New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5759 - 5858

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The contents of this publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

5759 - Right prayer.... childlike relationship....

5760 - Dulling the inner voice by rejecting the spirit....

5761 - Life - death.... gifts of the spirit....

5762 - Light - power - grace.... housefather....

5763 - Standing up for the truth....

5764 - Ignorant and misguided people's attitude regarding truth....

5765 - Talents.... pound.... responsibility.... light beings....

5766 - The urging of the spirit.... Discontentment....

5767 - The souls' great hardship in the beyond....

5768 - Occasion and meaning of the work of redemption....

5769 - Satan bound.... The new earth....

5770 - Serious examination with call for God....

5771 - Guests at the table of the Lord....

5772 - The church of Christ....

5773 - Means to vineyard work....

5774 - Significance of earth walk....

5775 - Servants of satan....

5776 - Whoever pays tribute to the world pays tribute to Satan....

5777 - Divine guidance....

5778 - False Christs and prophets....

5779 - Battle of faith....

5780 - God's merciful love.... light is truth....

5781 - Subordinating the will....

5782 - God's spark.... unlimited knowledge....

5783 - God wants to be loved.... distorted picture....

5784 - Spiritual knowledge depending on maturity level....

5785 - Constant contact with God ensures success....

5786 - Means of grace: prayer.... God’s word....

5787 - Stimulating an unbeliever to love work....

5788 - The church of Christ....

5789 - Declaration required by the mission of Jesus....

5790 - Declaration necessary of the mission of Jesus....

5791 - Way to Golgotha.... following Jesus....

5792 - Effect of the living word....

5793 - Spreading the divine teaching of love needed....

5794 - Deification of created beings....

5795 - Purpose of the pests.... motive of the destructions....

5796 - Overcoming matter.... Spiritual kingdom....

5797 - The end will come without fail....

5798 - Disbelief regarding the announcements....

5799 - The coming of the Lord.... Rapture....

5800 - Creation of the human being.... The fall of man....

5801 - Worthlessness of earthly knowledge in the beyond....

5802 - Adam.... Original spirit.... Lucifer's test.... Bursting the form....

5803 - Saul-experience.... grace....

5804 - Taking refuge in the Father....

5805 - Prayer for strength and grace....

5806 - Apparitions of Mary....

5807 - Turn of the world.... not world's end....

5808 - Duty of distribution.... Warning of unfamiliar knowledge....

5809 - Right thinking of a recipient of revelations....

5810 - Final rescue work.... Callers and admonishers....

5811 - Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption....

5812 - Constant connection with God....

5813 - Everything only proves God's love....

5814 - Serious warning before the end....

5815 - Power of the word last aid before the end....

5816 - God's part is in man.... presence of God....

5817 - Great spiritual need calls for busy vineyard work....

5818 - Favourable offer by God’s word....

5819 - Gift of the spirit.... gift of wisdom....

5820 - Spiritual pride.... humility is the bridge....

5821 - "Who confesses to Me...."

5822 - Course of development.... what success?.... last graces....

5823 - Help in earthly and spiritual adversity.... Reciprocated love....

5824 - Light of truth.... Lamps without oil.... Used garment....

5825 - No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world....

5826 - Fight against truth.... protect the light bearers....

5827 - Consolating and loving father words....

5828 - Faith in God's revelations....

5829 - God is the word.... address of God....

5830 - Forerunner.... Proclaiming Jesus....

5831 - Light messengers.... busy work in the last time....

5832 - Birth of Jesus.... light.... (Christmas.... )

5833 - Lord's day.... commandment.... ?

5834 - Divine guidance....

5835 - The infant Jesus....

5836 - Primal light from eternity radiates light....

5837 - Serious reminder to accept the divine word....

5838 - Asking the blessing for everything you do....

5839 - Withdraw of strength from the word of God....

5840 - Battle of faith.... Fighters for God....

5841 - Sylvester message.... final notice....

5842 - New Year's message.... light into the darkness of the night....

5843 - Strength of faith.... Healing the sick.... Miracles....

5844 - Acknowledgment or rejection.... Jesus Christ....

5845 - Predetermined fate.... God's love and help....

5846 - Divine revelation grounded in His love....

5847 - Belief in Jesus Christ.... Christ's suffering....

5848 - Outpouring of the spirit.... faith and love....

5849 - Love commandments.... overcoming self-love....

5850 - Good will recognizes revelations of God....

5851 - Dead in Christ.... rapture....

5852 - "Ask and it will be given to you...." - "Come to Me, all of you...."

5853 - Threads from beyond to earth....

5854 - Acquiring the spiritual kingdom on earth....

5855 - Distress of souls in the hereafter.... Jesus Christ....

5856 - Doubting divine revelations.... The adversary's cunning....

5857 - Responsibility.... mind and free will....

5858 - Work of God's children on earth....

Right prayer .... childlike relationship ....

B.D. 5759 from September 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whoever calls to Me, I hear him. My ear listens to every sound, to every breath of My children, and I incline towards them even before they have spoken the word, because I love My children. My love bridges every distance and there is no separation between a heartfelt child and Me, for its call reaches Me and fetches Me to it, because I am always ready to help and because I bless every connection the earthly child establishes with its father of eternity. I respect every call which rises up to Me from the heart, but I do not respect the words which are only spoken by the mouth .... But how many prayers are spoken which cannot reach My ear because they are only lip prayers. Only one thought can and will achieve more with Me than long prayers which lack intimacy because the child does not speak to the father but the human being only thinks of a God who is distant from him and tries to persuade Him to accept empty words and fulfil demands because the human being himself does not feel powerful enough to cope with life on his own and needs help. But he does not take the right path, he demands where he should ask. A request, however, requires a child's faithful trust in the father, the human being must feel himself to be a child of the one Who created him and therefore also entrust himself humbly and faithfully to the father .... And this requires heartfelt words to the father which need not be spoken but which should fill the child's thoughts. Mostly, however, the prayers have become a form, the mouth utters them while the thoughts dwell elsewhere, and as they are also with the words themselves, they lack the impulse of the heart that pushes towards the father .... They lack the heartfelt devotion to Me which calls Me, indeed compels Me, to incline towards My child and listen to its request. A heartfelt prayer pleases Me, for then I will have already won the person for Myself, because his will is meant for Me, because he acknowledges Me as his father from eternity and because he makes use of My grace and strength which help him to ascend, to attain perfection. Heartfelt prayer bridges every gulf; a person who prays correctly consciously strives towards Me and will also surely reach his aim .... I am present to him and he will feel My presence and never again go through earthly life alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dulling the inner voice by rejecting the spirit ....

B.D. 5760 from September 3rd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should not resist the spirit if it wants to express itself .... and it wants to speak if you are inwardly urged to entertain spiritual thoughts, if your thoughts keep occupying themselves with that which does not concern your body but the soul .... if you have to think of death, of a continuation of life after death, of God, of your responsibility towards Him, of your own shortcomings, of mistakes and weaknesses, which you yourselves experience as such and which cause you to feel inwardly dissatisfied and anxious. All these are expressions of the spirit in you which would like its voice to be heard, which demands your attention regarding all these things, as they alone are of importance for eternity .... All these thoughts don't deal with the earthly world but point to the spiritual kingdom, and these thoughts ought to be heeded, for they don't arise in the human being for no reason. They are gentle admonitions and warnings, it is the inner voice which is just not recognised by a person as a voice and which tells him the same, that the person should take stock of himself and not live indifferently, that he should not merely live an earthly life because he thereby causes indescribable damage to his soul. The admonisher within the person will not keep silent but very often will be ignored, for the voice from outside is louder and drowns out the inner voice if a person is too worldly minded. Then he will become insensitive to the subtle voice which sounds in him, he will only have eyes and ears for the world and be in great danger of entirely losing the ability to hear this voice .... thereby losing all faith and no longer being capable of contemplating spiritual thoughts.

Every person, even a worldly person in the midst of life, has moments of calm when he can take stock of himself if he wants .... Every person will occasionally be drawn into conversations pertaining to spiritual problems; in every person the spirit, which is part of God, tries to express itself .... For God touches all people, and He does so time and time again, because He wants to divert them from purely earthly matters towards spiritual ones. Yet anyone who resists the spirit, who pushes all thoughts away, who remains unreceptive to all inward instructions, prevents the working of the inner spirit at his own peril. For he loses all contact with the Divine, he himself destroys the bridge .... he remains on earth and will never be able to enter spiritual spheres even when his earthly life has ended .... For his soul is so materialistically inclined that it will be unable to leave the earthly sphere .... it is hardened just like matter, which occupied its sole thoughts and intentions in earthly life .... And for this soul the path will be an infinitely long one before it reaches the sphere of the spirit .... for it is considerably more arduous to travel than on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Life - death .... gifts of the spirit ....

B.D. 5761 from September 5th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

From Me is all life, from Me flows the light which is necessary for life .... from Me is truth, for life, light and truth are I Myself, and no being can live in light and truth unless it had them from Me, because there is no life apart from Me. True life, however, does not mean existence per se, for it can also be a being which lacks life because it does not accept My strength of love from Me, because it rejects this strength of love and therefore dwells in darkness, in ignorance and complete powerlessness .... in a state of death .... Then the being is outside of Me, it flees the positively active strength, it flees the light, it is without love and without life. And it first has to return to Me again if it truly wants to live .... But life proves itself through incessant activity .... through the constant emergence of new life, through an increase of strength .... Life is a constant exchange of strength, life is strength which always remains in motion, which holds everything together, which constantly builds up, which therefore has a positive effect. And that is why life emanating from Me, strength flowing from Me can never result in negative success .... But where this is recognizable there cannot be My life-giving strength .... Where light, truth, life from Me is, My strength must inevitably be recognized, for where My strength is not, darkness of spirit, error and a state of powerlessness, of death, is evident. Hence there is no longer a connection with Me through which I could send life-awakening strength to the beings, and thus these beings stand outside of Me ....

Humanity is in this state, which cannot be called 'life', and it will remain in this state until the end ....

(5. 9.1953) because the connection with Me, the source of strength, can only be established through love and because people lack love. A loving heart opens itself to My strength, but an unloving, cold heart is hardened and closes itself against every illumination which My grace and mercy repeatedly bestows upon it in order to awaken it from death to life. And thus a right life can only be recognized in a person who lives in love, and this life is expressed in spiritual abilities. My strength, My spirit, can now work in the human being; thus he will be able to achieve unusual things, possess abilities which are not naturally present in the human being but which are awakened by My strength and thus come to light. In a time of people's complete lack of faith and love such spiritual abilities are particularly obvious, whereas they are actually part of the human being's destiny and should be a general phenomenon, for the human being shall make use of My strength, My working of the spirit during his earthly lifetime, and he can do so as soon as he complies with the commandments of love .... But what is the situation like amongst humanity? No-one has any understanding for extraordinary activity, for spiritual abilities, on the contrary, those who truly live among the multitude of the dead on earth are attacked .... They only live because they love, because I Myself am where love is, and because where I am there can only be life. But where I am there is also truth and light .... Where you humans can visibly see My working, where gifts of the spirit can be recognized which it is written that you should strive for, there alone is also truth represented, there I Myself work through My spirit ....

But where is the working of the spirit still evident today? Where do unusual abilities appear, where are unusual processes recognizable which you cannot call miracles of false prophets because they are connected with the proclamation of My word .... the proclamation of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation .... And where are these visible signs of divine spiritual activity missing everywhere? Think about it and seriously ask yourselves where there is life and where there is no sign of death .... And seriously strive to awaken to life, to let My strength flow into you and to make this possible by living a life of love, by fulfilling the commandments of love for God and your neighbour .... by connecting with Me and receiving My strength .... For only he who abides in love abides in Me and I in him .... and him alone can I fill with My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light - power - grace .... housefather ....

B.D. 5762 from September 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You receive light and strength and grace if only you desire it. And you will truly have no shortage if I assure you everything you need in order to be able to fulfil your task of earthly life. As soon as you place yourselves on My side, as soon as you consciously make contact with Me through heartfelt prayer, through confidential dialogue, thereby demonstrating your faith in Me, you will belong to My own, whom I will take care of, whom I will guide, whom I will look after and whom I will always help to ascend. But My own are never abandoned .... Of My own I now choose those who voluntarily offer their services to Me because I need people who work on My behalf for Me and My kingdom. And these are now active as My servants in My house from now on .... Thus they will be fully provided for by Me, because a good householder will not let those who work for Him suffer any lack. Thus none of My servants need worry about earthly things because I take over all these worries; and spiritual goods are also given to them because they use them for work in My vineyard .... Light, strength and grace .... What else do you need if I give you these goods in abundance? Then you will always be able to hold your ground as long as you live on earth, for then you will know everything. You are not powerless and receive more than you deserve, you will be provided for by Me even though your spiritual state is still deficient .... for My love overlooks your shortcomings and gives you unmeasured blessings which you can then use and which are always successful for your soul. As soon as you request light, strength and grace from Me you prove that you want to strive spiritually .... that you are serious about your perfection, that you appeal to Me and humbly turn to Me in your recognized weakness to receive what you lack. And I will always grant spiritual requests and give to you abundantly. For I know that you will now utilize what you have received for Me and My kingdom again, that you will secure strength from Me in order to be able to serve Me .... And I bless your will .... Whatever you do for Me and My kingdom I will reward you abundantly, for it is a labour of love for the souls of your fellow human beings who are in need. It is a merciful help for the souls in the beyond who need you to escape their adversity. And you serve Me when you serve these souls .... Give to them and you will receive from Me, you will have no lack as soon as you only hand out to the poor and needy yourselves, for then you will be active in My stead, Who always and constantly wants to give but needs you as mediators as long as they don't establish the connection with Me themselves .... For I can only give where My gift is requested or, if it is offered, is gratefully received and used. To you, as mediators and My servants on earth, I distribute unmeasured what you desire, spiritually and earthly you will receive as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Standing up for the truth ....

B.D. 5763 from September 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should stand up for the truth, for you are able to do so because you receive the truth from Me Myself and are therefore entitled to consider yourselves taught by Me and therefore also able to represent it to your fellow human beings. You will still often be attacked by those who call themselves knowledgeable and yet do not know the truth, you will see yourselves prompted to refute their objections, yet they will only ever be human opinions which can never be proven to be free of error. Yet truth is given to you and therefore you recognize every error and should fight it. It is not a matter of you being right, that they are merely matters of dispute whose correction is unimportant .... It is about the fact that man is led into confused thinking through error, that his spirit darkens and that he goes wrong ways in darkness .... and then can never reach the aim. Truth alone is the light which allows the human being to find the right path and in the light of which he will safely reach the aim. This is why I instruct you, My disciples of the last days, in the truth, so that you shall lead your fellow human beings with your light in order to guide them. What I require of you, who want to be true disciples of Me, is that you pass on what I give to you .... Thus, if I impart the truth to you because I know the importance of truthful spiritual knowledge, then it is also My will that you convey this truth to your fellow human beings with the indication that you have received it from Me Myself. Due to My adversary's influence people no longer have a proper appreciation of true spiritual knowledge. They like to compromise, they don't want to give away what they own although it is completely worthless, and therefore they belittle what alone is of value to them. But I cannot tolerate what does not correspond to the truth .... I don't force people to accept the truth but I don't approve of them persisting with what a knowledgeable person reproaches them with as error. To possess the pure truth, to receive it from Me Myself, obliges you to pass it on, otherwise it will not be recognized as a precious gift, as a safe means to reach the aim on earth. What I give you is only intended for the salvation of your soul, for your recovery, and therefore must not be disregarded. But it means disregard if the imparted spiritual knowledge is not used .... if the bearer of truth silently ignores it when misguided teachings are presented to his ears .... He has been gifted by Me with a light which he should now also use to shine into the darkness so that it will fulfil its purpose. Error and lies, wrong teachings and opinions have been brought into the world by My adversary who fights against the truth, by the prince of darkness who wants to extinguish all light .... People who do not think for themselves are his victims, they enter his nets all too willingly, they allow themselves to be led and are led into darkness and blindly follow him. For the sake of these victims I place light bearers by the way to lead them away from the dark path .... The light of truth shall shine for them, in the glow of which they will truly walk better, for it becomes ever brighter the closer they come to the aim .... whereas they can walk for an infinitely long time until they finally depart from error and accept the truth .... Only then will they find Me, Who am the eternal truth Itself .... and only then will they be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ignorant and misguided people's attitude regarding truth ....

B.D. 5764 from September 8th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

It is difficult to enlighten people as long as they are convinced that they know the truth. A completely uninformed person will gladly accept knowledge offered to him, and if it appears to enlighten him it will make him happy. It is difficult to convince someone that he is thinking incorrectly if he believes himself already to know the truth, and it is even more difficult to convey different spiritual information to him, because he holds on to the former and is only receptive for other knowledge when he begins to doubt. And thus, you can always identify amongst you fellow human beings those who are completely without faith and live a purely earthly life, and those who deem themselves religious, who even eagerly support their faith and yet are defending something that is far from the truth.

The former are in the majority and, due to their total unbelief, in dire straights because they don’t look for contact with the world which is their home as well as their goal, whereas the believers still occupy themselves with spiritual issues despite wrong teachings and misguided views which only need to be rectified, and they will often be offered the opportunity for this on earth as well as in the beyond, yet the direction of their thoughts is always determined by their free will. But complete unbelievers should be offered spiritual information, they should be motivated to reflect on it, the reality of the spiritual world should first be made plausible to them, and they can also be won over if the spiritual knowledge is presented to them intelligently.

The more a person has distanced himself from ecclesiastical belief, the more difficult it is to introduce him to church doctrines, even if they correspond to the truth .... Yet somehow every person can be approached, it just requires extensive knowledge to win such people, which in the end nevertheless leads to where God can be found .... These people must learn to believe by way of deliberation, and then they will attain a profound, living faith if they seriously want the truth. For their unbelief need not always demonstrate their complete remoteness from God .... They might have been pushed into unbelief on account of misguided teachings which their intellect refused to accept and which resulted in their rejection of everything .... And these people must be helped again by their intellect to recognise the truth, then they will become convinced supporters of the truth themselves and remain firm in their conviction ....

Heart and intellect must be able to accept spiritual concepts, for the truth, which originates from God, can also stand up to all intellectual scrutiny and does not just demand blind faith .... whereas misguided spiritual concepts, misguided religious doctrines, will not withstand a serious examination by the intellect and therefore blind faith is demanded for these teachings, which is never God’s will .... It is much easier for the sceptic to arrive at the truth than for those people who don’t want the truth because they believe they already possess it .... who do not use their intellect but accept everything without investigating its origin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Talents .... pound .... responsibility .... light beings ....

B.D. 5765 from September 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

In the spiritual world a busy activity is dedicated to the inhabitants of earth, for the beings of light recognize people's state of distress in the last days before the end, and they intervene to help where only their help is possible through the human being's will. During this time many beings of light also descended to earth in order to be able to carry out their work of help in a fleshly shell .... but also countless beings of light are constantly in contact with earth and its inhabitants and thus work together on the redemption of the erring souls before the end. However, the influence of all beings of light, whether spiritually or embodied as a human being, will only ever affect people's spiritual life, their spiritual development, thus a being of light can only be active in a spiritual mission on earth, for it took on this task with full will when it declared itself willing to be conceived on this earth, and since the human being now lacks recollection it is always and constantly guided by the beings of the spiritual kingdom and the human being in it is prepared for this task, for it offers no resistance to the spiritual influence, it willingly allows itself to be guided and now also fulfils its mission which it has accepted .... Such a person is therefore in a certain respect capable of doing this .... he has qualities and gifts which make him suitable for this task, his soul has a spiritual maturity and also the talent to recognize and grasp everything more easily .... It therefore has talents .... and consequently also a great responsibility to make proper use of these talents .... And it task consists precisely in awakening its own talents in its fellow human beings .... But what a person cannot show by himself, he can acquire if he receives the right guidance .... Every person is able to request the spirit from God if he is made aware of the fact that God gives him His spirit .... Every person can request enlightenment through the spirit if God is presented to him from a called side such that he recognizes Him as a God of love Who always fulfils such a request. What a person does not do by himself because he does not know it, he can do if he is properly instructed about it .... So he can also increase his few talents if he wants to .... But this will is free .... He can leave his talents undeveloped, he cannot use them at all, and he can train them indefinitely .... if only he sticks to what he is advised by those who have experience in this .... These, however, do not demand anything impossible, for they first indicate the certain-effective means .... to practice love, because then the human being will inevitably come into possession of strength and .... because this strength is from God .... it must have a constructive effect .... Every person can practice love, consequently also develop his talents, and whether he does so and to what extent, God will judge him according to his talents .... according to the pound he was given, so that he may increase it, which is possible for every person if he does not close his mind to the suggestions and instructions of those who received the ministry from above .... who voluntarily accepted it in the knowledge of the spiritual darkness on earth, which constantly increases the closer it gets to the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The urging of the spirit .... Discontentment ....

B.D. 5766 from September 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You are certainly urged by My spirit to comply with My will, yet you are not being forced into doing so because compulsion would damage your soul. If, however, you completely and utterly sacrifice your will to Me, if you consciously surrender your opposition to Me by only wanting to do My will, then you will be unable to do anything else but to live according to the order which is My fundamental principle of eternity .... Then you will no longer consciously infringe against this order, you will always conduct yourselves as I ask of you, you will no longer sin consciously. In that case you willingly comply with the urging of the spirit, you allow yourselves to be guided by it and thus you will be guided by Me, and that truly righteously. Yet you should and indeed can do more than just avoid sin and abhor injustice; you will also be induced by My spirit accordingly, but if you don't give in to its urging then you will not be content with yourselves even if you have not sinned, for although you don't infringe against the commandments of love for God and your neighbour .... you nevertheless don't eagerly comply with them and your soul will feel neglected and depressed, for it senses that it is not making any progress in its development ....

Every discontentment with oneself is an expression of a depressed soul. You humans should not always remain on the same level, you should make an effort, you should do whatever it takes to advance your higher development, and you should continually work at improving yourselves, and this is what the spirit constantly stimulates you to do .... If you follow its encouragement you will also sense an inner calm, for then you will have fulfilled My will and this feeling makes you happy. I certainly take notice of your will to accept My will and assess it correctly, yet you should also try to put into practise what you promise Me .... Seek to give ever more love, to perform selfless works of love, try to base your whole life on love, then you will live in harmony with My spirit within you, and then you will only listen to My spirit and ignore whatever the other side says to you. Let the spirit in you rule supreme, completely submit yourselves to My will and always strive for perfection .... And your heart will be so filled by peace that it will reveal Me and My presence in you , for then you will be aware of My presence and can only live in absolute harmony with Me and My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The souls' great hardship in the beyond ....

B.D. 5767 from September 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Souls which lack light suffer incredibly great hardship in the beyond. To describe this condition to you humans on earth would be truly sufficient to drive you to live your own life differently, but that would be the end of your freedom of will; driven by fear of the same destiny you would inevitably make an effort to behave differently, thus indeed comply with what is expected of you but not of your own accord, motivated by free will. Yet you shall know about the soul's fate, it shall be imparted to you, and then it is still up to you to believe it and to draw your own conclusions from it ....

On entering the kingdom of the beyond these souls have lost everything they loved on earth, they own nothing, for they can only take across what they had spiritually acquired, and this is what they are mainly lacking. Since they lived a godless way of life they are engulfed by utter darkness and are totally powerless, yet they are not insensitive, for their environment causes them torment and terror, and these torments and terrors will also be experienced by a soul which had fearlessly and powerfully implemented on earth what had subsequently plunged it into darkness .... These indescribable sufferings will then either awaken the soul's desire to escape this condition or increase its evil instincts so that it will also look for satisfaction in this realm, which means that it will completely submit itself to the forces of darkness. Yet even the souls which had not left their earthly life in such sinfulness, but whose life had been devoid of love and indifferent towards all spiritual notions, are in a very difficult situation, for they, too, are extremely tormented by darkness, although this will, from time to time, give way to twilight if the soul is not yet entirely hardened, so that it will ask for light, for only the desire will enable the soul to attain the light.

But all souls are lacking the strength to want what is right .... and according to the law of eternity they cannot be given help if they don't desire it themselves. God's act of compassion is certainly not over once the soul has left the earthly body, but what it failed to use on earth even though it had owned it in abundance, it first has to acquire in the beyond, and it is too weak to do so .... Just always imagine them as extremely weakened, helpless beings which suffer indescribably and depend on help in order to be released from their suffering .... you would be overcome by pity for these beings if you were able to see their hardship. And you all know souls in the beyond of whom you don't know in what state they entered the spiritual kingdom .... you all have lost people through death who had been close to you .... At least remember the souls who had been dear to you and help them, for even the smallest work of redemption on these souls will result in further redemptions, and you will have contributed much towards it.

You can only help them through loving thoughts and prayers, through intercession on behalf of these souls which, admittedly, will not release them from their torment but it will give them strength on account of which the soul will be able to change its will and strive towards the light. It cannot be released from its painful situation against its will, but in order to want what is right it needs your intercession, a prayer given with love, as soon as it enters your thoughts. For you should know that the soul is asking for your help as soon as it enters your thoughts, that you are constantly surrounded by souls hoping for your help, and that you should not resentfully suppress thoughts of the deceased if you don't want to add to their agony .... The fate of these souls remains hidden from you so as not to impair your free will; you and the deceased souls occupy two worlds which are separated by a dividing line; you cannot look into their world and yet it exists and you are able to send much love from your world into theirs, the effect of which expresses itself in a way and to an extent that countless souls will be able to escape their situation. Often remember these poor souls and don't ignore them in their adversity, for you will be richly rewarded for what you do for them out of merciful love, in as much as that you will receive spiritual help on earth from all souls which have come out of darkness into the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Occasion and meaning of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5768 from September 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should recognize Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world and then you will also confess Him before the world. But in order to be able to recognize Him you first have to know about your great guilt from which Jesus Christ redeemed you, otherwise His suffering and death on the cross is incomprehensible to you and Jesus is nothing more to you than a human being who lived a good and sinless life on earth and had to give his life for his ideas .... Only rarely does a human being seriously think about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence, and he has no knowledge of the fact that his existence as a human being is the consequence of the great sin of the rebellion of originally created spirits against God, which once separated themselves from Him in arrogance and lust for power. It was an immense guilt that the spirits had burdened themselves with .... a debt that could not be repaid eternally if the individual were to pay it off, as God's justice requires. Throughout unthinkable times the being indeed atoned for part of its guilt in a bound state, yet God's mercy and love gives it the freedom again to give it the opportunity once more to confess Him, so that it can fulfil its original purpose again. Yet this removal of guilt is never enough, for its magnitude is immeasurable, and a being burdened by guilt would never be able to freely ascend to God, the guilt would always stand between God and the being, thus the aim God once set for His created being could never be reached. This original guilt was therefore a shackle for the being which it could never have loosened itself .... Consequently, it either had to be redeemed with God's help or remain eternally banished from the face of God, it would never be able to find the union with God which signifies beatitude for the being .... This hopeless state of the fallen spiritual being was also seen by the luminous spiritual world, and the love of all beings remaining with God followed the fallen brothers into the abyss. But a being from the kingdom of light offered itself to God for a mission to save the beings in the abyss .... It wanted to descend to them and make atonement for the sinfulness of the unhappy creatures in their place .... It wanted to sacrifice Itself, It wanted to pay with Its life what the beings owed to God .... This being of light offered Itself to God as a sacrifice and descended to earth in order to take on a human form and in this form to walk a sacrificial path as only love could walk .... And the man Jesus took the burden of sin of all humanity upon His shoulders and thus walked the path to the cross .... And God accepted the sacrifice because love brought it .... (9/13/1953) He allowed a human being to endure the greatest torments, that He suffered the death of a criminal on the cross and that His soul struggled with all the powers of darkness .... For He saw the love of this person Jesus or also .... He as the eternal love Himself was in the man Jesus, and this love wanted to take away humanity's guilt of sin. For through the love which the man Jesus brought to development in Himself He knew about the appalling fate of all people, and thus the man Jesus offered the sacrifice to God which caused the knowing soul of light to descend to earth .... The human being had gained the same knowledge on earth through love, and only His free will was decisive .... A human being sacrificed himself for his fellow human beings .... And the love dwelling in Him .... God Himself .... did not resist Him but was satisfied with this sacrifice of atonement and absolved the whole of humanity from the guilt of sin for the sake of this man Jesus ....

The fact that you humans live on earth is a consequence of your past sin of rebellion against God. However, your existence as a human being is a temporary state which should also be recognizable to you as a defective state, for you are weak creatures subject to natural law which certainly want to act freely but cannot do so without restrictions. You are therefore, as it were, bound, and this powerless, unfree state does not end with your physical death if you are not redeemed .... And Jesus Christ accomplished this act of salvation for you, yet it is always up to you whether you want to accept His act of mercy and grace .... And therefore it is up to every person's own will whether he will leave this earth redeemed in order to live a truly free life in strength and light, or whether he will take the shackle with him into the spiritual kingdom in order to spend eternities in wretchedness if he does not then make use of the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. You humans cannot and should not pass Jesus Christ by, and therefore the reason for and the significance of the act of salvation should also be made understandable to you, so that you will not be and remain ignorant, so that you can freely decide before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Satan bound .... The new earth ....

B.D. 5769 from September 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The power of evil will be broken for a long time, Satan will be put into chains .... a period of peace will replace the time of battle in the universe, no being of darkness will be able to oppress the people on earth; Satan himself and his followers will be bound for a long time, and people on the new earth will not loosen his restraints because they will be closely united with God and will no longer strive for anything else but Him, Who will then take loving care of them, both spiritually and physically. This period of peace on earth will make up for the time of indescribable adversity during the last days on this earth, which is granted to those people who are and want to remain faithful to God. It will truly be a time of battle for them since they will be spiritually and physically persecuted and barely able to defend themselves against their pursuers, who will even threaten their lives if they refuse to submit to them. But time and again these people have been promised through seers and prophets a time of peace, a time when no one will be in danger anymore from any side, when body and soul may enjoy the wonderful works of divine love, when a blissful peace will fill their hearts through the presence of the One Whom they love and for Whom they have suffered.

Everything will be peaceful, creations and living beings alike will live in perfect harmony, and even the bound spiritual substance will progress and quickly surrender its resistance because it will sense the nearness of the One to Whom it shall surrender again, and because people's spiritual emanations will soothingly affect the bound spirits within the creations. People will have already passed their test of will, therefore a decision will no longer be necessary on the new earth, since people will belong to God with body and soul and cannot be separated from Him anymore. But everything pertaining to Satan will languish in darkness; it will be banished again into hardest matter and unable to influence the souls striving towards the light, it has to submit to God's will and will be deprived of its power for an infinitely long time. Satan himself will be weak since everything which had supported him and his power will be bound and thus withdrawn from his influence.

In the midst of his world he will be without strength, until people's wrong will once again provides him with power, but this will only happen after a long period of time, after the first generations of earth, the inhabitant of paradise, their children and children's children, have long since entered the spiritual kingdom .... when a rift occurs again in the direction of the emerging generations' will .... Then people will once again let themselves become captivated by material things and through their desire will then also loosen the chains of the one who is lord of this unredeemed world. Then the state of paradise will also come to an end, the time of peace will once again be superseded by a time of battle between light and darkness, for then the struggle for people's souls will start again until another developmental period expires, yet with the result that innumerable beings will have achieved their spiritualisation and Satan's power will lessen increasingly until he, too, will have to surrender one day which, however, will still take an inconceivably long time and countless periods of Salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious examination with call for God ....

B.D. 5770 from September 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should not carelessly reject words which come to you from above, and if you don't recognize the outcome of these words, if you don't believe that they come from above, you should nevertheless check their value before you reject them. For your remorse will be great one day when you realize what you have let pass you by, what treasure you could have gained and what bliss you could have acquired .... This applies above all to those who unhesitatingly accept other spiritual knowledge when it is offered to them from a studied side, and who also make much spiritual knowledge their own by reading and listening to lectures, who therefore would like to be knowledgeable and thus could also carry out an examination if they were serious about it. To be able to make the right judgement intellectually alone must be denied to the examinees, for this requires the support of the divine spirit, which every human being can request. Nevertheless, the word offered from above is also stimulating enough for an intellectual person to think about, and it also stands up to intellectual scrutiny. Only then the seeker would have one more direction of thought to present himself with which he can mentally deal; yet the conviction of its sole truth is only gained through God's call for His support, for the enlightenment of his thinking, for the supply of pure truth. And this call only comes from a person's heart when he acknowledges God as the sole truth and the source of all knowledge. People who have no desire whatsoever to be instructed in truth will always reject everything, and one day they will also hardly come to realization, yet there are more thinking people on earth than those who are indifferent to everything, and these thinkers should not put the results of intellect before the results of spiritual activity, for it is precisely they who can judge whether and to what extent wisdom shines forth from those words which are represented as received from above. And therefore they will not be able to excuse themselves one day, for only their will is necessary in order to take a stand on this word and then also to recognize it for what it is .... as God’s word Who wants to help people attain truth and right thinking and Who therefore takes care of people because they are darkened in spirit and lack all knowledge .... And every person can attain the truth who earnestly desires it from God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Guests at the table of the Lord ....

B.D. 5771 from September 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Come to My table and you will receive food and drink as nourishment for your soul .... What more do you need than what serves to strengthen your soul? What can you be lacking when your soul is provided for .... when you first strive to benefit your soul .... Then you completely fulfil your purpose of earthly life and the body will also have what it needs as long as it is inhabited by the soul. And I surely know how long your soul needs its cover, how long you have to live on earth as a human being to achieve the necessary maturity for your soul. And for that time the body will be sustained too. Therefore, if you desire something from Me then only for your soul and you will receive plenty, your soul need not starve and the body will have in abundance too because you first make the effort to carry out My will, to receive My Word, to listen to Me, and therefore you are guests at the table of the Lord who are ready to receive. I forever want to give you food for your soul, I want you to feed yourselves with the bread of heaven, to accept My Word which provides strength for your soul to ascend.

And I want you to ask Me often for this, I want that you are always willing to listen to Me when I talk to you .... I constantly invite you to be My guests whom I want to refresh with bread and wine, with My flesh and My blood .... with everything that the soul needs to increase in light and strength .... And that is why I always send forth My servants to call people from the street into My welcoming house .... All are called to come to Me and be My guests if they want.

But My house is away from the broad road and thus they have to leave it if they want to find Me but they will never regret it because on the broad road they will never find the delicious refreshment they are offered at My table. And they always long for more, the more often they have been My guest. Yet they have to come to Me voluntarily because, although I send them messengers, I will not force anyone to come to My feast; however, those who refuse to follow My call will remain empty-handed since the world cannot offer what My love wants to give to them .... My Word, which is strength and light and life and guides them into blissfulness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The church of Christ ....

B.D. 5772 from September 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Anyone who professes to belong to the church of Christ shall also live like a Christian, otherwise he is no credit to it. When, in time, belief in Jesus Christ is professed then the true followers of His church will become obvious, for the strength of faith, which is necessary for the avowal of His name, can only be gained through living a way of life by His example, a life of discipleship to Jesus, and he, therefore, is a member of the church founded by Jesus Christ. However, many people will pay lip service, they, too, will belong to churches which claim to have been founded by Jesus .... If they live according to divine will by fulfilling His divine commandments of love then their strength of faith will be strong as well and they will stand firm during the final battle of faith and profess His name before the world .... . But there will only be a few of them, only people who live a life of love will be able to muster this strength of resistance against worldly powers who plan to eliminate everything that is associated with a belief in Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer. And only then will the human being prove that he is a Christian, only then will he be able to consider himself a member of the church founded by Jesus Christ, which subsequently will also profess Jesus Christ before God, the Father, as He predicted ....

The church of Christ no longer numbers many followers, and the more love grows cold amongst people the smaller the flock of true Christians will become, because love must definitely be practiced in order for people to be regarded as true Christians and to provide a fellow human being with a shining example of the true church on earth, which does not require any official affiliation with a denomination but only a life according to the divine commandments, which first of all call for love, but which then will also exhibit the certain characteristic that demonstrates the founder of the church .... the working of the spirit in all members .... The church of Christ is not an externally recognisable building, it is only the union of profoundly believing people who are in most intimate contact with the founder of the church, with Jesus Christ, and thus are also enlightened, guided and permeated by His spirit and are also truly able to work remarkably with the spiritual strength. Strong faith and profound love prove the affiliation with the church of Christ and only its followers will survive the final battle of faith, because they will fight with Jesus Christ Himself and will, therefore, also be victorious over the one who opposes Christ, over God's adversary and his vassals .... For Jesus Christ will appear in power and glory on the last day and fetch His small congregation to Himself into the kingdom of peace, but He will place his adversary into chains and with him all those who are enslaved by him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Means to vineyard work ....

B.D. 5773 from September 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I give you the means to do good vineyard work. I not only demand your commitment but I give you everything you need in order to be able to work for Me and My kingdom, for good work also requires the appropriate means. And you should be able to dispose of them in abundance, you should not lack them because you would therefore be forced to carry out less good work .... It is My will that you take care of the previously wrongly cultivated soil .... that you remove what is harmful and add to it what promotes growth .... For this is the fundamental evil, that people are indiscriminately offered everything in a jumble and asked to believe it, and that no good fruit can flourish where bad seed has been planted. Clean the field before you sow good seed, that is, make people aware of the error which has poisoned their thinking, which obstructs the truth, which therefore has to be removed before the path to truth, which leads to beatitude, can be entered. It would truly be easy to convey the truth to people if they were completely free from erroneous thoughts, if they did not have to get rid of them first, because both cannot coexist. The field of the heart can only produce good or bad fruit .... but the good fruit cannot flourish if weeds or poisonous plants extract everything from the soil that is supposed to serve as nourishment for the good plant .... Understand this, you humans .... you will not accept the truth as long as you are filled with error, and you must first get rid of error and, if you cannot do it yourselves, let yourselves be helped by My servants .... from those who have experience, who shall prepare the soil in all human hearts for the reception of a seed which I Myself supply to them, so that good fruit can come forth when My servants are diligently active .... Know that your hearts are the fields where I want to plant the seed, My word, so that it will bear abundant fruit in you .... know that My word, however, can only take root where the ground is prepared for it, where everything has been removed which stood in the way of My word .... of pure truth .... know that every error signifies a defence for the pure truth from Me and that therefore this error has to be eradicated if a good harvest is to be achieved. But where My servants are active, whom I have equipped for their work, there is the possibility that all error will disappear, for they work with My word, which has its effect, which is strength and light at the same time, which exposes all wrong and illuminates it, so that it will gladly be given in exchange for pure truth where only the will for it exists, where human hearts surrender themselves without resistance to those who are active in My kingdom in a refining and fruitful way .... For these work for Me, and they can always be certain of My blessing if they consciously wage battle against the one who is the enemy of truth and therefore My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Significance of earth walk ....

B.D. 5774 from September 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You humans are to be given an indication of the significance of your earthly walk so that you do not live thoughtlessly into the day, so that you become aware of your responsibility, so that you live a meaningful and purposeful life on earth. Your existence as a human being is a gift of grace which you should make good use of, it is only an opportunity for your soul to deal with a guilt and to pay it off before it has an extremely painful effect in the kingdom, where the soul will then be considered according to this guilt or will have to live in want. The fact that you are burdened by guilt and what this guilt consists of must be brought to your attention in earthly life, and you do well to desire clarification about it and then live your earthly life accordingly .... But if you don't regard earthly life as a means to an end but as an end in itself, then you will hardly benefit your soul during your earthly existence, and then you will not have utilized a gift of grace, you will have mismanaged the pound which was given to you so that you could buy your soul's freedom by increasing it through conscious work on yourselves. No human being remains entirely without indications, for the power Which created you humans pursues a purpose with this creation and therefore has to make you humans aware of this purpose .... And therefore It addresses you, It has made the connection between It and you possible through the word and thus gives you knowledge through the word of your earthly life task, of your state and your aim. Yet you humans are mostly without faith and therefore attach no value to this divine word .... It seems unreal to you and therefore no longer has an effect on you. Yet your attitude does not change the fact that you will live your earthly life in vain if you have not achieved the purpose of ridding yourselves of your guilt, which is the reason for your embodiment on earth .... Then only your flesh has 'lived', but your I, the soul, has not escaped death, from which it should free itself during earthly life .... Your soul must now enter the spiritual kingdom in a lifeless state, i.e. without light and without strength, yet conscious of its existence .... But on the other hand, just as you would be granted a life of strength and bliss if you used your earthly life properly .... if you believed what you were taught .... what is proclaimed to people through the word of God .... You humans are always and constantly given instructions but only in a form which does not make your will unfree, and precisely because of your free will it must also be left up to you how you adjust yourselves to these instructions .... But God will not cease to speak to you urgently in whatever form it takes .... He will pursue you with His admonitions and warnings, He will send messengers to you who speak on His behalf, He will try to awaken your sense of responsibility and do everything to make the significance of earthly life clear to you, even though it always remains up to your free will to live it appropriately ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Servants of satan ....

B.D. 5775 from September 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

How abysmally low are men who no longer hold the lives of their fellow men sacred .... who mercilessly set themselves up as judges over their brethren and judge arbitrarily, depriving them of freedom and harming them in body and soul .... They are willing servants of satan, devilish in mind, devoid of love, unjust in thought and action .... They are truly people who have become devils, who no longer deserve mercy and who must therefore be put out of harm's way when the time comes .... God's adversary makes use of them and they willingly do what he urges them to do .... There is no more love amongst people and even less justice, everyone only seeks his own advantages and forces them upon himself at the expense of his fellow human beings .... And these are no longer isolated cases but the whole of humanity is moving in this direction, even if not always obviously, but mentally many people are also sinning who do not detest or condemn what is obviously the work of satan. The world has become accustomed to outrages that cry out to heaven .... It tolerates instead of opposing, it does not help where help is needed .... And the number of devils grows with every day, and their evil deeds increase .... But the time will come when everyone will have to answer to God, when no one will be able to hide from Him and when all evil deeds will be revealed .... People no longer believe in a God, they do not believe in a judge before whom they must answer, and they do not believe in retribution .... Yet they will have to pay their debt in pennies and nickels, nothing will be forgiven, every wrong will demand its atonement, and the freedom they abused will be transformed into a captivity which they will have to endure for eternities, because otherwise their guilt cannot be redeemed, because otherwise they cannot attain correction. Only the deeply sunk will have to endure such torment, yet before the end of this earth people will have reached the deepest depth, and apart from the small flock of God-faithful people the earth will only have devils left, representatives of him who rages on earth because he knows that he doesn't have much time left .... He is already unmistakably active now, for he drives people to cruelty, to lies and intrigue, he puts people into greatest distress who are not at his beck and call .... Satan has embodied himself in his helpers and abettors. And the world is full of sin .... The time of tribulation has begun, ushering in the end, and it will proceed as proclaimed in word and scripture .... The persecution of those will begin who are not willing to serve Him, who want to remain faithful to God and therefore have to endure a time of struggle which is directed against God Himself .... But then the end will also be here, then the time will be fulfilled and satan's activity will come to an end .... Then the day of judgement will come when accountability will be demanded, when God's justice will balance everything out, when everyone will receive what he deserves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Whoever pays tribute to the world pays tribute to Satan ....

B.D. 5776 from September 26th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whoever pays tribute to the world also pays tribute to Satan .... these Words are harsh and will severely hurt all worldly people, for no person wants to be accused of associating with Satan and yet, the world is his domain and thus everyone who is captivated by the world is also his servant. You humans live indeed in the midst of the world, as long as you live on earth you must certainly assert yourselves in the world, yet to what extent your heart is involved in it is the decisive factor as to how much you subject yourselves to the world .... Your innermost striving, your heart's desire, will be judged, and if this concerns the world then you are also enslaved by the one who is its prince, for then you will be purely earthly-minded, whereas you should strive towards spiritual matters and therefore have to overcome material things in order to obtain spiritual possessions. You cannot avoid the world but must overcome it, i.e., at the beginning of your earthly life as a human being you are placed into the world which belongs to God's adversary and have to take up the fight against it in order to emerge victorious and then enter that world which is spiritual, called the kingdom of God .... You must travel the path through earthly life, through the material world, but you must liberate yourselves from the restraints which have to be regarded as Satan's chains as long as you are under the spell of the world, as long as you longingly desire what you should overcome.

The material world is his kingdom .... It shelters the fallen spiritual substances which belong to him but which are not at his disposal as long as they are bound in the works of creation by God's will. He can, however, influence the human being because in the state of free will he must be subject to every influence in order to make a decision, in order to pass the test of will which is the reason and purpose of his earthly life. And God's adversary uses this influence in a truly frightening way .... He does not want to lose the soul due to its own free choice and therefore lures the human being to his side by offering everything he deems desirable but which belongs to his world, which separates him from God, which diverts him from the goal he is meant to reach on earth. He is lord over matter, lord over the material world .... and everyone who serves the world serves him .... everyone who desires the world and associates with material wealth associates with Satan, and he must be told this truth, he cannot be gently treated due to ill-conceived consideration by withholding this truth from him .... He is connected with Satan and his servant, thus he will also share his fate when the day of retribution comes .... Two lords wrest for your souls and both are offering you their kingdoms .... yet one is transient, the other is everlasting .... You, however, are immortal, and if you have not acquired the everlasting kingdom on earth then you will have nothing after the death of your body but profound darkness around you which will torment you indescribably .... the kingdom of Satan, who cannot offer you anything else but whose followers you have increased through your desires on earth. Detach yourselves from him while you are still living on earth, renounce what belongs to the world, strive for spiritual wealth which alone guarantees you an eternal life, a life in light and strength and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine guidance ....

B.D. 5777 from September 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Trust the guidance from above, it will always be right as soon as you want to be guided by Him, Who is the father of you all. Devotion to Him, the voluntary subordination of your will to His, ensures this right guidance for you .... Your thoughts will correspond to His divine will, and your speech and actions will likewise meet His approval, because you are guided by the forces which create and work with Him in the same will and to whose care you are handed over .... Your will towards Him, your God and father of eternity, determines all your ways, your thoughts and actions. Therefore you do not need to think about what you should do .... only hand yourselves over to Him first in thought, in silent prayer or mental devotion to Him and His will, then you will be relieved of all responsibility, for then you will be guided by His spirit and you will always do what is right before God. Only your own will can act against it, i.e. if you forget the father in heaven, if you believe that you have to and can arrange everything yourselves, if you don't ask for His help .... thus go your ways alone .... then you may well turn off onto a wrong path if you are without a guide, and then you will have to be on your guard. For apparently you have success .... a success which, however, is only a failure because it only blesses the body but not the soul. The right path, however, which God guides you on, can sometimes appear burdensome for the body but make the soul extremely happy, which can increasingly detach itself and feels liberated because the body relieves it of a burden it had to carry, the body is intended to help the soul .... and that often means its own complaints .... If the body shakes these off and wants to go through earthly life light-heartedly, then the soul has to carry on carrying its burden and cannot rise to spiritual heights .... But divine guidance will always take the body's condition into account, for God's love will then take care of the human being who trustingly hands himself over to Him and appeals for His help. And then every walk will be blessed, every path will lead to the right aim, because He leads the way, Who is your father and protector and to Whom you can entrust yourselves in all adversities of body and soul ....

Amen

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False Christs and prophets ....

B.D. 5778 from September 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

In the last days the pure truth will be particularly attacked, which is the work of Satan who, being God’s adversary, wants to undermine the truth by confusing people’s thoughts so that they cannot recognise the truth as such any longer. And his methods and tactics are so well devised that even people whose will does not oppose Me often do not want to see the situation clearly .... but who could see it if they sincerely only wanted the truth. Especially during the last days true and deceptive lights will flash at the same time, and a genuine will for truth is necessary in order to be able to differentiate between them, because it will be difficult to understand the matter .... Because many false Christs and prophets shall arise, as was foretold .... which is also a sign of the end time .... From this follows that they will fight in the same manner, that they will therefore present themselves as messengers from above, that they will speak the words of Christ and foretell the future to people .... but that they are representatives of the one who fights against the truth .... to lead people astray so that they cannot recognise the truth anymore. Thus you don’t always have to search for these false Christs and prophets outside of spiritual life since even the representatives of misguided teachings within the ecclesiastical organisations are false Christs and false prophets .... everyone offering vague, misleading explanations has to be included, as well as all those who try to prevent the pure truth from being given to people, hence all those who adhere to distorted teachings and restrict people’s freedom of thought by withholding from them what could have a clarifying effect ....

Everything that is untrue is the work of false Christs and prophets, and to make a distinction irrefutably requires the sincere will for truth, which also has to be willing to surrender what the person has always endorsed .... if it does not comply with the truth. Hence you humans can only protect yourselves from the actions of God’s adversary during the last days before the end if you place yourselves into the safe hands of God, Who is eternal truth .... if you pray to Him with sincere will for truth that He should protect you from error and then open your eyes and ears .... Then you will emotionally recognise what you should accept or reject .... Then false Christs and false prophets will not be able to dazzle you with a deceptive light .... Then the rising of a soft glow in your heart will give you reassurance that you live in truth, and then you will also maintain this truth with conviction and support its cause during the last battle on this earth .... and you will be true defenders of Christ ....

Amen

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Battle of faith ....

B.D. 5779 from October 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The battle of faith still lies ahead of you and I want to find you prepared for this battle .... For this reason My great concern beforehand is to strengthen your faith and to introduce you to knowledge which totally explains to you what lies ahead of you, what is still to come before the end. You must believe in this end so that you can also understand everything, so that you can also understand the battle of faith, which is extremely significant for every individual person. It will not simply be a battle which will result in victory for one or the other of the fighting powers after a certain length of time .... It will be a battle which Satan's followers will wage against God .... a battle which will not involve earthly possessions but spiritual wealth, a battle in which the souls must decide which side they want to support, although people will also be adversely affected in an earthly way, yet only the soul will triumph or lose, and therefore the outcome of the battle will extend to eternity .... And therefore I will do whatever I can before in order to prepare people for this battle, in order to strengthen them and to inspire them with courage of conviction .... I will seek to increase the army of My fighters, not, because I want to win but because I want them to reap the fruit of a victory themselves, because I don't want them to descend, to become enslaved by My adversary anew and to remain captive again for an infinitely long time .... At the moment you humans pay little attention to faith, you are rather indifferent towards that which is important .... towards spiritual striving .... you must first be shaken up in order to form a serious opinion about faith .... And that will happen as soon as the battle of faith erupts, for then everyone will be requested to profess Me before the world or to deny Me, to give Me up. And only then will you stand up for Me, if your are conscientious, or abandon Me without hesitation .... for the sake of earthly advantages .... And since the end is very close, this decision is necessary, not before Me, since I know your will; however, you shall be encouraged to think about it once more because you won't do so of your own accord unless you are forced to do so by the earthly authority .... A few certainly exist who will dwell on it before and who, therefore, will also receive My obvious help by making it easy for them to understand, yet they are only a few, and since I would like to increase their number I will let them point out the end .... Yet these few will barely find credence, for those without spiritual aspiration do not consider an end of this earth possible, yet the manifestations of the last days will not fail to impress the still undecided who could become thoughtful and return to the faith if they are instructed correctly. Correct and truthful instruction can lead to great success where spoilt religious doctrines caused the apostasy from faith, where people are not unwilling to believe but took offence at misguided teachings. They can be won over again for Me and My kingdom, and for the sake of these few many more signs will still occur which will announce the near end and which will not remain without effect on them. The right decision of faith will only be made if such strength of faith exists which accepts all physical disadvantages resulting from it, for the human being with the right realisation knows what it is about and he will gladly give what is taken away from him so as not to endanger the life of the soul. It is the final test of will on this earth; the decision to profess Me before the world regardless of the earthly consequences will determine your fate in eternity. And only a strong and convinced faith will pass this final test, only a strong and convinced faith will stand firm until the end ....

Amen

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God's merciful love .... light is truth ....

B.D. 5780 from October 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

My eye looks down mercifully to earth where countless people move in darkness, i.e. go their way without knowledge, in front of whom a dense wall is built which darkens everything and denies the rays of light any entrance .... My infinite love also wants to light a bright fire in this dark area which could radiate light on all sides again .... My love would also like to bring the light of realization to these people so that those who are still blind in spirit will become seeing, so that all would be able to behold Me Myself, Whom I want to be aspired to as the aim of their walk on earth .... But Whom they must see in order to recognize that I beckon to them, that I await them at the gate to eternal life .... As long as their eyes cannot see, as long as they are blind in spirit, they are in the night of death, for without light there is no morning, without light there is no bright day .... Only light is life, and only in light can they be active.

But light is truth .... Light is bright recognition and knowledge of the original light of eternity, of the deepest connections between creator, creations and creatures .... Light is all knowledge that corresponds to truth, which shows a clear path, at the end of which I Myself receive the wayfarer .... Light is truth .... My eye mercifully looks down to earth at the great number of people who are without truth .... who are without knowledge or in possession of wrong knowledge and walk and walk without reaching the right aim, and who only enter the right path when the light of truth illuminates it, when their spirit is enlightened, when they catch the ray of love which shall strike their heart and which proves My infinite love for all My creations .... How many people walk close to the right path so that they would only need to take one step to enter it, but which they don't want to take because they believe they are walking on the right path. But it is not bright and shadowless .... because it is not illuminated by the light of truth. It reveals many dark abysses where the human being is in great danger of falling if he does not turn to the dull glimmer of light from the right path which always directs his steps more and more towards where the light shines brightly and radiantly .... The human being must attain the truth because only then will he be touched by My divine light of love and because only then will he recognize Me correctly and strive towards Me as the aim which alone is desirable to him .... Just desire the truth deep in your heart, and with this desire you kindle the little light, and then you will carry it before you and cover all your paths safely, for the light will always let you recognize the right path, the light has kindled My love in you which you desire as soon as you desire the truth. And the ray of love emanating from Me also leads back to Me .... And walls, however dense, will dissolve in the penetrating light of truth .... the most impenetrable darkness will give way to the light which is the truth from God ....

Amen

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Subordinating the will ....

B.D. 5781 from October 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Only ever submit yourselves to My will, which only demands love from you, and your way of life on earth will be pleasing to Me, you will find favour in My sight, and you will have won My love, which has indeed applied to you since the beginning but which could no longer touch you in its strength. However, as soon as you have entered into My will, that is, as soon as all your thoughts and intentions strive not to grieve Me, My love can have an effect on you again in all its strength .... i.e. to the extent that you can endure on earth, for you have now returned to Me again, from Whom you once voluntarily separated yourselves. To enter into My will means to make an effort to move within the order which is the fundamental law from eternity, to bring all good qualities to perfection, to discard all bad qualities, to shape yourselves according to divine principle .... to bring love within you to its highest development .... For to be perfected is to be filled with love. Perfection is a divine state, a state which has no lack, which is therefore also a prerequisite to be close to Me, to be united with Me. And in order to achieve this blissful state My creature's will has to completely conform to My will .... it has to enter into My will so completely that a joint working begins, which also means the same as giving up all resistance, all will of its own .... thus to return to Me in free will .... You humans should achieve this aim on earth, you should prove that you want to belong to Me forever by acknowledging Me alone and striving towards Me, by all your thoughts and endeavours on earth being to live as it pleases Me. This will is the passed test of earthly life, and if this will is in you then you are saved for eternity, for the strength comes to you from Me to carry out your will and to live according to My will, as soon as I only see your will turned towards Me .... I want you to become blissfully happy but cannot force your will into a different direction because you determine it yourselves. Yet My love embraces My living creations which are willing to comply with Me of their own accord .... who have become My children and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

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God's spark .... unlimited knowledge ....

B.D. 5782 from October 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The all-filling spirit, the eternal deity Itself, is therefore also active in Its creatures to the extent that they allow it through their will .... Every human being carries a spark of the divine spirit within himself, and thus he is thereby indissolubly connected with the eternal deity .... And this divine spark could have an inconceivable effect on the human being's thoughts and actions if his will fulfilled the conditions which are the prerequisite for the working of the spirit in the human being. For this spark, as a share of God, as an emanation of Himself, is likewise of immense luminosity .... and therefore radiates the light of wisdom .... it instructs the human being from within and gives him fullest knowledge .... he kindles a bright light in him, and depending on how the human being uses this light, divine abilities develop in him .... until he himself can then work in strength and light .... For all his actions and intentions are based on thoughts which the divine spirit has inspired and guided in the human being. And thus it is truly possible for the human being on earth to accomplish supernatural things and to have knowledge at his disposal which is otherwise completely inaccessible to him, if he thus allows the divine spark within himself, God's share, unlimited activity .... which, however, always requires the surrender of his own will, the subordination to divine will. Then the spirit of God can completely permeate him, and then the human being only thinks and acts as God wills, as it corresponds to the eternal order, and he is neither limited in his knowledge nor in his strength, for every obstacle to the unrestricted working of the spiritual power has been removed by the human being's will .... The human being is a vessel which is initially closed and full of rubbish but which can open and completely empty itself in order to make room for the divine spark, so that it can develop freely, so that spiritual strength constantly flows in and now the vessel becomes full of the divine spirit .... from which everything is then possible to work and from which the brightest light radiates .... And man will be powerful and wise, for he is now in constant contact with God Himself, he carries God within himself and is aware of Him .... he lives in and with God and now works from His strength ....

Amen

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God wants to be loved .... distorted picture ....

B.D. 5783 from October 8th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Only a few people can dictate My will into the pen, only a few have the understanding for what motivates Me to speak in direct contact, only a few understand that the father's love for His children is so great that He uses every means which promises success .... and only a few believe that it is the father's voice which wants to make itself heard because the children are in utmost need. And the fact that so few people believe it is due to the fact that My love is no longer recognized .... that people only still believe .... if they believe at all .... believe in a God Whom they fear because they have to answer to Him or honour because they acknowledge His power and greatness .... Love, however, would change this concept of God into a completely childlike view, a God of love would become their father, Whom they could entrust themselves to and Whom they themselves could also love .... But why don't people recognize Me more as an exceedingly loving father Who knows no other desire than to be able to enfold His children in His arms, Who finds His bliss in preparing His children for bliss .... Why do people only stand shyly and doubtfully in the distance, why does no longing for love drive them into My arms .... because they are no longer able to recognize Me as a God of love, as a father .... because they form a wrong image of Me .... because they are not informed about Me in truth .... because I am presented to them as an angry, punishing God Who demands an account for every sin and judges mercilessly .... But one does not strive for a being who is feared .... At best one conscientiously complies with all requirements, yet only out of fear but never out of love. But I want to be loved .... I want to possess My living creations' love and do everything to win it, for only a relationship which establishes love can make eternally happy. I alone know where to look for the cause, and I alone know how people can still be helped so that they recognize Me as a God of love and voluntarily strive towards Me .... I must bring Myself close to people, I must go to them because they don't want to come to Me .... And they must feel My kindness as a blessing so that they will also accept My gift without reluctance, which I bring to them: .... My word, which reveals Me to My creatures in such a way that they are able to love Me .... My word through which I reveal Myself as love. For they did not know Me until now, they have been wrongly instructed, they have formed a wrong image of Me .... My adversary has worked diligently to create this distorted image of Me because he wants people to no longer recognize Me, because he wants to stifle the love for Me in My living creations, which signifies the final return to Me. All you humans who are distant from Me don't know Me properly and I want to reveal Myself to you as a God of love, wisdom and might, as a father Who desires your love .... And therefore I enter into direct contact with you, I express Myself through an earthly child devoted to Me in order to take the path to all of you, in order to gain your love and to be able to bestow My love upon you .... And blessed are those who believe that it is I Myself, your father from eternity, Who speaks to you .... blessed who accept My words, recognize Me as the eternal love and no longer fail to take hold of the father's outstretched hand .... blessed who let themselves be drawn by Me ....

Amen

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Spiritual knowledge depending on maturity level ....

B.D. 5784 from October 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Complete ignorance is a sign of spiritual lowness, for knowledge of divine-spiritual matters does not depend on a person's intellectual activity or on the amount of knowledge he receives from other people but solely on his soul's maturity, on the degree of his spiritual development, so that the most simple person whose soul already has a degree of maturity as a result of a life of love will form his own truthful picture of God, of his purpose of earthly life, of his relationship with God, his father of eternity .... Emotionally he will only accept the teachings which correspond to truth, earthly he will perhaps not be very appreciated because of his intellectual knowledge, he will be simple-minded and yet think more correctly in the spiritual sphere .... And the little knowledge is enough to cause him to live a way of life which corresponds to God's will, but which then, after his death, will earn him brightest light in the spiritual kingdom in a flash .... Not complete knowledge on earth is proof of the soul's high degree of maturity, for the human being can also acquire spiritual knowledge intellectually, only then it is also more intellectual knowledge than spiritual knowledge if the human being's way of life corresponds to it, and knowledge which therefore cannot yet be considered spiritual treasure can also be lost to the human being again at the moment of death if it was not accepted by the heart but only by the intellect. For even spiritual knowledge can become pure intellectual knowledge through eager study if the soul's ascent development is disregarded, if the soul's degree of maturity is therefore still very low but the intellect, being highly developed, deals with problems which touch spiritual areas. In that case it is not possible to speak of ignorance .... but the 'knower' lacks one thing .... the light .... For no matter how much knowledge he acquires on this path, it still does not give him light so that he can now brightly and clearly recognize all correlations, so that he would be happy about his knowledge. Light can only come to him from within as a result of a life of love .... For only the spirit from God radiates light, which first gives the right life to intellectual knowledge .... And only then is it knowledge which can be valued as spiritual treasure, which is everlasting and is taken over into the spiritual kingdom .... And therefore even the pure truth can only be understood when the spirit from God gives enlightenment to the human being, which always presupposes a degree of maturity of soul which can only be achieved through a way of life according to God's will .... The state of light, the realization, after the human being's death is then also corresponding, and a good but simple-minded person who had little knowledge on earth can be surrounded by more radiant light upon his entry into the kingdom of the beyond than a person with spiritual knowledge who lacked love on earth and to whom the spirit from God had not yet found access ....

Amen

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Constant contact with God ensures success ....

B.D. 5785 from October 10th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Request My support in everything you undertake .... Don't start anything without Me, take no path without Me, always let Me lead the way, then I will be your goal which you will safely reach. And thus you shall also come to Me with all spiritual concerns and you will always receive the correct advice, for then you will be guided by My spirit .... you cannot do anything but think and behave correctly and successfully work for Me and My kingdom .... And it will always appear as if you speak and proceed of your own will. For I don't manifest Myself so obviously that you would feel compelled to comply with My will, and yet it is My will which is now expressing itself through you. If you first commend all works, thoughts and spoken words to Me, you may also rest assured of My influence, yet this very first contact with Me is essential in order to feel My will in you and to think, speak and act accordingly. And therefore you need not worry that you won't be able to carry out the work for Me and My kingdom as long as you don't regard it as an occupation but only ever want to be of service to Me, and thus, as My servants, remain in constant contact with Me in order to receive My instructions. For the latter occurs through your heart into which My spirit will place feelings which will cause you to act in accordance with My will .... And then all your beginnings will be blessed ....

Amen

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Means of grace: prayer .... God’s word ....

B.D. 5786 from October 11th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Return to your original relationship with Me and become again what you were from the beginning, creatures standing in highest perfection, in full possession of light and power .... I make this demand of you .... but I also provide you with the means to comply with My demand, because I know that you are completely powerless in your present state without My help and would not be able to shape yourselves again as you originally emerged from Me. Hence it is not impossible to fulfil My demand, for I take your weakness into account and truly help you in every way to achieve the aim I have set for you .... for I love you and want to see the wretched state you are in transformed into a blissful one. I want to know you beside Me, not under Me .... and My means are of utmost effectiveness .... you can reach the aim but they eliminate all compulsion of will .... And therefore it is your own business when you reach the aim .... otherwise you would truly have been in a state of light and strength long ago but as unfree beings you lacked the highest perfection. Understand it .... you must strive for perfection yourselves, because I respect your free will but therefore also constantly encourage you to make use of My means of help .... You cannot accomplish this work of transformation with your own strength, but My strength is at your disposal without measure. Use it, for this is not within My power if I don't want to make you unfree. Make use of My grant of grace and you will be powerful and able to achieve everything you want ....

What then are these means of grace? What should you do to put yourselves in possession of power? How can you turn this power to yourselves? .... You should for the time being .... as completely ignorant .... desire truthful knowledge .... which only requires your will .... Then you already let the bestowal of grace become effective on you and you listen to what is proclaimed to you through My word .... And then you make use of a great grant of grace because you already draw strength from My word which now helps you further .... You make use of a further grace by praying, i.e. by mentally establishing the connection with Me and conversing with Me .... Such a prayer connection is a source of strength of unimagined abundance .... Through heartfelt prayer to Me you consciously open yourselves to My influx of grace and you must inevitably experience a change of nature, because My strength will not remain ineffective if it is accepted .... And the change of nature consists of love igniting in you, of you striving towards Me and now entering My flow of love, of you thus accepting again what you once rejected .... that you allow yourselves to be permeated by light and strength of your own free will and always more and more assimilate yourselves to My original nature, thus also coming closer and closer to your original nature, because you have now entered into the right relationship with Me again and now constantly receive light and strength from Me .... because you have now become in your free will what I could not create .... beings equal to Me .... right children of your father from eternity ....

Amen

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Stimulating an unbeliever to love work ....

B.D. 5787 from October 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The unbeliever cannot be given spiritual knowledge because he rejects everything that cannot be proven but only demands faith. But he can be stimulated to work with love, because he can only attain faith on the path of love. An unbeliever's heart need not be hardened so that he will therefore very well perform works of neighbourly love if he is made aware of his fellow human being's adversity, if he is encouraged by a well-meaning fellow human being to contribute towards the alleviation of this adversity .... if an appeal is made to his compassion, to his willingness to help and his earthly situation which makes it possible for him to help .... It is the greatest merit of a person who lives in love himself to spur his fellow human being into loving activity, for this can then also result in faith which, without love, is nevertheless only a dead faith and thus not much more valuable than unbelief. As long as a person passes by his fellow human being's adversity he can also be regarded as unbelieving, even though he calls himself believing. Only when a person's will to give breaks through, when he seeks to make his fellow human being happy or to avert suffering from him .... when he wants to help .... he is also able to listen to knowledge offered to him and to take a stand on it, and only then is it possible to revive in him a belief in a spiritual kingdom which exists outside the earthly kingdom ....

Therefore it is a futile labour of love to try to convince an unbelieving person intellectually, that is, to present spiritual knowledge to him and persuade him to accept it, because a person without love is not capable of doing so. On the other hand, the divine teaching of love can be presented to him and its effect made credible if such a life of love is exemplified to him and his heart is also appealed to to participate in alleviating his fellow human being's hardship .... if he is first encouraged to give away his abundance until he then finds happiness himself in doing good .... And then he is also already won, then his resistance to spiritual knowledge becomes less and less, he is shaken in his unbelief .... he begins to think about his life and more willingly accepts what requires faith .... he will learn to believe because he has now become capable of it through love ....

Amen

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The church of Christ ....

B.D. 5788 from October 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

A person who seriously strives for Me will also reach his goal .... I Am the way, the truth and the life .... Anyone who seeks Me has already entered the path, and he will be guided by Me into the truth which will give him life .... However, anyone who seriously looks for Me will not try to find Me in a specific school of thought for he will know that I can only be found in his heart, that his heart alone is the crucial factor as to whether I Am present where I Am proclaimed .... My doctrine of love can be preached everywhere .... but whether the human being will find Me everywhere is entirely determined by the desire of his heart and .... whether it is genuinely searching for Me .... The Words can ignite everywhere and awaken the yearning of love for Me, but only after they have ignited will the right path have been entered. And then the person will also be capable of discerning the pure truth .... he will accept and strive for that which alone leads to the life which lasts forever. Once the heart has been captured by My Word the connection to Me will have been established and My presence will be assured to him .... Then he will no longer belong to any school of thought but to My church, which I Myself founded on earth and to which any church organisation can lead which proclaims My divine teaching of love, which demands faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world.

Therefore, do not fight each other if you all strive for Me, for then I will guide you on the right path, on the path of truth, which leads to eternal life. Then everyone belonging to My church will recognise which teachings differ from the pure truth and he will also be able to guide the blind who, unaware of the danger, walk along byways which do not lead to the goal. And if these blind people are also genuinely searching for Me, then they will also allow themselves to be led and be grateful for the help because they recognise My guidance, because .... anyone who seriously tries to find Me .... will also be seized by My love and feel this love of Mine .... I Am the way, the truth and the life .... anyone who endeavours to reach Me, whose heart is turned towards Me, cannot go astray .... And even if he is still caught up in the greatest error, thus still far away from the truth .... he will nevertheless end up in My church which I Myself founded on earth, because his desire for Me, his faith in Me, is the foundation on which My church is built .... For only a profound and living faith will strive for Me, only a profoundly faithful human being has his heart's desire directed towards Me, and I will truly let Myself be found by him ....

Amen

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Declaration required by the mission of Jesus ....

B.D. 5789 from October 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You people must be given information in the right way, then you will not refuse the doctrines, that are presented to you about Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior of the world .... The problem of His incarnation and His death on the cross is so extremely difficult to understand, if it is put down only as a historical fact, because then the way of behaving of the man Jesus is incomprehensible for you, because you will not understand, what this incarnation and death on the cross is based, and then you are tended to deny a mission for all mankind. But if the reason is given to you truthfully, then you learn to understand the redemptive work of Christ .... And then you adapt yourselves differently to that than before. That people lack the knowledge about it, is not because, that the truth would have been withheld them so far .... it is only because, that the people have made themselves incapable for receiving such knowledge, that they consider purely more wordly the life and death of Jesus Christ, that they are more indifferent to learn about the truth. As well as God finds only the slightest question about it in a human, He gives him enlightenment too, but only rarely man asks that question and calls for it, to obtain information about the human Jesus, Who shall be accepted as God .... And yet the belief is absolutely necessary, if the man wants to put himself also into the blessing of the redemptive work .... This is why God gives people an enlightenment, that they could accept well, if they strove for the truth earnestly .... God gives, what people do not demand more of themselves, He hands out that, by which people have deficiency. He gives them a knowledge, that could give light to people with good will, that means knowledge for them, if they just accept it .... He tries to make people understand Jesus’ work of love, that there were not earthly or worldly motives, that let the man Jesus so live and suffer and die, but a spiritual cause based on His earthly life .... to avert an unimaginable distress of the souls of men, that extended over eternal times and only the love of a man could remedy it .... People need to know the spiritual cause, if the redemptive work of Jesus Christ should be judged rightly and the graces of which should be accepted. People must know, that they go to meet an unimaginably painful condition, if they do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as savior, and then they do not even belong to the redeemed, for whom the man Jesus Christ died on the cross .... they should know, that it is not the same, whether they acknowledge Him or not .... And to be able to recognize Him, they should be introduced in the truth .... They should be taught in a right way by God Himself, what the son of man moved, to take a superhuman suffering upon Himself, which ended with His death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Declaration necessary of the mission of Jesus ....

B.D. 5790 from October 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

For you I died on the cross .... for you I walked a path which was exceedingly difficult to travel because I was not allowed to walk freely but had to carry a great burden .... your guilt of sin, which I took from you so that this burden should no longer press you .... I walked a path of atonement for you who would have had to bear it all yourselves and would have taken eternities to do so until every sin debt was paid off .... I took this burden from you and made atonement for you because your fate took pity on Me, because I was filled with overwhelming love for you and because I wanted to help you in your adversity .... I had to endure immense suffering and immeasurable physical and mental torment for the sake of your sin, which kept you separated from your father for eternity. Yet I wanted to make it possible for you to return to Him again; I wanted you to find your way to the father, but I also wanted the father to have His children again, whose love He desires because you are children of His love. I knew about the immense gulf between God and you .... I knew about the great guilt of sin of the former rebellion of the created beings against God .... I knew what your sin consisted of and that the redemption of this guilt (which would have required eternities) could not be atoned for in eternity .... Therefore I wanted to sacrifice Myself, I wanted to offer a sacrifice of atonement in your stead to God, which He should accept graciously, because only love for God and for you, My fallen brothers, let Me make this sacrifice .... I wanted to pay your guilt through My death on the cross .... Due to your past apostasy from God you were separated from Him by an infinitely long distance, and you would have had to remain at this distance for eternities, because no path led upwards to Him, Who was the father of all of you. For something freely and powerfully created, however, the distance from God is an unspeakable state of torment .... to be bound and without light and power .... bound by a God-opposing power. I knew about this state, and it had mercy on me .... I wanted to initiate a path upwards .... I wanted to wage a battle against the one who kept you bound .... I wanted to redeem you from his power .... But the ransom was high .... My adversary demanded a price for the souls that was almost unaffordable .... and so I offered the highest I possessed .... I gave My life on the cross .... However, I first had to divest Myself of My light and My strength, which was My own in all fullness as a sign of My belonging to God .... I had to descend to humanity from the height of light, I had to make the sacrifice as a human being Myself and thus walk a path of suffering which had your redemption as its aim .... And through My path of the cross I opened the way for you humans to ascend, to God. You can now take this path yourselves and reach God if you follow Me, if you accept My sacrifice, if you place yourselves under Christ's cross, if you want Me to have died for you too .... then you too will be redeemed through Jesus Christ's blood .... then your great guilt of sin will have been redeemed .... Then the sacrifice for you was not made in vain .... I have wrested you from the adversary of God, and you return as true children to your father from eternity ....

Amen

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Way to Golgotha .... following Jesus ....

B.D. 5791 from October 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Walking the path to Golgotha is the true following of Christ .... You will not understand this if you believe that Jesus Christ went this way for you, that He took upon Himself all the agonies of this way of the cross because of your sins, and that He therefore took away your suffering and bore it Himself for you. And you are also in right faith about this .... He has redeemed the guilt for you through His suffering and death on the cross .... But the crowning glory of His earthly life was His union with His father from eternity .... He joined Himself to Him eternally .... He and the father became one .... And in order to reach this aim, following Jesus is the only way .... in order to reach this aim, man must also take upon himself a sorrowful earthly life, he must patiently go the earthly way to the end, no matter how great the suffering, how great the afflictions and hardships it brings .... He must drink the cup to the full and only ever keep the divine lord and saviour in mind, Whom he strives to follow and Whom he also wants to be united with for all eternity .... From Him the human being will also receive strength, and if the human being becomes weak, the saviour Jesus Christ will stand beside him and support him, He will help him carry the cross until he has reached his aim .... And now you will understand why devout, God-surrendered people are often pursued by suffering and illness, why they have been burdened with a cross that seems almost unbearable to them .... It concerns God's childship, the union with Him in such a way that they - as being closest to the father - can receive unlimited strength and light and feel unlimited bliss, which only the complete union with Him can trigger, and this state is therefore the most delicious thing that can be achieved on earth, yet at great sacrifice, at the sacrifice of everything that on earth the human being finds pleasant .... He must in truth take the path to Golgotha .... He must no longer see the world, he must cover it step by step with his eyes turned away from it in misery and agony. He must know that his body only suffers for the soul so that it can then come before the face of God as completely purified in order to be accepted by the father with deepest love, as His child which followed Him for His sake, which walked the path of the cross on earth for His sake and which He now introduces into all the rights of a child .... for it has - having already returned to the father - now also taken and passed the test on earth which every created angelic being has to pass for complete fusion with its creator and father of eternity in order to be able to create and work as perfected in the kingdom of light ....

Amen

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Effect of the living word ....

B.D. 5792 from October 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

A living word spoken to you will not fail to have an effect either, because you penetrate its spiritual meaning, because your heart is addressed by it, which now also moves within itself and withdraws the strength from it with which I have blessed My word. If only you would let My word speak to you alive there would truly be no spiritual hardship amongst you, for whose voice you willingly listen to you will also comply with his desire, and thus the fulfilment of My will would be guaranteed and thus order would also be restored, which has been the original law since eternity .... This is why I speak to you directly again and again, this is why I seek the path to your heart through My word .... This is why I approach you Myself and seek to rouse you from an inactive state through My voice, I penetrate, as it were, the silence of inactivity with My voice .... I address you .... I can only influence you through My word, and your will itself must utilize the word .... But My word sounds like heavenly music to the soul as soon as it is able to hear it .... And it will hear it when the human being accepts My word, when he thinks about it, when he lets it speak to him himself, when it can reach the heart, which is synonymous with the soul hearing it .... Words which only sound to the ear, words which only touch the eye and don't let them come to consciousness, are dead words without spirit and life .... But My word becomes alive if you first make contact with Me, if you desire to be addressed by Me and then read or listen to what I have to say to you .... Then you will hear My voice directly, as it were, even if you take it from the book which contains My word .... I also speak to you directly in these words because you desire to receive strength from Me, because this desire caused you to read or hear My word. Anyone who desires to be addressed by Me is also already in the blessing and strength of My word .... Anyone who willingly opens his ear where My word can be heard is addressed by Me Myself, and My word is truly alive in him and has an invigorating strength .... it impels activity which corresponds to My will; it impels activity of love and prayer: .... For anyone who has once heard My living word will not stop there, he will enter into contact with the one Who speaks words of love and grace to him, and he will never ever break off this contact .... He has found a friend he no longer wants to miss, with Whom he can speak at any time in words or in thoughts and Who responds to everything, Who now supplies him with the strength to also live out the word, to not only be a listener but a doer of the word, which will sound as a sign of My presence to everyone who wants to awaken to life ....

Amen

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Spreading the divine teaching of love needed ....

B.D. 5793 from October 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I give My word to all of you, I convey the gospel to all of you in all purity, and all of you may receive it through My disciples whom I send out again with the task of spreading it amongst people .... You must know about My teaching of love, about My act of salvation, you must know what you should do in order to become blessed; you must be instructed about the kind of soul work you should carry out on yourselves, and you shall be informed about the effects of a good and also a bad earthly life after the death of your body .... I convey the gospel to all of you through My messengers .... And you can experience for yourselves that it is pure truth as soon as you fulfil My commandments of love, as soon as you are not only listeners but doers of My word. Then all My words will be confirmed, then My promises will be fulfilled, which are always subject to certain conditions, which you should therefore know about .... I Myself must speak to you, you must hear from Me Myself for the sake of My will, otherwise you will not let yourselves be impressed, even if you are inspired by human beings to change your way of life. The strength of My word shall take effect on you, you shall be inspired to love, to be active according to My will .... And therefore I send you My messengers who shall speak to you in My name, who can therefore speak vividly because they have been introduced into life by Me Myself and because they possess something themselves which they shall give to you .... the pure truth as it originated from Me .... To convey this truth to you is their mission, their office, for which I Myself have chosen and trained them. Therefore you can believe them if they bring you My word, you can take it to heart and let it become a treasure within you .... you need not doubt their words, for it is not they but I who speak to you through them, only that I use a human form so as not to make you unfree in your will and faith .... Accept what they proclaim to you and obey their words and you will noticeably feel the strength .... you will be beneficially touched by them if you yourselves are of good will and allow My words to have an effect on you .... For they only proclaim My word to you .... they only tell you what you should do to become blessed ....

Amen

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Deification of created beings ....

B.D. 5794 from October 22nd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Receive the message of the lord:

When I gave you life I pursued a purpose .... to manifest Myself in you, i.e., to give My strength and My light forms which were in contact with each other as beings and which all carried Me Myself as the strength of love within them .... so that I shaped Myself, as it were, in these beings, so that they were the same as I Myself, yet each standing in self-awareness .... that I therefore wanted to create gods like Myself .... Thus I created perfection from Myself, I multiplied Myself in these beings created by Me, since they were created in the same perfection and since nothing could arise from Me which was deficient. I Myself was represented in all these beings, I had called them into existence as a reflection of Myself, although I Myself was not visible to these beings. I created miniatures of Myself .... and enjoyed these creations ....

Yet everything perfectly created was My work .... it was My will in it, it was permeated by My love and consequently only something created which could not be other than it was .... And this did not satisfy Me, for I wanted something equally free around Me which, like Myself, could move in all freedom .... I had to put it outside independently of Me in equal strength and light and put it to the test that it now utilized the complete freedom granted to it as it corresponded to My will .... without, however, determining its nature through My will .... I had to give it complete freedom of will and, as it were, isolate Myself from it .... so that the being could now prove its divinity and remain in the perfection in which I created it .... although it could also make wrong use of its strength and will .... I wanted to have gods beside Me with whom I could work and create in supreme bliss .... But I could not create these gods for Myself, I could only give them the ability to shape themselves into gods .... I wanted the same bliss that filled Me to also be granted to the beings I called into being in an immeasurable urge for happiness and shaping, which always increased the more I created .... (22.10.1953) I did not want them to remain eternally only My creatures, determined by My will in their actions and thoughts .... I wanted every being to create freely for itself, independent of My will, because I knew that a perfect being always carried My will within itself .... Thus a being which was perfectly created by Me would not have been capable of a will which opposed Me if it had not also had a free will at the same time which could determine itself. And this free will was the decisive factor. By virtue of free will the being could remain in its perfection given to it by Me but it could also depart from it .... the being, which I had shaped most perfectly, could reshape itself, forfeit its perfection and become a creature which was no longer in My image .... but it was a free being which could dispose of itself and also reshape itself again in My image .... It was able to become perfect again but then it was no longer My creature but My child .... My image which had become in free will, a divine being which stood outside of Me and yet was intimately fused with Me through the same love, the same will and the same nature .... It was not possible for Me to create something imperfect which was to achieve the transformation into My image, for only the most perfect can emerge from Me, yet the will of the created being itself must accomplish the transformation of the created into gods .... because free will irrevocably belongs to the highest perfection ....

Since the principle of love is predominant in Me, since I Myself am eternal love, only love has ever been decisive in the act of creation, and love also pursues a aim .... a state of bliss for My creations which is unsurpassable, however, only when the creatures have become My children .... For My created works, despite all perfection, cannot be called blissfully happy indefinitely as long as they do not possess free will. Free will, however, must prove perfection .... that which is given to the being, it must value it and want to keep it, despite the possibility of giving it up .... And this decision has been demanded of the perfectly created by Me and will be demanded of it until the being has reached its aim, until it strives for perfection, for union with Me, of its own free will .... until it has become My image ....

Amen

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Purpose of the pests .... motive of the destructions ....

B.D. 5795 from October 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Everything earthly only serves the perfection of the spiritual .... The course of upward development is My plan from eternity, which shall one day bring about that only the most perfect spiritual things move close to Me .... that everything is deified, as My love longs for it .... Innumerable transformations are necessary for this, innumerable stages of development shall bring about this work of divinization, as My wisdom recognized as once bringing success. This plan required eternities, and it can take a being eternities until it can stay close to Me as deified. Earthly life as a human being is only a tiny fraction of this time of development, yet for you humans an inconceivably long time preceded this existence as a human being, during which the soul substances first had to find each other and unite, for the creation of nature previously kept all these little particles inside and did not release them until My eternal plan of salvation allowed it .... Although the spiritual was bound by My will in My creation, yet this spiritual itself determined the duration of its stay in each individual work of creation through its resistance or the relinquishment of its resistance, and accordingly I loosened its fetters .... I bound it into ever more easily dissolvable forms, until finally the change of external forms followed one another ever more rapidly .... which becomes explainable through the constant becoming and passing away in the animal and plant world, whose new creations again and again take up the spiritual, which is close to the last embodiment as a human being .... In these last phases before the embodiment as a human being, the spiritual itself already pushes towards its liberation from form and also serves, even if not yet fully consciously. This degree of development can be recognized in the 'life' in nature .... For everything that testifies to life is active and uses the power flowing towards it ..... And thus everything 'living', but especially the animal world, has reached this degree of development, which reveals reduced resistance .... which allows the deformation as a human being to take the final test of will ....

(24.10.1953) But now every living being is also given a serving task .... no matter in which degree of development it stands .... Every spiritual being that walks through creation in the law of compulsion fulfils a serving purpose .... it contributes to the preservation and existence of other works of creation and is therefore active in a constructive sense, but it can also still serve with the dedication of its form, which at the same time earns it a higher level of development .... a new deformation for the purpose of faster maturing .... A constant coming into being and passing away can be observed in creation, partly due to nature, partly due to natural instincts which are placed into the living beings as divine law, but which .... because they correspond to My eternal plan, must not be regarded negatively, even if it appears to be cruelty and a threat to the weak creature which is unable to defend itself .... As long as the spiritual being is in a state of compulsion, any destruction of the outer form means for it liberation from the bondage and progress in the course of development. However, it must be taken into account which motive underlies the destruction of a form .... Every transformation of matter which contains spiritual things must be able to show the motive of expediency for the good of fellow human beings, otherwise it is an unlawful destruction which has an unfavourable effect on the spiritual and serious consequences for the destroyer .... The purpose and aim of the transformation of an external form must always testify to the human being's love for his fellow human being .... Then the process of transformation will also have a beneficial effect .... And likewise outer forms of living beings can also be destroyed, entirely in accordance with My principle of love, if the purpose of this is to gain constructive substances which again secure the life of other beings .... For My creations were created for each other so that one may serve the other for preservation .... Every work of creation, including the living beings, has been assigned a purpose which therefore also ensures the spiritual's progress. No work of creation is only created for itself, and the first and last purpose is the spiritual's ascent development, which is why a dissolution of the respective form is an imperative necessity .... which I certainly also determined in terms of time, but My wisdom also gave these dissolutions infinitely many causes .... and also determined the living beings themselves to be executors of My plan .... that therefore not infrequently one ends the life of the other. (25.10.1953) No process takes place in the whole universe without My knowledge, and all processes in natural life .... in creation, which contains the spiritual that still walks in the law of compulsion .... are determined by My will; whereas in the state of free will the human being himself is now also determining and he now acts more or less in accordance with My will, yet he is also not prevented from carrying out what he wants .... And now, therefore, forms can be dissolved again through human will which still envelop the bound spiritual .... be it hard matter or also plants and animals .... in fact everything that does not yet have free will itself. And now the motive of these dissolutions is decisive, whether they are approved by Me, whether they correspond to My will .... Every work of creation is intended to be of service, every work of creation is intended to benefit another.

But how do you explain the innumerable small and smallest living creatures which literally mean a plague for people? And yet they are also My works? .... These living beings also have a task: To receive spiritual substances into themselves which are still unwilling to serve .... which have certainly already covered an infinitely long course of development, thus in terms of time they have reached the stage where they should be active, which still offer resistance which they now express in a certain kind of negative activity by being destructively active .... by accelerating the passing away of works of creation .... and indirectly contributing again to the dissolution of form .... But such destructions, caused by so-called pests, appear unlawful to people and therefore they take action against them .... which is also in My will again, because they only aim for an improvement, because they want to protect themselves and their fellow human beings against unfavourable effects and at the same time they now dissolve the deformation of these substances again. The dissolution of every form in order to release the bound spiritual substance is necessary for its course of development, only the motive has to be good, it has to be connected with a serving purpose again, then it has My approval and is a blessing for humanity. For everything that is recognized as harmful, everything that causes havoc in the plant or animal kingdom, is the bearer of still evil spiritual substances which want to let off steam and are therefore repeatedly bound into new forms until they have calmed down, and which is therefore ultimately grateful for the destruction of the form through human will .... It was not arbitrariness which moved Me to create those harmful living beings .... These, too, are active as power stations in the great process of redemption, and they also serve to repel bad impulses, whereby other creations, including the human being, can indeed be affected in a painful or unpleasant way, but they, in turn, can now also mature again as soon as they react correctly to it .... thus help when it is necessary to protect other people or animals from it or to patiently and devotedly take on the small mishaps of life. Everything happens according to the law in the universe, even if it appears to people that they themselves act differently, i.e. take unlawful precautions .... Only the will of the human being is decisive as to how his thoughts and actions will one day be accounted to him .... Yet the course of development of every being has been predetermined since eternity, and even the human being's works of wrong will are taken into account and their effect is always guided by Me such that it serves the best of the upwardly striving spirits ....

Amen

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Overcoming matter .... Spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 5796 from October 26th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

As long as your thoughts and wishes merely apply to the world and its commodities you will hardly inherit My kingdom, for My kingdom is not of this world .... My kingdom can only be attained by relinquishing everything you humans still find desirable .... My kingdom necessitates the overcoming of matter, you will only be able to liberate yourselves from the form and enter My kingdom if you detach yourselves from everything that belongs to My adversary. This material world is his realm, albeit he has no influence over matter as such ....

But greater is his influence over people, who shelter the spiritual essence as soul within themselves, which has now reached the stage of development where it can escape his dominion, where it can release itself from every external form with its correct use of will. Then he will exert his influence to excess by attaching a person to matter in order to direct their will wrongly so that he will strive again for something he had long overcome already. The material world is your greatest test of will, for you should renounce it, you should voluntarily do without everything you consider desirable in the course of your earthly life, you should strive for the spiritual kingdom, thus you should choose and decide in favour of either My kingdom or the kingdom of My adversary.

He will tempt you with his commodities .... but consider that these goods are transient, that they by themselves can perish or that they will have to be relinquished by you at the hour of your death .... You cannot hold on to them forever, sooner or later you will irrevocably lose them .... Think of this and therefore start early by producing, working and acquiring possessions which cannot be taken away from you, everlasting possessions whose value will only be truly recognised in eternity, after the death of the body, which then will be the soul's wealth and make it infinitely happy.

Your longing for matter makes you blind for spiritual possessions, you are unable to recognise them for what they are because your thoughts are only focussed on earthly things leaving you insensitive to spiritual currents, for My kingdom is not of this world, but My kingdom will come to everyone who desires it .... Therefore detach yourselves from what prevents your entry into My kingdom .... Free yourselves from the longing for earthly possessions, go without and abstain for as long as you live on earth in order to then receive in abundance My possessions of love in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The end will come without fail ....

B.D. 5797 from October 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You cannot delay the end anymore .... The time limit has expired and only a few days remain until the end .... just enough time deemed necessary by Me in order to still bring deliverance to those who are still able and willing to change. For My eye sees everything and My ear hears all, and thus even the most subtle impulses of a human heart are known to Me .... And since My love applies to all My living creations I will still come to the aid of those who take hold of My redeeming hand and whose will has always been known to Me. I come to help everyone who allows himself to be helped .... And thus, in the end no-one will be able to say that he was not offered My redeeming hand .... For I feel sorry for every creature which, at the end of this earth, will have to suffer the hard fate of imprisonment in the creations of the new earth .... since it had already reached the state of free will and has to be bound again for an infinitely long period of time. Therefore I will truly use all means prior to this in order to direct those people's hearts to Me who do not want to acknowledge Me as yet. I truly will leave no stone unturned which might result in a change of human hearts .... Yet I must leave people their free will and cannot force them to come to Me.

But the end will come without fail .... when My act of Redemption has been accomplished on this earth, when the few who will still accept help have been helped .... And that is only a short time .... during which much work shall still be carried out in a redeeming sense .... during which the world of light will exceedingly diligently work to penetrate the darkness, during which people's thinking will be influenced in every way in order to make an end of the earth plausible. And everyone who contributes towards spreading the light assists in accomplishing the redemptive work. Everyone who works in a redeeming sense will be abundantly supported by Me, for I will bless everyone who helps to rescue souls from the dreadful fate of a renewed banishment in the matter of the new earth. And regardless of how low the degree of maturity is .... if the human being recognises and acknowledges Me at the time of his death .... his advancement in the beyond will be assured .... Yet to be entirely without faith at the end of the days enslaves the human being to My adversary, and he will have to share his fate on the day of Judgment. You humans must believe in Me if you want Me to take mercy upon you ....

Amen

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Disbelief regarding the announcements ....

B.D. 5798 from October 29th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You humans give no credence to references regarding the end .... you live in the world and don't want to accept that which is readying itself outside of the material world and which will, with certainty, come to pass in the time designated by Me. I cannot plant the belief into you, it has to emerge in you yourselves; I can only ever help you by directing your eyes to the events of the time which should truly make you attentive. For I announced the signs of the last days through seers and prophets, who only proclaimed in My will what they saw happening in the last days. And even now I can only ever draw your attention to it, I can only ever admonish you again to take notice of what happens around you .... And then you will certainly recognise the hour you live in. For I will not let you experience the end without warning, it will not come upon you without being announced; yet as soon as you don't give credence to these proclamations it will take you by surprise, because My Word fulfils itself because it is the only truth. Even if progress is promised to you on the part of humans .... it will not prevent the end either, and it will only become clearly apparent where no faith exists anymore, where only the world in which My adversary has gained the upper hand will be taken notice of. And that, too, is a sign of the approaching end ....

For it will be as in the time of Noah .... People will live in sin, they will only indulge themselves and try to get what they can out of the world .... but they will pay no more attention to Me. And if only you observe people's attitude towards Me, towards your God and Creator of eternity, then you will also be able to discover therein a sign of the last days .... The reason why people no longer have faith is due to their lack of love .... Love has grown cold amongst people .... and, therefore, faith has died away as well, for even those who call themselves religious, who don't entirely deny a God and Creator, have no living faith, otherwise they would prepare themselves for the end, otherwise they would unhesitatingly believe the indications of the end .... All admonitions and warning are in vain for those to whom they are addressed .... And even if I knock very loudly and clearly at the door of their heart, even if I scare them through unexpected events in their lives or their surroundings, they will only look at them in a worldly sense and won't recognise My voice, even if it clearly speaks to them .... And the more the end approaches the more determinedly they reject the references, the fact that a higher power will intervene seems ever more improbable to them .... but the more ready people will be for their downfall .... And everything will come to pass as I proclaimed ....

Amen

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The coming of the Lord .... Rapture ....

B.D. 5799 from October 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You will see Me coming in the clouds .... the spiritual kingdom will come down to you; because those of you who remain true to Me until the end can already be counted as the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom, although you are still in the flesh .... since you will have attained the maturity which allows you to behold Me face to face .... However, I will come to meet you enshrouded in clouds .... for you will as yet be unable to endure My abundance of light even though you will be able to see Me without fading away. Only My faithful followers can understand the process of the rapture and My return to earth and it is therefore also credible to them. And even if I repeatedly try to substantiate and explain these final events .... the people on this earth will not accept anything unusual and unnatural because they lack the understanding for spiritual things and thus nothing of a spiritual nature can reveal itself to them .... Consequently, they will not be able to behold Me either although you, My faithful follower, will jubilantly and longingly stretch out your hands to Me .... They will not see anything .... Yet the process of the rapture will not remain hidden from them and will fill them with incredible horror .... For it is also unnatural that you will float towards Me, that I will draw you to Myself and thus your bodies will leave earth alive towards higher spheres, towards the light. However, the unbelievers will not see the light, because the light will not enter where it still meets with resistance. For the process of the rapture could still convert those people who had been informed of it even though they had not accepted it .... a brief thought at the last moment could still prompt a person to call to Me, and he would be saved from the devastation .... This is why I allow the rapture to proceed visibly in order to truly make use of every possibility for salvation. Nevertheless, people's hearts are already too hardened as to be able to recognise My love .... You, however, shall see Me .... and all suffering will be forgotten, for then you will no longer be inhabitants of this earth but of My kingdom instead, because the place of peace which will admit you will no longer remind you of the old world .... My coming has been announced to you humans since My Ascension to Heaven .... and time and again I have been expected by My Own .... But My coming is also the end of this earth and I Am only to be expected at the end of a period of salvation, because 'My Coming' signifies the end and 'the Rapture' the beginning of a new era .... and all preconditions which necessitate the disintegration of earthly creations must be recognisable first .... For neither My return to earth nor the rapture of My Own can take place until the final day of Judgment has come for people .... precisely because both phenomena would denote an enforced faith for people who are still alive and because I do not let anything unusual happen in order to make people believe in Me .... Only the final end on this earth is intended for that, and only the final end necessitates a separation of the spirits .... Then I Myself will come to My Own and take them away, so that they will be freed from the immense adversity and receive their reward for their faithfulness .... and rejoice and praise the One Whom they will then behold in all His glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Creation of the human being .... The fall of man ....

B.D. 5800 from October 31th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The fallen spiritual substance needed an endless time for its higher development, and an endless time was also required for My individual creations, which more or less had to evolve in line with the indwelling constrained spiritual substances in order to hold ever more mature spiritual substances. Time and again new forms were created, and time and again these forms were assigned a task .... Hence, earthly creation did not arise in an instant but infinitely long periods of time passed until the spiritual substance of all degrees of maturity found the appropriate external form, since the constantly increasing maturity also necessitated constantly new creations which could accommodate it. But as long as the spirits were subject to the law of compulsion My creative activity meant: Creation of earth as a place to mature for the lowest fallen spirits, which had to acquire the level of maturity that would return free will to the constrained spirits again, which they had abused in the past .... But now an external form had to be created for this fully matured spiritual essence, so that it could test its free will again in this form ....

This work of creation was the human being, who differed from all previously arisen creations such that he, apart from free will, was also endowed with intelligence and reason .... with a faculty of thought, with self-awareness and with the ability to interact with his fellow human beings through language, because coexistence provided the necessary conditions for the test of will. The human being’s external form already existed in its last stages in the state of compulsion and was destined to receive countless fully matured substances of soul, but these living beings still acted in a compulsive state as required by natural law, and therefore they were not responsible for their actions .... They only had very limited ability of thought but as receptacles for the spiritual essence, which was fully matured after an endless time of development, they were also works of creation formed by My wisdom and love for this spiritual essence. But only the living beings who possessed free will, intelligence and self-awareness were human beings .... and only then started the plan of spiritualising the latter .... This required that the living creations .... the human beings .... were educated by Me .... that they should use their ability of thought, their intelligence and their free will in accordance with My instructions and by virtue of their free will could then live and work on earth .... that they could shape themselves into Gods but also act in opposition to My advice and My will and regress to the abyss from where they had ascended .... I created the human being ....

Having attained a specific degree of maturity I gave the spiritual essence an external form in accordance with My love and wisdom, and the task the human being subsequently had so carry out .... The external form only became a living being after the spiritual essence had entered it .... the composition of innumerable minute particles which, as ‘soul’, gave life to the form. For the spiritual essence is a constantly effective strength and was in fact constrained and incapable of unrestrained activity during the preliminary stages, during the endless process of development. However, in its ultimate external form, in the human being, it can be active again. It can unfold its inherent strength and through unity with Me increase it without limitation .... The first human beings had My strength at their unrestricted disposal, they were extraordinarily well equipped in view of the fact that their test of life on earth should have resulted in their leaving their earthly form completely spiritualised in order to return as true children into their Father’s house again .... But the test of will, which I demand of every created being, was required of them. The first human beings’ passing of this test would have enabled all subsequent generations to reach the final goal with ease.

(01.11.1953) By creating the first human beings I had created beings for Myself who, in spite of their inadequacy .... i.e. their lack of perfection as a result of the apostasy from Me .... could nevertheless have attained realisation of Me Myself since they recognised themselves as living creations .... Thus, due to their ability of thought and their free will, they were able to recognise My will and act in accordance with it .... I had created beings for Myself with whom I could communicate despite their distance from Me, who could hear My Word and let it take effect on them, which was impossible in the earlier state of constrained will .... Thus the human being was the first earthly work of creation which carried a fallen original spirit in himself, and he was then meant to help this original spirit to return to its original state in order to work and create in eternal unity with Me as a free spirit again .... This was the task of the first created human being, and it will remain the task of all people until the end, until the final spiritualisation of all fallen spirits ....

The test of will the first human being had to pass was not too difficult .... Yet for the sake of this test My adversary also had to be allowed to exert his influence on him .... And the human being succumbed to this influence .... He deserted Me for the second time, and this was the first fall into sin on this earth .... the original sin which is known to humanity, even if it does not know of the apostasy of the spirits from Me .... But only the latter explains everything .... For the first human being could not have fallen had he been the first created being externalised by Me, as he would have been in full possession of strength and light since only perfection can emerge from Me. In that case he could not have been influenced by an opposing force.

But the reason for his fall is to be found in the apostasy of the spirits and thus in the still immature human soul which could indeed have passed the test but was not obliged to pass it .... Nevertheless, the human being was in possession of intelligence and free will and therefore also had to accept responsibility for his soul .... And thus the human being has to do penance for his guilt .... My adversary kept his authority over the spirit embodied in the human being, and that means a laborious path of struggle and suffering during every human being’s earthly life with the goal to free himself from his control .... The human being is able to achieve this goal because Jesus Christ came to help humanity which was weakened by Adam’s fall into sin, and therefore salvation is assured to everyone who recognises Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world and follows Him willingly .... The first human being would have been able to built the bridge on which all his descendants could have reached Me .... but since he fell, humanity still had to remain in Satan’s bondage for a long time until the arrival of the Saviour, until Jesus Christ descended to earth in order to build a bridge into the spiritual kingdom by way of His suffering and death .... by way of His crucifixion ....

(02.11.1953) The decision of will demanded of My first created being .... of Lucifer .... was by no means to be regarded as a commandment; rather, it was entirely left to the being’s choice to direct its will either way, and the direction of its will was totally based on its yearning for power and dictatorship. It was certainly aware that it had originated from Me but believed that it could also rule on its own because it could not see Me .... It recognised Me as its source but it did not want to acknowledge Me .... And this will was not placed into the being by Me but the being itself had changed the free will I bestowed on it .... This was the difference between the first fall of Lucifer and the first human being’s fall into sin .... because the wrong will was still in the human being and therefore I gave him a commandment which he should not transgress .... a commandment he could easily have kept had the opposing spirit not influenced him. The opposing spirit’s influence on the human being was so strong because the human being was still part of him .... since he had not yet regained perfection, which would have made a fall impossible.

A perfectly created human being could not have fallen, that is, he would not have been able to violate this commandment, because the perfect spirit in the human being would have prevented him from every God-opposing action .... But the creation of the human being was only the consequence of Lucifer’s fall and his followers, or it truly would not have been necessary for Me to give the spirits, who had been brought into life by Me, an external form as a cover. The human form, however, contained the fallen spirit, and therefore the human being Adam was already burdened by the past sin which he nevertheless could have pushed away had he kept My commandment .... It would have been possible for him to redeem the inherited sin .... his fall delayed the fallen spirits’ return to Me for an infinitely long period of time again. Yet is has become possible through the act of Salvation by the man Jesus Who did, without any commandment on My part, what the human being Adam should have done .... to completely accept My will and through a life of love unite with Me again on earth and achieve full possession of strength and light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Worthlessness of earthly knowledge in the beyond ....

B.D. 5801 from November 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Don't value your earthly knowledge too highly for it is of no use to you in eternity. It can certainly be useful to you for the duration of your earthly life, but if you don't use it to acquire spiritual knowledge by going through earthly knowledge towards the realisation that you are God's living creations, and then strive to attain the complete truth of God, it will not be of any benefit to you when you enter into the spiritual kingdom. Yet even spiritual knowledge which was gained by purely intellectual means has to be considered earthly knowledge .... which indeed refers to spiritual problems but which was acquired like all other earthly knowledge through study for the purpose of a professional occupation ....

Even if you memorise the Book of the Fathers, even if you try to interpret the divine Word again on the strength of prophetic sayings, even if you intellectually master every sentence, it is of no greater value than any other knowledge of a non-spiritual content. For in the end the soul will only retain as its share the wisdom it had gained through unselfish loving actions .... The soul will only keep what the spirit within was able to impart to it. And this doesn't require worldly studies, sharp intellectual thoughts or a remarkable memory .... For the spirit will provide it when it is needed .... And of what benefit is wealth which you cannot use over there .... it is lifeless knowledge, it gives you no light, and you cannot even demonstrate the truth of this knowledge as long as your spirit does not impart to you the correct insight and ability to discern ....

However, you have to approach your inner spirit yourselves; you have to enable it to express itself .... Only then will you become enlightened and you will also spread brightly radiating light on entry into the spiritual kingdom. But blessed is he who allows himself to be taught by the spirit and at the same time tries to broaden his earthly knowledge .... Many thoughts will come to him, he will also receive earthly knowledge as long as he first strives to acquire spiritual possessions .... And he will make truly beneficial use of all knowledge when his earthly life has come to an end .... He will be able to share everything he owns in the spiritual kingdom, for once again he will be able to prominently and instructively influence people who, like himself, are searching and striving in their desire for God and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Adam .... Original spirit .... Lucifer's test .... Bursting the form ....

B.D. 5802 from November 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Anyone who strives to arrive at the truth leaves all darkness behind him, he will have an explanation for everything, he will know the correlation between all things, he will recognise that his path leads upwards, that he has found the connection with God, that he cannot err anymore because God Himself conveys the truth to him. But striving for the truth means that it first has to be sincerely desired, and then the knowledge he receives .... be it from outside or from within in the form of thoughts .... has to be accepted with an open heart. For the heart will be willing to either accept or reject truth and error and thus influence the person accordingly.

Truth has to be aspired to in so far as that the human being's will has to be actively involved .... it cannot simply be given to a completely passive person who does not want it himself and who will not take the necessary steps in order to gain it. For then he will remain in spiritual darkness and not achieve progress. Truth, however, is the ascending path .... Truth is the spiritual knowledge conveyed to people by God Himself which tries to find a recipient in every human being, which can be acquired by every person's will since it can be imparted to people in many different ways .... but it always has to be desired first. But anyone who has gained the truth no longer lives in darkness, everything is crystal clear to him, he no longer doubts, for whatever is still unclear will be explained to him when he asks for it providing he turns to the source of truth .... providing he submits his doubts and questions to God Himself and then awaits God's answer through his heart .... The desire for truth, the mental contact with God and his inward listening also ensures him a clear and truthful answer. You humans should know that no unsolved questions need to exist for you providing you just want an explanation and present every question to the One Who is truth Himself and Who also wants to impart it to His children in order to enlighten them, in order to illuminate their path of ascent:

The body of the first-created human being was also an act of creation by My love. I then had to create an external shell for the fallen spirit once it had worked its way up from the abyss to a point where it was able to undertake its final test of will in complete freedom .... I had to create forms for all My once created original spirits whose previously dissolved substances had come together again after an infinitely long period of time and who, therefore, as self-aware beings once more, were waiting for permission to become active .... Creating the external form of such an original spirit was no different than the countless many works of creation which had previously arisen .... it was My externalised thought which, through My will, appeared before Me already completed. But giving life to this created form was only possible by permeating it with My strength of love ....

The originally created spirit, however, was My emanated strength of love .... Hence it only needed to take possession of the external form in order to turn it into a living being. The spirit was close to its perfection .... and yet far from it because it lacked final realisation .... because the sin with which it was burdened had completely deprived it of all knowledge and in this state it needed instruction and commandments .... thus it was to gradually mature into realisation by complying with these commandments .... A great spiritual battle had taken place earlier because a large number of fallen original spirits wanted to occupy My first created form .... For they knew that they could only gain access to Me again in the body of a human being, that they would only be able to gain unimaginable abundance of strength and light through a test of life in which they were to prove how they would utilise the strength at their disposal .... But I Myself chose which original spirit should take abode in the first human being .... For only I knew whose opposition to Me had weakened such that the final test of earthly life could be imposed on him; I knew whose will could have resisted My adversary's power. Therefore I chose an original spirit which had once taken a leading position during the spirits' apostasy .... which was indeed more heavily burdened by sin but which My love very much endeavoured to regain, for countless beings would likewise have followed it and the redemption would have progressed far more rapidly .... I have known, in fact, since eternity that this original spirit would fail .... Nevertheless, due to its changed will during the preliminary stages it was the strongest spirit, thus it was also entitled to be the first to receive the state of free will, and which therefore offered the best prospects of passing the test of will ....

The form of the first human being was .... before this original spirit occupied it, also visible to Lucifer, who certainly knew that this form was the gate from the kingdom of darkness, from his realm, into My kingdom, into the kingdom of light .... He also knew that .... if he didn't want to lose his followers .... he had to use every means to wrest the souls back from Me during the human being's approved probationary period, in order to turn the test to his advantage ....

My created form was still without life when Lucifer seized it in order to test it by animating it with his spirit .... yet his untamed spirit burst the form, and he was sure that every spirit banished into this form would burst it and that there would never be any danger of loss for him ....

I allowed this test to happen and then proved to him that his assumption was wrong .... For due to its long process of development the very spirit which was to embody itself in the human being no longer shared Lucifer's will, it willingly occupied the final external form, and since this original spirit was close to its original state it did not consider the external form a shackle to prevent the fall into sin .... For it was master over all of creation, it could rule like a lord over the earth which was at its disposal with every creation .... It had abundant might and strength .... only subordinate to My might, which only gave it an easy commandment, the obedience to which would have broken any constraint imposed on it ....

And when Lucifer realised this he thought about ways to stop the human being from obeying this commandment, and since he knew the first human being's body he tried to make him dislike it by portraying it as a shackle .... by making freedom from it dependent on transgressing this commandment .... and thus incited the original spirit to inwardly revolt against Me again for not having given it complete freedom .... It was a deliberate deception which the first human being could have resisted by merely adhering to My simple commandment .... if he had been satisfied with his possession of might and strength which made him truly happy until My adversary aroused an impure desire in him .... to be greater than the One, Who was a perceptible power above him .... of Whom he knew and Whose commandment he nevertheless disregarded ....

The first human being's fall into sin was therefore a repetition of the original spirit's first fall. It followed Lucifer and drew innumerable beings into the abyss with him .... just as all descendants of the first human being were afterwards also placed into the weak state of sinful people until Jesus Christ came to their rescue, until Jesus Christ acquired the strength of will on behalf of humanity through His crucifixion, until Jesus Christ opposed Lucifer's temptations with His strong will and defeated him ....

Nothing could have induced the first-created being, Lucifer, to cover the earthly progress as a human being as long as he still considered himself lord of the spiritual world which had deserted Me with him, for he himself did not take the course through matter, through creation, before the creation of the first human being .... As a spiritually tangible spirit he was volitionally still My strongest opponent, he deemed himself lord over the creation which sheltered the spiritual substance that belonged to him, although he himself had no influence over it. His inner resistance was still unbroken, and he would never ever have put up with any coercion, he would never voluntarily have entered a form created by My will .... because he hated all forms for the spiritual substances, all works of creation, and sought to destroy them .... However, his power over the works of creation had been taken away from him, but then he was granted influence over the soul when this was to make its free decision again for Me or for him .... He also knew that he was unable to destroy a form himself once it was inhabited by spiritual beings, and for this reason he inspected the first human being's form in advance, for his goal was to induce the original spirit which was to occupy it to destroy its own external form .... because he believed that he would thereby provide it with the freedom which I had taken away from the spirits due to the works of creation .... He wanted to stop Me from completing the plan of Salvation.

The opposition between Myself and him existed ever since his apostasy and will never be given up by him until he realises that he is completely powerless, and in profound weakness and humility appeals to Me to give him strength .... For this reason it would have been impossible to give him the first human body as an abode. For his will did not aim for ascent, whereas the past resistance to Me by the spiritual essence, having passed through creation in the state of compulsion, had already diminished and it was merely to prove just once more that it had abandoned its opposition to Me and My strength of love. And Lucifer knew how far this spiritual essence had already distanced itself from him, and he also knew that there now was a risk of losing it entirely. And since the original spirit embodied in the first human being had once been his staunch supporter he was particularly interested to bring it to fall .... But he also knew of its present desire to become free from every physical restraint ....

And then I placed a second being at this original spirit's side, which simultaneously was to support but also help him with the test of his will. Each one could have supported the other to arrive at the final objective; I did not place the responsibility on one shoulder alone .... I gave the commandment to both, and both were able to attain the goal together .... And this second being was used by Lucifer, who recognised its weak will and thereby hoped to achieve his objective .... The test of will had to be demanded from the first human couple, and in support of this test adverse forces also had to be active, for Lucifer fought for his living creations too, which he did not want to surrender even though they belonged to Me as well. His plan succeeded, nevertheless, it did not stop Me from giving countless beings time and again the opportunity to take on a new form in the human beings of this earth and thus to achieve an ever higher degree of maturity even if, due to the fall of the first human couple, the gate to the kingdom of light remained closed until the arrival of Jesus Christ ....

The first sin had delayed but not cancelled the spiritual beings' redemption, for what the first human being had failed to do was achieved by the human being Jesus .... He was stronger than My adversary for He availed Himself of My strength .... He was and stayed in contact with Me through love and voluntarily accomplished what the first human beings did not fulfil as a commandment .... He completely subordinated Himself to My will and proved His devotion to Me through His suffering and death on the cross .... He knew of the original sin and the first human beings' repeated guilt, and in order to cancel this guilt, in order to redeem humankind, He offered to bring Me a sacrifice, which was satisfactory to Me .... a sacrifice, which opened the gate to the spiritual kingdom again, the path to Me, and now enables all My living beings who acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world to become blissfully happy once more ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Saul-experience .... grace ....

B.D. 5803 from November 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

An unusual experience can always be assessed as grace, because it can always contribute to directing a person's thoughts in the right direction, but it can also just as easily be considered and assessed purely earthly and then grace will also have passed a person by without a trace. And would you humans remember all the events which have affected you yourselves, which have always been conducive to seeking and finding the connection with the one Who directs your destiny .... If you had recognized a finger pointing from Me in every unusual occurrence, then truly no ray of grace would have touched you without influence, and you would feel unusually richly endowed with grace .... But you humans pay little attention to My obvious guidance; you experience everything as a matter of course, and what appears unusual to you is merely coincidence, it is just a strange coincidence of events for you which, however, are insignificant .... You expect signs and wonders .... you claim infallible evidence of My being and My working for each one of you which, however, would not be beneficial for your soul because it would be prevented from its own activity of will and would now be driven by realization to want and act, by a realization which it should gain in order to have a beneficial effect. That which you humans would do under compulsion could not be assessed as a voluntary deed .... Therefore, for the time being I exclude everything that could have an effect on you as compulsion without, however, leaving you empty-handed .... But where a soul is strong enough that it does not consider even a powerful experience as compulsion of faith, there is also no danger of bondage for this soul ....

(12.11.1953) Weak souls would feel impressed by unusual gifts of grace and thus also believe if they had previously been unbelieving .... But a strong soul cannot be shaken, for every event is not 100 percent proof .... Every event that affects a person in an unusual way need not necessarily affect him, for he can find many explanations for it, such as sensory illusion, health disorder, natural phenomenon .... He can explain everything to himself naturally if he wants to, and a strong-willed soul will much rather accept this explanation than believe in a hundred percent proof than in a revelation on My part. Yet his thinking can be shaken by such events which affect him unusually, and he can learn to change his thinking .... He can accept the possibility and now reckon with such a possibility .... which is why his own will still has to decide. Far be it from Me to induce a person to change his will through unusual phenomena, which are described as a flow of grace, such that he thus has to believe what he previously did not want to believe ....

Yet a soul which strives for truth, whose actions and thoughts are based on the will to do what is right .... I come to the aid of such a soul insofar as I confuse it before and it now has to arrange its thinking anew and the human being now finds a happier solution than before. Every unbelieving person is helped by Me to change his thinking through unusual experiences. Yet most blindly pass it by, always looking for a purely natural explanation and contenting themselves with it .... Thus they were touched by a grace which they did not allow to take effect in themselves .... Every man has Saulian experiences that could change him into a Paul .... Saul interpreted his appearances as an obvious revelation, and the voice he heard .... which can be heard in many people's hearts today .... was for him without doubt the voice of God .... But it did not sound any clearer or more convincing than today when I address a person to warn or admonish him, to win him over .... But his ear listened to it, whereas today people close their ear .... His intellect made an effort to draw the right conclusions, thus a slight impulse was enough for a change of will, and he reproduced his experience as it had affected him .... which many people would have passed by without letting it have an effect on them .... I know every soul, and I give to every soul what it needs and serves it for beatification .... yet not every soul accepts what My love offers it .... Not every soul allows the blessings to take effect in itself, yet every soul can receive without restriction .... However, it will never be compelled to accept grace and therefore its freedom of will will never be impaired by such unusual experiences that it has to believe.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Taking refuge in the Father ....

B.D. 5804 from November 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Anyone who takes refuge in Me will not go wrong, for I will always help him even if the help is not as obvious as he would like it to be. Anyone who takes refuge in Me comes to the right place, because I alone can and want to help where human help seems to be impossible. Anyone who takes refuge in Me will feel as though he is My child and can also fully confidently expect of Me the understanding of the Father. He will not call upon Me in vain. Earthly adversities and problems shall impel the person to Me if he does not enter into frequent communication with Me of his own accord. Then I will have to send him worries and afflictions so that he will remember Me and turn to where help will come from. Yet blessed are those who seek contact with their Father of their own accord .... blessed are those who often look for Me in thought and expect Me to talk to them, who turn the direction of their thoughts towards heaven .... blessed are those who do not need earthly adversities and worries in order to come to Me .... blessed are those who cannot exist without Me, who always and forever speak to Me like children to their Father, who therefore already identify themselves as part of Me and try to contact Me .... because I can draw close and reveal Myself to them .... I can give Myself away, that is, bestow blessings without measure, because they are always willing to use them and thereby come closer to Me .... But how often do people fail to find the path to Me even in adversities and worries because they lack faith in the One Who can and wants to help them ....

Being powerless and without strength their misery goes on and on, if only they could still be won over for Me .... or they will receive strength from below, from My adversary, to whom they are more inclined than to Me, because they commit themselves to the world and its commodities and therefore also to the one who is lord of this material world. And then they will be lost for infinitely long periods of time .... Then their distance from Me will increase ever more, and every gift of grace through which I want to help them attain realisation will be rejected by them. Therefore, wherever you humans see adversity and suffering that is where My care is recognisable, that is where I still struggle for every soul, that is where My adversary has not yet attained control and therefore there is still hope that the hardship will let them find their path to Me. And every person suffering hardship should be referred to this One and advised to appeal to Him .... he should trustingly take refuge in Me and I will reveal Myself and show him that I Am also Lord over life and death .... People in serious difficulties occasionally also accept an instruction and grasp the life line, they turn to the One Who is recommended to them as Saviour and as Helper .... And I will truly help them in order to then strengthen their extraordinarily weak faith; I will manifest Myself where I usually keep Myself concealed because I Am not being called upon .... I will truly not keep any of My living creations in distress if it comes to Me in prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer for strength and grace ....

B.D. 5805 from November 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Do not miss, to ask for grace and strength, because such a prayer proves your will for spiritual perfection .... It is the admission of your weakness and imperfection, because you ask for that, what you lack, but what is available to you unrestricted. But I can not supply you the force of grace against your will, to make you not unfree and thus to prevent any completion. As well as you are conscious of that, that you do not reach the height without My help, as well as you recognize Me so as your Lord and God, Whom all is possible, and now you remember your child’s relationship to Me, for that, that you ask Me, as Father, for help, now the presuppositions are given too, which assure you graces in excess .... And then you climb to height irrefutably. You are not able to do anything on your own, and you are powerless through your own fault, because of your past apostasy from Me .... But My love for you is so deep, that I pass over your guilt, that I want to turn gifts of grace to you without your contribution, which however necessitate acceptance of willing hearts .... And you show your acceptance by your prayers for grace and strength, and now you can receive unmeasured. Well I send you gifts of grace without your prayer too, but they can only become effective to you, if you open yourselves, if you do not turn away from Me, so I come towards to you, in which kind it may be. Because your whole life on earth is a chain of proofs of My love, of events, guidances and hints to Me, which all would have to be regarded as graces and which then have an effect on you successfully, if you let yourselves impress by them, if you recognize My hand therein, which is spread over each of you and wants to capture you, so you only turn your eyes to Me and so seize My hand, too, that pulls you to the height. And you do this surely, if ever you only long for My grace, because then I can endow you and will endow you, so that you reach your aim infallibly. Therefore do not miss, to recommend you to Me and My grace, everything you begin, that it is to bless you .... Let Me be your beginning and your end, your constant adviser and companion, let Me be your God and Father, Who is powerful and wise and full of love to you and therefore always will give you, what you ask for with humility ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Apparitions of Mary ....

B.D. 5806 from November 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whatever you ask of Me will be given to you if it benefits your soul. I will listen to every spiritual request, and I will enhance everyone’s understanding. And therefore I will also correct misguided teachings which you humans have accepted. But only few will believe My Words, because people are already too entangled in error that it could be quickly eliminated, although common sense alone should realise the absurdity of what is presented to them as truth:

I truly endeavour that all earthly children should find the path to Me, and I would truly do everything to enlighten them, but I always have to consider the human being’s free will and therefore cannot noticeably destroy a structure which was developed by people themselves .... I cannot forcibly correct people’s train of thoughts, I can only ever provide clarification by which they could learn to think correctly themselves .... if they wanted to .... Especially the will has an extremely strong tendency towards error in many people, and they tenaciously hold on to it. The error consists of the fact that people take a path which does not lead straight to Me .... that they aspire with all their might towards a goal which is more desirable than Me, but which, in human terms, means: You shall have no other gods before Me .... And that is My adversary’s doing who aims to confuse people who want to do what is right ....

It concerns the human being’s decision of will, the choice between Me and him, which is the only purpose of earthly life. In order to displace Me from the thoughts of people who do not obviously belong to him he attempts to give them an apparently equivalent goal worth striving for .... he opposes Me in the disguise of piety .... The achievement of this goal demands full strength of will and undivided aspiration .... hence he takes much time away from people that is apparently devoted to spiritual aspiration. He found good soil for his adverse activity wherever a second image was already established beside Me .... where the worship of God’s mother Mary was already more important than the striving for a heartfelt relationship with Me. That is where he has an easy game, and he appears as an angel of light only to leave people in even more profound darkness ....

The beings of light are certainly able to manifest themselves to people with My permission when severe spiritual hardship necessitates this, but they will always draw their attention to Me, they will try to guide people into truthful thinking .... They will want to change people’s wrong belief but never confirm an already existing error by trying to conform to this error .... And beings of light who want to bring help to people on My behalf, will never announce revelations to immature children, because the purpose of every revelation from the spiritual kingdom is to inform all people of My will .... My adversary, however, only wants to cause confusion; My adversary will prevent everything that could have redeeming consequences. My adversary wants to stop the heartfelt communication with Me .... the prayer in spirit and in truth, which need only involve a few words or heartfelt thoughts .... by making people perform mechanical prayers in order to become credible as an angel of light. And thereby he wants to deprive people of valuable time which they could put to better use for their own perfection if they turned to Me Myself in innocence and love and appealed for My merciful help.

My adversary works with much cunning and trickery .... He has no qualms about shrouding himself with a gown, the gown of the queen of heaven, the purest, most enlightened being who is devoted to Me with glowing love .... who knows no other goal but to guide the people of earth back to Me and who therefore would never appear in order to draw people’s thoughts to herself .... since she knows the purpose and goal of people’s life on earth .... Nevertheless, I do not prevent My adversary’s actions, for all these apparitions are miracles of false Christs and prophets, miracles which surface from wrong thinking and wrong belief, which give him the right and the opportunity to manifest himself, and which only make him stronger, so that misguided teachings will be ever more firmly believed .... Yet I will always take loving care of those who are mislead and of good will .... by entering their thoughts so that they recognise the true goal and, with help of the beings of light who work on My behalf, arrive at the light anyway. But the path of those who are thoughtless becomes very much longer, for unless they remove the unnecessary burden they cannot find the short path, which, however, has to be made even shorter in order to reach Me .... the path of pure truth, by which everyone is able to reach the goal in a short time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Turn of the world .... not world's end ....

B.D. 5807 from November 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The turning of the world does not mean the end of the world .... For My creations will still exist eternally until they have fulfilled their purpose of helping the spiritual beings in the abyss to ascend. Only then can we speak of the end of the world, when everything is spiritualized which these creations needed for perfection. But what lies ahead of you, what you can expect with all certainty, what I let you know through seers and prophets, is a turning point which can certainly be called the end for the inhabitants of earth but which, to put it more correctly, is a total change, a turning point of the existing and a complete transformation of earth's creation .... It is a change from one epoch into a new one .... which means an end of life for human beings as well as for every creature .... which is equal to the end of the world for human beings. The total transformation of the earth's surface with all creations is also at the same time an end of all development of an earthly material kind. Everything that could be thought of progress in the scientific field or human achievements, everything that has been achieved, falls prey to destruction, and all experiences lose their value because no-one can use or apply what was previously regarded as so important that all spiritual striving was forgotten. Nothing of all this will remain, none of it will be taken over to the new earth, even though it will be inhabited by people who have experienced and lived on the old earth .... for none of it will be of use on the new earth and none of it will be needed .... A completely new world will delight the small flock of the raptured, a world which in nothing resembles the old earth, which can rightly be called a changed earth. And the people of the new earth will now understand why there was talk of a turning point... which, however, is never to be understood as the end of the world. Earthly, then, this turning point is recognizable, but even more so spiritually .... The spiritual turning point is the cause and purpose of what is to come .... A spiritual state, as it exists before the end of the old earth, irrevocably entails a dissolution, because something spiritually dead also means the solidification of it and true life can only emerge from spiritual life .... Therefore a turning point must occur where life is no longer conceivable in the completely dead environment ....

It is obvious that the turning point can no longer take place on this earth,

(17.11.1953) for people are becoming more and more worldly, they are increasingly striving for material goods and their faith is becoming less and less, because love is growing cold in them. But love growing cold means hardened spiritual substance or also the rejection of My all-living strength of love .... and thus a motionless state, a complete lack of strength and therefore a freezing in inactivity .... What is still alive will then be doomed to death, but what is now still bound will attain freedom in order to now be able to strive upwards with the aim of final freedom. A turning point has come for the whole of earth's creation, everything spiritual changes its external form, and thus a general ascent is also assured then, because only the positive forces but not the negative forces can be effective, because the latter are bound and completely powerless .... and therefore spiritually only an ascent is possible everywhere ....

Amen

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Duty of distribution .... Warning of unfamiliar knowledge ....

B.D. 5808 from November 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Nothing shall prevent you from supporting the truth you receive from Me Myself. And that which was not given to you by Me Myself should not become the subject of your conversations; you cannot convincingly advocate what I have not given you and only convinced speeches are successful and can result in blessings. The knowledge is inexhaustible .... yet for your earthly life you may only receive information you can make the most of .... And this is the knowledge I convey to you .... always in line with your thoughts and your soul's maturity. I merely want you to live a right and appropriate way of life, hence I inform you of your task on earth and explain the reasons for this task in life. But you should know that you are bound creatures which, however, can release themselves from their bondage of their own free will .... So in order that you strive for and accomplish this release, I provide you with guidelines for your way of life. Your sense of responsibility needs to be aroused so that it will subsequently determine your thoughts and actions .... And, to this end, I truly provide you with comprehensive explanations .... Yet it will only ever be partial knowledge compared to the absolute realisation possessed by the matured soul of a light being in the kingdom of the beyond. Nevertheless, the information I give you encompasses all areas worth knowing, so that you are, in a manner of speaking, completely informed .... and always able to offer an explanation if you are approached for one by other people .... Even so, it would be unwise of you to indiscriminately impart everything you received from Me to fellow human beings who are not mature enough as yet and therefore won't understand it .... You can only ever distribute what is needed by another person .... but this in absolute truth, because you offered your service to Me, and service to Me only ever consists of distributing the truth, because any error has far-reaching consequences .... The knowledge I impart to you first enlightens yourselves, so that you will indeed be able to distinguish whether the other person lives in truth or in error .... So if you discover misconceptions, you should oppose them with the truth because you are entitled to do so, because you are instructed by Me Myself and you can truly only receive truth from Me .... Receiving the truth commits you to passing it on .... this has to be said time after time .... Therefore, you can confidently pass on anything you understand, but do not speak about spiritual knowledge you do not understand as yet .... nor allow fellow human beings to instruct you about something I Myself withheld from you .... Hold on to My Word at all times and keep your ears closed to external teachings .... For if I have not informed you of these, I do not consider this knowledge to be of benefit for you .... I will answer your every question, especially if the knowledge is useful to work for Me again. But under no circumstances should you endorse your own thoughts as truth as long as they are not confirmed through My spirit .... And this is the case if you allow fellow human beings to influence you into accepting and advocating their mental knowledge .... I place the feeling for truth and error into My light bearers' heart and they should always pay attention to their feelings .... they should always earnestly desire the truth and only endeavour to serve the truth, then they will also serve Me and their thoughts will remain free from error, they will be suitable servants for Me and work successfully for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right thinking of a recipient of revelations ....

B.D. 5809 from November 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whose thoughts I reveal Myself to I also guide correctly, for a revelation on My part is an expression of My spirit, which thus influences the human being's thoughts such that he now understands what I want to make known to him. A person who receives My word, who accepts it from Me Myself, must have a certain degree of maturity, otherwise the working of My spirit would be impossible .... and a certain degree of maturity also ensures right thinking, right understanding and right rendering of what the human being received through My spirit. I want to tell you that you may unhesitatingly believe that your own thinking does not distort what is given by Me in purest form .... You may unhesitatingly believe that a recipient of revelations is already trained by Me according to his task and that this can happen because he himself subordinates his will to Mine and the subordination of the will to Mine now also means thinking, wanting and acting according to My will. My will is, as it were, effective in him, and his intellectual thinking will now also correspond to My will, for My spirit controls him and My spirit cannot give anything but truth .... Where I reveal Myself the bond between the human being and Me is already established and therefore purest truth is guaranteed .... And it only remains for you humans to test whether it is Me Who reveals Myself to a human being .... Yet this examination should not only be carried out by the intellect but also by the heart .... you should pay attention to whether you feel addressed, you should let the meaning of a revelation have an effect on you, you should not only examine the sense of the letter intellectually, and you will feel who is speaking to you if you only question the heart. For when I speak to you My address must touch you as strength; but if the words are not of divine origin then your intellect will be more addressed but the heart will remain untouched. But where the heart rejoices and exults, where it happily presses towards Me, there is a guarantee for a flow of strength conveyed from above, for a divine revelation, which therefore also guarantees fullest truth. I want to make you humans happy with My word, and thus you must also be permeated by a feeling of happiness in order to be able to recognize Me Myself in My word .... I want to give you something .... I want to give you My love, thus you must also be blessed by My gift, your heart, if it opens, must also be filled and feel love for the giver .... But all this can only trigger purest truth in a person's heart, because purest truth comes from above, from Me as the original source of truth, and because everything that comes from Me must also have a positive effect on the person. And thus you can already recognize the value of the revelations by the effect alone .... You can recognize by the effect of what is offered to you whether it is to be valued as divine revelation .... You must ask your heart and your heart will tell you, for a revelation on My part only ever appeals to the heart and then to the intellect as well if it joins the heart ....

Amen

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Final rescue work .... Callers and admonishers ....

B.D. 5810 from November 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I want to accept all those of you who want to serve Me. Much work is yet to be done until the end, and precisely for this work I need faithful and enthusiastic servants who are aware of their task and so devoted to Me that they will only ever undertake what they recognise as My will .... but who also recognise people's spiritual low level and their frightening end if they don't change. The end will come without fail because it will be caused by humanity itself, and even if a few people strive towards ascent .... they will be unable to delay the end because these few cannot achieve a complete spiritual change and the whole of humanity would persistently strive towards the abyss .... thus, a change for the better is entirely out of the question precisely because of people's utter decline of spirituality. The end of this Earth will certainly also signify a Judgment .... compensation for the profane way of life, a separation of good and evil .... But far more than that, it will be an act of mercy for the wretched souls in the abyss .... which intends to put a stop to its constant downward striving and therefore it will be deprived of its freedom of will again .... just as it will signify an act of love for the still bound spiritual substance which is still on the path of higher development. Consequently, the end can no longer be prevented .... And yet, prior to this, much can still be done for these downwards striving souls, for people who blindly rush headlong into disaster. Everyone who is being warned can come to a halt, take stock of himself and take a path which leads to a different goal .... every human being can be stopped in his fall into the abyss .... Although anyone who confronts these constantly downwards striving people and cautions them to stop .... who describes to them the horrors and torments awaiting them at the end of their way, who draws their attention to or leads them to the right path, will not prevent the end anymore but he will save individual people from the pit, for as long as a path of ascent still exists it will not be too late for them to look for and to enter it .... As long as the end has not arrived, every individual person can still avert the horrors of the end from himself. For I Am a God of love and not of wrath, I Am a God of life and not of death and destruction .... My plan has certainly been definite ever since the beginning and no-one will be able to overturn it, no-one can intervene in My law of eternal order, but everyone can integrate in this order before it is too late, and it is only too late when the day of the end has come .... For this reason I bless all those who place themselves at My disposal as callers and admonishers, who advise and help, warn and admonish; I bless all those who - taking the right path themselves - also try to entice their fellow human beings to enter it; I bless every act of love that is done with the aim of rescuing people before the end. As long as the Earth still exists it is a time of grace, since every individual can still turn back, come to his senses and change .... For as yet the human being is still capable of thinking and of praying .... However when the last day has come, it will be too late for those who neglected to look upwards .... Therefore you should all use the time which is still left to you and work diligently for Me, because those of you who are knowledgeable shall carry your knowledge amongst the people, and even if only a few seeds fall on good ground and take root .... it is an incredibly urgent and much needed rescue work which requires all your will .... But don't grow tired and complacent, for there is not much time left .... Therefore take action and work while you still have the light of day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5811 from November 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All powers of heaven are subject to you if you need them to work for Me and My kingdom. For they will serve you because you want to serve Me, and they only carry out what they would do themselves if they were active on earth. Therefore, in every earthly adversity which hinders you from carrying out spiritual activity you can call upon them to help you or avert such adversity, and they will be willing and work in accordance with My will, for their work, too, only applies to the lost, their work, too, is the winning of souls for Me and My kingdom. Therefore, keep to those powers which only ever carry My will within themselves. Therefore, only ever entrust yourselves to the good, enlightened spiritual beings in contact with Me if you want to be of service to Me, and no opposing forces will be able to oppress you, for your will, which is directed towards Me, will always earn you the support of those beings which are now active in My will. All the powers of heaven are subject to you .... It is an immense joy in the kingdom of light about an earthly child which consciously places itself at My disposal to work for My kingdom, for now a connection has been created from the spiritual to the earthly world which immensely facilitates the work of redemption on the erring souls, thus, taking into account free will, makes it possible to influence people on earth from the kingdom of light .... And such a connection is protected and encouraged in every way, so that the human being who has offered himself for such work need never fear not being able to carry it out, for he need only request strength and help and it will always be granted to him .... For faithful servants I need very many, thus I will not let any of them be weakened but give him strength in abundance because he uses it for Me and My kingdom .... What is troubling you entrust to Me and believe that My beings of light also know about it and want to help when you call upon them .... Your work shall not suffer any delay in view of the urgency, in view of the approaching end, and therefore all forces shall work together if it is necessary to accomplish a work of salvation which will only be recognized in all its greatness and significance at the end of the earth where the spirits will be separated .... Nothing will be prevented or omitted on the part of the world of light which can still happen for the salvation of erring souls, and no human being will remain without its assistance, which itself pursues the same aim: To do redemption work. All are connected with each other, whether they take part in this work on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. And thus the beings of light are also of one spirit and one mind with Me .... to constantly help those on earth who want to be of service to Me. Therefore approach Me with every request and know that I will never leave you without help, and if you have entrusted yourselves to Me then also give My messengers and co-workers in the spiritual kingdom the right to assist you by handing yourselves over to them and their guidance, by calling upon them for support in spiritual as well as physical adversity. For it is their bliss to be allowed to give love, which they receive from Me in abundance .... It is their bliss to be allowed to work tirelessly for Me and to look after all people on earth who are loved by Me because they want to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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Constant connection with God ....

B.D. 5812 from November 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

My will is that you constantly remain in contact with Me, that you constantly carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love and remember Me in prayer, that you desire My strength and open yourselves to receive it, which you can only do consciously through prayer or through loving activity .... My will is only that you don't exclude Me from your thoughts or make My approach impossible through unkindness. Then you will walk your earthly path without Me, then someone else will immediately join you and try to make you submissive to himself, and then you will be abandoned to ruin. As long as I can still influence you in some form or other .... but this is determined by your own free will .... you are not endangered, for then you will be illuminated by My strength of love which will infallibly help you to ascend; without Me, however, you are powerless and exposed to My adversary's activity who even uses effective means to gain control over you. I respect the least will which turns to Me in order to now also reveal Myself to the human being, yet this will must be present .... The human being is not allowed to show any resistance towards the being Which created him and Which he recognizes as his God and creator .... he must allow himself to be guided, he must want to surrender to Him, the human being must want to gain My affection, then I will recognize his will as being turned towards Me, and then I will always stand by him with help and advice and fend off the attacks of the enemy of his soul .... Then he opens the door of his heart to Me and I can now provide him with My strength of love .... However, people's will is mostly indecisive, i.e. the person lives into the day and only pays attention to what seems advantageous to his body .... He does not mentally deal with problems which could clarify his relationship with Me .... And therefore he not infrequently completely excludes Me from his thoughts without consciously being at My adversary's will .... He lives only to the world and is content with the fulfilment of earthly work and duties .... he does not think .... He does not need to sin against Me, he does not need to act lovelessly, he does not need to be a slave to My adversary yet, and yet he has not yet recognized Me as the aim either .... And this person is in greatest danger of losing himself completely to My adversary, for he unconsciously strives towards him and his kingdom and I cannot help him as long as he does not let Me enter his thoughts, as long as he does not consciously turn to Me in prayer and as long as he only lives for himself but not for his neighbour. And these people are in the majority who are not obviously bad or materialistic and yet only think of themselves, who therefore completely neglect an activity of love and consequently cannot draw strength of love from Me, but who fall prey to My adversary's slightest onslaught, who counts on the human being's selfish love and therefore quickly gains influence .... but which I cannot suppress or ward off either, because I am not called upon for help, because the human being has not yet recognized Me Myself and therefore does not take the path to Me either if he is in need. The connection with Me is indispensable for the attainment of the aim which you humans have set for your earthly life. And this connection first has to be established mentally, although at first it is more of a question than a certainty .... or else the human being has to unconsciously perform labours of love, then he will acquire strength from Me which will gradually also let him remember Me .... The separation from Me gives My adversary the right and the opportunity to exert his influence .... the connection with Me, on the other hand, repels him and renders his activity powerless .... for a person who unites with Me does not react to the influence of his soul's enemy. And this person need not fear being lost because I will not let anyone fall who remembers Me ....

Amen

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Everything only proves God's love ....

B.D. 5813 from November 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I only speak words of love to you, for even if I announce the judgment to you I am moved by love to do so because I only want to warn and admonish you, because I would like to avert the danger for each and every one of you, but which you are approaching because the day of the end is near. My love only ever prompts Me to reveal Myself to you humans, My revelations only ever aim at your salvation, and I only ever want to let light shine into the darkness so that you humans will find the right path and take it. I certainly see people's sinfulness and worldly activities, I certainly recognize their unkindness and ungodly way of life .... and I could truly speak to you as a judge and mercilessly announce retribution to you .... But I have mercy on the people whom My adversary has in his power and who go astray in their blindness and do not know what terrible fate awaits them if they follow the same path and do not let themselves be warned .... The father's love for His children does not respect their sins but seeks to save them, to deliver them from the power of the one who is His enemy. And thus I would also like to snatch the victims from My adversary in the last hour, and therefore I reveal Myself that people look to where My voice sounds from and desist from him, that they turn to Me, heed My voice and turn back .... back to Me, Who wants to prepare a blissful fate for them if only they give up their resistance against Me .... It is only ever love which testifies of Me, even though it is often not recognized as such. The fact that My justice will come forth on the day of judgment is eternal law but nevertheless does not exclude My love, for even then an act of mercy will take place on the spiritual substance which I was unable to win during earthly life. For I seize it again in order to snatch it from My adversary's hands. I take away his power over it, I take it captive in order to once redeem it from him ....

My love lets nothing be lost forever, and My love gives up nothing even if it still resists Me and is turned towards My adversary.

And My love will also one day reach the aim of winning back all My living creations, for what once emerged from My love will also remain in My love forever ....

Amen

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Serious warning before the end ....

B.D. 5814 from November 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Consider the seriousness of the time in which you live, which will soon come to an end and which will be followed by a time of unlimited bliss but also of greatest torment and darkness .... You yourselves prepare one of these two states, you yourselves choose bliss or torment, you yourselves shape your fate in the time to come according to your way of life in the present. You should seriously consider this and then live in such a way that you can only look forward to the coming time in joyful expectation; you should not close your ears when the knowledge of what will happen in the coming time is conveyed to you; you should think about it and draw the consequences; you should be aware of your soul's responsibility to which you prepare the fate when your body has ended its life. Do not live thoughtlessly and carelessly into the day, where the life of the soul is at stake .... Don't let the life and well-being of your body be your greatest concern but think about what will come afterwards .... which is incredibly close to you: earthly death and .... if you humans don't change .... spiritual death, which means the same fate in torment and darkness. What can still happen for your salvation happens because I want to save you humans from this spiritual death, from endless banishment in a fixed form .... Yet I cannot determine your free will, I can only repeatedly point out to you the danger of a wrong way of life and urgently advise you to listen to My words and think about them. The clock is about to run out and you will still be accepted by Me at the last minute .... But don't let this last minute pass by unused, don't throw all admonitions and warnings to the wind, but imagine that tomorrow can already be your last day, and now create and work accordingly .... And you will be eternally grateful to Me if you once recognize the fate I wanted to save you from, the dreadful fate you escaped .... Believe that only My love for you determines Me to send you My messengers. Believe that I don't want to take anything from you but only give you an unspeakable amount, and don't resist My love .... Just open your eyes and ears and consciously experience everything that happens around you .... And you will recognize the truth of My word and awaken and then do everything to save your soul from destruction ....

Amen

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Power of the word last aid before the end ....

B.D. 5815 from November 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Only that which comes from above and points upwards is of value for eternity, for this draws you up and directs your eyes upwards. As long as you are bound to earth by your own desire and thinking, your soul will still be far away from Me and will not seek Me. But as soon as it is offered something from above which directs its thoughts into the spheres it shall one day reach, its ties to earth will loosen and the more often it listens to what is offered to it, the easier it will be able to free itself. On earth it finds nothing that satisfies it completely, even if the body receives what it demands. The soul needs other gifts in order to be satisfied .... it is only touched by spiritual gifts in such a way that it is stimulated to strive upwards .... provided it is not yet completely dulled by the body's desire for earthly goods, which puts the soul into a dead, rigid state. Only when the soul feels addressed does it awaken to life, and this address can only come to it through My word, and only through the strength of My word can it awaken to life. If the soul desires My address of its own accord then it can and will be able to hear it everywhere, even if My word is offered to it through people. But if it is still completely without life, then the word will be .... offered by people .... will not penetrate it .... then I Myself must speak to it so that it will feel My illumination of love .... Then My word must be offered to her through a representative of Myself. I Myself must be able to express Myself through a human being, or also .... a speaker filled with My spirit must proclaim My word to it who will present it to it so vividly that it will feel an effect emanating from My word .... Then I Myself will be able to confront this soul and win it over through loving speech .... even though the soul can still remain defensive if its resistance against Me is so great that it does not want to accept My word either and rebels against every spiritual instruction. Those who persist in their resistance against Me do not listen to Me Myself either, even if I would obviously confront them .... Yet many only need a small influx of strength in order to change their will, in order to strive upwards. And they can receive this flow of strength by listening to My word without a will of resistance. Then the strength of My word can also take effect on them, then the soul will be pushed into a different path on which it will safely ascend. What should appeal to you humans must come from above, it must testify to Me and point to Me, otherwise it will remain without effect .... And therefore My word comes to you from above, and before the end I still give you humans the opportunity to drop the aim you strived for on earth and strive towards the aim which is outside this earthly sphere and wants to receive all of you .... My kingdom, which is not of this world but which you shall acquire in this world .... and which you can also reach if you accept the food which originates in that kingdom .... if you enjoy the bread of heaven which is offered to you in the form of My word and which will truly awaken and strengthen you to new life if only you are of good will and pay attention to everything that is offered to you through My love in the last time before the end ....

Amen

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God's part is in man .... presence of God ....

B.D. 5816 from December 1st 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The spiritual spark in you is My share .... Consider this, that you touch Me Myself in you, that I only hold back My working in you as long as you yourselves are not aware of what you are and therefore do not yet practice the love which first lets you seek and find the connection with Me, from Whom you originated. I am in you .... and only little is necessary to cause Me to work in you. And only little is necessary in order to also consciously feel Me in you, to sense My presence and to hear My voice: .... You only need to live in love and you will truly become aware that I am within you, because then I will reveal Myself to you. Now every human being carries the divine spark of love within himself, for he is strength of love once emanated by Me. And this strength could be unimaginably effective if the being itself did not prevent its effectiveness through inner resistance which betrays itself in unkind thinking, wanting and acting. But My spirit of love is nevertheless in the being, otherwise it would no longer exist, yet it remains silent as long as this resistance is still recognizable, but in order to immediately become active when the resistance diminishes or is completely abandoned. And it is abandoned as soon as the human being .... the being which was allowed to embody itself for the purpose of a change of will .... ignites love within himself, as soon as he willingly opens himself to My strength of love through loving activity .... Then I Myself can reveal Myself to the human being, My share of eternity, My spirit, My strength can radiate through the human being so that there is no more darkness, no more ignorance, no more doubts for him, since the light from Me illuminates everything brightly as the sun, which means clearest realization, deepest wisdom and most comprehensive knowledge, for now the human being shapes himself again into the divine being he was from the beginning .... Now he attains perfection again, which the being once surrendered through its resistance. Only love is necessary to achieve this aim, only love reveals everything to you, for working with love is accepting My strength of love without resistance, working with love is uniting with Me, working with love is proof of divinity .... and since I Myself am love, I Myself must also be in you and reveal Myself to you .... You can certainly reject My love again as a human being on earth, yet then you will remain powerless and of dark spirit, you will remain ignorant, you will not be able to hear My words, although I will still try to influence you but I will not be able to make Myself known to you, for this requires your will .... the will to love and thus to change your hitherto wrong will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Great spiritual need calls for busy vineyard work ....

B.D. 5817 from December 2nd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The adversity of the time dictates that extremely eager work is done in My vineyard, because only through such can this adversity be controlled, because only then will the adversity be remedied if people succeed in winning people for My kingdom, if they pay little attention to the earthly kingdom and only ever try to reach Me. People no longer know much about Me and My kingdom, their ears certainly hear about it but their hearts know nothing and thus they often pass by where knowledge could be given to them, where My kingdom could be made so vivid to them that they would be inspired to seek it. And therefore only one thing is necessary, to present to people the knowledge that an everlasting kingdom awaits them after the death of their body and that this kingdom corresponds to their earthly way of life. People's attention must be drawn to their end, to death, which they cannot escape and which will approach them all extremely quickly; it must be explained to them that their existence does not end with the death of their body, that they cannot pass away even if they have discarded their earthly cover; It has to be made credible to them that there is death but not a complete passing away, and that death is a state of torment, of strengthlessness and lightlessness, but which the soul, because it is incorruptible, has to endure; but how, on the other hand, an exceedingly blissful state, an eternal life in beatitude, can also be granted to the soul if the human being creates and works on earth for life in eternity ..... if he already strives for Me and My kingdom on earth and thus is also introduced by Me into that kingdom after his death, where there is only light and strength and bliss .... Diligent work still has to be done by My servants who only speak on My behalf and for Me, who are to tell ignorant people what they know, what knowledge I Myself have given them precisely for this work in My vineyard. The hardship is unspeakably great because people do not think about their actual purpose of earthly life, because they only live for this earthly world and because they are indifferent to everything that comes after their physical death. Their remorse is immeasurably deep when they realize in the kingdom of the beyond what they were able to achieve and did not achieve through their own fault. And therefore they shall be addressed and made aware of the great responsibility towards their souls, therefore My kingdom shall be presented to them; they shall not remain without knowledge of what is in store for them if they don't change, if they don't direct their senses spiritually but only live according to the world. They shall experience that this world will pass away with all its treasures and that everything their heart is attached to will be taken away from them .... but that which they have acquired in spiritual treasures will remain with them. For no one shall be able to say that he has remained unwarned and unadmonished. Each one shall be made aware of Me and My kingdom through My servants .... and blessed are those who hear and strive to attain My kingdom .... blessed are those who believe what is proclaimed to them .... For they shall live, though they suffer earthly death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Favourable offer by God’s word ....

B.D. 5818 from December 4th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

A truly favourable offer is made to you humans on earth when My word is conveyed to you with the request to live in accordance with My word, for this offers you the guarantee for a blissful life after your earthly death. What you should give is small compared to what you are allowed to receive, yet you first have to be willing to accept My gift, for I cannot create beatitude for you against your will. But again and again My servants approach you and offer you your lord's gifts, again and again the kingdom of God draws close to you, again and again you will be made acquainted with the one Who is able to distribute precious gifts, and just as you then respond to His requests, so will you be considered .... But anyone who rejects My gift of grace will one day have to live in want and enter the kingdom of the beyond in utmost poverty. But examine what is offered to you .... You have the right and also the duty to do so, so that you don't fall prey to a deceiver, so that inferior gifts are not handed to you as genuine and valuable. Don't reject everyone who offers you his gift, but don't accept everything either, for My adversary also makes his way to people and seemingly approaches you with the same gift in order to prevent you from accepting what I want to offer you, from accepting My word, which is not equal to anything that is not from Me. If you reject everything, you must fear that you have also rejected precious goods and will one day greatly regret your resistance to them .... If you accept, check every gift for its origin and its value .... And if you are serious and of good will, you will also have the power of judgement and choose what is right and reject what is unjust .... And be sure that the father in heaven will always give good gifts to His children who turn to Him, who remember their father and ask Him for right food and right drink, who commend themselves to Him and always want to fulfil His will .... But I also meet those who are still far from Me with a delicious gift .... They, too, are My children whose love I want to win and whom I therefore address in order to touch their hearts .... They, too, should examine and not reject lightly, they, too, will be able to recognize who is addressing them if only they want to receive a good gift, for they will be considered according to their will and the blessing of My word will also be according to their will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gift of the spirit .... gift of wisdom ....

B.D. 5819 from December 5th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The gift of wisdom must also be acquired insofar as an activity in love is a prerequisite, thus the human being does not receive this gift arbitrarily but must have been preceded by a life of love which first earns him the gift of wisdom. For wisdom is not knowledge alone .... Wisdom is full understanding of the deepest knowledge, and this understanding requires love .... Knowledge and wisdom are therefore to be valued differently, knowledge can be acquired by every person, and even into the deepest spiritual knowledge he can place himself intellectually, he can have it conveyed to him or penetrate such knowledge through study .... And yet, it need not yet signify the possession of wisdom for him, because this means the awakening of the spirit, because it is therefore, as it were, a gift of the spirit when knowledge has become wisdom for the human being, when he is able to understand everything to the core and can also convey his knowledge so that it will also be understood by other people if he has likewise found enlightenment of his spirit through activity in love. Only then is knowledge life-awakening, only then is it divine truth, a divine gift which cannot be replaced or compared earthly. Hence truth can be offered to you humans, you can recognize it as profound knowledge but nevertheless need not have penetrated its profound meaning, or else .... Only a life of love lets you recognize the meaning of knowledge, only a life of love makes you wise and enlightens your spirit .... But you humans should also strive for the gift of wisdom .... You should not be content with receiving truthful knowledge. You should now also seek to penetrate and correctly evaluate the knowledge, you should protect it from distortion. And all this requires a life of love, and only then will the knowledge also have an effect as wisdom .... For you humans it is the light which illuminates your earthly path, and then you consciously stride towards your aim .... you recognize the eternal truth and strive towards it, you use the gift of wisdom and make yourselves and your fellow human beings happy, who can now also reach the light through you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual pride .... humility is the bridge ....

B.D. 5820 from December 6th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Spiritual pride leads to ruin. Anyone who approaches Me in deepest humility will be welcomed by Me with open arms; but anyone who does not bow down, who believes himself to be exalted, I will overlook him and he will also pass Me by because he does not look for Me where I am. The spiritually arrogant person does not recognize My voice, he does not recognize Me Myself in the words which sound to him and therefore lets them fall on his ear, he does not listen to what could bring him salvation .... he rejects because he believes he does not need to be taught, because he considers himself to be knowledgeable and would also like to fill his fellow human being with his knowledge but does not accept a gift from him .... I cannot approach the spiritually arrogant person because humility alone is the bridge from him to Me, because the spiritually arrogant person is separated from Me by a gulf which only humility can bridge. Arrogance was the cause of apostasy from Me, for it eliminated love, and unkindness will always separate the being from Me. But humility also demonstrates love, it demonstrates the realization of inadequacy and thus also the path of return to Me .... Full of love I bow down to My child which comes to Me in deepest humility of heart and asks Me for mercy and help .... But never will such a request be uttered or even thought by a person who carries the spirit of arrogance within him .... never will he take the path to Me and appeal to Me for help, for he believes he has no need of this help and yet is so abysmally distant from Me that he needs great help in order to ascend again. For arrogance is part of him who caused you all to fall, for he wanted to exalt himself above Me, he wanted to be acknowledged as lord and God of eternity, although he knew that he had taken his beginning from Me .... This arrogance was his fall into the abyss, for it was the opposite of love which I wanted to be testified to by the first-created being. He who thinks himself great is in reality in great depth, he who thinks himself exalted is in reality below the other whom he despises .... Anyone who believes himself to be knowledgeable yet does not walk in humility, his knowledge is false and he is in deepest darkness of spirit, for arrogance is the enemy of truth and right knowledge .... for truth is divine, it is a gift of grace imparted to anyone who in humility confesses his ignorance and desires the truth .... I bestow My grace upon the humble .... the humble achieves everything with Me because he prays simply and sincerely and, feeling his unworthiness, experiences My love and is always willing to give My love to him. And thus only the one who treads the path of humility will find Me, and only this one will receive My grace, My love and the truth .... but never a person who is arrogant in spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Who confesses to Me ...."

B.D. 5821 from December 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Whoever professes Me, I will also profess Me to him and obviously make him understand this .... I will take his worries upon Myself, I will help him spiritually and earthly, I will not leave him in adversity and misery but lead him out towards the light which shall shine for him earthly and spiritually .... And he will be free because I will loosen all his shackles, because I accept him who wants to belong to Me, for as soon as a person has given himself to Me he will now walk with Me, and My ways are truly passable and lead to the aim. But only a person who has detached himself from My adversary, who has seen through his game and detests it, who now also recognizes where light and strength and life are and who now strives for light and strength and life, can profess Me .... This one recognizes and confesses Me, and his share now also becomes his light, strength and life. The person who has taken his path to Me, Who is eternal life, can no longer remain in death, the person who has found the light in Me which brightly illuminates his earthly path, and the person who is now fed by Me with strength, who can receive it from Me in abundance and accepts it as soon as he consciously turns to Me, can no longer be powerless and at the mercy of evil powers. Anyone who professes Me in his heart, not just with his mouth, will also let Me enter his heart and he will then become aware of everything I promise him: light and strength and life .... because these are the signs of My presence and because I am present to everyone who inwardly professes Me, who desires Me and calls for Me. For I am not a phantom .... I am real, and I am there where the mental connection is established with the creator and controller of infinity .... Faith in Me and desire for Me also guarantees this connection and thus also My presence. For then he will profess Me, and then I can also profess Him, i.e. prove My presence to him and fulfil My promise .... to provide help wherever it is and wherever help is desired. But I want to be acknowledged before I express Myself so as not to exert any compulsion of faith on the human being .... but if I am acknowledged then I am truly abundantly willing to give and help and never ever leave the human being .... and his share will be: light and strength and life for eternity ....

Amen

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Course of development .... what success? .... last graces ....

B.D. 5822 from December 8th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

A long way you have had to go, and now it shall be finished .... But what degree of maturity have you humans attained? To what spiritual height have you reached when your physical life is over? How far have you come closer to Me as your creator and father of eternity? How far have you bent your will under Mine and what degree of love do you show Me? All this now decides your life in the spiritual kingdom, for you have finished your walk in the material world .... unless you are still so far away from God that you are destined for a new banishment into solid matter. You humans do not know that you are standing at the end of an incomprehensibly long course of development on earth, you do not know that you only have a short time left until you finally leave this earth. Your ego will then move into a new world, but it will be quite different, depending on the degree of development you have reached at the time of your passing. You had an infinitely long time at your disposal to attain a degree of maturity which ensures you a blissfully carefree life in the spiritual kingdom .... but how differently this time was used .... and how low down most people remained because they did not make proper use of earthly life, because they did not strive for any spiritual perfection. Yet even now they are still given a short period of time which, if they use their will correctly, can still enable them to attain a degree of maturity .... And people do not pay attention to this last time of grace, they do nothing in order to develop upwards .... they still live on earth but in spiritual death .... and the endless time they spent on earth in a state of compulsion was in vain .... Man strives again for that which he had long since overcome: hard matter. And this will therefore become his fate, his lot in the time that will come after this time. People don't know about the long path their souls have already travelled but they don't accept the knowledge about it either if it is offered to them, they don't believe it when their attention is drawn to it by those in the know because their spiritual blindness prevents them from doing so and no light can be given to them other than in the form of speeches given to them on My behalf by My servants on earth. They therefore don't believe it because they cannot tolerate the truth, because with the acceptance of the truth they have to surrender everything else from which, however, they don't believe they can separate themselves .... And if I want to offer them assistance I Myself have to take from them what they don't want to give up in order to make clear to them the impermanence, the transience and decrepitude of everything that fills their thoughts and aspirations. I have to cause them great pain, I have to inflict a wound on them that makes them apprehensive, so that they approach the one Who was hitherto distant from them .... so that they take advantage of the short period of time to heal their sick souls, when the body is powerless to resist, or to hand over body and soul to Him Who can heal everything and restore it to life .... You humans don't have much time left until the end, and obviously I will still intervene in people's fates in order to save them for eternity. For what is on earth will pass away .... but what spiritual treasures the soul still acquires will remain and one day make it happy after its physical death ....

Amen

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Help in earthly and spiritual adversity .... Reciprocated love ....

B.D. 5823 from December 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Break bread with the hungry, share whatever you own when you see someone going short, when he appeals to you for help, and don't fear that you will overexert yourselves, for the measure you use will be the measure you receive, and you will receive in abundance spiritually and earthly as soon as you make good use of the wealth, as soon as you distribute it where it is needed and to where I lead you Myself in order to notice it. I refer more to spiritual than earthly hardship, for the former results in the soul's complete debilitation, in spiritual death; yet you shall also take care of earthly adversity, because you thereby awaken love in your fellow human being's heart and he will then realise in a flash why he experiences worldly difficulties and how he can release himself from them again. And this is why the earthly adversity in the last days will be so great, because I want to save people from the excessive spiritual hardship, which will never be possible if everything earthly goes according to the human being's plan and his sights are steadfastly fixed on the world .... Then I will have no access to their hearts and cannot address them either, I cannot direct their thoughts towards the spiritual realm, for the world will always take precedence and have greater control over people. But when faced by earthly adversity individual souls will indeed take refuge in Me.

Call upon Me for help .... and if they don't find the direct path to Me, if they are incapable of praying because they don't believe in Me, in My love and My might, you will have to pave the way for them by taking loving care of them, which will not remain without impression on a person who suffers great hardship .... which affects him beneficially and can also awaken reciprocated love, which always signifies a small light, a glimmer of realisation, a step closer to Me .... Only in this way can you explain to yourselves the greater than great adversity and sorrow in the last days before the end .... I don't use it to punish but as a means of education, and I only want to take from people what is poison for their souls and in its stead offer a life-awakening drink. I want to heal where My adversary has left deep scars which lead to death .... I only want to save My children, even if the means for this salvation are not understood by you .... I truly know how effective they can be and will apply them where I know My children to be stricken by a severe ailment which they don't recognise themselves and which I would like to cure because I love them .... And you humans shall help Me in this by willingly allowing yourselves to be led to these patients whose spiritual ailment results in earthly adversity and whom you therefore should support with loving and patient help and advice, whom you predominantly should offer the bread of life, so that they can draw strength from it and then also humbly endure what is sent to them by My love .... Consider all who suffer adversity and know that I try to save all those who are not so totally controlled by My adversary that he can amply supply them with earthly possessions .... For they are lost for an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light of truth .... Lamps without oil .... Used garment ....

B.D. 5824 from December 12th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Your work is to illuminate, to carry light into the darkness of night, for you are surrounded by darkness where no light has been ignited as yet. It is night wherever pure truth is not to be found, where people live in error, where they have not yet been correctly informed on the spiritual level .... It is night where the human being’s spirit has not yet awakened to life, which alone ignites the light in his heart .... Whatever spiritual knowledge you humans receive will remain worthless to you as long as you don’t live a life of love, for it will just remain dead knowledge .... But if you look around, you will not be able to find many loving people and therefore not much light either, since love radiates the light in the first place, since the knowledge only comes alive when it has been brought to life by love ....

Wherever love is taught My fundamental law is proclaimed, and there is also truth .... There are the true representatives of Christ and they speak in My spirit .... Whether they succeed in that their listeners will fulfil the commandments of love is up to the latter, but the human being’s state of maturity and thus also his spiritual enlightenment, the complete realisation, the person’s inner illumination, solely depends on his fulfilment of the commandments of love for Me and his fellow human being .... The fulfilment of the commandments of love requires a way of life in accordance with My will, a moving within My eternal order, thus a change from evil into good .... This alone is My will, and My true representatives on earth shall motivate people to do so, this alone is the vineyard work which shall be carried out by My servants, to inform the human being that he can only become perfect through a life of love, that only love can establish the union with Me.

Consequently, anything that is presented to people as My Gospel should only aim to achieve ennobling the human being, transforming him to love, then My servants on earth will carry out true vineyard work .... But why is there so little light on earth, since My Gospel is proclaimed all over the world after all? .... Or is more importance placed on ceremonies than on proclaiming My Gospel? .... Is the proclamation of the divine teaching of love treated as less significant in order to give priority to other doctrines instead? And are people paying more attention to these additional teachings and commandments than to My teaching of love?

Think about these questions seriously and draw the right conclusions from them .... If I make the fulfilment of My commandments of love dependent on spiritually maturing, if spiritual aspiration reduces or even negates earthly adversity, but if you can observe more earthly hardship than ever in the world, then spiritual progress must also leave much to be desired and thus it follows that people also neglect what I repeatedly tell them is the most essential requirement: to practise love .... And thus the Gospel of love is not being preached to people emphatically enough either .... Consequently, there must be too few true representatives of My teaching of love, too few faithful servants on earth of service to Me, even though they all believe to speak on behalf of My name ....

There is too much pretence and too little truth, and death can also be found where I should be proclaimed and where it is believed that I Am proclaimed, nothing is alive anymore but traditional appearance, a mere reflection of what once shone brightly in utmost vitality .... That is why there is no more life amongst people either, no realisation, no truth and no spiritual progress .... all that is left is a used garment which serves no more purpose, but which is kept in exaggerated esteem .... They are lamps without oil, falsely presented to people as sources of light but which are unable to emit even the slightest ray of light. Hence there is darkness everywhere, there is spiritual night all around, and only very rarely tiny lights flare up, only very rarely will a true representative of My kingdom gain access into the darkness with his light .... Yet their light will shine brightly, they will be able to offer clarification and bring the truth .... the light of realisation, which will beneficially affect everyone who is looking for light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No one will enter the kingdom of heaven who pays homage to the world ....

B.D. 5825 from December 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

To pay tribute to the world is to forfeit the kingdom of heaven, since the human being cannot gain both at the same time. And anyone who pays homage to the world will not endeavour to attain the heavenly kingdom either, for he will only recognise the earthly world and its attraction and not believe in a kingdom beyond this world. And yet the path to the kingdom of heaven has to be taken through this earthly world, it cannot be avoided, for the human being lives in this world, he has to cover the last stage of his development on earth, in the midst of the realm which belongs to God's adversary. But he can overcome this kingdom, he can pass through the earthly world without allowing himself to be extraordinarily impressed by it, without coveting it with his senses .... he can experience it and yet be its master ....

And it is your task to overcome the world, for it was given to you as a means for your soul to become fully mature therein, to detach itself voluntarily from everything pertaining to the world, because this separation is at the same time also a separation from the one who is lord of this world, and a turning towards the spiritual kingdom and its Lord. Hence it is understandable that anyone enslaving himself to the world will never be able to take possession of the spiritual kingdom, neither in earthly life nor after the human being's death .... it is understandable that the lord of the world will keep him tied up because the human being gives him the right to do so himself, for the separation from his power, the separation from the material world, has to be endeavoured towards and accomplished by the individual himself.

He has to wage battle against himself; he has to be able to go without in order to gain something valuable, he has to resist all temptations during his short lifetime on earth in order to then take possession of the spiritual kingdom with all its glories, which will compensate him a thousand fold for his renunciation on earth .... And he will only do so if he recognises the irrelevance and impermanence of what he deems desirable on earth. Only this realisation will give him the strength to change his will correctly, and he can gain this realisation by merely contemplating the material world  .... For he cannot be forced to change his will .... he can only be prompted by experiences into inner contemplation, at which point the result is up to him. And God can only help him by time and again demonstrating the fleeting nature of things, so He allows the destruction of what the human being loves on earth, He intervenes by affecting him painfully, taking from him what his heart is set on .... just to point out to him how worthless the goals of his endeavours are.

But those who learn from such experiences can consider themselves fortunate, for they will gradually change the direction of their will and relinquish the world in order to occupy the spiritual kingdom one day .... But no one should believe that he can make compromises, no one should believe that he can pay homage to the world with impunity .... All striving will have an effect after his death, and if it related to the world then it will result in spiritual death, then he will have relinquished the spiritual kingdom for the sake of earthly gain and the world will have brought him death .... Then he will have handed himself over again to the power of the one in the abyss, and the path of ascent will yet again take an infinitely long period of time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fight against truth .... protect the light bearers ....

B.D. 5826 from December 14th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

And when all the powers of darkness fight against the truth, when they want to extinguish the light that shines down to you humans from above, this light will nevertheless break through victoriously and finally chase away the strongest darkness .... For the time is coming when the earth will be bathed in the brightest light, the time is coming when no shadow will dim the light .... when people will be enlightened and all ignorance and lightlessness will have disappeared .... This time will certainly come because My word is truth, because truth emanates from Me Myself and because I therefore guide the light to earth for you as My light bearers, so that you carry it out into the world, so that you fight against the darkness and thus may also firmly believe that the truth will one day prevail .... Yet this is impossible with the present human race, there will only ever be a few who will listen to you and in whom light will now be kindled again and who will somewhat strengthen the weak glow again, yet truth will only shine in all its light on the new earth, because then all people will live in truth as they also live in love and therefore an overwhelming light will also have been poured out upon the earth, before which everything that still wants to emerge as a faint shadow will give way and pass away. Truth will triumph .... however, no longer on this earth where darkness has already become so dense that a light can only hold on with My help, because enemies lurk everywhere who would like to extinguish it and who therefore prevent it from its illuminating power. Yet I protect My bearers of light, again and again I supply the light with new nourishment, and again and again bearers of light meet each other and now increasingly shine into the darkness of night, and these, too, are the phenomena of the last time, that everything is done to prevent the proclaimers of truth from speaking, that the spreading of truth is prevented and that only that which further intensifies the darkness is tolerated and valued .... that people are in the night and feel comfortable and do not long for the bright morning .... For mighty work is being done from below against the truth, against everything that testifies to Me and glorifies Me .... And people are too willing to accept these teachings and views, they are too willing to remain in spiritual darkness so that their shortcomings will not become visible in the light .... But nothing will help them to gloss over their condition on the day of judgement .... when everything will be revealed, people's will, thoughts and actions .... Then an overbright light will uncover everything and expose people, then no man will be able to hide the state of his soul, and darkness will absorb all who did not seek the light on earth .... But eternal light will shine for those who strove for the pure truth on earth and who may now receive it in abundance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Consolating and loving father words ....

B.D. 5827 from December 15th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All of you shall be comforted by My word, you who are sad and afflicted, you who are despondent in earthly adversity and distress .... You shall draw courage from the words which I convey to you from above in the realization of My creatures' state, in the realization of their weakness and loneliness when they do not carry Me in their hearts. I want to promise comfort to all, I want to restore everyone's trust that they will find help with their heavenly father if only they call upon Him. I speak to you from above because you no longer believe the word I handed down to you, because it seems unlikely to you that I take care of My children on earth, that I know about all their hardship and suffering and am always willing to help .... And I want to assure you of this again and only let you know about the conditions that I want to be called upon by you if I am to help you .... I have to impose this condition otherwise My help for you could not result in a blessing for the soul, for if I helped you without your call you would never establish the connection with Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life, and then I Myself would have contributed towards you not reaching your aim. I want you to believe in Me as God and creator of eternity Who is always in contact with the created by Him, Who will never sever this bond and Who only requires of you that you consciously establish this bond yourselves .... that you recognize Him as your father and then trustingly turn to Him in every earthly and spiritual adversity. But because all faith in this has been lost to you I try to approach you through My word and to awaken faith in you anew. I speak to you and address every person directly, albeit through the mouth of servants devoted to Me .... but he only speaks what I Myself deem necessary for you, he only speaks as My instrument, he speaks for Me and in My stead .... But it is My words which you hear, which shall touch you with all strength and entice you to take refuge in My arms in every adversity of body and soul. You who are despondent shall be lifted up, you who are afflicted shall be comforted, you who are weak in body and soul shall receive strength, and you who are blind in spirit shall see, I want to prove My love to all of you through the word which sounds down to you from on high .... For I Myself, as father, incline towards My children who shall recognize Me and learn to love Me so that they may become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faith in God's revelations ....

B.D. 5828 from December 16th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Listening to My voice in intimate union with Me also guarantees that I will make Myself audible to the earthly child. But it must listen inwards, it must wait until I express Myself, it must simply listen .... not think for itself what it desires to hear .... I truly incline Myself towards every desiring earthly child and make it happy with My address if only it presents itself as a recipient, if it lets My flow of love pass over it, if only it accepts what comes to it. But people's faith in My thus promised manifestation of My spirit is extremely weak, and therefore the knowledge received through the inner word, My pure gospel, is far more rejected than accepted. And the belief in it is therefore not represented because people are not correctly informed about the working of My spirit and because love is the first prerequisite for the working of My spirit, but this love is not practiced enough. A correct explanation of the working of My spirit, however, would cause many people to try it out and then happily recognize the truth of My promise .... The faith that I reveal Myself to those who unite with Me in all intimacy and approach Me for My word is very rarely found; however, it will be rewarded by Me all the more because I want My children to request and listen to My words, and therefore I will not let anyone leave Me without My expression of love who earnestly requests it and listens to what I have to say to him. But don't anticipate, wait patiently for My address; be quiet and listen, for it is a most delicious gift which I want to impart to you but which can only be given to you if you fulfil the condition: to open your ear to Me in faith and love, the ear of the heart .... if you are willing to receive this delicious gift from Me, which demonstrates My love for you .... which only I Myself can distribute, because I alone am the source of all life and wisdom. Come with open bowls to receive the blissful drink at the fountain of life .... the living water which is indispensable for you if you want to attain eternal life .... Come with a longing heart and draw from the spring which will never run dry as long as you desire to be refreshed and strengthened, let it be offered to you and receive the delicious gift with a grateful heart .... but don't mix it with additives which would only make it inferior, for there will always be people who seek their food elsewhere and then also want to offer it to you, who try to persuade you to partake of it but which does not serve your soul as food .... Come to the source where the unclouded water of life is offered to you, and believe that I Myself will open the source for every person who only asks Me for it in faith and love, believe that I speak to everyone who desires to hear Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is the word .... address of God ....

B.D. 5829 from December 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I, your God and father of eternity, approach you humans in My word .... For I Myself am the word, and thus when you listen to My word you have let Me Myself speak to you; you have entered into direct contact with Me, and now you can speak of My presence, of a proof of My love and care for you .... yet only ever when you let My word resound in your heart, when you listen to it or read it in thoughts of the one by Whom you are addressed .... when you let the words penetrate deep into your heart and they don't just fall on your ears .... Whether I am livingly close to you is for you to decide, but My love is always ready to speak to you, to give you proof in the form of My word that I am real and true and seek contact with you. Thus you yourselves determine Me to reveal Myself when you desire to hear My word. Yet I also come to My earthly children without being called in order to remind them that they should establish contact with Me .... I also speak to those who do not yet consciously request My address by directing their eyes to My representatives in the midst of the human world's hustle and bustle, who proclaim My word even in the midst of the world .... I win over some people, yet for the most part they pay no attention to the words which sound to them and which originate from Me Myself. Some, however, sense that I Myself speak to them and they let My words penetrate their hearts, and they also respond to My words, they take the words to heart and make an effort to live in accordance with them, they also want to feel My presence themselves, they unite with Me in thought and I will never let them go. People don't know how easy it is to make contact with their God and father of eternity .... they don't know that they need only open themselves for the time being when I speak to them, and that they can always persuade Me to speak to them through conscious will .... that I show them the path through My word on which they will safely reach the aim of earthly life under My guidance, yet I don't stop calling them or letting callers step into their path so that they become aware of My love and My care and pay attention when I speak to them Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Forerunner .... Proclaiming Jesus ....

B.D. 5830 from December 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Humbly strive to become My true children but don’t aspire to extraordinary knowledge which is of little use for the perfection of your soul. For the least and the smallest in My kingdom is greater than he who deems himself superior, humility is of extremely great value in My kingdom, and there is no space for arrogance. However, you must make a distinction between truly great and arrogance .... you must make a distinction between what is great and what seems great. For whatever is great before Me will be appointed by Me as ruler over whole worlds and their inhabitants, it will govern infinite creations and countless living beings with Me and within My will .... and yet it will not be arrogantly spirited .... But even he who deems himself great believes himself to be entitled to govern, yet he will never ever scale the height which would guarantee him a position as ruler, for I know every being’s innermost attitude, I know where true humility exists and where My will alone fills a being.

And thus I say: There is no being on earth with such an abundance of humility that I could inaugurate it as a ruler over the worlds in the kingdom of the beyond .... For this humility is spiritual and a being like that is so closely united with Me that it would be unable to live on earth. For everything in its environment would radiate in brightest light. These beings had already taken the path across earth which resulted in their total spiritualisation on earth .... They will never ever return to earth but constantly influence the earthly inhabitants .... they send rays of light to earth because they are permeated by a greater than great will to love and their will to help lets them be constantly active in a redeeming sense. And thus every individual person can be extremely strongly influenced by such a being of light .... but that doesn’t mean that the soul of this person is a soul of light having descended from above .... Understand this correctly .... many souls of light embody themselves on this earth for the sake of a mission .... Yet they are still approaching their final perfection as a child of God, which they can certainly attain by fulfilling such a mission .... Perfected children of God, however, only affect people from above but strongly influence certain people if the conditions to do so are given .... i.e., in order to be able to be active in the redeeming sense on earth ....

Even so, one spirit of light will be allowed to descend to earth .... My forerunner, who wants to announce Me Myself before the end .... He will proclaim Me. He will once again prepare the way for Me, for this has been My will for eternity, because he has been devoted to Me from the start, because he has been a fighter for His Lord from the beginning .... It is he whom I have chosen to be My vassal, to be My herald, who always announced Me by exclaiming it to the world when I approached people, who preceded Me as the voice which told humanity to pay heed to Me .... He fought on My behalf and he will always speak up for the name of his Lord .... Thus he is the ray, the light which I will send down to earth ahead of Me, and he knows of My coming, of the end and of his task on earth, for he will recognise himself for who he is .... And he is so profoundly devoted to Me that his mouth only speaks My name, that every breath of air only glorifies My name, that every beat of his heart only beats for Me, Whom he will overzealously proclaim on earth and for Whom he will also give up his life when his mission is finished .... Hence he is the one who will live on earth shortly before My second coming, and due to his modesty people will not recognise him until he starts to speak in order to announce the One who will follow him. Then My Own will suddenly realise who he is, yet My adversary will not recognise him .... However, he will speak up irrespective of his own danger; he will proclaim the imminent end to people, he will tell them to repent, to seek God and the salvation of their souls and to despise the mammon .... He will announce Jesus Christ to them again with a voice of thunder, and everything that will help to glorify Jesus’ name will be done and said by him .... He will be My forerunner in the truest sense of the word .... he will be the one who will open paradise again to all who believe his words, who faithfully wait for Me to deliver them from utmost adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light messengers .... busy work in the last time ....

B.D. 5831 from December 20th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Many messengers of light walk this earth but humanity does not recognize them as such. There is only a small circle of knowledgeable people who know because love was able to kindle light in them and thus they also recognize My messengers if they approach them with increased light. And thus My small congregation will still increase until the end of this earth, and such souls which have not yet made the final decision will be constantly wooed. And also the forces in the spiritual kingdom promote the redemption of the bound on earth by bringing together those who need help and can bring help, by always kindling and radiating more light and always standing by the workers in My vineyard. For the last time is predominantly for the last work of salvation, and although it seems as if an ascent can be recognized in an earthly sense .... this is only a confirmation, a further sign of the coming end; for the deeper people's spiritual state sinks and thus the end will surely come about. But the lights which are kindled shine ever brighter the nearer the end is .... And even if the prince of darkness tries to extinguish them .... the luminosity is too strong for him to succeed in spreading darkness over them. There are powerful souls of light who take action against him, who dazzle him with their light and who also offer help to people who strive towards the light .... which illuminate their path so that they find their way out of the night. My messengers of light on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom are under My blessing, and their activity will not be in vain even if the flock of My own is not large. The time is approaching its end, but then there will be no more darkness on earth, then everyone will be in the light, because on the new earth all people will be directly instructed by the messengers of light from My kingdom, because the light from the heavens will irradiate the new earth, because everything of dark spirit will be bound for a long time and will no longer be able to oppress people .... because there will be a paradise on earth again where all adversity will come to an end, where people will dwell in light and peace and all will be of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Birth of Jesus .... light .... (Christmas .... )

B.D. 5832 from December 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You shall all return home to the father, and you shall all be eternally blessed .... And in order to achieve this aim I do everything because I love you from the beginning and will love you for eternity. I will never allow My adversary to take possession of you forever, because you are children of My love and love never ever renounces what is its share .... And thus you will also understand why I Myself descended to earth in the midst of My adversary's world to My living creations which had separated themselves from Me. My adversary wanted to dispute My share, he wanted to keep it eternally separated from Me, and he had My creatures under his control. Therefore I had to release them from this power if I wanted to bring them back to Me again .... For this reason I descended to earth, for My love drew Me to the wretched man and wanted to give him inconceivable happiness again .... And My love found a way to return the fallen one to the father's house .... I Myself took all guilt upon Myself towards My adversary and paid the purchase price to him for all souls in the depths .... I sacrificed Myself, I gave My life on the cross .... And thus I manifested Myself in a human being because the sacrificial work had to be done in the midst of people and because only that which was visibly happening to them could have meaning for people .... because people themselves would have had to pay the guilt and because such an atonement .... made by people .... would have meant endless suffering and pain in earthly life, which My love wanted to relieve people of. I came to earth .... Love took on a human form; in the infant Jesus My spirit of love took abode for the purpose of a unique work of mercy. For what the man Jesus took upon Himself and wanted to accomplish was so immense that it was only possible through My strength of love, which the man Jesus acquired in excess in order to be able to suffer and die for His fellow human beings. He accomplished the act of salvation with Me or I accomplished it Myself in the man Jesus; thus I became a human being .... Jesus became God because He contained love in all its fullness within Himself. There is no greater mystery than God's incarnation in Jesus, and yet this mystery is also comprehensible to the human being who has grasped the concept of 'love', who seeks the reason in My infinite love for My living creations that eternal love embodied itself in a human being Who achieved His own deification of His own free will through love .... I could only manifest Myself in such a human being, and I proved to people through an unusual birth and its accompanying symptoms that I had chosen the right external form for Myself .... that only a sinless form could be My abode, but which now had to voluntarily shape itself such that it became and remained the vessel of divine strength of love, even when opposing forces acted upon it and tried to displace Me from it. Jesus, the human being, had to strive for and achieve deification and, as a human being, redeem the guilt of sin, yet love determined His act of salvation, which He could never have accomplished without love. Deepest darkness had covered the earth before, for all people were still at the mercy of the prince of darkness who did not allow any light to reach them .... Then the light descended from above .... and brought light into the darkness, so that it should never go out again. And anyone who remembers the divine redeemer, who allows himself to be redeemed by My love, who places himself under His cross and who walks the path that Jesus walked, will walk in the light .... the path of love and suffering ....

Amen

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Lord's day .... commandment .... ?

B.D. 5833 from December 22nd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You shall celebrate the day of the lord .... This is what you have been commanded, so that you humans will not forget Him Who created you, Who is your father, to Whom you should return again after an infinitely long life .... This commandment should be unnecessary for you, for you should constantly remember the eternal God, because everything you experience and every work of creation around you reminds you of Him .... truly, no commandment should be necessary but you should turn your thoughts to Him of your own accord, and you should not let a day pass by without having entered into intimate contact with Him .... Every day should be a day of the lord for you where you commend yourselves to His love and grace in heartfelt prayer. But a commandment had to be given to you humans so that the time of lukewarmness would be bridged, so that you would be reminded of your actual task to make your God and creator the content of all your thoughts and striving. Therefore, as long as you have not yet recognized the purpose of your earthly life, as long as you are still distant from God, as long as He has not yet become your father, you must be urged to occupy yourselves on one day with such thoughts which are spiritually directed; you must hear or read about Him to Whom you owe your existence, you must learn about His will, and it must be presented to you what you should do in order to come close to Him, in order to become blissfully happy .... Therefore the commandment was given to you humans to keep the lord's day holy, to take a day of rest after the days of work and on this day of rest to seek contact with your God and creator .... This day should always return, it should become a regularity for you as long as you do not yet urge yourselves to make every day you are given a 'lord's day', so that even in the midst of your work you send your thoughts up to Him, that you commend all your thoughts and actions to Him, that you let Him be present to you at every hour, that you are in intimate contact with your heavenly father, that every separation between Him and you is abolished .... that you live and create on earth in and with God .... Then every day of your life will truly be a day of the lord, a true holiday for the soul which always dwells with Him even though the body is earthly active, and then you will truly not need a commandment, then only your heart, which is filled with love for the father, will command you, and then you will serve Him joyfully and eagerly without commandment, you will be active for Him because you are driven by love, because you have now found your way home to your father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine guidance ....

B.D. 5834 from December 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I want to lead you, I want to go ahead of you, and you should follow Me so that you will also reach your aim .... And you will then let yourselves be guided by Me if you subordinate your will to Mine, thus strive to fulfil My will. Anyone who occupies himself with Me in his thoughts, who consciously or unconsciously acknowledges Me that he considers himself dependent on the power Which created him, who now subordinates himself to this power, accepts My guidance and he is truly on the right path, even if he does not see his companion .... I am nevertheless with him and he will not take a step on his own authority but I will guide him as is beneficial for his soul's salvation. And he can carefree entrust himself to My guidance, one day he will recognize it as good and successful when he has finished the earthly path and arrived at the gate of the beyond. You humans are never without guidance, yet forces also offer themselves who do not know the right path themselves, who are blind themselves and therefore cannot guide you. Therefore you should not leave yourselves unquestioningly to every guidance but always call upon Me Myself and want to be guided correctly. For this is decisive as to whether you will be guided by Me, whether you will be led into the path of those who have sight and can provide you with a good guide .... For these are My servants who are active on earth on My behalf and therefore also only carry out their ministry in accordance with My will, to whom I have indicated the path they are to lead you. You will never have to miss My careful guidance if only you request it .... I will always be called upon if you stray from the right path and want to return, for your call will always reach My ear as soon as you want to follow Me. And I don't want you to go astray, therefore I offer Myself to you as a guide, I don't want you to wander in vain if you have taken a path which does not lead to the aim .... Yet your will must also be willing to accept My guidance, because then you will only react to the slightest guidance .... because then you can only be guided properly when you are without resistance .... when you follow Me of your own free will .... Yet you will never regret it, for you would never reach the aim I lead you towards on your own, yet it is My kingdom with all its glory, which I promise to those who walk in My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The infant Jesus ....

B.D. 5835 from December 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

A Saviour was born to you, the Redeemer, Who descended from above in order to set you free and bring salvation to you. You humans suffered utmost adversity for you were held captive by Satan, you were in his power and lacked the strength of will to free yourselves from him .... Your souls were ailing and a Physician had to come to heal you; a strong Saviour had to come to release you .... One had to come to bring you peace .... Salvation came to earth in a child Which was born in the midst of you, Which, in great poverty, came into the world in a stable. Yet His birth alone already testified to His divine origin, His extraordinary task and His great love for people, for an exceedingly bright light shone above the child, and this light entered into the hearts of those who were allowed to behold it and who recognised His divine mission. For the eternal Light Itself came to earth, It shone in the darkness which had cast a shadow across the whole earth .... The eternal Love had embodied Itself in the child Jesus, and the ray of love shone brightly in this significant night when the child Jesus came into the world. And the human race should have rejoiced and cheered about the eternal Love's act of compassion to descend to earth and to bring light into the darkness. But humanity kept its eyes closed so as not to have to see the light, apart from a few who knew of their Saviour and called for help, who cried for a Saviour and gladly opened themselves to the light from above ....

And to these few the eternal Love came to help, and it came to pass what seers and prophets had proclaimed a long time before .... The Messiah came into the world, the Bringer of light .... the Son of God came down to earth, He wanted to redeem the world from sin because he took pity upon humanity which, bowed down with sorrow, almost broke down under the burden of sin and was unable to defend itself against the constraints placed on it by God's adversary. These constraints caused humanity to stray increasingly more towards the abyss, as it obeyed every command by the enemy of souls because it was too weak to resist .... which thereby only increased its burden of sin from which it would never be able to release itself .... The Son of God descended to earth .... A most elevated being of light from God, Which knew of the fallen beings' hardship, offered Itself to carry the infinitely great sin on behalf of humanity and to redeem it through a self-sacrifice on earth as a human being, through suffering an extremely painful death on the cross .... This being of light took abode in the child Jesus in order to accomplish Its mission to redeem the human race from sin and its consequences .... And the brightest light shone forth when the child was born, a light which called all those of good will, who waited for their Messiah and who beseechingly prayed to God in their distress. It was an act of grace of inconceivable significance, for the whole of the universe participated in it .... Heaven and Earth touched each other at the moment of Jesus birth .... the bridge was established from one kingdom to the other .... war was declared on God's adversary by the man Jesus, Who indeed remained victorious. For He fought for and with God, Who had sent Him to earth and taken abode in Him, Who permeated Him completely .... thus God manifested Himself because He, being the eternal Love, was able to take complete possession of a human being Who had unfolded the love within Himself to utmost perfection .... Who had shaped Himself into a vessel for the divine spirit, into the shell of the eternal Deity .... He could justifiably say 'The Father and I are One'. He brought people redemption, He gave them light, He brought Salvation for their souls, for through His crucifixion he became victorious over the one who wanted to keep the souls in the abyss and from whom people were unable to release themselves on their own .... He became their Redeemer, their Saviour from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Primal light from eternity radiates light ....

B.D. 5836 from December 26th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The abundance of My light shall outshine you if only you believe in Me without doubt and want to accept the light of eternal truth from Me Myself. For every ray of light emanates from the original light .... But what does not emanate from Me is not light .... it does not spread brightness but could only dazzle in order to leave behind even greater darkness. But I, the original light from eternity, want to kindle bright light in people's hearts, I want the ray of light to touch them as a blessing, I want it to illuminate their path which they still have to walk on earth .... so that they will walk it safely and without getting lost .... for they shall reach the aim, they shall find Me, they shall long for ever brighter light in order to finally merge with the original light of eternity and be eternally blissful .... For light is life, light is bliss, light is truth .... Light is knowledge of the deepest connections between the creator and His creature. To dwell in the light is a divine state which all of you humans should attain because this is your destiny from the very beginning. And thus you will now understand that only the connection with Me, the original light, ensures your light transmission, for in order to be able to receive something emanating from Me contact has to be established with Me .... Thus you will never be able to reach the light as long as you keep yourselves isolated from Me, as long as you don't believe in Me, as long as you don't open yourselves as a vessel into which My strength of light and love can pour. And this is your own will that you open yourselves, that you prepare your heart to be such a vessel, that you shape it into a temple in which I, the eternal light Itself, can be present and now illuminate you from within .... that I can kindle a light in you which shines brightly and illuminates every corner .... You shall attain the knowledge again which was lost to you due to your former fall into sin. And you shape your heart into a temple of God if only you keep My commandments, if you fulfil My commandments of love .... Then you will do everything that ennobles you, you will purify your hearts from ignoble desires, from vices and depravities of all kinds, you will cleanse them from all dross and adorn them with the virtues of righteousness, mercy, gentleness, peaceableness, humility and patience. You will only ever work in love and draw Me to you, because My love can now no longer resist your love. And once you have won Me I can shine My light into you in all fullness, and then the gates to eternal beatitude will be opened to you, then you will already dwell in My kingdom, even if you still live on earth, and radiant with light you will cross over into the spiritual kingdom .... And you will know everything that was previously still hidden from you and be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious reminder to accept the divine word ....

B.D. 5837 from December 27th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should not lightly reject what is given to you by Me, for it is a most precious gift and one day you will bitterly regret it when you have recognized it as the right means of help to ascend, which you spurned and therefore had to suffer. Accept the gift I offer you, don't be stubborn because the way of imparting it doesn't appeal to you or makes you doubt it .... accept it and examine it for its intrinsic value, and your heart will let you make the right judgment as soon as you are only willing to do what is right. Yet you harm yourselves beyond measure if you miss out on nourishment for your soul which strengthens you and lets you mature; nourishment which My love gives you because you are weak and miserable in your soul and because you cannot attain eternal life in this weakness. You are weakened beings as long as you live on earth without strengthening from heaven .... I alone can impart to you that which strengthens your soul and helps it to ascend .... You must receive the nourishment for your soul from My hand; it cannot be given to you by people on earth who do not possess it themselves .... But if they are in possession of this delicious food themselves, you will also recognize that it is the same food I offer you from above. There is only one thing that can be offered to you as food from heaven .... My word, which always and forever remains unchanging, which comes forth from Me in all purity and has to be received by you humans with desire and gratitude if it is to have its full strengthening effect .... And therefore you should receive it directly from Me, you should draw the refreshing water of life from the source of life, you should not close yourselves off if it also wants to penetrate your hearts, for you should know and appreciate that it is My direct address, that the connection from Me to you is established through My word .... You should appreciate this unusual gift of grace. But how empty you will end up if you reject this precious gift, if you believe that you can find a substitute elsewhere, if you exchange My gift for worthless spiritual knowledge from which you cannot draw any strength and which is completely worthless for the maturity of your soul .... Keep to My word alone, open your heart wide when I speak to you, when My gift from heaven is imparted to you, and let Me warn you to thoughtlessly reject what can never be replaced for you if you have entered the kingdom of the beyond in spiritual adversity. Recognize Me and My immense love for you when I Myself descend to you in the word and believe that I only want to help you, that I want to remedy your weakness and hardship on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Asking the blessing for everything you do ....

B.D. 5838 from December 28th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All your efforts are in vain if you don't ask for My blessing, if you don't first commend yourselves to Me that I Myself work with you. For only My cooperation will ensure the right success and the success of what you plan. Everything is done in vain if My blessing does not rest on it, and My blessing can only come upon you if you submit everything to Me and My will. And you, who are diligently active on earth and create and work, but not in connection with Me, your God and lord, your creator and father of eternity, should consider this. You, who stand apart from Me because you don't acknowledge Me, because you don't believe in Me and cannot gain this faith either because you don't have the will to do so, you believe yourselves capable of only exploiting earthly life for your selfish purposes .... I will not prevent you from your plan, and you can also gain treasures to the greatest extent .... earthly treasures which make you believe to be abundant and powerful .... But if My blessing does not rest on them they will only be detrimental to you, spiritually and earthly, for even if the body has an advantage the soul will only be burdened by that which serves the body's well-being. But My adversary creates the body's comfort in order to keep the soul in darkness and not to lose it. If only you humans wanted to believe that you only harm yourselves if you live on earth without Me .... if only you would recognize how much right you thereby grant My adversary and voluntarily give him what you deny Me .... You cannot become blessed without faith in Me, and you do not live forever on earth .... Therefore, whatever you achieve on this earth is useless for eternity if you exclude Me, if you don't request My blessing, which at the same time secures you protection from the enemy of your souls. You live indifferently and My name is only empty sound .... and if you think of Me because you have been taught about Me there is nevertheless so little faith in you that you are not afraid of the account you have to give to Me. And therefore you live your earthly life irresponsibly and can no longer make up for what you neglected in earthly life .... For time is irretrievably lost .... But if you would only seriously think about your creator for once, then the right thoughts would come to you because I will send them to you as soon as you seriously consult yourselves .... Yet you refrain from everything that could bring you closer to Me, but you use all your strength to create and work earthly and thereby only hand yourselves over to the one who will draw you down into his kingdom again, from which you have already descended .... You must not switch Me off if you don't want to get lost again for an infinitely long time .... You must believe in Me, your God and creator, you must call upon Me for My blessing, whatever you undertake .... But then blessings will also blossom for you, and then you will create and work for eternity, and your soul will reap the wealth you have acquired on earth .... goods that will last for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Withdraw of strength from the word of God ....

B.D. 5839 from December 29th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

Always draw strength from My word and know that you need it, for whatever you start will only result in your salvation if you make use of My strength. Let Me speak to you first, or you can speak to Me yourselves so that I can answer you, so that I can give you My strength .... And thus I only say again and again, don't exclude Me from your thoughts, don't believe that you are able to use your strength alone, for you can also use your life energy, which is at your disposal, in the wrong way and then it will have been worthless for your soul. But I constantly provide you with strength by sending you My word, from which you can withdraw the strength if you need it .... You all value My word far too little, you all possess something precious and use it too little, and therefore your soul suffers hardship .... Don't sever your connection with Me but make it ever stronger so that you can feel secure, so that you will never be without strength; for you are surrounded by enemies whom you must oppose with My strength if you want to be victorious over them. You are surrounded by dark forces which try to push you away from Me. How do you want to resist them if you are powerless yourselves? Always request My strength and receive it by letting Me Myself speak to you. And no power of darkness will ever gain control over you. Only he is victorious who makes use of My strength, and only he makes use of My strength who constantly turns his thoughts towards Me and who therefore starts everything with Me and never walks without My blessing .... I speak to him at all times and his heart will not need to tremble, for it receives unmeasured strength and grace from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... Fighters for God ....

B.D. 5840 from December 30th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

I have trained an army of fighters for Myself who have taken on the fight against the enemy of souls and against all those who harass you in their unbelief and are therefore against Me. They all belong to My adversary's camp. My fighters, however, have Me as their Commander-in-chief and I will truly lead them to victory in the last battle on this earth. For it is certain for you .... the battle of faith, which is about to happen to My small flock in which they will have to prove themselves and from which I Myself will rescue them, as I have proclaimed. This time of trial is yet to come to My Own and therefore they will have to be extraordinarily strengthened in order to persevere, because My adversary will proceed in a fierce and most brutal manner against them to make them falter in their belief .... Yet their contact with Me will give all of them remarkable strength .... And this is why I keep cautioning you: Hold on to Me, don't let go of Me but join Me ever more firmly, establish a heartfelt connection with Me so that you can send your thoughts to Me at all times, as soon as the slightest resistance arises in you, which is always My adversary's doing .... You can achieve anything, accomplish anything and overcome anything if only you allow My presence within you, which is already guaranteed by your sincere will to be and to remain My Own. Your intimate thoughts, a prayer in spirit and in truth, and constant activity of love also assure you My continuous helpfulness, My strength of love and My grace.

And thus you are always equipped and able to cope with My adversary's every onslaught, for then you will no longer fight him on your own but will have Me by your side, and he will take flight from My ray of light with absolute certainty .... And you will always be able to triumph over him as long as you stay with Me, as long as you are protected by the shield of faith and of love .... If, however, you let your eyes wander sideways, if they are turned towards the world and you lower the shield that protects you .... if you only exclude Me for a short time and thus let the world step between Me and yourselves .... then you will be in serious danger, and I want to warn you of this like a loving father warns his children not to go their own way but always to stay with the father so that he can protect them in case of threatening danger .... They are merely calls of love which I repeatedly send to you because I Am concerned about your salvation and because I want to spare you every unnecessary fight, for I know your heart's innermost sense of purpose and will not let you go astray. Yet you could make your paths very difficult if you pay no attention to My Words. You shall be and remain My fighters and ought to prepare yourselves for this final battle on earth. And this requires that you do not sever the connection with Me, that you don't go anywhere without Me, that you are so devoted to Me that you desire My presence when and wherever it may be .... You must accumulate a large supply of strength which will then never diminish again when you start your final battle .... I will truly lead you to victory, as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sylvester message .... final notice ....

B.D. 5841 from December 31th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You are approaching a difficult but also a blissful time, for the difficult time will not last long in order to then give way to the time in paradise on the new earth which will compensate you for all suffering on this earth. But even for the difficult time before the end the strength will come to you from above, and therefore you need not fear it, you should just prepare yourselves for it so that it does not find you weakened through your own fault. Do not seek the pleasures of the world in the time to come, for this means a weakening of your spiritual strength, and only this will help you against all kinds of resistance. What this world offers will not last, but what awaits you in the other world, in paradise on the new earth, cannot be compared to the stale worldly goods, for you will be immeasurably happy and have no offence to fear, for they are .... although earthly material again .... yet heavenly goods which can only be given to you in a certain degree of maturity .... And therefore see to it that you attain this degree of maturity, humbly take upon yourselves all heaviness and overcome it and remain faithful to Me .... call out to the father like children when you are in distress and don't let anything shake your faith. Only ever seek Me .... and you will recognize My presence by unusual strength, you will master all difficulties of earthly life, and your inner life will also be full of light, and the earth with its people hostile towards Me cannot harm you, for then you will already be in My kingdom .... you carry My kingdom within you as soon as you allow Me Myself to dwell in your heart. You are facing a difficult time .... yet it need not be difficult for the individual if only he attunes himself correctly to Me .... You are all addressed by Me, yet only those who listen to Me are blessed by My address .... But he who listens to the world, who turns his eyes towards it, does not listen to Me .... He will seemingly have an easier life but it will be empty and worthless in the end, for the earthly world will pass away and the paradise on the new earth will remain closed to him .... he himself will become matter, which alone he desired. For I can only consider you according to your own will .... You cannot possess what you never strive for, you must bear the consequence of your wrong will and thinking yourselves, and if you let yourselves be captured by the world you must remain in its bonds .... Yet to My own I call again and again: endure this short time, for for your sake I will shorten the days, only remain faithful to Me, don't let yourselves be blinded by the deceptive light of the world .... renounce so that one day, when the time of suffering is over, you will be able to draw with full hands .... Believe My words that I Myself will lead you out, that I Myself will fetch you and rescue you from greatest adversity, but prepare yourselves for this difficult time, then you will not find it so difficult and await My coming in hope and confidence, you will remember My promise and patiently wait for its fulfilment .... and you will receive your reward in paradise on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New Year's message .... light into the darkness of the night ....

B.D. 5842 from January 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Through night you shall reach the light .... what is dead shall come to life .... what is distant from Me shall come close to Me .... what is burdened with sin shall be set free and find forgiveness. For My love gives you grace without measure, and My mercy offers you help, so that all of you may rise from the depths to the heights .... The night of the spirit shall be broken through, and the rays of light from above shall bring hope to people who dwell on earth as well as to the souls in the beyond who are still in darkness. My love constantly sends them rays of light too, so that they long for light and can then also receive it. Everything unredeemed languishes in chains from which it shall be released, and everything redeemed lovingly endeavours to bring redemption to those. In the spiritual kingdom as on earth light is carried into the darkness, for only where there is light is there also bliss; only where there is light does the soul breathe a liberated sigh of relief. Every soul is allowed to enter the radiant realm of light, but no soul is forced to do so .... And that is why there is still so much darkness on earth, because people don't take advantage of this privilege and because they are not forcibly determined to turn towards the light. Yet everything is done on the part of the world of light to touch their hearts with a ray of light in order to determine people's will to strive towards the light .... And this is why I often let unusually strong lights flash because humanity walks along with closed eyes and has to be awakened from a state of sleep which can also lead to a state of death. And these unusual rays of light of brightest brilliance and strongest luminosity sometimes cause a flight from darkness towards this radiant light. I know where the prospect exists to help a soul to the light without forcing it .... and My love and grace comes towards these souls so that they do not sink into the deepest night .... Most of these are souls which are capable of love, where only the final impetus is missing for the light of realization to break through in them .... but which have such a dense wall in front of their eyes beforehand that a strong light is needed to penetrate this wall .... But I know the hearts of all people, I also know the state of soul of the souls in the beyond .... I know when the light can be supplied to them, to what extent it is of use to them and when they are ready to escape the night. And I truly do everything to chase away the night where I discover the desire to catch a ray of light. But you humans will still often see unusual rays of light flashing, in the coming time you will be partly startled and partly delighted by phenomena which are My work and which are nothing other than stars of light in the darkness of night which point to Me and are intended to awaken or strengthen your desire for light. For I can only give you according to your desire .... but so that you desire you will be illuminated with My light of love .... and anyone who feels beneficially touched by it will never ever lose the light, he will step out of the dark night into the bright morning where the rays of My sun of love will now shine upon him with such warmth that he will happily expose himself to them from now on .... And the day will never end, for now My sun of love will illuminate him eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of faith .... Healing the sick .... Miracles ....

B.D. 5843 from January 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 63

You will be able to work with inconceivable strength if you call upon Me for help with profound faith. You must be motivated by love to request this strength of Mine, your faith must be so strong that you will not hesitate for a second when you think of helping a person in need. Then you shall work in My name and you will be impelled by My spirit to do so .... Therefore, do not believe that you take the right to do something that does not correspond to My will, but do without qualms whatever you feel impelled to do and you will succeed. For I have guaranteed you My strength if you are of strong faith. And it is My will that your fellow human beings shall be persuaded of the strength of faith in the last days before the end, hence I will not let you be harmed if you want to serve Me and at the same time your fellow human beings. But I will never give My blessings for actions of self-interest, destruction or heartlessness .... Understand that love has to be the driving force and motivate you to request My strength, never hatred or an urge for revenge, for only love moves My spirit into action. And only through love can you unite with Me so that you then can also partake of My strength. And this love lets your faith come so alive that you no longer doubt the success of what you want to achieve. This also explains the many healings of the sick which are accomplished in My name.

Then I Myself Am called upon for help, My promise is being appealed to 'Ask, and it shall be given to you; knock, and it shall be opened to you .... ' and with complete faith in the truth of My Word anyone who is lovingly taken care of by the healer will be healed, for the latter will have handed himself over to Me and I will truly be with him in My strength .... he can cure him because he can make unlimited use of My strength. Profoundly faithful people can therefore work on earth for the benefit of their fellow human beings, for they are permitted to do so as soon as they associate it with a living testimony of My name, as soon as My name is thereby glorified .... as soon as it happens in order to help people who strive towards Me gain a firm and indisputable faith .... and not in order to force disbelievers into believing .... Complete unbelief is an obstacle for the working of My spirit .... And the confessor of My name will either be restrained by My spirit from working miracles while watched by a non-believer or the latter will substantiate any healing with natural explanations .... Yet in the last days the weak shall still be won over by overcoming their resistance through the strength of faith of My Own .... And therefore many a miracle will be accomplished in My name in the last days, so that those of weak faith shall be strengthened in order to then be able to believe with conviction and to stand firm in the last battle on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Acknowledgment or rejection .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5844 from January 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 63

You humans can only acknowledge or reject Me. The latter merely proves your complete unbelief and will have very painful consequences for you, for the rejection of Me means that you are still completely under My adversary's control and openly oppose Me. However, acknowledging Me means being fully and completely on My side and also having entered My eternal order, acknowledging Me means believing in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world and living as a disciple of Jesus; acknowledging Me means striving towards Me, the eternal Love, which is only possible through living a life of love, since only this establishes the union with Me .... And thus it will also be understandable to you that I only recognise a Yes or a No and that I cannot be deceived by evasive Words which are used when I Am only professed with words voiced by the mouth without any involvement of the heart .... You do not acknowledge Me if your way of life does not reveal your serious striving towards Me, if your way of life lacks love, if you do not hold My image in your heart, if your faith has not yet come so alive that you eagerly work at improving your soul, if you do not turn to Jesus Christ imploring Him for help and grace, if you walk along without Jesus Christ .... In that case, all your words which intend to demonstrate belief are mere empty phrases, which do not deceive Me regarding your true state of soul and which are synonymous with rejecting Me .... The person who acknowledges Me also lives with Me, time and again he makes contact with Me in thought, he enters into heartfelt dialogue with Me, he lets Me speak to him as his Father for he feels himself as My child, and thus he belongs to My Own who I have won back forever. He belongs to those who are redeemed, for he was only able to attain the strengthen of will to reach Me through the grace of the act of Salvation .... Understand .... the path to Me can only lead through Jesus Christ .... No one will reach Me and no one will strive towards Me either if he has not requested the blessings Jesus acquired .... who therefore consciously places himself under the cross of Christ. For he can only seriously strive towards Me when he has come alive through the blessings of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a visible God for you humans. Yet ask yourselves whether and to what extent you seriously strive towards Me, and don't believe that you can be counted as My Own if you are not yet permeated by My spirit of love, if you only outwardly want to show your faith in Me but your way of life lacks all contact with Me .... Words alone will not do, and the affiliation with a Christian denomination does not make you aspirants of My kingdom if you have not yet found the path to Jesus Christ, if you have not yet seriously called upon Him to take mercy upon you who, without Him and His Salvation, are still enslaved by the adversary .... You must recognise yourselves as being burdened by guilt and confess your guilt to Him and appeal to Him for salvation for the sake of the blood He shed on your behalf .... Then you will belong to those who voice a loud Yes when the Father's call of love rings out, you will belong to those who hurry towards Him, who have separated themselves for good from My adversary, who love Me with all their heart and enter into marriage with Me .... who will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Predetermined fate .... God's love and help ....

B.D. 5845 from January 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

I come close to the sick and weak in order to heal and strengthen them .... I come to the saddened and oppressed in order to comfort and assure them of My support .... I take the victims of persecution into My arms so that they may find a home again with Me, and I lift up the fallen to help them find a foothold again and become happy. I come to all who merely call upon Me with a thought, who believe in a God and Father, who don't reject Me when I want to help them .... And they can all consider themselves fortunate that My ear hears their call, that My eye sees their tribulation and that My heart belongs to them because they are My children .... because they believe. Yet I also approach all unbelievers, I try to make Myself known to them as a helper in order to stimulate them into appealing for My help or into gratefully accepting it .... indeed, I often approach the unbelievers in the form of adversity and grief so that they shall remember Me, Whom they certainly know of yet don't want to know. For no human being is entirely without knowledge about the Creator and Provider of all things .... However, many lack belief in the connection between the Creator and His living creation, and this unbelief prevents them from looking for the connection which, however, would convince them of Me and My activity, and could also convince them of the immense love which connects Me with all that is created ....

This faith makes the human being very happy and also lets him find the path to Me as soon as he is in trouble .... Or the adversity would be insufferable were I not aware of it and unable to provide My help wherever there is faith. The fact that there is always a way out, that the time of adversity and suffering is repeatedly succeeded by an endurable period of time again is not coincidence, not a matter of course .... It is My intervention, My guidance, it is My reign and activity, which is distinctly recognisable in a human being's fate. And every person's course of fate should lead to faith in Me, yet anyone who does not acknowledge Me also rejects a predetermined fate, he tries to explain everything as being due to his own strength or lack of strength without realising where he receives the strength from and why he can also be weak .... The acknowledgment of Me and a call to Me would truly result in a substantial change in his thinking as well as his spiritual and earthly state during his life on earth .... I won't deny Myself to anyone who calls upon Me, yet I hold Myself back where I Am met by open resistance, where the rejection of Me is so extensive that even physical adversity will not result in any change of mind. And then there will be great danger that the one who has achieved his goal in displacing Me completely will intervene .... And he will provide amply in earthly life in exchange for everything that could lead to life in eternity .... He poisons the soul and subjects it to a death, which is far more painful than the most arduous earthly life, for this comes to an end but the soul will have to suffer forever .... until it acknowledges Me one day and appeals to Me for help .... which it will also be granted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine revelation grounded in His love ....

B.D. 5846 from January 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

I am the eternal love Itself, Which draws close to all creatures, Which bends down to the lowest fallen in order to lift it up, Which is full of mercy and only ever wants to please, Which condemns nothing forever, Which is only ever ready to save and does everything that serves healing and relief .... and Which will never cease to reveal Itself. In My infinite love alone you will find the explanation for everything .... for the great adversity which weighs upon humanity, for the unusual happenings of every kind and for My obvious working amongst those who want to be My helpers on earth. I alone know what is in store for the whole of humanity, I alone know what fate every soul is facing, and I also know which souls can still be saved and in what way, by what means I can still bring help to those souls before it is too late. And I use these means because I take pity on every soul which is approaching a dreadful fate .... because I love it .... As long as you humans don't know about My overwhelming love you cannot understand that I take hold of every hand which offers itself to Me for cooperation .... You cannot understand that I bless every good will .... But consider that you humans are all My creatures whom I want to change into My children, and that the great distance from Me requires other work than that which needs to be done for those who are already closer to Me .... who believe in Me and in this faith are also in contact with Me .... But do you believe that I will let the others fall if there is even the slightest chance of saving them from the abyss? But to bring light to them, to illuminate the path, to direct their eyes upwards is a work which can only be carried out with special strength, for those who descend into the abyss must be well equipped, they must possess much light and strength themselves and be able to give it away if it is needed .... I wrestle with My adversary for every soul, yet I Myself cannot confront those souls, I don't want to blind them with My abundance of light .... And yet I Myself confront them in the word which is offered to them by servants devoted to Me .... Thus I Myself must make use of the mouth of those, I must veil My light with a human form .... Through them I want to find access to those who are still distant from Me, who wander about without faith and whom I want to draw to My kingdom, which is not of this world .... Understand that these very people need other means to come to faith .... that they need stronger light because it is completely dark around them .... Understand that these are also children of My love, that I also want to win them over, that My word must penetrate with all its strength if they are to be impressed by it, that I Myself must speak to them because they do not listen to it when it is offered to them in the hitherto customary way .... And I will not leave any opportunity unused to still influence people in the last days without, however, affecting their free will. I will distribute unusual gifts of grace because unusual darkness is spread across the earth .... and because hell has released all its forces to rage against Me, My kingdom of light will also be open to counteract and also support all who serve Me and want to bring help to erring souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Belief in Jesus Christ .... Christ's suffering ....

B.D. 5847 from January 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

No person on earth is able to judge Christ's suffering as Jesus experienced it, because the physical pain was accompanied by indescribable spiritual torment, for which a person has no understanding as long he himself has not been spiritualised. No person will therefore be able to claim of having suffered the same agonies, because the agonies of soul far surpassed the physical pain .... since Jesus carried humanity's entire burden of sin and was the centre of the battle against evil forces which He had challenged Himself. This darkness made his soul of light tremble and His soul suffered far greater torment than His body .... And this appalling agony is inconceivable for you humans, even though you know of it, hence you will only realise the magnitude of His act of Salvation in the spiritual kingdom, when your soul is enlightened and it is shown the inconceivable act of compassion .... As long as you live on earth you should simply believe in Him, you should envisage the love of Jesus, the human being, Who took upon Himself an exceedingly painful death merely to help His fellow human beings in their spiritual adversity .... You should envisage that He suffered innocently, that He Himself was the purest and kindest Being on earth and that He, on account of His boundless love, was also full of strength and power .... and yet He forfeited His strength in order to suffer on your behalf .... You should .... whether you can empathise with the depth of His suffering or not .... place yourselves consciously by His side, you should not keep a distance, for through His crucifixion He calls you to Himself .... He only wants you to acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... that you believe in His mission, that you believe that God Himself was in the human being Jesus and that His suffering and death on the cross was only permitted by God so that humanity would be redeemed, that the atonement was offered to God for a transgression which could not remain unexpiated according to divine justice and which people would never have been able to absolve themselves of .... You humans should believe that the mission of the man Jesus consisted of bringing God's love and His righteousness into harmony again and so to re-establish the order which had been revoked through the past sin of rebellion against God .... You should only believe that every human being requires salvation through Jesus Christ, that Jesus' crucifixion was not merely a historical event but had a spiritual reason .... You should believe that Love descended to Earth in order to redeem you humans. And you should believe that Jesus, the human being, so abundantly loved God and His fellow human beings, that the Eternal Love was able to manifest Itself in Him and that all miracles and Jesus' wisdom can only be explained in this way .... You should simply believe that Jesus' crucifixion was more than a historic event .... and draw your own consequences from it, i.e. by placing yourselves under the cross of Christ and know that you, too, belong to those for whom Jesus accomplished the act of Salvation. You should acknowledge Him as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... Then your faith will result in your soul's redemption, for it will detach itself from the opposing power, it will feel itself looked after by the Saviour Jesus Christ, for it will learn to love Him and only want to live to please Him .... it will avoid sin and do good works, it will give itself to the One Who has set it free .... and it will profess His name before the whole world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Outpouring of the spirit .... faith and love ....

B.D. 5848 from January 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Ask for My spirit and I will lower it upon you, as I have promised you .... For this request will not remain unfulfilled because then you desire the connection with Me and you have already passed your test of will on earth .... because then you will have turned away from My adversary and towards Me, because the request for enlightenment through the spirit is a full concession of your will to return to Me .... and because I gladly give you what proves My love for you: My strength, which is now effective in you .... The human being will only request My spirit when he acknowledges Me, when he believes in Me as a supremely perfect being Which is related to himself, and when he wants to have this bond proven .... not in doubt but out of longing for love for Me .... For then the human being asks for an expression of My presence, the human being asks for a sign of My love and My spiritual care .... he asks for something to remedy his shortcomings, he asks for light and thus acknowledges Me as the source of light. He wants to be enlightened by the eternal truth Itself by having his thinking illuminated by My spirit .... To voice this request also requires a living faith, a faith which has attained that strength through love that the human being consciously establishes the connection with Me through his call, that he thus prays to Me in spirit and in truth .... For I only speak of the request which is not just thoughtlessly spoken, which I do not pay attention to .... The heartfelt prayer for enlightenment of the spirit will always reach Me and be granted, after all, it is the beginning of constant contact between Me and the human being on earth which will result in undreamt-of success, because now My spirit can constantly work in the human being and guide and teach him. But faith in the working of My spirit in the human being first has to be gained, and this faith is not often found because people are still too distant from Me and therefore ignorant and because being far from God also means lightlessness. Therefore the prayer for the outpouring of My spirit is already a sign of nearness to God, it is already a sign that a ray of light has touched the heart of the one who prays to Me like this. And this person will never fall back into darkness, he will not distance himself from Me again, he will always come closer to Me because the spiritual spark in him pushes towards Me, because once he has been awakened into God's presence, he will always come closer to Me .... once it has been awakened to life .... incessantly impels the human being to strive towards Me, and because I then let My spiritual strength flow in and draw him to Me, for the change of will has now taken place, which is the purpose of his earthly life, and My living creation returns to Me as My child .... For the human being whose spirit is enlightened now recognizes the right path which leads to Me, home to his father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love commandments .... overcoming self-love ....

B.D. 5849 from January 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Anyone who only cares about My commandments of love also lives to please Me .... I ask nothing else of you but that you shape yourselves into love, because only through love can you deify yourselves, because only through love can you revive all the powers in you which were lost to you through your past sin of turning away from Me, which lie fallow in you until you are again what you were from the beginning .... Love-filled beings full of light and strength .... The demands I place on you through My commandments of love for God and your neighbour are truly not great, for in earthly life you have so many opportunities to be active in love, they approach you as it were of their own accord, and as long as you don't harden your heart the activity of love is not difficult for you. And it will be the easier the more you overcome your self-love. So overcoming this is the actual task for you. And you have to fulfil this task yourselves, you have to work on yourselves, look critically at your thoughts and actions and always want to do what is right before Me .... And then I will also look at you with eyes of favour and help you if only you have the will not to grieve Me .... thus love for Me has already flared up in you. You will always know what is right and what is wrong, and your self-love should not be so great that you choose what is wrong because it is advantageous for you. Anyone who wants to walk right always thinks of Me first and only then of himself, and he will also find it easy to prove love to his neighbour. To love Myself and My neighbour is the basic law which certainly results in a change of nature. And these two commandments of love include everything that is necessary for your maturing on earth .... For anyone who practices love acquires the strength from Me to carry out the work on himself .... anyone who practices love also matures in knowledge, and he now consciously lives as it pleases Me .... For this reason I only ever teach love and also instruct My messengers to mention the commandment of love first and foremost, because without love no ascent is conceivable, because without love there is no connection with Me which, however, is absolutely necessary in order to receive strength, and because without love you will remain in the far distance into which you fell due to your past apostasy from Me. But I want you to unite with Me again .... I want you to shape yourselves into divine beings again and therefore only ever admonish you to practice love and to pay attention to My word, which only ever contains My commandments of love and which is your task in life to obey if you want to enter bliss again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Good will recognizes revelations of God ....

B.D. 5850 from January 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

In heaven and on earth My will alone is determining, and everything approaches humanity as it corresponds to My love and wisdom .... No-one, neither the people on earth nor the blessed and unblessed beings in the spiritual kingdom, can oppose My will as long as I apply it .... And I let it be active as long as it serves My creations for the best .... And for as long as it serves My creations best .... And for as long as it serves My creations best, everything of substance must also fit into My will .... But I also know when it is beneficial for the beingness to move, act or refrain from acting according to its own free will and discretion. Then My will steps back to give the being the possibility of a free decision. Now on earth the human being's free will shall decide, and therefore you humans on earth will rarely be able to expect or observe a conspicuous will-determining intervention on My part, for this would neither correspond to My love nor My wisdom .... otherwise people's degree of maturity would probably look different .... but a becoming perfect would be called into question .... And this is why I will always present My revelations .... which would certainly be suitable to have a determining effect on people's will .... to you in such a way that free will will not be forced or influenced in any way, that they will not compel faith but the human being can freely decide to accept or reject them. Yet whether a revelation originates from Me .... whether I reveal Myself to people on earth will always be judged by a good will, for this strength emanates from every revelation of Mine, so that a person of good will feels touched, thus addressed, by Me .... For this reason, however, My revelations in the last days before the end will not penetrate much and will receive little attention, because most people are no longer of good will during this time .... This is a harsh saying which people would like to reject unwillingly, and yet only a few people have a good will, a will which they unconditionally subordinate to Mine, that they completely surrender their own will in order to only allow My will to apply .... And I cannot give these people more obvious proof because it is not Me Who wants to change their will but they have to do so themselves. Yet I avail Myself of the few who unconditionally submit themselves to Me, and I let these speak in My stead .... For My spirit can work in them, and thus I nevertheless also speak to those who doubt .... yet I will always respect the human being's free will and not confront them extraordinarily, for I would have gained nothing from those who only believe when My working is proven to them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dead in Christ .... rapture ....

B.D. 5851 from January 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

When we speak of the resurrection of the dead, we mean the awakening of the spiritually dead who can still attain this awakening in the kingdom of the beyond, after their earthly death, because the work of redemption continues uninterruptedly on the part of those who have already found redemption through Jesus Christ, who have already risen from spiritual death on earth or in the beyond. Not one of My beings remains in the state of death forever, again and again those who follow the light of Christ's cross and thus rise to new life are wrested from the night of death. The raising of the dead on Judgment Day is therefore only a spiritually understandable process, for just as My coming in the clouds can initially only be understood spiritually, that I descend to people in the word in order to initiate a last rescue action before the end .... so also I descend into darkness, into hell, and let rays of light flash there too, I also hold out the cross to the beings of darkness in order to illuminate their path to Me, and this rescue work will not be unsuccessful either, and many will rise from their graves to life. But those who want to remain in darkness, who do not want to acknowledge Me, these are not the 'dead in Christ' .... They cannot be transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and it is these who must begin their course of development on earth again, who will be bound in the firmest matter of the new earth .... 'Dead in Christ' therefore are those redeemed from the depths, as distinguished from those who have already found Me on earth, who stand in living faith in Me and in the end will be taken from this earth as My children, as it is written .... for I will come again in great splendour and glory .... and I will fetch My own and transfer them in a living body to a place of peace .... I will come again as I once ascended to heaven .... in the most radiant light and visible to My own .... And My spiritual return in the word and in the hearts of people shall make it possible for these My children to shape themselves in such a way that they can behold Me, for only those people will be able to see Me who have consciously become Mine through a way of life in love for Me and for their neighbour .... So that those of good will can transform themselves into beings of love and light, I will first send them the strength, I will convey My word to them, which is strength from Me in supreme effectiveness. And anyone who accepts it in faith in Me and the truth of My word of eternity will also expect Me with conviction and I will not disappoint him, for the day of the end is irrevocably coming, the day of the rapture of My own and the resurrection of all who found redemption through Jesus Christ on earth or in the spiritual kingdom will come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Ask and it will be given to you ...." - "Come to Me, all of you ...."

B.D. 5852 from January 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Just turn to Me in all hardships, spiritual or earthly, and I will help you, for I have given you the promise: Ask and it will be given to you .... knock, and it will be opened to you .... And therefore you will not call upon Me in vain if only you fully believe this promise of Mine. I alone can help you and I also want to help you because I love you. But you often don't recognize My help and therefore not My love either, yet no call to Me will go unheard if it is sent up to Me in spirit and in truth .... Entrust Me with what oppresses you, yet also believe that nothing will come upon you but that which can bring your soul salvation. And already the connection through prayer, which is the result of this adversity, is a plus for your soul, for it confesses Me through prayer and can now also be considered by Me according to its faith. Don't let yourselves be depressed by any earthly adversity, for you have one Who can take it away from you at any time and Who has given you this assurance with the words: Ask and it will be given to you .... And if you are in spiritual hardship, if you call upon Me to help your soul, then know that I will listen to you extremely willingly and that no spiritual request will remain unfulfilled. But you are in spiritual distress when your soul is oppressed by darkness, when it lacks light, when it lacks My strength of love, when it feels oppressed by forces of darkness .... And then every call to Me also means immediate help, for I will not leave you in the soul's adversity if only you faithfully call upon My name, which is the epitome of redemption for you from death and sin .... from darkness and weakness .... and you will experience the power that lies in the naming of My name; you will be helped in every adversity if only you devoutly pronounce My name, thereby expressing your faith in Me as redeemer of the world .... I took all the sufferings and all the sins of humanity on My shoulders .... I bore them for you humans .... and thus you may also burden Me with all your sufferings and hardships if you are in danger of collapsing under them. I will not leave you in adversity because I have promised you My help with the words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...." Believe and you will be helped, for My power is unlimited and My love never ends, My love is for all people who call upon Me in their distress ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Threads from beyond to earth ....

B.D. 5853 from January 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Countless threads run from the spiritual kingdom to earth, and everywhere human hearts are influenced in a redeeming sense. Especially in the last days it is a great effort to open a human heart for spiritual receptions from above, for the world spirit has priority and the world spirit closes the doors of the heart, and only rarely does a being of light succeed in sinking a few rays into a human heart and illuminating it a little from within. Yet the efforts of the beings of light are not unsuccessful .... and thus sparks of light are already shining everywhere on earth which, although they only ever spread a faint glow of light, nevertheless break through the night so that every willing human being can also find and walk the right path which leads out of the night towards the bright morning .... Wherever a light has a special illuminating power, wherever everything is clearly and brightly revealed which the darkness of night should veil, ever greater attempts will be made to extinguish such a light .... yet the prince of darkness will not succeed, because this effort will spur the beings of light into ever greater activity and spraying sparks will kindle new light again .... Eternal truth will win the day,

(14.1.1954) for the closer it gets to the end the more the beings of light unite for joint activity, so that ever brighter lights shine forth whose rays also have the strength to break through the darkness, or also .... once the truth can be guided from above to earth, there the guardians of truth will also keep watch and influence the thinking of people who are of good will. The battle between light and darkness increases with the approach of the end .... the forces of hell rage .... but the world of light is superior to them in strength .... It only respects people's free will, who should freely decide for light or darkness. But where a light has been kindled the prince of darkness has lost his power, no matter how often he tries to extinguish the light .... As soon as his hour has come, the light bursts forth radiantly .... Then the decision will have been made, then the truth will be revealed, then God's adversary will have no more power, and then he who has made the right decision will stand in the light; but darkness will receive all those who opposed the light .... Then the battle between light and darkness will be over and peace will be on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Acquiring the spiritual kingdom on earth ....

B.D. 5854 from January 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

My kingdom is not of this world, but it can only be acquired in this world .... For if you want to become children of God, if you want to be able to take up your father's inheritance, thus to rule and reign with Me in My kingdom, you have to acquire the right in this world, for at first you are My living creations who still have to gain your childship. Earth is not the kingdom which you should take possession of forever, but My kingdom is the spiritual world which is permeated by My light of love, which offers bliss without number and which is your true home .... The fact that you have to acquire the right on this earth to eternally inhabit this kingdom of My light is the result of the fact that you once voluntarily left this kingdom of Mine and that it can therefore only be returned to you if you prove yourselves in a test of will .... And this test of will has to be passed on earth, in the midst of temptations of all kinds, in the midst of a kingdom which is your task to overcome but which you may never make the aim of all your wishes and endeavours, otherwise you will lose your right to My kingdom again and remain bound by the lord of this world for a long time, whose creations are all bearers of the spiritual substances which still belong to him. It is his world, although he has no power over any earthly creation .... yet all creations are shells of the spiritual substance which once fell away from Me and which I want to enable to become free again and one day enter the spiritual kingdom. But you humans on earth should strive for something higher, you should certainly walk through earth as a training station but with the success of maturity for My kingdom, which will then make you unspeakably happy. As long as you are without realization of your actual earthly task, the earthly world may well be desirable to you, yet again and again you will be reminded that you have a task to fulfil on earth .... If you now pay attention then you will also certainly attain realization, and if you then want to do the right thing, if you want to fulfil the will of the one Who gave you life, then you will also strive for My kingdom and overcome the earthly world, for it costs overcoming all your earthly desires .... it is a battle you have to wage against yourselves, and My kingdom can only be seized by force, My kingdom is to be acquired, thus something has to be exchanged for it .... something must be given away which belongs to this world; the soul must voluntarily part with it in order to then receive something far more delicious .... spiritual goods which secure its entrance into My kingdom and signify inestimable wealth for the soul .... Nevertheless, I do not make too great demands on you, and it is possible for every individual to become an aspirant of My kingdom, which is not of this world .... For I help you as soon as you sincerely want to become My children .... I help you because I love you and want you all to become blissfully happy, and because only My kingdom can grant you these beatitudes. I help you because I want you to return to your father's house as My children and, united with Me, can now work in bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distress of souls in the hereafter .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5855 from January 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Visualize the hardship of the souls in the spiritual kingdom who are imperfectly secluded, who had no faith on earth in a life after death and who now see themselves displaced into dark, desolate regions without light and without peace .... They wander around and cannot find their way, their fate is a sad one, for they are mostly lonely or together with equally unhappy beings, and because they lack all faith they do not take refuge in God either, for they arrive on the other side just as they left here and their thoughts still go in the same direction as on earth. They only believe themselves to be displaced and don't think about how such a thing could have happened .... And therefore they are in great spiritual distress and know no way out of it. People who are not followed by loving thoughts into that kingdom can often remain in this situation for an infinitely long time, and these souls are extremely pitiful, yet they can only be helped through intercession, so that they receive the strength to direct their will correctly .... But if a soul follows thoughts which are willing to help, then it also feels them to be beneficial and constantly stays close to those from whom the flow of strength emanates .... Then the soul will also find a way out of its situation more easily, it will not sink into an apathetic state but easily allow itself to be guided by helpful leaders. Faithlessness demands the most sacrifices, for a soul which did not want to believe on earth cannot be shown a path in the spiritual kingdom which it has always rejected, and therefore such a soul first has to become aware of its agonizing situation into which it has fallen due to its unbelief .... In its greatest abandonment it is grateful when a being approaches it, and then it also accepts instructions .... it thinks about it and will already feel small reliefs if it is willing to accept, whereas its agonies will deepen even more if it rebels against them. All possibilities are utilized on God's part to help even these souls in darkness to reach the light, yet free will remains untouched even in the kingdom of the beyond, and therefore great redemptive work is necessary in order to change this will after all, so that it turns towards God, so that the soul nevertheless comes to realize that it acknowledges a lord above itself, to Whom it must now surrender if it wants to be released from its torment. It must learn to believe, for only through faith does it understand the love of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And only through faith does it call upon Him, and then it will also be helped. If people knew the dreadful effect unbelief has on them after their physical death they would truly do everything on earth in order to attain certainty about what they are required to believe. They would desire enlightenment in order to do the right thing on earth .... Yet the torments of such souls can certainly be described to people but they cannot be granted insight into the spiritual kingdom. And countless souls depart from earth in a state of complete faithlessness, and good to those who lived on earth in such a way that good thoughts follow them .... good to those whose intercession is remembered and to whom strength can be imparted as a result. For beings will soon join them and guide them to the source of light .... But the souls who receive little help or reject the helpers remain in darkness for an infinitely long time .... who do not find their way to Jesus Christ, Who alone redeems them from the night of death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Doubting divine revelations .... The adversary's cunning ....

B.D. 5856 from January 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

Don't let your heart be sad, and don't doubt when divine Love manifests Itself for you .... Have faith in the Father's love, Who truly does not bestow harmful gifts upon His children, Who thus does not allow them to be given nourishment from an unknown source which could damage them. Consider yourselves My children, then you will be able to believe with a rock-hard faith that the Father will grant you His protection, that He looks after you as His children and diverts every danger from you which might put your spiritual development at risk .... Yet also know that you live in the time of the end and that God's adversary will use his utmost power to increase the number of his followers; know, that he rages shortly before the end and that he is particularly at work where light from above threatens to expose him .... know, that he also endeavours to cause confusion in the ranks of God-devoted people and that he will try everything in order to cause a division .... know, that he is also able to obscure the vision of those who offer him the slightest basis due to wrong will, spiritual arrogance, unkind thoughts .... and that he will always be successful there without, however, being able to separate these people from God. Yet their thinking becomes confused and they no longer recognise the pure truth .... they don't recognise the Father's voice because they have listened to that voice .... Nevertheless, their will remains directed towards God, they don't fall prey to the adversary's efforts, it is just that he succeeded in dividing a circle which wanted to work together for God. You humans don't know his power and cunning, you don't know his disguise and subsequently will fall prey to his game of deceit if doubt arises in you which, at the same time, is doubt in God's love and omnipotence and wisdom .... if you therefore render yourselves incapable of recognising Him in his manifested Word .... Then his influence on you is obvious yet he will not succeed in separating you from the One Whom you sincerely desire .... for God holds His protective hand over everyone who strives towards Him, but He does not force him to think or act according to His will. He allows him the freedom to defend himself when the power of darkness attacks him .... And anyone who is of good will is also able to see through God's adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Responsibility .... mind and free will ....

B.D. 5857 from January 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 63

You yourselves bear great responsibility for your soul, i.e., the spiritual in you should develop upwards through your will .... Your thinking and will should be directed towards finding the connection with above, with the kingdom of light, for you come from the abyss and should strive upwards. The human being is endowed with intellect and free will and he should use this same intellect and his will in the right way. He can just as well strive downwards, i.e. demand everything that draws his soul .... the spiritual into himself .... But for this purpose he was given the right to strive upwards. However, the intellect was given to him for this purpose, so that he will think carefully about the aim he is striving for. And his intellect is influenced by God’s word during his earthly life .... He is constantly informed of what lies within God's will, what he should strive for and what he should avoid or refrain from. God's will is made known to him so that he can mentally deal with it during his earthly life, so that he can decide between God's will and his own will, which at first is certainly still very downwardly inclined but can change. The human being bears the responsibility for his soul, for that which is imperishable, for his own I ..... For even if he himself passes away and therefore often takes it lightly and often leaves the soul in spiritual distress, it is only his body which passes away .... he himself, his I, his soul, remains, and it enters the kingdom of the beyond in the state into which he has placed it on earth through his way of life .... The soul shall develop upwards .... All human activity promotes or hinders this development. The human being is, as it were, the determiner .... because his intellect and his will are active. Yet both often act irresponsibly towards the soul .... the spiritual substance, which only expresses itself instinctively in its cover, thus determines the human being, but should be released from its cover by the human being's intellect and will, which easily happens if the human being does in good will what is preached to him through the word of God .... if he practices love, which now also dissolves the soul's cover and clears the way for it to ascend .... Because the human being can think and want, therefore he also has the responsibility towards his soul, or also .... the soul with all its urges from its previous time of development finds its master in the intellect and free will, which can now certainly join its urges as well as oppose them .... Thus the human being can put in order what is still impulsive within himself because he has enough aids at his disposal and the most effective aid is the word of God, which gives him precise instructions, the observance of which will certainly also bring salvation to the soul. Without intellect and free will the human being could not be held to account .... but without intellect and free will the soul would never reach perfection either .... And therefore you humans should always be and remain aware of the fact that you yourselves must help your soul to mature, that you yourselves redeem your own self from the abyss if you let your intellect and free will become active in the right way .... when you reflect on everything you are taught through God’s word. And if you now endeavour to live in accordance with this divine word, if you consciously place your will under God's will and His will can now also come alive in you .... then you will fulfil your task of earthly life, then you will help your soul to ascend, then you will enter the kingdom of light, the kingdom of life and beatitude, even after the death of your body ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of God's children on earth ....

B.D. 5858 from January 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 63

There will only ever be a few who leave this earth as true children of God, who are so intimately united with Me through love that they have thus also become My image, because My strength of love can completely permeate them. There will only be a few who will have completed the path through earthly life with the success of complete spiritualization .... who will have achieved the deification of their nature and can now work as My true children in the spiritual kingdom. Yet an infinite number of creatures do not attain this state on earth but can nevertheless enter the kingdom of light after their death .... Through faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world they can attain forgiveness of their sins and thereby also be receptive to light to a certain degree, which can still increase in the kingdom of the beyond, so that they can also enjoy beatitudes and constantly increase them because they constantly strive to ascend in the spiritual kingdom .... Thus only faith in Jesus Christ is necessary in order to find entrance into the kingdom of light .... But this faith can only be alive if the heart is capable and willing to love .... Thus every soul must be able to demonstrate a degree of love, and this therefore also secures the radiation of light of love in the spiritual kingdom. For without love faith in Jesus Christ does not exist either, even though the human being declares it with his mouth .... Only the heart's feeling is valued by Me, and this will always profess Jesus Christ if it develops love within itself. But the degree of love can be completely different, and this alone determines the light and beatitude in the spiritual kingdom .... To have completely become love on earth secures the soul's childship to God .... But only a few people reach this degree, yet because through their love they also recognize the blessing of love and the hardship of all beings which have no love within themselves, they make every effort to encourage their fellow human beings to be lovingly active. And therefore they will also be tirelessly active to proclaim My gospel of love, with words or also through their example, so that they have an educational effect on their fellow human beings through their life and their conduct according to My will. For it is important to shape people at least to such an extent that the kingdom of light is not completely closed to them .... It is important to save them from the fate of darkness when their souls leave this earth. For this reason much work will and must still be done, and for this reason I will still take many people away from this earth who can already be legitimately permeated by a small degree of light, so that they will not lose it but be able to increase it in the spiritual kingdom. And I also woo the souls who live on earth in complete unbelief and without love with all My love so that a spark of love will arise in them and a small light will already shine from within when they are taken from this earth .... The slightest shine of light entitles them to enter the kingdom of light, and blessed are those who are allowed to enter it, blessed are those who are not taken in by the kingdom of darkness, blessed are those who do not belong to those in whom everything is extinguished and who therefore can spend endless times in wretchedness until a ray of light penetrates to them .... The degree of love on earth determines the degree of abundance of light in the spiritual kingdom .... And thus you will also understand that I can only accept as My true children those who have completely shaped themselves into love on earth .... and that they already create and work with Me and in My will on earth, as they will also do one day in My kingdom .... And thus My children on earth must be recognizable by the fact that light and warmth emanates from them, that they teach My word or live it out in such a way that their fellow human beings, who are themselves of good will, take them as an example .... They carry the light and warmth among people through their way of life and are often able to do more than words can, for they are already radiated with light and love on earth and proclaim Me with every look, with every word and every deed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers