New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6423 - 6504

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

6423 - Happiness and gratitude of redeemed souls....

6424 - Surprise ending.... clear signs....

6425 - Warning against rash action and speech....

6426 - Work of the spirit.... vineyard work....

6427 - Living faith in Jesus Christ....

6428 - Question to God and answer....

6429 - Rejecting God's word.... repentance....

6430 - The love work of the man Jesus....

6431 - Humility and arrogance.... able servants....

6432 - Redemption period with Jesus Christ....

6433 - Jesus' birth.... Sacrificial death....

6434 - Light from above.... The Word of God....

6435 - The work of redemption was accomplished by love....

6436 - Right understanding requires working in love....

6437 - Trust in divine guidance....

6438 - Occasion and purpose of the descent of Jesus....

6439 - Consider the end....

6440 - Love - divine principle....

6441 - Feeding the truth....

6442 - Reject direct word....

6443 - Work of dark forces....

6444 - Words of comfort from the father....

6445 - Characteristic of the church of Christ....

6446 - The power of the divine word....

6447 - Hoarding the matter.... stimulating the opponent....

6448 - Receiving the truth requires detachment from the past....

6449 - Convinced acknowledgement of Jesus Christ....

6450 - Change of will.... Jesus Christ.... Mercy - light - strength....

6451 - Using of the last grace in free will....

6452 - Final phase.... Battle of faith....

6453 - Different course of development of the fallen....

6454 - Guests on earth.... Right custodians....

6455 - Influence by spiritual forces.... possession....

6456 - The only way to knowledge....

6457 - Need that teaches right praying....

6458 - Let God always be present to you....

6459 - Intercession for Lucifer....

6460 - Purification of soul particles.... demons....

6461 - Igniting the divine spark through love....

6462 - Effect of misguided teachings in the beyond....

6463 - Redemption from darkness before the end....

6464 - Soul substances....

6465 - Connections between worlds of stars and the earth....

6466 - Vineyard work in the last time....

6467 - The truth reveals God's perfection....

6468 - Dangers of psychic communication....

6469 - 1 Corinthians 1, 19 - 21....

6470 - Creation of nature proof of God's love....

6471 - Announcement of riots and unrest....

6472 - Impact of the word in the afterlife....

6473 - Spiritual turnaround forthcoming....

6474 - Truth is necessary for perfection....

6475 - Light - truth.... darkness - error....

6476 - Spiritual decline due to error and falsehood....

6477 - The way to the height not without Jesus Christ....

6478 - Apparitions of Mary.... Signs and miracles.... Satan's activity....

6479 - With the Lord a thousand years are as one day....

6480 - Workings of the un-spirits.... obsession....

6481 - Recognising and acknowledging God.... Atheists....

6482 - Concerning end time revelations....

6483 - Redeemer's work has an effect in the hereafter....

6484 - Voluntary bond with God....

6485 - Belief in the existence of Jesus....

6486 - Characteristic of truth: Jesus Christ.... Love....

6487 - Information about the end....

6488 - Intellectual knowledge.... Study.... Revelations....

6489 - Unredeemed substances in human....

6490 - The moment of rebirth....

6491 - The father's secure protection....

6492 - Bringing the dead back to life....

6493 - The masses never support the truth.... Distribution - Adversary....

6494 - Office of the truth bearer.... false legal concepts....

6495 - The adversary tries to prevent the recognition of the Deity....

6496 - Invitation to the lord's table....

6497 - Repatriation plan.... free will....

6498 - Spark of life.... love.... gift of grace....

6499 - Love-light: knowledge of the truth....

6500 - God's protection to the servants and employees....

6501 - Signs and indications pointing to the end....

6502 - Change of the will in freedom.... God's assistance....

6503 - Protective spirit in life....

6504 - Fight or serve....

Happiness and gratitude of redeemed souls ....

B.D. 6423 from December 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

With an exuberant feeling of gratitude I Am praised and glorified by souls which were delivered from their torment through loving intercession, which had realised that they, owing to their weak will, would have been incapable of liberating themselves, and which were able to strengthen their will through the merciful love of people on earth .... which then appealed to Me in Jesus Christ and were subsequently raised by Me from the abyss .... Hence they want to express their happiness, giving all their love to the One Who has delivered them and, never tiring of praising and thanking Him .... they want to do the same by also helping the unredeemed souls, which they know are still languishing in darkness, to attain the same bliss .... People's loving assistance on earth makes it easier for these souls if they can receive from people what they urgently need themselves in order to give it to the unhappy souls; they have to receive light themselves to be able to let the light shine, and they can always receive light when it is emanated by God into eternity ....

Wherever this light is received, wherever vessels open themselves into which the light of God's love can flow, there are places of light and strength which are surrounded by innumerable souls requesting light .... and every soul's degree of maturity, degree of love and degree of desire determines how much light will flow to each soul .... yet every soul seeks to raise this amount by constantly giving and passing it on .... Once a soul has received light it cannot help itself but communicate with other souls, the light illuminates strength which is used by the soul. Hence it is extremely significant when a soul from the abyss has found its way to the light, when it has willingly accepted being illuminated, for then it will receive a constant flow of light because it will have totally surrendered its resistance as a result of the indescribable feeling of happiness caused by the emanation of light. And it will certainly pass the light on in order to make other souls happy too .... Light, however, is wisdom .... the realisation of truth ....

And this light is conveyed to them by My Word, which constantly comes forth from Me as emanation of love, which could affect all spiritual beings in eternity but which will only find a response where there is no resistance .... Beings with the highest maturity of soul are able to receive it directly, whereas weaker beings will have to accept it from them in turn, but My Word always signifies light .... And for that reason My Word will always generate happiness, but only in the beings who want light, which is also the reason why every person on earth proclaiming My Word is surrounded by beings wishing to receive light .... Yet only the pure Word will shine forth into the darkness .... And the pure Word will in turn be received from God Himself again .... I Myself convey it to earth in order to establish places of light wherever souls can obtain what they need and what makes them happy .... It is irrelevant as to whether these places of light are established in the spiritual kingdom or on earth, for the same light shines everywhere, the eternal truth from Me .... But souls in the beyond will often visit a place of light on earth if they are still unable to find their way about in the spiritual kingdom and stay in the vicinity of earth ....

However, precisely these souls are in the majority, and receiving My Word is often the only salvation for these souls, it represents extraordinary help for them which they believe they cannot reward gratefully enough and are therefore exceedingly active helpers in the spiritual kingdom .... who continually praise and glorify Me and create real uproar in the darker regions because they won't rest until they have persuaded all souls to follow them to where they shall also be touched by a ray of light .... Their redeeming activity has infinite consequences, for My Word is immensely powerful, which is beyond measure to you humans on earth, nevertheless, you should gather around the source I have opened for you, so that you will already be permeated by light when you enter the spiritual kingdom, when you have to leave earth, and then be able to share it again in order to constantly increase your own beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Surprise ending .... clear signs ....

B.D. 6424 from December 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The day of judgment will take you all by surprise, for you all don't believe it to be as close as it is destined to be since eternity .... Again and again I inform you of it, even if you reject such indications as unbelievable, yet your unbelief will not stop the event which signifies the end of this earth and all living creations on it. But if you knew how close you are to it you would truly no longer think of your earthly successes, you would be completely unfit for any earthly activity, and therefore this knowledge would be of no use to you, for whatever you would then still do for your soul would only be born of fear, thus it would not be a free decision of will for Me and My kingdom .... The end will come as a surprise and yet such clear signs will precede it that everyone who pays attention will suspect what is in store for all of you .... And the believer can draw strength and courage from this because he now knows what hour has come and, due to his spiritual attitude, due to his faith in Me, does not fear the end either, which can now earn him a better fate on the new earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But the unbelievers are in a bad way who, even in the obvious omens of the end, see nothing but coincidences or natural events .... which no warnings or admonitions can cause them to think differently and who therefore are and remain only earthly-minded .... And suddenly the end will be there for them, the day when no human being will be able to escape his fate, when everyone will see death before his eyes if he does not belong to those who expect Me and My coming. Even before then all people will receive a final admonition and warning .... Even before that I let all people experience the horrors of an imminent destruction which, however, does not affect all people but is such a clear omen of the end that every person could change his thinking if he wanted to entrust himself to the creator of heaven and earth in hours of greatest adversity and could now recognize His visible help and guidance. But the vast majority of humanity is unusually low in spiritual maturity .... distance from Me is exceedingly great and therefore they do not recognize My voice which calls and warns, even though it sounds mightily .... And due to the freedom of will I cannot give people even clearer signs of My being and My might, otherwise it would certainly be easy for Me to lead people to faith in Me .... which, however, would not signify spiritual maturity and would therefore be pointless .... Nevertheless, I still try everything to influence the individual person, and My efforts are not entirely unsuccessful either .... But the day of the end will then bring a separation of those who stand on My side or still cross over into My camp at the last hour, and those who found no way to Me and therefore followed the one who draws them into the abyss .... And the deep will receive these souls but in a form where their return to Me is not completely cut off .... You humans are all still too lukewarm because you still believe the day of the end to be further away than it is .... You, too, will be surprised, you who believe in Me .... you, too, should take My admonitions and instructions even more seriously; you should not let a day go by unused, you should do vineyard work every day and think of those who are in spiritual need .... you should all be zealously active for Me and My Kingdom .... For you are My pillars in the last days before the end, because you can let your voice be heard without endangering the free will of your fellow human beings .... Therefore create and work on earth as if tomorrow were already the last day .... And your work will be blessed .... you will be able to receive and distribute strength wherever it is needed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning against rash action and speech ....

B.D. 6425 from December 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

My grace sends you admonitions and warnings because you possess My love and because you should be made aware of dangers which directly threaten you if you are not careful .... There are certainly always guards around you ready to defend you, nevertheless, you must also know yourselves that you would be at the mercy of the elements of blind vengefulness without this protection which is provided on My behalf .... And therefore you should only ever remain in contact with Me, for then I will also be with you because your thoughts will attract Me, and then all forces which want to harm you will be powerless. Hell rages and its forces also win people over for their plans, therefore you must not offer them a handhold, which can easily happen through thoughtless words which a righteous anger lets you speak .... always be gentle as doves but wise as serpents! .... Whoever fights for My kingdom, whoever fights for the truth, will also be attacked by the opponents of truth, and these are in the service of My adversary who impels them to make false accusations, so that you will have to defend yourselves against lies and falsehood. But then remember My admonition, remember that you are surrounded by My fighters and then turn to them to protect you, and also turn your thoughts to Me so that My light of love will fall between you and your enemies and push them back .... Everywhere My adversary will try to harm you because he realizes that he is losing strength through you .... because he seeks to stop your work for Me and My kingdom and because he will stop at no means to achieve the aim .... to extinguish My light .... And people are in bondage to him, they hate the truth just as much because they themselves feel more comfortable in darkness .... They therefore willingly help him when it is necessary to take action against you .... And therefore human action will be taken against you, and then you must be on your guard and not do anything rash .... Then you only have to entrust yourselves to My protection with complete faith, you only have to strengthen your bond with the world of light, for then they will take up the battle against the forces of the underworld on My behalf, but they can only do so if you don't detach yourselves from them and take up arms against your enemies on your own authority, for you yourselves are not strong enough and you would be defeated without the support of My fighters, without My help .... But you need not fear anything as long as you unite with Me in spirit .... in prayer .... And I only warn you so that you are attentive and immediately recognize the danger when it is approaching .... For the adversary has devised a ruse, but you will recognize it if you remember My warning .... For I always have to take your free will into account, therefore I cannot intervene and place My fighters at your side until you appeal to Me for help or hand yourselves over to all good forces so that they may protect you .... Yet My adversary will have to give way to them, and they will repel every attack aimed at you because you are active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of the spirit .... vineyard work ....

B.D. 6426 from December 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

This is the strength of the spirit which impels you into uninterrupted activity in a spiritual sense; what stimulates you humans to do spiritual work, to cultivate spiritual thoughts or to acquire spiritual knowledge is always the working of My spirit in you, which is only ever concerned to bring your soul closer to the true home, to push you towards Me, from Whom you once took your origin .... And My spirit in you truly has great strength as soon as you allow it to work through your will, through a way of life in love .... Whether the world then also makes its demands on you again, whether it tries to force itself into your thoughts .... you will not pay more attention to it than is necessary, yet you will always return with your thoughts to where your soul finds what it is looking for, because My spirit constantly urges, because I Myself constantly draw you who have surrendered to Me .... This is why it is never to be feared that the world will gain power over you once My spirit has been able to work in you .... Then the soul will have become acquainted with something more valuable to it and the world will begin to fade away completely, it can no longer exert any attraction on the soul, even though it is still in the midst of the world .... But then the human being is also suitable for work in My vineyard because he recognized what his task on earth is and also wants to lead his fellow human beings to recognize it. And then he will also be a faithful servant, for then My spirit will also take over the guidance in him and he will only willingly carry out what the spirit prompts him to do. And his work will be successful .... He will now be earthly and spiritually active as long as he still wears the earthly garment, yet he is also able to do so because he will always find support in the kingdom of light which will help him where he himself as a human being believes himself to be too weak .... He can do the work because I don't deprive him of strength but increase it, yet always unobtrusively, because this is more beneficial for himself and his environment. However, the work for Me and My kingdom must come first .... "Seek first My kingdom and its righteousness, all else will fall to you ...." My will shall first be fulfilled before other demands are listened to .... For these I can favour for you accordingly, as soon as you let the work for Me and My kingdom be your first concern .... You will never come to harm but reap the greatest blessings spiritually and earthly .... And you will always be able to cope with them, for the strength of My spirit fills you and also enables you to carry out all your intentions. From an earthly point of view, however, you carry out useless activity and you have to accept this opinion of your fellow human beings, for they don't know the value of spiritual work, they only value what brings them earthly benefit .... They cannot and will not believe that one day they will be in great need when the time of appearance is over and the world of real existence will reveal their poverty of spiritual goods .... You humans can only acquire spiritual goods by surrendering earthly goods, by giving up the world. Only then can you collect treasures which are imperishable, which follow you into eternity, which make up your wealth in the spiritual kingdom, in your true home, where you can work with them again and constantly increase your wealth .... Let the spirit become active in you .... Be of the will to acquire the kingdom which is not of this world .... And get in touch with the lord of this world .... And My spirit will fill every heart which opens itself to Me by living in love .... because then I Myself can work in it through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living faith in Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6427 from December 16th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

You will never be able to detach yourselves from your adversary if you don't call upon Jesus Christ to help you in the battle against him. Hence you have to acknowledge Him and His act of salvation by calling upon Him, and thus you also have to believe that I embodied Myself in the man Jesus .... you must believe in My incarnation in Jesus .... And this faith must be a living faith which was only awakened to life again through love. Hence you can only be redeemed through love, for without love you will not believe, even if you want to testify to faith in Jesus Christ with words. Anyone who walks away without love has no will to fight against the adversary, since he is of the same mind as him. Yet a person can have a weak will .... and this weak will prevents him from practicing love and detaching himself from the adversary .... But he should nevertheless know about the redeemer Jesus Christ and call upon Him to strengthen his will. He should only know for the time being that he will always find help with Jesus Christ .... If he calls upon Him, then his will will soon be strengthened and he will increasingly change to a life of love, and then his faith in the divinity of the man Jesus, in His act of salvation and in his own possibility of redemption will come alive, and then he will represent Me and My name with the conviction which only a living faith can give .... This is why the knowledge of Jesus Christ is necessary .... even if it is initially only a knowledge about the earthly event, about the life of a human being Who gave His life out of inner conviction .... The thought of this person can already be the first step towards a connection with Him, which once opens the gate to beatitude for him .... For as soon as he mentally occupies himself with His earthly life and is of good will, these thoughts will no longer let him go .... For it is Jesus Christ Himself Who now seeks to bind him to Himself. I know the human being's every thought, and I Myself can draw close to him 'in Jesus' if he has not yet found a close bond with Me as his God and father of eternity. But the establishment of this bond is possible through the 'man Jesus' .... which is why He should also be mentioned purely historically .... only then can I still mentally influence him to try to find the reason for the way of life and the actions of the man Jesus .... And then he can also come to the conclusion that his life and death was based on a 'spiritual cause'. And only then is it possible to win him over, for now he is no longer inaccessible to the teachings if they are truthfully conveyed to him. But anyone who wants to completely deny that the man Jesus walked on earth can hardly still gain knowledge on earth, because it will never be possible for him to give his will the right direction, which is still completely under the adversary's control. And the latter will also never want to acquire the knowledge .... otherwise he would also receive knowledge in any way about Jesus' earthly progress. For I truly have enough possibilities if only the human being seeks to learn about it. But it is always a blessing when My word is proclaimed as Jesus' teaching of love when He Himself is proclaimed throughout the world .... so that every person has the opportunity to think about the truth, about the historical fact and about His mission, if he acknowledges such. Every person who wants to can also come to faith, and every person's intellectual faith can also become a living faith. But only living faith will earn you humans redemption from sin and death .... Living faith in Me in Jesus Christ and in My act of salvation opens the gates into the kingdom of light and bliss for you; and you should all try to attain this living faith so that you can enter My kingdom of eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Question to God and answer ....

B.D. 6428 from December 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

I truly want to kindle a light in you which gives you clarity in all questions which move you, yet you also have to want it to become light in you. My will is unlimited but I can only ever give you the measure you desire, but where I see your questions, where you ask them in connection with your thoughts towards Me, there I am always willing to give an answer as far as it is helpful to you. For there is also knowledge which is of no use to you as long as you have not attained that maturity of soul that everything could be presented to you. But as soon as it concerns purely spiritual knowledge you will not address any question to Me in vain, and I will always answer you such that it will be understandable to you .... Yet you will receive the answer inconspicuously, so that you will always think that you have mentally generated it yourselves and therefore you will not always be convinced whether it corresponds to the truth .... And I can only ever say to you: First ask Me for enlightenment, present your questions and doubts to Me and ask Me for clarification .... then your thoughts will always be directed correctly, then they will be guided truthfully, and you need not fear to be mistaken if you now represent the seemingly mentally gained opinion to your fellow human beings .... Although you yourselves cannot prove to your fellow human beings that your opinion corresponds to the truth, you can have your own conviction for the time being, because I truly will not let a person walk in error who seriously desires the truth from Me. If only you humans would make this knowledge your own, that you may trustingly come to Me and approach Me for the truth .... that only your prayer has to be directed to Me in spirit and in truth .... but that you will then also be safely guided into truth, as I have promised you .... So many different opinions could not be formed if all people wanted to ask for the working of My spirit and fulfilled the necessary conditions for it: to earnestly desire the truth from Him Who is the eternal truth Himself .... To acknowledge Him through conscious prayer for the supply of truth and to listen inwardly to it .... i.e., to deal mentally with the questions that move him .... Anyone who fulfils these conditions will also radiate love or he would neither desire the truth nor make contact with Me as the giver of truth .... For this person also believes in Me, and a convinced faith is the result of a way of life in love .... And therefore the truth can never only be conveyed to the human being from outside, although I instruct My servants on earth to proclaim the gospel to their fellow human beings .... the word which originates from Me and is pure truth .... For this gospel, too, must first occupy the person's thoughts, and depending on his attitude towards Me he will accept or reject it .... because the recognition of truth also presupposes the working of My spirit, because this also requires the human being's will to stand in truth .... But the hearing of My word can contribute towards the human being seeking contact with Me as the source of truth .... The word can already be enough to awaken the human being's desire for truth, thus it can also move the human being's thoughts .... And then the first step is already taken which leads to it becoming light in the human being .... Then a spark will have fallen into the heart which can ignite if its will is good .... For My will is to spread light on earth so that darkness may be dispelled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Rejecting God's word .... repentance ....

B.D. 6429 from December 19th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

One day it will weigh heavily on you not to have accepted the unusual gift of grace which was offered to you by Me, your God and father from eternity .... I approached many people and offered them a gift which they could certainly have recognized as something unusual and beneficial to them if a sense of responsibility had prompted them to examine it. But they lacked this sense of responsibility .... One day, however, they will bitterly regret it when they find out what they were offered .... I Myself spoke to them and could not do so more clearly due to their freedom of will, but they could have recognized My voice with a good will .... if only they had sent up a thought to the 'God' Whom they, as intellectuals, could not deny .... And this God would truly have sharpened their feeling for His own word .... But men no longer have a connection with Me that could move them to seek counsel from Me in every question troubling them .... They listen, smile and turn away .... And this will take bitter revenge, for in addition to the lack of knowledge now comes the awareness of their own guilt, the remorse over unused opportunities for the maturing of the souls .... It can take endless times before they reach this realization in the kingdom of the beyond that they were once offered light in abundance which they spurned. But the souls of those who have departed from earth can also be lured by people's loving thoughts into the realm of light of those who already wanted to bestow My light of love upon them on earth .... And then repentance of their behaviour can cause the light to shine upon them again and protect them from sinking into the abyss .... And yet they recognize that they have missed something which cannot be made up for again .... For although their state of darkness slowly changes and they see ever brighter light shining, they will never be able to attain the degree of light they were able to acquire on earth under the influence of My word, which I Myself wanted to convey to them and which they resisted of their own free will. There are exceedingly many people who were able to receive My gift of grace and completely ignored it, there are also many people who allowed themselves to be touched by it and felt its benefit and yet did not allow themselves to be seriously influenced because they did not feel the full effect due to the world, which was able to register a stronger effect .... And there are many people who temporarily basked in My ray of love but whose hearts did not catch fire, who practiced too little love and therefore remained cold despite My illumination .... who therefore listened to My word without taking action afterwards and therefore the effect of My word on their souls failed to materialize. They all could have lifted a rich treasure, they all had wealth at their disposal with which they could work for their soul's salvation .... They did not pay attention to it, and yet one day they will know what they missed out on. It means unspeakable happiness for the souls in the beyond when they hear My address .... In the state of light it constitutes their bliss when they can receive light and strength directly from Me .... Yet My word cannot be directly heard by a soul of low degree of maturity .... and therefore it is blissful when it is imparted to it .... when what was abundantly offered to it in earthly life is imparted to it .... But this already involves a special grace on My part that I call very many people away prematurely who paid no attention to My gift of grace on earth. For I truly use every opportunity to supply My living creations with light who are still in profound darkness, and if I don't succeed in doing so on earth, the lack of light in the beyond will do much to awaken their desire for light, and then they will more gratefully accept what they could have received in abundance on earth .... But blessed are those who remember their rejection in the beyond and repent .... Then I will provide for them according to their desire, and a tiny ray of light alone will be enough to make them recognize their offence, and they will ask and receive and now be able to escape the darkness .... For My love wants to save but not eternally condemn ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The love work of the man Jesus ....

B.D. 6430 from December 20th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

Unique is the work of love which the man Jesus accomplished for you .... A soul of light descended to earth and consciously walked the path as a human being in order to fight against the one who had already brought down your brothers and whom you wanted to defeat .... And the path was hard and bitter, it was the path of suffering of a human being who wanted to atone for a great guilt for His fellow human beings. What the soul brought with it from on high to this earth was an abundance of love for God and for people .... He had abundantly what the fallen souls lacked, yet through their own fault .... For they had rejected God's radiance of love, but the soul of the man Jesus constantly desired the father's love, and therefore this love also continued to radiate to it .... And therefore His love seized the unhappy brothers and wanted to help them up from the abyss. The soul of Jesus, the man, was also in constant contact with the eternal love through its love, it allowed itself to be filled by it .... Eternal love itself took abode in the soul of the man Jesus, and thus God became man .... And the man Jesus now accomplished the work of redemption for fallen mankind because His completely fulfilling love moved Him to do so and because it gave Him the strength to accomplish that which brought redemption to humanity: to suffer and die in extreme agony .... Humanity was in great distress, for God's adversary held them captive and they themselves could not free themselves from him .... Therefore the eternal love descended to earth in the soul of the man Jesus and loosed the bondage by offering a ransom sacrifice to the one who held it captive .... Himself .... His life as a human being .... Love moved the man Jesus to take upon Himself an exceedingly agonizing sacrificial death in order to free the souls of people from that power. It was truly a work of love without equal, for it was a battle of light against darkness, love .... the eternal deity .... confronted Itself to Its adversary, and It defeated him .... And this great work of mercy was accomplished by a human being because He was supposed to prove to God's adversary that love is stronger than hatred .... It was not God's power that led the battle but His love, and therefore the sacrifice was made by a weak human being to whom the love dwelling in Him gave the strength to take on everything difficult .... And thus love was the driving force which also had to win the victory because nothing can resist it, because God Himself had taken on Jesus' human shell, Who was full of love, and God Himself truly had to be victorious over His enemy. Yet He wanted humanity to take note of the battle against the enemy .... He wanted the act of salvation to remain an unforgettable event for humanity .... He wanted the name of Him who accomplished it to never fade away again .... And therefore the act of salvation also took place in a form which is and will remain unforgettable, for Jesus' death on the cross cannot be denied, and as long as the world exists the divine redeemer will be mentioned by those who believe .... because it was not only an external process of the 'crucifixion of a human being', but the 'outpouring of the spirit' made possible by this work of redemption also proves the redemption from God's adversary .... and the spirit of God will now also work again in a redemptive sense. For the adversary of God plunged the souls into darkness, but the spirit of God leads them to the light again .... The spirit of God is the sign, the proof of redemption from darkness, but it can only fulfil the human being through the death of the man Jesus on the cross, because before that the guilt of sin made it impossible for it to work .... The spirit of God will always proclaim the work of love and mercy of the man Jesus, in Whom God embodied Himself in order to redeem people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Humility and arrogance .... able servants ....

B.D. 6431 from December 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 69

To all My servants and handmaidens I address the same admonition not to slacken in their work for Me and My kingdom .... For if every servant brings back just one soul to Me he has accomplished a work of redemption for which I will truly reward him richly, for what this one soul is able to accomplish again is beyond your knowledge because you cannot measure the work every soul does when it stands in the light .... In recent times I awaken people again and again who, through their way of life and their spiritual abilities, make themselves suitable for work in My vineyard .... but they must then also fulfil their task in utmost humility and submission under My will, they must not feel privileged and now do vineyard work in awareness of their own value, because then they already make themselves unfit, because My flow of grace will then be restrained, which first requires humility in order to be able to flow unhindered .... And people are all still exposed to My adversary's temptations, who precisely stirs up the arrogance which is his true nature. And thus this danger is particularly great where the heart does not humbly surrender to Me so that I fill it with My grace. Many people are certainly willing to work in the vineyard but they are not suitable for it as long as they still have the desire to stand out and be regarded as 'gifted'. Yet only the deeply humble person is a suitable servant for Me, a maid .... who is willing to serve. For this reason I have few co-workers on earth who want nothing more than to work helpfully on earth, who recognize the great spiritual hardship and want to save their fellow human beings from it .... who don't think of themselves but only ever think of others who lack light and who therefore want to let their light shine for others .... the light which My infinite love was able to kindle in them because they have this will to help within themselves. And such people are only rare, but I bless the few and help them so that they can fulfil their earthly task. For they are My pillars in the last days before the end, they are the servants I always use where it is necessary .... They are the mediators who work in My stead but through whom I Myself can cultivate the fields, through whom I Myself address human hearts and take care of their maturing. And everyone will be assigned his area where he shall be active .... everyone will be able to work in his small circle and always be certain of My support, for I am pleased with every willing person who supports My kingdom, who supports My name, who passes on to his fellow human beings what he has received from Me Myself .... but who only serves Me and not other lords. For My adversary will often try to intrude and want to win the servants for himself .... And he prefers to do this by whispering what makes people arrogant .... and that he thereby endangers the vineyard work. And therefore beware of that lord, lest he cause confusion in you; remain devoted to Me in profound humility and do not desire recognition, do not desire the approval of the world, and only enjoy the successes which you can exert on human souls .... Only take pleasure in the fact that you succeed in touching the souls and withdraw ever more from the world the more eagerly you want to be active in My vineyard. If you have helped a soul to emerge from darkness into light then you will certainly receive My reward, but this should also be enough for you .... yet on the worldly side you should not demand any recognition and only ever remember that you are unable to do anything without My grace, but that you only receive it as long as your heart approaches Me in deepest humility, asking for My love and grace .... But then you will also be suitable servants for Me and do Me welcome redeeming work .... And I will bless you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption period with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6432 from December 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The hour of redemption draws near .... No long time will pass before the end is drawn under a period which could bring redemption and also brings redemption to those who have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, who have followed His call and walked the same path as He walked on earth .... For the people of this earthly period a special light of grace had poured forth, for in this last earthly period God Himself embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to redeem humanity .... to make it possible for the whole of humanity to be able to behold the eternal light again, from which the spiritual world had once voluntarily turned away and therefore its fate was and would have remained a profound darkness without the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. This earth period was so significant because it ended a hopeless state which had already lasted for an infinitely long time .... And the redemption of all spiritual beings which entered the stage of embodiment as human beings during this earth period would have been completely possible .... And yet this unheard-of bestowal of grace was not utilized, and again only a few reached their aim on earth .... to be able to end this life in the flesh with their souls fully matured in order to find acceptance in the kingdom of light. This would have been possible for all people, but because free will is decisive and this was not properly utilized, countless souls left this earth unredeemed .... although they all received knowledge of Jesus' act of salvation, of His crucifixion and His mission .... Yet they lacked faith, and even the knowledge of this greatest work of mercy ever accomplished on earth had no effect on people .... And so a redemption period which could have brought the greatest success now comes to an end .... and a new one begins again, so that all beings will be offered the opportunity again to make use of the blessings acquired through Jesus' death once more, for complete redemption can only take place with the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And you humans are now facing this turning point, you are facing the end of the old and the beginning of the new era of redemption, which therefore also signifies the end of this earth and the emergence of a new earth. There is still time for every single human being to turn to Jesus Christ with the request to help Him .... The knowledge of His work of redemption could still be used, even if faith in it is lacking .... But anyone who can only believe in the existence of this human being can occupy himself with this 'human being' in thought and have a mental dialogue with Him, so that this 'human being' will explain to him why He wanted to seal His ideas with a cross .... And he will get the answer because the divine redeemer grasps everyone who only enters into contact with Him. Intellectual knowledge alone is not of much use to him but it can help to initiate a purely intellectual mental argument which can end more or less successfully. This earth period was blessed with God's personal earth walk .... And much could have been achieved by people with good will, yet their will was not often directed upwards .... Only a small flock ever followed Him, and at the end of this period it will not be much bigger either. Therefore you can all expect the near end with certainty, you can indeed still enter the divine redeemer's following beforehand, you can join His small flock, for He will accept you until the last hour .... But the end of this earth has irrevocably come, and therefore you are required to make great haste and use all your strength, you are urgently advised to appeal for strength so that you will all reach the aim before the last day has come .... that you will profess Jesus Christ before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' birth .... Sacrificial death ....

B.D. 6433 from December 24th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

No being will ever be able to comprehend the infinite love which motivated Me to descend to earth and to take abode in an infant Which became and remained My shell until His death. The eternal Deity embodied Itself in a living creation which It had formed Itself, Which voluntarily shaped Itself such during Its earthly life that it remained worthy of receiving Me .... I wanted to descend to earth so as to bring salvation to you humans in your extreme spiritual hardship and for this I needed a form which would receive Me .... since for the sake of your freedom of will I had to live amongst you as a human being .... And this form had to fulfil all preconditions to be able to shelter the highest Spirit of eternity without fading away due to My strength of love .... Thus this person first had to spiritualise Himself through love, so that I, as Love Itself, found in Him the right vessel into Which I was able to pour Myself, Which thus was able to shelter Me within Itself without ceasing to exist .... The infant Jesus was born without sin, It was fathered by My spirit, My will and My strength brought It into life, and My spirit was able to take possession of the infant and to express itself, if only from time to time, in order to give Its environment a sign of Its divine mission. And this spirit unfolded itself in the man Jesus, because His love nourished it time and again anew .... because Jesus' love more or less forced Me to give Myself to Him in all fullness, so that the man Jesus was permeated by light and strength, by wisdom and power .... I Myself worked through the man Jesus and everything He then thought, spoke or did was My spirit's strength, it was the strength of My love which accomplished everything in Him, to which nothing was impossible .... No limitation existed for Him after the unity with Me had occurred due the boundless love of the man Jesus, for I Myself was in Him now and My will was His, My strength permeated Him, and therefore nothing existed which would have been impossible for the man Jesus to accomplish .... And yet He remained human until His mission was accomplished, until He died the sacrificial death on the cross in order to redeem humanity ....

A period started when I descended to earth which is now ending .... It was the beginning of a time during which the complete redemption could be achieved precisely because of Jesus Christ's act of Salvation .... For now I Myself had come to earth and I emphatically spoke to people in order to win them over for Me .... And those who listened to Me and complied with My Word were able to conclude their earthly life after their physical death, they were able to enter the spiritual kingdom in a spiritualised state, because their old guilt had been taken from them through the crucifixion of Christ, which prior to this was impossible .... For the form I had chosen for Myself to dwell in merely covered the Divine, Which actually spoke through the man Jesus. And I Myself was the Divine within the form, and it was truly possible for Me to release people from a fetter which had already kept them captive for an infinitely long time .... I descended to earth, I chose a human form for Myself in which I accomplished the act of Salvation in order to wage open war against the one who had kept you bound and who needed a strong opponent in order to be defeated. Due to My greater than great love for you, the fallen spirits, I adopted a human form, and thus it was a tremendously emotional moment for all beings in the spiritual kingdom when I descended to earth at the birth of the child Jesus, and the whole of Creation stood still at the moment of birth, because it was an act of most exalted love and mercy to embody Myself in a child .... For My spirit, which rules the whole of infinity, took abode in this child, and thus It started Its earthly life .... in the midst of spiritually dark people .... And yet the light remained in His heart, because the man Jesus would not let go of God, because His love was so profound that He tied Me ever more to Himself and finally totally united Himself with Me .... so that only His external cover was human, yet soul and spirit had joined Me completely and therefore I Myself lived on earth and redeemed you humans through My death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Light from above .... The Word of God ....

B.D. 6434 from December 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The world is under tremendous pressure .... People on earth are being controlled by forces of darkness and it is urgently necessary for light to shine into the darkness, so that people will receive strength in order to resist the besieging forces .... Without light they will go down, without light they will find no way, no opportunity, to escape .... And therefore God will time and again emanate His light to earth, He Himself comes to earth as in the past, although not embodied in a human being but in His Word .... He also looks for a human form into which He can pour His light so that it can illuminate the dark night far and wide .... He embodies Himself in the spirit of those who are willing to be of service to Him .... This is likewise a descent, because the same darkness is spread across earth which arouses pity in God and therefore He lets the light shine to earth again, as He did in the past .... Yet in those days people stood at the beginning of a path which could have led to ascent, but now they are approaching the end of the path without having made much progress, and it will soon come to an end .... But has it led out of the darkness? Will people follow the ray of light which is still shining for them now? Will they find the right way in the light and still take it before it is too late? The dark forces exert their rule to such an extent that God will intervene in order to put an end to it .... Nevertheless, people are not left at the mercy of these forces without protection and help, for God Himself has kindled a light which shines so brightly that everyone can recognise the danger he lives in .... For this divine light reveals all, it also exposes the one who has ill-intentions towards people and who tries to tempt them in disguise .... The divine light of love shines so brightly that everyone can see what is happening in the world if only he opens his eyes, if he does not obscure the light himself on account of his will, which is still completely in favour of God's adversary.

The divine light of love has been kindled by God Himself again and it shines down to earth, because great hardship prevails in the dark vicinity of earth and only love can resolve this hardship again, as it did in the past when the Light of eternity Itself descended to earth .... God Himself spoke through the mouth of the man Jesus Who, as a soul of light, was permeated by love and therefore became the appropriate physical form to shelter God Himself in order to speak through the man Jesus to all people .... And so God speaks to people today again, He Himself speaks to them through a human mouth, He lets the light of truth shine into those people's hearts who are willing to listen to it .... He conveys His Word to earth and people would no longer need to live in darkness if they allowed themselves to be illuminated by His divine light of love .... The path which leads to ascent lies brightly and clearly ahead of them, no more dark areas exist for someone who avails himself of the divine light of love .... He need only call upon Jesus Christ and the darkness will recede from him, he will no longer be at the mercy of the dark forces, for it is always and ever the same light which shines for people on earth .... the light of the cross .... the realisation of Jesus Christ's act of love and mercy .... the correct understanding of God's human manifestation in Jesus .... and the faith in the power and strength which rests in calling upon His holy name. Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, is the light Which came into the world .... And even though He Himself came to earth .... even though the Word from above announced Him .... the light shines forth from Him alone, and without Him there is darkness on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom .... For He Himself is the light of eternity Which will always shine into infinity and Which shines again to earth, so that all people shall find the path to Him, so that they shall return into their Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The work of redemption was accomplished by love ....

B.D. 6435 from December 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

You once came forth from My love, and your nature was likewise love and thus also divine .... until your apostasy from Me which deprived you of all divinity .... As a result of your apostasy you became beings which could still call themselves My creations but which were far removed from their original state, which were only variations of what I had once created. Nevertheless, they were products of My strength and also still permeated by My strength, otherwise they could no longer exist .... However, as supremely perfect Myself I cannot be satisfied with imperfect creations, even if this imperfection was caused by their own will. And the aim I have set Myself is and remains to guide these apostate creations back to perfection, to make them divine beings again, which they were in the beginning .... But the imperfect constantly needs support, for this is a characteristic of their imperfection, that they are too weak to make an attempt upwards and that they are completely without realization of what they have forfeited themselves through their apostasy to the abyss and how they can right their wrong .... The fallen creations are without light and without strength .... and if I want to lead them back to Me and to their former perfection I have to provide them with light and strength beforehand, yet even then they are still free to decide whether they want to accept light and strength from Me. My love let all beings arise, and they still possess My love even though they voluntarily renounced Me and sank into the abyss .... And My love constantly endeavours to change their lightless and powerless state .... But one is to blame for their fall, and this one prevents the beings from returning upwards, and he also has power over them because they once voluntarily followed him to the abyss .... therefore a being which had remained faithful to Me also offered to oppose this first-fallen brother and to wrest the fallen beings from him for Me .... It wanted to help those who aspire to ascend, It wanted to help Its fallen brothers to return to the father where supreme bliss is .... I Myself could not take the beings from My adversary with My might, since I respect every being's free will .... Yet He, too, was My son Who wanted to help Me liberate the fallen, and I also allowed Him free will because love impelled Him to His plan to accomplish a work of salvation on the weakened beings which, embodied as a human being, did not have the strength to liberate themselves from their lord. Love could only make up for what unkindness had caused .... Only a being full of strength could give its strength to the weak, incapable being, and only a being full of love could be full of strength .... So such a being full of strength and love descended to earth to bring salvation in great need .... And I gave My blessing to it, for I longed for My children whom that being of light wanted to bring back to Me, to whom it wanted to show the way to Me .... I sent My son to earth .... Who carried Me within Himself through His greater than great love, which was meant for Me and also for His fallen brothers .... Love accomplished a work of redemption, love took care of those unhappy creatures, love imparted to them the strength and the light which had been lost to them .... the love which is My fundamental substance and which filled the being of the man Jesus, in Whom the soul of light had embodied Itself .... Love therefore took possession of Him, and everything the man Jesus thought, spoke and did was determined by love .... And thus 'love' accomplished the work of redemption on people, love led the children back to the father .... I Myself redeemed them from satan's bondage and gave them light and strength, love brought My children back to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right understanding requires working in love ....

B.D. 6436 from December 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

You should take every opportunity to point out to your fellow human beings their task in life on earth: to shape themselves into love .... You should always preach love and therefore be proclaimers of My teaching of love wherever this opportunity is offered to you. This is the task of those who offer themselves to Me for service, and I will bless them if they take this task seriously and awaken their fellow human beings' sense of responsibility, if they encourage them to think about themselves. Wherever love is practiced there will also be an understanding of the times in which humanity lives .... Without love activity, however, people lack this understanding, and therefore they also don't take any indications seriously which announce the near end .... Hence it is of no use to you to only mention the 'near end' if you don't simultaneously admonish people to work with love, for the latter is even more important than the knowledge about the end .... Love is the surest antidote in the coming time when adversity and misery will befall all people; love is the lifeline when humanity is in danger of sinking .... Where love is practiced fear fades away, because people strengthen themselves inwardly through the working of love and because they are united with Me through love, Who will always be their protection in every adversity .... Therefore, if you want to be of service to Me you must always point your fellow human beings to My commandment of love; you must teach them that their earthly life is and will remain an idle existence if they don't engage in unselfish neighbourly love, and that they can only gain strength through a life of love in the time of adversity they are facing .... Only a few will believe you, only a few will listen to you without resistance and consider your words, and you can also inform them of what is coming, for they will not close their minds, they will consider it possible and mentally prepare themselves for it .... Knowledge alone, however, will not help them, even though it should be offered to everyone .... because you yourselves cannot judge whether and to what extent your fellow human being is in love .... Therefore you should always admonish people to work with love, love should always be preached by those who want to be servants to Me on earth .... For unkindness is the greatest evil which causes people to walk in deepest spiritual darkness .... An unkind person will rarely be touched by your sermon of love, yet even his ear shall hear it if his heart is closed .... You should try to bring Me close to everyone as the 'eternal love', you should enlighten everyone that they can turn to the father in greatest adversity, Who is love Himself and wants to help everyone who calls upon Him .... You should not miss any opportunity to talk to your fellow human beings about divine-spiritual matters .... Again and again you should try to direct his thoughts to what he constantly passes by .... If your thoughts are constantly filled with My teaching of love then you cannot help but share yourselves with everyone who crosses your path, and then you will also be good representatives of My teaching of love and My name. And therefore you must always make an effort to live a life of love yourselves in order to thereby give the spirit within you the opportunity to express itself .... And this will impel you to speak wherever an opportunity presents itself. Your spirit will guide your thinking correctly and let you find the right words with which to address your fellow human beings and which will not fail to make an impression .... But you should not be lukewarm and do half the work, for your work is urgent in the last days before the end .... Love must always and constantly be preached so that people awaken and become introspective, so that they reflect on themselves when they follow you and your life. And therefore you should exemplify love to them, and your example will be more effective than words which you don't prove yourselves through deeds .... Preach love and live out My teaching of love yourselves, and your work for Me and My kingdom will always be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trust in divine guidance ....

B.D. 6437 from December 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

I guide all of you who want to serve Me, and you will never go your ways alone but by My hand, because you took it voluntarily, because you chose Me as your guide of your own accord. And My guidance will always be such that it will serve you to attain maturity of soul but also the vineyard work you want to do, for I know where and how you can use your strength appropriately because I also know about your will to be faithful servants to Me. And believe Me, you will always know yourselves what you should do, because I speak to you all Myself through the heart .... Just trust Me fully that I will give you the right instructions when the time comes, but don't anticipate .... For I will bring everything to you in such a way that you will take it for granted, so that you will then also have the certain feeling that you are acting correctly, for this is My voice in you .... Consider: You want to serve Me .... Is it then not also self-evident that your father of the house also gives you the right instructions for your service? I will never let the strength of a servant who offers himself to Me for service lie idle, because I need all of you and assign to everyone the work he can best do .... As long as you ask and are uncertain, the order has not yet been given to you by Me, for you will feel it clearly and without doubt in your heart and also fulfil it without hesitation .... Let Me take care of you, let Me think for you, and only ever grasp Me by the hand which guides you, so that you safely direct your steps to where I want to take you .... And if I have assigned an unusual task to you, even then everything will approach you in such a way that nothing unusual can be recognized .... For I don't want to determine your will, but if you subordinate it to Mine then you will always want the same as Me, and your thoughts and actions will therefore also be right .... But as long as you still doubt or question, it is not My voice which inwardly gives you the order. Then intimately unite with Me and wait until you have complete clarity, which I will certainly give to you if only you are willing to serve Me. And you will be amazed how everything works itself out and how confidently you are now able to judge. The adversity of the time requires all your commitment, and I call you, My servants on earth, to industrious vineyard work, but I also assign everyone the field of activity he is capable of cultivating. I am the master of the house and My will shall apply to My servants .... because you humans yourselves cannot overlook where and how your strength can best be utilized. And therefore you should always submit yourselves to Me and My instructions .... But then you need never fear to do a wrong job. Open your heart and ear to Me yourselves through your will .... And I will speak to you in such a way that you will understand Me even if you cannot hear My word audibly .... You will feel what I want from you, and therefore you only need to pay attention to your feelings, to the inner voice which urges you or holds you back .... For as soon as you sincerely ask Me for clarification I will truly answer you and you will feel what you have to do or refrain from doing .... so you can at any time carelessly leave yourselves to the guidance of your father in heaven .... He knows the paths you should take for your own and your fellow human beings' salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Occasion and purpose of the descent of Jesus ....

B.D. 6438 from December 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The core of Christ's teaching is the commandment of love, because people lack love and love is nevertheless the most important thing if your upward development is to progress .... if the soul wants to find entrance into the kingdom of light at the end of earthly life .... That is why God Himself came to earth in the man Jesus, in order to show them for the time being the way, which leads back to Him, which forms the being again in such a way, as it came out of God once .... The man Jesus taught love and lived it Himself to the people. Through His life of love, the man Jesus also proved to people the attainment of perfection, He proved to them that it is possible to come into a state through love which makes the union with God possible and thus brings in light and power in abundance. For He was as man the same as every other man. What led Him to the union with God, what brought Him the power to work miracles, what gave Him light-full recognition and deepest wisdom .... was only the love, which glowed in Him overpoweringly to God and to His fellow human beings .... And for the first time He wanted to make this love the most important thing for people, that they should do like Him, that they should follow Him in their way of life, in order to reach again the former perfection, which they had once lost in the spiritual world through their apostasy from God .... But mankind was heavily burdened by this former apostasy from God .... A sin debt weighed on it, from which the man Jesus was free .... a guilt of sin, which also pulled down the willing people again and again, which also gave another lord the right to prevent the ascent .... a lord who was opposed to Jesus, who was completely devoid of love and who therefore prevented the people, who had become his property through the fall of man, from acting in love wherever possible .... The love teaching of Christ could have been accepted but not lived out by men as long as they were still under the power of him who had once been responsible for their fall. And so his power had to be broken first, people had to be freed from him first, it had to be made possible for them to go the way up, someone had to help them .... because they were too weak on their own, even if they were of good will .... The burden had to be lifted from the people that kept them chained to their jailer .... And this burden, the guilt of sin of their former rebellion against God .... they could not bear or pay off themselves, because it was immense and would have eternally prevented them from ascending to God .... Therefore Jesus took this mission upon Himself, for the people .... for His fallen brothers .... to wipe out the guilt, to atone for it and to redeem people from the power of the adversary. For Jesus was likewise a being that came forth from God's love, like His brother Lucifer .... and He recognized, as an angelic spirit remaining with God, the great misery of the fallen and the impossibility of getting rid of this misery by his own strength, if help was not brought to him .... And His exceeding great love offered itself for this help: To embody itself on earth in the man Jesus and to serve the eternal deity as a cover .... the eternal love, which wanted to redeem that guilt of sin through a work of atonement, which it brought to execution in the man Jesus .... Only after the work of redemption was it possible for people to become free and to rise out of darkness, through love work, through living out the teaching which Jesus preached on earth. Because before men would not have been able to do this, because they were still bound, because their will was so weakened by the burden of sin that they would have sunk back again and again through the influence of the adversary. The souls belonged to Him, and voluntarily He would never have given them up, but Jesus paid the debt through His suffering and death on the cross .... The divine love, which had embodied itself in the man Jesus, redeemed the guilt itself, and people became free .... as soon as they acknowledge Jesus as the divine redeemer and also claim His work of mercy for themselves .... as well as they believe that God in Jesus has taken care of people in order to make the way of return to Him possible for them .... as well as they now also live in the following of Jesus, as well as they lead a life in love and shape themselves again to what they were in the beginning .... beings filled with light and power, who united with God through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Consider the end ....

B.D. 6439 from December 30th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

I send the same admonition to all human beings: Consider your end. For it is granted to all of you; right now you all have to count on a natural recall from this earth when your hour has come. But many of you will have to leave earthly life prematurely, because I don't want to let them fall into My adversary's hands since their resistance is not strong enough to resist his coercion in the last days ....

However, even the people who will experience the end will have to count on a shorter lifespan than they would naturally expect, for this end will happen to you soon .... And you humans are not yet mature enough to anticipate this end without reservations .... And thus, in view of the near end I admonish you all to make every effort to improve your soul. I caution you to live consciously and not to let a day go by without having done a kind deed, without having offered your soul a gift to help its ascent .... I urgently remind you all to accept My Word, to let yourselves be addressed by Me in My Word and thereby also receive the strength to help you ascend .... Don't just live your earthly life but engross yourselves at least once a day in My Word, briefly communicate with Me and commend yourselves to Me and My grace ....

Just a heartfelt thought to Me is already refreshment for your soul, and if you read or hear My Word in silent devotion you will provide your soul with the nourishment that will help it mature for sure. I only admonish you humans to live consciously .... to remember that your life will not last much longer and that you will prepare a bearable fate for your soul after the death of its body ....

Don't let the time you have left until the end slip away .... don't let it pass by without using it for your soul, and you only provide for your soul when you entertain spiritual thoughts, when you make mental contact with your God and Creator of eternity, Who is Father of you all, Who would like to admit you into His kingdom but requires your own will to do so: to create a state of soul which allows its entry into My kingdom .... Therefore I admonish you time and again: Consider the end ....

As long as you stand in the midst of life you will always resist this idea because you don't know that you can be granted an extremely blissful fate afterwards .... But My love would like to grant you a blissful fate, consequently you will constantly hear these Words of exhortation from above, because you yourselves have to want to become blissfully happy .... Every pensive hour, every moment of inner reflection will be of utmost benefit for you .... Yet woe to those who will never find time for this, who are so attached to the world that they are incapable of detaching themselves for a short time .... For they are firmly under My adversary's control from which they will hardly be able to escape if they are not helped through loving intercession, through calling upon Jesus Christ to be helped by Him directly .... You can call upon Me at any time and I will hear you, for I want to release you from his chains and not prolong your captivity ....

Consider the end .... and consider the state of your souls. Call upon Me for help .... This is what My never-ending admonitions intend to achieve, that you will remain in contact with the only One Who can help you .... that you will direct your eyes and appeals heavenwards and become and remain conscious of the fact that you will not live forever on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love - divine principle ....

B.D. 6440 from December 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The divine principle is love .... and everything that moves within love can be called divine. But where unkindness prevails, there is God's counter-principle, there works the one whose nature has completely de-divinized itself through its apostasy from God, who turned everything upside down and became God's antipole. But what it means to be in his sphere can only be explained to you humans in such a way that you are deformed, that you possess no or only inadequate knowledge and wander about without strength which a divine being has in abundance. Yet you can remedy this lightless and powerless state, you can change yourselves into divinely empowered beings again, you can acquire an abundance of light and strength and use it according to divine will if you also let the principle of love prevail within you, if you consciously detach yourselves from the one who is devoid of all love .... This is easily possible for you if you only ever move in love, if you inwardly unite yourselves with eternal love .... Every person who establishes this bond, at first in thought, will also feel a flow of love flowing into him, for he will feel prompted by a soft heart to be active in love. Only the bond with God is necessary because this signifies an opening of the heart for God's flow of love, which is the beginning of the work of transformation the human being shall accomplish in earthly life .... Every good thought is turning towards God, every evil thought is abandoning oneself to His opposite pole .... Every good thought is a source of strength, every bad thought a weakening, and both have an effect on the human being's soul, on its nature. In the human being both impulses will fight against each other, because the human being's spiritual sphere is lightless and filled with all evil thoughts and desires, but in the soul the spark of light and love from God also glows, which can shine so brightly that it can dispel or transform all evil thinking .... Love can assert itself against all evil urges, but the human being himself must have the will to establish the connection with God, then God Himself will also work, and His working can only ever be determined by the principle of love .... thus make the transformation into a divine being possible for the human being by allowing His flow of love to flow into the heart of a willing human being .... On earth unkindness is predominant because earth is the realm of the one who is without love and therefore God's adversary .... nevertheless God's ray of love also penetrates his realm where it only finds an open heart, where a person ignites the spark of love within himself, where his thoughts rise up to God, Whom he recognizes as creator and father and to Whom he consciously unites himself through his will. Then the light of God's love can take effect with all its strength and ignite a fire which can never be extinguished .... And the fire will radiate a light which exposes all shortcomings, which also allows the devastations in the realm of God's adversary to come to light so openly that the human being will always make more of an effort to give his life a different direction and also to enlighten his fellow human beings about the defective state which, however, can be changed into a state of true life, into a state full of light and strength .... The light of love reveals everything, and a seeing person will no longer find it difficult to take the right path, and he will also want to lead his fellow human beings this way .... Where the principle of love prevails there is truly already the kingdom of God, even if the human being still lives on earth, and already on earth people can shape themselves into gods, because through a life of love they always unite more closely with God and become like His fundamental being, because then they will become again what they were in the beginning, God-like beings in love, light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the truth ....

B.D. 6441 from January 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is the only truth which comes to you as proof of God's love, it is His word which He Himself imparts to you from the height .... And you can fully believe this word and evaluate it as His direct, irrefutable address. What is then conveyed to you through God's word you can represent as purest truth and bask in the light of truth yourselves, and you need not fear being led into wrong thinking through it .... And by recognizing the truth from God you will also be able to make a right judgment about the value or unvalue of spiritual knowledge which is brought to you from outside; you will be able to recognize whether it also originates from God or has flowed from another source .... You are able to distinguish truth from error, for a light shines upon you which chases away all darkness and also allows you to recognize all rubbish which could pollute the pure spring water if it is not removed. What God Himself gives you is pure and clear like purest spring water, and you should protect it from all contamination because otherwise it will lose its strength and effect. And you will need nothing else but the water of life flowing from that spring in order to let your soul recover and keep it healthy, in order to put it into a state that it can enter the kingdom of light after the death of the body. You therefore only need the pure truth from God .... in order to attain eternal life. This truth is given to every person who seriously desires it, because God's adversary cannot enter it precisely because of the desire for truth, which is the same as the desire for God .... But where this is not present the adversary has free access, he can work there unhindered, and his activity will always be to spread darkness over the human being and to extinguish the light where he is able to do so .... And therefore he has easy access to people's hearts because their desire for truth is seldom present, which results from the fact that they let themselves be caught up in a net of lies and error and make no effort to free themselves from it, that they thoughtlessly accept what is presented to them as truth and don't ask themselves whether what is offered to them is entitled to be judged as truth .... With them the adversary of God has an easy game .... He can always make the veil that is before their eyes thicker .... He can always put more error and lies before them, which will again be accepted thoughtlessly .... It is no water of life, it is a death potion which these people accept, which poisons their souls and lets them enter the kingdom of the beyond completely darkened .... They lack all light and powerlessly fall prey to eternal death, because only truthful light can awaken them to life, because truthful light can only come from God and they have not approached Him for it. Error is far more widespread in the world than the pure truth from God .... because this is not requested but people always have an open ear for that .... For the adversary conveys such thoughts and teachings to people which are pleasing to the ear, which they like to hear and which constantly increase error and therefore the darkness grows ever greater. Yet people are considered according to their will, and therefore God can abundantly provide for you who desire the truth, and He will always give you light so that you can penetrate the darkness .... He will enlighten you when errors want to force their way into your thinking .... He will not allow your light to be dimmed but always let it shine brighter the deeper the darkness is around you which you want to escape .... And the brightest light is His word which He Himself sends to you from above, which He imparts to those who love Him and keep His commandments .... as He has promised ....

Amen

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Reject direct word ....

B.D. 6442 from January 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You will rarely find followers in ecclesiastical circles, for they do not believe that people can establish such an intimate connection with Me that they are able to hear My voice .... Nor do they believe that I make Myself known, that I speak to people directly when they have entered into the child relationship, which is a prerequisite for this direct address. They certainly preach a God of love but their faith in My love is so small that they don't even grant Me the proof of love to reveal Myself, so that people on earth also experience My love in themselves. They proclaim empty words without life when they preach Me as the God of love, and they prove their lifelessness precisely by rejecting My word which is offered to them from above through you. And because they reject this word they can never become properly enlightened either, they can never receive light, i.e. broaden their realizations, they walk along in spiritual darkness because they themselves don't take the commandments of love so seriously either, which I gave them .... because they don't live out love even when it is preached to them. My word could fill large gaps in their knowledge, it could awaken them to life, because there are also people in church circles who seriously strive for perfection and because the right path is also shown to them through the truth of My word. Yet as long as they do not recognize My voice as the father's voice they have not yet established a close bond with Me, thus they have not yet entered into the right relationship with the child .... to completely surrender to Me and let themselves be guided by Me .... not by those who arrogate this right to themselves without having been called to it by Me. I Myself want to be the one to Whom they turn in every adversity of body and soul .... And if they sincerely do so, I will supply them with what they need for body and soul .... And since My pure word is the right nourishment for their soul I will also supply it to them as soon as this request is urgently addressed to Me. But as long as they do not accept My pure word, offered from above, this call for the right nourishment for their souls has not yet been made to Me .... but people are satisfied with what people offer them again .... They don't ask for more and therefore don't get any further in their earthly life, for one thing results from the other .... Every sincere request proves love for Me and finds fulfilment in My love .... and the best I can offer an earthly child during its earthly life is My word .... My word can certainly be heard everywhere by an earnestly desiring person, and he can also accept it in those circles .... But he will never turn away if My pure word is offered to him through you .... He will fill himself full of joy and desire with the food which he recognizes as strengthening for his soul. He will gratefully enjoy My evidence of love but not reject it, because the love in him will also enlighten his spirit and My word will shine for him as a light which he no longer wants to miss. As long as you find resistance when you want to spread My word you will only ever have to deal with formal christians who are still dead in spirit, who have no living faith, who first have to awaken to life and for this their will is necessary to establish a close connection with Me .... through loving activity or also .... if their will to love is still too weak .... through mental connection, through a prayer for help in spiritual adversity to their God and creator of eternity. Then I will reveal Myself as father and give their souls what they need, and then they will clearly recognize that the father addresses them for their salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of dark forces ....

B.D. 6443 from January 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is a frightening work of the evil forces in the last time before the end. The prince of darkness constantly urges them on to cause confusion, and given the darkness of spirit in which people live at this time they also succeed all too well, for they are heard and people believe, and whether it is the thickest errors and lies which are presented to them .... they accept it as truth and become ever darker in their spirit. Yet every person could most lightfully recognize it for what it is if only he would approach Me Myself for enlightenment if something appears doubtful to him .... But people's spiritual arrogance is already so great that they don't consider it necessary to ask this question .... but are convinced of the sincerity of those who administer the deepest error to them. People's lack of knowledge is increasing more and more instead of being remedied .... but I have foretold you that many false prophets and false Christs will rise from the dead, that they will perform miracles for you which My adversary performs .... I have admonished you not to believe them .... However, you humans must not reject everyone as a false prophet but you must seriously examine them as to their authenticity, you must believe that true prophets will also arise who want to help you achieve your salvation .... You must not accept everyone but also not reject everyone who presents himself to you as a prophet, as being in My service, in the last time before the end .... But you have certain characteristics of a genuine prophet, that he walks along inconspicuously and proclaims My word to you, that he points you to the end, that he gives to you in complete unselfishness what he receives from Me directly .... as I Myself did when I lived on earth. My emissaries will not appear in dazzle and splendour, My emissaries will not walk amongst you humans differently as I Myself did, and never ever will I hide behind high and highest ranks, never ever will I reveal Myself through such people who stand at the highest pinnacle of worldly organizations, for these are not the right successors of Me, Who Myself, completely destitute and simple, felt drawn towards those who were poor and weak and in need .... I would certainly also be able to appear there if the 'true succession' of those would be proven to Me by the fact that they themselves rejected all external ostentation .... if their work would proceed in silence and a clear distance from traditional customs would be recognizable .... if they listened to the voice of their spirit and allowed themselves to be guided .... to be a loving father to the poor and weak, to the needy, to alleviate hardship and to truly walk the path of discipleship by standing up for the pure truth, which a spirit-filled person now also clearly recognizes in himself .... But My adversary prevents this and therefore deceives them, which causes them to sink even deeper into spiritual darkness .... My adversary has great power before the end but he would not be able to use it where he finds resistance: the closest bond with Me through unselfish activity of love. Yet such would express itself differently, for it does not show itself outwardly, it does not emerge, it does not support a power which is about to collapse, for a spirit enlightened by love also clearly recognizes people's spiritual low and its cause .... And a person whose spirit is enlightened cannot profess untruth but campaigns against it .... Don't let yourselves be beguiled and ask Me for clarification if you doubt, but don't thoughtlessly accept what My adversary presents to you in order to darken your spirit even more. Where bright light shines there is truth, there I reveal Myself and there My prophets will arise who warn and admonish you and who again and again denounce My adversary's activities .... But the truth, the light, is not to be found in the gears of the world .... and worldly is everything that sends out its dazzling light, which has no luminosity .... But where light shines, there I Myself appear, there is truth, there is My spirit, and this also brightly illuminates the doings of satan ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Words of comfort from the father ....

B.D. 6444 from January 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Whatever suffering and pain you experience in earthly life will help you to achieve perfection if you surrender to My will .... Yet bear in mind that I know everything and that what I allow can always result in good success for your soul. I certainly don't approve of the actions of those who cause you pain or hardship, yet all people have free will and will one day have to answer for this will .... Yet you need not suffer any harm to your soul as a result, you can emerge from all hardship and suffering unscathed but then you will also have a plus, yet always provided that you remain in contact with Me through love, that you don't let yourselves be tempted into thoughts of hatred and revenge but humbly let everything pass you by in the certainty that I know about it and will help you as soon as you turn to Me in prayer .... You have a father in heaven Who loves His children .... Trust in your father with complete faith and you will not be disappointed, for He always knows a way out, no matter how confusing it may seem .... for truly all things are possible to Me .... My adversary's activity also appears strongly, you must always remind yourselves of this .... He wants to get you under his control, he wants you to give up your faith in Me, to detach yourselves from Me and surrender to him through equally bad actions and unkindness .... Do not let yourselves be deceived, wait in patience and trust in My help .... Wherever you are met with hatred, repay it with love; wherever you are hostile, bless in My name, speak My name often and sincerely when you are in need, and you will be inwardly strengthened and have the strength to repay bad with good. In contact with Me, trusting in My help, you will be able to do everything, and My adversary's activity will remain unsuccessful, only pushing you ever more towards Me, Who is your father from eternity .... And after heartfelt prayer hand yourselves over to the beings of light who are only waiting for your call to them, who will now assist you on My behalf but may not do so until they are instructed by Me .... until you approach Me Myself for help .... They are happy to be allowed to help you, and where you yourselves feel too weak their work begins because they are with you to protect and help you as guides on your path through life .... You are never too weak to resist your enemies if only you first take the right path to Me, because then countless helpers will stand by your side but they are not allowed to intervene until they have received the order from Me .... Why then do you want to be timid? There are all kinds of means which will help you in times of need .... you only ever turn to your God with complete trust .... But what benefit your soul can derive from all the trials and sufferings that are imposed on you, that you cannot measure, but one day you will thank Me for the earthly path you had to cover for the sake of your perfection .... which earned you the close bond with Me, which was indeed a crusade for you but unimaginably beneficial if you covered it in My discipleship .... And never forget that no adversity is so great that I cannot remedy it .... One is always at your side and only waits for your call .... And His help will truly not fail to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Characteristic of the church of Christ ....

B.D. 6445 from January 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The working of My spirit is the characteristic of My church which I Myself founded on earth .... Time and again I must tell you that you can only recognise My church by that, that you are only members of the church of Christ when the spirit is able to work in you .... when your thinking is enlightened, even if you are not called on to accomplish extraordinary things .... Enlightened thinking demonstrates the strength of My spirit which, however, can only express itself when the preconditions are fulfilled .... when selfless activity of love has established the bond between the spiritual spark within you and its Father-Spirit .... Then you will also be able to have a living faith, for love will have brought the faith in you alive and the spirit within you will brightly and clearly realise which teachings correspond to the truth, thus you will also uphold them with conviction towards your fellow human beings. As long as you still live in error, as long as your faith is merely a conventional faith without life, the spirit will not be active in you yet and neither will you be able to say that you belong to the church of Christ .... the church which I Myself founded on earth. Alone the fact that you humans are unaware of this or, if you are told, do not want to believe it, proves that you don't belong to My church as yet; it proves that you are spiritually unenlightened, and it proves that you don't live a loving way of life, otherwise your thinking would change by itself and enable you to recognise the truth of these Words of Mine ....

Let Me earnestly remind you to live a life of unselfish love .... For this is the first condition in order to awaken the spiritual spark in you, so that it will become active .... so that it will grant you realisation of the truth .... But don't adhere to external formalities, don't accept what you are told by unenlightened people, by what they, in turn, accepted from other unenlightened people and subsequently firmly endorse as truth. Acquire the truth for yourselves by asking Me for it .... Don't just be content with the teaching material that is given to you but dwell on it first before you accept it, and appeal to Me for help in order to recognise the truth .... And providing this is your sincere will I shall truly guide your thoughts correctly, because it is My will that you shall attain the truth and I will do everything in order to convey it to you, only your free will to seriously desire the truth is necessary. I cannot approve your lethargy of thinking; I cannot praise you humans for unreservedly believing what you are being told without first forming your own opinion about it. I won't condemn you if you, despite your best intentions, don't think that you can accept something .... even if it is the truth .... But I will condemn you if you accept spiritual knowledge without thinking about it, because spiritual knowledge must become a certainty in you and this is only possible if you mentally look at it from every angle and, in order to then think correctly, ask Me Myself for help .... Such a request is so pleasing to Me that I will truly grant it, but how seldom does an appeal like that rise up to Me .... And therefore it will also be impossible for you to attain a living faith, it will be impossible for My spirit to work in you because you don't grant it the right to express itself. And for this reason you will never be able to claim that you belong to My church which I established on earth, whose characteristic is 'the working of the spirit' in the human being which 'will guide you into truth .... ', which will also make you realise that your life is a waste of time as long as you don't live a life of love and unite yourselves with Me through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The power of the divine word ....

B.D. 6446 from January 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

My word gives strength to all who are weak and powerless and desire to be strengthened by Me. For when I address them Myself they receive what they need from the source of strength, because My love for those who lie weakened on the ground fills Me. My word contains the strength which lets the sick recover, and everyone is sick who cannot work in divine fullness of strength as was his original purpose. For you humans are all weakened or you would not have to walk the earthly path. And therefore you need all the strength you can receive in abundance from My word, which I always offer to you with love. As long as you humans pass it by you will have no appreciable ascent to report unless you live in love .... But then you will also unconsciously accept My word, for it is I Myself Who is in you through love and Whose voice you follow in all thought and action .... But anyone who closes his ear to My word, who believes that he can fulfil his actual earthly task without My word, will always become weaker in strength to work with love, for his weakened state will always become more obvious and manifest itself through completely God-opposing thoughts and actions .... because strength is required to live according to My will, which you yourselves do not possess as a result of your past fall but which is abundantly available to you in earthly life in the presentation of My word, the acceptance of which, however, is left up to you .... As soon as you are addressed by Me a source of grace opens up for you which flows unstoppably but from which you have to draw yourselves in order to be able to refresh yourselves. A spring can constantly let the freshest water flow out .... if you don't bow down and open your hand and mouth you will not be able to refresh yourselves from it .... And thus you yourselves must be willing to let My word flow into you, only then will you also experience the effect of the word on yourselves .... you will feel strengthened in body and soul, because My word is strength in itself which always has its effect if it can penetrate the heart, i.e. if it is willingly listened to, considered and followed .... Then it will give you life, you will be able to rise from the ground and be active, and you will never lack strength because you can always turn to Me, Who has always assured you of My help through My word .... For I have said: Ask and it will be given to you .... but you must first hear these words of Mine, you must know that I have spoken them to you and therefore listen to them first, but then you will know what you have to do when you are in distress of body and soul .... Then you will know that you need only turn to Me, you will know that a helper is always at your side, you can now live your whole earthly life according to the knowledge which My word has imparted to you .... You will live in love if you are serious about taking My word as your guideline, and through love you will attain maturity of soul, because you will always unite with Me more if you practice love .... You must know everything before you consciously take the earthly path, and My word imparts this knowledge to you .... And because I love you, My word also simultaneously gives you the strength to carry out what I ask of you through My word .... Always let yourselves be addressed by Me and you will master every weakness, but don't reject Me if you don't want to be weak and helpless for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hoarding the matter .... stimulating the opponent ....

B.D. 6447 from January 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

What My spirit imparts to people is to be regarded as truth alone .... And therefore all spiritual knowledge conveyed to you must correspond to this sole truth from Me, otherwise it originated from another whose endeavour is and will always remain to fight the truth and who also uses such means for this purpose which are intended to feign Me Myself as the source .... Whatever I give to people will only ever serve to attain maturity of soul, which was set as people's actual earthly aim .... because My love wants to help them become free from every material bondage in order to be able to enter the spiritual kingdom after death carefree. And every word which is conveyed to earth by Me Myself only ever has this one purpose, to instil maturity of soul into you. I will only ever admonish people to liberate themselves, and I will also give you the comprehensible reason for it, I will enlighten you as to what all matter actually is in essence and in what way the spiritualization of those takes place in an infinitely long time .... My concern will only ever be for your soul, the spiritual in material form .... The detachment from matter is such a significant act, it is an act of utmost importance, that never again will My word contain a suggestion to hoard matter .... to increase it and to enjoy its possession .... But all this stimulates My adversary .... and you may believe these words of Mine that My adversary has gained influence wherever these phenomena can be followed, that riches accumulate, that these riches are used to feast people's eyes, that these riches do not serve the purpose which alone is to be spoken of as a blessing of wealth: to relieve poor and needy people of their state of misery .... My adversary will always know how to prevent this, and by this you humans will also be able to recognize where My adversary rules, and you will also be able to be certain that no truth can be found there either, because My adversary will always fight against the truth, but especially in his territory, because he will also find his loyal followers there who are submissive to him. My word from above provides information about My adversary's activities in the last days before the end .... And he who belongs to My own also sees the signs of the end and only cares for his soul .... My adversary, however, does not want to accept this end and neither do all those like him .... And these are driven by him to make provisions for a time which will no longer be .... And people willingly follow his suggestions; they do not think about the near end but create and work and plan and build for times to come and thereby prove their walk in darkness and their lord to whom they have submitted themselves .... My word alone is truth, and this word announces to you that you humans are all facing the end .... If you believed these words of Mine you would not succumb to greed for material goods, you would only ever try to make the last days bearable for each other, you would be more mindful of people living in greatest need whom you could help .... And you would turn to the pure word of God and clearly recognize where My adversary is at work, then you would also no longer allow yourselves to be deceived by deceptive work, by webs of lies, you would obviously recognize the father of lies who wants to alienate you from the truth .... For you would also recognize how different the spiritual knowledge is which was offered to you from that which I Myself guide to earth. Yet as long as you yourselves are willing to be ever more firmly chained to matter you will also be blind in spirit, and so long will you also remain in its power .... You are facing the end and all your striving is in vain .... Therefore detach yourselves from matter before it is too late, lest it become your grave ....

Amen

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Receiving the truth requires detachment from the past ....

B.D. 6448 from January 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

A ray of light emanates from Me which can never be darkened .... but which also relentlessly uncovers and illuminates everything that would rather remain hidden, that cannot tolerate the bright light .... And this is the characteristic of the 'truth from God', that it gives bright light to the one who is in darkness and longs for light .... that a person attains complete enlightenment, which now also gives the ability to judge, to distinguish truth from error .... Although every human being claims to possess the truth when he wants to defend his own spiritual knowledge. But as long as there are still unanswered questions, as long as the meaning and purpose of what happens on earth is not comprehensible, and as long as the human being does not yet possess knowledge of My eternal plan of salvation, it is impossible for him to live in truth, for this gives him brightest knowledge about everything. And this truth can only be conveyed to people by Me, Who am truth itself .... and I, in turn, can only convey it to those who are so filled with desire for truth that they open themselves to Me for the sake of pure truth and allow Me to give to them what cannot be supplied to them from another side. And they must free themselves from all spiritual knowledge they have received so far .... They must not be burdened with knowledge which they are not willing to relinquish. They must acknowledge Me Myself as the only source and come to the source hungering and thirsting but not with a filled stomach .... For I will not give delicious food to those who are already satiated, who have already received their nourishment elsewhere. I will feed the hungry and the thirsty, I will give a pure bread and a fresh water to those who need food for their souls .... And this food will always be for their recovery when they are sick, it will give strength to those who are weak .... But it would have no life-awakening effect on those who come to Me with a full stomach .... Do you understand this comparison? Only very few people are willing to free themselves from preconceived opinions, from spiritual knowledge which they have acquired intellectually or which has been implanted into them through human teachings, through an exchange of thoughts with people who walk in error .... for which people's deep spiritual state and their spiritual darkness is the explanation .... But if the human being wants to stand in truth, then I require him to completely turn away from what he had previously accepted as spiritual knowledge. I demand that he comes to Me with an empty heart and lets Me fill it and that he no longer eats any food other than that which I now offer him .... For the pure truth from Me does not tolerate any human accessory, and My source of life will close itself to him who does not fulfil My conditions .... And surely you humans can understand that I know about the innermost emotions of the human heart and that no human words can deceive Me? .... Yet the ray of My light will ignite in every person and spread bright light again if he desires to know the truth. And he will be able to judge what does not correspond to the truth. But the former will not even be able to recognize the truth because the pure light will be outshone by dazzling light, which I certainly allow because the human being's will itself gives rise to it. These people will increasingly lose themselves in erroneous thinking yet always cling to it more tenaciously, for darkness fights against light, and especially in the time of the end when a ray of love .... the truth from Me .... brightly illuminates the activity of the one who is against the truth. And this battle is fought by you humans yourselves; you alone decide whether you live in truth or in wrong thinking, for you can receive the truth from Me at any time if you do what I ask: truly come to Me hungering and thirsting in order to receive the nourishment for your souls from Me .... Then it will become light in you and you will see brightly and clearly that I am the eternal truth Myself ....

Amen

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Convinced acknowledgement of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6449 from January 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

No one can free himself from satan's bondage without Jesus Christ .... But it is of no use if a person only calls himself a christian in name, if he does not consciously reject Jesus, but the person must first have seriously committed himself to Him .... he must be aware of his guilt, he must recognize his own imperfection and believe that Jesus Christ can redeem him from his guilt and weakness and consciously ask Him for it .... So he must place himself under His cross .... Every person must realize that salvation through Jesus Christ is not a formal, general act which is carried out in a template-like way for everyone; he must realize that he himself must do something in order to participate in salvation through Jesus Christ .... Jesus Christ has indeed redeemed all people, i.e. no-one is excluded from His work of mercy, yet His redemption does not take place against the human being's will .... And therefore the human being must first declare his will to want to be redeemed by Him .... And therefore it is a fully conscious matter which first requires to mentally deal with the problem of God's human manifestation and Jesus Christ's crucifixion, to consciously profess Jesus Christ and now also to live according to His will on earth .... The convinced acknowledgement of Jesus Christ will also let people call to Him for help, which will certainly be granted to them for the sake of the work of redemption .... To be redeemed means to become free from the power of the one who pulls man down .... To be redeemed means to be able to strive upwards carefree, which was not possible before Jesus' death on the cross, because God's adversary did not let any soul go free. But how many people on earth believe that by merely confessing Jesus Christ with their mouths they are 'christians', i.e. that they have a claim to salvation through Him ....? They believe that by doing so they have escaped the supposed fate of those who are heathens in their eyes .... They believe that their 'faith' in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption is enough, but it is only a formal faith as long as the inner transformation into a living christian has not yet taken place in them. This is why even these formal christians will not be able to resist when they are forced to make the final decision, they will then give up their faith with an easier heart because it has not yet come alive in them, and they will bear witness to the fact that they are and were true pagans who had only acquired a false name .... But there is no salvation without Jesus Christ .... And therefore this last decision means a strengthened fetter which God's adversary puts on them, and to become free from this fetter will take an inconceivably long time until once again Jesus Christ will reach out to them, which they did not want to see in this life and therefore did not take hold of .... How easily all people could still escape this great danger, because Jesus Christ is proclaimed everywhere in the world .... and His name is made known everywhere with persuasive power, because every person could be impressed by it and seriously think about the significance of His act of salvation .... for once. If only the will were present, Jesus Christ Himself would help and bring Himself to people's minds .... He would mentally speak to him Himself and truly make it easy for him to walk the path to Him .... if only the will were present to receive light on this question, which is truly the most important for you humans .... But the formal believer has nothing in advance of the unbeliever, for he is just as far removed from Jesus Christ as the latter. And therefore there is great hardship amongst humanity, and only a few people will escape this hardship ....

Amen

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Change of will .... Jesus Christ .... Mercy - light - strength ....

B.D. 6450 from January 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Anyone who knows the guilt of the spirits, which was the cause for creation, the cause for the earthly progress and people's lives on earth, will no longer resist Me, for this knowledge is the result of directing the will towards Me .... This knowledge can certainly also be presented to those whose will is opposed to Me. However, they will never regard and accept such knowledge as truth, they will only ever consider it a mental concept which they reject as being 'conceived' by people. In that case they will never be illuminated by the light of realisation .... because this requires the said change of will which turns a person into My child that has returned to Me. Neither his own mental activity nor a communication from fellow human beings can bestow the right realisation onto a person, for this is like a light which I Myself ignite in a person, but I can only do so once he has voluntarily turned to Me .... But a voluntary turning to Me also testifies of his will to relinquish his previous state of resistance and to travel the path back which once led him away from his Father. Hence it is a conscious turning back and therefore also a confession of his past wrong doing .... of his sin against God .... The will to serve Me confirms this unconscious admission of his former guilt when, through the rejection of My love, the being exalted itself over the One Who merely wanted to give Himself away .... The appeal for strength and grace is likewise an admission of guilt, the realisation that his past sin had deprived him of everything that had been his share in the very beginning .... A person who is still entrenched in his old sin will not call upon the Father for strength and light and grace, because he does not acknowledge Me, thus he is still immersed in his original sin, and therefore he will never accept the truth of the kind of information which draws his attention to his sinful state ....

And therein also rests the great significance of a change of will, for it repeals the past state of sin but can never be accomplished by a person's own strength, because the fall into the abyss and the sin had been too immense to enable the completely weakened being to change itself again .... And therefore only the One who can remedy the weakness of will has to be called upon, Who died on behalf of these beings on the cross so as to be able to strengthen their will for walking the path back to Me .... Anyone who feels truly remorseful has already handed himself over to Jesus Christ, he has made use of His blessings which He acquired on the cross for the sinful human race .... For a turning to Me will also always be connected with the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ .... since the light within a human being can only shine in full strength, that is, bring realisation to a person, once he has been redeemed by Jesus' blood, since prior to this My spirit cannot work in the person to enlighten his thinking and restore the order which is a divine principle. The acknowledgment of God and subordination to His will also always results in the acknowledgment of Jesus as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... For anyone who unites with Me again steps out of his state of darkness and also brightly realises the mission of the man Jesus and the significance of the act of Salvation .... He wants to return, and that also means a return to enlightenment, it means the receipt of strength and grace .... it means receiving My love in abundance .... he admits his guilt and appeals for forgiveness. The being's feeling of distance from Me, its God and Creator of eternity, expresses itself in its prayer for grace, strength and light .... It has relinquished its past arrogance, returned to Me with profound humility and is now able to receive blessings, strength and light without measure .... The guilt is written in the sand .... The divine Redeemer Jesus Christ has redeemed it Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Using of the last grace in free will ....

B.D. 6451 from January 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You are free to avail yourselves of the unusual supply of strength which is given to you in the last days, even though you do not desire it. I grant you mercy for justice, I shower you with the evidence of My love, I help you to ascend effortlessly if you still want to undertake it .... And I give you the assurance that you will still reach the aim as soon as you are serious about it .... You don't know that I perform a work of mercy on you which can still save you if only you muster the will to take hold of My saving hand .... I do everything to save you from the dreadful fate of a new banishment, but one thing I cannot do .... to determine you to accept My immense gift of grace .... You have to do this of your own accord, but strength and grace are abundantly at your disposal because there is not much time left until the end .... Yet you don't appreciate the grace that I speak to you Myself, that every one of you is allowed to hear Me, that I approach every one of you like a father to his child and warn and admonish it and reveal Myself to it in My love. But it is as if you close your ears and eyes in order not to see and hear what is going on around you .... It is as if you lack the right senses .... you can no longer think correctly and always want the wrong thing, you walk your path in complete blindness, and if a hand offers you guidance you push it back, you unwillingly reject anyone who wants to help you, and your father has to watch you voluntarily running to your ruin .... But no matter how eagerly My love wants your salvation, I do not determine your will .... And therefore it is every person's own business how he still uses the short time until the end .... But he still has every opportunity to escape eternal death, he only has to want his earthly life to lead to the aim for which he received it. If only every person could muster the will not to live in vain then this would already be a step towards ascent, yet people have other aims .... and these aims fill their whole thinking and wanting. They lust for possessions, for recognition and sensual enjoyment .... They strive for everything they should learn to overcome in earthly life. They live in completely wrong thinking and are inaccessible to every instruction of their actual earthly life. And thus My rich treasure of grace is not taken into account, they pass by what is offered to them for their salvation .... And the darkness which is spread over the earth grows ever greater .... But it is people's own fault, for although My adversary works in an unheard-of way, because his last time has come, people could free themselves from his power, because the gifts of grace flow just as abundantly, which would impart strength to every person in order to be able to resist him .... But it is about a free decision of will; it is about which lord you choose .... And no-one may force you to make this decision of will, you must make it freely, and therefore you also determine your fate in free will after the death of your body .... You don't need to get lost, but you must want your life yourselves .... That is why I repeatedly let My voice sound from above, that is why I repeatedly approach you in the word. And I pour out My grace on you in abundance .... But how you use it is up to you ....

Amen

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Final phase .... Battle of faith ....

B.D. 6452 from January 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You will soon enter the final phase which has been mentioned since the start of this period of Salvation .... The end of this earth is imminent and before long you will notice the signs which have always been proclaimed by seers and prophets. And thus everything will come to pass, because My Word is truth and I Myself have spoken through the mouth of these prophets. Everything I gave permission to predict concerning the end was merely intended to spur you humans into working at improving your soul and, hence, there have often been times during this period of Salvation when people had reason to believe that the end was approaching .... And this was certainly necessary because people's depravity gave credence to an intervention by Me and, time and again, a few would tackle their psychological work even more eagerly and truly be saved for eternal life .... Nevertheless, the time had not come; Satan had not gained unlimited power over people as yet, albeit outright devils wreaked havoc on earth during this time as well. Humanity was granted a longer period of time because many bound spirits had yet to embody themselves for the final test of will on this earth. My plan of Salvation proceeds according to the law of eternal order, and no period will ever be concluded a day too soon or too late, because I foresaw from the beginning what is helpful or detrimental for the souls' development. However, Satan's activity is becoming increasingly more appalling because many bound substances are being released and, through his influence, act in accordance with his wishes. Consequently, people's behaviour is also becoming increasing more malevolent the closer it gets to the end .... For this reason My adversary deems himself strong enough to gain complete victory over Me and finally oversteps the limits of his authority which were imposed upon him when he fell into the abyss. And once this moment in time has come his activity will be brought to an end .... and that means the end of a period of Salvation, it means the disintegration of every form, the release of its indwelling bound spiritual substance and the renewed banishment into forms which correspond to the spirits' state of maturity ....

This overstepping of authority will clearly manifest itself and is a distinct sign of the near end .... For My adversary will openly oppose Me by trying to force himself upon people, by compelling them to renounce Me... by intending to destroy every spiritual connection with Me in order to gain control over the whole human race .... Anyone who knows about the purpose of life on earth, which consists of the human being's free decision of will, also knows that this would be completely prevented by My adversary's plan, and he equally knows that this is the moment in time when I will put a stop to his raging, when I will enchain him again and with him all his followers .... And then he will also understand all prophesies which point to the end .... Therefore take notice of My adversary's final work by which you can clearly recognise the time you are living in .... take notice of the efforts intended to destroy people's faith, take notice of everything that is clearly recognisable as the activity of the Antichrist .... And, above all, pay attention to how people are being attacked who, in truth, are of service to Me and seek to distribute the truth .... And as soon as you can recognise all the signs of a forthcoming battle of faith you will know that you have entered the final phase of this earth's existence, and then you, who want to remain true to Me, must prepare yourselves and enter this battle with confidence and strength, and know that I Am leading the way, that you fight on My behalf and truly are and will remain invincible, even if you are hopelessly outnumbered compared to My adversary's multitude .... Nevertheless, I will defeat him and take him captive when the hour has come which has been determined for eternity .... And you, My faithful followers, will emerge from this battle into a new life and will no longer be pressed by the one who is and will remain My adversary for eternities to come ....

Amen

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Different course of development of the fallen ....

B.D. 6453 from January 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The divine word resounds far out into infinity, for the father constantly addresses His children and His creations, constantly conveys the strength to all beings which animates them .... As long as the being is still imperfect, as long as it is still bound in creations of all kinds, it certainly receives the strength but does not understand the word emanating from God .... But in a certain state of maturity it is able to do so, and then the attainment of a state of bliss is also certain .... But there are also beings which are certainly able but unwilling to listen to God's word. Nevertheless, it sounds to this spiritual being because its purpose is to change its will so that it will one day consciously desire and be able to receive God's word. God Himself addresses all beings which are in possession of free will .... Everywhere in the universe are creations which shelter spiritual substances which have matured to such an extent that they are able to receive the divine word, and light beings are everywhere ready to act as mediators if that spiritual substance itself does not yet possess the degree of maturity to hear it directly, which is why the beings in all worlds also have knowledge of God, their creator and sustainer from eternity .... And the degree of light in which those beings move is determining for the abundance and the kind of knowledge which is imparted to them through God's word. Hence the eternal truth is spread throughout infinity, and all beings are in knowledge of the 'one God' as the supremely perfect being from Whom all beings once originated .... And yet there is a difference between the beings of those worlds in the universe and the people on this earth .... a difference which only becomes comprehensible when the former apostasy of the originally created spirits from God is regarded as 'having happened in infinite periods of time' .... which therefore signifies a fall from grace of such different kind and depth that also the kind of ablation, the return and conditions for it require completely different worlds and creations and also the beings animating these creations are completely different in their perception and therefore all have to cover different developmental paths in order to reach God again. However, this knowledge is not necessary for people, it is only intended to make them understand that God's plan of salvation and His infinite care not only extends to the embodied spiritual beings on earth but also applies to the other world creations without exception. His address, however, always touches the beings as they need it according to their former guilt and their distance from God .... (16.1.1956) The apostasy of the first-created being, the bearer of light, was not a sudden affair but took place over an inconceivably long time until this being landed in the lowest abyss. And its appendage was also of different kinds, depending on the strength of the first being's defence against God's strength of love, which again took effect on the beings created by it. Thus the will of resistance was certainly placed in each of these created beings but in different degrees .... which, however, by no means excuses those beings which fell and followed him into the abyss .... For the illumination of love on God's part was nevertheless so strong that it would have sufficed to break the beings' will of resistance but did not determine their free will to turn towards the outcome of this strength of love .... But again the light radiation had different effects so that beings also received a glimmer of realization which also caused them to separate from their producer, which hindered them in their fall into the abyss, although they too had distanced themselves from God in free will. Therefore they had also become sinful, only their path is not as endless, and the return of these beings does not require such a long time as the beings from the deepest abyss require .... Yet the glimmer of realization which once remained with these beings would, in turn, also have sufficed for the recognition of the guilt of having turned away from God. But the will of rejection was just as strong towards God as towards their fallen creator .... and this will of rejection must also be broken in them, which is also much easier but the most blissful delights of childship to God are not accessible to these beings .... for their change to ascent takes place in works of creation which have a completely different design than earth, which serves as a training station for the deeply fallen .... for these beings have to go through dreadful torments of purification before they emerge from the deepest darkness to a small glimmer of light which then shows them the path to ascent .... They have to unimaginably atone for their guilt already on earth, and the change from a being completely dominated by God's adversary into God's image is an act of will which God also rewards with supreme beatitude, which earns the being the childship of God, which therefore demands the walk across this earth .... But God maintains contact with all His creations, with all beings inhabiting these creations .... But the will determines whether these connections are used, whether they manifest themselves. For where there is still a will of resistance against God's illumination of love, it will also have no effect of light and strength .... His word ceaselessly resounds in infinity .... God's will is therefore known everywhere because His word only ever declares His will .... Only there must always and everywhere be mediators who hear it from God Himself and then pass it on, be it into earthly or spiritual creations or in the kingdom of spirits, which have not yet found a permanent abode and wander about until they also find a place again where they should and can prove themselves anew .... Thus God's word must also sound to them, but in those realms a soul is rarely able to hear God's word unless an unrecognized being of light dwells amongst them, which has precisely this mission to impart .... All celestial bodies offer abode to maturing souls, always according to their will and disposition .... But the same word, the same truth from God, sounds everywhere. But what it means to have been embodied on earth can only be explained to you humans through the word of God, and you will only understand it when your course of development is finished and you dwell as blissful beings of light in higher spheres .... where everything has become comprehensible to you and where the infinite distance from God becomes obvious to you and the infinitely long path you have already travelled .... The lesser distance from God has no influence on the depth of God's love for His creatures, but the maturing process is a different one, and the ultimate aim, the childship to God, can only be reached through an ascent from the deepest depth to the height .... Just the furthest distance, the burden of this sin is such a seemingly insurmountable gulf that it therefore requires a helper, and this helper .... Jesus Christ .... makes this ascent possible. Yet the beatitudes in the spiritual kingdom are immeasurable, and all beings can take possession of them and continuously serve God in inconceivable bliss. His children, however, are closest to Him, they will receive the illumination of love directly from Him, they will constantly hear His address and pass on His sanctified word again, for they consciously handed themselves over to their saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ in earthly life and He drew them to His heart in hot mercy .... where they will also remain for all eternity ....

Amen

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Guests on earth .... Right custodians ....

B.D. 6454 from January 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Always remember that you are only guests on this earth, that the transient realm is not your true home, that you are only temporarily here so that you can fully matured return to your home, which you had voluntarily left some time ago, but that one day you have to return to where you came from. If you were more conscious of your task on earth, if you would really only feel like guests on this earth, you would not attempt to settle down in this world of illusion either. You would always only remember to return home richly blessed, you would only want to acquire on earth what you may take across with you and all other accomplishments would appear useless and worthless to you, and then your maturity would be guaranteed, you would fulfil the purpose of your earthly life and need never fear to waste your time .... because as ‘guests’ you would not want to acquire what you would have to leave behind and thus aspire towards other things ....

However, as long as you don’t feel as guests but as masters of this earth you fail to understand your true purpose of earthly life and all you intentions, thoughts and actions will be wrong, they will not correspond to the goal of improving your soul’s maturity. And even if you possess earthly wealth, if you are richly blessed with earthly goods .... as long as you merely regard yourselves as custodians you will make correct use of your possessions and by doing so acquire spiritual wealth too. You should always handle borrowed wealth correctly, that is, you should not want to be the sole beneficiary but also allow other people to benefit from it .... Then it will be a blessing to you and you will gain everlasting spiritual wealth.

As you receive you shall also give .... because the Lord, Who serves His guests abundantly, wants to give everyone what they need, and He Himself will invite His guests to share their gifts with anyone who requires them. Therefore you, too, should remember that every human being has the same right to the things he needs for living, that every human being is a guest on this earth, just as you are, and that the Lord does not want that any one of His guests should go without and that you therefore do His will when you give your fellow human beings gifts of love .... One day you will have to surrender everything anyway. Therefore try to dispose of it voluntarily in advance because such an action will not reap a loss but a double blessing for you which you can only understand when you leave this earth and find a treasure in the beyond .... when you understand that with your action on earth you have acquired many people’s love which will follow you into eternity ....

How blind are those people who accumulate possessions, who enjoy their earthly possessions and don’t allow anyone to partake in them .... and how deprived will be their fate after the death of their body. You humans know that your earthly life is temporary and yet your life shows no preparations for your real life in the kingdom which truly exists but which can be of rather diverse quality since it is up to you how you prepare it. If you have given love to other people on earth you will find much loving assistance there, you will receive as you yourselves have given and, indeed, you truly will not lose but every gift you share with a loving heart will bring a thousand-fold return. Just consider yourselves as guest on this earth and look at everything you own as property on loan which you may use as you wish .... And accordingly manage these possessions in the spirit of God Who gave them to you; use them with love .... and you will experience a blessing which you cannot appreciate as long as you live on earth .... Then you will return to your true home richly laden and shaped as you were when you once left ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence by spiritual forces .... possession ....

B.D. 6455 from January 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is left up to you humans alone what benefit you derive from your earthly life .... The path you have to take is marked out for you, i.e., everything fatefully approaches you in such a way that every day, every experience and every thought can serve your soul towards perfection .... Yet the evaluation of all this is entirely up to you, i.e. you can allow your thoughts, intentions and actions to be determined by the fact that you move entirely within divine order, but you can also consciously close your mind to every deeper impression, you can only look at your course of life in a purely worldly way, which you prove by believing that you can master your destiny yourselves or steer life in a different direction. It is your own will that is decisive .... And both good and bad forces try to influence this will; forces which want to help you to live a blissful life after the death of the body and those which want to prevent your transformation, your perfection. Now these can only ever influence your will, and they do it in every conceivable way. These forces either belong to God or are His opponents .... they have access to you according to your will, but they cannot force your will .... This must be emphasized that you humans are not under their control, that they cannot force their way into your house against your will but that you must open the door for them yourselves, through which they now find entrance to you. Thus your soul can still be strongly subject to the law of instinct .... which means that its substances have not yet sufficiently purified themselves in the preliminary development, in the state of compulsion, that they still carry much of the instinctual from this state within them .... And the consequence of this is that spiritual forces of the same disposition, thus beings with the same instinctuality, do not find the defence of the will when they seek to influence it .... Then those 'emissaries' of God's adversary influence the human being and often with success .... In the same way, however, the beings of light, the forces which are active on God's behalf, also want to win over people's will, and they can likewise only achieve this through mental transmission .... And the human being himself decides which thoughts he gives space to within himself .... As soon as he gives in to the urge of the beings of light despite his instincts, he expels all evil spirits which want to harm him. Thus the human being must free his soul substances from the drives still clinging to them, from everything that still contradicts the divine order, from all characteristics which still prove a wrongly directed love, for the soul was granted earthly life as a human being for this purpose, so that it can become .... as a once fallen original spirit .... completely purge itself of everything impure which still separates this original spirit from God .... And this work must proceed in complete free will. If a soul is excessively oppressed by God's adversary and his followers that it is too weak to resist them because it does not call upon the one Who can give it the necessary strength .... then the evil forces can certainly take possession of the person and throw the soul far back again, yet this does not always mean the complete fall into the abyss, because the soul's other nature still enables an ascent in the kingdom of the beyond, which is why souls which are very weakened are often suddenly called away and, due to their complete apathy, no longer offer the evil forces a point of attack in the kingdom of the beyond and therefore can slowly find themselves again and the influence of good forces can then be successful. Every human being is exposed to the oppression of spiritual beings which try to influence him mentally. But against his will such beings are not allowed to settle in a body, yet the soul substances similar to him feel addressed and start to revolt .... And the human being's will can command them to be silent, yet only ever when Jesus Christ gives him the necessary strengthening .... when the human being fully hands himself over to the divine redeemer so that He will deliver him from all spiritual adversity ....

Amen

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The only way to knowledge ....

B.D. 6456 from January 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 69

A vast area has been opened up to you who listen to My word, which is not accessible to other people unless they accept your teachings about it and now try to explore this area in the same way .... that they let themselves be taught by Me through the spirit. And what you desire to know he will teach you .... Therefore, first the connection with Me Myself is necessary, only then can the barriers fall which are set for you as a human being and which your intellect cannot break down. But through the intimate connection with Me you allow powers to become active within you which you all certainly possess but which lie idle as long as you isolate yourselves from Me .... However, the connection with Me allows these forces to become active, because they were initially active in you and will always be active when the separation from Me is lifted .... You were once full of light and strength, you possessed the highest knowledge and unlimited power as long as you let yourselves be permeated by My strength of love .... Again and again you have to hear that your former abundance of light and strength is still available to you if you let yourselves be permeated by My strength of love again of your own accord, but for this the intimate connection with Me is indispensable. And to stand in fullness of light also means to possess fullest knowledge like once .... thus to know everything. Then My love, My spirit, will shine through you and illuminate your thinking, and all veils will fall before your eyes, the limited knowledge of the intellect will be broadened; even that which the human being's intellect cannot fathom will be comprehensible to you .... All areas are opened up to you, and you can understand and explain everything about which the human being cannot obtain clarification elsewhere .... about spiritual problems, about your being and your and creation's meaning and purpose .... and about the being Which surpasses everything in perfection and cannot be denied by any thinking human being. Such knowledge should be desirable to you all .... And it would also be accessible to all of you, but without intimate contact with Me it will never be received. And since people do not allow even the smallest ray of light to flare up within themselves, they also do not know how full of strength and light they once were and how miserable the state is in which they find themselves .... And the knowledge cannot be imparted to them either, because a transmission from person to person also requires a ray of light in order to be understood. Therein lies the great spiritual hardship that it depends on the will of the human being himself whether his cognitionless state, the darkness of his spirit, will change .... Even people of highly developed intellectual thinking are content to explore those areas which are only intended to be used for earthly purposes, but they have no desire for the knowledge which alone is blissful: for knowledge about the purpose of existence and the fundamental cause of all being .... And at the end of their days they stand in the same darkness in which they entered earth as a human being, for only the kingdom is real which they did not aspire to fathom .... because they did not establish a connection with Me that I could have let them have a glimpse into My kingdom .... You humans come into the world without light and strength but you can leave it full of light and strength if only you let yourselves be illuminated by My love .... Every questioning thought about Me will already earn you a ray of light which impels you to establish contact with Me, which then also secures you an abundant supply of strength of love .... And therefore it would be possible for every person to leave earthly life in a bright spiritual state, yet where the earthly world does not allow these questioning thoughts to arise, there the light cannot break through the darkness. The earthly world will much rather deepen it, the human being is not aware of his purpose of existence, and because he does not desire enlightenment he cannot be given light .... Yet you are to be called rich who have sought entrance into a realm which you may now fathom, where you are guided by My spirit .... Then you will stand in the light and no longer need to fear darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Need that teaches right praying ....

B.D. 6457 from January 22nd 1956, taken from Book No. 69

I grant you all My protection and My help if you appeal to Me for it. And therefore no person can get lost who has so much faith in himself that he calls to Me for mercy in utmost adversity. I will truly not let him get lost, for such a call proves that he believes in Me. However, words which are only spoken by the mouth are not a call to Me because the human being's heart is then uninvolved and I only ever evaluate that which ascends to Me in spirit and in truth. But it is possible that even so-called formal christians send up a call to Me from their heart in times of greatest adversity, that they also have the certainty within themselves that there is a God Who can help them, and then turn to Him .... And I will not deceive this faith .... And the prayer of one person, which is thus sent up to Me in spirit and in truth, will achieve more than the lip prayer of masses who only use empty formulas and do not find the intimate connection with Me, whose faith in Me is thus a dead one, without strength and life .... And you humans will come into such adversity where only I can help you, and then it will prove who establishes the right relationship with Me, who commends himself to Me with all his heart and appeals for mercy. Only a completely hopeless state can bring about this appeal in weak or unbelieving people, when salvation no longer seems possible and the person almost gives up on himself .... Then he can remember Him Who has power and to Whom nothing is impossible .... And then all external coverings will fall off, then the human being will stand poor and humble before Him Whom he did not want to acknowledge but could not reject with conviction either, and then he will turn to Him with words which the heart stammers even if the mouth remains silent. And this one will not regret it eternally .... One day He will bless this great adversity which brought him the light of knowledge because he consciously established the bond with Me so that I could listen to him and also hear him. An anxious heart is most likely to let go of the rigid shell around it, it comes forth in all weakness and offers itself to Me, Whom it suddenly recognizes in its great adversity. But there must still be a spark of faith in it, which was buried and now shines through the great adversity as a tiny star of hope .... But anyone who is faithless will not find the way to Me even in greatest adversity, unless the strength of a fellow human being's faith could persuade him to likewise surrender to a power he has not yet recognized .... I know every thought and take it into account, and I will truly not let anyone who can still be saved get lost, for My love and care is constantly directed towards the people of this earth so that they will still find their way to Me before the end .... Therefore, whatever happens shall only contribute towards people acknowledging Me, towards them consciously establishing contact with Me, because then they will not be lost for eternal times either .... You, who are of awakened spirit, should only regard all events in the coming time in such a way that they serve to save the fallen one .... For many things will still happen which will cause you to tremble .... And people will be inclined to deny a God of love. But you know what it is all about .... that I use all means to induce people to send a call to Me from their heart .... and that I therefore also have to resort to means which make you doubt My love and yet My love alone is decisive because I want to protect the souls from further banishment, from far greater adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Let God always be present to you ....

B.D. 6458 from January 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Carry all your concerns to Me and full of trust you can expect My help .... In times of earthly adversity you should remember these words so that they don't depress you and make you unable to meet all the demands life places on you as well as to cope with spiritual work. As soon as you have handed everything over to Me in trust in My help, I will also take over your worries, and I will truly not let you ask in vain. Once you have achieved this strength of faith to submit every adversity and worry to Me and then let Me take care of you, nothing will frighten you anymore, no matter what happens to people, for your confidence in My help will not make anything seem so difficult that you will be afraid .... And such faith will be necessary in the time to come. Although I will always protect My own, not everything can pass them by without touching them, yet it can be mitigated or completely overcome by them themselves if they immediately think of Me and entrust their hardship and thoughts to Me Myself. And I want to make you all always feel Me close to you because then you will be relieved of all adversity. I am with you whenever you turn your thoughts towards Me. And therefore no event on earth shall influence you such that you exclude Me from your thoughts .... This is what you must practice, what you must never forget, that you yourselves secure My presence through your constant contact with Me .... And if I am present to you then nothing more can happen to you, then nothing more can burden you, for I Myself carry your burden because you hand it over to Me. The coming time will make great demands on you, spiritually as well as earthly, for every earthly burden can only be overcome by spiritual means if you humans don't want to hand yourselves over to the one who certainly wants to give you earthly strength but then demands your soul in return. And the temptation is great if you are not aware of this and remain so, that you will then only enjoy a pleasurable life for a short time and then lose everything .... Only the clear realization that you humans are all close to the end can still save you by not succumbing to those temptations but by sincerely joining Me and appealing to Me for help .... and although I will not give you what My adversary offers you, your earthly life will nevertheless be bearable for you, and your strength will increase, and with a bright spirit you will only recognize everything as harbingers of the end, and you will endure in faith in Me and My coming when the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Intercession for Lucifer ....

B.D. 6459 from January 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

I do not withdraw My love from any being, no matter how low it has sunk, no matter how far it is from Me .... For it once came forth from My love and will eternally remain in My love. And this also applies to the first-created being whose sinfulness distanced it infinitely far from Me .... whose arrogance resulted in its fall into the deepest abyss and which requires eternal times until it has found its way back to Me again .... until it returns to its father's house and is received back by Me as My son .... until its love also fully belongs to Me again. This being was called from eternity to supreme beatitude, and therefore it was created in My image, which could dispose of light and strength without limitation and therefore its beatitude was also unlimited. The fact that this being fell made it sinful to an extent which you humans have no idea of, for it had supreme knowledge, it consciously sinned against its creator and father, Whom it also recognized as its source but did not want to acknowledge .... This was its sin because it rejected My love by denying Me Myself and thus established the abysmal distance from Me. It consciously threw itself up to My adversary, to My enemy, and henceforth fought against Me .... A return of this being takes eternities because it has to go back the same way in order to reach Me, and because the turning away from Me also required eternities, because its ascent also has to be covered step by step and cannot be skipped arbitrarily. A sudden change of will is therefore not possible for this being because it did not allow itself to be captured like all other fallen beings, for it was not able to be ascended by My first-created being .... as My first-created bearer of light .... I left him free when he refused to take the same path through creation. But this refusal became a service for Me as well as for the beingness which had fallen into the abyss through its guilt. He now served Me as a counter pole in the free will decision of those fallen ones .... Every possibility to return to the father's house has also been opened up to him because My never-ending love is also meant for him. But I do not force any being's will to be submissive to Me .... This is the difference that I bind no-one by My power while he keeps his beings bound. If I bind the beingness in the works of creation and take away its free will, then this is a work of My love for the wretch, which I only snatch from its power in order to make it able to decide freely for once .... But he himself is not under any power, he is free, and everything he does is his innermost urge, and this is truly evil .... And he will never give up his resistance against Me as long as he is strong, only when he is down with weakness will he call out to Me .... But it is different with the beings he has plunged into the abyss, which lost My strength of love due to the removal, although I Myself did not withdraw love from them, and which would be eternally held in the abyss by his power if I did not assist the completely powerless and withdraw it from his influence until it has enough strength again to be able to freely choose its lord. Then, however, My adversary will demand his right, which I will not deny him because the beings once followed him voluntarily. Then therefore .... in the stage as a human being .... the spiritual battle takes place, the influencing of the human being's free will by good or bad forces .... And this struggle is brought to a decision by love. Love will and must always win the victory .... And you will now understand that and why loving intercession for this struggling spiritual being is of greatest success .... You will understand that My might may not intervene because I do not force any being .... that My adversary can only ever be opposed by love and that this is the only weapon he succumbs to, which weakens him so that he releases what belongs to him. Jesus Christ offered the greatest labour of love for the redemption of the unfree and thereby snatched all the souls from the adversary which took refuge under His cross .... But in order to take the path to the cross many beings also need help, which can therefore be given to them through loving intercession on the part of already free people .... Loving intercession is a great factor in the redemption of the souls under My adversary's control .... who is the only being in all of infinity which wants to rule and exerts coercion on the spiritual being which was originally created in fullest freedom, but who is not under My control insofar as I determine his thinking, willing and acting .... From My point of view this being is also completely free .... To whom, then, do you want to appeal for this being? And what do you want to achieve through your prayer? That I change its will? .... That I might appease his hatred? That I may move him to repentance, which he must do voluntarily? All paths are open to him, I do not hinder him but I do not exert any compulsion on him, even no compulsion of love, because his fall was and is different from the fall of the beings he brought into being with My strength .... and because he is their enemy and acts as an enemy towards them, because he prevents these beings from attaining happiness and bliss again as they once did .... He faces Me as an adversary and he loads sin after sin onto his head as long as he abuses his power and so oppresses the being in the stage of free will that the return to Me is only possible for him through the help of Jesus Christ .... Only love can release you from his power .... and if you wanted to release him then you would have to love him, and that means uniting with him .... Your help you can give only consists of redeeming his followers so that he will be weakened, for he will never change as long as spiritual things still belong to him; only when he stands alone, when everything he once overthrew has reached the height again, will he give up his hatred, his arrogance and his will which is contrary to Me, and then My love can take hold of him and I can be a loving father to him again .... For then he will desire My love again, as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Purification of soul particles .... demons ....

B.D. 6460 from January 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

All substances within you still carry immature spiritual substances, both the material outer form, your body, as well as the soul, which is composed of innumerable soul particles .... All these particles have passed through the creations of this earth for the purpose of maturing and have also purified themselves to a certain degree, otherwise they would not have been admitted to embodiment as a human being .... But only a certain degree has been reached, which is still far from perfection .... Now you should reach this perfection in earthly life, your soul should leave earth completely purified, thus permeable to light, in order to be able to be accepted into the spiritual kingdom, where it can now constantly work in beatitude, permeated by light .... i.e., the human being must bring everything soul-spiritual into order during his earthly life, which is divine law. What is immature is not yet in this order, it still surrounds the soul like a shell which denies the light access .... But every soul is accompanied by a divine spark which calls for order, which would like to bring the still immature substances to final maturity and can do so if the human being's will gives it the right to do so .... i.e., a human being who wants to attain perfection knows that he is too weak on his own, that he needs to be offered assistance, and he seeks this from God .... And God gives it to him through the spirit by directly influencing the person who has entrusted himself to Him, thus who has established the connection with Him. This spirit will always come to the fore when soul substances stir in a contrary order .... when ungodly qualities want to express themselves which have not yet been completely conquered in the human being .... when desires flare up or unkind thoughts arise. Then the human being is warned or admonished by the inner voice, which is always the expression of God through His spirit .... No human being enters this earth in a perfect state, impure desires or impure impulses still cling to every soul which should be changed in earthly life, so that the human being will move more and more in divine order, so that his soul will purify itself and the divine spark in the human being will be able to spread more and more, so that the light of eternity will thus be able to fill and spiritualize the soul .... But only if this is the human being's will to reach perfection and he surrenders himself to God, asking Him to guide him to perfection. For all immature spiritual substances can also be stimulated by demons to unfold more and more, so that the soul's shell becomes ever more dense .... but then the human being's will has not been turned towards God, instead it longs downwards, it longs for that which it had actually already overcome .... His soul substances oppose divine order, they cause ever greater disorder and are therefore also easily influenced by the forces which want to prevent perfection, the return to God .... The divine spiritual spark cannot express itself in such people, it cannot assert itself because its subtle voice is drowned out and because the human being's will itself determines which forces can work in the human being. But then the time on earth passes with negative results, not only has the human being not achieved an upward change but the soul substances, which initially had already matured to a certain degree of maturity, have also lost this degree of maturity, they have fallen into a state which again requires a different process of maturing than the course on earth was .... These souls, if they don't experience the sad fate of a new banishment, have to endure unspeakable torments in the kingdom of the beyond in order to reach the former degree of maturity again and then slowly ascend, yet this is possible under far more difficult conditions than it was possible on earth. On earth every soul can reach perfection if it wants to, for it is given the strength by God. Without its will, however, it accepts strength from God's adversary, and he does not want its perfection but its downfall ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Igniting the divine spark through love ....

B.D. 6461 from January 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You all carry the divine spark within you which, when it is ignited, brings about the decisive change in your existence, the change of your will, the turning away from the path you have taken so far .... the turning away from the spheres of the dark spiritual world and return into the kingdom which is your true home. Only one thing can bring this about: love .... which you must kindle yourselves, which all spiritual beings lack before their embodiment as a human being, but which the human being should and can develop in earthly life because a small divine spark is placed in him but only becomes a flame through the human being's will .... Love is the decisive factor, love changes the sphere in which the spiritual is located, love changes the being itself, and love ceaselessly pushes towards eternal love. The whole of earthly life is empty, useless and also meaningless without love .... For it is only given to the soul so that the change can take place in it which transfers it from the dark realm into the kingdom of light .... And this can only happen when the fire of love is kindled in the human being's heart so that all darkness disappears and the soul stands in the light .... Love is the redeeming factor, love is the redeeming power, and love accomplishes the transformation of the imperfect into the divine being. Love is everything .... and it is possible for every human being to ignite it, because the spark is present as a divine gift to the beingness which is completely capable of love. Yet people attach little or no importance to what is most important in earthly life .... what should be perpetual striving to kindle and constantly increase the flame of love is hardly recognized by people as important, and people go about their business in a coldness of heart that they unhesitatingly carry out deeds which betray unkindness and harm their fellow human being .... Deeds which they are inspired to do by the one who is devoid of all love and to whom they owe their existence in imperfection .... Nor do they even think about the fact that they are indeed God's creatures but not divine creatures, they are not aware of their imperfect state because unkindness also means deepest darkness at the same time and only love can give them light. But since the divine spark glows in every human being, 'love' is also unknown to no human being, and every human being will come into situations where the spark breaks through, where the feeling of love touches the human being's heart .... And then it depends on him whether he nourishes the little flame so that it can flare up, for everyone is capable of love, but whether he is willing to love is determined by himself. Every noble feeling that begins to stir in a person is such a flash of the divine spark which should be respected, for it can be the beginning of the transformation which is decisive for the whole of eternity .... Only then will your earthly life begin to be purposeful, only then will the sphere around you clarify and purify itself, only then will your path go upwards and it will lead to the aim .... Love alone brings about a change which transforms you from wretched beings into exceedingly light-filled, blissful beings .... Without love, however, no change of essence is possible and earthly life is idle, since it was only given to you in order to accomplish this change of essence. Without love no approach to God is possible, without love you are and remain part of God's adversary .... Love alone restores the original state in which you were once created by God. But the fact that you live on earth is the result of unkindness and your great distance from God, so that His illumination of love can indeed still touch you but it cannot become effective .... But God has placed a spark of His love in your heart because He wants the flame of love to flare up in you again, because He wants you to become divine again, as you were in the beginning .... so that His love can radiate through you and you will also be eternally blissful again in divine unity ....

Amen

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Effect of misguided teachings in the beyond ....

B.D. 6462 from January 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Many incorrect thoughts were imparted to humanity which, however, has been people’s own fault or the powers of darkness could not have caused such devastating work. With a bit of thought people could have recognised that they were not given the truth, but they neglected to do this and thoughtlessly accepted everything. These misguided teachings are now so entrenched in human thought that it is difficult to expel them, but the danger rests in the fact that ever more misguided teachings will emerge from this error. No spiritual progress can be achieved, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond, as long as such misguided teachings are not corrected and thus rendered harmless, which can only be done by imparting the pure truth again. But it is difficult to correct every (single) doctrine, because the understanding of it requires a clear description of the divine plan of love and salvation, which will subsequently prove the futility of such wrong teachings, so that every error becomes evident if a person genuinely wants to know the truth.

When a soul enters the spiritual kingdom fraught with erroneous thoughts, it will continue to exist with its misconceptions and will never achieve spiritual progress .... It will hardly accept the truth, and it is far more difficult to guide someone, who deems himself knowledgeable, into truth than someone completely ignorant, who is more willing to accept being taught, who thus is willing to accept the truth. The former will only start to think when they are feeling dissatisfied and are permanently living in darkness or in very faint twilight .... providing they are not hostile .... but it will not give them a sense of happiness .... Then they will start to ponder the false promises which they had held on to on earth as sacred gospel.

In order to encourage such souls to reflect on and accept the truth, they often have to spend a very long time in disagreeable spheres .... so that they will remember the misguided teachings, follow them and still not experience an improvement of their situation .... Only then will they begin to doubt, and only then can they be approached by the bearers of truth who will slowly help them to change their way of thinking .... But it often takes a long time before the truth begins to dawn on the soul. Consequently, one of the most important tasks by the labourers in the Lord’s vineyard is to take action against error and falsehood on earth already and to make people aware that they are wasting their time .... Even if they don’t believe it they will remember these warnings sooner when they pass away from this earth, which results in faster understanding in the kingdom of the beyond.

Time and again people should be reminded that everything they comply with is futile unless they give priority to the commandment of love for God and one’s neighbour .... Their attention should be quite candidly drawn to the misguided teachings .... and there are many of them .... They should be reminded that God only asks people to love in order to be able to admit them into His kingdom .... that without love everything else is worthless for the soul. And even if it incenses people, their souls will thank you one day when they have left their earthly cover. And when they find themselves in a poor and inadequate state and cannot explain it, they will remember your advice and in view of their state also realise the truth .... Then they will be grateful when the truth is given to them, because only this can help them to ascend, only through truth can they achieve beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemption from darkness before the end ....

B.D. 6463 from January 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The work of redemption at the end of the days which are still granted to this earth takes on proportions of which you humans cannot imagine. It is a work of salvation which extends to all spheres where there is still unredeemed spiritual that is in the possession of free will .... The act of new banishment after the end of this earth is something so agonzing for the souls that everything will be done beforehand to protect them from this new banishment .... That is why the battle of light against darkness is now being waged with all fervour. And this battle consists of the light trying to penetrate the darkness .... Where the light shines all dangers of darkness can be uncovered, where the light shines the work of the dark powers is no longer so easily possible, and only those who close their eyes, who do not want to see the light, remain in darkness .... But you humans know that light can only radiate from Me Myself, that it is caught by the beings of light, that I Myself radiate through these beings of light and that they can now pass on the stream of light again .... The will of love of those beings of light now seizes all wretched things, all spiritual beings walking in darkness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, and they now want to gather these spiritual beings in their sphere of light in order to make them happy with light from now on .... But since these beings of light can only ever act or want to act in accordance with divine law, they will never use their strength of love to force beings to expose themselves to their light radiation .... They always respect free will .... In the same way, only in a negative sense, the dark forces affect the unredeemed spiritual, and their influence consists of strengthening the will of resistance against the light, of erecting a dark wall through which the rays of light cannot penetrate .... or of causing flaring up lights to go out .... but likewise without compulsion of will, since they are not entitled to this power .... And now the free will of the being itself is decisive .... It can open itself to the light but it can also close itself to it, and neither of the two causes the beings of light or the dark beings to give up the fight, and the will of the souls will be fought for until the end .... But so many wretched beings still dwell in the abyss who would eternally not experience a change of will without help .... These beings may not be forced either, but they can be offered unusual means of help which have such a strong influence that they nevertheless desire to come out of the darkness .... Such means are applied in the last days because My mercy and My love also applies to these souls in darkness .... And thus a ray of light is sent from Me directly into the abyss .... My word also sounds at times in the abyss, which can ignite and yet does not compel, for it only spreads a faint glow of light which certainly entices to enter its circle but can also be fled just as well. Yet blessed is the being which rushes towards that weak shine of light, which is charitably touched by My word and constantly wants to hear it .... No power of darkness can prevent the sounding of My word in the darkness, but My power does not express itself either, only My love .... Nor do I force these beings to follow the light, but My love can cause them to voluntarily follow the light .... For everything powerful fights with the weapon of love .... And thus people on earth who want to participate in the work of salvation, which is extremely important in the last days, can only ever fight with the weapon of love by trying to convey to those souls what alone can bring them light, thus salvation .... My word, My pure gospel of love, through which light and strength flows to them, which makes it possible for them to escape the dark world .... by pointing them to Jesus Christ, the light of love from eternity .... Your love can make it possible that they voluntarily listen to you and follow you, that they themselves call to Jesus Christ and are saved forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Soul substances ....

B.D. 6464 from January 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Whatever causes you to doubt shall also be clarified for you, because every uncertainty of your own is an obstacle to being able to represent the truth with conviction. Therefore, as long as you live on earth it is necessary to give you clarification through the word, whereas in the spiritual kingdom this clarification can reach you in a flash as soon as you are receptive to light .... Then you will only need to touch a thought and also stand in brightest realization, then spiritual will be radiated through by spiritual. Everything that was created is spiritual emanation of strength from Me .... For nothing could be without this strength of love which I shaped according to My will, to which I gave form, which I set apart from Me .... Thus it was a self-aware being which recognized itself and was also able to recognize that which had originated like it in Me, which was perfect like it. One being was perceptible to another being, every being radiated incomparable beauty and could be seen and felt by the other beings as something immensely pleasing, which was only a reflection of all beings which I had freely placed out of Me as independent. Once created, they could never ever pass away .... but they could change within themselves .... And this change happened through the fall of man, through the former apostasy of those beings from Me .... The radiant light dimmed, it constantly diminished, it lost luminosity the further it moved away from Me, but the being nevertheless remained, because power emanating from Me can never pass away .... Only this strength was no longer active, it had come to a standstill due to the fallen being's will. But a standstill means activity that has come to a standstill .... It means a persistence in the same stage, that is, a certain hardening of that which was originally created for life, for unrestricted activity. This stagnation process was the result of the inhibited effect of strength, and innumerable accumulations of such ineffective centres of strength now arose in infinity, but to which My will now gave a purpose .... This strength should not remain inactive because this was contrary to My eternal order, but since the beings themselves misused their abundance of strength, since in free will they rejected My flow of strength of love and thus completely hardened themselves through their own fault, I now reshaped this hardened spiritual substance .... I dissolved it into innumerable particles and gave each of these particles a purpose .... And thus creation came into being, whose original substance is thus 'power that once emanated from Me', whose effectiveness was taken away by the will of the beingness, which led to its complete hardening .... into something which became visible through My will, thus into matter, which is therefore basically spiritual substance .... the same which came forth from Me as emanation of strength. But these substances can also experience the process of re-transformation again, they can constantly refine and spiritualize themselves more and more so that they finally unite again to produce the same original spiritual being which once emerged from Me free and in abundance of light and strength .... the aim I want to achieve for all fallen spiritual beings. The fact that My strength of love remains inactive is something so contrary to the eternal order that I will constantly let creations arise in order to change this hardened state of the spiritual being; and thus the spiritual being in opposition will be deprived of its free will and determined to be active in the law of compulsion which, however, adapts itself to the resistance the spiritual being still offers Me .... Nevertheless, this resistance slowly diminishes and the strength increasingly betrays its effectiveness. But the activity carried out in the state of must has no lasting success apart from the maturing of the spiritual .... they are only illusory values which arise and only exist until their purpose is fulfilled: to cause the spiritual to become active so that the strength is utilized, which constantly emanates into infinity, because My strength will never stop giving itself away .... but only in a completely spiritualized state will it be felt as an unspeakably blissful ray of love, but then it will also impel an activity which cannot be compared or made comprehensible to any earthly activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Connections between worlds of stars and the earth ....

B.D. 6465 from February 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 69

In the global space stars circle in large number, and each of these stars is a creation work, that has its purpose: to serve the standing spiritual in the upward development for residence, to promote its development in various kind .... But always all of these creation works are originated for the spiritual, because the number of the fallen original spirits is immensely, and immense periods of time are required until the return to their original being is reached .... And everywhere is life .... but everywhere also a stage of hardening so each celestial body keeps bounded and even more free spiritual in his area .... But the life attested essence is also formed so differently on the various heavenly bodies and also operates with a quite different activity. And only on the spiritual path these different creation works and creatures can be reported, because the connection between those worlds and the earth can never be made and thus any knowledge about it would be impossible, if it is not spiritual transmitted to humans. There are worlds of stars of enormous proportions, compared with the earth, which could be well called the smallest and poorest star, if not its purpose and special determination would give the compensation for it. What for you is visible in the firmament, is only a tiny part of God’s existing creation in the universe .... there are stars, which could be named as „located near the earth“, because they can still be seen by the eyes of the people, even if only in an infinite reduction, for that you do not know a scale. But these stars are also inhabited by such beings, who have been in some contact with the earth, which is resulted in a cosmic conditional radiation, which mutually takes place at times by all heavenly bodies, that are in the area of one of their assigned sun. What you people account to cosmic-conditioned, is not spiritual without effect too .... for you people there are quasi unknown assistances of beings, who want to give, what they have, and would like to take, what they lack .... what is only yet to understand spiritually .... The run of any heavenly bodies takes place in divine order, which only God’s will can transform itself, if this serves a special purpose. But just this lawful order also prevents, that stars ever touch, that direct connections can be made between such and that from the beings of a heavenly body the sphere could be broken, which is limited for each star. There are probably spiritual connections from world to world, which only serve for purpose of spiritual maturity. And in the last time such spiritual connections will be produced very often, but the people on earth do not know, of which worlds of stars they are addressed, if a being of these worlds expresses. Therefore they do not know it, because it is quite irrelevant, where the messages come from, because a direct approach with the beings of such worlds is never possible. But they influence uninterrupted the inhabitants of the earth, because they recognize their spiritual need and are also informed, what this „star earth“ threatens .... And therefore they take an active interest in their development, because they know about the great chance of the people on earth, can become children of God, and want to mobilize all their influence, that people achieve this aim. The inhabitants of other heavenly bodies are more or less luminous, but they are not declined the dark state of mind of the people on earth, as luminous stars are their residence .... But also their development is not completed, neither they still have achieved the original state .... but their course of development is different than for the people on this earth, and also their activity is another. Their spiritual missions can also be extended to the inhabitants of the earth and take place in an other way, as you people is imaginable .... You can stand under their influence, but otherwise you shall never come in contact with them than mentally, because this is also a law of divine order, that is irrefutable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Vineyard work in the last time ....

B.D. 6466 from February 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The powers of darkness will gain the upper hand because the end is approaching .... Therefore you should not be surprised that divine activity is not recognized and that inhibitions are clearly recognizable even in those who certainly believe but have no such profound faith which allows them to speak and act freely and openly according to My will. The world is in the foreground and spiritual life appears untrustworthy to people, the gulf is too great and can only be bridged with difficulty, and therefore My workers will also find it difficult to establish contact, for more and more attention will always be paid to the world, and the dark forces will always intervene and rather find access into people's hearts. This is why we must also speak of a constant battle against darkness, and My own must also be fighters so that they will not be defeated themselves, so that they will not become weak in faith but establish the bond with Me so intimately that they draw strength from Me for unshakable faith. The will to work for Me and My kingdom also gives the faith the necessary strengthening, for no-one will need to do without My support who offers himself to Me for service. And I Myself assign the work for My kingdom to him as he is able to manage it. Thus everything will approach you in such a way that you will do and speak of your own accord as is right and expedient for the individual person. However, missionary activity on a large scale will only rarely be possible because only individual souls will still find their way to Me, whereas My adversary will exert far greater influence on people's will and I will only put a barrier in his way when his time has come .... And from this you can already recognize that the end is near, for he rages because he knows that he has not much time left, and he opens all gates of hell, as it has been announced for a long time .... But you who want to serve Me, you have an unusual supply of grace through My word .... Hence you need not fear its working but it will also be understandable to you why you can show little success .... Nevertheless, you should always approach your fellow human beings with the same love who allow themselves to be captured by the world, you should regard them as sick souls and always be ready to administer good medicine to them if they turn to you for help. But you should not try to determine them as long as they defend you, for then they are still under the control of My adversary who does everything to keep them away from Me and who therefore also obviously works against you so that you will be hostile .... But be gentle as doves and wise as serpents .... You should hold back where you feel this repulsion and wait until you are approached yourselves .... The work for Me and My kingdom certainly requires a fighting courage but also a wise approach against the camp of My opponents .... And I will take over this leadership Myself, so that you should only act when you feel the urge within yourselves, for then I Myself will place it in your heart .... The time will come when you can and must openly stand up for Me and My name. But your work shall still be carried out quietly where the resistance is still too great. Then commend this soul to Me for which you wrestle and only be prepared to step forward when it is necessary .... Only maintain the bond with Me at all times and don't let yourselves be captured by the world, then you need not fear becoming weak in hours of need .... Then you will be faithful servants to Me in the time to come when the decision is demanded of you to confess Me and My name before the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The truth reveals God's perfection ....

B.D. 6467 from February 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

What you need to know in order to successfully accomplish your mission will always be conveyed to you as soon as you intend to use it for your spiritual work and therefore request it from Me. If I give you the task to defend Me and My name, to proclaim My teaching of love and to speak of My love for you, then whatever you tell your fellow human beings also has to make this love of Mine identifiable .... You must always be able to recognise My divine nature, whose attributes are of supreme perfection, and never let doubts arise in you, you should never declare something which causes you to doubt My perfection .... Even a seeming contradiction has to be explainable with your knowledge, so that you will always testify to the perfection of My nature when you instruct your fellow human beings. Yet this can only ever be achieved by the truth, whereas every misguided teaching will be a distortion of My Being, an image which will not characterise Me as a perfect but as an imperfect Being, and therefore you humans can already make your own test and unhesitatingly reject as wrong whatever causes you to doubt the perfection of My Being .... whatever makes My love, My wisdom or My omnipotence appear to be doubtful ....

I want you to recognise Me as your most affectionate Father of eternity, Whose wisdom is unsurpassed and for Whom no limitations of power exist .... I want this because you can only love a perfect Being and because I want to gain your love .... Therefore I will always give you humans a true light, and I will throw such light on every misguided teaching so that you can recognise it as misguided, otherwise you would eternally remain in the dark and withhold your love from Me because you don't know Me. For that reason I transmit the truth to you Myself because it is only rarely still to be found on earth .... for that reason I choose a way to speak to you Myself, since no untruth can ever come forth from My mouth, and because you then need not fear that My Word has already become distorted through human will, which can be influenced by My adversary ....

My direct Word from above guarantees you absolute truth, because I want that truth shall be imparted to you and because I Am truly able to let My will take effect. And anyone who nevertheless still doubts that I Myself transmit My Word to you humans should thus test whether the imparted spiritual knowledge reveals a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence, whether it testifies of a supremely perfect Being ....

And you will not find anything therein which could cause you to doubt .... But now also compare them to the teachings you so far have heard and upheld as 'truth' .... and the God portrayed to you will demonstrate many human failings .... He will present himself to you as a punishing, unjust and barely loving God, whom you certainly fear but never will be able to love .... who does not appear to you wise and powerful in his imperfection, because the correct explanations can never be given to you since I reserve these for Myself, and I distribute the truth where the foundation for it has been established in a person's heart, so that he can hear My Word directly. And if you humans believe in a God then you also have to be convinced of His nature's perfection. And this faith, this conviction, is what I want to bestow upon you through My Word, so that the truth will make you happy and you then also learn to love Me and have the desire to unite with Me .... Only the pure truth will let this desire arise in you ....

But I want you to approach Me voluntarily .... Hence I can only achieve this through the transmission of the truth which will reveal to you My Being, which in itself is love, wisdom and omnipotence in absolute perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dangers of psychic communication ....

B.D. 6468 from February 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Much is presented to you humans as truth which was received in a mediumistic state from the spiritual kingdom .... And you frequently support this information with confidence because you are convinced that you cannot be wrongly educated from this world .... And especially these teachings can cause you considerable disadvantage, because you are then no longer able to receive the pure truth. Psychic communication always necessitates utmost caution .... this has to be said to you time and again. Because the recipient’s environment is rarely so purged, so permeated by light, that negative influences cannot intrude .... Only then can pure truth also be conveyed by mediumistic means. But the thoughts of people who surround the recipient also affect psychically made statements. The recipient himself has surrendered his will and is now controlled by an unknown will. Only extreme integrity of his outer circle keeps everything unspiritual at bay .... However, as soon as a hitherto accepted wrong thought emerges in someone in this circle, he attracts beings who instantly want to intensify his error, since they are now able to enter this environment .... which is not possible when all participants are wholly inspired by the desire for purest truth and completely submit themselves to God and all that is light. But this commonly shared will soon abandons psychic reception, because people will then consciously approach God for clarification, for truth .... and it is no longer necessary to surrender the will, to enter into a state of trance, because God will certainly grant such sincere request for conveying the truth and will choose a servant from this circle to whom He can transmit His Word in a conscious state ....

On the other hand, not every mediumistic message can be discarded, since beings of light occasionally also use this opportunity to contact people, in the hope that one day they will be able to establish the heartfelt contact which facilitates the conveyance of absolute truth. But these psychic messages always have to correspond to God’s Word, which is received in a conscious state. However, differences of opinion will frequently arise because mediumistic messages are equally highly valued. The messages of the beings of light will always concur with each other, they will always proclaim the truth from God .... And each deviation has to be seriously examined as to whether and to what extent the environment or the medium himself had an already preconceived opinion which contradicted the consciously conveyed Word. There is only one truth, and this comes forth from God Himself, even though it is transmitted by beings of light .... And where there is truth there is no contradiction .... But there are many different opinions, and there are different sources used by people ....

Yet only one source is the fountain of life, which God has made accessible .... He Himself pours His spirit into the human hearts who prepare themselves as a vessel for the flow of spirit .... This preparation is conscious work, it is the work of improving the soul .... it is a transformation to love .... which is the prerequisite for the working of the divine spirit ....

But a person can receive psychic messages even when he has not achieved this transformation, simply by handing over his own will and allowing himself to be seized by an unknown will .... And the quality of this unknown will is determined by the degree of maturity of his own soul and the souls of people in his surroundings .... Every spiritually revived person will oppose mediumistic reception because he recognises the inherent danger and because a spiritually awakened person is always permeated by a profound desire for truth. However, a medium with a high degree of maturity will soon be able to receive the messages consciously, and these will never contradict the pure Word of God, which flows forth from the fountain of life made accessible by God Himself. Beware if you discover contradictions, and examine the source of the teachings which contradict themselves. And if you want to know the truth you will also receive clarification .... when you ask God Himself for help, when you submit to Him every doubt, every question, and always just want to be taught correctly and able to support Him and the only truth .... the truth from God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

1 Corinthians 1, 19 - 21 ....

B.D. 6469 from February 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

What the wise of the world cannot fathom will be revealed to you through My spirit .... For the spirit permeates everything, no limits are set for it, and only the human being's will limits his activity if he does not allow himself to be permeated by My spirit. But the human being's intellect is limited and will never be able to be active beyond these limits. All areas will remain closed to him which, however, My spirit will open up to every person who wants it .... And thus there is nothing that has to remain hidden from you humans, only your attitude towards Me has to be the right one, it has to allow the working of My spirit .... You must prepare yourselves so that I can work in you through My spirit. I only ever require you to adapt your nature to My fundamental nature .... I demand that you yourselves restore your original state in which I could radiate light and strength through you. Once you were full of light, thus you knew everything, nothing was hidden from you, you had a high degree of realization, for you were divine beings in all perfection .... And I want you to become again what you were in the beginning .... Therefore I must also want your dark spiritual state to change into a state of brightest realization .... I must supply you with what you lack, what you do not possess but can receive from Me without limitation if you fulfil the conditions I set for you: if you establish the right relationship with Me, if you voluntarily intimately unite with Me from Whom you once separated yourselves .... and if you thus, through shaping yourselves into love, again adopt your original nature, if you assimilate yourselves to My original nature .... Then all restrictions will fall away from you, for then My spirit will flow into you and you will recognize brightly and clearly what previously seemed to be shrouded in darkness for you. But you cannot achieve all this through an intellectual activity, no matter how stimulated it may be. Therefore "the understanding of the intelligent will be destroyed and the wisdom of the wise rejected", for they will not succeed in penetrating the deepest knowledge if they do not first prepare their hearts to be the receptacle of My spirit .... And this does not require an unusual intellect but only a heart filled with love .... Whose intellect seeks to fathom divine secrets is still far away from the light, and his research and search will be in vain .... But anyone who kindles love within himself will now be illuminated from within, and what he seeks to fathom he will recognize brightly and clearly within himself, for he is permeated by My spirit, which can truly explain to him whatever he desires to know. I don't want you to walk along with a darkened spirit, I want to reveal the truth to you, because you can only be called divine beings again when you stand radiant with light in supreme realization .... Yet it will not be possible for any human being to acquire this knowledge in any other way, no matter how wise he may be in the eyes of the world .... I Myself am the truth from eternity, and I share the truth with everyone who desires it and allows himself to be permeated by My spirit .... But where My spirit is prevented from working there no truth will be found for ever, for it still stands outside of Me, it has not yet re-established the bond with Me which once united the being with Me but which is indispensable in order to be permeated by My divine light of love, which guarantees brightest knowledge and strength in abundance and which originally flowed to every being without limit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Creation of nature proof of God's love ....

B.D. 6470 from February 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The separation between Me and the beings was brought about by their free will, and this free will must also re-establish the union with Me. But My will will only ever support this union because it signifies your as well as My beatitude. But I will never restrict your free will, I will never bring about the union against your will. And thus it will also be understandable to you that only you can create a change from an unhappy state which always signifies separation from Me into a state of unlimited bliss .... into a state of unlimited bliss which can be found in union with Me. Thus you yourselves determine your fate, but I will not leave you to your self-chosen destiny, even if your will is still opposed to Me .... Whatever can still be done on My part to help only you to beatitude I will truly not refrain from doing .... But free will, the sign of your divine origin, binds My power .... I don't want to defeat you but win your love, which then inevitably pushes you towards Me and which alone can create beatitudes .... But winning your love is only possible if you learn to recognize Me as the eternal love .... But you humans only let yourselves be attracted by what My adversary offers you .... But you don't ask for My gift because you don't value it properly; because your senses are not yet directed towards what I want to give you in order to make you happy. And thus I must also offer you something which touches your senses beneficially but which nevertheless cannot be offered to you by My adversary .... I must address you through creation, through nature, which can likewise make you happy, which can make your hearts beat faster with gratitude and also direct your thoughts towards Me .... so that you remember Him Who created everything around you. Through creation I can address you humans and prove Myself to you as a loving God Whom you can love again precisely for the sake of the glories which surround you and can make your hearts beat high at times .... The creations of nature are such clear evidence of a loving, wise and powerful deity that everyone could feel addressed by it and find the way to It .... And yet, countless people pass by impassively and untouched because their thoughts are turned towards the material world and they cannot muster interest for anything else .... And I may not force their will, I may not steer it in the right direction but can only do everything to remind them of Myself .... which now has to happen through adversity and strokes of fate and visible help .... What My loving influence does not bring about must now be tried by harder means .... Where the evidence of My love and wisdom is not found in creation, there My might must make itself known, to which the power of man is unable to offer any resistance. The human being only has to recognize Me in order to then enter into a relationship with Me from which the loving desire to come close to Me can develop. This is the only thing I want to achieve, that the being voluntarily turns towards Me as it once turned away from Me. But I cannot reveal Myself so obviously that the human being is forced to believe in Me, for this faith would be futile and it would never bring My living creations' love back to Me but only fear and submission or renewed flight downwards to My adversary. Yet how easy it would be for you to return to Me if you walked through the world with open eyes, if you paid more attention to everything in which human will and human activity is uninvolved .... you would think more about yourselves and your physical constitution, which alone could testify to the working of a powerful and wise being with Whom you should seek union. Yet you take all this for granted and yet it is striking proof of My existence, of an exceedingly perfect being to Whom you owe your existence. You could voluntarily start the return to Me, for I truly make it easy for you to recognize Me, Whom you once wanted to deny. But I do not force you .... But when earthly adversity approaches you I approach you Myself and only wait for you to call Me, so that your weakness and helplessness will make you remember Him Who is strong and mighty and Who loves you .... And if I achieve through adversity that you find your way to Me, then this adversity was blessed, for you shall not remain separated from Me forever, you shall return to Me again, you shall attain happiness and bliss which you once voluntarily gave away .... You shall be able to create and work with Me and in My vicinity in light and strength, but this is only possible if you unite with Me again and remain united until all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Announcement of riots and unrest ....

B.D. 6471 from February 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Whatever may happen, it all serves you for perfection. And although human will carries out actions which have a bad earthly effect, although human will itself interferes with the laws of nature and triggers reactions which have a tremendously destructive effect, such events are also included in My eternal plan of salvation and beneficial for your spiritual development. But it depends on you humans yourselves whether you also evaluate everything that comes, whether spiritual perfection seems worth striving for or whether you are only absorbed in earthly things and then also only take notice of the earthly effect .... But then you will be in a bad way .... For earthly you humans can no longer expect much good. For events will overtake each other and a completely different picture will emerge .... Turmoil and unrest amongst people because a new phase will set in, a raging of the powers against each other which is also recognizable earthly .... For even if there seems to be peace among people, the battle continues in secret in order to one day openly erupt to the horror of people. People start it but I don't prevent it, for people don't use the time of peace for the salvation of their souls either, and therefore this time will be replaced by a time of renewed unrest and worst fears. For the end is approaching. But whatever may come will not affect people arbitrarily, and thus My own can look forward to all events in peace .... And they can believe that I will take care of them in every earthly and spiritual adversity .... that I will spread My hands protectively over them, even if a whole army of devils rages against them. I know My own and smooth all their paths, and they need fear nothing because I watch over them. But I will also need their services during this time, for they shall bear witness to Me, they shall tell people that the end is approaching and that they have been informed by Me of what is coming .... They shall proclaim Me to those who do not want to believe and openly stand up for Me and My name .... For it is the last time of grace which still remains for those who do not want to believe, to whom I still want to reveal Myself through you, so that they may learn to believe .... Therefore you should not become anxious and fickle in the coming time but only recognize the truth of My word and stand up for it with all the more conviction. And even if the powers of darkness will rage around you, even if the world around you lives in unrest and terror .... you should know that you are protected by the beings of light who are around you on My behalf, and you should only ever carry out your spiritual work in peace, commend yourselves to Me and My grace, and I Myself will be with you in every adversity and danger ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Impact of the word in the afterlife ....

B.D. 6472 from February 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

All spiritual conversations, every spiritual work, every spiritual thought pursues all the souls in the kingdom of the beyond who once had the opportunity to hear My word through you. It is a work of redemption of the greatest magnitude which is done with your help, because a single soul which has become free now sees its whole task in helping to redeem the souls which still languish in the abyss .... And every soul has a large following, partly due to earthly ties, partly due to the same attitude of the souls around it, and therefore every redeemed soul will also find a large sphere of activity again but therefore always return to you to fetch the nourishment it wants to hand out again. And you humans can believe that you are doing Me a service by doing so, that I will truly reward you, for the surest and most effective means to snatch the soul from darkness is My word which, however, cannot sound to them as long as they don't voluntarily turn to Me .... But you humans can form a bridge between that world of darkness and Me .... And I can exert an influence on these souls without acting unlawfully .... if you let Me speak to them through you. This address of Mine does not fail to have an effect, especially on souls which have languished in darkness for a long time, which long for deliverance and which behold a ray of light in My word which makes them happy. The darkness of these souls is impenetrable but helpful souls descend into this darkness and they call upon the souls to follow them, because these beings' will is also first required in order to now be able to offer them something which helps them up .... Some only follow reluctantly, but they make an attempt to escape their fate, and only the least will experiences strengthening, for I know about every impulse and every thought and also consider every soul accordingly. But beings have also dwelled in the kingdom of twilight for an inconceivably long time, which therefore cannot enter more enlightened regions because they do not call upon the eternal light, because they do not know or acknowledge Jesus Christ and their darkened spiritual state does not allow them to think enlightened thoughts .... There, too, the enticing calls sound, the call to gather when My word is heard among you. They surround you in large crowds, at first indifferently following your work until they become attentive to the radiance of light which emanates from you as soon as you have established the bond with Me and I can speak to you .... These rays of light attract them and soon they also feel their benefit in themselves .... And once this has occurred they will no longer leave you, they will only ever wait until the light flashes again, and it will also become ever brighter within themselves, questions will arise which will be answered for them by unrecognized guides dwelling amongst them, and thus one soul after the other will release itself from its darkness or twilight area .... And crowds of redeemed souls now gather their followers around them again and lead all into your circle. And I Myself can now address all of them without having exerted any coercion of will, because you humans have lovingly offered your help for this, because you believe and therefore do what helps you all to be redeemed .... because you yourselves listen to My address and countless souls can now participate in it .... You have become servants to Me in truth, and your work is a blessed one, after all, it also extends to the spiritual kingdom and its inhabitants, whose number you cannot measure .... For souls will gather everywhere where My word is listened to or read, and therefore every activity will also be blessed which applies to the spreading of My word, which I Myself send to you from above .... For only one thing is important that My living creations unite with Me, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond .... that they find Me in Jesus Christ and now call upon Me so that I draw them to My heart as children and can make them eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turnaround forthcoming ....

B.D. 6473 from February 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

In a new epoch the development of the spiritual will continue again, which came to a complete standstill at the end of this earth .... The danger of the spiritual's regression is so great that the earth's creations will be dissolved and people on earth will also have to end their lives in order to ascend again in a different form. It is such a total transformation of all existing things on earth that this can justifiably be called the emergence of a new earth, a new creation which offers the human eye unimaginable things because God's creative will is expressed in works which testify to His unsurpassable wisdom and omnipotence, which make God's glory obvious. And everything that exists will pass away .... This turning point is imminent for you humans in a very short time .... The fact that God is therefore still trying to rouse people, that they are still being influenced in every way in order to spiritually direct their thoughts, and that servants are still being raised up everywhere who point to the near end and warn and admonish them to give up the world and seek God, is all too understandable for those who have grasped the gravity of the time. But all this is ignored by the people of the world. And because of them the earth will also be transformed, for they do not make use of the life they have been given as human beings for spiritualization but go backwards in their development, they strive again for that which they had long since overcome .... But nothing comes over people without prior announcement .... Everywhere the voice of God resounds, and everywhere the news of what is about to happen presses in .... But only a few ever open themselves to this voice and listen to it, only a few live consciously and in view of the near end. And since no coercion can be exerted on people, no great ascent or success will be recorded anymore, which God foresaw from eternity and therefore He fixed the end of this earth in His plan of salvation .... And the day of the end will come like a thief in the night .... When no one expects it, it will take people by surprise .... And therefore you are all commanded to be on the alert, and to be ready at all times for 'the lord to come' and demand an account of you .... You should always be ready to receive Him .... Then you need fear nothing, whatever comes your way .... For His word fulfils itself, and He has repeatedly pointed to the end through seers and prophets, and He will do so until the last hour, again and again He will announce His coming through the mouth of servants on earth, again and again He will let the passing away of the old and the coming into being of a new earth be predicted by those servants, He will inform people and initiate them into His plan of salvation from eternity, because He never omits His admonitions and warnings where He still hopes to win a soul for His kingdom. But everything can only happen within the framework of lawfulness, and therefore no human being will be forced to believe, but every person can believe it, for God gives every person signs enough, and every person only needed to open his eyes and ears and see what happens around him .... Every person could believe it, for world events alone would have to make him think and consider a decisive turn to be credible .... And God will give ever clearer signs the closer it is to the end .... And things will happen which will force the human being to think .... but with what success is left up to him. But everything that can be done to save the soul will still be done until the last hour. However, whatever the success, the day of the end is irrevocably fixed and an earthly and spiritual turning point is imminent .... And then everything will arise anew in splendour and glory, and a new era of redemption will begin and lead everything spiritual to perfection which had to interrupt its path of development on the old earth, so that the ascent can now take place again in lawful order on the new earth ....

Amen

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Truth is necessary for perfection ....

B.D. 6474 from February 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

My spirit guides you into truth .... Can you assume that I, your God and father of eternity, want to withhold the truth from you, Who is full of love and created you out of My love? Can you assume that I want to keep you in a state which cannot be called perfect when, on the other hand, I have given you earthly life as a human being so that you may attain perfection? As you are human beings you are still far from perfection, and then you are also far from the truth; yet this is never My will, instead you yourselves do not want to escape this imperfect state. But since it is My aim to change you into perfect beings, everything must also be done on My part which helps you to achieve this .... And the most important thing to achieve the state of perfection is the transmission of truth, the realization of truth and then living according to this realization .... You cannot become perfect as long as you are in wrong thinking, for then you would never do what is right, which would result in perfection. The truth must first be conveyed to you. Only then will it be possible for you to get to know and love Me as the eternal truth, and only then can you approach perfection. But you determine the degree of your power of knowledge yourselves through the degree of love you kindle within yourselves. And therefore the degree of knowledge can be very different according to the degree of love, but it will always correspond to the truth if only you want to walk in truth. Only your will determines whether you think right or wrong, whether you receive truth or erroneous knowledge. But you can be certain that I will never let you think wrongly if you deeply desire the truth. For as soon as you desire the truth you desire Me Myself, and I will always comply with this desire. I want you to become perfect because only then can you be blissfully happy .... And I want to prepare bliss for you because you are My children whom I love, because you emerged from My love .... I want you to become perfect .... Do you believe that you can achieve this perfection with wrong thinking? By thinking which My adversary transfers to you in order to keep you away from perfection? Error and lies are darkness .... They are signs of ignorance, consequences of your former apostasy from Me and signs of belonging to My adversary who has turned all light within himself into darkness. You are therefore in his sphere as long as you are far from the truth, in wrong thinking. If I want to guide you back to the light, if I want you to be full of realization again, if I want you to escape from darkness, I must therefore supply you with the most illuminating truth, and you can receive this truth from Me in abundance, I will always hand it out to you as soon as you want to receive it .... Only your will determines the degree of light in which you stand. The basic truths you now receive will teach you how to attain further knowledge .... But the basic truth is the law of eternal order, the love for Me and for your neighbour .... And as you now adjust yourselves to this law, so will be the degree of your realization, which you can now increase unmeasured, thus you can penetrate the deepest knowledge, with My support, because through love you assimilate yourselves to Me, i.e. to My fundamental being, and thus you will always recognize brighter and more brightly what you are, where you come from and what purpose you are to fulfil one day when you are perfected. You can obtain everything that serves you towards perfection from Me if it is your will to become perfect .... And thus you will also receive unlimited truth, for the eternal truth will not withhold anything from you so that you will become again what you have been since the beginning: beings of supreme light who were immeasurably blissful and therefore shall attain beatitude again ....

Amen

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Light - truth .... darkness - error ....

B.D. 6475 from February 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

I will be your lord and master for eternity .... And therefore you should hear My word, because this word of Mine testifies to your connection with Me, because you recognize through My word that I will not separate Myself from you, even though you once wanted to separate yourselves from Me, but this cannot happen eternally because you are My share, because you emerged from My strength of love. You cannot separate yourselves from Me, you can only keep yourselves separate from Me and believe that you can exist on your own. Yet this belief is erroneous, it is already the result of your will to separate yourselves from Me, for you lost your realization through this will .... But I keep you and never let you go for ever .... This must precede in order to now also be able to understand why I want to prove to you through My word the indissoluble bond .... I speak to you, and whoever hears Me will never ever give Me up, for his voluntary return to Me has already been accomplished. My word is the living testimony of the union with Me, for no-one will be able to hear Me whose thoughts still reject Me, whose will is still as directed as it was during his former apostasy from Me. This person cannot hear Me because he keeps his heart closed, because he obeys the voice of the one who is against Me. And this one is still in darkness and therefore, when he expresses himself, he can only ever let flow out what is his .... thus lies and error, which are born in darkness and spread darkness again themselves. When I speak to you I give you light, for only light can ever shine forth from Me which shines far into the darkness .... My word only reaches your ear and your heart so that you can escape the darkness, so that you let the light illuminate the path which leads back to Me. I can only win you back by illuminating the path for you, for I want to draw you into the kingdom of light again, I want to snatch you from darkness, thus I must kindle a light in you as soon as you are willing to walk in the light yourselves. And therefore I speak to you, and My word proves Myself as the exit of light .... For you will never be able to receive the same light elsewhere, because there is no light apart from Me and everything that is separate from Me dwells in deepest darkness. You can never ever perceive anything as light which has its origin in darkness. But whatever gives you light can only have come forth from Me, thus I Myself must be the source of all light. What is now brought to you by Me Myself, what conveys My address to you, is and remains light and will never lose its luminosity. For I only let it shine forth in order to break through the darkness for those who desire light. Do you now believe that the lord of darkness, My adversary, wants to give you a light? Do you believe that he would like to lose the kingdom of darkness by just a hand's breadth, that he himself would do something to illuminate his kingdom? He has not yet changed his nature in the slightest, and last of all he would ask people to give him assistance in order to reach the light from the depths. For he is full of lies and deceit and his hatred towards Me is abysmal. Through My word I also want to enlighten you about the fact that light can only come forth from Me, but that everything which has a different origin can only ever be and bring darkness. I cannot contradict Myself, but he constantly contradicts himself, for he hates truth and everything that could lead to truth. He also hates every activity which separates his followers from him, he hates all work of redemption and tries to stop it, he truly does not watch calmly where you humans are active on My behalf in order to bring redemption to the souls of the deep, and he tries everything to prevent you humans from doing so, which is why he also does not shy away from any lie if it is useful to his plan s .... (14.2.1956) My plan is to return everything that has fallen to Me, his plan is to keep everything in the abyss and also to pull down again that which has already detached itself from him of its own will; the fact that any means is acceptable to him in order to carry out his plan already proves his will, which is still completely opposed to Me, and therefore you humans must be careful and not consider any concessions on his part to be truth .... For thereby he has already achieved his purpose, that his truly curse-worthy actions appear to you in a mild light, that you no longer properly recognize his true nature and you show him compassion, which he truly does not deserve .... And again I must point out to you that I only ever want to give you light, that I want to brightly illuminate the relationship he has with Me, the position he takes towards Me, through My word .... I don't want to hang a veil in front of your eyes, you, who receive My word, shall recognize and be enlightened correctly, otherwise you would never be able to understand My eternal plan of salvation .... But he tries to cover you from this clear picture of his true nature, he tries to shift his guilt away from himself, he spreads darkness over you .... And everything which therefore does not give full light is not from Me but sent to you by My adversary. And thus you can now also judge for yourselves how such words are to be assessed which do not provide you with complete information and from whom such words originate .... For if you know about My eternal plan of salvation you also know about My adversary's infinitely wide distance from Me and that this distance will not be reduced on his part until his followers have been snatched from him .... He will never voluntarily give up his resistance, nor will he let himself be defeated by love because he flees it .... For you must consider that he is not a 'subjugated' being but a free master who can always determine himself .... He is certainly also subject to My will, yet I only use My will when it is time to help the beings he has enslaved because he abuses his power. Then I bind him for a time and only restore the order which he has overturned through his overpowering rage .... Only when you know everything, when you are guided by Me into all truth through My spirit, will you recognize My adversary's true nature. But then you will also recognize every error which was passed on to you as his work, for I Myself will always give you the same truth, I will always kindle a light for you in whose bright glow you will recognize all correlations and you must now also recognize the cunning My adversary uses to spread darkness again where the light threatens to break through .... But he will never be able to prevent Me from conveying the truth to you humans. And no matter how finely his net seems to be spun, the light from Me will reveal all flaws, the light from Me will expose him and his activity .... But My light will not be able to be extinguished, for the truth from Me has great strength. And anyone who once lives in truth will brightly and clearly recognize every untrue teaching because it does not fit into the structure of My plan of salvation from eternity .... However, I can only ever oppose those teachings with the pure truth and must leave it up to you humans as to what you profess .... For this reason I always try to present to you the nature of the one who is My enemy and adversary and who also only feels enmity towards you .... For only when you know his true nature will all happenings in and around you as well as in the entire universe be understandable to you .... and only if you know his hatred which he opposes Me and My love will you understand that it will still take eternities until he has changed himself and his will ....

Amen

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Spiritual decline due to error and falsehood ....

B.D. 6476 from February 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

If only you humans would understand that the blame for people's spiritual decline rests in error and falsehood, that only truth can lead towards ascent .... You are unaware of the fact that error and falsehood are Satan's web of lies which intend to entangle you and that he only ever tries to prevent you from receiving the truth .... Pure truth is a life-giving drink, in contrast to untruth, which is poisoned water that leads to your death. Am I to give you life, as I promised, then I must also convey the truth to you, I must draw your attention to the impending harm your acceptance of error and falsehood will cause .... of misguided teachings which contradict the truth .... And I must warn you of the risk of being taken in by these misguided teaching. You humans will never be able to heal your soul if you constantly provide it with poisoned water, hence, its state will become increasingly worse, and it is Satan's sole intention that you will no longer be able to lift yourselves up, that you will be too weak to strive upwards and he can assuredly keep you in the abyss. Therefore I will always be anxious to offer you the elixir of life, to convey the truth to you which, since it originates from Me, will always affect you with its full strength and pull you up to Me. People don't recognise the danger and therefore don't try to release themselves from misguided mental knowledge, from teachings which contradict the truth from Me .... They sip the poisonous drink ever more greedily because, on account of their imperfect state, they prefer it to the life-giving water of pure truth. However, as long as their thinking is still misguided they are also incapable of feeling the benefit of light .... As long as they still hold on to the wrong image as presented to them by My adversary, they cannot recognise Me properly as yet, because both My love as well as My wisdom and omnipotence will seem doubtful to everyone who does not know the truth. As long as people remain unaware of the truth they will come across contradictions, whereas the pure truth rules out every inconsistency.

People rarely think the same and the many various opinions should prove to you that you are still very far removed from the truth. For all points of views come together in the truth and then people will adhere to the truth with conviction. No peace, no harmony, no clarity exists amongst people anymore, every person thinks differently, and My adversary plays a part in all of this because he confuses people's thinking. And as long as a person is not inspired by the serious wish to only know the truth he will also find an excellent breeding ground for his seeds .... Only a person desiring the truth can protect himself from his influence, from his poisonous touch .... However, most people flirt with their own mental knowledge, with the information they received and no longer want to let go of but which not always came from the source which guarantees pure truth. And thus ever more errors can be conveyed to them by My adversary, because they don't resist it .... Yet it will also prevent them from reaching the pinnacle, for this peak can only ever be reached through the truth and never through error, through deliberate untruthfulness. But you humans should know about the danger that the adversary wants to keep you down and always tries to obscure the path towards ascent for you .... You must also know that he still exerts great influence on you as long as your close bond with Me and your sincere desire for truth does not deny him this influence .... You can defend yourselves against him but you must also want to do so .... You must desire nothing else but the pure truth and in this desire appeal to Me for protection from error, from misguided thinking, from My adversary's influence .... And this serious desire is your most assured protection, it is the guarantee that the truth will be conveyed to you, that you will then most brightly realise what contradicts this truth from Me .... For as soon as you desire the truth you desire Me, and I will truly not deny Myself to you because I want to give you life and not death .... and because life can only be gained through truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The way to the height not without Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6477 from February 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is not difficult for you humans to ascend if only you take My word as a guideline for your way of life .... if you take My word into your heart and live accordingly .... This only requires a little self-conquest, a putting aside of your own desires and cravings for the sake of your neighbour, a detachment from the material world insofar as it does not dominate your thoughts but is only used as far as your earthly life requires in order to exist. As soon as you succeed in changing your selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love, you will gain more and more strength in order to cover the path upwards with ease. And in order for you to succeed in changing your selfish love into the right kind of love I died on the cross and acquired a treasure of grace for you which you only need to use in order to be able to carry out what you plan to do .... i.e. you only need to call upon Me in Jesus Christ to impart the strength for the change of will and it will be given to you without limitation .... Therefore you first have to believe in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in His crucifixion, which was a work of mercy for you, and in the human manifestation of your God and creator of eternity, Who embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to accomplish this work of mercy for you. For only when you believe in this will you also avail yourselves of the blessings of the act of salvation, you will turn to Jesus Christ in prayer and appeal for His help. And then you will truly no longer be powerless, your will will experience the strengthening you need in order to now also be able to live out My word, and you will no longer strive for any other aim than unification with Me, which results in the fulfilment of My commandments of love. Hence I don't demand anything from you which is impossible, I only require faith in Me in Jesus Christ .... because this faith will then guarantee you everything, because it will trustingly let you request what you lack: strength to resist all temptations and strength to ascend .... But without this faith you will remain eternally in the abyss. And you pay homage to the world and thus to the one who is lord of this world, you will always grow more self-love within yourselves, you will pass by your fellow human beings' adversity untouched, you will never call upon the one Who alone can favour a change of your thinking and your will through the supply of strength .... Who alone gives your will the strength to separate you from everything that belongs to My adversary and to strive towards Me alone. But before the end of this earth people lack living faith in their divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... For people are devoid of all love, even though everyone carries the spark of love within himself and only needs to ignite it .... And much hardship is necessary for individuals to be inspired by such to practice neighbourly love .... Great adversity can still bring about a thawing of people's hearts, that they put aside their own desires and help others, and then they will feel a strength within themselves which will help them to ascend, as long as they are of good will and do not stifle the flame of love within themselves which has broken through the ice of the heart .... Adversity could still become a blessing for many people, and it is used as a last resort for those who don't pay attention to My word, which so clearly shows them the path upwards that they should find it if only they would accept My word. But there is no other way to help them than through My word if they don't want to listen .... And therefore My voice will once again sound loud and audible to people who close their ears to the quiet voice .... But nevertheless their will will remain free, for My loud voice can also fall flat on their ears and remain without effect ....

Amen

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Apparitions of Mary .... Signs and miracles .... Satan's activity ....

B.D. 6478 from February 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The human being only pays attention to signs and miracles. He wants to gain an insight into what is concealed from him, he first wants to experience unexplainable phenomena, and these seem more credible to him than the pure Word of God, but in reality they merely intensify the darkness and erroneous belief, for they should only be regarded as fabrications of the one who wants to cause confusion and who is particularly active when the pure truth threatens to establish itself. He wants to obscure every flashing light with profound darkness. Only rarely will people promote the distribution of truth, whereas lies and errors spread like wildfire and people don't shy away from serving their fellow human beings with nourishment that has no nutritional value whatsoever, instead it has a poisonous effect.

During the last days before the end Satan's activity will become obvious by especially availing himself of means which aim to feign divine activity. God has promised people His spirit, and he has associated this working of the spirit with remarkable gifts of grace. God's strength expresses itself through people who proclaim His Word, who are His true servants on earth and who therefore will also accomplish what Jesus accomplished on earth .... who will heal the sick and take away people's every affliction, who are profoundly knowledgeable, full of strength and able to see what God will send upon humanity .... who will perform miracles like He did, because God Himself can work in them through His spirit in order to motivate people to believe and turn back before it is too late .... But these occurrences receive little attention from people because, deemed to be implausible, they are not made publicly known .... and because nothing divinely-spiritual will ever make itself the centre of attraction against people's will.

God's adversary, however, will work by the same token before the end by using his strength for deceitful activities, for all kinds of works of deception. And this activity of his will receive attention. He will manifest himself and always appear as an angel of light, he will influence the masses, he will make them believe what they want to see, for this desire will provide him with the foundation for fictitious miracles, for all kinds of errors .... People who create idols for themselves to some extent furnish Satan with the means by which he will then be able to take effect. And it is far more difficult to convince people that they have fallen prey to the opponent than to make these apparitions credible to them .... For Satan also ensures that the broad mass of the population takes notice of it and delights increasingly more in the miracles of false Christs and false prophets .... in apparitions which partially are untrue, but partially emerge through people's will itself, because such evil activity is encouraged by people's will and erroneous belief .... for then it no longer requires a great deal of strength from his side in order to materialise such false miracles.

God does not influence people in this way, and God makes no use of those whose thoughts are so misguided that they are unable to distinguish between right and wrong .... He works in silence, He pours out His spirit upon all flesh, and servants and handmaidens will prophesy on His instructions and spread the pure truth from God, but He will never promote existing error nor encourage it in people even more, and no exalted and supreme beings of light will ever express themselves by trying to glorify their own name .... Satan, however, can establish himself in works which were put together by human hands with a completely wrong attitude towards God .... works which intended to reinforce an already existing error and which therefore are indeed the right kind of abode for the one who is and will remain the father of lies and errors as long as he can exert his influence .... And people are spiritually blind and don't recognise his accursed activity .... but they increasingly turn a deaf ear to the truth, and therefore the adversary will be very successful, for it is the time of the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

With the Lord a thousand years are as one day ....

B.D. 6479 from February 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Infinite periods of time will still pass by until all works of creation, the whole material world which shelters unredeemed spiritual substances, can be dissolved .... until everything of a material nature has spiritualised itself .... until everything that had become imperfect has achieved perfection again .... Infinite periods of time will pass by .... But with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, for He exists for ever and ever, to Him any length of time is like an instant .... Yet for the imperfect spiritual being it takes infinite periods of time until it reaches perfection again, but then the time of retransformation will also seem to it like an instant. And thus you humans can rest assured that the earth, too, will continue to exist for an endless time in order to serve its purpose of helping people to attain childship to God; you can believe that time and again people will populate this earth and that therefore an 'end' of the creation work Earth cannot be spoken of yet .... However, you can just as confidently believe that the earth will time after time change itself again, i.e., renew itself, that it will have to be repaired time and again in order to comply with its task, and that this will repeatedly take place after certain periods of time, although the process of development will be far from completed and you cannot speak of an end of the world .... if you thereby understand the complete cessation of all earthly-material creations. As yet countless spiritual beings are still waiting for salvation, only a very small portion of the once fallen spirits have been redeemed and returned to God .... As yet the greater part is still subject to judgment, i.e., it is bound in all kinds of creations .... And all these bound substances must still reach the stage as a human being and be allowed to embody themselves as a human being on earth .... And this is why the earth will repeatedly arise anew once such a developmental period begins to slow down.

But the emergence of a new earth always signifies the total transformation of the earth's surface, an end for the people inhabiting the earth .... apart from a few whose earthly process resulted in their maturity. And this is why humanity also has to be informed of an approaching end, it has to be explained to them what it entails because they don't want to and cannot believe in a termination of the entire creation of the world and you will be unable to refute their arguments against it .... It is, however, irrelevant for people as to whether an 'end of the world' is possible .... They shall only get used to the idea that their end is imminent, that this planet earth will go through a transformation to which people will fall prey, even if it still takes forever until the earth has one day spiritualised itself completely. As yet this point in time has not arrived and yet the human race is facing its end .... because an orderly continuation of development for the spiritual beings on earth necessitates a disintegration and renewed transformation of the creation and this will always take place within certain periods of time. This knowledge can only be spiritually conveyed to people and will therefore find little credence. And it will be even less believed the closer it gets to the end, because people's ignorance is also a sign that the souls' higher development on earth begins to falter, that people no longer reach the degree of maturity they are intended to and would be able to reach .... or they would understand God's plan of Salvation. For an infinitely long time to come the earth will still remain a place of education for the lowest fallen spirits, but it will always have to be repaired anew in order achieve the maturing of the spiritual substances in accordance with the divine plan of Salvation. Time and again new human generations will populate the earth, for God Himself will lead the people to the newly-formed earth from whom such generations shall arise .... who, at the end of a period of Salvation, are close to their perfection, so that every epoch will start again in utmost harmony with God and striving for unity with Him, and that then it will also be guaranteed that people will reach perfection and return as blissfully happy and illuminated spiritual beings to their Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Workings of the un-spirits .... obsession ....

B.D. 6480 from February 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

The process of redemption of the fallen spirits takes place as My wisdom has decided since eternity, for I alone know about the deformation of what once emerged from Me in all perfection, and therefore I also know about the means and ways to reshape it, to achieve the former perfection. The deification of My creatures is My aim, which I will certainly achieve one day. But this deification requires unthinkably long times, it requires eternities for human concepts, whereas for Me the duration of time is irrelevant, because I am from eternity to eternity. As long as consciousness is taken from the beingness .... as long as the spiritual being dissolved by Me - for the purpose of reaching its aim - still walks through the most diverse creations, this spiritual being also still lacks the concept of time. Only when the soul particles belonging to an original being have gathered again and now occupy the human body as a 'soul' does this being become self-aware, and time also becomes a concept for it .... Now the being needs .... a once fallen original spirit .... only needs to work on itself for a short time in order to complete the process of redemption, if it is willing to do so. But in this short time of earthly life it has to strive with all its strength towards the aim: to carry out the last purification, to free the soul from all dross which still clings to it, because it is still in the realm of the one who was responsible for its fall into the abyss. And this realm is filled with unspirits, with beings who failed in earthly life, who could not muster the will to detach themselves from him, whose nature resembles that of their ruler and who are filled with hatred towards all upwardly striving beings .... These evil spirits surround the human being and seek to gain influence on the soul .... on the thinking, feeling and willing of the human being .... And the human being must now fight with all his strength against their oppression .... which he can also do with the help of Jesus Christ .... Thus these spiritual evil beings will try to stir up all bad qualities in the human being, and it can therefore be said that every vice, every bad habit, every ignoble quality is the influence of such evil spirits on the human soul and that these evil spirits can also take root in the human being if he allows himself to be completely dominated by them .... if he is not at all willing to resist them .... Then he will have to make great efforts to get rid of these spirits, and only the firm bond with Jesus Christ, the heartfelt prayer to Him for help, will liberate him from these beings which, however, are still full of resistance to every ray of love themselves, because they, as satan's followers, hate everything good and therefore are not allowed to take root in people who consciously strive towards Me. Although they will always have an effect from outside, they can be warded off far sooner .... However, once they have taken possession of the soul the liberation from them is extremely difficult and requires a strong will .... And then you humans can speak of possession, then the working of satanic forces is obvious .... And the reason for this is that the soul in its preliminary development has not yet reached the degree but the time of its embodiment has approached and therefore the earthly struggle is particularly difficult to become free from all its urges, vices and cravings which give those demons the opportunity to harass it or even slip into it. The soul in itself is a fallen original spirit against which other original spirits fight on behalf of their lord in order to make it impossible for it to return .... Yet I Myself stand on the side of this fallen original spirit, and through My act of salvation a barrier has been erected between this original spirit, which lives on earth as a human being, and the spirits of the deep .... Every soul which professes Me and My act of salvation takes refuge behind this barrier and can no longer be harassed by these monsters in such a way that it falls prey to them .... only the poisonous breath from darkness can touch them mentally, which necessitates constant vigilance, constant prayer and intimate union with Me .... you humans are therefore not at the mercy of these satanic forces if you defend yourselves against them .... For this I died on the cross, that the power of satan might be broken ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognising and acknowledging God .... Atheists ....

B.D. 6481 from February 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You look upon yourselves as independent beings as long as you don't believe in a God to Whom you owe your existence and your life .... for you don't want to know yourselves guided by His will, on which your existence depends .... And yet you know that you yourselves are incapable of shaping your life as you please, that you are also incapable of extending your life even for one day. Thus you know that you are dependent on a Power .... or, if you deny this Power .... on a law to which you are therefore subject by nature .... You have to accept this natural law, but you refuse to acknowledge a Being as a lawmaker .... you refuse to acknowledge a purpose or a directive for your existence, because you still share too much of the attitude of the one who once renounced his Creator and presented himself as determining and acting independently to all beings whom he created in this wrong attitude .... You are these spiritual beings he created, and you share the same opinions as him, you don't acknowledge his existence either, you shelter the same sentiments in you which filled him and impelled him to desert God. As long as you do not recognise and acknowledge God you are full of the satanic spirit .... arrogantly relying on your own strength and in addition full of selfish love, which explains why your thinking is wrongly inclined and you live in an unenlightened spiritual state on earth. The wisdom you deem yourselves to possess makes you increasingly more arrogant and self-confident, and yet it is completely worthless knowledge, since it only concerns things which disappear for you at the moment of death. Everyone who denies God, who does not believe himself to be connected with a Power, is isolated from God, and he will remain isolated after his death, nevertheless, he exists .... Death does not extinguish him, as he erroneously assumes during life on earth, he remains self-aware as a being, it merely recognises itself to be weak when it wants to carry out the same things as it had done in earthly life ....And then it will often take possession of the strength of people who share the same opinion and even encourage their wrong thinking. For all God-opposing beings remain associated .... both among each other as well as with the being which accomplished the separation from God first.

God certainly externalised all spiritual beings as independent so that they could recognise themselves as individual beings, however, He Himself did not sever the bond with these individual beings but constantly permeated them with His strength of love .... And as long as they accepted His strength of love they were blissfully happy .... but when the first-created being rejected God's emanation of love .... when it believed in its own arrogant thinking, that it no longer needed this, it rejected God at the same time and totally isolated itself from Him and thereby became wretched and spiritually unenlightened. And so the 'denial of a Deity' is always the unmistakable evidence of a follower of the one who once revolted against God .... In earthly life the human being can easily come to realise that he depends on the will of a Power which is in control of him, because he receives too much evidence of that in regards to himself as well as his environment .... Yet God never determines the human being's will to think in accordance with divine order, but He will grant light to everyone who desires light .... There is no excuse for a person who denies God, for everyone can recognise Him if he abandons his spiritual pride, the hereditary evil .... if he lowly and humbly asks questions in his mind which will surely be answered to him and which can grant him belief in a God. Every atheist is spiritually arrogant, and this arrogance also prevents him from questioning because he proudly claims 'to know' where he is entirely ignorant. And every atheist is in contact with people who believe in a God and Creator of eternity, Who determines their existence .... And through these he will time and again be motivated to think about it .... if, however, he inwardly refuses to do so then he has not yet relinquished his past opposition, and he will hardly accept an explanation in the beyond either if he is not remembered in loving intersession .... Anyone who denies God is still infinitely far away from the eternal home ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Concerning end time revelations ....

B.D. 6482 from February 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 69

I will never give people the precise time of the end as it would not benefit a human being’s spiritual progress .... Because they should ascend entirely of their own free will, they should further the maturity of their souls of their own accord and not because of fear, which would be the case if the exact hour of the end would be announced. In this respect I will never give you humans complete clarity, but that does not exclude that the end will eventually come to pass. And that it will happen one day has been revealed to you from the start of this redemption period even if only a fraction of this revelation is known to you. Because the periods of redemption, which were established in My eternal plan of Salvation, always consist of a limited time span, the duration of which has been calculated by My knowledge of humanity’s process of development. Every human being, who can believe in Me as God and Creator, can believe this with good will.

However, most people will doubt that they themselves could live at the time when every prediction will become a present-day event .... Because to imagine the end of the earth is for people something extremely shocking, it is something which can only be believed by a few people, if they do not already possess such profound spiritual knowledge that they can also recognise a cause and purpose in the disintegration of earthly creations and the emergence of a new earth .... But there will only ever be a few of these ....

Therefore you humans cannot completely disavow the end of this earth .... you can only never want to belong to those who will experience this end, to whom a potential future will become the present-day .... And for the sake of their soul’s maturity they may well keep those doubts, but they should also reflect on such thoughts, and it will not be to their disadvantage. However, every enforced faith would be detrimental and will therefore never be exerted by Me, hence I will only ever announce the signs but never the ‘day of the end’ ....

And yet I will say it time and again: You are on the verge of it .... You cannot judge humanity’s state of mind .... you cannot see the profound darkness which is spread across the earth .... you do not know of the battle between light and darkness which rages so extremely violently .... you do not know that the work of darkness expresses itself in the dissemination of falsehood, of misguided teachings and blatant lie, because you cannot see the extremely low level of inaccuracies which occupies people’s thoughts either .... Only the pure truth is light .... But where do you humans look for and find the truth? You may well believe that you have the truth, but then you would recognise people’s state of mind with dismay and would also understand that this situation has to come to an end .... And wherever you humans presume to be light the lord of darkness has merely erected a deceptive light for you, which weakens your judgment even more until you are no longer able to distinguish anything. For he certainly knows how to stop people from the work on their souls, he knows how to turn their eyes towards tempting goals, but which you humans will never achieve, because My plan has been determined since eternity ....

(23.02.1956) That I allow you an insight into this plan of Salvation should not force you to believe, I only want to give you humans the opportunity to be able to believe, because the motives which prompt Me to end a redemption period are explained to you, because the expediency of such an end is also explained to you, because with this knowledge you yourselves can follow every event and then also realise that an intervention on My part has become necessary.

People who are merely told of an end without further explanations cannot be blamed if they don’t believe it, although even they should reflect on the possibility of the prediction coming true .... But those who are willing yet think that they cannot believe will also be introduced to My plan of Salvation; they will be given the knowledge of My reign and actions, and they will not be able to ignore the reasons, since My love and wisdom is clearly evident, which only ever plans and accomplishes what is best for the souls. If you humans only look at an end of this earth as an act of punishment you will resent such teachings .... However, if you look at it as a rescue operation, which not only applies to the worsening spirit in the human being but also to the still constrained spirit in the creations which one day shall also ascend from the abyss, then you can also recognise a God of love and of wisdom, and then the end of the earth will appear to be feasible to you.

Only I can judge humanity’s present level of development on earth, although you yourselves could also see the spiritual low level. However, I know since eternity when My order has to be established .... when I have to curb My adversary’s activities, and what is required for the earth to serve as a place for the maturing of the imperfect spirit again .... I alone know when the low level has been reached and when the point in time has come that My adversary’s activities have to be stopped .... And because I know this, I instruct My servants to mention the forthcoming end, even though not many will believe them. But I will never specify the day and hour .... which, however, should not encourage you to assign My proclamation to the distant future ....

You do not know how soon it will happen, yet you all should make great haste, you all should eagerly work on your souls, because every day is a grace for you, because you can achieve a lot with good will. Just do not expect to have plenty of time .... The end comes sooner than you think, and everyone who believes My Words will also prepare himself, he will deem his spiritual welfare more important than his physical wellbeing and truly gain much for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redeemer's work has an effect in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6483 from February 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Many souls are waiting for the spiritual flow of grace which they gratefully receive and from which they refresh and strengthen themselves. The spiritual world certainly offers them the same, yet these souls are still earthbound and therefore stay more in earthly regions until they have received so much strength that they can swing upwards, that is, that they now also accept what is offered to them in the spiritual kingdom by the beings of light because they recognize the same effect of strength in it. However, the offering of spiritual food by earthly people is an extremely great help for souls which have not yet lived in the kingdom of the beyond for long, which lived on earth completely indifferently and were unable to accept any spiritual possessions because they never aspired to them without having been ill-disposed .... Those souls are now offered the opportunity to acquire light without being compelled to accept it .... This is a special grace that spiritual knowledge is once again supplied to them after their demise and they can decide again to accept or reject before an endless lonely region receives them, which they have to wander through until they reach the same, which is now offered to them .... Only very occasionally do lights flash in the earth spheres to attract them, and blessed are those who follow these rays of light and come to people who strive spiritually, who have contact with the kingdom of light and who also remember those unhappy souls who languish in spiritual poverty .... The unusual ray of light in dark surroundings makes many a soul come to its senses, and as soon as questioning thoughts arise for it, an opportunity will always be found where it will be given an answer .... And once it has only participated in such teachings, it will always be drawn back to where it has discovered light. Then it will have escaped the deepest darkness, it will still have used the last gift of grace for its salvation .... This kingdom of earthbound souls is extremely densely populated and successful work can be done on those souls, which is why you humans are always besieged as soon as you only direct your thoughts spiritually and connect yourselves with the kingdom of light .... In view of the approaching end and people's spiritual low, an unusual action of help is urgently required, for many people will still be called away, all of whom cannot demonstrate the degree of maturity which allows entrance into the kingdom of light but who should also be protected from still sinking into the abyss in the kingdom of the beyond. But where redemptive work is carried out on earth, where consciously or unconsciously help is brought to those souls through good thoughts, loving intercession or spiritual instructions, many souls can still experience a spiritual awakening in a short time if they are not completely hardened and then run the risk of sinking or need a very long time for their change of heart, which will always be a time of agony and darkness, of unhappiness. But since every soul which is willing to accept spiritual instructions reaches the light and then continues its redemptive activity on souls which still dwell in dark regions, the smallest earthly work of redemption can already spread far and wide and will therefore always be blessed. Far more is often achieved in the kingdom of the beyond than on earth, where the world prevents people from spiritual striving. For on earth deaf ears can be preached to, but in the spiritual kingdom countless souls wait for God's address, and such an address will never remain without impression, unless a soul is completely opposed to God and still in satan's power .... But then it will not remain in those places where the light shines but turn away into dark areas. But they too will be followed by the souls who found salvation .... to do redemptive work in the depths again .... You humans can contribute immeasurably to the redemption of the spiritual world as soon as you let your thoughts wander into the kingdom of light, for then a light will also shine in you towards which the souls are now hastening .... Surround all these souls with your love, try to convey the gospel of love to them and teach them to believe in Jesus Christ .... Then He Himself will lead them to light and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Voluntary bond with God ....

B.D. 6484 from February 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Everything that encourages your bond with Me will help you attain perfection. For this bond with Me gives you the strength to comply with My will and the fulfilment of My will also assures your soul's full maturity. A soul which never lets go of Me can experience joys and suffering, it will always join Me more closely and has then already passed its test of earthly life, it has wholeheartedly granted Me its previously opposing will, it returned to Me voluntarily and has completely detached itself from My adversary. Once I have become a person's purpose in life, earthly life will no longer exert a detrimental influence on the soul even if it gets completely involved in the field of duty it was placed into in earthly life. Every human being can establish the union with Me on earth already without becoming unsuitable for the requirements demanded of him, he will indeed be able to master them as long as he creates and works with Me and My strength constantly flows to him. Spiritual aspiration need not signify failure in earthly life, only that worldly people can't be convinced of that because they need an excuse when they are confronted by their spiritual shortcomings .... The earthly life of a person who has wholeheartedly handed himself over to Me is extraordinarily blessed, because as long as he lives on earth I will truly not withdraw the strength from him to work in an earthly way. However, his spiritual striving must come first, I must be his purpose in life, he must always draw the strength from Me and never approach earthly work on his own, for then it will seem so difficult to him that he has to turn to Me .... because that is what I want ....

Your purpose of earthly life is your return to Me of your own free will. For this reason everything in life will approach you such that you can feel prompted to turn to Me .... And whatever happens then will be beneficial if you thereby establish the bond with Me. I cannot visibly cross your path and more or less force you to follow Me, but I must nevertheless use such means by which I can achieve this very goal. And adversity is truly an effective means to make you realise your own lack of strength and to motivate you to send a cry for help to Me .... which I will gladly grant in order to entice you to come ever closer to Me. But you can believe Me that I will hold every adversity at bay as soon as you have become My Own, as soon as you make such close contact with Me in your thoughts that I can constantly walk beside you. You tie the tightest bond through love .... For if you are lovingly active you are working with Me, the Eternal Love Itself. Therefore adversity will often be the impetus for loving actions .... You can appeal to Me for help, but you can also help your fellow human beings yourselves .... And then you are always united with Me, and every contact assures your spiritual ascent. You will live your life successfully if you can no longer imaging your life without Me .... Then you will truly have won everything, then you will be seized by My love which will provide you with everything you need, both in a spiritual as well as in an earthly way .... Then your life on earth will be richly blessed, for you will want to motivate your fellow human beings into joining Me, driven by My strength of love you will also draw their attention to the purpose of their earthly and in their adversity show them the path to Me .... For with Me you achieve everything, but without Me you remain weak and immature and your soul will be unable to perfect itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Belief in the existence of Jesus ....

B.D. 6485 from February 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Jesus’ life on earth is often questioned if not entirely doubted , and to accept or reject Him is an expression of free will too. Even believers have no proof and yet they do not doubt it, because the truth is confirmed to them from within .... which could occur to every human being if they didn't deliberately continue to oppose God. Belief in Jesus Christ as Saviour of the world is being demanded .... Consequently no irrefutable proof can be given for this.

However, since there is no other way to happiness but through Jesus Christ, the very problem of Christ is precisely the test of human will .... God’s adversary uses an exceptionally effective weapon by casting doubt into human hearts concerning the existence of Jesus. And anyone whose will is still in opposition to God will accept such doubt, but people whose resistance towards God has already weakened or has been completely defeated will equally determinedly dispel it. But every human being could dispel such doubts because even the most rationally gifted person cannot dismiss all references, all teachings and the Christian teaching itself, as having been taken ‘out of thin air’ .... And there is far more evidence in favour than against ....

The believer needs no further evidence because the ‘outpouring of the spirit’, as promised to the people by Jesus, is such convincing proof that any doubt becomes invalid. But this proof cannot be given to an unbelieving person because the enlightenment by the spirit first requires faith in Jesus Christ which, through love, has become a living faith .... People who do not believe in Jesus’ way of life on earth are of completely darkened spirit, they find no correlations, they look at everything with mere worldly eyes, they have no spiritual life, and their way of life will lack unselfish love .... which would result in assured spiritual enlightenment. They are people who rely on their lively intellect which, however, has been seized by God’s adversary, and he certainly knows how to reinforce such people’s rejection of Jesus Christ and the act of Salvation. But such ‘deniers of Christ' will never believe in life after death, and their life, their intellectual activity, will only ever relate to their earthly life, and they will go to great lengths to prove to other people that belief in Jesus Christ is an illusion .... For they will not be satisfied with their own point of view but also try to convey it to other people. This, too, is the influence of God’s adversary, because it is ‘salvation through Jesus Christ’ which snatches his followers from him. And he will do anything to undermine faith in Jesus Christ.

These deniers of Christ are under his control .... and on earth they only work for Satan .... which, however, they would not understand unless they gained spiritual knowledge .... but it is the consequence of faith in Jesus Christ and His Salvation in the first place which ensures the working of His spirit in the person .... The fight between light and darkness is raging to an extent which you humans would not believe .... And since salvation is only possibly through Jesus Christ, God’s adversary will try to refute this very salvation, he will portray the problem of Christ as unprovable and thus attempt to avert people from their faith in Him .... And time and again he will find people who can follow his mental notions, whose lively intellect has made them arrogant and who, therefore, want to intellectually analyse something which can only be understood by way of faith and love. For where God's spirit cannot work the human intellect draws the wrong conclusions .... and the latter finds itself in impenetrable darkness .... because it avoids the only path which would lead it to the light .... the path through Jesus Christ, the path of faith and love .... of truth and of life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Characteristic of truth: Jesus Christ .... Love ....

B.D. 6486 from February 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Everything that testifies to Me is truth, for My adversary will never bear witness to Me and My name. Consequently, wherever people speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom, where My name is glorified and My act of Salvation mentioned in order to lead fellow men to Me as well, where the clear Gospel of love is preached, it cannot be My adversary's work .... always provided that not mere empty Words are recited which have nothing in common with a 'living' proclamation of Jesus Christ anymore. And so you will always be able to form a correct judgment as to how and when the truth, which originates from Me, is proclaimed to you. For My act of Salvation will always be emphasised as a sign of the teachings' divine origin, which I Myself want to be distributed among people. Hence it should not be difficult for you humans to conduct an examination if it is your serious will to receive the truth .... In that case Jesus Christ Himself will be the touchstone, for My adversary will never preach Him, instead he will do everything in his power to undermine Christ's act of Salvation in order to prevent people from approaching Him for deliverance from sin and death. Only the love which Jesus, the man, exemplified to you on earth, can redeem you, for this reason His divine teaching of love must always be emphasised; love must be preached and lived up to by all those who are My true representatives on earth, who speak in My name and impart the truth to you from Me .... And once again you have a reliable feature of a genuine representative of My name: preaching love and loving actions. Where this is missing, truth cannot exist, because I Myself cannot be present where love is missing, but only I Myself can be the source of truth. You can always recognise these characteristics yourself, and where they are absent you can rightfully decline what you are offered, you need only ever make sure that you don't let yourselves be deceived by empty words, for My adversary avails himself of the same Words, although they can always be recognised as a deceptive light by anyone who seriously desires the truth. And thus it is up to you as to whether you receive truthful spiritual information and recognise it .... You need not live in error, it will never be impossible for you to recognise it, for your own will determines your power of judgment .... You may safely reject any spiritual knowledge which does not place Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation at the centre of attention .... For then I would not be correctly recognised either, since I accomplished the act of Salvation in Jesus Christ and can never be separated from Jesus again, with Whom I was able to become as One through His greater than great love for Me and for His fellow human beings .... Anyone who wants to acknowledge Me must also acknowledge Jesus Christ, for He and I are One .... And if this is not clearly recognisable in a teaching, it cannot be the pure truth, in that case unselfish love will not be emphasised either, which alone was the will of Jesus, the man, and therefore is My will as well and is therefore the epitome of the teaching Jesus preached on earth .... This must always be proclaimed but it will never be proclaimed where My adversary aims to suppress the truth and replace it with his own knowledge .... Pay attention to these characteristics and you will also brightly and clearly recognise every misguided teaching .... even if it is beautifully worded but nevertheless lacks living faith in Jesus Christ and the only effective love .... And accept without hesitation any teaching which testifies to Me in Jesus Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Information about the end ....

B.D. 6487 from February 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

In a short time an era ends and a new one begins .... You can believe these Words because I say them so that you can live your life in a manner that you need not fear this end .... I have no other reason, I don’t want to trouble you without cause, I don’t want to throw you into confusion about the coming event, I simply want you to live in accordance with My will, then the end of this era will only be to your advantage, you won’t need to fear it but can joyfully look forward to a blessed time. I don’t have to inform you of this because no human being knows when his last day arrives and the knowledge that a period of deliverance ends would therefore be entirely unnecessary for many .... But this information can still be motivation for each human being to seriously consider his soul .... it can cause him to take a serious look at himself when he is reminded of the fleeting nature of earthly possessions and now strives to acquire spiritual wealth .... But he is not forced to believe ....

Nevertheless, I Am calling ever more urgently: believe these Words and do whatever you can .... and it will be in your best interest .... Because you are all in a poor psychological state, you all still have to work on yourselves and not much time left to do so. Don’t let yourselves be taken by surprise but acquaint yourselves with the thought that you are visitors on this earth for only a short time to come. This thought alone will make you live more consciously and you will turn to Me for help if you believe in Me as your God and Creator .... Consider your way of life up to now and question yourselves whether your conduct was right in My eyes .... Because you all know My commandments and you all know that love is the first and most important requirement, that you can never achieve bliss without love, and if you now have to admit to yourselves that you have treated this commandment half-heartedly and with indifference then you can still change .... as you have many opportunities to act with love ....

You will see hardship around you everywhere and will be able to help, just be willing to live virtuously and just, and honour the commandments of love which I only gave to you for your salvation. Because you are given many opportunities to do kind deeds .... And always remember your Redeemer Jesus Christ .... Call on Him that He should guide your thoughts and give you strength to carry out the divine will .... Then you are calling Me Myself and demonstrate that you want to come close to Me. Then you walk the right path, the path that Jesus Christ had walked before you .... The end comes irrevocably and irrespective of the state of your souls ....

But there is still time to prepare yourselves and therefore the warning call comes from above time and again: Think of the end .... My love wants to save you from destruction but it will never force you and therefore speaks to you in a manner that you can believe if you want. If you are observant you would notice much which could make you believe .... One era comes to an end and a new one begins .... And it merely comes to pass what seers and prophets had always predicted .... Because they too spoke in accordance with My instructions and announced the same as I Am telling you now, but your will is free; and your fate shall be as your will is once your earthly life has come to an end .... You can live in blissful happiness .... or you can become subject to death, an endless long time of torment and darkness from which you cannot free yourselves ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intellectual knowledge .... Study .... Revelations ....

B.D. 6488 from February 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

People value their intellect too highly or they would not resist the working of the spirit and its results. They deem themselves superior to all spiritually gained knowledge and refuse to acknowledge the latter because, in a manner of speaking, it excludes intellectual reasoning and they would have to admit that it is proof that the intellect does not offer any guarantee for correct knowledge .... because they would have to admit that inaccessible fields can also be investigated without intellectual activity. They overestimate themselves without considering the fact that it does not require an awakened intellect in order to become blissfully happy, that acquiring the kingdom of God is not solely the right of an intelligent person but that this kingdom is also open to the simplest human being, because God only judges the love of the heart and not the intellect. And this love is the key to wisdom .... Love provides the brightest realisation about even the most hidden things, love grants an insight into hitherto closed spheres, love alone guarantees truthful knowledge, it alone explores the depths of wisdom. The intellect by itself cannot penetrate the truth without love; consequently, the human being must first recognise his own inadequacy and humbly make a distinction between worldly and spiritual knowledge .... And thus even theology belongs to worldly knowledge, which only the human being's intellect deals with, for as long as the human being lacks love .... Only through love can it become spiritual knowledge and only then will the human being be able to think according to the truth, which was previously impossible for him .... However, for as long as study is demanded and for as long as the study is so highly valued that the truth is only proven where diligent study preceded it .... the intellect is valued too highly and for this long the door leading to truth will remain closed to him. For what the intellect deems itself capable of investigating is achieved by love with certainty within a short time without intellectual thought .... since then the person's thinking will be enlightened by the spirit and that means that he brightly and clearly realises everything and is fully convinced of the truth within himself. Therefore it is written 'God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent', and therefore people fail to recognise the truth, as long as the spirit of God cannot work in them through love, despite studying. For they lack humility .... but this necessitates the influx of the divine spirit .... Humility, however, does not stand out. But the rational person is self-important, he values his intellect too highly even though, without love, it can only bring forth dead knowledge without spirit and life, it can only master worldly knowledge but, without love, even this will not be free from error. This should be remembered by all those who doubt and resist spiritual knowledge which was gained in a different way than by intellectual means .... And above all, those who believe that they represent the 'Word of God' on earth should bear in mind .... that they are merely servants of the world as long as they manage their ministry in a purely intellectual way, that only love makes them suitable for being true representatives of God, because only then will they be permeated by His spirit and be able to distinguish between truth and error and because they will only be able to endorse the pure truth when they have been 'guided into all truth by His spirit' .... Intellect without love is worthless, but the work of a person on earth whose thinking is enlightened through love, who experienced the illumination through the spirit, will be richly blessed .... For God will reveal Himself to him and he will be able to proclaim God's love, wisdom and omnipotence .... he will penetrate profound knowledge and will be successfully active on earth for God and His kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unredeemed substances in human ....

B.D. 6489 from March 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Every human being carries many unredeemed substances within himself, i.e. spiritual particles which have not yet matured to such an extent that they can come together in a soul, but which also cannot yet join the human being's soul, but must either be redeemed by this human soul or repelled if redemption is not successful. Imagine an I-conscious soul .... a once fallen original spirit .... in a sphere where countless soul particles reside, which are far from being mature enough to form a soul themselves, but which, more or less driven, want to enter into contact with that soul, but without having the right to do so in their immature state. These individual soul substances have detached themselves from the material shells of the pre-embodiments and joined the escaping soul; they are substances which do not depart from the soul but also influence it to a certain extent, thus they try to transfer their characteristics to the soul .... Such soul substances can be completely redeemed from the previous embodiments if the human being leads an exemplary life and then join the soul .... But their influence can also pull the soul down towards the immature state of that pre-embodiment, so that instincts and peculiarities appear in the human being which are reminiscent of such preliminary stages. And then the human being must try to ward off this spiritual influence, he must defend himself against it and drive these evil spirits out of himself, for then these substances are only tools of profound spiritual beings who still want to exert their influence as followers of satan and make use of such immature substances in the human being. This process could be pictured to you if you imagine helpless tiny creatures which seek shelter with you and which you should grant residence to if they willingly submit .... and those who have a strong bond with beings outside of you to whom they only want to gain access to you .... And these you must expel from your house, you must keep them away from you and always be on your guard, for they are wrong and evil because they are influenced by bad beings .... The redemption of the former takes place when you try to calm them, when you discard faults and vices, when you only ever balance everything with love, when you no longer give those immature substances within you the opportunity to let their idiosyncrasies break through .... when you tolerate them within you, always only on condition that they submit to the soul's work which you want to carry out .... therefore, when the body also declares itself willing to nurture the soul's life first. For all those substances settle in the body which escaped from a previous shell at the same time as the soul. All desires of the body which do not exclusively apply to the soul's salvation are its expressions, and the redemption of these soul substances has taken place when the body is fully prepared to only serve the soul to mature. But then the purification of the other impure substances has also taken place, then not only have the evil forces been denied access but also those immature substances have had to leave the body .... which means as much as that the human being no longer allows himself to be carried away into sin, that he always resists temptations, that he is in contact with divine forces which grant him protection, and that his soul has therefore already become free from dark power. Although the tempter will lurk until death in order to find shelter, he will no longer be successful because the soul is now strong enough to offer resistance and has found this strength through its conscious work, which it never carried out alone but always with the help of Jesus Christ, Who therefore in truth 'redeemed it from all evil' .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The moment of rebirth ....

B.D. 6490 from March 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Nothing is more significant in earthly life than the moment when you take the path to Me of your own free will .... when you become aware that you owe your earthly life to a supremely perfect being and that you now want to make contact with this being .... This moment is the beginning of an inner change, because I take hold of you from this moment on and no longer refrain from influencing you, but without forcing your will. But I already possess this will through the turning of your thoughts towards Me, and now your path safely leads heavenwards. This turning to Me in thought must happen voluntarily .... You may neither be hindered nor forced to change your will, and therefore you will understand how immensely important this moment of voluntarily turning to Me is, for by doing so you give Me the right to draw you .... Countless people, however, walk their earthly path completely empty, they reject everything that could inspire them to think about their earthly purpose of life. And neither do they want to acknowledge a higher being Which could make demands on them .... Indications of such a being pass them by ineffectively, they only fall on their ears and leave no impression .... For their will is still directed differently, they still completely belong to My adversary, whom they admittedly don't accept as a being either but to whom they nevertheless pay homage through their worldly desire ...., just as conversely they would also pay homage to Me without consciously acknowledging Me if they aspired to spiritual possessions, i.e. if they desired them, if they acknowledged a kingdom outside the earthly world and demanded enlightenment about it. For then not much more time would pass that he would also acknowledge a lord of that world and mentally turn towards this lord. All people are certainly informed about such a higher being, but whether they accept such knowledge as true is decisive .... This is why this moment is so significant when the inner conviction of a creator and sustainer of everything visible and of the connection between Him and the human being himself comes alive. This inner conviction is, as it were, already the passed test of will for which the human being stays on earth. For anyone who has gained this inner conviction also tries to approach the being he has recognized. He is always stimulated by Me to do so as soon as this moment of new birth has occurred: the recognition of another world and its lord .... He has then stepped out of a realm of darkness because he saw a 'light' and is striving towards it .... Every turn from the earthly-material kingdom into spiritual spheres is such a moment which initiates the complete return to Me and will therefore always be favoured and encouraged by Me, because it is solely a matter of the human being on earth learning to recognize Me in order to now also fully consciously acknowledge Me as his God and father of eternity. But since no coercion can be applied, since My adversary also does everything to prevent this turning to Me, it can often take a long time and occupy the greater part of earthly life until this moment occurs, but it can also remain a futile effort on My part if the soul still carries much of the resistance within itself and therefore fully and completely dedicates itself to the world and its lord. But the conscious turning to Me can also take place at an early stage and then a helper grows up for Me in such a person who tries to influence his fellow human being in the same way, because he has recognized how extremely significant the acknowledgement of Me Myself as the most perfect being is for all who dwell on earth as a human being .... (4.3.1956) because he knows that the return to Me can only take place when I become the aim they strive for .... And he will now also try to persuade his fellow human beings to unite with Me, and therefore he will confess Me to them with all zeal, and I Myself will bless his endeavour, for now he works for Me and My kingdom, believing in Me and My strength, which is always at his disposal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The father's secure protection ....

B.D. 6491 from March 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Trust Me and My love .... know that I am your father, that I watch over My children and protect them in every danger, that I never let them walk alone on paths where dangers lurk around them .... My father's eye watch over them, over all those who acknowledge Me as their father, who call Me, who want to be Mine for eternity .... Believe in your father's love .... Then you will never fear that I will let something happen to you, then you will always know yourselves to be well protected spiritually and physically and also need not fear My adversary. But you must always be careful, for he is more intent than ever on stopping your work for Me and My kingdom. He knows that he has lost you and yet he does not give up harassing you or using trickery to make you slacken your spiritual work. Yet My angels are always ready to defend you when he wants to approach you, and their strength comes from Me and they are truly strong enough to be able to thwart his intention. This is why you can go about your work of salvation without any worries, you can know that you are well protected by My love, and you can always call upon Me as your father Who will always hear you too, because He is always with you .... But it will always remain a battle between Me and him, because neither I nor he want to relinquish the right to you. And since your free will is decisive I Myself also have the right to those of My living creations who profess Me, who have already become My will .... And these I never, ever give up .... You, therefore, who want to serve Me, you have already openly declared your will to Me, and you belong to Me, even though you still live on earth, in his kingdom .... But your will has decided which kingdom you want to occupy, and thus, if you are willing to work for Me and My kingdom on earth, you have freely professed your allegiance to Me and now you also belong to Me, and I will truly protect My own against every hostile attack .... And thus you can trust Me unconditionally and always be certain that I take fatherly care of My children, that I give them what they need spiritually and physically but that I also give them what they need to work in My vineyard .... You can be certain that I will never convey anything to you which could be harmful to yourselves or your fellow human beings .... that I will never convey untrue spiritual knowledge to you or let you walk in error .... A father only ever gives his children good gifts because he loves them .... My love for you, however, exceeds the highest degree of earthly fatherly love, and truly, My gifts will far surpass those in value, for I want to make you, My right children, happy, and I also want everyone who takes nourishment from you to receive the right food .... As long as you come to Me in complete trust and ask Me Myself for the supply of light and strength you will be allowed to receive and never need to fear that you will be offered something unwholesome .... You should only ever remember that your father loves you and that love will only ever distribute the best, that it wants to make you happy but will never harm you. What you ask for you will receive .... Therefore only ever entrust yourselves to your heavenly father .... that He will give to you out of His love .... Then you need never fear the influence of the one who is My adversary, for My love protects you from him ....

Amen

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Bringing the dead back to life ....

B.D. 6492 from March 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

For a long time I have been courting the love of My living creations which once apostatized from Me, and it will take an infinitely long time until I have regained the love of all, until all are united with Me in bliss, until I have reached My aim: to be able to create and work with fully divinized beings in infinity. But My adversary continues to offer Me resistance for just as long, it remains a battle between Me and him, for he does not voluntarily give up his resistance but fights ever more furiously for the beings he is in danger of losing. Yet this everlasting resistance is at the same time also the generation of strength .... For life constantly arises from the strength flowing out of Me, and where life arises spiritual things have already been wrested from death again, and My adversary is powerless against this life. For the battle between Me and him consists of bringing back to life what his will let come to death, what his will deprived of life. And My will will not stop giving life back to the dead again. And a never-exhausting strength is at My disposal for this, whereas My adversary loses strength with every revival to life. Thus I want to guide that which once emanated from Me as something of essence to its true purpose, so that it is constantly active in a positive sense: to work in love and inexpressible bliss .... For My adversary had set his plans against this original purpose; he wanted to prevent it from any activity according to My will, he wanted it to serve him, to work in opposition to Me in order to invalidate Me .... And thus he caused this beingness to reject My strength of love flowing towards it .... And through his plan he was guilty of causing that entity to fall prey to death because it rejected the life-giving strength. And the battle between Me and him is only ever to awaken this dead being to life, which he wants to prevent since every newly awakened life is its certain loss. But eternities will pass until everything dead is alive again .... And therefore the battle between Me and him, between light and darkness, between good and evil, will also rage for eternities .... But one day he will be defeated and likewise arise to life. Yet as long as the battle still lasts, as long as a single soul is still in his possession, he will not give up his resistance, for so long he believes in his delusion to still be powerful .... For his fall into the abyss has brought him the greatest darkness, his fall has deprived him of all light, and this darkness of his always makes him think and act wrongly .... No light can be given to him, for it would only increase his resistance, it would deepen his hatred, and therefore he flees the light because it causes him torment. You need to know all this in order to understand the infinite distance between this fallen original being and Me and why an early return to Me is impossible .... but only impossible because his will is hard and unbending, because he himself, despite his being, is completely without life .... because life requires strength of love which he completely lacks and which, in most vehement defence, he does not allow to approach him. For this reason every being has to be wrested from him, he will never give it up voluntarily, no amount of love would succeed in weakening his resistance, for you must always bear in mind that love is divine and that My adversary opposes everything divine precisely because he is My enemy who believes he can defeat Me. You must be aware of this deluded line of thought in order to then also understand why there can be no premature return, no abandonment of his resistance against Me and why only all strength has to be used in order to bring that which came to death through his guilt into the state of life again .... which requires eternities and therefore cannot be spoken of a change of will on the part of My adversary for eternities either. Only when everything spiritual has come to life and light will he be powerless and start his way into the father's house, and then he, too, will live in light, love and bliss ....

Amen

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The masses never support the truth .... Distribution - Adversary ....

B.D. 6493 from March 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Don't let yourselves be deceived by My adversary's work of deception: instead, only ever pay attention to that which provides you with enlightenment, to the gentle light which illuminates you from above. The radiance of this light .... the truth from Me, will never glaringly hit your eyes, that is, the truth will never flash up so suddenly to become public knowledge. For the world does not recognise and acknowledge the 'divine light' and it will not spread with lightening speed, yet many eyes are open for the 'deceptive light', it is far more easily accepted then the pure truth, the light of love from Me. For it is the sign of the impenetrable darkness that people are receptive for everything of an untruthful nature, for everything that emerges from the lower realm, that they no longer have any understanding of the divine truth. But as soon as My adversary's deceptive lights flash up they have no defence, instead, they try to carry it all over the world, they help to increase the darkness of night even more because they desensitise their eyes to the gently shining light .... They don't want to become inwardly enlightened; they only want to delight in a firework that merely intends to mimic light and is pleasing to the eyes. And yet, an ever increasing number of bearers of light will arise during the last days, they will walk through the darkness and still gather the few who feel their light as a blessing .... Many messengers from above will work on earth during the last days in order to bring help to people of good will .... My Word will be proclaimed by lively servants who came to earth for the sake of the mission to carry the light of truth into the darkness .... But they will all work in seclusion, they will certainly not shy away from speaking to people openly and freely, yet the world will take little notice of these proclaimers of My teaching and My name .... Nevertheless, the few who want to escape the night will receive bright light from them .... for their Words are very powerful. And wherever these servants of Mine appear, My adversary will not be long in coming and will intend to extinguish or dim the light and therefore come to the fore in such an unusual way that the world will take notice of it. And by this you will once again be able to recognise his activity.

You know that the supporters of the world are in his hands, that they are still infinitely distant from Me and that My activity would never find access to their sphere .... But anything that spreads throughout the general public originates from him and My servants' work will be especially unpopular where My adversary is successful .... The mass of population will never support the truth but always errors and lies .... Even so, My true representatives on earth will not be bothered by the fact that they are not granted any credence .... so the more diligently they will work and convincingly speak of Me and My upcoming arrival. For I will put an end to My adversary's activity when his time has come .... But prior to this many bearers of light will still walk across the earth because the light shall be carried to all places in order to illuminate the few human hearts which are not controlled by My adversary as yet. His activity will be obvious, but My care of leading them out of darkness into light will also be obvious to My Own .... Don't be surprised that you, who want to serve Me, make little headway with the Word that you have received from Me, for this, too, is a sign of the darkness of spirit, a sign of the low level people have reached before the end, when My adversary is far more likely to be successful than you, My bearers of light .... Even so, the light will establish itself and brightly highlight My adversary's activity one day. However, his time has not come as yet, as yet he can still do as he likes according to his will .... But soon his activity will be stopped, then My light from above will shine brightly, then there will be no more darkness and the people, who have already accepted My light on earth, will be very happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Office of the truth bearer .... false legal concepts ....

B.D. 6494 from March 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

And you will constantly have to fight with the sword of the mouth, you will have to use all your strength and perseverance for My word which is conveyed to you from above; you will have to represent it as pure truth because this is the task which was given to you at the same time as the transmission of My word .... You will only rarely find faith, for people have formed their own opinions which they don't give away so easily because they lack the profound realization which can only be gained through a life of love. And therefore not many people are suitable to fulfil such a task, because the resistance is too great and will constantly increase against the pure truth and a strong will is required to nevertheless administer the office of a bearer of truth with its obligations. And these consist of passing on what he receives from Me. Truth bearers were certainly active at all times, because I never failed to convey the pure truth to earth .... and this truth was always opposed. But it was not yet the time when satan was allowed to rage as he is allowed to do before the end .... even though he always wreaked havoc in people's hearts .... Yet the faith in God, in Jesus Christ as redeemer, was a living one, and this faith also brought about redemption, so that the winning of souls for the spiritual kingdom was recorded at all times, which, however, is becoming less and less in the present time, for no life in the sense of the awakening of the spirit can be found amongst people anymore, apart from a few exceptions which nevertheless do not inspire imitation .... And precisely this dead state amongst humanity gives My adversary cause to rage against Me because he now believes to be standing before the aim. And the fact that satan's activity is evident amongst humanity can be ascertained again and again by those who want good and strive for good aims, for they will encounter resistance everywhere and will be able to pursue wickedness everywhere. Sinful was humanity at all times, but sinful activity was also detested at all times .... by the large part of humanity, whereas now sin has taken over and is no longer recognized as 'sin' .... For people are no longer afraid to openly violate My commandments of love for God and neighbour, and what is openly wrong is regarded as right. People have wrong concepts of law and no sense of responsibility towards a higher judge .... And in such a world it will be difficult to proclaim My gospel of love, and the purest truth from above will be opposed by unbelief and displeasure, precisely because humanity is under the influence of My adversary who confuses people's thinking and masterfully knows how to belittle Me and the truth but to constantly lift himself up more, to transfer himself and his attitude to people and thus to deepen the darkness. And therefore I kindle a light everywhere which shall illuminate his activity and lead him out of the darkness .... But the bearers of light will always be opposed, again and again attempts will be made to extinguish the light. Yet I will not leave people without protection and help who oppose My adversary's activity, who desire light and want to reach their aim on earth .... And I constantly warn and admonish people who are still undecided and have not yet found the right path, for I still want to rescue from his power all those who are of good will so that the end will not approach and they, too, will still fall prey to ruin. And I can only help them by informing them of the truth, which will also be recognized by anyone who has not yet fallen prey to My adversary, who has a living faith in a God and saviour and through this faith has already separated himself from him of his own will .... This one will accept the light and now also faithfully walk the path which certainly leads to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

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The adversary tries to prevent the recognition of the Deity ....

B.D. 6495 from March 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Only for as long as you have not recognised Me correctly will you still resist Me. And My adversary constantly tries to prevent this recognition of Me .... Therefore he will also do whatever he can to keep My revelations away from you; he will not shy away from any means to suppress whatever might make Me and My nature clear to you, whatever would, as enlightenment, inform you of My infinitely profound love for you. I will irrevocably win you over for Myself as soon as you have recognised Me .... And it is precisely this recognition of Myself which countless beings of light would like to convey to you, what every one of My revelations aims to achieve and what My adversary tries to prevent with all his power. And thus it explains the fact that My Word, which is imparted to you from Me directly, is doubted or invalidated as much as possible .... This is so very natural during the end time, for My adversary wants to gain as much as possible for himself, and thus his work starts where he fears losing the souls. Clear realisation about Me and My nature, about My love, omnipotence and wisdom would make him lose his followers very quickly, but precisely this clear realisation is lacking in people. This is why the battle between light and darkness is so fierce during the last days before the end .... And it will be particularly felt by My servants on earth, to whom I can reveal Myself, for that is where he works zealously and often with success. The confusion of thoughts is his plan, lies and deception are his weapon, and what he cannot win openly he will try to gain through cunning .... My Own cannot understand that the light from above does not penetrate the darkness which people are living in .... But the light cannot be transferred to people who don't desire it; and every desire gets stifled My adversary as soon as it arises .... without people defending themselves. This is why their blindness is their own fault, for they don't want to have their eyes opened, to find out about My greater than great love, to attain the right image of Me ....

And yet, My revelations cannot be forcibly conveyed to them, although they could all take possession of them. And since you now know who tries to prevent it, those of you who receive My Word must be particularly on your guard and don't allow yourselves to be disconcerted by his counter activity .... He will do everything in his power to prevent your acceptance as well as the distribution of My Word, because he would like to extinguish the light which exposes him and his activity, and he will use cunning and trickery and only meet with resistance in profound faith and love for Me, which makes his activity ineffective. You are under My protection, consequently, he will be unable to pressurise you directly but he will use those who can be more easily influenced to take action against you or to attempt to undermine everything you endorse as truth to people. Always remember that you are approaching the end, remember that these are the last days for him and that he will use this time with every available power, that he rages because he knows that he does not have much time left .... Therefore, unite with Me ever more firmly and serve Me with dedication and eager love, and you will always be able to triumph over him, with My revelations you will also be able to grant light to all those who resist him; you will kindle in them love for Me and guide them into correct realisation. And they are lost to him, I will have won them over for Me, and My love will never ever surrender them again or let them fall back into the abyss .... they have become and will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Invitation to the lord's table ....

B.D. 6496 from March 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You shall be offered the bread of heaven so that your soul will become strong and be able to resist when it is opposed by force .... You shall not need to starve, for spiritual food will constantly be offered to you from above, because My love will constantly provide you with the nourishment you need in order to reach your aim. Yet come to My table with a real hunger, don't satisfy yourselves elsewhere first, because you may receive sufficient food from Me and only the food I prepare for you Myself and which you receive from My hand is of real value to you. I invite you all to be My guests because I know that I can offer you something delicious which is not available to any other host, and because only this food prepared and distributed by Me is the right nourishment for your soul. And if you have now received abundantly from Me Myself, then you also share out to your fellow human beings and cause them to likewise come to My table and let themselves be satisfied .... Distribute the bread as I have done and in love offer your fellow human beings a strengthening drink .... Let them also drink from the spring from which the water of life flows .... Make them acquainted with My word, which comes to you from above and gives strength and light to all who gratefully accept it, who process it in their hearts. All of you humans must hear My word in order to be able to live accordingly, all of you must know My will, for you all have a task to fulfil on earth and need light and strength for it .... And you receive this through My word .... The soul shall be helped to life which still dwells in its body in an exceedingly weak state and .... as long as this is its abode .... in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light as a spiritual being full of strength and light after the death of the body, where it will again be engaged in an activity for which it must be fully equipped .... And everything it needs to mature, to live and to be happily active in the spiritual kingdom one day, will be imparted to it in abundance in earthly life if only it is willing to accept it .... I Myself provide for it, I Myself help it to eternal life through My word. The effect and significance of My word truly cannot be sufficiently explained to you humans, for you do not yet know how to appreciate its value .... For whether you acquire earthly goods in excess .... they cannot in the least improve the state of your soul, it will remain weak and miserable if it is not supplied with that nourishment it needs to build itself up, if it cannot refresh and strengthen itself with My word, which touches it like a current of life and gives it the strength to develop .... The invitation to come to My table and let yourselves be fed by Me keeps coming to you, for I alone know how much your soul needs nourishment, I alone know what helps it to live, and I alone can administer this nourishment to it .... but whether I also have the most delicious to bestow .... My invitation is often overheard, people rush past My servants who want to deliver My invitation to them, and they fill themselves with worthless food, with worldly feasts, where they are often offered a poisonous potion which causes great harm to their soul .... And their greed will grow ever greater for the pleasures of this world .... But anyone who often eats the bread and drinks the water I offer him will eternally no longer need to hunger and thirst and yet always receive My refreshments with full enjoyment, for My gifts prepare bliss which cannot be compared to earthly pleasures. Therefore you should be eager servants and help your fellow human beings to receive spiritual food offered by My love Itself, you should point them to the one Who alone can give because He alone possesses and Who will only ever distribute good gifts to His children .... a nourishment which helps the soul to eternal life and which everyone may receive who wants to be His guest ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Repatriation plan .... free will ....

B.D. 6497 from March 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

My plan of salvation is designed in unsurpassable wisdom so that it will certainly lead to the aim one day. Yet freedom of will is always taken into account, which is why, despite greatest wisdom and endless love, it can take eternities until the spiritual will fully belongs to Me. But free will requires such a plan, which always adapts itself to that will and opens up the greatest possibilities for the right direction of will. My wisdom, however, saw the direction of the will at all times and My love was therefore always able to plan according to this will .... so that success was and is always recorded and that again and again spiritual things reach perfection, thus they successfully cover the path of salvation. Yet I also saw the many failures which I have to tolerate because they are based on free will but which have already motivated Me from eternity to everlasting activity of love, thus My plan of salvation could therefore already be determined from eternity. An infinite number of beings had fallen and the depths of their stay are endless. The path back is infinitely long and yet the aim is once attainable. I recognized from eternity what demands were made on My love on the part of those beings which do not want to give up their resistance and yet are not left in the abyss by Me forever .... Only My love can rescue them from this, and this love therefore devised a plan which will certainly bring all fallen beings back to Me but which will also require eternities until all fallen beings have been completely redeemed. Love, wisdom and might will always accomplish this work of return with respect for the free will of that which once emerged from Me as a supremely perfect being. The human being can certainly take note of My plan of salvation and then gain the conviction that nothing is arbitrary, that everything is based on My will of love and My wisdom. But he can never overlook My rule and activity for the purpose of the fallen person's return in its full extent, he can only be informed in a few words that My love will never rest until everything that once fell can be active in fullest freedom and in light and strength .... and that everything takes place according to plan in order to achieve this aim, that every thought, every direction of will and every stage of development is known to Me, that I know about everything and accordingly approach the human being in earthly life such that he can accomplish the return to Me if he wants it himself .... Everything is included in My plan of salvation from eternity but coercion is never exerted, which is why even the most favourable opportunities can remain unused and the time of distance from Me is prolonged by the being itself. Hence it is free will which is decisive in which time the once fallen being's redemption takes place .... As long as you humans believe that you are unfree in your thinking and willing, you still have little knowledge .... as a result of your former fall .... It is precisely free will which prevents Me from redeeming you abruptly, which My infinite love would certainly like to do but then the 'characteristic' of divinity, free will, would be taken away from you and you would eternally no longer be able to become perfect beings but would only ever be directed beings determined by My will which do not correspond to My aim, My divine plan of love. People who dispute a free will are still very darkened in spirit, for they are still under the influence of My adversary who has transferred his will onto them .... But I gave the spiritual being begotten through its will the right of self-determination, so that it recognized itself and could freely decide for it or for Me .... And it still fell and thus became guilty itself in free will. If, therefore, as a human being it still considers itself dependent on external power which determines its will, then it is also still very much in that power .... but it can detach itself from it precisely because it has free will which would be strengthened remarkably quickly through the call of Jesus Christ, Who died for the human being to be able to strengthen his weakened will at any time. And therefore, with the help of the divine redeemer the return to Me can take place in a shorter time, but eternities can still pass by, because free will is decisive .... But everything is planned in My eternal plan of salvation, and My love, wisdom and omnipotence will surely reach the aim one day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spark of life .... love .... gift of grace ....

B.D. 6498 from March 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You all carry the germ of life within you and therefore need not succumb to death if only you nourish this germ of life, if you supply it with light and warmth so that it can develop .... if you enable the divine spark within you to develop into a bright flame .... if you kindle love within yourselves. Then you will awaken from a dead state to life, and then you need never fear death again. You were embodied on earth as a human being for this purpose in order to gain the 'life' which lasts forever. And in order for this to be possible, God placed a spark of original vitality in you, which you should now increase yourselves .... Every effort on your part will be supported, thus you need only want to attain life .... For to kindle the original spark of life in you means as much as to practice love, which you are certainly capable of but always have to muster the will first .... Thus love will always be the prerequisite for you to acquire eternal life. Without love you will be doomed to death. If you were to enter this earthly life without this life germ, the divine spark of love, it would be impossible for you to work with love, because then God's adversary would have you completely in his possession .... But since you have already reached a certain degree of maturity through the path of development and this degree of maturity should not be endangered in the stage as a human being, God placed a tiny spark of His spirit in every human being's soul which, however, is sufficient to let a fire of love arise in you if only the necessary nourishment is given to it, if the human being complies with every inner impulse and practices love .... for this divine spark impels the human being from within, yet initially only so quietly that it is hardly felt but nevertheless induces the willing person to comply with the urging .... And now the soul awakens to life .... because love is a strength which tolerates nothing dead around it, which gives life to everything and which will also defeat everything that opposes it. A person who always cultivates love will also feel all inner weakness disappear because the strength of love now flows through him .... because there is nothing divine which is powerless or could leave a weakness behind, and because love is divine, because it is the emanation of God .... because it is God's fundamental substance, Who is also strength in Himself in the original form. This is how you attain life, because you draw strength 'directly from God' as soon as you live a life of love .... And this is your task on earth and also your final aim, to enter into union with God through a life of love, thus to return of your own free will to where you started from. The fact that you are able to do so is an unusual gift of grace, because despite your former resistance to His strength of love God nevertheless gives you a spark of this strength as soon as you enter earthly existence as a human being .... But you yourselves must let the fire flare up within you, you must not let this spark of love fade away, you must not spill it, for that would be your death, for then you would deprive yourselves of all life and you cannot be prevented from doing so because you have free will. Every possibility will be opened up for you to regain the life you once lost; yet free will will not be taken away from you and this alone determines what you do with the divine spark of love .... Every person is urged from within to work with love, but if he does not comply with this urge then the voice will become ever softer and finally fade away completely unheard .... And then there is a danger that the human being will completely lose himself, that he will completely fall prey to death again, even though God will touch him again and again and again creates opportunities from outside which could stimulate his will to love in him .... For God courts every person's soul until death, for He does not want it to fall prey to death, He wants it to live .... But He leaves free will to the human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love-light: knowledge of the truth ....

B.D. 6499 from March 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

You will never succeed in attaining the right realisation as long as you are still without love. For only the light of love within you makes you capable of right judgement, because then your thinking will be enlightened, because then you will be unable to think other than right and thus also immediately recognize what is wrong. And thus people who are willing to love will always live in truth and feel an inner resistance as soon as something wrong is presented to them. But it will also be a futile effort of love to try to convey the truth to a person who is completely without love. He will oppose it just as vehemently because his thinking is still under the influence of the one who is against the truth, who will constantly fight against the truth because it exposes him and his doings. Therefore truth cannot find entrance with an unkind humanity, on the contrary, error will be represented there, and no-one will try to free himself from error as long as he himself is of an unkind heart. As soon as a person practices love from within, as soon as his nature itself is love and radiates love, he will never profess error, for the love within him warns him against it .... He will first fall into doubt and always feel more resistance against a teaching which does not correspond to the truth .... And he will also muster the strength to openly take a stand for or against a teaching, because this strength fills him with love at the same time and because he is now driven from within by his spirit to advocate the truth and challenge the error. A love-filled person does not remain silent in the face of an open untruth, and he will also not seemingly acknowledge something that is obviously directed against the truth. But the fact that people remain silent, that so much error has found its way into people's lives without being rejected, is only proof that love has also grown cold among people, which is the surest defence against lies and error. And although again and again individual people recognize this, although they think correctly as a result of their life of love, the majority of people are nevertheless completely ignorant of the truth and feel comfortable with it .... And if love is preached to them they close their hearts and ears and it remains dark in them, precisely because without love there can be no light .... But truth is light .... love is light .... and anyone who wants to walk in the light must first shape himself into love, but then he will also realize that only one path leads back into the father's house, into the eternal home .... the path of love, because this is also the path of truth. But anyone who has taken this path will continue to walk it cheerfully, for him there is no hesitation and hesitancy, for him there are no doubts and discouragement, for the strength of love constantly drives him upwards and he takes all obstacles in his stride. Anyone who has found the truth has also found Me Myself, and I am and remain the aim for him towards which he strives .... But I can never be reached without love, the path never leads upwards via error, the truth can never be recognized by a person who is devoid of all love. But I always want to help you all to reach the ascent, and therefore you are constantly admonished to work with love, you are directly addressed by preachers, but I also seek the ice through adversity around you in order to melt your hearts .... For as long as love has grown cold amongst you humans you go through earthly life completely useless, you live it in vain, as it were, without achieving the slightest progress, because you lack the most important thing in earthly life .... the fire of love which enlightens your spirit, which warms your heart, which gives you strength to overcome all opposition .... But it is not yet too late to ignite the spark in you, and I help everyone who is willing to come to the right realization .... For My love does not give up on you, My love shines on you again and again, My love sends light bearers amongst you who admonish and warn you and lovingly offer you the light, for you will not be left without help, I will court you and your love until your death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's protection to the servants and employees ....

B.D. 6500 from March 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Whatever may happen, I will visibly stand by My servants, after all, they will have to accomplish a task in the forthcoming time which requires a special willingness and aptitude which not all people can muster for an activity for Me and My kingdom. It is an immensely significant mission to serve as a mouthpiece at a time when it is hardly possible for Me to express Myself to people .... Only a few people give themselves to Me of their own free will and serve Me, i.e. they willingly do what I need them to do at the moment. And the most important thing is that people hear from Me what they should do, that they know about My will and that this knowledge is conveyed to them by people who have received it directly from Me. They no longer recognize the usual way of proclaiming My gospel, of conveying My will, and only few accept My word there .... But I also want to address the people who do not present themselves where My word is offered to them .... I also want to touch their hearts and therefore need people who lend Me their mouth through which I can then speak to them. But I rarely find such willing servants .... But anyone who has once offered himself to Me for service is such a welcome co-worker that I will also smooth his path through life, that I will truly not miss his cooperation, that I will protect him spiritually and earthly so that he can conscientiously fulfil his task for Me .... And therefore I will do everything to keep him for this service to his fellow human beings, I will obviously support him in every adversity and danger, I will also resort to unusual means of help if such are necessary, but I will not do without his help because I need everyone in the last days who wants to be active for Me. Only a few people make themselves available to Me for work which applies to people's salvation, for work which means helping to redeem erring souls on earth and also in the beyond, because only a few people have such a living faith that the spiritual kingdom appears more real to them than the earthly kingdom .... that they are therefore only active for the kingdom which is their true home .... Only a few people believe so confidently that they only arrange their lives for the real kingdom, which is not of this world .... And of these few again only a few are willing to consciously help to attain that kingdom. The earthly world touches all people far more, for what the earthly world offers they can pursue, whereas spiritual achievements are not visible and tangible to them and therefore are also rarely only aspired to. And if a person has recognized the true value and the worthlessness of the spiritual and the earthly kingdom and in this realization has offered himself to Me for My service I will also make use of his will and his strength, which he is willing to use for the salvation of people's souls on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond. Unless I have an even greater task ready for him in the spiritual kingdom, where services can also be rendered to Me as long as the battle between light and darkness still lasts. But first the earth is the aim of My concern, for it will soon have ceased to exist and the short time of grace until the end still has to be utilized, much work still has to be done on earth, for which I need eager servants and therefore also grant them every protection so that their work for Me and My kingdom will not be impaired but will result in the greatest success ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Signs and indications pointing to the end ....

B.D. 6501 from March 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Unmistakable signs will announce the near end to you, yet they will only ever be recognised by those who believe, for all others will explain them as natural occurrences and ridicule those who attach a deeper significance to them. But they will nevertheless be noticed by people and everyone can form their own opinion according to their will. However, the fact that your attention will be drawn to this is a special grace, for it enables you to prepare yourselves and work more eagerly at improving yourselves, because these signs are a serious admonition for those of you who believe. These are still final times of grace which may be experienced by every person in order to successfully conclude their path of earthly life if they are used correctly. But the unbelievers, who spend their days indifferently, will be surprised by the end and their souls will experience the end in an immature state. For this end will come without fail .... If you humans are therefore constantly admonished and reminded of the end, then these, too, are blessings which you should pay attention to, which you should utilise for your soul's salvation, for God Himself approaches you with such indication, but they can only ever occur in a way that you will keep your free will .... that it will be left up to each individual person to expect or not to expect an end. But those who believe anyway will have a considerable advantage, for they will also live accordingly, they will make an effort to live in accordance with God's will and become fully mature by the end .... Nevertheless, only very few will have a fully convinced faith, for the announced event will be too huge, no-one will be able to imagine such an event and which, for as long as people populated the earth, has never before happened either, for the end of all previous redemption periods proceeded differently, it will never happen in the same way again, and no evidence as to how such a process of disintegration of creations has taken place will ever exist. Yet the Word of God is truth, and God has at all times spoken through seers and prophets and announced the forthcoming happening, He just did not state a date, for this reason people will always doubt all proclamations of this kind. But those who believe can be called blessed .... Not much time will pass anymore before the earth enters a different phase of development and a new period will start under entirely different prerequisites and living conditions, for the people of this period will have reached a degree of maturity which will also require different living conditions and tasks in order to conclude the process of development. You can take it for granted that your natural life is limited, that many will be unable to complete their normal life span on earth but that they will be recalled prematurely or still experience the forthcoming end in early life, although only hints can be given without any evidence .... for the sake of your free will ....

However, take these indications seriously and you will not regret it .... live today as if it were your last day, for the world can only offer you worthless goods which you cannot take along into eternity. Yet a right way of life according to God's will can still increase your spiritual possessions to such an extent that the end of this earth will merely open the gate to eternity for you which you subsequently will be able to enter with a rich blessing of treasures .... It will not cause you any kind of harm if you are more likely to take an end into account than a long life time on earth, for you will learn to live consciously on earth, you will think about eternity, about God and His kingdom, and you will always strive towards perfection .... You will not have much time left, therefore you should make full use of it and the benefit will not fail to materialise .... This is why the indications are constantly given to you, so that you will consider the end and live your life on earth accordingly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of the will in freedom .... God's assistance ....

B.D. 6502 from March 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Everything will be given to you which will help your soul to mature if only you strive to attain perfection on earth. Every person who musters the will to shape himself in earthly life as it is My will, every person who has recognized My will and makes it his own will, will also have all means of help at his disposal, for this will alone is enough for Me to assist him in every way. And thus you see from this how little I require of you in order to be able to work on yourselves; yet this assistance is never possible as long as you yourselves are still completely uninterested in what will become of you one day, as long as you still have no clarity within yourselves about the purpose of your earthly life .... as long as you evaluate this earthly life alone but do not try to fathom the cause and purpose of it. Often it only needs a little push, a hint at the actual purpose of earthly life, a hint at life after death, a directing of thoughts to the being Who created you .... that the human being now becomes thoughtful and wants to hand himself over to this being for further guidance .... And then I can already take hold of him and guide his further steps .... and they will certainly lead to the aim, to union with Me. And he will visibly experience My guidance, he will penetrate a knowledge which will push him ever more towards Me. I will not withhold anything from him which is useful for his further development, and his thinking will always be spiritually directed so that he will also arrange his whole life accordingly, so that his life will be determined by the will to live to please Me. I will not leave anyone without guidance who has once entrusted himself to Me, who once recognized and acknowledged Me and is willing to belong to My own, whom I also want to take care of like a father .... But I must first recognize this will. The human being must voluntarily return to Me because he once voluntarily separated himself from Me .... As long as this voluntary return to Me has not yet taken place, all My servants' efforts, all instructions and references to Me will also be unsuccessful, for the inner impulse towards the being Which created him has to be awakened by himself, and as long as it has not yet awakened in him he will still be influenced by My adversary, who seeks to chase away these very thoughts in him but cannot force him to listen to him. For this reason, despite resistance, people shall be informed of a loving God.... of a God to Whom every being belongs and with Whom every being can closely unite if only it wants to .... For the knowledge of this loving being can already change the will and turn it towards that being .... even though it does not force acceptance. The will is and remains the being's freest matter, and as the will is, so is its earthly path, its success and its fate in eternity. And that is why the fellow human being has a great obligation and also a great influence, because if he is convinced himself he can transfer his conviction to his fellow human being in the most natural way .... because therefore a person who possesses knowledge can also impart his knowledge to his fellow human being, for he will always do it in a way which does not signify compulsion but can nevertheless be successful. The recognizing human being already draws the strength from Me which enables him to pass on his knowledge, and I also provide him with many more aids. For no person need remain in darkness who strives towards the light. But anyone who prefers darkness still completely belongs to My adversary, and I must also let him walk his earthly path until he once comes to realize it himself. But every person can desire light and truth, which will then certainly be imparted to him; but to remain in darkness also means to still completely belong to the one who is lord of this darkness and who wants to keep all souls under his control .... but who has no power to prevent the one who seeks the light .... For he cannot determine the will, it must decide for itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Protective spirit in life ....

B.D. 6503 from March 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Every soul is given a guardian spirit which guides it from the beginning of earthly life until death. Yet this guardian spirit must also respect the human being's free will, otherwise there would be no question that the human being would reach his aim; but he does everything in order to influence the soul such that it strives upwards. But where the resistance is still too great he must limit himself to warding off dishonest spiritual beings so that they do not take possession of the human being, for he is allowed to place himself between these spiritual beings and the human being as long as the human being himself does not desire them, i.e. as long as he does not awaken unusual vices and desires in himself which then enable those spirits to enter him. The guardian spirits therefore always endeavour to soothe the soul in order to protect it from these evil spirits; furthermore, they always try to stimulate the human being spiritually, they influence the human being in such a way that the good instincts in him are appealed to, that the human being is prompted to think about himself .... The guardian spirits try everything to guide the human being spiritually and therefore also often prevent the fulfilment of earthly wishes, and it is they who sometimes intervene in a disruptive way when the human being is in danger of losing himself earthly, and who create every opportunity to establish spiritual contact, be it with the spiritual world or also with earthly people who strive spiritually .... They will always try to spiritually direct people's thinking because they recognize what the human being lacks and are extremely anxious to guide them to the aim while they are still on earth. If the guardian spirits succeed in spiritually directing the human being's senses for the time being, then they will create many opportunities for the soul to test and perfect itself, they will also promote suitable bonds between people, for they know how they will react to each other, and they can also foresee the successes and shape their charges' lives in accordance with them. For they are of God-like will, they only act on His behalf, enlightened by Him and filled with His strength. And thus no human being goes through earthly life without protection or guidance, all people have guides at their side, they just must not resist, i.e., they must be willing to let themselves be guided by them, which they express through prayer .... through the conscious appeal to God for His protection and grace and through the will to do what is the purpose of earthly existence .... Then he can unhesitatingly hand himself over to the guidance of spiritual beings and his thinking, wanting and acting will be right. But the guardian spirits are also at the side of those who do not yet recognize God .... only it is considerably more difficult for them to gain influence, but they will not give up their charges until the hour of death .... For the human being himself is too weak and would fail if he were not given spiritual support. The human being is a child of the world because he is a child of the one to whom the world belongs .... and the human being's desire for the world will always predominate, and his earthly progress would be unsuccessful if his guardian spirit did not also occasionally push itself forward and express itself, which is always the case when the human being becomes thoughtful, when the world does not satisfy him, then he will be addressed by that guardian spirit which follows the human being's every thought and immediately intervenes when it recognizes an opportunity. And his influence will consist of presenting the goods of the world to the human being as worthless and making spiritual goods desirable to him .... If he succeeds in this, then the human being will turn away from the world more and more; but if his resistance is still too great, the human being will unwillingly reject such thoughts and turn to the world again. But the inner urge of the guardian spirit does not abate, and again and again opportunities arise where it can emerge and express itself. And the spiritual beings are overjoyed when they succeed in changing a person .... when they turn away from the world and towards the spiritual kingdom. Then they will work on him with increased strength and an increased will to love, then the human being will be surrounded by beings of light and all dishonest spiritual substances will be displaced from him, and then there will also be the prospect that the human being will still perfect himself on earth, for the influence of the world of light will now be ever stronger and all resistance on the part of the human being will be broken, and this signifies complete devotion to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fight or serve ....

B.D. 6504 from March 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

There can be no upward development without struggle unless love is kindled into such ardour that the human being now serves with love and then fighting is no longer necessary. But as long as the will to love is still weak the human being will have to fight with himself, with his desires and vices, for self-love is still too strong and defeating it requires a hard battle. And this is the conscious work of the soul which the human being should accomplish during earthly life .... As soon as he has reached a high degree of love all self-love in the human being is suffocated and he will only be devoted to his fellow human beings, he will serve in truth because love drives him to it .... But he will feel happy in this serving love .... As long as selfish love still dominates a person, it is difficult for him to understand that serving neighbourly love could make him happy, because he only ever wants to claim for himself what unselfish neighbourly love, however, voluntarily gives away .... But the human being's feelings and thoughts change when he has given up his self-love .... He now recognizes inner happiness in works of neighbourly love, it drives him to intervene in a helping way; the love in him is the driving force which he cannot resist, and all struggle with himself, with cravings and vices has come to an end and he will only ever work on himself in order to still discard all faults and vices which restrict the degree of love .... And he will also achieve it because the divine principle of love now prevails and because he will always be less oppressed by the forces which are without love .... which is why he now no longer needs to fight against the forces either, for his love repels them .... Fight or serve .... Only in this way can you develop yourselves upwards, yet this always requires your free will, for as soon as this is not ready you will succumb in the battle and increasingly deepen your selfish love, and then the adversary will have an easy game, then the ruling-willing principle will strengthen in you, you will take advantage of your fellow human beings and deny them all service of love, you will make yourselves a useful tool of God's adversary but never ascend .... You must not abandon yourselves to this adversary without a fight, nor will you ever be without strength if you sincerely want to defeat him, to defeat your own cravings and weaknesses, for this strength will come to you with an earnest will to achieve victory .... And then opportunities will present themselves to you where your helpful assistance is required, and once you have only practiced giving love without having a selfish thought, then you will also feel the inner happiness which is triggered by such an act of love .... All self-love is a part of your soul's enemy, and therefore seek to remove it from you, free yourselves from everything that still belongs to him, let pure divine love flare up in you which will make you far more happy than what you strive to attain in self-love .... Fight against all cravings within yourselves and perform voluntary services of love .... This must be said to you again and again so that you will successfully leave earthly life, so that your souls will mature for the spiritual kingdom, where only what they have done on earth in works of love will be valued .... And if it failed on earth it must try to achieve the degree of love in the beyond which will earn it beatitude, but this will be extremely difficult because it lacks the strength for loving activity which was abundantly available to it on earth, because then it will need much support and loving intercession which will earn it an influx of strength .... And if it then uses this unselfishly by helping the unfortunate, then it will also ascend, then it will no longer need to fight because it will serve with love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers