New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 5963 - 6077

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

5963 - Love 'He who remains in love remains in Me....'

5964 - Redeeming work for souls in the beyond in God's will....

5965 - Awakened preachers....

5966 - Healing the sick.... Signs and miracles.... Evidence of faith....

5967 - Hereditary sin....

5968 - God's sure help in coming distress....

5969 - God's grace to come into divine order....

5970 - The love of God....

5971 - Sin against the spirit....

5972 - Apparent calm.... Exceptional strength.... The coming of the Lord....

5973 - Caller on the path of life.... way to the height or the depth....

5974 - Gift of distinction of spirits....

5975 - Gift of distinction of spirits....

5976 - Proclaim My Word to the world....

5977 - Important mission.... Spreading the Gospel....

5978 - Right instruction.... right will.... love commandment....

5979 - Request for the divine spirit....

5980 - God's blessing on redemptive work.... souls in the afterlife....

5981 - Closing the gates to the spiritual realm....

5982 - Change of the true Gospel.... Followers?....

5983 - Last Judgment is an act of divine love....

5984 - Guide and companion.... God's blessing....

5985 - "I am the way, the truth and the life...."

5986 - Redeemer work of Jesus Christ....

5987 - Warning against false prophets....

5988 - Promise of life.... Jesus Christ....

5989 - Love radiance.... decision reminder.... will....

5990 - Establishing divine order....

5991 - Concept of hell and its torments....

5992 - Effect of a striving person on otherworldly souls....

5993 - God Himself declares: Jesus Christ....

5994 - Distribution of spiritual goods by messengers of God....

5995 - Afflictions of the body.... suffering for the soul....

5996 - Loosening the bond with God danger....

5997 - Thoughts on the meaning and purpose of life on earth.... address of God....

5998 - Power of the will through Jesus' death on the cross....

5999 - God's help to the trusting supplicant....

6000 - Resurrection of the flesh....

6001 - False christs and prophets.... work of satan....

6002 - Will of man determines the degree of truth....

6003 - Value of spiritual treasures in the beyond....

6004 - Source of life....

6005 - Arbitrarily taking one's own life....

6006 - God's guidance, God's will or approval....

6007 - Development of the soul to the height....

6008 - God gives unlimited....

6009 - Acknowledgement of God.... belief in connection with Him....

6010 - The church of Christ....

6011 - Will to defend.... keeping God’s word pure....

6012 - Silent prayer.... Public confession....

6013a - Various gifts of the spirit....

6013b - Speaking in tongues.... Warning against wrong spirit....

6014 - Entering the place of judgment.... walk to the cross....

6015 - Everything serves to attain perfection....

6016 - Sleep state.... light and life....

6017 - Compassion....

6018 - Battle between light and darkness.... signs oft the end....

6019 - Concept of eternity.... Perfection....

6020 - Blessing of the word in the hereafter....

6021 - Divine order is love....

6022 - In the Father’s house are many mansions....

6023 - God's end-time revelation....

6024 - Upcoming turn.... hostility towards God's servants....

6025 - Mercy.... do not harden your hearts....

6026 - Activity of the light beings....

6027 - God's unusual grant of grace....

6028 - Create and work.... nightfall....

6029 - Love of God indispensable....

6030 - People's indifference requires harder blows....

6031 - Spirit of confusion.... without love no truth....

6032 - Redeemerwork.... God's blessing....

6033 - The path of love and faith.... Acknowledging God....

6034 - Dead faith becomes apparent in times of need....

6035 - God's radiance of love.... free will....

6036 - It is not the deed alone that decides, but the will....

6037 - The Coming of the Lord (to be understood literally)....

6038 - New Revelations.... Reason.... Bible....

6039 - Signs and wonders of the end time.... false christs and prophets....

6040 - False inquisitiveness....

6041 - Attitudes of worldly people to the gospel....

6042 - Hour of death without fear.... Readiness....

6043 - Little recognition (faith) for spirit work.... lack of faith....

6044 - Receptacle for divine love power current....

6045 - Immeasurable sufferings of Jesus Christ....

6046 - Upward development in a mandatory state and free will....

6047 - God’s word unchanging....

6048 - "Carry My gospel out...."

6049 - God accepts every worker for vineyard work....

6050 - 'Enter into thy closet....'

6051 - God’s word power in the end time and distress....

6052 - Last Judgment.... Act of love and righteousness....

6053 - Way of following Jesus....

6054 - Fate in the beyond corresponds to thoughts and wishes on earth....

6055 - Testimony of the messengers to the work of God....

6056 - Open confession of the divine name....

6057 - Blessing of receipt and distribution....

6058 - God's intervention in threatening danger to the soul.... love....

6059 - The time of the end is imminent....

6060 - Final phase as a human being.... free will....

6061a - Light is where God's spirit works....

6061b - Light is where God's spirit works....

6062 - Right relationship of the child to the father....

6063 - Life in divine order in free will as a human being....

6064 - Love work on the unredeemed....

6065 - Earthly and spiritual issues.... Inhabitants of other planets (flying saucers)

6066 - Exhortation to workers in the vineyard.... success in the hereafter....

6067 - Approaching trouble....

6068 - Excess of grace in coming time....

6069 - The spiritual realm is to be aspired to....

6070 - "You shall have no foreign gods beside Me...."

6071 - Sin is an offence against love....

6072 - Influence, but no compulsion from the spiritual realm....

6073 - Living proclaimers of the gospel....

6074 - Speech of God natural.... truth....

6075 - Connection with God guarantees truth....

6076 - Blessing of the Illness.... cross bearer for the soul....

6077 - Sun of the spirit....

Love 'He who remains in love remains in Me ....'

B.D. 5963 from May 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

In unity with Me you find your peace of mind. Your longing is satisfied as soon as you know yourselves to be as one with Me, if you have united with Me through love or heartfelt prayer sent to Me in spirit and in truth. Prayer is the will for unity with Me, activity of love, however, is the fulfilment, for 'He who remains in love remains in Me and I in him ....' Love is the most important .... and everything that is described as the maturing of the soul, the return into the Father's house and eternal beatitude depends on deeds of love .... And if you always only keep these words in mind 'He who remains in love remains in Me and I in him ....', if you always only remember that I Am Love Itself, then you will consider the fulfilment of My commandments of love to be the most important thing, and then you will endeavour to live a life of love in order to be thereby eternally united with Me. Love is everything .... it is redeeming strength, it is light, it is the divine principle, the centre of eternal order .... If a human being exists without love then he has completely left this order, his thoughts and activity are completely in opposition to God, he is spiritually blind, that is, he is ignorant, and he is unredeemed in the hands of the adversary who wants to exclude him from all happiness ....

I Am Love Itself, heartlessness is My adversary .... and anyone who therefore desires to be united with Me, who wants to attain Me must live a life of love, for then I must also be with him, because love is and has been My fundamental substance for eternity. I certainly bestow unlimited blessings, I certainly grant you what you don't deserve and don't strive for by yourselves, yet all My gifts of grace only intend to achieve one thing, that you shape yourselves into love, for even if I would like to bestow everything upon you .... you would nevertheless remain dead without love, without love you would remain judged beings .... you would only ever remain My living creations but never ever be able to become My children. Only love can accomplish My living creations' deification, only love can unite us, otherwise you will always just lead a miserable existence as isolated beings outside of Me. And this is why the first and most important commandment is to love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself .... And your spiritual state on earth as well as in eternity one day depends on your fulfilment of this commandment .... This is why I instructed My disciples to go into the world and proclaim My divine teaching of love to humanity .... this is why I Myself exemplified to people on earth a life of love and sealed My teaching of love with the death on the cross, which I suffered on behalf of My fellow human beings because of My greater than great love .... because I recognised their infinite hardship and wanted to help them.

And as long as you humans ignore these commandments of Mine you will be unable to achieve beatitude, no matter how profoundly you humble yourselves in the dust before Me, pleading for My mercy .... My love for you cannot be exceeded any more and I want to win all of you over for Me, yet My bliss only consists of your reciprocated love, and you must grant this to Me voluntarily .... And your appeal for mercy has to be based on your desire for Me because you love Me .... and because you realise how far-away you still are from Me. You must try to reach Me, you must want to achieve unity with Me, and therefore you must live a life of love yourselves or unity will never be possible to achieve. Consider the fact that with every deed of love you draw the eternal Love Itself to yourselves .... but that It cannot enter your hearts if they are still completely contradicting God's fundamental nature .... You only unite with Me through love, and that is what you ought to bear in mind and seek to fulfil the commandment of love as the most important .... you ought to know that no human being can become blissfully happy without love.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redeeming work for souls in the beyond in God's will ....

B.D. 5964 from May 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Put your trust in My Words and only believe that My love is watching over you and that I Am protecting you from all onslaughts by My adversary if you take refuge with Me during earthly and spiritual difficulties .... Your will also assures you My help and My protection. I only appraise your will, and according to this will you are either in My hands or in the hands of My adversary. If your will is directed towards Me and you desire to please Me you can also consider yourselves looked after by Me .... But if you want the world and its possessions then your will belongs to My adversary and then he has control over you which he, however, would never be able to have if you strove towards Me, if you look for and pray to Me in spirit and in truth.

Your faith is still weak, yet it will get stronger if you always just make the effort to live a life of love, and you will become increasingly more certain of the fact that My Fatherly love applies to all who are still unredeemed on earth and also pass away or have passed away unredeemed from this earth. All these souls suffer immense hardship and My love does not want to leave them in this adversity forever. And thus I create countless possibilities for them to escape their hardship but without determining their free will .... Nevertheless, I know every individual person's will and that of every soul in the beyond. I know when they are ready to take the path to Me, and I let you humans participate in the redemptive work, since there is a tremendous amount of work to be done and every individual soul should be offered the opportunity to give up its resistance and turn towards eternal salvation.

Consider the immense number of souls which are still distant from Me, which have no faith and whom I therefore cannot approach because they don't believe in Me .... I constantly endeavour to provide these souls with the possibilities to come to Me by indirect means as well, and you humans can assist Me in this by taking care of these souls, by informing them of Me, because they are more likely to listen to you, providing they are at all willing to change their adverse situation. On the one side a regrettable lack of faith is evident, on the other side, however, a comprehensive work of salvation is taking place on the souls in the spiritual kingdom, because this work of salvation is mainly unsuccessful on earth. My adversary has great power over people on earth because they are too involved with matter and he tempts them with material goods. Many a soul in the beyond recognises the worthlessness of what it had pursued on earth because it experiences utmost poverty and darkness, and for that reason they can be more easily won over, if only their faith can be awakened in them ....

And I truly have many ways in which I implement things and which are hardly ever unsuccessful. The situation of these souls in the beyond cannot be described to you exactly, there will always remain a layer which prevents your view into the kingdom of the beyond .... Yet you can believe that I look after all souls and for their deliverance also involve you humans if a greater possibility for success is thereby assured. Anyone who wants to be of service to Me can certainly do so, and I will place him where his work will be successful .... But you must always believe in My greater than great love and mercy .... Then you will also understand everything and you will no longer doubt the task which I give you .... Then you will gladly be of service to Me and also be convinced that your work is beneficial .... you will participate in the redemption of countless souls from adversity and pain .... you will show them the way to light and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Awakened preachers ....

B.D. 5965 from May 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My Gospel is certainly proclaimed throughout the whole world, and yet people are still so very distant from Me because it is not presented to them in a lively enough way, consequently they do not feel the strength which My Word is intended to impart on them. Not the mere letter but the spirit gives people true life. My spirit has to be effective in the preacher, only then will he speak such that his listeners will feel addressed by Me, then they will also accept the strength which will give them life .... they will wake up from their former dream state and live their earthly life consciously by striving towards Me. As soon as awakened preachers are at work it can also be expected that an awakening will take place amongst the listeners, and only then will the proclamation of My Word be a blessing .... whereas the repetition of My Words alone will not meet with any response in people's heart and thus they will bypass their ears without leaving any impression .... Hence, an awakened preacher is chosen amongst those who are called, who will never lack spiritual knowledge if he wants to pass it on to his fellow human beings .... For he receives from Me directly whatever he requires to work for Me and My kingdom .... He draws the water of life, which he wants to offer his fellow human beings, from the source, and he will indeed be listened to because the soul can sense that it receives My Word. The more intimately this proclaimer of My teaching is in contact with Me, the more lively he will be able to speak and, driven by My spirit, the more success he will be able to achieve, and this success will always consist of gaining souls which hand themselves over to Me, which have attained a living faith.

No lifeless preacher will be able to lead people into life, and preachers are lifeless as long as I Myself cannot be present in them, for then everything will only affect the human being's sense of hearing, it will not touch the heart, they will just speak dead words without life .... it lacks the life-giving spirit .... Yet I know hearts everywhere which are aroused in love for Me, which know no other desire but to work for Me, and I can be present in such hearts aglow with love and thus speak to people Myself, who then listen attentively because they feel My strength, because they feel seized by a power they are unable to resist .... who have to love even if they previously had a hostile mind. It will surely be understandable to you that I .... if I speak .... will have to have greater success than when a mere person speaks, even if he speaks on behalf of Me and My kingdom as well .... But I can only speak through a human mouth whose heart has come aglow with love for Me .... His great love draws Me to him and I won't resist such love .... I speak, and people feel themselves incapable of resisting Me, they let themselves be seized by My love and drawn to My Fatherly heart .... I can only express Myself through the mouth of an awakened person, and if all My servants on earth were awakened who proclaim the Gospel there would not be such great spiritual hardship amongst people, and I Myself would be able to address them Whom they truly would not resist for long. And I have called many to do so .... Yet only a few can be chosen as My instruments by Me, as shells in whom I can embody Myself, through whom My spirit can speak and My strength be transferred onto other people .... But wherever it happens there will be an obvious abundance of blessings, and My presence will not remain hidden from people who accept the Gospel due to their faith in Me Who, as Redeemer from death and sin, also wants to return their freedom to them again and therefore reveal Myself where My name will be avowed before the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Healing the sick .... Signs and miracles .... Evidence of faith ....

B.D. 5966 from May 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I know My Own and I know their will, and corresponding to this will I call them to work for Me and My kingdom. Hence the kind of activity in My vineyard as well as My servant's nature differ, for everyone carries out the work which corresponds to his nature .... everyone serves Me in accordance with his ability, and I accept the service of anyone who is of good will and strives towards Me. Besides, human hearts are different too, thus the fields in My vineyard need to be treated in different ways and only I can make this judgment, Who knows the slightest stirring of a human heart which shall be used for a successful work of redemption.

I Am as recognisable in a storm as in the quiet rustling of a gentle breeze, the mightiest elements give evidence of Me and the softest breath bears witness to Me .... I Am always the originator, the source, the foundation .... Sometimes I Am barely discernible and at other times distinctly apparent but always recognisable by someone who wants to recognise and try to find Me .... And I always express Myself in accordance with people's needs, depending on their adversity and their ability to change .... What can result in a complete change of will in one person may well leave no impression at all on another, on account of which he will need greater evidence of My existence, which will then be given to him by My love in order to save him. But I Am also present where no external signs confirm it .... I Am just as present in the heart of a person who bestows his love and will on Me, and I will influence him gently and quietly, for he will need no obvious proof of My presence, he will be aware of it and feel My nearness so clearly that he will have the heartfelt relationship of a child to the Father and thus already own everything he needs for his earthly way of life .... an unshakeable faith in Me and My love, which enable him to live in accordance with My will.

Where unbelief is so strong that Words alone will not suffice I will help with signs and miracles .... Yet this can also turn into a judgment for people if they lack the will to change themselves .... But the faith of the sick and unhappy merely requires an incentive in order to grow so strong that it will profess Me before the world .... Therefore I can reveal Myself in My might and glory to the sick and unhappy, for most of the time they have already been purged by their illness and their souls can recognise Me easier if I come close to them .... The sick don't deny Me entry to their hearts, and if My Word is preached to them the effect on them is so powerful that the strength of My Word already has a beneficial effect, and they will be healed because they believe.

But unbelievers witnessing it and thereby gaining faith will first have to let it come alive through love .... And then it will depend on their degree of love as to how their faith will take effect, but their responsibility will be greater if an obvious demonstration of My working leaves them unimpressed, so that they will have to believe after their experience but won't change their way of life as a result of their knowledge .... Therefore, don't wish for too obvious a demonstration of faith, for then you will receive an extraordinary grace which will also oblige you extraordinarily .... But if they are bestowed upon you then make use of them and take advantage of this grace in order to achieve a higher degree .... in order to then also speak on behalf of Me and My name before the world .... in order to be loyal labourers in My vineyard, whom I will bless for working for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hereditary sin ....

B.D. 5967 from May 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Questions, which you would like to have answered, will have to arise in you time and again, then I can enlighten you as soon as you contact Me in heartfelt prayer and listen to what I say to you .... by regarding your emerging thoughts as My reply, if you are not addressed by Me directly through the voice of the spirit. Your desire and appeal to Me will ensure your correct thinking .... yet without Me you will not recognise the truth, without Me your endeavour for enlightenment will be futile, since without Me you will only have misguided thoughts which the powers from below will be able to convey to you .... precisely because you evade Me, Who is the provider of truth .... And thus listen to the following:

As long as you are not perfect you can only receive explanations in a descriptive manner .... You would never be able to understand the infinite profundity of divine wisdom, you would never understand the reasons for My reign and activity, since your imperfection also means inadequate power of perception, and thus you are unable to find an explanation by virtue of your intelligence .... but you will be able to receive it in a flash as soon as you are permeated by the light of My love in the spiritual kingdom. On earth you will need to receive descriptive clarification, the processes that took place in My creation can only be described to you in line with your ability of comprehension .... And thus the spiritual processes in the hearts of the first people can only be intelligibly explained to you along the lines of earthly processes which, however, are but a faint comparison .... simply because you are still weak in spirit yourselves .... You humans are constrained by laws of nature because total freedom, which you forfeited through your past apostasy, first has to be regained by you during your earthly life .... For that reason I imposed a limit on the first human beings' will because I first wanted them to realise that they were subject to a Power and that they should voluntarily submit to this Power .... in order to then have their final freedom bestowed onto them. In the past they refused to acknowledge Me, which was the first sin, their opposition to Me from Whom they had originated .... Only voluntary acknowledgment could cancel this sin again. And I wanted to obtain this acknowledgment of Myself when I brought the whole of creation into being. As a result, the first human beings were endowed such that they could in fact recognise Me but were not compelled to do so .... And therefore free will had to make a choice which, again, should be tested against 'temptation' ....

People had to see something they desired, while a prohibition and an enticement at the same time had to prompt them into a decision of will .... but, understandably, the enticement had to be linked to a promise, which they were then supposed to resist .... The prohibition and the enticement ensued from two sides .... since they involved the return of the fallen spirits to Me and their stay with My adversary, i.e., My created spirits achievement of their goal or their fall into the abyss again .... Consequently, the people had to have the desire within themselves and be offered the opportunity to satisfy this desire .... or to overcome it for the sake of a far higher goal: for eternal bliss with Me, which surpassed this earthly fulfilment of desire a thousand fold. Since regaining the deserted spiritual beings was a battle between Me and My adversary he also had to have the opportunity to influence these beings' will .... only that he feigned illusive values and illusive happiness so that people should forfeit true happiness and a blissful life in eternity .... I knew of this temptation and therefore gave the first people a commandment with a simultaneous warning of eternal death .... This warning should have sufficed in stifling every desire in the people in order not to die .... And My adversary convinced them of the contrary .... he promised them life .... But they recognised Me as the supreme Power and yet followed the lie .... and thereby brought death into the world .... But what was it that made their desire so powerful that they succumbed to it? ....

They lived a blissful life in paradise, they were masters over all created things; everything was subject to their will and they felt happy in full possession of strength and power. And as long as this love was intended for Me and the partner there was no danger either that the test of will would fail.

But My adversary knew how to turn this love in the wrong direction .... He reversed it into selfish love by making false promises to them and thus kindling their desire to obtain happiness for themselves .... Their love became craving, selfish and low, and thereby they once again handed themselves over to the power of the one from whom they should and could have delivered themselves had they valued My commandment more than their desire.

You humans ought to understand .... that the time for Me to bless the first human couple had not yet come .... Therefore they became sinful .... for nothing is sinful that fits in with My plan of creation, nothing can be a sin that happens in lawful order .... and the process of procreation can never be against the order ordained by God. Yet the satisfaction of the senses without the will to bring forth life is no act of divine love, but it is selfish love kindled by My adversary which draws the human being down and totally submits him to his control .... The first human beings had fallen victim to this wrong love, and this wrong love was the sin, which in turn related to the original sin of arrogance .... which did not want to give itself but possess everything, which was the inheritance of its maker .... but which has nothing in common with divine love ....

Divine love rests as a spark in your hearts and can ignite itself into brightest radiance. But My adversary's goal was and is to reverse this love, and he has succeeded in doing so. What was pure and divine became soiled and changed into a love of self, which no longer merits the concept of 'love' and can only be called lust, selfishness and love of self, and which is also capable of doing whatever My adversary wants you to do .... And thus the act of procreation became a means for My adversary to turn countless souls towards him, which would never have been possible had it taken place with My blessing .... where the divine love of giving and bestowing happiness should find its culmination in the emergence of a new life .... Hence the original sin consisted of the abandonment of pure divine love for the sake of impure selfish love ....

The divine spark in the human being was extinguished through satanic influence and replaced by a fire which destroyed everything that was noble and pure .... The senses became aroused and were driven into utmost greed, which in no way corresponded to My act of creation .... yet for the sake of My adversary's and My created beings' freedom of will it was not prevented .... since it is still up to the will of each individual person to resist this temptation by Satan .... The original sin was therefore not the act of procreation but the voluntarily ignited wrong and sinful love induced by Satan .... A happiness giving act of creation in the divine sense was reduced to a game of unclean spirits .... My adversary was permitted to take part in an act where I Myself wanted to be present in people with My blessing in order to increase the pure, divine love in them, so that it should also flow into the then begotten beings. And thus a new human generation would have arisen which would have found its way back to Me in increasingly brighter light without suffering and pain, which would soon have liberated itself through love, because it had to recognise Me Myself where love shines forth .... The first human beings could have passed this test of will .... but since I was struggling with My adversary for the human souls I could not prevent him from using means which would ensure his victory. For it involved My created beings' return in completely free will .... which, however, had failed and resulted in a fate for the whole human race from which it could not free itself anymore .... Until a human being in pure divine love achieved the act .... which redeemed all of humanity and opened the path of ascent again .... For love is victorious and will not rest until even the last fallen being has found the way back to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's sure help in coming distress ....

B.D. 5968 from May 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The world will still cause you humans much trouble in a time of unrest which precedes the end. For you will see more and more of the world, and spiritual matters will fade into the background in view of the miserable situation you humans will find yourselves in which is nevertheless easy to bear if you adjust yourselves spiritually, if only you join Me and appeal to Me for help. You can only survive the coming time in a bearable way with the right attitude towards Me .... Believe these words of Mine and don't let My image fade away in you .... i.e., don't put Me aside for the sake of the world, for I am also a lord of this world, and I can truly lead you out of all adversity and protect you from all dangers if only you let Me be present, if you don't let a day go by without intimately joining Me, and you commend yourselves to My love and grace. I want to be your constant thought and you should not let anything separate you from Me .... The awareness that I can always help you and also want to help you should let you persevere in every earthly adversity quietly and trustingly until My help comes, for it will come .... as long as you stick to Me and hand yourselves over to Me and My will .... Who should be able to help you if not Me? .... and is there any need greater than My power? And I promise you My help if you want to be and remain Mine, if you stand by Me and give Me the first place in your heart .... What can the world do to you? .... as long as you lean on Me, you are stronger than the world, than all the threats and hardships My adversary intends to inflict on you .... I can also keep these away from you, and I will do so if you earnestly seek to attain Me and My kingdom. And whether it roars and rages around you .... quietly and safely you can watch the greatest storm pass you by because I command it not to touch you .... Therefore, pay no attention to the world and its turmoil .... Do not let yourselves be anxious and oppressed by things concerning your earthly life .... Just turn your eyes trustingly to Me and stretch out your hand to Me and I will lead you out of all distress .... I will guide you safely even over uneven paths and your soul will reach its aim without danger .... earthly and spiritually I will look after you and strengthen you in the time to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's grace to come into divine order ....

B.D. 5969 from June 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

An abundance of divine grace flows down to you if you devote yourselves to God; if you want to be united with Him, if you strive to gain God's pleasure .... You can be certain that His grace will take hold of you as soon as you are serious about living on earth according to your purpose .... as soon as you strive to come closer to Him. And His grace is the guarantee for the one who accepts it that he will reach his aim. For what you humans are too weak to do will be easy for you with His grace .... Grace is every aid for spiritual ascent, grace is a divine gift which places you into a state which you did not deserve because you once voluntarily turned away from God .... But whose help you need in order to be able to do that which leads you to Him again .... (5.6.1954) in order to live a life in godly order. Without His help, His grace, you are truly too weak to enter this order, for your desire is directed downwards, your nature is such that you prefer to remain outside of divine order, that you are therefore also distant from Him, but Whose nearness would provide you with endless happiness and fill you with bliss .... And you shall come close to Him again, you shall become again what you were in the beginning .... you shall live in divine order again in order to also be free from all weakness and darkness. This is God's will, and therefore He will support you again and again with His grace and love, He will never leave you to your own devices but shower you with blessings .... yet always leave it up to you whether and how you want to use them. But anyone who seriously strives towards Him, who recognizes his task in earthly life and desires to enter divine order again, will truly not remain powerless .... For God's overwhelming love takes hold of him and pulls him up .... God's strength fills him and the ascent becomes easy for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The love of God ....

B.D. 5970 from June 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The flood of divine love pours over all creatures that have emerged from God's love, and this love brings about that what is dead returns to life .... that what dwells in darkness reaches the light .... that what lies on the ground in extreme weakness becomes powerful. God's love is everything, it is light and strength and life, it is the fountainhead of bliss, it is a never-ending stream that waters and refreshes everything that is dry and in need of revival. But what is outside the divine stream of love is inevitably in a lifeless state .... But life alone is bliss .... For this reason God's love constantly endeavours to include everything that is dead in His flow of love .... to give it strength and to illuminate it so that it awakens to life. It is His breath which touches everything created in order to breathe life into it, otherwise it would eternally remain in death.

And everything in creation that betrays life also draws this flow of love-power .... but always in different degrees, which increase the more it is touched by the power of love, until the living being now becomes aware of its power and can freely want and act out of itself .... until it possesses so much strength as a human being that it can now independently take the path to the source of strength .... Then it can increase the degree of the supply of light and attain a life in light and bliss .... And now divine strength and light can flow towards the human being in abundance .... but he can also close himself off to this influx because the human being has free will which will not force him to accept divine strength of love. He is not determined but quietly urged to open himself to the most delicious gift given to him through God's love: His spirit, which can work mightily in him to achieve indescribable spiritual success. Being guided by the divine spirit ensures the highest success .... but this guidance must be voluntarily sought .... God's spirit must be requested and acquired .... The human being must want to be under divine guidance and make himself worthy of it by entering into God's will, which is made known to him through His commandments of love. But then he will also have awakened to life .... to a life which lasts forever .... Then the human being has voluntarily entered the circuit of divine love, then he will be thoroughly enlivened, i.e., he will become active in a way which has been his destiny since the beginning. He will increase light and strength by also supplying them to his fellow human beings, he will also lead others to life, because life always means constant activity, using strength in a positive sense and therefore leading the dead back to life. And the spirit of God will be powerful in the weak .... All weakness will disappear, and strength and life will be where there was weakness and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sin against the spirit ....

B.D. 5971 from June 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

All sins are forgiven you, but not the sin against the spirit .... Whatever you may commit .... for the sake of Jesus Christ you will be forgiven, even your greatest sin. But if you sin against the spirit, you sin against Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross so that He could send His spirit to you. He died for you so that the connection between you and the father became possible. And only this connection makes it possible for the spirit of God to come upon you .... To receive the divine spirit therefore means the testimony of the bond between God and man, for His spirit is the direct emanation of God .... Outpouring of His spirit is flowing into an open vessel .... it is a proof of God's presence in the heart of man ....

If we now speak of the 'sin against the spirit', this can only be understood as a conscious turning away .... a relapse into the depths against better knowledge .... a rebellion against Him who works in him .... despite a degree of maturity which has brought him this knowledge .... This sin is unforgivable precisely because the human being is in knowledge, because he has already received the blessings of the act of salvation and was thus lifted up from the abyss by Jesus Christ .... because he had already established the bond with God himself, thus he was no longer weak and the present turning away from God is such an enormous sin that it cannot be redeemed by forgiveness but results in a fall into the deepest depths which will result in banishment throughout eternity. For Jesus Christ has done His work on this man, it was accepted and rejected again by Him .... Where the spirit from God once brought enlightenment, illumination of thought and safe guidance to the height, there a fall to the depths is almost impossible .... And yet satan's activity, though rare, is successful. But the human being has the strength to resist him and he has the knowledge .... but he also has free will ....

And he abuses this will in an unforgivable way when he already desires on earth what can only be granted to him in the spiritual kingdom: the bliss of seeing into the other world .... a desire which is no longer rooted in his profound realization but is placed into his heart by satan as unjustified desire .... which he could also very easily overcome because he recognizes it as premature while he is on earth, and which is also mostly overcome by people in whom the spirit of God is active. But where satan is victorious we can also speak of the greatest sin, for it is not weakness when the human being is at his beck and call but an excessive addiction to knowledge and abuse of a strength which is inherent in him as a divine spiritual gift and which he should use in a redeeming sense, for redeeming activity .... Only very few people know what is meant by sin against the spirit, and it is also clearly recognizable to them why this sin cannot be forgiven. Yet satan only rarely succeeds in bringing a person to fall who is already on the verge of achieving his aim .... For God certainly respects the human being's free will, but He stands by him and He obviously warns him .... He leaves no stone unturned to prevent his renewed apostasy because His love is infinite ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Apparent calm .... Exceptional strength .... The coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 5972 from June 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I want to reward your loyalty to Me, which you demonstrate during the last days before the end, with an exceptional influx of strength so that even the most difficult situation will seem bearable to you, so that you will be capable of persevering until I Myself come to fetch you. You will manifestly experience your Father's love, feel My presence and therefore come to Me with every problem .... You will remain so closely connected to Me that you will expect the end fearlessly and certain of victory and only think in a spiritual way, that is, you will regard all experiences in view of your spiritual development and, therefore, also understand why everything that you experience has to happen. Then you will see how easy even the most difficult fate can be if you travel your path with Me .... This is why no-one need fear the last days if he feels connected to Me, wants to belong to Me and never excludes Me in every undertaking. World events will run their course .... calm will seem to have been restored, yet it is only the calm before the storm which will befall earth when it is least expected. For Satan will cause havoc amongst the human race and will not rest until he has turned everything upside down, until he has succeeded in confusing people to such an extent that they will increasingly turn against each other, that they will violently confront each other, excel each other in heartlessness and thereby give him great power which he will truly exploit in a frightening manner. And My Own will be particularly attacked by him, because he will incite people into persecuting you for the sake of your faith .... This will alarm and frighten My Own, yet as soon as they merely remember Me they will receive the necessary strength and go into battle, for they will know that they are fighting for Me but that I lead the way as their commander-in-chief, that they are fighting on My side and that they cannot lose the battle even if they are far outnumbered by the enemy. Anyone who wants to remain faithful to Me will also be able to do so, for I will not abandon him and he will truly not come away empty-handed if he appeals to Me for strength and support; for if a person's will belongs to Me he is already My Own, and I will never let him fall into My adversary's clutches again. You humans can safely count on a difficult time ahead of you which will require all your strength .... Yet you will not be left without warning, time and again you will be informed from above and when you see how everything I foretold you comes true you can already draw strength from it .... Your faith will grow increasingly stronger and thus you will also confidently expect My coming .... and truly not in vain, for once the earthly adversity threatens to become unbearable I will snatch you from your enemies' hands and take you away .... They will not gain victory over you, for I will bind My adversary and all those who are enslaved by him .... as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Caller on the path of life .... way to the height or the depth ....

B.D. 5973 from June 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is up to you which way you want to go, but you will be told which way leads to the height and which to the depth, and then you choose the aim yourselves. For not everyone wants to go to the heights because they do not seem enticing to him .... he wants to see what the level paths or the paths leading to the depth offer him. He therefore does not strive for the heights because the depths hold him fast, because he sees alluring images everywhere where his eyes are directed, as long as he avoids the heights. And the path upwards seems laborious and unpromising to him, for he does not see Him Who would precede him, Who would take over his guidance if he made the height his aim. And that is why he does not listen to the warnings and admonitions that come to him at the beginning of his hike, he looks for the most feasible path for himself and consciously ignores the warning calls of those who are well-disposed towards him. He has free will and can use it without being prevented from doing so .... But even then he has to bear the consequences which a wrong direction of will has brought him, he has to accept the fate which awaits him in the abyss, he reaches an aim even if he strives towards the abyss, he finds what he longed for during his earthly change .... Matter keeps him bound, from which he should detach himself on earth .... But the path upwards leads into the spiritual kingdom .... The gaze is always spiritually directed, and the guidance is also spiritual, and a life in fullest freedom and bliss beckons as the aim .... The human being is free of all restraints because nothing holds him back in the depths, and can now create and work in the kingdom of the blessed spirits .... On the path of life there are so often callers and admonishers who want to show you humans the right path and point out the danger you are facing if you don't pay attention to the admonishers, and who paint you in enticing colours the kingdom you are so indifferent to because you first have to climb upwards in order to see it before your eyes .... And they warn you so urgently of the depths towards which you are heading .... But you do not believe them, and you do not want to go any ways that are strenuous .... you walk along carelessly and only pay attention to beauty which, however, is dangerous for you. And you cannot be forced to turn to the right path, you can only be made aware in love that your path leads astray .... But if you don't want to believe and don't choose a different path you will also have to bear the consequences that you will distance yourselves ever further from the right aim and thereby increase the distance from God ever more and finally end up with the one from whom you should release yourselves as long as you live on earth. Therefore, do not close your ears when God's messengers who want to guide you step into your path .... Give up your resistance and let yourselves be guided by them, and one day you will realize how much more you have gained and what a dreadful lot you have escaped .... You will give thanks and praise to Him Whose mercy was for you, that He prepared for you the path that leads upwards ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gift of distinction of spirits ....

B.D. 5974 from June 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The gift of distinction of spirits will let you clearly recognize from which side you are influenced as soon as you only ever strive for truth, as soon as you are only interested in recognizing evil in order to avoid it, and you want to subordinate yourselves to good so that it will be a blessing for you. God truly does not leave you in uncertainty, He gives you clarity where you are not yet able to see the reason, for God wants you, who only strive to live in truth, to also recognize it fully consciously and to reject all error as the work of His adversary. And let this be an unmistakable sign to you that you hear God's voice when it speaks to you gently and lovingly, when it soothes your mind and makes you inwardly happy and joyful .... For as soon as He Himself speaks through a human being, as soon as He expresses Himself through every spirit, you will feel addressed and the thought of rejection will not arise in you in the first place .... whereas everything unclear, everything that affects you negatively, also comes from a negative spirit and has no claim to truth. For the adversary of God cannot hide his true face, no matter how he camouflages himself .... The influence on the heart of man is according to his desire .... satisfying for the one who is far removed from the truth, who is therefore more inclined towards the adversary than towards God .... whereas it is repulsive for the one who has devoted himself to God and thus to the eternal truth. You can distinguish between spirits as soon as you only want to distinguish between them, for this will already proves the desire for truth, which is also fulfilled. And all of you who want to serve God must learn to distinguish in order to remain free from error .... All of you must sincerely join God and appeal for His help if you 'test the spirits' .... And He will give you the gift of discernment, He will not allow the proclaimers of the gospel to be deceived, whom He Himself chose for their service on earth because they fully submitted their will to His .... He will not allow them to proclaim what does not correspond to the truth; He will not allow them themselves to be in doubt as to who speaks to them, for He Who is the eternal truth Himself does not let those walk in error who want to be active for Him and who proclaim His word in His name .... He gives them brightness of spirit and always guides their thinking right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gift of distinction of spirits ....

B.D. 5975 from June 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You should request the gift of distinction, and if you ask Me for help your judgment will not be an error, for the voice of your heart will tell you what is right and what is wrong if you are still in doubt as to whose spirit is making itself known to you .... It is truly far better to approach Me Myself for clarity of thought than to accept something as truth as long as you cannot inwardly recognize it as truth with full conviction. For as soon as you seriously search for the truth, the will of resistance in you is also My permission through which you should be encouraged to first consult Me Myself so that I can then also instruct you in accordance with the truth. And trust that I will instruct you mentally if you cannot hear My direct address .... Trust in the father's love Who will truly not leave you in the dark and Who also declares His will to you, which is your task in earthly life to fulfil .... Therefore, when My commandments of love for Me and your neighbour are pointed out to you, you will also know that the fulfilment of these commandments is the first and most important thing, and if you comply with My will then My word will still tell you many things which can only be understood when love is practiced first. You can learn the scriptures by heart and strain your intellect excessively .... you will not benefit from it if you don't live in love. But if you can hear My voice as a result of a life of love then My spirit will instruct you, and indeed, it will always give you what you need, it will also give you knowledge about things which are regarded as objects of dispute because only the intellect would judge, which does not grasp the truth as long as My spirit's working is denied .... things which confused the mind and contributed to the emergence of many divisions and schools of thought .... And I had to allow such confusion in order to cause the serious seekers to arrive at the truth by a different path than the usual one. For every person shall seek the truth within himself after he has made contact with the Giver of truth. How easy it is for you to fulfil My demand, and what a high aim you can reach .... But only he who shapes himself into love can inherit the kingdom of heaven. Even during My life on earth I only taught love, and I did not bring people a new commandment .... for with the fulfilment of this commandment of love all other commandments are invalid .... but without love the human being can speak and act whatever he wants .... it does not increase the degree of maturity of his soul in the slightest, because it always remains only a dead ceremony or an empty word if it has not become alive through love .... Mankind always paid more attention to the external and also wanted to relate My words to externalities which, after all, only had deepest spiritual meaning, and countless people stumble over stones they put in their own way .... I truly guide My children correctly, and My children are all those who devote themselves to Me as their father and strive to fulfil My will .... Whatever a person does in the belief that it is My will will also be credited to him as the fulfilment of My will .... but if he seriously wants to know the truth he need only ask Me for it and faithfully expect My answer .... There need not be any error on earth for the believers if only everyone earnestly desired the truth .... But anyone who believes that he possesses it and does not want to change his views can very easily enter the spiritual kingdom with erroneous spiritual knowledge, but he first has to attain the truth in order to be unreservedly blissfully happy, because this bliss depends on the spreading of the truth, which I already send to every person on earth if he sincerely desires it.

But I will never let a person go astray who lives according to his inner conviction .... provided that he is mentally united with Me through love .... What could I possibly reproach him with if he wants to live in My will and also believes to recognize it? In contrast, I do not judge actions which lack this conviction .... And I reject everything that is merely done externally, because I have never demanded or ordered such externalities. And again and again I emphasize that all My words are to be understood spiritually, that they are only ever intended to affect and promote the human being's inner life, that the human being can therefore accomplish a complete change of nature and bring his soul to highest maturity only through his inner life, for even every good work is only good and to be regarded as the fulfilment of My commandment of love when true love impels the human being to do it .... And love is not external but an emotion of the heart which need not be apparent to anyone. But this love achieves everything, brightness of spirit, truthful thinking, right feeling for that which brings the earthly child closer to the father .... and thus also the recognition of My will. For such an earthly child is in direct contact with its father, it accepts His instructions and willingly carries them out, it does not go its own way but allows itself to be guided by Me and does not want to go against Me and need not fear misunderstanding something and having to answer for it .... It belongs to Me because it wants to belong to Me, and what belongs to Me I hold, and it will no longer go astray for ever because it is light in its soul .... because I Myself am present in it as light of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proclaim My Word to the world ....

B.D. 5976 from June 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

_(17th anniversary of receiving the Word)Thus I spoke to My disciples and filled them with My spirit that they could proclaim Me and My teaching because they constantly heard My Word within themselves and then became living heralds of the divine kingdom .... They could never have accomplished this task had they not been in contact with Me through My spirit whose voice they listened to and whose guidance they followed. By the Word they knew Me and were conscious of My presence .... And if I now, in the last days, want My Gospel to be proclaimed to people, it again has to happen such that I choose disciples for Myself who are also able to hear My voice, who therefore allow My presence within themselves and let Me speak to them through the spirit. Therefore, not My disciples speak to the people to whom they bring the Gospel but I Myself address My earthly children with My Fatherly love to bring them salvation, encouraging them to turn back before the end because they are not on the right path and are losing their way again into the abyss. Human words would not achieve this .... My Word, however, can penetrate and cause enormous upheaval in a human heart because My Word has an incredible effect if it is not openly resisted. Where it is possible to speak to a human being Myself .... if only by way of My chosen instrument .... there is also hope for success, because this, too, requires a loving person, a mediator .... whose love overcomes the opposition .... just as I can only speak through such a person because his love permits My presence. My first disciples were filled with love for their fellow human beings, and similarly I shall choose the right disciples for Myself in the last days because it is necessary that My voice shall call to earth as a last reminder and warning. I want to proclaim My Gospel to humanity once more to save them before the Last Judgment .... to bring them salvation ....

And thus speaks the Word that is God Himself .... because I Myself Am the Word .... And when you hear My Word, I Am with you Myself. You don’t hear a human being, you hear the Spirit of Eternity Who, in His power and love, called you into being and Who will always be connected to you through His Word .... And you should want to belong to this eternal spirit of love, for this reason He constantly appeals to you with His Word that you should listen to Him, recognise Him and completely give yourselves to Him. He wants to give you, whom He created in His love, unlimited happiness which you can only endure if you are light and strength yourselves .... which My Word should therefore achieve for you .... And wherever a loving heart allows Me to enter I will speak to you always and everywhere .... where My spirit is not rejected when it wants to express itself .... there will also be the Spirit of Eternity, Whose love includes all His living creations since the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Important mission .... Spreading the Gospel ....

B.D. 5977 from June 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Your mission is so important because My teaching shall be preached in all purity, for that which I once gave to people did not remain pure but became progressively spoilt so that it no longer contains the strength which can be found in My pure Word. But people urgently need this strength flowing to them from My Word .... they are weak and incapable of developing further and I can only give them strength by having My Word imparted to them .... as unspoilt and pure as it originates from Me. Only this Word is capable of giving them strength, only this Word is the right kind of nourishment for the souls which enables them to mature fully, which gives them strength. This is why no-one can attain eternal life without My Word, and therefore I convey it to people in a way which seems unusual and yet is an entirely natural process .... by speaking through a human mouth Myself, I Am speaking to all people and thus the absolute purity of My Word affects the ears and hearts of those who willingly listen to it .... Indeed, you only hear one person speak yet they are not his Words, it is not his doctrine which he offers to you .... it is really and truly the emanation of My love which you may take hold of because it is I Myself Who speaks to you .... It is I, of Whom it is written 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock .... if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me ....' I want to give you the bread of heaven, I want to revive and refresh you with nourishment which your soul is in urgent need of ....

I want to strengthen you and bring salvation to your soul .... It want to provide it with what it needs in order to become blissfully happy. There is immense hardship on earth; it is a drought which leaves the souls without sustenance, so that they starve and in their utterly weakened state are unable to lift themselves off the ground .... And I know of this hardship and want to help people. From My hand they shall receive the invigorating nourishment, I Myself want to entice them to the font where they can draw the delectable water of life and thus gain renewed strength .... and all adversity shall have ceased for the one who accepts what I offer to him: My Word from above, which I impart to those of you who want to be of service to Me, which shall be passed on through you to people in order to help them .... My Word, which is only effective if it can touch the heart in its pure form and without being spoilt and which thus shall be spread anew throughout the world by disciples I choose Myself .... For the hardship is immense and My love wants to help .... it wants to heal the sick and strengthen the weak; it wants to give life to those who are dead and therefore convey the flow of life into barren land .... In the last hour My love still wants to wrest from death the souls which cannot resist it and through My Word make them blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right instruction .... right will .... love commandment ....

B.D. 5978 from June 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My commandment of love is the first and most important .... But it is only an indication of what you should do, for you are free and therefore not forced to fulfil this commandment of Mine. You must do everything voluntarily if it is to be of value for your soul. And likewise, all bad deeds are also to be counted as sin if you carry them out voluntarily, for only your will is ever valued .... Your will and the attitude of your heart is the only decisive factor, and therefore your thinking must first be trained, you must be instructed such that the right will results from it. Now the will can be led astray through wrong instruction, but the will can also consciously behave against better knowledge .... And the latter is sin .... For right instructions always aim at love, and acting against love is sin .... And even the misguided person has a silent admonisher and warner within himself who nevertheless points his will in the right direction .... which again corresponds to My commandment of love .... Therefore he too cannot be absolved from the offence against love .... from sin .... as soon as he rebels against the silent admonisher within himself, as soon as he does not listen to him. For the will in every human being can be right or wrongly directed, otherwise it would not be free. And the commandment of love is always the standard for the direction of the will, i.e. the fulfilment of it is also the right decision of the will, because love alone results in a life in divine order. And therefore no human being can become blissfully happy without love .... which is why I call this commandment the first and most important commandment which should determine all your actions and thoughts if you are serious about attaining eternal beatitude. Nothing else can bring you the same success, nothing else can replace love, and whether you exhaust yourselves in actions of all kinds which only ever remain symbols for what I demand: love for Me and for your neighbour .... All symbols are futile if they are not accompanied by deepest unselfish love. And all symbols are recognized as futile if love is anchored in the human being's heart .... This is why I only ever taught love on earth, this is why I exemplified a life of love to people .... this is why I gave them an example for a right earthly way of life .... I was gentle, peaceable, extremely patient, full of humility, full of mercy, long-suffering and just. I practiced love and also proved success to people so that they should strive for the same, so that they should follow Me to reach a glorious aim: eternal life in light and strength and glory .... And therefore only love shall ever be preached on earth, My teaching of love shall be proclaimed with zeal, because it alone is the path of ascent, because .... anyone who walks in love is also My rightful follower and .... is also My true follower and because only love redeems you and sets you free from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Request for the divine spirit ....

B.D. 5979 from June 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You stand in the strength of the spirit as soon as you desire Me and My spirit, for this desire secures the influx of My strength for you, because every spiritual request is fulfilled, because this is the confession of your own weakness and humble submission to your God and father of eternity. Once you rejected this strength and thereby fell into darkness .... you lost all knowledge, you could no longer distinguish truth from error, you turned away from Me and became devoid of strength and light .... you voluntarily separated yourselves from Me, you did not acknowledge Me as the source of strength and therefore also lost all strength. Your request for the strength of the spirit, for enlightenment, for knowledge completely overrides your previous will of resistance .... you have decided to return, you turn your eyes towards Me again, you long for the bond with Me which you once voluntarily destroyed .... So you ask for what you once spurned .... And this request will always be granted to you .... it is, after all, My constant plan of salvation to put you back into a state where you can work in My will, permeated by light and strength .... Thus no human being will ask in vain if he is serious about recognizing what is right and appeals to Me Myself to grant him My spirit. This earnest desire will not remain unfulfilled .... but it must be serious .... it must arise from the heart, it must not merely be voiced with the mouth as an empty form of prayer which does not reach My ears, because I am a true spirit Who wants to be called upon in spirit and in truth. The earnest request to be permeated by the strength of My spirit presupposes a profound desire for truth, and the human being recognizes that he can only find this truth with Me and with My help .... And therefore it simultaneously signifies recognition .... faith in a supremely perfect being. Only a profoundly devout person can make an earnest appeal for the divine spirit, a person who does not deny the existence of a deity or he would not call upon it. And I don't disappoint this faith either, and I reveal Myself to him by him receiving evidence of the granting of his request .... I reveal Myself to him and he becomes aware of My presence. And now he no longer departs from Me eternally, the power of My spirit has worked on him, the return has been accomplished, the former defence, the sin of apostasy from Me, has been voluntarily discarded, it was recognized and found forgiveness .... for desiring and receiving the strength of the spirit also means recognition and redemption through Jesus Christ at the same time, Who only created the possibility through His sacrifice on the cross that the divine spirit could fill a person .... that the human being could direct his will upwards in the first place .... that his desire is therefore turned towards God and the truth. And anyone who earnestly desires the truth cannot reject Jesus Christ either; through Jesus' blood he has, as it were, already become free from My adversary's bondage, he fled from darkness and seeks the light, which he will now certainly find through the power of the spirit .... through My working in and on him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's blessing on redemptive work .... souls in the afterlife ....

B.D. 5980 from June 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

People will be guided into your path to whom you are to bring My word, you yourselves will be guided such that you will be able to redeem yourselves. You are surrounded by souls who likewise receive My word through you, and My spirit will always descend upon you if you want to work for Me and My kingdom, because this redemptive work is most important in the last days before the end and therefore also receives My blessing. And truly, no effort is in vain, for there is always success in the kingdom of the beyond, because even the smallest glimmer of light is evaluated there .... because there are always souls which have already reached the degree that they derive their benefit from every spiritual activity on your part. As soon as you want to serve Me you are surrounded by a glimmer of light which attracts souls, and therefore you should not become tired or indifferent in your work for My kingdom, even if you can observe little earthly success .... you do not work in vain, and every thought, every word, every stroke of the pen has its effect and brings redemption to the souls on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. It just has to be done with the serious will to serve Me and to help redeem erring souls. This spiritual work must not be based on calculation or self-love, for everything is clear before Me, even the most secret thought in a human heart, and the will of redemption alone, the complete subordination of the will to Mine, evaluates the work and the success .... Therefore you should not slacken in your striving, even if obstacles confront you from all sides or you seem to be active without any success .... You cannot see this success but it exists, and one day you will happily see the blessing of your work when you are received in the spiritual kingdom by the multitudes of souls redeemed by you .... And the more eagerly you carry out your vineyard work, the more lovingly you take care of the souls which still dwell in darkness, the more sincere your desire is to help these souls, the more blessed your redemption work will be, and you yourselves will also be blessed and blessed, because every spiritual activity will earn you My love and also secure you every kind of help. Admittedly, you will increasingly experience rejection from people, for the spiritual low increases in the time before the end, and this alone already indicates the nearness of the end and the truth of My words. You will be ridiculed and blasphemed because of your spiritual activity, people will try to prevent you from spreading My word, you will be persecuted and tempted through many earthly tribulations to fall away and to testify against Me .... Don't let yourselves be disturbed by this, remember that I have foretold it to you and know that then the end will come, that you are close, that I Myself will come to deliver you from great adversity, as I have promised. You will recognize by the success of your vineyard work on earth which hour has come, for you still have individual successes to record, but then hardly anyone will listen to you in good will who does not yet belong to your small flock, and you will have to stand firmly together and strengthen each other in faith .... But My word will always sound to you so that you will not lose your bond with Me when the world oppresses you and the spiritual light will only shine very dimly in this world. But where My word sounds it shines brightly into infinity and attracts those who desire light, and to these you can now give what your fellow human beings spurn .... And every soul that finds salvation through you will thank you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Closing the gates to the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 5981 from June 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The gates to the spiritual kingdom will close when the end of this earth has come .... In order to understand this you humans must know that even after death the soul can progress in its development or sink back into extreme darkness .... You must know that in the kingdom of the beyond the soul is still offered many opportunities to increase the degree of maturity reached on earth or to pass from darkness into light, always according to the soul's free will. Admittedly, the ascent to the height in the spiritual kingdom is far more difficult and requires much help and willingness on the part of the soul, yet it is not impossible and thus a special grace from God Who constantly wants to help the souls to ascend .... But His adversary is just as anxious to keep the souls in darkness which he won on earth, and therefore the descent into the abyss is just as possible, which is why the battle between light and darkness is also fought in the spiritual kingdom, i.e. both sides struggle for the souls .... For it is still necessary to release souls from its fetter before the end of earth; it is also necessary to still test the will there whether it is directed upwards or downwards .... And therefore redemption work is constantly taking place on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and with particular zeal in the last time before the end, because a separation of spirits is also to take place there before the new earth will arise .... For a new redemptive epoch begins .... the creations of the new earth accept the souls into themselves which still remain in strongest resistance against God and would never find their way out of darkness because they themselves resist the light. And thus hell expels everything that has fallen prey to it; the spiritual kingdom returns those souls which have no hope of changing their will, and God banishes the spiritual again in the creations of the new earth .... But those who have succeeded in breaking free from satan's chains also strive towards the light, and they find countless helpers and helpers who smooth their path to ascent, who help them to reach ascent. As long as the earth still exists the spiritual gates are still wide open to receive the souls which previously left their body .... no matter in which spiritual state they arrive in the beyond .... The work of redemption will continue for every soul which has not entered the spiritual kingdom as a soul of light .... But when the end has come the gates will close for a long time, for then the possibilities for further development will be eliminated .... The bad spiritual, which is completely in the service of satan, will now experience a new banishment in the creations of the new earth, while the good spiritual, which has remained faithful to God, will also remain on earth, i.e. it will populate the new earth as the tribe of the new generation .... But everything still capable of development will be called away beforehand, and in the end there will only be those who openly proceed against God and thus are clearly recognizable servants of satan, and those who remain faithful to God in the most difficult battle against faith and are therefore also suitable as the tribe of the new generation .... who now live a paradisiacal life on earth which is incomparable for the people of earth and therefore also inconceivable. It is an exceedingly blissful state for them because the father will dwell in the midst of His children .... where there is no sin and no death, no suffering and no worries and people enjoy heavenly bliss through the presence of God, even though they dwell on earth. But the earth is no longer what it was before the end .... a breeding ground for hell, where God's adversary went on a rampage to win his victims for himself .... The earth has become paradise and those who now dwell on it are people who were fit for the kingdom of light but who are still allowed to possess their earthly body and yet are blissfully happy .... who live in God's will, who take possession of a glorious, newly shaped earth in order to now once again pave the way upwards for their descendants as well as for the still bound spiritual and to promote their upward development, as it is intended in God's plan of salvation .... The battle in the spiritual kingdom has ended for a long time, yet the souls of light also now ascend to earth again to offer their guidance to people, and thus spiritual progress is now also assured for all created beings on the new earth, and the redemption from the form progresses surprisingly quickly because satan's influence has been eliminated for a long time .... and thus peace is on earth and in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Change of the true Gospel .... Followers? ....

B.D. 5982 from June 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are being taught the pure Gospel and are learning to recognise the difference between My pure Gospel and that which is now taught on earth as My Word .... You are learning to recognise that My Word has been changed to the extent that it is interpreted and consequently observed differently .... that far too little attention is given to what is essential whilst the unessential is emphasised, and thus little spiritual progress will be achieved. I have shown people on earth the only feasible path by teaching and exemplifying My teaching Myself, by walking the path which all people should walk in order to reach Me .... It is the path of love, only by taking it will the human being be guaranteed the kingdom of heaven, that is, after his physical death he will be able to enter the spheres of light where the soul will blissfully exist close to Me .... My teaching has become a deviation .... it can only still be found hidden in a structure of human additions, wrong interpretations and the observance of unimportant commandments, which were never given by Me to people but which present the great danger that the only essential commandment will be disregarded and thus not acted upon.

It is of no use to you humans when you castigate yourselves, when you perform duty bound actions or confess Me with your mouth if you do not recognise the commandment of love first and foremost and act accordingly .... You believe that you worship Me with your countless ceremonies, and yet you can only worship Me by doing what I ask of you .... And I ask of you to love Me and your fellow human being .... As long as you find that you lack love when you honestly look at yourselves, you are not yet on the right path, even if you go down on your knees daily and hourly and beat your chest .... This is demanded by people and only serves people too, whom you want to convince of your piety ....

Yet you are still far removed from true piety as long as you do not accept your fellow human beings with love, which also demonstrates your love for Me .... as long as you let your fellow human beings next to you live in utmost hardship and distress, as long as you do not attempt to help them first before you flatter yourselves with outward gestures .... before you pay homage to the world through mundane pomp, through everything that you call ‘in honour of Me’. I do not want to be worshipped this way while there is still hardship crying out for Me, which you humans could certainly ease if you etched My commandments of love into your hearts .... As long as I lived on earth I cared for the needy, the poor, the sick and the oppressed .... You, who claim to be My followers on earth .... what are you doing for these needy, poor, sick and oppressed people? As long as you can help but won’t, you are not My true followers even if you call yourselves such.

I only value the fulfilment of My commandments of love, since everything else .... profound faith, recognition of pure truth, unification with Me and, finally, eternal bliss .... are the results of love and can never be gained without love. It is already evident from this as to why there is such great spiritual hardship on earth, why people are without faith and live in error .... My pure teaching is the teaching of love, which I taught on earth. The moment this is taught as well as practised you humans will live in truth and will have started on the path which follows Jesus .... However, if you ignore these commandments you could outdo each other with external deeds .... you will not achieve any progress for your soul .... you will continue to live in error and take this into the spiritual kingdom, since I only value the degree of love attained by your soul until the time of your death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Last Judgment is an act of divine love ....

B.D. 5983 from June 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The Last Judgment also has to be considered an expression of God's love, for this, too, is based on the continued development of souls which had failed their last test of earthly life and which have to be placed into a new developing process in order to reach the final goal one day. Hence the Last Judgment is, in a manner of speaking, a finalising rearrangement of what had become disorderly .... it is for judging and integrating it into the various forms which correspond to the soul's degree of maturity .... it is the conclusion of one developmental period and the beginning of a new one in line with My plan of eternity which is based on profound wisdom and love. Even a judging God remains a God of love, because My justice is only able to take effect as My love deems beneficial for the soul and yet compensates the wrong thoughts and conduct of people who become subject to this judgment. Even the greatest sin will somehow have to be atoned if it hasn't been handed over to the One Who offered Himself as a sacrifice of atonement .... A balance has to be created in order to diminish this great guilt, and precisely this balance is guaranteed by the Judgment .... by placing the soul, having become sinful, into a situation where it has to reduce this guilt, since it had not voluntarily accepted the gift of atonement ....

The Last Judgment is by no means an act of divine wrath but just an act of love which also expresses My justice .... since this cannot be excluded from a supremely perfect Being. I could certainly let each person feel My righteousness separately, I could more or less punish every sinner immediately .... but this would not correspond to My wisdom, and in that case My love would hardly be recognisable. For I Am exceptionally long-suffering and patient and postpone a judgment, like the one at the end of a developmental period, for as long as possible, in order to still gain people for Myself beforehand .... And I place My protective hand over the unrighteous and wicked, because I wish to defeat them with My love and not be feared by them as a punishing God .... But once the point in time has arrived when I restore order, because there is no further hope of a voluntary return to Me, My love seemingly has to withdraw and yet, it alone is the driving force ....

My love brings a satanic situation to an end and prevents further destructive activity by My adversary .... I rescue souls from falling into the deepest abyss .... I constrain them within solid matter again and thus place them into the developmental process once more .... a judgment which yet again only intends salvation and not everlasting death .... and which therefore indeed even more demonstrates My love for everything I have created .... for everything that is dead and shall attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Guide and companion .... God's blessing ....

B.D. 5984 from June 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Everyone is accepted who voluntarily comes to Me .... anyone who strives towards Me in thought, who wants Me to accept him, can also feel seized by Me and will return to the father's house, even though his path is arduous and he is often of the will to turn back; he may well fall back a few steps .... but once I have grasped him I will never let go, he can always pick himself up again by My hand if he has fallen, and I will never withdraw My hand from him again .... after all, I have been waiting for his return for an eternity. Therefore I bless all those who make Me known to people, who bring Me so close to them that I will also be desired by them as a guide and companion for this earthly life .... People's thinking is often so distant that they don't notice Me when I come to their side .... and then it is good when people are found who draw their fellow human beings' attention to Me, who present the danger of a path without a guide to them and point them to My loving guidance. And then I come forth and offer Myself to them .... and anyone who voluntarily follows Me will truly no longer be able to go astray and lose his way. I know every individual person's thoughts and feel drawn towards those who seek contact with Me, and I will never ever remove Myself from their sides, even if at times no attention is paid to Me .... They are My children whom I want to guide upwards and whom I can guide if only they want to find Me, that I take care of them. I will only let those who openly and firmly reject Me go their own way, I will not force Myself upon them, yet even their farther ways will not be without signposts .... again and again they will be pointed to the right path, and it is up to their free will whether they change the chosen direction and choose Me as their aim. All people are blind in spirit who do not yet recognize Me when I walk by their side .... and I therefore bless those who endeavour to give these blind people knowledge that they need a guide .... I bless all who tell them of their perilous condition and at the same time advise and help them to take refuge in the right guide .... I bless those whose need goes to the heart, that they assist them and that they give love to those who do not receive love because they reject the giver of love .... I bless those who see, who take care of the blind in order to open their eyes for the glories of that world which lies ahead of them and which can be attained by every person who only wants Me to guide him .... who does not reject Me but believes in Me .... For only he who believes comes to Me voluntarily, and only he who comes voluntarily do I draw to My heart so that I will never let him go from Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 5985 from June 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The path to the eternal home is long for people who have not chosen the right guide, who therefore often go astray and have to make great effort to get there again where they can join Him and His guidance. Long futile paths can be travelled by them and therefore they postpone the return to the father's house longer and longer, but which they could reach in a short time under the right guidance, under the guidance of Jesus, Who indicated a short path for you humans and is always willing to show you this short path and to take over the guidance. How much time can be lost to you, how many efforts it can cost you .... how often can you slip and fall because you are on wrong paths which lead you far away from the right aim .... And alone you are incapable of finding the right path, and your strength is not enough because it leads you there. For this reason you must turn to Him, Who alone instructs you correctly .... to Jesus Christ, Who said of Himself: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." If you want to gain truth and life you absolutely have to follow the path of Jesus Christ, otherwise you will not be able to attain blissful life, otherwise you will not be able to find your father's house. He alone must precede you as a guide, before Whom all obstacles fade away, Who is always a true support for you when your strength weakens .... Who leads you past thorns and stones, Who always finds a path on which you can effortlessly ascend. Alone it is impossible for you to walk this path, for you cannot see it as long as the light of life does not shine for you .... He alone is the light, and He alone opens your eyes and lets you see correctly where you are walking .... He alone knows the path, for He Himself has opened it through His death on the cross, He has made it free for you, so that under His guidance you will safely and surely find your way to the father, so that your return to the father's house has become possible for you, so that you can reach your aim .... to be eternally united with Him from Whose love you once came forth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5986 from June 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My act of salvation has been accomplished for all times, for all people who have to walk the path through earthly life, for all unredeemed spiritual beings which need the grace of My act of salvation in order to become free from My adversary's bondage. One human being made the sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity .... He made the atoning sacrifice for the great sin of the spiritual's turning away from Me .... He paid the debt with His life .... He died on the cross. And whether the process of spiritualizing human beings still takes an endless amount of time .... whether countless periods of development are necessary in order to let the spiritual come to its final maturity .... Everything embodied as a human being has the opportunity to reach its aim precisely through Jesus Christ's help, through His inexhaustible measure of grace, which people only need to make use of in order to receive strength to liberate themselves from the adversary's power. Previously My adversary's might and power was so great that people were unable to offer him any resistance .... But Jesus Christ broke his power through His death on the cross and provided people with the strength to defeat him who avail themselves of His grace, who acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself because I wanted to help you humans. The great spiritual adversity on earth need not be, it could be lifted by you humans yourselves because the means are at your disposal through the divine redeemer .... Yet as long as you don't use them, as long as you don't draw strength from Him, you are weak and incapable and therefore in greatest spiritual adversity. And you strengthen My adversary's power again .... Don't believe that you can ever become free by any other means, and don't believe that your physical death will end everything .... The fetters My adversary has forged around you keep you mercilessly imprisoned even after your physical death, and only the one Who defeated him through His death on the cross can loosen them .... only Jesus Christ can release them .... And if you don't acknowledge Him, if you don't call upon Him, you will still remain in bondage for eternities, yet you will always and again have the opportunity to turn to Jesus Christ, for His act of salvation not only applies to the present but also to the past and the future .... All people who have to travel the path on earth can draw from His fountain of grace and recover, i.e. become free from the enemy of their souls .... They need only hand themselves over to Him Who is also Lord over satan, Who has overcome him. But they must hand themselves over to Him, otherwise they will remain eternally unfree .... eternally in that power, eternally in torment and darkness .... But it is up to you humans when you take refuge in Him who has redeemed you .... You are free, and you can hand yourselves over to Him immediately, but also only in eternity .... You can soon obtain bliss but also remain blissfully unhappy for an infinitely long time .... But once you have to submit yourselves to Him, and whenever you do so His treasure of grace will always be at your disposal, for He Who redeemed the world from sin died on the cross for all people. No human being who wants to escape death and rise to life can pass Him by .... for only through Jesus Christ can a person become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against false prophets ....

B.D. 5987 from June 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I take care of My own, and every spiritual and earthly request will be granted, for My own will also only grant Me earthly requests as the spirit from Me gives them. And spiritually I always provide for them according to their will, spiritually they are guided and cared for by Me, because the attainment of My kingdom .... the spiritual well-being of their souls .... is the first thing they strive for and therefore My spirit can also work in them. And therefore they can go their way without worry, it is the right one, because I Myself guide them .... Beware of false prophets, yet know that there are also genuine ones, otherwise I would not have warned against the false ones. But you can recognize genuine prophets by their nature and their work. They only strive selflessly to protect their fellow human beings from disaster, from satan's influence, from their spiritual downfall. Therefore they proclaim Jesus Christ, Who alone can snatch people from that influence, Who alone is their saviour and redeemer and leads them to eternal life. These prophets proclaim their Lord completely unselfishly and at the same time point out God's judgment which will befall people if their words are not believed .... They announce to people what is in store for them if they continue to walk their wrong paths. But only their concern for the salvation of their souls drives these messengers to sound their calls of admonition and warning. Wherever you meet such prophets, there let My words come to you .... listen when they speak to you and don't reject them, for their love drives them to do so, and that is why I also sent them amongst people to announce the near end to them so that they don't fall prey to it .... Therefore you should not reject everyone who announces the approaching judgment to you, for he only wants to save you and not just frighten you. But many also seek to gain a source of income in such an office .... They associate it with an earthly purpose, and these are not servants of God but servants of satan .... For My adversary wants to cause confusion amongst people, and thus he, too, will make use of My words, he, too, will speak of the end in order to make people believe that he is speaking on My behalf, in order to then direct people's thoughts towards their earthly life in order to then cause them to pay more homage than ever to the world, and he will know how to portray the world in such bright colours that people's love will be increasingly more turned towards the world .... Many false prophets will appear before the end, all of them will make use of the statement of the true prophets, who will also proclaim what is to come yet not with regard to My kingdom but only ever put their earthly aims first, but who also make use of My words yet are not unselfish but seek to gain their own advantages. And therefore their speeches will not correspond to the truth, therefore worldliness will still shine forth too much from their speeches, for anyone who still belongs to the world cannot deny it. But you humans can sense who has been sent to you by Me if you want to be Mine and stand in truth .... Then you will clearly recognize who is speaking to you, and you will follow the call of the true prophets, for they only want to lead you to Me, they don't want anything for themselves and they despise the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Promise of life .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5988 from June 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I will give life to those who flee death, who turn away from the one who brought death into the world and who believe My promise that they shall live forever if they let themselves be awakened by Me. I alone can fulfil this promise, I alone can command death to release you and I alone have the strength at My disposal which you need for life. Whoever therefore wants to live, let him come to Me and receive life from My hand .... whoever truly wants to live, let him desire strength from Me and he will be able to draw it without limit. I want to give you life, for I love you and therefore want to wrest you from death, I want to change your soul's lifeless state and give it the ability to be active for its own happiness .... I want it to be able to work in light and strength on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom .... But I can do nothing against your will .... Only when you want to escape death yourselves can you be fed with My strength, only when you turn away from the enemy of all life will he have lost his power over you and you will walk towards eternal life. Only when you direct your steps towards Me will the strength flow to you which guarantees you life, for you then open yourselves to My flow of love's strength and your hearts can now be filled with the water of life .... and you have escaped eternal death. But alone, without help, you will never be able to accomplish the release from the enemy of your souls, for your will is weakened and gagged by him, he keeps you down and you cannot rise on your own. And you would never be able to awaken to life if one did not have constant access to you .... One Whom the enemy cannot prevent from coming to you because He is stronger than the one who holds you captive .... But this one can only help you and release you from him if you want it yourselves, and so that you want it, touch His hand and let yourselves feel the benefit of His love. He steps into your path so that you will pay attention to Him and give Him the right to redeem you .... Jesus Christ, Who through His death on the cross earned the right to penetrate even the territories of His adversary in order to loosen the fetters of those who want it. My merciful love also comes to the souls in the depths .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... Where there is greatest adversity the saviour is near, there Jesus Christ obviously shows Himself so that people will take the path to Him Who alone can lead them out of the night of death into the light of life. He is the life Itself, Which took on flesh on earth in order to bring to life those who had fallen prey to death .... In Jesus Christ I Myself approach you humans and truly bring you life as soon as you let Me help you, as soon as you turn your eyes towards the cross and receive the strength to rise up, to resist and to free yourselves from captivity with My help. For I have redeemed you from sin and death .... I have purchased eternal life for you on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love radiance .... decision reminder .... will ....

B.D. 5989 from June 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are already eternally distant from Me and close yourselves off from My illumination of love .... and you will still be eternally distant from Me if you don't open yourselves to My grace, if you continue to resist Me as you have done so far .... For now you will soon have reached your hour of decision, you can return to Me completely in order to live a blissful life, but you can also continue to resist, and then you will be banished again from My closeness, which you had almost reached already .... you sink back and have to travel the same path again through all creations of nature. And eternities pass before you are confronted with the decision again in the same state of free will .... You humans cannot measure what this means, but I know and truly want to protect you from it, I want to try to induce you to escape this fate of yours and therefore call out to you: Return soon, don't let the end approach, come to your senses before it is too late .... Distance from Me means darkness and torment, bondage and powerlessness .... Distance from Me means that My illumination of love can no longer touch you and that you are therefore wretched. You could greatly reduce the distance from Me, you had and still have the opportunity to come close to Me, and your will alone determines whether you want to remain close to Me or turn away from Me completely again .... And I, in untiring patience and love, try to help you and direct your will from where light and strength can come to you .... But I cannot determine the right direction of your will, it is left up to you, and that is why you fail .... Everything is within your reach, a glorious kingdom in strength and bliss .... if only you reduce the distance from Me and let yourselves be permeated by My strength of love. For you must seek contact with Me if you also want to be full of light and strength. You must voluntarily take the path to Me, you must want to reduce the great distance from Me, you must not turn away from Me but fully consciously strive towards Me, and you must believe that I am the father of all of you and can therefore be reached by every one of My children who seriously wants to reach Me. My love for you, My living creations, has not diminished, it still embraces you with the same intensity, it just does not force itself upon you .... For the strength of love must not find resistance otherwise it will remain ineffective.

And if you humans are not yet able to feel My love, if you do not yet feel touched by My love, then you still remain in resistance against Me, and you should give it up, you should completely hand yourselves over to Me, you should no longer want to possess your own will but only be willing to live according to My will .... Then you will have voluntarily submitted yourselves to Me, then all resistance within you will be broken, then the distance between us will be reduced, and then you will be able to come so close to Me that you will feel My presence and you will be able to feel My love .... for you will be happy that you can nestle like children in your father's arms, that your father will embrace you in His love and prepare for you a blissful life in eternity .... O take care that you come into this state before the end is there, take care that you belong to those who can enter the spiritual kingdom by the father's hand, who stand firm in the last battle on this earth .... Make sure that you have become Mine, and you will remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

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Establishing divine order ....

B.D. 5990 from July 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

And I will purify the world, I will restore order, I will separate people from each other when the last day has come .... I want an earth to arise again where everything is in divine order, so that it may again serve the perfection of the spiritual, as is its destiny .... I want peace to reign one day, that paradise is opened up again to people who live in My will .... I want satan to have no more power over people and therefore I put him in chains, I strip him of all power and strength by also banishing his followers, without whom he is powerless for a long time. Although I was patient for a long time and did not stop him in his activity and rage against Me, one day the hour will come when I will put a stop to it and oppose it with My might and My will .... And then a new time will begin, a time of peace and order, a time of bliss and divine harmony for all people inhabiting the new earth .... and a time of rapid upward development for the spiritual bound in the creations. And during this time I Myself will obviously enter into contact with My own, I Myself will dwell amongst them and release increased bliss where the hearts beat towards Me in love .... Peace will dwell in people's hearts, peace will be amongst My own and nothing will be able to oppress them and rob them of their peace .... A new world will arise, full of light and love, where My love, power and glory will be revealed in every way .... The world has to be renewed, it has to be cleansed because in the end only sin and death rule it and thus it has become satan's abode, because all spiritual ascent on it has become impossible, which is against My order of eternity. A school of the spirit must be created again where it is possible for My earthly children to successfully complete their path of development. Human will has caused the greatest confusion and distorted everything, human will has disregarded My law of eternity and blindly raged to the detriment of every creature, to the detriment of the spiritual which is still bound .... And all this has to be put right if I want to come to the aid of this spiritual substance which is in a state of compulsion and for which people make further development difficult or completely impossible. A turning point must occur, a judging and reshaping .... The last judgement is inevitable, for it only serves as a blessing for humanity and the unredeemed spirit .... otherwise it could not reach its aim for ever .... otherwise all would be abandoned to the depths without salvation. There must be light where there is darkness, freedom where there are fetters and acts of violence .... Love must be able to rule where until now only hatred was expressed .... happiness and bliss must rejoice all who have hitherto lived under sin and oppression in the midst of a world of satanic beings .... For the time is fulfilled, deliverance from sin and death is coming ....

Amen

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Concept of hell and its torments ....

B.D. 5991 from July 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

A transfigured body and a transfigured soul ascended to heaven when I accomplished My work of redemption .... Only that which has completely spiritualized itself can enter into the heights of light .... thus enter the kingdom of heaven .... If this is understandable to you humans, it will also be possible for you to understand that everything which departs immaturely from earth also remains in the abyss .... that it still has to carry so many burdens which prevent its flight upwards, that it remains fixed in earthly surroundings and thus also dwells in earthly surroundings even though death has ended its stay on earth .... You will understand that the soul .... the spiritual .... which is thus enveloped by impure substances, by earthly desire and which is still completely immersed in material thinking, is completely impermeable to light and its darkened state cannot be a state of beatitude .... You will understand that the kingdom in which it dwells is infinitely far away from the kingdom into which I entered in the transfigured body .... And you will understand that this kingdom is called hell in contrast to the kingdom of light, which only harbours most blissful beings. An immature soul takes all its bad qualities and passions over into the kingdom of the dead, and it will want to let off steam there according to its nature .... It will unleash the same passions in the souls surrounding it, and therefore there will be no peace and quiet but battles will always break out for supremacy, because these beings only ever pursue earthly aims which constituted their purpose in life on earth. Such fights and disputes do not contribute towards their liberation, they aggravate their lot themselves, they rage against themselves and become ever more deeply dependent on the one in whose kingdom they dwell. Their innermost being is roiled by hatred and envy, they burn with a desire for revenge, and like a fire the hatred flares up in them which wants to destroy everything .... And whatever they do in their rage .... it does not satisfy them or free them from their state of hatred .... There is a constant ember of hatred in them, a fire of the worst passions, a fire without end .... unless they take counsel from the beings who approach them for help, to lead them out of the hell of their own passions .... Do you now understand what hell actually is? That by it is to be understood a state which is worse than a fire, because it (it) has only (also) the destroying qualities of it, but not only purifying qualities .... and that such a state can last for eternities, because even the efforts of beings willing to help can remain unsuccessful with souls whose shells are still impenetrable, and even the love of the helping beings is unable to penetrate the shells. Countless possibilities are opened up by My love to souls which depart from earth as little or not at all mature .... And that is why the spheres in which these souls dwell are so different, from the deepest depth up to the height there are countless intermediate stages, depending on the soul's cover, to what extent it is impermeable or can already catch weak rays of light. And yet hell .... the realm of demonic, hate-distorted and misshapen souls .... is the most densely populated. most densely populated because these souls are still completely materially minded and all their love only applies to the kingdom which belongs to My adversary. And this one truly knows how to kindle greed and unfold all bad urges and characteristics. He stokes the fire to the highest embers which will never go out in his kingdom .... but it is still possible to escape with the help of the one Who is stronger than him .... with the help of Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... I went up to heaven .... but as the redeemer of men from sin and death I also descend to hell and bring salvation to those who want to be saved .... For there is also a way out of hell .... even in hell the cross of Christ shines and can soothe souls .... The light of the cross can touch a soul in such a way that it is weary of the eternal struggle and clings to the rescue beam of the cross, and its deep guilt is wiped away for the sake of the merciful love of Jesus .... There is also redemption from hell, for My love is greater than all guilt ....

Amen

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Effect of a striving person on otherworldly souls ....

B.D. 5992 from July 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Increased spiritual striving will always have a redeeming effect, for both the person's own soul as well as the souls in the beyond which surround him accept light, because the will directed towards God secures light and strength for the person's own soul and thereby the path to God is also shown to the souls in the beyond, which they therefore pursue because it lies brightly and clearly before them .... A person on earth who only ever endeavours to do God's will .... who therefore consciously strives towards Him .... will always be surrounded by weak, needy souls who want to draw strength from Him, Who is recognizable to them through bright light and Who also radiates strength as soon as his thoughts are love-filled and helpful. Weak souls in need of help hope for help from him and are therefore always close to him .... Every thought now which is turned towards God, every thought which is spiritually directed, is recognized as a spark of light, and they attentively follow all of the human being's thoughts and his endeavour, his earthly activity .... And they take it as an example and strive for the same. They, too, now turn their eyes upwards, they seek the same aim .... and the human being is redeemingly active, albeit unconsciously. And the prayer for the deceased, the mental dwelling with the unredeemed souls, which calls them and lets them participate in the good influence on the soul around him, is then particularly effective. A person's thoughts do not remain hidden from those souls if they are spiritually directed, and thus the souls which are capable of change and willing are always summoned .... For this reason, however, the forces are also at work which want to prevent redemption .... therefore the spiritually striving human being will often be harassed, and the forces of darkness will try to confuse his thoughts, to hold him back from spiritual striving because they fear losing many souls at the same time .... And therefore the spiritually striving human being will not be spared days of inner struggle, of hours of inner hardship and weak faith, yet these will not last long because the opposing forces will soon be displaced again from above .... because God always helps those whose striving is meant for Him .... And if only the human being often remembers the souls which hope for help from him, then his will of salvation will be manifested and he will always receive strength to lead himself and his flock of followers upwards. He will not need to fear becoming a victim of those dark forces, after every temptation he will always more eagerly seek to reach his aim, for all those to whom he did good, all those to whom he sent loving thoughts, irrespective of whether on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, will stand by him, and thus he will never slacken but be active for the benefit of his surroundings, because God is his aim as long as he still lives on earth ....

Amen

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God Himself declares: Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5993 from July 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Surely it should be possible for Me Myself to destroy all misgivings, and it is also possible for Me as soon as a person only desires the pure truth .... as soon as he thus frees himself from his previous knowledge in order to listen to My voice alone, which I reveal to him .... As soon as he seriously desires the truth he can also be assured that I will not withhold this truth from him, because the desire for truth also proves the desire for Me Myself, Who is the eternal truth: And I am also present to anyone who desires Me, and I prove Myself to him through the manifestation of My spirit, so that he becomes enlightened .... that he now thinks truthfully or recognizes what is presented to him as truth. You humans don't believe how easily you can acquire truthful knowledge; you don't believe that you only need to turn to the giver of truth in order to then also fully and completely stand in the truth. For anyone who earnestly desires the truth is also willing and able to love. God is love, and God is truth .... God, love and truth are one .... If you desire the truth, then you also desire God .... you seek union with that which you love .... And if you love God and truth the spark of love has already flared up in you, the connection exists with Me, My presence is certain to you and I Myself prove Myself to you through My working in you .... My spirit gives you enlightenment about what you want to know ....

But do you humans want to know the pure truth? I have to ask you this question so that you will also have the explanation why so much error and ambiguity can be found amongst people and also where the truth should be spread. I can only consider you humans if you want this yourselves, otherwise I would have to touch the human being's free will and an inevitably imparted truth cannot bring blessing .... I have promised you humans that I Myself am ready at any time with the words: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, he will guide you into truth ...." You cannot dispute My word .... But where do you seek the fulfilment of this promise? .... And so I have also said to you: "Become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect ...." With these words I have made it clear what your aim is on earth .... that you should shape yourselves into gods, for you should become My image, My children .... which is only possible in the perfection of your being. And because you would never have reached the aim yourselves, because you were too weak to accomplish this work of transformation on your own, I sent you one Who was to prove to you that it is indeed possible for a human being to reach this final aim, deification, on earth .... He exemplified to you the life which earned Him the success of finding union with Me .... of eternal love .... through love .... He became perfect as His father in heaven was perfect, so that I Myself could be in all fullness in Him, in the man Jesus, Who was only human as long as this transformation had not yet been accomplished .... But then His external body contained Me Myself and therefore He was able to ascend to heaven transfigured after His physical death, because body and soul had deified themselves through love .... And all of you shall follow Him .... you shall all become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect .... Consider seriously these words of Mine .... that I demand something of you and have also given you the proof that it is possible to fulfil this demand .... I am and eternally remain the highest and most perfect spirit in infinity. In My infinite abundance of light and strength no being would be able to behold Me .... But in Jesus Christ I Myself became visible to you, which is why Jesus Christ really and truly is and remains God for all eternity .... But I sent you My son .... a being that came forth from Me .... to earth, Who now took on a human form of His own free will and prepared this form so that it could become My abode .... that I Myself was therefore now in Him and it can certainly be said that Jesus was God .... that I Myself embodied Myself on earth .... Yet it can never be denied that Jesus, as a human being, offered the sacrifice on the cross for you humans .... that He lived and suffered and died as a human being .... but that love in Him brought the sacrifice and that love was I Myself and that I Myself therefore redeemed you humans from sin and death ....

Amen

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Distribution of spiritual goods by messengers of God ....

B.D. 5994 from July 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

With full hands I would like to distribute My gifts of grace to you, yet I only find a few who open themselves and allow themselves to be bestowed by Me, only a few recognize the value of My gift of grace and gratefully accept it, and only a few make use of it and acquire great spiritual wealth. And these are to be blessed .... For one day every person will recognize what his nature is, one day poverty as well as wealth will be revealed, and then the soul which passed by the giver, Who only wanted to give to it and Whose gifts it did not respect and rejected, will think back repentantly .... One day every soul will be dependent on spiritual wealth, and its fate in eternity will correspond to this .... But as long as man lives on earth he can acquire spiritual goods, for I offer them to him until the end of his life .... He may accept unearned treasures, for the poverty of every soul endures Me, and My love wants to give what it lacks .... And therefore I send messengers again and again who are to distribute My gifts in My stead to those who do not receive Me Myself when I come to them, to those to whom they have easier access because they stand on the same ground. These messengers are rich in spiritual goods which they have received from Me Myself, and thus they can also distribute much and yet they will never spend themselves .... For again and again I provide for them anew and bless those who go to the poor with their wealth in order to make them happy .... For their ministry is not easy .... the goods they offer are too little desired, and therefore they are often rejected, even though they offer the most delicious .... Goods which are imperishable and will one day be valued alone .... My love, however, will not cease to provide you humans with what you need for your soul .... My love will constantly use new means which all aim to provide you with spiritual wealth .... My love will approach you in all situations of life and again and again offer you a gift .... Gifts of grace of the highest value .... but always leave you the freedom to accept or reject them. For only a voluntarily used grace can have a beneficial effect on you. You are poor and I want to make you rich .... but you don't recognize your spiritual poverty and therefore reject the one Who alone can remedy your poverty but Who nevertheless will not let Himself be rejected and again and again offers you His gifts of love as long as you live on earth .... But when your last hour has come your fate will be as your will was on earth .... You will suffer a lack of what you carelessly rejected on earth and will only be able to attain with difficulty in the kingdom of the beyond, the goods which alone will help you to ascend .... And your remorse will be painful .... but your fate will be just, for the rejection of My gift of love and grace on earth can only bring you great hardship in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

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Afflictions of the body .... suffering for the soul ....

B.D. 5995 from July 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The body will pass away but the soul will leave it in order to enter eternity in radiant abundance of light if it has used its earthly life correctly. Therefore do not grieve when the body is afflicted with infirmities, for this body then carries a burden for the soul so that it can swing up in freedom into bright heights .... Do not grieve but rejoice, for it is a plus for the soul at the end of earthly life .... It is the path you once voluntarily agreed to take, even if you knew nothing about it in earthly life, yet the soul recognized its opportunity to mature and took upon itself the fate which seems difficult for you to bear. But if your body can no longer cope with its burden, if you feel too weak to carry the cross imposed on you, then look up to Him and ask Him to take your burden onto His shoulder, and He will help you carry the cross .... He will give you strength and support you, He will always be ready for you if you call upon Him for help. You, who have to suffer on earth, experience God's love to a special degree, even if you don't understand it, even if it seems incomprehensible to you that His love has burdened you with a cross. Yet only the body suffers and passes away, but the soul is spared unspeakable suffering, and God's love and care is meant for this soul which He wants to protect from a fate which is far more painful than the suffering the body had to bear during its earthly life. And as soon as you surrender to God's will, as soon as you patiently carry your cross, the soul's shells will dissolve, it will become receptive to light, it will become free and need not fear death either .... it will welcome it as an entrance into the kingdom of light, it will lay down its body with joy and be grateful that it suffered for it .... For now the soul will live in light and freedom and eternal bliss.

Amen

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Loosening the bond with God danger ....

B.D. 5996 from July 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You can easily get caught in satan's nets if you loosen your bond with Me, if you go towards what he lures you with .... if you let yourselves be captured by the world .... For the world is his kingdom, the world is the net into which he wants to entangle you, the world is the shackle he wraps around you as soon as you isolate yourselves from Me and thus he has free play with you. You must always bear in mind that there are only two kingdoms .... Mine and My adversary's .... that you can therefore only dwell in one if you leave the other .... To dwell in My kingdom means complete renunciation of the world, of the kingdom of the one who is My adversary. And likewise you will only be able to abide in his kingdom if you have separated yourselves from My kingdom .... Always bear in mind that you cannot serve both lords and that therefore a decision has to be made on your part as to which lord you will give yourselves to. Satan will tempt you as long as you stay on earth, for he will not give up hope of winning you back even if you have already decided in favour of Me. And he truly finds the most hidden means, he deceives you, who want to remain faithful to Me, by appearing under a mask and trying to mislead you. But you can protect yourselves at all times if you maintain the connection with Me, if you always let Me be your beginning and your end .... if you start and end everything with Me .... if you let Me be present in you through heartfelt prayer and activity in love. Then every attempt by him will be in vain, you will be able to resist every temptation, for then you will receive strength from Me and he will only rarely be able to approach you, since My closeness will keep him back and he will only wait for an opportunity where your thoughts will stray from Me and still apply to the world. Therefore, first try to overcome the world so that he will not find any opportunity to approach you .... And if you stand in the midst of the world and have to pay tribute to it, always remember Me .... Only ever stay together with Me in the world, and then the world will no longer be My adversary's kingdom for you, for everywhere I can dwell through your will is My kingdom, and there I protect you from all attacks of the enemy. But be vigilant .... always erect a wall around you which he cannot climb over .... The wall of a strong faith that I guide you .... and always hold against him the most effective weapon .... love .... against which he is truly completely powerless .... Then you will also travel your earthly path of life in the midst of the world unharmed by him, for then you will go with Me directly on the path into your father's house ....

Amen

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Thoughts on the meaning and purpose of life on earth .... address of God ....

B.D. 5997 from July 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

When the significance of earthly life is presented to you, then you are addressed by the eternal deity, then it is a moment when It Itself addresses you and only demands attention from you so that you may also enter into the blessing of this address. You humans mostly live your earthly life task unconsciously .... you do not think about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, you only focus on earthly life, on your successes or failures, and you rarely only think about the ultimately negative success when your earthly life is over .... If you would often indulge in these thoughts, then you would seriously question yourselves about the actual meaning of your existence .... you would first move these thoughts within yourselves in order to then also debate them with your fellow human beings, for these questions would no longer let you go once they had arisen in you. And then you will have entered the path to knowledge, always provided that you are serious about receiving clarification.

For this serious desire is taken into account because God, Who knows all your thoughts, is always ready to guide you to the right knowledge .... to the truth .... for you are His creatures .... You only dwell on this earth in order to attain perfection, and perfection also includes the light of knowledge .... A creator Whose wisdom is undeniable has based all His creations on purpose and aim, otherwise He would not be wise .... otherwise He would have to be denied perfection. Consequently, the human being was also created for the sake of a specific aim which is only unknown to you as long as you don't want to know it .... because the knowledge of it is of no use to someone who does not have the will to know it in order to live in accordance with his aim. Although this knowledge can be presented to every person it will only affect him when he has come to terms with the thought of his actual destiny, of the meaning and purpose of his life on earth. Then an explanation will appeal to him if it is truthful, or he will reject it if erroneous views are held in conversations about it. For this is God's working, that He correctly guides the thinking of the one who wants to recognize .... Your earthly life is not without significance, for it determines your fate in eternity .... Earthly life is only a transitional stage, and the way you pass it will shape your further existence, for your life does not end with the death of your body .... And if you humans first make this realization your own, that you continue to live, that your ego merely leaves the external shell in order to enter a new existence .... if you can attain this convinced belief, then you no longer regard earthly life as an end in itself but as a means to an end, and then you also live it consciously .... i.e. always with the aim in mind that your soul enters the kingdom in the right condition, which will be its abode after bodily death .... And you can gain this convinced faith if only you devote yourselves to the God and creator of eternity from Whose hand you emerged .... Then His love will take hold of you and He will guide all your thoughts right .... But if you humans also lack faith in a God and creator from eternity, then you are still badly deformed in your soul .... then you are devoid of all love .... Then you have all the more reason to strive for a transformation of your nature into love, which is the first and last aim of all people on earth ....

Amen

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Power of the will through Jesus' death on the cross ....

B.D. 5998 from September 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Every human being can reach his aim on earth if he wants to .... For for this the human being Jesus offered Himself on the cross as a sacrifice, so that no human being lacked the strength he needed for his ascent to height. And the will also experiences a strengthening through the grace of the act of salvation, but it remains eternally free, thus the human being himself is the deciding factor. His will is tested during his earthly life, but it can also remain in resistance, but then the soul also has to bear the consequences of it. Before Jesus' death on the cross the souls were bound, they lay on the ground and could not raise themselves .... But the divine redeemer walks past all of them and offers them His hand so that they can lift themselves up and follow Him without God's adversary being able to hinder them .... Anyone who grasps His hand escapes that power and becomes free, for anyone who follows Jesus Christ is introduced into a kingdom of light, and light and strength are also his portion .... Yet whether he grasps His hand is entirely up to him, and thus you humans will realize that you have to do something yourselves in order to become free, that your will has to become active, that it is up to you yourselves whether you become free and blissful creatures. And therefore it is your own failure, your own fault, if you do not reach the aim, and no-one will be able to say that it was not possible for him .... For this reason you are responsible for your soul as long as you live on earth, where you are constantly informed that you only live on earth for the purpose of liberating yourselves from the power which holds you captive, and that you can also do so with the help of Jesus Christ. You are constantly pointed to Him and only need to make use of the blessings which He acquired for you and which are abundantly at your disposal .... But you must acknowledge Him, you must consciously call upon Him for help in the realization of your own weakness and helplessness .... You must consciously turn away from His adversary and push towards Him .... Then His love will take hold of you and you will safely reach the aim by His hand. Without Him, however, your earthly life is an empty run, and in the end you will still stand where you stood in the beginning when you were allowed to embody yourselves as a human being .... And you cannot be absolved of the guilt of not having used your will correctly, and now you will also receive your reward for this guilt, which your own will has earned for you ....

Amen

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God's help to the trusting supplicant ....

B.D. 5999 from July 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I truly don't want to leave you in weakness who appeal to Me for strength and grace, and I want to provide for you like a father provides for his children whose will he recognizes as good and turned towards him. At times I let the feeling of weakness arise in you because I want to bind you ever more firmly to Me in order to show you that you can be strong with Me and that you have nothing to fear if only you firmly attach yourselves to Me and thus you can now dispose of My strength. You are never alone, even if I keep Myself hidden .... But your call lets Me come out of hiding; therefore don't forget Me .... and no matter how great your adversity is, don't let it gain power over you but don't pay attention to it and trustingly come to Me. It is precisely this trust which also secures you help, for only then will you be My true children if you have no doubts about My might and My love. Can there be anything I cannot remedy? Can people prevent Me from working and can you be harmed when I watch over you? Yet I demand of you that you approach Me for help .... Any adversity only comes upon you because I want to cause you to enter into or deepen the bond with Me .... Try to make this purpose of every adversity clear to yourselves, always remember when you get into an adversity that I allow it because I want to be even more intimately united with you but that you have to accomplish this yourselves, that the adversity is only a small reminder that you should long for My presence more intimately .... I don't want you humans to go your own ways where you don't let Me walk beside you .... I want to be your constant companion, and therefore your paths will become impassable or dangerous if you walk them alone and I want you to call for Me, for the guide Who will always safely lead you over all obstacles on your path. Whenever you are confronted by adversity, first come to Me in confidence and submit it to Me .... For I want you to renounce what oppresses you, I don't want to be ignored, I always want to be the father to Whom you entrust yourselves, and your trust will truly be rewarded, for where no human being can help you My power is not limited, I can always help you, and I always want to help those who come to the father like children and appeal to Him for His help ....

Amen

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Resurrection of the flesh ....

B.D. 6000 from July 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The will for truth guarantees correct thinking and correct understanding .... You, who want truth, will receive the purest truth, you need not fear any error and thus will always be blessed if you want to spread the truth. Let Me know what you cannot understand as yet .... what gives rise to doubt .... and I will teach and enlighten you ....

The doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh .... as you humans would dearly like to understand it .... becomes untenable as soon as you have penetrated spiritual knowledge to some extent, as soon as you have come closer to the truth and tried to explain the meaning of My Words in a spiritual sense. What I said is eternal, unchangeable truth .... but the meaning you try to read into it is truly not in My Word .... But every person will be able to grasp the spiritual meaning of My Words if only he sincerely strives for truth. Anyone who prays to Me Myself for understanding, who tries to penetrate the truth, will soon plainly and clearly realise the spiritual meaning of the Word, and he will not get stuck to the letter .... ‘Resurrection of the flesh ....’ These words mean the same to you humans as ‘life after death’ ....

To you, the word ‘life’ has the same meaning as ‘to live in the flesh’ as long as your spirit is not yet awakened, as long as the real meaning of ‘life’ is still unknown to you. People who do not believe in a continuation of life believe that their existence ends with their physical death. Being in their physical body means ‘life’ to them. However, they know that they will lose this shell through death but they do not believe in a trinity of body, soul and spirit .... Only the body exists for them, the ‘flesh’, and once this has died the expression ‘life’ is over for them. Resurrection of the flesh signifies the resurrection of the body to them. They only associate this with their physical body, and it is a difficult doctrine .... the ‘resurrection of the flesh’, which people are expected to believe ....

Nevertheless, it can be a blessing if, due to this teaching, the human being believes in resurrection .... in life after death. As a result of this belief he will also change his nature and this change can result in an awakening, in an illumination by My spirit .... And then he will also understand the Word ‘resurrection of the flesh ....’ Then he will comprehend its spiritual meaning .... Resurrection means: to awaken from death into life .... to arise from a state of sleep .... to step out of darkness into light .... And thus, for the first time, everything that was concealed by the darkness of night will come into light .... It will arise and reveal itself .... it will come alive in order to bear witness .... In the state of death nothing happens that could be declared. However, what happened in life, in the state when you lived on earth in the flesh, now becomes evident, it reveals itself, it arises to give evidence for or against you .... And not, that the physical body of flesh rises again from the dust in order to shroud you once more for a new life. For this body of flesh is just a transient shell for the immortal soul, which cannot die but it can be spiritually dead on its departure from earth. Nevertheless, it can still awaken to life in the spiritual realm .... thus still rise from the dead even there .... if it finds its way to Jesus Christ, Who will then give it ‘life’ ....

Even Jesus became flesh when He came to earth, and even this flesh had to suffer earthly death. Jesus rose from the dead to confirm to you that your life will not end with the death of your body, that your soul, too, can arise to eternal life .... but to confirm the truth of His Words He let His body rise from the dead too .... and yet, it was not a resurrection of the flesh, for His body had spiritualised itself. The soul had donned the garment of the spirit and withdrawn all spiritual substances from the earthly body since, due to His life and death, it had already become completely spiritualised .... Thus the body’s physical substances, which are essentially spiritual substances too, had already achieved their final objective on earth and thus could join the soul and .... because it had been Jesus’ will .... also become visible to His disciples in order to strengthen their faith. And since a perfect spirit is not earthbound, Jesus could rise into spiritual spheres .... when He ascended to heaven ....

You humans, too, will have a body after your resurrection .... a spiritual garment, and this will be in accordance with your flesh, for ‘you will reap what you have sown ....’ If you have sinned in the flesh, the garment of your soul will give it away. If you have done good works out of love, you will be radiant and thus recognisable too. Yet your soul will never again put on the heavy earthly garment, which was its abode during the short earthly time in order to be able to survive in the material world .... Anyone who knows the meaning and purpose of the material creation, who knows about the fallen spirits’ development through this creation for the purpose of ascending to Me, will not need such explanations, but he needs to be able to refute a doctrine which is absurd due to wrong interpretation ....

But if you absolutely want to speak about the resurrection of the ‘flesh’, let the explanation suffice you that My Word will rise again to bear witness for or against you .... I Am the Word that was made flesh .... and I approach every human being in the Word .... And when the last day has come, when every one of you will have to be judged, My Word itself will judge you .... you, who received My Word and considered it in accordance with your will .... The flesh will rise again .... because it was offered to you as nourishment, you were meant to ‘eat My flesh’ and ‘drink My blood’, you were meant to accept My Word eagerly and let it strengthen you .... And you will have to justify yourselves before Me how you have used My gift of love. This explanation also corresponds to the truth, and it should encourage you to use your life in the flesh on this earth by accepting His food and drink, Who is the eternal Word that became ‘flesh’ for your sake ....

You will find wisdom shining forth from every explanation, even if you humans have not yet penetrated into spiritual knowledge. And if your spirit is awake, you will readily accept every one of My explanations, for they will satisfy you, whereas the wrong interpretation of My Word will only stir a will of resistance in you and must do so, because this wrong interpretation stems from My adversary whose aim it is to confuse a person’s thoughts, to divert him from the truth and to remove any belief in life after death. A wrong interpretation such as this also proves the spiritually low level of people, and also of those who bring My Word to them even though they have not yet penetrated the meaning of My Words themselves .... The letter kills .... only the spirit gives life .... And all of you should ask for this spirit, you should pray for enlightened thinking and strive for pure truth, and your prayer will certainly not go unheeded ....

Amen

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False christs and prophets .... work of satan ....

B.D. 6001 from July 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Satan's intention is to cause confusion among the faithful, among those whom he recognizes as lost to him and whom he nevertheless hopes to win back. He is full of deceit and cunning, and he always finds means to use. And he is not afraid to disguise himself and seemingly walk with Me, he is not afraid to feign light in order to extinguish the true light and leave people in utmost darkness .... He is dangerous .... but yet to be recognized by those who have given themselves to Me and are therefore also protected by Me .... to whom I therefore also give the gift of discernment, which also recognizes him through the mask .... Remember that the time of the end has come and that he will stop at nothing because he knows that he has not much time left .... Remember that many false christians and false prophets will arise in the time of the end, that he hides behind those, and therefore be watchful and persevere in prayer .... for union with Me is the best protection against him .... If you let Me stay with you, he cannot be present .... but if you stumble or turn away from Me, even for a short time, he tries to slip in and succeeds in confusing you, he succeeds in sowing discord and strife, impatience and unkindness, where My presence prevents such things .... He can cause confusion amongst people but you can also protect yourselves from it .... You can resist him, you can command him to leave you if only you always let Me stand by your side, if you call upon Me in your thoughts and always commend yourselves to My protection .... Then I will truly not allow him to besiege you, then My presence will prevent him from approaching you. And bear in mind that everything unpleasant is his influence .... consider that unkindness above all opens the gate for him through which he can enter, and therefore beware of every unkind word, unkind thoughts and unkind actions .... For these are his work and can cause you to fall. And lest you succumb to his temptations, pray .... And you will be strengthened and resist, you will realize that My power is always greater, that My love is always ready for you and that I protect you from all attacks of your enemy if only you pray fervently: Lead us (not) in (the) temptation ....

Amen

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Will of man determines the degree of truth ....

B.D. 6002 from July 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Everything that seems unacceptable to you, that you doubt or cannot understand properly, present it to Me for an answer, for a solution, and it will become light in you .... I say this to those who earnestly seek the truth, who want to spread it and thus exercise their teaching authority properly .... who feel responsible for the teaching material they pass on. You need not fear to remain unenlightened, but you cannot obtain enlightenment intellectually and also not accept it from there, where again only the intellect was active but the original source of truth was not approached for it. But you can draw knowledge from the original source and it will also refresh you because it is clear and pure. As long as you humans have not grasped this truth you are not protected from erroneous thoughts. You will then be walking on a sheet of ice which can collapse at any time .... You lack the support of inner conviction, and you will be and remain searching and yet not be able to find the truth. But you must also understand that much error was able to enter the world because I do not curtail the human being's will, who therefore can also distort or deform the purest truth according to his will .... that the human being's will therefore determines whether he walks in truth or in error, in wrong thinking. And therefore it is wrong to say that a teaching .... a tradition .... must remain pure because I watch over it .... I certainly take care again and again that the pure truth is guided to earth; I certainly assure every person the right thinking, the right understanding for truth, who turns to Me Myself and asks Me for enlightenment of spirit .... But what you humans then do with this spiritual knowledge again is your own free will .... You can certainly keep it pure if you are of good will, but you can also very easily deface it without being prevented from doing so, otherwise your will would be unfree .... you can, if you interpret My word, also give this word of Mine a different meaning and will not be hindered by Me .... And thus My pure teaching has also been badly disfigured in the course of time because the giver of the teaching, the giver of truth, was disregarded .... because My spirit, which alone secures the pure truth, was unable to work. And therefore it is necessary that again and again clarification comes from above .... that My word is repeatedly conveyed to earth in all purity .... that error is uncovered and the working of the spirit is revealed .... "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My word will endure for ever ...." My word .... not the word formed by men. And that is why I speak again and again to people, to those who recognize the original source of truth in Me and come to Me to draw from the spring of life .... Anyone who takes the path directly to Me will also be able to receive directly from Me, and whatever originates from Me is truly good and pure and will bring you blessings. This source is not closed to any human being, yet you must come to it yourselves .... the desire for the water of life, for the pure truth, must urge you towards Me so that I can refresh you with an incomparable gift .... with My word, which is the emanation of My love and touches everyone who approaches Me longingly ....

Amen

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Value of spiritual treasures in the beyond ....

B.D. 6003 from July 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Increase your spiritual possessions as much as you can, for they are riches with which you can work in the spiritual kingdom for your and the ignorant souls' happiness. They are treasures which cannot be taken from you if they are not the result of your intellectual thinking but heavenly supplies which were imparted to you through the spirit. For everything, even that which is thought, can have its exit in the spiritual kingdom if the prerequisites for it are given .... And the gates to the kingdom of light will open to anyone who can demonstrate spiritual wealth, because this signifies light, realization and also love .... without which no human being can reach the light. For your activity in the beyond consists of enlightening the ignorant and leading those in the dark to the light .... that you lovingly try to bring redemption to those who are still bound, who dwell in utmost poverty and hardship in a desolate region, who are therefore wretched. They shall be led to beatitude by you, for in your love you will always want to distribute your wealth, you will want to give and receive the more you distribute. Spiritual wealth, however, can only be called spiritual knowledge which was gained through the working of the spirit .... which is therefore conveyed to the human being as a result of loving activity, be it directly or also through mediation or through right thinking guided by the spirit .... The human being's love must always enable him to receive spiritual knowledge which originates from Me and can only ever be conveyed to someone who lives in love .... Pure intellectual knowledge will not last in eternity, for the souls will lose this in the kingdom of the beyond if they lack love .... And thus you should always endeavour to live a life of love on earth, because then you will gather spiritual treasures for yourselves which can never ever be taken away from you, which will make you happy and give you the opportunity to work in the spiritual kingdom for your and all souls' bliss whom you want to redeem ....

Amen

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Source of life ....

B.D. 6004 from July 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Finding the source of life, where the soul can truly refresh itself, is possible for every person who seeks it .... But the soul must feel hunger and thirst before it seeks the spring where it hopes to find refreshment. A person who does not feel miserable and hungry will never desire true refreshment .... and he will not feel hunger and thirst as long as he satisfies himself otherwise .... as long as he moves in the whirlpool of the world and withdraws from the world what gives him comfort. And this is the majority of people who are anchored in the world and don't walk up into bright heights where fresh water of life would truly bring them unusual refreshment which is gratefully felt by the soul. Man must walk upwards .... The spring which gives life to the soul will never be discovered in the depths .... Man must remove himself from the depths, he must turn his back on the world and ascend to the heights of light, then he will find the fountain of life from which the most delicious water of life flows .... Anyone who seeks God and wants to receive the word from Him, which is nourishment for the soul, will not find Him in the world, yet away from the world he will feel His nearness, and the quieter it becomes in and around him, the clearer he will hear His word and the more he will become aware of the nearness of the one Who gave him life and Who also wants to continue to feed and water him in order to awaken him to spiritual life in earthly life. The gaze of the person who seeks God must continue to turn upwards, for the light He radiates comes from above .... from above comes everything good, everything worth striving for, and from above also comes the word, the living water which flows from the source... of God's eternal love .... flows forth. God will allow Himself to be found by anyone who seeks Him, and God will also make Himself known .... He will invite everyone on his earthly path of life to receive refreshment and refreshment from the source which His love opens up for him. He will point everyone to the right path which leads to the font of life and gently urge them towards it .... yet He will let the reluctant wanderer go his way, for he will turn to the abyss, he will seek the world and want to become intoxicated, he will seek sin and thereby find death .... But he who strives upwards, he strives towards life, and he will find life and never lose it again ....

Amen

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Arbitrarily taking one's own life ....

B.D. 6005 from July 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You humans are granted a certain length of time for your final deliverance from bondage .... for the ultimate release from the form .... Yet the duration of this time varies such as I had recognised to be good for your soul. Your earthly life is not finished by Me arbitrarily, yet I know the maturity of every person's soul and thus I also know the risk of a decline or the possibility of further progress on earth.

And My love and mercy also ends a human life prematurely in order to prevent the soul from regressing .... or I can see the possibility of a change in the last hour and therefore prolong the natural life, always in wise counsel, for everything that serves the benefit of the soul is known to Me .... And now you will understand that your own ending of the body's life is a serious offence, that you commit a sin, that you act in advance of My love and mercy and don't utilise the opportunities which were offered to your soul to reach perfection ....

You interfere with My plan of Salvation and cause such damage to your soul which one day will trigger immense remorse and self-reproaches in you, yet which no longer can be put right in the kingdom of the beyond, for the advantages you should and are able to utilise on earth can never be offered to you in the kingdom of the beyond again. You have irretrievably forfeited something, even if you still succeed in improving the state of your soul by then striving to ascend ....

Yet there is a great danger that the soul will descend .... that it will rebel, just as arbitrarily taking its own life was a rebellion, and that it will continue to stay in opposition. Such souls require a lot of help as not to be lost for an infinitely long time, yet they, too, only get what they want.

I will truly help everyone, even in utmost adversity, which is instantly lessened when the person just thinks of Me, when he just calls upon Me for help .... And adversity is, after all, only a means of directing your thoughts towards Me, so that you then will also be able to gain success from your earthly life .... Adversity will not befall a person without reason, for his soul is in danger from which it shall escape by means of this adversity. And the more its stance hardens against Me the more it is at risk, in order to finally defy My will and throw away the life which it was granted by My love and grace for its final redemption. For the embodiment as a human being is a grace for the soul .... a gift of My love .... it is the last step towards ascent which it is allowed to take in order to become eternally free and blissfully happy .... The soul has almost reached its goal and is therefore responsible for its actions if it does not utilise this gift of grace but throws it away in blindness of thought.

Every movement of a human heart is known to Me and I truly judge righteously .... I take the weaknesses of My living creations into account yet it is not without their own fault, and the human being's free will incriminates him if it was wrongly orientated, thus was abused. The human being is unable to end his adversity by his intervention, he will have to continue suffering because of it, he will not be able to escape his distress, and that is why the soul will suffer inexpressibly in the kingdom of the beyond .... until it can master it in the same way as it should have done on earth .... until it takes refuge in the One Who is Lord over suffering and adversity, because He is the victor over sin and death ....

Amen

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God's guidance, God's will or approval ....

B.D. 6006 from July 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

How often do you experience My guidance without recognizing it, and how often could you take a step forward, for everything you experience only serves your perfection. And you can be convinced that I only want to promote your perfection .... that everything happens from Me which is beneficial for your soul's ascent. If it is not evaluated it is not My will but yours, and you yourselves shape your destiny; you yourselves make arrangements for ascent or for your relapse into the abyss.

But as long as you stay on earth you can be sure of My guidance if only you willingly accept it .... yes, I will follow you, unrecognized by you, and I am always ready to take over the guidance if you get lost or stand undecided at a crossroads .... And I will always push you onto the right path .... and this in the form of experiences which could give you food for thought if you are attentive. Nothing happens arbitrarily, and nothing could be carried out if I did not give My approval .... Therefore, every event can also be regarded as a mission on My part .... but at least as My permission which again and again aims at a higher aim. Although you care little for Me, I care all the more for you .... And what you don't do of your own accord is, as it were, suggested to you by such experiences which are intended to rouse you from a state of sleep into which your carelessness has caused you to fall .... or you are stimulated into increased striving when you certainly belong to Me but become lukewarm and indifferent. You should not remain in the same state, you should strive upwards towards the light, and therefore you are often nudged by external influences so that you don't sink too much into earthly things but direct your eyes more spiritually .... For above alone is your aim .... I will direct your paths upwards and help will visibly come from above to facilitate your ascent .... from above the hand will stretch out towards you which you should grasp and which truly reaches down into the deepest depths. But on earth I woo you with all love, I will not let up until the death of your body to bring you the light of realization by constantly admonishing you to work of love, which alone will introduce you to the deepest truth and which alone will give you strength to ascend into bright heights ....

Amen

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Development of the soul to the height ....

B.D. 6007 from July 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You will only be able to constantly increase the soul's spiritual nature by using all your willpower, because God's adversary will do everything to prevent you from doing so, but your will can set barriers for him if it is directed towards God. Thus, as long as you humans strive towards God first, as long as your aim is and remains God, your will is also directed towards God, and it sets barriers and denies the adversary access. And then the soul will also always ascend, for wherever its will is directed it will also be drawn from there .... Therefore there will usually only be an ascent or descent, only rarely will a soul remain on the same level, and that is when it is completely indifferent, when it does not set itself a firm aim, when it certainly resists the adversary through its way of life but also has no real connection upwards because it does not believe .... because it still turns its gaze towards the world without, however, being completely its slave. These people are now influenced by both forces .... positive and negative forces, because both want to win them. And so even the indifferent people will one day arrive at a crossroads and not know which way to turn .... up and down the paths, and the soul will have to decide. The will will become active .... And it is good when this hour of decision comes in good time, when the human being still has so much time left that he can still cover long distances in order to be able to reach the aim before the end of his life .... It is good if the crossroads is not only reached at the end, even though a correct decision then also still means a plus for the soul but cannot earn it an excessive degree of maturity for the hour of death. The soul must constantly progress upwards, for the path to perfection is far .... But every lost hour is a shortcoming for the soul which is difficult to make up for in the kingdom of the beyond, which can nowhere be remedied more easily than on earth with the right direction of will, with the right attitude towards God .... For then God will safely pull the soul upwards, then He Himself will give the soul the strength to ascend and it will also safely reach the aim .... the unification with the one Whom its will strives for .... with the creator and father of eternity, Whose child it can only become as long as it lives on earth ....

Amen

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God gives unlimited ....

B.D. 6008 from July 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I can only offer you little if you ask for little, yet My bestowals of grace are unlimited if you desire them and open yourselves when My love wants to shine upon you. For you will be considered according to your will. Therefore, seriously examine yourselves where your senses are directed; examine yourselves and, if they are still turned towards the world, work on yourselves mentally and through action, that is, think about what is valuable for your soul and then overcome your cravings for the world's goods. I am always willing to give but you are not always willing to receive, and thus you deprive yourselves of the goods My love has in store for you. But you will only be able to understand the loss of this when you will one day suffer from your spiritual poverty, when you will recognize the idleness .... During your earthly life, however, you constantly receive admonitions and warnings .... You could attain spiritual wealth with ease, even in the midst of the world, because .... as long as the material world exists, as long as you walk through this material world .... the spiritual kingdom and its inhabitants are also close to you and just as eagerly offer you spiritual treasures which you need only seize. All you had to do was wanting and the spiritual kingdom would open up to you, but your sense for material things would become increasingly weaker, and in the end you would despise what at first seemed desirable to you. You must want for yourselves .... your will cannot be directed in this or that direction, it must freely choose what benefits its soul .... Then he will also receive in abundance and everything will be pleasing to him, and he will find inner peace, he will recognize profound wisdom and love, he will increasingly renounce the world and only ever strive for spiritual goods .... His earthly path will always appear more passable to him, for his soul will be strengthened with the receipt of grace, which he can now receive without restriction .... For I am always willing to give .... and whatever an earthly child asks for in order to mature spiritually will be given to him, and he will never ever enter the spiritual kingdom poor and empty, and his treasures will truly be everlasting ....

Amen

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Acknowledgement of God .... belief in connection with Him ....

B.D. 6009 from July 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I only ask little of you .... that you merely acknowledge Me .... For if you do this out of innermost conviction then it will not be difficult for you to enter into My will. You gladly submit yourselves to My will because by acknowledging Me you have already given up your former resistance, because acknowledging Me already means turning towards Me .... in short, because then you will also learn to love Me. I want to be acknowledged by you, and therefore I will always reveal Myself to you .... to each person in a different way, but everyone's attention will be drawn to a higher power in earthly life .... All will be able to recognize a determining power in their experience, in their destiny, yet each individual will try to explain this power according to his own will .... as acting arbitrarily without any connection to the human being .... Then he does not recognize Me as I want to be recognized .... Or also as a guiding being working in wisdom, as Which I want to be recognized. I only want you to believe in a connection between you and Me .... that you feel like creatures of a creator with Whom you are inseparably connected. As long as you believe yourselves to be completely isolated in the universe you are also isolated from Me. For you establish the connection with Me precisely through your recognition of Me, Whom you now also try to join. The fact that you once did not want to acknowledge Me, although you were aware of your departure from Me, was your fall into the abyss, into ignorance, thus into darkness .... And you involuntarily step into the light again with the moment of My recognition .... with the moment of the bond which your will establishes with Me when your thoughts wander to a being Which is undeniable for you, Which stands above you, Which has you in Its control and to Whom you owe your life. Faith in this being will also infallibly change your will, for believing in Me and yet resisting Me is impossible .... otherwise faith would not be alive and a dead faith cannot be called faith.... As long as the human being still resists Me and, as a bondage to My adversary, leads a sinful way of life without scruples of conscience, he does not believe in Me either .... But if there is a slight fear of responsibility in him then he certainly considers the existence of a God to be possible, yet he still has a long way to go to living faith, to inner conviction .... I only want you to acknowledge Me, to be inwardly convinced that you are connected with the power that called you into being .... I want you to believe in Me .... Then all revelations on My part will be a blessing for you, then you will soon experience My love and grace so obviously that you will now learn to love Me, and then the union with Me .... the first and last aim of your earthly life .... will be certain for you, for what you love you strive for, and if you strive for Me, your God and father, you will also surely reach your aim ....

Amen

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The church of Christ ....

B.D. 6010 from July 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The congregation of Jesus Christ is made up by all believers who see in Jesus Christ their Redeemer, who believe in Him as the Son of God, Who descended to earth in order to offer the sacrifice of atonement as a human being for the whole of the human race .... and therefore want to follow Him .... The 'church of Christ', which He Himself founded on earth, has to be understood to be all profound believers; all, who seriously strive to be active Christians; all, who are not just Christians observing formalities; all, who have a living faith and consciously place themselves under the cross of Christ .... Jesus Christ must be acknowledged by the members of His church, and from this acknowledgment arises their duty to live in accordance with His teaching .... thus to consciously live a life of love, as He Himself exemplified to people and requested with His call 'Come and follow Me .... ' Anyone who complies with this call and acknowledges Him also belongs to the congregation which is described as the 'church of Christ' .... This is the invisible church which nevertheless can be and indeed is represented in every denomination because there are people everywhere who believe with heartfelt love in Jesus Christ, who are also absorbed by love for their fellow human beings .... who can be called true Christians, because they demonstrate by their way of life their affiliation to Him, Who crowned His activity of love with His death on the cross.

Hence this congregation exists wherever true Christians reside .... for they all belong in the church of Christ, and wherever two or three such Christians come together in His name He will be in the midst of them, the founder of the church of Christ, and will permeate them with His spirit .... Consequently their thoughts and words will also be right and even more relevant than the word of a preacher who is as yet not a living representative of the divine doctrine of love, whose words are not yet revealing his inner life, the spirit, which is the characteristic of the members of the church of Christ .... And this spirit will always express itself by plainly and clearly preaching and interpreting the Word of God .... which can also quite naturally take place in the smallest circle as a simple conversation wherever members of the church of Christ are together. For nothing of an external nature will confirm this membership except the individual person's spirit of love who strives towards Jesus Christ with a living faith in Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world, in Whose human shell God embodied Himself in order to redeem humanity from sin and death ....

Amen

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Will to defend .... keeping God’s word pure ....

B.D. 6011 from July 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Turn your eyes to Me and My light will strike you and you will see what remains dark to you without Me. Let yourselves be taught by Me if you desire clarification, submit all your doubts and questions to Me and you will no longer go through earthly life ignorant, for I let the sun of the spirit shine into previously dark territory, love for Me also guarantees you My love, and if I now give you something, this also proves My love .... Thus My gift must also be valuable. Love therefore prompts Me to distribute valuable gifts .... But can you judge the value of a gift or can you judge a person's degree of love? The latter is only possible for Me, Who is able to look into a person's heart .... But you can assess the value of a gift of grace yourselves if you apply the standard to the effect a gift of grace has on people's souls .... for what I offer with love must and will kindle love if it is willingly accepted. Hence the sincere will to receive must also be present, because every will to refuse also nullifies the effect of what is offered. But anyone who wants to receive and finds no inner satisfaction in a spiritual gift offered to him may also unhesitatingly reject this gift as not originating from Me. And he will not speak a wrong judgement. Anyone who wants to receive should come to Me himself and he can be certain that I will not let him go empty-handed, that I Myself will fill them with gifts of grace, with spiritual treasures, he can be certain that he will not need to live in want, that his soul will be fully satiated .... But I need spreaders of My teaching on earth, people who speak to their fellow human beings on My behalf, in My stead .... I need teachers who give to those who do not come to Me themselves .... And these I supply unusually with the spiritual material they are to distribute, and since they speak on My behalf they also receive the training which enables them for such a teaching ministry .... they receive the spiritual knowledge from Me Myself, thus they can distribute nothing but divine gifts which can also always be recognized as divine teachings by those who are of good will. And these teachers will always try to keep the word pure which is conveyed to them from above .... They will resist mixing this word of Mine with other spiritual knowledge, they will strictly adhere to this word and not want to make any compromises because they are aware of the responsibility of their office. But this is necessary to maintain the purity of My teaching, which can all too easily undergo a change if strong-willed representatives do not protect it from this. It would never be possible to convey My pure word to people if suitable people were not found whose will and desire for truth guarantee that they will now also represent the spiritual knowledge imparted to them as the sole truth and put it before every other presentation .... I will bless their zeal and will to serve Me and also protect My word Myself so that it will be presented to people as pure and unadulterated as it originated from Me Myself ....

Amen

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Silent prayer .... Public confession ....

B.D. 6012 from July 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Let those who worship Me do so in spirit and in truth .... Only what comes from the very bottom of your heart is pleasing to Me and will reach My ear .... Hence, I only look into a person's heart and disregard the words spoken by the mouth if the heart is not involved. If you are able to completely withdraw from the world in order to enter into heartfelt dialogue with Me, then you are already praising Me without words through your willingness to make contact with Me, then you are sending Me in thoughts a silent prayer, true worship, which will be a great blessing for your soul, for the connection with Me lets you gain strength and grace which is experienced by the soul as help for its maturation. This sincere form of prayer is the true prayer which is pleasing to Me, for then you have voluntarily approached Me so closely that the strength of My love can touch you, drawing you ever more affectionately towards Me. If you want to speak to Me then the spoken word is truly unnecessary, for this can easily intend to hide or pretend something, which I certainly recognise but which need not be evident to another person who allows himself to be easily deceived and then will use the same form of prayer himself ....

Step into your closet if you want to pray .... Withdraw into complete silence, you will be able to find Me there far easier and communicate with Me like a child with its Father .... And you will tell Me everything without fear and in childlike trust .... And your requests will be granted to you because then your prayers will reach My ear .... For I have promised you this with the Words 'Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest' .... Thus I will keep My promise with anyone who comes to Me, and this more evidently so the more trustingly he approaches Me, the more intimately he unites with Me and entrusts himself to Me in silent conversation. The spoken language is intended for your communication amongst yourselves .... But I don't need words for I know everything, I look into your heart and read your thoughts, and thus you cannot deceive Me no matter how beautiful your words are .... just as no words are needed if you want to exalt and praise Me .... because a silent expression of thankfulness, a humble call upon Me, a life following My will, a faith brought alive through love will truly please Me and include praise and thanks as well.

Yet you shall confess Me to your fellow human beings with your mouth .... Where it concerns your attitude towards the faith you shall confess Me freely and openly and not fear the consequences of your courage of conviction .... For this confession shall in turn be an incentive for your fellow human beings whose faith is still weak, and at the same time it demonstrates that you support the truth, that you don't want to give an outward impression which does not concur with your inner thinking, with your conviction. You shall always be true and put Me and My name above all else if this confession is demanded of you ....

But whatever you want to tell Me can be presented to Me by you silently and in secret, for I want to hear the voice of your heart and not just words spoken by the mouth without the involvement of the heart. And such prayers are tremendously powerful if they are sent to Me in unison .... if people come together imploring Me to grant a particular request .... if they all appeal for the same, if they send the same plea to Me, and even if it is just a short call .... I will hear it and grant it if they pray to Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Various gifts of the spirit ....

B.D. 6013a from July 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The spirit of God manifests itself in various ways, since its working depends on a person’s ability, on his spiritual maturity .... and it also depends on his disposition which spiritual gift will be given to him. To receive a spiritual gift always presumes the shaping into love, thus a voluntary total transformation of the being. God’s spirit can only flow into a suitable vessel .... a vessel, which thus was prepared for the reception of the divine ray of love through unselfish deeds of love .... Anyone who has not yet achieved this transformation into love cannot expect a gift of the spirit. Consequently, the gifts of the spirit are always merely the result of a loving way of life and never arbitrarily granted gifts .... They have to be ‘endeavoured’, which anyone could do but which is rarely done. The way God’s spirit takes effect depends on the task given to a person who was shadowed by God’s spirit during his earthly life, which God’s wisdom certainly recognised to be beneficial for humanity but nevertheless requires the human being’s free will. God truly knows who wants to serve him and how that person shapes himself, He will therefore place him where he is able to work most effectively ....

People in the last days have to be shaken up since their thinking becomes completely superficial, thus they need to be extraordinarily impressed in order to disturb their contentment. But even unusual phenomena have a completely natural explanation, yet what appears to be natural to one person is inconceivable to another because he is spiritually blind. Hence these ‘spiritually blind’ people are confronted by someone with ‘vision’ who can detach himself from his earthly tie and, as you might say, be lifted into the spiritual realm, and who returns from this spiritual realm to earth with a gift which cannot be gained in an earthly way .... He will work with powers which enable him to achieve the seemingly impossible .... by way of the Word he will be able to heal the sick or see the future clairvoyantly, he will possess profound wisdom and thus will also be able to inform his fellow human beings .... or he will know what is otherwise concealed from people .... He will be able to speak foreign languages .... the working of the divine spirit will clearly manifest itself .... but only in order to gain people’s souls for the spiritual kingdom, because the spirit of God only affects people spiritually and does not promote earthly interests. Hence the holder of a spiritual gift will always be a labourer in the vineyard of the Lord ....

As a result of this gift he will be God’s representative on earth who wants to establish and increase His kingdom and has made it his task in life. God’s spirit will only manifest itself noticeably to other people through His willing servants, although every person can be permeated by His spirit and thus also be able to understand clearly and precisely and be qualified to pass his knowledge on to other people. Nevertheless, people only receive in accordance with their will, and a prerequisite for receiving an obvious gift of spirit is their willingness to work for God and His kingdom. For God wants to reveal Himself through people to all of humanity. God wants to be recognised in His working, hence a person has to act as an intermediary as long as God cannot approach people Himself, as long as unbelief and spiritual blindness make this utterly impossible. It follows that God reveals Himself through His spirit, which manifests itself through a human being, in order to guide people into faith, to enlighten them, to make them see the light shining from above onto people .... in order to let them know the purpose of their earthly life and to illuminate the path to the goal .... All spiritual gifts only serve to influence people’s souls in the divine sense. Then powers will be released in a person which clearly testify of a divine influx .... the influx of strength that originates in God .... the strength of divine spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Speaking in tongues .... Warning against wrong spirit ....

B.D. 6013b from August 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

And then the human being will accomplish things which seem unnatural to other people, which far exceed a human being’s natural ability .... He will know about things which are usually hidden to people, he will be able to clarify matters convincingly and comprehensibly to his fellow human beings, which a person cannot ascertain with his intellect alone .... he will be able to enter regions which are inaccessible to others .... He will have the strength to cure the sick, to perform miracles or even be able to see the future clairvoyantly, abilities will become evident which he never developed in himself .... he will speak and also understand foreign languages when it is necessary and beneficial for other peoples’ spiritual development .... He will be influenced by divine strength in every way .... but generally only have one of these gifts, since the requirements vary for each spiritual gift and all requirements are rarely found in one person. But each spiritual gift has to fulfil its purpose, i.e. it has to be possible to derive a benefit from each one .... The gift of healing the sick, apart from physical recovery, will undoubtedly also contribute towards the souls’ recovery, since people learn to believe in the power of the spirit, which is activated by the healer’s as well as the sick person’s firm faith. Predictions of future events, too, can motivate people to change their way of life, to do penance and return to God, because these predictions only ever relate to the earthly consequences of people’s spiritual low level .... Proclaiming the truth through the divine spirit also contributes towards the awakening of faith and a change of lifestyle, and again, should be regarded as a purely spiritual factor of utmost importance. Only what contributes towards achieving spiritual benefit can be described as the working of the spirit, because whatever originates from God can’t be anything but illuminating .... It has to bring light and reveal the ambiguous, it cannot emanate even more darkness than is already amongst humanity ....

However, God’s spirit can also affect a person in order to remove his state of darkness, to kindle a light in the person’s heart .... to reveal the soul’s layers, so that the soul rejoices and cheers and praises its God and Father, Who bestowed it with enlightenment. This influence applies more to the soul than the person’s intellect, hence the spiritual gift need not be perceptible to people, but it occasionally affects the outer person so intensely that he tries to express himself with incomprehensible words .... People call this process ‘speaking in tongues’, but it always just affects the human being himself .... it is a gift of the spirit which almost every spiritually awakened person can call his own but only in rare cases is it so intense that other people notice a change. For every spiritually awakened person feels the contact his soul experienced such that his soul raises itself to God praising and thanking Him, that it gives itself to Him and finds inner peace and beatitude .... Then his inner ego communicates with God in thought, then he constantly talks with God without words ....

Everyone should endeavour to gain this spiritual gift for themselves in order to speak to his fellow human beings on behalf of God and His kingdom, in order to accomplish the redemption work himself as His co-worker, which is blessed. But beware of the wrong spirit, because this, too, makes itself perceptible wherever it can slip in, where pride, self-satisfaction and need for recognition still prevail, thereby offering this spirit the opportunity to express itself in a manner that seems equally unusual. But instead of light it only leaves confusion and agitation .... caused by conditions which are off-putting to serious fellow human beings and only result in joy and approval in those who belong to this spirit themselves. Therefore: Do not believe every spirit .... and scrutinise it by taking notice of the gleam of light, of its intensity of light .... Because God is light .... what comes forth from God is light .... and therefore divine gifts of spirit categorically have to leave an effect of radiant light, otherwise they are Satan’s works of deception, which he particularly uses during the last days with the intention to dazzle people’s eyes as well as their souls in order to plunge them into even greater darkness and render them unable to recognise the true light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Entering the place of judgment .... walk to the cross ....

B.D. 6014 from August 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

All of you enter the place of judgment by placing yourselves under My cross so that My blood may wash your soul clean of all sin .... you must come to Me yourselves, for only under the cross is the forgiveness of your sins to be found, only from the cross can I absolve you, and to the cross you must carry all your sins and add them to the burden I have taken on My shoulders to relieve you, to atone for the wrong you have done .... I certainly go after you to call you but I only ever call you to the cross where I accomplished the act of salvation for you. And therefore you all have to enter this place of judgment by confessing your guilt before Me, by holding court with yourselves and then trustingly and faithfully handing over the recognized guilt to Me so that I will bear it for you. You must recognize yourselves and confess your sins before Me, you must not arrogantly believe that you have not committed any sins, for you are all sinners because a sinful soul inhabits your body which therefore wears the earthly garment because it once sinned against Me. The fact that you stay on earth is the proof of your guilt, otherwise you would inhabit the bright spiritual spheres as blissful spiritual beings and be eternally blissful in My presence. But you first have to acquire the right to My presence again in earthly life, you have to want to return to Me from Whom you once voluntarily separated yourselves .... And this voluntary separation from Me was your sin, for which in particular the man Jesus died on the cross .... You don't know about this great sin of yours, yet you know that you are still deficient, that you are imperfect and that there must be a reason for it, because only perfection can come forth from Me, your creator of eternity .... And thus you will also realize that you are burdened by guilt, and this realization must make you take refuge in the one Who died for you on the cross, and you must humbly approach Him and appeal to Him to release you from this guilt .... The cross can and will also be your redemption if you go and join the crowd of those whom the blood of Jesus Christ has redeemed .... My call also applies to this walk to the cross: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened ...." Where I am you will find redemption, freedom and refreshment, for I have borne all your burdens for you. You must believe this, and if you thus acknowledge Me, if you believe in the mission of the man Jesus, in Whom I was present, Whose shell contained Me Myself .... you will also take the path to the cross of your own accord .... You will lift your heart and hand to Me and ask Me for forgiveness of your sins, you will want to partake of the blessings I have acquired for you as a human being, and you will truly find redemption through My blood, redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Everything serves to attain perfection ....

B.D. 6015 from August 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Regardless of what confronts you in life it will serve you to attain spiritual perfection .... Yet it is up to you yourselves as to whether you also make use of all encounters. The correct attitude towards all happenings concerning yourselves and your surroundings will further your development .... whereas the wrong attitude will bring it to a halt .... The right attitude, however, consists of the fact that you look for the bond with your eternal Father, or strengthen it if you already have found it. Then everything will be a blessing for you, even the greatest sorrow .... Spiritual advancement can only ever be possible through overcoming, fighting or humbly submitting to it if it is not possible to surmount it .... And My strength must always be requested for this because you are not strong enough on your own. The request for My strength requires your contact with Me and will also assure your spiritual progress. I always truly endeavour to draw you towards Me, to turn your thoughts to Me, and if you won't do so of your own accord when you are urged by your heart to seek Me then I will have to affect you such that adversity must encourage you to come to Me .... or .... if you are volitionally already My Own .... I want you to hold on to Me ever more sincerely, in that case your adversities will come upon you so that you will join Me ever more closely. The connection with Me guarantees your soul's ever-increasing spiritualisation, for wherever I Am present everything else is excluded .... where My presence is longed for there is no more room for earthly desire.

And this is all I want to achieve when I allow you to get into difficulties, to endure suffering and feel weak and without strength. The Giver of strength is always at your disposal, yet My strength can only flow into you if it finds a receptive vessel, which your will must thus open itself. This is why you need not fear earthly hardship, for you can resolve it yourselves with My strength, which is more than amply available to you .... Surrender to your destiny and know that I stand above it all, Who can change everything in an instant. What today still weighs you down can tomorrow bring you joy .... if you entrust yourselves to Me, if you unite yourselves in prayer with Me and thus the spiritual purpose of every adversity will have been achieved .... by having come one step closer to Me again, Who wants to be aspired to by all My children so that the strength of My love can permeate them and they can safely proceed to ascend ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sleep state .... light and life ....

B.D. 6016 from August 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

People walk along on earth as if in a state of sleep, indifferently abandoning themselves to rest and inactivity which, however, signifies the greatest disadvantage for the soul. The time of their earthly life is given to them to achieve an aim, and this aim is also attainable if only they remember that a task has been set for them and that they now live earthly life consciously. Only a few do this, but the majority let themselves drift and sink into the whirlpool of the world, i.e., their souls receive no upliftment, they remain in a state of sleep which changes into a state of death when earthly life is over. Life alone is desirable .... Yet no human being thinks of the fact that he is striving towards death, which he can very well escape .... Every person loves life and yet does not strive for it, and it is his own fault, his own will, if his soul sinks into the night of death .... He acts thoughtlessly and unconscionably towards his soul because he does not consider that his soul is his ' I ' after all and that this soul can never ever pass away. He does not believe it, although he is enlightened about it, although he is not completely left without knowledge about it ..... And he cannot necessarily be made to believe .... and his indifference prevents light from reaching him .... He goes through this earthly life with his eyes closed, and if he opens them he only looks at things which are desirable to his body, but he does not let a ray of light penetrate as far as to the soul .... It remains in dark night, in a state of sleep, and finally finds death. How full of light your earthly life could be if earthly life were not enough for you .... if you demanded a glimpse into the spiritual kingdom .... if you demanded information about your destiny and your earthly task. You would never again remain in darkness, the light from above would make you happy and fill you with the desire to acquire eternal life .... You would awaken and go energetically to your work .... to free the soul from its enclosure .... you would free yourselves from darkness and weakness .... you would enter into light and life and never wish to return to your former state, when you walked blindly and weakly on earth .... You would desire life and also receive it .... But light and life can only be given to you if you seriously strive for it. But as long as you remain indifferent to your ' I ', as long as you only seek your physical well-being and do not think of the soul, you will remain in the night, and darkness will also be your fate after your death, because you have not made use of the earthly life which was given to you to ascend from the night to the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Compassion ....

B.D. 6017 from August 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You expect compassion from Me and should therefore also grant it those who ask you for it .... You should consider that you are all sinful and that My mercy and compassion protects you from the fate of going astray forever .... Consider, that My death on the cross was an act of compassion of immense proportion, for I took pity upon your adversity which was caused by your own fault .... I took pity on your weakness and your darkness even though they were the just consequences of your sins .... My love for you was greater than My righteousness, My love accomplished an act of profound mercy .... it took upon itself your guilt of sin and atoned for it. Hence, you, too, should practise mercy, you, too, should overlook your fellow human being's fault and only see the immense hardship he got into and help him to rise above it again, always remembering that you, too, experienced My mercy or have to lay claim to it if you want to attain forgiveness for your sins .... Your love must be so great that you dispose of all guilt in order to help your brother. Your compassion should start where justice would like to come to the fore .... because all of you, without exception, need My mercy in order to be redeemed from your guilt. An act of compassion is the evidence of genuine neighbourly love, it is proof of a gentle and sympathetic heart which may always count on receiving mercy from Me as well, for wherever I detect pure and unselfish love My love is always willing to help. Therefore, don't harden your hearts even if a rejection seems to be justified .... Practise mercy and act as you would act towards a fellow human being who innocently incurred destitution .... Grant him love and be willing to help him in every way. Try to ease his fate and know that you thereby awaken love in return and can achieve far more .... that, spiritually, you do him a favour too; for his soul will sense your love and feel urged to respond to it .... And where love is kindled, there is also hope for redemption ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Battle between light and darkness .... signs oft the end ....

B.D. 6018 from August 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I have always known about this time of battle before the end, and thus My adversary's cunning means with which he seeks to deepen the darkness, with which he opposes the light of truth, are eternally known to Me. And yet I let it happen .... I don't prevent My adversary if he wants to make use of his cunning and power, because truth will triumph in the end, because the light from Me cannot go out and because his hour will irrevocably come when he will be denied all activity, when he will be put in chains and no longer be able to oppress anyone. But he will make good use of the time remaining to him for the destruction of those who belong to him. The battle between light and darkness increases until the end .... Truth and error or lie will constantly be at war with each other, and this is the sign of the approaching end, that the earth will be shrouded in dense darkness .... that everywhere the wrong appeals, that it has the upper hand, that darkness threatens to extinguish the light .... and that people themselves no longer desire light but feel comfortable in darkness .... Thus a light bearer will not be desired either, people will regard him as a troublemaker and try to extinguish his light, people will not be grateful for light but regard it as a nuisance .... one will avoid the truth, although it would be easy to win .... But precisely this shall be proof to you of the near end and of the truth of My word. For it is My adversary's last attempt to triumph over Me .... Nevertheless, the small flock of My light bearers comes together and spreads an exceedingly strong light in the smallest circle, which will make My own happy and strengthen them for the last battle on this earth. For where My light shines there is no failure, no defeat, no weakness and no death .... Where My light shines, people's connection with Me is so intimate that they already dwell more in the spiritual kingdom than on earth .... Where My light shines there My adversary no longer has access, there all falsehood will be recognized and all glare will lose its shine .... And the light will be victorious, for in its glow everything will be revealed when the last day has come .... And whether the night before was still so dark, the day will dawn for all who sought the light, but night will remain for My adversary and his followers, from which they will no longer be able to escape on their own authority ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Concept of eternity .... Perfection ....

B.D. 6019 from August 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Infinitely long periods of time have passed in which My creative will has been active in order to guide the estranged spirits back to Me .... Infinitely many creations have thus emerged which were intended to make this return possible, and countless souls have reached their goal to dwell with Me in the light again .... Yet far longer periods of time will be necessary until all spirits have travelled the path back to Me. For innumerable beings came forth from Me and once strayed from Me of their own free will.

These are eternities, periods of time the duration of which is inconceivable to you humans, and therefore the word 'eternal' can indeed be applied without being a wrong concept for you, even if one day the point in time will arrive when the set time for every period comes to an end .... For even the longest period of time is just like a moment for Me, but infinitely long for all living creations in the state of imperfection .... In the state of imperfection .... And now you will understand that a limit of time only ever exists in the state of imperfection .... whereas perfection does not know any limitation, that the concept of time can no longer be applied to everything perfect, and thus it is irrelevant to Me Myself when the complete return to Me will be accomplished. Yet for you, My living creations, who became imperfect of your own fault, it is of utmost importance how long you will remain in a condition which is agonising for you and the duration of which will consequently be shortened or prolonged by yourselves.

The deeper you are entrenched in sin, the further away you are as yet from perfection, the more the concept of time and space will frighten you, precisely because it is incomprehensible to you and yet it cannot be denied .... because your lifetime on earth is strictly limited and yet infinite ages in the past as well as infinite ages of the future have become a certainty for you .... The latter is even your firm conviction, so that you do not consider it possible for an era to end. Your conviction is in so far justified as that there is no such thing as an 'end', that the spirit will always and forever exist, but this alone is 'real' .... only the unreal things will vanish, which are only the means of return to Me .... And the human being all too often counts himself as the unreal, as what is not permanent, which passes by like time .... because he ignores the soul within himself which is not subject to limitation and which can never cease to exist .... but which is able to suffer eternal torments because it requires eternities to become perfect and then it will also be able to be infinitely happy in utmost freedom, independently from time and space .... because it will stay with Me again, Who is without beginning and end and everywhere, Who exists from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of the word in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6020 from August 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Whatever truth is brought to you through the love of the heavenly father will also go its way according to His eternal plan. Perhaps it will be different from what you think, because the time will soon be fulfilled .... But what His mouth has once spoken is eternally imperishable and echoes everywhere in infinity. For it is not only intended for earth but it is also heard in the spiritual kingdom and its effect is felt .... it kindles bright light which can never go out again .... The effect of His sanctified word in the spiritual kingdom is much stronger .... it is, as it were, the word spoken for the spiritual world, except that it can also be heard on earth if the will and the prerequisites are present. Spiritual beings, however, accept divine gifts as light radiation, and where light can once shine in there is eternally no more darkness, thus the light eternally retains its illuminating power; the divine word .... the emanation of God's love .... can eternally no longer fall into oblivion. But for earth and its inhabitants the word only has this illuminating and powerful effect when there is a desire for it, which is why a gift of grace of unspeakable value can also be completely carelessly rejected, which is why even the brightest light from the heavens loses its illuminating power where it meets closed hearts, yet its bright radiance is discovered in the spiritual kingdom with jubilation and rejoicing and the souls receptive to it open themselves to it. What you humans receive through the transmission of the divine word is of such immense significance and of such inconceivable effect, even if you yourselves pay little attention to its success. It is evaluated, and it can never ever pass away .... And even though people resist it, even though they close their hearts, one earthly child who is willing to receive can nevertheless be a gathering point for countless souls again, which, because their degree of maturity is still below that earthly human being, need a place of teaching which they can voluntarily use .... need a place of learning which they visit voluntarily because they have found it in those spheres in which they still reside. For what applies to earthly people is also still needed by those souls to mature and is gratefully accepted by them. And this is truly without significance for the word itself whether it is accepted or rejected by people .... Once it has been spoken it is everlasting, and it continues to have an effect .... on earth or in the spiritual kingdom; for it is a light which can never go out and will shine for everyone who places himself in its circle of light .... It comes from God, it is His emanation of love which never loses its effect and which must and will touch every soul once it wants to enter eternal life in beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine order is love ....

B.D. 6021 from August 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You all have to integrate yourselves into My eternal order, only then will your soul re-enter the state it was in in the beginning. Therefore, perfection means nothing other than living in My eternal order, having the same will as I have, because I cannot think and want contrary to My order of eternity, thus the same will must also be in My living creations which have shaped themselves into My image. And My law from eternity is love .... No being can violate the eternal order which has shaped itself into love, and it will always be My image which has completely become love. It is perfect, for a creature which has become love is good .... it is a divine being, it is a child of God .... it is no longer just My living creation but My child, and thus it always lives within My eternal order, for love cannot act in any other way than in accordance with My will. But as long as My living creations are still without love in their state of free will, in their state as human beings, their way of life is not in accordance with My eternal order either. They will always act out of their self-love .... a love which is not a sign of perfection but - as wrongly directed - contravenes My order. Only when unselfish neighbourly love fills a person's heart will he live according to My will and approach perfection .... Then he will fit into My law of eternity, for then My will will be in him, then he will only ever think and want in the spirit of love, and this means that My will of love has become powerful in him, that he is permeated by My love and now creates and works in the same spirit .... that I Myself am in him through love and My spirit fills him and can never have an effect on him other than in My eternal order .... Love is the stamp of divinity, love is the sign of perfection. Love is My fundamental nature, and therefore the created being which has become love must also be a creature similar to Me, which therefore has also fully entered into My will and which now cannot move other than in My order .... even though it thinks and wants completely freely, yet this very will is guided by its love and thus its soul has entered into most intimate communion with Me, Who is eternal love Itself. The human being now carries My will within himself, which has therefore fully and completely entered into the eternal order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

In the Father’s house are many mansions ....

B.D. 6022 from August 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

In the Father’s house are many mansions .... The mansions I have prepared for all souls correspond to their maturity at the time of their earthly departure. Accordingly they are very different and are abodes for the souls for as long as they are content with them, although they can be changed, which is the soul’s own responsibility. The soul’s surrounding in the spiritual kingdom depends on its character at the time of its physical death .... radiant, bright, offering the spiritual eye a magnificent vision of breathtaking harmony which fills it with happiness beyond description .... or bleak and cold, squalid and disturbing, turbulent, dreary and depressing, causing the soul unhappiness and wishing it to leave this environment. And yet it can only be offered what it had acquired for itself on earth, it cannot be moved into blissful realms to which it had never aspired nor can it be given light because this would consume the soul due to its immature state. Nevertheless, every soul has the option whether it wants to improve its environment.

And to awaken this wish is the work of innumerable spiritual beings of light which descend into poorly lit mansions to inspire their inhabitants to improve their fate and their surroundings. Yet even this has to happen such that it does not force the soul’s will but results in its own desire. Hence they do not perceive the beings of light as such, instead the beings of light join them by using the same cover as the souls and request to be admitted, then they seek to guide the souls’ thoughts to change their present situation .... The souls’ will has to be motivated to improve their fate; and as soon as the will is motivated the soul suddenly finds itself amongst needy souls who request its help, and now it depends on whether it listens to their appeals, whether it is willing and attempts to help them ....

The stronger its impulse to help the more alive it will feel and darkness gives way to a faint twilight which gladdens the soul immensely and increases its will to love. Imperceptibly its environment assumes another shape as the twilight shines through until everything appears clearly to the soul’s eyes and its state seems to have improved considerably .... Yet it is always up to the soul’s will whether it continues to be helpful or whether it contents itself with its present situation .... which, however, worsens again if it stops making an effort.

Every soul will find what it wants; and if it longs for light, for love and supreme happiness it will certainly achieve its goal and arrive in extremely charming regions where everything is enlightened and where it can settle for as long as it wishes .... Because it also gives what it requests for itself, and this love changes the soul’s nature, the love which it receives from the beings of light if it is not entirely obstinate and refuses to ascend from the poorly lit depth and resists all assistance and indignantly rejects every suggestion. Then it also has what it wants .... darkness, which will become incessantly more agonising in order to motivate the souls to change their will.

And for that reason I spoke the Words: ‘In My Father’s house are many mansions ....’ Although the condition of every soul is taken into account no soul is forced to remain where it is sent after its physical death .... it will be admitted wherever its will takes it .... it is able to arrange its own surroundings according to its will and thus it can elevate itself from the lowest realms into radiant heights .... providing it takes notice of those whom it encounters as messengers from above, although not recognised by the soul as long as it is without light itself but so touched by their will to love that its own love gets kindled and therefore the path upwards becomes clear .... Eternal love Itself descends into the abyss to elevate what will not resist .... I also redeem the souls from the darkness and countless beings of light take part in this work .... They all help to build those mansions to improve the fate of the souls; they all radiate light and love and entice countless souls from the darkness into their region .... where there is light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's end-time revelation ....

B.D. 6023 from August 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are approaching the end .... And therefore I reveal Myself to you so as not to leave you in ignorance of what this end will mean for you. I reveal Myself so that you will prepare yourselves, so that you will live in the right way and need not fear an end. You humans don't believe in an end and reject all admonitions and warnings which you receive on account of My revelations .... You ridicule and laugh at those who proclaim the near end to you, you deem yourselves knowledgeable and feel superior to the knowledge which is imparted to a person in an unusual way. You are spiritually blind and unable to see anything, and yet you don't believe those who have vision and therefore tell you in which hour you live .... And it will be as in the time of Noah when I also announced the near judgment to people and found no belief, when the proclaimers of the judgment only reaped scorn and ridicule until the day arrived when My proclamations came to pass, until the day arrived when the scorners fell prey to the judgment .... And once again it will be like this, again the Judgment has been announced a long time in advance, and it will be proclaimed time and time again, yet the last day for this earth and all its inhabitants will come suddenly and unexpectedly, for My Word is truth and it will come true when the time is right. But who believes that people live in the midst of this time, that they will only have a short time left until the end .... Who believes that they are facing a change for the worse, something which no-one on this earth has ever experienced? .... Who allows himself to be impressed by divine revelations, by predictions concerning the near end? Which one of you humans is consciously expecting the end and preparing himself for it?

There are only a few who believe that which was proclaimed by seers and prophets, and these few only reap scorn and ridicule if they profess their belief in it and also try to inform their fellow human beings .... few people listen to My voice and live their life such that they are not afraid of the end but rather feel pleased in view of the blissful time which will follow the end of this earth. However, I want to increase their number, I would like many more to realise that the time has been fulfilled .... I also would like to reveal Myself to those who are without knowledge .... Yet their will is defying Me and I will not compel anyone .... Therefore I content Myself with those who believe My Words and stand up for them, and I will grant them great power of speech .... I will let them speak in My place and although they, too, will have little success, although their words, too, will not be taken seriously, the world will nevertheless take notice of the proclamations of the near end .... There will be no shortage of indications and all over the world an end will be spoken of, but it will only ever affect a few such that they will believe and prepare themselves for it. And I will support those who have accepted the task of spreading enlightenment. I will bless all efforts which aim to distribute that which is conveyed to you humans in the form of revelations .... And the information of the forthcoming end will reach far and wide .... However, My revelations will prove themselves to be true faster than you suspect. For people will experience days of terror and thereby the truth of My Word will be pointed out to them .... And then they will still have sufficient time to prepare themselves for the end which irrevocably will follow these days of terror within a very short time .... And regardless of whether you, who spread My revelations, find credence or not .... don't stop proclaiming the forthcoming event; warn and admonish your fellow human beings and convey My revelations to them .... Proclaim to them the imminent Judgment which will affect everyone, even if they don't believe your words ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Upcoming turn .... hostility towards God's servants ....

B.D. 6024 from August 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

A light will reveal itself to you and the darkness will be broken through .... you will recognize My will and also know about the task each one of you shall fulfil. In a short time already a change will occur and your work will become urgently necessary, and then you will also recognize whom I have called to this work, for only he will offer himself who is truly suitable for it. Many will stand at a crossroads and be undecided which way to turn, and only those who intrepidly take the right path will be suitable for My vineyard work, thus they will also be obviously recognizable as My servants on earth. For people will proceed threateningly and fearfully, and anyone who is now afraid of the world is not suitable to confess Me and My name, to proclaim My gospel and to testify of Me and My revelations. But anyone who carries My spirit within himself is not frightened by the world, but drives him to increased work .... because he recognizes what hour the world clock has struck. You will have to expect much in the coming time, and you will need much strength .... but also receive abundantly from Me, for I will not abandon My own. But it will also become apparent who belongs to My own. For the world will storm fiercely against you .... the world will call you to account for My word and demand recantation from you. And you will now have to stand firm .... The time of rest will soon be over because everything will happen as I have announced to you, that My adversary will take action against you with a sharp weapon .... that people will hate you who inform them of the approaching end and the judgment .... The worldly people don't want to hear this and they are outraged against you, and you will be subjected to great hostility if you stick to your attitude towards Me .... But earthly advantage is promised to those who deny Me, who detach themselves from Me .... And then it will be decided who is a right servant to Me, who wants to serve Me in faithfulness and fearlessness .... then the light will shine .... the power and might of Him Who is lord over life and death will be revealed, then My own will receive unusual strength; but those who fall away from Me will ascend high in the world. And this is a great temptation which shall cause many to fall .... Yet My hand is always outstretched and everyone can take hold of it in order to then also complete his earthly path of life in safe conduct. For anyone who walks by My hand can no longer be harassed by My adversary, because he is now also a master over him and his victory over him is certain .... And you are now approaching this decisive battle in which you shall all prove yourselves and you can also prove yourselves if your faith is strong .... so strong that the enemy of your soul is powerless .... that you have become his master through the power of faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mercy .... do not harden your hearts ....

B.D. 6025 from August 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Whatever you want people to do to you, do it to them. Always put yourselves in your fellow human being's position of need and think of how grateful you would be if you were helped out of this adversity, and then act according to your strength and it will be right in My eyes. But if your brother's adversity leaves you cold, then your heart will already be hardened and then it will be difficult for you to enter the kingdom of heaven, for then you will be without love, then you will not fulfil My commandments and your soul will not be able to mature .... the change of nature will not take place, but this is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. Your fellow human being's adversity can certainly also be your fault and yet you should help him, for you yourselves can also fall into sin and thereby become adversity, and you will also make use of My love and mercy because you feel unhappy .... If your heart is hardened, if you pass by a person in distress indifferently, mentally place yourselves in the same predicament .... and the ice will melt, a wave of mercy will flood over you, if you are still able to change at all .... For know that you can all get into the same predicament; know that you do not determine your own fate and that you therefore cannot avert from yourselves what I want to bring upon you for the purpose of your education .... What concerns your neighbour today can already be your own fate tomorrow, and if you expect help then also give it to your neighbour and you will do well by it .... Don't think self-righteously, don't feel exalted and don't look down on your fellow human being because you are earthly better off or seem to master fate better .... For then you cause Me to put you in the same position so that you feel what you did not want to understand before .... Do not harden your hearts .... but let yourselves be touched by every adversity and seek help. For you give and receive back abundantly what you have given out. And you win the hearts of those you give to, and that is your greatest gain, that good thoughts follow you, that you are remembered with love, which your soul feels as strength to mature itself. And always remember My words: "Whatever you do to the least of your brothers, you have done to Me." Then it will be easy for you to alleviate hardship .... And as you now love God above all things, you will not fail to love your neighbour either .... and you will fulfil My commandments and mature in your soul ....

Amen

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Activity of the light beings ....

B.D. 6026 from August 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The beings of light are tirelessly active to break through the darkness which is spread over earth. Where only open hearts are found on earth they lower rays of light into it, and they also succeed in spreading a dim light, they succeed in intervening in people's thoughts and directing them correctly if they only occupy themselves with spiritual thoughts .... Therefore every effort on earth is blessed which applies to the work for the kingdom of God .... and every labourer in the vineyard of the lord can be certain of God's help. Only one thing is needed to encourage people to think about the meaning of their earthly life .... To direct their thoughts towards God and thus to awaken spiritual life. Then it will also be possible for the beings of light to intervene and continue the work of redemption started by people. Then light can be kindled and the darkness, which weighs heavily and oppressively on humanity, can be chased away. People's freedom of will is also law for the beings of light which they cannot overturn, otherwise it would be easy to influence people and make spiritual thoughts accessible. Yet the human being should strive towards God and His kingdom of his own free will, he should turn towards Him and consciously seek contact with Him by mentally occupying himself with Him in order to then establish the right relationship with Him. He should turn to the creator as a created being in order to then recognize the father in the creator and, as His child, give himself to Him without restriction .... This is the purpose and aim of every human being on earth, and if he does this the darkness will also fall from him and he will soon step into bright light .... The beings of light are now constantly endeavouring to direct the human being's thoughts from where the light can shine for him, and people's help makes their work easier for the beings of light if they consciously place themselves at God's service .... thus proclaim the gospel to their fellow human beings .... if they try to direct their thoughts into spiritual territory. Once this area has been entered, the person will be drawn there again and again because he feels the light shining towards him from there to be beneficial .... Then he will also be able to easily separate himself from the world which lies in darkness, for then he will be able to distinguish the right light from the dazzling light, and he will no longer allow himself to be deceived and always want to enlighten his soul more .... For anyone who has once felt the benefit of the light from above will surrender to the influence of the beings of light without resistance .... And he will truly not fall prey to darkness ....

Amen

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God's unusual grant of grace ....

B.D. 6027 from August 18th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You have an abundance of grace at your disposal which is certainly sufficient to shape you into beings of light still on earth if you wanted to use it .... And grace is also offered to you, everything in earthly life approaches you such that it should be easy for you to direct your will such that all gifts of grace can become effective in you .... But whether your will is correctly directed is determined by yourselves and therefore also the effectiveness of grace .... No human being will be given meagrely .... it is given to all in abundance, but whether the human being accepts it is up to him, but then it also determines the degree of maturity the soul has reached until its departure from earth .... Your will cannot necessarily be directed correctly but it will be so influenced by God that it could truly turn to Him. And therefore earthly fate is also a grace, so to speak, whether it is easier or more difficult for you to bear .... for it can cause the human being to turn towards God, and thus it is an aid .... a grace .... bestowed upon him. And God knows when the soul is capable of a change of will, for He alone knows the innermost impulses and will always make a particularly gracious appearance when the soul offers less resistance .... And then even a minor occasion can rightly direct the will .... God, Whom it now suddenly recognizes .... Then the human being is also aware of a special grace. Yet everyone could draw daily and hourly from the rich treasure of grace, daily and hourly he could find his way to God, for God Himself always meets the human being and stretches out His hand towards him .... God's grace is to be received daily and hourly, because there is no moment in human existence when God's love does not let the light from above radiate to earth .... because there is no moment in earthly life when the human being is without spiritual guidance and all experience can let him find the connection with God. For God has made it His aim to win the human being's soul for Himself, and therefore He will arrange everything such that the soul can enter the path which leads to Him. Every guidance, every hint and every event offers a possibility, and therefore everything the human being encounters in earthly life is to be regarded as grace .... Yet it depends on his will how he evaluates these gifts of grace. His will alone decides how long the human being will remain defensive despite all grace, how long his soul will still resist God's love and mercy and therefore be wretched ....

Amen

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Create and work .... nightfall ....

B.D. 6028 from August 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The day is drawing to a close. There are only a few minutes left until night falls, and you should make good use of these few minutes, you should work as long as you can, because the light of day still shines for you. For when night has come, you will no longer be able to work because you lack light and strength to do so. I urgently admonish you to be mindful of the fact that you will not have much time left to create and work and that you should therefore work diligently and conscientiously in order to acquire My kingdom, in order to find a blissful place where there will be no more night for ever .... where bright light shines and you need never fear the night again. But anyone who does not do this work will not be illuminated by the morning sun; he will sink into the night and again need an infinitely long time until he once again comes into the light of day. These are serious words that I speak to you .... Words full of love and concern for you, who are free to decide whether they want to strive for the light-filled day or disregard these words of Mine and let earthly life pass by unthinkingly unused .... They do not fear the night because it is still day for them and they do not believe in an endless night coming .... And I therefore warn you urgently against this indifference .... I hold the words before you: Create and work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work .... You do not know the night I speak of, yet you have to expect it, you have to fear its darkness and its terrors, and yet you can still avert it from you if you believe My words and make use of the short time when it is still day by earnestly asking Me to save you from this night .... by being ready for the work you only do for your soul, for yourselves and for your eternal life .... You constantly work for earthly life, and no work is too much for you if it is a matter of creating a feeling of well-being for your body .... But work for your soul and make use of the light of day for it .... Use all your vitality to live according to My will .... in love for Me and for your neighbour .... Then you will create and work with success, then the deepest night can descend upon the earth and all who did not seek to escape the darkness .... You will experience a morning full of light .... a new day will dawn for you in the most radiant light .... you will dwell in My kingdom and forever escape the night of death ....

Amen

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Love of God indispensable ....

B.D. 6029 from August 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

No being can do without God's love, for His love is the strength which sustains everything, and all living creations would cease to exist if God's love turned away from them. And even if the being itself turns away from God, God still does not withdraw His love, it is just that the being which rejects His love will not feel it as an influx of bliss but its existence will only be assured .... it will never be able to pass away. But it can still be wretched .... precisely because it rejects God's love, which is the epitome of all beatitude. But God's love has set itself the aim of the beatification of all beings, God's love will always endeavour to change the being's will of rejection into a desirous will .... it will do everything to motivate the being to voluntarily expose itself to God's irradiation of love, because this will restore the original state .... to be powerful and blissful. Only when the being of its own free will allows God's love to have an effect on it, when it surrenders itself to God's love, will this state be achieved again. Thus no human being is without God's love, even though he consciously turns away from Him, denies Him or even still finds himself in complete resistance to God .... Yet he has nothing of His love, he does not feel it as a benefit, as happiness, as light or strength .... for such is only possible through the conscious acceptance of His love, through a conscious striving towards Him, through surrendering oneself to Him, through a will fully turned towards God.

But then the strength of love will have a powerful effect, then the whole person will change and he will also feel a bliss within himself which he no longer wants to miss. He enters the state of realization again, God's love provides him with light, and the realization of the connection with his creator and father of eternity, the realization of his aim and the knowledge of God's love and grace makes him happy and also impels him to reach his aim on earth .... to be and remain united with the one Who created him, with the one from Whose love he once emerged. The knowledge of God and His love is already a bright ray of light which God's love let fall into the human being's heart and which ignited .... which was not stifled by the human being's will before it ignited. Every person is seized by God's love if only he opens a small crack of his heart to catch the ray of love .... and every person should know that this is his earthly task to consciously surrender himself to God's love so that it can also take hold of him in order to radiate through him, for there is no beatitude without God's love .... there is no light and no strength without God's love, because God Himself is love and light and strength .... And thus everything in creation, all visible and invisible works of creation, God's strength of love which has become form, is nevertheless in a state of compulsion, in an unhappy state, as long as they themselves resist the flow of love, as long as they are still at a far distance from God in terms of will. If this resistance is relinquished, i.e. if the human being turns to God of his own free will, then God's strength of love can flow towards him to such an extent that the distance will be increasingly reduced until, in the end, unification with God takes place and thereby the original state, which is the human being's final aim on earth, is achieved .... that everything created by God will be blissfully happy again in light and strength and endless love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's indifference requires harder blows ....

B.D. 6030 from August 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

How hopeless is the state of countless people on earth because they do nothing to bring their souls to maturity. Their thoughts are only ever earthly directed and they never rise to the heights. They never enter the spiritual realm, they never ask themselves why they stay on earth. And they avoid every conversation about it because they don't want to know anything but what seems to be beneficial to their physical life. And this is how most people on earth are despite the eager work of God's servants to shake them out of their wrong thinking. The word of God is directed everywhere, calls of admonition and warning sound everywhere, yet people close their ears because the sound from the world touches them more strongly and they follow it willingly .... The strongest world events hardly touch them any more, the sudden death of people is no reason for them to think about the transience of the earthly .... They hear it and pass it over .... Catastrophes of the greatest magnitude do not disturb them as long as they themselves are not affected by them, and the distress of their fellow human beings hardly touches their hearts so that their will to help would be stimulated .... And this is a dreadful and desolate state because it affects them spiritually .... because people's souls are in utmost darkness and can hardly reach the light as long as people feel satisfied by earthly goods and pleasures .... Satan truly has power on this earth, for people themselves have given it to him. Every thought only applies to the attainment of worldly aims, and from morning till night they create for their bodies which, however, perish. And whether death also reaps a rich harvest in their surroundings .... only a few are touched by it because they are affected. And thus people can no longer be frightened by anything and moved to a change of will because everything bounces off them and leaves no impression. Therefore, events must storm ever more sorrowfully against humanity .... ever more clearly must the indications of the transitoriness of life and possessions be given .... ever more violent the elements of nature must step out of their order, so that human hearts become frightened and ask for the purpose and causes of what throws the world into turmoil. And God will also allow such things, He will send signs to people .... But whether they pay attention to them is up to them. He wants to save, yet He will not appoint anyone to change His will .... but again and again He will speak a clear language which everyone can understand. The earth is approaching its end, and the knowledge of this will also be spread throughout the world .... And those who pay attention to the signs will not close their minds to this indication .... they will believe and prepare themselves .... But where there is darkness even the signs and indications are of no use, and people will meet bodily and spiritual death through their own fault ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spirit of confusion .... without love no truth ....

B.D. 6031 from August 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The spirit of confusion works mightily among people. Truth is twisted, erroneous views are held as the sole truth, all problems are disputed and every opinion finds its adherents .... and thus people consider it impossible to find out what is right from all these teachings and views .... They consider it impossible to attain knowledge of the pure truth. And it will also be increasingly more difficult for them to find the truth because the basic condition is missing that the human being lives a life of love. And because love has grown cold amongst people on earth and will grow even colder in the last days before the end, therefore the truth will also be less and less represented amongst them .... there will be a confusion of human thinking as it has hardly ever been .... And yet, precisely the erroneous views will be held with overzealousness, for this is the work of God's adversary that he fights against the light, against the eternal truth, in order to strengthen his power, in order to push people away from God. God's adversary now apparently has supremacy and succeeds in confusing people more and more, yet glaring flashes of light break through even the deepest darkness of night and in their bright glow a path becomes recognizable which the lost person can enter. And isolated light bearers offer themselves for guidance .... This path is the path of truth, which leads through the wilderness, which uncovers errors and confusions, because the light bearers illuminate everything untrue and make it obvious .... But those who want to take this path of truth must fulfil the prerequisites, they must have made love their life principle .... For only then will they be able to recognize truth as such; only then will it be possible for them to see the path and also to meet the bearers of light whom they otherwise pass by without paying attention to them. In the end there will be much error but also an exceedingly bright light shining .... For where His adversary works as the lord of darkness, there God's working is also evident, Who, as light Himself from eternity, can break through the strongest darkness and will truly not leave people in error, in darkness, who earnestly seek the truth .... For He is also a lord over darkness, and He gives light to everyone who desires it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemerwork .... God's blessing ....

B.D. 6032 from August 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

What you do for Me will not go unrewarded .... Yet you should not be active for Me for the sake of this retribution; your heart should drive you to do redemptive work like Me and to want to help souls which are in need because they are still distant from Me and My kingdom .... Your love shall be the driving force for all your will and actions. For only a work of love will be successful, only a work for Me which is based on love for Me or for the neighbour will bring forth the right harvest .... whereas work without love will only produce deaf fruit .... But I want to bless every work of love on your part and reward you a thousand fold with My love. And therefore I call upon you again and again to be diligent labourers in My vineyard, because I alone know how necessary this work is, how many people need the help you can give them .... I alone also know how this help can be given to them, and therefore I allocate to each one of you the work you are capable of doing, and I will truly arrange everything such that everyone can work at the right place. And I Myself will guide you to where your vineyard work can be successful .... For I leave no stone unturned in order to save souls from ruin, and I approach every soul in a way which promises success. But for this I need people on earth who carry out what I would do if I lived on this earth in the flesh .... And these people now act in My stead because My spirit impels them. Their reward will truly be great, yet precisely because their will to love is great, without which no work for My kingdom is possible. Anyone who knows about people's spiritual hardship will also want to help if his heart is filled with love .... And this one alone will be able to help, for love is a strength of most powerful effect, and rarely can a person close himself off to the strength of love .... Mostly everyone who lives in love himself is successful. What your heart now tells you to do, recognize it as My command to you and also carry it out .... And My blessing will accompany you and your work will not be in vain. But do not act arbitrarily .... If you are confronted with great difficulties, know that this is My permission because I recognize a path as wrong which you are preparing to take. Anyone who works for Me, who wants to be active in My will, can know that he is seized by Me and can be convinced that I bless his work. Yet My adversary also works diligently and seeks to destroy what I build up .... But he will never be able to penetrate the territory where I rule .... where I give My instructions and where My voice is respected .... Therefore he cannot prevent anything My will intends. And therefore everything is directed and carried out according to My will, as it is My counsel from eternity .... I only require complete devotion from you, My servants on earth, so that My will will be in you and you can now be My rightful labourers .... and your work of salvation will truly not be unsuccessful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The path of love and faith .... Acknowledging God ....

B.D. 6033 from August 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You have to take the path of faith and love if you want to attain Me and eternal bliss. You should simply believe that you were created by a Power Which loves you and Which therefore wants to see you in a state of perfection, because only something perfect can be united with It and thus also happy .... But It wants you to be happy because It loves you ....

You should believe in Me Who created you out of My love .... Even the assumption of that which you are as yet unable to believe will cause you to surrender to this Power and you will learn to believe ever more convincingly, because this acknowledgment is already an expression of your original nature, since you emerged from Me in perfection and remained perfect for as long as you acknowledged Me as your God and Creator of eternity. Nevertheless, you voluntarily forfeited your perfection when you turned away from Me and towards the one who indeed participated in your creation through his will, but who first received the strength for creating from Me. You acknowledged someone else and denied Me .... And only when you entirely voluntarily recognise and acknowledge Me again as your God and Father of eternity will you have entered the state of perfection again which enables you to stay close to Me. Hence first I require faith in Me .... But you can only gain the right faith if a light is kindled in you which provides you with clear realisation .... For you must be able to confidently represent that which you should believe as truth and thus it must be very clearly recognised by you ....

Consequently, something that so far had been concealed from you must become brightly illuminated by light, and this light is the spark of love which needs to be kindled in you and which can easily be kindled if you turn towards Me so that My ray of light can touch your heart and ignite, that is, that you then will only ever implement what a voice in you cautions you to do, that you will do what you would want to be done to you .... Each one of you humans is able to place himself into the position of a fellow human being suffering hardship, and he will know what then will seem desirable to him .... And thus he should act accordingly to his neighbour .... This feeling of experiencing relief when he is helped will be present in every person .... Thus he also inherently knows that he should do the same .... And anyone who gives in to this inner urging opens his heart and can be struck by My ray of love and the light which thus illuminates him gives him clearest realisation .... Then his faith will come alive through love .... Whereas prior to this it was a purely intellectual belief, which certainly affirmed My existence as God and Creator but which did not show him the path to Me as his eternal Father .... This realisation is solely caused by love in the human heart, and therefore I say that you must take the path of faith and love .... that faith without love cannot be called a right faith as yet, that only love will bring it to life and that there cannot be any realisation without love, because the intellect alone would never be able to fathom the correlations which, however, are easily grasped by the love in a person's heart .... Also, faith without love can be easily given up again, whereas faith having come alive though love will never ever be relinquished, because the knowledge has now become a conviction, and therefore the human being is first expected to believe, so that the person can put his feelings in order regarding this Power Which created him .... And My illumination of love depends on how strong his desire to enter into contact with the Creator is, yet the human being must approach Me in absolute freedom of will, he shall take the path of love and faith in absolute freedom of will, but then it will irrevocably lead to Me and to eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dead faith becomes apparent in times of need ....

B.D. 6034 from August 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It will soon become clear to you how weak the faith of those is who only profess Me in name, who live without love. They will take offence at the events which are badly affecting people, and they will begin to doubt Me .... of a being Which is supposed to be exceedingly powerful and wise and does not protect people from the elements of nature and from the arbitrariness of satanic people .... They only possess a dead faith, a formal faith which completely fails in times of adversity. And therefore they also have no anchor to hold on to, and now the lack of love proves itself, which soon causes this faith to be completely lost .... now the truth proves itself that only love awakens faith to life, but that a living faith also guarantees full understanding for everything that happens, because love also kindles the light of realization in the human being and he now also knows about the correlations, about cause and effect and above all about the near end. And if your fellow human beings confess their doubts about God to you, then point out to them why they cannot firmly believe in Me and My ever-ready help .... Seriously remind them of My commandment of love, which I gave to people as the first and most important commandment because I want to bring their faith to such strength that it will endure all adversity without wavering .... because I want to convey understanding to people, because I want to kindle the light of knowledge in them, but without love such is not possible. Nevertheless, people should make a clear decision in the coming adversity .... they should become aware of their weak faith and then either try to strengthen this faith .... which they can certainly succeed in doing if they let their heart rather than their intellect speak .... or they completely turn away from Me, that they deny Me and turn to My adversary, that they further increase their fellow human beings' hardship through their own unkind actions .... but then they will also have to face the fate of the one who is My adversary and who does everything in his power to push people away from Me. The coming events will be tests of faith for all people .... My own will also be afraid and anxiously call out to Me; but they will call out because they believe in Me. And I will stand by them because of their faith .... But those who no longer have the certainty within themselves that I am and that I can help them and therefore do not approach Me for help either, these will openly deny Me, and thus the hitherto dead faith will be revealed .... It will become obvious how little and how rarely a living faith is striven for despite fine words, despite churches and preachers .... It will all turn out to be empty shells that do not contain a core. And it will prove where this church is that I founded on earth .... where the believers are to be found who have a strong faith like Peter .... The rock of faith is the sole emblem of My church, which nothing can shake .... And this faith will have to prove itself in times to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's radiance of love .... free will ....

B.D. 6035 from August 27th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are all safe in My love, and I do not leave out anyone who requests this love of Mine, who wants to bask in its ray. I do not reject anyone who approaches Me because love drives him to Me .... For My love draws all to Me .... but it remains silent if the human being offers resistance, for My love does not determine the human being's will but leaves him complete freedom. And therefore a person can also detach himself from the arms of My love again and strive away from Me, yet he will never ever find beatitude and therefore also safely return to Me. Anyone who has once voluntarily entered My sphere of love will never ever leave it .... But the many who are still outside, who could not (yet) be touched by My grace because they fled from its appearance, are therefore also in a regrettable situation because they have not yet been granted the benefit of a ray of love, albeit through their own fault. They need only approach, they need only want a ray of love to strike them and they would truly not go empty-handed, for My love reaches infinitely far and touches every human heart which is not unwilling .... However, a being's bliss only comes about through the reception of My strength of love, and only when it is permeated by My light of love will it find happiness. For this reason, however, access to My flow of love is open to every being, so that it can turn without compulsion of will to wherever it beholds a gentle ray of light which emanates from My sun of love and shines far into the darkness of night. The light of love from on high .... the radiance of Myself .... My word will be accessible to all people, it will shine to them as a right light on their earthly path of life, it will touch the human heart as a benefit, it will kindle a light of realization and thereby love for Me .... My word is the hand which reaches out to you, which you only need to grasp in order to be drawn by Me to My heart .... My word is the ray of My sun of love which has tremendous strength and is also able to melt the ice in your hearts if only you open yourselves to this word in order to also feel its strength .... When I address a person Myself his resistance has to be broken .... yet whether he allows himself to be addressed by Me is up to his free will. As long as he turns away from Me My strength of love has no effect either .... i.e. I don't let it take effect where I see resistance, because I respect the human being's free will .... But blessed are those who give up their resistance, who turn their face towards Me, who expose themselves to the rays of My sun of love and now feel within themselves the desire to come closer to Me in order to be ever more blissful in My love .... Blessed are those who listen to My word, ponder it in their hearts and live it out .... For these are seized by My love and will eternally no longer detach themselves from Me but join Me ever more intimately, because love is a firm, unbreakable bond which now unites the child with the father for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

It is not the deed alone that decides, but the will ....

B.D. 6036 from August 28th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is not the deed itself that is decisive, but the will that underlies this deed. A good will can carry out a deed that has a different effect than that of blessing .... but there can also be a bad will underlying a deed that is seen as good by the eyes of fellow human beings. The will alone is evaluated by God. Nevertheless, the human being's intellect must consider every deed, and the person of good will will then recognize whether he acts wrongly or rightly .... but the person whose will is not good will also refrain from an action which he recognizes as contrary to his will. And so that a person's thinking is right he should pray, which only a person with a good will will do but then he will also never commit a deed which has a bad effect on his fellow human beings. You certainly have free will, therefore you will not be prevented from doing whatever you plan or carry out, yet you have to take responsibility for your actions, and you should bear this in mind, and then you will not act recklessly, you will proceed conscientiously and always take God's commandments as a guideline and then not sin either. For these commandments dictate your earthly way of life, and if all your thoughts and actions are determined or guided by love for God and your neighbour your earthly change can only be a blessing for your fellow human beings, for love eliminates all error, because right love also enlightens the spirit and guarantees right thinking. Therefore you have to check yourselves whether a deed you want to do is based on love and then only do it when this check is in your favour, when love for God and your fellow human beings prompts you to do it. Then it will be good and you need not fear responsibility .... Without love, however, there is always the danger that you will sin, for without love the will is not good either, and what you then carry out will also have its effect accordingly. For you can certainly deceive your fellow human beings but never God, Who sees into your hearts. But the praise of your fellow human beings should not tempt you to do deeds which cannot stand up before God .... Love alone makes a deed worthwhile, and love will also always act right .... love will want to help, and every helpful deed is pleasing to God and will be blessed by Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The Coming of the Lord (to be understood literally) ....

B.D. 6037 from August 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The hour of My return comes ever closer, for the end of the earth is near, and once the last day has come, I, too, will come in the clouds in order to fetch My Own before the earth's destruction ensues .... However, this is not to say that Earth will cease to exist as a planet, instead, only its surface will go through a complete transformation which for you humans is nevertheless the same as a complete destruction, since nothing alive will escape this destruction because all creatures will be affected. This is why I can come to Earth Myself in order to save My Own from this final work of destruction, for apart from My believers there will be no-one else who survives the final work of destruction and thus might be able to describe it afterwards. I Myself will come when My Own can no longer see a way out, when on account of their faith My adversary will openly proceed against them. They will experience serious difficulties until the end, and only their firm faith will keep them going and able to resist, for they will await My coming and I will not disappoint their faith. I will appear in brightly radiating light and yet soften My brilliance so that My Own will be able to endure it .... Nevertheless, that which will trigger great joy and jubilation in My Own will cause panic in the others and be their judgment .... For although they will be unable to see Me, they will nevertheless notice the unusual occurrence that the people they had pursued will disappear upwards before their eyes .... And this experience will become their judgment, for suddenly they become aware of their wickedness and also convinced that they are facing the certain end, which they cannot escape. Were they able to behold Me in this hour, they would certainly all stretch out their hands to Me .... Yet this handing-themselves-over to Me would be utterly pointless, because it would be an enforced faith caused by the supernatural phenomena of Me Myself .... Yet even the rapture of My Own could still let their belief in Me arise at the last minute, I would truly be merciful to them before the very end .... However, they will already be too ensnared by the adversary and will no longer be able to release themselves, hence they will descend into the earth and a renewed banishment in solid matter will be their self-inflicted fate .... Almost all people will doubt My Coming on the day of Judgment .... And yet, My promise will come true .... I will come to you and you will be able to behold Me in splendour and magnificence. For My Own truly have earned their deliverance from profound adversity and because nothing seems supernatural to them anymore which relates to the end they recognised as certain. The end will come, and I Myself will descend to earth just as I once ascended to heaven .... in all glory and visible again to those who believe in Me, who are My disciples in the last days before the end. These are not metaphorical Words, not parables for future events .... they are the events themselves and it will literally happen as I have promised you, and you can await it every day when you are extraordinarily besieged by those who are enslaved by My adversary .... As soon as the battle of faith begins you will know that the last hour has come, for this will be his final act, it will be the last battle on Earth which will end with his ultimate defeat .... Then a time of peace will commence on the new earth, for with My coming to Earth and your rapture this period on Earth will end and a new one will start .... The Earth will be transformed and changed into a totally new one and you, whom I will fetch, shall be the new inhabitants of this paradise-like world .... a time of peace and heavenly bliss shall be your fate in the paradise of the new Earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New Revelations .... Reason .... Bible ....

B.D. 6038 from August 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is very dangerous when My Word gets wrongly interpreted, when the meaning of My Word becomes distorted and this misinterpretation is then used as a foundation again. For then My adversary will have easy access by confusing people's thoughts more than ever and distance them ever further from the truth. No-one will ever be able to quote a Word from the Scriptures which proves that the Father will never speak to His children again because He has already declared His will in the Scriptures .... There is no Word which could give people the right to deny new Words of love by God .... there is no Word which would support the opponents of My New Revelations, for I would never have spoken such a Word, because only I know that My living creations on earth will require My Word time and again in order to reach the objective of becoming My children ....

I speak to people in different ways indeed, and therefore not every human being needs to hear My voice directly; yet if I didn't speak to people time and again only few would, in fact, reach their goal .... For without the working of My spirit people would be unable to think correctly, to separate truth from error and even to understand the Scriptures correctly .... Thus I also address people when I teach them to think correctly and establish the right goal for their feelings, but whatever a person thinks who is guided by My spirit he will also be able to voice it, and this communication through a human mouth is then likewise a revelation from Me, for then it is My Word which was imparted to the human being by My spirit. For I want to speak to people, and if someone willingly places himself at My disposal by wanting to proclaim My Word to people .... then My Word will be voiced through this person's mouth .... Every true messenger of My Word offers Me the opportunity of revealing Myself anew ....

And likewise, I can voice My Word when someone is willing to listen to Me .... when a person attentively listens within himself and desires to be addressed by Me .... Would a loving Father stay quiet when His child desires to hear Him? .... Does My love limit itself? Am I not a Lord of infinite riches which I Am constantly willing to bestow? Do you humans want to impose restrictions on Me or deny Me to speak when and to whom I want?

If you believe that I can be present with you, then you also have to believe that I will reveal Myself when I Am with you, and yet you want to argue that I speak to people who want to hear Me .... But I have promised you My presence with the Words 'Whenever two or three of you come together in My name I Am there with you ....' And what will you talk about then? Will you discuss worldly affairs?

No, you will make Me the subject of your conversation, you will speak righteously, and you will say what I put into your mouth, for I Myself will speak through you so that you recognise My presence .... And thus I Myself will be wherever people unite to hear My Word .... wherever I Am allowed to speak, wherever My spirit can work, and you humans will always receive the same Word since it is your desire to hear Me ....

I know how much people need My Word, and therefore I will never stop conveying My Word to you, and I will enlighten people about error and misinterpretation of the Scriptures; I will impart My pure Gospel Myself to those who open themselves to Me, thereby wanting to be of service to Me and their fellow human beings .... for I will bless every good will and every desire for truth, and My blessing consists of speaking to them Myself just as I once spoke to My disciples, and I will give all those who are able to hear Me the task to spread My pure Gospel, for I speak through them to everyone who wants to hear Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Signs and wonders of the end time .... false christs and prophets ....

B.D. 6039 from August 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I want to do everything for you in order to save your souls from ruin, from renewed banishment in the creations of the new earth. Nevertheless, everything has to happen within the framework of the natural in order not to force you to accept faith, in order to let you make the decision in fullest freedom of will. But I help you through unusual phenomena of all kinds through which I want to make you humans think. But My adversary will also want to influence you in the same way, he, too, will worry you through phenomena which, however, shall have the opposite effect .... to destroy your faith in Me. If you can be informed about such unusual phenomena then you will also recognize the satanic influence .... Without enlightenment, however, you will be inclined to regard his work as a relinquishment of My omnipotence, and then you may have grave doubts about My love and wisdom .... For what he presents to you will never serve a noble purpose but will result in bad consequences. But whatever I want to use to win your souls will only ever betray My love and wisdom, it will always be something that serves your realization, which shall awaken and strengthen your faith in Me .... Whatever comes from Me must have good effects and will also be recognizable as My work. And attention shall be paid to this in the last days before the end, for many things will happen which seem unusual to you humans and therefore also impress you. And it will be possible for you to distinguish if you are of good will .... For satan cannot hide himself, and all his works betray him by their consequences. Therefore beware of false christs and false prophets .... They too will appear before the end, just as I raise up true prophets who shall proclaim Me and My name, and whose mission I shall also confirm by signs and wonders .... And My adversary will also perform signs and miracles which, however, are very easy to see through because they betray what the true prophets and proclaimers of My teaching denounce: worldly successes, the strengthening of earthly power and misguided teachings which give a distorted image of Me, thus undermining faith in Me. And if something seems puzzling to you humans and you are unable to give yourselves an explanation, just pay attention to the effect .... pay attention to which impulses are awakened in people and whether they are suitable to awaken faith in Me .... or whether I, as God and creator of eternity, am thereby discredited .... and whether My love, wisdom and omnipotence are thereby called into question, thus the faith in Me is portrayed as doubtful .... And you will recognize which spirit is at work; you will remember My warnings against false christs and false prophets .... But My signs and wonders can lead you to faith, for they clearly prove a power Which is well-disposed towards you and Which wants to save you from spiritual death while there is still time .... Pay attention to these signs, for they also announce the near end to you, and they shall speak to those who have not yet completely decided in favour of My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

False inquisitiveness ....

B.D. 6040 from September 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You play a strange game with Me when you try to induce Me to violate My law of eternal order by asking Me to let you look into My kingdom but have not yet reached the degree of maturity of the soul which allows for spiritual vision. You should not pray for gifts of grace which are only useful to you if you use them correctly, and you should not believe that you can create an advantage for your soul through unusual knowledge, through a glimpse into what is still hidden to you .... You should know that you don't ask for spiritual goods in vain but that your desire is still quite earthly if you only want to acquire knowledge in order to satisfy your desire for knowledge. You should not pray for something for which a certain maturity of soul is a prerequisite if you have not yet made an effort to attain this maturity of soul .... You then want to cause Me to grant you something contrary to My eternal order, and thereby you confess your ignorance, your dark spiritual state .... otherwise you, in deepest humility, would feel unworthy to receive unusual consideration from Me. I truly want to guide you into truth, I want to impart rich knowledge to you and kindle brightest light in you .... But first you must shape yourselves such that such unusual gifts of grace can flow to you. But then your soul will also be of such a nature that it will be able to see spiritually if it is good for its further development .... But I will not grant this unusual gift of grace to a person who is still very deep in his development, and therefore I must seriously warn everyone to want to gain an insight into a world which is hidden from him, for My adversary can certainly grant his wish but then only to the detriment of his soul, which is harassed by dark forces because it ventured into a realm where these forces could approach it. Yet they should not believe that they have attained spiritual insight from Me Myself, for I will never favour something which harms the soul and always distribute what is a blessing to it in accordance with the soul's state of maturity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Attitudes of worldly people to the gospel ....

B.D. 6041 from September 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You will not transform the worldly people, no matter how much knowledge you have at your disposal. They do not recognize it and persist in their attitude towards life and God .... Bringing the gospel to worldly people will only be successful when they have recognized that their aim is only transient and that suddenly all earthly striving seems useless to them .... Then your words will also resonate and make them think, and then there will be a possibility that they will have the desire for lasting good and that they will seriously consider the state after death. That is why it is often a blessing when such people are hit by great losses, when the transience of earthly things and also of the human being himself is brought home to them. It is an apparent misfortune which deprives people of their possessions, very often the very circumstance which helps a person to change his thinking and guides him into a completely different path. And especially in the end time this means of violence will often have to be used, and therefore many people will still be considerably affected .... Earthly opportunities for success will vanish, the sudden death of fellow human beings will cause pain and horror, natural disasters or accidents will destroy earthly possessions .... In every way people will be presented with the transience of what they desire and set as their earthly aim .... And individuals will learn from this, they will abandon their earthly endeavours and only use their strength to achieve spiritual success .... But there will only ever be a few, because the lord of the world blinds the others and arouses their desires, so that they now chase after earthly treasures even more bitterly and are also supported by him the more they become addicted to him. Preaching the gospel to these is fruitless .... But it is about the few who can still be saved, and that is why attempts are to be made everywhere, especially in times where decay and transience are obvious. For it is only ever a matter of turning people's eyes away from matter and towards the spiritual, and this is possible when he is affected by losses of all kinds .... And in the coming time humanity will still be greatly shaken, for much must still be taken from it so that it will learn to recognize the worthlessness of that which fills all its thoughts and aspirations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hour of death without fear .... Readiness ....

B.D. 6042 from September 4th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Always be ready to exchange your earthly life for a life in the spiritual kingdom, then the hour of passing away from this earth will never come as a surprise to you and neither will you ever have to fear it. Whatever you think and do, always ask yourselves whether it is right before My eyes, then you will live consciously and work to improve your soul .... thus you will live for the kingdom of the beyond, and this kingdom of the beyond will be the kingdom of light for you, for which you will gladly surrender your earthly life because it is your true home.

If only all you humans were able to realise that you merely live on this earth as a test, that it is not real life but just a preparation for this real life, and that you therefore should only ever focus on evaluating it correctly .... But you regard earthly life as the only important life and consider real life in the spiritual kingdom far too little .... if you believe in it at all. You use all your strength for completely irrelevant things and don't prepare yourselves enough for the life that lies ahead of you.

The hour of death was intended to be the hour of your deliverance, when you discard your earthly garment in order to enter in light and freedom into the kingdom of peace and beatitude .... You were meant to consciously and joyfully look forward to this hour and gladly relinquish earthly life in exchange for a far better one. However, you will acquire this consciousness when you, in living faith, have lived a life of following Jesus, because only then will you clearly recognise the purpose of your earthly life and your objective .... because only then will you know of all correlations and also of a free and blissful life in the spiritual realm .... Then your spirit will be awakened, and then you will therefore place little value on earthly life and consciously strive towards the life in the spiritual kingdom, in light and happiness ....

You are certainly informed of it but you will only accept it as truth when love has kindled a light within you .... Hence you first have to live a life of love .... Then death will not longer scare you, then you will already have the connection with the spiritual kingdom, then so many hands will reach out to you from there which will show you the way until the end of your life .... And then you will live every day on earth as it is My will .... Then you will prepare yourselves for a blissful end, and the hour of your passing away from this earth will be for you the awakening into a life in light and magnificence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Little recognition (faith) for spirit work .... lack of faith ....

B.D. 6043 from September 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The working of the spirit is seldom acknowledged only because it requires an awakened spirit, but the unawakened are so distant from everything spiritual that they do not believe what is presented to them as truth. It is always only one step that has to be taken, but everyone who is still too attached to the world is afraid of it. Yet the people of the world are offered something which, with an honest will, they cannot regard as worldly, as a product of intellect .... so that it is easy for them to dare that step .... A hand is visibly stretched out to them from another kingdom and they are only required to test what is offered to them. Anyone who is willing to take this test has already taken the step .... but anyone who is not willing to do so can never have the veil lifted which still conceals the truth from him. So it is not surprising that worldly people do not recognize the working of the spirit .... Yet even among people who think they are believers there is little recognition to be found, and this proves that they are all still very distant from God, it alone already proves their unawakened state and wrong attitude towards their God and creator of eternity .... it proves that they have not yet experienced His working in themselves .... It also proves how little their faith is alive, how little the gospel was presented to them in a living way .... It proves that dead preachers cannot awaken people to life. It is distressing evidence of a dead faith when people are unable to believe in God's revelations through His spirit .... when they lack all knowledge about such an intimate connection between the human being and God, which produces obvious evidence .... and when they reject it as completely impossible, thus they close their minds to everything which could help them to attain a living faith. But this is a sign of the approaching end, that people themselves betray their spiritual low and their far distance from God, that they are no longer able to recognize the father's voice .... Do not be surprised, you right representatives of God on earth, in whom His spirit can work .... Do not be surprised that you receive little recognition, but know that this is only a sign of the truth of the divine words which His spirit has imparted to you .... The number of those who have understanding, who acknowledge the working of the spirit, who feel themselves addressed by Him, will hardly increase the closer it gets to the end .... And therefore the flock will only be small who follow their shepherd because they hear His voice .... His voice will resound in the heart of the human being who lapses into himself full of love for his God and father of eternity, Who is his redeemer, his saviour from spiritual death .... The spiritual spark must ignite deep within and shine from within .... Nothing external can give light to the human being if the spiritual spark has not ignited within himself, if the human being himself has not inwardly established the connection through his spirit with the father-spirit, Who then makes Himself known to him, Who then reveals Himself to him .... Who introduces him to the truth, Who gives him fullest knowledge, inner peace and the awareness of walking the right path which leads upwards ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receptacle for divine love power current ....

B.D. 6044 from September 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I want to make you truly happy and fill you as a vessel of My spirit with My flow of love .... I will let the living water flow to you .... I will give you nourishment for your soul; I will give you life-awakening drink in infinite love .... I will continue to give you, if only you will receive. And I will truly leave no vessel unfilled which opens itself to Me in order to be served by Me. Do you know what it means to be a receiving vessel of My spirit? Do you know that all of you could be, but that only very rarely are the conditions fulfilled which prepare your heart to be an open vessel for My flow of strength of love? And that only few do so in faith in My love which wants to give itself away? .... The bond you humans should establish with Me cannot really be made credible to you, because it can only be established through love and would then also prove itself .... but love has to be practiced with complete freedom of will and you lack the will to do so. And therefore you also lack faith in My love, which only ever wants to give to you but can only give itself to the one who, through loving activity, shapes his heart into a vessel which I now want to fill. How immeasurably much you could receive, how rich you could be, in what abundance of light and strength you could go through earthly life, for I am always ready to give .... But I only rarely find open hearts, and therefore people go empty-handed even though immeasurable wealth is at their disposal. Yet what they don't receive from Me themselves they can nevertheless obtain from those who receive abundantly from Me, and every spring from which the living water flows .... every spring which My love has opened up will be a place of grace for the human being which he can visit in order to supply his soul with light and strength which can help him to change, so that he then establishes the connection with Me himself .... And what has been conveyed to him so far he will now be able to receive directly from Me through the spirit. My word, which was imparted to him, taught him love, and through loving activity he came to believe that I, as the eternal love, only ever want to give and make happy .... And now he opens himself and accepts Me into his heart .... and now I can work in him and fill him with My grace, My light and My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Immeasurable sufferings of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6045 from September 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You cannot assess what I endured for you as long as you stay on earth, but one day it will be revealed to you, and only then will you understand My infinite love which made this sacrifice for you in order to redeem you from the night of death. It was certainly the work of a human being, and you humans therefore regard 'My sacrificial death' on the cross as an act of human fanaticism if you don't believe in the mission of the man Jesus, or as an act of atonement for humanity which required all the strength and conviction of a human being .... But you do not know where the man Jesus took this unusual strength from. You do not know that it was infinite love which enabled Him to make this sacrifice, and that He was only able to take on an abundance of suffering through love .... and that He therefore voluntarily took these sufferings upon Himself in order to atone for people's great guilt of sin .... The external form of the man Jesus, in Whom I embodied Myself, declared Itself willing to endure superhuman torments because love filled It .... because I Myself, as the eternal love, wanted to endure everything for you which you would otherwise have had to endure for eternities as a result of your sin .... Love for you, My creations which fell away from Me, could not diminish even through your apostasy. And therefore it found this one way to win you back again: My love wanted to cancel your guilt and make the atonement for it itself .... but this was only possible if this love could embody itself in a human being, so that this human being took upon himself all the suffering you humans would have had to endure for the sake of your sins .... You humans had to expect death, you had forfeited your life of your own free will .... And now a human being had to suffer this death for you if you were to be raised to life again .... (9.9.1954) He gave His life for you in order to give you life again. And the love for you moved Him to do so, which was exceedingly great .... for I, as the eternal love, was Myself in Him .... And the strength of love enabled the man Jesus to endure the greatest pain and to consciously enter death .... Yet you humans cannot measure the agonies He endured, the mental and physical suffering He endured, for He did not die for one person but for all and He took the sins of all people upon His shoulders, He made atonement for all people, and thus His suffering was therefore superhuman, it surpassed all ideas you can have of His suffering and death .... And all this will one day be revealed to you; what you cannot grasp today will one day touch you like an exceedingly bright ray which would knock you to the ground if My greater than great love did not hold you and let this realization become bliss for you .... a bliss which includes praise and thanksgiving and warm reciprocal love, because only now you will be able to appreciate the atonement, the redemptive work of My love and mercy in its full extent .... But this ray of light cannot hit you until you have reached a certain degree of maturity in the kingdom of the beyond, until the redemption through Jesus Christ has been accomplished in you .... until you have found forgiveness of all guilt through living faith in Him .... until you can dwell in My kingdom free from all guilt and be permeated by My strength of love. As long as you humans are unredeemed even the crucifixion of the man Jesus is of no greater significance to you than the death of any other human being, because you have no idea of the immense suffering which was caused by the guilt of sin of the whole of humanity. Yet one day you will be powerfully touched by the realization of what the son of man has done for you, Who gave His body to Me to stay in, so that I Myself, love .... redeemed you humans from eternal death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Upward development in a mandatory state and free will ....

B.D. 6046 from September 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The process of redemption is already taking place eternally, the spiritual has the opportunity to develop upwards eternally, because a constant change of the external form also always creates new opportunities for development .... And this development continues uninterruptedly up to the human being because everything takes place in divine order, because this upward development is determined by law according to God's will .... But once God's will withdraws, and then the spiritual should progress in its development in exactly the same way, yet in complete free will, which is why there is also the possibility that the ascent development will stagnate .... that the spiritual will remain on the same level or sink again into a lower degree of maturity .... which is why, as a human being, a relapse into the depth from which the spiritual had worked its way up in an infinitely long time can very easily take place. Endlessly long time has the spiritual needed to be admitted to embodiment as a human being .... and the short time of earthly life is like a moment compared to this long time of preliminary development from the abyss up to the human being. And truly, you humans will not be put to too difficult a test of will .... Only little is required of you: to serve of your own free will .... You already had to serve before, but you were destined to do so by natural laws, which you could not resist .... And you should do the same as a human being without being compelled. The endless time of your development in the law of compulsion could also have broken your resistance so that you gladly and joyfully serve, even if you are no longer forced to do so .... but now you are influenced by a side which could not influence you before. God's adversary can now influence you again, and he uses this advantage to win you back again, whom he has already almost lost. And now you have to make a decision, for God will not leave you unaffected either .... He also has an effect on you. But neither power uses coercion; you are neither defencelessly at the mercy of God's adversary nor are you determined to decide for God by divine supply of grace. You are free to choose your lord .... but you may run the risk of needing eternities to become human again and having to make the same decision again if you direct your will wrongly and turn it towards the one who wants to corrupt you .... For you don't need to choose wrongly because God's love is constantly meant for you and because a measure of grace is at your disposal which you only need to use in order to choose correctly .... because every person is able to serve with love and is offered ample opportunity to do so on earth. For a spark of God slumbers in the human being, a tiny spark of love which, however, can easily flare up into a flame .... Every human heart is capable of love, and if it listens to the subtle voice within itself it will also become active in love .... and then it will serve in love, in free will, and then God's adversary will no longer have any influence on it. Then the infinitely long process of development will come to an end .... the spiritual being will be free of all external form .... it returns to the spiritual kingdom from which it once took its origin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word unchanging ....

B.D. 6047 from September 11th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My word remains eternally the same, for My word only ever teaches you love .... My word is the emanation of My love, it is the expression of My will, it is the obvious connection between Me and you, My word is the evidence of Myself. And I cannot change Myself eternally, which is why My word is also eternally unchanging. And wherever the human being seeks contact with Me he will hear the same word which bears witness to Me, to My love, wisdom and might, to a supremely perfect being Which addresses you so that You will recognize It .... Whoever hears My word knows that I am present to him, he knows that the father addresses him and that through His word He gives love and demands love .... For eternal love can only ever want that which is to enter into contact with it should shape itself into love. My word can only ever stimulate an effect of love because it flows forth from Me as love itself. My word is therefore the sign of My love and at the same time the sign of desire for your love .... it shall lead you back to Me, it shall shape you into love so that you become one with Me .... And therefore it cannot change eternally .... But it can be reshaped by people because they have free will. It can certainly have come forth from Me clearly, purely and eternally true but be changed by adversarial influence and human activity; but then My word can no longer be spoken of either, because it is and will remain eternally unchangeable. For I Myself never change .... I Myself am the word and therefore cannot possibly contradict Myself. But it is up to you humans to check whether you are addressed by Me Myself or whether a speaker merely makes use of My words which he then repeats or interprets according to his nature. You humans have to check yourselves who speaks to you, and you only ever need to apply the standard to what extent the word radiates love and encourages love. You can check yourselves, for if you are of good will, if your will and your thinking is turned towards Me, My word will touch you as love and awaken you to life, to activity in unselfish love .... You feel the strength of My word because you are illuminated by Me Myself. And your nature will change into love in order to be eternally united with Me, because My word will now also constantly sound to you as a sign that I am present to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Carry My gospel out ...."

B.D. 6048 from September 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

To spread My word is your task, you who want to serve Me. To you, too, I say the words: "Carry My gospel out into the world ...." People hear much .... religious knowledge is offered to them from all sides, My word is proclaimed to them in the form of doctrines of faith, and it should therefore appear as if My command, which I once gave to My disciples, is being carried out .... And yet, it is more necessary than ever that I raise up disciples for Myself again whom I can send out into the world .... for those who are to proclaim My gospel must be taught by Me Myself .... they must allow My spirit to work in them because they hear through the voice of the spirit what they should preach to their fellow human beings .... Unawakened preachers speak empty words without spirit, although they adhere to My once proclaimed word. Without the working of My spirit they don't understand what they are saying themselves, that is, they cannot offer My word to their fellow human beings in a living way, and therefore it will only touch the listener's ear again but not his heart. But if My spirit can be active in the proclaimer of My word he will speak with conviction .... he will explain the spiritual meaning of My word, he will appeal to people's hearts, he will be the link between Me and the listener, and he will let Me speak to him Myself and truly be impressed by My address. You shall spread My gospel throughout the world .... Many more people shall hear My word, and for this I still need many disciples who are qualified to spread My gospel correctly .... whom I can send out because they want to be true servants to Me, who are now active on My behalf, who speak nothing of their own accord, who only ever listen to what I instruct them to do and who, driven by My spirit, now distribute what they receive from Me .... For when I commission them to spread My gospel .... My word .... into the world then they must have received it from Me themselves beforehand, otherwise they cannot offer anything. It is not enough that they gather the treasure they are to distribute themselves, that they offer something they cannot testify to themselves as a divine gift .... They must receive these treasures from Me Myself, otherwise I cannot give them the commission to go out into the world and proclaim My gospel .... I truly know what ails humanity, I know what dubious gifts have already been offered to it and how little healing power it has been able to extract from them, I also know what it lacks and therefore want to convey it to it .... I want to confront people Myself, yet I can only do so in the word which is conveyed to them through mediators who have received it directly from Me .... And what is now done in order to spread My pure word I regard as the fulfilment of the assignment I have given you, My disciples of the last days .... And I will bless you .... For the hardship is great, people are starving because they are offered weak food and yet they need strength in order to successfully cover their earthly path of life .... And you, who receive abundantly, you can also distribute abundantly; you, who are in possession of My word, you can carry it out into the world .... You can bring My gospel to all people who are of good will, for they will recognize it as My word because it goes to their hearts, because their souls are now healthy .... because they recognize it as the enticing voice of the father which they now follow without resistance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God accepts every worker for vineyard work ....

B.D. 6049 from September 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My vineyard needs many labourers, and therefore I accept everyone who offers to help Me. Anyone who voluntarily comes to Me and wants to serve Me will truly be richly rewarded by Me, because the work he is to do is exceedingly important and he should use all his strength for it. For there is not much time left .... soon it will be the day of the end and night will fall, and therefore the few hours shall still be used well so that a good harvest will be achieved and many fruits will be gathered before the day comes to an end. Much work still has to be done, and therefore I still need many servants .... I need people who eagerly want to be active for Me, who gladly and joyfully work for Me and My kingdom. And to these I give My instructions, and if they faithfully comply with them there will also be good success .... Much fallow ground will still be cultivated and good seed will be sown, and much seed will also come up and I will be able to enjoy a good harvest .... But I will reward My servants abundantly who render Me faithful service, I will take over all their worries, I will act like a good householder towards them and they will truly not need to suffer any hardship, because I bless everyone who serves Me, who submits to My will and only ever remembers that he wants to please his lord, that he increases His wealth .... For My riches are the human souls which I want to win back because I once lost them, and anyone who now helps to bring the lost back to their father of eternity can be completely certain of My love and My blessing .... and he will not need to fear ever having to do without My care .... I will not forget his service, nor will I ever release him again as long as he faithfully wants to serve Me. I still want to increase the number of My faithful servants and therefore I call upon everyone to participate, to enter My service and help redeem those who are still bound, to bring people to Me, to proclaim to them about Me and My love .... to work on people's hearts so that they will become suitable to enter the father's house again which they once voluntarily left .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'Enter into thy closet ....'

B.D. 6050 from September 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Withdraw into your closet if you want to pray, for only in solitude can you find the connection with Me, only in solitude can you unite with Me so intimately that I can hear your voice, that your prayer is sent to Me in spirit and in truth. And even if you are in dire trouble while you are amongst people or are put under pressure from outside you must detach yourselves for a few moments from your surroundings and send a short but heartfelt call to Me, and I will hear you and help you .... I just want to hear your heart speak and not merely your mouth .... And therefore you must enter the closet of your heart, you must withdraw from the world and from everything that might disrupt your silent prayer. You must avoid everything that attracts your eyes, that makes such an impression on you that it will take your mind off Me .... you must completely disregard all outside impressions. You must withdraw into solitude and turn your thoughts to Me .... only then will you be able to pray in spirit and in truth, only then will you come to Me like children come to the Father and confide all your problems to Me.

And then your Father will always be willing to help you. Then you yourselves will apply strength to your prayer, you yourselves will determine the fulfilment of your requests, for if you speak to Me like a child speaks to its Father I cannot deny you any wish and My help is assured to you. But if the words are only shaped by your mouth, and if this happens for hours on end, they will not reach My ear, they will fade away unheeded, for this kind of prayer has no strength, such a prayer is abhorrent to Me .... And therefore it is up to yourselves whether your prayers will be granted, for I promised you that I will give you what you ask of Me .... And My Word will indeed come to pass. Nevertheless, I only pay attention to the words of your heart but you often believe that you have done enough by prattling with your mouth and are disappointed if your prayers are not then granted .... Withdraw into the closet of your heart and then speak to Me freely, with complete confidence, and your wishes will indeed be granted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s word power in the end time and distress ....

B.D. 6051 from September 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

What you receive from Me will become indispensable to you in the time to come when you will need strength and comfort because you are in danger of becoming despondent. You are still granted peaceful days, you can still use the time for yourselves, you can still pursue your spiritual endeavours without being hindered .... but the time is coming, and it is no longer far away, when restrictions will be imposed on you, when you will no longer be able to do whatever you want. The time will come when the battle will be declared against spiritual striving and people will allow themselves to be intimidated because they will have to make earthly sacrifices if they don't deny Me. And then only those people will stand firm and remain faithful to Me who receive strength from Me Myself through the transmission of My word .... They will hear Me Myself speak and therefore be without fear. And I point out this time to you and therefore recommend that you gather strength beforehand so that the coming will not frighten you. What I give you shall make you strong for the battle with My adversary, which will irrevocably come, as I have proclaimed through My word .... You are standing before this time, even if you do not feel anything of it now. I prepare you for this time by addressing you in order to revive a strong faith in you .... therefore I give you humans unusual consideration because you need an unusual supply of strength and because you should be made aware of it beforehand in order to diligently carry out the work on your souls so that the last battle will find you armed, so that you can emerge from it as victors. I take care of My own in a very special way .... I am present to them wherever their faith and love allows it, and I testify to My presence through My word .... And they will truly receive strength in abundance if they repeatedly take refuge in My word in times of need; all anxiety and discouragement will leave them, for if they hear Me Myself they will feel safe and protected by the one Who is powerful and full of love, and they will no longer fear people nor the one who wants to destroy them .... They trust in their father from eternity .... they wait for Him Who will come in the clouds, Who will deliver them from all distress ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last Judgment .... Act of love and righteousness ....

B.D. 6052 from September 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is not just My righteousness alone which demands a recompense and therefore imposes the last Judgment upon the human race .... it is far more determined by My love which foresees its inevitable descent into the abyss and wants to put a stop to it. For even if the earth remained in its old form, even if I delayed the Judgment .... it would only damage people's souls which would not benefit thereby but enter into a darkness that would be impenetrable for an infinitely long time. The last Judgment on this earth is an act of love by Me too .... in My eyes this act is people's only salvation if I don't want to leave them entirely at the mercy of their destiny, i.e., to My adversary. It is, in the true sense of the word, a rescue mission which one day you will certainly understand but at your present low spiritual level do not appreciate. The last Judgment and the disintegration of this earth are, in fact, far more determined by My love than by My righteousness .... although this also will have to emerge so as to establish order again, since this is totally disrespected and has to lead to greatest chaos. The individual person can certainly still restore his own order again; he can still become aware of his task and his purpose and strive to live accordingly .... and the last Judgment will not affect him so much that he would have to dread it; for him, too, the last Judgment will only be a demonstration of love because he will be transferred into another life .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... a life which will make him happy. And in order to still achieve this with individual people I make it known time and again what the earth and its inhabitants will have to expect .... and good for him who takes these indications seriously and rearranges his life; good for him who will make the effort to live in divine order .... For he will also understand My last rescue operation and regard it as an act of love, since as a result of his life he will also gain the understanding for all events which will take place due to My will and My might.

Only I know the result of an utterly godless way of life, and this is why I must intervene, because My love wants to rescue everyone or provide them with the possibility to free themselves from Satan's control, which can only happen if I bind him Myself .... by putting an end to his activity .... The fact that innumerable people will lose their lives when the last Judgment on earth occurs may well seem cruel to you humans; but it is only an enforced interruption of that which will inevitably lead to death .... so that the souls will at least have the possibility to come back to life again one day .... while it is Satan's goal to keep you forever in his possession. My love, therefore, is the reason for the end of this earth and the destruction of all created beings thereon, and My righteousness will then place the spiritual substances into external forms which correspond to their conduct on earth .... I will put everything right again .... in accordance with My eternal order and will give all spiritual beings the external form they deserve. Only when you humans know the meaning and purpose of earthly life and your task will you find My reign and activity comprehensible, for there is more at stake than your physical life, it concerns the whole of eternity, it concerns the life of the soul for which spiritual death is the most appalling state. And I want to protect it from this death and therefore have to use means which make you doubt My love and yet are only based on My love. I cannot force you into another way of life, I can only admonish and warn you through My Word, which comes as a direct address to earth, and thus all people are being addressed by Me through the mouth of a servant devoted to Me .... I can only draw your attention to the consequences of a wrong way of life and with Words of love try to entice you to enter the right path .... If, however, all these reproaches are in vain, My sentencing Fatherly hand will have to intervene in order to protect you from the worst .... For order must be restored again on earth, so that it will become a place of education for the spiritual beings once more, so that the souls can fully mature according to their destination ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Way of following Jesus ....

B.D. 6053 from September 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The path you walk should be the path of following Jesus; you should take Him as your example, you should live on earth as He has exemplified to you .... You should live a life of love and also humbly accept the suffering imposed on you so that you will mature in your soul. The man Jesus has preceded you on the path, which is why you can now follow Him and then you will also surely reach your aim: to return to the father from Whom you once came. And Jesus has shown you this way by giving you the commandments of love for God and neighbor, by following which you walk the path of following Jesus .... But this requires your will and overcoming yourselves, putting aside your own wishes and desires in order to help your neighbor if he needs help. Love should be ignited in you, because otherwise the aim cannot be reached .... the union with God, Who Himself is love and therefore can also only be won through love. The man Jesus was filled with love for His fellow human beings, and therefore He was also able to unite with God, He was able to receive the eternal deity into Himself, Who can only unite with a human being who has shaped himself into love .... And this alone is the purpose and aim of man in earthly life, that his whole being changes to love .... that he gives up self-love, that he only ever wants to give and make happy and thus deifies himself, because love is divine and the man who shapes himself to love becomes a divine being. The less man thinks of himself and the more he gives out in love to his fellow men, the closer he is to his aim and the closer God Himself is to him, then he goes the right way to Him, and God Himself comes to meet him .... But then he will also bear suffering without grumbling, he will feel himself to be a cross-bearer and gladly take the cross on his shoulders, because he takes Jesus as his model, he follows Him .... he walks the path that Jesus preceded him .... that all must walk in order to attain eternal bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fate in the beyond corresponds to thoughts and wishes on earth ....

B.D. 6054 from September 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Your thoughts and wishes on this earth will be your fate in the spiritual kingdom after the death of your body. If you searched for light and truth on this earth, light will be waiting for you over there .... if you preferred the darkness because earthly matter had deluded you, then you will stay in dark surroundings over there too, in a realm where you feel unhappy for lack of light. Yet it happens in accordance with your will .... Light is constantly made available to you on earth and the path to eternal life is clearly and brightly illuminated, you need only enter it to find the kingdom of light after the death of your body .... If, however, you escape the light, if you walk the dark path, then you can only arrive in dark regions too ....

You humans occupy yourselves very little indeed with what happens to you after your physical death .... You dismiss such thoughts from your mind when they occur to you, you constantly turn towards the world and its matter, and since this is transient you cannot take it with you into the spiritual realm. If material goods are your only riches on earth you will indeed arrive poor and naked in the spiritual kingdom .... Why do you not gather possessions on earth which are long-lasting, which accompany you on your way into the beyond .... why do you only lust after the transient possessions of this world?

The consequences of your way of life are presented to you time after time, your attention is drawn to your fate after your departure from this earth .... yet you pay little attention to the warnings and reprimands, you scrupulously carry on living from day to day even though you could be called to your final resting place tomorrow .... And then you receive what you desire on earth .... light or darkness .... you can’t be given anything else but what you have acquired during your life on earth. Consequently, as long as you live on earth think of the time after your death, think of your soul which is immortal and whose fate in the beyond you prepare while you live on earth .... strive towards the light on earth and create your soul’s happiness in the spiritual realm ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Testimony of the messengers to the work of God ....

B.D. 6055 from September 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My messengers shall bear witness to Me and My word, they shall announce to their fellow human beings that they are in contact with Me and are addressed by Me Myself; they shall convey My word to them in the knowledge that they need My word in order to receive light and strength. My messengers know about the great spiritual adversity and also about the only path which leads out of this adversity .... they know that only the fulfilment of My will will reduce the spiritual as well as the earthly adversity, and therefore they want to make My will known to their fellow human beings and suggest to them that they must make an effort to live a life of love, because then My commandment of love will be fulfilled first. And therefore they spread My word .... the teaching of Christ's love .... Hence they consciously work on their fellow human beings' redemption and do so out of love for Me and their neighbour. Therefore I can send them out as My messengers and give them instructions; I can make them representatives of My kingdom; I can continue to give them instructions which enable them to work for My kingdom, for they shall pass on nothing else to their fellow human beings than what they have received from Me Myself .... And they shall unabashedly state where they got their knowledge from .... for this is My will that they confess their connection with Me, their living faith in Me, that they bear witness to Me Myself Whose gift they offer. People shall receive evidence of My working in them, God's presence shall be proven to them through obvious spiritual wealth, for they only still believe in Me as a distant God and urgently need Me to be brought close to them .... which can only happen through the transmission of My word, which they can also recognize as My voice if they are of good will. And therefore I need servants on earth who make the spreading of My word their business .... I need people who receive My word directly and then pass it on, so that people learn to believe in a God with Whom they can closely unite in order to hear His voice themselves .... I want people to learn to believe in a living way, to seek contact with Me and to feel addressed by Me .... but this can only happen when they are given testimony of My working in a person. My messengers should only try to direct their fellow human beings' thoughts towards Me, Who lives and wants to prove Myself to every human being .... They shall mention Me and My working as much as possible, and I will bless them for it and give strength to their words so that the great adversity, which is so great because people no longer know Me, because they no longer seek the connection with Me from which alone they can draw strength to take the path which leads to eternal life.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Open confession of the divine name ....

B.D. 6056 from September 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My name must be openly known before the world .... Only then will you prove that you are My disciples, that you belong to My own who also remain faithful to Me until the end .... You will learn to understand why I have demanded this of you when you recognize the distance of all people from Me, when you can observe people's anxiousness to outwardly conceal their attitude, to want to deceive their fellow human beings about their right relationship to God as the redeemer of the world .... My name will seldom be mentioned among them, they will avoid every conversation which has Me as its content .... and they will want to lie to themselves that their inner attitude is enough, that I am satisfied when people acknowledge Me inwardly .... And I know about this weakness and lukewarmness of people and therefore demand an open confession for Me .... I demand a clear decision for Me and My name which is obvious to all fellow human beings, otherwise My adversary will have the vote .... I also know that it will not be easy for My believers, that it requires courage to confess Me aloud, and yet the human being can only achieve victory when he musters this courage, when he is not afraid of those who can indeed kill the body but not the soul .... Only then will he also feel the strength which lies in speaking and confessing My name, and only then will he belong to My own against whom My adversary is now completely powerless. For he fears My name and therefore wants to silence it in the world. And that is why he works people against Me, that is why he incites them against My followers, that is why he proceeds openly and covertly against all who want to remain faithful to Me. For this reason the confession of My name in the last days will require great faith and trust in Me, but it will also be possible, for I will provide My own with the strength that they will confess Me unashamedly to all people, that they will testify to Me and My working, that they will openly confess Me as redeemer of people, Who must be acknowledged by everyone who wants to become blissfully happy .... They will be ridiculed, they will have to suffer for the sake of My name, yet nothing will affect them because they receive My strength in the same measure as they need it. And therefore they will be able to resist all temptations, to make them fall away from the faith .... to apostasy from Me .... from Me. They will remain steadfast and as a reward for it also belong to those who will see Me coming on the last day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Blessing of receipt and distribution ....

B.D. 6057 from September 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Undreamed-of blessings can arise for you humans from My word and its distribution, for you are touched by a flow of strength both when receiving as well as when passing it on, because you establish the connection with Me or make the connection of your fellow human beings with Me possible, for which you are also assured of My blessing. All your efforts on earth for the purpose of attaining earthly possessions do not outweigh the success which the connection with Me earns you, for what you thereby receive is everlasting, it is a possession which alone is of value for eternity. When you receive My word you carry out a spiritual activity .... you direct your thoughts into spiritual spheres, you stay with Me and hold out your open hands to Me in supplication, which I then fill with gifts of love. And if you now also offer these gifts to your fellow human beings My gifts of love are already working on you, you recognize them as extremely valuable and therefore also want to pass them on to others because love is kindled in you .... Again, your striving is spiritual and also has a spiritual effect .... so that your fellow human being also establishes contact with Me and likewise comes into the blessing of My word. And these connections from earth to Me are also felt by countless souls in the kingdom of the beyond or noticed as a shining of light, and now they, too, enter the circle of light, and they, too, are affected by the blessing, for they feel a flow of strength which triggers an ever greater desire for My word in them. For they understand the meaning of My word just as you humans do, and they accept it far more eagerly in order to increase their strength. Hence the spreading of My word is not only My will for the sake of people on earth but the souls in the beyond shall also take notice of it because they, too, require light and strength as long as the gates to the kingdom of light are still closed to them and they can likewise withdraw light and strength from My word. For these souls such impartation of My word signifies the only possibility of ascent, for without it they have too little strength to be able to perform works of love, which, however, they could easily do in earthly life with the help of the life force .... This is why people on earth pass by the most delicious things indifferently because they overestimate their vitality but use it wrongly. But the souls in the beyond are infinitely grateful for the help which signifies My word for them. And therefore both the receiving as well as the spreading of My word is of inconceivable blessing for everyone, for the strength of My word will always be felt, and souls will always be found which are grateful for this attention, and these, in turn, will pass on again what they have received, and thus a redeeming activity will also start in the kingdom of the beyond where the strength of My word has once been felt, because My word awakens love and love is always willing to provide help, on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's intervention in threatening danger to the soul .... love ....

B.D. 6058 from September 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

However your earthly life may turn out .... it is My will, and you must submit to this will, for I alone know what is best for you. I know all dangers which threaten your soul, I know My adversary's temptations, I also know to what extent you are able to resist, and thus I also know the countermeasures I have to use in order not to endanger you. For I will never idly leave you to My adversary and his arbitrariness. He will want to test himself on you with increased strength and you will not see through his game at first. And that is why I often intervene before you fall. And My intervention appears cruel to you and yet is only determined by My love. Yet My love also supports you and therefore you need not despair. You may only never break your bond with Me, you may never want to go your way without Me, you must remember Me in adversity and suffering and know that I am always concerned for you as your father .... You must know that nothing can happen in life without My permission, that therefore everything that happens always has My approval because it is good for you .... because it is good for your souls. My care constantly applies to you, and your soul constantly has to struggle for perfection, yet it sometimes slackens and pays more attention to the body than to the voice of the spirit, which prescribes to it the path that leads upwards. And then admonishing calls must sound so that it remembers its actual task again, so that it does not neglect to strive for perfection. The way I send these admonishing calls to it is determined by My love and wisdom, and it can also sometimes painfully touch the human being. But always think when you have to suffer that I want to achieve something with it .... Then look within yourselves and investigate to what extent you have caused it yourselves .... Investigate yourselves as to whether you have put your soul's work on hold and turned your thoughts more towards the world, and be grateful for every admonition, for it is only intended to help your soul mature, it is intended to lead you back to Me when you are in danger of turning towards the one who wants your ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The time of the end is imminent ....

B.D. 6059 from September 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The end has certainly been announced to you by Me as being imminent, yet you don't know the day and hour, and therefore even you, My believers, are not diligent enough in your work of improving your soul, for you, too, still reckon that it will still take a while until My announcements will come to pass .... Even you don't expect the end so quickly, otherwise you truly wouldn't think your earthly affairs so important anymore .... otherwise you would live as if you anticipated something extraordinary to happen for which you must to prepare yourselves and act accordingly. Admittedly, until the end you should fulfil the tasks which your earthly field of duty demands of you, nevertheless, the care of your souls should come first and the thought that tomorrow you might already be relieved from every earthly worry, that tomorrow you might be judged according to your soul's maturity, should impel you to work eagerly, for time and again I say to you: The day will come sooner than you think .... but until the end you will count on a postponement or a delay because the idea of a sudden end is inconceivable to you ....

And for this reason you, too, will be taken by surprise although you don't disbelieve My announcements. Your fellow human beings, however, don't believe at all, hence they will never believe that the time is very near .... but you should therefore be twice as diligent in your work of improving yourselves, for you will still be able to help a few people to attain faith before the end if your own faith is unshakable so that you, by virtue of your faith, can overcome conflicts which are inevitable due to the near end .... The more you accept the thought that the last day will strike very quickly the calmer you will also deal with earthly affairs, with all kinds of failures and worries, because you will realise that they are necessary and regard the state of your soul as more important .... And don't let yourselves be misled by the apparent calm .... no person will be able to enjoy it for long, for suddenly everything will change, and all of a sudden global affairs will also take an alarming turn, and then the end will be approaching with giant strides, and good for him who has prepared himself for this, who takes My Words seriously and lives as if only a few more days are granted to him .... For he will not be surprised that everything will come to pass as I have announced long in advance ....

Amen

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Final phase as a human being .... free will ....

B.D. 6060 from September 20th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is a long way until you reach perfection. But you have covered the longest distance and only a short way remains for you to reach your aim. But this short distance requires a well-directed will, whereas before you had, as it were, naturally walked upwards. Earthly life as a human being is this short stretch of path where your will alone decides whether you ascend .... For a wrongly directed will can also lead you back again or let you remain on the same level. But if you consider the infinitely long path before .... if you consider that you have arrived shortly before the aim, then you should do everything not to sink back .... You should not endanger the maturity you have already attained, but eagerly seek to increase it .... you should want to reach perfection and now live according to God's will, Who makes His will known to you through His word .... For it is His constant endeavour that His word is conveyed to you, and thus every person also knows about God's will .... He knows that life should be lived in divine order, he knows the commandments of love for God and his neighbour because these commandments have already been sensitively placed in his heart. Moreover, he will be instructed by God directly or through messengers .... fate will instruct him, he will experience the law of eternal order himself, and therefore he will also know exactly how the individual human being should behave towards his fellow human beings .... and through the right relationship with his fellow human beings he will also establish the right relationship with God .... Only his will must be rightly directed, i.e. good .... That alone decides whether his life will bring him maturity of soul or will remain only an idle life .... But the result of his will is infinitely grave .... for it means: final freedom or renewed bondage .... People don't know what earthly life means for the individual, that it is a short time of grace where everything is granted to them to reach final freedom from the form, and that they also have the strength to reach the aim if only the will strives for it. But the will is free and that is why earthly life is so significant .... But the human being has reached a degree of maturity that it is possible for him to give his will the right direction, for he has also been given intellect so that he can well weigh up his will, thinking and actions. He is no longer compelled to do what he does, as before, but can freely undertake everything of his own accord .... thus also refrain from doing what contradicts God's will .... but he can also act contrary to His will .... Therefore he also bears responsibility for his life, and the wrong use of his will can earn him death instead of life .... Then the endlessly long path of upward development can be in vain, the soul .... the spiritual in the human being .... can sink back into deepest darkness and have to languish again for eternities in the hardest enclosure .... until it once again has to pass the same test of will in order to finally become free ....

Amen

6061

Light is where God's spirit works ....

Light is everywhere where I can pour out My spirit, for darkness has broken through there and will never be able to take hold there again. Light is where I Myself can instruct people, where My word is respected, where people long for contact with Me and listen to My word as spoken to them .... Light is where people make it possible for Me to radiate My spirit over them .... But the light is also only there, for it cannot be given to you humans other than through My working of the spirit. And therefore far more darkness is spread across the earth, for My spirit can only rarely work .... Brightest light could be emanated and deepest knowledge could be imparted to people and they would feel at ease in the light of knowledge .... But anyone who wants to be knowledgeable seeks to gain it by other means; he believes he can penetrate intellectually into areas which can only be fathomed spiritually. People are mostly unaware of the right path, they know nothing of the fact that I reveal Myself through My spirit. The 'outpouring of the spirit' is a completely unknown concept to them .... All they know about it is the Pentecostal experience of the first disciples, which they regard as unique and don't want to believe that this process can repeat itself again and again and with all people if they can demonstrate the same prerequisites as My first disciples. I am always in closest contact with My living creations but only express Myself when they also establish contact with Me through loving actions or heartfelt thoughts. To most people I am only a distant God, and they can never be addressed by Me Myself that they hear My voice, because they don't have the desire to hear Me and therefore don't pay attention to what is conveyed to them through their spirit.

The outpouring of the spirit is the ability to unfold thoughts which, as it were, touch unfamiliar territory, so that the human being's realization is increased, that clarity is gained in him about previously unresolved problems .... that he thus receives knowledge which My spirit imparts to him. The outpouring of the spirit is a transfer of strength which he did not possess himself and which now comes to him from Me .... "My spirit will pour out on all flesh ...." Light and power overflow from Me into a person when he opens himself, when he prepares himself to be a vessel worthy of Me Myself .... My light and My strength .... within himself. And people are not informed about this process, nor can they be, because they can only understand it under certain conditions and cannot demonstrate them. For to shape oneself into the vessel of the divine spirit means as much as to shape oneself into love, and all people who lack love, who do not fulfil this first and most important commandment, cannot believe that I make Myself known either. My spirit's working means to be in direct contact with Me and to hear Me .... Again, only spirit-awakened people can speak about the outpouring of the spirit .... the connection with Me must already have been established which allows My spirit to be effective. And therefore the outpouring of the spirit cannot be advocated as a doctrine, because there would be no understanding for it as long as the ordering of thoughts through the spirit has not taken place .... But people could believe it and try to shape themselves through loving actions so that My spirit can pour itself out upon them. Yet even this faith does not exist because people live without any love .... Therefore they are spiritually blind, they walk in darkness, and they don't see where a light shines, and if it is brought close to them then they turn away.

9/22/1954 But they can only be happy when they stand in the light. And even if they do not recognize their darkness as a lack on earth, in the beyond the darkness will torment them unspeakably, and good for those who then strive towards the sparks of light which occasionally flash at them .... good for them, for they can also still reach the light there ....

Amen

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Light is where God's spirit works ....

B.D. 6061a from September 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Light is everywhere where I can pour out My spirit, for darkness has broken through there and will never be able to take hold there again. Light is where I Myself can instruct people, where My word is respected, where people long for contact with Me and listen to My word as spoken to them .... Light is where people make it possible for Me to radiate My spirit over them .... But the light is also only there, for it cannot be given to you humans other than through My working of the spirit. And therefore far more darkness is spread across the earth, for My spirit can only rarely work .... Brightest light could be emanated and deepest knowledge could be imparted to people and they would feel at ease in the light of knowledge .... But anyone who wants to be knowledgeable seeks to gain it by other means; he believes he can penetrate intellectually into areas which can only be fathomed spiritually. People are mostly unaware of the right path, they know nothing of the fact that I reveal Myself through My spirit. The 'outpouring of the spirit' is a completely unknown concept to them .... All they know about it is the Pentecostal experience of the first disciples, which they regard as unique and don't want to believe that this process can repeat itself again and again and with all people if they can demonstrate the same prerequisites as My first disciples. I am always in closest contact with My living creations but only express Myself when they also establish contact with Me through loving actions or heartfelt thoughts. To most people I am only a distant God, and they can never be addressed by Me Myself that they hear My voice, because they don't have the desire to hear Me and therefore don't pay attention to what is conveyed to them through their spirit.

The outpouring of the spirit is the ability to unfold thoughts which, as it were, touch unfamiliar territory, so that the human being's realization is increased, that clarity is gained in him about previously unresolved problems .... that he thus receives knowledge which My spirit imparts to him. The outpouring of the spirit is a transfer of strength which he did not possess himself and which now comes to him from Me .... "My spirit will pour out on all flesh ...." Light and power overflow from Me into a person when he opens himself, when he prepares himself to be a vessel worthy of Me Myself .... My light and My strength .... within himself. And people are not informed about this process, nor can they be, because they can only understand it under certain conditions and cannot demonstrate them. For to shape oneself into the vessel of the divine spirit means as much as to shape oneself into love, and all people who lack love, who do not fulfil this first and most important commandment, cannot believe that I make Myself known either. My spirit's working means to be in direct contact with Me and to hear Me .... Again, only spirit-awakened people can speak about the outpouring of the spirit .... the connection with Me must already have been established which allows My spirit to be effective. And therefore the outpouring of the spirit cannot be advocated as a doctrine, because there would be no understanding for it as long as the ordering of thoughts through the spirit has not taken place .... But people could believe it and try to shape themselves through loving actions so that My spirit can pour itself out upon them. Yet even this faith does not exist because people live without any love .... Therefore they are spiritually blind, they walk in darkness, and they don't see where a light shines, and if it is brought close to them then they turn away.

9/22/1954 But they can only be happy when they stand in the light. And even if they do not recognize their darkness as a lack on earth, in the beyond the darkness will torment them unspeakably, and good for those who then strive towards the sparks of light which occasionally flash at them .... good for them, for they can also still reach the light there ....

Amen

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Light is where God's spirit works ....

B.D. 6061b from September 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Yet if brightest light shines towards you upon entering the beyond you will have a considerable advantage over those souls, for you will feel free and happy and exceedingly willing to give .... For you possess something which you can distribute and you are constantly allowed to receive, so that your bliss increases the more you distribute. Everything heavy, burdensome has fallen away from you, and since you are enlightened you also know what the souls in darkness are lacking, and you endeavour to bring the light to them too, because you want to release them from the darkness. And again it is My spirit of love which radiates through you and which also has to touch the souls in darkness if it is to become bright in them. But now they also have to open themselves voluntarily to it, i.e. they have to want to make contact with Me as the eternal light .... they must establish contact with Me by wanting Me to have mercy on them .... As soon as they suffer from darkness and long for light they will also establish this contact, they will turn to the one Who can release them from their situation, and then their salvation is also assured. Yet it would be far easier for them to achieve it on earth if they did not close themselves off to the light. For I kindle the light everywhere on earth, I convey My word to earth (to people) everywhere on earth, I Myself emanate My light of love because I want to release people from darkness while they are still on earth, because I want to receive them into the kingdom of light after their departure from earth in order to provide them with unlimited bliss ....

Amen

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Right relationship of the child to the father ....

B.D. 6062 from September 22nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

People enter into the right relationship with Me when they acknowledge their God and father in Me, when they fear Me and love Me at the same time, when they believe in Me and thus acknowledge Me as the highest power and place their utmost trust in Me because they love Me like a father and therefore want to reach Me. Then they will unite with Me in prayer, then they will appeal for My love and grace, and then I will be able to provide them with strength which they will then use to work with love, to transform their nature for the purpose of which they stay on earth. As soon as the right relationship with Me is established there can only be an ascent, because I don't leave the child in the abyss which stretches its hands up to the father. Nor do I abandon those people to My adversary who still completely resist Me .... I constantly endeavour to break their resistance in order to one day reach the aim that they will come to Me voluntarily .... But how much more do I help those to ascend who have already recognized Me, who want to come to Me .... I hear the voice of those who call upon Me as father and their prayer will truly not be in vain. But in order for them to recognize Me as father I reveal Myself to them in many ways, for they must feel My love because then they will not only fear Me but return My love. And every person can feel My love if he only pays attention to what makes his earthly life clearly recognizable to him .... God's guidance and everlasting care, which he often needs and could just as often experience .... Then they consciously seek the connection with Me, and then the right relationship is established, for then they will no longer take a path without Me, and I will truly guide them the right way up .... they will reach their aim, they will find their way to Me because they want to remain united with Me forever ....

Amen

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Life in divine order in free will as a human being ....

B.D. 6063 from September 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

An ascent development of the spiritual can only take place when it moves in divine order. Therefore, as long as the spiritual is bound in the works of creation it cannot but move in divine order, for it performs all its accomplishments in the law of compulsion according to God's will and thus, as it were, matures until it enters the stage as a human being where it is no longer determined by divine will but is to live in free will in divine order. Maturing therefore now depends on the human being's will, which can just as well be completely unlawful, so that the human being lives outside of divine order. And to live outside of divine order means to walk on earth completely without love .... Then the hitherto attained degree of maturity of the human being's soul .... is endangered, for it can now sink into the depth from which it has worked its way up in endless time through services it had to perform in the bound state .... It can also run the risk of having to take the endlessly long path of development once again if free will fails in the stage as a human being, if it is completely opposed to divine will. The human being has an advantage over the bound spiritual because he can reach the highest stage of development .... Therefore he bears great responsibility for this time, for he alone determines the degree of maturity which earthly life will bring him. But this short test of earthly life has to be passed by him because the previous ascent development is a gift of grace from God, because it is not the spiritual being's own merit to have reached the degree which is the prerequisite for embodiment as a human being .... He must now lawfully acquire this gift of grace by doing the same in free will as he had to do in bound will .... by serving in love .... It is only an exceedingly short time that he walks on earth as a human being, and so much grace is at his disposal that he can very well live in divine order .... but freedom of will must be granted to him, he cannot necessarily be determined to think and act on earth. For the price he pays for the right use of his will is: complete freedom in light and strength .... He has to give up his resistance against God and thereby prove that he has found his way back to God, from Whom he had once voluntarily distanced himself. And God will truly grant him every help, He will shower him with grace so that he can muster the willpower .... Yet it is up to him whether he uses the blessings; it is up to him whether he takes the right path, whether he takes the path of love, whether he thus moves in divine order .... And therefore the human being decides his own destiny in his earthly life .... an eternal life in beatitude or a state of bondage, which will always be agonizing for the spiritual being because it completely contradicts the spiritual being's original nature, which was created in light and strength and freedom and can also only be blissfully happy in light and strength and freedom ....

Amen

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Love work on the unredeemed ....

B.D. 6064 from September 25th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Love for the unredeemed moves all souls in the spiritual kingdom to help as soon as they themselves are redeemed, i.e. can be radiated through with light. For this radiance of light is the result of an activity of love on earth or in the beyond, and this love seizes everything wretched in order to help it to beatitude. And therein again consists their own bliss, for they receive in the same measure as they give, and to receive means: to be radiated through by God's strength of love, thus to feel God's nearness. Thus the unredeemed souls are never without help, they are never left to themselves, even though they are sometimes in greatest loneliness and see or feel no being around them. They are always guided in such a way that they can think about themselves, and then a helpful soul approaches them which advises them to change their situation and offers them suggestions to improve the situation themselves. The light souls' compassion is great and they never give up on a soul, even if it is initially unwilling to accept the advice. Yet they do not reveal themselves, even if they have been in contact with that soul on earth. For the souls must freely want to come to the light, they must not be determined in any way to change their will and thinking. Love has great strength, and the more love is given to an unredeemed soul the more willing it is and the easier it gives up its resistance. And even on earth love-filled people can have a much easier effect on an unbelieving person, i.e., love in the person's heart achieves more than the most awakened intellect which, although it can theoretically advocate everything it says, does not penetrate the person's heart but only appeals to the intellect again. That is why intercession, which comes from a loving heart, has a great effect of strength, that is why many a soul can be redeemed through intercession on earth as well as in the beyond. People themselves can, as it were, make it easier for those unredeemed souls to accept the instructions, because this is already the effect of loving intercession, that the soul willingly accepts every effort which applies to its ascent. Without love, however, the human being will not achieve much, and without love the will to redeem is also small, or he himself is not yet redeemed, because shaping himself into love is the first prerequisite for being permeated by divine light of love ....

Amen

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Earthly and spiritual issues .... Inhabitants of other planets (flying saucers)

B.D. 6065 from September 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You only receive the kind of information that will benefit your soul. As long as you want to stay in contact with Me you will never be allowed to look into areas which will harm your soul .... However, with the help of satanic strength you are also able to acquire knowledge unlawfully. But in that case you do not belong to My Own whom I protect from damaging influences by My adversary .... You are taught by My spirit and thus you receive knowledge which serves your higher development .... You can work with this knowledge again, you can pass it on again to your fellow human beings and thereby guide them onto the right path .... thus you can help to bring light into the darkness, as it is My will ....

And as long as you are willing to spread the light you will be supported and the knowledge you receive will correspond to the use you make of it .... Whatever is needed to kindle a light for a soul walking in darkness will flow to you, and the more questions you are asked the more abundantly you will receive from Me if you want to answer these questions .... Yet I will not merely satisfy idle curiosity, I will not bestow knowledge which is neither needed nor suitable for spiritual development .... But at the same time I will not remain silent either when a child pleadingly asks Me. For it should put its trust Me and therefore it shall not be disappointed .... There are secrets which the human intellect cannot grasp but which nevertheless have an entirely natural explanation .... There are laws, natural forces, which can become active if the conditions for them are met: extraordinary developed intelligence of people, who are thus able to calculate effects and then use these calculations for experiments by which natural forces apparently will be of service to them .... thus people are more or less in control of these forces by using the known effects for their purposes.

To less intelligent people such undertakings seem impossible and what they cannot understand they gladly ascribe to the realm of the ‘supernatural’ .... Then they are more willing to take this step into the spiritual kingdom than if they were advised to enter spiritual regions for the sake of their spiritual maturity .... When human intellect reaches its limits the human being makes concessions, and he starts to consider possibilities .... Yet his thinking goes astray; he combines earthly with spiritual issues .... And a gap remains between the two. No human being will ever be able to make contact with beings outside of earth in anything other than a spiritual way .... Thus, the human being is indeed able to make spiritual contact with inhabitants of other worlds if this is intended for spiritual development; but such contact will never occur in a visible form, to the extent that inhabitants of those worlds will meet up with people on earth .... this is completely impossible because every living being requires a different sphere, which is likewise determined by fundamental law.

Here, too, satanic influence is noticeable which confuses people’s thoughts even more, for these wrong conclusions do not promote people’s spiritual endeavour, who now also try to address the supernatural with intellectual reasoning, and who thus will purely scientifically utilise the alleged evidence of living beings on other celestial bodies but who are not willing to believe that these beings also develop or progress spiritually .... In accordance with eternal law the celestial bodies are separate from each other, and they will stay separate .... because their purpose is the development of souls and this happens on every single star under entirely different conditions. The explanation of unusual phenomena in this respect is also erroneous .... but the fact that an unusual effect of strength is utilised in an as yet still inexplicable way should make you humans think ....

For this is also a sign of the end, the fact that unusual powers are becoming active and that the reason for using these powers also betrays their origin .... My adversary, too, has a lot of power in the end, and he uses it to his own advantage .... If people succeed in utilising as yet unknown powers for the benefit of their fellow human beings then their effort will have My blessing .... But if the reason is determined by dishonourable motives then it is the work of the one who wants to ruin you .... And he will not reveal what he is doing either, he will throw people into confusion, he will prevent everything that would help to clarify the situation .... But what is divine, righteous and true will come to the fore and will not keep itself hidden ....

Amen

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Exhortation to workers in the vineyard .... success in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6066 from September 29th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

However it may come, do not grow weary in your work for Me and My kingdom. Often you will still be discouraged because you seem to be working in vain; yet earthly activity is far more futile, for your success will melt away into nothing when the great chaos begins. But what you have achieved in spiritual work will then come to fruition .... No matter whether it concerns yourselves or your fellow human beings whom you have made aware of so far, for they will think back and consider the probability. And some will learn to think differently when events befall people which take away all earthly hope. Remain diligent in your vineyard work and fill the place where I have placed you. Each one do what he is instructed to do and do not ask with what success he works, for spiritual work is never unsuccessful, but its extent cannot be seen by you humans. Don't get tired and use the time well because it is only limited but can still be used beneficially. And don't look at the world and its sinfulness, don't doubt the truth of My word that the worldlings are in mortal danger, even if you see them living a life of pleasure .... even if they want to prove you wrong in view of the worldly upswing .... Believe My words: Soon everything will come to an end .... But since the spiritual knows no end, it is a matter of creating a state for this spiritual that does not give torment and darkness, but light and bliss .... And no matter how small the success of your work may seem .... it is not small in the spiritual world, and what you are unable to achieve with your fellow human beings can still be achieved by My spiritual co-workers, who all work with the same spiritual knowledge which you receive on earth and which you also make accessible to the spiritual inhabitants through your willingness. Therefore you should be constantly active and not let yourselves be distracted by what you see around you. You spread what is right and true, and the future will teach people how worthless what they aspired to was .... For no one can escape chaos. And then you will also be heard for a short time, and you can hand out what is now spurned .... Then every labourer will be needed in My vineyard because the time of harvest has come ....

Amen

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Approaching trouble ....

B.D. 6067 from September 30th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

You are approaching a time of immense trouble and require great strength of faith in order to master it, because with your physical strength you won't be able to resolve it but certainly with spiritual strength. However, the affliction will befall you on account of your faith because the final time will have come when all of you will be demanded to make a decision .... Admittedly, the earlier worldly adversity, even though it is also inevitable, will affect all people and be a wake-up call for all, yet this adversity is a natural one and will therefore also be humbly endured .... However, the immense trouble affecting people on account of their faith has spiritual reasons and spiritual consequences, for then both the people, as God's opponents, as well as God Himself will demand a decision, and life in eternity depends on this decision .... People will be requested to deny their faith in God, and thus they will be forced by the ruling power to make a decision .... Then it will require tremendous strength of faith to defy this obligation and to openly profess God before the world .... However, anyone who has the will to do so shall also have the strength to resist, for this shall flow to him from the One Whom he fearlessly professed. And thus the affliction will arise from the fact that God's faithful followers will be placed under severe pressure by their opponents and be greatly damaged and demeaned in an earthly way, that these few will become a target for people to run riot in a God-opposing sense. A strong faith fends off all attacks but a weak faith becomes unstable and needs support which will indeed be granted to him when his will desires God. Yet this time must come because the day of the end comes ever closer and because the separation of the spirits must take place first. Many people will still be recalled who, without question, would descend in such times of affliction, and God will only preserve the life of the strong who offer resistance by virtue of their faith .... But He also knows who inexorably strives towards the abyss; He knows where any change of will is impossible .... And He will allow these people to keep their life so that what is proclaimed will come true .... that the goats will be separated from the sheep so that the great cleansing on this earth can take place, which will be followed again by a time of peace, by a time of righteousness ....

Amen

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Excess of grace in coming time ....

B.D. 6068 from October 2nd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

I bestow an abundance of grace upon you in the time before the end, for My kingdom obviously descends to you; I Myself repeatedly step into your path so that you can establish contact with Me if only you are willing to do so. You humans make no effort of your own accord to attain the kingdom of God, you don't seek it and thus I approach you Myself in order to entice you to enter My kingdom; I Myself come to you and inform you of My kingdom because I want to receive you in order to protect you from a dreadful fate, from My adversary's kingdom which brings death and ruin. My kingdom is not of this world .... And that is why it is so difficult to win you for this kingdom, because you still seek the world with all your senses. And because there is not much time left until the end, when the earthly world will shatter, I still want to have accepted you into My kingdom beforehand .... and therefore I do everything to achieve this aim. I allow My mercy to prevail, for you yourselves in no way acquire the right for My kingdom .... Justly you should seek and enter the path to Me of your own accord, justly you should make every effort to release your soul from your spiritual adversity .... you should wrestle and ask for mercy. But you do nothing for your spiritual salvation, and you would be lost if I did not exercise My love and grace and come to meet you to offer you the most delicious things: My kingdom .... And this happens so obviously that you should all easily recognize how concerned I am about your life, about life in eternity .... Everything is grace which helps you to eternal life and which you have not earned, which you do not acquire yourselves of your own free will .... In the last days I will pour out a full measure of grace upon you humans .... My kingdom is coming to you .... Enter this kingdom, let yourselves be captivated by My love, make use of the graces .... listen to Me when I approach you in the word .... leave the world, for it can give you nothing that lasts, and seek My kingdom and you will never regret having followed My word .... you shall inherit My kingdom with all its glory .... Therefore, come to your senses before it is too late, for the end is coming and with it the last judgment ....

Amen

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The spiritual realm is to be aspired to ....

B.D. 6069 from October 3rd 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The door to the spiritual kingdom is open and everyone can step through to receive what the spiritual kingdom offers him. No one need go empty-handed who wants to receive .... But one thing is required, that the human being voluntarily makes the spiritual kingdom the aim of his striving. For he cannot be forced to do so .... And that is the task of his earthly life, to strive towards the kingdom which is his true home. He came from this kingdom, he once left it voluntarily and must return again voluntarily. After his bodily death he enters the spiritual kingdom again but he can enter a sphere where he is not blissful .... For the spiritual realm he is to strive for is the realm of light .... This shall be his aim which he can easily reach on earth. Earthly life has been given to him for this purpose .... If he then uses his earthly life wrongly, if he strives for other aims on earth, then his earthly life was in vain and his soul can only dwell in the spheres which cannot offer it anything because they are outside the kingdom of light, because they are dark and correspond to the souls' eternal state. As long as the human being dwells on earth it is extremely easy to take the step into the spiritual kingdom from which the light shines down .... For he need only want, and he will be guided by the inhabitants of the kingdom of light who recognize his will and are of service to him. The human being does not stop thinking and can therefore also let his thoughts wander into his true home, for he is constantly stimulated to do so .... But if he resists such thoughts rising up in him, then this is his free will, which is also respected by the inhabitants of the kingdom of light .... The human being also knows that he cannot prolong his own life, and therefore he should think about what will come afterwards .... Already the serious will to learn about it is a step into the spiritual kingdom which approaches him .... But if his will resists such thoughts then he closes the door to himself and takes the path back down into the kingdom from which he had already emerged .... which is indeed also a spiritual kingdom but not a desirable aim, because the souls in this kingdom are devoid of all strength and every ray of light .... It is a realm of the dead in the true sense of the word, because life can only be where there is light and strength. Light and strength are at your disposal as long as you stay on earth, and you should desire light and strength, then you will truly be abundantly provided with it and the path will become easy for you to ascend into the kingdom of light, into your true home, where you are eagerly awaited by those who walk in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"You shall have no foreign gods beside Me ...."

B.D. 6070 from October 5th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

To whom you give your love, that is your God .... And now examine yourselves earnestly as to what your heart desires, and if your senses are earthly directed, then mammon is your God, then you serve an idol; then you are enslaved to him who is the lord of darkness .... But you do not know the God of love as long as you serve an idol .... And if your mouth says: "I believe in God", these are empty words. For if you believed in a God of love with conviction you would also desire Him; you would serve Him alone and detach yourselves from everything that belongs to the world .... you would then have no other God beside Me .... You would give your love to Me alone and now also be allowed to possess My love eternally .... You should not treat the word 'God' so lightly, you should be aware of the word's deepest meaning .... You should consider that God is the highest and most perfect being, to whom all your love should belong .... You should not speak of faith in Me as long as another God is still desirable to you .... the earthly mammon, which you humans love above all else. Then openly profess your faith in him but do not speak My name .... For I, your God and father from eternity, want to possess all your love and not share it with the one you strive for in truth. I am the lord your God .... you shall have no foreign gods beside Me .... This was My commandment which you humans have completely erased from your memory, for you all have foreign gods beside Me; you all attach your heart to earthly goods, you all practice idolatry as long as you cannot detach yourselves from the world for My sake, as long as the desire for Me does not fill your whole heart .... I alone am the good, the true, the lovable, and whoever worships foreign gods besides Me, his faith in Me is not convinced, otherwise he would banish everything from his heart to receive Me alone, to serve Me alone .... and you can only serve one lord .... Where your love is, there is your God .... Consider these words carefully and examine yourselves seriously to whom you want to give your love .... For this one will also take possession of you .... to make you blessed or to destroy you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sin is an offence against love ....

B.D. 6071 from October 6th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

In a world of lovelessness, sin must also abound, for sin is everything that goes against love. Sin is everything that is against the divine order, which is built on love. Now the less people live in love, the more obviously they step out of the divine order .... they sin and thereby give themselves into the hand of the one who brought sin into the world .... Sin is any wrong that has its origin in unkindness. Every sinner rebels against God, against eternal love, because he consciously does something contrary to God .... and his self-love tempts him to do so. He loves himself more than God .... he certainly also has a love within himself which, however, is wrongly directed, which he took over from God's adversary who likewise sinned against God because he placed himself above God and therefore fell. A person who lives in love cannot sin .... He can indeed fall, thus succumb in weakness to the adversary's temptations, but love will always let him rise again, he will want to right his wrongs, he will recognize his wrongdoing and repent of it, and he will find forgiveness because his nature itself rebels against sin, against conscious offences against love .... A sinner is without love, and he will also only recognize and repent of his sins when love is kindled in him .... Only then will he turn away from sin, only then will he enter into the law of eternal order. As long as people are dominated by unkindness, injustice will spread, people will seek their own advantages at the expense of their fellow human beings, the stronger will harass and exploit the weaker, property will not be respected, there will no longer be brotherhood among people, but one will regard the other as an enemy and openly or covertly act against him .... Men are servants of satan, but no longer children of God, which they should be and become .... And therefore sin abounds the nearer it is to the end, because love dwindles among men, and therefore it itself draws near to the day of judgment .... For when everything has gone out of order, an end must also come in accordance with the law .... so that order may be restored according to divine plan .... so that love may reign again on earth and justice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Influence, but no compulsion from the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 6072 from October 7th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Coercion is never exerted on you from the spiritual kingdom, and thus it always remains your free will how you think and act .... Nevertheless, you are influenced by both good and evil forces, that is, both try to transfer their thoughts and intentions to you, but the human being can defend himself against this by virtue of his free will and therefore he himself is also responsible for his thoughts and actions. Freedom of will is respected, otherwise the good forces would truly have predominance and all people would very soon be mature for the kingdom of light. The soul's spiritual state on earth already and later in the spiritual kingdom is based on the human being's free will, it cannot be arbitrarily changed or improved by God's love or the beings of light, and therefore only the right direction of will can ever result in an improvement for the soul once it has discarded the earthly body and entered the spiritual kingdom. If the soul is unwilling its state of maturity cannot be improved either, even though countless beings of light make an effort to do so. It itself must want .... But through God's love and grace it is also guided in the spiritual kingdom such that its will stirs and can decide freely again. And there is only one certainty for the right direction of the will .... love .... which is why progress can only be achieved in the kingdom of the beyond if love is practiced, which then also certainly points the will in the right direction. And thus it can certainly be asserted that a loving soul always takes the right path when it has to decide between two paths .... There is no more decisive factor than love, for this is the divine order, and therefore everyone who moves in love moves in divine order. For love is the light which lets you recognize which path is right, so that the will thus goes in the same direction as the light shines. Therefore love will always reach the aim, free will will always make the right decision, because the light of love gives knowledge and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living proclaimers of the gospel ....

B.D. 6073 from October 8th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

A living proclaimer of My word will also be successful in his vineyard work, for he works with the strength of My spirit .... thus he is a servant who is equipped by Me with everything he needs for his work. He can distribute abundantly because he receives abundantly. And he can pass on the gospel, Christ's teaching of love, as I Myself preached it on earth, for I speak to people through My servant again, and such words are truly powerful and will speak to the hearts of the listeners and not just fall flat on their ears. But only someone who is always so united with Me that he feels the life-giving strength of My word can be a living proclaimer of My word, which now impels him to communicate to his brothers on earth .... Only a person who lives in love can be a living proclaimer of My word, otherwise he is not united with Me and can hear My voice. In order to be a living proclaimer of My word he must be permeated by love for Me and for his neighbour, he must want to be active for Me in his neighbour .... For this will is the entering into My will, the submission to Mine and the basic condition of the union with Me. Then he has given up all resistance, then he has already returned to Me, then he has passed his test of will on earth, and then he belongs to My own who hear Me Myself within themselves and who now have life within themselves. And now they feel inwardly driven to likewise awaken the dead to life and to impart the strength of My word to it, which alone can give them life .... Then their words will no longer touch deaf ears because it is presented alive and because every willing listener feels life and wants to participate in it and often even unwilling listeners feel the strength of My word and give up their resistance. The dead word of a dead preacher cannot awaken to life, for it does not touch the heart but only the ear which lets such words fall flat. The spirit first has to bring the word to life .... And therefore I Myself must be able to work through My spirit in every person who wants to successfully proclaim My gospel .... But this person will also be a true labourer in My vineyard, and his work will always be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Speech of God natural .... truth ....

B.D. 6074 from October 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

This is God's will that the truth be spread, and the truth can only be given to people by Himself, because human will cannot keep it pure for long and therefore the earth is constantly shrouded in darkness because it lacks the light .... the eternal truth .... is missing. God in His greater than great love tries everything to help people who walk towards the abyss in darkness; and His ways are often incomprehensible to people, yet precisely because they are still of dark spirit, otherwise they would take it for granted that God speaks to people, that He conveys His word to them directly. Yet His activity and His eternal plan of salvation are unknown to them and therefore they do not know the actual purpose of their existence on earth. And therefore there is no other option but to impart this knowledge to them .... God Himself has to instruct people about the cause and purpose of their earthly life .... He has to inform people through His word and has done so and will always do so as long as people dwell on earth for the purpose of their ascent development. But people are already so far removed from God that they dismiss this fact into the realm of the impossible .... They don't know or believe that God Himself addresses people because they themselves are in a spiritual state which excludes a direct address to God .... Therefore they do not want to believe that only the right spiritual condition is necessary in order to be appreciated by this address of God .... They don't want to believe that God chooses such people to whom He can convey His word directly in order to also communicate to other people through them what they need to know in order to live correctly on earth. It is far more credible that God takes care of His creatures when He knows they are in great spiritual need than that He passes by this need without helping them .... It is far more credible that God speaks to His children as the eternal love than that He remains silent towards them by whom He wants to be acknowledged as a loving father .... God speaks to people and will always and forever speak because He Himself wants the connection between people and Him to be established and because every connection between the child and the father also entails a speech, whereas a God who remains silent will never ever be aspired to as a loving father. How deep is the earth in darkness that people no longer want to recognize a bright light from the heavens as light, but reject it as coming from below .... And how much the darkness is confirmed by this, how much the time of the end is characterized .... Yet God will not withdraw His love and grace for this reason, He will again and again find people who allow Him to express Himself, and through them He will repeatedly make His will known and announce the near end .... And good for those who believe His words .... good for those who believe that God speaks to people because He wants to save them from deepest darkness .... For these will experience His special grace, they will draw comfort and strength from His word when it is necessary to confess Him before the world .... And then it will prove that they are intimately united with Him, that they receive the strength directly from Him, Who is constantly close to them in the word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connection with God guarantees truth ....

B.D. 6075 from October 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

Strive only ever to establish and remain in contact with your Father of eternity .... Then you will also always be spiritually enlightened, unresolved problems will no longer exist for you, for every problem will be resolved by the One Who knows everything and Who also wants to convey this knowledge to you. No limitations are imposed on your knowledge as soon as you take the path to Me and request My clarification .... But I also know which knowledge helps you achieve happiness, and this information is always at your disposal providing your desire for truth is spiritually inclined .... that you expect My explanation .... that you earnestly desire it .... For I give without limitation but only ever to someone who wants it .... And what I bestow upon you will always be appropriate for you and the circle of fellow human beings to whom you shall pass on My gifts .... I speak to you simply and clearly because it is My will that you penetrate the truth yourselves so that you can also wholeheartedly advocate it. And so seemingly insolvable problems for you can be solved by Me in a way that the explanation is easily comprehensible for everyone who, like you, desires clarification .... but which will always remain incomprehensible for people who only deal with them intellectually. I speak to the human being's heart and the heart understands .... But the heart of someone who prefers to be addressed intellectually is not receptive to Me as yet, and he will hardly become enlightened. Therefore, come to the Father like children so that he will educate you in line with your receptivity .... And the subsequently kindled light in you will be suitable to give you complete understanding, for you are being instructed by My spirit and this is truly powerful. You humans have invaluable spiritual knowledge at your disposal, yet only a few make use of it. People try to intellectually penetrate information which can only be conveyed to them by My spirit, because they either don't know the simple path or won't take it if it is shown to them .... the connection with Me through love or prayer .... Only the connection with Me is the source of truthful knowledge, and if this is not established, the received knowledge .... even if it corresponds to truth .... will remain incomprehensible or lifeless knowledge to people which does not contribute towards the soul's maturity. And the connection will only be established when the human being yearns for Me Myself .... Then he will exclude all other sources .... then he will no longer seek an explanation from other people, then he will turn to Me directly and I will be able to influence him through My spirit so that he will recognise what is truth from God and what is rationally gained knowledge .... Then the living water he draws from the source will refresh and revive him, he will be able to receive, without limitation, all he needs for eternal life from the font of life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of the Illness .... cross bearer for the soul ....

B.D. 6076 from October 12th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

This is what My word teaches you, that you should follow Me .... Avoiding the path of following Jesus will not lead to perfection, for then you will take a path which does not correspond to My will and therefore cannot lead to the aim either .... To follow Jesus means to take up the cross imposed on you in the same love, with the same gentleness and patience. He truly walked the path of the cross, and no human being took away the suffering He had to bear for His fellow human beings. But through these sufferings He took the great burden of debt from people and atoned for it .... He suffered for others .... And so you humans should also bear the cross for your soul .... which would have to suffer immeasurably in the kingdom of the beyond if you had not proven yourselves to be cross-bearers on earth by following Jesus .... The human being should create a spiritual garment for his soul which is suitable for receiving light one day .... And thus the soul's coverings, which still signify impenetrable resistance to the rays of light, must be melted away, as it were. For the human being himself should also do something about it and not rely solely on the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ as long as he is given the opportunity on earth to improve his state of soul with the help of divine grace .... At the same time you should dissolve the covering itself, not only free the soul from it .... you should again bear the guilt of the unredeemed spiritual that imprisons your soul .... you should likewise help this spiritual to develop further upwards .... you should suffer patiently for the spiritual being which is still far below you, which chose you to come out of its bondage. For all physical ailments and afflictions are manifestations of this wretched spiritual substance which you can and should help again by taking the path of following Jesus, by patiently taking up the cross and likewise compensating for a debt for this spiritual substance which is far below you, so that its path of ascent will become easier, so that it will already be free of a debt before the ascent development of this spiritual substance also begins .... Jesus has called you to follow Him .... But He has also redeemed you from sin and its consequences .... How do you want to find harmony between the two? He wants to free you from your guilt, but He still demands that you carry the cross .... Just as His love was for you, that is, for His fellow human beings, your love should also be for the one who needs your help, so that he will also reach the state where redemption through Jesus Christ can be accomplished in him .... You, too, should contribute to the redemption of the unfree, and it is your responsibility to take care of the spiritual substance which surrounds your soul as a cover, which has to be dissolved in order to grant entrance to the rays of light which signify life for the soul. The dissolution of these coverings is a work of mercy in which you must participate yourselves, which is why you were given Jesus' command: 'Take up your cross and follow Me ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sun of the spirit ....

B.D. 6077 from October 13th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The sun of the spirit shall rise for you, and its rays shall illuminate you and show you the right path to take on earth .... The night is no man's friend .... As long as you walk in the night you are in danger of falling into the abyss or being exposed to other ruin. Only when the morning sun chases away the night with its rays will you see the path clearly before you, and then you will also see all dangers you have to avoid in order to safely reach the aim. This always concerns your spiritual life, the state of your souls, which are in the night as long as the spiritual sun cannot yet shine down on them .... as they themselves resist the rays because they have not yet felt the benefit of light. Only the effect of the rays allows the soul to awaken from a frozen state, only the sun gives it life .... The spiritual rays give it strength .... and these rays come from the spiritual kingdom, they have their origin in the eternal sun, which radiates all light and life out into infinity. Standing in the sphere of this divine sun of grace is a guarantee for eternal life, because in its light there is no solidification, no death, because its strength is so strong that it drives everything to activity, to life .... Hence the light, the ray which spreads brightness in the human being's heart, comes from the spiritual kingdom but never from the earthly realm where profound darkness prevails and no light can be generated. And whatever spiritual gifts you humans receive .... it must originate in the kingdom of light if it is to bring you light, if it is to have an effect on you as a shining ray of the spiritual sun .... It must give illumination of the spirit and awakening life to those who place themselves in its circle of light .... You people who walk in darkness, seek to come into its light, let yourselves be irradiated by it .... seek to escape the night, for you will feel a thousand times better in the warm ray of divine love, which wants to make you happy in infinite abundance and give you what you lack: light and strength, without which eternal life is impossible ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers