will always be a danger that the person will not want to let go of certain opinions or previous knowledge and instead allows spiritual forces to intervene by continuing to work in the same direction, which leads away from the truth ....

It should never be assumed that messages from the spiritual realm are always supervised by an elevated being of light if the preconditions are missing .... unreservedly requesting the pure truth, which always necessitates deferring one's own will. Benign spiritual forces must always fit in with divine will, and this always respects the human being's freedom of will. Consequently, where a person's will does not allow for unlimited influence by these forces, they may not push themselves in front, they must respect a person's will, and that means that they may not deny access to those forces which a person himself calls out to on account of his own will. Holding on to wrong information always offers evil forces the opportunity to speak. For this reason, self-criticism cannot be exerted stringently enough where the pure truth is concerned. And all of you must be instructed by God .... God Himself wants to convey the pure truth to you; He gave you this promise .... Therefore, approach God if you want to receive the pure truth .... appeal to Him for clarification, appeal to Him for enlightenment of spirit, present your questions and considerations to Him and He will truly grant what you are asking for .... He will convey the pure truth to you, directly or through messengers of light, but then they will always instruct you according to His will, their words can be accepted as God's Word, because they are bearers of light, bearers of truth from God, thus also devoid of all error .... Call upon God Himself and He will hear you .... His Word is truth, and anything that does not tally with this Word does not originate from Him, even if it seems good to you .... Only one truth exists, and this is God Himself .... However, since the battle between light and darkness is constantly waged, you must also take God's adversary's influence into account and thus be vigilant and check. He creeps in wherever he can find cover and tries to cause confusion .... He will always endeavour to demean, question or present Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation such that a redeeming result will fail to materialise .... so that the human being will lose faith in the One without Whom no beatitude can exist. This is why he tries to confuse the concepts, even where the will is good but the complete dedication to God has not yet taken place. Take all your love, your every wish, all your doubts, adversities and worries to God .... and He will give you what you need, He will teach you and guide you into eternal truth, He will protect you from error and always be with you with His love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Counteracting of satan where spiritual striving is ....

B.D. 5570 from January 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

God's adversary will always be at work where God and His kingdom are being worked for. For it concerns his power, which will diminish to the same extent as the souls turn towards the kingdom of God. And his activity will always aim to plunge people into doubt, to present them with untrue knowledge and thus to make use of people who are not in truth themselves, for they willingly represent error, and error is good ground for God-opposing forces. Anyone who works for the kingdom of God will find many opponents, for His kingdom is not what people seek and desire .... His kingdom requires turning away from the world and its pleasures, and only a few are willing to do so, but most remain faithful to the world and thus also to the one who is lord of this world. But he who proclaims the kingdom of God often meets with resistance, and his work is often unsuccessful .... But this is a sign that he wants to bring divine things to people, that he is opposed by the majority of people. They want to see success, they want to acquire tangible goods, they want to stand high on earth, and the kingdom of God does not offer them all this .... and what it does offer they do not demand .... spiritual goods that will follow them into eternity. The world will become ever more prominent, the lust for pleasure and the wellbeing of the body will be indulged in excessively, and to the same extent the desire for the life of the soul will dull until finally a pitiful spiritual body leaves the earth which cannot enter the kingdom of God .... Wherever there are spiritually striving people the opposing forces start to move, for God's adversary knows that he does not have much time left. But his activity before the end is frightening, for people enter his net with open eyes, they prefer to follow him rather than the messengers of God who proclaim His kingdom to the nations of the world .... For God does not come forth obviously in order to leave people free will, but He can be recognized if people want to recognize Him. For His messengers bring His word to people, His messengers proclaim the pure teaching of Christ again, His messengers admonish people to love and want to help them not to blindly walk into ruin .... God and His kingdom are no longer recognized, His messengers are rejected, and people's way of life is not according to God's will, it is not based on the commandment of love for God and one's neighbour .... because someone works against it who always succeeds where the eye is directed towards the world, because he is listened to rather than the proclaimers of God's kingdom. Nevertheless, the labourers in the vineyard of the lord shall not grow weary nor fear the powers of darkness .... And even if there are only a few who desire light, they will receive it and again radiate light, and rays will also fall into the darkness and there again show individuals the way that leads to the kingdom of God .... The work of God's servants will not be done in vain, for He Himself is behind it with His strength of love and He blesses every activity which is carried out for Him and His kingdom .... And His kingdom will remain when the world kingdom passes away, His kingdom receives all who seek it, who did not desire the world but gave themselves to God, Who now opens His kingdom to them in all glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Formalities, ceremonies .... True church service ....

B.D. 5571a from January 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Search for the core and take no pleasure in the shell .... I urge you to remember that no external formality will bring you humans one step forward, that only your inner life needs to come to life, that only spiritual aspiration will result in spiritual success. As long as you still value formalities, as long as you still allow yourselves to be captivated by ceremonies, you are still not looking inwardly, for as soon as your spiritual eye turns inwards everything outside of you will seem like a shadow to you. You close your eyes and turn away from external splendours and ceremonial acts because then you will see the true light in yourselves which is emanating from Me, which I will ignite in every person who is truly striving to establish the right bond with Me, who is working to improve himself .... who genuinely and truly is looking for Me .... I will let Myself be found by him, and then he will also understand why I want to be called upon in spirit and in truth .... Just consider that My kingdom is not of this world .... Consequently, everything of this world is a barrier to the spiritual world, to My kingdom, where material things no longer exist. Consider that all matter is still controlled by he who rules the world, and that it is his work which offers you eye dazzling material brilliance and splendour in order to darken Me inside of you, in order to keep you from true spiritual endeavour. Consider that he will use everything which still belongs to him in order to endanger you. Anyone who genuinely seeks to contact Me should go into his closet and call for Me there, i.e. he should withdraw into silence and turn his thoughts inwards, and he will surely find Me. But a person will hardly be able to collect his thoughts where the world confronts him so visibly, where his eyes can only ever behold without true inner prayer ....

I cannot be found where I Am proclaimed in a manner which is mere idolatry, because homage is being paid to the idol which is still animating matter .... My kingdom is not of this world .... My Words are so clear and everyone should be able to understand them, and anyone who sincerely strives for Me and My kingdom will understand them too. But you will not find My kingdom in this world, which still belongs to My adversary .... Let go of all external things if you want to be of real service to Me, just hold on to My teaching of love, follow it willingly and you will serve Me in a way that will truly please Me ....

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Formalities, ceremonies .... True church service ....

B.D. 5571b from January 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

In every church where I Am proclaimed you will learn the basic doctrines which can guide you into eternal bliss. If you only hear them and let them fade away they will be of little use to you; but if you allow them to penetrate your heart the seed will be fertilized and grow, soon covering the whole field, your heart, with abundant vegetation. Life will be awakened in you and Christ's doctrine, My Word, which was made known to you, will yield glorious fruit. Your soul will mature and you will move towards perfection. Therefore every church which makes My Word accessible to you can help you to achieve maturity. However, the prerequisite is your acceptance of My Word, and you are offered this Word when the teaching of Christ is imparted to you, which also informs you of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Saviour of the world .... You humans are only able to achieve beatitude through Jesus Christ, consequently you also have to know of Him and His act of Salvation. And since you can only gain perfection by fulfilling His commandments of love, you also need to be instructed in His doctrine ....

As to where and how this doctrine will be imparted to you is irrelevant, but it is very important that you receive it. Therefore I will bless everyone who proclaims My Word, who tries to bring Me closer to people, who bears witness of Me, Who lived on earth as the man Jesus and brought salvation to humanity. Thus everything that will help to acquaint people with My suffering and death on the cross, with My human manifestation and act of Salvation, that will help to encourage them to follow Jesus, to live a life of selfless love for other people, is in accordance with My will and blessed by Me, irrespective of which school of thought aims to achieve this. However, anything exceeding this, anything not in accordance with My teaching of love, anything which is a burden to people because it interferes with human free will, anything which contradicts My simple way of life on earth, anything which was added to My divine commandments of love at a later time, will incur My displeasure and is not right for the development of true members of the church, which I Myself established on earth. Because where love is taught it also has to be applied by the teachers themselves .... i.e. where there is suffering it should also be alleviated .... And whoever receives material wealth from Me should also use it in the service of neighbourly love, he should ease suffering to the best of his ability.

If this first commandment is disregarded, no blessing can be expected either, even if My teaching of love is proclaimed. For then they are nothing but idle words which have not yet achieved a change of disposition, thus My Word has not yet penetrated the heart, the person’s heart has not yet come alive, My Word will have fallen on stony ground and therefore not be able grow. Nothing other than a life of love will enable you to acquire an eternal life of bliss, and My Gospel will only be truthfully proclaimed to people where this doctrine is preached quite firmly. And the true church service takes place where My teaching of love is given full expression, which is pleasing to Me and which will result in inconceivable blessings for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

He knows that he has not much time left ....

B.D. 5572 from January 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

The present time is very much influenced by My adversary, although it doesn't mean that I withhold My might, My love and mercy. Yet people themselves grant him more right through their will, their attitude, their actions and words. Hence they distance themselves ever more from Me and are unable to feel My emanation of love, which could release them from My adversary's influence. It is the time of the end, the time of which it is written: he knoweth that he hath but a short time .... And this is why he rages particularly conspicuously and yet will not be recognised by people. And My adversary fights especially vehemently where people quite clearly strive for Me .... This should always be an explanation for you when the spiritual aspirants come into conflict with themselves or their environment. Spiritual aspiration, that is, looking towards Me, is an abomination to My adversary, it fills him with hatred and a fury of annihilation, it inspires him to carry out the most shameful plans and the consequences can clearly be felt amongst My Own, amongst those who loyally want to serve Me, amongst those who receive light and shall spread it throughout the world. For he will interfere with his deceptive light, the light from above irritates him and he tries to extinguish it. He fights for every soul he is at risk of losing, and since the majority of people follow him voluntarily every soul which recognises and detaches itself from him makes him very angry.

This sign of the times is understandable to the person who knows the reason and purpose for bringing this earthly period to an end, who knows about the battle between light and darkness and the approaching end. And the closer it gets to it the more vehemently will he rage and cause confusion amongst My Own, for he uses every trick, every lie, he makes unscrupulous use of all weapons even if they result in the death of the soul he fights for. He will appear wearing a mask and will often be difficult to detect, he will also turn up in the midst of My Own and deceive all those who allow themselves to be deceived by his disguise .... And I will not stop him, for he has power and strength until the end of this world and can put it to the test, yet to the same extent I, too, Am on hand with My gifts of grace which, if they are used, will ensure victory over him on the day of Judgment. What has been proclaimed to you humans long in advance has to come true .... And this includes the raging of Satan in the last days before the end .... But there is always a path for all of you which will lead out of the confusion, there will always be a refuge for you to which you can hasten whenever you are in peril .... Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest .... Bring all your suffering, your anxious questions, your fears and problems, your considerations to Me. I Am always available to you, I want to help you and give you strength if you are weak, I want to lead you out of the tribulation of your souls .... Anyone who seriously seeks Me need not be afraid to fall into My adversary's hands, since I Am already present to someone who desires Me.

Just a little time longer and the flame ignited by My adversary in order to conceal himself in this blaze will flare-up high; his time is not over quite yet, thus he will still work to the utmost extent, and he will make good use of this time. All the same, it will come to an end when it is My will. For I truly reign over heaven and earth, over the good and the bad world of the spirit and nothing can happen without My will or My permission. And it is My will that he shall be bound for a thousand years .... that his power and control over the human race will be taken away from him for a period of time; it is My will that people shall live in peace one day, that those who have proven themselves to be My Own will be released from his domination; it is My will that My Own shall be victorious over him, thus I will not abandon them even in times of fiercest battle, I will always be present and not allow you to be pressed by him above and beyond your strength. I only ever want to be allowed to be present to you, that is, you should always continue to love despite all temptations from his side, because then I Myself can be with you and he will have to retreat from you, whom he then will have lost to Me for good ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's blessing on vineyard work ....

B.D. 5573 from January 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You offer Me a heart full of love if you are willing to serve Me. And thus you can also work together with Me, you are capable of working in My vineyard because it is love which impels you to this work. There are not many people who consciously offer themselves to Me for service .... Consider the people around you who pretend to believe and yet only establish a bond with Me when they have earthly needs. But the extent to which the prayer is directed towards Me in spirit and in truth also determines the value of the bond with Me .... Serious striving also establishes a connection in spirit and in truth .... But people are too earthly bound and I am a foreign concept to them, a concept they have not yet come to terms with through reflection and therefore do not establish a living connection with Me which alone results in spiritual success. Anyone who is only able to commune with Me in silence, who seeks Me in thought and strives to come close to Me, will awaken to life, for he already connects himself with spiritual strength which impels him to continue on the chosen path until the final aim, until unification with Me. This is why only a few people consciously offer themselves to Me as servants in My vineyard, and this is why I bless these few in particular, because I need labourers on earth, people who are in contact with Me and their fellow human beings and can now give or impart to them what they do not yet possess, because I need people who carry out on earth what I Myself would like to do but cannot do, so as not to inevitably lead people to faith. You humans cannot assess how urgent this help is, yet it is an act of love towards your fellow human beings if you supply them with what they lack .... And it is, in turn, a great grace for you if you receive from Me what is helpful to you and your fellow human beings for the salvation of your soul. What shall help you to become blissfully happy has to be supplied to you, and this can only happen if a person consciously unites with Me, opens his heart and receives nourishing food from Me directly .... But he can pass this delicious food on to his fellow human beings if love impels him to help them in spiritual adversity. And I bless him for this will to help, because it is extremely necessary that people are helped who cannot establish contact with Me themselves, thus cannot be fed directly either and yet so urgently need strength for their earthly path in order to reach the final aim for which they are on earth. There are only a few who recognize people's spiritual hardship and want to help, there are only a few who have love and faith and can therefore be taught by Me Myself in order to spread My gospel to the world. But where there is only the slightest will for it I Myself will prepare people and then place them in a field of activity where they can successfully work for Me and My kingdom. And I will keep them with My love, fill them with My strength, give them light, thus knowledge, and protect them from the attacks of the one who is against Me .... Anyone who wants to serve Me stands in love for Me and his neighbour, and this love is the strength which enables him to always fulfil My will .... This love eternally unites him with Me and will always let him think and act as it is My will ....

Amen

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Igniting the spark of God in man ....

B.D. 5574 from January 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

The spark of God in man must be ignited .... And this happens through love. You humans all have the divine spark within you which characterizes you as part of God, yet it is seemingly isolated from Me, for I have placed you as independent beings apart from Me so that you, of your own accord, of your own free will, will seek unification with Me again, because this unification only proves that you are full of the divine spirit through your own will. For I can give you everything but not direct your will, which is free. And only what you accomplish of your own free will makes you divine beings, My image .... Previously you were indeed created by Me in all perfection, yet you had to prove this very perfection by striving for it in free will, and therefore I externalized you as free beings and seemingly isolated you from Me .... And yet you remained inseparably united with Me through the divine spark within you, which was My share .... Now understand: You yourselves, i.e., your free will should only ignite this spark, and then you will also realize that you are not separated from Me but that you yourselves, as part of Me, are indissolubly united with Me .... This realization will spur you on to consciously establish the connection with Me. The spark of God within you flares up and the fire of love which ignited it increases. But love constantly pushes towards the original source of love .... the spiritual spark pushes towards the father-spirit from eternity .... What was placed outside unites with Me again .... The being in free will has become what I achieved but what I could never create in this perfection.

You should awaken the divine spark within you to life, you should carefully nurture and increase what was placed within you .... Love alone achieves this, for love is the fire which ignites the spark of God, love is of divine origin but it is not subject to any compulsion, love is your freest feeling which you can both stifle and revive, love is the binding agent between Me and you which, however, you have to generate yourselves, which cannot be given to you. Love is the evidence of the desire for Me and therefore also the surest means to establish unity with Me. Thus you only need to develop love within yourselves and thereby awaken the spiritual spark within you to life, which will then constantly strive towards Me as My share, which will constantly impel you into loving activity and thus also safely achieve unification with the eternal father-spirit ....

Amen

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Opportunities for attaining the childship to God ....

B.D. 5575 from January 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You will truly be compensated for all adversity you have to endure on earth and you will joyfully realise what you have gained by your state of suffering on earth which My love recognised as being beneficial for your soul and which therefore was only inflicted on you because of love. You humans should believe that you all still need opportunities to achieve maturity, that a person's soul on earth is very rarely so crystallised on leaving its body that it can pass into the spiritual kingdom as My child .... believe, that only few people would achieve the degree of childship to God which grants them the Father's inheritance if I did not create opportunities for them through a state of illness or suffering which can completely purify the soul and at the same time signify the removal of all guilt still on earth. But I know every person's ability and willingness to love and thus also his degree of maturity .... I really also know best who is already so close to Me that I can accept him as My child .... Yet according to the law of eternity the soul has to be completely free of impurities, because the highest degree of beatitude, the childship to God, can only be reached on earth, because it is no longer possible for the soul in the spiritual kingdom to reach perfection, an ascent towards childship to God .... This is why the soul will still be offered the opportunity on earth to perfect itself, which a sorrowful and difficult earthly existence can achieve. Love and suffering lead the soul to perfection, love and suffering let it mature, love and suffering enable it to partake of the highest pleasures and the sweetest togetherness with Me .... the child unites with the Father and eternally remains joined to Him .... Earthly life, however, is limited, it is but a fleeting moment compared to eternity, and no matter how sorrowful it is, the beatitudes at the Father's heart make up the suffering a thousand fold, and the soul looks back with gratitude and realises the overwhelming love of the Father, Who wanted to grant it this infinite happiness and therefore let it suffer on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Evidences of connections to the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 5576 from January 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Nothing is more important for people at present than that the truth they urgently need is conveyed to them. And therefore it is also permitted that spiritual forces express themselves through human mouths in order to first give people proof that a connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth is possible .... Only then will they be willing to believe divine revelations and examine them themselves according to their desire for truth. There is a connection from the spiritual kingdom to earth, and this knowledge spurs them on to gather knowledge, at first purely intellectually. But there is always a possibility to build on a gained knowledge and thereby come to the truth, to the right knowledge. People's spiritual blindness is the greatest danger, the supply of truth is therefore an urgent need, even though the human being's will must first be positively adjusted in order to achieve an advantage for the soul. Truth can certainly be directly conveyed to the willing, truth-desiring human being, yet without the slightest realization the human being does not require closer clarification, an area must first be proven to him before he seeks to enter this area .... And this evidence can be provided to every person, and spiritual forces always declare themselves willing to influence them, even to appear from time to time, in order to merely motivate people to believe in a kingdom which exists outside of earth and which will also receive them one day after they have discarded their earthly body. Only this belief will give their thoughts a different direction and result in striving for spiritual perfection, and therefore the kingdom of light with its inhabitants first has to be made credible to people before they strive for it. The beings of light are particularly concerned about this in the last time before the end of the world. This is the only explanation for the many unusual phenomena which will occur more and more frequently and which are all only intended to strengthen the foundation of faith in an otherworldly kingdom, so that then all statements, all revelations, will be given more attention, so that a transmission of pure truth from above is possible, so that people will be shown the path which leads into this spiritual kingdom. For what people say about it has long since lost its power of persuasion .... The truth must come from above so that it is also recognized and accepted as truth ....

Amen

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God's spirit in the man Jesus .... following ....

B.D. 5577 from January 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You humans can be full of the divine spirit if you live as followers of Jesus. As a human being He was no different from you, His life was only a struggle and fight against the desires which He felt like you but wanted to suppress out of love for Me. His life was a life of love for His neighbour, whom He knew was in need and wanted to help. What He achieved you humans could also achieve if you were serious about receiving Me Myself in all fullness. His soul was indeed from the kingdom of light but it did not recognize itself as such until the man Jesus was permeated by My spirit of love. At times My spirit did speak from Him, then the man Jesus spoke with supernatural wisdom and astonished his fellow human beings .... Yet as soon as My spirit hid itself again Jesus felt just as human as they did and His occasionally brighter spiritual state confused and frightened Him; He was closed but turned towards Me with ever more intimate love which then also gave Him the light about His earthly task .... The man Jesus had to wrestle with all powers which were against Him, He had to experience and suffer everything only a human being can suffer, for He preceded you humans on the path which you should and can also take with His help. I helped Him Myself with My strength of love, which He constantly requested and acquired through His life of love. And this unusual supply of strength of love enabled Him to accomplish the work of salvation .... You humans, too, could accomplish unusual things if you wanted to acquire My strength of love yourselves through loving activity; yet you lack the will which, however, was overdeveloped in the man Jesus, yet again only as a result of the love He developed within Himself. As a soul of light His soul felt the great spiritual hardship of the environment, and therefore its will to help was so strong and inspired the man Jesus to work in love .... You humans also see spiritual and earthly hardship around you, and if you wanted to help, you would also receive the strength .... because the will is taken into account .... And you, too, could be full of the divine spirit, because every work of love could result in My strength of love and thus My spirit could become effective in you. The following of Jesus would truly not be demanded of you humans if it could not be fulfilled. For again and again it has to be emphasized that Jesus walked His path on earth as a human being and that all divine attributes were His humanly acquired merits, that the deity did not determine His path of life but that the human being subjugated the deity to Himself .... well understood: that the love of Jesus, the human being, moved Me to the unlimited expression of love, because I am powerless against love, because I Myself am love from eternity .... The man Jesus has conquered Me Myself with Me, He has done what I Myself had to do .... what My fundamental nature demands .... to let the power of love take effect .... And every human being who works in love forces Me into self-emptying .... Yet this compulsion is the most pleasing feeling for Me, Who always wants to give Myself away but can only give Myself away according to My law of eternity where love meets Me. Love must unite the being with Me, then it is filled by My spirit, by My strength of love, and then it can work in and with Me, then the human being has taken the path of following Jesus which leads to unification with Me ....

Amen

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Free will .... (after talking about "fasting and praying" ....)

B.D. 5578a from January 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

People's will is free .... Therefore they should also do what they deem right and not fear any displeasure on My part as long as they have Me before their eyes and in their heart. A person cannot sin if he seeks to serve Me, even if his actions deviate from My will, for then he does not recognize My will but does not consciously act against it. And I look favourably upon him and his activity. A special flow of strength emanates from people who completely bow down to Me, who listen to the voice of the spirit within themselves in deep humility and silent devotion .... And the environment can also feel this current of strength if it opens itself to it .... Thus the will of fellow human beings is necessary if an emanation of strength is to be evident, just as faith must be there where the strength is to become effective. If fellow human beings can be inspired to transmit a flow of strength to themselves through conscious contact with the source of strength, they will also experience the blessing which emanates from the source of strength. And this is the only explanation for the immense evidence of divine strength, the countless healings of the sick and spiritual awakenings, which first require the will to stand in the flow of grace and strength of eternal love. Unimagined strength can unfold as a result, for everyone who pushes towards Me is accepted, and My love shines down on every person who seriously seeks Me and obviously comes to meet Me. My radiance of love, however, signifies strength which now expresses itself as the human being hopes. I want to be recognized and therefore do not hide Myself from those who believe in My might and strength and want to be touched by it. But I can only make Myself known to those who are no longer strangers to Me and who prove this through intimate union with Me through love and prayer. Whoever recognizes Me will also love Me and want to feel Me in this love .... Anyone who unites with Me in heartfelt prayer will also not be a stranger and unloving towards his fellow human being with whom he seeks communion, and thus the prerequisites are given which allow for an obvious working of Me. And thus I bless people, and My blessing means healing and strengthening, My blessing means life and light .... Where many expect My strength many will receive strength, for I always distribute according to desire .... But the same can also happen to individual people without the masses taking notice .... Will alone opens hearts to Me, and everyone can prove his will in a different way. The will allows My obvious working or prevents it .... which, however, should not mean that the human being only needs to request a miracle in order to experience this miracle. The will which causes Me to express strength must be intimately and fully turned towards Me, which also necessitates profound love for Me and for the neighbour. Then it will be fulfilled in public or in silence. And such a will is also willing to give, to sacrifice and to help, and this is its strength and the guarantee that I will not fail Myself ....

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Free will .... (after talking about "fasting and praying" ....)

B.D. 5578b from January 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

A community can lead to great blessings but it can also easily fall flat, the will of the individual is always decisive as to whether spiritual success is achieved. Anyone who voluntarily tries to shape himself in such a way that I Myself can take abode in him, I will also always reveal Myself to him for the blessing of those around him who have the same will to make contact with Me again. Each person is solely responsible for himself, for his soul, and therefore no person can be spared the work on his soul, and this work consists of discarding faults and weaknesses and acquiring the virtues which stamp him into a divine being. This work of the soul cannot be done mechanically through the performance of formal actions which, for example, lack love .... On the other hand, success can be increased if the human being carries out planned self-education, if he consciously fights against all kinds of cravings and vices, if he renounces everything that is a danger to him and does that which brings him closer to Me, if he is celibate and avoids that which, as part of My adversary, can also hand him over to the adversary. Anyone who has much cause to sin should avoid these occasions; anyone who fears danger should avoid it if he feels too weak to be able to offer resistance .... But anyone who only practices love again and again will become strong in spirit and also be able to cope with every temptation. For love cannot be replaced, no matter how much a person mortifies himself .... Love is the solvent of the spirit and its strength, and where love is present every desire is also displaced, the 'ego' recedes and the fellow human being comes to the fore, and the strength of love works miracles which now understandably also have the strength of faith as their reason, which can be so great in people of open will that My spirit is prompted to express strength in excess. Everything is good that leads to self-shaping towards love .... The person who can renounce himself fights his self-love and transforms it into love for his fellow human being, to whom he would like to supply that which he renounces himself in order to help him .... Then love underlies self-emptying, and then it is beneficial for the individual's spiritual development, then the human being lives in love, then he voluntarily renounces that which is still indispensable to the other. And I bless him for it .... but I also bless every spiritual striving, every proof of will to live to please Me. For anyone who strives towards Me will also irrevocably reach Me, no matter which path he takes. The will towards Me is the guarantee that he will reach Me. Therefore it is up to every person in which way he fulfils My commandments of love for Me and his neighbour if only his firm will is to fulfil them and he therefore unites with Me in prayer .... Then I will always meet the supplicant, then My spirit will be active in him and his activity will always be recognizable according to the degree of love, according to the strength of love which fills the person who wants to work for Me and for My kingdom ....

Amen

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Purpose of suffering and misery ....

B.D. 5579 from January 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You are all guided as My wisdom recognizes it to be beneficial for you, and thus each one of you is entrusted to a spiritual care which takes care of your ascent development. But in no way will you be forced, which is why you always determine the aim of your path yourselves. But no matter how you walk, your guides will not leave you, and they also walk with you on dark paths and again and again try to give your gaze the right direction, otherwise you would be completely abandoned and unrestrainedly at the mercy of the forces of darkness. Therefore, as long as you live on earth it is never too late to change your course and therefore it is still possible until your death that a change of heart can take place in you which means salvation from greatest danger .... to get into deepest darkness after the discarding of the earthly body. The spiritual guides will not give up on you until the hour of death, and as long as this is the case a turning back from the path into ruin is possible, for they will always entice and urge you onto the right path, only in such a way that it is not a coercion which could never help you achieve perfection. They can only ever have an effect on you in the form of thoughts which you can now accept and act accordingly, but which you can also push back if your will is still completely turned away from Me. For this reason the thought of what lies ahead of you will also arise from time to time until the end of your life, and even the unbeliever cannot resist such thoughts, he can only quickly reject them again; but the silent admonisher will always arise again, especially strongly in days of physical weakness and hardship, in a state of infirmity and suffering, which reminds him of his end. For as long as the human being is able to think, the leaders seek to express themselves through thoughts, even if they have little or no success. For they work in My will, and My will, My love and My care is always and forever meant for My living creations, and I only want their perfection but not their ruin. Yet the freedom of your will takes precedence over everything, otherwise you would all already be released from adversity and torment but never be able to reach perfection, which, however, is your aim and your destiny. Therefore I can certainly help you, I can arrange your fate so that it will serve the best of your soul, but I must leave it up to you how you make use of My grace. I can provide you with guides who show you the way, but you must want it yourselves and willingly hand yourselves over to the guidance, then you will walk the right path and also reach your aim ....

Amen

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Spiritual guidance on all paths ....

B.D. 5580 from January 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

So many people have to go through suffering and misery in order to find Me, Whom they have excluded from their thoughts and without Whom they nevertheless cannot live in eternity. This is why suffering and sorrow are to be regarded as grace as long as people are still completely without faith in Me, and this is why such suffering and hardship can only be taken away from them once they have found Me as a result. I don't want people to have to suffer but I recognize the necessity to guide them onto the right path through unusual suffering, I recognize their often unbending will which defies Me and which I cannot break by force so as not to endanger its perfection; thus I can only try to change this will through means which ultimately determine people themselves to call upon Me in order to then provide them with the evidence through help for their faith that I am from eternity to eternity and am in indissoluble contact with My living creations .... Suffering and adversity, however, can also affect believing people, and for these, too, they are means of grace to increase their spiritual maturity .... But anyone who believes also endures his suffering with patience and submission to My will, for he is not without realization either, because a believing person is not without love either and love has brought him realization. He also lives in this world with spiritually directed senses and his suffering still gives his soul the final perfection. But where the earthly world is still in the foreground, faith in Me is often lost or it becomes a mere form, and then I also know ways and means to let it arise again to new life, then I also manifestly show Myself as the powerful and loving God and father of eternity if people allow this themselves through intimate contact with Me, through the call for help which is sent to Me in spirit and in truth. The right faith will always be rewarded by Me through an answer to the requests, and the fact that faith can be called right always presupposes love, people's love for their suffering fellow human beings who are to be helped. I truly want to hear your prayers if love for your fellow human being prompts you to call upon Me for help .... For everything you request out of love will be granted to you .... And if your fellow human being's suffering drives you to heartfelt prayer, I will hear and listen to you so that you can now proclaim the power and strength and love of God, the creator of heaven and earth, Who reveals Himself to people who believe in Him, love Him and keep His commandments and are therefore also filled by His spirit, which now works with His strength ....

Amen

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Nullity of earthly worries ....

B.D. 5581 from January 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

How trivial are all earthly worries and how seriously and highly you value them .... And you humans pay little attention to what is important on its own, and that is why your needs and worries become ever greater, because they are intended to motivate you to remember Me and your own soul. And if this is achieved then the hardships and worries were a blessing, but where these also failed to make the human being turn to Me there is often great danger that lower powers will now become active and help the human being, yet then always at the loss of the soul which the prince of darkness tries to win. Faithlessness is ever increasing, people unhesitatingly abandon Me and greedily reach for material goods which they receive as a purchase price, as it were, because they surrender Me and thus also their soul .... And therefore earthly hardship also increases and is so obviously recognizable as being brought into the world by satan. For unbelief and earthly adversity will always occur together because satan reigns where there is no longer faith, but profound faith always signifies a way out of every adversity. This is why earthly adversity need not be valued so highly, for profound faith in Me can and will remedy it. But this also requires a certain maturity of soul, an intimate connection with Me, Who will always help you and end the adversity. To the unbeliever a hardship appears enormous, the believer is hardly affected by the same hardship, after all, he knows one above him Who sent it and can also take it away from him again, whereas the unbeliever uses his own strength in order to master this hardship and, since he does not succeed, then accepts support from below, i.e. he resorts to means which promise success and, with great certainty and expectation, forces everything that seemed to push him down. Unbelief is also a strength, but one has to be warned against it, for the unbeliever is in association with the one who also has strength but uses it wrongly and thus the recipient of strength also uses it for sinful deeds. This is why this strength can cause unimaginable damage if the human being abandons himself to it, if he detaches himself so completely from Me that My adversary has full control over him. Every earthly adversity should lead you humans to Me, and in every adversity you should first consider your soul whether it will use this adversity to unite with Me .... A serious question like this can already reduce the burden, for it is placed in you so that you will pay attention and recognize the meaning of your worries. You can very easily be relieved of these worries through an earnest call to Me for strength and help .... I only wait for such a call in order to then grant you My help, for I only want to protect your souls from the abyss, and I can do this as soon as you turn your eyes upwards and call upon Me .... But don't be stubborn of heart, don't believe that you can free yourselves from every difficult situation by your own strength. You humans are all weak and need support, yet turn to the right source where you can draw strength, don't let yourselves be seduced by My adversary who promises you everything and causes damage to your soul which you can no longer repair unless you call upon Me to heal you ....

Amen

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Divine mercy ....

B.D. 5582 from January 20th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Divine mercy seizes you and protects you from the fall into the deepest depth, for this means an eternal turning away from God for you and thus eternal torment and darkness .... Divine mercy stops this fall by banishing the spiritual, the soul striving towards the depth, into solid matter, a banishment which always leads to an ascending success, because the spiritual can now no longer will itself and must now, even if forced, fit into the eternal order. This state of compulsion is the just compensation for the previous striving downwards; divine mercy, however, connects this just expiation with the simultaneous ascent, and thus the spiritual in the state of compulsion nevertheless once again reaches its freedom of will in order to be able to prove it again, in order to decide again whether it wants to dwell on high or strive towards the depth again .... There is also an abysmal fall for this spiritual being, yet divine love and mercy does not abandon the spiritual being to a fate which it would create for itself in its imperfection. God saves as long as this is possible, and although His means of help are extremely painful they nevertheless lead to the aim one day. As long as the being is subject to divine will, thus as long as it is in the state of the law of compulsion, the ascent development is assured, but free will is always the cliff, precisely because the being is still imperfect and strives towards the depth. It can endlessly distance itself from God and yet will never be outside the realm of divine love and mercy, because God never leaves His possessions to His adversary, because the products of His love are never abandoned by Him but His aim is the final return of the spiritual, which He will also achieve one day. And He never leaves the fallen spiritual substance in the abyss but again and again gives it the opportunity to start the path of development, again and again He lets new creations arise which become the spiritual substance's abode, that its evil-directed will is bound and it has to subordinate itself to God's will as long as this constraint of will is necessary. For the spiritual, which wants to rule in its evil will, must learn to serve, and because it does not serve voluntarily it stands in the law of compulsion and now ascends through its serving. This course of development through creation can make the will of the spiritual submissive, so that even in free will it completely subordinates itself to divine will .... And because this is possible God's merciful love is constantly active to let new creations arise and to stop the fall into the deepest abyss through the banishment of the spirits, because He longs for His living creations and therefore wrests the victims from His adversary until they strive towards Him of their own free will, until they have recognized God's great love and mercy as a human being and now see their father in Him, to Whom they want to belong forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living connection - receiving the divine word ....

B.D. 5583 from January 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

The living connection with Me is crowned by the transmission of My word .... The human being has proof of My presence which would now also make him happy and rapture him beyond earth if I let him become aware of the great grace which is bestowed upon him through this living connection with Me. But for his own sake he will not be struck by the exceedingly radiant light in all its strength, for then the soul would no longer be able to dwell on earth if it had consciously looked into the spiritual kingdom .... And every transmission of My word is a vision into the spiritual kingdom, which the soul certainly experiences but cannot convey to the human intellect what it has seen. The human being still has to dwell in earthly spheres, and therefore the light only illuminates him to the extent that he can bear it in order not to become unfit for earthly life. Yet the soul's advantage is incomprehensible to you and it can no longer be taken from it what it was once allowed to receive, what it was offered by My love .... to receive the living word, to be addressed by the father from eternity, to have thus experienced His presence in a demonstrable way is something so powerful that it would overwhelm you humans if you had full understanding for it, if you were touched by My ray of love in all its strength. Moreover, I demand your complete devotion of free will .... But this would no longer be free if you were once to enjoy the bliss of union with Me .... Then you would be completely subject to Me for the sake of this bliss, then you would already be blessed spirits on earth .... and yet not yet so perfect as to be able to be accepted into the kingdom of light, because the will shall submit itself to Me without any compulsion, because you still have to struggle on earth and your devotion to Me shall also be an overcoming of your faults and weaknesses, of your earthly and bodily desires, so that your soul will always become more and more purified and thereby enabled to endure the bliss of My nearness .... What you are to do on earth for Me and My kingdom has to be entirely your free will, and this will be stimulated to its own activity as long as you feel weak, as long as you still feel your distance from Me. And I will truly reward you for this free will with utmost bliss, yet only when you discard the earthly body and start your work for Me and My kingdom as blissful spirits .... Then you will feel the strength of My word, the bliss of My emanation of love as heavenly bliss, and then you will also recognize what an inconceivable gift of grace you possessed on earth and thank Me eternally for the evidence of My love which helped you to attain perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5584 from January 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You should work with great zeal for the salvation of erring souls. The need is great and the souls need you, for they cannot find the path to Me on their own. People are always led into your path who are without faith and live into the day without thinking that they have to fulfil a task on earth. To inform these people of their task in life on earth, to lovingly point them to their creator and father of eternity, before Whom they will one day have to answer, to present Me to them as loving and merciful but also just and thus to lead them to faith, that is the work you should do if you want to serve Me as servants in My vineyard. What you therefore do to lead these people to knowledge is right before My eyes and is valued as redemptive work. Every person who believes in Me and wants to be of service to Me can accomplish such redemptive work by trying to transfer his own faith to his fellow human being, which already banishes the greatest spiritual adversity, which consists of blatant unbelief. But if you want to do more for Me and My kingdom, you should proclaim the gospel to people in My name .... that is, when you receive the commission from Me Myself .... And this commission will be given to you when you possess the ability to teach in My name .... For proclaiming the gospel means introducing people to the truth, to impart spiritual knowledge to them which completely corresponds to the truth and which you therefore only possess yourselves when you are taught by Me Myself. If you now feel an urge within yourselves to proclaim Me to your fellow human beings, only in order to help their souls attain bliss, then this urge, too, is a gentle sign from Me, a place for you where you can successfully work on your fellow human beings' souls. Then speak without shyness as it comes into your mind, for then you are driven by My spirit, and then the words are put into your mouth, then you can only speak as it is pleasing to Me, and then your words will not fail to make an impression, because you are urged by the spirit of love which wants to express itself through you, and then you will be doing redemptive work, for all people who accept your teachings and work accordingly will release themselves from their bondage, they will believe and then also find the right path to Me .... Everything you show to your fellow human beings with the will to love has a beneficial effect on them, and if you are now seized by the spirit of love yourselves, all your endeavours will be an emanation of love which will continue to work as strength, thus it will bring spiritual advantage again to those to whom you turn your love. Anyone with an open mind will recognize the spiritual and earthly hardship all around him and will want to help because he will also recognize why these people are in need, because he will recognize that it is unbelief which has caused their earthly hardship. He wants to bring them a ray of hope, he wants to introduce them to something hitherto unknown to them when I Myself am brought close to them as a being Which is supremely perfect, loving, wise and powerful. And as soon as you make it your business to bring Me close to your fellow human beings, to help them to believe in Me, you are redemptively active and faithful labourers in My vineyard to whom I want to assign an ever increasing field of work, because the adversity is great and much work is still to be done until the end .... For people have lost their faith, they live in the world and their souls have also anchored themselves in the world, that it requires great effort to liberate them and to show them the path which leads to their true home and which they have to take in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The fate in the hereafter is determined by the will of man ....

B.D. 5585 from January 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You can sink deep into the abyss but also rise immeasurably and enjoy bliss in abundance. And both are up to you, to live in the most dreadful torment or in bliss for ever .... I do not determine your fate, your state in the spiritual kingdom, you create it for yourselves in complete freedom of will .... You do not know about it .... you may well object to it and thus try to shift the responsibility away from yourselves .... But why do you know nothing? Because you reject every explanation about it, because you dismiss as untrustworthy everything that could remind you of your future fate, because you do not want to know anything .... And you will also have to answer for not listening to those who want to impart the knowledge to you; you will have to answer for your own thoughts, for they are constantly stimulated by spiritual beings, so that you will already be mentally informed and need not act wrongly, thus you could acquire eternal life even without direct instruction on your part .... You can live forever because your will can just as well be rightly directed, because you cannot be forced in any direction and because I have given you intellect, thus you are also able to think and only need to use this gift. Sin and wickedness are just as little coercion as the labour of love .... You alone determine what you want to do and what you don't want to do .... You alone therefore also determine your fate in eternity. The downward inclination is still very strong in you, yet the graces from above can give you the balance so that you don't need to fall but can hold yourselves and also slowly progress upwards .... And no human being will be denied My graces. And just as My adversary seeks to pull you down to the abyss, forces from above are also ready to help you up, and My love will not give you up, My love will not let up in drawing you to Himself, and thus you alone have to decide to whom you grant power over you, and no-one can make this decision for you. But are you also aware of the consequence of your decision? As long as you reject all thoughts of this kind, you carelessly pass over this consequence, but it is immensely serious, and you humans should bear this in mind. You cannot avoid responsibility, one day you will have to give account of your thoughts and intentions, and you will bitterly regret having carelessly rejected all enlightenment, for every human being must irrevocably accept the fate which his earthly life has brought upon him, every human being will be judged according to his works and his will .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God Himself will appear ....

B.D. 5586 from January 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

I still appear inconspicuously, My working is not yet obvious to all people. But a time will come when I will not only work in secret but unusual appearances will proclaim Me Myself and My working which, however, will only ever be experienced by the believing human being, whereas fellow human beings will always have the opportunity to doubt it, although their affirmations will make them wonder. And I want people to pay attention and think about it, and therefore I will reveal Myself often, even though this is only possible with believers who then, however, will also firmly and convincingly stand up for these signs of My presence. And the believers will experience great strengthening as a result, the believers will recognize the time they live in; they also need an unusual supply of strength and will eagerly confess My name and My teaching and thus successfully work for Me in the last days before the end .... I reveal Myself to you in many ways .... I still want to save whoever can still be saved from the downfall, I want to make it easy for people to believe, I want to help them in every way to find the path to Me, I want to let them experience and hear unusual things in great adversity so that they then take refuge in Me themselves and with a small glimmer of hope approach Me for help, which I then so obviously want to grant them so that they learn to believe and no longer give up on Me. Yet My adversary will also take advantage of this time and likewise try to win people over for himself .... He, too, will distribute strength to those who completely oppose Me, and these are the ones who try to invalidate My unusual activity, who want to destroy all faith in Me, who ridicule and hostile all believers and gloat over their adversity, which appears greater to the world than it is felt by the believers. For I give them strength and make them happy with My presence so that they will no longer have any doubts within themselves once they have experienced Me .... And they will experience Me .... Where there is profound faith and a right loving attitude I will manifestly appear and leave a quiet happiness in My own; they will feel secure in Me and fearlessly let everything pass them by and clearly recognize the last days by it, I Myself will assist My own, strengthen their faith, alleviate earthly hardship; I will convey My word to them and also personally be with those who love Me and want to remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Humility ....

B.D. 5587 from January 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Approach God in all humility and He will lovingly draw close to you. Listen to the voice of your heart, don't become arrogant in spirit when His love becomes obvious to you but always remain humbly devoted to Him, then the measure of grace He pours out on you will be inexhaustible, then you will truly be His children who have found the path to the father's heart .... Humility must completely fill you, and even the greatest gift of love must not let you become arrogant, for it is only His greater than great love which bestows that gift upon you but not your worthiness. What is weak is lovingly regarded by God as soon as it recognizes its weakness and humbly withholds itself from eternal love .... Then it will truly be showered with an abundance of grace which will secure you a high ascent. And thus a simple explanation is given to you humans when and how God bestows His gifts of grace; information is given to you as to what alone is necessary in order to receive a richest measure of grace .... Humility is presented as the virtue which is looked upon by God with eyes of love, which moves Him to empty Himself, to distribute an abundance of grace which surely leads the human being to the aim, to the union of the child with the father .... Just as a child approaches the father in all humility, so the human being must also feel humble towards the eternal father. But where humility fades, God also withdraws His grace. Humility, however, demands nothing for itself; humility feels so infinitely small in the face of the divinity, which it certainly suspects but does not dare to address. True humility will only produce a slur, it will not be able to express itself with words, for it does not dare to address words to the highest being, Which can already destroy with a thought what It once created .... Humility is silent and only falls down before the face of God, pleading for His mercy .... Humility waits patiently until it is raised up by His benevolent hand. And where you humans recognize this humility, there the flow of grace also flows uninterruptedly into the heart, there God's presence is evident, there the connection from earth to heaven is created, there God inclines Himself to earth and fills the vessel with His grace which is held out to Him openly, the heart which humbly surrenders itself to God in the knowledge of its unworthiness and weakness .... (27.1.1953) For humility of heart is the soul's highest adornment, it opens, as it were, the gate to the spiritual kingdom, it opens the source of grace, for where humility is there is also love for God, Whom the soul acknowledges as a supra-holy being, Whom it hardly dares to look up to but Whom it strives towards, to Whom it would like to make itself entirely its own: The soul's humble devotion to its creator and father from eternity is the shortest path to Him, for a powerful wave of love and grace carries it over all obstacles to the father's heart, Who graciously draws it to Himself because a humble soul is well pleasing to Him. True humility of heart need not be outwardly recognizable, rather it often hides behind an impenetrable nature, for true humility does not apply to people but to the God and creator from eternity, true humility does not venture forth, it walks silently, true humility does not dare to come forward, it walks quiet, solitary paths in modesty and never comes forward, it is without any self-love but always endeavours to make its fellow human beings aware of God's greatness and holiness, because it itself feels how small and miserable the human being is in comparison to His holiness. And it will find grace in abundance .... for its whole being is an abhorrence of the former sin of apostasy from God, Whom it would never ever want to offend and Who therefore grasps its will, which is fully turned towards Him, and draws the soul to Himself in the most ardent merciful love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

False gods .... divine worship .... (antichrist?)

B.D. 5588 from January 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You should not make false gods for yourselves whom you worship, you should not let yourselves be dazzled by beautiful speeches to which you listen in rapture; you should not listen to those who promise you good days on earth, who want to persuade you to belong to them and strengthen their power; You should not strive for connections with people of high rank in order to gain their favour, nor should you feel connected to those who appear unusually, who possess strength which you lack, as long as you are not entirely convinced that they are My representatives on earth, whom I certainly endow with strength but have not placed so high that you look up to them. You should not pay divine reverence to people who are above you, for I do not want one to rule over the other even if he is entitled to do so. Only for the sake of human order have I set an authority over you which you should well obey but which you must not elevate to gods, for then they will only be idols for you which are and remain dead and cannot give you life. You should all be brothers and live like brothers among yourselves, and if there is one among you who is rich in experience, who is noble and good and whom you would like to give priority among yourselves, this should only be a demonstration of love from brother to brother, but not a humble submission and thus elevation of the brother above you .... You should beware of paying divine reverence to a human being, for then you will have foreign gods next to Me. And anyone who allows himself to be worshipped, who feels exalted above his fellow human beings, who abuses his power in order to oppress his subordinates, is not Mine but My adversary's, for he does according to his commandment, because My commandment is only love and no-one will rule who has love in himself .... Nor do I want you to look up to those who are like you, unless they surpass you in love and virtues and you seek to follow them. But they will not demand any honour, no idolatry from you but reject them as belonging to Me alone. But anyone who accepts honours, who puts up with even the slightest glorification, who waits to be singled out by his fellow human beings, who values himself more highly than his fellow human beings, is already animated by the spirit of the one who wanted to elevate himself above Me in order to rule and completely disregarded love. And this person will never be able to work on earth in My name, for he pursues earthly aims, he still seeks ascent on earth and will never reach it .... Know that only the humble find favour in My sight, and that alone should warn you if a person allows himself to be shown divine adoration. Therefore be careful and don't let yourselves be blinded by the twinkling of the stars which will still flash before you but which have put on a shiny garment themselves in order to feign light for you. Be vigilant, for My light spreads a mild glow, My light does not radiate outwards, but whoever carries it in his heart walks humbly and no longer seeks anything that belongs to the world. But the prince of darkness exalts himself, and he wants to be counted before the world .... By this you will always know which spirit speaks from the people who want to bring you salvation, and knowledge will prevent you from bending the knee before him who is My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sudden end amid the ecstasy of worldly pleasure ....

B.D. 5589 from January 29th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

In the ecstasy of worldly pleasure people pay no attention to the signs from above, and the end is approaching with giant strides. The world keeps all their senses enthralled and utterly blurs the spirit; they respect no God and fear no power above, for they are content with the measures taken by the ruling powers, and the more secular their worldly promises of improvements are the more they applaud them. It is the same state of affairs as it was at the time of the great flood; their increased lust for life allows for no spiritual thoughts, and the fulfilment of their wishes and cravings is sinful because they discard all moderation and indulge in unbridled pleasure and thereby completely put themselves into the hands of God's adversary. And he has won his game with these people; he enticed them with earthly possessions and won them over surprisingly quickly. But his victory signifies death for people, death of body and soul, for the end will not be long in coming, the end will come amid the ecstasy of pleasure, unexpectedly and so fast that no-one will be able to think about it and there will be no more escape. They certainly could have recognised that it was shortly before midnight, for all the signs pointed to it, yet they kept their eyes and ears closed as not having to hear and see what they didn't want to hear and see. And thus the end will come unexpectedly .... When lust and vice have reached their climax, when sin gets so out of control that it can no longer be stopped by the warnings and admonitions of God's servants .... then the Judgment must come, which has always been and forever will be announced. Therefore, pay attention to the signs, earthly prosperity will be recognisable which will signify an uninhibited enjoyment of life for worldly people who try to gain whatever they can from the world. In so doing they will find their faithful brothers' admonitions inconvenient and getting in their way, for this reason the latter will be treated with such hostility that a time of need will commence for the believers for the sake of Jesus' name, because the goal of the sinners' attacks will focus on His teaching and because everyone professing Jesus and His teaching will be deprived of everything essential for living. However, this time of need will be a temporarily blessing for the believers, for their faith will become increasingly stronger since obvious strength will be conveyed to them from above and because they will be able to hear the Word of God either directly or through His messengers .... And this time is still ahead of you; it will arrive without fail and must be overcome, because it is necessary to separate the goats from the sheep, because every individual person's attitude must be clarified; every single person must make a decision for or against God, and since this decision shall be taken in complete free will the pressure exerted by the earthly authority will be permitted, just as blessings from above will provide exceptional strength to those who want to make use of them in faith in God .... in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... People will still have to go through difficult times, yet blessed is he who experiences life as difficult .... For the others will go down because they paid no attention to any signs, because they feared nothing and yet will nevertheless have to face God's decision on the day of Judgment when the end of this Earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sudden retrieval ....

B.D. 5590 from January 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

No one knows when his last hour will come and no one knows in which state he will enter the spiritual kingdom; yet everyone can make an effort to live in such a way that he need not fear the last hour. And because people now live thoughtlessly, because they don't think about how quickly they can be called away, because they no longer think about their purpose in life and only live for this earthly world, they are often reminded of the end by the sudden call away of fellow human beings, which nevertheless lets them think for a short time of what is also imminent for them and can be imminent very soon. Everything happens to make people think, and if one thing has no effect, something more powerful will come which will startle people and make them realize the futility of earthly life. And anyone who pays attention will see how everything only points to the end, anyone who pays attention will also recognize the signs of the times, people's spiritual low and the urgency of help if they are not all to be lost. Yet what can make one person thoughtful is passed by carelessly by the other, no matter what happens it does not affect him, and these are the ones who are visibly granted an earthly life of well-being. But do not be surprised, for they have their reward there .... They are richly provided for on earth because then they have nothing more to expect, they are supplied from below with everything they desire .... And these do not envy, for their lot is truly not desirable. But they will be the ones who oppose everything that points to God, to the end and to judgement .... They will rush and make provocative speeches, for they are under the influence of satan, who will be exceedingly active in the last days. They will also agree with him who decrees laws against the believers, they will strengthen him in his power and therefore stand high and in honour on earth and possess everything they strive for, yet their souls are devilish and therefore can only receive the reward they are entitled to. The prosperity will be conspicuous, but so will the hardship and misery of those who are faithful to God and have to confess this openly before the world .... But you humans should be aware of the fact that it is an unmistakable sign of the approaching end when the blatant difference comes to light, and then wait patiently, for then the day of your redemption will also soon have come .... Many things will still happen to rouse people, and every thoughtful person will still change his mind and change, but those people who let everything pass them by without a trace will have to pay for it for an infinitely long time that they keep their ears closed to all admonitions and warnings from above; they will have to take upon themselves the fate they are striving for .... they themselves will become matter, which alone they desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distress of souls in the deep .... intercessions ....

B.D. 5591 from January 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Great is the hardship of those souls who are suddenly and unprepared called away from earth if they have not already reached a degree of maturity through a God-pleasing way of life which makes them suitable for the kingdom of light. Yet the majority pass over into the spiritual kingdom in a truly pitiful state .... without faith in Jesus Christ, without the slightest realization and completely without strength, since they lack love and thus no works of love follow them into the spiritual kingdom either .... They are poor and miserable and don't know where to turn for help because they have no faith in the one Who can redeem them from all sin and suffering .... Jesus Christ, Who would truly hear every call for Him. The spiritual kingdom accepts all souls which have departed from earth, yet how different are the spheres which now offer them abode .... But the kingdom of darkness is the most populated, and it constantly accepts new inhabitants because there is also great darkness on earth and the souls seek out the same place they left. There the hardship is so unbearable that the souls want to escape it but they cannot do so by themselves but need support. Again and again these souls return to earth and stay close to people who were close to them on earth or who are welcome objects to them due to their similar nature, in order to transfer their own will to them, thus to continue to work indirectly on earth. Such souls can hardly be improved, and yet they should also be remembered in prayer so that through intercession impulses awaken in them which can lead to a change. Where loving prayer follows the souls of the departed, there is always hope that they will soon be able to exchange their dark abode for a dim place, and they will then seek the light until they find it. The souls of darkness often have to stay in the depth for a very long time because they make no attempt to come out and only the desire for light brings them light. Therefore you humans cannot pray enough for these souls that they will strive towards the light, that the desire will awaken in them to enter a somewhat lighter environment. For the will of the being is decisive, and you humans should pray again and again for the strengthening and transformation of a wrong will if you want to help the souls which suddenly depart from earth, which are called away in the midst of life and possess little or no spiritual knowledge at all. They can be helped if only you want to help them, if only you give them love and want to deliver them from darkness. The adversity is overwhelming and cannot be forcibly remedied. A premature recall from earth is often an act of mercy for these souls so that they don't sink even further and then the redemption from the abyss would be even more difficult because the will would then be even more hardened and completely directed towards God. Therefore remember those who suddenly depart from earth and send loving thoughts after them so that they will feel attracted by you, return to earth and be able to learn from you, for they will always stay close to those who give them love, they will be far more willing, They will be far more willing to accept mental instructions from you than they would have been on earth, and for such souls premature death can still be the only path to a change of will if you give them strength through your love, through your prayer, which is intended for the redemption of these poor souls from the darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I am the light of the world ...." light is truth ....

B.D. 5592 from February 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

I am the light of the world, and only where I am can the light shine, but where I am not there is darkness .... Anyone who allows these words to deeply penetrate his heart will also soon be touched by a ray of light, for he will realize that he has to take the path to Me in order to reach the light. But light is truth, and truth emanates from Me. And thus no-one can walk in truth who is distant from God, who has not accepted Me Myself so that I will kindle a light in him. But to receive Me means to make love your own, for anyone who lives in love lives in Me and I in him .... I, therefore, am love, truth, light and life .... Without Me you live apart, in darkness. Wherever else you seek the light .... you will not find it if you do not ignite it within yourselves through love, if you do not draw Me, Who am love Myself, to you through loving activity. There can be disorder in your thoughts, but then there is also disorder in your heart, then love is not in you, which orders everything according to eternal law, which also guides your thinking correctly and does not let any ambiguity, no questions and no doubts arise in you. Thus light is only in you when I Myself have found acceptance in your heart, because I Myself am the light from eternity. But you are free to choose the light or the darkness .... If you believe in Me, through Whom the light has come into the world, if you believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, then you will also try to win Me, you will let yourselves be called out of darkness by Me, you will listen to My voice, you will recognize My commandments of love as My will, and you will enter into My will for the sake of light, you will long for Me, for My love, for the life I have promised you, you will recognize that there is no life without Me and thus voluntarily step into the glow of light which I Myself emanate, you will look for the light and also find it .... You will move in truth as well as you move in love .... There is no other way to reach the truth than through love .... And this will also explain to you the error spread throughout the whole world, which infallibly has to be where there is no love .... But love has grown cold among people .... Where is the truth to be found which cannot be where I am not Myself, which is not apart from Me and which has been suppressed by human unkindness itself. Where there is no love there is darkness, no matter how highly developed people's intellect may be .... I am the light of the world, but I am also the eternal love .... but where the light is extinguished, where love cannot be found, there is also darkness of spirit, there is error, ignorance, delusion and spiritual arrogance, for there the prince of darkness reigns who wants to displace the truth and thereby also the one Who is the eternal truth, Who is the light from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God does not condemn but wants to redeem ....

B.D. 5593 from February 2nd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

It is not Me Who condemns humanity and pushes the souls into the darkness, they strive towards the abyss themselves, they pass their own judgment by living a way of life which enables the prince of darkness to take possession of them and pull them down to his domain. I Am a God of love, and I take pity on all these souls, because My principle is to give pleasure to everything that once emerged from Me. I see their adversity, I see their pitiful state and would like to help all of them; yet as long as they don't want to know Me, as long as they don't want to accept My help, My adversary will keep them firmly under his control, for their will entitles him to do so, just as their opposite will would entitle Me to help them rise into higher spheres. I don't hold the guilt of sin against any human being, albeit as a God of justice I have to demand restitution, atonement. Yet My merciful love has created the opportunity for all sinners to discard their guilt of sin, My merciful love took everyone's guilt of sin upon itself and paid the ransom through the sacrificial death on the cross ....

And yet it remains up to every soul to make use of it, because it has received free will from Me, which I will never infringe upon. It is, however, the wrongly orientated free will which will plunge it into damnation; into a condition which is so agonising that it is like the most atrocious captivity, and which it believes was imposed by Me and thus it regards Me as an avenging and punishing God, Who has expelled it into the darkness .... The soul creates its own fate, for what it is and where it is, is a state which has been aspired to in free will, which can only be changed through its own will, but which will also immediately be improved if the soul directs its thoughts towards Me. My love takes hold of every soul and helps it to rise if it wants to strive towards the ascent, hence towards Me. I Am indeed a God of justice, yet what I demand in exchange as atonement for the guilt of sin of the past rebellion against Me, is only the acknowledgment of My act of Salvation, thus the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ as the Son of God .... Just as the spirit once turned away from Me and fell, it shall turn towards Me again in Jesus Christ in order to rise to higher spheres .... I only demand the acknowledgment of His Divinity, because then I will be acknowledged Myself, since I embodied Myself in the man Jesus on earth in order to make it easier for people, for the spirits which once had fallen away from Me, to put right their past sin ....

People are far removed from God, they are spiritual beings which had left Me due to their own will; it is not Me Who has condemned these spiritual beings but they who have aimed towards the abyss of their own free will, I would like to lift them up again, yet I cannot place them into a different sphere against their free will: I was and Am and evermore will remain the God of love, and even My justice is surpassed by My merciful love which has looked for a way to satisfy My justice and yet to help the living creations, so that they could come closer to Him again if they had the will to do so. And My love will eternally endeavour to redeem the souls from the abyss, which have lost themselves; My love will eternally reach out its helping hand which need only be grasped in order to be able to escape the abyss, for I Am not a punishing, not a condemning God, I Am a God of love and of mercy, Who only ever wants to give pleasure to what once had emerged from His love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious admonition and warning of transience ....

B.D. 5594 from February 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You should become aware of the fact that everything is temporary and that you, too, have a transient body, that you will have to leave everything behind when the hour of your passing from this earth has come, that only your soul will continue to exist, and namely in the state that you yourselves have prepared for it on earth. You should become aware of the fact that it will take your human attitude concerning the world along into the spiritual kingdom, that it will still cling to or despise matter in the same way as you have done on earth. But it will experience a tremendously painful state if matter had been its sole endeavour, which it will then have to leave behind and thus arrive in a poor and miserable state in the realm of the beyond instead of happily soaring upwards with ease and in freedom, if it is not burdened by its ties to earth, if its endeavours on earth were already aimed towards the spirit ....

You humans should consider that the world can only give you illusive possessions which will not last, which will enslave you if you do not rise above them and recognise them for what they are. Greed for matter, for earthly possessions, is the soul’s greatest danger, and this greed is extreme in people of this earth and will steadily increase as the end is approaching. People have become entirely blind in spirit, their thoughts are confused, they plan and work only for the world and ignore their soul by letting it starve, and yet only the soul will continue to exist after everything else has passed away. And thus people are constantly reminded of their futile beginnings and what fate their soul can expect after death. Their attention is drawn to it, yet they can only ever be reminded and warned but not forced to change their will and thoughts. However, they ignore these reminders and warnings and also remain indifferent to the proclamation of the approaching end because they do not believe it.

This is why God manifests Himself from time to time so obviously by taking away what people refuse to give up themselves. It is indeed a divine revelation but only few people recognise it as such. It is a revelation which distinctly shows God’s actions to people because there is nothing they can do about it, since they are unable to defend themselves, since they have to admit their complete helplessness and for this reason could certainly recognise that a higher power is active in accordance with Its will. But they refuse to acknowledge this power, indeed they would rather deny It and cannot be stopped since they have free will. God speaks everywhere and His voice can be heard by everyone, and yet most will remain unaffected by it and only have eyes for the world and its goods. The craving for matter will not grow silent in their hearts; accordingly, they would like to retrieve everything lost very quickly but continue to let their soul starve. Even so, God will not cease in His endeavour to release people from matter. To this end, many things will still happen before the last days and good for those who recognise the meaning and purpose of destruction and devastation and the One Who commands creation. Good for those who recognise God within everything that takes place and call on Him for protection and help in the face of adversity .... They will receive help on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom; they will live although they have died ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Will determines the grant of grace .... grace ....

B.D. 5595 from February 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

It is not My will which determines your spiritual state, both on earth as well as in the beyond, but solely your will. Not one person will be left out of My grace, not one person can say that he has never received support from Me, yet his will determines whether and to what extent he makes use of My grants of grace. People who strive spiritually, who are in realization, only reached their spiritual level because they made use of My allocation of grace, it was solely their will which offered Me no resistance and which was willing to take hold of My hand when it reached out to them in merciful love .... And all people could do the same, My hand reaches out to all people in many ways in order to pull them up from a low spiritual state to the height .... Yet I cannot place them against their will into a state which is the fate of those who are at My will. I cannot and will not place them into constrained situations, because an ascent development in constraint does not signify a right maturing of the soul, because every constrained state is contrary to My law of eternal order. Yet I can provide people with graces unmeasured .... And only the acceptance of My grace will bring about an improvement in the human being's spiritual state. Nor should a person ever believe that I give preferentially to My creatures .... everyone receives as much and as often as he desires .... But anyone who never desires grace, who rejects the grace offered to him, also remains incapable of all spiritual striving, and all spiritual knowledge is denied to him. And again, his will alone is also decisive as to whether the human being performs works of love .... This, too, is decisive, because love already provides him with abundant blessings, for I am already so close to a loving person that the will of rejection is no longer present, and then he makes use of all blessings, i.e. he finds every means of help I provide him with beneficial and no longer resists it. It is the will which impels the human being to love or prevents him from working with love, and thus the will also determines the supply of grace, because all resistance has to be given up in order to be touched by the flow of grace. Every person can mature if he wants to, because he is always supplied with strength if he is willing to utilize this strength correctly. And what is easy for one person can cost another a great deal of effort, but only ever because his resistance is even greater and this is solely determined by the human being's will. But I would never demand a transformation of people's nature in earthly life if this were impossible, nor do I demand anything so difficult that it would be difficult to fulfil .... I only demand the abandonment of resistance, which is therefore determined by the will. But once resistance has been relinquished everything else is easy, because now My grace flows continuously and makes everything possible which was impossible before. For grace is everything My merciful love uses to help you .... Every day you still live on earth is grace, every indication as to how you can use your vitality correctly is grace, every assistance offered to you through My word is grace, because My word imparts the knowledge of My will and your task in life to you and through this knowledge you can live a correct way of life and thus attain maturity of soul. My love gives you grace without measure but it does not force your will, and therefore you can indeed become blessed but also remain in wretchedness for an infinitely long time until you change your will after all, until you give up your resistance and desire Me and My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effect of the divine word to the otherworldly beings ....

B.D. 5596 from February 8th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

So always come together in My name and serve Me by radiating love to all beings which surround you, to the people who live with you on earth and also to the souls which are certainly close to you but no longer in your earthly sphere but in the spiritual kingdom. Radiate your love to all of them, then you will be able to loosen and make happy everything that is bound and wretched which enters your circle of love .... And I will always be in your midst if you unite in My name to work for Me and My kingdom. I will never let you accomplish a work on your own, I will always be with you with My strength of love and bless your work, then you will never form your own thoughts or words in your mouth but your speech and thinking will be determined by Me Myself, then you will speak for Me in My stead to the souls to whom I would like to convey My word and who nevertheless have to accept it through you because they could not yet bear My direct address .... And yet they feel Me if they receive My word through you .... Although people on earth must have an increased will to love in order to recognize Me in the word, and this will only ever be a few, for love has grown cold amongst people .... But the beings in the spiritual kingdom feel strangely impressed by My word if you offer it to them, if you let Me Myself speak through you .... They feel benevolently touched by it because it conveys a flow of strength to them which they willingly let take effect on them and which awakens the desire in them to always receive more and more. These beings feel Me but do not recognize Me until they believe that I Myself address them through you. But then they will no longer leave you and constantly want to hear your words .... And then rich knowledge can be imparted to them which spreads light and attracts countless souls to the light again and the work for My kingdom can be immensely extensive and successful in this way. Anyone who wants to serve Me will also be accepted, and according to his willingness his mission will be .... Therefore be eagerly active for Me, know that you only have a short time at your disposal and that you can work very successfully in this short time if only you use every opportunity to spread My word, for wherever it is accepted, wherever it is read or listened to, souls from the spiritual kingdom will arrive which, attracted by the unusual radiation of light, will also feel the unusual effect and gratefully accept it, which will supply them with strength. Yet the success is even far greater when My word, My gospel, is consciously conveyed to these souls, when they are called up in thought and every word is also spoken for them .... No-one on earth has any idea what effect such words have on the souls in the beyond, yet bear in mind that it is My word, that you are merely the instruments I use to bring Me close to these souls without making their will unfree .... In the same way I Myself speak to the people on earth whom I cannot address directly either .... only they are far less willing to accept Me because they do not yet recognize the extent of the great spiritual hardship which, however, causes the souls in the beyond to seek help, which they experience in My word conveyed to them through you .... And they will thank you eternally for imparting nourishment to them which strengthens them and enables them to strive towards the light, they will thank you for helping them to gain strength which they lack and which they now use again in order to likewise help those who need help. Come and receive from Me and distribute again, for I give with full hands .... so you should also give to those who are miserable and unhappy on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love is the Christ-life in man .... "My yoke is gentle ...."

B.D. 5597 from February 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

To make God's will your own at all times is your task, the work you should do on yourselves. It can be laborious work but it can also be easy, depending on the nature of your will, i.e., how far you are still distant from God and therefore also of a will which is opposed to His. For a long distance from God also requires an enormous path to return, then your work may well be arduous but it can be overcome, then 'the kingdom of heaven needs force' for you to seize it .... But if you have already come closer to Him, if you are no longer so stubborn in your resistance, if you have directed your will and desire towards Him, then your soul's work will also be easy for you, then the "burden is light and the yoke is not heavy ...." Enter into the will of God .... submit yourselves completely to Him and submit to His commandments .... Then you will make God's will your own, and then you will certainly reach your aim, the union with God on this earth. But you enter this earth, the earthly world, with a will which is still opposed to God, in which you should thus change yourselves and your will. And therefore you still belong to the one who placed this God-opposing will in you, which was the cause of your former apostasy from God .... You yourselves as human beings are no match for his power and cunning, you would never ever succeed in your weakness, in your lack of strength, the consequence of your distance from God, to wrest yourselves from his power, you would never ever succeed in turning your will towards God by your own strength .... And that is why Jesus Christ came to your help .... Thus with Jesus Christ you can now detach yourselves from the enemy of your souls and completely subordinate your will to God's will, but without Jesus Christ it is impossible for you. Your earthly task is therefore now very simple .... To make use of His help in the work of the soul, in the transformation of your will .... And you secure His help for yourselves as soon as you believe in Him and keep His commandments .... For it is God's commandments which the man Jesus taught you, it is the fulfilment of the divine will if you live out Christ's teaching .... But you alone would be too weak to fulfil these commandments if you did not avail yourselves of His help, of His grace acquired on the cross, which enables you to do everything that is God's will .... You should live in love .... for love is strength, and you voluntarily gave this up when you became unloving, when you therefore fell into the abyss. It is easy for a person to live a life of love if his will is turned towards God, but only if Christ came alive in him, if His love for people was recognized and also awakened love in his own heart .... for love infallibly transforms the will and directs it towards God .... Love, therefore, is the life of Christ in the human being, and love is also the change of will and nature in the human being .... No one can become blessed without Jesus Christ, because no one can become blessed without love .... Jesus Christ is embodied love and therefore God Himself. And thus your task on earth is to return to God, to revive the love in you which you once voluntarily gave away .... but which then also inevitably draws your will to God .... And since you yourselves are too weak as human beings on this earth, call upon the eternal love Itself for help, Which in Jesus Christ will also surely come to your aid .... Acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world, then you will also start your return, then He Himself will take hold of you with His love and draw you, for He earned the right for Himself as a human being through His death on the cross, through His blood He ransomed you from the one who holds you captive, and now you can become blessed if you only want to, for He strengthens this will so that it will no longer turn away from God but strive towards Him as long as He dwells on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I am from eternity ...." Lucifer's creation ....

B.D. 5598 from April 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

I am from eternity and I will be for all eternity .... I am the highest and most perfect being, and countless beings emerged from Me, also in perfection, because I could not create anything but perfect .... And thus this being created by Me was also full of power and strength, it was not limited in its activity, thus it was able to create and shape like Me because it used My strength which it drew from Me without limitation. The emanation of strength into My living creations was a process which made Me unspeakably happy and stimulated My will of love again and again to supply My living creations with My strength .... Yet I constantly did this through My first-created being in order to make it equally happy and to stimulate it into creative activity. Yet My emanation of love no longer found resonance there .... the first-created being did not acknowledge Me as the source of strength but believed itself to be the producer of this strength because it was able to create of its own free will and therefore did not want to acknowledge anyone above itself. And this was its undoing, for it volitionally detached itself from Me and thus also from love, even though it remained powerful and mighty because I did not withdraw My strength from a being which had created My love. Thus it certainly retained its strength which, however, was no longer strength of love which had a constructive effect but a destructive, disintegrating effect because it lacked love. Nevertheless, this being remained My creature, for My love cannot turn away from the products of My love. But it had a beginning, a beginning, while I am from eternity .... This alone should have given this first-created being the evidence that it was not the highest, the first being, for it knew about its beginning .... And this knowledge must have caused its love for Me, for the being Which gave rise to it, to become excessively inflamed, for it was overjoyed in its perfectly created state by Me, and it was able to constantly increase its happiness by creating beings like itself. And this ability to create also had to remind it of the one Who had also given it life .... The knowledge was in it, the first-created spirit, it was therefore the bearer of light which was able to impart all its knowledge to the beings which emerged from its will but which all had My strength as their fundamental substance, which were all born from love which constantly permeated the first-created spirit and originated from Me. And in spite of this realization, in spite of the brightest light which shone through it, the being fell .... It turned away from Me, it repelled eternal love, it no longer used its strength in My will but against Me .... But it could not detach itself from Me .... Nor could it pass away .... although it had once taken its beginning, for it was strength from Me which cannot eternally pass away. It could only have a negative effect up to a certain degree in order to change into positive strength once this degree was exceeded. But I never eternally pass away, and what has once emanated from Me also inevitably returns to Me. But then it will have undergone a transformation so that it will recognize itself as a spark of light, so that it will strive towards the eternal light, so that it will find its bliss with Me and in Me, so that I will now radiate through it with My strength of love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Need of the secluded souls .... love of the people help ....

B.D. 5599 from February 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

No human being can appreciate the hardship the souls of unbelief or weak faith find themselves in, no human being can imagine the state of misery from which they cannot escape without help because they are completely powerless. No-one knows how much merciful love they need in order to experience relief in their adversity and how little love follows them into eternity, because people are without love themselves and only think little of those who have passed away. If you humans knew how grateful they are when only a loving thought from earthly people touches them, if you knew what a blessing such a thought of love is for this soul, you would truly make an effort to help them as soon as you thought of a soul close to you in this adversity. Yet your faith in survival is weak, and you have also been wrongly taught if you assume that you can no longer help them even if you believe that the souls live on in the beyond. You alone can provide them with active help, for your love has a direct effect on the souls as strength, and your love can also awaken love in these souls and suddenly lead them out of spiritual darkness into lighter spheres, from where the ascent can then take place with certainty. You humans have a safe means of help for these souls and don't apply it, and those who would like to bestow love upon them, the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom, don't easily find access to the souls because they have to approach them in the same envelopment which the souls have themselves in order not to compel them to accept the light .... But the souls which have departed without faith also lacked love on earth and therefore also all knowledge .... Therefore they will hardly accept what is offered to them by beings of light, because their will is also completely weakened in their lack of strength. These beings cannot impart strength to them out of their love because this goes against the law of divine order .... Yet the love of people on earth is accepted by God .... And for the sake of this love God's merciful love can now become active .... He supplies the souls with strength from His inexhaustible pool of love, He accepts intercessory love and helps where the being lacks strength. You humans, remember these poor souls and give them what they always ask for, if they enter your thoughts .... Heed these supplications and give them a hearing .... send them loving and good thoughts, point them to Jesus Christ in Whom they did not want to believe on earth, call upon Him at the same time and commend these souls to Him. But don't let your prayer be a prayer of lips, for only love has a redeeming, strength-giving effect, and all souls which have to languish in the beyond appeal to you for this love .... And you yourselves do not know in which state your loved ones have passed away, and therefore you should not omit anyone who wants to make his nearness, his requests known to you through emerging thoughts of him .... Do not forget them, and do not believe that they have passed away .... They live, but in what state .... They need not be lost if you have mercy on them and give them the power to be saved; you can help them .... Therefore have mercy on all unbelievers who no longer dwell on earth and yet still are, because the soul is immortal and therefore cannot perish .... And they will thank you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of the divine word ....

B.D. 5600 from February 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

A powerful flow of strength touches the soul which willingly accepts My word, for the will to hear Me also opens it to receive My strength. This is why I want My word to be offered again and again to people on earth or also to the souls in the beyond in order to stimulate their will .... But the effect is only felt by the soul which is willing to listen to Me, which tries to make contact with Me in faith and thus listens to what I have to say to it. Every soul needs a supply of strength, be it on earth or also in the beyond, as long as it is not yet perfect .... Once it has become receptive to light it is constantly illuminated by light and is blissfully happy about it, yet before the soul has reached this state it is lightless and also powerless, even though it has physical strength as a human being on earth. But the soul is in darkness and cannot be blissfully happy without the supply of light. And therefore it has to be supplied with My word which, as a ray of light from above, has an exceedingly beneficial effect. It has to carry out work on itself on earth which it cannot manage without the supply of strength. It has to change the state of ignorance into a state of knowledge, for which it therefore also needs light. And the soul also receives both in the form of My word so that it can become on earth what its destiny is, a being which can now constantly receive light in the spiritual kingdom and emanate it again. But if it has neglected to do so on earth then it can still attain light and strength in the beyond, yet far more difficult than in earthly life. It must now also receive My word in the beyond in order to draw light and strength from it if it does not want to remain in the dark state in which it entered the spiritual world. But as soon as My word touches a willing soul it feels miraculously struck, it is stirred in its innermost being, sparks of light delight it and increase its desire for constant light, and it also feels an influx of strength which impels it into activity, which also strengthens its will to provide the soul with nourishment it lacks. It is not mere words which the soul hears, which willingly receives My offered gift of grace, but it feels addressed by a loving being, and Its love powerfully touches the soul and it therefore completely surrenders itself to the effect of My address .... And as soon as the soul has mustered this will it has escaped the state of darkness, a brightness surrounds it and its realization, its knowledge, increases, for the strength of My word brings about this change because it is My direct emanation upon the beings which open themselves to My word. Therefore, this one important task remains for you, My servants on earth .... To convey My word to your fellow human beings or to the souls in the beyond. Depending on the listener's willingness the effect on his soul will also be. Whoever rejects it will remain in darkness and powerlessness, whoever accepts it will infallibly ascend .... There is therefore a sure means to help the souls up out of the darkness of spirit .... My word which, however, I Myself cannot convey directly to the beings in darkness, neither on earth nor in the spiritual kingdom, but which has to be carried through mediators to places where souls want to work with love but first have to possess themselves what they are to give and therefore open their hearts themselves in order to receive light and strength from Me. But you should convey the gifts of grace with love, because only then will the strength of the word take effect on the souls to whom your love applies ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Good doctor of souls .... healing remedies ....

B.D. 5601 from February 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Salvation is truly brought to you humans through the proclamation of My word. Your souls are sick and shall heal, and only a good doctor can give them the right remedy which brings them healing, only a good doctor recognizes their illness and knows what you are lacking. And only a good doctor will be able to free you from illness and suffering, for a good doctor has love within himself and does not want the human being to suffer if he can bring him salvation. But your souls are sick and urgently need help .... You live a life which harms the soul, and you must first recognize the disadvantage your earthly life brings to the soul .... you must be taught because you are completely without knowledge .... If My word is proclaimed to you, the doctor of your soul speaks to you Himself and gives you the guidelines to lead the soul to recovery .... But you must now also listen to it, you must obey what I advise you, you must remember your soul which is in misery as long as you don't do what I demand .... as long as you do not obey My word. As your souls' doctor I will always meet you where My word is proclaimed, and you can truly be convinced that I will not prescribe anything wrong to you, you can safely expect your soul's recovery if you comply with My word, for it contains the healing power, it supplies the soul with what it lacks, it strengthens and revives it and it awakens to new life, for the previous state was only a vegetation without light and strength. Let the doctor of your souls advise and help you, for only love motivates Me to bring you help, and My word shall prove My love to you, so that you trustingly hand yourselves over to My care, so that you follow Me and thus approach a life which will never end again, even if your bodily life has ended .... Make sure that your soul does not enter the spiritual kingdom sick, for then recovery will be considerably more difficult, for you can only find the right remedy in the proclamation of My word, which is always within your reach on earth, whereas in the kingdom of the beyond it first requires great loving help until you recognize it as salvation for your soul .... and then you have to request it in order to be able to receive it. On earth your soul's doctor constantly meets you and offers you His remedy .... Don't pass it by, let yourselves be healed and strengthened, strengthen your soul with My word and you will recover and be released from all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Remember the soul after death .... pitiful figures in the afterlife ....

B.D. 5602 from February 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

What your soul desires, that shall be supplied to it .... But do you pay attention to your soul's desire? You fulfil the body's demands but leave the soul's desire unfulfilled. And thus it will happen that your real self will enter the beyond in utmost poverty and weakness, for you do nothing during your earthly life to nourish and strengthen the soul; it starves and begs and is an unhappy being, while the well-fed body remains behind and perishes. If you could see the wretched figures in the hereafter who have passed over in this way, you would be terrified and turn away in horror .... And yet the same fate awaits you if you have led the same earthly life as they. Earthly life will pass very quickly, and what you humans have striven for and perhaps even achieved you will have to leave behind or it will be destroyed during your lifetime, and then you will have to ruefully realize that you left a time of grace unused which could have brought you spiritual success of immeasurable value .... You make a lot of mistakes during this short time of earthly life and yet you are constantly reminded and admonished to remember your soul which lives on when you have to leave your body .... Why don't you pay attention to these indications, why don't you follow the admonitions of those who want to help you in spiritual adversity .... why do you only turn your eyes to the world and don't even look within yourselves so that the soul's adversity would become apparent to you? .... You pay rich tribute to the world, that is, to God's adversary, but you do not make the small sacrifice of providing nourishment for the soul, which consists of the word of God .... Therefore you cannot expect mercy when you enter the spiritual kingdom, you will have to accept the fate you have prepared for the soul on earth yourselves .... Hunger and thirst, darkness and torment .... For it cannot reap what it did not sow on earth. It can indeed still be saved in the beyond, yet what dreadful torments precede its salvation; how immeasurably difficult it is to persuade a soul to change its will, which was completely wrongly directed on earth. The soul cannot be given what it did not acquire .... And it has to struggle unspeakably in order to achieve an improvement of its situation.

It will achieve it if it wants to, but the will is so dreadfully weak and only great love can help it up. And how rarely does a soul find such love .... because love has grown cold on earth and is therefore followed by little love .... If you humans knew about the hardship of these souls they would take pity on you and let your love flare up, yet you lack faith in it and cannot be given to you against your will .... Yet again and again divine love calls to you: Remember your souls .... Do not let them live in want in earthly life because you are preparing an agonizing fate for yourselves in eternity .... Remember the life of the soul after death, so that you do not have to think back in painful remorse of the unused time on earth. Work and create for your soul, so that you may live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Two different worlds ....

B.D. 5603 from February 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

There are two worlds, the spiritual kingdom and the earthly world, and they cannot both be entered at the same time because they are completely opposite and therefore the human being must decide for one of these two worlds. The earthly world is indeed the natural abode of the human being and therefore also appears to the human being as his kingdom to which he has to pay tribute. But the human being's task consists of the soul freeing itself from all impressions of this earthly world, of recognizing its appearance and striving towards the true, of rising into the kingdom which will be its abode after a short time, which is its true home and which offers it what the earthly world can never offer it .... unlimited bliss and eternal life .... The human being should gain this realization on earth that he only temporarily inhabits a world which is transient, a world where everything on it is, as it were, only a pretence, where everything is to be overcome in order to be able to rise freely into the spiritual kingdom which will remain when the earthly world passes away. The recognition of this influences the human being's will and actions and can result in the human being dwelling in the spiritual kingdom even though he still lives on earth. But then he has mentally and willingly renounced the earthly world, for he despises the earthly world as much as he strives for the spiritual world, because it is not possible to strive for both at the same time. They are two different kingdoms .... And their lords are also completely opposite, for the earthly world certainly arose through God's will, yet all creations still belong to God's adversary according to their spiritual nature, and this spiritual substance, which is bound in the works of creation, shall be liberated from its control. The final liberation shall be accomplished by the human being himself by voluntarily detaching himself from everything belonging to earth, by turning his desire away from the things of the earthly world and turning it towards the spiritual kingdom, thus consciously striving towards the kingdom of God. However, this striving first requires the recognition of the worthlessness of all earthly things, it requires faith in a God Who is perfect and in His love wants to prepare a blissful fate for His living creations, and thus it also requires the human being's love for God, otherwise God and His kingdom would not be striven for .... It presupposes a degree of knowledge .... And this shall be made possible for people through the transmission of the divine word, for the human being must first be informed of his task in earthly life before he can make any kind of decision. The human being certainly stands in the midst of the earthly world and yet he should strive towards the spiritual kingdom. God helps him in every way to become free from the earthly world, yet anyone who clings to earth and its goods will never seek the path upwards, he will also never want to and be able to separate himself, for he still allows himself to be held by the lord of the world, he does not direct his gaze upwards and therefore remains bound, even though he feels free as long as he stays on earth. But once he has to take the path into the spiritual kingdom as soon as the earthly world closes itself to him at the time of his physical death .... But then he will find nothing to replace what he has given up; the kingdom of light will not accept him, for he is not suitable for it, he will always be drawn back to earth, and even there he will no longer be accepted .... he is in the spiritual kingdom but in unspeakable torment and darkness because he did not use earthly life to strive for light and life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Many are called, but few are chosen ...."

B.D. 5604 from February 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Many are called, but few are chosen. You have all been given the task of forming yourselves into a vessel of My spirit, and you would all be able to do so if your will strove for it. But the fact that you do not all reach the aim is due to yourselves, precisely due to your will, which is free and not directed or determined by Me to do what is right. Only a few take their earthly task seriously, they shape their heart according to My will and therefore can also let My spirit become effective in them. And thus these are the ones who are chosen among the many called ones .... But to have been chosen by Me means to have to fulfil a task which can only be carried out by a person who allows My working of the spirit. He shall represent Me and My name before the world, he shall proclaim My word, the divine teaching of love, which reveals My will to people. No person can administer such an office on earth who does not belong to My chosen ones, for the proclamation of the gospel requires knowledge which corresponds to the truth. Such knowledge cannot be gained through study, for mental knowledge is not sufficient for the spreading of My gospel, instead, the spirit from Me must first bring mental knowledge to life, otherwise it will only remain pure worldly knowledge, even though it has spiritual content. Therefore, every preacher of My word must also have been chosen by Me for his ministry, and he must prove this .... He must be able to demonstrate a gift of the spirit, the working of My spirit in him must be obvious. This means that he has abilities which he did not acquire but which were given to him by Me as evidence of My working of the spirit in him. One such ability is also the interpretation of the word which testifies of Me .... the interpretation of the scriptures which are regarded as My word .... No matter how long a study makes the human being capable of grasping and explaining the spiritual meaning of My word. For intellectual knowledge cannot replace what My spirit announces to the human being. My spirit, however, cannot work where the prerequisites for it are not given. But where My spirit is active, intellectual knowledge is not necessary, there I Myself instruct the human being and place the spiritual truth into his heart in a highly comprehensible way so that he is full of knowledge and realization ....

(17.2.1953) And therefore it is also a futile effort to want to draw wisdom from the scriptures as long as My spirit cannot work. And thus it can also be explained why the interpretation of My word is so often wrong, why only the literal meaning is interpreted but not the spiritual meaning, which I placed in all My words I spoke on earth. For the human being's intellect interprets the literal sense, the spiritual sense is interpreted by the spirit from Me, if it can work in the human being. And what intellectual work is required for this .... while the spirit from Me clearly and understandably explains My word without the intellect having to become active. And yet, the human being naturally reproduces this explanation as if it were his intellectual result, yet the profound wisdom of what he says, the interpretations which are understandable to all, testify to the working of the spirit, yet again only to those who are of good will and want to be taught correctly .... whereas an intellectual interpretation is not a satisfactory explanation to fellow human beings and cannot convince them. The spirit alone gives brightness, the spirit conveys truth, and the spirit alone appeals to the heart, whereas the intellect again only appeals to the intellect and finds no echo in the heart.

But My spirit will always be able to be effective where love is .... a love which is always willing to give, which wants to help and redeem, a love which knows no other desire than to alleviate hardship, be it spiritual or earthly. Where the giving, completely selfless love is evident, truth can also always be found there, because I am where love is, because every work of love attracts Me Myself and the person who lives in love is intimately united with Me .... And where I am My spirit is active, where I am is truth, where I am I express Myself through the spirit, and that also means light, knowledge .... it means possessing knowledge which corresponds to the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Awakening the dead through God's Word ....

B.D. 5605 from February 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You shall awaken the dead to life .... you shall draw the lifeless from the abyss and breathe life into it; you shall touch it with a strength that will give life to it .... And this strength is My Word which comes to you from above, which I convey to you Myself, so that you, as mediators, will pass it on in order that My strength will also touch those who are still dead in spirit. You own something exquisite, a gift that has a miraculous effect, you own spiritual strength and can use it to bring the dead back into life. But having received it from the Eternal Love you must also impart My Word with love; your will to help must urge you to share what had awakened you to life .... Then you will always be successful and able to work beneficially on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. There is immense darkness everywhere and countless spiritually dead souls dwell in this darkness. But life also means light ....

Only the soul that is touched by a ray of light which radiates warmth of love and thus has an invigorating effect on the hardened soul will awaken to life. These dead souls have to be touched by a light of love, then they will awaken to life for sure. And you shall take this ray of light to them by giving them My Word, which has a most comforting effect on them if it is offered with love. This healing water of life constantly flows to you as a result of My love and grace so that your souls will recover and find the true life, and thus you need not fear the death of the soul any longer .... Yet the many souls which rest in their graves .... which in their thoughts are still living on earth and yet are spiritually dead and in depressing darkness .... are surrounding you, and you should help them by lifting them out of the night of death into the light of life. For you have an effective remedy, you have the only medicine which can help them, you have My Word, the emanation of strength and light of Myself, which will never remain ineffective if only it can touch the soul ....

As long as My Word is merely reaching a person's ear it cannot as yet affect the soul, for only the soul is receptive to the effect of My Word. Yet only love will open the door so that I Myself can touch the soul with the strength of My love. And your love will open the door for Me if you endeavour to help these dead souls and proclaim to them My Word with love. Consider how much power is given to you: You are able to awaken the dead to life with My Word .... And if you are only urged by love to spread My Word I will bless your efforts .... Carry the Word into the darkness wherever it may be .... look after all those who are dead in spirit, remember your lifeless fellow human beings as well as the dead in the beyond .... want them to awaken to life and bring My Word to them with love .... And the strength of My Word will work miracles, the souls will awaken to life and light, and they will never ever lose their life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Antichrist's influence before the end ....

B.D. 5606 from February 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

The influence of the Antichrist will also hasten the end, for then the hardship of My Own will reach its highest peak and necessitates My coming in order to put an end to this adversity. My adversary's only objective is to dethrone Me and put himself onto the throne, that is, to completely destroy people's faith in a God and Creator of eternity in order to be esteemed higher himself, in order to be venerated and feared like God .... He does not want to own people's love, only their submission, he wants to control everything and thus be supreme ruler. As long as people still have faith, as long as they acknowledge a Power above themselves to Which they will have to give account one day they will not yield to the one who demands something from them that is God-opposing .... And therefore the adversary will proceed against this Power by trying to eradicate the belief in Me, and this by brutal means which will make it difficult for My Own to remain faithful to Me .... Yet the strength to persevere will be provided to them by Me in abundance. I will so visibly reveal Myself to them that their faith will become increasingly stronger, that they will accept all detriment in the realisation that I alone can give and take and will truly repay what is inflicted upon them on earth.

The Antichrist's endeavour is to stamp out the Christian teaching .... to prevent all knowledge about Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... He openly declares war on Me .... And that is his end .... My adversary will embody himself in a person who is totally enslaved by him, i.e., he completely owns his soul and at first deceives people with all kinds of proceedings and favours which will guarantee him the support of large crowds .... And his speeches and activities will be a mask which conceals the most evil frame of mind .... He will be a master in knowing how to hide arrogance, lies and greed for profit, yet his lack of love will soon expose him, that is, only in the eyes of My Own, for towards his followers he feigns sympathy for all suffering which he, however, does not try to alleviate but only contributes towards increasing these afflictions. The believer will recognise him, for he badly has to suffer under his rule, yet anyone who complies with him, who openly renounces Me, will be treated by him like a friend and be worldly honoured and respected. And so there will soon emerge two parties .... the majority will follow him and only a small flock will remain faithful to Me in their attitude and actions. And these will constantly be at risk, because My adversary urges people to cause them harm wherever possible. The Antichrist will reward such actions against My Own in order to even make the last believers, who still offer resistance to him, desert Me.

This will be the start of a time of bitter distress for My Own and yet it will be bearable because they will be allowed to receive an exceptional gift of grace .... because I will show Myself where people are in danger of weakening .... I know each individual person's will and attitude towards Me, and I will truly not let My adversary gain the upper hand over his soul. Besides, the end is near and My believers are faithfully devoted to Me in their hearts, therefore I can show Myself to them beyond the law in order to grant them strength. And many people will get to see Me, and then no power on earth will be able to destroy their faith in Me .... Then they will also joyfully give up their life if I require it. But I will put an end to My adversary's cruel game .... When he believes himself to have won I will come in the clouds and judge the living and the dead .... I will fetch My Own before I accomplish the act of destruction of the earth and all its inhabitants. Prior to this the adversity will be immense, yet My love will save you and My might will place into chains the one who opposes Me, because his time is complete ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Rapture ....

B.D. 5607 from February 20th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

Only a small flock will be able to see Me in all My glory at the end of the earth, and this flock will be lifted to heaven before their fellow human beings' eyes, who face spiritual and physical death. For as soon as the former have left the earth it will fall prey to destruction, which means that everything that lives in, on and above the earth will be consumed by flames which burst through the earth and do not spare a single work of creation. Yet My Own will not be affected by this work of destruction, for I will take them away first, and the sight of their sudden departure will horrify people, for My Own will disappear to heaven before their very eyes. But only My Own will be able to see Me Myself when I arrive in all splendour and glory. For the others I will remain invisible, because no one enslaved by My adversary will ever behold Me in My glory. But by the time they regain their senses after the supernatural phenomenon of rapture, their end will already have come .... the earth will open and devour all those who are and remain disloyal to Me.

The event of the rapture is not comprehensible to people of this earth, for something entirely unlawful will take place, something unnatural, which will remain unbelievable to all those who do not believe in Me and do not know My eternal plan of Salvation .... And yet it will happen as I announce it to you .... I will move the bodies of living human beings to a place of peace in an instant, but they themselves will consciously experience this event and be full of joy and praise for Me .... For they will have passed the test of faith, then they shall receive the reward for their love and faith in Me, and I will open paradise for them .... A new period of Salvation will start and My Own will become the root of the new generation on the new earth .... Only faith can comprehend this, intellect, however, will resist it and doubt until the day comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Offering guidance on life's way .... word of God ....

B.D. 5608 from February 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You may daily receive words of love, you may daily bask in the ray of divine love, you receive light and strength, and your soul can recover and mature upwards. The divine water of life flows to you, the word, which is food and drink for your soul. For it is true bread from heaven from which you can draw strength on your earthly path of life. It is truly a gift of grace, the value of which you cannot yet measure, but good for him who makes use of it, for he will live forever. Although it is available to all people, only a few respect and make use of it .... And that is why the majority of people walk on the road to death, for they do not strive towards the right aim because they lack the strength to do so. That is why they only walk on flat roads which require little strength, and these always lead deeper down and end in the valley of death, from where it is extremely difficult to ascend again, from where it is completely impossible without help .... And that is why the word shall be brought to the wanderers again and again as long as they are still on earth. They should not be left to their self-chosen fate, again and again callers should stand by the wayside and try to stop them on the path which leads to ruin. Their attention should be drawn to the path which, although more arduous, leads safely to the aim; they should be offered a refreshing drink and good strong bread from heaven if they feel too weak to tread the path upwards. They shall be lovingly helped so that they can lift themselves up and overcome their weakness, and they shall be quietly urged onto the right path; the guides shall offer themselves to safely escort them. And their loving care can also entice people from the wrong path so that the weak will gladly follow them and allow themselves to be guided, for love is capable of much and touches the fellow human being's soul beneficially, and then the wayfarer, who has once feasted on the water of life, can constantly desire it, and he will then constantly receive nourishment for his soul ....

You who camp at the source of life, watch out for such weary earth-walkers who trudge along off the path, without strength and without knowledge of where the path they have taken leads. Stand by the wayside with filled bowls and feed them, do not let them go on without warning, but seek to persuade them to join you and walk upwards together with you. Offer them your help and give them what you yourselves receive in abundance. Announce the gospel to them, the pure word of God, and thus also impart strength and light to those who still walk on earth in spiritual weakness and darkness, so that they will not get lost, so that they will not go astray into the abyss. For this is your reward which you constantly receive, that you offer the bread of heaven to those who hunger and thirst, so that they too may desire it from God, so that they too may come to the lord's table to receive grace upon grace, so that they may live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers