New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6285 - 6422

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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

6285 - God's address....

6286 - Fight against longings and passions....

6287 - Scrutiny of spiritual knowledge advisable....

6288 - "As you measure out, so shall it be measured to you...."

6289 - Controller of fate.... God of love....

6290 - Strokes of fate.... Remedies....

6291 - Time of end....

6292 - God's presence and expression....

6293 - God's loving address....

6294 - Effective means of grace....

6295 - Development of earth and human being....

6296 - Sluggish thinking....

6297 - Divine guidance....

6298 - Earthly world passage to the true home....

6299 - Transience.... destructions....

6300 - Last decision of faith....

6301 - The congregation of Jesus Christ....

6302 - Utilizing the divine word....

6303 - Effect of the work of redemption on everything spiritual....

6304 - Love and faith power....

6305 - Create and work for eternity....

6306 - Union of the soul with the spirit....

6307 - Salvation only through Jesus Christ....

6308 - God's constant call....

6309 - Idleness of life.... church christians....

6310 - Apostasy and return free will act....

6311 - Right love is life....

6312 - Reunion in the beyond....

6313 - Cosmic phenomena....

6314 - Spiritual rebirth....

6315 - 'Descent into hell....'

6316 - Divine guidance....

6317 - Renewed captivity....

6318 - Release from form....

6319 - Peace in God....

6320 - Voluntarily being of service.... Selfish love....

6321 - Means of grace.... Prayer....

6322 - Always new works of creation.... deification.... life....

6323 - Separation of the planets....

6324 - Approach of a star....

6325 - Life on earth is but a passageway back home....

6326 - Love light from God.... His word....

6327 - God's presence....

6328 - Right will.... truthful knowledge....

6329 - Striving towards the goal.... God's help....

6330 - Explanation about strokes of fate....

6331 - God's infinite love.... Sacrifice on the cross....

6332 - Satanic activity in the end time....

6333 - Jesus Christ means everything....

6334 - Work of satan I.

6335 - Work of satan II.

6336 - The plan of deifying the beings....

6337 - Work of satan III.

6338 - God's constant care for the human being....

6339 - Form christians.... dead souls....

6340 - Means of grace.... Walking with God....

6341 - Mediator.... intercession....

6342 - Distress should inspire love....

6343 - Dead christianity....

6344 - The creations' lack of self-awareness....

6345 - "My kingdom is not of this world...."

6346 - Attention to world affairs....

6347 - Serious admonitions....

6348 - Mental care....

6349 - Divine source of grace for the wanderer....

6350 - Fulfilment of the divine will.... right knowledge....

6351 - Power of intercession for the unredeemed....

6352 - God's mercy....

6353 - Light and power deficiency....

6354 - God wants that we live....

6355 - Purpose of need: bonding with God....

6356 - Blessing of the work of redemption.... cross of Christ....

6357 - The law of order is love....

6358 - God's support in the vineyard work....

6359 - The narrow and the broad path....

6360 - Social contributions....

6361 - God's help executed through people....

6362 - Reply to questions....

6363 - Contact with Jesus Christ in every adversity....

6364 - Beings from other worlds?....

6365 - Poverty does not prevent activity of love....

6366 - God force or entity?....

6367 - Opening the gate to bliss....

6368 - Servants of the end time....

6369 - Everlasting notice to the work of love....

6370 - Love is the way to knowledge....

6371 - Power of the word on souls in the afterlife....

6372 - Effect of distress on faith....

6373 - Paradise of the new earth....

6374 - Whatever you ask the Father in My name.... '

6375 - Mental activity....

6376 - Seriously striving for the kingdom of God ....

6377 - Conditions for receiving the truth....

6378 - Walk to the cross.... cross bearer Jesus Christ....

6379 - Desire of truth guarantees truth....

6380 - Force transmission.... truth.... contradiction....

6381 - Voluntarily turning to God.... Bond of love....

6382 - God addresses every human being....

6383 - Using the graces of the work of redemption....

6384 - Commandments of love.... cold love....

6385 - Eternal order is love.... Satan's activity....

6386 - Redemption of the hard matter....

6387 - Transformation of the will in freedom....

6388 - Indication of natural events....

6389 - Fulfilment of the promises....

6390 - Redeeming action on souls....

6391 - Spiritual information without material gain....

6392 - Baptism of the spirit....

6393 - Recognizing God's love in creation....

6394 - God's call to spiritual cooperation....

6395 - God's word gives light....

6396 - Delivery once and now....

6397 - "My kingdom is not of this world...."

6398 - Love bridges the gap....

6399 - Turnaround.... redeeming the souls of the deep....

6400 - Informing people (earth task)....

6401 - God's word is life, light and power....

6402 - Church buildings?....

6403 - The will determines the duration of bondage....

6404 - "Create and work while it is still day...."

6405 - Changes in the constellations....

6406 - Fight against lies and error....

6407 - Divisions before the end....

6408 - Exhortation to make good use of life on earth....

6409 - God's help for a change of will....

6410 - Gospel of love....

6411 - Your desire determines your lord....

6412 - God, a just but loving judge....

6413 - Love illumination and distance....

6414 - Gospel of love....

6415 - Distortion and purification of the divine word....

6416 - God's never-ending love....

6417 - The spiritual low level has been reached....

6418 - The path to the father's house.... God's guidance....

6419 - Possession....

6420 - "Eternal damnation".... light.... will of Lucifer?....

6421 - Heartfelt contact with God.... Inner voice....

6422 - Readiness for redeemer work....

God's address ....

B.D. 6285 from June 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Blessed are the people who are allowed to hear My word, who allow themselves to be addressed by Me, who desire My address and therefore can be considered by Me as it is beneficial for their souls .... Blessed are those who recognize the loving father in Me, Who speaks words of love and wisdom to them .... Blessed who directly receive strength from Me because I have blessed My word with My strength .... My love applies to all of you who still walk on earth, and therefore I also want to give you all the opportunity to be able to listen to My address. And therefore I send My word down to earth in such a way that it is not only intended for the recipient alone but that his fellow human beings can also hear it through him .... that he can pass it on in the form in which it was sent to him .... And thus all can come into possession of My word, which is conveyed purely and unadulterated to those who open their hearts to the address from above .... All people can refresh themselves at the spring from which the living water flows .... My word, which is life-awakening, because eternal life Itself has poured it out .... Anyone who drinks from the spring of life, who thus receives My word into his heart, who does not just let it rush past his ears but wants to be inwardly touched by it, can never fall prey to death. For My word is nourishment for the soul, it is food and drink which are necessary for the life of the soul .... And this word comes to you humans in all purity and seeks access to your hearts .... I Myself, Who am the word from eternity, stand at the door of your heart and knock so that you may grant Me entrance .... And then I Myself can feed and water you, I can take supper with you, you can unite with Me and remain united until all eternity. For if you hear My word I Myself must also be present to you, and My presence must already make you blissfully happy on earth, because then you will constantly be able to hear My word and you will always have the evidence that I Myself am with you .... I want to address all of you and inform you of My love for you, because I want to regain you who were lost to Me for an infinitely long time. And therefore My word from above will sound again and again, and again and again I will choose the right vessels for Myself into which I can let My flow of strength of love flow .... And again and again I will find access into open human hearts which happily accept what I offer them, who feel hunger and thirst and shall be refreshed with the right food and the right drink .... Again and again My strength will flow to those who intimately unite with Me in order to receive strength .... For My love for you humans is unchanging and will always supply you with what you need in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fight against longings and passions ....

B.D. 6286 from June 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Deaden your every longing and you will mature in the shortest possible time .... If you have the will to become perfect everything that is still pulling you down into the abyss has to be overcome .... and this concerns all longings and passions which still adhere to you from the time of your preliminary development .... and which still cause you so much trouble because My adversary influences you through these instincts and longings and thereby intends to prevent your return to Me .... But these instincts and longings are an obstacle for your union with Me, because they are ungodly attributes which a perfect being cannot have .... and which therefore first have to be overcome before the union with Me can take place.

The human being has to fight against every craving for material things, for this always involves a greed to own something which belongs to My adversary's realm, which therefore merely serves to satisfy the senses .... regardless of what it is .... As soon as a person's physical senses delight in it they are longings which find earthly fulfilment .... This includes everything that provides the person with a sense of physical well-being, if it is actively pursued by the person himself and therefore lacks the foundation for spiritual endeavour: the realisation that all earthly things are transient.

I will also endow people with earthly possessions and their earthly life, too, will be blessed and offer them everything, and that in abundance, as soon as I recognise their spiritual aspiration, as soon as their love applies to Me and I Am their first goal .... Then My love will give to them abundantly, and even their earthly life will be blessed and offer them everything because it will no longer harm them, since it will not captivate their senses. However, as soon as a human being still has a powerful desire for earthly pleasures, possessions and stimulation he has to fight it, for these longings are My adversary's weapon which frequently help him to be victorious. Nevertheless, the human being will not become unfit for life on this earth, his strength will grow but he will utilise it differently .... He will want to work spiritually and only find satisfaction therein .... yet instantly slow down if he sets his sights on the world again and sees something that he desires to own ....

This is why 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force ....' Earth is the kingdom of the fallen spirits, it is My adversary's realm .... Anyone who seriously thinks about this will also know that everything desirable in the material world always requires the payment of tribute to him and that everyone who pays this tribute also belongs to him .... He will also know that there cannot be any compromises between Myself and him, that I want you completely and that a human being who still has his eye on My adversary's kingdom will hardly reach Me ....

You should not allow yourselves to be captivated by the world, you have to exercise self-control with the things that still appear desirable to you, and you then seriously have to suppress your cravings for them, you ought not to give into them, but you may enjoy without reservations what I bestow upon you Myself .... You may be pleased with what you receive without having greedily aspired for it .... what My love gives to you because you belong to Me, because you have recognised the purpose of earthly life and are now willing to be of service to Me ....

But be content with it and stifle every arising craving and always recognise in it a trap set by My adversary to win you back for himself .... Without an inner struggle you will not be victorious over him, but if your endeavour applies to Me then you need not fight any longer, then the world will no longer attract you, then your yearning will aim towards heaven .... then matter will have lost its power over you, then you will learn to despise it .... it will have to be of service to you because you will have become its master ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Scrutiny of spiritual knowledge advisable ....

B.D. 6287 from June 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You are being educated by the spirit within you and this cannot convey anything but the purest truth to you .... If you therefore encounter contradictions brought to you from external sources, then you must first investigate whether this spiritual knowledge was produced by a person's own intellectual activity or by the working of the spirit .... And you will always come to the conclusion that My spirit has not been at work where a contradiction is present. For the spirit from Me does not err, the spirit from Me always imparts the same to a person: the pure truth .... Admittedly, it is difficult for you humans to conduct an examination like this as long as you are still spiritually unawakened, but precisely because of this you should not accept everything, especially if teachings are imparted to you which do not include My Gospel, which can be found in the Scriptures .... if it concerns teachings which are in addition to My Gospel, the pure teaching of love I proclaimed on earth. In that case you must always exercise greatest caution, for that knowledge which is additionally conveyed to a spiritually awakened person as profound spiritual wisdom .... the knowledge which reveals My eternal plan of Salvation to you humans, can only be conveyed to you through My spirit; however, it will be undermined by My adversary through wrong doctrines, erroneous portrayals or entirely new teachings, which could already be recognised to be incorrect by the fact that such knowledge does not promote maturity of soul .... For this is precisely how he works, he wants to do the same as I do .... he presents error to people in the same way as I distribute truth .... His activity consists of educating servants who pretend to do the same: to address people on divine instruction .... It is not easy for you humans to recognise what is right and what is wrong as long as your desire for unusual supernatural knowledge predominates, as long as you don't appeal to Me in a childlike, humble manner for the pure truth, as long as you seek out 'people' in order to be taught by them without having commended yourselves to Me first, so that I will guide you right and only let you take the path of truth. You must do everything .... absolutely everything .... with Me, then you will not go astray, you will not make wrong judgments, you will learn to distinguish error from truth .... You can truly believe that the serious will for truth is your most certain protection, then the feeling of rejection will predominate in you towards all misguided teachings, and this feeling is My working in you because you request the truth .... Intellectual products are easy to refute if they contradict the truth .... But it requires an awakened spirit in order to judge planned messages from above, for only the spiritually awakened human being can see through the machinations of the adversary of truth, the prince of darkness .... He recognises the contradiction and can also substantiate it, but he will only ever find credence with those who have a strong desire for truth, because they already experience the same feeling, which I will grant anyone who is serious about the truth .... who has already accepted Me in his heart through kind-hearted activity. Anyone who is united with Me through loving actions or heartfelt prayer will instinctively reject anything which contradicts the pure truth, because the Eternal Truth protects him from being led astray and is indeed able to do so on account of the sincere union and the desire for truth .... Those of you who are devoted to Me and strive to fulfil My will should therefore not be afraid of being led astray .... I will guide your thinking in the right direction and you will always be able to differentiate between truth and error ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"As you measure out, so shall it be measured to you ...."

B.D. 6288 from June 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You are always urged by Me to be eagerly active in love, and if you follow My instructions you can also expect constant help, for I distribute what you give to your neighbour. Hence you can also live a completely carefree life on earth, your earthly needs will also be covered if only you distribute again what you receive from Me spiritually and earthly .... People who ask or are in need will always be led into your path, people who are in earthly or spiritual need, and you should give them what you receive from Me .... earthly help if they ask you for it, or spiritual gifts which they always need and which are far more important than earthly provision, because the latter comes from Me if only the human being makes an effort to utilize the spiritual gifts correctly .... if he is willing to provide for his soul first. Then the body will also be taken care of by Me, for I have given you this promise that you should first seek the kingdom of God, everything else will be given to you in addition. And from this you, My servants on earth, will be able to gather that your concern should primarily be for your fellow human beings' spiritual well-being, for spiritual hardship is not so obviously noticeable that people seriously try to remedy it, whereas earthly hardship is felt by the body and therefore people's concern only ever applies to earthly provision .... There too you should help as far as it is in your power, but since you possess spiritual wealth in abundance you should distribute it to all who are in need and try to make people understand that earthly hardship is only a consequence of spiritual hardship .... that they are spiritually missing something and therefore have to suffer or struggle earthly .... You should inform them that their activity of love leaves much to be desired, otherwise they would be considered by Me according to My promise: As you measure out, so shall it be measured out to you .... that they therefore have to live in want because they also let their fellow human beings live in want because they do not give them what they can give: love .... which every human being needs so much. For everyone, no matter how poor he may be in earthly goods, can be kind to his fellow human beings; no one is so poor that he has nothing to give away .... And even the poorest of the poor can testify to his helpful will, and help for himself will certainly not fail to materialize. The commandment of love is not heeded enough, and therefore earthly hardship also increases .... And if help is to be given to people it first has to happen in a spiritual way, so that they learn what the cause of their adversity is .... that people first have to make an effort to meet each other in love, that they should always pay more attention to their fellow human beings than to their own adversity, because they themselves receive help to the same extent as they want to help. And therefore they must also be offered spiritual gifts, My word must be held up to them, which I taught when I Myself lived on earth .... again and again they must be assured that they can abide by My word, that My word is truth and that I stand by My promises .... that everyone just has to put it to the test himself by doing what I demand in order to then also safely be allowed to experience the fulfilment of My promise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Controller of fate .... God of love ....

B.D. 6289 from June 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You should know that I want to win you for Myself and therefore your whole earthly life will unfold such that I will achieve My goal as long as you don't oppose Me .... Although it is always up to you whether you utilize your earthly life, whether you will allow your souls to be affected by everything that happens to you in this earthly life, whether everything will contribute that you will take the path to Me .... for you are also able to resist and rebel against your fate which I only imposed on you in order to achieve your beatitude .... You can defy and resent the Controller of your destiny, but then you will never take the path to Him and submit yourselves voluntarily to Him .... Then you will turn again to the one from whom I want to liberate you.

You first must learn to believe in a God of love .... Then you will also understand His reign and activity, you will understand that He only ever intends to make you happy .... The knowledge to be guided by a God of love will enable you to bear every burden he inflicts upon you, since you then will also trust this God of love that He only means well with you. And you can easily believe that I Am a God of love by just observing the creation surrounding you .... by just contemplating the fact that everything was only created for you humans after all, to enable you to live and enjoy the natural creations .... The fact that you

humans often experience difficult conditions should not make you doubt the love and wisdom of a Creator but only ever question why you get into such situations ....

Everything in nature is so wisely arranged that one thing serves the other for its development, that everything arises and exists according to wise law as long as the natural order is not disturbed through human interference. Hence you also have to come to the conclusion that you yourselves are not living in the God-intended order .... that you yourselves are the cause of suffering and adversities which affect you .... Consequently, you also have to trustingly appeal to a God of love, Who has created everything surrounding you as well as you yourselves, to help you restore order again ....

You humans, who feel unable to do that, merely lack humility .... You are too arrogant to subordinate yourselves to a strong Power, you revolt against It and therefore have to come into situations where you learn to recognise your own weakness .... Only the humble person takes the path to Me, because he feels too weak and incapable to improve his situation by himself .... Faith in a God of love and wisdom also necessitates humility .... The arrogant person cannot believe because he does not want to believe, because he does not want to acknowledge a Power above himself to Which he should submit himself ....

Earthly life with all its fateful experiences could indeed provide him with the evidence that he is helpless against the will of a stronger Power, and every human being could derive from it the benefit for his soul .... Yet his will remains free .... and his resistance to Me will only let him sink ever lower, whereas subordination will let him rise higher .... and for this purpose earthly life was given to you .... I want to win you for Myself in order to make you blissfully happy .... For far away from Me you will remain in misery, darkness and pain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Strokes of fate .... Remedies ....

B.D. 6290 from June 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The wounds I have to inflict on you if I don't want you to fall into everlasting death are truly not an expression of wrath, of lack of love, nor are they indications of just punishments for your transgressions .... They are merely remedies to remove ailments which you have caused yourselves and which are needed in order to restore the health of your soul .... It was your own fault that you left the eternal order or your fate would be one of pure happiness and beatitude. Believe Me, I would much rather grant you blissful happiness but you yourselves make it impossible for Me as soon as you leave My order .... however, I will use everything to lead you back into divine order again so that I can make you abundantly happy once more. The more hardship and sorrow, misery and illness are evident on earth the greater are the offences against My order, and by looking at this adversity you humans can see how low you have fallen, for I would truly rather make humanity happy than let unfounded tribulations befall them in order to restore My eternal order again .... And although the individual person believes himself to be a lesser sinner than the misfortune he has encountered .... you humans don't know the correlations or the extent of a misfortune's effect .... nor do you know who will be helped to mature in turn as a result of the individual person's fate .... You also don't know what you have voluntarily offered to endure before your incarnation as a human being .... I, however, know everything, and I truly will not impose upon you a greater burden than you are able to bear ....

Furthermore, I offer Myself as a cross bearer if your cross seems too heavy for you .... Unfortunately you don't very often take advantage of My help, and thus you complain about your burden and frequently protest its weight .... You were motivated by love to offer yourselves to bear a burden of the cross .... But in earthly life you don't know why you, who believe to belong to Me due to your will, have to suffer .... Yet I want you to travel your path silently and without complaining even without knowing the cause, I want you to humbly accept your cross, I want that you always submit to My will in the recognition that the One to Whom you submit yourselves is a God of love and that everything you receive from Him will be a blessing for you ....

Therefore, don't object to your destiny whatever comes your way .... don't complain and grumble if you want to belong to Me but always rest assured that it is only for your benefit .... that it always signifies help and a restoration of My eternal order .... rest assured that one day you will realise it and be grateful to Me that I allowed you to take this arduous earthly path with its misfortunes but also with My love, which is the reason for everything that affects you, because it only ever wants you to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time of end ....

B.D. 6291 from June 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

In My eternal plan of salvation the time is fixed when the work of transformation on this earth takes place, for I have known since eternity when My will has to intervene in order to prevent the spiritual substance from completely sinking into the abyss, in order to reintegrate it into the process of development so that it can strive upwards again. And the periods of time are always measured such that they are certainly sufficient for the complete redemption of the spiritual substance but that they must not be too long for the failing substance either, because it will always sink deeper and then the return to Me will become increasingly more difficult and agonizing, because the means for the redemption of this spiritual substance correspond to the distance from Me .... During the period of redemption a great deal of spiritual substance is released, but the spiritual substance which has passed through creation is often still so opposed to Me that it needs a longer time until it can embody itself as a human being, which is why at the end of such a redemption period humanity usually still carries much of this resistance within itself and therefore precisely these people have no impetus to ascend but increasingly chain themselves to matter again, thus the inclination towards matter also pulls the soul down. And when people of such an attitude predominate, then the time has also come when a complete transformation of the earth is necessary in order to favour the process of development again .... Then the separation of spirits has become necessary .... And therefore I have known since eternity .... I will never prematurely end a redemption period in order to save what is still possible before the new banishment, because I alone know what such a new banishment in solid matter means for the spiritual being .... I will never let a being fall prey to this fate which still offers the slightest prospect of a change of will, of a rescue from this fate. But I will also not miss a day longer in order not to increase the agony of these newly banished beings, which, however, would necessitate an ever deeper fall. I know when the time is fulfilled which was granted to the spiritual beings to become free, and My eternal plan is also based on this. And therefore I also have to point out to you humans the events which lie ahead of you, because even these indications can still shake people up and the short time until the end can still bring them salvation. But the day of the end will not be postponed by this. And even if you humans are never allowed to know the exact time for the sake of your freedom of faith, I nevertheless tell you that you are very close to it, that you don't have much time left, that your life on this earth will end very soon .... I tell you very urgently and advise you to believe Me and to adjust your life as you would do if you knew for certain the day and the hour .... Let yourselves be earnestly warned and admonished .... Turn away from the world, leave everything that is perishable and remember your soul, which is imperishable, and prepare a blessed fate for it by only striving for that which will bring you salvation .... Establish contact with your God and creator of eternity, see in Me your father Who longs for His children, and entrust yourselves to Me that I will guide and direct you in the last days of your earthly life .... Use the last short time you have left until the end .... so that you belong to the few who will still be saved from ruin .... so that you may live and not perish to eternal death ....

Amen

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God's presence and expression ....

B.D. 6292 from June 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I am always with you when you call Me in your thoughts, when you engage in spiritual conversations, when you speak for Me and My kingdom .... whenever you want Me to be in your midst .... For this I have promised you. And thus you need not look for Me in the distance; you can always imagine that I am present to you as soon as you are gathered in a small circle and do not hold worldly but spiritual conversations .... And thus you can also feel addressed by Me, and the transmission of My word need not be surprising to you, for how should I prove My presence to you other than by addressing you Myself? This is why everyone who is willing to be addressed by Me will be able to hear Me, and all his thoughts will then be guided by Me, because this will to hear Me also certainly guarantees him My address or right thinking. You know that I am your father and that you are My children. Therefore it is also the most natural thing that the father speaks to His child and that the child will always hear His voice if it pays attention .... if it does not close its ear or listen to loud sounds which sound to it from the world. Anyone who is willing to hear Me will also hear Me, and every thought turned towards Me will now also secure his own thinking according to My will. And thus it will also be protected from error if it desires the pure truth, if questions or unsolved problems occupy it .... But it must never expect a certain answer to such questions .... that is, such an answer it would most like to hear and which need not correspond to the truth. Anyone who desires to be instructed in the pure truth in order to pass it on to his fellow human beings should completely free himself from spiritual knowledge which has been imparted to him from outside .... He should empty his heart and open it for My flow of love, and I will fill it according to his desire .... but also according to his task if the human being wants to serve Me. And thus you humans have to make a distinction as to whether you only want to mentally communicate with Me, whether you desire My words to give you comfort and strength so that you can fulfil your earthly task .... or whether you offer yourselves to Me as mediators so that I can speak through you to all people .... In either case I am present to you Myself, in each case you hear My voice as soon as you desire it and make it possible for Me through your desire and your inward listening .... But whoever has a mission from Me I must also consider according to his mission .... for the fulfilment of the mission requires a certain knowledge which enables a teaching activity .... And this knowledge can only be received by a person who has attained a certain degree of maturity and fulfils certain prerequisites which enable him to convey My word .... You humans may all come to Me if you want to hear Me Myself .... You can all believe that I am with you and speak to you wherever My name is spoken in devotion and your heart opens so that I can enter .... but whom I have urged to work for My vineyard, whom I have entrusted with the teaching ministry, to him also goes what he needs for his work .... And you should listen to these in the firm belief that I Myself speak through them, because it is necessary that you humans are taught so that you learn to recognize and love Me and now also fulfil My commandments and thereby become blessed ....

Amen

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God's loving address ....

B.D. 6293 from June 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Words of love I want to give to every child who desires to be addressed by Me .... For I embrace all My children with tremendous love and therefore cannot speak to them other than full of love .... And even if I have to admonish and warn them, then it is still My love which wants to protect them from making themselves unhappy .... And very often people are in this danger, even if they seriously strive towards Me, because they are constantly besieged by My adversary and he tries everything to bring them down. For you humans are still completely immersed in the world .... and the world is a danger for every serious striver .... Not only that it can affect the human being's senses with its charms and its dazzling work, but also the demands made on you by the world often cause derailment, unkindness, restlessness or even anger, because My adversary will always affect the people in bondage to him such that they will make the children striving towards Me the target of their attacks .... For My adversary works with much cunning and trickery .... especially when he has little success to show, when he cannot oust Me from My child's heart .... So then My words, despite all love, are warning and admonishing in order not to let My child fall into the hands of the one who wants to possess it .... Yet a brief thought to Me is enough to chase him away, and you can always send this thought up to Me and a delicious peace will surround you, which I Myself will lower into your heart if you faithfully adhere to Me and are not submissive to the adversary. And I constantly watch over those who want to belong to Me, I just have to allow their will freedom and instil vigilance in your hearts, for every child means too much to Me to want to lose it to My adversary. But you always have an extremely effective means to drive away his desire for you and him: The smallest act of love already makes him unable to fight, with the smallest act of love you already establish the connection with Me, and where I am, he must flee .... where I am, you no longer have to fear him .... Therefore, when the world is pressing upon you, when situations arise where you are put into unrest or displeasure .... speak a good word, let a good thought arise in you or do a good work .... And of your own accord all afflictions will subside, you will emerge victorious in every battle of words, in every situation where you are confronted with hostility .... For then you will direct your will rightly in all freedom, and then you can never again be defeated .... But this will always cost you an inner struggle .... If you pass this battle, if you emerge victorious from this battle against yourselves, then you will also have defeated the one who is My and your opponent .... And I bless you for it and surround you with constantly increasing love, and what first appears to be a battle to you will now be easily mastered by you, and the world will also no longer have an effect on you because you prove to Me through your will that you want to belong to Me completely. And again and again I tell you: You can know that you are loved by Me always and forever, especially if you want to take the path upwards as a human being on this earth .... Then I pursue you, My children, with My fatherly love, and on every path you take I walk beside you .... and over thorns and cliffs I lead you through suffering and hardship towards the right aim .... I will guide you back to your father's house, where My love has glories in store for you which you will never be able to imagine .... which the father has prepared for the children who love Him ....

Amen

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Effective means of grace ....

B.D. 6294 from June 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

My gifts of grace are at your disposal without limitation because My love for you is unlimited and does everything to help you attain beatitude. And thus the transmission of My word is also an unusual gift of grace which can help you to completely release yourselves from the form, to completely spiritualize yourselves during your earthly life .... For My word is of unusual strength because it is a direct emanation of Myself. The souls in the beyond obviously feel this effect of strength because, if they are of good will, they abruptly come to realization and become light where previously it was dark .... The effect of strength cannot be so obviously demonstrated to people on earth, for it would force them to accept that which has to be received by them into their heart in fullest freedom of will in order to be success-bringing for the souls. But then the great effect will also be unmistakable, and the human being will completely change himself and his nature, he will shape himself into love and thus become free from all bondage, so that at the end of his earthly life he will now be able to enter the spiritual kingdom as completely spiritualized, as completely redeemed. Whether on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... I always have to address My living creations if I want to be recognized by them as father, to Whom they shall strive as children in ardent love .... An aim must be held out to them, a perfect being, Which they want to reach because they feel that this being loves them .... And this is only possible because I speak to My living creations so that they can also believe in this being Which reveals Itself to them .... I must make Myself known to all My living creations as a being full of love, wisdom and power .... And therefore they must be able to hear Me .... but in order to hear Me they must also open themselves, that is, they must open themselves to My address from above. But then the strength will also flow to them from above, and then they must absolutely also be able to do everything I demand of them and proclaim to them through My word .... You humans are powerless creatures because you have become imperfect due to your former apostasy from Me .... Your strength would never suffice to reach the former perfection again .... Therefore I must first supply you with strength, which now happens through the supply of My word, which I have blessed with My strength .... And ever new strength now flows to you the more often you let Me speak to you, the more open your heart is to receive My word, the more you want Me to speak to you and in your desire for My word now also make use of the unusual gift of grace .... by obeying what I tell you to do and thus step by step ascend with the success of complete detachment from the world, which kept you bound for eternities .... If I demand that you deify yourselves during your earthly life, then I must also give you, as weak beings, the means to be able to fulfil My desire .... And these means are gifts of grace, a gift from Me which gives you strength to ascend upwards .... And the most effective means of grace is My word, which again and again comes to you from above, but which you also possess in the scriptures which testify of Me .... if only you willingly open your heart so that I can speak to you .... Then you will also do everything with strength to fulfil My will, you will transform yourselves into love and be able to enter the kingdom of light as free beings ....

Amen

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Development of earth and human being ....

B.D. 6295 from June 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You can come to Me with complete truth and ask My any question that moves you, for I will always answer it such that it will help you. However, you can only grasp a limited amount of knowledge .... yet what I impart to you is sufficient in order to grant you an insight into My eternal plan of Salvation .... it is also sufficient for you in order to explain it to and teach other people .... and in order to reveal to you My love, wisdom and omnipotence. And I will add to this knowledge the more you progress yourselves, the more receptive you become to My light and strength .... for it is My aim that you shall become as perfect as you were in the very beginning, and this also involves profound realisation .... the comprehensive knowledge about My reign and activity, about My Nature and your goal ....

It took an infinitely long time for you humans to advance from the abyss to the point which permits human existence .... This infinitely long time until the development up to the human being had occurred was necessary because everything can only develop in lawful order .... no phases of development can be left out at will, hence these phases of development had to take place in accordance with My eternal plan of Salvation and thus appropriate creations were also required for this development .... which as 'pre-historic' has become a concept to you. Although the human need for research certainly attempts to calculate the duration of this pre-historic time yet only with very limited success, for the slow advancement of the spiritual substances .... as well as the emergence of creation .... which you are now able to behold as human beings, has taken eternities; they were infinitely long periods of time for which the word 'eternities' is certainly the right word .... The concept of time, however, only began when the living creation 'Man' was called into being by Me, for prior to that the living beings were not rational enough as to enable them to think and reason independently, as to enable them to live consciously and to grasp the concepts of 'past - present and future'.

Only the being endowed with common sense and free will can be called 'a human being', which was sufficiently capable of thinking in order to acquire a certain amount of realisation and live accordingly .... Hence from this time onwards one can speak of the conscious development towards ascent, where the once fallen spirits were given the opportunity to return to Me for good .... The creation of the first human being was the beginning of a period of Salvation where free will became the crucial factor and not My will, as was the case in pre-historic times, where everything took place under the law of compulsion which irrevocably had to result in higher development .... And now you wonder how long the 'human being' has populated the earth already .... whereby you only ever mean the rational human being who is capable of making his own free decisions and as whose descendants you regard yourselves ....

The first human being capable of accepting responsibility for his actions and thoughts was Adam .... even though human-like beings already existed before Adam in all parts of the world who instinctively carried out much of which is assumed was human thinking but who nevertheless were impelled by spiritual intelligences, who thus served ascending spiritual substances as a shell and in the law of compulsion carried out what was needed for the development of the creation of Earth .... to become a dwelling place for future human beings. They were human species whose instincts and compulsive impulses broke through incredibly strongly but who nevertheless could not be held responsible because they, too, contributed towards the fact that spiritual substances were constantly released and able to embody themselves anew .... because everything just served to prepare an area for the human being which was suitable to pass their last test of will .... These human-like beings were therefore physically already very akin to the form I had prepared for the human being Adam when the time for the fallen original spirits had come to have their free will returned in order to then be able to liberate themselves from the form altogether. Time and again pre-historic creations released spiritual substances, and the development of what to a certain extent had advanced the whole emergence of earth in its bound state continued to progress .... and thus the time eventually came for this spiritual substance to make a free decision ....

And this was the beginning of the epoch of Salvation which is of significance for you because it enabled the being to use its free will and intellect and thus live a conscious life .... However, the beginning of this epoch is so infinitely far in the past that you humans are unable to make any relevant calculations .... yet due to My will the most important periods and their events remain known to you, and although you also divide them into well ordered time-spans .... it is entirely irrelevant for your own development. Yet the endless number of fallen spirits necessitates an infinitely long time of higher development .... therefore you are no longer capable of estimating the duration of the pre-historic time .... just as the embodiment as a human being will have to take place on such a large scale that it will take eternities .... It will not be possible for you humans to determine the beginning of this epoch scientifically, yet you will always believe otherwise, because it is in the human being's nature while he is still imperfect that he mentally limits everything that is in the past .... but never wants to acknowledge that there is a limit for the time ahead of him .... consequently he does not reject a beginning .... but an end seems impossible to him. The former, however, is irrelevant whereas the latter is so extremely important that the human being should direct his whole attention only to what lies ahead of him .... that one period of Salvation will come to an end, as did so many before .... but that My eternal plan of Salvation will remain .... that there will never be an end as far as the act of Salvation is concerned .... that an endless number of fallen spirits also require an infinitely long time for their return and that time and again I will give these spirits the opportunity to ascend from the deepest abyss to the light .... to Me, from Whom they once came ....

Amen

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Sluggish thinking ....

B.D. 6296 from June 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The more captivated a person is by the world the more indifferent he is to the truth, the less he desires it, and he thoughtlessly either accepts .... or rejects everything that is presented to him as truth .... For his heart has no desire to know the truth. And once again you can therefore recognise that the world is a great danger for you soul, because without truth you do not live expediently, you have no idea about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life because you don't receive the right explanation, consequently you don't live consciously either but always chase after earthly possessions although you know that they are transient, that you cannot take anything along with you once your earthly life is over .... But neither do you believe in a continuation of life after death .... and again because you don't care, because you don't want to know anything about it and on account of this very indifference you can never reach the inner conviction that your life is not over after the death of your body .... God's servants on earth would find far more acceptance if the desire for truth were present in fellow human beings, yet everything else is more interesting to them than that which is most important: to gain the right knowledge and to then live their earthly lives accordingly. This is why everything which increases people's indifference has to be condemned .... it has to be condemned when they are taught that they need not spend any thought on what they are demanded to believe .... that they may only accept what they are offered by a specific side, and that they are relieved from every responsibility as long as they trust and subordinate themselves to God's alleged representatives. All such teachings contribute towards tempting the human being into sluggish thinking; they contribute towards allowing other people to do the thinking for him and not to feel responsible themselves ....And if the thinking of such a person is not changed through acts of love he will remain ignorant and caught up in error for the rest of his life .... However, only truth leads to God .... Hence, he will continue to be very far removed from God when he departs from earth. If people had a greater desire for truth, the spiritual darkness among them would truly not be so immense, for their thinking would be guided into the right direction because of a desire for truth .... And a correctly thinking person will then also live according to God's will and thereby come ever closer to Him .... But people only want to increase their knowledge regarding earthly things, because spiritual knowledge does not result in earthly success, but through earthly knowledge they can improve their physical well-being and therefore remain unreceptive to anything else, even if it is offered to them as a special gift of grace .... And therefore, Earth will remain shrouded in darkness, for light only establishes itself where it is desired but never where its illumination is rejected ....

Amen

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Divine guidance ....

B.D. 6297 from June 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You are brought together according to My will .... as is successful for your spiritual activity and always such that you can serve Me to the best of your ability, that you can guide My word everywhere, which I send to you from above .... that you can proclaim the gospel wherever it is only willingly listened to. Nothing happens arbitrarily and nothing comes to you by chance. Everything is fixed in My plan from eternity, it can only be utilized differently .... whatever is left to your free will. Therefore you can regard everything that happens in your spiritual activity as My guidance, you can regard all people as having been brought to you by Me with whom you can talk about 'My word' in spiritual conversations .... You can regard every change in your own situation as beneficial for your vineyard work, and every day will be directed by Me such that you will be able to progress if you have the serious will to do so .... And you should keep this in mind especially in the coming time, that I direct your destiny, that everything only ever comes as it has to come so that you can be active in a redeeming sense .... for often you will not understand that I lead you along paths which hardly seem feasible to you .... Yet the aim is glorious and can only be reached through such paths. And as soon as you believe that I Myself always walk beside you, as soon as you start and end every day with Me, blessings will lie on everything you undertake, even if no earthly advantage arises from it .... Then you must always know that I bring everything about as it comes and that it has its wise reason, for I overlook the effect and everything comes to you according to it. The number of those who are seriously willing to serve Me and in the last time before the end want to help Me establish My kingdom amongst humanity is truly very small; but anyone who has this will I seize with all My love, and his earthly life is now fully regulated according to this will .... The human being himself would often act differently out of his will if he had not already submitted his will to Me beforehand, so that I can now direct him to be an efficient labourer for Me in My vineyard .... Yet I require his complete devotion to Me for this .... But then he can be fully confident that I will also include his earthly hardship and worries in My plan, that I will solve everything at the right time which worries him as an inextricable tangle. For if he wants to serve Me, then I will also serve him, and that spiritually as well as earthly .... But My love and wisdom often have other ways than seem good to the human being .... Yet I never want his harm, and never do I abandon him in times of earthly adversity .... I regulate everything, yet at My discretion, so that it ultimately serves the spiritual development of the human being himself and many fellow human beings who are entrusted to him, whom he can help and whom I therefore guide to him. Trustingly leave everything to Me that I will arrange it for you and you will truly do the right thing, for who could care for you more lovingly than I, into Whose service you have voluntarily entered? .... My aim is only ever the beatification of My creatures .... Whatever can be done for this I truly do, and if you want to help Me this will certainly not be to your detriment .... But you must always know that everything is arranged by Me and always serves you for the best, that all situations in life, good as well as bad, serve you to mature yourselves but also always open doors for you where new work is waiting for you, because your actual task consists of diligently working in My vineyard, for My kingdom will last forever, but the earthly kingdom will pass away as soon as the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

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Earthly world passage to the true home ....

B.D. 6298 from June 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The inclination towards the world is still the sign of the bond with God's adversary, although you humans don't like to hear such a judgment about yourselves, yet you would unhesitatingly despise the world if you had already completely detached yourselves from it. You would not be able to take pleasure in things which are material, in pleasures and enjoyments which lie outside the spiritual kingdom, for your soul would .... if it had detached itself from its enemy, would long to return to the spiritual kingdom where it had originally been, it would know and feel that the material kingdom is only a passage which imposes fetters on it, but it would never ever long for it. As a result of your ignorance you humans believe that life on this earth is the epitome of what you call happiness, if you can shape this earthly life as you please .... because you don't know true happiness, which is completely different from the unfree, burdensome life in the flesh on this earth .... You do not know freedom in fullness of strength, you do not know the radiant light in which you may move if you have detached yourselves from the desire for the world .... even so, because you still belong to him who is lord of this world. But all desire dies when you seriously turn away from the one to whom you owe your existence as a human being .... And your desire is now directed towards another aim, the soul desires other pleasures than the world is able to offer it .... the soul recognizes its weakness and inadequacy and now desires strength and light, it longs for the state of perfection again, it strives with all its senses towards the spiritual kingdom, of which the human being's intellect can have no idea. But the soul, which has detached itself from God's adversary, knows that its true home is desirable. And that is why it cannot gain anything from the world's goods which it has learnt to recognize as empty appearances and which it therefore despises. As long as you humans desire the world you are still under its control, you still belong to it because you have not yet been able to muster the strength to detach yourselves from it, to renounce what it offers you in exchange for goods which can make you happy in truth. But you cannot possess both at the same time .... You have to give up one in order to gain the other, you have to .... even if you still live on earth, dare to take the step into the spiritual kingdom, for this is your decision of will, to want to exchange the material kingdom for the spiritual one of your own accord .... And if you have succeeded in doing so you have passed the test of will, you have liberated yourselves from the power of the one who holds you captive. And you will be helped in every way to dare this step, you will be enticed and offered assistance but you will not be forced .... But the transience of earthly-material goods is so often made clear to you that it should truly not be difficult for you to strive for what is imperishable. And again and again God lets His call resound: Free yourselves from the fetters which prevent you from returning to the father's house .... give up the world so that you can take possession of the spiritual kingdom again which offers you peace and bliss which the world can never offer you again ....

Amen

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Transience .... destructions ....

B.D. 6299 from June 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Everything earthly is transient .... There is no human being who does not know this, and yet there are only a few people who take this fact to heart and do not strive for earthly goods, there are only a few people who strive for the imperishable .... but the majority use all their strength just to gain possession of earthly goods despite the knowledge of their transience. And this justifies the question as to how the desire for them could be taken away without curtailing their free will. The knowledge of transience alone is not enough as long as the human being can only enjoy his possessions for the duration of his life. And there is only the possibility to repeatedly make him aware of transience by making him lose his own possessions through human influence or through expression in nature. Only when man recognizes the hopelessness of his endeavour, only when he recognizes that he himself has no power to secure his possessions, can his striving slowly change and turn to other aims .... Yet some people take a very long time to realize this until they tire of the hunt for earthly possessions, and they waste, as it were, the precious earthly lifetime which they should use to acquire spiritual goods. And therefore destructions of all kinds are also a blessing in a certain sense, because people thereby lose their material possessions and again and again are reminded of the transience of earthly things, and the most severe misfortunes or natural disasters can result in an overwhelming spiritual advantage for people, for God helps them, albeit in a painful way, to separate from that which chains them to earth, so that they will more easily find the path upwards .... Again and again God clearly and unmistakably shows people that it makes no sense to strive for earthly goods, and He instructs them to set themselves a spiritual aim .... Again and again He allows works of destruction to be carried out by human will which harm their fellow human beings, just as He Himself also intervenes directly and takes away from people what their heart is attached to .... always only for the purpose that they should direct all their striving towards what will remain and follow them into eternity. As long as the human being does not come to terms with the fact that he is using his strength wrongly .... as long as he only pays attention to the earthly-material, as long as he chases after dead aims, as long as his earthly life is an idle run and completely unsuccessful for his soul .... And therefore the decay of earthly things will become ever more apparent, ever more painful events will startle people and the destruction to which human life and earthly possessions will fall victim will be ever more immense, and the ultimate purpose of this is that people will be made aware of their transience .... so that they will reflect and strive to acquire imperishable possessions which can never be taken away from them .... For it is the time of the end when nothing will remain as it is, when only those imperishable goods will be valued which every person can still acquire ....

Amen

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Last decision of faith ....

B.D. 6300 from July 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will be faced with the decision to confess Me or to deny Me, and this will be the prelude to a battle of faith such as has never been fought before. For it is My adversary's last work that he will try to completely oust Me from people's hearts because he believes he can overthrow Me in order to then take over the reign himself. And since this battle is waged using the most brutal means of coercion, since it is not a free decision of will which in no way uses threats or promises as weapons, this is an overstepping of My adversary's authority .... it is an open action against Me with which My adversary pronounces his own judgement: that he will be bound so that he can no longer exert any influence on people .... But for people it is doubly difficult .... not only that this decision affects those who are not yet quite clear within themselves or to whom the denial of Myself means nothing more .... but also those people who stand by Me and want to fully confess Me will be put into a difficult situation by coercive measures, so that they will truly have to endure a difficult inner battle in order to be able to prove their loyalty to Me, for they will have to completely end earthly life, even if it is still left to them physically .... They will have to give up everything they own and will live a meagre existence as disenfranchised and outlaws .... And this is the time of which it is written: "I shorten the days, lest the elect yet falter ...." They will only need to suffer for a very short time and will be so extraordinarily strengthened by Me during this time that they will not regret their decision but will inwardly rejoice and exult in the certainty of My love, power and glory .... And they faithfully await the day of their salvation .... Only those who consciously close their eyes to the world and only await My coming will be overcomers and able to enter the paradise of the new earth .... And I know My own, I know who is capable of surviving this time of terror for the believers and withstanding satan's last rage on this earth .... Nevertheless, I draw all people's attention to this, for the weak can still educate themselves into strength of faith, because only firm will is necessary in order to also receive the strength to confess My name before the world. Anyone who still maintains too strong a bond with the world, who still stands in the midst of the world and is unable to detach himself from it, will succumb to the measures which are enacted in order to break My own's will .... And he can consider himself blessed if I snatch him from the midst of life and spare him the fall into the abyss .... But this decision has to be demanded first, so that satan can also finish his game, so that he exposes himself, that his action is open battle against Me Myself .... For limits are set for him which he may not transgress but which he does not observe and therefore he will be put in chains anew. But afterwards humanity will also enter a state of peace and bliss on the new earth, for it can no longer be displaced by the enemy of its souls .... And thus a period of redemption will come to an end and a new one will begin again, as it has been intended since eternity .... Much is demanded of you humans during the time of this battle of faith, but it also brings the highest rewards to those who pass it .... And you humans can pass it if only you firmly and intimately unite with Me beforehand, if you have the earnest will to become and remain My own for all eternity .... Then I will never ever let you fall into his hands, then I will supply you with strength and also be with you Myself in greatest adversity .... And those who need unusual strength will be able to see Me, and they will stand firm until the day dawns when I Myself come to save My own and fetch them into a kingdom of peace .... when the time is fulfilled and the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

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The congregation of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6301 from July 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is My will that My small congregation should firmly remain united, so that one supports the other spiritually and earthly .... All shall gather around the font of life and refresh themselves, they shall draw the strength from it which they will need more than ever the closer it gets to the end .... And the fact that the end is coming will be known and believed by everyone who allows himself to be permeated by My living water, for then he will have deeper insight and know why the end is approaching .... And it is My will that many people shall receive this knowledge, I want the elixir of life offered to all who cross your path .... And then it will be left to every person as to whether he wants to stay with you or turn away again from the source that My love has opened up for you .... Share the living water that flowed forth from My font with everyone .... Spread My Word which comes from above and is imparted to you .... and help to constantly increase the circle of those to whom I can impart strength through My Word because I know how urgently everyone will need this strength in the forthcoming time. Whatever can be done in order to spread My Gospel throughout the world shall be done by you, and I will bless everyone, for I alone know that ailing souls can still be saved by taking refuge in the healing font and recover through the delectable living water ....

All of you, who receive My Word directly or through My servants on earth, belong to My small flock which is protected by its shepherd .... You all belong to My church which I founded when I lived on earth .... You are all My apostles of the last days whom I send into the world with the instruction to proclaim My Gospel to people .... Know, that I Am with everyone of you who wants to work for Me and My kingdom .... know, that I will lead you to those whom you shall refresh in turn with nourishment and drink; know, that every person can render vineyard work who offers himself to Me for service .... But also believe that I need every one of you because a lot more work needs to be done until the end and because this work can only be undertaken by people who are willing to do My will, who thus accept instructions from Me Myself .... Believe, that I certainly know what will help erring souls in order to become enlightened and that I will always hand you the means which will beneficially affect them .... that I will always speak to them the right Words through you, on account of which My Words are imparted to you, so that I can address every person directly, and My Words can truly not fail to make an impression as long as their will is good and I still see an opportunity to save the human being .... Work together with combined strength and rest assured that I will stay within your midst, that I Myself invite people to come to the font of love and to allow themselves to become refreshed and invigorated .... Rest assured that I will bless every person's services for Me and My kingdom, spiritually and earthly, and therefore be diligently active in My vineyard, for the time of harvest has come and I need many reapers, because there is not much time left until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Utilizing the divine word ....

B.D. 6302 from July 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Everyone will have to answer for how he used My word, how he let it affect him, how he adjusted to it when he had the grace to be addressed by Me Myself .... I will not condemn him if he did not recognize it as My word, nevertheless, one day he will bitterly regret having rejected a gift of grace which he could have recognized if he had been serious about doing the right thing and experiencing the truth .... But those who did not leave My word without impression, who felt it that they were addressed by Me and yet disregarded it out of convenience and carelessness, will have to answer, for they still resisted Me otherwise My voice should have touched them .... I address every person such that his heart will be touched if he is without inner resistance against Me .... Yet My word demands a change of his nature, and if the human being is not willing to do so he closes his heart and also his ear, and then he renders My word ineffective .... "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood will live for eternity ...." I have spoken these words and made clear to you humans the importance of accepting My word .... For I Myself am the word Which became flesh, and I Myself come to you in the word and bring you nourishment for your soul, which you must not underestimate because it alone guarantees you life in eternity. You cannot live without this nourishment, you will perish to eternal death if you don't accept food and drink which give life to your soul .... You must accept Me Myself within you, and since I Myself am the word it will now also be understandable to you that you must not reject or disregard My word, that it will not remain without consequences if you pass by My word indifferently when it is offered to you .... You judge yourselves when one day you will recognize what you were commanded and how you behaved towards this gift of grace .... when you recognize that I Myself approached you in the word and offered you food and drink for your soul which you thoughtlessly rejected .... My word will testify against you, it will be resurrected on the last day, for a wasting, starving soul will one day stand before Me and testify by its condition how this soul has valued My word in earthly life .... And I cannot consider the soul other than according to its condition .... For it rejected what could help it to live, and what it now urgently needs in order to prepare a miserable life for itself it will have to struggle to acquire, and its remorse will be great for having forfeited on earth through its own fault what was abundantly available to it and would have earned it a glorious fate in the beyond .... I speak to people again and again, but only a few recognize the father's voice, and therefore only a few accept My word .... But these will be blessed, for they constantly receive food and drink for their souls, which now enter into life in glory when they leave the earthly body .... And thus the soul judges itself which disregards My word, for it can only be considered as it shapes itself in free will, and it will enter the kingdom of the beyond in a deformed state, and My word will bear witness against it ....

Amen

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Effect of the work of redemption on everything spiritual ....

B.D. 6303 from July 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross has an effect on all living and dead creatures, on everything bound in creation and on all beings in the spiritual kingdom and in the entire universe .... Only the human being who has already penetrated spiritual knowledge to such an extent that he knows about the upward development of the spiritual from the depth to the height, that he knows that nothing is without life, i.e. everything is permeated by God's strength, can understand this, to him the significance of the act of salvation is also clear, for everything existing in the universe is on this path to God but would never be able to reach the aim without the work of mercy of Jesus Christ .... For this work of mercy was not only begun with Jesus' descent to earth but already an infinitely long time before, when the shaping of the spiritual into material works began, when the whole of creation was in the making .... For the creation only had the purpose of returning the spiritual, which had fallen into the abyss, to the height again, and since one's own guilt .... an offence of free will against God .... had caused the deep fall, it was God's work of mercy to take care of this fallen being and to make it possible for it to ascend again. The man Jesus crowned this work of mercy through His death on the cross, and He built a bridge from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light .... For even if all bound spiritual matter travels the path through creation, even if seemingly dead matter will one day also change into creations that bear witness to life .... the ascent would one day come to a standstill when the being has reached a stage where only free will is decisive .... Then it would irrevocably fail .... because everything spiritual is still in the realm of God's adversary. And in this realm the gate has been opened by Jesus Christ into the realm of God .... It was through Him that the connection between these two worlds was created in the first place, a sacrifice was made through which God allowed Himself to be moved to open His kingdom for those who join Jesus in order to be able to leave the kingdom of darkness with His help. The infinitely long path of development through the whole of creation would be a futile undertaking if the gate had not been opened in the height to be reached, which Jesus achieved through His infinite love for the fallen being under unspeakable sacrifice and suffering, for without such a sacrifice as atonement for the fallen being's inconceivably great guilt God would never ever have been able to admit a being from darkness into the kingdom of light, even if it had languished for eternities in the bound state .... The justice of God demanded compensation for this guilt, and the love of God, which had embodied itself in the man Jesus, paid the compensation and thus redeemed all guilt .... The struggle in every form before the embodiment as a human being would have been completely useless without Jesus' act of salvation, for in the state of free will the being would have irrevocably sunk back into the abyss again because it lacked the help through Jesus Christ .... which, however, is now available to it in such abundance that redemption from the abyss is assured to everyone who calls to Jesus Christ that He may have mercy on him and carry his guilt under His cross .... He will be redeemed from sin and death and enter into eternal life ....

Amen

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Love and faith power ....

B.D. 6304 from July 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The union with Me is the aim you should achieve on earth. You became unhappy when you separated from Me and can be blissfully happy again if you return to Me, thus long for My presence and do everything to be close to Me again .... that you change to love, because only love can unite with Me again .... If only you knew how powerful you can be on earth already if you establish unity with Me through a life of love .... Yet this is not believable to you, that you are able to accomplish everything because you no longer know any weakness or darkness in your union with Me, because you can make unlimited use of the strength from Me and therefore nothing is impossible for you anymore. People chase after aims which would appear completely worthless to them if they were able to work from within themselves in full possession of strength and light and only recognize every weakness and limitation as a sign of distance from God. Nothing earthly-material would appear so appealing to them because through their union with Me they would also have insight into the spiritual kingdom and only long for it with all their senses .... But they would also master everything earthly and be able to unfold powers for the blessing of their fellow human beings which can certainly be confirmed but not requested by their fellow human beings as long as they have not united with Me themselves through love .... For it is My divine strength of love which is at the disposal of those who have intimately united with Me through loving activity. Yet no human being on earth puts it to the test .... No human being makes use of the strength which now flows to him without restriction after he first shapes himself completely into love and then applies the strength in firm faith in My word. People are so weak in faith and thereby prevent the effect of My strength of love, but they could convince themselves of it at any time .... which, however, is only possible if heart and intellect seek Me, if their thinking, acting and will consciously draw benefit from the intimate bond with Me .... if the human being therefore does not wait until I take effect but becomes active himself in order to prove the strength of God working in him .... My spirit within him ensures that he does not misuse this strength, which guides and warns or impels his thoughts correctly .... always provided that the human being is willing to utilize the unlimited strength flowing to him from Me and thus, as it were, to glorify Me and My name through it, so that people will learn to believe and then likewise strive towards Me of their own accord .... You once came forth from Me full of strength and light, and you are entitled to light and strength in all fullness again if you have discarded imperfection and voluntarily unite with Me again .... And you can already reach this state on earth, thus you can also then work as a divine being which is not subject to any limitation of strength and light .... You can and should only believe that I do not set limits to your abundance of strength and light but that you yourselves do not go beyond the limitation of imperfection, even though you are able to do so .... And you should believe that it is My will when you request My strength without limitation and that I always give you My blessing when it is your will to glorify My name and to serve your neighbour .... You should express the strength of love because this also contributes towards the redemption of erring souls ....

Amen

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Create and work for eternity ....

B.D. 6305 from July 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is your task on earth to create and work for eternal life, and if you comply with this task your temporal fate will also be protected even though you will still have battles to cope with so as not to become tired in your striving for the spiritual goal. However, if you look upon Me as your Father and endeavour towards true childship you will also be in Fatherly care and your earthly life will have to progress such as the Father sees fit for His children. But its trust in the Father's love and care releases the child from all fear and worry, for it is full of confidence that its God and Creator, its Father of eternity, will direct everything just right .... And thus it can create and work for eternity, for it is full of love for Me which also expresses itself towards his fellow human being and thus carries out everything with a view to ascend, it strives towards Me fully consciously and lives a way of live in accordance with My will .... Every human being is given the opportunity to recognise his affiliation to Me because he is able to think about himself and his origin and this will mentally lead to realisation if he genuinely wants it. Thus every person can decide to work for eternal life, yet he is not compelled to do so .... Everyone can lay claim to My leadership and guidance, just as he can separate himself due to his own sense of strength and power, but then he will be isolated and far away, incapable of ascending .... but not striving for it either .... Then he will feel inwardly estranged from Me, he will not think of himself as My child nor look upon Me as the Father Who wants His child's love ....

And then he will not produce anything for eternal life but only ever see the world and its goods and desire them with all his senses. The burden of life will indeed weigh heavily upon him in the beginning because I want to guide his thoughts to Me, yet this burden will become increasingly lighter because someone else will take it from him and give him whatever he strives for .... but also claims his soul in return. Create and work for eternity and do not pay so much attention to earthly life but accept it with all its burdens and troubles, for they are truly only for your own good, just as everything that happens to you merely serves those of you in gaining perfection who dedicate yourselves to Me, who strive for unity with Me, for My presence .... who hand yourselves over to Me so that I can take care of you .... You have truly chosen the best part even though you lack earthly pleasures, yet you will be rewarded in My kingdom and receive so abundantly that you will want to share it again and also be able to do so for your own happiness. Do not forget that earthly life is only given to you so that you will find the entry into My kingdom .... but which you sincerely have to look for .... and not that you forget your task and get caught in the mire of the world, so that you won't succumb to My opponent's temptations to stay away from your true destination .... Be aware that an arduous path is the right path but that I Myself will always meet you on this path, that I will take over your guidance and safely lead you to your true home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Union of the soul with the spirit ....

B.D. 6306 from July 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

When the human being's soul unites with its spirit, when it therefore leaves the guidance to it, the human being cannot go wrong, and all his thinking, wanting and acting will now be rightly directed .... But when does the soul unite with its spirit? .... This is the moment when the human being learns to believe in a God and creator Whose creature he is himself out of innermost conviction, and when he has the desire to enter into contact with this recognized God .... when his thoughts are turned towards Him and he inwardly desires to enter into a relationship with Him which is pleasing to God .... when he positively attunes himself towards God .... Then he will be seized by the divine within himself, the spirit slumbering in him will guide him from that moment on and he will feel inwardly urged to live according to God's will, he will ignite love within himself, because this is already the working of the spirit in the human being and because the spirit can now also express itself noticeably, because the human being gives him the right to do so through his way of life in love .... Thus, the first sign of a spirit awakened to life is the working of love, for the spirit determines the soul .... the thinking, feeling and willing in the human being .... and it can certainly be said of a loving person that his soul has united with the spirit. And then the human being will also live a spiritual life alongside his earthly life, then his thoughts will not only be concerned with the world and earthly things, then he will often mentally dwell in the kingdom where he seeks God; he will deal with questions which lie outside of earthly knowledge, and he will then, as it were, pose these questions to the spirit working within him, which will also answer them, even though the human being only 'imagines himself to be mentally active' .... The desire to be in right relationship with God irrevocably results in the unification of his soul with the spirit, and this desire will certainly be granted to him, for it is a spiritual request which the human being sends to the creator of the universe, which is heard and which is always granted, because it is the human being's purpose of life in the first place to enter into right relationship with Him .... But then the spirit will completely take over the human being's guidance, and then he will also safely reach his aim .... The divine in the human being will always express itself when his thoughts seriously take the path to God, for then God Himself will also work on him through His spirit, and every thought turned towards Him is a step upwards, and if this thought is consciously pursued by the human being sending a prayer to his God and creator of eternity, then God will also soon reveal Himself to him as father, for prayer is the bridge which establishes a connection from the human being to God .... But then the human being will be in the best of care, for the essential deity will take hold of him and affect him through the spirit so that he will increasingly narrow the gap between himself and God, for the spirit will constantly push towards the father-spirit and the human being's desire to come closer to God will grow ever greater until it is fulfilled in complete union with Him through love .... which now fills the human being's nature because the eternal love Itself is active in him ....

Amen

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Salvation only through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6307 from July 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is not impossible for a person to release himself from the bondage which was his fate due to his past apostasy from Me, for through My death on the cross you can put yourselves in possession of strength which you completely lacked before, and you can resist what was impossible for you before. You humans do not understand the significance of My act of salvation, and words alone are not enough if you yourselves do not mentally deal with why this act of salvation was so necessary for you, why a human being had to die so that you became free, so that you could draw strength for your redemption .... You do not understand that I have only created an opportunity for you to reach the former height, to take the place again which you once voluntarily gave up .... You yourselves, in your imperfect state, cannot measure how you used to be, but you can achieve it again, to enter the original state .... precisely through My act of salvation, because I Myself atoned for the great offence against Me through My death on the cross by suffering unspeakably for you as a human being and dying an exceedingly painful death .... Admittedly, you still remain bound as long as you oppose the act of salvation, for as long as you don't accept a gift of grace offered to you by My love you are completely unable to liberate yourselves, you remain without strength and without light in the power of the one from whom I want to liberate you. But the strength can only be received from Me Myself, and therefore you must also acknowledge Me as the one Who brings you redemption from your sin and the ensuing death .... But as soon as you acknowledge the redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem the guilt of sin for you, it will be easy for you to free yourselves from My adversary, for now I can impart strength and grace to you in the richest measure .... You need not doubt for a moment that you will become free, for I have already purchased this deliverance for you through My blood, which I shed for you .... Thus My adversary can no longer hold you back if you want to break away from him. He has lost his power over you as soon as you turn to Me in Jesus Christ .... as soon as you place yourselves under My cross and thereby confess that you are and want to remain My own for eternity. This will can awaken in you because I died to strengthen your will, because I acquired for you what My adversary withholds from you .... strengthening of the will .... For the will alone decides whether you return to Me or want to remain with him as his appendage .... But in order for you to experience this strengthening of will, you must therefore make use of the treasure of grace acquired through My death on the cross .... Only from this source can you draw strength to resist, for only through Jesus' death was the fountain of grace opened and made accessible to you humans. And therefore Jesus must be acknowledged as God's Son and redeemer of the world, Who was only a cover for Me before people's eyes so that I Myself could accomplish the act of salvation for you humans .... For you were also My share, and My concern for the once fallen is tireless, so that it returns to Me again in free will .... For this reason your will had to be strengthened, for you would never have changed your will on your own and taken the path back to Me, for this was prevented by My adversary, under whose control you had been since your fall into the abyss and from whom I therefore redeemed you. You can all be released from him, yet only if you take the path to the cross and then commend yourselves to Me as your lord, Who will truly help you and give you the strength to finally release yourselves from the bondage of death ....

Amen

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God's constant call ....

B.D. 6308 from July 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

People have distanced themselves so far from Me that My call barely touches their ears, that they are indeed still able to hear it but they are not aware that they have to pay attention to it and that they therefore allow it to be drowned out because other sounds penetrate them which they willingly comply with .... The voice of the world is heard by everyone and only a few close their ears to it, but My voice is lost, for it does not impose itself, it calls and warns, it lovingly entices and admonishes without, however, exerting compulsion on the human being, for it must be willingly listened to if it is to bring beneficial success .... But the more distant the person is from Me the weaker is the effect of My voice, and therefore My bearers of light will also have little success with those whose unkind way of life betrays their great distance from Me .... For even if My word is brought to them they don't feel touched by it, for them it is just empty sound which disturbs them far more than influences them beneficially. Nevertheless, again and again I try to be heard .... Again and again I bring My bearers of light together with them, I address them Myself through My servants and yet every now and then I achieve that a person becomes perplexed and takes notice .... This success will only rarely be recorded, and yet nothing shall be omitted if even one soul is saved from ruin. Anyone who has given up on Me will hardly find Me again, and then it will still require quite powerful means which I will also still use before the end comes. My voice will then sound loud and audible and only confirm what was previously proclaimed to them in a quiet speech .... My concern is always for those who are still far away from Me and have no idea what this great distance means for them .... I will not give up on a person until the end, and if only I succeed in making them consciously listen to Me for once My words will be so insistent that they will not remain without success. But often this is not possible, for I do not take away their freedom of will, and it requires free will to listen to Me without resistance. But then My word will have great strength, it will no longer let go of the human being and, if not sooner, he will raise a fearful cry to Me in the hour of the end which, because it comes from the heart, will be heard by Me and will give him the last hope .... and he will be spared the last thing .... the new banishment into matter .... I only want to save people from this, I only want to achieve that they still find their way to Me beforehand, that I can still call them before the end is there .... so that they do not belong to those who have to languish in bondage and darkness for endless times again .... The short time of grace until the end should therefore still be utilized, and you, My servants on earth, should remember that every saved soul means infinite joy for Me, because I don't want the being to suffer and be banished again .... You should do everything to make My word accessible to those who are distant from Me .... You should exhaust all possibilities to be active on My behalf; you should know that My blessing will always be upon you and your start, because you only accomplish My will if you take care of those I would like to address but cannot address them without your cooperation because they distance themselves from Me and don't hear My call. You also have access to those who are denied access to Me, and you can speak to them purely humanly and inform them of My working on and in you. They will not believe you but they will nevertheless temporarily open their ears to you and something can penetrate them which will then come to the surface when the time is there which I announce again and again. And then still a seed can come up, a tiny plant can sprout and strive towards the light .... A person can still recognize in a flash before the end and then take refuge in Me .... And I will accept everyone who then still comes to Me, for I want to save but not eternally condemn ....

Amen

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Idleness of life .... church christians ....

B.D. 6309 from July 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

People must be directly influenced, for they pay little attention to the fate of their fellow human beings and remain unaffected by it, thus they do not draw any conclusions which could favourably influence their way of life. People's indifference is far worse than a blatant rejection, for such arises from ignorance and can still result in a change of attitude, whereas an indifferent person is nowhere to be touched and therefore will be lost without salvation if he cannot be roused from his indifference .... which always requires a distress of his own life. People can find themselves in a spiritual void despite church faith and seemingly religious life because their soul is not involved in any way, because only purely mechanical demands are fulfilled and a spiritual attitude towards it is completely missing. These people will outwardly be counted among the 'righteous', among the 'faithful' .... But they are always only church christians for whom their christianity is a worldly affair like everything else .... To teach them that they lack the spirit would be unsuccessful, for they have too high an opinion of themselves and do not accept such teachings, always relying on the fulfilment of what is demanded of them ecclesiastically .... And yet, their life is an idle one if it does not reveal a change in love .... And these people often have to be touched hard so that they wake up from their soul's sleep, so that they reflect and ask themselves what might be the reason for such strokes of fate .... They must be affected themselves, only then will it be possible for them to seriously consider spiritual questions, and then the strokes of fate will have been a blessing. As soon as a person is willing to love he will also be affected by his fellow human being's fate, and then he can draw spiritual benefit from everything he experiences around him .... But people's hearts are hardened, love has grown cold .... No matter how great the misfortune .... it does not trigger a warm feeling in the fellow human being, and even less does it determine him to reflect on the cause or to change his way of life. It is a danger in which people float because of their indifference, for all remedies remain without success as long as they do not let themselves be touched by it. And therefore ever more severe blows have to come upon people, and the adversity will not abate because it alone can be heard as a wake-up call and bring about a change of heart .... For everything will still be tried which could serve the salvation of those souls ....

Amen

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Apostasy and return free will act ....

B.D. 6310 from July 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The separation between God and the beings was accomplished in free will .... The return to God must therefore also take place in free will, and therefore God can only open up every possibility for the beings, yet the will always remains decisive as to how the possibilities are utilized, for even if the being, through God's love and mercy, has reached a degree of maturity again after an infinitely long time which already signifies an approach to God again, the last step towards Him must nevertheless be taken voluntarily, and it is because of this last step that you humans on earth, who are the beings in that degree of maturity which the infinitely long time of pre-development has brought you. And now God again opens up every possibility for you to take the step yourselves, yet He does not force you but leaves you free will. But if you look back on your earthly life you will see how easy it was to take this step .... And with only little knowledge you will not be able to understand that a human being can fail in this last test of will .... Yet you must endure a battle because there is one who wants to keep you in the depths and also does everything on his part to win .... For he fights against God and God against him for every soul, yet this battle is brought to a head by the very human being himself in free will .... Thus he is influenced from both sides and it is up to the human being to choose his fate, earthly life was given to him for this purpose. For he fell away from God of his own free will and must now also take the path to Him again without any compulsion if he wants to attain his former glory again, the state of light and strength and bliss in which he was in the beginning. This is why the return to God is also a process of infinitely long duration, for the distance was too great, so that it takes an extremely long time until the ascent is reached again, where free will then is the deciding factor .... and this time, although only very short, can just as well bring about the renewed fall as the final return to God, and then the process of return to God has to start anew and therefore so often endless periods of time are necessary .... which, however, can never be shortened by God's will if the human being in his freedom resists Him .... Whatever can be done by God to shorten the separated state He truly does not refrain from, because the fallen being's return to Him is His beatitude .... but the human being's free will determines how long the being remains separated from God .... For this cannot be eliminated because it was the cause of the fall into the abyss .... (13.7.1955) otherwise the redemption of the spiritual being would have been accomplished long ago through God's greater than great love. But then it could never reach the highest degree of perfection, for it would then be a being according to God's will which could not be other than as God had shaped it. A being without free will is nothing independent, it is only a creature of God like all other works of creation .... But God wants to have free, independent beings around Him which strive for divinization out of themselves .... And these beings therefore often need endless long times when free will turns away from God again and again and strives towards the abyss. But God's love does not diminish, and God's wisdom always finds new means which can lead to a change of will if the human being is to prove himself in the stage of free will. He does not abandon any being, for His love for the fallen being is boundless .... But free will alone is decisive, which His love will never determine. Yet the human being can feel the strength of divine love and now voluntarily turn to Him, and then he will also be close to his perfection, for whatever voluntarily surrenders to Him will be seized by God and eternally no longer surrendered .... The separation is now lifted and the bond with God is now so firmly established that the being will never ever detach itself from the one Whom it has recognized as its God and father from eternity ....

Amen

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Right love is life ....

B.D. 6311 from July 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The law of order is love, the epitome of blessedness is love, and God in His primordial substance is love .... And everything that submits to this law will be blissful and united with God. And that means to be in possession of strength and to stand in the light of truth .... It means to be able to create and shape as a divine being in supreme wisdom and to be able to rule over worlds and their inhabitants which are handed over to the care of a being which has become perfect through love, which can now work on them in a redeeming sense. Perfection can therefore only be achieved through love, and perfection includes the uninterrupted reception of light and strength from the original source .... from God .... Such a state of perfection cannot be approximately described to the human being on earth as long as he himself is not close to this perfection .... He can still reach it on earth, for every human being can live in love .... Yet no human being is forced to do so, and only few voluntarily strive towards this aim, for their wrongly directed love prevents them from doing so, and this wrongly directed love is therefore the wall between light and darkness, between beatitude and torment .... between fullness of strength and complete weakness and inability to do happy things .... Where love is still wrongly directed neither light nor strength can enter, for wrongly directed love is the most effective means of God's adversary to prevent the return to Him and thus to make the source of strength inaccessible to people .... Misdirected love is the inherited evil which has afflicted people since Adam's fall and from which they will not be released until they call upon the one for help, Whose love was rightly directed and Who calls upon all people to follow Him .... He taught people where to direct their love, He proclaimed the right gospel to them when He walked on earth, He exemplified right love to people, and He died on the cross for the strengthening of people's will in order to show them what right love is capable of and what it results in .... the resurrection to eternal 'life' .... For life means to be able to work and create in possession of light and strength in supreme bliss, because the eternal source of life now continuously emanates light and strength onto a being which has completely joined Him through love. This source of strength has been made accessible to you humans through Jesus' death on the cross. But you have to practice love yourselves in order to reach that source which now continuously nourishes you, which gives you eternal life in bliss .... Therefore fight against selfish love, against the wrongly directed love which only knows as its aim everything that belongs to the adversary of God .... fight against it, for it only brings you death .... But ask Jesus Christ to help you live in the love He preached .... Ask Him for strength and fortification of your will, join Him and follow Him, and your earthly path will safely lead into the valley of life, for this is why He died on the cross, so that you can be given the strength for this which you, as fallen beings, lack as long as you are still in the bonds of the one who is God's adversary .... Jesus Christ will release you from these bonds, Jesus Christ will lead you the way to God, to the final union with God, which He Himself had already found on earth .... For the man Jesus lived a true life of love on earth and thereby shaped Himself into a shell which God Himself could now occupy .... in order to suffer and die for people so that they might attain eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reunion in the beyond ....

B.D. 6312 from July 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

There will be a reunion in the spiritual world, you humans can be certain of that .... But whether a reunion with your loved ones can be granted right after your departure from this earth depends on your soul's degree of maturity as well as on your loved ones' souls; if this maturity is not yet sufficiently developed to enable spiritual vision it will have to be acquired first, which could take a long time. Not until the soul has achieved a certain degree of maturity can it assimilate spiritual impressions. Hence the soul has to be enlightened to see who is approaching and although a less mature soul also knows itself to be surrounded by beings, it will not be able to recognise them as long as it lacks spiritual vision. After all, the beings' happiness consists of their ability to communicate with those who were close to them on earth .... The souls which are already enlightened as a result of their maturity will therefore always approach their loved ones, either to interact with equally mature spiritual beings or to assist the weaker souls in achieving maturity too ....

Consequently, the more mature souls have the ability to recognise the weaker souls but not vice versa .... because weaker souls should be inspired to strive and not be compelled on account of proof .... since it would always be proof if they were approached by a soul of light which it recognises as one with whom it had been linked on earth .... And thus the joy of reunion once again is a gift of mercy and the share of the mature spirit, who feels unspeakably happy as a result and, in turn, does everything to help the immature souls to reach the same degree of happiness .... They support them in the most loving way and never tire in encouraging them .... yet always unknown by them because they approach them in the same cover, in the same garment. The longing for the souls who were near to them on earth draws them closer indeed and can be an enormous advance, and when the moment of recognition comes the souls are infinitely grateful and happy .... And only then do they realise the care which had been given to them and in turn attend in the same manner to the souls which still languish in darkness .... they now help them to ascend because every soul longs for those who were once close to them on earth.

There will be a reunion, but the time when this is possible is up to you .... If you have already gained this certain knowledge on earth you will do whatever it takes to at least achieve the degree of maturity on earth which will allow you to enter the realms of light where you will be welcomed by those you love and who can instantly recognise you; or where you can, without being known, begin your work of deliverance on these souls .... Just take care that you don't pass to the other side without knowledge .... take care, that you have already found God in Jesus Christ so that you .... redeemed by Him .... can enter the spiritual realm .... Then this entry will give you much happiness because of the joy of reunion .... However, if you have not attained maturity on earth you may have to wait a long time .... because everything can only take place in accordance with law, your freedom of will has to be observed even in the spiritual realm so that you too may be greatly blessed one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Cosmic phenomena ....

B.D. 6313 from July 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Very soon you will know for certain that something is taking shape in the cosmos, for unusual events will worry you humans because you will be unable to find an explanation for them. Many speculations will surface, many opinions will meet with conflicting notions, yet only those people's points of view come close to the truth who suspect a connection between that which was proclaimed in Word and Scripture, which people were told by seers and prophets at all time .... Anyone with spiritual vision can find an explanation for all events, for everything has a spiritual meaning and is intended to fulfil a spiritual purpose: to draw people's attention to their actual purpose of life so that they prepare themselves for the imminent Judgment .... And science, too, will support this, for it will discover the unusual changes in nature first, the cosmic happenings, which will confound them, and the significant appearances which they will not be able to explain due to lack of knowledge. They will observe and marvel but they will not accept the only true answer that the earth will be shaken to its foundations, which could indeed be caused by these phenomena. They won't want to believe it and will therefore always argue against it if the Scriptures, the ancient prophecies, are pointed out to them, if they hear the opinion of the believers or if the messengers of My Word proclaim to them the approaching end .... And therefore it will be difficult to make the intervention on My part plausible to worldly people, because an attempt will be made to explain everything in a purely scientific way. And only a few will become aware of these unusual phenomena and therefore ever more assuredly draw people's attention to the end.

And I will so evidently support their words of admonition and warning that even the scientists will apprehensively admit their lack of knowledge .... And they will discover a star which will come constantly closer to the vicinity of earth and which will apparently take an irregular course .... By observing its path their attention is drawn to ever new peculiarities .... And they will recognise it as a danger to earth .... and at the same time they won't want to believe in its destruction because it will never before have been experienced .... But I will allow it to happen, because My eternal plan of Salvation necessitates something extraordinary which still intends to benefit humanity .... and because it shall be an warning sign of the work of destruction which will follow soon afterwards and which will bring this period of Salvation to conclusion .... The more the end approaches, the greater will be the irregularities which people will experience, because they are meant to take notice and begin to wonder about the correspondence with that which is quoted by the believers as the Word of God, as predictions by seers and prophets, and endorsed as truth .... And now My spirit also proclaims through My servants on earth the near end again and My loudly resounding voice of thunder before this event .... and these very phenomena will bear witness of the truth of My Word .... Pay attention you humans, and just look at everything as indications of the end, which I give to all of you so that you do not fall prey to ruin, for everything that happens is so important that it would be able to convince you if you were of good will .... The time is fulfilled and the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual rebirth ....

B.D. 6314 from July 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The turning point in your life is the hour when you tread the spiritual path, the hour when your thoughts venture into an area which is to be sought outside of the earthly .... the hour when you become aware of the outcome, thus realize that a higher being has created you, on Whom you are now dependent, both in body and soul .... This hour can be the beginning of a rapid ascent upwards for you, as soon as from then on you concern yourselves more with such thoughts than with earthly thoughts; but it can also take a long time until you have detached yourselves from the world, thus your thoughts can repeatedly wander back into the earthly world, and then it will take a struggle until you finally continue unswervingly on the path which you have recognized as the only right one. If only you find it at all during your life on earth .... If the human being has an earthly life on earth which fully satisfies him, then he will hardly take that path, instead he will intoxicate himself again and again, and his senses are extremely firmly rooted to earth, he can hardly detach himself, and he must be prompted by strokes of fate to think differently .... What hinders him from finding the right path has to be taken away from him .... And this shows that it would not be a blessing for the human being's development if the human being were granted an easy and beautiful earthly life, for in such a life it would take far longer if there was any prospect at all of a change of the human being's will. And yet, sorrow and suffering need not necessarily be life's companions, for it is possible for the human being to develop love for his neighbour in every situation of life, and it is this love which certainly also leads on the path to spiritual rebirth .... It is love which will always direct thoughts towards the eternal love Itself, Which then inevitably takes possession of every human being and draws him onto the right path .... How beautifully you humans could therefore all live on earth and also enjoy this life if you wanted to shape your being into love .... Then it would truly not be necessary to let yourselves go through hardship and suffering, then your thoughts would very often be in those spheres, although earthly life would also give you what makes you happy .... The purpose of your earthly life is the transformation into love, the transformation of the self-love dwelling in you into unselfish neighbourly love .... What you now do voluntarily, out of yourselves, need not first be achieved by means which are painful for you .... You would not need to suffer if you would kindle love within yourselves and let it flare up into brightest embers .... For then the purpose of earthly life would have been achieved, that you had taken the path which leads upwards, then your thoughts will cross over into that kingdom far more often, even if you have tasks to fulfil on earth or are placed in a circle of duties which demands much of you .... You will do justice to both, but your soul will soon feel more at ease in the spheres into which its spirit pushes it than where the body still has to stay .... Yet adversity and suffering can be alien to the human being, for then he will also live in accordance with God's will without such, and God's blessing is assured to him earthly and spiritually .... For He has promised people that He will take fatherly care of His children .... and love for God and one's neighbour proves God's childship .... it leads to complete union with Him and eternal bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'Descent into hell ....'

B.D. 6315 from July 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

When humanity's hour of salvation struck, the previously departed spiritual beings .... the souls of people before the birth of Christ .... dwelled in an intermediate realm, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of light and bliss, and waited for their hour of salvation .... This is only comprehensible for you humans if you know about the original sin and the reason for the act of Salvation, if you know about the infinitely wide chasm between the once fallen spirits and God .... The human being's earthly life was unable to bridge this gulf, even if it was lived according to divine will, for the original sin had not been redeemed as yet and the human being would never have been able to redeem it during one life on earth .... the redemption through Jesus Christ, however, applied to all spiritual beings, the act of Salvation was accomplished for all people, past, present and future .... For Jesus' crucifixion opened the gate into the kingdom of light, so the souls in the intermediate realm were also able to enter as soon as they acknowledged the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... This plan of Salvation through Jesus Christ regarding the return of the spirits to God was decided from the start, and from the time of the first forefathers the coming of the Redeemer was repeatedly announced through seers and prophets .... And all people who professed God, who made an effort to live according to His will, were told about the Messiah Who was meant to bring salvation to people .... Yet not all lived to see Him, many generations before Him were called back from earth, and their souls would now have to linger for their Saviour. This is why Jesus descended to hell after His death .... He wanted to bring them deliverance from Satan's shackles as well, since the latter was still able to keep them enslaved because the guilt of sin had not been fully redeemed as yet. For God's adversary would never ever have released these souls to which he was entitled in view of the fact that they had followed him voluntarily into the abyss. However, in hell, too, existed many obstinate souls which only regarded the divine Redeemer, like everyone else, as a human being akin to themselves and did not believe in the redemption through Him from sin and death .... Their free will to decide also had to be respected, therefore Jesus did not enter this realm of spirits in His radiant state but as Jesus, the man, Who had died on the cross .... Yet many knew that He was the Messiah Who was repeatedly announced to them .... All souls could have found this faith in Him, because God's messengers of light had constantly informed them of the events taking place on earth .... and because the forefathers devoted to God in that realm did not stop informing them of the prospect of the divine Redeemer's coming .... For they acted on the Lord's instruction, so that His descent into hell would be expected and He was thus able to bring redemption to countless souls and open the gate to beatitude for them as well .... The descent into hell resulted in the return of the first fallen spirits to God, for whom the human being Jesus had paid the purchase price through His crucifixion, and thus, from then on the actual process of return began; the first spirits having been bound by Lucifer found their freedom for good, even though their previous life had already prepared the path for these souls up to gate, which was still closed but which Jesus had opened and thereby cleared the path into the Father's house for every soul which wants to walk with Jesus Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine guidance ....

B.D. 6316 from July 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You all need My guidance because otherwise you would take the wrong path, for if I don't guide you, someone else will guide you who doesn't want you to reach the aim for the purpose of which you live on earth. And I also take care of every single one of you and only want you to follow Me without resistance .... that you consciously entrust yourselves to Me by commending yourselves to the one Who created you by admitting your weakness. For you know that you have a mighty one over you to Whom you are subject .... Therefore entrust yourselves to this mighty one, surrender yourselves to Him and ask for His guidance, His strength and His protection .... Know that I love you all and don't want to lose any of you to My adversary .... but also know that I don't force you to turn to Me but that you have to do it voluntarily. But then I will take hold of you and never leave you again. And one day you will realize what this means when you look back over your earthly life and also see the dangers through which I have led you to your salvation. Don't walk alone, that would be your undoing, for then My adversary will constantly walk next to you and try to push you away ever more, which he will easily succeed in doing, for you cannot resist his temptations as long as you lack the strength which only I can give you .... Let yourselves be guided by Me and consciously request this guidance, otherwise My love cannot become active in you, which certainly applies to you constantly but cannot become effective against your will. And therefore you will certainly constantly receive admonitions and warnings, yet you yourselves must open your heart and ear and want Me to guide you on all your ways .... And you will truly no longer go astray, you will surely reach the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Renewed captivity ....

B.D. 6317 from July 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

What will happen to you humans if you don't change cannot be described to you pessimistically enough, for it will exceed your worst imagination .... It is most dreadful for you, because you will have to give up your already attained degree of freedom, because you will be constrained and for infinitely long periods of time find yourselves in captivity again, until one day you will meet the same fate of living as a human being on earth once more .... But irrespective of how shockingly your fate is described to you, you don't allow yourselves to be affected by it and yet, you would still be able to avoid this fate if only you would take it to heart and change your ways .... For I only require you to change your nature, I only require you humans to change your attitude towards each other, that you help rather than fight and antagonise each other, that one will make the other happy and offer kindness instead of being mutually nasty and intensify the hatred in yourselves. I only require every individual to make an effort in cultivating unselfish neighbourly love, then his whole nature will change and then the person will make contact with Me Myself, and the danger of a new banishment after the end of this earth will no longer exist for him ....

And even if you don't want to believe what awaits you, you should nevertheless try to improve yourselves, for a life of love would still only have beneficial effects on earth, because then you will have the energy at your disposal which a heartlessly thinking and behaving person is lacking .... The forthcoming fate can only ever be portrayed to you as a horrible experience to which you will fall prey yourselves .... And you should only ever be encouraged into loving activity if you want to evade this dreadful outcome .... If you find it difficult to believe .... you can nevertheless still live a life of love, and you will soon know for certain what you don't want to believe, for then your spirit will become enlightened by love and you will clearly recognise the inevitable consequence of a violation against the law of order .... because then you will be able to observe cause and effect in every event and experience .... Yet anyone who remains indifferent to these admonitions and warnings will experience what he could have avoided .... and he himself will be the victim of his life without love. For all his strength will be taken away from him and the utterly weak substance of his soul will harden again, the most solid matter will confine the being again and the release from it will take infinitely long periods of time .... in order to finally arrive at the same level you are at the moment .... An infinite cycle, which will repeat itself until you exclude yourselves through conscious endeavour and a conscious connection to Me .... Only then will the process through matter be over and the path into the spiritual realm assured for you ....

You could already achieve this now if only you would put My will into practise: that you release yourselves from all restraints through loving activity, that you believe in Me and seek contact with Me .... and that you establish this contact precisely through this loving activity .... You are able to do this while you still live on earth and the energy of life is at your disposal, but you only have very little time left .... Use it well, believe My Words, believe that an appalling fate awaits you, and consciously avoid this fate by just striving to live correctly and honourably and practising neighbourly love. It is an urgent exhortation which I proclaim to you with a loving heart: Change yourselves before it is too late .... Remember Me and remember your neighbour with kindness, so that you become free and don't have to fear what is approaching you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Release from form ....

B.D. 6318 from July 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You have already had to travel through countless forms and you are still not released from the form, for your soul .... the spiritual, which shall develop upwards .... is still enclosed in a material shell which signifies a shackle for it, for it cannot rise freely and light-heartedly into the spiritual kingdom. Yet it has already travelled an infinitely long path, and if you humans knew how short the last stretch of the path still is and how close an exceedingly glorious aim beckons you, you would only have this aim in mind and head towards it .... You are told again and again but you believe too little, and it is also not possible to give you the recollection of the past time of your development because then you would do everything driven by fear in order not to have to travel this path again. You have to strive towards the final aim without any knowledge, yet you are given knowledge of it in the form of teachings which you, however, can just as well reject as accept because no proof can be given to you. Only a few people accept such knowledge as truth, but these have a considerable advantage over those who don't believe and therefore live irresponsibly into the day .... For they don't need proof because they feel it within themselves, which is truth, and now also live on earth in accordance with the realization .... They overcome the last form, as it were, which only shelters their soul until the death of the body, in order to then be able to enter the spiritual kingdom completely carefree. People on earth already walk close to the border of the spiritual kingdom, it is no longer a long way to the aim, and the death of the body can be the end of an endlessly long time of development .... But the cycle can also start anew, the being can fall from the already reached height into the deepest depth .... the already considerably loosened outer form can condense again and there is no question of a 'release from form' for an infinitely long time .... because the time of grace in the last embodiment was not used .... But which human being believes this and draws the consequences from it? .... It is a matter of will which every person has to decide for himself; only knowledge can be presented to people, but the human being himself has to take a stand on it without coercion if he wants to draw an advantage from such knowledge .... However, this will be made easy for him if he does not resist, for then so much thought material will be brought to him that he will, as it were, be prompted by himself to think about his development, about his earthly task and about his aim .... What he does not seek himself will be brought to him and again and again his will will be influenced to think about it ..... Only the final decision has to be made by him, and this now requires a conscious life .... a life in accordance with that knowledge .... overcoming the last form through the intimate desire for freedom, for light and strength .... for God, through self-shaping to love .... Only through love does the spiritual redeem itself from the form which was only given to you because it lacked love .... But the power of love breaks every form and gives the spiritual eternal freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Peace in God ....

B.D. 6319 from July 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Only in union with Me do you find true peace .... Only when My ray of love hits you will you feel bliss .... And even if you believe you have found earthly happiness it will not last as long as you are not united with Me. True peace can only be found in union with Me, because only the soul feels it and is not satisfied with earthly happiness .... The human being's thoughts and aspirations can indeed only be earthly directed, thus the body can likewise determine the soul to strive for earthly pleasures .... But the soul will never feel truly happy, for what truly makes the soul happy can only originate in the spiritual kingdom, and it can only receive spiritual possessions through direct union with Me. You humans will only experience this once you have been spiritually nourished, once you have thereby recognized the love with which your father inclines towards you .... then nothing else will come close to satisfying you, even if the body still has needs it would like to satisfy. But only that which flows to you from Me will cause the soul happiness .... Then the soul will feel that its desire is satisfied, whereas earthly fulfilment is not true happiness but only a temporary intoxication. But worldlings don't understand this, they only continue to chase after earthly goods and pleasures, and they always try to numb the feeling of emptiness which arises in them with new sensual pleasures .... they only ever feel satisfied as long as they indulge in worldly pleasures in order to be dissatisfied with themselves and the world when these worldly pleasures subside .... They will never find true peace, because I reserve this for Myself and can only ever bestow it upon the one who turns to Me and longs for true bliss. The world cannot give you humans this peace, for it is My share, it has nothing to do with the world .... But people can certainly live in the midst of the world and still be blissfully happy in My peace .... And this is what you humans should strive for, so that earthly life can also become a source of bliss for you if you only ever seek contact with Me in it .... And you establish the connection with Me through loving activity. Hence unselfish neighbourly love will in turn earn you the deepest peace, you will no longer ask for anything but only ever want to give, and the deeper and more blissful will be the peace which fills your soul. And you yourselves will be rich, for you will receive in the same measure as you give out .... Hence you will not suffer earthly hardship either, you will therefore no longer need to desire earthly goods because you will receive everything you need and have no desire for more .... Then inner peace will fill your heart but it must not be confused with earthly satisfaction .... For I will give you the peace which the world cannot give you .... This is My promise, which will also be fulfilled if you seek contact with Me, if you keep My commandments and work in love and thereby also give Me the opportunity to consider you in the same way as you distribute .... Then a deep peace will sink into your heart and you will already be blessed on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voluntarily being of service .... Selfish love ....

B.D. 6320 from July 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Anyone who knows the spirits' process of development, who is informed of Creation's meaning and purpose, also knows that the human being as the most perfect work of creation forms the closing stage of an infinitely long process of development which has taken place on this earth. He knows that this will irrevocably be followed by his stay in the kingdom of the beyond where material creations no longer exist, where development can certainly continue under incredibly difficult conditions yet in an entirely different way than in the material world .... if the process of development on earth has not been completed to a point that the soul will be able to enter the kingdom of light. But only the least people on earth realise this, for it first requires the will to know this in order to be able to understand and believe it and this is only rarely present in people. In contrast, people's will is extremely strongly inclined to utilise the works of creation such that they will benefit their physical life .... Admittedly, by doing so people unconsciously help the bound spiritual substances in the creations to progress, because it is of service to them, although in the law of compulsion .... A great deal of matter is being dissolved through human will, it is reshaped into constantly new creations all of which are assigned useful functions, which necessarily results in the spirits' progress .... Yet the human being himself can thereby also come to a standstill or even regress in his development if he is not helpful himself at the same time, since he is no longer subject to the law of compulsion and therefore has to push his own higher development forward .... As soon as he does everything consciously, always with the intention of helping his fellow human being, his earthly work can derive inconceivable blessings for his soul .... even if he has no idea about the spirits' process of development, even if he is without all knowledge about the meaning and purpose of earthly life and the creations of this Earth .... He does not need to know it if only he voluntarily helps with love .... Yet usually he is indeed impelled by love to work but only by the love for himself .... In that case his activity can also have a detrimental effect on his fellow human beings, for the less he considers his fellow human being the more his selfish love will be satisfied .... But selfish love also has an unfavourable effect on the works of creations which were assigned to the person's field of activity, insofar as that the spirit's development in such works of creation will often be prematurely interrupted for the sake of his own advantage, because selfish love contradicts divine order and thus the person's conduct is also totally contradictory to divine order .... Even if such people knew the meaning and purpose of the creation and of earthly life they would not stop their wrong way of life and their actions against the divine order, because they are utterly controlled by selfish love and completely unapproachable by other ideas. And these humans enter the spiritual kingdom in an absolutely dreadful state, for they can no longer satisfy their selfish love like on earth, and the path to the right love, to love for their neighbour, is infinitely far away and often cannot be found at all ....

Hence, a person who only loves himself takes his love for matter along into the other world, and release from it is extremely difficult, for things he desired with all his senses constantly appear before his eyes which are acutely tempting to him only to instantly disappear when he wants to satisfy his cravings .... inciting his cravings even more, and these are dreadful torments which the soul has to suffer until it starts to fight its craving with the result that the temptations gradually weaken. People have no idea of the benefits they create for themselves in the beyond if they try to overcome matter while they are still on earth, if they become its master and not its slave .... The human being can make use of everything on earth for his advantage, for the purpose of all creations is to serve the human being as well as every creature .... because being of service signifies redemption for the bound spirits within .... Consequently, the human being himself contributes a lot towards this if he offers matter the opportunity to help, if he creates things for himself which fulfil a useful purpose, in which he can certainly take pleasure again as a gift from God, yet he should always remember the spiritual purpose of material things and not tie himself to it such that all his thoughts and intentions apply to the gain of material goods in order to create a comfortable life for himself and to descend increasingly lower than things which are far less developed than him .... which signifies spiritual regression for him .... The development must always be a progressive one, and the human being's goal in earthly life is the complete release from the material shell, the rise above the latter, for then the soul will be able to leave the physical body as a free and unburdened being and soar into higher spheres .... Then it will not be held back by matter and forced to remain in earthly spheres although it no longer lives on earth .... You humans don't know how grateful a soul is which can detach itself from these spheres, but take it for granted that that which you strive for on earth with all your senses is your biggest enemy .... For your bliss rests in freedom, but you remain enslaved for as long as matter still holds you captive, and it will hold you captive for as long as you are still governed by selfish love, as long as you don't liberate yourselves through helpful love .... Only the one who is of service will be liberated .... And your existence as a human being constantly provides you with the opportunity to be of loving service ....

However, you have free will and, unlike in your preliminary stage of development, are not forced to be of service. Love must impel you to do so, and helpful love will only be practiced by a person who suppresses his selfish love, who does not want to take but to give. He will indeed learn to despise matter; he will detach himself from it and liberate himself completely .... His process of development on earth will be successfully concluded with the complete spiritualisation of his soul, which subsequently will be able to be active in the spiritual kingdom with an abundance of light and strength and in helpful love take care of those souls which still linger in slavery and darkness and require help in order to finally be able to also let go of their chains ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Means of grace .... Prayer ....

B.D. 6321 from July 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans make too little use of the blessings which flow to you. For I constantly approach you with gifts of grace, I offer them to you but you walk past them .... Why don't you call upon Me when you are in trouble .... why don't you use the prayer .... and why do you keep My Word unheeded which is conveyed to you from above through My servants on earth? .... You should believe that all adversity is merely a means I use in order to help you .... thus a grace from Me. You should believe that even the prayer is an unmerited grace, that I listen to you when you speak to Me, and that My Word is the most valuable gift of grace because it signifies the greatest help for you if you listen to what I have to say to you and to what helps you attain everlasting bliss .... Every means I use in order to help you from the abyss to the light is a gift of grace for you, because your negative attitude towards Me does not merit that My love permanently cares for you .... During the last days gifts of grace truly flow to you in abundance and no-one needs to go without, everyone can take as much as he likes, and he only needs to want to be helped in spiritual adversity and he will certainly receive help. Yet no gift of grace works without your willingness to make use of it .... Therefore I cannot change you, instead you must do this yourselves, your resolve must strive for spiritual progress and helpful steps will become visible everywhere which you can use in order to climb up. But you humans have a wrong concept of the word 'grace' .... You believe that these 'means' can already give you possession of strength and maturity of soul, you believe that formal traditions are 'means of grace' and are unaware of the actual meaning of grace ....

I love all people, even those who are still distant from Me, and I want to help all people to reach higher spheres .... This is why My care first concerns those who are entirely without contact to Me .... so that they will first of all speak to Me .... And therefore I will bring them into situations in which they should call upon Me in their adversity and suffering .... because this call will have a beneficial effect. Thus My love constantly creates new means in order to turn My apostatised living creations back to Me. And all means which are suitable to establish the bond between the human being and Me are means of grace, because they are undeserved gifts. And as soon as a person takes refuge in prayer he is asking for My grace, and then he will receive it without limit .... I will so evidently manifest Myself in his life that he will be able to gain a convinced faith, for through his prayer he has demonstrated his willingness to make use of My blessings, in which case they can also abundantly flow to him and be effective .... which always requires the person's free will .... And during the last days everyone can find the path to Me providing he wants to .... during the last days all people will be so evidently referred to their God and Creator, to a Guide and Helper .... And everyone can turn to this God and Helper of his own accord .... Every person can make contact with Me directly and derive incredible benefit from it .... yet he must be willing to do so, otherwise all gifts of grace remain ineffective and then the person will be hopelessly lost when the last day has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Always new works of creation .... deification .... life ....

B.D. 6322 from July 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I see the great host of spirits departing from Me .... and My will of love becomes ever more powerful to win them back again. The strength of My love is overwhelming when I let it take effect, and no being would persist in its resistance for much longer .... Yet this is not enough for Me to win the creatures back through compulsion of love, for I want them to voluntarily turn around and strive towards Me as the aim .... And thus My strength of love takes effect in another way .... by constantly letting new creations arise and again and again giving them to the spiritual beings as a cover, so that the descent into the abyss is stopped, so that the strength from below, which emanates from My adversary, no longer has an effect on those spiritual beings and thus they come to a certain standstill for the time being in order to then be able to slowly ascend again. My creative will is unlimited, and as long as there are still spiritual beings which have not yet completely returned to Me, the universe will also be filled with creations, for it is My bliss to let ever new works arise because of which they shall one day be My children .... But on the other hand I also see the struggling souls which are on their way to Me, which have already escaped My adversary's hands and thus already belong to Me of their own will .... In these I see the success of My activity of love for the fallen, and every creature returning to Me as a child increases My beatitude and increases My creator's will. And even if the number of them is far smaller than that of the beings which strive away from Me, My love for the latter will nevertheless not diminish, for all of them once emerged from My strength of love and were destined for eternal beatitude, but the fall into the abyss gives them the opportunity to attain even greater perfection as in the beginning, for they emerged from Me as 'beings' which were perfectly created and can now, however, become My children of their own free will, the 'image of God' ..... which I could not create out of My power because this is the work of a child itself to shape itself into this perfection. My plan of deifying My creatures fills Me with a bliss that no being can measure .... And one day every one of My creatures will also be able to enjoy the same bliss, because one day it will have the same desire to create and shape in highest perfection, and because it will also always be able to fulfil this desire. Being creatively active is already blissful in itself, but this bliss increases to infinity the more perfect that is which first emerged from My hands as creation .... For I do not let anything dead come into being, but 'right life' comes forth from Me, which just as I can also give birth to 'living' things again .... And what came to death through its own fault I bring back to life so that it may be blessed. And all My creations betray life, for My will to love caused them to come into being so that they absorb the dead and bring it back to life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Separation of the planets ....

B.D. 6323 from July 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Vast distances separate the creations which you behold as stars in the firmament .... distances, which you humans cannot estimate and therefore not conquer either, because every single star is a world in its own right and these worlds are hermetically sealed in so far as that they have entirely different atmospheres which are always appropriate to the consistency of the planet itself as well as to their inhabitants. You humans should not believe that My creative spirit could not create and design versatile enough .... You should not believe that you will find the same living conditions as on the earth you inhabit on other celestial bodies again .... and you should even less believe that these celestial bodies could offer you the same living facilities that are necessary for your survival .... if you ever reach the vicinity of such a star .... Yet it would be a futile venture, you will never even succeed in establishing contact with other celestial bodies unless it happens on a spiritual level via thought transmissions from these worlds which will always only serve your spiritual progress but never concern humanly intended worldly research ....

You humans can indeed develop considerable abilities, you can productively create and design on earth, you can ascertain the forces of nature and utilise them in every conceivable way; by virtue of your intellect you can deeply penetrate the laws of nature and then become prominent with all your knowledge .... Yet your sphere of activity is and always will remain the earth, and if you then try to utilise your intellectual findings for the benefit of your fellow human beings My blessing will also support your work, your activity, for then My law of eternal order will be upheld .... But you also have to stay within this order, you have to observe the laws I Myself have decreed and which are distinctly recognisable in all works of creation .... And this also includes the cosmic distance of celestial bodies from your earth; it includes the isolation of every single star from the other which is characterised by a vacuum, by the stratosphere, which makes it impossible to support human life in this space and therefore should also make it distinctly obvious to you that I have isolated you Myself ....

For even if you believe that you can overcome such ‘obstacles’ .... these attempts will fail, you will perish if you dare to enter regions which were closed to you by Me .... Thereby you only prove that you are spiritually very arrogant in believing that you can render divine natural laws ineffective, you prove that you neither acknowledge these laws nor the Lawmaker, and you prove that you humans are ready for the total transformation of this earth because you lack the most important realisation: that Someone is above you Who has the last Word .... that you do not recognise this One or you would not undertake something that you, as inhabitants of this earth, are not entitled to do: to make other worlds the goal of your research, which are and will always remain totally inaccessible to you, because every star serves to mature the spiritual beings whose degrees of maturity are so different that they all need different creations .... Creations, in which you humans cannot survive, and therefore there can never be contact between two worlds .... My creative spirit and My creative will has truly done nothing without wisdom, but you humans will never be able to ascertain what exists outside your earthly sphere other than that the existence of countless celestial bodies and planets will be established by you with certainty, because this evidence is not harmful to your souls .... but any further knowledge can only be spiritually disclosed to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Approach of a star ....

B.D. 6324 from August 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Open your hearts wide, be ready to receive My light of love from above and listen to Me: A sure sign of the approaching end is the visible appearance of a star which will move into the direction of your earth and yet takes a peculiar course .... it will often withdraw from your sight and then suddenly appear again, because it will be accompanied by impenetrable nebulae which every now and then will disperse only to condense anew ....

You humans will experience something previously unknown to you as the effect of this star upon your earth is such that you will become alarmed because you fear that the earth could fall victim to this unknown star which will cause perceptible disturbances on earth which are, however, inexplicable to you. Some people on earth won't allow themselves to be shocked by anything that happens to them .... but who will now lose their composure because they can see themselves as well as the whole earth at the mercy of natural forces which they fear because they are unable to defy them.

And for the sake of these people 'are the powers of heaven moving ....' I particularly want to address these people in order to achieve that they will entrust themselves to a God and Creator as soon as they realise that they are completely helpless .... What human will initiates .... no matter how dreadful its effect .... does not upset such people, yet they will become small and weak when they see themselves at the mercy of natural forces. And then it is possible that they will take refuge to Him, Who is Lord of all creation .... then it is possible that in their greatest need they will find Me .... This natural spectacle will cause enormous turmoil amongst people and the fear will not be unjustified either because, regardless of the strange phenomena accompanying the star, it will steadily move closer to earth and a collision will appear inevitable according to the calculations of those who discovered and followed its course. But I predicted long ago that 'I will send you an enemy from the sky ....', that a natural disaster of immense proportions lies ahead of you which will precede the final end .... i.e. the complete transformation of the earth's surface .... and which will result in countless victims .... Time after time I draw your attention to it, and My Word is truth and will come to pass .... Yet you are informed of it beforehand so that you humans may become aware of My will and My power .... because you should know that nothing can take place without My will and that nothing happens without meaning and purpose .... that My thoughts are with those who are entirely without faith but whom I nevertheless don't want to lose to My adversary ....

And for that reason you humans should know what lies ahead of you so that you may find faith easier when in your great need you think of Him, Who is Lord of heaven and earth .... of all stars and worlds and to Whose will everything is subordinate .... You receive knowledge of this in advance because it can help you find faith if you are of good will .... A disaster will come over you .... but for every one of you it can also be a blessing if he gains life for his soul in that way, even if he should meet with earthly death .... if he calls upon Me in his need ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Life on earth is but a passageway back home ....

B.D. 6325 from August 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Just consider yourselves as passers-by on this earth, who merely live here temporarily but never permanently because your true home is the spiritual realm, which you can only reach in freedom by way of crossing this earth. That way you also experience your earthly life with different thoughts because when you are sure of a specific destination, you should also aspire to reach it. Consequently, everything you find on earth shall neither burden you nor tie you down, just think of everything on earth as transient, as if it was merely on loan to you or as if it only momentarily obstructed your way .... you should always remember that one day the hour will arrive when you have passed through this earthly vale and you must leave .... that now the return to your true home will take place ....

Now make sure that you return to that realm fully laden with treasures which you can use again. Then you won’t enter your home poor and miserable but radiant with light and richly blessed with spiritual possessions .... Because you can acquire all these things during your earthly life. No matter how and where you walk on earth you can always increase your spiritual wealth with deeds of love if you don’t allow yourselves to be tied to worldly possessions and always keep in mind that they are transient and that you cannot take them with you into the realm on the other side. But you can acquire many spiritual possessions during your time on earth because people are in great need and you can always ease their suffering, spiritually as well as materially .... What you give in earthly life you will regain as spiritual wealth .... and therefore you should give, help wherever your help is asked for .... And you should also ease suffering without being asked and where it is evident and you will be richly blessed after your physical death because ‘as you give you will receive again ....’

However, anyone who believes himself to be master of the earth, who believes to be entitled to the possessions of this earth and who is sure of his ownership without considering the poverty of his fellow human beings, will appear at the threshold of death completely destitute; he will enter a realm where he will experience bitter poverty because he has to leave everything he owns behind and has no spiritual values to offer, as he did not consider himself a passer-by but a permanent master on this earth. He didn’t consider his true home and therefore will find it in very poor condition ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love light from God .... His word ....

B.D. 6326 from August 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Only My word is the right light from heaven, only My word contains the strength to lead the human being to realization, for My word is the right light of love from Me which can enlighten you and lead you to perfection. And this word has now become a source of grace for you humans from which you may draw unlimited light and strength .... These words are incomprehensible to the mere intellect but the heart will be able to understand them .... For only the inner life will be touched and changed, although the intellect can also benefit from My word, for many things will become clear to it which it previously did not want to hear. Yet the heart must always be willing to accept My word first .... And the willingness of the heart consists of the human being's thoughts being directed towards establishing a connection with Me, which then takes place through My word .... The human being must want to hear Me, then he will also derive the right benefit from every word, then every word will convey light and strength to him because they are direct emanations of My light and My strength. Without knowledge you humans are in darkness .... and even though you are earthly in abundance of light .... You are completely ignorant of the purpose of your earthly life, what your task is and what aim has been set for you .... You know nothing of the effect of your way of life, of a future beatitude or damnation .... You certainly live on earth but only a purely physical life which can end any day. If you lack all knowledge earthly life can also become a torment for you, because it does not bring you the fulfilment you long for due to your ignorance .... My word, however, imparts this knowledge to you about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life, My word gives you the knowledge of the aim you should strive for, of the beatitude you can achieve and the consequences of a life contrary to My will .... My word gives you knowledge about this will of Mine, and My word also gives you the strength at the same time to live your life according to My will .... Thus My word imparts light and strength to you which the soul feels for the first time, which affects the inner life .... but can also change the external human being in this way, because the human being's intellect allows itself to be conquered by the light and strength of My word and now the human being lives a conscious life in My divine order. Where it was dark before, bright light will now shine .... where there was a lack of strength, all weakness will be remedied. And earthly life will now no longer be recognized as an end in itself but as a means to an end and can already bring the human being final perfection on earth if he constantly draws strength from the source of life, if he constantly draws and constantly receives light and strength from Me, if he longs for My word, listens to My word and complies with it .... Then he will never fall back into darkness again, then he will have emerged from the night into the light of day, and he can now work according to My will on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's presence ....

B.D. 6327 from August 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Wherever two or three come together in My name, there I am in the midst of them. Therefore My presence is certain for all of you who remember Me when you are gathered in a small circle, for I know about your thoughts which are meant for Me, and every thought of Me also draws Me to you .... And let it be said to all of you that My caring fatherly eye watches over you, no matter what situation you find yourselves in, for I know My small flock and whose thoughts were once directed towards Me with longing love I will always look after him in order to win him over completely while he is still on earth. Don't believe that I will let one of you fall, for your father is faithful and He will not abandon you even if you turn away from Him at times .... Then My strong arm will embrace you and imperceptibly turn you back again until you completely surrender to Me and only desire My constant presence. And I have promised you this presence of Mine, and you need only remember Me, you need only let Me become the content of your speech, then I will stay with you invisibly and intervene in your thoughts and speeches .... For a father likes to hear His children speak about Him, and His love will always let Him step into the midst of His children in order to instruct them and guide them on all paths. Always remember that you came forth from My love and that this love is an unbreakable bond which you once wanted to sever of your own accord but which is indissoluble and draws Me to you again and again, even if I have to keep Myself hidden from you because you still want to turn away from Me. But how much more does a call from My child .... and your willingness to accept Me into your circle .... mean to Me, which you humans testify to by being together in My name in order to hold spiritual conversations, to exchange ideas and to draw strength from My address ....? Then I will be with you in the word and you can speak with conviction of My presence. And thus I will send you words of love and assure you all comfort and help when you are in spiritual and earthly adversity .... You always have Me to Whom you can turn your thoughts, and if only you turn to Me with childlike trust your call will not go unheard .... You only have to consciously want My presence .... and I will always be with you .... Therefore, always make an effort to create opportunities for spiritual exchange and willingly open your heart when I speak to you .... And you will all have such opportunities, for I bring people together to whom I want to bring My word, and I can influence people everywhere and at any time so that they remember Me and faithfully speak My name .... And then open your ears and heart, for then I Myself am present to you, and in My presence you can all feel safe, and an address from Me will always bring you blessings .... And this address can also take place mentally, but you will never walk away empty-handed where two or three were gathered in My name, for there I was also and poured out My spirit upon you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right will .... truthful knowledge ....

B.D. 6328 from August 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Thoughtless acceptance of religious doctrines can never develop a soul upwards, for such knowledge cannot be evaluated as spiritual thought, instead it always only remains worldly knowledge, even though it concerns spiritual questions. Only that which is received by the heart is of benefit to the soul, and for this a mental examination of the content of a teaching is absolutely necessary. And this will also inform the person demanding truth whether the teaching corresponds to truth or is erroneous .... And therefore every person can come into possession of truth if he desires it, for then he will think about everything that is presented to him and his spirit will guide him. But thoughtless acceptance also betrays indifference towards the truth and the heart will remain empty, the soul will not benefit from such teachings. This explanation therefore proves to you why one person penetrates deeper into spiritual knowledge while the other remains ignorant .... And this explanation also proves to you that the will has to become active first .... If this will for truth is not present then the human being will remain in spiritual darkness, for nothing can be given to him if he desires nothing. But the will is free .... And the great spiritual darkness on earth therefore only proves that people don't use their free will or use it wrongly, for they could truly stand on a higher spiritual level because everything is given to them for their spiritual progress if only they would strive for it themselves, if their innermost thoughts and impulses would want to apply to the most important thing .... to experience the truth .... No one, neither spiritual nor earthly forces, can determine the inner desire, and the human being is considered according to the inner desire. Just as well as the desire can be turned towards worldly things, it can also be directed towards spiritual aims .... The human being determines this himself in free will, and the supply of truthful knowledge will not be guaranteed to him from outside but from within. Truthful knowledge, however, will also lead to right faith .... So right faith is also the result of a rightly directed will. God's adversary does everything in his power to misdirect this very will and thereby eradicate faith .... Yet grace from God will always flow to people in abundance so that they will not be defenceless against God's adversary .... But in order for the graces to become effective, the human being's free will must become active .... The human being need not fail, for he will always be helped by God to direct his will correctly, but therefore he must also answer for his free will .... For ultimately it concerns the passing of his test of will in earthly life, and God does not demand anything from people which they cannot fulfil .... but their will decides ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Striving towards the goal .... God's help ....

B.D. 6329 from August 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Everything shall serve you towards maturing, and thus every day can enable you to ascend in your development, providing you always remember that God directs your destiny, and that everything happens as is best for your soul. Admittedly, the body will often have to suffer; your life will often seem troubled, worries will often oppress you and you will become hesitant and disheartened .... Yet nothing happens to you by chance, and your Father in heaven knows everything and therefore also knows your situation, because He has predetermined it Himself to help you to progress. But you can improve or worsen your situation yourselves, for you only need to take the right path in order to find help, just as resentfulness and aversion on your part will always make your situation feel worse and you will suffer twice as much because you will grumble ....

Yet there is One Who is always waiting for your call because He wants to help you, but first He wants to hear your call in order to then demonstrate His love for you .... This One wants to help and can help you, but He expects you to believe in His love and His power. You should always acknowledge Him as a God of love, even if you have to suffer or if His love for you is not obviously recognisable .... Only love moves Him into action .... and only love motivates Him to treat people harshly at times, so that they do not go astray again for eternities. But anyone who entrusts himself to His greater than great love will soon be led out of affliction, since God asks for no more than a person's utter devotion to Him .... Then he will very soon be free from all worries and suffering, since God's love will remove them from him again once he has established or strengthened the right relationship with God .... Then their purpose will have been achieved and another level will have been reached; then the soul will have moved a step up again, and then a period of peace will ensue to serve the human being for inner reflection .... for he should constantly strive to ascend, he must not tire, he must steadfastly keep his eyes on the goal, the achievement of which is his earth task ....

And if his striving comes to a halt then discord will instantly come about which will be to remind him of his earthly task .... Yet irrespective of what happens to you, it is certainly only for the best for your soul, and you will be able to overcome everything with the help of the One, Who carried the cross on your behalf, Who died for you on the cross .... Call upon Him in every spiritual and earthly affliction .... He knows about your suffering, he knows about all human failings and adversities and is willing to help you at all times, and through your call upon Jesus Christ you will be connected with Him again, you will walk the path to Jesus and with Him .... and this path will safely lead you to your goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Explanation about strokes of fate ....

B.D. 6330 from August 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The struggle in the spiritual world for people's souls is becoming increasingly more fierce. The world of light is incessantly active to influence people's will, but the forces of darkness do the same and the human being is far more inclined to comply with the latter's will, because their tendency for matter is strong and these dark powers exert their influence through material goods and pleasures. Whatever can be done in order to detach people's mind from matter is done by the beings of light .... often much at the expense of people's suffering but nevertheless in a spirit of love, only in order to help people .... The end, which will disintegrate all material things that people possess, comes ever closer, and then they will have to relinquish everything and will be unable to retain anything .... Yet they do not want to believe in the ultimate destruction of earthly possessions, consequently prior to it they must experience time and again the transience of what they strive for with all senses. The beings of light find little access to people's thoughts and their suggestions are not listened to .... that is, people don't spend any time on such thoughts as to be able to be mentally instructed by the beings of light. For this reason, they must be subjected to forcible interventions, so that they start to think about the transience of earthly possessions. And only in this way can you humans explain to yourselves the many strokes of fate which entail the loss of earthly-material goods or of human lives as well .... in catastrophes or accidents, in all kinds of destructions .... All these are merely means which are used by the spiritual world according to divine will, they simply express, in a more profound way, the struggle for the souls which are in grave danger of losing themselves to God's adversary, because they have completely lost themselves to matter, which is their downfall. There is not much time left until the end. Hence, there will also have to be an alarming increase of such strokes of fate which still offer a small probability that they will encourage people to deliberate on them .... The battle in the spiritual world is exceptionally fierce, yet the world of light does not fight against the world of darkness, instead, both fight for people's souls .... the human being himself is the object of dispute, the human being himself must decide the battle, and each world uses the means through which it hopes to succeed .... All suffering and hardships, all events which have a serious impact on you humans are means used by the world of light, which only has your best interests at heart, whose love for you only ever does what denotes certain help for you if you don't resist it .... Yet a good lifestyle and affluence, earthly joys and worldly pleasures are only every the adversary's means, and you should avoid these and don't delight in their possession .... For your lifetime on earth is but short, and then you will have overcome all difficulties, you will be compensated for your arduous life if it resulted in spiritual success for you, so that you voluntarily detached yourselves from matter and your soul acquired spiritual possessions .... Don't desire that which very soon will be taken away from you, but gather spiritual possessions which no-one can take away from you and which will follow you into eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's infinite love .... Sacrifice on the cross ....

B.D. 6331 from August 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Love will never end .... Let these Words be a comfort for you even in the most difficult situation of life, for as soon as you believe in a God of Love, you will also know that He will not leave you in your adversity, for since you are His children you can also be certain that your Father will also constantly give you His love .... Believe in My never-ending love which belongs to you for all eternity .... then you will be comforted in your suffering and have the strength to endure, to overcome all difficulties, for love will not let you down. And if you find it difficult to believe in the love of a powerful God, if you begin to doubt that He will help you .... then remember Jesus Christ's crucifixion .... He died for you on the cross and only did so out of greater than great love for you humans, for He was aware of your suffering, which is the result of sin, and wanted to release you from this suffering, which you had caused yourselves through the sin of your past rejection of Me .... Only His immense love motivated Him to accomplish this act of Salvation .... Jesus, the human being, was full of love, for I Myself dwelled in Him .... And this love wanted to deliver you from sin and death. Do you believe that My love would ever be able to end, which proved to you that it has taken upon itself the most difficult burden and carried it for you? I Myself was unable to give you the visible proof of My love, this is why Jesus, the man, did it for Me .... A soul of light came down to Earth because it loved you humans as its fallen brothers .... because every perfect being is full of love which comes forth from Me and permeates it .... And this love will not stop in eternity .... Hence you humans must not worry that I will withdraw My love from you and do not jump to the wrong conclusions when you see so much around you which appears to show the evidence to the contrary of My love .... All people are My living creations which I want to lead to beatitude, yet all take different paths and I must also consider them differently, My guidance is not always the same but the goal is and forever will be the same .... And I will certainly achieve it, even if the length of time people need varies on account of their free will .... Believe that I Am love but I Am also wisdom .... and believe that I know full well what each individual person needs for his salvation .... Nevertheless, you should also know that I take a greater interest in the salvation of his soul than in his physical well-being, although I will also support anyone in earthly distress if he comes to Me with complete faith and appeals to the Father as a true child .... Then his prayer will be granted miraculously, because a faithful child can get anything from Me... Just do not revolt .... Do not defy My love but bow down to Me and My will .... For I truly only do what is right .... I only do what will be a blessing for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satanic activity in the end time ....

B.D. 6332 from August 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is the time of the end .... You humans don't know what this means in spiritual terms, for there is an uproar in the whole universe in the spiritual world which I know about and also let the world of light take note of so that they protect the inhabitants of earth against the onslaught of dark spirits .... The dark forces feel that a new era is beginning for them too, that their unfortunate activity is coming to an end, that they are once again being bound in a fetter from which they cannot free themselves. And that is why they rage to an increased extent, driven by their lord who, in his delusion, believes that he will gain power over all creations and their inhabitants even before .... Whatever intrigues can be devised will be carried out by him and his followers and a confusion will be caused which is unparalleled. And you humans are the target of these dark forces .... you are constantly surrounded by dangers and don't suspect it, yet you would be frightened if you could take a look and see which grimacing figures crowd around you and try to poison you with their slobber (breath). It is the time of the end, which is feared by these creatures as torment, which is why their goings-on become increasingly more annoying and you humans need increased protection in order not to be at their mercy. But they cannot reach My own because they always unite with Me and stand in the ray of My sun of love, which they flee .... Yet they will also leave no stone unturned in order to spread a shadow over My ray of love .... especially when My own are not mindful, when they recklessly place themselves in danger .... when they take pleasure in dazzling lights which are pretended to them by those forces, when they cannot free themselves from worldly desire and thereby offer those forces a handhold to approach them .... The tempter lurks everywhere and is not recognized .... and he works with cunning and trickery. But he can be recognized by My own, for he will always betray himself, even if he hides under a cloak. He will shy away from nothing, he speaks after people's mouths if he expects to be successful as a result .... And this is the great danger which threatens you humans in the end time: that you suspect an angel of light where darkness comes to you in a mask .... But I stand by you who want to know what is right and do what is right .... I will not let you fall prey to him who wants to corrupt you, I let My light shine at the right time. Yet I cannot yet deny him his activity because they are his last attempts which therefore surpass everything in wickedness because he knows that he has not much time left. They are his last efforts to wrest power from Me, for his spiritual blindness becomes ever deeper the more he rages against Me. And you are in the midst of this battle and often do not recognize it. My beings of light, however, protect you on My behalf, you who are and want to remain Mine, and they lead you out of this last battle victoriously.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ means everything ....

B.D. 6333 from August 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

No-one can become blessed without Jesus Christ .... And yet, countless people reject Him because they have no idea about the significance of His act of Salvation, for even those people who profess Him with their mouth must be counted to the former, for the right understanding of the act of love and mercy by the divine Redeemer would make them follow Him on the path leading to beatitude. Even if preaching takes place all over the world, even if people are told time and again that His name is the only life line .... only a very small fraction of them know what Jesus, the human being, had done for his fellow human beings and why He had done it .... Jesus has only become a Saviour from sin and death for a very few people on earth who, being spiritually enlightened, are aware of the significance of the act of Salvation and who therefore also recognise the immense hardship on earth, who know how distant humanity is from the One Who alone can bestow upon them a life of beatitude .... Jesus Christ is preached throughout the whole world .... Many people are being addressed by Him directly when He is speaking to them through the mouth of an awakened preacher .... But only a few allow themselves to be captivated by His Words so that they will not leave Him anymore and likewise dedicate their life to proclaiming the name of Jesus .... however, most of them forget just as quickly as they get excited .... like a passing fancy which flares up brightly but quickly burns down again .... For Jesus Christ does not come alive in them, He does not find admission into their hearts because they don't live in love .... Only love gives life to faith in Him, without love the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation is nothing more than worldly knowledge which has no effect in eternity. For this reason, only a few will feel themselves so affected that they will subsequently become true followers of Jesus, that they will find deliverance from sin and death .... even though the divine Redeemer will not exclude anyone in order to attract him under His cross. He speaks to countless people and will continue to speak to them and admonish them to work at improving their soul, time and again He will proclaim His teaching of love .... Yet He can only come alive in their hearts if they accept His teaching of love and live up to it .... Only then will they understand His act of love and know how much hardship there is on earth .... For death is granted to every person, but death without Jesus Christ signifies a dreadful fate in the beyond, a fate which can only be improved through the divine Redeemer again, otherwise the soul will have to vegetate in darkness, in wretchedness, for an infinitely long time .... Jesus Christ means everything .... but extremely little to humanity, for it does not make much use of His act of mercy .... because it does not recognise Him .... And it cannot recognise Him because it is incapable of doing so as long it is lacking love .... and this has grown cold among people. Consequently, love must be preached continuously, the One Who was full of love Himself and sacrificed Himself for His fellow human beings must be referred to. If the human being then makes an effort to fulfil the commandments of love he will also become enlightened as to why Jesus died for the human race .... and he will take refuge under the cross and call upon the only One Who can redeem him from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work of satan I.

B.D. 6334 from August 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

All of you will be harassed by the powers of darkness .... for where there is darkness they already have their sphere of power and will not give it up, and where there is light they seek to extinguish it and increase their kingdom .... where there is light they use all their powers and arts of seduction, and they also feign light themselves in order to lure people to themselves and turn them away from the light from the heavens .... Satan has great power in this time of the end .... And that is why the confusion which takes hold among people is also overwhelming; they are torn to and fro by doubts and wrong teachings, and only those who seriously strive for the truth, who seriously care about standing in the truth, will also receive it, because I Myself am close to him and will not let him fall prey to error .... I let My light shine from above to earth, and in this light countless souls fetch the strength they lack .... These are above all the souls of the kingdom of the beyond who are attracted by this ray of light and always receive strength which they use again for redemptive activity in the spiritual kingdom .... And thus every ray of light from above signifies help for the redemption of the spiritual kingdom which is still partly in darkness .... and thus also detachment from My adversary .... He therefore constantly loses his attachment by the fact that My light of love can shine down to earth, that it is accepted there by earth children devoted to Me .... Understandably, this is now My adversary's plan and endeavour to extinguish this light .... either to prevent the people on earth who accept it, that is, to influence them such that they turn away from Me and towards the world again, or .... if he does not succeed in this .... to let a side light flare up where the gentle light from above loses its luminosity, because the dazzling light flashes glaringly and weakens the eyes .... so that they do not recognize the exit of that light. But there is a danger that people will strive more quickly towards the dazzling light and overlook the gentle light from above .... And this is My adversary's intention, for he hates Me and does not want to lose his followers to Me .... An unusual battle rages in these end time wherever a spring has opened up from which the water of life flows .... where souls find recovery, where the path to Me is clearly visible .... There the dark forces are particularly active on behalf of My adversary, and they will always try to feign the same thing which I let happen for the salvation of humanity .... My activity for the salvation of people will always find imitation, which is staged by the opposing side in order to irritate people, in order to cause confusion, but can be recognized by those who are pure and sincere and only strive for the truth .... Whatever happens on the part of My adversary .... he will not succeed in extinguishing My light, for the world full of light protects all those to whom My light flows from above, because increased activity on My part is urgently needed in the last days .... But people themselves must want Me to protect them because thereby they make it impossible for My adversary to enter them .... People themselves only have to desire the pure truth and never ever will the light be extinguished which shines for them from above .... For its light will illuminate their hearts so that they will clearly recognize what is truth and what is a lie ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of satan II.

B.D. 6335 from August 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Whatever is harmful to your soul I will keep away from you if your will is good and turned towards Me .... If a father knows his child is in danger, then he will help him to avoid this danger or carefully guide him through it .... For the father loves his child .... And if you humans are threatened by danger for your soul, then your father in heaven will certainly be the first to protect you because it is within His power and because He loves you. And thus you can be unconcerned as long as you feel like My children, as long as you see your father in Me .... But your soul will suffer harm if it is touched by My adversary, for his grip is hard and ruthless and he breaks what falls into his hands .... I pass a damning judgment on him but only to warn you because otherwise you would venture too carelessly into his vicinity and then hardly be able to rise if you don't call upon Me for help. You should be vigilant, for 'satan walks around like a roaring lion' and seeks to devour you .... do not make a friendly image of him, for then your caution will be lessened, and then everything is possible .... also that he takes possession of you. However, angels are standing around you ready to protect you if your whole will is meant for Me, if love for Me fills your whole heart .... and these will erect a barrier which My adversary cannot surmount, for it consists of beings of light which, through their light alone, already push away the adversary who flees the light .... For these are My children who, like you, were once exposed to his influence and know his working and who help you to find the father, who can therefore also protect you because they know about his cunning and place themselves between you and him. You only have to do one thing yourselves: detest him because he is only hatred and sin .... He has completely severed the spiritual bond with Me from his side .... thus he must have become My antithesis, for he has perverted everything in himself that came forth from Me in light and strength, he is so abysmally distant from Me that he has fashioned himself into a monster which, full of defiance and evil thoughts, is capable of doing anything to you that prevents you from becoming blessed .... For he wants your ruin, he not only wants to possess you but to destroy you, for he has been evil since his apostasy from Me .... He is My antithesis and therefore cannot have anything good about him, otherwise I would have bad about Me to the same extent .... But just as I am the most perfect being, he is imperfection itself, and this also means that he will think and act badly as long as he still works and can work, as long as he still possesses attachment .... Precisely because he still believes himself to be powerful through his appendage, that is why he does not change his thinking and his will. And I know the danger you are in if you only allow him the slightest approach to you by showing him pity. He does not return this pity with love, neither does he feel pity for your soul which he wants to ruin. You don't know his hatred and malice which you yourselves are full of love. But I know the danger and protect you, for My love is for you whom he has dragged down into the abyss with him .... My love is also for him when he will have found his way back and surrendered .... But until then he is My adversary against whom I warn you, for his will is evil and he only seeks your destruction .... Therefore don't let yourselves be deceived, be vigilant so that you will also recognize him under the disguise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The plan of deifying the beings ....

B.D. 6336 from August 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

My plan of Salvation covers infinitely long times .... the plan of redeeming the fallen spirits, the deification of the created beings which once made a wrong decision of will and which therefore require an infinitely long time in order to align their will correctly because they completely changed their nature into something entirely opposite to Me and yet shall nevertheless become My image again one day .... The process of this transformation or regeneration necessitates an infinitely long time, because it must take place in lawful order, otherwise it would result in unavoidable chaos and the ultimate goal would never be reached. The fundamental law of My eternal order is and will remain love .... Hence, a return to Me can only be achieved if I give all fallen spirits, all those which had become imperfect, the opportunity to practise love .... And practising love means being of service .... Consequently, I first had to create the opportunities in which the fallen spirits were able to serve actively .... I had to create something which enabled these fallen spirits to contribute towards its emergence and maintenance .... in every possible way .... And so I conceived Creation as appropriate for this purpose .... In a manner of speaking, I let the spiritual substances take active part in its emergence, however, I had to enforce this, according to My will they had to enter specific external shapes and carry out their assigned activity .... The whole of Creation is governed by the principle of being of service, because My will governs, which is only ever the expression of My greater than great love. Compulsory service was therefore necessary at first, because no being would have chosen to serve .... to express love .... of its own accord, but the return or re-transformation of the fallen being is and will remain My goal.

Nevertheless, even service in a state of compulsion achieved a change, although it required an infinitely long time .... But once the re-transformation has advanced to a point that the original opposition to Me has weakened, the being can receive a certain amount of freedom again so that it is no longer forced into being active but voluntarily continues doing the same instead: to serve, for which, however, it must first kindle love in itself. The purpose and goal of the whole process of development is .... that its will shall take the right direction now, that its thoughts, intentions and actions are only determined by the principle of love .... that the re-transformation into love is proven and thus the being's deification takes place .... that the goal I set the externalised spiritual being has been accomplished .... that the created being has voluntarily shaped itself into My image, into My child .... Yet during this infinitely long period of development the being passes through countless phases which one day it will be able to look back upon when, in a state of light, it is capable of grasping the sheer magnitude of My plan of Salvation .... And every individual phase will disclose to it the suffering and agonies, which only then will show the immense extent of its fall into the abyss, the distance from the One Who, in the beginning, had created it in all perfection .... Only then will My love, wisdom and omnipotence be revealed to the beings, and only then will the upsurge of their love for Me engulf them and they will become completely immersed in My flow of love .... They will praise and glorify Me without end and have no other desire but to serve and help Me to achieve My goal one day .... the deification of all created beings .... They are constantly active with love and comply with their original purpose: to work and create according to My will which now is their own will as well because they are perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work of satan III.

B.D. 6337 from August 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I want to dwell in you and constantly grant you My protection and My help, for you need it as long as you still dwell on earth in a sphere of darkness, in My adversary's kingdom .... Even if your striving towards Me is serious, you are still not immune to the enemy's attacks if I do not assist you .... Only My nearness displaces him or denies him access to you, for My nearness also means light, and the prince of darkness flees the light. But he will not let go of you as long as you still dwell on earth, for he, too, fights for your souls just as I do .... Therefore let Me always be with you and then you will no longer need to fear him .... A heart in which I Myself have taken abode is lost to him, it belongs to Me and I no longer release it. And therefore you must always endeavour to secure My presence for yourselves .... You must seriously want to be united with Me, you must purify your heart from all desires and vices, you must adorn it with works of love, you must long for Me with the love of your heart, and you will draw Me Myself to you because I cannot resist love .... And you will be happy in the awareness of My presence and feel free and carefree because you are now under the protection of Him Who is lord over heaven and earth, over light and darkness and thus also over the one who is His and your enemy .... But as long as desires of any kind are still in you, you must be careful that they cannot slip into you in order to create disorder which eliminates My abiding in your hearts. I urge you humans to do this so urgently because My adversary will be particularly effective precisely where he believes he will lose a soul .... that precisely those people who strive to come close to Me are exposed to his oppressions, that he will always lie in wait for them in order to slip in during an hour of weakness, in order to urge them to pursue their desires and seek fulfilment .... He will not be able to dwell for long in such a heart whose will is meant for Me, but this one will have to wrestle seriously until he has accomplished the work of a complete purification .... But the enemy can also cause great harm by taking advantage of the moment of weakness and desire to sin in such a way that he confuses the person's thinking .... that he obscures the light which shines in him, that he places a false light next to it which is not recognized as a blinding light .... For this is My adversary's endeavour to darken My light such that he himself no longer gets into its glow when he seeks entrance into an area which was already closed to him. And first the human being has to remove this blinding light from himself .... which can already be achieved by the serious will for truth and the call to Me for this .... Be vigilant at all times that impure desires do not put you in danger, and always let Me be the guardian of your heart .... Let My light shine in you, let it be given to you, but do not demand to know what is not pleasing to you .... lest he give you what I deny you, because I know what is a blessing to you and what is harmful to you .... Then it is impossible for him to likewise put a light into you .... But your desire opens the door for him .... Be vigilant and devoted to Me alone .... And I will truly protect you from him who only wants to corrupt you and therefore has to be regarded as an enemy as long as you stay on earth, because he does not want to let you find the entrance into My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's constant care for the human being ....

B.D. 6338 from August 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

How often do I come close to you humans, how often do I speak to you, how often do I pull you back from danger and offer you My guidance on your path of life .... But rarely do you recognise Me. My obvious guidance is regarded by you as mere coincidence and My Words do not reach your hearts, you are unable to recognise Me because you have set you sights beyond Me towards the world. Yet My care pursues you. And even if you live within in the midst of worldly commotion I will nevertheless not leave your side, I will just wait for the moment when you notice Me so that you voluntarily place yourselves under My protection .... so that, amid the joys of the world, you still feel your hardship and look for the One Who pursues you and Who can help you. I will not stop revealing Myself to people .... Even if success is very slight, if it is scarcely perceptible .... I take notice of the faintest willingness to approach Me, and then I will never ever leave his side again ....

My love motivates Me into not abandoning you, even if you spend your earthly life in utmost indifference and don't try to find a bond with Me. Yet I do not force your willingness to hear Me, and this is why My Words are so soft and unobtrusive that you can easily not hear them if you don't take any notice of Me. They don't sound as loud as the voice of the world which therefore finds your full attention. And because your will shall turn to Me of its own accord I will never show Myself conspicuously but neither will I leave you without small contacts, I gently push you onto paths where you, lonely and weak, look around for help in order to then be able to emerge and offer My help to you .... I do not exclude anyone of you humans as long as he has not yet found and recognised Me, and since there is not much time left until the end people will have to cover shorter paths and these are far more arduous and laborious, because I want them to need and request My guidance.

Strokes of fate will increase; people will still have to endure much adversity and misery because they are further removed from Me than ever, even if I pursue them wherever they go .... Until the end of their life I will not abandon them, and My blows will become ever more severe in order to shake them out of their indifference, yet their reactions are not determined by Me, nevertheless, one day they will determine their fate in the spiritual kingdom .... For their will is and shall remain free, and even My greater than great love does not determine a resolve which chooses death although it would have been able to acquire eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Form christians .... dead souls ....

B.D. 6339 from August 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

What a person does dutifully, what his heart does not urge him to do but only his intellect, is of no value to the soul, even if it is to be regarded as a work of love for God or his neighbour .... because only what a person does of his own free will has an effect on the soul. And thus many people's lives are poor in God-pleasing activity, even though they outwardly appear as if they were faithful followers of the church. But then this is not the 'church of Christ' which He Himself founded on earth .... which must include living followers .... People who have a living faith which has been won through working in love .... Love alone is decisive for a right way of life, for a maturing of the soul with the result that it can enter the kingdom of light and beatitude after its death. And this should be seriously considered by all people who spend their time and effort on things which are of little benefit to the soul .... All should ask themselves to what extent they kindle love within themselves, what they do out of their heart's urge to love .... All should first give account to themselves of how they fulfil the commandment of love for God and neighbour .... but do not believe that they love God by following humanly-issued commandments .... God demands more of you .... He does not demand a 'mechanical' exercise but something living in order to be able to make you blissfully happy in the spiritual kingdom one day. For such can only be received by a loving heart which has shaped itself into love on earth .... They are all dead souls which have not yet kindled love within themselves, yet little value is placed on this very fact .... yet what is of no value for the soul is eagerly carried out. Love should not only be preached .... it must be practiced by every human being, and love for God and neighbour must underlie all speech and action .... God will never be satisfied with forms and customs which He Himself has not demanded from people. He will only ever look at the heart to see to what extent it is filled with love, for He only values the latter and only the latter is pleasing before God. For only a love-filled heart can unite with Him and receive strength and light and grace, which, however, are absolutely necessary in order to ascend, in order to mature and still attain a degree of perfection in earthly life, which is your actual aim on earth .... Only love guarantees this perfection, but dutiful actions or works which lack love will never have the same success .... And every sincerely striving person will also recognize within himself that formal customs cannot satisfy God and will endeavour to live in a way which is pleasing to Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Means of grace .... Walking with God ....

B.D. 6340 from August 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

As yet it is still a time of grace .... I still try to persuade you humans by various means to turn around or to lead you into perfection .... only your will must not be entirely in opposition to Mine. If you humans rebel against Me, against your destiny and everything that is still intended to benefit your soul, then My means of grace will be ineffective, and then your life will also be at risk .... the life of the soul .... for then it will succumb to spiritual death. You humans ought to fit in with My will, you ought to realise that you are powerless by yourselves and passively surrender to the One Who rules over heaven and earth .... Only through such passive devotion will you improve your earthly life .... and then also allow the means of grace take effect and achieve progress for your soul .... It is the time of the end and therefore a time of great adversity because I still want to help people turn around or achieve perfection .... It truly would not be love on My part were I to leave you to your destiny and thus provide you with an unrestrained, carefree earthly life without misery and tribulation, for then your souls would definitely go astray, since the inner drive for ascent is only present in very few people .... I must support you because I love you, but I can only grant My support in a way which I regard as a blessing for your soul .... by being strict with you in order to bring you to your senses, since you are close to the end and haste is essential ....

Yet every person can improve his earthly fate himself by walking his earthly path in unison with Me, by joining Me more closely and thereby making every downfall impossible .... And then I will also guide him such that his earthly life will be more bearable .... For then he will no longer need harsh means of help because I will have won him over for Myself .... Yet as long as the human being still resists Me he only feels the burden and not My help .... However, My love also applies to him and tries to win him over, only it uses different means which are nevertheless means of grace, because they only intend to achieve My living creations' return to Me .... But how insignificant are these sufferings and adversities compared to the torments of a renewed banishment into solid matter .... which, however, will irrevocably happen to you humans if you don't bow down to My will in these last days before the end .... Through suffering and adversities I want to achieve nothing other than your return to Me, Who can and will help you at all times ....

You labour and are heavily laden .... Yet you know One Who calls you to Himself .... Follow His call 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour, and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest ....' And there is nothing I will not give you if only it benefits your soul. Join the group of My children, don't keep apart in wilfulness or defiance but come to Me as well, you who are still distant from Me, and relinquish your resistance. For travelling the path with Me is truly easier and more pleasant since I will guide you such that you will effortlessly reach your goal .... but My path leads away from the world .... For My kingdom is not of this world .... yet it is your true home which will receive you when you have to leave the earth one day .... Only a short stretch of the path is still ahead of you but it is enough for you to reach the right goal .... But if you hand yourselves over to Me and My guidance without resistance you will not regret that you followed the One Who is the Father of all of you, Who wants to guide His children to eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mediator .... intercession ....

B.D. 6341 from August 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Leave the care for people's souls to Me but help Me where I need you in order to serve Me as mediators. It is a great work which still has to be done, for access to people's hearts is mostly barred to Me and since I do not use force I have to wait until the door of the heart is opened to Me .... And since this rarely happens by people themselves, every helper is pleasant to Me who lets his voice sound instead of Mine and demands entrance. How often does the path first have to be paved for Me because I don't take over a territory against a person's will which is disputed with Me .... And how rarely are people found who work for Me, who prepare the way for Me, who announce My coming and influence their fellow human beings to such an extent that they no longer refuse to open the door for Me if I come Myself to bring them peace .... I know where I am needed, but I also know where I find resistance .... And I also know where your help is appropriate, where resistance is to be broken when I Myself speak to people through you .... You only ever need to do what I inwardly urge you to do, you can carelessly leave it up to Me which means I use .... for I know about the adversity of My earthly children .... But very often I need you, for people are far more inclined to listen to the words of a fellow human being than to My words, because they don't want to believe that I Myself want to and can speak to them .... And therefore, in accordance with their will I choose the right means which can be effective but which do not force the person. And if you are concerned about a person's salvation then only commend him to My love and grace and trust Me that I will help as far as possible while respecting his free will. However, the resistance is often still so great that My omnipotence recedes, but that My love especially comes to the fore and tries to influence the person such that the resistance becomes ever less. Thus I have to use various means of education and I will also always use you where your help is appropriate. But you can trust Me without worry .... As soon as you intercede for those who still stand apart, who have not yet recognized Me correctly, you will also give them strength and their resistance will decrease through your loving intercession. You can achieve much, and where you don't succeed obviously, where you don't see any success of your vineyard work, there let go and call upon Me Myself to take over the work which you don't believe to be able to overcome. No intercession is in vain. And there is always a way where love intervenes .... And when a call of love sounds, the door opens by itself .... And then I can enter and bring light to the person who still dwells in darkness .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... Once I find access to the hearts, and once every soul gives up resistance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distress should inspire love ....

B.D. 6342 from August 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Everything helps you to perfection that stimulates love activity .... There must, therefore, of necessity, be miserable situations in life which cause the fellow human being to intervene in a helping way .... There must be need and misery, sorrow and suffering, so that serving neighbourly love can be practiced .... One must need the other, so that man can develop upwards through serving neighbourly love. Serving in love is the fundamental law which must be fulfilled if the human being wants to perfect himself. The human being first has to be educated to love on earth, because his actual nature is without love as a result of his past apostasy from God .... but the divine father's love has lowered a spark of love into every human being, which is now to be ignited in free will and kindled into a great fire of love .... But the human being's will first has to be stimulated, which therefore happens through the neighbour's adversity, which is meant to compassion him and cause him to work in love .... There is no compulsion whatsoever, the human being himself must feel touched by his fellow human being's adversity, and he must want to provide help of his own free will, which strengthens the inner fire of love and constantly seeks new nourishment .... In order for his own heart to be touched by his fellow human being's adversity, he will often be placed in the same situation in order to experience the adversity himself, and as soon as help is given to him, reciprocal love for the helper will also awaken in him .... Where there is love, there can be no need .... Unkindness, however, causes hardship .... Although love will never be practiced on earth to such an extent that the adversity could be completely remedied, because people's fundamental nature is precisely poor in love, if not entirely devoid of love, and the earthly life as a human being only serves the one purpose of educating people to love, because only love can reshape the being back to its original nature .... into the image of God .... Nevertheless, people could also create an easier earthly life for themselves by working with love .... through constant service in love .... because then they would also have much strength at their disposal to master everything now .... But every adversity serves you to perfection as long as it stimulates your activity of love. Wanting to help already proves the divine principle of love, then the human being has stepped out of the spell of the one who, devoid of all love, only wants your downfall .... You humans will all bless the adversity which prompted you to work with love, which gave rise to the ignition of the spark of love in you, and one day you will regret every missed opportunity which could have meant progress for you .... Only servant love will help you to ascend, and you would only rarely practice it if you did not see hardship around you and thereby felt addressed .... But you will not be forcibly influenced, only through your own adversity and help will the benefit of timely help be proven to you. And from this you will also see that adversity and suffering are also means of grace, that they have to be so that the human being will practice helpful neighbourly love, for the spark of love in you needs nourishment so that it can flare up into highest embers .... And only a bright flame of light connects with the original light of eternity .... which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life, that you unite with eternal love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dead christianity ....

B.D. 6343 from August 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You, who call yourselves christians and have not yet given proof of true christianity, will be put to a hard test .... you who believe yourselves called to be the sole candidates for My kingdom .... you, who believe that words and outward appearances alone are enough for Me to accept you into My kingdom. You will still have to prove yourselves and then it will be hard for you to remain faithful to what you have so far advocated with all your zeal. For one day you will have to profess your faith in Me .... not, as you have done so far, only for an edifice of faith which will then collapse like a house of cards. And especially for you it will become much more difficult to profess Me and My name, for you know Me too little, you only know unimportant things and keep unimportant commandments, but you know too little of what I Myself have taught on earth, and you only pay little attention to My commandments .... You live too little in love, and therefore you also lack the knowledge which would give you joyful courage of confession when you are faced with the decision. You cannot be spared this decision because you have always taken too lightly what is your task in earthly life: to work on your soul .... because you were content with formal customs which cannot earn your soul the slightest degree of maturity. Your striving towards Me truly leaves much to be desired, and short hours are enough for you because you believe you are 'serving' Me. You will not have gained any inner strength which enables you to openly profess Me and My name, and it will turn out that your faith is not a living faith but only a formal faith, a learned faith which does not prove itself when it is put to the test. And you cannot become blessed with such faith. I cannot be satisfied with it, for I require love from you and love gives birth to a living faith. But as long as you don't prove yourselves through a life of love your faith cannot be right either .... And therefore you will reveal this dead faith when the confession of My name is demanded of you; you will fail because you lack love, because the commandments of love only seemed unimportant to you, whereas you exceedingly eagerly fulfilled what people demanded of you. Your hearts will be empty and ignorant and you will not prove yourselves to be true christians, for you will not be faithful to the one Who died for you on the cross .... because you have not yet recognized Him correctly .... A dead christianity will not convey the strength which is necessary to confess My name before the world. And then it will be proven who belongs to My church, which I Myself founded on earth .... And only faith which is alive through love will stand firm and make the right decision ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The creations' lack of self-awareness ....

B.D. 6344 from September 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Nothing you can see around yourselves is without spirit. Everything visible to you shelters spiritual substance which once emerged from Me as a spiritual being but which, dissolved in countless minute particles, has lost its self-awareness .... and will continue to pass through the visible creation without this self-awareness until all particles have found each other and united again and now constitute this created original spirit once more which, embodied as a human being .... is given self-awareness again .... Consequently, the human being is an original spirit concealed within a material shell, whereas all other works of creation, from hard matter up to the animal, are likewise animated by tiny particles belonging to an original spirit which, however, is unable to recognise itself as a being because it lost this realisation due to its past apostasy from Me .... But Creation could not exist were it not animated by substance .... in other words: In the very beginning I created beings which I externalised in My image. The material creation, however, consists of these, My created beings, and only arose for the purpose of enabling the constrained spiritual substance within to return to Me, from Whom it had voluntarily separated. Every creation of Mine is emanated strength .... It is not lifeless because nothing dead can emerge from Me ....

Everything that testifies to life is something substantial, the effect of its strength can merely express itself differently .... but it will always prove to be strength, it will perform a function which may well remain concealed to the human eyes if it is minor yet it cannot be denied because nothing remains as it is but will always show a change. The more evidently an activity can be observed the more life is betrayed by the work of creation, and only its lack of self-awareness gives rise to doubt the spiritual substance within everything that is surrounding you .... But it will only become an independent entity again once it has regained its self-awareness, although the life giving substance - within the human being as well as within every work of creation - is the same: strength which once emerged from Me as a being .... That which betrays life already shelters this strength to a greater extent than apparently dead matter .... and yet the latter could not exist were it not spiritual substance itself since, in the final analysis, everything is strength which flows forth from Me which, like Me, must also be spiritual substance .... There is, however, a difference of perfection of the beings which once came forth from Me .... And this difference determines their respective activity .... which can consist of creating and populating worlds but also of a minimal service by the imperfect beings towards equally imperfect beings .... a service which will nevertheless constantly increase and steadily lead to activity which can also be observed by you humans .... which demonstrates life .... For everything shall attain that level of perfection again in which it was originally created so as to be able to use the strength, which constantly flows to it from Me, as a self-aware individual being according to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

B.D. 6345 from September 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Even if you are drawn to the world .... it is not the kingdom which can truly make you happy; it only offers you a sham happiness, it gives you sham goods which do not last. Eternity lies ahead of you, an infinitely long time of inconceivable bliss lies ahead of you if you have not chained yourselves to the world, if you can detach yourselves from it as long as you live on earth .... I only ask you to give up what is worthless in itself in order to exchange real values for yourselves, I take nothing from you but I give you incomparably much .... And that you nevertheless hesitate has its reason in your wrong evaluation of the earthly, of the world and its goods .... You only value it because your body takes pleasure in it. But what is your body? Only a likewise transient shell of your actual self .... You only ever create for this shell of yours, but your I alone remains, and you should take care of this I .... You should love your soul, but not your body .... What you now deny your body in favour of your soul will not be to your disadvantage, for the more you detach yourselves from the world, the easier and more carefree will be your ascent upwards, into that kingdom which alone is permanent, which receives your I after the death of the body .... My kingdom is not of this world .... Always keep these words of Mine in mind .... if you want to inhabit My kingdom one day, since you know that your stay on this earth is not permanent .... Do not stupefy yourselves with such thoughts that it is over with your death .... Face the danger openly and for once come to terms with the thought that you have not passed away, that you continue to live, and then seriously ask yourselves whether you desire a blissful or an exceedingly sad, agonizing fate .... and then live on earth in such a way that you will be fulfilled .... No-one can escape death, and no-one can escape the fate he has created for himself through his earthly life, yet everyone can prepare a blissful fate for himself if he resists the world, if he kills all desire for it, if he only imagines himself to be on a transit station, the destination of which will then be a kingdom of peace and unlimited bliss .... Wait a little while longer for the fulfilment of your longing, don't look for it on earth but know that you may receive all glories in the spiritual kingdom when your soul has freed itself on earth from the bonds of matter .... You have to pass through earthly life but you must not allow yourselves to be captured by the world, which My adversary will keep tempting you with in order to prevent you from reaching the right aim .... The earthly world is and remains My adversary's kingdom. If you attach your heart to earthly things then you will also become enslaved by My adversary again, from whom you had already separated yourselves .... But My kingdom is not of this world .... And if you want to take possession of Me and My kingdom you must consciously leave the earthly world behind you and your thoughts and senses must only be directed towards Me, Who can and will also grant you a true happiness which lasts forever .... Detach yourselves from the world, then you will also detach yourselves from My adversary, and then eternal bliss awaits you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Attention to world affairs ....

B.D. 6346 from September 3rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans allow yourselves to be far more impressed by world events than is good for you, for all your thinking, your hopes and wishes are directed towards it and you find no time for contemplative hours as you take yourselves to court, as you pay attention to the course of your own development. Everything would work out satisfactorily for the individual person if he wanted to place his own shaping in the foreground and believed with conviction that world events are also directed by Me Myself .... yet always according to people's will and their spiritual nature. What you humans consider most important is only ever the result of your spiritual indifference .... it is the effect of people's spiritual low. For this determines the human will to act unkindly towards humanity, but it is also the reason for obvious disasters and thus also disturbing world events which are intended to arouse humanity and induce it to strive upwards. If only people were a little more concerned about their spiritual well-being then everything would also be in order again on earth .... people would not allow themselves to be disturbed by the actions of individuals, for then they would bring everything to Me and entrust a change to Me .... And this would truly not be to their detriment, they would also be guided earthly into calmer waters again and still reach their aim .... And thus you humans can still reckon with much disaster that is in store for earth, partly caused by human will, partly intended for you by Me Myself to change your direction of thought, to forcibly remind you of your end, when you see the lives of many people around you endangered or extinguished .... when you have to experience how powerless you are yourselves if you don't turn to the one Who alone is powerful .... But Whom you forget or don't want to acknowledge, otherwise you would make the fulfilment of His will your concern and then also enjoy His protection in every adversity and danger, even if these threaten you on your part. If you live with Me then you pay little attention to world events because you commend yourselves and your actions to Me, because you also trust Me to help you. But if you exclude Me from your thoughts, if you only pay attention to what My adversary is doing .... then My adversary will tie you up himself through the events which are his work, and you will get caught up in the whirlpool which pulls you in .... Whatever happens in the world, My will and My might can banish it, and My will and My might can also avert the effect of all evil from you who submit yourselves to Me, who take refuge in Me, who commend yourselves to Me and see in Me your father .... You truly need not fear the world if you turn your eyes upwards to Me, if you disregard the earthly kingdom but eagerly strive for the spiritual kingdom .... Nothing need frighten you, even if hell rages around you, I will guide you through all dangers as long as you are in contact with Me through your will, your love and your striving .... as well as your eyes are spiritually directed .... You will in no way be threatened by danger, for nothing can happen to you but what serves you towards perfection .... If you strive for your spiritual perfection you will no longer fear worldly events or disturbing occurrences, for you will feel safe in My protection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonitions ....

B.D. 6347 from September 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Your days are numbered while you still walk the earth .... These words do not frighten you humans because you do not believe them. Nevertheless, you should hear them again and again so that you cannot say that you have remained unwarned .... From many sides such admonitions will touch you, which is why again and again your thoughts could deal with them .... yet you will certainly not change your thinking and your nature .... What you do is up to you, but you must answer for your actions, precisely because you have not remained without warning .... Your father in heaven will not let you run into ruin without warning, otherwise His love for you would be limited .... But you don't want to acknowledge a loving God, and that is your undoing, you don't find a connection between the creator and His living creations, you deny a God Who is love in Himself, otherwise it would be completely understandable to you that this God sends you admonitions and warnings precisely because you are His living creations which He did not arbitrarily create and arbitrarily let pass away again but whose sole purpose is to return to Him .... The fact that you humans don't want to believe is the greatest evil, for then you will be open to all reproaches, you won't listen to the voice of Him Whom you don't want to acknowledge .... And faith cannot be forcibly imparted to you, it can only awaken to life in you through loving activity .... Therefore you humans must only ever be called to: Live a life of love .... You are also able to do this without faith, but you will soon gain faith in a God and father of eternity Who rules the world and also holds your fate in His hands .... Every person can practice love because he is given ample opportunity to do so .... But the willingness to love is the human being's own instinct which is not determined by anything. You all don't have much time left to work in love .... But you should eagerly make use of this short time which is still granted to you and you will not regret it .... You should give love to all your fellow human beings and very soon it would no longer seem improbable to you that you are facing the end .... For through love your faith becomes alive .... and through love your thinking is clarified and rightly directed. Therefore, even if you think you cannot believe, consciously work on your soul so that you always endeavour to do good to your fellow human being, to please and delight him, to selflessly give him help when he is in need .... Do everything for your fellow human beings for which you would be grateful if you were in the same need .... And what is now proclaimed to you as truth will be ever more credible to you: that you are close to the end .... God only wants to help you attain maturity of soul, and He wants to protect you from a dreadful fate, which, however, is destined for you if you ignore all admonitions and warnings from His side, if you don't believe .... Everything is possible for Him but not to give you bliss against your will as long as you dwell in darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mental care ....

B.D. 6348 from September 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You need spiritual support at all times, for none of you is so strong that he can resist My adversary without help from Me which, however, will always be granted to you if I recognize your will turned towards Me. You are always surrounded by beings of light, regardless of whether you are already high or still low in your development. They always want to help you but they can only do so if you yourselves do not offer resistance .... if you have the will to become Mine, if you inwardly reject My adversary's temptations. But you would be too weak despite your will, yet your will is enough to now determine the beings of light, your spiritual guardians, to work on you. Then they will form a protective wall around you behind which you will be well protected from the temptations of the enemy of your souls .... But the same help is not possible for those who still have their will turned away from Me .... These open all doors to My adversary, and My beings of light are not allowed to intervene, for the will of man is free .... And if the beings of light did not have this restriction of their activity .... they would truly oust the adversary, but it would not be of much use to you yourselves, for your will could not be tested and further your maturity. You, who want to be Mine, you are under My protection and thus also under the protection of those who want to serve Me .... Admittedly, the law of order must always be observed, and therefore you must first acquire this protection yourselves through your will .... If this belongs to Me, then you no longer need to fear anything despite your weakness and bondage .... Just in moments of temptation you will be imperceptibly released from the dark forces, you will believe to have overcome them yourselves, which also corresponds to the truth, since your will achieved it .... yet precisely with the help of those who look after you, guide and lead you on My behalf. For their will of love is powerful and only ever intent on helping you, on rescuing you from My adversary's power, whose activity they know in detail and try to thwart if you yourselves allow them to do so through the direction of your will. And this assurance shall take away all fear of My adversary .... He can only harm you if he succeeds in ousting Me from your heart .... and this should therefore be your greatest concern, never to give up the bond with Me or to loosen it .... Then he has power over you, for then My beings of light stand powerless next to you .... because they are not allowed to intervene against your will according to the law of eternity .... But the striving earthly children will always be granted protection and help because My might and love is truly greater and therefore will not allow any injustice to those whose will has already decided in favour of Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine source of grace for the wanderer ....

B.D. 6349 from September 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You may not pass by My source of grace if you want to cover the path to ascent, otherwise you will lack the strength to overcome the effort of ascent. The path leading to the aim is not even, and every ascent requires strength which you, as human beings, do not possess if I do not supply it to you, if you do not accept it from My hands. But I make the source of strength accessible to you humans everywhere, and I also make sure that you find the spring from which the water of life flows to you, from which you can refresh and satisfy yourselves, from which you receive the strength you need for ascent. I convey My word to you everywhere, which is blessed with My strength .... And everyone will hear it who requires invigoration, everyone will be led to where it is offered to him in such a way that it signifies food and drink for his soul. Everyone who is hungry and thirsty for the bread of heaven, for the water of life, will be offered it in abundance, albeit in different ways, yet no-one needs to walk the path upwards in a feeble state so that his attainment of his aim is doubtful .... On his path he will certainly pass the source again and again where he can enrich himself with strength, where he will be strengthened and always receive the nourishment he needs for his further earthly progress .... But he must not consciously avoid the spring of life .... He must not believe that he can obtain the same nourishment elsewhere if he passes by the source which I have opened up for you humans .... if he rejects My word and thus also spurns the strength which alone enables him to change upwards. Only My word conveys the strength to you humans, and therefore you must listen to it and live it out .... And if you receive My word directly from above then you know that I Myself offer you the bread of heaven because I know about your weak state and want to help you to cover the path to Me. I know that you are increasingly seldom around the spring from which you can draw the living water .... I know that you walk other paths .... And that is why I have also opened up a spring for you who walk apart, in order to entice you to refresh yourselves on your pilgrimage .... My word is also brought to you who no longer pay attention to it .... It is offered to you in such a way that you will nevertheless be tempted to take a taste of it and you will also noticeably feel the strength if you accept it without resistance and devote yourselves to its beneficial effect. And I only want to call out to you: Do not pass by this source .... Do not continue on your path without first having drawn strength from My word, which is offered to you purely and clearly as it flows from the eternal source. You will sink down powerless by the path if you do not heed My call, or you will walk to the depths and never reach your aim .... You must be fed and watered if you want to be able for the work you are to do on your soul. You must accept strength which My love offers you in abundance through My word .... Hear it and gratefully accept the gift I offer you so that you don't fail in weakness and remain lying on the ground .... Your aim is above, but the ascent will always lead you past the source of My love .... Then draw and enjoy the most delicious thing I can offer you: the radiance of My love, My word, the nourishment for your soul .... And effortlessly you will then reach your aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fulfilment of the divine will .... right knowledge ....

B.D. 6350 from September 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

A way of life according to God's will also certainly leads the human being to the realization of truth, for then he will be in divine order and consequently also in the light .... God's will is a life of love, and if His will is fulfilled, if the human being is lovingly active, all resistance against God is abandoned and the right relationship with God is established, which changes the deficient state into a state of perfection, which ensures the human being an abundance of light and strength. This is why God has made His will known through His word, this is why He has given people His commandments so that they know how they have to live on earth, so that it will be pleasing to God. And therefore the human being must also constantly listen to His word so that he will not deviate from divine will and can constantly educate himself to order if he still moves outside of divine order. For the human being himself must comply with God's will of his own free will .... It is certainly made known to him but no compulsion is exerted on the human being according to which he has to move within the divine order. Yet he can be induced to do so through truthful instruction, and the more he then fulfils God's commandments the more clairvoyant he will also be for true spiritual knowledge .... And then he will constantly increase in light and strength because his activity of love will also increase and the bond with God will become ever stronger .... and union with God also results in the flowing through of light and strength .... The human being who lacks all knowledge is also still in a lower degree of maturity, thus he will hardly perform works of love in complete unselfishness .... He will walk his earthly path completely apart from God and hardly pay attention to His will .... And he will also be completely ignorant in the spiritual sphere, even if he has great earthly knowledge .... and blind in spirit he will depart from earth in order to dwell in darkness in the kingdom of the beyond, often for an infinitely long time .... For he stands outside the divine order as long as he still resists the divine will, which he already does by not accepting any teachings given to him in order to free him from his spiritual darkness .... He will always reject them because loving activity is demanded of him, and since he is completely ignorant he does not bow down to God's will either, he remains in his selfish love and therefore hardly reaches the light, the recognition of truth .... But neither can he be blissfully happy without truth, for he cannot distribute anything himself, thus he cannot be lovingly active because he possesses nothing himself. Only when the soul gives up its resistance and trustingly asks for what it lacks in order to be able to make other souls happy with it again will it also receive .... according to its will to pass on what it has received to those who likewise suffer lack. God's will has to be fulfilled, both on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, in order to attain light, to attain knowledge .... And the divine will is: unselfish activity of love, for only then will the eternal order be observed, only then will the perfection be achieved again which the being once gave away in free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of intercession for the unredeemed ....

B.D. 6351 from September 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You don't know the power of intercession which is carried out with love .... You would contribute infinitely much so that the kingdom of light can be opened to the souls in the beyond, but just as you can also help people on earth to change their will through intercession, because it is like a gift of strength which always has to have a good effect. You are all able to help people of a lower degree of maturity if only you sincerely include them in your prayer, if your love wants to help them and you now turn to Me in prayer which is meant for their salvation .... Only a little more love is needed amongst you humans for your fellow human beings and there would truly be a higher degree of maturity amongst people .... But people who are already more in the light usually turn away from those who prove their affiliation to the adversary through their conduct, because they certainly detest evil but don't consider that they should help their fellow human being to get away from evil .... A deep love also takes hold of the wretched, and you should kindle this love in yourselves, you should know that My adversary's power is still very great and that he is these people's lord and master .... You should know that their strength is not sufficient and that they have therefore fallen prey to him because their will is wrongly directed .... But you should also bear in mind that all people are My creatures whose return I always strive for, and that I rejoice over every single being which finds its way back to Me .... For this reason you also help Me greatly if you take care of them in prayer .... when you see your brothers in these people who are still far away from Me and who are still languishing in utmost darkness .... You must try to imagine their souls as extremely pitiful, helpless creatures who are grateful for every assistance, for every gift of strength, yet in their darkness they don't know that they could procure this strength themselves through the call of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... This knowledge cannot necessarily be imparted to them, and they also reject it if you want to bring it to them .... but they will feel the influx of strength they receive as a result of your loving intercession .... a prayer you address to Me on behalf of others I evaluate as if it had ascended to Me from them myself .... for now I can work in the course of My eternal order .... I can now give something to the soul even though it has not requested it itself, although the soul is still left with the free will to make proper use of the strength which now flows towards it .... But a loving intercession also results in a change of will of the one to whom it applies, for it is a spiritual request which reaches My ear, which will always find fulfilment. For this reason I particularly urge all your loved ones, be it on earth or in the beyond, to bring help to them in spiritual adversity .... Remember all those of whom you know that they have not yet found the right path to Me, take care of all those in prayer who are still in the hands of My adversary .... wrestle them away from him through loving intercession, for your love now gives Me the right to a supply of strength which is otherwise not due to Me because I do not dispute My adversary's right, to which those souls have given themselves through their will .... My supply of strength, however, will only ever contribute towards changing the will, and your loving intercession gives those souls this strength. Loving intercession could truly bring about a great change on earth, yet you humans pay too little attention to those who are in spiritual hardship, for whom there is only loving support from you humans, so that they will be helped as long as they don't call upon the helper and saviour themselves .... which, however, My adversary prevents and can also prevent because people are in bondage to him. But through a prayer of love for these souls you call upon Me Myself for help, and for the sake of your love I am also willing to help .... Therefore, all of you make use of the power of intercession and be certain that you show both the souls as well as Myself an exceedingly great love which I will reward .... For I don't want to condemn but redeem, and thus you should also remember the unfortunate souls with love, not with hatred or contempt, for they are all only the victims of the one who is My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's mercy ....

B.D. 6352 from September 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You all experience God's kindness and mercy, for His love is never-ending and applies to all His living creations which suffer hardship but still resist Him and therefore would actually have no right to be loved by Him .... on account of which God's mercy remembers them in their distress. He cannot be angry but only be willing to love, forgive and help .... No sin is so great that His love would not want to absolve it and only His righteousness has to maintain a certain order, in view of which God cannot make His creatures blissfully happy as long as they still openly oppose Him .... However, He does whatever it takes to overcome their antagonism, in order to then be able to give Himself in abundance .... Thus God does not condemn, even if the measure of sin is overflowing, but full of compassion He looks upon the sinner and pours endless blessings upon him, so that he will change and voluntarily turn to Him in order to find complete forgiveness with Him. For God Himself is Love, and love cannot be angry as it only ever tries to give happiness. God is a merciful Judge to every soul, i.e., forgiveness can always be expected from His side .... because His love is never-ending. Only if the soul itself objects to it then it will challenge God's righteousness .... because it is the law of eternal order that opposition renders God's love ineffective and also makes every act of compassion futile. And therefore God's greatest care only ever applies to the human being's change of will, which subsequently enables His mercy to intervene when a soul has fallen and is unable to lift itself up again on its own .... Then it will receive help which, admittedly, it does not deserve but which it will not reject either .... Then it can become blessed due to grace .... for the merciful love draws towards all wretched beings. But only He is compassionate Who knows about the endless misery of those who languish in the abyss .... And only the person who knows the fate of the fallen souls can feel compassionate, even if he is emotionally unable to assess it. Yet the knowledge of the fallen beings' wretchedness can also awaken profound compassion in him, and if he thus, in merciful love, supports these souls which are far away from God .... if he appeals to God to help these unhappy souls, then his merciful call for help can overcome the resistance in these souls, because they feel the petitioner's love and become more compliant ....

For merciful love is valued very highly on God's part, it is, after all, a sign of the soul's higher maturity, a sign of a human being's true love, which can never remain ineffective. God takes pity on every soul, and everything would truly be redeemed from the abyss already were His merciful love unhesitatingly accepted .... Yet it remains ineffective as soon as it meets with resistance. Hence every state of adversity, every misery has not been imposed on the being by God but was aspired to in free will, against which even God's mercy cannot undertake anything but merely continue influencing the person's will so that he will change and clear the path for the merciful love, so that the being will allow itself to be seized and lifted up by it. Every act of Salvation is an act of compassion, because the being shall be redeemed from self-inflicted adversity .... where righteousness should impose punishment were mercy not to express itself first and make a final attempt to break the opposition .... Nevertheless, in the case of opposition even mercy will be to no avail, and then justice will consider the being according to its resistance .... God's love will never end, and this love tries to save all wretched beings, and His mercy will time and again draw down to earth and gather those who let themselves be seized by it, and no being will be able to resist His greater than great love forever, for it is very strong, and one day even the hardest heart will be melted by this strength of love, and it will voluntarily surrender to Him in free will and be eternally happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light and power deficiency ....

B.D. 6353 from September 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is still the time of grace .... where I repeatedly step into the path of all of you, where I give to you even though you don't request anything .... where, despite your resistance, I repeatedly offer you what you lack: strength and light .... The fact that you take the wrong path is the result of the darkness that surrounds you .... And if you nevertheless find the right path, the ascent, which exceeds your strength, will frighten you. You lack light and strength and I offer you both again and again, thus I give you aids through which you can attain light and strength, I give you gifts of grace even though you don't entrust yourselves to Me and ask for help .... There is still a time of grace but it will pass quickly .... And then it will become apparent who has accepted and evaluated My graces and who left them unheeded and is now lightless and powerless when it is time to pass the last test of will on earth .... when the decision is demanded of all of you which will determine your fate in eternity .... You should all open your hands beforehand so that I fill them with the gifts of My love .... You should all bear in mind that you lack light and strength which help you to ascend spiritually and which you cannot receive enough of, because especially in the last time before the end the ascent is particularly difficult to manage .... Therefore you should all demand the gift of light and strength .... And I will give it to you in the form of My word, from which you can draw light and strength in abundance. When I Myself address you then My light of love and the strength from Me will also flow into you, and therefore I will convey My word to you as My special gift of grace .... This word of Mine can have an incomparable effect on you if only you open your heart when you are addressed, if you try to grasp the meaning, if you consciously listen to it without defending yourselves, if you think about it, if you make an effort to live according to My word .... For then you will experience for yourselves that you will be enlightened from within, many things will be understandable to you which until now seemed incomprehensible to you, you will look at everything that happens around you and in the world with different eyes, you will clearly recognize the connection of everything that moves you and which you were unable to explain to yourselves .... You will also be able to detect an influx of strength, for with ease you will carry out what before seemed impossible for you to overcome .... You could all convince yourselves of the effect My word has on you if only you follow what My word tells you to do: if you endeavour to live a life of love .... I want to achieve nothing else through the delivery of My word but that you practice love .... Only then will you become aware of the immense grace which was offered to you with the transmission of My word .... For through loving activity you will receive an abundance of light and strength which, however, cannot possibly be given to you if you don't pay attention to My commandments of love, because love is strength in itself and therefore cannot be switched off when light and strength are needed. You are not often active in love yourselves and therefore lack light and strength. But through My word you learn about your earthly task, My word teaches you love, which alone secures your ascent upwards. And although you all have knowledge of My word you don't follow it .... But again and again I come before you and offer you My gift of grace .... Again and again I send messengers your way who, despite your resistance, try to convey light and strength to you by offering you the word from above as an unusual gift of grace from the heavenly father before the end .... But you must voluntarily open yourselves to this word, you must voluntarily live it out in order to also experience the gracious effect of My word on you .... I bestow My grace upon you humans in the last days, yet I will never force you to accept it, for you yourselves must make the decision for your fate after the end of this earth .... You yourselves must voluntarily make use of the blessings in order to then also become irrevocably blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God wants that we live ....

B.D. 6354 from September 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

For bliss I created you, for life .... but not for death, for an unworthy existence which does not correspond to My love and wisdom, which can never be called a perfect state and yet is your fate, you who have fallen. In all perfection you came forth from Me .... But what you are now is by no means perfect anymore, rather, it has to be described as opposite, for you have taken on a completely different form, you have become creatures through your own fault which have no right to call yourselves 'God's creations', because what I once created was supremely perfect and what still exists now has completely deviated from this perfection .... And yet, it still belongs to Me, for it is My strength which expressed itself in My creatures .... And this strength belongs to Me for all eternity .... But in the state you are in now you are endlessly far away from Me, and this means that you have thereby also lost 'life', because to live means to utilize strength in love and wisdom, but you neither possess strength to work nor would utilize such in wisdom and love .... You are dead creatures even though I Myself was your origin. But I want you to live, to be close to Me again so that I can provide you with light and strength .... which you shall use according to My will .... For this is your destiny which you will also fulfil one day and then you can also be called indescribably blessed .... I created you for life and if I want you to return to life again I must take care of you Myself, for you will never reach it by yourselves because you are powerless and without strength you will never be able to ascend into the spheres where there is uninterrupted life .... I Myself must supply you with the strength .... but you must accept My strength, you must let yourselves be radiated as once when you were still close to Me and blessed .... You must turn to Me again as you once voluntarily turned away from Me .... You must acknowledge Me as your God and creator from eternity, as you once left Me because you refused to acknowledge Me as the source of strength, as the father Who called you into being. You must change completely .... You must become again what you were from the beginning, if you want to be full of light and strength and eternally blessed .... if you want to live and work according to your destiny. And this transformation must be brought about by your free will, just as this free will once surrendered everything that made you a divine, perfect being .... I Myself want to give you life again, for My love does not want to leave you in the dead state which can never ever mean bliss or fulfilment .... But you must also be willing to accept life .... you must completely hand yourselves over to Me without resistance so that I can shape you into My image again .... which, however, is impossible as long as you resist Me. Give up your resistance and I will give you an eternal life in all glory .... Escape death by calling to the one Who Himself is life from eternity. Do not let yourselves be held in the depths, in the night of death, but call out to Him Who can loosen your bonds and give you freedom. Acknowledge Him against Whom you once sinned by your turning away, by rejecting His love, which means life for you .... He will turn His strength of love towards you again and again if only you desire it and hand yourselves over to Him .... I will awaken you to new life and you will never ever feel powerless. And soon you will also recognize where you came from, what you were, what you are and what you should become again .... And you will fully consciously strive for the former perfection, you will desire to live and also receive life, you will be able to create and work in light and strength and want to bring back to life what is dead and wretched .... you will give Me all your love and now be and remain My children forever ....

Amen

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Purpose of need: bonding with God ....

B.D. 6355 from September 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Whatever adversity you humans find yourselves in .... I am always ready to help if you appeal to Me for it .... I don't close My ear to a call which is sent up to Me from a believing heart, and I also take care of all those who commend themselves to Me. But every adversity also has a purpose .... to drive people towards Me who still keep away from Me, who have not yet found a close bond with Me, who have forgotten Me in the world's turmoil, even though they don't completely reject Me. I will also cast My nets after them and then hardship will have to bring it about that they push towards Me .... And I will not let them perish, I will help them. People can pass on all their worries to Me, they can come to Me with all their worries and needs, trustingly present everything to Me and ask Me to arrange everything for them .... and wonderfully they will be helped .... But how few believe this and entrust themselves to Me with complete faith .... And My arm cannot intervene to save where the adversity has not yet fulfilled its purpose, and I have to watch how heavily people carry their cross and can only ever offer Myself to them as a cross-bearer .... but not take the burden from them against their will .... otherwise it will have been completely pointless and people will remain in the same spiritual hardship even if they have been relieved of their earthly adversity. Believe My words that I am only waiting for your call, that everything is possible for Me and that I love you .... And if you believe this, take refuge in Me in every adversity of body or soul, Who alone can and will remedy it because I love you .... Bury every doubt, for it only prevents My love from becoming effective in you. Believe .... and you will attain everything from Me .... but then also maintain the connection with Me, for this alone is the purpose of every adversity, so that you will find Me and want to stay with Me, so that you will take the path to the father and never depart from Him .... For earthly adversity comes upon you for the sake of your spiritual hardship, and spiritual adversity consists of distance from Me, of dead faith, otherwise you would go to the one Who alone can and wants to help you. Let faith come alive in you and don't doubt My love and My might for a moment .... and you will be guided through every adversity, I Myself will deliver you from it ....

Amen

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Blessing of the work of redemption .... cross of Christ ....

B.D. 6356 from September 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will all be under the blessing of My act of salvation if you consciously confess Me and My redemption from sin and death .... What I have acquired for you in grace through My redemptive work, through My death on the cross, your soul also receives through your faith in Me and through your willingness to participate in the work of redemption .... For thereby you acknowledge Me, and you are already recipients of light and strength, your will is strengthened, and your striving upwards must now also be successful because you are no longer powerlessly at My adversary's mercy. And then you will also understand everything that is connected with My human manifestation and with My earthly life, which was ended by the death on the cross .... You will know why Jesus Christ has to be acknowledged by people and how important it is that His teaching of love is spread. And as soon as you have gained this knowledge yourselves you will also be suitable to represent Me and My name in the world, you will be suitable as true proclaimers of My word and as helpers on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond, welcome co-workers for Me .... For countless souls are still awaiting their salvation who have not found Me in Jesus Christ on earth, just as countless people on earth are still unable to muster this faith, precisely because they were not taught in the right way, because Jesus' teaching of love was not accepted by them and therefore they were unable to attain the truth themselves, for they lacked the inner light which is kindled by a life of love .... All of them are in greatest need, for anyone who does not take refuge under the cross of Christ of his own free will, who does not fully embrace Jesus Christ, will never find the gate which grants entrance into the kingdom of light, nor will he have the blessings of the act of salvation at his disposal which impart strength to him for the battle against the enemy of the souls .... My ray of love and grace affects all who have placed themselves under My cross but remain untouched, who are far from the cross .... Lightless and powerless remain all people on earth and all souls in the spiritual kingdom who do not want to acknowledge the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, who do not take the path to Him and to the cross .... Every thought turned towards Him in humility and love testifies that it is in the radiant circle of the divine redeemer, and the blessing of the divine redeemer will also fall upon it .... My blessing hand touches all who want it .... and anyone who is blessed by Me will no longer fall back to the abyss because My hand holds him, because he belongs to the redeemed for whom I shed My blood, whom I ransomed from My adversary through My work of grace and mercy, through My death on the cross. And all of you will enter into life in light and power .... The darkness must release you as soon as you call upon Me in faith in Jesus Christ, Who embodied Myself in the man Jesus in order to redeem you .... Even My adversary can no longer hold you back, for I have broken his power through My work of love, I have delivered you from his power .... And if you want it yourselves you will also be free ....

Amen

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The law of order is love ....

B.D. 6357 from September 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I address all of My children because I want to reveal Myself to them, I want to convince them of My love, wisdom and might .... I speak to them as a Father so that they feel the Father's love in My Word and that love for Me is thus likewise kindled in their hearts .... and causes My children to fulfil My will .... And I make My will known to them through My Word. I convey My divine teaching of love to them .... Only one thing is important in life, the fact that the human being should shape himself into love .... I expect nothing else from My living creations other than to live a life of selfless neighbourly love. This alone is My will, but for them the fulfilment of My commandment of love also means that the human being will possess everything, achieve everything and be eternally blessed. For everything comes forth from love, love is the law of My eternal order; anyone who lives without love leaves My order and is therefore wretched, even if you humans on earth seem to live in well-ordered circumstances, even if you feel comfortable on earth and are able to provide everything for the body which serves its well-being .... Your soul is nevertheless in a wretched state, and one day you will bitterly and painfully experience this wretchedness when your earthly life has ended .... Then the soul will be disfigured, weak and in agonising darkness, for as a being which left the order it cannot be blissfully happy until it has integrated itself into My law of eternal order, until it has become love. It can certainly still achieve this in the kingdom of the beyond but under painful circumstances, if it strives for it at all .... and after an infinitely long time .... whereas it can extremely easily achieve it on earth, because it is constantly offered the opportunity to practise love, and because every selfless deed of love provides it with increasingly more strength and raises its will to be lovingly active. Then the human being will enter My order again and eternal bliss will be his fate .... All this I reveal to you through My Word because I love you, because you are My living creations and through love shall become My children, whom I, as a Father, can and will make truly happy .... For My love always belongs to you, even if you turn away from Me, even if you have left My eternal order .... And I will pursue those of you who are distant from Me, who have not accepted Me into your heart, with My love and speak to you time and again .... If you listen to Me it will not be to your disadvantage; if you turn away from Me indignantly, then you will have to continue the path as before but it will not lead you to a happy fate as long as you live without love .... Let yourselves be seized by My love, don't offer Me resistance and don't defend yourselves but open your heart and ear for Me so that I Myself can take abode in you, and you will truly not regret it .... You would feel My love as strength, if only you submitted your will to Mine and kept My commandments, which only ever demand love .... because without love no-one can become blessed ....

Amen

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God's support in the vineyard work ....

B.D. 6358 from September 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will never need to do without My help when it is necessary to stand up for truth, when it is necessary to fight against lies and error, when it is necessary to lead people to living faith by proclaiming My word .... the teaching of love of Christ on earth .... Whenever you want to work for Me and My kingdom you will also find My support .... and everything you do to bring spiritual help to the souls will be blessed by Me .... Every work you consciously do in My vineyard will also somehow have a successful effect, which is why you should never believe that time was not used correctly because you don't see any success .... You cannot measure the blessing which emanates from every spiritual work on the souls in the spiritual kingdom, and they, in turn, also do whatever is possible for people on earth in order to lead them to Me. Therefore don't get tired and put spiritual work before every other activity, for you know that I will take care of you earthly if only you are willing to serve Me spiritually, because this is urgent in the last days before the end, when people's spiritual low level is so clearly evident that only eager soul work can remedy it. You humans still place earthly demands in the foreground, but you should become increasingly more aware of the futility of earthly endeavours, because I must give you clear signs in order to induce you to work ever more diligently in the vineyard. I need you because there are only a few who want to be My co-workers on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... I need you and therefore want to take over everything that could prevent you from serving Me .... I want to support you in every way; spiritually and earthly you will experience My support and obviously realize that you have a task on earth which only few can accomplish but which I Myself have given you because you are capable of it .... I will bless you and every work you do for Me and My kingdom .... And I will put into your heart what you should do, you will receive such clear indications that you will be urged from within to do this or that activity, for I Myself live in and with you and can therefore put My will into you because you have consciously surrendered your will, i.e. subordinated it to Mine .... And you will always do the right thing as long as you remain intimately united with Me in thought, through loving activity and prayer .... Then you will be driven by My spirit, which will always instruct you correctly, and every work will be successful for you ....

Amen

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The narrow and the broad path ....

B.D. 6359 from September 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The path you travel on earth can be glorious, comfortable and full of joy .... but also laborious and difficult for you, and as a rule you choose the easy, even path and enjoy all the joys and pleasures this path offers to you .... You shrink back from the laborious narrow path and don't ask where the path you are taking will lead you. You are satisfied for the moment with being able to relish the luxuries promised to you by the broad path but fail to consider where it will lead to. Yet time and again narrow paths branch off from it and at these junctions there are always messengers who call you and advise you to take these paths, even though they are not even but require you to climb upwards, on account of which must exert strength in order to accomplish the ascent .... However, the messengers also promise you a glorious goal, they assure you that you will not go through the laboriousness of the path in vain, that the goal will richly reward you for all hardship and sacrifices demanded of you by the narrow path. Time and again you will have the opportunity to leave the wide road for you will repeatedly meet these messengers who caution you not to continue your path and who try to entice you onto the path leading uphill. You ought to pay attention to them, you must seriously consider that you are in danger if you continue to steadfastly follow the path which can never lead upwards, because it does not require any effort of you if it is seemingly even but steadily leads downwards.

You should become suspicious yourselves if your earthly life always results in the fulfilment of your desires, for you ought to admit that you only ever desire and grant yourselves worldly pleasures .... pleasures which fade away like figments of dreams of which nothing of value remains, instead they are more likely to leave you with a stale and uneasy feeling if you take serious stock of yourselves .... The road you are taking is indeed lined with richly flowering hedges and you feel comfortable in this environment but it is nothing real, they are just deceptions and disguises which intend to cover what lies behind, and you would be horrified were you able to see through it and discover the mire these flowering hedges are intended to hide. Upwards leading paths, however, necessitate the surmounting of unevenness, it is not easy to cover such paths yet at the top a glorious goal beckons the traveller, the light he sees shining above himself permeates him incomparably pleasantly and lets him forget all hardship .... And the traveller knows that it is not a deceptive light, he knows that his true home is waiting for him and will then offer him all glories. And he will gladly and joyfully cover the arduous path, he will pay no attention to the difficulties, for he constantly receives strength from above and will therefore also safely reach his goal .... He will return into the Father's house in order to be and forever remain happy ....

Amen

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Social contributions ....

B.D. 6360 from September 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

How often do you humans rely on the fact that you will receive help, and how often is it possible for you to offer it in turn, for no-one can rely on himself alone, everyone needs the help of his fellow human beings, just as everyone gets into situations to help another person. Yet people endeavour to achieve complete independence from their neighbours and also to rid themselves from giving help .... They try to lawfully regulate what should be a voluntary service of help, and everyone tries to derive the greatest possible benefit for himself again from this regulation .... What would be extremely highly valued for every individual person's soul as unselfish neighbourly love is changed into an involuntary duty, and there is no benefit for the soul as long as all voluntary activity of love is excluded.

According to human estimation all earthly hardship could be averted from people in this way, and this is no doubt also the intention of those who feel responsible for people's serious difficulties since they cannot be concealed and burden the latter .... And as long as unkindness prevails amongst humanity even these endeavours are a blessing in as much as people will not perish in misery .... Nevertheless, it cannot solve people's spiritually low level, for this requires activity of unselfish neighbourly love .... People have to be touched by other people's hardship to kindle the love in them .... There has to be the kind of adversity amongst people that will stimulate a kind-hearted person into actions of love .... Help can be rendered in every respect to a fellow human being through words of comfort, through caring sympathy, through active assistance .... Yet human life, above all, relates to the overcoming of matter .... the transformation of selfish love into selfless neighbourly love.

The human being should let go of what is desirable to himself in order to give it to a fellow human being who is in need of it .... This is why wealth is unevenly distributed, precisely in order to motivate this will to give, since a person can learn to overcome matter at the same time and thereby make the greatest gift to himself by detaching himself from material possessions in order to alleviate a fellow human being's hardship .... Only what is voluntarily relinquished will reap a rich reward for a person, for only free will demonstrates love, whereas all other contributions a person has to make are entirely devoid of love, indeed, they are more likely to harden a person's heart as he suppresses in himself the will to give in the belief of having done enough for other people's well-being. Yet no matter how much people try to ease economic poverty in this way .... the human being will still be affected by hardship in other ways, on the one hand for his own benefit, but on the other hand in order to move a fellow human being's heart into providing help .... in order to touch it, so that the spark of love ignites, so that love will not grow completely cold amongst people ....

And precisely those people with very hardened hearts are frequently affected by non-material problems, so that they have to take a different path if they are to be helped: their pleasure of earthly possessions will be taken from them .... what they did not want to give to alleviate other people's hardship they will then no longer be able to enjoy themselves .... Material belongings will now lose their value, and blessed is the person who deals with this in the right way .... who now voluntarily relinquishes it in order to give it to needy fellow human beings .... Blessed is the person who ultimately acquires his fellow human beings' love as a result of good deeds, which alone will follow him into eternity .... Then his hardship will not have been unsuccessful for his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's help executed through people ....

B.D. 6361 from September 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You should always stick to Me, no matter what may move you .... you will be led out of all physical and earthly hardships as soon as you entrust yourselves to Me, as soon as you let Me participate in everything you experience, in everything that depresses you .... but also in everything that delights you .... For everything comes from Me .... But you should also bear your fellow human being's burdens together with him, you should also help where it is in your power, you should also be the support for your neighbour in whom he can entrust himself. And then you should also refer him to Me, yet not without having helped him yourselves, otherwise he will not believe your words. You live in a time where you cannot manage without Me, where every person needs help, but where every person should also help his neighbour again if he also wants to be certain of My help. For I measure how you measure out to your neighbour. I have to emphasize this again and again, that you cannot get ahead without serving neighbourly love .... But you yourselves know what hardship means .... you also experience it yourselves how help makes you happy in adversity .... And if you call upon Me for help, I often send it to you through fellow human beings .... Thus you know that one person has to help another because everything happens naturally, but that I Myself always stand behind it, that I Myself then encourage people to intervene, even though they do so unconsciously of the task they inwardly receive from Me. Yet the human being can also refuse to carry out My order because I do not force his will .... Then he lets a grace-filled opportunity pass him by and I pass on My order .... For the person who entrusts himself to Me in his adversity will not remain without help .... For I care for My children like a father, and whoever entrusts himself to Me is My child .... But anyone who faithfully entrusts himself to Me is not hardened of heart himself when he is approached for help, and therefore I can already give to him, because he also hands out to his neighbour if he is in need. Everything approaches people in such a way that they always have the opportunity to work with love, because it is solely a matter of practicing love, because love alone brings people redemption and spiritual progress. Yet it is increasingly difficult to influence people's will so that they will be lovingly active .... For this reason the adversity is also constantly increasing, which alone can inspire people to help each other .... However, it is always up to the individual how he lets the great adversity affect him. But anyone who takes refuge in Me, who remembers Him, Who is lord over heaven and earth, Who can turn everything to good .... who asks Him for His help, can also be certain that I will hear him, that I will help him and distribute to him as he himself distributes to his neighbour .... And he will also be aware of the fact that I will not leave him because love is also in him, otherwise he would not be able to believe in Me and My help ....

Amen

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Reply to questions ....

B.D. 6362 from September 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Nothing you desire to know is reserved for you, yet the cause of your desire for knowledge determines whether you will be considered by Me. For as long as your thoughts are only directed towards increasing your knowledge for the purpose of earthly evaluation or earthly success, you cannot expect that I will comply with your desire and that you will be truthfully considered by Me .... On the other hand, you can receive information about every question if you thereby want to penetrate deep spiritual knowledge in order to broaden your knowledge and use it for the benefit of your fellow human beings. Moreover, it is also decisive whether the knowledge you desire is necessary or beneficial for the maturing of the soul. For spiritual knowledge, which is imparted to you through My spirit, only ever contains that which is of value to you humans for your ascent development. Of necessity you must then also know about the context, about everything that underlies My eternal plan of salvation, you must be enlightened about the cause and the aim of My activity and work and, last but not least, about your own significance, about your beginning and your destiny .... in order to now also be able to understand everything that takes place in the whole of creation and in order to also be able to fulfil your earthly task .... Everything that is therefore necessary for this will be imparted to you, who desire the truth, who have shaped yourselves into a receptacle for My spirit, through My spirit, because it is My constant endeavour to introduce you to the truth and through you also to convey this truth to your fellow human beings. And if you humans therefore use this knowledge imparted to you through the spirit correctly, so that you live in accordance with My will, the knowledge will also benefit your soul, it will progress in its development and be able to reach the degree which makes it receptive to light and guarantees its entry into the kingdom of light. This alone is the purpose of the transmission of My word, that you humans will be helped to ascend from the abyss .... But if knowledge is desired which has no influence on the development and maturing of the soul, or if knowledge is desired by a person who does not have the maturity himself to be able to be taught by My spirit, then I will not fulfil his desire either, because I know whether and what is beneficial or detrimental for you. The human being should completely submit his will to Mine, he should ask Me to consider him in accordance with My will and then wait for what will come to him .... But if he nevertheless insists on his desire he gives another the opportunity to express his will .... he willingly opens himself to the influences from the opposite side and is thus now considered according to his desire .... yet not with pure truth but with error and lies which are intended to benefit the adversary but never signify the slightest success for the soul .... You should and can certainly ask Me about everything, and the answer from My side will always be such that it fills gaps if I see them and want to make up for a shortcoming in you. Yet if I refuse to give you an answer, then don't insist on it but comply .... but don't give My adversary the right to instruct you through your desire, who takes advantage of this for his own purposes .... And seriously ask yourselves what has moved you to ask a question which is not immediately answered by Me .... And then be mindful and hand yourselves over to Me and My protection .... Do not come forward with your will, but let your prayer always be: "Father, Thy will be done ...." and you will be protected from error and falsehood ....

Amen

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Contact with Jesus Christ in every adversity ....

B.D. 6363 from September 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans must be in heartfelt contact with Jesus Christ if you want to release yourselves from all flaws and weaknesses, from vices and cravings, from all kinds of bad habits .... if you want to become perfect. He alone can help you achieve it, and He will do so if you appeal for it and thereby testify to your faith in Him as the divine Redeemer. Therefore, as soon as you have to struggle, as soon as you are inwardly dissatisfied with yourselves, turn only to Him, for He fully understands every human weakness, because He lived on earth Himself as the human being Jesus .... But He also has the means to help you .... He strengthens your will and gives you the necessary strength for it from His treasure of grace, which He acquired through His death on the cross .... You will not take the path to Him in vain, you will definitely receive help if only you desire help .... And thus you should always take care to establish and maintain the connection with Him. No-one else can grant you help, He alone can and also wants to do so, because it is His Own will that you should become free from all shackles which pull you down, it is His Own will that you should regain your past perfection, so that He can admit you into His kingdom when you must leave this earth. He wants you to return into your Father's house to become as happy again as you were in the beginning .... For this reason He will do everything in His power to make this return possible for you, and He will not hold back His gifts of grace, for He descended to earth in order to help you, because you were no longer capable of ascending to the light on your own .... He died for you humans on the cross and does not want to have made this sacrifice in vain, it is His will that all people shall partake in the blessings of the sacrifice on the cross .... that they will all reach the goal for which He sacrificed Himself ....

However, you must come to Him yourselves, you must entrust yourselves to Him in your distress and appeal for His help and it will be given to you. For this reason you should always become conscious of His presence .... You need only call Him to your side with a thought and He will walk beside you wherever you go .... The mental contact with Him will assure His presence, and if Jesus Christ is close to you, you will speak to Him like a brother and confide in Him; tell Him everything that bothers you, but let your requests be more of a spiritual nature, even though you will also receive His full support in earthly adversities .... But first consider the state of your soul and, if you discover imperfections, approach Jesus Christ trustingly with the plea to release you from every shackle, from every evil which separates you from Him. Treat Jesus Christ with the same familiarity as you treat your brother, and don't be shy to reveal even your most secret faults and sins to Him. His love is infinite and He will forgive them and help you achieve complete freedom because you acknowledge Him, because you believe in Him and His act of Salvation. Yet no-one who excludes Him from his life, who does not acknowledge Jesus' act of Salvation and God's human manifestation in Him, can cope with his faults and vices by himself, for he will lack all strength and his resolve to seriously tackle the work of changing his nature will be weak .... He will not be able to achieve anything until he has entrusted himself to the divine Redeemer .... for every person who wants to be released from the control of God's adversary must call upon Jesus Christ and hand himself over to Him with complete trust .... Only then can he be saved, only then will he have the strength to change himself in order to enter the spiritual kingdom in a redeemed state, in order to return into the Father's house for good ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Beings from other worlds? ....

B.D. 6364 from September 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

There is spiritual contact between the earth and other worlds as long as it concerns beings of light which influence you on My behalf into taking the right path that leads to Me. The world of light constantly endeavours to influence you in a helpful sense .... But the forces of darkness, too, use every opportunity to mislead you, to keep you from the path of truth in order to confuse your thoughts. And much will happen, especially during the last days before the end, which you humans will not be able to explain .... Yet always remember that people have to take the path to Me without force, that My side will never use phenomena to compel people into believing, even when people experience utmost spiritual distress. Always remember that the world of light works on My instruction, thus it would never do anything of its own accord which does not comply with My will and My wisdom.

Therefore, if 'beings of light' consider helping you they will never choose an appearance which will cause doubt, confusion and questionable results in human beings, but they will always express themselves to people in all clarity .... and always such that they can be recognised as sources of light. And then they will always express themselves to those who want to establish spiritual contact for the purpose of spiritual ascent .... But they will never exert a disturbing influence by using inexplicable means, for they want to drive out ambiguity, they want to give light and not increase the darkness which is spread by every unnatural phenomenon .... Countless beings of light are concerned for your spiritual wellbeing .... Countless spiritual beings want to help you to still find the light before the end .... For the end will come without fail .... because My love and wisdom also considers the spiritual substances bound in hard matter which one day shall also be released from the solid form .... You humans willingly interfere with My natural laws and will thus cause the final work of destruction on this earth yourselves .... Nor would the presentation of those who know dissuade you from your intention, even if the angels from heaven came down to warn you .... otherwise I would not constantly have referred to the end through seers and prophets if I had detected even the slightest change of will ....

Thus, your intention can no longer be prevented, the end will come without fail .... And therefore the concern of the spiritual world only ever applies to your soul .... And this is attempted by good as well as by evil forces, only in completely different ways .... The world of light only ever appeals to your spirit, whereas the world of darkness appeals to your senses .... The world of light reveals itself to you in various ways but always through mediators who, due to their spiritual maturity, are in contact with the beings of light, so that they are then able to pass these revelations on to their fellow human beings .... In contrast, the world of darkness expresses itself directly .... It addresses people at random, it finds belief with its own followers and causes confusion with others, and no positive results will come to light .... No definite divine manifestation of strength will be recognisable but constant questioning, constant ambiguity can be observed wherever evil powers are at work .... But whatever comes from above, whatever originates from Me or the world of light on My orders will always spread light .... And only by the light will you humans be able to recognise the working of the light, but then you will no longer question but know ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Poverty does not prevent activity of love ....

B.D. 6365 from September 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Even the poorest of the poor can acquire the kingdom of heaven .... For it is possible for every human being to fulfil My will .... My will is unselfish activity of love .... And no matter how poor the person is in respect of earthly goods, he can still practise neighbourly love because it does not merely consists of giving material goods. Even the most underprivileged person can ignite the flame of love within himself, precisely because of his poverty he is able to assess the situation of a fellow human being's hardship, and the sincere will to help alone is love which strives to become active. Love is not measured by the material value of what it gives, it is the degree of love which is decisive, and then even the smallest gift can be extremely highly valued .... But a heart full of love can also communicate itself to people in other ways and always for their benefit, because it awakens mutual love .... Every kind word, every interest in his fellow human being's fate, every kind glance or active help can penetrate a hardened heart and soften it .... The other person can be more touched by it than material help can achieve since precisely the giver's poverty convinces him of his genuine love which then will also be reciprocated, and a ray of love has ignited .... And if a person living in poverty still passes on even the little he owns then he will acquire substantial treasures for eternity .... But he will also receive material help, and his poverty will also provide him with the greatest blessing, because his longing for material possessions will die down the more helpful he is towards his fellow human being, and thus he will much sooner learn to overcome matter than a person who lives in the midst of earthly wealth.

Heartfelt love does not depend on the quantity of earthly possessions. Love is a feeling within a person's heart which constantly wants to be active and will also always find some kind of occupation. If only in the fact that a person will take care of his fellow human being, that he will not indifferently pass him by, that he will make him aware of dangers or help him find the right path .... The human being is able to express his love in every way and his love will always be felt with gratitude and awaken love in return .... Therefore no person will be able to say that he was prevented from loving activity as a result of poverty .... Love has nothing whatsoever to do with material wealth, for even the most underprivileged person can implore Me from the bottom of his loving heart to take care of and help his unhappy neighbour because he himself is incapable of doing so .... But a prayer like that first requires love in the person's heart, and only then will it be effective .... For I will see his good will and for the sake of his love I Am gladly willing to help .... Unselfish love could relieve so much hardship; yet it is lacking in humanity and everyone just thinks of himself and ignores his fellow human being's adversity .... People who offset their earthly poverty will acquire great treasures which they will be allowed to take along into the kingdom of the beyond as everlasting possessions .... They will be wealthy over there because they also considered the poor even though they did not live in abundance themselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God force or entity? ....

B.D. 6366 from September 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You can observe a constant coming into being and passing away of everything that is visible to you .... Nothing remains unchanged, everything changes, often imperceptibly but nevertheless undeniably, and every work of creation takes on a different form over time. And you humans also experience this change in yourselves, you can observe constant transformations in yourselves from becoming to passing away, because a life-affirming strength flows through you and every strength has an effect .... and a strength effect is always a transforming one. So you will not be able to deny a force that flows through everything visible to you .... and you will, if you are of an awakened spirit, have to conclude from this that there is a source of strength from which this life-awakening strength constantly emanates .... You will have to acknowledge something which you cannot fathom but whose existence is proven to you precisely by the life constantly flowing through you, by the coming into being and passing away of creations visible to you and by your own coming into being and living .... Every person could make these observations and thus also adopt the conviction that there is a God Who is to be addressed as a source of strength .... But Who is also to be recognized as essential, because the strength flowing from Him does not work arbitrarily but reveals a lawful order which, in turn, suggests an ability to think and thus an essential deity Who, in supreme wisdom and power, uses the strength flowing from Him in a constructive sense by allowing works to come into being which are not created without meaning and purpose. All of you humans could come to this mental conclusion, and the belief in a wise, powerful creator should now also prompt you to ask what determines this creator's rule and activity, which is expressed in everything visible to you. And you would now also be able to give yourselves the answer to these questions if you, who are creatively inclined, become clear to yourselves about what drives you to be creatively active. You create what you love .... Love is always the driving force within you for everything you do in free will .... Even if this love is still wrongly directed, but it is the impetus for you to become active .... The creator, Whom you are able to recognize in His works, is the eternal love Itself, Which empties Itself in order to let the strength of love become effective, in order to awaken life .... Creation reveals this God of love, wisdom and omnipotence to you, and your own emergence, your ability to think and your free will let you recognize that you are also beings who are able to use the strength for creative activity if only you want to receive it .... which your free will has to decide to do .... that you consciously make contact with the source of strength from eternity and open yourselves to receive the strength. You can gain the basic conviction in order to then also entrust yourselves to this being you have recognized and to hand yourselves over to Him as your creator and father, so that He will instruct you to use the strength in His will .... (9/28/1955) It will be clear to you that you have to draw your strength from a source, thus also that you have to be in contact with this source yourselves, otherwise your life would be endangered. But the fact that the strength flows through you for a specific purpose should also be understandable to you, because you cannot deny the creator's wisdom when you look at the works of creation around you .... For a wise creator does not let anything come into being without meaning and purpose, thus the existence of the human being must likewise have a meaning and purpose .... And you should try to fathom this meaning and purpose .... However, only the creator Himself will ever be able to give you information about it, for the fellow human being is in the same degree of development and he could only impart truthful information to you if he had received it himself beforehand from the one Who created everything in love, wisdom and power .... Therefore you must take one path in order to gain the right knowledge about the meaning and purpose of existence .... the path to God, the creator and sustainer of all that exists .... You must ask Him Who brought you into being as beings capable of thinking, thus laying the foundation in you for understanding and working according to your knowledge .... And then you will learn what you were in the beginning, what you became through your own fault and what you shall become again .... And you will learn that everything created, everything visible to you, is only created for the purpose that you reach your final aim .... to become perfect again, as you were in the beginning .... The fact that you have lacked this knowledge until now, that you often cannot even believe in a God and creator from eternity and in the connection between Him and His creatures .... that you are all faced with a great riddle which you cannot solve with your intellect alone is proof of this lower degree of knowledge, of your lost perfection through your own fault, otherwise everything would be bright and clear before your eyes and you would not need to ask but would know .... But you have been given the gift of understanding, you can absorb everything that surrounds you into your senses .... Therefore you can think and also certainly come to the right result if you approach God and creator, who has become a conviction within you, for clarification, if you mentally approach Him and desire clarification from Him .... He will not deny it to you, He will hand it out with full hands, He will kindle a light in you, for this is His aim, to make right children out of you, to lead you back to perfection and to change the state of ignorance into a state of clearest knowledge which makes you happy and reveals God's love, wisdom and omnipotence to you ever more. Your creator and father of eternity wants you to become perfect again as you originally emerged from Him; He does not want you to remain in the abyss but He will continue to help you ascend, yet you must give the impetus yourselves through your desire to ascend .... You must use the gifts you have received from God yourselves, you must use your intellect and your free will correctly .... But He will always help you to find Him and seek to join Him .... But then your path will constantly lead upwards, then you will be guided from darkness to light, and you will be able to recognize His might and glory and His endless love and eternally unite yourselves with your love for Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Opening the gate to bliss ....

B.D. 6367 from September 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Follow Me into the kingdom I have opened for you .... Walk the same path I walked and you will reach the aim, the union with the eternal love, a life of eternal bliss .... I walked this path consciously as a human being on earth because I was drawn by eternal love, which I did not oppose because I was devoted to My heavenly father with all My love .... The love for Him was in Me and grew ever greater the longer I stayed on earth, and through this love which filled Me I also recognized the unspeakable hardship of fellow human beings who completely lacked love and therefore lay powerless on the ground, bound by a power which was devoid of all love .... My love brought this knowledge to Me .... and the knowledge increased My love again, for now it also applied to the unhappy brothers who once stood in the light and had fallen abysmally into darkness .... I became ever more powerful through the influx of love and therefore felt strong enough to fight against the one who held My brothers captive, for I knew that My heavenly father would never withdraw My strength of love but only increase it because I wanted to bring His children back to Him, to whom His love also belonged but whom His adversary had in control. But the battle against him meant an unheard-of sacrifice of love .... I had to defeat him with an act of love through which his power was broken .... I had to sacrifice something for all fallen brothers in order to ransom them from their tormentor, I had to pay the ransom, for he never released the souls which had belonged to him since the fall into the deep .... and so I gave My life on the cross .... My overflowing love prompted Me to do so, and I longed for the father's love .... And He gave it to Me, filling Me completely, and so the father took complete possession of Me .... And everything I now did, the 'father' accomplished in Me .... And so I walked the path to the cross, as a human being, but driven by the 'love' in Me, which could not help but bring salvation to the fallen who languished in great need .... And My way of the cross led directly to the father .... the gate was open and it remains open for everyone who walks the same path as I do .... the path of love .... Walking the path of love means constant approach to eternal love and thus also the entrance into the kingdom of light and bliss .... For the loving human being is filled with the power of God, and he will be able to free himself from the bonds if he follows Me, if he looks to Me, if he carries Me in his heart, if he loves Me, just as the man Jesus loved Me .... For through love he then draws Me to himself and receives unlimited strength to walk the path of following Jesus .... There is no other way to Me than that of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... He was My son, Whom I sent down to earth, Who, with a heart full of love, constantly yearned for Me and My love and in Whom I, as the eternal love, could then also embody Myself .... He accomplished the work of salvation because His love was for you as His fallen brothers .... And for the sake of this great love I have opened the gate to paradise, to eternal bliss, through which all of you can enter who follow Jesus Christ, the redeemer of humanity .... who walk the path of love that irrevocably leads to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Servants of the end time ....

B.D. 6368 from September 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The servant's wages shall be according to his labour .... I have still hired you at the last hour because much work is still to be done until the day draws near. I need many labourers in My vineyard, and I will reward all of them according to justice and righteousness, but My servants' work will also have to be valued differently, the harder it is and the less time is allotted for it. For it will require considerably more strength and love in the last days, before the end, to make the hardened soil fertile, My servants will not be allowed to tire and will have to carry out their activity with full zeal, otherwise they will not be able to do it and the time would have passed uselessly .... And I know how difficult it is in the last days to win people's hearts for Me, to preach My word to them with success .... I also know what faith My servants on earth have to muster themselves in order to be able to stand up for what they teach out of conviction .... I also know how much these servants have to struggle for their faith themselves because they stand in the midst of a faithless world and experience little support but much hostility. And that is why I give them special credit for their willingness to work and provide them with abundant strength and grace, and one day I will reward them royally .... And I will strengthen their faith unusually because I see their serious will with which they want to serve Me. For this reason I can also give them unusual consideration, for the preconditions are given under which I can work .... that their will is completely devoted to Me, thus they are no longer chained to My adversary. And now you will also understand why the last shall receive the same reward as the first, even though they only have a short time left in office .... These last ones will go through the great battle of faith and it will require much strength and faith to stand firm, because it almost seems like an illusion what they represent and for which they take all privations and sufferings upon themselves .... Consequently, they will carry out a labour of grubbing which requires all strength and which they nevertheless gladly render to Me, which is why I, as father of the house, will take care of them bodily and spiritually, now and for eternity. But you should not work for Me for the sake of reward, for if this were only the driving force you would truly not be able to endure the last, difficult time .... But if love for Me and your neighbour drives you to your vineyard work, then it will be blessed, because love itself is the strength which enables you to do so despite the greatest resistance. But anyone who wants to serve Me must then only remain in My world, he must not look back to the earthly world he has left, he must fully consciously want to exchange this world with the kingdom for which he is now to create and work .... He must acknowledge Me as unlimited ruler and voluntarily submit himself to all My instructions, he must completely relinquish his will and make himself Mine .... He must serve for My sake, not for the sake of reward .... Only then can he work successfully, for then My blessing will be upon everything he undertakes. Then he will be filled with My strength, which he will acquire through his love in full measure .... And then he will also be granted a glorious fate in the spiritual kingdom, for everyone will receive as he deserves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Everlasting notice to the work of love ....

B.D. 6369 from October 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Again and again you are addressed by Me because I have infinitely much to say to you and because I have to repeat much to you so that it will deeply penetrate your hearts, so that you will never forget it again, because it belongs to the knowledge which will make you happy in the spiritual kingdom. Therefore, again and again I have to present to you what you still don't attach enough importance to, only then can I guide you into deeper knowledge which, however, you can always increase, which always opens up new areas for you and always brings you new knowledge. My flow of love will never be exhausted, and this means as much as that wisdom, too, never has limits .... that you can therefore always and constantly receive from Me and yet you will never have reached the bottom of knowledge .... but that unlimited beatitudes still await you, just as My flow of love is unlimited. There is much you still need to know, yet this also requires your unlimited will to love .... If this falters then the supply of knowledge must also necessarily falter, but if your will to love increases then the supply of knowledge will also be increased .... And thus you yourselves determine the degree of knowledge in which you stand .... I am always willing to hand out, yet I cannot give where the prerequisites are not fulfilled .... where the vessel does not open so that My flow of love can flow in, so that I can pour out My spirit into that vessel .... Therefore I speak to you again and again and draw your attention to the first condition .... that you practice love .... And therefore these words must always be repeated, for you do not yet understand the importance of working in love, you do not yet know the full extent of the effect of a life of love .... Again and again I will point out to you humans to kindle love in yourselves; but if you do so you will also be able to receive an unlimited amount of knowledge and it will become ever more enlightened in you .... But then you cannot help but live a life of love, and then I will always be with you to speak to you and to present everything to you which will help you to become blissfully happy. But as long as love is not mentioned enough, the right purpose of life will not be fulfilled either, and this means a darkened spirit, it means a lack of knowledge, misguided thinking and walking in error .... both on the part of those who should proclaim My teaching of love as well as on the part of people who are thus deprived of the teaching of love .... And too little love is preached .... The name of Jesus Christ is so often spoken by those who feel called to proclaim the truth .... Yet far too little mention is made of My teaching of love, otherwise it should look better among humanity which only knows the commandment of love by hearsay, but does not fulfil it .... For love has grown cold amongst people and too little is done to rekindle it .... For this reason I Myself speak to people again and again, and wherever it is possible to instruct people through My spirit I will always emphasize love, I will always point out to them that love is the first thing you have to consider .... Again and again I will make the effects of a way of life in love obvious and also give people abundant opportunities to be active in love .... But I will also impart profound knowledge to those who fulfil My commandments of love, knowledge which will enliven them and make them strive ever more eagerly towards ascent, knowledge which they can increase themselves at any time because there are no limits to their activity of love either and because the light which emerges from the fire of love will shine ever brighter ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love is the way to knowledge ....

B.D. 6370 from October 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I can certainly open up great knowledge to you, yet once your will rejected everything that radiated from Me in the form of strength of love and thus also left you standing in the light, in knowledge .... You voluntarily rejected it, and voluntarily you now have to request it again .... And you will receive without limitation. But the light will not be given to you against your will, for it is indisputably connected with love .... If you are not active in love then My ray of love cannot touch you either, and you will irrevocably remain in darkness which you have created for yourselves, which you have chosen yourselves, although you had light in all abundance. You must always remember that you are My living creations and, as evidence of this, also have free will, for freedom of thought, will and action is proof of your divinity, and as long as this freedom is somehow still curtailed you are not in the state of divine beings but are imperfectly formed. And since nothing imperfect can come forth from Me, but you are undoubtedly beings created by Me, this shaping into imperfection must have happened by yourselves .... Thus you must also reshape yourselves again into the former perfection in order to be able to create and work in full possession of light and strength, as is your destiny .... And thus the knowledge which corresponds to the truth can certainly be conveyed to you .... But you will not be able to grasp it, you will not be ready to accept it, until you have carried out the work of transformation on yourselves in free will .... until you again shape yourselves into the love in which you were originally created. Then you will be in fullest realization, then you will think and want right .... And your actions will also be in accordance with My will because they will be determined by love .... Then you will also recognize Me as the eternal love, and you will recognize yourselves .... which you are not capable of in the state of imperfection .... And thus it is also understandable that the human being is constantly unclear about himself and his purpose of existence, if he does not even completely deny a purpose of life .... For he is of dark spirit, he cannot grasp or recognize anything as long as he walks along without love, as long as no light can shine in him because he has not kindled a fire within himself .... The intellect can certainly create a substitute light for itself .... But this light will have no illuminating power, it will rather blind the eye so that it will lose the ability to recognize a faint twilight and take the direction which leads out of the darkness of night to the light of day .... If only you humans would believe that you cannot accomplish anything without Me .... that I Myself am love .... that you therefore cannot take one step forward in earthly life without love .... And your thoughts will soon take a different direction, many things will now be understandable to you, and full of conviction you will then be able to accept knowledge which previously seemed completely untrue to you .... You can only attain wisdom on the path of love .... and acquire eternal life .... And then you will also be able to understand why I said "I am the way, the truth and the life' ...." and why I only ever preached love on earth and also lived it out Myself .... The man Jesus, too, could only acquire His knowledge by living a life of love .... He, too, could only achieve complete deification, the fusion with eternal love, through love .... He has achieved it, and all of you should follow Him in order to become again what you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of the word on souls in the afterlife ....

B.D. 6371 from October 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans cannot imagine the hardship the souls are in in the spiritual kingdom if they have not attained the light of realization on earth .... It is a state of feeling which causes them unspeakable agony and which takes effect according to their nature .... that the souls rebel in indignation against their fate and the one Who has imposed it on them, and therefore they sink ever deeper and fall into ever greater adversity .... or that they let themselves drift silently and in despair, that they stray and hope to find a way out and then can also find it if they allow themselves to be guided, if a being offers them guidance .... It is the darkness which unspeakably torments all souls because they know what light means, because they have not yet lost the memory of light in earthly life. But the further a soul sinks, the more hateful it now is towards the light it is denied .... until finally even rays of light torment it when they are touched by it and it now flees the light, which, however, betrays such a deep fall that not enough intercession can be made for those souls in order to redeem them. Light is everything in the spiritual kingdom, light is bliss, cessation of all torment, light is proof of approach to God, and where light is, there the opposing power has lost. And if you humans now consider that this word, which flows to you as God's emanation of love, signifies light which you can turn to these souls in distress .... if you consider that through the divine word you have the opportunity to take the tormenting darkness from the souls, to kindle a light for them, and thus you can release them from torment .... if you consider that you possess light in abundance and can let this light shine out into dark areas .... where every spark of light is glimpsed, just as the souls eagerly rush towards every ray of light .... no matter how weak it may be .... you should not neglect to help those souls in darkness, and you should also remember in loving intercession those who are hardened and dwell in abysmal spheres and call them by your prayer and your loving will to help, if you distribute the divine word, if you give God Himself the opportunity through your love to address the souls through your mouth .... His word has an immeasurable effect of strength, His word can melt the hardest ice, His word can make the most hardened heart soft and pliable, but it cannot be conveyed to the souls against their will .... Mediators must be found who, out of love, willingly want to help the souls, who, as bearers of light, can kindle a light everywhere and thus also show the wandering souls a way to emerge from darkness into light .... The hardship in the spiritual kingdom is far greater than on earth, because on earth people adhere to blind lights and therefore do not feel the darkness in this way, even though the soul is already enveloped in deepest spiritual darkness and now enters the beyond in this state, where everything earthly falls away, where there is nothing more than what the soul has acquired for itself in earthly life in terms of spiritual goods .... Then the soul can no longer help itself, then it is dependent on the help of others, on your intercession and help through beings in the beyond, but which it will only accept once it has experienced the strength of intercession. Have mercy on these souls and convey the divine word to them, which alone can give them light and remedy their adversity if it is conveyed to them out of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Effect of distress on faith ....

B.D. 6372 from October 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

In times of great earthly adversity some people find their way back to their God and creator as soon as all earthly hope in them is destroyed and they no longer see any other way out than to call upon God for help. They have not yet completely lost their faith in God, only it has been suppressed by the world, by the influences of their fellow human beings and their own indifference .... This is why the thoughts always resurface when a person is in earthly adversity .... Faith can now become great strength through the often miraculous help through which God now expresses Himself .... And then the earthly adversity will not have been pointless, it will have helped the human being to progress spiritually, and his path can now lead ever further .... he will no longer lose faith, and the soul is saved for eternity .... But how many people sink back into their worldly life and also immediately give up faith when they see themselves in carefree living conditions again, when the earthly adversity is over .... Even if they have obviously experienced divine help they are more inclined to regard such as a coincidence, and they turn away from God again to now sink deeper than ever into their faithlessness .... to serve the world more than ever and thus the one who is lord of the earthly world .... Trying to win these people back through renewed adversity is mostly hopeless, for now they are increasingly helped by God's adversary, because they themselves have devoted themselves to him through their obvious rejection of God .... And they will always become more addicted to the world because they will always be considered more worldly by it. These people will certainly be approached by God in many ways, thus they would be able to find their way back to Him if they seriously took themselves to court .... Yet it becomes increasingly more difficult for these people because their desire for matter becomes ever more intense and the great earthly hardship before remains a spectre for them which they believe they can escape through increased earthly striving .... And they do not consider that everything is transient, that everything can be taken away from them at any time if it is in the will of the one Who created everything .... Their faith in this God and creator has probably been lost, yet deep in their hearts there is always the inexplicable fear of renewed strokes of fate .... So man also knows that there is a power that is stronger than he is and that he is at the mercy of this power .... He can believe in it, but he does not want to burden himself with this belief and therefore intellectually rejects something which his innermost feelings must accept .... He does not want to believe and is therefore far more responsible for his actions .... And God's adversary uses this very unwillingness and rewards him with earthly goods .... But every person can find his way back to God at any time .... He will be helped in every way, but it is always up to him how he decides ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Paradise of the new earth ....

B.D. 6373 from October 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The earth will lose its old appearance, completely new creations will arise, extremely attractive regions will delight people who will enliven this new earth .... A new period of time will begin but under completely different conditions, because it is no longer necessary for creation to develop slowly .... because external forms only have to be produced again for the maturing spiritual substance which correspond to the degree of maturity .... but because all degrees of development already exist, thus creations of all kinds can be given to this spiritual substance as external cover. Therefore a long period of creation is no longer necessary but at the moment the new earth can be created .... that is, the surface of the previous earth .... can be reshaped. The lawfulness always observed by God will nevertheless not be overturned, for the people of the new earth do not know the time in which the new creation took place, even though the knowledge of it could no longer harm them, since they have recognized God's power and glory after what has gone before and are fully believing, so that even unusual activity on God's part does not mean a compulsion of faith for them. A completely new phase begins in the lives of these people who will be raptured at the end to be brought back to the new earth as a tribe of the new generation. They certainly feel on earth again, but their souls are already spiritualized to such an extent that the barriers in which people otherwise move on earth fall away. The spiritual kingdom is accessible to them insofar as they are in contact with the beings of the kingdom of light, that they can communicate with them unhindered, that they no longer have to suffer from earthly heaviness and that their life is only of service to the next generation which, although it also has a certain degree of maturity, is nevertheless already more connected with earth due to its spiritual ascent. There will be a state of peace and bliss on earth because evil will be silenced for a long time, because the originator of evil is bound and can no longer exert any influence on people and therefore a good harvest for the kingdom of light can be recorded for a long time .... where the complete redemption from the form is assured and thus God's adversary will also lose an immense amount of power because his followers will constantly decrease .... until one day he will free himself from the fetter again because people themselves will help him to do so .... because their will will turn more towards matter again, which means liberation for God's adversary .... But it will take a long time until this happens, because the world of light is infinitely capable of .... The direct contact with people on earth has the best influence on them, and people's will is always directed upwards, for the strength of love works so powerfully in them, love for God fills their being, and they only ever want, think and act in His will .... They are intimately united with Him through love and guide themselves as well as that which is bound in creation .... surrounding them .... to redemption .... The new earth will be a paradise such as you humans cannot imagine .... But blessed is he who may experience it .... Blessed is he who endures to the end, for he will be partaker of a life on earth in bliss ....

Amen

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Whatever you ask the Father in My name .... '

B.D. 6374 from October 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

And you will truly receive whatever you ask for in My name .... You have to call upon Me in Jesus Christ .... Only someone who acknowledges Me, the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, who recognises his God and Father in Him and thus prays to the 'Father', will find his request granted, for he will be guided by My spirit to the One from Whom he once originated .... Whoever does not acknowledge Jesus, the Son of Man, as the heavenly Father's representative .... whoever does not believe that I embodied Myself in Jesus the human being, will not send a prayer to Me in complete trust either .... even if he doesn't deny a 'God', but instead his belief in a God and Creator was purely acquired and did not come alive in him .... For a living faith is the result of love, but love also acknowledges Jesus Christ as God's Son and Redeemer of the world, Who merged with His Father of eternity .... Thus he will no longer separate the Redeemer Jesus Christ from the Eternal Deity, he will have been enlightened by his spirit that He and I are one .... And his prayer will always be granted, for he will only ever request something I can give to him without damaging his soul ....

You humans will only be able to understand the true meaning of My Words if My spirit can work in you .... My spirit, however, can only work in you if you allow it to do so, if you, through a life of love, provide it with the opportunity to express itself to you .... But then you will accept My Word as if it was directly spoken to you, for then I will address My children and with My Word will also simultaneously give them the understanding for it .... And then you will be able to consider yourselves blessed, for your soul will receive light .... it will begin to understand, it will mature, for then you will also do everything I ask of you. You will comply with My will and shape yourselves increasingly more into love, and your soul will perfect itself while it is still on earth ....

Call upon Me in Jesus Christ and first of all pray to achieve this perfection on earth .... And truly, you will not make this prayer to Me in vain .... For hearing a spiritual request is most pleasing to Me, a spiritual request will be fulfilled, because the Father won't deny His child anything and because the human being already demonstrates his childship by appealing to Me for help to become perfect .... And always pray that you become and stay aware of My presence .... Then you will constantly walk your earthly path in company with your eternal Father, then you can never go wrong, then you will mentally dwell increasingly more in spiritual spheres and your progress will be assured. You could achieve so much if you remember My Word and conduct yourselves in accordance with My Words .... if you 'ask the Father in My name ....'

Earthly and spiritually you cannot make an inappropriate request, I will always grant your wishes, for I made this promise to you and I keep My Word. Call upon the divine Redeemer with Whom the Father united Himself .... Call to God in Jesus Christ .... Then you, too, will belong to the redeemed, then you will have penetrated the mystery of God's human manifestation .... For unredeemed people completely lack the belief that I embodied Myself in the human being Jesus .... But you demonstrate this belief when you ask 'the Father in My name' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mental activity ....

B.D. 6375 from October 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

What is a thought? .... This question can never be answered scientifically as long as the researchers do not penetrate spiritual knowledge themselves, as long as they merely try to solve it intellectually, for the origin of thought is the spiritual realm .... Thoughts are emanations from the spiritual realm which encircle you humans like waves in order to be either accepted or rejected depending on your will .... They are emanations which affect and activate your thinking organs if you are willing, i.e. if you deliberately make contact with the beings which emanate these thoughts to you. This is an exchange and a process by forces .... but it is brought about by two sides; nevertheless, it is left up to the human being's will as to which side he establishes contact with .... You ought to know that you were created such that all organs have to carry out a specific activity, and particular organs exist for every function which work according to a person's will, partly still subject to natural law because they have a life-preserving function. Furthermore, you should know that you are granted a certain amount of freedom for the duration of your earthly life .... which shows itself in the fact that the function of specific organs depends on you will, because it shall test and prove itself during earthly life .... And this also requires your intellectual activity, which you can develop yourselves by using the thinking ability that was given to you for that purpose. But this ability to think does not consist of the fact that you generate the thoughts yourselves, but you must, by virtue of your thinking ability, allow something that flows to you, something spiritual, which constantly surrounds you like waves, to take effect in you .... You must accept the thoughts flowing to you and process them with your intellect; however, it is up to you as to whether you pick these thoughts up or which thoughts you pick up, yet the will and the choice are crucial for your higher psychological development .... Thoughts are spiritual emanations of strength which originate in an inconceivable abundance of light from God Himself .... they are first received by beings of light which, in turn, seek to impart happiness with their gift and this means that they constantly pass it on to all entities, to all who are capable of thinking. However, the prince of darkness, as he is now, had once also been a recipient of light and strength. He, too, transmits emanations from himself to the created beings .... And thus the human being, as a cogitative entity, is able to receive thought currents from both sides, the emanations of good and evil forces will always express themselves as thought waves; the human being will always accept those thoughts which correspond to his will, thoughts will never exert a forcible influence but merely come to the fore or be rejected according to a person's will and nature ....

The human being, however, can never be the originator of his thoughts himself .... he does not have the ability to produce these thoughts himself, even though he is frequently convinced of the fact that everything he gained through his intellectual activity is his own spiritual product .... He merely avails himself of the thought currents surrounding him .... and, by virtue of his thinking ability bestowed upon him by the Creator, is also able to use them to an exceptionally high degree .... And time and again enlightened thoughts will emerge in a person who is more inclined towards dark thought currents .... Yet thoughts, regardless from which direction, will never take root in the thinking organs against a person's will .... And that is his own function, to choose which thought he wants to attend to .... Thinking ability has to be understood as being able to deal with the currents which touch a person as 'thoughts', to understand their meaning, to put them into logical order .... thus to make use of all thoughts flowing to him .... But this first requires the will .... For the human being is not forced to become receptive to the thought waves flowing to him, thus he can reject the thoughts if he is mentally somewhat sluggish .... just as, on the other hand, he can pick up the thoughts coming from below, which are bad and worthless in substance .... His will always determines the direction of thoughts as well as their origin .... Thought currents from the world of light have, if the human being's will is prepared to accept them, an effect of strength at the same time, which sharpens and refines the person's thinking ability .... Thus, a person occupying himself with spiritual questions accepts these questions from beings in the realm of light too, the thought waves trigger a desire in his soul to receive an explanation. This desire is picked up by the thinking organs and only from this moment on does the person's intellect become aware of it. Then contact has been established with the being which sent him the emanation .... which carries out its task on God's instruction or on the instruction of His adversary: to spread light or darkness. Every thought is the expression of a being which is either of service to God or to His adversary .... yet never the human being's product, for even in a state of perfection one day in the spiritual kingdom the being will only ever emanate that which it receives from the source .... from God Himself .... as strength of love, which incorporates supreme wisdom ....

From the diversity of people's thinking it is clear that innumerably different degrees of knowledge distinguish the spiritual beings but that they all have access to the human being, because he can protect himself through his will from error or imperfect spiritual knowledge and because God also grants His adversary the same right to influence a person .... on account of the decision of will, which is the purpose and goal of earthly life as a human being .... A person's thinking ability can also weigh up various thoughts against each other .... The person can reach a conclusion and only on account of this conclusion can his will change its initial direction, and as soon as he is of good will his intellect will defend itself against untrue mental knowledge .... For the light beings' effort, which live in absolute truth, will never cease to send the right thoughts to people in their care, and they conscientiously comply with their mission to spread light and truth and to dispel the darkness .... And a heart which opens itself, a person who desires the truth, may receive a wealth of thoughts to which he will respond .... The emanations from the kingdom of light will also kindle a bright light in himself, the person will believe to have reached the conclusions through his own thinking which, however, is only insofar correct as that he has made use of his thinking ability in order to take possession of the spiritual information which previously flowed to him .... but which will now remain with him, which he will also be able to emanate again if he is allowed to carry out a blissful activity in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Seriously striving for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 6376 from October 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

All of you strive far too little for the kingdom of God and its glories .... even if you believe that you will enter this kingdom one day .... even if it is your will that this kingdom shall be your home sooner or later .... Nevertheless, you are still not serious enough about your transformation into love, without which you will never be able to take possession of God’s kingdom .... You are still very weak-willed and do not call often enough upon the only One Who can sufficiently strengthen your will. As long as the world still attracts you, you will not be entirely devoted to the One Who alone can make His kingdom with all its glories accessible to you. In that case you still want to serve two masters, or, in other words: The control of one master is still too powerful to let you break free of him and hand yourselves over completely to the other master .... for it is not possible to serve both masters at the same time, because their demands on you are of an entirely opposite nature .... However, if you want to acquire God’s kingdom with all its glory, you must separate yourselves from the world and its enticements .... You must exert all your strength of will and only consciously strive for this kingdom, otherwise you will run the risk of being held captive by the world and thereby completely depriving yourselves of the kingdom of God. You must make your decision in all seriousness, you must become aware of the fact that only a strong will can reach the goal, and you must appeal for this strong will if you still feel too weak to resist the enticements of the world .... The world can offer you very little compared to the glories of the kingdom which is not of this world .... and for the sake of enjoying minutes or hours of happiness you sacrifice the whole of eternity .... Nor should you defer your intention to seriously deal with the goal .... You do not know how much time you have left, you do not know when your last hour will come and whether it will take you by surprise so that you will no longer be able to do anything for the salvation of your soul .... For the indifference of someone who knows is worse than a worldly person’s complete lack of knowledge .... Yet they are both still impressed by the world; consequently, it is most advisable to fight such temptations and cravings .... None of you grasp the seriousness of the time. However, many of you would be able to release yourselves from the world, those who are faithful when they call upon Jesus Christ for help, for reinforcement of will, for the strength to withstand temptations .... You humans are weak-willed and God’s adversary will do anything to take advantage of that. God’s adversary will always lay his hands on you where you are still vulnerable .... However, you can release yourselves from him, for whatever your strength cannot manage to do, will be done by the One Who died for you on the cross in order to purchase the blessings of a stronger will on your behalf .... Call upon Him when your soul is in need of help .... when God’s adversary uses his artful trickery, when he uses the pleasures of the world to attract you; and you will suddenly realise how empty and shallow what he presents to your eyes is. You will turn away from him and follow the call of the One who wants to open His kingdom for you, Who one day would like to provide you with all beatitudes in His kingdom.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Conditions for receiving the truth ....

B.D. 6377 from October 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You are mentally introduced to truth but only ever if you fulfil the conditions in order to be able to be taught in a spiritual way. You can certainly accept knowledge from people .... But you will only be able to examine and assess its truth when the spirit is active in you, when it can reveal the pure truth to you itself. Therefore, by fulfilling conditions you must prepare yourselves such that you are able to hear the voice of the spirit within you, that you are able to order your thoughts correctly and make a right judgment. This would certainly be possible for every person, and therefore every person could stand in truth, yet most lack the will to subject themselves to the conditions, for it is required: the convinced acknowledgement of God .... thus a living faith. And from this it follows that love must also be kindled in the human being, because only this will result in a living faith. Furthermore, the human being must desire the truth .... For he can only ever be considered according to his desire, because all compulsion of will on God's part is eliminated, but the imparting of truth would always be faith-determining, thus the freedom of will would be limited. Moreover, only a person who desires truth fulfils the further requirements of asking the giver of truth and then also listening within himself. For only the truth-hungry human being occupies himself in thought with those questions which can now be answered for him by the spirit .... These are indeed quite natural processes which actually did not need to be mentioned because every success in thinking is always preceded by searching and questioning. But all conditions must be fulfilled if the success is to be right, i.e. correspond to the truth. Thinking and searching alone does not guarantee certain truth if 'faith in God' and 'love' are missing .... because the earth is a dark area, because the battle between light and darkness constantly rages in this area and because the darkness consists of people's thinking being confused, that the light of truth does not penetrate as long as love is not kindled in people's hearts. A person without love can neither receive nor recognize truth .... As a being without knowledge the human being has to turn to the 'light from eternity' so that it will send him a ray .... Therefore he must also believe in a God as the original source of light .... as the origin of this knowledge, as 'truth in Himself' .... And the human being must now approach this God for the transmission of truth. Then God will also express Himself to him through His spirit, which will now 'guide him into all truth', as He has promised. All of you humans can approach Him for this and you would all be considered by Him, all of your thoughts would be correctly directed and a bright light would shine over the earth .... But who of you humans believes this and establishes the connection with God through love and faith that he can receive the truth directly from Him? Who of you humans fulfils the conditions which truly do not demand anything impossible from you? Only a few desire the truth and listen within themselves to what the spirit from God proclaims to them .... and only a few therefore stand in the light and can now carry the light further so that their fellow human beings can also kindle a little light from it which shines into the darkness of the night. This is why error and lies will always dominate people, this is why truth will only rarely be found amongst people .... This is why the battle between light and darkness is constantly being waged, yet a light will also constantly shine into the darkness which will also be victorious in the end, which will completely displace the darkness when the end has come .... when a new day dawns which will shine brightly, revealing the truth ....

Amen

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Walk to the cross .... cross bearer Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6378 from October 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Carry your cross in patience, for it is no heavier than you are capable of carrying .... No-one needs to collapse under the burden of his cross because there is one Who helps him carry it if only he calls upon this one, if he is aware of his weakness and trustingly goes to Him Who can and does give him strength and fortification as soon as He is approached for it. But anyone who believes that he does not need divine help, who feels strong enough himself, who does not want to acknowledge a lord above him, will very often feel the burden of the cross, for I Myself influence such people through this burden of the cross in order to make their path to Me easier, because I have to demand their acknowledgement in order to be able to prepare a blissful life for them one day. Bear your cross with patience, for then you will already be walking a path of the cross which can be a blessing for you. But you can also become inflamed and indignant against your fate .... Then you will be in grave danger, for then you will already be My adversary's prey when help comes to you strikingly quickly, when you are relieved of every burden, for then he will help you because you rebel against Me, Who imposed the cross upon you for your salvation. I walked the path to the cross for you, I Myself collapsed under the burden of the cross because it was immeasurably heavy .... but I did it for you so that you should not have to bear such a heavy burden, that it should be bearable for you at all times .... Therefore I walk beside you as an invisible cross-bearer, and every help-seeking turn to Me will also find Me ready to take the burden off you. Yet anyone who walks along stubbornly, who does not make use of My help, will always feel it more heavily .... But his own will determines the weight of his burden of the cross .... and the human being should beware of calling upon him through unwillingness and arrogant attitude, who is only waiting for the moment when he can step in but who does not want to offer help but only wants to ruin you .... I have gone ahead of you the way and I keep calling you to follow Me .... I have reached My aim by uniting Myself as the human being Jesus with the father, Who took possession of My body and filled Me with light and strength .... Your path, too, can lead to this aim, you, too, could attain immeasurable bliss if you endeavour to follow Me, but this also entails carrying the burden of the cross .... But you need not walk alone, in Me you always have a companion Who supports you and helps you carry your burden as soon as you consciously entrust yourselves to Me and request My help .... But you will achieve little progress if your earthly life is easy and carefree, if you don't free your soul from dross by carrying the burden of the cross, which will hinder the soul's illumination for a very long time. You should release your soul from these drosses, which will not be difficult for you if you call upon the divine redeemer Jesus Christ for help .... But for this reason I place a cross upon you humans so that you may remember Him .... Through the burden of the cross I want to call you to Me, you who are too lukewarm to take the path to Me .... I will bring to your remembrance what I have done for you through My cross, through My suffering and dying on the cross .... As long as you are well on earth, you remember little of My greatest deed of love .... Only when the cross weighs you down do you turn your eyes to Me, and then you also acknowledge Me when you ask Me for help .... Then you consciously take the path of following Jesus when you bow down to My will, when you remember My crucifixion, My immense suffering but also My love which sacrificed itself for you ....

Amen

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Desire of truth guarantees truth ....

B.D. 6379 from October 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You accept My word fully consciously as soon as you open yourselves to Me by wanting to hear it .... If you listen to what I, your God and father of eternity, want to say to you .... if you believe that I want to speak to you Myself and now wait for My word .... And then you can also be certain that I speak to you, that the fullest truth flows to you .... that your thoughts as well as your soul's ear are now guided and sharpened and accept nothing but purest truth .... that you thus have a clear feeling for what you may accept or reject .... Your will to hear Me Myself also guarantees you truthful spiritual knowledge which is conveyed to you mentally or through the inner word .... But you must always be told that you have to be truth-desiring. Through this desire for truth you yourselves also determine the giver of truth, whereas otherwise you very easily hand yourselves over to the one who would like to confuse your thoughts, if you yourselves have already formed a certain opinion and only expect confirmation of it .... And if this opinion corresponds to the truth, it is good, and it will also receive its confirmation, with an earnest will for truth .... But if your thinking is wrong and you want to hold on to it, then your desire already gives My adversary the right to influence you, and then you should not believe that you have been addressed by Me. You must be very critical of yourselves, you must seriously ask yourselves whether you are really concerned about the pure truth .... And therefore every doubt arising in you is good, but never a certain self-assurance to stand in the truth. For answers can be given to the questioner but it is difficult to instruct a person who no longer believes he needs to be instructed. You may all hear Me, I will answer your questions, I will convey the pure truth to all of you if only you desire it with all your heart .... But I cannot force your thoughts, for you are free to choose the path they take .... But is there a better assurance for you than that you can entrust yourselves to Me, that in every question of doubt you need only approach Me for clarification in order to experience a truthful solution? I am the eternal truth Myself. You will reach the original source of truth when you come to Me. But first free yourselves from all mental ballast, come with an empty heart and let it be filled with My love .... Come free from all thought material, from your own opinions, and only ask to hear Me Myself .... And you will hear Me and be taught the truth by Me. My adversary makes great use of his power, he has helpers and accomplices who all eagerly endeavour to instil misguided ideas into people, and they far prefer to accept them rather than pure truth because they themselves are still of dark spirit as a result of their lost realization. But the human being himself has a very certain means to come into possession of the truth after all if he comes to Me and asks Me for it .... And if he sincerely desires the truth he will also leave all previous spiritual knowledge behind, and then he can be abundantly provided for and all darkness will depart from him. For the light of truth shines radiantly into the darkness .... And the human being should carefully accept everything offered to him by his fellow human beings, for he should always ask himself where the knowledge came from .... he should not accept knowledge without checking the outcome, because every person can and will err to whom I Myself have not imparted the truth .... For everyone who desires the truth has to come to Me Myself, and only when he can refer to Me Myself as the source of his knowledge is he to be believed, and yet I will also be approached by him Myself for the truth, and I will truly sharpen his spirit so that he will clearly recognize that he is able to distinguish truth from error .... Come to Me if you desire the truth and I Myself will give it to you, for I truly speak to everyone who desires to hear Me ....

Amen

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Force transmission .... truth .... contradiction ....

B.D. 6380 from October 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The beings of light can work in unusual abundance of strength, for they constantly receive strength from God because they are intimately united with Him and remain so for all eternity .... And they pass on these emanations of strength because they are full of love, and love always seeks to make happy. They themselves are exceedingly happy due to this reception of strength, and they know that the beings below them lack strength, which is why they constantly supply strength to these beings, prompted by their urge of love to redeem the unfortunate. Yet this process of transmitting strength is not so obvious that it could be pursued by you humans, because it is a spiritual activity, a spiritual matter, which takes place in the spiritual kingdom and also in the universe and which only the spiritually awakened human being can pursue. For it is possible for him to follow people's spiritual state and he knows that every spiritual awakening, every spiritual progress of individual people is precisely due to this radiation of light and strength from the world of light .... that these people prepare themselves as receptacles for the radiation of love from the spiritual kingdom. Everything that helps a person to ascend is the supply of spiritual strength, and where spiritual striving and spiritual success is recognizable those beings of light are active which constantly receive from God and constantly pass on what they receive to where there is no longer any resistance, where a person willingly opens his heart and accepts spiritual strength. And thus God Himself influences the human being through the beings of light, but He also pours His flow of love directly into a human heart which consciously hands itself over to Him, which invites Him to retreat, which has shaped itself such that God Himself can take abode in it. The human being's will to love determines the degree of strength, the degree of light radiation .... But it is always the same, it is always the light of love radiating from God which fills everything that wants to receive. And since this light of love has an immense luminosity, such a radiating through of love power is always connected with the introduction into truth .... For the light illuminates where it is still dark .... And consequently the same knowledge must also always go to those who are permeated by God's light of love .... For there is only one truth, and what flows out of God can only ever be truth. Therefore, beings of light can never express themselves differently .... i.e. contradict each other .... when they guide the light to earth on God's behalf .... where it is dark and the light has to shine from above in order to spread brightness, for all beings of light have the brightest realization and they radiate this realization again .... which is their actual activity in the kingdom of light, to guide the light into the darkness .... But the beings' degree of realization is different .... depending on their degree of love, yet even the slightest knowledge of a being escaping from darkness will correspond to the truth .... otherwise it would not have been struck by rays of light .... What the being receives is truth, and therefore it can only distribute truth again .... But where error is passed on there is still the realm of darkness, and no beings of light are active there because they still encounter resistance .... From this you humans can gather that contradictory spiritual knowledge cannot have the same outcome .... and that therefore caution is advised when receiving knowledge which does not agree on all points .... For such knowledge does not come from the source of light where truth originates. The world of light is full of love, and precisely this love also ensures the supply of truth to people as beings entrusted to them .... But truth never contradicts itself .... but where the dark world has access, truth is distorted .... But this can only ever happen if the receptacle is unsuitable, if it has not purified itself beforehand in order to be able to let the purest flow into itself .... Then the beings of light cannot let their rays shine, but the forces of the dark world find access and disguise themselves as beings of light .... And then man often distributes error as truth, then it is not God who works in man but His adversary .... But then man does not walk in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voluntarily turning to God .... Bond of love ....

B.D. 6381 from October 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

A bond is tied which forever connects Me with My living creation if it turns to Me of its own free will, if it, in a manner of speaking, absorbs the ray of love that draws the creature towards Me and never allows it to fall. This bond is indissoluble and, once the human being has taken hold of it, it will also hold on to him and he will never be able to detach himself from it .... But I only speak about those who seriously turn their eyes to Me and not about those who merely profess Me formally, who have not yet made Me the subject of their desire, their thoughts and aspiration. For I only speak of a person's innermost feelings, of his private thoughts, of that which motivates his soul. I speak of the person's will, which sought and found Me of its own accord. I speak of the will which cannot be compelled by anyone, which cannot be externally influenced but arises from the soul and may turn in any direction of its choosing. A person is born anew the moment he finds Me and catches My ray of love with which I chain him to Me for all eternity. Regardless of the path he takes .... one day it will lead to Me for certain, even if the human being still has to endure errors and confusions and it appears as if he has distanced himself from Me again .... I will never ever let go of anyone again who comes to Me voluntarily, even if, on account of his weakness as a result of his imperfection, he is often in danger of leaving the right path. I even walk beside him on misguided paths and time and again push him back onto the right path, for he gave Me the right to do so when he turned to Me voluntarily which also assured him My continuous help. I know that precisely these people are especially strongly influenced by My adversary and know how to prevent him from gaining control over them. Only I know whose will has voluntarily turned to Me of its own accord, and so you humans are unable to judge as to whose will already belongs to Me and who is still far-away from Me, for appearances are deceptive .... but you can rest assured that I will help anyone to ascend who seriously strives for Me.

For I cannot be deceived; I know the state of every individual person's soul, I know every reason for their actions and thoughts and truly make the right judgment, I convey every conceivable help to each person when I recognise the sincerity of their striving. However, you humans often let yourselves be deceived by fine words, you judge your fellow human being by external appearances and are often willing to make rash judgments, you are satisfied with assurances or pious gestures in order for you to believe that your fellow human being is on the right path to Me .... And yet he can still be very distant from Me and barely progress one step until he decides to look within himself and catch My ray of love as well, in order to unite with Me for all eternity. I Am only ever waiting for this moment of conscious desire for Me which I, however, will never let pass, for only then will you have escaped the danger of going astray from Me again for infinitely long times. Nevertheless, even then your struggle will still be difficult but you will safely reach your goal, since you can always hold on to My bond of love which will draw you up increasingly more and which you will not let go either because you will be happy to have found Me to hold on to in your life on earth .... But this decision must be made by every person himself .... No-one can be told or persuaded to make this decision because I only judge what arises from within his heart .... Nevertheless, a person's attention can be drawn to Me by presenting Me to him as a loving Father Who longs for His children .... then the child can try to establish the right relationship and will feel the Father's love and willingly hand itself over to Him .... And I Am waiting for this moment which returns My children to Me .... From this hour on I will watch over them and no matter what their future way of life will be .... it will lead to the goal, because My love will not let anything fall back once it has found Me voluntarily ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God addresses every human being ....

B.D. 6382 from October 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Life was only given to you for your perfection. And it will be taken from you again whether you reach your aim or not, for you are only granted a certain amount of time which is certainly sufficient for you to complete yourselves but which will not be prolonged if you fail yourselves .... if you remain on the same level or regress again in your development. But you humans rarely ask yourselves about the meaning and purpose of your earthly existence and don't desire clarification even if such a question suddenly arises in you. But you would gain a great deal by answering it, for if you know what you can achieve but what you can also be granted on the other hand, your motivation to live correctly on earth will be greater .... For this reason there will always be people on earth who possess this knowledge and can instruct you in accordance with the truth .... but whether you listen to them and believe them depends on your will, which should not experience any coercion but can nevertheless easily correct itself .... And because you humans do not strive to attain knowledge, the pure truth, of your own accord, but you should not remain without knowledge in view of the approaching end, you will be addressed in an unusual way .... I Myself speak to you through human mouths so that the strength of My word becomes effective and you feel influenced .... I Myself come to you in the word even if you are unable to recognize Me immediately. Only when you listen to Me without inner resistance will you feel the effect of My word and no longer resist its content .... Every person has the opportunity to receive My word somehow or somewhere .... And I can address everyone directly, even if he believes himself to be instructed by people .... if only he accepts such instructions with an open heart. But because fewer and fewer people want to hear the word of God and go to the places where My word is preached, I am also at work outside of them, I let My voice be heard wherever there is only one person who lets Me speak through him, who is devoted to Me and wants to be active for Me, who thinks about Me and also communicates his thoughts to other people ...., who therefore consciously moves in spiritual spheres when he is together with his fellow human beings .... Then I Myself can intervene and speak through him .... You humans don't know how gladly I use such opportunities to be able to speak to My children, to whom My word sounds more credible and who now do not close their minds to this word either. But I can only do this through a person's mouth so as not to exert any compulsion of faith .... But people should only know about the significance of their earthly life, they should only receive knowledge of their purpose of existence and their task .... They should only once seriously think this thought through to the end .... It will then no longer let go of them, and they themselves will then give Me the opportunity to intervene in their thoughts and continue the instruction .... And every person will be addressed by Me once, but whether he reacts to it is up to him but does not take away his responsibility for making use of earthly life. And no-one will be able to excuse himself with complete ignorance, because every person capable of thinking is also mentally guided by the world of light and this question about the meaning and purpose of earthly existence arises in every person at some point and thus can also be commented on. But time is limited .... Every person's hour of departure from this earth is determined, and every person will now leave it in the state he created for himself during his earthly life. The forthcoming end, however, will still mean a shortening of the allotted time of redemption for many people, but this will be compensated for by unusual blessings .... which is why I will also manifestly appear and My word will, as it were, sound from 'every rooftop' .... And everyone will be able to hear My word, everyone will be able to accept it and change, everyone can still become blessed by grace .... if only he is of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Using the graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 6383 from October 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Only few people make use of the graces of My act of salvation .... I died on the cross for all people, everyone can be redeemed from sin and death through My work of mercy, no human being is exempt unless he himself offers resistance by not acknowledging Me and My act of salvation, by excluding himself from the circle of those 'redeemed' through My blood .... that he thereby consciously becomes a follower of the one who is to blame for sin and death .... Every person who places himself under My cross, who carries his burden of sin to Me, will become free; the kingdom of light, which was closed before My death on the cross, is opened to him. For I have made the sacrifice of atonement for him so that he will become free from all guilt. But anyone who does not accept My sacrifice avoids the cross, he stands apart, and My act of love and mercy remains completely without impression and effect on him .... even though the sacrifice was also meant for him, even though he can also release himself from all guilt. But he cannot be redeemed against his will because he voluntarily sides with My adversary. My act of salvation was meant for all people, yet only very few make use of it .... The spiritual hardship on earth could not have taken on such proportions if He, Who sacrificed Himself for humanity so that it might attain beatitude, were more remembered .... if you humans would remember the immense love of the man Jesus, which was meant for all of you, the people of the present, past and future .... whom He wanted to redeem from the great guilt which separated them from Me. The man Jesus was so full of love that I Myself was able to dwell in Him, that His external form was able to shelter Me in all fullness and that His love gave Him the strength to suffer and die for you humans on the cross .... And you should always remember this infinite love and also want to share in the blessings which the man Jesus has acquired for you .... They are so abundantly available to you, and you need only ever call upon Him for salvation, and your call will not be in vain, for the work of mercy was only brought for you so that you could experience help in your weakness, in every spiritual and earthly adversity .... For you should become free from your jailer, from the one who has kept you in bondage for eternity and in whose chains you still languish and would languish forever if you did not call upon Me Myself as your redeemer Jesus Christ to set you free .... Why do you not make use of the graces of the work of salvation? .... Why do you not ask Jesus to strengthen your will? .... Why do you not carry your burden of sin under His cross? .... You can never free yourselves from that power on your own, you must have help, you must surrender yourselves to the saviour Jesus Christ and thereby declare your will that you detach yourselves from My adversary .... And you will succeed with ease, because the man Jesus died for this, that you will be strengthened to resist the enemy of your souls .... But without Me you will achieve nothing, without Me you are too weak and you will remain eternally bound in his power .... You have to make the decision yourselves, but you humans should not reject the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, you should not presume to regard Him merely as a human being, you should ask for clarification if the mystery of God's incarnation is not yet comprehensible to you .... you should demand and request the truth from God .... And the right understanding for this will be given to you because I want to redeem all of you, because I died for all of you on the cross and therefore want you to recognize and acknowledge Me and My work .... because I want you to also become free from sin and death and be able to enter the kingdom of light which I have opened for you through My death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Commandments of love .... cold love ....

B.D. 6384 from October 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

God's will is to fulfil the commandments of love .... And it is precisely these commandments which people oppose, for their nature does not allow them to deny themselves anything for the sake of their fellow human beings .... God knows that people's nature lacks love, but He also knows that there is no other path to beatitude than through love .... And that is why He gave the commandments of love for God and neighbour, which admittedly also have to be fulfilled voluntarily if they are to promote maturity of soul. God knows that the commandments can be fulfilled because the spark of love was placed in every human being's heart when he was embodied as a human being .... Every human being has this divine spark of love within himself, thus it is not impossible for anyone to ignite it .... Every human being can be good if he wants to be .... And 'being good' means practicing love, being helpful towards fellow human beings and doing everything that is pleasing to God, Who Himself is love. But the human being must be stimulated to do this, which happens through the commandments of love. Every person could certainly feel within himself how he should behave, he could also walk right on earth without commandments because the spark of love glows within him .... Yet selfish love is still very strong in the human being, and this selfish love has therefore been contrasted with the commandments of love, so that the human being can now decide freely .... For this is his test of earthly life, to choose the divine or the God-opposing. Because people are influenced by the adversary, there must also be a counter-influence so that the human being need not succumb to the adversary's influence. But God's adversary has great power, especially in the time of the end .... For he knows how to stir up selfish love in people more and more and portray the divine commandments as inappropriate, so that people no longer pay attention to the latter but do everything in order to satisfy their selfish love. Love has grown cold among people .... Although it glows in every person's heart it will not be ignited into a flame which consumes everything that comes within its reach .... And it will be completely smothered the closer it gets to the end .... And then God's adversary will have won his game insofar as he will have succeeded in pushing the souls away from God, Who Himself is love .... For these souls, because they are without love, are endlessly far away from God. But he himself has achieved nothing other than that these souls, which he believes to have won, are snatched from his power again and banished anew in the form .... The divine commandments of love can prevent this if the human being respects them .... if he fights against self-love in order to be able to fulfil God's commandments .... if he first does something in order not to violate the law, even if he is not yet filled with the inner urge to practice love .... But strength is supplied to the willing person, and what he first does under the pressure of a commandment he will soon do voluntarily and with a joyful heart, because love is strength which fills him ever more. For this reason people should take notice of God's will, they should be given the word of God which only ever preaches love, which emphasizes the divine commandments as the most important .... because it is extremely important that they are fulfilled or they would not have been given by God .... Yet He wants to help people who still have little love within themselves, who are still strongly afflicted with self-love .... He wants to show them the path to beatitude, and that is why He gave people the commandments of love, for He knows people's weakness, their deficiency and their inner urges .... But He also knows how He can remedy all these weaknesses .... Love must be practiced on earth, and anyone who does not do it voluntarily must be encouraged to do so by commandments so that he unites himself with God, Who is love Himself, so that he becomes free from the adversary whose unkindness tore him and his followers into the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Eternal order is love .... Satan's activity ....

B.D. 6385 from October 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Only that which corresponds to the principle of love is pleasing to God, and thus only that person whose thinking and actions are determined by love is living within divine order. Keeping within divine order therefore only ever means kind-hearted activity towards other people, which also expresses love for God. But living within divine order will also always result in an orderly earthly life for the person in question himself, although everything around him might have become disordered because the divine order was revoked by his neighbourhood, which thus lives entirely without love. Such a way of life must result in a chaotic state, peace and harmony will never be able to reign where life is lived in opposition to divine order, where love is completely ignored because it is dominated by God's adversary, who is devoid of all love .... And no matter how well people arrange their luxurious life on earth .... it certainly can temporarily obscure the disorder in such people's hearts .... it will not provide them with inner calm and peace, for the more the human being succumbs to the adversary the more he will stoke him up .... And the person will act increasingly more heartless, he will treat his fellow human being increasingly more harshly and with coldness, he might perhaps conceal himself under a mask but his true face can always be recognised. God's order is love .... someone who lives without love is separated from God, and that signifies his alliance to His adversary. Yet he knows how to conceal everything under a veil, he knows how to camouflage the characteristics of a violation against the eternal order, for that reason nothing is obvious so as not to lose his followers .... Instead, he will give everything to those who devoted themselves to him because of their attitude, their unkindness and coldness of heart .... They receive whatever they want but will only ever be able to obtain earthly goods .... which, however, entirely satisfies them .... This explains why the adversary has so many followers, for by and large people try to find earthly fulfilment and get it through unkind thinking and conduct.

Hence the state on earth cannot be any different than it is now, where the human race no longer observes the divine order, where it no longer attaches importance to God's will .... where it completely ignores His commandments of love and where people allow themselves to be used as tools by the adversary. The chaos on earth is steadily increasing and only a few people live according to divine order, only a few people allow the principle of love to reign and unite with God, the eternal Love. And they need not be worried if things happen according to law which are only ever the result of an unlawful way of life. Their unification with God through loving activity will provide them with protection and strength when the time comes for divine order to be re-established again. Then what it means to be close to God will be demonstrated, for satanic force and satanic activity will remain ineffective in the person who has always lived according to divine order, who cultivates love and always remains in contact with the eternal Love .... He will certainly see everything disappear around himself, but he himself is full of strength and light and fortitude .... He knows that he is united with God and waits for his Creator and Father of eternity .... For living his life in divine order made him knowledgeable and therefore he doesn't fear anything that originates from the adversary's realm .... He himself lives in the sphere of divine peace, because his love within excludes everything that is contrary to divine order and because he is now protected against all dark forces which still oppose God and the eternal order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemption of the hard matter ....

B.D. 6386 from October 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The spiritual that is at the beginning of development languishes for an inconceivably long time in hardest encasement because it cannot move into a loosened outer form until its resistance decreases, which takes an inconceivably long time. But one day a change of its outer form must also come for this spiritual substance .... And if you humans now consider that there are works of creation which have appeared unchanged for eternities, which seem indestructible to you from time immemorial and also for eternity to come, then you have to ask yourselves when a change can come for the spiritual substance bound in it if it is to follow the path of development which leads to embodiment as a human being like you .... The liberation from the hard form also comes for this spiritual being according to God's will .... For God Himself has determined the duration of the existence of such creations in the knowledge of the diminishing of resistance and thus also the end .... the dissolving of such creation .... foreseen since eternity. And therefore, at intervals determined by God, complete destructions of creations take place which cannot be dissolved in any other way than through violent eruptions .... which, however, can also be caused by people themselves who, in free will, undertake unlawful actions which result in violent eruptions. This free will is also included in God's plan of salvation, and God even allows such unlawful actions to serve the spiritual substance banished in form in its effect if He does not Himself naturally bring about a dissolution of such creations .... But such processes always serve the liberation of that which languishes in the hard form in order to give it an easier outer form where it must continue the path of development upwards. No human being imagines the immeasurable torments of the spiritual which this long imprisonment meant, and no human being believes that in the new creation spiritual substances will be bound again for an infinitely long time, which failed in the free state and instead of reaching ascent sank back into deepest darkness .... You humans all look at the creations without deeper thoughts as to what they really are .... that they harbour spiritual substances which were once fallen original spirits .... full of freedom and light .... and that these are now bound in deepest darkness but shall one day attain freedom and light again .... and that this course of development also irrevocably necessitates the temporary destruction of creations, but that you humans reject as implausible such references to an end of this earth .... Only someone who knows about the meaning and purpose of creation thinks about it, and the announced end is probable to him, but he does not get through with his views to his fellow human beings who lack this knowledge. But every human being should think and ask so that he can receive an answer mentally. And anyone who rejects a coming dissolution or destruction of this earth as 'not proving a God of love' .... only claims God's love for himself because he does not know that everything in creation originated from Him is spiritual like the human being .... that it has only not yet reached the degree in its development where it can embody itself as a human being .... but that it has to reach the degree by constantly changing its external form and serving in every form .... And this possibility is always given to the spiritual by God .... And even if eternities pass, the day will come one day for this spiritual being when it can escape from the solid form and move into a somewhat lighter one again. And God's eternal plan of salvation always foresees the day when the spiritual substance will be liberated from hard matter, the day when one redemption period ends and a new one begins .... For the spiritual's development progresses unceasingly because God's love constantly looks after everything that once emerged from Him .... until it returns to Him again in order to be able to be and remain blissfully happy in all freedom forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformation of the will in freedom ....

B.D. 6387 from October 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is up to you humans to perfect yourselves. My will indeed reigns in heaven and on earth and everything takes place in such a way that it is conducive for you to attain perfection .... Yet My will never intervenes in your decision, you will never be determined by My will to think, to want or to act, for you must accomplish your perfection yourselves. And for this very reason it is questionable whether you will reach the aim of attaining perfection on earth, even though it is very possible for you to do so. And it is a great responsibility which weighs upon you, because the short earthly lifetime can destroy everything which an exceedingly long path of development had already achieved before .... But on the other hand you can enter blissful realms after leaving your body if you pass the last test of will .... I Myself cannot determine your will, I can only present to you everything that awaits you as a result of your way of life .... I can only ever warn and admonish you, I can forcefully present the terrible fate of the banished as well as the blissful fate in the spiritual kingdom to you, but I must leave the free decision up to you .... And I find little faith in you, although I repeatedly come before you in the word in order to awaken or strengthen the sense of responsibility in you .... You don't believe that I speak to you, which is why you pay little attention to My word. And thus the short time of earthly life for you very often passes without any progress for your soul, and it only leaves the body very undeveloped or even deformed as it had taken it .... And a time of grace has passed by unsuccessfully, it has not been evaluated, because this has to be brought about by the human being's free will itself .... And yet, it could be easy for you if only you would believe .... if you would listen to My word when I Myself address you .... You can think about everything I tell you and you would undoubtedly come to the right realization, because My word contains this strength and its effect is precisely a light-filled realization .... but always has to be willingly listened to and lived out in order to be effective .... This is why it is certainly possible for you to attain perfection, I do not demand anything impossible from you but never ever influence you against your will .... Only My word will sound ever more insistently, and where no effect can be achieved I will let My voice become loud, and I will let the forces of nature speak for Me just as insistently and warningly, and this voice will truly be heard by all people .... but neither will I force you into a change of will. Whatever you do for your perfection has to be done voluntarily, otherwise it is without advantage for the soul. But for this reason I bless every person on earth who seeks to transfer My will to his fellow human beings, who represents the same as a human being to human being what I say to him through My word .... who is therefore redeemingly active and speaks on My behalf, who offers himself to Me as a cover through which I can now speak .... Serving as a mediator is truly a redeeming activity, because a person would rather let himself be taught by a fellow human being than believe My word, the origin of which he is not convinced of as long as he lacks faith .... But I don't want to let a person go astray, and therefore I still allow many things to happen which can lead to a change of the human being's will .... I truly rule in heaven and on earth, but I leave people their freedom, for they can only attain perfection if they profess Me with conviction, if they listen to Me and voluntarily do everything that is My will .... if they keep My commandments which are proclaimed to them through My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Indication of natural events ....

B.D. 6388 from October 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I send My Word everywhere, and I also know the right ways and means so that willing people will gain possession of spiritual knowledge which originates from Me. For I know who is willing to listen to Me and truly, everything is possible for Me, even that I address them Myself in a way that is beneficial for them. But I also consider those who are completely devoid, who have not yet felt the desire for My Word, who go along without thinking of Me, who only see the world and its commodities .... I convey My Word to them as well, they, too, are addressed by Me time and again, yet so unobtrusively that they indeed can but do not have to hear Me .... First their will has to be aroused to hear something from different spheres than their own; but time and again such incentives occur through conversations, books, world events or personal adversity and misfortunes. Then the human being will be able to turn his thoughts into the right direction, into infinity, towards Me, into spiritual spheres .... and depending on his will he shall also be nourished ....

Thus do not believe that I will deny My loving help to anyone, do not believe that any human being will have to survive without My gift of grace. I take care of everyone, yet the result is the affair of the human being's own free will. But My Word will be heard all over the world, since I only ever need a willing earthly child with an open heart which can receive the truth directly from Me .... And then it will also pass this truth on, because I know which people are receptive and will bring My earthly children together wherever a small improvement can be expected. And messengers of light will always distribute the truth wherever they are .... And they will all proclaim the same truth because they are My missionaries who will appear everywhere and in all nations during the last days. No famished soul will have to remain without strength and no longing heart will need to stay empty .... And I direct everything, I govern heaven and earth after My will, and I take care of every single living creation and provide it with every possibility to become happy .... I awaken true preachers everywhere to whom My spirit imparts what to say and who are so sincerely devoted to Me that I Am also able to work through My spirit .... Success can be noted everywhere but there will also be people everywhere who will deny every access to their hearts, who will indeed also hear My Words but reject them completely and will therefore be unable to experience any effect.

Yet they, too, have been addressed and will continue to be addressed until the end of their life, because I will try until their hour of death that their souls shall still find Me during their earthly life. Indeed, countless people are still distant from Me and won't try to reduce this distance either, yet I love and care for them to the same extent, because I want to regain all My living creations and thus won't give up on any of them until their last hour has come .... Yet I will not infringe upon their freedom of will .... Nevertheless, what My gentle efforts cannot achieve, what My Word is unable to accomplish, can still be possible through unusual natural events, where people will have no other option but to give themselves up or to take refuge in a Power which is so great that it can help .... The acknowledgement of this Power is already a step forward, and the call of a person in need will be heard by Me and he will be saved from eternal ruin .... My voice rings out everywhere, it can be heard gently and aloud, and everyone can feel himself addressed by Me, everyone can receive blessings and awaken to life by just being willing and taking notice of My voice .... For My love wants to redeem, it wants to give itself away and bestow life on all who are still subject to death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilment of the promises ....

B.D. 6389 from October 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

All My promises are underestimated by people because their faith in them is weak, if they are not completely lacking. But I stand by My word and therefore you can await the fulfilment of My promises with complete faith, providing you first do what I require of you as a prerequisite for the fulfilment of My promise. And I have promised you many things: a carefree life on earth and an eternal life in bliss .... I have promised you salvation from sin and death and a life of freedom, light and power .... I have promised you glories in the father's house and on earth fulfilment of all requests and enlightenment through the spirit .... And if you do in full faith what I ask of you, then you are in truth to be called blessed creatures, even though you still live on earth .... But you leave My words unheeded, they certainly still sound in your ears but they no longer penetrate the heart, so that you would become wide awake and have to think about all you could achieve .... You should indeed do nothing just for the sake of reward, but you should nevertheless know that you receive a reward, that I pour out My gifts in abundance upon My creatures, whom I know to be of the same will as Me. Yet neither My promises nor the descriptions of the wretched state which can await you determine you to live a righteous life .... You listen to everything but it remains without influence on you because you have no faith, for you prove your unbelief by the fact that My words do not prompt you to strive for what I promise you. But I cannot give you any evidence of this, My word has to be enough for you, for you should strive for perfection of your own free will .... But you should take My word as your guideline and trust it without hesitation .... And you would create an easy earthly life for yourselves, you would not need to fear death, for you could enter eternal life after this .... But where can this faith still be found? Who blindly trusts in My word? My life on earth is so far in the past that it is doubted .... and thus My word is also mostly doubted and at best still taken note of but not regarded as profound truth .... Yet "heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word endures for ever ...." Would you only consider these words alone and grasp their meaning .... in order to then recognize how every saying of Mine is to be valued by you .... What I once said is and remains irrevocable truth, and if I gave you a promise it will also irrevocably come true, and you can count on it in all certainty, because this promise was given to you by your God and creator from eternity, by Him Who lived and died for you on earth .... from the eternal, Who is truth in Himself and Whose love is for you for ever and ever .... Who gave you this promise, Who can also give you everything you need for body and soul, for earthly life and for eternity .... And you can truly trust Him, and He keeps His promise .... Again and again you should consider these words of Mine, and you should always want to grasp their meaning more deeply .... and the faith in the truth of My word would grow stronger in you and make you remember My promise in every adversity of body and soul .... You would then trustingly turn to Me, you would do what I ask of you and truly be relieved of every need .... For I alone can give you promises and also fulfil them .... It is only possible for Me to keep your temporal life free from worries and to give you an eternal life one day in bliss, and My love guarantees you the truth of My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeeming action on souls ....

B.D. 6390 from November 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You hear My word and are constantly admonished to pass it on, for an unspeakable amount depends on this activity, because passing it on again and again provides the opportunity for souls in the beyond to come and listen to what you work through aloud or mentally when you talk to your fellow human beings or write it down or when the recipient reads it .... For there is always mental work involved, and these thoughts can haunt the souls and derive the greatest benefit from them. You must never let spiritual knowledge lie idle, you must always work with it, for My word shall have an effect, for its impact is unlimited, countless souls can draw strength from it .... But they must be given the opportunity to do so, they must be able to hear it. Thus you must listen to it or read it yourselves, and always think of all those souls which need it in order to receive light and strength from it. These always stay where they hope for light, and they hurry towards every ray of light when such shine for them. Be a source of light for these souls so that they, too, can draw from My pool of love which I have opened up for you. Know that there are only a few people who can send out such a ray of light, because only a few deal with spiritual matters and know the truth, therefore you are constantly surrounded by light-hungry souls whom you must not disappoint that they wait with you in vain. Constantly think of their hardship which you can alleviate because you possess much of the living water which they lack .... Every day countless souls depart from earth and enter the spiritual kingdom, and for countless this new realm is dark so that they feel unhappy in their situation .... But you can radiate much light, and you should want to convey this to those souls and therefore always send a call into the darkness, you should offer them the light, only then will they become aware of you and come to you, because the call from you already touches them beneficially. You humans have to do what I Myself would like to do but which is denied to Me by these souls: offer them strength and light which they would rather accept from you than from Me, because they don't know Me and cannot be compelled by Me to accept it. They also have to come to you voluntarily, but they are still so closely connected to earth that they are again and again drawn back into those spheres, and if a light shines towards them there they crowd around this light and demand brightness. You can give them what they desire because you possess it in abundance, because I Myself constantly provide you with it .... And you should not keep anything for yourselves alone but only ever want to distribute it .... so that I can also provide you with more and more according to the law of eternity .... Always remember those souls who are in dark surroundings and let your light radiate into their area .... Bring My word close to them and thereby make it possible that I Myself can address them, and you are truly active in redemption, you make correct use of My gifts of grace, you are true proclaimers of My gospel, which not only has to be conveyed to people on this earth but also to all souls in the beyond who did not accept it on earth and yet shall also find the path to Me .... It is the world which you do not see but which nevertheless surrounds you .... They are indescribably needy souls who suffer hunger and thirst and for whom I have therefore also opened up the spring which shall refresh and fill them but which also has to be sought out voluntarily .... Call them to come to you when you proclaim My word .... Then I Myself can speak to them through you and My word will work as light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual information without material gain ....

B.D. 6391 from November 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The gifts of grace imparted to you only serve to help the soul in you attain perfection .... It is spiritual information which has no economic earthly effect whatsoever, since all striving towards ascent would be invalid were this spiritual knowledge received or passed on for the sake of earthly advantage. Someone will only be a true servant to Me if he .... devoid of all material desires .... commits himself to pass it on to his fellow human beings. For pure spirituality may not be combined with earthly desires because this signifies a demeaning of the spirit. Redemptive work shall be carried out with love .... a loving heart shall receive spiritual knowledge and a loving will to help shall pass it on, only then will it have an effect on people. Any material connection with spiritual knowledge will have a negative effect, for something that comes from above is not compatible with material ambition, because it materialises the former. But remember that I know what you humans are lacking and that I will truly not let anyone live in want who selflessly works for Me .... And thus I will also always helpfully intervene if material help is needed in order to convey spiritual thoughts to fellow human beings .... Yet this should not be your but only ever My concern .... Therefore you will be able to work unimpeded as long as it is your will to only be of service to Me and to redemption work. Then you will always take the right paths, you will always embark upon the right kind of work, then you can safely rely on your thoughts which will be guided according to your diligence to work. I can only make use of unselfish people who renounce worldly things where it concerns receiving My Word from above and distributing it .... Every material thought in connection with it endangers this work, but absolute trust in My help supports it and also ensures you a carefree earthly existence, because I Myself can offer this to you as a result of your complete trust.

You should know that your will to love is an extremely powerful factor which removes all obstacles .... You should know that your spiritual work can achieve something which even the greatest of material treasures is unable to do .... And this is why fearful considerations regarding your earthly support should not weaken this will to love on which so incredibly much depends in a spiritual respect. After all, this short earthly life is insignificant compared to the beings' dreadful agonies which you can bring to an end .... You would gladly and joyfully make sacrifices were you able to see the state of these beings and their pleading gestures for help. You would even endure the poorest life on earth and only ever want to be supportive and helpful. And you can help them with your love and thereby give Me pleasure, for which I will truly reward you .... For only love is the means of release, love for Me imparts light and strength to you, and love for the unredeemed spiritual being passes light and strength on and also draws countless souls up from the abyss .... You perform conscious redemptive work which will therefore never remain unsuccessful .... This certainty should make you happy and impel you to work ever more eagerly, you should let go of all earthly worries and never expect earthly success as a result of your spiritual work .... Whatever you need I will give you .... But the fact that I convey unlimited spiritual knowledge to you shall also be your evidence that you are in need of it .... because you should work with it again for the benefit of those who departed into the kingdom of the beyond in an unredeemed state .... Make use of what you own and don't worry about what you are missing, for everything you need for body and soul is given to you by Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Baptism of the spirit ....

B.D. 6392 from November 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is the spirit which makes you alive .... Therefore let it take effect in you; want it to express itself, for with this will you express that you acknowledge Me Myself, that you desire to hear Me. Thus I Myself can now work through My spirit .... And thus you receive the baptism of the spirit .... My spirit pours into and over you because you may now continuously receive the gifts which originate in the spiritual kingdom, with Me Myself. Every person who opens himself, who shapes his heart into a receptacle for My spirit, will be able to let the life-giving stream flow into his heart, and everyone who opens his heart has the will to make contact with Me .... And this also shapes itself into love, otherwise it would not demand this 'eternal love' .... However, the overflowing of My spirit into a person can take place in different strengths .... And it can therefore trigger different effects .... depending on how strongly the darkness previously filled the human heart .... Where a ray of love light of My spirit touches a still completely dark heart, there the effect is often so obvious that it overwhelms the person .... that suddenly he is enlightened and loudly pays praise and tribute to Me, Who has graced him .... but it was his will after all to receive My ray of love, he turned to Me in humility of heart and thereby opened his heart to Me .... But My spirit can flow abundantly into other people's hearts who turn their gaze steadfastly towards Me .... There My spirit works mightily within the human being, but it is not always visible to other people .... Only such people radiate much love and every thought is turned towards Me, with every breath their hearts love Me and they want to serve Me at all times .... Quite inconspicuously they have received the baptism of the spirit in the moment of profound inner bond with Me, and thus their activity on earth is also .... inconspicuously, in the spirit of My love, they work for Me and My kingdom, which they could never ever do if My spirit could not constantly flow in, if I could not enlighten their thinking and guide them on every path, because they themselves would grant the spirit within them the right to express itself .... But let no one believe that only eye-catching phenomena betray the outpouring of the spirit .... no one should regard unusual occurrences alone as a sign of the baptism of the spirit. I work much more in secret than in public, yet in view of the great spiritual adversity in the last days I also appear visibly and thus take people's childlike faith into account who expect unusual signs from Me because My disciples were once given unusual gifts .... And because these believe, it happens to them according to their faith .... For I do not put an unbeliever into a state which forces him to believe. I alone know the soul, and the external person often does not reveal the state of the soul, and where I discover a strong desire for light in a soul I ignite it in it .... which can also temporarily render the body incapable of its usual activity; yet blessed is the person who now allows the light to shine in his soul, who changes in the light of the soul and now remains faithful to Me until the end .... For he can still lead many people to Me, he can work for Me and My kingdom, which is the task of every person over whom My spirit pours .... that he seeks to move the hearts of his fellow human beings, to prepare himself to become a vessel of My spirit .... For only when I can work in a person is his aim guaranteed .... For My spirit directs you all towards the right aim, My spirit influences you so that you seek the connection with your father-spirit from eternity and now remain with Him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognizing God's love in creation ....

B.D. 6393 from November 6th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

No human being knows the omnipotence of divine love .... No human being understands its fullness and therefore also God's strength and power, yet it is constantly expressed in His creation, which demonstrates infinite love, wisdom and omnipotence. For this reason creation alone should make you humans reverently remember Him Who brought it into being .... And you should look up to Him in deepest humility .... But you mostly walk thoughtlessly past everything that should be a sign of God's presence for you .... You take everything for granted which should be considered a greatest miracle, and therefore God's love and wisdom remain hidden from you and your faith in God is lifeless. Yet His love is so infinite that it also works despite your indifference, that it constantly lets new creations arise, for one day you will recognize what lies at the basis of His creative activity .... And then you will tremble at the thought of not having recognized and valued divine love when you were still on earth as human beings .... For to recognize God's love and to devote yourselves to it means to be able to work full of love yourselves and to become free of all faults and imperfections .... Divine love expresses itself so obviously in creation so that you humans will recognize it and voluntarily allow yourselves to be permeated by it. Receiving divine love is like the transformation of a weakened being into strength. You have to be permeated by God's strength in order to be able to be powerful yourselves, and this strength is God's love which constantly draws you humans and only requires your willingness to let it draw you. If you are now first of all aware that the creator wanted to prove His love to you through everything He let come into being, then the love for Him must also flare up in you, and then His divine flow of strength of love will also flood into your heart and you will ascend to the top .... You should only learn to love God, which you can do when you look at His creations which prove His love and His wisdom .... Therefore you should not walk through the world with closed eyes, you should look at that which was not brought about by human will, which came forth from the strength of a creator Whom you cannot see but can nevertheless recognize, Who did not let anything come into being without meaning and purpose and therefore must be full of wisdom .... and Who let creation come into being for you because He loves you infinitely .... Although you cannot know the cause of creation and your own relationship to it as long as you thoughtlessly observe everything around you, you can attain this knowledge as soon as you reflect and enter into a bond with the creator. If you learn to love Him and entrust yourselves to Him in the recognition of His might and power, in the awareness of His greater than great love .... Then you will be cared for by Him and provided with everything you lack .... You will receive light, i.e. attain knowledge about yourselves and about your aim .... And you will learn to look at everything with different eyes because you will open yourselves to God's love which can now work in you. And you will be filled with love yourselves, because God's love is a strength which brings you to life, and to live also means to love .... His life overflows into you who accept His love .... And you must come alive yourselves and ignite love in yourselves as soon as you are in contact with Him. The light of love ignites from His flame of love and will never go out again. And God's love will pursue you, and no matter how low you have sunk, no matter how long you persist in resistance .... It will not give you up, but it will not force you. Yet how much more blessed you could be if you let yourselves be permeated by His love without resistance .... For it is possible for you to recognize Him and His love because you live in the midst of a creation which manifestly demonstrates His love, His wisdom and His power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's call to spiritual cooperation ....

B.D. 6394 from November 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I call upon all My children to help Me, and every person is right for Me who offers himself to Me as a servant in My vineyard .... I have often made this urgent appeal to you because I need many helpers on earth. I can certainly be active with My grace by showering it abundantly on all who want to make use of it, and I also bestow it on people who don't desire it in order to still stimulate their will to work with the graces they receive .... But I cannot influence people as you are able to because you live amongst them and can address them in My name. Believe Me that this help has to come from you if it is not to mean compulsion of will. I certainly have an unusual effect on people's hearts by handing out My blessings in abundance, yet I have to hold back where a human heart still closes itself .... But there are no limits for you if you want to serve Me and your activity aims to redeem the souls .... I can endow you with strength and light which you can now use in a redeeming sense. I can use you as a mouthpiece, I can speak to people through your mouth Myself, for as soon as you speak to them it is no longer you yourselves who speak but I speak from you .... It is necessary that I use your usual way of speaking, for people would not tolerate hearing My words as they flow out of My spirit of love .... I have to wrap Myself in your garment, but the fact that you offer yourselves to Me as a cover, that you let Me speak through you, is of such great benefit as you yourselves do not realize. But I can only make you serviceable for My purposes if you voluntarily offer yourselves to Me .... This is why again and again I call upon you humans to be of service to suffering humanity, this is why I want to awaken in you the awareness that you are necessary, that I need you if souls are still to be saved which are otherwise heading towards their downfall. You all cannot yet understand what it means to place yourselves at God's service .... You are anxious because of earthly worries and yet you would be abundantly provided for because I, as a good father of the house, take care of My servants and they can henceforth go their earthly path unburdened .... Remember that without My blessing you can still toil earthly and that only My blessing will bring you success and this will rest on you if you serve Me with love .... But where will I find the faith that trusts Me without hesitation? .... You humans are all still too connected to earth, and earth often holds you back when you want to ascend into the spiritual kingdom .... But you can leave it behind carefree if only your eyes remain directed upwards and you fulfil spiritual duties in order to serve Me and your fellow human beings. For you carry out spiritual work in contact with Me, but worldly work will only find My blessing when you commend it to Me, that I send you My helpers, so that you also accomplish earthly work without difficulty but without neglecting spiritual work .... The time of maturity has come and My reapers must be eagerly active, for everything shall be gathered and an abundant harvest achieved before the end comes. Whoever is now willing to help, I will bless him .... And he will also feel My blessing in everything he starts, spiritually and earthly I will smooth his path so that he will not lack strength, so that he will gladly and joyfully carry out the work which alone is important at this time. You only ever have to be aware of My presence and everything will be easy for you and you will also succeed. These are My enticements through which I want to win the servants for My vineyard .... For time is pressing and every day is lost which does not find you spiritually active ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's word gives light ....

B.D. 6395 from November 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Every word from above is clear and understandable. For I will always address you humans such that you will understand Me. I want to help you, who walk the earth in ignorance, to recognize .... I want to kindle a light for you where it is still dark in your hearts .... And therefore you will also understand that this cannot be My word which does not give you full understanding, which has an unclear and enigmatic effect on you, from which you cannot extract anything which increases your knowledge, which gives you light, although you use your intellect in order to attain brightness .... When I speak to you I aim to make you knowledgeable so that you will also understand My reign and activity .... because I want you to know Me correctly in order to be able to love Me as well .... But if you gain nothing in knowledge despite good will and desire for truth, then they are not My words which are conveyed to you, and then you can also reject them without hesitation as coming from the one who fights against the light and wants to darken your spirit .... I would truly have no pleasure in deepening the state of ignorance you are in, moreover, I want to touch a person's heart, I want him to feel Me and My love, but this can only happen if he understands Me, if My words of love touch him such that he feels happy, which, however, also requires full understanding .... Thus I will always express Myself in such a comprehensible way but not address the people I want to win over for Myself in mysterious hints or incomprehensible words. I must emphasize this in particular in order to shed light on My adversary's activity, who is a master at causing confusion and therefore comes forward in a similar way by letting people speak for him whom he influences mentally and who listen to him all too willingly and thus spread spiritual knowledge which is untrue and unclear .... but which many people do not recognize as hostile to the truth. Only accept what you understand and what makes you happy if you are of good will and long for Me, your father from eternity, and for the truth .... For then the father also reveals Himself with words of love which give you bright light .... The darkness on earth is so great that I will truly not deepen it any further but kindle a light wherever it is required, and therefore you should only ever examine everything offered to you to see whether it gives you light .... For the truth from Me, My word, is My divine light of love which will always shine brightly and is understandable to every person who wants to become enlightened .... Those who lack the desire for truth become intoxicated with beautiful words but whose meaning is unclear to them because they don't contain any deep meaning .... And these are therefore not so endangered because they are indifferent as to whether pure truth is offered to them. But I give this warning and clarification to those who desire truth, and their hearts will also instinctively reject it precisely because it is incomprehensible to them .... Admittedly, My word will also meet with incomprehension, yet only ever with those who also feel no desire for truth .... who are still distant from Me, who have no love within themselves and therefore cannot recognize .... Yet My adversary will not want to influence them much with his work of lies, on the other hand he will always try to bring darkness into places of light .... because he fights against the light as long as he is still able to work .... And especially in the time of the end he will do everything that promises him success. But the light will also reveal these attempts and plans, the light will triumph over darkness .... The truth will be recognized by all who desire light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Delivery once and now ....

B.D. 6396 from November 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

When I descended to earth, it was shrouded in deepest darkness, all light was extinguished or hindered in its luminosity, and people were in great distress .... Then the light Itself descended to earth .... the infant Jesus came into the world and began His earthly course, which ended with His exaltation on the cross .... The saviour was born, Who was to redeem men from sin and death .... I Myself came to earth, I embodied Myself in the man Jesus Who wanted to fulfil a mission which a 'human being' could only carry out because He was to be a role model for all people on earth, which they too could strive for because it was humanly possible. The saviour Jesus Christ was born into this world, into a world of weakness and imperfection, into a world of sins and vices .... A pure, divine soul .... the son of God .... took abode in the human shell of a child, and this soul, as the man Jesus, now consciously walked an earthly path in the midst of that sinful world .... which resulted in His complete merging with Me .... so that I Myself could take abode in Him. And My spirit shone as the brightest light through the man Jesus, and He was able to radiate through everything that opened itself to Him. And the infant Jesus already proved His divine mission to people, for at times My spirit expressed itself through this infant .... yet only to those who had not forgotten Me, who carried faith in a God in their heart and called to this God for salvation, for they felt the darkness to be misfortune and called to Me for help .... I sent My son to earth .... for I wanted to bring help to people by contacting them Myself, by clearing the way to Me into their father's house. But as God I could not make direct contact with them because the great distance from Me made this impossible .... For this reason I sent My son to earth, a being closely associated with Me, Who voluntarily offered to serve as a mediator .... Which therefore wanted to carry the light from above down to earth and thereby illuminate a path which leads from the abyss to the height .... I sent a being which had emerged from Me and remained with Me when countless beings voluntarily separated from Me .... And I gave this being a fleshly cover which was to be My abode as soon as the human being's mission began .... Although I made every effort to ensure that this shell came into the world pure and spotless, the soul now had to travel the same path on earth as every other human being .... From childhood the same demands were placed upon it .... The infant Jesus grew up in the midst of people, and in the midst of people who were sinful He had to keep His body pure and fight against everything that would have contaminated it .... for He was to become My abode, I Myself wanted to embody Myself in the man Jesus, and the fact that I was able to do so was His work, His will and His love for Me .... For love was the light which He brought with Him to earth but which He also had to let flare up in Himself into a bright flame, just as it is the task of all of you to ignite the spark of love resting in you and to constantly kindle it into ever higher embers .... A light shone down to earth, and this light sought a human shell for itself .... the saviour was born to you humans, for I took pity on humanity which languished in deepest darkness and could not free itself from it alone .... My love took care of people and sent them a saviour .... I Myself descended to earth in order to redeem you humans ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 6397 from November 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

My kingdom is not of this world .... What you seek to attain in this world will be lost to you in My kingdom, for you cannot possess both the joys and bliss of this world and that world .... Both are opposing in their requirements and opposing in what they offer you .... But only the spiritual kingdom, in which I Myself am, can give you eternal blisses. And you humans should always bear in mind that your time on earth is only limited and that you also have to leave behind the little you have acquired here .... that you therefore cannot gain anything which will make you eternally happy, and in the knowledge of this .... which you all possess after all .... it would truly be more advisable to take care of wealth which will not lose its value with your physical death. My kingdom is not of this world .... Again and again you have heard it from My mouth, and again and again you have been urged to put earthly striving aside and instead attain spiritual possessions which are everlasting. But as long as you stay on earth only that which creates earthly comfort is of value to you. And your degree of realization is accordingly, which will always be and remain lower as long as My adversary can influence you through the temptations of the world, which is his kingdom, and whom you acknowledge as your lord as soon as you strive for earthly goods. There is no compromise between the two lords .... you must decide, but your eternal life depends on the decision .... You yourselves determine your fate after the death of the body through your decision. And you must make this decision in all freedom, which is why you are indeed assured of the spiritual kingdom in all its glory as absolute truth, but you may not be forced into this decision by their evidence. But the earthly world is visible and tangible to you and therefore you strive towards it with all your senses .... But you are certain of your body's death, and you should reckon with this .... through reflection you should come to the conclusion that your soul cannot cease to be .... because you can evaluate yourselves as a work of creation which, due to its nature, has to serve a higher purpose than just to live a miserable earthly life with only earthly aims .... The thinking human being is not satisfied with this purpose of life, and he looks for an explanation of the actual purpose of existence .... and he will also receive it .... according to his will and his attitude towards truth. But these explanations can never come to him from the world which is My adversary's kingdom .... but they will come from a kingdom which is not of this world, and these enlightenments will prove to him that every person's aim shall be the kingdom in which I reign from eternity to eternity .... Every person can create this proof for himself, yet his will determines whether he reflects and strives for truth or is content with the goods of this world .... But again and again people are reminded of My words: "My kingdom is not of this world ...." And anyone who once tries to fathom the meaning of these words already takes a step into this kingdom from which I Myself will come to meet him in order to lead him over into My kingdom .... But he has to leave the world behind, he has to voluntarily separate himself from My adversary's kingdom, then he will always find a gate which leads across into My kingdom .... then he will also make the right decision himself which will determine his fate one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love bridges the gap ....

B.D. 6398 from November 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

My word alone can reduce the great distance from Me, because My word teaches the love you humans lack and this is the reason for the great distance between you and Me. My love for you is unchanging, it will always draw you, yet only when you reciprocate My love will you take hold of My hand and thereby come closer to Me. Only when you kindle love within yourselves will you take the path to Me and, of your own accord, reduce the distance between yourselves and Me .... But love has grown cold amongst you humans, you disregard love, you prevent My ray of love from hitting you, which cannot enter a cold heart, you resist My love, otherwise you would feel impelled to work in love yourselves .... And therefore you are also unable to bridge the wide gulf, and you all fail to grasp what this means: you give yourselves even more firmly into the control from which you should be released .... And that is why I constantly send My word to you humans .... I admonish you to be active in love, My teaching of love is constantly conveyed to you, for it alone can determine you to become active in love .... I gave you My commandments of love for God and neighbour .... You have already heard them all during your earthly existence but you don't attach any value to them, you have not yet become aware of what the fulfilment of My commandments of love means to you .... And until the words can fall into your heart, so that they ignite the spark of love there, they are only dead words without meaning and life .... That they come alive in you is My purpose through the transmission of My word from above .... My teaching of love is indeed proclaimed to people everywhere, there are willing workers for Me and My kingdom everywhere but they lack the right spirit, they mostly only convey My word without it having come alive in them, for then the word has no strength either .... But the word which comes from above is different .... which can be conveyed to those who are in contact with Me through their will to live to please Me .... who have already kindled the light of love within themselves and are therefore able to hear Me Myself .... These receive strength for life directly from Me and can now pass this strength on and again and again awaken new life by means of this strength from Me .... My word, which originates from Me Myself, contains much strength and primarily teaches love .... It points people to the only important thing in earthly life: to develop love so that people come closer to Me .... so that they become free from the power of My adversary. And if all knowledge were made accessible to you humans but love was not preached you would not be able to awaken to life, you would remain eternally dead, because My strength of love can only flow through you when you open yourselves through activity in love .... Love is the highest .... love is the bond which unites us eternally .... love is the bridge through which the vast distance from Me is lifted .... But love is also the guarantee to hear My voice directly, thus to draw strength from Me without limitation. Love is the divine which you once gave away and thereby became imperfect, and thus you also regain your perfection again as soon as you live in love again .... as soon as you voluntarily do what My commandments of love demand of you .... For love must be practiced freely .... I can certainly point out to you through My commandments the consequences of fulfilling or not fulfilling them, yet I cannot and will not force you to fulfil them, because love tolerates no coercion .... just as everything divine is something completely free .... My word merely has to be directed everywhere so that it can strike the dormant spark of love in the soul and ignite it .... Again and again My teaching of love has to be proclaimed, and again and again a tiny spark will glow and grow into a great flame of love, again and again there will be people who long for Me because the spark of love in them has been ignited by My word, which is full of strength and imparts strength to anyone who accepts it without resistance, who moves it within himself and becomes active according to My teaching of love .... This one will work in love and live eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Turnaround .... redeeming the souls of the deep ....

B.D. 6399 from November 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

In the spiritual world the souls of light follow the events on earth with concern for you humans, for they see the darkness, they would like to bring you light but you don't accept it and walk towards ruin with closed eyes. But they also know about the events ahead of you, they know that the earth is in its final phase and they also know about the dreadful fate of those who do not first turn to their God and creator and cover the last stretch of the way together with Him. And that is why they eagerly endeavour to mentally influence people on earth to desire light in order to then be able to convey it to them. Nothing is left untried to spiritually direct people's thoughts .... For this reason people will also make themselves known from time to time who have an unusual effect, who clearly show a connection with the higher world, who also eagerly speak on behalf of this higher world and, as it were, prove themselves to be speaking organs of the kingdom which is 'not of this world' .... Again and again people will be able to observe such unusual activity and will now be stimulated in thought to desire information about it ..... A connection from the spiritual world to earth will become ever more credible for people who are thoughtful .... Yet indifferent people will also leave such phenomena or experiences untouched which they only smile at and dismiss .... But a messenger from above has also approached them so that they will not be able to say that they have remained without admonitions and warnings. The world of light tries everything on God's behalf, for the end is getting ever closer, yet there will no longer be much success with the people of this earth, which is why, on the other hand, the spiritual kingdom starts to work on the souls in order to fetch them from the abyss into the light .... in order to spur all souls to follow the light and to work on themselves in order to be able to enter the spheres of light from the kingdom of darkness or twilight .... For the end of the redemption epoch will also bring a change in the spiritual kingdom .... because a separation of spirits will take place everywhere .... Hell will spit out everything .... Everything satanic will again be banished into form and thus also the inhabitants of the deepest depths, who show no will to change, who are so hardened that all attempts at conversion remain unsuccessful, who avoid every opportunity to free themselves from darkness and always strive more towards the depths .... Countless souls will certainly still rise up because the world of light constantly works with love and patience, yet since free will is decisive this redemption will not be complete .... But one day the battle in the spiritual kingdom will also be over for a long time, when all spiritual things have been directed, i.e. when they have been transferred to where they belong according to their degree of love .... when the new creation has also taken in what is in 'hell' in order to give it the opportunity to ascend again. Then there will also be peace in the spiritual kingdom and the souls will strive upwards because they will only see and experience love on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and will no longer be exposed to hostility from the prince of darkness .... Many souls will still be called away from earth before this end, all of them are offered the opportunity to ascend in the beyond but are also left with the freedom of their will so that they can also descend into the abyss through their own fault. But the work of redemption is carried out extremely eagerly on the part of the beings of light and also of people on earth who are faithful labourers in the vineyard of the lord. A turning point is coming, spiritually and earthly, and this turning point is already casting its shadows ahead .... On earth there will be a sharp division between those who are faithful to God and those who do not believe .... Unusual phenomena and events will make people pay attention and clear signs will prove the working of spiritual forces .... Yet no person will be forced to believe, only everyone of good will shall be helped. For the spiritual world knows the fate people on earth are facing and its love still seeks to save them before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Informing people (earth task) ....

B.D. 6400 from November 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is your task to make the significance of earthly life clear to your fellow human beings if you want to be of service to Me, for very few are informed of the fact that they live on earth for the sake of a purpose. They look for the purpose of life in earthly life itself, they conscientiously endeavour to meet all the demands of life as far as they serve the body .... But they don't know that it is the soul which has been given an aim on earth which the human being should achieve, and that earthly life was given to him for this purpose. And as long as people don't receive full enlightenment about their actual purpose of existence they live thoughtlessly and unscrupulously into the day .... Admittedly, only a few will listen to a knower's ideas, only a few will believe what you tell them, and yet they must be informed of it, because only then can they be called to account when they have received a certain knowledge about it. People's thinking has to be directed from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom in order to then be able to decide in which kingdom they now want to permanently dwell. Through education most people are already mentally pointed to this, so that there is hardly a person who has not already taken notice of a world existing outside of earth .... But as long as this knowledge has not become an inner conviction it is of no use to the human being .... And thus you, My servants on earth, should try to convey this inner conviction to your fellow human beings. It is arduous work which requires patience and perseverance and often enough is also unsuccessful, yet it has to be done if people are to be helped .... It is a work which has to be tackled again and again if it was unsuccessful at first .... And I Myself support you through external influences, through strokes of fate, through events which cause you to think. For only when the human being thinks can the first success be recorded. People strive for matter with all their senses .... They must learn to recognize matter as worthless in order to overcome it .... I Myself must repeatedly present or prove to them the transience of matter, and you must build on this and present to them the goods which are imperishable and have lasting value .... and thus draw their attention to their actual purpose of earthly life: to the overcoming of matter and the acquisition of spiritual treasures during their existence. The more a human being is chained to the material world and its goods, the less he will accept your teachings, but for every human being the time comes when he is deprived of what he believes to possess .... Every human being experiences death around him and is thereby prompted to think of his own death. And death is so certain for every human being that thoughts of it will also arise in him one day .... And then it is good if he remembers your instructions which are guaranteed to come to his mind through the influence of the world of light, which is why none of your efforts will be entirely unsuccessful, only sometimes delayed to the own detriment .... You should not let yourselves be discouraged by rejections, you should insistently point out the coming end, but also the end of life which is certain for every human being once .... But you should also preach to them the survival of the soul, the immortality of that which, as soul, gives the human being his I-consciousness .... This soul cannot pass away, this soul has received earthly life for the purpose of maturing, and after the death of the body this soul takes upon itself the fate it acquired in earthly life .... Again and again you should remind people of death and the state of the soul after death .... Again and again you should distract them from earthly thoughts and try to open up the spiritual kingdom for them, again and again you should inform them of their earthly task .... And I Myself will always support you as far as it is possible without coercion of will. Every person knows about it, yet only a few believe in the truth of what is repeatedly held up to them .... And therefore your vineyard work is so urgently needed, because all people who are of good will shall still be helped ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's word is life, light and power ....

B.D. 6401 from November 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

He who hears My word hears Me .... But how can you recognize that I Myself speak to you? So you seriously ask yourselves when My adversary oppresses you and wants to create doubts in you as to the truth of what you receive through the inner voice .... Again and again you will fall into such doubts, although you will defeat them again and again, but this is his effort to keep you from intimate contact with Me because he wants to prevent you from receiving My direct word, for he knows that My word is the light in which his activity is clearly recognizable, in which he can be unmasked by anyone who seeks the truth .... But you possess a proof .... you possess a living testimony of Me, for My word gives you life, it gives you light and strength .... And My word teaches you love .... This alone is a testimony that eternal love speaks to you, and everyone who lives out My teaching of love awakens to life and attains realization .... What you receive through the inner word is not a dead word, it is life and light and strength in itself .... For every person of good will will feel addressed by it, even if the origin is unknown to him, because My word affects every person who does not offer Me resistance .... And thus the origin can calmly remain hidden from him, he need not know anything about the origin of what was presented to him .... he feels that they are words of truth, for his soul is addressed and deeply touched because My strength animates this word which originated from Me, and this strength never remains without effect where all resistance has been abandoned. And My adversary knows about the strength and power of My word, and he would like to extinguish the light .... But he will not succeed because its effect is also unmistakable where it is received directly from Me. Again and again he will indeed try to cast doubt into the heart but the light already shines too brightly for his cunning and deceitfulness not to come to light. My word itself testifies to Me and the truth, for there is an enlightenment which satisfies everyone who desires truth. My word, however, will only ever have an effect on those people who don't hostile Me .... who, even if they don't think they can believe in Me, nevertheless only want to acknowledge what corresponds to the truth. They cannot escape the impression that they are being addressed by a wise power to Whom they now also willingly listen. Only the person who does not want to be in contact with this power and therefore still belongs to the one who has sworn enmity to Me will completely reject My word .... Those who ask questions will always receive clarification but the clarifications will only satisfy those who desire the truth. And My word also touches him, because I Myself also address him in My word .... Therefore only consider the effect of what My word has conveyed to a person .... And you will be able to judge for yourselves from whom the word originated, for anyone who allows himself to be addressed by Me, who therefore is not My open opponent, to him I can also give light which .... because it shines out of My love .... also touches people charitably .... And this then also be proof to you who speaks to you .... that My word makes people happy, that they find fulfilment, that they are offered food which they can fill themselves with, and that their desire always increases and they constantly want to be fed. In the glow of the light of love everything is now also understandable to them, and never can untruth .... thus erroneous knowledge .... bring enlightenment to a person and therefore cannot make him happy either .... But My adversary shuns the light of knowledge and tries everything to extinguish it again. But once a person has awakened to life he will never return to darkness and the state of death. My word is light and life, and by it you recognize who speaks to you, and every doubt about the giver becomes invalid because you already have life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Church buildings? ....

B.D. 6402 from November 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It does not correspond to My will that ostentatious and splendid buildings get erected for Me at a time when it is particularly important for people to look within themselves and not towards things which still belong to the world and which do not encourage striving for My kingdom with its magnificence and glory .... Everything that captivates your eyes or appeals to your senses prevents you from introspection, from the contemplation of your inner self, which is so essential for you because the end is not far .... Time and again I have to remind you that ‘My kingdom is not of this world ....’ Why do you think that you must honour Me with magnificent buildings, why do you always externalise everything instead of working on improving your souls more eagerly? .... You humans still don’t understand that I cannot be found where you want to place Me .... You all have the means to let Me be present within you .... You have the place within yourselves where I want to be. I Am as close to each one of you as you would like Me to be, and each one of you has the power to draw Me to himself by simply fulfilling My only request of shaping his heart into love .... For ‘whoever remains in love remains in Me and I in him ....’ Only love guarantees you My presence .... but I can never be where you look for Me if your heart is not burning with love. And therefore it is foolish for you to want to build houses for Me which serve no other purpose than to periodically assemble people who live according to wrong concepts ....

Those who want to speak to Me can do so in their hearts and wherever they are .... they truly need no assembly halls which so appeal to the eye that they make all deep reflection impossible .... Wherever My Word is imparted to you, wherever you can hear sermons which your heart longs for, that is where I Am and that is where I Myself speak through the proclaimer of My Word to people who want to listen Me .... To hear My Word is the only important thing for you humans who are so close to the end and yet still so infinitely far away from Me .... Only what is suitable to awaken the soul from its sleep meets My approval and My blessing. But how can your soul awaken to life through external events, through worldly pomp and splendour, through constant feasts for your eyes and ears .... through everything that affects a person’s external senses but cannot give life to the soul .... It can only wake up and heal through love, and thus love must take precedence over all other things .... Love must be preached and practised, and you will always have the opportunity for that. A soul which receives the kind of love that inspires reciprocated love can find God much sooner ....

Do good to your neighbour, ease his burden, try to help in every possible way .... care for and give to your fellow human being what he spiritually and earthly is in need of .... but don’t erect dead structures whose production does not comply with My will, especially since the physical hardship on earth is so great that it would be far more pleasing to Me if you would lessen this adversity .... What good do you think you are doing to Me? All the riches in the world belong to Me, but they urgently need to be released from My adversary’s bondage. You, however, banish them even more firmly, you want to erect buildings which shall last forever, and you believe that thereby you honour Me? If My love had no mercy with this unredeemed spiritual substance as well, its suffering would be inconceivably prolonged by people’s will who have so far failed to grasp the meaning of life but who deem themselves their fellow human beings’ spiritual leaders .... You are close to the end and therefore My Words sound particularly admonishing and warningly, since you, who support or recommend this, contribute towards the fact that countless souls continue their sleep of death from which they can only be aroused by My living Word which teaches love .... Love shall be preached and practised .... and you all know where activity of love is necessary, for you see hardship and misery all around you which first has to be remedied before I can bless your actions ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The will determines the duration of bondage ....

B.D. 6403 from November 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

And even if you resist My love .... once you will open yourselves to My love, once you will voluntarily turn to Me, and your hearts will be struck by My ray of love .... You will push towards Me and grasp Me and eternally no longer separate yourselves from Me .... Yet eternities can still pass, but you can also give up your resistance in a short time and your existence in bondage will be over, you can enter My kingdom in fullest freedom and fullness of light when you leave earthly life .... Because this is possible, because it solely depends on your free will whether you exchange the state of wretchedness, the state of distance from Me, with a state of blissful freedom, this is why I still give you every opportunity for this change of will, and I Myself always approach you such that you can recognize Me as a God of love and seek contact with Me .... I do everything to shorten your time which you still spend at a far distance from Me, but I can only ever influence you without forcing your will .... And therefore there is also the danger that your earthly life will be over before you have found your way back to Me. Your will is free and you determine your fate yourselves after the downfall of this earth, which will end all your lives .... And what I don't achieve now I will achieve one day after all, only you will be the ones to suffer if you prolong the time of wretchedness for yourselves when you can end it yourselves. Yet My love for you does not diminish, even if you still reject it, even if you still take an adversarial stance towards Me .... My love pursues you, it always creates new opportunities for you to return to Me, it pays attention to the slightest change of will and considers you accordingly, so that your path will lead upwards when the time comes again when you have to prove yourselves as a human being on earth .... But every period of development is infinitely long. For this reason I will pour out My blessings in abundance shortly before the end of such a period, and every person can only acquire these blessings by desiring them .... Every person will be helped because My love applies to all of you and wants to protect all of you from a new banishment .... But a refusal, a rejection of My graces is also a rejection of My love .... and thus voluntary perseverance in the distant state which I do not oppose by force. My love applies to all of you, and it will also remain with you, yet it will be ineffective again for an infinitely long time, you will only be able to feel it again in the state as a human being. But then you must let yourselves be illuminated by Me without resistance, then you must open yourselves and all adversity will come to an end for you .... For this reason anyone who consciously hands himself over to Me and seeks unity with Me is already blessed on earth, for he has given up his resistance and no longer resists My love .... He will soon be free of all material cover and shine brightly in light and strength .... And the soul will now realize that My love constantly endeavoured to help it attain beatitude but was unable to influence it against its will .... And in this realization it will also want to help people's souls on earth and in the spiritual kingdom again. It, too, will constantly give love because it constantly receives love from Me and love is a strength which never rests but works in My will ....

Amen

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"Create and work while it is still day ...."

B.D. 6404 from November 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The day will draw to a close and night will fall, and everything will be shrouded in deepest darkness .... For the time has come which was given to you humans for your release from the form, a period has come to an end whose duration was determined by Me Myself in wise foresight of your spiritual state and its only possibility of help. My plan of salvation is unknown to you humans, and if it is made known to you then you don't believe it, yet it exists, and in accordance with this plan of salvation everything happens in the universe and also in the spiritual kingdom. For the spiritual kingdom and its inhabitants are in closest contact with the beings on earth, and they try to exert all their influence in order to still achieve a good end with people who are not entirely distant from Me. But when the day of the end has come everything that has already stood in a certain degree of light will sink back into deepest darkness .... Then night falls, which lasts endlessly .... Then no human being will be able to work anymore, for every human being will have ceased to be except for the few who belong to Me and thus belong to My own, whom I will take away from earth with a living body because they shall animate the new earth again according to My plan of eternity. The night will irrevocably descend and everything will perish in darkness because it did not seek the light on earth. But you humans still live in the light of day, even though it will soon diminish, and thus, as long as it is still day you can still eagerly create and work, you can escape the night if you take refuge in the eternal light, if you kindle a light within yourselves which will never go out again and you need never ever fear the night .... This possibility is open to all of you, you all carry a spark within yourselves which only needs to be ignited in order to radiate light which now illuminates all your paths .... And it can only be called to you again and again: Make good use of the light of the day, work on your soul, make it receptive to light so that My light of love can shine through it and there will be no more darkness for you forever .... Strive spiritually and leave all earthly striving behind, for the darkness which is imposed on earth is getting deeper and deeper, but the light shines from above, from the spiritual kingdom .... And therefore you must direct your gaze spiritually and know that spiritual things alone are of value and will one day mean the right life, the right light for you .... Learn to judge everything earthly-material as an illusory world, and then you will also be able to detach yourselves from it .... Desire light, flee from darkness by escaping from the world with its illusionary light .... Resist being plunged into darkness by the powers of darkness, hand yourselves over to the forces of light, hand yourselves over to Me Who is the light from eternity. Every day comes to an end, but a bright morning always dawns again .... But this night will last forever, and only My own will experience the bright morning who already stand in My ray of light, because their love and will belong to Me .... All of you humans can give Me your love and your will and you would not regret it, yet you have to do it voluntarily, your heart has to seek Me voluntarily, then you, too, will enter My circle of light and a morning full of light will also be granted to you .... Therefore My serious admonition applies to you again and again: Create and work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work, and this night will last forever and is imminent for humanity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Changes in the constellations ....

B.D. 6405 from November 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will experience a series of events at short intervals which will greatly disturb you since you will be unable to explain them, and hence you will fear powers against which you cannot defend yourselves. Nor will you be able to find a correct explanation because it is My will that each one of you shall take all eventualities into account and adopt an appropriate attitude .... because I want each one of you to still derive a benefit for yourselves, that is, for your soul .... Where faith is entirely absent people will be particularly apprehensive, whereas the believers will more or less abide by Me and know that they are protected in My care.

Nevertheless, the cosmically generated phenomena will lead to much public debate so that every person will spend some thought on them himself and also discuss it with other people. At times worldly interests will be less important, yet once these appearances have passed worldly people will enjoy the pleasures of the world even more eagerly and only a few will retain impressions which will result in reflection and even to a change of attitude .... until the same cosmic events repeat themselves and trigger new anxiety .... For the scientific community fears a serious threat to planet earth .... since the mysterious changes in the galaxy have never been observed before and may pose a considerable risk to earth. And people's opinion regarding the assessment of effects will vary considerably .... People will carelessly brush it aside and, without a second thought, enjoy their lives; others will take entirely futile precautions, while others still will withdraw within themselves and mentally come to terms with their God and Creator .... And I allow everyone his free will, I only ever try to encourage people to think correctly, to pay attention to the human being's true purpose .... so that they will find peace in Me and then can be led by Me for the salvation of their souls ....

But what will happen? .... The zodiac will change .... Stars will be moved into other orbits with new positions in relation to earth .... and thereby stars never observed before will become visible, one of which will emerge as a direct threat to earth as a crossing with the earth's orbit will be feared .... No-one will want to believe that this will happen, and no-one will believe that natural laws can change, but you humans are facing the end .... You yourselves are preparing something that will have even worse effects, for what you undertake will endanger the whole earth ....

What happens due to My will is, however, just a sign of the end, it is a serious warning for you and I only grant you such obvious signs of a higher Power's existence so that you can turn to it and thereby also avert a real danger if you, that is your soul, make correct use of it. But what follows afterwards will affect the whole earth and everything living on it ....

And this is why I will manifest Myself in advance in an unusual way yet without forcing you to acknowledge Me as the Initiator of what will have a huge outcome, yet will not affect the whole earth. For I know all natural laws and their effects, I also know how to avert any happening or lessen its effect .... But what I allow to happen will always serve your deliverance, it is intended to drive you to Me, it is intended to let you humans recognise a 'God' in Whom you should take refuge because He is your Father .... It is the last sign before the end .... It is the final attempt by My love and mercy to save what can still be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fight against lies and error ....

B.D. 6406 from November 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Take up the fight against lies and error if you want to be My fighters on earth .... Don't let yourselves be frightened by threats and don't let yourselves be persuaded by promises, vigorously stand up for My word, for the pure, unadulterated teaching of Christ, which has experienced so many changes through people which you should correct in My name. I will not let you fall prey to misguided teachings if you are of the will to move in truth. And therefore the truth comes to you directly from Me, and everyone can receive it again through you who seriously strives for the truth. Yet people's thinking is already so confused that they can no longer recognize what is right .... that they are far more likely to doubt when the truth is offered to them than when the darkest error is presented to them .... This is also a sign of the end times, that people speak 'different languages', that they can no longer understand each other .... and that therefore there must be one who speaks in such a way that all can understand him .... And this one will always instruct them on My behalf .... he will be a servant and messenger whom the lord Himself sends to those who wander about in the night without finding the path which leads to the aim. But My adversary also has his helpers who likewise try to influence people and lure them ever deeper into darkness. You humans don't know the blessing that lies on spiritual knowledge which does not correspond to the truth .... it is his weapon which brings him great success. And all of you humans are under his influence who oppose My pure truth, which is conveyed to you from above through My messengers .... And only that which agrees with this truth can be a blessing for you. The great evil, however, is that most people don't ask whether the truth is conveyed to them .... And as long as they do they are also the suitable vessels into which My adversary can empty himself. As soon as the human being himself sincerely desires to only receive truth and to recognize it, he closes himself to those currents and it becomes light in him, so that he recognizes every error and banishes it from himself. But as long as this desire for truth is not present in people, their efforts to displace misguided teachings from their hearts will also be in vain, and thus the confusion of languages cannot be cleared up either, people will not understand each other yet everyone will believe that they speak correctly and walk the right path .... People who walk the earth in darkness only lack the desire for truth .... And this desire is free will .... But anyone who stands in the truth should not cease to stand up for this truth. Again and again he should try to shake people up mentally, he should illuminate the misguided teachings in such a way that they clearly stand out as wrong .... He should encourage people to search, he should also reproach them for their spiritual inertia which thoughtlessly accepts everything that is put in front of people in terms of spiritual knowledge .... And he shall refer them to Me Myself and only assure them of what comes from Me as valuable and true .... And everyone who turns to Me Myself and desires it is guaranteed to arrive at the truth .... And very few people do the latter, but since truth originates from Me Myself it can also only be received by Me Myself .... All people should bear this in mind .... even those who think they are wise, for they err as long as I Myself cannot instruct them because they do not turn to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divisions before the end ....

B.D. 6407 from November 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

This, too, is a sign of the approaching end, that divisions will arise everywhere, that parties will also form amongst My own and each one will believe that it alone can think and act correctly .... But then My spirit will no longer be decisive, for where My spirit is active there will be full agreement, where My spirit is active the thinking and willing will be the same .... But where divisions arise My Spirit has withdrawn because it has been made impossible for it to work .... For as long as you humans stand in the midst of the world you will have to fight against the world so that I will have unhindered access into your heart, so that My spirit can become effective in you. But as soon as you humans deny it working, the light in you will be extinguished, and in the darkness you will bump into each other everywhere, you will no longer walk the same path together which was illuminated by My spirit, but each one will take a different path, thinking in the darkness that it is the right one .... It is a great danger when different opinions prevail within those who want to be Mine, for then you must always fear that an unspirit has caused confusion, because My spirit urges all sheep towards their shepherd .... but the wolf drives them apart in order to scatter the flock .... remember this parable seriously .... Every division betrays the influence of the evil spirit, which creeps into the united flock like a wolf in sheep's clothing .... And once again My own will gather where their shepherd is, for he will lure all strayed ones to himself again, but My sheep will never join other shepherds unless they are under the control of the one who seeks to snatch My sheep away from Me. And in the last days he will obviously betray his work .... But he will only ever be able to slip in where he can influence people through the world. He will not find access where the bond with Me is so intimate because My spirit is at work there and his activity is brightly illuminated. But every desire of the world is an obstacle for My spirit to express itself, and then My adversary will have an easy game .... then he will know how to confuse people's thoughts very skilfully, yet he will also let everyone believe that his 'spirit' will instruct him, and therefore everyone will hold on to his views, no-one will seriously condemn himself, everyone will believe that he is guided by the spirit within himself and eagerly advocate even the greatest error as truth .... My spirit cannot be where different opinions are .... For My spirit will only ever teach the truth which always and forever remains the same .... It is the time of the end when My adversary's influence on you humans becomes ever more apparent .... But you can protect yourselves against his influence if you join Me ever more closely, if you turn away from everything that still belongs to him. And you know that the world with all its attractions and pleasures is his kingdom. So turn away from the world and only turn your senses and thoughts to Me .... Only desire to hear Me and to be safe in My arms. Do not associate any other desires with it, but strive in all seriousness for the kingdom which is not of this world .... Then the enemy of your soul will not be able to approach you, for then you will be filled by My spirit and you will recognize the one who harms you, who only wants to confuse your senses, and you will not give him the opportunity to approach you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to make good use of life on earth ....

B.D. 6408 from November 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Your earthly life as a human being is but a moment compared to the infinitely long time you already had to live through in the creations of earth, even though you were not fully aware of it. But as a human being you live a conscious life and yet of such short duration that it would truly be possible for you to pass the battle for the purpose of which you live on earth .... You had to suffer for an inconceivably long time before because you were bound, without strength and without freedom .... This long time has been an uninterrupted state of torment for you, which you will realize one day .... But as a human being you live in a certain freedom, and you also possess vitality in order to acquire final freedom. Thus you are, as it were, able to create complete freedom for yourselves and only need a correctly directed will to do so. The time on earth is only short, and precisely for this reason you should also muster the will to gain the greatest success from this short time on earth. For only what comes afterwards is the right life for you, but it can be exceedingly glorious and also just as painful .... Nothing too difficult is truly demanded of you humans and you could therefore pass your test of will .... And yet, most people fail because their desire for beatitude concerns wrong aims, because they already want to achieve earthly things which, however, can only be given to them in the spiritual kingdom .... They strive for wrong goods even though they know that they will perish with the death of their body .... They use the short time of earthly life wrongly, although they are taught about their actual purpose of earthly life and about the effects of a wrongly directed will and a wrong way of life. They only allow their free will, which was given to them after an infinitely long time of bondage, to be active in an earthly direction, even though they are constantly admonished and warned by God through His word, through His messengers, who want to help people to attain the right aim .... No matter how short the time on earth is .... people cannot and will not put themselves off until the time afterwards when they could reap a rich harvest if they had cultivated their land well during their earthly life .... But they want to enjoy beforehand, and thus they are content with fruits which bring them death instead of eternal life .... You humans are truly only granted a very short time to test your will, and you could pass the test if only you would earnestly turn to Jesus Christ that He may strengthen and rightly direct your will .... Such a request would truly not be in vain if only it were spoken in the heart so that it can reach His ear .... For every man who wills it becomes free through Him, through Jesus Christ, Who died for it on the cross .... He has promised you an eternal 'life', a life in power and glory, in freedom and light .... Believe His promise and turn to Him when you become weak and the world threatens to dominate you .... Call upon Him for help where your strength is insufficient to resist. For this is the battle you have to fight on earth, that you renounce what the world offers you in order to one day be allowed to occupy the kingdom which offers you imperishable goods and which lasts forever. Believe that it is possible for you to survive this battle on earth if only you call upon Jesus Christ for His support, if you hand yourselves over to Him Who has overcome death .... He will surely lead you to life, for He Himself is the way, the truth and the life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's help for a change of will ....

B.D. 6409 from November 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

No human heart remains hidden from Me, all impulses lie open before Me, all desires and cravings, be they of a spiritual or worldly nature .... I know about all faults and also about all virtues, I know about every individual person's distance to Me, I know about his direction of will, about his degree of love, and even the most secret thoughts are not hidden from Me .... And therefore I use such means with every person which promise success .... Yet the freedom of will remains untouched, which is why those means can just as well remain unsuccessful. Yet each person is considered according to his spiritual state, which alone is obvious to Me. For I am not deceived by words spoken by the mouth or by external gestures of piety, because I look into the heart .... And thus I also know what ails humanity and why it can be helped so little .... It does not seek contact with Him who sees and knows everything .... It believes that man is as foreign to Me as I am to man .... It does not believe in the close connection between the creator and His creatures .... It does not seek Him to Whom it owes life .... And it cannot be forced into a change of thinking, for the only medicine for its illness would be My word, and this it must listen to and live out in free will in order to change its degree of realization, thus to learn to think right .... Although I know the human being's every innermost heartfelt emotion, I respect free will and can only ever consider the human being in accordance with it. This human free will binds My power because I do not violate My law of order, no matter how great the spiritual adversity may be .... Yet everything happens which could change this free will, which is why the human being is sometimes approached by unusual events which can bring this about. And where only the slightest change of will is recognizable My love always finds new means which are truly used wisely because I want to win the human being for Myself. And thus My everlasting concern applies to you humans until the last hour on this earth .... I do not turn away from the one who does not desire communion with Me .... I nevertheless accompany him on his earthly path, only unrecognized by him but always imperceptibly influencing him without determining his thoughts and conduct on this earth .... And I also occasionally succeed in addressing him and finding his attention, precisely because I see every stirring of his heart and can then also take advantage of it when it seems favourable to Me. Thus I look after every individual person's life, and no one goes there without spiritual guidance .... Yet many have not taken a step forward until the hour of death, and therefore I call them away if only the slightest possibility still exists that the will in the beyond will still change, if loving intercession follows them into that kingdom .... I make use of all conceivable possibilities in order to help the soul to ascend, and I pass by no person without assisting him .... but neither do I force a person to accept My assistance. Yet only what he uses of his own free will will bring him forward. And thus commandments can still and still be issued by people, they will not result in any spiritual advantage for him, because a compulsory fulfilment of even the noblest commandment is worthless for the soul .... yet the smallest voluntary act of love signifies progress, and because I recognize this great spiritual hardship I constantly endeavour to convey My word to people, which alone can change their thinking and will if they willingly listen to it and live accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Gospel of love ....

B.D. 6410 from November 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I can only proclaim the gospel of love to you .... for it is love which you lack but which you must irrevocably ignite and let flare up in you in order to have fellowship with Me, which guarantees you eternal beatitude. Love unites us, but unkindness keeps us apart .... If you now want to reach Me, if you want to be united with Me and remain forever, then this can only happen by shaping yourselves into love, by thus assimilating yourselves to My fundamental nature, by becoming again what you were in the beginning .... creatures emanating from My love of the same spiritual substance .... Yet no matter how much love is preached to you, you do not take these words seriously, precisely because without love you also lack any realization of what love actually means for your being .... You certainly know a love but it is wrongly directed, it is a desire for things which excite you, to which you give the word love .... But right love is a divine feeling, right love does not desire but constantly gives and constantly seeks to please .... Only when you humans ignite this love in yourselves do you inwardly move towards Me and seek to establish contact with Me, for unselfish activity of love is already an effect of My ray of love which again and again tries to touch you humans but is very often ineffective due to resistance .... But anyone who gives up his resistance is touched by My ray of love, and its effect is an incomparable urge of love in the heart which now impels you to activity .... And you humans first have to come to this love, then My gospel has been successful, then My teaching of love has been heard and has first broken the inner resistance .... And then I could send My ray of love into the human heart .... And the more insistently My teaching of love is proclaimed the sooner it is possible that the resistance will subside, for first you humans have to know of My will, which only ever demands love, only then will you comply with My demand .... positively or negatively .... for the benefit or to the detriment of the soul .... Love is the first thing .... and before further knowledge can be imparted to you, love will and must be preached to you, for without love you only possess dead knowledge, if it has nevertheless been presented to you .... Only love gives life to everything, it brings you alive, it brings My word alive, it enlightens your spirit and establishes unity with Me, Who is love Itself from eternity .... Everything the man Jesus taught on earth was only about love .... Everything He did were works of love for His fellow human beings, and His sacrifice on the cross was the expression of His overwhelming love for humanity .... Only love determined Jesus, the man, in His thinking, speaking and acting .... Only love drove Him to a work of mercy such as has only once been accomplished on earth .... For His love led to complete union with Me, and thus I Myself worked through the man Jesus, and I Myself therefore died on the cross because it was love Which sacrificed Itself for people .... Love has the greatest significance on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom .... And if a being is without love then it cannot belong to the kingdom where I reign as the eternal love but places itself outside of this kingdom of Mine and vegetates in the absence of light and strength .... For love alone is light and strength. Love is the fundamental law which eternally cannot be overturned .... And whoever violates this fundamental law must also bear the consequences .... to be deprived of the light and strength which signify bliss .... This is why My gospel only ever teaches love. And where love is preached I Myself will be proclaimed, and if you open your heart and ear you will receive the greatest blessing from the proclamation of My word ....

Amen

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Your desire determines your lord ....

B.D. 6411 from November 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

With full hands I distribute, and everyone will be able to receive according to desire .... But by the nature of your desire you also make that Lord inclined to you, who shall bestow upon you .... And thus you can also cause My adversary to consider you when you desire what is his .... And therefore you should always subject your desire to scrutiny .... you should become aware of what your desire is directed towards, so that you don't profess to belong to a lord who harms you, who does not bestow a good gift upon you .... so that you are also aware of the danger of handing yourselves over to that lord who no longer releases you .... desire what brings you blessings, desire the goods which are imperishable, which I alone can distribute and want to distribute in abundance .... What I want to give you must likewise be requested, the heart must desire it and I will fill it and truly not to its detriment, for what I give you are treasures of highest value, treasures with which you can work in the spiritual kingdom when all earthly things are behind you, when your actual life begins .... What I give to you cannot be offered to you by other beings unless it has first been distributed by Me .... And thus you can acquire wealth of incomparable value on earth if only you exclude from your thoughts the one who has no spiritual possessions to show because he once gave away everything he was given by Me and therefore no longer has a bond with Me, thus he will never be able to impart anything to you which will help you to heal your souls. He is separated from Me and equally wants you to be separated from Me, therefore he will try to prevent everything that could result in a bond with Me .... And therefore he will try to direct your thoughts towards his kingdom, towards the earthly world, and entice you with its goods .... He can and will give you earthly riches if he can take complete possession of you in return, but you determine this yourselves, for he cannot force you, he can only present his world to you in such an enticing way that you voluntarily attach yourselves to this world, that you only ever desire its goods and thereby also voluntarily submit yourselves to the lord of the world .... Your desire determines the lord who considers you .... let this be said to you as a warning and admonition .... If you want a life of eternal bliss to await you after your departure from earth, then also desire the imperishable goods. Direct your eyes towards the spiritual kingdom and know that there are no limits, that you may desire the treasures in abundance and that you will also be granted according to your desire. For I am always willing to give and you will never be given meagrely, because My love for you determines Me to give you all, which wants to make you blissfully happy. I only try to wrest you from My adversary's shackles in order to make you happy, whereas he, in his unkindness, wants to block your path to Me, because his nature is only hatred which also extends to you. For he is bar .... from all love. And for this reason alone you should not enter his nets .... you should know that what he offers you can never be for your happiness, because he does not want to provide you with happiness but only seeks your subjugation .... And if your will is good, you will also find no pleasure in the goods of this world .... but you will always be happy if spiritual goods are offered to you. Make use of your earthly life and seek to enrich yourselves with spiritual treasures. Detach yourselves from the world and its lord; desire with all your senses to be bestowed by Me, and you will be showered with gifts of My love in abundance .... For everyone will receive according to desire ....

Amen

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God, a just but loving judge ....

B.D. 6412 from November 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The day of judgment is coming .... And it would therefore be wrong if you humans were left entirely without knowledge of it so that you would be spared any anxiety beforehand .... This would not be love from Me, for I see further .... I see people's fate afterwards when they continue to live into the day without being warned and suddenly find themselves having to answer for it. Many people do not take these announcements and warnings seriously, but they have been warned .... And what they do afterwards is their free will. But there are also people who come to their own senses through such announcements, who seriously consider the case and now consciously go through earthly life. They are only a few, but they can still be saved from the downfall, i.e. from the new banishment into matter. And I struggle for every single soul, every single soul means infinitely much to Me, so that I try everything to save it from falling into the deepest abyss. I only want people to remember Me and their future responsibility before Me. But anyone who has already found his way to Me need not fear the last judgment either .... For I am indeed a just judge but also a judge full of love, and I look at all with eyes of love and mercy who humbly come to Me and want to be accepted by Me .... I see the least will to Me, for I have already won their souls for Myself. And only those who reject Me, who demonstrate such a far distance from Me through their way of life that they will also remain in this far distance after the end of this earth, have to fear Me. The last days will certainly be a time of terror for all people but they will be touched in a completely different way .... for My own, due to their faith in Me, will have a strength at their disposal which will let them easily endure everything .... They will not feel much that weighs heavily on their fellow human beings, for I know the human being's nature and what he is capable of bearing .... And yet I am a father to My own Who will not excessively burden His children if only they look to Him and want to be guided by Himself .... But what lies ahead of you humans is so immense and so significant in its effect that every human being must be made aware of it in order to still give him the opportunity to escape the worst, a new banishment .... No one should be able to say that he has remained completely ignorant; but every person is free to adjust himself to it. But only the few who have already found Me will believe in it again .... But these need not be afraid, for as soon as they believe in a God of love and omnipotence they also know that this God can save them from every danger of body and soul and also wants to do so .... But for those who lack this faith the coming events cannot be described blackly enough in order to rouse them from their drowsiness, for it will also be monstrous for them if they don't change beforehand and also take their path to Me. For the earth bears more people without faith because love has grown cold amongst humanity .... And these will also not let themselves be disturbed by My announcements, and yet they shall receive knowledge of it .... For humanity has mercy on Me, and therefore it shall be warned and admonished again and again .... And whoever is of good will will also not reject everything, even though he is still unbelieving .... And I Myself will come to his aid precisely because his will is good and he will also take hold of My hand which offers itself to him when he is almost in danger of sinking. I know My own, and I approach everyone as his spiritual state requires .... But I seek to prepare everyone for My kingdom, which is not of this world .... I want to help everyone to become eternally blessed ....

Amen

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Love illumination and distance ....

B.D. 6413 from November 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You have been far away from Me for a long time and lack all recollection of the state when you were once blissfully close to Me .... You do not recognize yourselves, you do not know your original nature, you are limited in your knowledge, in your feeling and in your nature .... You are no longer what once came forth from Me in all perfection, you are only imperfectly formed beings who can no longer call themselves My images .... And yet, all My love still belongs to you, because you nevertheless are and will remain My share for eternity .... My strength of love is your original substance which was only determined to be completely inactive by your free will and therefore also rests until your free will lets it work again .... For this reason I do not give up on you but constantly illuminate you so that you awaken to new life, yet in your present state you could be called dead. My illumination, however, is intended to ignite the glowing spark of love within you .... or also: For once you should feel and recognize that a divine father continues to look after, sustain and provide for you, for once you should become aware of all His bestowals of grace, at first only of the loving earthly guidance and fatherly care for your physical existence and then also of the spiritual guidance .... And then you should be inwardly stimulated to show love to your creator and father of eternity. Then you will ignite the divine spark within you, and then My illumination of love will not have been unsuccessful .... Then you will awaken to life .... And now it is also possible that you will reach the original state again, that you will let yourselves be permeated by My strength of love more and more, that it will drive you into loving activity and that you will gradually enter My eternal order again, which you once wanted to overturn and thereby distanced yourselves from Me .... But the great distance from Me has reshaped you, for only that is perfect and remains perfect which is close to Me and thus can constantly be permeated by My strength of love. But your voluntary distance prevented the effect of My strength of love .... not that this strength of love was weakened, but it itself behaves quietly in the face of a certain resistance, because it is law from eternity that love excludes all coercion .... Yet the slightest will to give up resistance also makes the illumination of love effective again, and its strength is so strong that it can also bring about a total transformation of the previously deformed .... always provided that the being's free will allows this .... And therefore all My concern is only ever directed towards the transformation of the will turned away from Me .... And I only ever try to persuade the beings to give up their resistance, I only ever prove Myself as love by also giving people who are still distant from Me every opportunity to recognize a loving God and creator .... if they are able to believe in a God at all. And I also try to convey this faith to them through My address, through evidence of their own powerlessness, through constant encouragement to think about creation, about their destiny and about the elemental power which no human being will be able to deny. And My infinite love for everything still distant from Me constantly endeavours to reduce this distance .... Yet I respect the free will which every being that came forth from Me called its own and which was given to the human being, to the soul in the last stage of its development .... was given again. This free will determines how long the being still remains in opposition to Me .... For bliss and perfection can only be gained by the beings' voluntary return to Me, which will certainly take place one day ....

Amen

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Gospel of love ....

B.D. 6414 from November 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

I can only ever tell you the same thing I taught when I walked on earth, for you were only transferred to earth for the sake of one purpose: to ignite love in you and let it become the all-illuminating flame .... This is your aim in life, and I have pointed this aim out to you humans Myself, and you will always hear the same when I speak to you through My spirit .... It is always the teaching of love which I place before everything else, because without love no further knowledge is of any use to you, because without love you are lifeless and thus do not fulfil your purpose of earthly life. Yet people don't like to hear it when they are repeatedly admonished to love, for they feel that they lack precisely that which I first demand .... They are still strongly attached to self-love and would have to completely change their lives, their thoughts and actions if this self-love is to be turned into unselfish neighbourly love .... It means an inner struggle for people which is all the harder the more self-love dominates a person .... And even if I constantly preach love to them, even if they are pointed to it from all sides, this is not 'good news' to them, and therefore they mostly avoid the place where My teaching of love is proclaimed .... And thus My flock was only small at the time of My life on earth; there were only ever a few who followed Me because they recognized the profound truth which lay in My words .... And there will only ever be a few who now take My words to heart and put them into practice, who thus 'follow Me' .... Love means everything .... and its effect is unimaginable for you humans .... But you make no attempt to test the strength of love on yourselves, you attach too little importance to My words, and therefore I have to preach the same to you again and again: Live in love, for only through love can you become blessed .... As long as you humans do not fulfil this first and most important commandment you will not acknowledge Me either, even though you call yourselves christians, even though you speak My name. As long as you don't practice love yourselves you cannot recognize Me as your God and redeemer either, for you lack all understanding for it, you lack the strength of faith .... You have not yet become aware of what a living faith is and how you can gain this living faith, otherwise you would make an effort to perform works of love in order to attain a living faith, in order to now also be able to represent Me before the world with conviction. Unselfish love paves the way for you to ascend, and every labour of love is a step forward .... But then you will also be able to believe in Me with a living faith, and then you will also grasp the significance of My teaching of love and eagerly endeavour to proclaim this teaching of love in My name .... All knowledge is of no use to you if you humans do not have love. But you will attain deepest wisdom on the path of love. It is love which you humans lack and which you should kindle within yourselves, it is love which connects you with Me from Whom you kept yourselves separated for an infinitely long time .... Love is also the strength to resist the one who wants to keep you separated from Me .... Yet without love you are powerless, lightless and in His power. Love alone can save you, and therefore My word will only ever teach you love, and I will never stop sending this word of Mine to you in order to help you attain beatitude ....

Amen

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Distortion and purification of the divine word ....

B.D. 6415 from December 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You should profess My word even if it is commanded to you differently as before .... For My word is not different but only the transmission is a direct one, because My word, which I preached on earth, has already undergone many changes due to human influence which I have to rectify again and again so that My word will always and forever remain the same. You humans cannot expect that something will remain unchanged for years in a world of imperfection where human will and human activity has access at all times. And neither can you expect Me to prevent people from making changes or giving wrong interpretations, because I always respect free will and never exert coercion, even if it concerns My word, the pure gospel .... Yet again and again I take care that people can come into possession of My pure teaching if they desire the truth. My word could never remain pure among people who are not enlightened by My spirit, because the prerequisites for this are missing: a life according to My will .... And you cannot claim that all people lived according to My will who, as it were, were entrusted with My word, My pure teaching of love, who were decisive both in its spreading as well as in its interpretation .... Where their will deviated from Mine My adversary entered, whose first endeavour was and still is to enforce the pure truth with error and lies. As people of awakened intellect you must admit that a transformation, a defilement of My teaching preached on earth, is far more likely to be credible because 'people' felt entitled to watch over it, that this transformation would only have been impossible if I had prevented it by virtue of My power .... but in it (1.12.1955) would have had to make people's will unfree, which is against the law of My eternal order. And thus people were free to live according to My will and then also in truth, because then they would never have changed My pure word nor misunderstood it .... or by living contrary to My will .... thus not fulfilling My commandments of love .... to make themselves incapable of recognizing the truth, which naturally also had to lead to a distortion of My pure doctrine of love .... In an imperfect world nothing remains as pure as it started from Me .... I, however, keep feeding the pure, unadulterated word to such people who make themselves worthy and receptive for it through their way of life .... Again and again I pour out My spirit on people who shape themselves into love, thus also into a receptacle of My spirit .... This should be understandable to every person who only seriously thinks about it, that it is nonsensical to deny a shaping of My word in the course of time if a coercive influence on My part is not presupposed .... but which is completely eliminated. Every person has the opportunity to stand in fullest truth who only requests it from Me Myself. And this truth will always remain pure and unchanged as long as people remain so intimately united with Me that My spirit can enlighten them, but to also immediately experience a clouding when people strive away from Me. If the pure truth were always preached on earth then the spiritual low would not exist either, because My pure word has great strength but the distorted word has already lost much of its strength and therefore mostly remains without effect on people's hearts. Nevertheless, people of good will will also feel addressed by Me when they hear this word, because I Myself address every person who desires to hear Me. Yet he will only ever accept what corresponds to the truth and unhesitatingly reject additional human work. And he will also be guided to recognize the truth if he seriously strives for it .... For truly I say to you: "Heaven and earth will pass away but My word will remain in existence for all eternity ...."

Amen

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God's never-ending love ....

B.D. 6416 from December 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

My love belongs to you always and forever .... And this love prompts Me to help you in the battle against My adversary, to provide you with strength where you are too weak on your own, and to kindle a light for you so that you can see where the path you are taking or are already walking leads to. And My love also prompts Me to let warning signs flare up everywhere where danger threatens you. Hence you need never run blindly into ruin, you can always decide beforehand where you want to go, thus you don't run towards the abyss out of ignorance but you can still turn away from the chosen path at any time, for My love will not give you up and leave you to your fate .... And thus you humans will experience many things in the last days which you should consider and notice as warning and admonition signs .... You will be informed of all dangers which threaten you by Me Myself, Who has servants on earth devoted to Me who convey My word to you on My behalf, who work for Me with all seriousness and zeal and to whom I can therefore always give instructions which only aim at your salvation. I can express Myself through the mouth of all those who are devoted to Me and stand up for Me and My teaching, and through them I can also address you humans directly. But whether you listen to Me, whether you fulfil My demands which I make to you for the sake of your beatitude .... is entirely up to you. My love turns everything towards you which can help you to become blissfully happy. My love will always be ready to guide you, and My love will give you abundant strength and grace which, however, can only ever become effective if you want it yourselves .... But all of you should be aware of My never-ending love for you and want to return this love to Me .... by allowing yourselves to be guided by Me without inner resistance, by always willingly listening to Me when My word is conveyed to you, by following My instructions and always fulfilling My will which is made known to you through My word .... As long as you stay on earth I will not cease to woo you and your love, and I will never give you up prematurely .... And even your complete turning away from Me only determines Me to create new opportunities to promote your future return to Me, you belong to Me and remain Mine for all eternity .... The fact that you voluntarily moved into another realm, that you voluntarily chose another lord, does not keep you separated from Me forever. For I will not relinquish My share because you emerged from My love and your fundamental substance is also love .... thus belongs to Me. For this reason My love will pursue you and only ever wait for you to open yourselves up and abandon your former defences .... And this is why the end time will also give you so many proofs of My love, you will be able to ascertain My obvious working again and again, I will address you all, only in different ways .... depending on your degree of maturity or your resistance. But you shall all hear My voice before the end has come .... And you shall all still have the opportunity to make contact with your God and father .... For My love never ends and will always and forever apply to you and will also surely lead you back to Me one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The spiritual low level has been reached ....

B.D. 6417 from December 4th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

People on earth will not change anymore for they are devoted to the world with body and soul and therefore also to the one who is lord of this world .... All warnings are useless; a few will indeed still detach themselves from the crowd and recognise their true destiny, yet most remain unimpressed by it. And whatever happens, they will only ever look at it through the eyes of the world, a spiritual cause will never be seen or assumed, and thus people will not change, neither in their thoughts nor in their actions .... Their stay on earth has become completely meaningless and has to be brought to an end. People have become prematurely ready for the downfall, for the day of the end has been determined since eternity and will be upheld, although the spiritual low will have already been reached before this time. Nevertheless, everything will still be done for the sake of the few who will still choose God just before the end, and for their sake the day of the end has been set for a later time.

For the struggle to gain these last souls is extremely difficult and requires perseverance but it is not hopeless, as God has foreseen since eternity. However, every soul is precious to Him and thus he will do everything to gain it before the end. This is why His servants on earth should be diligent; every servant should remember that each soul he tries to gain could be one of the last few whose deliverance had caused God to delay the end until the work of redemption is accomplished. Hence they should not tire in their vineyard work, they should know that God has the interest of every soul at heart and His love for same motivates Him to be patient and longsuffering. The last days will bring the godlessness ever more to the fore, and at times it will appear as if the earth was only populated by devils so that the work for the kingdom of God will appear like a performance by feeble-minded people ....

Nevertheless it shall be done diligently for it will not be without benefit. Even people who are called away from earth before the end will be able to reach the light sooner in the beyond due to the work of the Lord's servants on earth, and in turn help their loved ones on earth to a change of heart .... Only very few people can still be gained and yet the end will be delayed for their sake .... And this is why the activity of God's adversary will become quite openly visible, for he will not find resistance in people anymore, they all belong to him, they allow themselves to be held captive by the world which is his kingdom .... He is truly reaping a great harvest yet it will not be beneficial for him because he will lose everyone he believes to have gained when the earth arises anew .... because they will all be snatched from his power and banished again, which will weaken his power considerably, and he himself will also be bound for a long time.

He is still on top and is celebrating his triumph over the people he has dragged into the abyss, yet he will not be victorious at the end of the earth for there is One Who is stronger than he is, Who will indeed let him have his time and not stop his activity until the hour has come as it is written .... but which will then confine him and with him all God-resisting souls .... And then the end of the earth and its inhabitants will have come .... and a new era will begin in peace and happiness for people who remain faithful to God until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The path to the father's house .... God's guidance ....

B.D. 6418 from December 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

All of you are guided who want to walk by My hand, who entrust yourselves to My guidance .... I must always take your own will into account, I cannot push you against your will onto a path which you consciously avoid, which you avoid because it does not seem pleasant to you .... I can only quietly urge you on but immediately yield to your resistance if it is recognizable to Me. But anyone who entrusts himself to My guidance can walk his earthly path without worry .... it leads to the aim .... Therefore you should not look anxiously at the many obstacles and difficulties, you should only ever firmly hold on to My hand and you will be guided past all difficulties with the certainty which only My guidance can offer you .... Therefore, don't look anxiously into the future either, don't worry unnecessarily, leave all earthly concerns and only lift your eyes up to Me. For I am always there for you, I will also keep all adversity away from you if only you trust Me faithfully, if you behave like children towards your father, if you don't leave My side and leave all care for yourselves to Me. Your faith will banish all danger, for I will not disappoint your complete trust in My loving care .... You are indeed still surrounded by deepest darkness because you stand in the midst of a world of sin and unkindness. But the path I lead you is illuminated by a gentle glow, and where I am, where you walk next to Me, there will always be light, and thus you need not fear the darkness, you need only turn your gaze upwards from where bright light will always shine for you .... The deepest darkness surrounds you .... but the fact that you can walk the path of light by My hand should make you gratefully remember the great work of love and mercy which I accomplished for you humans in order to be able to lead you out of darkness into light .... I have prepared the path on earth which you can now take by My hand, in My discipleship, under My guidance. Before there was deepest darkness and no way out of this darkness .... But I prepared a path that leads from the depth to the height, from darkness to light .... And this path can only be taken under My guidance, i.e. the human being has to believe in Me in Jesus Christ, he has to acknowledge the act of salvation and Me Myself as the divine redeemer Who embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to help you rise from darkness into light .... So everyone who wants to walk the path upwards with Me must join Me in Jesus Christ .... Then he walks the same path that the man Jesus walked, which leads to the father, home to the father's house .... The path leading up will always require the company of Jesus Christ, because there is only one path, the path of Jesus' discipleship, and because this path alone is full of light and guarantees the right aim. But I will never let go of anyone who has once entrusted himself to Me, My hand will hold him so that he will not fall, My hand will support him if he is weak, and My hand will pull him back from the abyss which can open up to him if he is not careful, if he turns his eyes back to the world he had already detached himself from .... He who entrusts himself to Me and My guidance can walk his path calmly, he will not go astray .... You should not allow any weakness, any doubt, any worry to arise within you, for if you hand yourselves over to Me you will take refuge in the father's arms, Whose love will truly protect and look after you, Who will safely lead you heavenwards ....

Amen

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Possession ....

B.D. 6419 from December 8th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Time and again the human being has to envisage himself as being influenced by good and by evil forces, both of which want to win his soul. However, you have to take account of being influenced by spiritual forces if your thoughts are directed towards the truth .... The human being's will is free .... and yet the said influence can be extraordinarily strong if the person's characteristics resemble those of the being influencing him ....

You have to understand it like this: every person is more or less encumbered by instincts or characteristics from his previous embodiment .... and thus he more or less has to fight against them, because he can overcome or discard them if he seriously wants to do so .... But these burdening human inclinations can also offer similar spiritual beings the opportunity to slip in; then such a spiritual force will be able to control the human being's soul, which you humans describe as possession .... However, if this succeeds, the soul will be relieved of its responsibility as it more or less makes it impossible for the soul to use its free will, for the former will is stronger and determines the person's action, which need not be the soul's will. In that case 'free will' is thus seemingly cancelled out even though it has not been removed from the being, it just cannot be used in the stage which is to serve the soul's test of will. Hence the will of a being which cannot be held responsible in an earthly way because it is inaccessible has to be taken into account .... The person himself, however, is not responsible either since he is being 'controlled' ....

Why and to what purpose this is permitted cannot be made understandable to you humans in a few words, for even in the kingdom of the lower spirits there are laws which are always adhered to and which are also based on free will .... Yet against My will or My permission these beings would be unable to make use of a human being's body, and occasionally their redemption even depends on it, because these forces, too, can improve themselves if they are willing to do so .... just as very special reasons can justify such a permission on My part .... And then the actual human soul understandably cannot be held responsible, but it will be offered the opportunity to make up for the time it was deprived of to test its free will .... in many cases even still during its earthly life if it is possible to dispel this spirit, which is certainly possible with the right attitude towards Me and true faith in Me. But then people will have to assist, for these spiritual beings don't easily relinquish their domination over the body, but they can be induced to do so with the solemn call upon Jesus Christ .... the name of the One Who defeated My adversary can certainly accomplish the act of salvation but it has to be spoken in absolute faith, so that I can then command this spirit to leave its human shell.

The forces from below will be manifestly active during the last days, and they will take possession of many bodies, but only if the previous time of development has passed without having gained the soul sufficient maturity so that it is unable to defend itself against this possession, because it does not offer the necessary traits which permit evil forces to enter them .... But their time is fulfilled .... Even the soul's lack of maturity allows for an embodiment as a human being, to still offer either him or even such a spiritual force an opportunity to be redeemed before the end .... The soul itself will hardly reach the goal, yet it is not impossible if fellow human beings take care of such a soul and help deliver it from its tormentor .... this is why a mission can also be recognised here, an act of help in which people will be able to take part and which, as a compassionate act of neighbourly love, will result in considerable blessings.

Where a person's will is more or less bound, the will of fellow human beings has to extremely strongly endeavour to achieve his deliverance, and if this happens in merciful love it will also be successful .... Love will achieve much with people like that, because either the demon will be favourably affected by it and change its will or its stay in the human form will become so uncomfortable that it will leave, because it shuns love. Love is the only strength capable of redeeming both a person like that as well as a demon sheltering within him, for love will always be victorious ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Eternal damnation" .... light .... will of Lucifer? ....

B.D. 6420 from December 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

In My kingdom light is constantly received and radiated. The stream of light flows continuously and blessed all beings which are receptive to light. Their constantly increasing bliss also constantly increases their abundance of love, and thus these beings of light must also be continuously active because love impels them to do so. And their activity consists of radiating the light they receive from Me, because they know the torment of darkness and want to help all souls to escape it .... they also spread light in the dark spheres, only they have to find willing souls there which desire the light. Every willing soul receives light .... I set no other conditions than that the soul wants its light to become .... in order to then also provide it abundantly with light directly or through messengers of light and love who are active on My behalf. And whether a soul stays in deepest darkness .... its desire for light will always be granted, and this already signifies redemption from darkness, for My constant concern is the soul's release from the abyss, its return into My kingdom where there is light and bliss .... Do you therefore believe that I would leave a willing soul in the abyss unnoticed? Do you believe that I would let it languish, that I would not have mercy on it when it desires to escape from darkness? You humans are taught about 'eternal damnation' .... and this word is like the judgement of an angry and punishing God, Who I am not .... I am a God of love and justice. Because My justice has to consider you according to your state of soul, which is often so dreadful that only the deepest depth can be your abode, therefore My love does everything to protect you from this fate. And My love will also get you out of this darkness if only you don't offer Me any resistance .... It is resistance which prevents Me from approaching the souls with My love, for I do not force them into beatitude .... But where the resistance diminishes or is completely given up, My ray of love can now also exert its effect, light can flow in abundantly, and an agonizing state will be ended for eternity. And now you also know that I do not want eternal condemnation .... that I liberate every soul which desires deliverance. For this is why I died on the cross, so that this redemption, this deliverance from satan's power, can take place, because according to divine justice sin would have to keep you bound in the abyss and there could be no eternal deliverance from it if the guilt of sin had not been redeemed precisely through the sacrifice on the cross, and this sacrifice on the cross was brought for all .... No being is excluded from it, and therefore there can also be redemption from hell for the soul which wants to escape from it .... And do you believe that My adversary would be excluded from this redemption? Do you believe that he could not also enter into the blessing of My sacrifice on the cross if this were his will? .... But the fact that he still rages against Me, that he uses all means to alienate Me from you humans, that he influences humanity such that it has reached a state of mind which necessitates a dissolution of the earthly creations .... is a sign that his will has not yet changed, it is a sign that he is still in strongest opposition to Me, that he is not interested in returning to Me .... But he is full of wrong, and whatever he undertakes .... he only ever does it with the intention of winning souls he believes he will lose .... For truly, his change of will would be supported by Me through unusual illumination of love, and the rescue work on this first-fallen being would have succeeded .... But this time is still infinitely far away .... But one day I will also win him, because My love will not condemn any being forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Heartfelt contact with God .... Inner voice ....

B.D. 6421 from December 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You should listen to your inner voice after a heartfelt prayer to Me, then you can also be certain that you are on the right path, for then it is My voice which will be speaking to you, advising and guiding you as is right for you. Someone who contacts Me more frequently, who won't do anything without having commended himself to Me, who always enters into dialogue with Me and asks for My blessing, will also do what is right, because I then will guide him Myself and always convey the right thoughts to him, so that his way of life consequently complies with My will too.

Yet this is questionable when you exclude Me from your thoughts, when you deem yourselves able to do everything yourselves, when you live your life without God .... then I often have to let you fail, so that you will take the path to Me again because you realise your weakness .... Irrespective of how powerful you seem to be, how abundantly you are endowed with earthly abilities, it will not influence your earthly life, instead it will take place according to My wise judgment, and therefore you will often find yourselves in situations where your own abilities will not get you anywhere, where you have to take refuge with Me in order to overcome them .... Although even then you can still refuse but you would do well to take the path to Me .... For I Myself thereby entice you to contact Me, Whom you would otherwise forget ....

And thus there will still be many difficulties in store for you, and you all should ask yourselves why your God and Creator allows this to happen to people .... You should not believe that only people's actions alone create conditions which appear almost unbearable .... You should also think of the One Who is Lord over heaven and earth .... and Who allows this to happen. And you should ask yourselves why I allow such things to come over you .... I could divert at any time what is caused by human will, or by virtue of My might reverse its effect .... I could and also will do so where I Am called upon with sincere faith for help in this adversity .... But I nevertheless allow people to experience great hardship because they should take the path to Me, which they haven't walked for a long time already .... Without Me they will lapse into utter weakness, but with Me they will be able to overcome even the most difficult situation, and this is what people should experience .... My Own as well as those who make the attempt to appeal to Me in utmost distress. For they will be helped, often miraculously ....

But the former, too, will realise that they are completely without strength because they rely on themselves and don't believe they need Me .... I want to reveal Myself to people, for their benefit but also for their downfall .... For anyone who even then doesn't want to recognise Me will be lost for an infinite time .... Don't rely on your own strength, it will not suffice for what will come your way; turn to Me beforehand already and appeal to Me to give you strength .... I will not deny it to anyone who thinks of Me in the hour of need. But blessed are those who always carry Me in their heart .... They will not need to fear the approaching time of hardship, for I will protectively keep My hands over them, and no matter where they go, they will be escorted by guides guarding them and smoothing their every path ....

But there will be a storm .... which will devastate everything, it will awaken many sleepers and fearfully make them wonder whether they will be able to escape it. Yet whatever happens .... it is My will or My permission in order to give those on the wrong path a last opportunity of return .... They all can still turn to Me in the last hour, and they will truly never need to regret it .... For I accept everyone who tries to approach Me. I will extend My hands to him which he only needs to grasp for Me to be able to draw him to My Fatherly heart .... For you cannot become blessed without Me .... That is why you should take the path to Me, Who wants to provide you with everlasting beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Readiness for redeemer work ....

B.D. 6422 from December 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You already declare to Me your willingness to work for redemption by the fact that you take care of the souls which pass away in wretchedness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, for your will to help will start at the same time if you remember them with merciful love or commend them to Me .... Then I will also know that you are willing to help redeem these souls. An infinitely large amount of redemptive work would be done if people knew about the overwhelming hardship of all these souls which are still in the hands of their tormentor .... But this state of torment cannot obviously be shown to them because then they would be seized by horror and also become incapable of their own soul's work. Yet the mere thought that these souls are in distress should cause or stimulate people to help them, and this willingness to help would already have a beneficial effect. For these souls feel it when they are thought of with love .... You cannot imagine the effect of your thoughts, both in a good and in a bad direction .... And therefore your thoughts should always be filled with love, because then they will always exert a good influence on all people with whom you think .... And if your thoughts are predominantly of a spiritual nature they will also have a spiritual effect, and you can do nothing better than to always think of the souls' adversity and want to remedy it .... Every soul which is drawn into your circle of thoughts feels good thoughts as strengthening and as an occasion for a change of will. You cannot yet ascertain the effect on the souls in the beyond on earth, although you can certainly believe it ..... But you will be able to observe the effect on earthly people if you include them in your prayers because of their spiritual hardship, if you want to help them with love, if your will does not slacken to struggle for their souls .... if you do not exclude them from your thoughts but provide them with assistance until they have risen up and are now strong enough themselves to cover the path upwards .... Your thoughts are forces .... and if they are determined by love then they are also a weapon with which you can defeat the enemy of the souls and save the souls to whom your love applies .... He can only be defeated through love, for he cannot resist it. He flees and refrains from his sacrifice .... And now you will also understand how you can carry out redemptive work which can extend to people on earth as well as to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond .... Include them in your loving intercession, remember them with a merciful will to help, speak to them in your thoughts and let them feel the strength of your love .... Take care of all souls you know to be in need and approach Me with this love for these souls .... And I am gladly willing to give those souls the strength which your love wants to impart to them. Then you can always be co-workers with Me in a redeeming sense, then you will receive ever more strength yourselves, and then I can also have an extraordinary effect on the souls for which you appeal to Me for help. No prayer of yours is unsuccessful, and often only a small impulse is missing for the souls to find Me, and it can be triggered by your loving intercession .... Know that you can all help Me and that you are all welcome co-workers for Me if only you are willing to help with a loving heart, for there is great need, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers