New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6505 - 6589

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

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

6505 - Serious admonition from God to His servants.... World affairs....

6506 - Faith without love is dead....

6507 - Vital energy.... Love power....

6508 - Surrender to Jesus.... Saviour and Physician.... Redeemer....

6509 - The soul, a miniature creation.... Retrospection....

6510 - Voluntary surrender to God is His desire....

6511 - Knocking at the door of the heart.... Love condition for acceptance....

6512 - Way to the cross over Golgotha....

6513 - Atonement of guilt through Jesus Christ....

6514 - Resurrection into life....

6515 - Attaining childship to God.... Opportunities for maturation....

6516 - Hunger for the world.... Revival.... Lightbearers....

6517 - Loving help.... Free decision of the individual....

6518 - Last resort to save before the end....

6519 - Earthly science and spiritual knowledge....

6520 - Conveying the truth.... Exchange of light and power....

6521 - Benefiting from the graces of the work of redemption....

6522 - Process of maturing.... Limited and unlimited bliss....

6523 - Right childlike relationship.... "If you do not become like children.... "

6524 - Earthly work and toil before the end....

6525 - Spiritual working of love.... Need of the soul....

6526 - Battle of the dark forces against the truth....

6527 - The adversary's attempts to slip in....

6528 - God's word - Elixir of life.... Death and life....

6529 - Spiritual and earthly change close at hand....

6530 - Right will recognises origin of word....

6531 - Descent into hell.... Lucifer's opposition....

6532 - God's work through His instruments....

6533 - Work of the spirit....

6534 - Lightbearers.... Worldly-minded people....

6535 - Right use of vital energy....

6536 - Souls in the beyond pay attention to every spiritual work....

6537 - Unquestioning faith earns the human being overabundant strength....

6538 - Battle of faith.... Hostilities.... Antichrist....

6539 - Lightbearers and their task.... Divine gift of grace....

6540 - God's guidance and surrender of will....

6541 - The sleep of the soul.... Misguided teaching....

6542 - Right vineyard labour: Proclaiming the gospel....

6543 - Descent into hell....

6544 - Reason of the knowledge of the last course of development....

6545 - Spiritual strivers are particularly harassed....

6546 - Sacrificial death of Jesus....

6547 - Mere conformists will be unsuccessful....

6548 - Outpouring of the spirit presupposes redemption....

6549 - The path to the eternal home....

6550 - God's infinite love.... Eternal damnation....

6551 - Striving for spiritual gifts.... Characteristic of the church of Christ....

6552 - Revelation of the divine will.... Truth....

6553 - Connection with God: Loving activity....

6554 - Jesus' forerunner....

6555 - Eternal cycle.... Creative power reservoir....

6556 - The world poses great dangers....

6557 - Transformation of nature.... Fighting against perverted love....

6558 - Humility – truth.... Arrogance – error....

6559 - Correct proclamation of the Word.... God’s presence....

6560 - All-powerfulness of the divine light of love is contained....

6561 - Earth, a paradise....

6562 - Path to the cross.... Following Jesus....

6563 - God wants to give life to the dead....

6564 - Convinced word proclamation....

6565 - "He who believes in Me.... " Love works....

6566 - God's permission.... Protection against evil....

6567 - Redemptive work in the spiritual realm....

6568 - Jesus Christ strength giver and guide....

6569 - Granting prayers.... Faith....

6570 - 'My sheep recognise My voice....'

6571 - Death or life.... Overcoming the world....

6572 - God's infinite love and patience....

6573 - God reveals Himself in the Word....

6574 - Earthly advancement.... Spiritual decay....

6575 - Union of the spiritual spark with the Father-Spirit.... Jesus....

6576 - "You can only be saved by grace.... " Streams of grace....

6577 - Loving intercession for worldly-minded people....

6578 - God's love plan.... World destruction....

6579 - 'No one comes to the Father....'

6580 - The true peace....

6581 - Stream of grace or great need through natural events....

6582 - Intercession for fellow human beings....

6583 - "My yoke is easy.... " "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence.... "

6584 - Fulfilment of the promise of Jesus....

6585 - Voice of conscience....

6586 - Reason of the enlightenment on the plan of salvation and the purpose of life on earth....

6587 - Prophetic gift.... A spiritual gift which demands action....

6588 - Logical reasons for world events....

6589 - Fit teachers.... Dead proclaimers....

Serious admonition from God to His servants .... World affairs ....

B.D. 6505 from March 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I address the following words to all My co-workers: The service for Me and My kingdom requires much love for Me and for the neighbour, for it will not be easy in the time to come. You will obviously be hindered by earthly influences as well as by spiritual conflicts you get into due to world events. And precisely then it is particularly necessary to join Me and take care of your fellow human beings who are in distress due to world events and who are completely helpless without faith. Then you must point out to them the One Who can help them and wants to help them .... Then you should only ever mention Me, and therefore you must first be so intimately united with Me that you are inwardly driven to speak on My behalf. I predict that you yourselves will weaken in view of what threatens you, but you can overcome this weakness through intimate union with Me. Then do not let yourselves be pushed away from Me by world affairs .... I seriously address this admonition to you, for you can only be strong and fulfil your task in union with Me: .... to also transfer your strength to your fellow human being whom you can help to believe and thereby also ease his situation. Love for Me and love for your neighbour will carry you through all difficulties, and the more you become immersed in My word, the more your senses are directed spiritually, the less you will be affected by all earthly experiences and the stronger will be your support for Me and My kingdom .... I alone am the point of rest, all strength comes from Me alone, and I alone can also direct the earthly events around you in such a manner that you will remain less affected by them, but this presupposes intimate union with Me, otherwise My radiation of love will remain ineffective because you shut your hearts to it the more you are captivated by the earthly world, the more you distance yourselves from spirituality. For there will be great confusion amongst people and all thoughts will only be preoccupied with world affairs, and then there is the danger that the spiritual bond will be interrupted, that the world will stand between Me and you and that it will then take you captive .... Whatever may come, do not let yourselves be frightened but always feel safe in My love .... stick to Me so that I can always be present to you, and you will then be protected from all adversity. As soon as you loosen your bond with Me you will be in danger .... Therefore, I earnestly admonish you to always carry Me in your heart and to strengthen the bond through loving activity towards your neighbour .... Always consider yourselves My supports in the last time before the end, whose cooperation I need but which can only be achieved in union with Me .... And only ever look at world events from the point of view that everything has to happen in order to carry out the last purification on this earth, that nothing happens without My will or My permission .... but only those people will emerge unscathed who do not relinquish their spiritual bond with Me .... who do not see any danger for themselves even in the most exciting world events because they are completely devoted to Me and therefore also enjoy My fatherly protection. I urgently admonish you, My servants on earth, to only draw all strength for earthly life from Me, not to start anything without having requested My support, My blessing, and to trustingly hand yourselves over to My guidance. Only the intimate bond with Me can strengthen you in the time to come, and only love for Me and for your neighbour will lift you above all oppression that will still come upon the earth through human will .... These are the storms which will still roar over the earth before the end but which cannot knock you down as long as you remain united with Me through love and prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Faith without love is dead ....

B.D. 6506 from March 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Living faith alone opens the kingdom of heaven for you .... And only a few people have this living faith, because it requires a life of love. You first must understand the term 'faith': You can certainly affirm a doctrine in order not to contradict it, you can even inwardly believe this doctrine to be possible, but the firm conviction is not yet within you, and then it is not a living faith either, the faith which helps you to be saved .... And thus faith in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation can only be addressed as 'faith' when the human being is inwardly fully convinced that God Himself came to earth in Jesus in order to suffer and die for people, in order to redeem people's sinfulness, thus to redeem them .... And this inner conviction will only be in the human being when love is also in him .... when he shows love towards God and the human being, thus having awakened faith within himself through this love. Precisely this difference between a living faith and a formal faith is so tremendously important because Jesus Christ Himself said: "He who believes in Me shall live for ever..." With these words, however, He never meant a shallow formal faith, the acceptance of a teaching without contradiction, but also without inner conviction. For the right faith in Jesus Christ brings about a change in the way of life, a self-transformation into love, and love brightens the spirit which now gives the human being such a clear knowledge about the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ that no doubt, no indifference, and no dead faith will find room in him anymore, but everything will gain life and a relationship will be established between the human being and the divine Saviour and Father from eternity which will also guarantee entry into the kingdom of light after the body's passing away .... A dead faith can never replace love, which alone is valued in the spiritual kingdom .... And thus no person can acquire the kingdom of heaven who lacks love either. When Jesus Christ promises life to people who believe in Him, He presupposes love, which is what makes faith come to life in the first place, for Jesus did not speak of a dead faith, because all His words were only truth and life and His words never concealed a false meaning .... a meaning which people made up for themselves as it suited them .... Jesus spoke only of living faith .... But what people often call by the word 'faith' are rather empty phrases, they are acquired terms, ceremonies that have become a habit, which Jesus Christ does not allow to suffice Himself in order to make people happy with eternal life .... Yet it is already a considerable advantage for the soul if it is not an opponent of Jesus Christ, if it did not openly reject Him on earth, for then its thoughts can at least be directed towards the One Who can open the gates for it if it turns to Him in complete trust .... even though it can take endless periods of time until it sends this living call to Him .... But it will only attain 'life' in the kingdom of the beyond through loving activity, which it can then exercise on unhappy souls who, like itself, are dead in spirit. A life in the spiritual kingdom requires love, and where love is already practised on earth faith in Jesus Christ is also a living one, and this faith is therefore the guarantee for 'life in eternity' .... as Jesus Himself promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Vital energy .... Love power ....

B.D. 6507 from March 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is a law that cannot be overturned eternally, that love is the power which brings everything into being, sustains everything and always has a constructive and beneficial effect .... just as, conversely, a lack of love always leads to a state of death, to the dissolution and degradation of spiritual abilities, and a chaotic state is the result .... Where progress is to be recorded, be it in nature or spiritually, love must always be at work, for without strength there is no emergence and existence, without strength there is no ascent .... And the power is and always remains only love. However, this only ever refers to everything that is spiritually significant, but which also includes the entire material creation .... The vital energy which is available to every human being for the duration of his earthly life is also sufficient for earthly construction, for earthly progress .... This vital energy can also be used without love. But then it will only ever create transient values, it will strive for transient goals and, as it were, be wasted completely uselessly, for it is given to the human being so that he may perform works of love and thereby acquire spiritual strength: .... this very power of love which is able to create the unimaginable. But the human being does not value and use the power of love and therefore does not acquire it either, whereas he often tries to use the vital energy excessively by ruining his body in order to gain treasures which are completely worthless for his soul but which are misjudged by the body .... The power of love alone masters everything and accomplishes everything, for it is of divine origin .... Everything God created came into being from His power of love. And you humans once possessed the same power when you emerged from His hand as spiritual beings. However, you voluntarily relinquished this power, you no longer embraced it when you voluntarily parted with God. But you can take possession of it again at any time, only your will must be willing to do so. And you declare this willingness through conscious activity of love .... Then you will make use of the power of love from God again, then it will flow through you as it once did, and then you will also be able to work what seems impossible. But then there can be no more decay, then there can be no more disorder, then only constant building up and progress is recognizable, then your being is again as it once was: divine, i.e. full of love power .... Your vitality, on the other hand, constantly decreases as you approach the end of your body .... This decrease, however, is completely insignificant if you have utilised it for constant love activity, for then you are filled with love power which is capable of far more than just vital energy .... This is why you can do nothing better on earth than to only ever carry out works of love and enrich your strength, and then you will be truly wise .... you use the 'pound' you have been given, you are faithful stewards of the good .... of your vital energy .... by acquiring spiritual possessions with it. Where love is disregarded there is barren land, nothing can flourish there because the all-animating power is missing. But you humans only ever look at the earthly achievements which are apparent to you .... and you do not know how spiritually barren you are if you do not allow the power of love to work in you, if you only do what you use your vital energy for .... They are only formations in the air which you make arise with this strength without love, which perish with the death of the body and leave you in a barren region devoid of all life .... whereas a loving human being can create the most wonderful regions for himself which are everlasting because the power of love makes them arise, which knows no limitation, to which everything is possible because it is the original vital force which has its origin in God Himself, Who is love in Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Surrender to Jesus .... Saviour and Physician .... Redeemer ....

B.D. 6508 from March 22nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Your burden of sin due to your past apostasy from Me has turned you into imperfect and therefore unhappy beings which can only be completely happy again when they are released from their great guilt of sin, when they have atoned it themselves as far as it was possible during the time prior to their embodiment, and when they subsequently allow themselves to be redeemed by Jesus Christ, that I therefore can erase all guilt because they have handed themselves over to the divine Redeem Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself on earth .... For then they will return to Me again, from Whom they once had distanced themselves .... Then they will voluntarily acknowledge Me as their God and Father of eternity .... And then they will also be infinitely happy as they were in the beginning .... Hence I require you to surrender to Jesus Christ, for your dedication to Him also demonstrates your will to return to Me. But do you humans serious about taking refuge under the cross and receiving forgiveness for your sins? Are you approaching Him, Who is your Saviour, your Redeemer and your Brother, with absolute faith? Do you in all honesty want to make use of His grace which He had acquired for you on the cross? Do you speak words in spirit and in truth? Or are they just empty phrases when you profess Him?

He is truly your Saviour and Physician, He is the Redeemer from sin and death, He is the vessel which carried Me, and thus His might and strength was limitless .... And this man Jesus is and will remain the Eternal Deity, for I chose Him to enable Me becoming a visible God for you since I Am but Spirit from everlasting to everlasting. And if you call upon Him you call upon Me .... And I listen and will grant your request, since I gave you the promise through Jesus Christ 'Whatever you will ask in My name, that will I do ....' Trust these Words with complete faith and don't hesitate to commend yourselves to your Saviour and Redeemer, so that I can give you the evidence that I will keep My Word .... You must always remember that I give you the occasion for every prayer in spirit and in truth Myself, that I want you to come to Me in every adversity of body and soul .... And thus take this step to Me, consider My Words, let them penetrate them deeply into your heart and believe without doubt, for My promises are truth, but you determine their fulfilment yourselves.

I carried all your sins on your behalf, I took upon Myself all suffering and adversity which you would have had to carry as penance for your original sin .... And every person's life can be free of worry and suffering if he hands his sin over to Me Myself, that I might also have carried his guilt on his behalf. Yet he must pray with absolute faith, he must know that I don't want people to suffer .... but that I cannot avert his suffering contrary to My eternal order if his faith is still so feeble that his call won't reach My ear, if he still doubts My love or My might .... I can help all people and want to help all people. And if your faith is a living one then make use of My assurance and hand yourselves over to Me .... You first requirement is a living faith in My act of Salvation, you have to be convinced that I have carried all your sins, that I have taken all your suffering upon Myself and died on the cross so that you can be free of them. Only then will all your doubt disappear, only then will you entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith, and only then can I take your suffering from you and redeem you from sin and death. For only then will you have accomplished your return to Me, only then will you acknowledge Me in spirit and in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The soul, a miniature creation .... Retrospection ....

B.D. 6509 from March 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The world carries countless living creations which are all on the path of ascent and need the most diverse creations which suit their state of maturity .... Hence the earthly-material creations are the abode of untold soul-substances which belong to a once fallen original spirit but which exists in such a variety of external forms that effectively every work of creation carries a tiny particle of a once fallen original soul and which will come together again one day .... but then this original soul incorporates everything that exists in the whole of creation. In the final stage of its developing process this original soul embodies itself in a human being, in the earthly external form which is suitable to enable the soul to pass its final test of will, in order to then enter into the spiritual realm as a spirit of light again and to be inconceivably happy in its original state full of light and strength .... However, since the soul carries all creatures within itself it is, in its state of perfection, naturally also interested in all these creations, because it now has recollection and can experience its process of development retrospectively and assist the still struggling spiritual substances within the same forms to release themselves by fulfilling the divine will, because these spiritual substances accomplish their assigned activity in the law of compulsion. The perfect soul is extraordinarily happy in the contemplation of its countless components, because it beholds the entire creation and can, in a manner of speaking, participate in its emergence and preservation. However, it takes an infinitely long time until an original soul has attained this perfection and yet, it is aware of its countless previous forms, and in the process of contemplating itself it is filled by inconceivable bliss of knowing itself as a creator of countless forms, which it is allowed to recreate after the image within itself in order to help the still unredeemed tiny particles of other original souls take the path of ascent .... In order to be able to perform this creative activity it has to be brightly enlightened and receive unlimited strength, but the bliss of creating in conformity with divine will stirs a perfected soul into constant activity, and God assigns this task to such souls in order to make them happy. However, it always has to have within itself whatever it intends to create .... The immense number of fallen original spirits will still need earthly and spiritual creations for eternities, and the will to help all these fallen spirits attain beatitude delights every perfect being and inspires it to such versatile activity as works of creations exist .... because everything that exists in the universe is also present in every soul. Therefore it cannot but keep looking back at the individual phases of development, in order to then, with ever increasing happiness, be creatively active. And what once had been agonising and insufferable is now recognised by the soul to be beneficial and necessary, and although it now places immature spiritual substances into such creations it does so with profound love for God and the still unredeemed original spirit, looking after the individual tiny particles with untiring patience and love and guiding them step by step on the path of ascent ....

This is God's plan in which perfect beings participate .... No being evades this task because every being is permeated by love for God and the still unredeemed spirits and because love always wants to confer pleasure, to the still unredeemed as well as to God, Whose beatitude rests in the return of all spirits to Him .... Nevertheless, it will take eternities and time and again new creations. And all these creations are God's will implemented by the beings of light which are able to do so because they know everything, because every being of light is a perfected creation, because all of God's ideas are present in every enlightened soul .... and because in its God-inclined will it is also capable of being creative thanks to the abundant strength at its disposal. Countless celestial worlds are thus creatively supported by the beings of light to whom these worlds are entrusted, but always according to divine will, on account of which different life forms exist on every work of creation, depending on the spirits' degree of maturity, but nothing exists in the whole of Creation which is not present within a perfected soul. And thus the human being is in fact already a miniature creation of the great universal man; it is a matchless wonder for a soul with spiritual vision, which will never cease contemplating itself .... Therefore it will also constantly work and create in eternity, because it is inspired by the forms it beholds within itself to create them again in order to animate them with the countless tiny particles which still need to be redeemed .... However, this redemptive work can only be accomplished by a perfect being, but it is so incomparably enjoyable that for this reason alone a complete redemption of all once fallen spirits will take place, because the further the process of redemption advances the more souls will carry out this redemptive work. Even so, it will still take eternities .... which is explained by the number of fallen original spirits and their often infinitely long time of resistance, since time and again free will is the decisive factor, which must not be forgotten. However, for the blessed beings time is no longer of the essence, with the Lord a thousand years are as one day .... it is only an infinitely long time for the imperfect spiritual being, but even this soul will reach the state of light and beatitude one day .... And then the retrospection of its path of development will only be a wonderful surprise, an admiration of all that which the soul had to go through .... Then it will no longer know suffering and agony but only praise and gratitude for the might and love and glory of God, its Creator and Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Voluntary surrender to God is His desire ....

B.D. 6510 from March 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything will be a blessing for you if you submit to My will and desire My blessing .... Then you will be unable to do anything but what is right, because now My will is also in you as soon as you have voluntarily handed yourselves over to Me .... And now you will also understand why I demand a close bond between you and Me, otherwise this heartfelt devotion cannot take place, which is now the guarantee for right thinking and right wanting and acting .... Anyone who has found the path to Me need no longer be afraid of getting lost, for he will now always be accompanied by forces of light which I Myself have allowed to guide and protect you against all attacks, to which you will indeed always be exposed because My adversary will not give up fighting for you until death .... But you are now in safe protection, for anyone who has handed himself over to Me I will never let fall into his hands again. You humans do not know how rich you are who voluntarily hand yourselves over to Me .... for you have won My love which, although it always and forever is to every one of My living creations, can now really take effect on you through your voluntary surrender, which, admittedly, only your soul actually feels, for it feels the power flowing towards it, it unfolds and matures, it pushes ever more towards Me and can now be eternally assured of My presence .... For My love also kindles a bright flame of love in it, and then the union can really take place which cannot be loosened anymore. If only all of you humans would want to unite with Me in convinced faith in Me .... if only you would voluntarily take the path to Me, have a heartfelt conversation with Me in your thoughts and then willingly hand yourselves over to the God and Creator you have recognised, so that He will guide your further earthly path according to His will .... You have no idea what you can gain by this .... For this is already the passed test of will that you voluntarily turn to Me again, from Whom you once turned away. Many people certainly acknowledge Me as God and Creator from eternity but they are still so far away from Me and make no attempt to approach Me .... They may fear Me but they do not love Me and therefore do not entrust themselves to Me either. First the great distance from Me must be reduced, it must be bridged, the creature must come close to Me or at least have the will to be closer to Me .... One day it must enter into living contact with Me and it will never ever have to regret this, for only then I Myself can work on it if it voluntarily turns to Me for help, guidance, or enlightenment .... For I will truly hear such requests .... But I cannot work on people who are still completely indifferent towards Me, even though they believe that there is a God Who is the Creator and Sustainer of all things .... This God wants to be a Father to His children, He wants to possess their love, their trust, and their will in order to then definitely lead them and draw them to Himself, to the true home, to the Father's house. Only when the inner surrender to Me has taken place does the human being live his earthly life consciously, and he can live it in firm belief that he will reach his goal, for I now guide his ways, I direct his thoughts right, I urge him to be lovingly active and constantly provide him with strength. And then he will unite with Me ever more intimately and can travel his path of life in the certainty that he will be accompanied everywhere by My beings of light which I Myself provide for his protection. I do not ask for much, but what I do ask for is indispensable: voluntary surrender to Me .... which, however, will certainly bring the human being maturity of his soul, because then My blessing will rest on everything he starts ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Knocking at the door of the heart .... Love condition for acceptance ....

B.D. 6511 from March 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

All gates will open to you where love is at home, you will always find entrance where My spirit rules, for there the Father's voice will be recognised and joyfully listened to. It is only a small circle .... measured against the myriad of people .... where I can enter when I have knocked on the doors .... There are not many who hear this soft knocking at their heart's door and are immediately prepared to open it to receive Me. But wherever I enter I spread blessings and inner peace, and no-one will want to miss Me who has once caught the ray of My light of love .... who has once heard My address .... He only ever feels at ease in My presence, and once the world comes between him and Me in a disruptive way, then he will feel this as discomfort, and he will not rest until he is in My fellowship again, until he is together with brothers and sisters again in order to also know Me Myself in the midst of them in accordance with My promise .... All of these desire My word, and they will also willingly open the doors if you want to bring it to them. Even if the doors often remain closed to you, even if you often meet with resistance, even if you are ridiculed because of your activity for the spiritual kingdom .... You should not be disturbed by this and try to please the few who listen to you. For true life awakens there and this life spreads even if you cannot observe it. They are incomparable sources of strength which open up wherever My word can be heard, and the power of the word does not remain ineffective while dead, barren territory is around you, although with regard to earthly matters a blossoming can be recorded. They are and remain two worlds which differ completely .... But I have placed you in My world, in the world of the spirit, which is the only truth .... And in this world you should work, i.e. try to spread the spiritual kingdom and lure people from the earthly kingdom into your circle .... Time and again you will find some because there are people in all circles who are willing to love, and because these will also follow you .... But you will only be listened to where love is. Nevertheless, others must hear the teaching of love as well, and it is never detrimental if love is repeatedly emphasised first, if people are found who preach love eagerly, regardless of how their speeches are received .... For even the greatest sinner must be admonished in order to refrain from his sin .... the most unloving person must be inspired to love in order to do a bit of soul-searching .... All doors must be knocked on .... An attempt must be made to awaken life, which is only possible through the supply of My word. Therefore rejoice when you are accepted as bearers of My word and do not be offended when you are rejected, but do not tire in your work for Me and My kingdom, for sparks of love glimmer everywhere which you can cause to flare up .... I Myself knock at the doors of the heart everywhere, and time and again a heart is found which opens itself to Me, which is delighted when I speak to it and is increasingly more inflamed by hot love for the One Who gives life. And I will bless you if you remember these people who are still languishing in death, if you endeavour to awaken them to life .... if you are faithful labourers in My vineyard and only ever carry out what your heart urges you to do .... for you have received Me into your heart and so now I can speak to you and through you to those who shall awaken to life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Way to the cross over Golgotha ....

B.D. 6512 from March 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The way to the cross must be walked irrevocably, for it alone leads you to the gate of everlasting life .... The way to the cross is the way of love and suffering .... it is the way to Jesus Christ, it is the way to Golgotha .... Jesus Christ Himself walked it for you, yet you must follow Him and take upon yourselves everything that is given to you .... But if you seriously want to take the path to the cross, to Him, the divine Redeemer, then He will surely walk by your side, for He takes everyone who wants to come to Him by the hand and helps him if he weakens. You must take the path via Golgotha if you want to reach the gate of everlasting life. You must visualise all the sufferings and pains of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and tell yourselves that He bore them for you .... You must, as it were, accompany Him in thought on this path and stay with Him until the hour of His death .... His suffering must be your suffering, so that it strikes your heart and causes the love in you to flare up into bright embers .... You must want to suffer with Him in the knowledge that it is your sins for which He suffered and died on the cross .... And thus you will also participate in His act of Salvation and become living confessors of His name. No one can attain everlasting life who does not tackle with this greatest spiritual experience, with a deed that is unparalleled .... No-one can be redeemed who has not yet mentally experienced the act of Salvation himself, who has not once taken the path to the cross in order to now quietly join Jesus on the way to the cross and stay with Him until His death .... Time and again you humans must call to mind this process, and your love for Him, Who suffered and died for you on the cross, will become ever deeper .... Walking this way to the cross to Him and with Him is indispensable, for only then will you enter into the great mystery of God's incarnation and His act of Salvation; only then will you realise what the man Jesus has done for you, and only then will you become true followers of Jesus, because you are urged by love for Him, because you no longer want to leave His side, because then you will also be willing to bear the greatest suffering in order to participate in His act of Salvation .... The events of Jesus' crucifixion must not just remain words for you, you must make them come alive in you, you must immerse in the immense suffering He bore and therefore often take the path to the cross in your thoughts .... And the cross will become a shining one for you which points to the gate of everlasting life. Only then will you be able to represent His name vividly, only then will you be able to speak of 'redemption' yourselves, only then will your soul be touched by the divine Redeemer's greater than great love, but then it will never ever let go of Him, (29.3.1956) and then it will be able to enter the kingdom of light at His side after its earthly demise, because its path led via Golgotha. And it will be granted indescribable bliss, for it has now awakened to true life, it has conquered death thanks to Him Who died for it .... Jesus Christ's act of Salvation is of such a great significance that His death on the cross must be remembered time and again and with all fervour, that the human being should time and again visualise His life and death in order to penetrate into the mystery of His act of love, for the more he becomes aware of Jesus' act of love..., the more his love for Him flares up, and love now pushes him to the cross of its own accord, love also takes upon itself the suffering of a walk to the cross, love is prepared for anything in order to utilise Jesus Christ's sacrifice and, as it were, to take part in it itself, for love sacrifices itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Atonement of guilt through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6513 from March 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Taking humanity's suffering upon Myself was indescribably difficult .... There was not one bad deed which did not have to have an effect on people, and you would have had to suffer immeasurably if you yourselves had had to remove every sin weighing heavily on you. The sin of the former rebellion against God was so immense by itself that you would have been unable to atone for it, neither in your constrained nor in the human state .... For this reason I took all your guilt upon Myself, I collected the result of every evil deed and burdened My human body with it, which then atoned for your guilt by suffering an extremely painful death on the cross .... I was moved by My love to help you .... And all the spirits of light, all first created entities who remained loyal to Me, were filled by the same love for you .... Love, however, will never let anything go astray, love will not leave anything in darkness, distress and agony .... Love offered Itself for the deliverance, for the redemption of the immense guilt .... Love Itself descended to earth in an entity filled with light and love .... But the forthcoming events on earth had to take place in a human form; Love had to take on a human garment, I had to embody Myself in the flesh and therefore took abode in the human being Jesus, Who was nevertheless so pure and without sin that I was able to manifest Myself in Him .... And this human being Jesus made

Amends for your guilt, Jesus the man took humanity's enormous burden of sin upon his shoulders and walked with it to the cross ....

Even if the inhuman suffering were described to you many times, you would be unable to comprehend its profundity because your nature's imperfection would prevent it .... His suffering was incomparably severe, and He knew of this well in advance since He was filled by My spirit, because I Myself had taken abode in Him. Consequently He knew everything, He knew about His mission as well as His crucifixion. His soul trembled and shook because He was a human being, and although the Divinity He had achieved due to His love certainly gave Him strength, it did not diminish the extent of suffering .... A human being walked to the cross Who wanted to suffer on behalf of His fellow human beings in order to help them. Because this human being knew about the immense suffering of those who were held captive in the abyss by My adversary .... Jesus knew that a sacrifice had to be made in order to purchase the souls from this opponent .... He knew that the immense guilt of sin had to be atoned for to satisfy the Father's justice, Who could not admit any child burdened by guilt into the parental home .... He wanted to return My children to Me, He wanted to pay the purchase price for the souls .... And since the guilt was enormous, the sacrifice also had to be exceptionally momentous ....

And for this reason Jesus the man knowingly accepted the suffering, for this reason He allowed what was done to Him and what no other human being except Him could have endured .... He consciously walked the path to the cross and suffered indescribable torment which ultimately ended with a most painful death on the cross .... You humans are still unable to appreciate the magnitude of this act of compassion but you should always remember that He was completely innocent and suffered on behalf of you, who could never have returned to the Father from the abyss without His act of Salvation .... I Myself was within Jesus the human being, He was full of love because He could never have done this task without it. However, I had to remain silent during the most painful hours of His path of suffering because a human being had to suffer and die, since the Divinity within Him could not suffer, but according to divine justice the Divinity within Him could not redeem any guilt without atonement either .... One day you will be able to understand the full depth of what is still inconceivable to you, and then you, too, will be able to participate in this greatest act of mercy. Due to His human existence Jesus the man lived in your realm and His soul, having descended from the kingdom of light, suffered terribly because it had looked into the deepest darkness and was besieged by the forces of hell .... Thus Jesus the human being not only suffered physically but endured the most intense torments of soul which increased His suffering a thousand fold .... However, He brought you humans salvation from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Resurrection into life ....

B.D. 6514 from March 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

People shall arise from the dead into life .... They shall emerge from their graves and ascend to the light, they shall escape death and then become capable of being powerfully active, i.e., 'of living' .... I died on the cross for you humans and with My resurrection on the third day gave you the evidence that I had overcome death, that there need not be eternal death, that you therefore can also arise from the dead into eternal life if you live your earthly life like Me, if you live a life of love .... Then you will defeat the one who brought death into the world, then you will constantly draw God's strength of love to yourselves and no longer experience a state in which you lack strength and light, then the body can perish and the soul will step out of its shell into radiant light, it will arise from its grave and live forever .... I walked a bitter path of suffering on earth and was often afflicted by fear that I might fail, for I knew about My mission which made Me descend to earth as the spirit of an angel .... The human shell weighed heavily upon Me and often caused Me to doubt the power of My will and My strength .... The human shell made me fearful and disheartened, nor was I spared inner conflicts and suffering, even before I already suffered unspeakably as a result of these occasionally emerging fears that I might not be able to cope with My mission .... Yet My love for My fellow human beings grew and so did the strength. I knew that I had to struggle as a human being and had to be victorious were I to help people become free from the adversary's control since I, after all, expect them to take the same path so that they will be able to arise from the dead into life, but that they would never have been able to take the path of a God in their encumbering sinful nature ....

Therefore I was indeed without sin, i.e., My soul came from above, but My body was of the same substance as that of My fellow human beings and thus I also had to fight against all cravings, weaknesses and oppressing states for which there was only one antidote: love .... For this reason you humans can likewise emerge as victors from this earthly life, if you live a life of love like Me, for love is the strength which achieves everything, which cannot be resisted by anything .... And I demonstrated this strength to you by My resurrection on the third day .... My soul emerged from the tomb and took all spiritualised substances of the body along .... which is a process every soul goes through, only that this process, because it is purely spiritual, cannot be seen by people on earth .... this is why I Myself let this resurrection proceed visibly in order to provide you humans with the evidence of a resurrection into eternal life after death. Therefore no person needs to fear his body's death, for only the shell passes away but the essence continues to exist .... The soul escapes from the body and enters into eternal life, providing it takes the path of following Me, the path of love .... My resurrection on the third day was the crowning glory of My act of love and mercy on earth which was indeed tremendously difficult for Me as a human being, but the human part of Me had thereby achieved complete unity with the Divine .... which is everyone's goal in earthly life but which you would never have been able to achieve without My help. I exemplified the right kind of life for you and .... because you were too weak to implement it .... through My crucifixion acquired for you the blessings for strengthening your will, of which all of you can avail yourselves in order to reach your goal with certainty .... You need not fear death, for you will arise again just as I arose on the third day .... And you will be able to enter a life of glory, yet you must have the will .... otherwise the night of death can still keep you captive for a long time .... Your Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, however, will lift you out of your graves as soon as you call upon Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Attaining childship to God .... Opportunities for maturation ....

B.D. 6515 from April 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You cannot prolong your life by one hour when your time has come to pass away from this earth, nor can you arbitrarily return to earth again, you must accept it as a certainty that your earthly life is finally concluded with the hour of your death .... What follows will take place in a kingdom which is not of this world, even if your soul has to take abode again in creations of a lower kind .... if its state does not allow it to stay in spheres of light which no longer require any material creations. But you always dwell beyond this earth, only as long as you are earthbound, i.e., with great longing for this earth you feel repeatedly drawn back to the places of your former abode without being able to make contact with them. Thus your soul can gain through bodily death but it can also have to move to a more primitive abode than the earth was .... always according to the maturity it has achieved as a human being .... But it will never be transferred back to earth again unless there are very special occasions or preconditions which, however, must not be generalised. Earthly life now offers the soul so many opportunities that it can easily reach a degree of maturity which frees it from all oppression, all weakness and all darkness .... if only the human being makes use of these opportunities .... Then the soul truly emerges as an conqueror of death, death is only the last obstacle for it to a life in freedom, light, and strength. If it does not make use of these opportunities then a fetter will certainly fall, the earthly body will release the soul but it will nevertheless remain bound because it is destitute of light and strength and will now be transferred to where it has the opportunity to recognise its miserable state as well as to change this state, yet mostly under far more difficult circumstances than on earth. Then it has, as it were, gone backwards in its development, but through its own fault, in free will .... But there is always a path of ascent, for there are innumerable possibilities of maturing, and the whole of creation with its countless stars offers these opportunities. But the soul has forfeited an unheard-of opportunity, for on earth it was offered the only opportunity to attain the childship to God. You humans do not understand the full profundity of what this means, but the bliss of those who reach this goal is indescribable, and every person can reach the goal if he wants to .... But even the best will is of no use to the soul if it failed on earth and now still takes the path upwards elsewhere .... this goal is unattainable for it. Nevertheless, it can likewise be saved, rise ever higher, for divine Fatherly love constantly draws each of His living creations and does not rest until the goal, the spiritualisation of every being, has been reached .... This knowledge is presented to people but only a few believe and take the transformation of their being seriously .... only a few reach the goal in earthly life, and only a few can leave earth at their death and enter the kingdom of light as fully spiritualised. And yet all people have this possibility .... But they lack love, and without love there is no progress, without love there is no light, no realisation .... Without love they also lack the right direction of will and the strength to carry it out. But people must move on earth in complete freedom of will, and they can only ever be taught. And therefore, as long as earth exists, God's love will not slacken in teaching, admonishing, and warning them through His word .... He will do everything that can move people into the right direction of will, He will spare no grace, and time and again preach love, but He will never induce a person to do what he must do in all freedom of will .... The human being alone determines the fate of his soul after his death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Hunger for the world .... Revival .... Lightbearers ....

B.D. 6516 from April 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The world will not take any notice of what is happening spiritually, i.e. the worldly-minded people will hardly pay any attention to the revivals of those who find life through Jesus Christ .... They will not pay attention to the signs and miracles which are the obvious working of the divine spirit, nor will they feel in the least impressed by them when they hear of them .... The world stands opposed to the spiritual, and whoever walks on one path rarely only dares to jump onto the other path because it seems impassable to him. The more obvious the working of the spirit becomes, because the end is at hand, the more the world will come forward with its seductive arts, for this too is a manifestation of the end, that hunger for the world and addiction to satisfaction will become ever stronger .... that people will perish in the frenzy of indulgence .... And though on the other side, too, the miracles will increase, which could still shake up every man of the world, because they are incomprehensible .... They only evoke laughter and ridicule from those, and only very occasionally does a person let himself be impressed, and he does a bit of soul-searching. That is why the work of My servants is not easy either, and it often looks fruitless, but everything that is possible must still be done .... The time until the end must still be used in every way, for to only know that one soul is saved is incomparably blissful for the one who willingly works for Me, and to have only won one soul for Me makes Me happy because I love it and now know that it will be saved from further great suffering .... And My servants will find support through light bearers who will arise everywhere and work in My name and for My name .... Wherever Jesus Christ is proclaimed out of a loving, deeply believing heart, there the 'power of God' will also become apparent, for His name will work miracles where it is only spoken in deep faith. Faith in Him, in Whom I embodied Myself, will still reveal such obvious effects that people will still be touched by it and come to their senses after all .... For I grant mercy for justice .... I regard the apostates as pitiful, weak, sick souls whom I want to help and to whom I give, even against their will .... but leaving it up to them whether they accept and utilise My gifts. Their worldly attitude, their relationship with Me, is indeed a rejection of Me Myself, nevertheless I do not look upon this rejection and distribute My gifts of grace to them as well because the end is at hand and their salvation is My greatest concern .... I know how far unusual things are allowed to approach them without forcing their faith, I know that they can only be influenced with difficulty and I keep to the limits so as not to harm their souls, but what My love can still bestow upon them it will not refrain from doing. And you, My co-workers on earth, should also think like this. You should not slack, you should use every opportunity to accomplish a work of Salvation and always know that, in view of the approaching end, I will support every effort you make to help it succeed. I will grant all of you great strength so that it will be obvious that you work with support from on high .... My name shall be proclaimed and My spirit's working shall be mentioned, My teaching of love shall be preached and held up as the most important thing .... and some little fish will still be caught in the net which My love has cast .... For I will give you My blessing if you work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Loving help .... Free decision of the individual ....

B.D. 6517 from April 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Every human being must take responsibility for himself; his fellow human being cannot take over his responsibility, even if his love is ever so great. Each person must decide for himself and thus avow himself for or against God .... And this avowal must be a matter of the heart, not just an empty assurance of the mouth. And the heart will then also feel if and when the human being moves in truth. The human being will profess the truth just as he professes God .... He will not go astray, he will no longer be able to think wrong because God Himself, Whom he has recognised and professed, guides his thinking and draws him to Himself .... But an acknowledgement and profession of God is at the same time also the acknowledgement and profession of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, because a thinking which is now directed right by God also includes the understanding for the significance of the act of Salvation, because the human being now clearly understands all relations, and the incarnation of God in Jesus is fully comprehensible to him .... Whose heart professes God has decided freely and, as it were, already passed the test of will on earth .... which is the purpose of earthly life. For this reason, however, one person cannot make this decision for another, each person has to come to a conviction within himself and live his life in accordance with this conviction. And therefore the right knowledge cannot be transmitted in a school-like way either, only certain teachings can be imparted to the fellow human being which, however, he himself first has to mentally digest so that his heart will then be urged to make a decision. The disciples of Jesus were given the task of going into the world and teaching all peoples .... Only the Gospel could be brought to the people, but they themselves now had to make their will become active, they had to accept it and live according to it, only then would they decide .... And no-one can be relieved of this decision .... But love can intercessionally remember the fellow human being .... And love can do infinitely much. What intellectual explanations cannot achieve, love can achieve, which is meant for a weak, still unwilling person and his salvation. Through loving intercession strength can constantly flow to his soul which, although it does not determine his will, directs him more and more to where the power of love emanates .... to the original source of power, to eternal love Itself .... Love can achieve anything .... If the human being himself is active in love with complete unselfishness, then this also guarantees that his thinking will become clearer, that the human being himself will come to recognise the Deity in Jesus Christ. But if he lacks such unselfish love, then the fellow human being who is capable of love and willing to love can step in to help .... then his love can give strength to the former, for vicarious love is accepted by God, yet always passed on in a form which does not mean compulsion of will but strengthening of will. Nevertheless, the human being must make the free decision himself, it cannot be relieved of it .... The human being can be guided into right thinking through the supply of strength but still remain in defence according to his will or go up to God. However, the soul usually feels loving help and thereby softens and opens itself to right knowledge. This is why a person who is followed by loving thoughts, who receives loving spiritual help, is not lost, because loving intercession can achieve infinitely much .... And no human being would need to be lost on earth if people's love for each other were stronger. Yet the free decision must be made by every person himself, it cannot be made vicariously, for this is the purpose of earthly life and the final test, the passing of which liberates him from all shackles ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Last resort to save before the end ....

B.D. 6518 from April 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Your existence on this earth will not last much longer. You humans will no longer be able to enjoy many more days, for the destiny of the individual will come true, as will that of all humans .... Earthly existence will come to an end in not much longer time .... And this must also be an explanation for unusual events, for experiences of a peculiar kind and above all for obvious grants of grace which affect the individual person, which are intended to promote spiritual maturity or to facilitate the path to spirituality for completely earthly-minded people. The short period until the end necessitates unusual activity on the part of God and the world of light, for love seeks to help and save before it is too late. People cannot be spoken to directly, therefore they will be spoken to by fate, and they could easily pay attention to this address and follow it .... Time and again people will be able to make contact with God because He will constantly influence them in a way which, although very painful, will clearly show them the path to Him which they can now take but do not have to take. And it will be clearly revealed whether a grain of faith still lies hidden in the human being, which will now push forward, or whether a God is no longer thought of .... Every human being will somehow be touched and pushed to self-contemplation, which can only ever be achieved by strokes of fate which they, as human beings, cannot cope with. And again, hearts will harden even more and in a completely faithless manner deny everything divine-spiritual, but some will also awaken to life .... Every individual will be touched, but only a few successfully. Often such an obvious activity or intervention of spiritual forces will be recognisable so that people could easily find faith in God, yet their eyes are directed only in a worldly manner and therefore they will not accept anything other than worldly things, they do not want a bond with the spiritual kingdom and reject everything that could stimulate them into a change of will. And thus the end approaches with frightening haste .... And it will surprise everyone but find only a few prepared .... But people do not believe what is announced to them, they do not know what lies ahead and cannot be forced to think differently. But all of you should not be surprised that many things will still happen in the time to come which you now still consider impossible .... You should not be surprised that death will still stretch out its hand to many people in your surroundings because you should still be set thinking. Accidents and severe strokes of fate will increase and snatch people from the midst of life, and many of you will be affected by them or will have to take an interest in the fate of fellow human beings .... But everything shall only serve to shake you up, to lead you to self-contemplation, to unite with the One Who alone holds your destiny in His hands. If this is achieved then every adversity will have been a blessing, however painful it was for the individual, but you must always bear in mind that you do not have much time left, that the end will soon have come for all of you and that you should experience this end in a spiritually awakened state, that you at least have established the bond with God, that you can pray to Him in spirit and truth .... God wants to achieve nothing else, He aims at nothing else through the strokes of fate which will affect you humans in abundance because you are still far away from Him Who, however, wants to draw you to Himself .... The end is coming, and before this end He still wants to save all people who do not oppose Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Earthly science and spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 6519 from April 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Science will never be able to fathom what the spirit from God is able to explain effortlessly .... And likewise, the human being's intellect will also not be able to measure up to the working of the spirit, i.e., those results which were gained intellectually cannot be compared to and put on a par with the knowledge which the spirit from God imparts to the human being. For intellect, although it also testifies to divine wisdom, is a physical function which ends with the death of the human being. The soul which escapes from the body will certainly still continue to think, feel and want, yet in its darkened, immature state it will no longer be able to grasp a clear thought and will only have very little or nothing to show of its intellectual wealth on earth .... always according to its state of maturity. However, knowledge gained through spiritual working on earth remains with the soul, for it has already attained a degree of light, otherwise the working of the divine spirit would not have been possible on earth. And this degree of light also signifies knowledge which it can constantly increase .... In the spiritual kingdom only spiritual knowledge has value, earthly knowledge, however, is worthless if the spiritual state is a lower one. The spiritual world, however, is nevertheless in contact with the earthly world and also seeks to guide earthly thinking right if it is approached by people for it. Then their intellect is certainly also active but through their requests for right thinking it now also moves in right thinking, because at the same time the spirit is active, which through the appeal also has the right to intervene without exerting compulsion on the will of the human being. Then the human being will always believe to have reached the right result through his own thoughts, that is, through intellectual activity, but he must know about the relations, about the conditions and prerequisites which guarantee right thinking, and he must know that the spirit must absolutely be working in him in order to give intellectual thinking the right direction. Such a person will also be able to transfer much of his earthly knowledge into the kingdom of the beyond and then, as likewise pervaded by light, also be able to mentally influence people on earth again if the same conditions are created, so that they entrust themselves to divine guidance .... that they therefore never undertake their earthly research as well without God, that they call upon Him that their work may succeed. A distinction must therefore be made between knowledge which only the intellect acquired on earth and knowledge where the invocation of God has permitted spiritual activity .... Then you humans will also know which beings in the beyond possess knowledge, no matter if it is of purely spiritual or earthly nature .... The fact that earthly knowledge is also fully transparent to the beings of light is beyond doubt, since a being of light possesses bright light, i.e. correct knowledge, about everything and also needs this knowledge in order to be able to help people on earth in their struggle for life. Immature beings, however .... even if they were also above-average thinkers as human beings .... can no longer find their way around, their thoughts become confused, and if they want to communicate with human beings of their affinity they will certainly be able to do so with the help of evil powers but they will always contradict the truth. They will only ever be able to influence the thoughts of people who are completely God-opposed themselves and believe that they can fathom everything with their intellect alone .... Every being will be granted what it desires .... Truth and true knowledge will be granted to those who approach God Himself for it, be it in spiritual or earthly direction .... and anyone who arrogantly considers himself capable of attaining knowledge without God's help will remain in darkness. And the state of every soul in the kingdom of the beyond will be the same, where the light cannot shine, where the spirit from God could not express itself in earthly life, there it is and remains dark even in the spiritual kingdom .... But whoever has received the light can now also carry it into the darkness .... And happy the souls who receive it, who follow the sparks of light .... who now turn their thoughts to God .... who humbly call upon Him for light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Conveying the truth .... Exchange of light and power ....

B.D. 6520 from April 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The paths you take should all lead to the same goal, and that is why they must come together at some point, even if they had completely different starting points. The shorter the path, the sooner the goal will be reached. But if you humans choose detours, it can also take a very long time until you reach the goal. Nevertheless, your will is decisive to strive for the right goal in the first place. And I can only ever tell you that the shortest path to the goal is the path of love for Me and for your neighbour .... for this path is brightly illuminated and therefore also recognisable as the right path. For My messengers walk before you, bearers of light, and in its bright beam you truly walk safely and cannot go astray. Now I send these messengers of light towards all those who do not feel comfortable on dark paths, who are afraid to take the wrong path and who, in this worry, turn to the Light from eternity so that It may send them a ray .... who thus desire light .... And these I lead on the shortest path to the goal. For the time being I make sparks of light fall into their hearts which will light up and express themselves through activity in unselfish neighbourly love, which now simultaneously proves love for Me, because the one of them must undeniably lead to the other .... But what is meant by the light that illuminates your path? .... The path of light is the path of truth .... If I am to illuminate you humans the path to the goal, to Me, then I have to convey the truth to you, I have to send messengers towards you who will instruct you in the truth. And I have to commission messengers of light and love, both on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond, who receive the truth from Me and distribute it again .... a process of incessant exchange of power and light in the spiritual and earthly kingdom .... a process which always and constantly takes place on an enormous scale and directs My light of love everywhere where it is not opposed. Countless beings of light are at My disposal, and many beings of light are also embodied on earth to make this exchange of light and strength possible, so that the light can shine into the profound darkness which is spread across the earth .... so that the truth, which alone is the path to eternal life, will be brought to the people who walk along in dark error and wrong thinking. It is My spirit which continuously effuses itself into infinity, which radiates through perfect beings and impels them into activity .... which pours into open hearts, which emanates from Me in a constant cycle in order to return to Me again in the beings which have achieved perfection .... It is the flow of love which fills the perfect spiritual beings with bliss, which urges them to pass it on again because love never remains inactive .... which is therefore directed to where this flow of love is desired and is caught, and thus remains in constant working and accomplishment .... It is the light of realisation which is kindled wherever light is desired, wherever a being calls upon Me Myself for truth .... And where this flow of love is received the path leading to Me must also be clearly recognisable and it must be possible to reach the goal in the shortest possible time, whereas badly lit or dark paths easily make it possible to go astray and deviate from the right path, and the human being only reaches the goal after detours if he nevertheless seriously strives for it .... Truth alone secures you humans access to Me, and to convey this truth to you is My everlasting concern, because I want you to walk the path on earth with ease and without qualms, to the eternal home, which you now recognise in the light of truth as the only right path to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Benefiting from the graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 6521 from April 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The blessings of the act of Salvation are available to you humans, and no-one is excluded from it who does not exclude himself by consciously denying or rejecting the act of Salvation, by not acknowledging Jesus Christ as God's Son and Redeemer of the world. So all of you can be saved through Him .... if this is your will. Salvation means living, being active in light and power .... Bliss is the state you were in before your apostasy from Me .... it is the state of perfection which, however, is now to be attained by you of your own free will, whereas in the original state you were created perfectly  .... i.e., you were placed out of Me as beings to be independent. The attainment of perfection in free will has only become possible through your fall into the abyss and therefore brings you unimagined bliss because you have overcome this abyss and worked your way up .... But there is still no excuse for the Fall, your former turning away from Me .... because you stood in such a bright light that the fall into the abyss should not have happened, and even then you could have decided in favour of Me of your own free will in order to stay with Me in eternal bliss .... For this reason, however, the path from the abyss, from an infinite distance back to Me again, is extremely arduous, because the sin against Me was immeasurably great .... but the final return to Me is associated with immeasurable bliss if you attain the childship to God .... the highest degree of perfection .... through your life on earth. And you can achieve this precisely through the redemptive work of the man Jesus, Who acquired a treasure of grace for you through His death on the cross, of which you may avail yourselves without restriction. I Myself came to your aid on your way back to Me because My love for you is endless and wanted to win you back again after ages of turning away from Me .... Yet as long as you do not recognise Me Myself in the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, the graces of the act of Salvation will also remain ineffective on you, you will not recognise them for what they are .... You will not avail yourselves of them and therefore remain powerless and in a lightless state out of which I would like to help you but cannot do so against your will. You must ask for these graces for Jesus' sake .... then you will acknowledge Him as the One in Whom I embodied, and then My help and your ascent and reaching of the goal will also be certain .... The human being alone, as a once fallen original spirit, is too weak because he is constantly held on by My adversary; if he turns to Me in Jesus Christ I can release him from the bondage and give him freedom, but without the call to Me I have to let My adversary have his right, since you once voluntarily followed him to the abyss and your will now also determines again whether you reach the height .... A rich treasure of grace is at your disposal .... Use it, avail yourselves of what the man Jesus acquired for you on the cross .... For He suffered and laid down His life to give you life .... He paid the debt which brought you death, a state of complete lightlessness and powerlessness .... And so you can now gain light and strength again if you accept His sacrifice, if you acknowledge Him and ask Him for help .... if you accept His grace, if you are willing to follow Him, Who has led the way upwards for you .... Then you too will attain eternal life and be filled with immeasurable bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Process of maturing .... Limited and unlimited bliss ....

B.D. 6522 from April 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

All of you will find your way back to Me and one day will be filled with unspeakable bliss .... You, who are already Mine through your will and your conscious striving towards Me, you can understand these words, for you know about My plan of Salvation, the plan of deification of the beings once created by Me .... But the words are incomprehensible to anyone who does not possess this knowledge, because they do not yet know and acknowledge Me Myself and therefore can never believe in a 'return to Me' .... And their path will still be infinitely long until the goal is reached. But I do not know time, for Me what you call a long time is a moment, and I see just as clearly what lies ahead of you in ages as what is happening in this time .... I therefore also know which paths all of you still have to take, I know in which period of time the return of each individual to Me will take place, and I am blissful to know My plan of deification of all beings to be purposeful and successful some day .... to be able to prepare a bliss for all My creatures which no human being can imagine .... But I cannot depart from the law of My eternal order .... I cannot prematurely bestow bliss upon My creations as long as they do not move within My order. And therefore countless beings will still have to go through a process of maturing which will extend over ages because they do not comply with the law of My order, because their will is directed differently and first must change before the process can be completed. This is why the spiritual substances which have not yet reached maturity will still need material creations for ages, and only when everything is completely spiritualised, thus when it has completely entered My eternal order, will these material creations be replaced by spiritual creations, and only then the ascending development will continue in these spiritual creations, because the striving upwards will never come to an end, because I Myself always and forever stand above all spiritual beings as beyond reach, but I am also always and forever striven for by them, and this constantly signifies increasing light and power flowing to the perfect being from Me. It is impossible for you humans with limited comprehension to be able to follow Me in this because .... as long as you are imperfect .... everything appears limited to you but perfection is unlimited .... and precisely this is the beings' bliss, that they never stop striving towards Me, that they always feel My nearness more, that their desire is always fulfilled, but that they will also never stop longing for Me, and constant longing and constant fulfilment create unlimited bliss .... So one day all of you will reach this goal .... But as long as you are still wretched you will also be tormented by the endless time .... or, because this state is agonising, you will feel the duration of being far away from Me to be dreadfully long, and yet you can end this state of torment yourselves. Your free will will lead you to Me in a short time or it will also keep you separated from Me for ages. And therefore I convey the knowledge to you humans which should one day seriously prompt you to think about it, which should spur you on to enter into My will and eagerly strive for perfection, as far as this is possible on earth. What you humans cannot yet believe, consider it an illusion and give yourselves over to this illusion .... and soon you will realise that it only gives your life the right focal point, and the danger is over for you that you yourselves will prolong the period of time until your return to Me .... for soon you will also look at your earthly life with alert eyes and a clear mind, you will recognise truth as truth and now consciously work on yourselves, on your perfection .... you will even shorten the period of separation from Me because your will is now directed right ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Right childlike relationship .... "If you do not become like children .... "

B.D. 6523 from April 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Unless you become like children, you cannot enter My Kingdom .... You should understand this right: A child fully trusts the Father, it listens to His words and does not doubt the truth of what it is told, it confidently awaits the promise, it believes everything the Father promises it, it believes everything He speaks to the child .... And I demand this faith from you, that you trust Me without any hesitation, that you accept My words as pure truth and make them your guiding principle in your way of life. But this should not mean that you blindly accept what is passed on to you from another side, then you should first check to see where these teachings or words originate from, for I only speak of the right childlike relationship which I want to see established in order to be able to speak to you as a Father. And therefore I say: 'Become like children .... "You can believe your Father, and in order to hear Him thus you must first have established the right childlike relationship, and then you need not doubt or fear that you will be offered something which could harm you .... Therefore I have to demand faith from you because no evidence for spiritual teachings can be given to you. But I do not want you to believe everything that is presented to you as long as you are not sure that it originated from the Father, that it is in fact a good gift which He offers you because you are His children whom He loves .... But he who always opposes his intellect, who cannot muster a childlike faith, is like a wayward child who does not abide by what the Father says to him .... It does not matter to him who speaks to him, he will always believe that he can best judge for himself, and he is not in the right childlike relationship with Me and his thinking is endangered. You will not be able to fathom spiritual matters with your intellect, but your heavenly Father will give them to you if you turn to Him as children in the right way, and what He gives you you can accept as truth without any hesitation. Therefore, first ensure that you make contact with your Father; come to Me trustingly and approach Me Myself for it, feel towards Me like underage little children who hand themselves over and allow themselves to be given a gift by the Father .... And then take notice of the gift, value it as a gift of love through which the Father wants to please you, help you, and save you .... The undoubted faith of a child should serve as an example for all of you, however distinguished you are in earthly life .... Become like children .... Then you will also be protected like children from all dangers which threaten the soul when forces approach it which offer it harmful, impure food .... Let yourselves be fed by the Father alone, Who will truly give you what is best for your soul .... A childlike faith will lead you upwards safely, for I will not allow a child's faith in Me to fail ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Earthly work and toil before the end ....

B.D. 6524 from April 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything points to the end .... And no matter how hard you humans try to increase earthly prosperity, no matter how hard you work at building up earthly-material works, you only create for a short duration and nothing of what you created will last for long. For the time has come when an end is put to the earth with all its creations and all its inhabitants. And even if you humans want to dispute it again and again, even if your will and your thinking resist accepting it as truth .... You cannot destroy My plan, and as it has been determined since eternity, so everything will also come to pass. Nevertheless, I will not keep you humans from your work if only you do not allow this to become the purpose of your life but first think of your soul so that you do not make it suffer privations as a result of too eager material activity. For the day of the end is secret to you, you can still do much service for your fellow human beings; as soon as you ask for My blessing for this, every earthly activity can have a spiritual effect. Moreover, you can also help the still bound spiritual to be of service, and the more obvious the possibility of service becomes in the works you create, the more blessing will rest on it, because everything spiritual shall still mature before the end has come .... Yet in many cases people only use all their strength to increase mammon and make themselves its slaves, then they are obviously working for My adversary and on his behalf, then neither love nor the will to help fellow human beings is apparent, it is rather a case of taking advantage of fellow human beings and also often endangering their lives .... You humans should certainly not give yourselves over to idleness, you certainly should use your vitality and not let it lie idle, but you should always think of your actual purpose of life first, then nothing you undertake will become a danger for you .... But the end will come irrevocably .... Therefore, in everything you do, remember this serious admonition and warning of Mine, and do not chain yourselves too strongly to matter but seek to detach yourselves from it, even if you still have to work in the world .... Your innermost attitude will always be decisive as to whether you become master over matter or let yourselves be ruled by it. Considering the forthcoming end you should always give account to yourselves and practise strict self-criticism, you should not live as if everything will continue but always consider the imminent end .... but nevertheless be active. For if love determines your actions and thoughts, then all works which you make arise will be blessed by Me .... But where love is lacking, where purely earthly planning and activity takes place, My adversary's places will be erected, even if it is apparently intended to serve people's salvation .... Bear in mind that I can only bless what serves noble purposes and that I Myself am not deceived .... For only then can matter still mature, and the short period until the end can offer the spiritual substances contained in it an opportunity to take abode on the new earth in lighter external forms and to progress more quickly in their development. My plan has been fixed since eternity .... You, too, can plan, yet you should adapt to My will as far as possible and thus, as it were, still support everything spiritual and free yourselves from the desire for the world and its goods .... Then everything you undertake will be blessed, and the short period until the end will be used in My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual working of love .... Need of the soul ....

B.D. 6525 from April 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

People lack clear knowledge, they walk along in confused thinking, they are unable to detect any relations, their thoughts move along wrong paths, they do not tell error from truth .... There is still no light in them because they have not yet escaped the darkness which has been their lot since their former apostasy from God .... when they became lightless through their own fault. But neither do people make an effort to attain clear realisation, although this is their actual task on earth. They do not feel their lightless state to be deficient, they content themselves with worthless knowledge, they are completely indifferent towards the truth and do not desire insight where they are completely ignorant. This is an obvious sign that they are still under the sway of the one who caused the spiritual darkness. It is a sign that their will is not directed upwards, otherwise a light would also shine to them from there. And people cannot be forced into a different attitude, they cannot be forcibly put into a state because free will must be respected. And therefore there is only one way to wrest people from this dark spiritual state .... a spiritual working of love, which alone promises success .... Those people are powerless as long as they have not yet kindled light within themselves .... But only love can kindle light .... If people lack love due to their affiliation with God's adversary, then they will never be able to gain light and strength either .... And therefore strength must be given to them by those who already possess light and strength .... They must be remembered with love and their spiritual salvation must be desired with a loving heart .... Something must be offered in utmost patience and love which increases their knowledge, which gives them a small light .... Such a gift is usually rejected by those who are still completely blind in spirit. But the degree of love is decisive in which such a gift is offered to the fellow human being. All vineyard labourers should always bear in mind that love offers a certain guarantee for the success of their vineyard labour. The right servant knows about the spiritual need of the one who is still completely destitute of light, and this need must touch his heart and drive him to help him .... Then it is a work of unselfish neighbourly love, it is an act of mercy which will also not remain unsuccessful, for the soul feels this love and wakes up, it feels the darkness as torment and longs for light, and this desire alone now also ensures that it receives light. Just as you humans should not pass by your fellow human being's earthly hardship, you should even more keep in mind the spiritual need which will have its effect in eternity .... And you should try to control this destitution and only ever think of the soul's state with love and thus want to help the soul enter the light .... if the human being as such is unable to awaken love in his heart .... The soul is pitiful, it is as helpless as a child and .... when its physical shell leaves it destitute .... dependent on the help of its fellow human being who can now provide it with strength through love. You humans do not know what an enormous force love is .... And everything you undertake with love will succeed. And your love is like a bright light in the darkness which cannot be driven away by the darkness but which breaks through the darkness and brings illumination everywhere .... And anyone who gets into such a beam of light, for whom your love is intended in particular, will also inevitably step into the light, he will detach from his ignorant state and always become brighter in spirit, then love will have conquered the darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Battle of the dark forces against the truth ....

B.D. 6526 from April 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Where My flow of grace can flow abundantly to earth the battle between light and darkness will break out particularly fiercely, for multitudes will gather around the source where they can refresh themselves with the water of life, and likewise the forces of darkness will be driven there by My adversary in order to prevent life-awakening nourishment from being offered to the souls. For this reason you, who serve Me and accept My word from on high, will certainly feel resistance but far more strength will flow to you from the beings of light which shield you from those dark beings, which hinder them and are also able to do so because your will and also the will of the souls surrounding you gives them a right to do so .... Nevertheless, the dark forces do not slacken in their fight against the light, and they always find willing people who work on their behalf where they themselves get nowhere .... people they can influence to take sides against you, who are enemies of truth and seek to intersperse My pure word with error. They want to contaminate the pure spring water with poisonous additives on behalf of My adversary who gets a willing hearing from them and can therefore use them as his henchmen. But the bright beam of light reveals everything, and the serious will and the desire for truth is the safest protection against those forces. Therefore you should not be surprised if time and again your fellow human beings attack the pure truth from Me .... And countless souls are worried about your standing firm because they recognise every cloudiness and yet long for light .... And they are grateful when the ray of light becomes ever brighter around you, because every temptation passed strengthens the light around you, and now you are helped on all sides as soon as dark forces are on the advance again. The battle between light and darkness must be allowed, for it concerns the free decision of you and also of the souls in the kingdom of the beyond .... Nevertheless, so many graces are available to the willing that he can emerge victorious from this battle. And My adversary is enraged about this and seeks to achieve his goal through cunning. But no matter how cleverly and cunningly he disguises himself .... he can be recognised and will be recognised by all those who are serious about their souls' salvation, about truth and about My love .... And therefore no-one needs to fear falling into his hands or not being able to cope with his attacks if it is only his will not to fall under his sway, for this will alone is enough for Me Myself to be with him and he is under safest protection. But prepare for ever stronger attacks from his side, for he, in his delusion, will not slacken to take action against Me and you, and he constantly lies in wait at the places where I have opened up the fountain of life for all those who come along the path hungry and thirsty .... He tries to deny access to all of them but he cannot prevent it because figures of light accompany the wanderers who long for the source of life .... But My adversary flees from the light, he does not dare to enter its glow .... But since My word is the light from on high, it cannot be extinguished or dimmed by him and his followers unless people themselves are of his mind and work for him .... But even then the light is still stronger than the darkness, and it exposes anyone who with evil intentions approaches the fountain of life, which I have opened up for all those who desire the light, Me and the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The adversary's attempts to slip in ....

B.D. 6527 from April 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Don't let any kind of anxiety take hold of you, for this is the working of My adversary who will make use of all means to separate you from Me. Everything that gives you a feeling of being distant from Me is his work, but you can eliminate this yourselves by joining Me ever more closely. Believe Me, I will always be with you as long as your will applies to Me .... Believe Me that he will not be able to get anywhere and that all his efforts will be in vain because I Myself will render them ineffective .... Your anxiety is therefore entirely unfounded, he is, after all, not stronger than I Am, and I promise you My protection in every earthly and spiritual adversity. Nevertheless he will keep trying and you yourselves offer this opportunity to him as soon as he knows you to be weak and fearful. Whereas he will instantly slacken if you take refuge in Me with complete confidence in My help. I have often drawn your attention to the fact that he is lurking around you in order to avenge himself, to incapacitate your work for Me and My kingdom .... For this reason you must overcome your weakness and appeal to Me for strength and you will receive it .... Nevertheless, the decisive factor is your faith whose intensity can dispel him instantly but he makes use of its weakness for his own benefit. He will not be able to dominate you, since you belong to Me on account of your will, but he can still intimidate and pester you, and then you must fight him by taking refuge in Me and requesting My special protection, which he cannot bear up to. But neither will I prevent his course of action, after all, I want your faith to become increasingly stronger until the adversary finally finds no further target, until he must realise that his temptations are to no avail. You can truly be far stronger than him because you have an immeasurable amount of strength from Me at your disposal, but you must also recognise him, regardless in which shape he approaches you .... Everything that gives rise to unrest, everything which disruptively intrudes between yourselves and Me, which wants to prevent your work for Me and My kingdom .... every doubt, all fear and each lapse .... are My adversary's methods, they are unmistakable efforts on his part to pull you down, to distance you from Me, to shake your faith and to extinguish the light from above. And he will not slacken, time and again he will try to slip in and wreak havoc .... But time and again I will also be willing to protect you, I will never leave you to him without a fight. You, however, can gain much and every temptation by him can strengthen your faith until you are no longer a target for him, until the strength of your faith no longer permits him to slip in .... You humans are all subject to his influence but as long as you don't belong to Me you don't think his influence is bad and willingly give in to him, for he is still your master whom you do not resist .... But anyone who already belongs to My Own experiences everything coming from him as harassment, and thus it should be a sign for you to beware if you become anxious or are pursued by troublesome thoughts .... Then you will know that he is at work, then you should very seriously take the path to Me and these harassments will stop very quickly. Your earthly life need not be painful and difficult; you can spend every day in happy joyfulness if only you join Me with all your heart and hand every problem over to Me with complete trust .... Then I will take care of you and guide you safely and soundly on the path to ascent, for then you will have totally handed yourselves over to Me and My adversary will have no more claim over you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's word - Elixir of life .... Death and life ....

B.D. 6528 from April 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You are to acquire life for yourselves, you are to escape the state of death in which you humans dwell, and thus an elixir of life must be offered to you, forces in you which lie idle must be released through it, a new stream of life must flow through you, and everything must be set in motion which previously rested inactive and rigid in you .... You must awaken from a sleep of death lasting ages .... There is a reliable remedy for you to awaken to life .... It is the living word, it is the water of life which pours out from God and which radiates a power that is sufficient to give life to the dead. For this water of life, God's word from on high, is the direct irradiation of divine love which is of such strength that nothing touched by it can remain in a lifeless state .... But one thing is necessary, namely that this irradiation of love is not resisted. The length of time in which the awakening to life takes place depends on the willingness of the creatural. For by 'life' is not meant what is regarded as life by people on earth. Humans, animals, and plants also have a life .... But this life only serves to reach real life, which is to be understood as an eternally never-ending state of light and strength and is the goal of all creatural, because it signifies eternal bliss. And only God's word gives you this 'life', but you humans must willingly listen to it, ponder it and act accordingly. Then all of you will feel its strengthening effect on yourselves, then you will understand that God's word can be called the true elixir of life and that there can be no eternal life without this life-giver. For to be dead means to fall into a hardened state completely devoid of light and strength .... And yet this state is agonising for the being, because the term 'death' must not be confused with 'non-being'. The creatural suffers immeasurable agony, for what once came forth from God can never ever cease to exist, it could only fall into an immeasurably agonising state because it gave away its life .... because it lost light and strength, thus the condition for activity, and fell into a state of hardening .... And it should free itself from this, it should strive for its former life again, it should acquire strength and light again, and it can do this by allowing the light of Love from eternity to flow into it and by now kindling itself with it .... by receiving the word of God and following it by practising love .... Thereby it becomes a power station itself, for love is power in itself .... The power begins to become active and what was dead awakens to life .... to a life it can never lose. Without God's word this process of change from death to life is not possible, for by 'God's word' is meant not only the direct address or impartation of spiritual knowledge, the human being can also be spoken to emotionally so that an urge for love expresses itself in him .... God can also speak to people in the form of feelings .... But the irradiation of divine love is always necessary for the dead to change into life .... God's word is indispensable and conveys the knowledge of His will to the being. For God's will must be followed if the dead being wants to attain life. God's will is love for Him and for the neighbour. But love is light and strength, love is life, and where it is active the state of death must change, the being must be stimulated into activity, and activity gives proof of life .... And God will not rest until all dead has returned to life, for it was originally created in light and strength, something living had been brought forth from God Himself .... And this life, which it once possessed and voluntarily gave away, must be regained irrevocably, otherwise the being would have to persist eternally in wretchedness and torment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual and earthly change close at hand ....

B.D. 6529 from April 22nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You are approaching a spiritual turning point which, however, also causes a total earthly transformation, for people will not strive for and accomplish it themselves, instead I have to reshape the earth Myself, I first have to disintegrate all earthly creations or it would be impossible to create a spiritual state on earth again which is in complete contrast to the existing one. It can no longer be expected that people will acquire a higher state of maturity on earth, that the utterly unspiritual human race will so change that one can speak of a spiritual revival on this earth. At this present time people are aiming more and more towards the abyss and only a few strive to ascend, who are on a spiritually different level by having recognised their actual purpose of life and trying to attain it. The majority, however, are still infinitely far-away from everything of a spiritual nature and will not get any closer to it on this earth anymore. In any case, this low spiritual level cannot carry on because it signifies a darkness which will only result in utter disaster, both spiritually as well as physically .... This is why I set a limit and decided on a complete transformation from the start, since I have always foreseen this low spiritual level ....

People's present way of life on earth is without meaning and purpose because they derive no benefit from it for the soul, since the real life in the spiritual kingdom is never even taken into consideration, although it is the reason why you humans were given your earthly life. A total transformation of the earth's surface, a reshaping of all earthly creations and a new embodiment of all spiritual beings into external forms suitable for their degree of maturity has become imperative, and then people's spiritual state will be an elevated one again because the new human race will consist of spiritually mature people who have overcome the great distance from Me and will be so close to Me that I can dwell amongst them on this earth. Then a true spiritual change will have taken place, then the earth will have a different appearance and all living creations .... human beings and animals, .... will live in peace and harmony on this earth .... It will truly be a paradise on earth, a new period will begin in happiness and bliss, but a new banishment will also be imposed upon the spiritual essence which will have descended into the abyss again and thus failed its last test of will on earth ....

All of you are facing this spiritual change .... And each one of you can still improve himself in this short time until the turning point, each one of you can overcome his low spiritual level and develop a degree of maturity which can still qualify him to become a fellow inhabitant of the new earth .... All options are still open to everyone, because I still lovingly and mercifully draw everyone out of the abyss who longingly stretches his hands out to Me .... But this opportunity will soon end, when the end has come the gate to the kingdom of the beyond will be closed, when the reshaping of the earth's surface takes place, when the spiritual change occurs just as the earthly change happens through the disintegration of the earthly creations, through the liberation of all bound and the banishment of all free spirits .... Then the separation of the spirits will have taken place and all spiritual substances will have been 'judged' .... i.e. placed into a form which corresponds to their state of maturity. The spiritual change is near and an earthly change is therefore inevitable; but a blissful time will be granted to all those who are and want to remain My Own, who prove themselves during the last battle on this earth and despite suffering and adversity remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right will recognises origin of word ....

B.D. 6530 from April 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You should listen to Me and completely rely on and trust in My word, then you will truly take the path which leads to the goal. Many people certainly have the will to go right, yet their will has not yet become a feeling of the heart but only an empty saying, otherwise people would recognise the Father's voice and act accordingly. It is and remains a battle between light and darkness, but the desire for light decides and also gives victory. What would I rather do than give light to those who desire it and who thereby also prove their desire for Me, Who Myself am the Light from eternity? .... My sun of love constantly shines down on you humans and you need do nothing else but enter its circle of rays, you only need to look for Me Myself and the light, you only need to let yourselves be illuminated by Me and it will become bright around and within you. I am now making My light shine to earth in the form of My word, and anyone who basks in this light will awaken to life which he will never lose again. Can you humans now doubt that I Myself am at work when you are offered something spiritual which gives you brightness? They are not empty words which you hear .... you can recognise them with your intellect and your heart as wise and testifying to love, and you cannot determine any other origin than within the person who imparts them to you .... Thus they must sound within this human being himself and come from a source which you cannot deny but which you will not find in the earthly realm either .... otherwise you would have to hear the same sound within you .... You can indeed do so, but then you would no longer doubt either .... But to the doubters I say: Seek to find out how such words come about, which reveal profoundest wisdom .... Seek an explanation for it, but keep being sincere and honest .... Do not use sayings, but think seriously. And you will have to look for the source of knowledge, the origin of the word, which imparts profound knowledge to you, where truth alone can originate .... with Me, your God and Creator from eternity .... with the eternal truth Itself. And you will be able to gain this knowledge if you are serious about walking the right path. Your will alone decides whether you think right or wrong. And your will is going to be judged by Me. For this reason I will provide in a physical and earthly manner for him who is of the will to serve Me and the truth, and I will protect you against all interference on the part of the world which are directed against Me as the Eternal Truth and against you as My servants .... I will not leave you who have come to Me voluntarily, and My word will always sound in that way that you will recognise it as your Father's voice, and never ever will your inner feeling deceive you when I speak to you, you will press ever more intimately towards Me and therefore always be able to hear more clearly what your Father is saying to you. But your fellow human beings will only recognise the Father's voice in the word conveyed to you if they desire to be spoken to by Me, if they willingly open their hearts and ears, if they approach you without prejudice and allow the power of My word to take effect on them. But every inner resistance makes them unable to hear My voice, then they only hear empty words and do not believe in their origin either .... Yet everyone receives what he desires, and light will shine to everyone who wants to walk in the light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Descent into hell .... Lucifer's opposition ....

B.D. 6531 from April 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is true that I descended into hell after My death on the cross and that I also brought redemption to those who had not yet entered the gate into eternal bliss, because this gate first had to be opened by My death on the cross .... Countless souls had awaited the hour of their salvation and I appeared to them as Jesus the human being, and I described to them My suffering and death because they, too, had to voluntarily acknowledge Me as Son of God and Saviour of the world. But I was also accepted by those who had lived a good life on earth; I was not rejected by everyone, nevertheless countless souls resisted Me and rejected the gift of grace, My Salvation .... My adversary's influence on these souls was so strong that they only saw Me as the human being who had revolted against earthly rulers and hence was sentenced to death .... The freedom of will had to be upheld for all these souls. Therefore I could not appear in power and glory .... I had to come amongst them just as I had walked amongst the people on earth .... as a human being Who only by means of the Word tried to convince them of His mission and the accomplished act of Salvation.

But My adversary did not want to let go of the souls, nevertheless for the first time he realised the consequence of My act of Salvation .... he could not hold on to the souls who acknowledged Me, who voluntarily wanted to follow Me through the gate which had been opened by Me for them .... They were released from his power, they broke the chains with the strength they received from Me, because I Myself had loosened them .... Hence My adversary raged even more amongst his followers, and now the battle of light against darkness (the battle of darkness against light) began in earnest and has never ceased, and thus rages on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... I had descended into hell to bring salvation to all those whose earthly life had ended before I came to earth .... to all those who, in spite of a right way of life, were still subject to My adversary who even fought against Me Myself and against whom I fought on earth for every soul he was keeping in chains .... And he lost a large proportion of his followers ....

I had died for all those souls and everyone could have liberated themselves from him. But his fury was never-ending when he saw himself deprived of his followers .... when he had to realise that I had gained a victory, but which was entirely achieved by love. He, too, could have submitted himself to love, yet his power, his ownership, was still too large and he resisted the strength of My love, and hence it could not take effect on him either. But the moment had come when he had to realise that his power was defeated .... He had to accept that he had found his master in the human being Jesus, Whose love had achieved unification with Me .... And thus his hate grew ever stronger because the divine Saviour Jesus Christ had now become a serious opponent Who could take his followers away by virtue of His love. But My adversary still found a helpful solution in the fact that this depends on every being's free will and constantly tries to influence his victim's will, be it on earth or even in the spiritual kingdom. But I descended into hell after My death on the cross, and I continue to descend into hell to bring salvation to all those who want to liberate themselves from him, and he will not be able to stop Me, he will never be able to forcibly retain the souls who want to follow My call .... His power has been defeated by My death on the cross, but even this crucifixion could not break his resistance, his hatred and his will are unyielding, his actions are evil, and his essence is entirely without love ....

For this reason he lacks the strength to give life to the dead. His remaining strength will only ever be used for negative actions, and thus positive strength has to weaken his activity ever more .... love has to attract and draw to itself everything which is lifeless and then revive it again .... With My descent into hell the return of the once fallen beings to Me had started, the awakening of the dead into life had commenced, for love has proven that it is stronger than hate, love has made

Amends on the cross for the guilt which had resulted in the death of the beings. And thus life has been bought for them, he who had put the beings into the state of death had been defeated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's work through His instruments ....

B.D. 6532 from April 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You only have a short period of time left to work for Me and My kingdom, and you should use it to the best of your ability, always bearing in mind that it is necessary, that you do not work in vain, that it is a service to people and the suffering souls in the beyond which can still be very successful, even if the majority of people are not receptive to My word. You should always know that it is not you who carry out this spiritual work but that I Myself work through you, that you only carry out what I deem advisable and beneficial, and that you are therefore, as it were, only instruments for Me, guided and controlled by My will .... but that you must give Me your will otherwise I cannot use you for this work. What you therefore tackle spiritually is and always remains My will, for it is most important at present considering the approaching end, it is urgent work that everything earthly should take second place, because earthly work can also be carried out by many others, whereas spiritual work is only rarely done by a person with the degree of dedication which allows My working through him. Time and again you are told that your services are welcome to Me, that rescue work can only still be carried out by people in this day and age because humanity is already too far away from Me and I Myself cannot influence it directly. I can certainly bring about everything, nothing is impossible for Me by virtue of My power .... yet I cannot and will not use it in order not to curtail people's freedom of will. But through you I can still unusually work upon people because it will still affect them within the scope of the human and natural. But for this I need just such people who hand themselves over to Me without any resistance and now serve Me as a form .... but who are and remain aware of their work, who therefore only do what I mentally place in their heart, who fulfil My will because it is also theirs through their surrender to Me .... Understand Me, I Myself work through you, and thus you can spend your days on earth completely free from worries, and every day will proceed as a blessing for you and your fellow human beings and for the souls in the spiritual kingdom as long as it is your will to serve Me and live to please Me. Do whatever you feel urged to do; as soon as you are undecided ask Me for advice and clarity and always hand yourselves in full trust over to My guidance .... the end is at hand and much work shall still be done and My servants shall not tire, but I will provide them with strength, I will give them bodily and spiritually what they need and I will guide all their thoughts so that they move along the right paths .... I will bless them and their work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Work of the spirit ....

B.D. 6533 from April 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

"Whatever will be given to you in that hour, that speak ...." "I will put the words into your mouth ...." What else do these words mean but that My spirit should be active in you .... My spirit is poured out upon all flesh, i.e., I Myself want to express Myself in a human form; the human being shall receive something which is not provided for in the human being's nature, in his bodily functions, but which demonstrates a power which cannot be fathomed by nature but which cannot be denied either, since it has an obvious effect. I will pour out My spirit upon people, just as the process took place on My disciples after My resurrection .... This act was not just a one-off, it shall and will always be repeated where the prerequisites are present which also made My disciples capable of this act, for the outpouring of the spirit is only possible when a person has prepared himself as a right vessel through a way of life according to My will. The human being must experience a certain new birth; he must have accomplished an inner change which has transferred him from My adversary's sphere of power into My sphere so that he can receive My illumination of light of love .... a process which gives him light and brightens his thinking, and he now brightly and clearly recognises what is and remains hidden from his fellow human being until he has likewise accomplished this change of nature. And this irradiation of love can take place with such a different intensity, depending on the human being's degree of love and maturity, so that the working of the spirit becomes apparent in most different ways .... that the human being can work miracles, heal the sick, teach in all wisdom or also reveal the future to his fellow human beings on My behalf .... But it is always the same spirit which accomplishes this, it is My spirit which pours into every human heart which has prepared itself to be a proper receptacle of My divine flow of love. A power which remained ineffective until My crucifixion was now able to permeate after the act of Salvation and enliven people in many ways, for anyone pervaded by My spirit has conquered the darkness of death. He has been given light, knowledge has been imparted to him which only the 'spirit from God' could convey to him .... His thinking is enlightened and he has received all of his knowledge from Me, because My spirit now fills him, which informs him about all things .... But My spirit can only pour into a suitable vessel .... All of you humans can form yourselves into suitable vessels if you live according to My will, if you form yourselves into love again .... I make only this a condition for you in order to be able to pour out My spirit upon you who still walk the earth ignorantly: .... cultivate love .... Through My crucifixion I have acquired the strength you need to work with love, because as human beings you are still weak .... If you now turn to Me in Jesus Christ and request this strength, then you will also succeed in performing works of love, and through these you will purify your heart and align it well .... The more eagerly you practise love the brighter your inner being becomes, you receive Me Myself because you attract Me through every work of love .... But when I Myself am present to you everything must be bright and clear and I must also express Myself to you. And now My spirit fills your hearts and guides you into all truth .... It gives you strength in abundance, you see what was previously hidden from you, you are no longer weak, gloomy creatures but you have acquired light and strength through love. You have requested My spirit which now works in you, which enlightens you, which teaches you .... which proves My presence to you, which I promised you with the words: "I will stay with you until the end of the age .... "

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Lightbearers .... Worldly-minded people ....

B.D. 6534 from April 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

My word will always seem incomprehensible to the worldly-minded person, and the best explanations will not illuminate his spiritual state. On the other hand, everyone whose thoughts and eyes are turned towards Me will understand it. For this reason the bearers of light, the proclaimers of truth, will be judged very differently by their fellow human beings .... because everyone judges according to his talent, and everyone believes to give the right judgement. You stand in the midst of a spiritually completely deprived world, and what you should bring to people who are in a very low spiritual state touches them so abstractly, so nonsensically, that they despise you, deride you and regard you as inferior .... whereas people who have already received a small light are delighted by a gift which seems priceless to them and therefore also approach the bearers of light with love because they recognise and appreciate them as My messengers. There are two worlds which confront each other when the light from on high is offered to completely blind people .... Yet if a little light would never shine into this darkness the few who desire light could not be lured out of the darkness. And therefore the attempts must be made again and again to preach My Gospel to the worldly people too .... even if there is not much success .... And My servants must not let themselves be held back by vituperation of any kind, they must always bear in mind that they are My servants and that they are destined for the same fate as I was when I lived on earth and was called 'servant of Beelzebul'. But those still believed in a God and His adversary. But the people of the present time no longer want to acknowledge anything and only consider you to be people of confused mind who live in delusions .... People do not recognise My voice, they do not recognise the truth, they do not know in what spiritual darkness they are walking .... but they think themselves wise and therefore do not accept any instructions either .... And thus, on the one hand, most profound wisdom, clearest realisation, and strongest working of spiritual power can come to light .... the dark world profits nothing from this .... It is and remains ignorant, blind, and powerless, and yet people live together and side by side .... Lights have been lit in the midst of darkness, and their gleam would probably suffice to chase away the darkness of the environment. But the light is opposed, people try to extinguish it, they refuse to see its soft gleam and continue to walk in darkness. But I protect My bearers of light .... and even if they cannot achieve much success with their fellow human beings, these will not succeed in extinguishing My light .... time and again new little lights can be lit, and time and again individual people will be found who feel comfortable in their rays and shield every bearer of light if he is threatened by danger in the darkness. Anyone who feels comfortable in the darkness will perish in it, anyone who seeks the light will also see the bright morning sun and the light of day will never leave him again. But the people of the world only see the delusive glares and they make for them, and suddenly they stand in the deepest night when the glares go out .... But that is why they are not able to kindle a small flame of love in themselves, because their eyes are so blinded and they are not able to see a tiny flame when it is held out to them, so that they themselves may take light from it in order to reduce the darkness .... in order to walk in the dim light and thus feel a small desire within themselves to also improve this dim light and step into the brightness that will fill them with bliss. The soul only feels happy in light, and every soul must possess light if it wants to be happy in the spiritual kingdom one day. It can already receive light on earth. But if it resists the light bearers I Myself send in its way, it will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely destitute of light, and then it will have to struggle hard to receive what it could easily acquire on earth. For such a soul will act just as rejectingly towards those who want to bring it a light as it did on earth, and endless periods of time can pass until it changes its mind, until a light will shine for it .... For the darkness holds it captive as if with chains, and its will for light alone is decisive that light will now also be conveyed to it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Right use of vital energy ....

B.D. 6535 from April 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The fact that you can want, think and act already presupposes a force in you .... the vital energy which is at every human being's disposal during his earthly existence. Now thinking, wanting and acting can just relate to earthly things, the human being, in his entire nature, can be orientated in just an earthly manner, then the vital energy will only be used for earthly purposes and everything achieved will decay with the death of the body, i.e. it is transitory and therefore has no lasting value. Then the human being has led a useless life, then it was an idle life which he has covered .... He has used the vital energy to which he is entitled in the wrong way .... The right use of vital energy consists in his creating spiritual possessions for himself .... that his thoughts, intentions, and actions aim at spiritual gain which will remain with him forever, for every earthly action can also result in spiritual success; a person's intentions and thoughts can be directed right if they are determined by love, which then urges the person to use the vital energy again for loving activity. Every activity can be based on two different motives .... Earthly achievements can stimulate the human being and drive him to activity, but the human being can also be driven by love to wanting, thinking, and acting, and then every activity will result in spiritual success. Then the vital energy is used in the right way, then it is used according to divine will, then earthly life is successful for the soul, then the human being fulfils the purpose of his earthly life, and the vital energy yields him spiritual strength which he can take with him into the kingdom of the beyond. Thus you humans have been given the means to acquire spiritual wealth by being supplied with vital energy, which in itself is a gift from God, because you once rejected every irradiation of power from God. But it would not be possible for you to pass the test of free will on earth if you were not allocated the amount of vital energy which a free decision of will requires. For precisely the utilisation of this vital energy is the decision of will .... And it is solely a matter of whether the energy is used in the sense of God's adversary or whether the vital energy is determined by love, thus by the divine principle .... whether it is used to acquire spiritual strength and to be released from every fetter in which the soul is put by God's adversary. Earthly life was given to the human being for this purpose, and this decision of will is extremely significant, after all, it determines the state after death in the spiritual kingdom. If your thoughts, intentions, and actions are only directed in an earthly manner you will only use up your vital energy without any success, for the end of your physical life is certain and you will enter the kingdom of the beyond without a plus .... But if you let the love within you determine all your actions, thoughts, and intentions, then you will accumulate a treasure of spiritual possessions and you will not live in vain on this earth. However, the vital energy is usually only utilised in an earthly manner, and yet it alone can help you to attain eternal wealth, since everything earthly is one day subject to decay .... Spiritual possessions, however, are not obviously recognisable, whereas earthly goods are visible and tangible and therefore much more likely to be striven for. But one day you humans will lose your vital energy, and then it will turn out how you have used it, whether riches await you on the other side or whether you will have to live in poverty and misery, in weakness and darkness, because you failed to acquire lasting possessions on earth .... because you did not use your vital energy for the purpose for which it was given to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Souls in the beyond pay attention to every spiritual work ....

B.D. 6536 from April 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

If you could see the multitudes surrounding you who want to draw nourishment from you, you would be overjoyed to be able to help all of them in their spiritual need. You are truly saviours for them who pull them up from the depths because you can bring them what they can cling to, what gives them comfort and hope and what makes them find their way to Me, Whom they now strive towards with all eagerness once they have felt the power of My word. Countless souls surround you, and time and again new souls are brought into your circle by those who found help with you and in their gratitude also want to help the other needy souls again. And all of them are only awaiting the hour when you will make contact with Me in order to be able to participate in the spiritual exchange. You are constantly surrounded by seeking souls, for the sphere of light in which you dwell attracts the souls, and as soon as you are spiritually active a ray of light becomes recognisable, and the souls are waiting for this, which know that they may receive light and strength from you .... This certainty alone should spur you on to spiritual activity, and then you will also understand that these beings constantly urge you and that you feel this as an admonition to work in the vineyard, that you only find satisfaction in this work and want to detach ever more from earthly activity. Spiritual work is blessed a thousand times over, and multitudes of souls are redeemed insofar as that they now get to know the path which leads out of darkness. It is the knowledge of Jesus Christ which these souls must receive so that they then take the path to Him themselves, Who alone can open the gate to everlasting life for them. That is why you should time and again mention the act of Salvation. You cannot talk enough about what Jesus has done for humanity .... You cannot let your minds wander to Him often enough, so that the souls surrounding you will also turn their eyes to where they behold the cross, where they can carry their sins in the knowledge that He alone is able to redeem them. All these souls eagerly accept the knowledge from you and they do not doubt it either, because they are beneficially touched by all My words, and they believe it, because they at the same time behold a light .... because My word also has the power to accomplish an inner change in them, and because the souls which approach you have little resistance within themselves, because they feel your love which wants to help them and they willingly submit to this love .... If you knew what redeeming power emanates from you when you are spiritually active .... if you knew how grateful all souls are when they are allowed to gather again in order to participate, when you yourselves are taught through My word or pass on My word .... You would only take care of these souls with utmost joy and willingness to help and find far greater inner satisfaction than any earthly work you have done can give you .... And therefore you should not grow weary, for this is the only help which can still be brought to the immature souls from earth. Your love shall follow them even beyond the grave, and you shall never cease to remember all those who departed before you into the kingdom of the beyond .... Every good thought has a beneficial effect on these souls, and you draw all those close to you and can help them through the transmission of My word, so that they attain salvation through Jesus Christ, Whom they now learn to know and love through My word, which is offered to them through you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Unquestioning faith earns the human being overabundant strength ....

B.D. 6537 from May 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The human being is weak and yet he could have a measure of strength at his disposal that everything would be possible for him if only he believed that he could accomplish everything in union with Me. He only needs to intimately attach himself to Me and in full confidence appeal for My help .... He only needs to believe that I can help and want to help .... and I will not let this faith be shattered .... But where can such a deep faith be found? Doubt will always creep in with you humans, and this doubt weakens the strength of faith, this doubt prevents Me from making My love and My might evident. You humans could truly remove mountains, you could accomplish everything and yet you do not use this possibility because you are weak in faith .... But you can develop your faith to full strength if you are constantly active in unselfish neighbourly love. For activity in love also guarantees unity with Me, Who am Eternal Love Itself .... And My nearness, My presence will have an effect in the feeling of certainty that you will also gain everything from Me you ask for. It goes without saying that your requests now are mainly spiritually directed, because love also illuminates your thinking, nevertheless, earthly requests are also granted to you as soon as they are based on love again, as soon as you want to help those who are in trouble. You can achieve much with a strong faith, yet you will only ever muster such a faith through loving activity which directly brings you strength from Me, and such a strength of faith is then also capable of accomplishing everything. You must always keep My promise in mind .... the words I spoke to people when I lived on earth are truth and come true .... And if I have promised you that you will receive what you ask 'the Father in My name', then you can also expect with all certainty that I will fulfil My word .... Time and again you must recall My words and adhere to all of them. And if you now believe in Me as your God and Father, as your Redeemer from sin and death, you will also know that I can take all suffering from you and will also do so if you trustingly ask Me for it. The faith of all of you is still very weak and you thereby tie My hands yourselves, because I cannot accomplish anything unusual so as not to coerce your faith .... as long as it is still weak .... Yet you know that nothing is impossible for Me, and you also know that I am Love .... Love does not deny itself but always wants to please and fulfil, and if you now bear this in mind then it will also become a certainty to you that you are not asking in vain .... Then you will come to Me trustingly and in full confidence, and then you will ask Me in spirit and truth and await fulfilment .... And it will come to you, because I will not let such a faith be shattered .... Anyone to whom I can be present also feels Me, and he is certain of the fulfilment of his request. But I can only be present to those who are unselfishly active in love, and therefore the strength of faith will always depend on the activity of love .... But all of you can attain a strong faith if only you fulfil My commandments of love, which are therefore the most important thing in earthly life .... For only love gives birth to a living faith, and then nothing will be impossible for you to achieve ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Battle of faith .... Hostilities .... Antichrist ....

B.D. 6538 from May 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I want to bless you so that you will be My firm supporters when the edifice of faith which, for My Own, is the essence of the church of Christ, is being shaken .... when they shake what I have erected Myself and what I keep teaching people time and again through My Word. The time is approaching when not only the representatives of misguided teachings will treat you with hostility, but when all faith per se is intended to be rooted out, regardless of whether it is misguided or corresponds to the truth, because then My adversary will be determined to use his sharpest weapon: to displace all knowledge and belief in Me and My act of Salvation and replace it with materialistic points of view and plans. And this will be the dawning of a period which you as yet consider impossible, for My adversary will embody himself within a worldly ruler and start his work so cunningly that at first he will only be recognised by few people as to who he really is ....

And so he will win many over who will subsequently follow and obey him blindly as he inconspicuously changes his plans .... For in the beginning he will only proceed against individual denominations and will be supported in this by others who will be only too willing to help him when it concerns removing their opponents. And this is why you will at first believe that you are only subject to hostilities by those who only fight the pure truth because they are representatives of errors and lies themselves. And then you will have to be careful as not to endanger yourselves deliberately. Not long afterwards they will be treated with the same hostility, and then the Antichrist's activity becomes obvious .... And even then he will still be followed by many, because they will already be under his control and he will have an easy game with them. Not much time will pass anymore before the first signs become apparent .... The battle of faith will not start with an act of violence, for My adversary will proceed cunningly and even deceive many believers, who will consequently follow him and, at a later time, become his welcome servants. Yet he will be unable to deceive you, who are spiritually awake, for I will open your eyes and guide your thoughts into the right direction .... For then it will be time to arm yourselves for the final battle, which will be waged with inconceivable brutality. But I will bless you .... I will be with you Myself and leave no one defending Me and My name without protection. For this battle will be decisive since it will, after all, separate the sheep from the goats and be the work of My adversary which will condemn him .... As soon as he fights Me Myself, as soon as he wants to stop the distribution of knowledge about Me and My act of Salvation he will have passed his own judgment, he will be bound and deprived of his every power without fail.

But a clear separation must nevertheless take place, because far too many people are still neither fish nor fowl .... because far too many deem themselves devout and first have to pass this test and regretfully fail because they are not living in truth, because they have little love and therefore can neither receive nor recognise the truth for what it is .... This is why you, My servants, still have to be incredibly active, for then many opportunities will still present themselves where you can enlighten those who then .... beset by doubts .... will be incapable of discernment and desire advice. And you will indeed succeed in helping those who are weak of faith into becoming strong believers; you will succeed in drawing a few over into your camp, you will be able to give them clear and intelligible information and present Me as a loving God and Father Who only requires firm faith in order to also be able to help them in utmost adversity and to grant them the strength to persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lightbearers and their task .... Divine gift of grace ....

B.D. 6539 from May 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Anyone who has once placed himself within the range of My sun of grace, who has once exposed himself to the effect of its rays, will no longer feel at ease in the darkness of night, he will time and again seek the light, he will no longer want to live without light .... And My sun of grace shines incessantly, it sends its light far out into the darkness and touches people's hearts; but its effect can only touch the heart which voluntarily turns towards the ray of light, which opens itself to the light and ray of love and seeks warmth. And therefore it is also possible that a heart remains completely unimpressed if it closes itself, if it resists every ray of light; then this heart has not yet moved into My sphere of light, then the shine of My sun of grace is completely ineffective, the human being is in a dark sphere and stays there although he is constantly offered the opportunity to enter the realm of light. And therefore light and darkness will be close together on earth, the hearts of some will be filled with light and thus stand in the sphere of My sun of grace .... while the others cannot be struck by My ray of light, only because they turn away themselves, because they have no desire for light and feel comfortable in darkness. Yet people have free will .... If My ray of light and love were to be effective despite resistance, this free will would be overridden and the individuals' states of light would no longer vary .... but then becoming perfect would not be possible either, because this requires free will .... But no being is denied light .... My ray of love shines so brightly into the darkness that truly everything could be filled with light if all resistance was given up. And in the last days both this radiation of light and the resistance are very clearly recognisable, for I make use of unusual means of grace in order to supply humanity with light. Yet more than ever this light is resisted, the resistance is stronger than ever .... And that is why the earth is shrouded in darkness, that is why it is also absolutely essential for bearers of light to venture into dark territory on My behalf, that they time and again make their light shine out into the dark night. The effect of the light is unmistakable, for once it has been kindled it will not go out again .... But the kindling is precisely an act of free will, as the spark which lies dormant in every person, which I have placed in every person's heart, flares up through loving activity .... But then the human being also has entered the realm of My sun of grace, then the light will incessantly shine down on him and kindle ever brighter light in him .... love will become ever more powerful in him and he will become a bearer of light himself again, because he, too, felt the darkness to be a state of torment and likewise wants to lead his fellow human beings to the light. It is only ever love which gives light, because love is divine and because God is the Light from eternity .... Thus you approach Me Myself when you live in love; then you must catch My illumination and thus also stand in the light. And that is why 'spreading light' means: To proclaim My divine teaching of love to people .... Therefore the human being lights a little light which shines out into the darkness when he explains the significance of Jesus' teaching of love to his fellow human beings, when he encourages them to live a life of love, and when his speech meets with approval and his fellow human beings want to follow him .... then another little light has been lit, for the human being will mature in knowledge as soon as he is not only a listener but a doer of My word .... as soon as he himself will make an effort to live a life of love. And anyone who has caught a ray of My divine light of love will also allow it to take effect and will not return into darkness any more. There is little light among people because there is little love .... And therefore there is no more urgent work for all who stand in the light than to preach love incessantly and to live it themselves .... Love has grown cold among people, and much warmth of love is needed to revive these cold human hearts and to stimulate them to carry out works of love .... But where a spark of love can spread out, there is also still hope that it will kindle in the heart of the fellow human being and that it will now also become light in him and he will escape the darkness forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's guidance and surrender of will ....

B.D. 6540 from May 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You will live a blessed earthly life if you devote yourselves fully to Me and consciously strive to fulfil My will. Then your former resistance will be broken and earthly life will only serve to achieve the deification of your being which will earn you the childship to God. For even if your soul is now completely turned towards Me, your body is still composed of immature substances which you should and can help to spiritualise during your earthly life. And the soul, too, will have substances which are not yet fully matured, which in the previous embodiments did not completely submit to My order from eternity and also first must come to the just order, but which you can easily achieve precisely through your conscious way of life, through your realisation of your purpose of earthly life. But where the will exists to submit completely to My will there is no longer any danger that the human being could fail, for he is guided like a child by the Father's hand and therefore cannot go astray. But in order to submit the will to Mine, there must first be a deep faith in Me as God and Creator and as Father of His children .... For only the latter explains the trust in Him Whose child the human being wants to be but who only initially sees himself as His creature. The human being now places himself in My care, he places himself under My guidance in the firm belief that he will now also be guided right. How easily all people could attain perfection while still on earth if they had this belief that they need a guide if they want to walk the right path, if they want to pursue their earthly task .... But this first requires the knowledge that every human being has to fulfil a task in earthly life. And where this knowledge is lacking it will also be difficult to find faith in a God and Father and therefore the connection with Him will not be established through surrender of will. But every human being would have to consider a purpose of his earthly life as probable, and therefore every human being would also have to become restless at times and ask himself questions. But world affairs prevent him from doing so, and once such questions arise in him, then a thousand other thoughts will quickly chase them away again .... unless he realises the worthlessness and transitoriness of earthly goods and therefore looks for another purpose in life .... And therefore I have to keep on making people aware of this 'transitoriness of earthly things', I have to take away from them what their hearts cling to, I have to inflict pain on them so often that they will come to recognise the worthlessness of everything that holds their thoughts captive. Then I can sometimes achieve that they seek and strive for another goal, and then it is also possible that they submit their will to the One Whom they had to recognise in losses and strokes of fate of all kinds. But people often go astray for a long time until they take the right path, whereas it would be extremely easy if they allowed themselves to be guided from the very beginning of their earthly life .... which, however, requires deep faith .... But faith cannot be given to them, it must be acquired through loving activity, then the human being will no longer resist accepting the instructions he receives about Me and My nature .... Then he will try to bring himself into contact with the Being in Whom he now wants to believe .... And I assure all of you time and again that the slightest good will will be recognised and heeded by Me, that I will now evidently come close to every person showing this will, and that you can now constantly know yourselves to be guided by Me as soon as you only want to be, as soon as you give up your former resistance and want to live to please Me. This change of will will also irrevocably result in your change of nature, because I Myself will help you, because I will not any more abandon anyone who has once decided to subject his will to Mine. And it should truly be easy for all of you humans to acknowledge a God and Creator .... Who, however, wants to be your Father and to Whom you can always turn with complete trust in His help .... He will always be there for you but never determine you against your will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The sleep of the soul .... Misguided teaching ....

B.D. 6541 from May 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is extremely wrong to deem the souls of the departed as being in an eternal sleep until the arrival of Judgment day .... This idea proves total ignorance of the soul's process of development, furthermore, it proves a wrong attitude towards Me or a person could not think so wrongly .... and it proves that there is no belief in the soul's life after death, for an eternal sleep of death, as presumed by people, cannot be described as 'life after death'.

But this misguided thought is also a great disadvantage for the departed souls, because prayers will not be offered for them and thus they will not receive the help which they need so badly. But people who adopted this doctrine and were taught wrongly will not accept being taught otherwise, and yet they hold on to the error as if it was gospel truth. Here, too, My adversary's work is obvious, who particularly wants to stop people from praying for the souls, because such prayer could help to set them free, which he tries to prevent. But even when these misguided teachings are confronted by the truth, people will not take the only path which could provide them with clarification .... They need only ask Me for an explanation, if they do not want to believe those who would like to correct their error .... they need only approach Me Myself. But they won't take this path, and therefore they are beyond help and refuse to let go of their error.

However, these departed souls suffer immense hardship if they are not remembered in prayer. And people on earth cannot receive instructions for the better from the spiritual kingdom either, because they do not believe in a connection between the world of light and people on earth and therefore do not make themselves mentally available to the knowing powers. They are only concerned about their earthly life as human beings until death. Their idea of an 'eternal sleep of the soul' until 'Judgment day' only proves that they lack all knowledge about the spirits' process of redemption, about My fundamental nature, which is love, wisdom and omnipotence, and about Jesus' act of Salvation .... Their knowledge is very limited and does not correspond to the truth in the slightest, and when truth is brought to them they resist it. And yet they try to prove their point of view with the Word of God, with the Scriptures, but it is not their 'awakened spirit' that finds those references, rather, My adversary himself makes use of My Word when he wants to cause confusion .... But he is only successful when a person merely uses his intellect and does not ask Me Myself for enlightenment through the spirit when he asks for an explanation.

The letter kills, only the spirit gives life .... Anyone who does not entrust himself to Me first, so that I can guide his thoughts correctly, will truly be killed by the letter, since My adversary can use the letter too but will interpret its meaning completely differently and thereby make the biggest error seem acceptable to people .... The doctrine about the soul's sleep of death is a truly dubious teaching .... a teaching which also causes great indignation in the needy souls of the beyond, who 'live' and yet are so weak that they would be grateful for every gift of strength a loving prayer could impart on them. People should frequently remember those souls in their prayers, whose family members on earth believe this misguided teaching .... so that they can gather strength, ascend and mentally help them in turn. Although a life of love on earth will soon provide the souls with clear understanding, they first have to let go of erroneous teachings before they can be assigned to a field of activity themselves .... since every activity in the spiritual kingdom consists of spreading the pure truth.

Hence, a soul that lived a life of love on earth is blessed indeed, it will easily detach itself from misguided attitudes and wrong spiritual knowledge. The others, however, will find themselves in utmost adversity, because every misguided teaching has damaging effects on the soul, but especially the teaching about the eternal sleep of death, since it can actually lead to a kind of darkness similar to death, and at the same time reduce the opportunities for help due to the belief that prayers are futile .... However, anyone who sincerely turns to Me Myself will become clearly aware how misguided this teaching is ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right vineyard labour: Proclaiming the gospel ....

B.D. 6542 from May 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

All My right instruments are under My protection, they are guided according to My will and will always be welcome servants in My vineyard, of which I still need many in the last days before the end. Anyone who therefore wants Me to take him on into My service can know that he is guided and protected by Me as long as he recognises his Lord in Me, as long as he is not fickle having not yet quite decided which lord he should serve .... And the human being should precisely be aware of the fact that he can very easily be enlisted in work which is not in My will .... if he pays attention to the directions of the one who is My adversary. There are only a few people who are so filled with love for Me and their fellow human beings that they willingly want to use their strength for the work of Salvation, which is My goal but has to be carried out with the cooperation of people .... where I Myself cannot emerge obviously .... who therefore, in their love, want to help Me and at the same time help the souls of the misguided to find their way to Me. Such a love enables them to hear My voice, My instructions, so clearly and distinctly that they will only ever work in My will. And these will never listen to My adversary's whispers, for his instructions are of a different nature .... In the end they always come down to an earthly material direction of purpose, and the souls of the needy derive little advantage from it. What must be done first for these needy souls and what is therefore the most important work in My vineyard is the proclamation of Jesus' teaching of love, the proclamation of the pure Gospel. This is necessary in the last period before the end .... And therefore I will keep on conveying the pure Gospel to earth, I will directly convey it to those who are suitable instruments for Me, who want to serve Me in love for Me and their neighbour. The sick souls can only recover through My word, which teaches them love as the most important thing .... thus the souls must be spoken to and .... because I cannot do this Myself on every soul .... willing servants must help Me, they must lend Me their mouths themselves so that I can express Myself through them. Understand that I only call those people My suitable instruments who hand themselves over to Me, that I make use of them in order to do what is necessary for the salvation of souls on earth or in the beyond, that they mature and take the path upwards, that they strive to reach Me as their goal. You humans shall speak to your fellow human beings in My stead and then you will be efficient servants in My vineyard. People shall be given knowledge which is beneficial for their souls, the knowledge about their earthly task and how they can fulfil this task .... This knowledge is enough for people to develop upwards, for their souls to mature, for them not to get lost .... And every person who contributes his share towards bringing this knowledge to his fellow human beings, every person who is able to receive the pure truth from Me and passes it on again unadulterated, is in fact My servant who need never fear to fulfil anyone else's will but Mine. But I Myself know what people need as nourishment for their souls, I know what is beneficial for their souls but also what is harmful to them .... But you humans do not know this, and therefore you should always be more eager to ask Me Myself for the right nourishment for your souls, you should not try to acquire intellectual knowledge which is worthless for your souls' development, even though it is intended to feign spiritual knowledge. The last days are very short and the spiritual hardship is unspeakably great, and anyone who wants to serve Me in truth should only inspire his fellow human beings to love and therefore live a life of love himself .... he should not tarry when it comes to standing up for My word, but he should not try to direct his fellow human beings' thoughts towards completely unimportant matters which, in view of the end, are of no value to the soul, for such thoughts are promoted by My adversary, whose endeavour is to prevent people from fulfilling what is most important .... from handing the soul the nourishment it needs in order to get out of his control. And he has many irons in the fire .... he will still present many things to you humans which want to worry your minds, which will make you forget what is most important .... And therefore you should always be careful whose voice you hear .... For all I want is the soul's salvation, but he only directs your thoughts towards what is of use to the body ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Descent into hell ....

B.D. 6543 from May 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

On your own you will never succeed in transforming your nature, for you lack the strength to do so. However, there is One who has acquired this strength for you .... The human being Jesus managed to achieve something on your behalf to remedy your state of weakness which was the consequence of your past rebellion against God .... Thus He took the consequences of this guilt of yours upon Himself, He paid for your guilt with His death on the cross and thereby made it possible for you to receive strength again .... He has acquired the strength for you and dispenses it as a gift of grace .... providing you avail yourselves of the blessings, for which your acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world is a prerequisite, which also includes the acknowledgement of Jesus' divinity. But what previously was impossible, that a person could change himself again into the being of light he had originally been, became possible through Jesus' crucifixion, and so the return to God will with certainty have taken place if only the human being abides by Jesus Christ, if he appeals to Him for help on the path to perfection. The strength he subsequently receives is sufficient to liberate himself from the control of the one who had pulled him into the abyss and mercilessly kept him captive there, because without the help of Jesus Christ the being has no strength of its own to resist. Jesus Christ, therefore, also descended to hell to bring help to those who had already lost their earthly life before the act of Salvation and were still controlled by God's adversary. They did not succeed in liberating themselves during their earthly life, for they were very weak willed and thus succumbed to the former and remained enslaved by him until the Saviour Jesus Christ arrived Whom they were allowed to follow unhindered, because He had also paid the purchase price with His blood for their souls. Yet even these souls' free will had to be observed .... but which was subsequently strengthened if the soul was not entirely hostile ....

However, the descent into hell is not being understood properly if only the willing souls are being mentioned .... Jesus, the Crucified, also showed himself in the slough of total depravity, He dared to venture into His adversary's, His fallen brother's, realm .... He stood before Him with His wounds and showed Him what love was able to achieve .... He faced him like a brother, but even this immense sacrifice was unable to soften the latter's heart of stone .... Scornfully the prince of hell turned away and with him a large crowd of most evil spirits .... Love did not find the way to their hearts for their hatred was greater and their will was free. God certainly knew that this would not be successful; nevertheless, the inhabitants of hell were offered the treasure of grace too, for love does not stop, not even for the most abject creature, but it does not compel its surrender .... Yet the act of love by Jesus, the man, could not overcome the hatred and opposition, nevertheless, it was offered to the beings of darkness as well, for Jesus' love applied to all living creations and the descent into hell was a final attempt to persuade God's adversary to turn around, to give him the final opportunity to change and to shorten the time of redemption for the fallen beings .... But even this greatest act of love, which God Himself accomplished in Jesus, the man, did not succeed in changing Lucifer's arrogance and heartlessness, in fact, the latter regarded Jesus' crucifixion as a triumph of his power and strength .... He considered himself the winner who had succeeded in delivering a divine being to his servants .... who certainly recognised in the Being that had descended to hell the One Who had 'died' but not the One Who was 'resurrected' .... Lucifer did not surrender, which the Deity had foreseen from the start .... and thus was able to base on this the work of guiding the fallen beings back which, however, will also return this prodigal son into the Father's house one day when he recognises his weakness, but this will still take eternities until all those having been seduced by him have been completely redeemed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason of the knowledge of the last course of development ....

B.D. 6544 from May 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Where hearts open themselves to My word there can never be a relapse into the abyss, for the hearts will be struck by My ray of love and life will return to what was previously dead. But because the human being's free will determines whether he accepts or rejects My word, they should also know what a relapse into the abyss implies for them .... And therefore I also give them knowledge through My word about the new creation of the earth and the banishment of the spiritual substances opposing Me in it .... For this reason only, in the last period before the end, people will be informed of what would otherwise not be necessary to know. Although very few people will believe it, their attention should be drawn to it so they might be aware of the great responsibility they bear for their souls in the short span of earthly life. The knowledge of the soul's infinitely long course through creation before its embodiment as a human being is unnecessary as long as people believe in Me and make an effort to live according to My will .... And if they live contrary to My will then they are still offered the opportunity to change in the beyond .... although they can still sink into the abyss even then .... but there was still the possibility to mature in the beyond and to reach the light .... But once an earth period has ended, the gates into the kingdom of the beyond will also be closed, because then everything spiritual will be judged again, i.e. it will be transferred to where it belongs according to its degree of maturity for the purpose of upward development. Then the possibility of further development in the beyond will no longer exist, and the creations of the new earth will take in everything that is contrary to Me .... And therefore humanity will be enlightened in the last days, knowledge will be presented to My servants which shall make people aware of the great responsibility of their lives; and this knowledge can only be received in a spiritual manner .... but this is why it is also doubted with the remark that it is not contained in the Scriptures .... The imparting of this knowledge is a special grace, for it can contribute to the human being's change, so that he is aware of the significance of his earthly life. This is also a ray of love on My part which kindles when it strikes an open heart. People should only think when My word is proclaimed to them .... Even if they do not believe what they are told by My servants I will give them light and direct their thoughts right so that they will come close to the truth. The act of new banishment is so momentous for everything spiritual that I truly want to do everything to protect people's souls from it. But since free will must be respected I present their whole path of development to them .... which, again, can only happen through My word, because a recollection would only imply a compulsion of faith. But given good will everything is easy to believe if only the human being has the will to act and think right, and if only he acknowledges a Creator above himself to Whom he has to answer .... if only he willingly opens his heart to My word, which will truly not leave him untouched .... This is why I send the disciples of the last days to people with the instruction to proclaim My Gospel to them .... For necessity demands it, because I want to help all people and save them from falling away into the abyss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Spiritual strivers are particularly harassed ....

B.D. 6545 from May 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

People who strive to ascend are particularly exposed to My adversary's attacks and he uses a variety of means to reach his goal: to turn them away from Me again and to pull them down into the abyss. He is so deluded that he believes he will succeed because he does not know that he has already lost these souls through their will, which is meant for Me. For I will not abandon him any more who once turned to Me of his own free will .... But I cannot prevent him from temporarily turning to the world again if My adversary can achieve a sham success. Yet irrevocably the soul returns to Me, for the world can no longer captivate it, and My love draws the creature which has already found its way to Me. And therein you can also look for the explanation that spiritual strivers must wrestle with My adversary for their freedom. They will never be losers but nevertheless have to use strength, for he is persistent and his means are often not recognisable and can therefore have a harmful effect insofar as the path to Me is prolonged by temporary standstill or looking backwards .... But I cannot prevent people from being blinded by a false light .... and particularly not so when right light shone from Me and they passed by it for the sake of that delusive glare .... when their eyes are then weakened and they can no longer recognise anything .... Neither I nor My adversary will use coercion where the creatures' free decision is concerned, but nevertheless My adversary will not succeed in snatching the souls from Me again which are on their way to Me, he can only stop them and try to bring them to heel for his objects. And then free will will decide again, which will, however, certainly also find its way back to Me again, even if the human being has taken wrong paths, for whoever has once chosen Me as his goal will never give up this goal again. But the fact that it is at all possible to obey his wishes in the slightest is due to you humans yourselves .... You have loosened your bond with Me yourselves and thereby attracted him to you, who will seize such an opportunity. For this reason increased vigilance is always called for for everyone who strives to ascend, for even if the adversary is blind in spirit, even if his thinking is completely wrong, he nevertheless knows that he does not have much time left, that a deadline has been fixed for him, and in his darkness he believes that in this short period of time he can still achieve to dethrone Me and to accede to the throne himself. And therefore he will not shy at any means nor will he stop at anyone .... But one thing can keep him back: when you stand in My circle of light .... He cannot fight My light and therefore he tries everything to bring the light bearers down. But if you are vigilant, then you only ever turn your eyes and hearts towards Me .... then My light of love can shine into you even more intensely and My adversary will flee from it. You should watch and pray and he will not get anywhere with you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Sacrificial death of Jesus ....

B.D. 6546 from May 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The sacrificial death of Jesus Christ was an unique event .... But its effect extended to all ages, to the past, present and future .... What the man Jesus did was unique and will never be repeated, for it was a spiritual act which was displayed in an earthly manner because people had to take note of it if they wanted to participate in the effects of an event which was incomparable. Jesus' sacrificial death on the cross had a spiritual meaning and spiritual consequences, and it was suffered with spiritual strength, just as the unspeakable suffering and torment before could only be endured by a person who possessed this spiritual strength. It was love which enabled the human being Jesus to endure a measure of suffering which every other human being would have succumbed to .... It was love which recognised the necessity of such a sacrifice, and it was love which moved a soul of light to walk the way to the cross on earth for people .... But the act of Salvation by the man Jesus has been accomplished for all ages and will therefore also only be unique, for the spiritual cause underlying the act of Salvation now had its effect and a repetition is therefore not necessary any more, because all people of the past, present and future can participate, because all can avail themselves of the graces which the man Jesus acquired on the cross, and because His act of mercy will never ever fall into oblivion .... precisely because it was not just a human event but because God Himself died for people in Jesus and therefore this very act was and is unique. For a long time people had to live on this earth in sin and hardship before the Saviour Jesus Christ took pity on people, but redemption was also brought to all those people through the sacrificial death .... For a long time people also still dwell in darkness because they are under the sway of God's adversary .... But one day the redemptive work of Jesus will also bring them deliverance, and though an endless number of creatures will still have to walk the earthly path .... all of them will one day be seized by God's mercy and find redemption from sin and death through Jesus Christ, Who also died for the people of the future .... For they will always and at any time receive knowledge of the greatest work of love, only it will always and at any time also be up to the individual whether he avails himself of the graces of this work of Salvation. Jesus' sacrificial path compensated for all of humanity's sins, for it was so immeasurably agonising because an angel of light passed through the deepest depths, because not only the human body but also a pure soul had to suffer indescribably and because no human being could endure this degree of suffering, and therefore the act of Salvation by the man Jesus is to be valued completely differently and will not lose its value in eternity. This gift of grace is offered to every human being, every human being can utilise it, and every human being must accept it if he wants to be saved .... And therefore every person can feel touched by God's love when Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation is presented to him, then he will be given an indication where he can seek and find his salvation .... For the sacrifice of the cross must also have been made for him, and this includes the human being acknowledging the divine Jesus Christ and placing himself under His cross .... And therefore the act of Salvation needs but to be repeated in the human being's heart .... he must think of Jesus and His greater than great love, which made the sacrifice for him, and he must want the act of mercy to include him as well, which will never lose its redeeming power. And the human being will be released from all guilt, no matter how great it is before God .... He Who died on the cross for love for humanity has also redeemed this guilt if it is repentantly presented to Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Mere conformists will be unsuccessful ....

B.D. 6547 from May 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You will be unable to demonstrate any noteworthy success at the end of your earthly life if you have travelled the broad road, if you have joined other travellers without first having asked where the path of the masses is leading to .... For then you will be mere conformists who believe that they can shift their responsibility onto other people, onto those who lead the crowds. Each individual person will come upon crossroads during his life on earth, and each time some of his companions will turn off, and then the human being will have to decide for himself which direction he wants to take .... For as long as he merely remains a conformist for the rest of his life he will have gained nothing for the salvation of his soul. This is why church organisations can never guarantee that their members will reach beatitude, for this has to be pursued and attained by every person himself, and although he can indeed be appropriately instructed every person nevertheless has to do the work of improving his soul himself .... that is, everyone will then have to take his own path of ascent.

It is a big mistake for a person to think that he can pass the responsibility for his soul on to alleged leaders, to only ever comply with the requests of these leaders and to believe that this is 'conscious psychological work' .... And it is an even bigger mistake to believe that people should not scrutinise these leaders' requests, that they should unconditionally accept or believe everything that those in authority portray as truth .... And even if it is the truth, every human being should form his own opinion of it, for only then will he be able to recognise when error creeps in and guard against it. But anyone who entirely relies on what definitely must be scrutinised should not assume that his omission will be excused, he should not assume that he can transfer his blame onto those who have guided him wrongly, for everyone can see the paths branching off and can take these just as easily as the trodden one, but he always needs to ask himself where the different paths will lead to and then make a conscious choice.

However, anyone who keeps his eyes to the ground and thoughtlessly follows the crowds can miss the crossroads, and then it will be his fault as well, for he is supposed to be watchful himself, he is not meant to walk blindly since he was given the gift of sight .... And he is supposed to think, because this is why he was given intellect, which he should use for attaining his salvation. And you also should know that the path of the masses will never be the right path .... For the masses are led by God's adversary and the truth will never be found there. If only you humans would bear in mind that the adversary dominates on earth and that far more people belong to him than to God .... If only people's wickedness, heartlessness and spiritual low level would make you realise much power he has over the human race .... Then, if you were seriously striving to reach your salvation, you would not move with the crowds, you would separate yourselves and find a path which leads in a different direction .... You would pay attention to the messengers who lead the way with a light in order to illuminate the path .... you would not be satisfied; you would think for yourselves and become ever more enlightened.

Shake off your indifference where it concerns your souls' salvation .... Don't let others take care of you for your soul is your own responsibility, of which no one can relieve you. Try to contact God Himself, choose Him as your Leader, liberate yourselves from those who want to be His representatives on earth, for His true representatives will only ever advise you to establish your own connection with God, but false representatives want to relieve you of your responsibility and just demand blind obedience from you and the fulfilment of their own commandments .... If you want to attain bliss then you will have to take the paths which lead to beatitude yourselves; you have to appeal to God to show you the right paths and to give you the strength to take them, even if they lead uphill .... And God will also send the right guides to meet you, He will draw you to Himself, and you will safely reach the right goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Outpouring of the spirit presupposes redemption ....

B.D. 6548 from May 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Again and again I pour out My Spirit into the hearts of those who open themselves to Me, who have prepared their hearts for Me so that I can make My dwelling in them, who love Me and want to have proof of My love for them .... I pour out My Spirit on all flesh .... Yet the redemption through Jesus Christ must have preceded that you are now delivered from My adversary, that you have the strength and the will to shape yourselves into a receptacle for My spirit, and I Myself can now also work in you. The working of My spirit is impossible in an unredeemed state, for it requires a certain degree of maturity of your soul which, however, you will never be able to achieve without the help of the divine Redeemer, which is why you must avail yourselves of the graces of His act of Salvation, which at the same time means that you hand yourselves over to Him and appeal to Him that He may also have died for you so that you will be released from the burden of sin which still binds you to My adversary .... But if you are freed from him, then I can also take possession of you, then I can make My power of love flow into you again, as once before you fell, and then I can also pour out My Spirit upon you .... I can speak to you and give you full understanding for everything, I can brighten your thinking, I can impart strength to you in abundance so that you can perform works of love .... I can disclose knowledge to you which enables you to instruct your fellow human beings, I can initiate you into My eternal plan of Salvation and give you knowledge of what lies ahead of you .... I can train you to be capable labourers in My vineyard and assign you tasks which serve the salvation of your fellow human beings .... Thus I can speak to you directly and you can now constantly keep up contact with Me, I can be constantly present in you .... And I gave you this promise when I walked on earth, that I will stay with you until the end .... I may have left you physically, I have ascended to heaven, but I have sent you the one I promised you: My spirit, the Comforter, which always reminds you of Me, which teaches you again, as once, and which, above all, presents the significance of My act of Salvation to you, because this is the most important thing in your earthly life, that you acknowledge Him, Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross, Who was only a shell for Me in which I incarnated Myself, because I wanted to redeem you from sin and death. Anyone who is not enlightened by My spirit will not grasp the profound significance of the act of Salvation either. But there will always be people into whom I can pour out My spirit, and therefore Jesus' death on the cross will always be emphasised .... never will His act of Salvation fall into oblivion, because My spirit keeps on announcing it anew in order to point Him out to people, Who alone is your Redeemer and to Whom they must hand themselves over in order to be released from a power which otherwise keeps you captive eternally .... I will stay with you until the end of the world .... How else can it be understood than that I dwell with you in spirit, that I Myself am present to you and reveal Myself to you? And all of you can prepare your hearts for Me as a dwelling place, all of you could serve Me as a receptacle of My spirit, for I want to pour out My spirit on all flesh which makes itself worthy to receive Me Myself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The path to the eternal home ....

B.D. 6549 from May 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The way home can be long and comfortable but also short and arduous, depending on how serious you are of reaching your goal .... But you can also quite easily walk a completely wrong way if you don't care where you go to .... A difficult path will never lead into the abyss, for the one who wants to entice you to descend shows you ways which are appealing to walk .... He will never lure you to himself with a difficult path. This is why it should always give you cause for concern if your earthly path is far too easy and full of joy; then you should always ask yourselves whether you are on the right path, whether it is the path to your eternal home. But you are generally satisfied as long as your earthly life gives to you what you desire, and then you will rarely consider the life of your soul after death .... But you should be concerned .... If you want to reach higher spheres then your ascent must require strength, it will never be possible to cover it effortlessly unless you completely hand yourselves over to Me and let Me be your guide. In that case you will not feel the effort of ascending quite so much and yet your path will lead upwards .... Therefore, take notice of the fact that an even path can never lead to the goal .... and humbly accept all adversities and difficulties, for they guarantee you a path of ascent, to Me, Who should never be searched for below but only ever above.

And also beware that you do not divert from these ascending paths onto the wide and comfortable road again, for you can change your goal at any time, the opportunity will always be offered to you to change from the broad path onto the narrow path which cannot be effortlessly walked; just as the reverse is always possible, for My adversary will never stop enticing you and time and again will show you appealing regions to prompt you to direct your steps to where he wants you to go .... An all too easy earthly life with all kinds of earthly joys and pleasures is such a wide and easily passable path, which certainly can still be exchanged before the end of your life on earth with the steep path towards ascent, but although the achievement of the goal can still be possible it is nevertheless very doubtful, for no person knows when his earthly life will be over and whether he will still have the opportunity at the end to turn onto the narrow path towards ascent. No-one knows whether he can ever catch up on the missed time or whether he will still be able to change the direction of his goal in his earthly life .... This is why you should not be envious of any fellow human being who lives a carefree earthly life which constantly seems full of joy .... He is not on the right path yet, he is still too much taken care of by the one who wants to lure him into the abyss .... And yet, guided by My hand, you too can enjoy your earthly life, but your joys and wishes will be different ones than those which you observe with your fellow human beings. For the gifts distributed by Me are of a different kind but they can make the person far happier than material possessions .... And at the same time they give you the necessary strength you need for the path of ascent .... And you will truly not make a bad choice if you decide quite early to turn off the broad way onto the narrow and seemingly impassable path towards ascent .... For then you will no longer desire what you have left behind .... You will look upwards and follow the light, and you will safely reach the goal, to Me in your Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's infinite love .... Eternal damnation ....

B.D. 6550 from May 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You do not know God's love and mercy and His unceasing efforts to help you, His creatures, from the depths to the heights. He wants to leave nothing in the depths, everything that once fell shall return to Him again in order to be able to be unspeakably blissful in His nearness. What is separated from Him, what is at a great distance from Him, is unhappy and moves Him to pity .... And His love enticingly calls for this wretched creature to turn to Him again, from Whom it had voluntarily turned away .... Yet everything happens without coercion, it is not possible to force those beings to return to God, the return to Him can only be achieved through love, but that it will happen some day is certain, for God's love will not relinquish anything that is His, that has emerged from Him. But because only love can influence the fallen being in that way that it voluntarily returns, therefore the irradiation of love must touch the being again and again until it opens itself and is determined by the power of love to approach God again. And this process takes place in earthly life when the human being becomes aware of the fact that he is guided and led by a higher Power, that he now hands himself over to this Power and follows his inner voice, which is a silent address from God .... Then his resistance is broken and the being is on the path of return to God .... for now God's love draws it, and His mercy also helps the still unworthy to ascend. God's love is infinite .... And therefore no being can be lost forever .... God's love and His mercy pursue that which has sunk into the abyss, and that is why there is also ransom from hell, because God's love is greater than the sinner's guilt .... and because mercy wants to compensate for the fallen being's weakness, and that is why every being is wooed by God's love until it opens itself and allows a ray to work in it. And then the spell is also broken, for love has great power. This is why people must not speak of an 'eternal damnation' .... For eternal damnation presupposes a severe, unloving judge who deprives the being of all freedom and mercilessly passes his sentence .... But God does not want the state in which the wretched finds itself, into which it has fallen through its own fault, in free will .... God wants to save the wretched from it, He wants to lead it to salvation, He wants to irradiate it with His love, and His mercy does not make a distinction as to the magnitude of the guilt of sin. But He does not force any being into salvation .... And therefore such wretched states can also last eternities, for they must be ended by the being itself .... You humans can believe that all help will be granted to them, because God's love is infinite and will never diminish or decrease, no matter how long His creations persevere in resistance .... God is not angry but He takes pity on the unhappiness of those creatures, yet He cannot put them into a state of bliss exercising His power because this would neither correspond to His justice nor to His creatures' freedom of will .... Thus He will only try to influence the souls' will in that way that they will voluntarily turn to Him .... But then a complete return is also guaranteed, for God's love is so powerful that it conquers everything where only its effectiveness is permitted .... And one day every being will have returned to Him, one day even the abyss will have to release everything, because God's love is stronger than hatred and because even God's adversary will one day voluntarily turn to God again, even though this will still take eternities, but God's love will defeat him.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Striving for spiritual gifts .... Characteristic of the church of Christ ....

B.D. 6551 from May 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You should diligently endeavour to attain the gifts of the spirit, for they cannot be given to you; you will have to acquire them by preparing yourselves such that My spirit will be able to work in you. Don't think that you can receive them if you failed to do the work of improving your soul, if your nature has not sufficiently changed that it has become love .... Your soul must have reached a specific degree of maturity before My spirit can work in you, and this degree of maturity requires your firm will to live entirely in keeping with My commandments on earth, it requires self-denial, selflessly helping your neighbour, a complete turning towards Me .... Only then will I be able to pour out My spirit over you, and then will the human being be able to receive the gifts of the spirit for which he is particularly qualified and which will determine his future work for Me and My kingdom. All of you can partake in the gifts of the spirit, for all of you are called to diligently co-operate in the work for the kingdom of God .... But only a few are chosen .... Only a few fulfil the conditions which is followed by the working of My spirit, only a few take the work of improving their souls so seriously that they shape themselves into a receiving vessel for My spirit, and therefore I can endow only a few with the gifts of the spirit .... But anyone who is in possession of it is already blissfully happy on earth, for he knows himself to be in heartfelt contact with Me, he knows I Myself Am working in him and he will successfully work for My kingdom.

However, you humans cannot prove your affiliation to the church of Christ .... to the church I Myself established on earth .... in any other way but through the possession of a spiritual gift, for this is the characteristic of My church. Various gifts testify to the working of My spirit; but a seemingly extraordinary strength will always become evident, an ability will surface in the human being which he has not acquired through application or study or physical exertion but which was clearly 'given' to him .... be it, that he performs miracles, heals the sick, teaches with wisdom or has the gift of prophesy ....

They all prove their membership to the church of Christ by their living faith which had arisen from love and thus they are in heartfelt contact with Me Myself, so that I can work through My spirit as I consider beneficial for their and their fellow human being's salvation of soul. Hence you humans need only seriously strive to attain a living faith .... and therefore live a life of love .... Then you will do whatever it takes to gain your soul's degree of maturity and also become aware of My presence in you and, as a result of this awareness, also have remarkable strength at your disposal which I allocate to you such that it will be conducive to you and your vicinity .... And anyone who thus has acquired an unusual gift of the spirit will also be a loyal labourer in My vineyard, for he will work with this gift in order to lead his fellow human beings into a living faith in Me in Jesus Christ .... For every person enlightened by My spirit will always testify to the divine Redeemer, because redemption through Him must have preceded before My spirit will be able to work, before the gifts of the spirit can be distributed .... and because only a person redeemed by Jesus' blood also has the strength to so work at improving his soul that it will attain the required degree of maturity to receive gifts of the spirit .... With the help of Jesus Christ all people can and will succeed .... And for that reason every spiritually-awakened person will proclaim the One Who promised His spirit .... And every person who can exhibit a spiritual gift bears witness to the fact that he found salvation through Jesus Christ from the night of death, for My strength is working in him, My light shines within him, I Myself Am in him and work through My spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Revelation of the divine will .... Truth ....

B.D. 6552 from May 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 70

My spirit reveals to you what you need to know in order to be saved. You must be spoken to by Me Myself in order to hear about My will, for I alone can explain to you why you must first enter into My will, why only a life according to My will can lead you to salvation. As long as you humans have not reached the degree of maturity again which ensures brightest light for you, thus full realisation, you must be taught how to attain this degree of maturity, and only the One Who knows everything can teach you truthfully .... And therefore I reveal Myself to you .... It is My bliss to guide you into knowledge, yet again, knowledge alone is not of use to you but you must first fulfil My will, only then can knowledge become comprehensible to you, only then will you experience knowledge as a light .... But My will is only that you move within the eternal order .... and My eternal order again is a life of love .... My will is only that you practise love, then you will move within My eternal order, and then you will also reach the degree of maturity which will bring you light, i.e. brightest realisation .... You can now certainly also accept such a knowledge from your fellow human beings .... But do you know whether it corresponds to the truth? Do you know whether the people who teach you have already reached that degree of maturity which guarantees them a bright light? Do you know whether originally pure truth is still offered to you unadulterated? Therefore you must also then take the path to Me and appeal to Me for illuminated thinking and right assessment of that knowledge .... And thus I Myself must reveal Myself to you .... I must always first contact you Myself, but this is only possible if you come to Me, if you establish the connection with Me yourselves, because I do not restrict your free will .... You can certainly also just believe your fellow human beings and do what you have been taught as 'My will' .... And then you will also recognise by the effect your way of life has whether this knowledge is truth, whether it originates in Me, and then you will also have approached Me and established the connection with Me, and then it will also be possible for Me to reveal Myself to you, whereas untrue teachings will not bring you spiritual progress and you will stay away from Me .... You must know of My will and live according to My will. And if you are of good will yourselves then you will also want to seek Me and know of My will, and then I can also reveal Myself .... by guiding your thinking right if you cannot hear My direct address .... He Who created you is also in constant contact with you, otherwise you would not be able to exist .... He Who created you, He, however, also wants you to desire to be united with Him .... He does not want you to isolate yourselves from Him, even though you lead an independent existence .... He wants you to hand yourselves over to Him despite your independence, to desire to be in intimate communion with Him, for He Who created you loves you and also desires your love .... And because I love you I also constantly seek to reveal Myself to you in whatever way it may be .... I always seek to direct your thoughts towards your God and Creator, towards your Father, and I always seek to induce you to establish the bond with Me so that I can make My will known to you, the fulfilment of which will bring you unlimited bliss .... But I do not force you, I want you to come to Me voluntarily, that love for Me determines you to seek union with Me, for only love guarantees salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Connection with God: Loving activity ....

B.D. 6553 from May 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You enter into contact with Me when you rise your thoughts to Me, but this bond can be severed again at any time because your thoughts never linger on the same subject for long and therefore the will has to be active again and again so that your thoughts deal with Me. But it is different when you establish the connection with Me through loving activity .... Then you yourselves draw Me to you, and then you also receive My power of love which chains you to Me ever more, so that the bond cannot be loosened so easily. For anyone who has once kindled love within himself will also nourish the small flame, he will not be satisfied with some work of love but will precisely be stimulated by My power, by My presence, to ever new loving activity. Love is truly the firmest bond which unites you to Me. But a person who repeatedly raises his thoughts to Me will likewise be stimulated to work with love, for his thinking of Me, of his God and Creator, is always a sign of a good attitude, and such mental bonds, if established frequently, will not fail to have an effect on his will and thinking, which will inevitably move along paths which correspond to My will. The bond with Me can never fail to have good effects, and therefore it cannot be recommended to people sufficiently; but the most powerful effect will always be works of love. In every situation in life the human being is offered the opportunity to unite with Me, and anyone of good will will also make use of the opportunities .... But as long as the human being's thoughts concern other goals, as long as the human being lives in self-love, he does not seek Me but keeps himself separate from Me, and as soon as he lacks any bond with Me he is still under the sway of My adversary, who directs his will wrong and therefore is an influence on him, because the human being cannot resist him, because he has no strength which arises from his loving activity only .... because I Myself cannot assist him, for he makes My presence impossible through his wrong will and thinking. There are two goals which the human being can strive for in thought, but both goals are fundamentally different .... If, however, I Myself am the goal of his thoughts, then the human being can record a great plus at the end of his earthly life, for the bond with Me also yields him a great treasure of grace which precisely presupposes the human being's willingness in order to be utilised. I truly do everything to turn the human being's thoughts towards Me in earthly life .... to prompt his activity of love, yet My adversary leaves no stone unturned either .... And the human being himself is the deciding factor, for his will is free. But his life will be an idle one if he does not find his way to Me .... whereas it can also be richly blessed if he unites with Me in thought and ensures My presence through loving activity .... For then he will remain connected to Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Jesus' forerunner ....

B.D. 6554 from May 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The higher development of the soul is the human being's task on earth .... Yet only few are aware of it, only few question the purpose and goal of their existence .... The majority only strive for prosperity, for everything that provides the body with a sense of well-being. But all people have the gift of intellect, all people would be able to question themselves about the purpose and goal of earthly life, and all people would also receive an answer .... for it is the first step of ascent. However, since people think no further than their death, since they seldom believe in their soul's life after death, the question of their earthly welfare is more important to them and they consider their earthly activity and work a priority .... They lack faith .... for even if they had just a little faith they would not find inner peace regardless of their earthly comfort .... The more the end approaches the less faith can be found amongst people ....

This is why unusually devout people will arise in the last days who can also carry out unusual feats and draw people's attention to themselves, for God will truly still try everything so as to help those who just require such unusual stimulation in order to become aware of the purpose of their lives. These people are beings of light who are embodied on earth for the purpose of a mission, who want to remedy people's adversity and therefore live on earth in the flesh without realising their origin. Their strong bond with God which they, however, establish voluntarily as human beings just like all their fellow humans would be able to do, gives them extraordinary strength .... For they have a loving nature and thus their belief is so alive that it expresses itself in unusual activity .... by proclaiming Jesus Christ with a living faith and in practical help of body and soul in His name .... On account of such people many can still come to believe, for they clearly demonstrate a strength which cannot be explained in an earthly way. People shall be helped to find faith and simultaneously shown the path to God for which, in view of the entirely incredulous human race, unusual means must be used which nevertheless will not force them to believe.

More and more awakened people will prove their strength of faith the nearer it is to the end .... Until a bright light begins to shine .... Until someone appears who announces the imminent arrival of the Lord and prepares the way for Him again .... His light will shine brightly in all directions .... For his appearance will soon become known, and although he will be a source of strength and comfort to many people, the majority will nevertheless meet him with hostility since they belong to God's adversary and on his instruction take action against everything of a divinely-spiritual nature and particularly persecute those who speak in Jesus' name and proclaim the near end .... Yet precisely because God's adversary will proceed with extraordinary brutality during the last battle on this earth, the extraordinary light will be sent to earth .... once again a spirit of light will embody itself on this earth as it is written .... Once again he will precede the Lord and proclaim His coming, and once again he will make himself known as a 'voice in the wilderness' .... And he will know who he is yet unassumingly live his earthly life, which will also be sealed with his death again.

But all people faithful to God will draw strength from him and time and again be lifted up when the adversity of the time seems to knock them down .... For he speaks on God's instructions .... God Himself speaks through him to people. They will also realise the important mission of Jesus Christ's forerunner and therefore fully consciously expect the Lord's arrival and won't doubt that they will be delivered from greatest distress. By the time the former appears the time will have come which has been constantly announced by seers and prophets, for when he comes the adversary's activity, which affects the believers so extraordinarily, will be so obvious that they will also need extraordinary help .... For he will let his light shine, sending its rays far and wide .... People everywhere will hear about him and the believers will know who hides behind this light, and thus they will also know which hour has struck. Yet despite hostility and a ban on speaking Jesus Christ's forerunner will continue steadfastly along his course .... He speaks on God's instructions and recognises no other Lord than the One he serves .... And his speeches will ignite hearts; they will strengthen the weak to muster the courage to die for their belief ....

However, every human life rests in God's hand .... He alone knows when the hour of deliverance will strike, when His coming to earth and the removal of His Own will take place .... And His forerunner, too, knows his end but even his death will still be a service to his Lord .... For he will bring the work of glorification to completion, as a result of his death God's might and glory will be revealed .... For only One rules over life and death and this One will prove Himself as Lord, as victor over His adversary when the last day comes .... He will give life to those who believe in Him .... and all who are enslaved by His adversary will fall prey to death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Eternal cycle .... Creative power reservoir ....

B.D. 6555 from May 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is an eternal law that the fallen original spirits must reach height again, because all power which has been radiated by God also irrevocably returns to God, because this is law in itself that radiated power of love flows towards its source from eternity again and exactly therefore all spiritual beings also take this path, even though in completely different periods of time, because the being itself decides when to return. But it does not eternally remain distant from God, because the distance from God is a state of weakness and confinement, the radiated power, however, must become effective according to its own destiny .... thus in incessant activity the created being walks the path back to its place of origin .... The being which has fallen into the abyss would never decide to become active itself because it feels completely powerless and because no tiny ray of knowledge shines for it .... That is why God puts this being into a working process .... Thus it now carries out a certain activity in a state of compulsion, thus the once radiated power begins to work to a small degree, and this effectiveness testifies to a faint life .... what is completely hardened, thus so to speak has died, stirs and now proves a beginning life. (27.5.1956) And now the upward development begins, for awakening life spreads, and every activity produces new life again, or it contributes to the preservation of it. And this power, which has now thus become effective, is proven in creation where nothing remains unchanged but everything reveals life and further development. Creation is the reservoir of power, for all power once radiated by God, which became ineffective through the separation of the spiritual from God, has been transformed .... The creatural was dissolved and in innumerable small and smallest forms was admitted to activity again .... Every spark of power was assigned an activity, and what was once rigid, hardened, began to stir .... The state of death was broken for the time being because God Himself is life and because His radiation of power cannot remain ineffective forever .... But the power now bound in the works of creation now remains active and in union becomes capable of ever stronger activity .... so that life in creation also becomes more and more recognisable, i.e. that more and more individual beings develop which have already gathered many of the spiritual particles within themselves and therefore also become more and more similar to the once fallen original spirit until it recognises itself in the last form as a human being who has now united all soul substances belonging to him within himself .... Now the power of love once radiated by God, the being, has again reached the degree of effectiveness where it can freely increase this degree by constantly accepting the power flowing to it from God, and thereby the return of power to God takes place .... And then the divine law will have been fulfilled, which means undreamed-of bliss. But the cycle can also be interrupted .... The power possessed by the creatural, the once fallen original spirit, can be used in a negative sense, which would result in a renewed relapse into the abyss .... and this cycle can keep on repeating .... Endless periods of time can pass until the last uniting with God in free will has taken place. But the law remains valid that all power which has emanated from God returns to God .... that it is one day used in the right way, and even if eternities pass, however long the fallen being resists. God is life, and what emanates from God can also only ever be life .... It can indeed fall into a dead state if it prevents the effectiveness of God's irradiation of love through its resistance, but then the being, which is no longer aware of itself, is forced into activity in its individual substances, and then these individual particles awaken to life and the resistance slowly decreases .... And thus the individual being which once came forth from God .... the fallen original spirit .... also comes to life again. But the last uniting with God in free will, the final re-radiation of the power to its origin, must be striven for by that individual being itself, which is why the cycle can also take endless periods of time, but some day will certainly be completed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

The world poses great dangers ....

B.D. 6556 from May 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You will still have to experience the world very bitterly if you don't learn to despise it of your own accord, for as long as you love the world it will be of great danger to you .... And if I want to save you from this danger then I will have to ensure that you will loose your love for the world. I have to cause you suffering and pain by using the world itself so as to make you aware of the fact that it is not helping but controlling you, so that you will experience its dominance painfully and withdraw from it by yourselves. Much is yet to happen that will make you understand My Words, for that which you presently consider an increased enjoyment of life will so get out of hand that you would gladly forgo the pleasures in order to be relieved from the great physical risks .... You will have no more security, since people's lust for life who are enslaved by My adversary will escalate to a point that it will override all thoughtful concern for others, that everyone will only consider himself at the expense of his neighbour and frequently place the latter into a position of danger which he can no longer evade. That which you strive for with all your senses will become your downfall. And for as long as you make this world and its commodities your sole purpose of life you will not want to loose your mortal life either and try to prolong it in every possible way .... Nevertheless it will still encumber you such that you will yearn for an end .... But only those who do not completely belong to My adversary as yet will find life burdensome and frightening.

And that which I announce in advance will happen for their sake, so that their lust for the world will diminish and they will reflect on themselves, for these last few will need strong means of help otherwise they, too, will completely fall prey to the world, otherwise they will become the 'hammer' themselves who before had been the 'anvil' .... People should consider themselves lucky to suffer damage 'by means of the world', for they are the people I want to save from the world. But anyone who has fallen prey to it already will ruthlessly and recklessly only assert himself .... An era is dawning such as has never been experienced on this earth before .... human life counts for nothing anymore, the laws of humanity are no longer sacred to anyone who committed himself to the world, thus to My adversary. The belongings of fellow human beings will not be respected and as a result people will unscrupulously experiment, exploit and enjoy anything that will give them an advantage regardless of whether it will cause damage to another person's body or possessions. And I will allow it to happen, because My concern does not apply to the body but to the human being's soul .... and if it can be saved by these means then it will thank Me for it one day, even if it had to suffer excessively on earth. People cannot be spared this suffering in the last days, for as long as there is still an available means to release the souls from the adversary's nets I will also use this means or allow it to happen, albeit it is effectively My adversary's activity on people who already belong to him .... And if people think that they are advanced then the great destructions which will be triggered will prove the opposite to them .... Yet he who is blind sees nothing and does not want to see anything either, however, the hour on the clock of the world will be obvious to him who can see ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Transformation of nature .... Fighting against perverted love ....

B.D. 6557 from May 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The greatest benefit of your earthly life is the union with Me. You must see your goal in it, and you must not rest until the union with Me has taken place .... You can bring about this union consciously and unconsciously but you must always believe in Me first. You must acknowledge Me as a Being with Whom you now desire to have contact. This desire in you is already proof that the will, which initially still belonged to My adversary, has turned towards Me. And as soon as you now mentally occupy yourselves with Me you consciously unite yourselves with Me, even if the right bond first requires that you first transform yourselves, that you make an effort to adapt your nature to Mine, because I can only unite with perfection, but this perfection can also be achieved by you .... Hence you first must shape yourselves into love, because My fundamental nature is love. But as soon as you mentally establish the bond with Me, as soon as you pray to Me, strength will also come to you to be able to accomplish this change of your nature. Your will now is Mine and therefore I can give you strength, which was not possible before, since belonging to My adversary also implies resistance at the same time, i.e. defence against My power of love. Therefore, the change of will is necessary first, only then the change of nature can happen, which requires Me bestowing power. My power, however, is the radiation of love .... and it will have an effect again in loving activity .... As soon as you carry out works of love you make use of this power and thereby draw Me Myself ever closer to you .... I am Love Itself, and therefore the uniting with Me can only take place when love joins love ...., just as no work of love can be accomplished without Me. For this reason you can also unconsciously establish union with Me if you live in love, even if you do not mentally seek the bond with Me .... Yet such thoughts will certainly arise in you later and will not leave you any more, for the conscious acknowledgement of Me Myself must take place so that you can be saved, and it will also take place where I Myself can be close to the human being because he works with love and thus makes use of My power. It is not so difficult to find this union for the person who is not dominated by selfish love, but it is difficult where selfish love prevents the person from unselfish neighbourly love .... Thus My adversary dominates the human being's thoughts there, no ray of love from Me has access there, I am still far away and the bond with Me is neither established willingly, thus consciously, nor unconsciously. And without love the human being is still so imperfect in his nature that I Myself cannot unite with him .... Then the human being will not reach his goal on earth, and it will also be difficult to bring him to think differently in the kingdom of the beyond, for as long as he is dominated by selfish love he will not be touched by the hardship of other souls either, and he will never be able to receive strength because he will never allow the will to help to arise within himself. Therefore the most important and also most difficult battle on earth is the battle with oneself, the battle against wrongly directed love, which must be changed into complete unselfishness in order to be capable of being addressed as 'love' which changes nature. Where only an attempt is made I will help out with My power, for love must find love, only then will you be able to unite with Me and remain united forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Humility – truth .... Arrogance – error ....

B.D. 6558 from May 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Every person believes himself to be walking the right path, and this belief is all the stronger the further away the person is from Me, for the one who has already come close to Me is full of humility, and he will always feel deficient and never believe to live his life entirely according to My will .... he will never be satisfied with himself and therefore constantly strive for perfection. But if every person possessed this realisation of his shortcomings, then he would also have to admit that his path can still be wrong .... He then would not go through earthly life so convinced that he is on the right path. But most people suffer from arrogance, humility is alien to them. And their arrogant mind is expressed in not wanting to accept any teachings, advice, and hints, but considering themselves entitled to convert others to their views. Only those who have entered humility turn to Me and ask Me for instruction and help .... which, however, the others refrain from doing because they do not believe they need help and teachings and are not fully convinced of My Being either. For faith in Me as a supremely perfect Being would make them aware of their great distance from this Being .... But unbelief and arrogance are the characteristics of the one who controls them. And he consciously leads them wrong ways and they willingly follow him because they are of the same spirit. Yet there are also people who seek Me on wrong paths .... who do not take the path of truth but believe they are walking the path of truth. They, too, still lack the humility to entrust themselves to a guide who will lead them to the goal safely .... They, too, do not take the path directly to Me by asking Me Myself for My guidance but blindly follow those who lead them the way, who have not entered humility themselves, whom I therefore could not properly instruct where to go either .... These are therefore only to be regarded as followers who do not even wonder whether they are being guided right by their leaders, and, such a question arising, turn to Me Myself for an answer .... No-one should miss to do so who is not a unbeliever .... every one of them should call upon Me Myself for My guidance but not thoughtlessly go along and rely on leaders who are completely incompetent for this function. As long as a person believes he is walking right who has not handed himself over to Me and My guidance beforehand, he will be guided by My adversary .... And his followers are always clearly recognisable by the arrogance which characterises these people, that they do not open themselves to loving enlightenment, that they believe they do not need any instructions and that they are satisfied with sayings and empty dogmas which, on serious examination, lack all wisdom. Humility, however, turns to Me, the humble person recognises and confesses his deficient state which he would certainly like to remedy but feels too weak to do so himself without My help .... And thus I can give to him according to his faith, I can distribute to him what he lacks and guide him because he allows himself to be guided without resistance .... And he will certainly reach the goal, for he has already proven through his humility that he has detached himself from him whose nature is arrogance .... His humility made him take refuge in My heart, and I will now also take care of him until he has reached his goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Correct proclamation of the Word .... God’s presence ....

B.D. 6559 from May 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The work for Me and My kingdom has to be carried out diligently since time is pressing and many shall still be won before the end .... And world events also contribute to the fact that people could become reflective and listen to My Gospel, providing a living sermon is given by those who are spiritually awake. In fact, only such people can be successful during the last days, lifeless preachers are more likely to achieve a reduction in faith than an awakening of their listeners .... Because they do not even preach on My behalf, but they have anointed themselves as ‘servants of the Lord’, which they cannot be as long as My spirit does not work in them, as long as they have not let My spirit awaken them, which, however, demands a life of love. Only the evidence of life can produce life again ....

And My Word has to be given to people as a living sermon in order to revive them, it has to be offered to them such that they feel the strength of the Word and thus feel motivated to comply with it. They have to feel addressed by Me Myself and this is only possible if I Myself can speak to them through the mouth of an awakened servant .... And this is incomprehensible and unknown to those who pretend to be My representatives on earth and yet proclaim a rigidly lifeless Gospel to people .... who merely use the words which I once spoke to the people, but which are thoroughly without life because they are without the spirit which will bring them to life first. Only a few of them speak effectively when they live a true life of love and by doing so also achieve illumination of thought .... And if these people allowed themselves to be wholly embraced by Me they too could become true representatives of My teaching on earth .... But they have problems finding the path to Me, which must lead directly from the heart to Me, and not through an elaborately devised structure which they call ‘church’ ....

You humans don’t want to hear the truth, but once you have sincerely and trustingly taken this direct path to Me you will never need to regret it .... Yet I can only give this advice to those who have abundant love, because only then can I speak to them, because then My spirit will descend and then they can also be My true representatives .... There is a lot of work still to be done, and I keep urging this vineyard labour to be done, time and again I seek to attract labourers willing to serve Me faithfully .... And I will also tell them what qualities are required by those who are needed to work in this vineyard .... They must have a living faith which was brought alive by love. For I Myself have to be able to work in them otherwise their work will be in vain .... Speaking My Words is of no avail if the life reviving strength does not flow from them at the same time, and life can only be given by God, Who is life Himself .... Thus every messenger of My Gospel has to allow and enable Me to speak through him Myself.

He has to unite with Me so sincerely though love so that I will then be present in him and speak through him when he opens his mouth to preach My Word .... He should not assume that My presence is a matter of course if he merely uses My Words which, without My spirit, are just empty letters .... He has to ask for My spirit beforehand by consciously uniting with Me and then facilitating My presence through unselfish works of love .... And an inconceivable blessing will emanate to all who listen to him, because then they will hear Me Myself and can be touched by the strength of My Word so that they come alive themselves .... And then they will no longer be in danger of getting lost, because whatever has become alive on this earth cannot lose its life again .... whatever has escaped death has escaped the one who had once subjected it to death .... But then it will live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

All-powerfulness of the divine light of love is contained ....

B.D. 6560 from June 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Darkness cannot withstand the eternal light .... One day the rays of the eternal light will break through even the greatest darkness, and it will break forth victoriously, and an eternal day will shine in brilliant light for all the creatural .... But the night will have been dispelled for ever and ever .... For the eternal light has a victorious power. But this power inherent in light will not break through as long as a counter-acting force still works in the darkness which repels all light radiation. For He from Whom the light emanates .... Who Himself is the Light from eternity .... He pursues a purpose with the supply of His light. He does not arbitrarily send it to places where it is not desired, nor does He allow it to break through with all force because then it would have a compelling effect and not correspond to His purpose. But the resistance of the opposing force weakens more and more when the creatural in the dark areas longs for light, which is then also supplied to it. But in immeasurable periods of time the resistance will be lifted completely because every ray of light has exerted its effect, and brightly illuminated areas have arisen in the midst of darkness from which the ray effect likewise emanates again and increasingly chases away the darkness. The light will triumph, but it takes its time over it .... For the light is God Himself, and for Him a thousand years are like a day .... He does not use force, He also takes the compelling power away from His divine light of love, because He does not send it forth in all its radiant glow but always only effective to the extent that it is beneficial to the creatural irradiated by Him. Light is life, darkness is death .... One day the dead will irrevocably have come to life, yet life must be desired or the life-awakening power will not be accepted. Eternal Love will not rest until It has returned to all the dead the life it once possessed; but It also leaves the dead its freedom of will, and thus this freedom of will determines the degree of the irradiation of love, which is why eternities will still pass until the light of day will have completely chased away the dark night .... But only a state of being filled with light can bring bliss, for bliss can only be found in the union with God, and union with God also implies the constant overflowing of His brightest light of love onto the being. But what God .... the Eternal Love .... now seeks to achieve, His adversary now seeks to prevent because he is destitute of all love .... He is the ruler of darkness, just as God Himself is the Light from eternity. And therefore darkness incessantly fights against light and light against darkness .... And this is a battle which will last as long as darkness still exists .... For this will be defeated, but never will the light be defeated. The dark power uses all its strength and means in this battle, while the light does not express itself in all its might but only ever becomes effective according to the will of the creatural. For as soon as the all-powerfulness of the divine light would break through, the darkness would suddenly disappear, which, however, does not correspond to God's will. The being's freedom of will can and will therefore favour a long-lasting darkness but will never be able to eternally resist the irradiation of the divine light of love. The light will triumph .... but never compel. For love does not tolerate compulsion, and the life that is to be attained must be a completely free one if it is to fill with bliss. But darkness can never make people happy, and therefore the being will certainly want to escape from darkness one day once that it has felt the blessing of a ray of light .... And every being starts (2.6.1956) this voluntary 'flight towards the light' some day, but it decides itself the point in time when it wants to release itself from the darkness of night. And neither power nor cunning of the dark forces will be of any use, they will not be able to prevent it because the power of light is stronger if only the will to reach light is present. For the light is from eternity and will remain to the end of time, whereas the darkness only came into being through the apostasy of the originally created from God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Earth, a paradise ....

B.D. 6561 from June 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

There could be a paradisiacal state already on earth if all people lived in God's will and served each other in love .... Neither hardship nor sorrow would oppress people and they would live together in peaceful harmony, always seeking to maintain each other's well-being and security and giving each other support where help is needed .... Where love reigns, there is no discord, no envy, no greed .... where love reigns, there is no arrogance, no impatience, and no enmity .... For God Himself is where love is, and He blesses the people who are united to Him through love. But the earth is not such a blessed place that it could be called a paradise .... The earth is dominated by God's adversary whose will is carried out far too zealously, and the earth shelters a majority of people who lack love, who therefore live at enmity with each other, and no-one strives for the other's advantage but everyone only thinks of himself in self-love. But it shall become paradise .... For the time has come when Satan's activity will be put to an end, the time has come when the human race must be renewed, when the few who still have love within themselves and strive to live according to God's will have to be separated .... The time has come when the earth will be cleansed and transformed into the Garden of Eden again, where God Himself can dwell amongst His Own again, because love reigns on earth again .... You humans who are now living on earth are facing this transformation, this purification, the end of the old earth .... Although you will not be able to comprehend that and how such a transformation will take place, yet with God no thing is impossible .... And this transformation has been planned for eternity, after all, the state of unkindness amongst people has been known to Him for eternity, which no longer allows for upward development and therefore also causes the end of this earth. The earth is indeed intended to be a maturing station for the developing spiritual substance, the souls are intended to shape themselves into love during their earthly lifes .... But they can also do it, and thus people could already create the paradisiacal state for themselves in earthly life, and within a short period they would have reached the degree of maturity and be able to enter everlasting bliss .... But they misuse the grace of their embodiment on earth .... They do not strive for a change of their nature, they remain in their loveless state, which was the result of their former apostasy from God, and thus they create for themselves a life of hardship and misery, sickness and sorrow .... and perish physically and spiritually .... For they only have a limited time on this earth. And that is why a limit has also been set for the human race, so that it can only sink to a certain depth in order to then be integrated anew into the process of maturing, which is extremely painful but nevertheless successful. But the earth will take on a new look, both as creation and spiritually, for the new human race consists of souls which were serious about their transformation, about their maturity .... which have shaped themselves into love and therefore may experience the paradise on the new earth. And God Himself will be in their midst, for their love permits of His presence. And all adversity will now be over .... All of you humans are facing this change. Ensure that you be among those who may take possession of paradise, ensure that love fills your hearts, that you still use the short period of time until the end, that you live according to God's will, Who only requires of you to fulfil His commandments of love .... For soon the time of grace will be over, soon the hour of the end will have come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Path to the cross .... Following Jesus ....

B.D. 6562 from June 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The human being's earthly path will be and remain a path to the cross if it is to lead upwards, unless he hands himself over to Me in such a complete trust that I can take his cross from him or help him carry it; then he will be able to walk upwards unburdened, for then he already is completely Mine and no longer needs any special purification processes on this earth. But this is rare, and anyone who is still very heavily burdened with the cross should not be unhappy about it, for it is always a sign that he is walking the right path. For the wrong paths are smooth and full of joy, and man enjoys his life. I did not lead you the way on the path to the cross without reason requiring you to follow Me .... You must always remember that .... when you have to carry a cross .... you are walking in My discipleship. But if it seems too heavy to you, then just turn to Me trustingly and I will help you out, I will help you carry the cross for as long as it is necessary that you are still burdened with it yourselves. And I will give you strength .... as soon as you ask for it. Just do not walk your earthly path alone, remember Me and let Me walk beside you, then you need not fear to collapse under your burden, for I know when it becomes too heavy for you and then I will truly take it off your shoulders. You humans have often been told that the hardship will increase the closer it gets to the end and that the only short path must therefore be particularly steep if it is to lead to the goal. And therefore you have often been admonished to ask for much strength in prayer and to acquire it through loving activity .... And you can believe that you will also receive strength if you approach Me for it, because I will not allow more to come upon a person than he is capable of coping with. And I always want to motivate you humans through hardship and tribulation to unite with Me, to join Me ever more intimately, for then everything will be bearable for you, you will be able to overcome the greatest adversity, you will be led out of every distress .... Just do not rely on yourselves and your strength, because this is not enough to master the struggle of life if you do not want to hand yourselves over to the one who gives you earthly abundance but takes away everything from you spiritually. Do not let him become your lord but rather bear the heaviest cross because it will not burden you for long, whereas you will be enslaved by that lord again for endless periods of time for only this short span on earth which is left to you. Believe Me that you truly have an advantage over those who pass thoughtlessly through earthly life .... Believe Me that I know about all your worries and even if I seem to be holding back .... My help will not fail to arrive as soon as you trust Me. But the fact that hardship will come upon you is not unfounded, for it solely concerns your soul which, although it is not affected by earthly destitution, is in far greater distress as long as it does not hand itself over to Me, so that I may guide it and give it what it needs to mature .... this is why I said: "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness .... everything else will be given you besides ...." Remember these words and believe that I will always give you what you need if you first fulfil My condition: to seek Me and My kingdom with all earnestness and zeal .... And the cross imposed on you shall only help you to look around for the One Who wants to help you carry it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God wants to give life to the dead ....

B.D. 6563 from June 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Time and again My breath of love will touch you which shall breathe life into you, so that you will awaken and rise from the rigidity of death .... so that you look around you and can see life everywhere. For I am an opponent of death and do not want to let you, My living creations, fall a prey to death. With My warmth of love I want to cover the frozen again and thus give it life again. For the frozen shall be able to warm up with Me and now be brought to the state of pulsating life, so that it will be blissful again as it was in the beginning. My plan of Salvation .... the plan of returning the dead to life .... will also some day have brought Me this desired success, because My love never slackens and as long as love can be effective it will also constantly give birth to new life, and because every spark of life is spiritual substance awakened from death .... Yet the effectiveness of love is conditional, for it remains silent where it encounters resistance. Resistance, however, is an opposing influence, resistance is the working of My opposite pole which wants death just as persistently as I want to bestow life .... And the being created out of My power of love and its will stands between the two of us, it decides itself on life and death insofar as it must open itself to Me and My irradiation of love in free will in order to be awakened to life. Then My love can begin to be effective, something dead returns to life and My opposite has lost this spiritual being to Me for ever .... This process of development uninterruptedly happens throughout the universe, for as long as earthly-material creations continue to exist it has not yet come to an end either .... And ages will still pass until the final goal is reached, that there is nothing dead any more in the whole of infinity, that everything is light and life .... But only a few people know something of this process of development, about My eternal plan of salvation .... Knowledge of it is therefore not necessary as long as people still show spiritual striving, as long as they unconsciously integrate themselves into My law of order and are thus, as it were, in the midst of this process of development ...., i.e. slowly come to life .... But this striving decreases more and more, and before the end of a developmental period it has sunk to a minimum .... And then they will also be given knowledge through spirit-awakened people so that it will still be possible for a few to deal with My plan of Salvation intellectually and now consciously integrate themselves into this process, for there are people here and there who cannot close their minds to the logic of this knowledge, who will find in it the explanation which they have long sought intellectually but have not yet been able to find. These can now be determined by the knowledge of the eternal plan of Salvation to change their mind and will, because they now become aware of the great responsibility which a wrong decision implies for their soul, and to these now the knowledge of My plan of Salvation has become a blessing. But far more people reject it, far more people doubt the credibility of such a knowledge, and these are still entirely under the sway of My opposite pole, and thus they also render My irradiation of love ineffective, My breath cannot touch them, they lack all warmth of love which awakens them from death to life .... And endless periods of time will pass again until they, too, make this awakening from death to life possible; endless periods of time will pass until they have freed themselves from My adversary, until they turn to Me in their free will and open themselves to My touch of love .... But since My love never ceases I will not give up on any of My creations either. And time and again I inform people of this through My word, for My word is such a ray of love which wants to affect people's hearts. My word will always and forever resound and no-one will be deprived of it, but it must be received into the heart of free will if it is to have an effect as a ray of love and give life to the dead again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Convinced word proclamation ....

B.D. 6564 from June 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

All of you gather around the proclaimers of My Gospel if you want to make contact with Me, if you want Me to speak to you Myself. Your desire for Me and My word also determines the gift I offer you so that your souls will be nourished and mature. Believe that My word is the bread of heaven, which you need no less than the bread which strengthens your body .... Although you can sustain your earthly life through physical food and drink, the soul will not gain anything of this food for itself if it is not likewise offered food, if it is not provided with the nourishment which comes from Me Myself .... with My word, which is strength in itself, which only gives the soul the right kind of life. With hunger and thirst you shall gather where I distribute the bread of life .... And your soul will draw all strength from it. Time and again you should visit the places where My word is offered to you in all purity, for there you can receive the most precious thing offered to you in this world .... the gift of My greater than great love .... I speak to you Myself and thereby give you strength and light which help your soul to ascend. But you must desire this food for your soul or it will remain completely ineffective. All food for your body is worthless if you do not consider your soul at the same time, for the body does not last and the best nourishment cannot protect it from perishing. But the soul is the imperishable .... And some day, after the death of the body, it will be in a state according to its nourishment in earthly life. Even if it had to live in want it will still not perish but it will be in a pitiable state .... whereas it will be able to leave its earthly garment in a glorious shape if it was allowed to receive what served its development: My word, which imparted to it everything it needed to mature, to become perfect .... And this food can only be offered to it by Me Myself, even if it receives it through My servants .... Wherever My Gospel is proclaimed vividly I Myself distribute nourishment for the soul, and therefore you should always gather there and you will soon feel that I Myself am present and speak to you. The world constantly offers its goods and is excessively sought-after .... But where I offer a delicious gift only few people gather, and yet there is nothing on earth which surpasses this gift of grace in value .... There is nothing of equal effect, there is nothing from which the soul could fetch roughly the degree of strength as at My table, where it is offered spiritual food, where it can eat supper with Me Myself .... And yet so many people pass it by .... The most delicious food is offered to them and they pay no attention to it, and therefore they starve their souls, which are in a dreadful state as long as they are not nourished with the right food which gives them life. Everywhere springs are opened up from which living water flows, and everywhere people could go and see for themselves that they may receive a wonderfully refreshing drink, but they must come to the source themselves, they must request and receive the water of life from Me Myself, they must go where My word is preached with conviction and not be satisfied with dead proclamations of the word, they must also feel hunger and thirst for strong food and living drink themselves .... Then I will always supply them with what their souls need, and then they will also mature and shape themselves in that way that they will live eternally full of light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

"He who believes in Me .... " Love works ....

B.D. 6565 from June 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You can always abide by My word .... And My word will always teach you the same, that love comes first, that the commandment of love is the greatest and most noble commandment, because the fulfilment of this commandment cannot be avoided if you want to enter eternal beatitude. And love will always express itself in some way, because love is strength which is active .... which therefore means that it expresses itself through works, or also that an activity of love will always be recognisable where the human being's love has been kindled, where My divine commandments are fulfilled .... It does not matter in which way this activity expresses itself, for it need not always be visible works, care of a different kind, whether spiritual or earthly, can also be regarded as a work of love .... always provided that true unselfish love underlies this activity. For equally good works can also be carried out which are certainly also beneficial for the fellow human being but which lack the motive of love .... These works are dead and will not be able to give life to the soul one day, just as, conversely, love does not necessarily need to be apparent and yet can determine a person's thoughts and actions .... Love, then, is of first priority .... and only this love makes faith come alive .... Thus no one will be able to say that he has a firm faith if he does not live in love. Without love no-one will recognise Me Myself in Jesus Christ either, even if he does not object to these teachings and thus wants to outwardly profess his faith in them .... He cannot possess this faith without love. Therefore no-one will be able to refer to his faith in order to be saved who has refrained from working in love, because he is incapable of living faith, because he only intellectually professes a faith in order to partake of the blessings of faith known to him .... because My words read: "He who 'believes' in Me shall have eternal life ...." Without love faith is dead; a person may perhaps be intellectually convinced of the way of life of the man Jesus on earth, of His death on the cross and His act of Salvation .... But he lacks inner conviction and will never be able to recognise Me Myself in the man Jesus and thus convincingly acknowledge Jesus Christ as the One with Whom I became one through love. Because he lacks love himself he lacks all realisation, My spirit cannot enlighten him and his thinking .... And what he says is only the result of intellect, a dead knowledge without life .... a faith without love is not the faith I have spoken of that will bring you eternal life .... but all of you can kindle love within yourselves because I have placed the spark of love within you .... and that is grace .... You therefore are saved "through My grace" .... because without this special gift of grace you would be completely powerless and could not attain life for ever .... That you are allowed to embody yourselves as a human being on this earth is likewise a grace, a gift from Me, which is not your merit, for your will was and still is directed against Me when you begin earthly life .... But all of you have the same right to attain life, all of you only need to use the gift of grace in the right way, all of you only need to give your will, which is completely free, the right direction .... Thus you will never be determined or chosen by Me to be saved, instead, you alone choose the fate of salvation or damnation .... and only ever by how you make use of My gift of grace, how you behave towards the spark of love within you .... For you must kindle this spark within yourselves in order to be able to enter everlasting life after the death of your body. Everything emanates from love: brightest realisation and thus a living faith, which inevitably also results in redemption and intimate union with Me .... Love, however, never remains inactive, it will always express itself in works, be it of a spiritual or earthly nature, for it is a power which constantly remains active ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's permission .... Protection against evil ....

B.D. 6566 from June 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

All powers of heaven and earth are subject to Me and must bow to My will. And thus I also often use the forces of darkness, that is, I permit their evil will and activity but always create opportunities for the people affected by this activity to mature their souls. Hence, what is thought out and carried out in evil will can nevertheless bring spiritual success, and then My adversary will also still have served Me despite his adverse intention .... This is why the world can be as bad as it is in the last days before the end, souls can nevertheless find their way to Me precisely because of it, providing they are of good will, otherwise the ruler of darkness will gain these souls, as is his plan. The world of light serves Me consciously, but the dark world serves Me against its will .... But My will rules and no being can resist My will. Yet I only penetrate with My will when I can save or protect, when I want to provide those who trust Me with proof of My love and might and wisdom .... Then even those dark forces must bow to My will .... otherwise I will not restrict their activity either and by virtue of their will they can also act completely wrongly and badly without being prevented by Me. Then I will allow what proves their wickedness even though it contradicts My will completely. But no person needs fear attacks from the dark world as long as he entrusts himself to Me with complete faith. My adversary or his helper will never dare to approach a person who is standing close to Me, who has taken refuge in My arms and approached Me for protection .... And this is what all of you humans can truly do .... You can unite with Me daily and hourly in thought and always ask Me for protection against everything dishonest, against all evil which wants to harass you, and you have already warded off your enemies with this prayer, for they must withdraw as soon as you take refuge with Me, as soon as you allow My presence through your supplications, for I am with every person who calls upon Me in spirit and in truth .... The call of My name is sufficient, yet it must be spoken with heartfelt sincerity, for I do not hear empty words which are only spoken by the mouth, I keep My ear closed to them .... And so that you can call sincerely to Me you only have to muster the will to be children of your Father in heaven, you only ever must see Me as your Father and you will also be able to speak to the Father like children and beseech for His protection in every distress of body and soul. And then you will be immune to everything the evil forces undertake on behalf of their lord .... For although I let them have their freedom they will nevertheless not abuse their freedom on you but choose other victims who, however, can also turn to Me if they do not want to succumb. I am above everything, and whatever happens I know about it and will know how to direct everything in that way that the effects can always serve the souls to mature, be it that the soul itself resists them and thereby matures, or also that it takes refuge with Me and through the intimate bond with Me takes the path of ascent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Redemptive work in the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 6567 from June 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Those who voluntarily offer their services to Me on earth are integrated into a process of redemption and will always be able to fulfil their task because they are My servants who have offered their cooperation to Me. If you humans could follow the work in the spiritual kingdom and also the battle of the world of light against the darkness, then you would also know what a small light already means in this darkness, and you would also realise how significant a contact is which was established from earth with the world of light .... which cannot be created by force. You would see how such a connection is utilised on the part of the beings of light and what extensive redemptive work can be initiated and carried out through it again .... For the beings of light cannot influence the people of this earth if they do not enter their realm voluntarily .... if they only ever turn their thoughts towards the world. And every person on earth who, through his own spiritual striving, also tries to direct his fellow human beings' thoughts in this direction is a hope for the beings of light to one day be able to establish contact with those they would like to work on for redemption. And in the same way joyfully the souls in the spiritual realm, which still dwell in darkness, welcome a ray of light which radiates from earth and which can likewise have a redeeming effect and really has a redeeming effect on a large scale. For this reason, however, the little flock of My co-workers is also recommended to the protection of all beings of light, and they all take care to keep these auxiliary forces so that the work of redemption can be carried out, which is particularly urgent in the last days before the end .... after all, it is still necessary to save the souls from the new banishment into matter .... You humans only know what has been revealed to you through My love .... The beings of light, however, grasp everything and their understanding and activity around all souls which are in greatest danger is far greater. They make use of all possibilities of help and always endeavour to create new possibilities of help for themselves .... And therefore they watch over people on earth with utmost care who are indispensable to them precisely because of their bond with the spiritual world .... who open many doors for them through their spiritual work on earth .... who work as bearers of light themselves and thus stand in the battle against darkness themselves .... And do you really believe that I would so easily want to extinguish a light which once has flared up in love for Me and which I can continually top up with ever brighter luminosity? Anyone who therefore knows what the pure truth means for all people and all souls in the spiritual realm will also not doubt that I protect every bearer of truth and try to keep him for a mission which is so urgent because the darkness has also become almost impenetrable .... And thus, as long as the redeeming activity depends on light being brought into the darkness, on pure truth being opposed to error and lies, the bearers of truth will also be specially protected by My and need not fear becoming incapable for their mission, for I reward their devotion to Me by working through them Myself and also maintaining the form for Me for as long as I need them to cooperate .... because the last days require My unusual activity and therefore this will also sometimes emerge unusually ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Jesus Christ strength giver and guide ....

B.D. 6568 from June 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Every spiritual progress wants to be achieved .... And it has to be emphasised time and again that the path which leads to the goal must lead upwards, thus always requires a certain amount of strength. Since you humans possess little strength yourselves you must therefore request it from Me or acquire it through loving activity .... The path upwards could never be travelled without supply of strength, for it is not even, it is exhausting for every person unless he possesses a measure of strength of love that he feels no strain at all. Then love itself carries him to the height .... Therefore, anyone who is still powerless and yet wants to travel the path upwards has to make use of help, a guide who leads him, supports him and provides him with strength .... And this helper and guide is Jesus Christ, to Whom you humans should entrust yourselves on your earthly path so that it will lead to the goal. Jesus Christ will first guide you to the fountain of life where you can draw strength for your earthly path .... For Jesus Christ brought you My word, the divine teaching of love, and you will always have to take note of this teaching of love first and then act in accordance with the teaching .... Then you will receive strength and can confidently start your ascent at your leader's side, for you will now be able to overcome even the most difficult obstacles by virtue of the love you shape your being into if you live according to My teaching of love .... You are powerless at the beginning of your life but you need not remain powerless .... For you can easily acquire a measure of strength of love if you make use of Jesus Christ's help, Who for this reason died on the cross because He took pity on your weakness and therefore acquired a measure of grace through His death from which you can now draw unlimited grace and strength. The ascent to the height requires strength, and only One can impart this strength to you: Jesus Christ, for all strength emanates from Me .... and I and Jesus Christ are one .... Hence you must make use of My strength with full awareness by asking Me for it .... by believing in Me and then also fulfilling My will in this faith, i.e. by making the divine commandments of love the guiding principle of your way of life .... Then you will acquire strength, and I Myself will never leave you without strength either, because you have approached Me for it in complete trust .... And then you will take the path of ascent, and now you can use your strength to overcome all opposition, to remove obstacles from your path, and you will not slacken or sink down without strength, for He Who provides you with strength also constantly walks beside you now, because you acknowledge Him, because you believe in Me in Jesus Christ, because you chose Him as your leader, because you let Me be present to you as soon as you live a life of love, as soon as you live the divine teaching of love. You must know this because otherwise you cannot understand why your earthly life is often difficult and oppressive and why you must take refuge in the One Who alone can lighten your burden, Who teaches you how to travel the path effortlessly .... You must know that only love is the source of strength, that without love you will not reach your goal, for you start your earthly life in the abyss and should leave it in the height if your earthly path is not to have been in vain. But you can reach your goal if you call for the right guide, if you join Jesus Christ, Who Himself walked the path and Who calls upon you to follow Him if you want to be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Granting prayers .... Faith ....

B.D. 6569 from June 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The strength of your prayer will also guarantee your requests to be granted. For I Am true to My Word: Ask, and it shall be given to you; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ....' You should always remember that My Word is truth, that I do not give you a promise without fulfilling it. You should also bear in mind that it is always possible for Me to grant your prayers, and that My love for you gladly complies with your wishes .... but that you may only rely on the granting of your prayers if you firmly believe, if you don't let any doubt arise in My love or My power. But the slightest doubt prevents Me from proving My love and power to you, in that case you are, as yet, not united with Me closely enough, you don't see the Father in Me as yet but only ever the distant God Who will not push Himself to the fore as long as your childlike love does not draw Me, your Father, to you .... which, however, a firm faith will do. For this reason so many of My earthly children's prayers remain unheard, and this increases their doubts in the power of prayer even more. And yet, only the missing strength of faith is to blame that you often wait for the granting of your prayer in vain .... Come to Me like children to your Father and speak to Him with true humility and childlike love, and then tell Me your wishes in firm trust that I will hear you, understand your problem and avert it from you .... And you can rest assured that I will not ignore you but I will comply with your prayers ....

For I want to draw you ever more firmly towards Me and therefore will not disappoint someone with a firm faith either. And a true child will certainly only appeal for things which will not damage the soul; a true child leaves it up to Me and I direct its thoughts so that it realises and rejects every desire which hampers its spiritual development. The right relationship of a child with its Father also guarantees you enlightened thinking, an enlightened spirit .... It is My will that you should entrust yourselves to Me in every adversity of body and soul, and I will help you, as I have promised, as soon as you believe in Me with a living faith. However, I cannot give you a living faith, you have to acquire it yourselves through love .... And thus you know why so many prayers remain unheard: insufficient love is the explanation for a weak faith, because no person may ever expect the complete evidence of My love from Me who has insufficient love himself and therefore also prevents My activity of love .... My Word is truth, but My promises also require compliance with the conditions .... Then every promise will come true for you. Therefore strive to strengthen your faith, let it come alive through kind-hearted activity .... Then you will also have strength of faith and My love and might will manifest itself to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'My sheep recognise My voice ....'

B.D. 6570 from June 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The Words you receive from Me are spirit and life .... Therefore they must also speak to every person's spirit and give it life. He will feel the strength of My Word providing he opens his heart and allows Me to enter, providing he gratefully accepts the gift he is offered by Me Myself. And anyone who loves Me and who also offers love to his neighbour will always feel touched by My Word, because due to his love he will already have a connection with Me and will also recognise My voice as the voice of the Father Who wants to make His child happy. 'My sheep recognise My voice ....' And My voice will only ever be heard if I Myself Am able to speak to people .... You cannot describe the empty word as the 'voice of the Father' which can certainly be used by those people who do not allow Me to be present with them as yet, who are still spiritually unenlightened, who indeed claim to preach in My name but of whom I cannot as yet avail Myself in order to speak through them to all who listen to them. The recognition of My voice requires such a conscious connection with Me that I Myself will be able to speak .... And this bond must be established both by the preacher as well as by the listener of the Word .... Then the good shepherd Himself will coax His sheep and they will willingly follow .... My sheep recognise My voice .... Does this not presuppose that I speak to people time and again? I emphasise the fact that My sheep recognise My voice .... Hence I make a distinction with those who hear Me, for not all people can count themselves as My Own and therefore not all will recognise Me in the Word .... But I will always speak to My Own Myself so that My promise will come true: that they will hear and consequently also recognise My voice as evidence of the presence of the One to Whom they have surrendered. Hence with these Words I also referred to the fact that I will always and forever speak to you humans, that I did no mean the written Word alone which can also be devoid of spirit and life if I don't bring it to life Myself, if My spirit does not give it life.

However, I also knew that My Word would only be recognised as My direct communication if a life of love had resulted in the awakening of the spirit within the human being, and therefore I spoke about 'My Own', for love is the bond which unites Me with them and enables My direct working within them and for them. The Word can certainly be heard by everyone, but My voice requires My presence .... Thus I also assured you of My presence, and I provide the evidence of it by My voice .... And My Own will recognise it as the 'Father's voice'. But it is only a small flock which hears their shepherd's coaxing call and follows Him, there are only a few who listen to His voice, because people increasingly allow themselves more often to be deceived by fine words which resound loudly but lack all spirit and life. And those do not count to My Own, they do not share My spirit, they are without love and therefore they don't strive towards Me either. And if I speak to them they turn away from Me and go to places where My cleverly camouflaged adversary speaks, and they are satisfied with the empty shell from which they cannot derive any strength. But My Word is strength which will give life to all those who allow themselves to be addressed by Me Myself, who yearn for My voice and who, as My children, shall also experience the Father's love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Death or life .... Overcoming the world ....

B.D. 6571 from June 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

He who loves the world will lose his life, he who despises it will gain his life .... For the world brings death to the soul, but overcoming the world awakens it to life .... You humans certainly stand in the midst of the world, and it is your earthly task to carry out the position where you have been placed also in an earthly manner. Nevertheless, apart from this task you can fulfil your actual earthly task: You can give life to your soul by valuing another goal higher than the world, by striving spiritually in the midst of the world. However, this actual earthly task of yours first requires of you to overcome the world, i.e. it must not dominate you but you must be and remain master over everything that belongs to the world .... you must only pay attention to it as far below you as it should serve you. But you should focus your attention on the spiritual kingdom which you can acquire if you live right on earth. You can choose between life and death, for you alone determine the state of your soul after the body's demise. But you can never gain life if you are enslaved by the world, if nothing else occupies your thoughts but only the attainment of earthly goods and goals .... Consider this well and strive to give life to the soul .... You cannot possess or gain both the earthly and the spiritual kingdom at the same time, you must decide for one or the other, for both kingdoms are opposites as are the demands each kingdom makes on you. But remember that one kingdom is transient whereas the other lasts forever .... And do not use your strength, your worries and efforts for something worthless which you will lose again, but use all your vitality to gain eternal values. Life or death is the result of your earthly life, and you yourselves determine this .... So let yourselves be admonished and warned time and again and be reminded of the end of your life, which you cannot escape, which is present to your mind as a certainty. If you want to live forever and not need to fear earthly death, then you must also already on earth take care of this life by paying more attention to the soul than to your body .... by trying to awaken and maintain its life and just allowing the body to live in want, which cannot live forever after all .... And therefore you must not pay too much attention to the world, which only serves the body but not the soul. If you regard the world as your enemy who only wants to hand you over to death .... because the world embodies God's adversary .... then you will also lose all love for the world and turn your thoughts to the kingdom in which God reigns, Whose concern is only ever to awaken everything that is dead to life so that it can be eternally blissful in His kingdom .... Then the world will also no longer be a danger, then you will have overcome it, then you will be able to stand in the midst of the world and yet gain for your soul the life that lasts forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's infinite love and patience ....

B.D. 6572 from June 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I must have infinite patience towards you humans, for you do not reward My great love for you in such a manner that you live according to My will .... You constantly oppose My eternal order, you violate My commandments of love, you do nothing to earn My pleasure. You live completely wrongly on this earth, you do not make use of the short earthly life in order to change, and you constantly obey the wishes of the one who is My adversary .... And if I wanted to be just then I would have to leave you to your fate, which you have chosen voluntarily .... But My love is infinite and so is My patience with you, who are wretched and would remain so forever if My love and patience did not take pity on you and thus not look at the length of time when you resist Me. Therefore I permit of your activity and do not annihilate you, for you are My share .... My love created you and My love will not let you cease to exist again for ever .... And what I fail to do in a certain redemption period, because your free will is decisive, I will nevertheless succeed to achieve one day, for in My patience I always create new opportunities for you to mature, and no matter how depraved you are .... even if you are still devoted to My adversary with all your senses, I am not angry, but you only move Me to pity, I only see your weakness and inability to free yourselves from that one by your own strength, and I come to your aid .... Only I cannot snatch you from him against your will, but I will not slacken to influence this will without using force. And this is an undertaking which requires utmost patience and perseverance .... You often put My love and patience to a hard test, yet I am Love Itself, I cannot condemn you because you are Mine and because the counteracting force still determines you too much to contradictions, for My adversary does not leave you to Me without a fight, and therefore you still succumb to his influence too easily. You certainly did not need to fall into the abyss, for once you possessed strength and also light, i.e. realisation, and you voluntarily turned away from Me .... And this sin weighs upon you, but even this great sin has not diminished My love for you, but it is the cause of your present unhappiness .... it is the cause of your weakness .... And therefore I brought you redemption from this guilt for the first time .... which, however, requires your free will again. You can never return to Me again unredeemed, yet My adversary has lost all power over you as soon as you only want to become free yourselves and call upon the One Who redeemed you: Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross .... But as long as you reject Him, you remain under the sway of the adversary .... For this reason his mind is constantly directed towards presenting Jesus Christ's act of Salvation to you humans as implausible, to deny Him Himself, thus to prevent you from taking the path to Him .... And you humans willingly follow His influence, you defy Me through your behaviour, you keep adding more and more sins to the great sin of old, because you live completely contrary to My order from eternity, because you disregard the commandments of love which the man Jesus taught you in order to help you rise from the depth to the height .... As long as you reject Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation there is no will in you to turn back and take the path to Me, and despite greatest love and patience I cannot save you from the abyss .... precisely because you do not call upon Me in Jesus Christ .... nevertheless I do not relinquish you, even if eternal periods of time pass by, for I do not repay evil with evil, I do not strike the fallen with eternal darkness, I do not condemn but seek to redeem .... I want to fill the unhappy with bliss, I want to give light and strength to those who are weak and darkened in spirit, I want to free those who are bound .... But you yourselves decide upon the time when this is possible .... You cannot be forced to love, to return to Me, therefore I solicit your love with untiring patience, and I will never slacken to pursue you with My love until one day you voluntarily turn away from My adversary and take the path to Me, until I can draw you to My heart, until you have given up all resistance and want to be and remain Mine forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God reveals Himself in the Word ....

B.D. 6573 from June 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

In My love and mercy I draw near to you in My Word so that you will learn to recognise and love Me. The connection between Me and you can only be proven to you if you listen to My speech which is intended to convince you of a Being Which you indeed are unable to behold but Which nevertheless can be present to you if you yourselves allow It to be present. If I Myself address you, you will no longer be able to deny Me .... But if you don't want to hear My Words then it will not be proof of Me either even if you hear them anyway. Yet first of all I consider those who listen to Me voluntarily and who let My Words penetrate their hearts .... Hence I want to draw close to them in order to win their love, and therefore I must also inform them of My nature, My will and My love .... I must reveal Myself to them, for this revelation can also kindle the love in them, which is the purpose and goal of conveying My Word to earth when I Myself speak through the mouth of a person. Every person who considers that such communication is possible, who opens his ears and heart when he hears My Word, can already be counted among My Own, for by listening to Me he proves that he has relinquished his opposition to Me. In My Word I Myself come to people on this earth, I instruct them, I admonish and warn them, I explain to them the consequences of their way of life and I bring them the good news of the salvation from sin and death .... This, however, can only be conveyed to you by the One Who is the eternal Word Himself, Whose knowledge, light and truth is supreme and Who alone can also enlighten you about His nature. The 'Word of God' is the greatest gift of love, for it must have come forth from Me directly, it must give evidence of Me Myself .... And once I have addressed you, you will no longer be able to deny Me .... And yet, innumerable people walk past the most delectable offer they will receive in earthly life because they don't want to be addressed by a God.

I cannot reveal Myself to someone who does not recognise anything above himself, who does not want to know anything about Me, who rejects all knowledge because his nature rebels against the thought of having to be subject to a Power Which has created him. He is still so filled by the satanic spirit that it is impossible to reveal Myself to him .... He will never believe that a 'God' will manifest Himself to people .... And yet the Word sounds from above and enters the human hearts which open themselves .... For only through My Word can I influence those who shall take their test of free will .... My Word does not compel, it does, however, impart great strength to a willing person, My Word can turn the will in the right direction without compulsion, and My Word can kindle love for Me .... because it is My direct emanation of love. Since I Myself Am therefore the Word of eternity I can also descend to people, talk to them and time and again try to turn their thoughts to Me .... I can constantly nourish those who have recognised Me, who love Me, with My Word, which is the right food for the soul with the most obvious effect of strength .... And thus I will talk to people time and again for as long as the earth exists, and over and over they will hear the same Word .... time after time the Gospel will be proclaimed to them which I preached to people when I lived on earth. People will repeatedly be offered this Gospel in its purest form, so that My Word will come to pass: Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my Words shall not pass away .... For I Myself will never ever change, the truth will always and forever remain unchanged, and My Word is the outpouring of Myself and therefore always and forever has to be the same. And in order to remain pure it must come forth from Me Myself, and that also necessitates that I continue to speak to people on earth directly, that I Myself must come to people in the Word and bring to them what they need in order to find their path back to Me .... I must reveal Myself in order to be recognised and loved by My living creations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly advancement .... Spiritual decay ....

B.D. 6574 from June 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything bears the sign of decay, even if you humans believe to be busy in building up and promoting .... Even if you incessantly work in the earthly sphere. You only contribute towards bringing the end ever closer, for all your striving is only aimed at earthly goals, and thereby you unfit the earth for its actual purpose of serving you for the maturing of the soul. For you only pay attention to that which serves the body's well-being, and you often prevent the bound spiritual substances in matter from maturing or serving by unlawfully dissolving creations in order to make them useful for your earthly plans. And what appears to be a blossoming, a progress, is in reality a chaotic state, because the development of the soul alone proves the extent to which divine order prevails .... and because this has reached a minimum which again proves the infringements against the eternal order. Much matter will certainly still be induced to serve, natural creations will certainly be dissolved for the purpose of earthly use, much spiritual matter will certainly be released from hardest form again and can continue its path of development in a new form, yet no human being will think of this but only of the earthly advantage which accrues to him when he uses matter .... And the spiritual substance in matter senses this earthly-oriented attitude and often only reluctantly gets ready to serve, which shows in the fact that disadvantages upon disadvantages become recognisable, that damage becomes apparent which now causes people much trouble and annoyance. For the spiritual feels it when its serving purpose has not been considered first, and therefore it often opposes. These are not blessed works which come into being through human hands without any spiritual attitude .... and however tremendous they appear and command people's admiration in view of their construction .... And their existence will not last long even if people believe to have created works of permanence .... And it is precisely this increased will to work with only an earthly goal that goes so far as to carry out plans which only add to the chaos .... a chaos that now makes itself felt in a spiritual and earthly manner. For people's spiritual state is remarkably low and expresses itself in complete faithlessness and in a loveless way of life. And the earthly decay manifests itself in such a way that people can no longer protect themselves against life-threatening influences which, however, are triggered off by people themselves who work on behalf of the one who wants to destroy everything in order to liberate the bound spiritual and to attach it to himself again. And people willingly offer him their hands for this, for he gives them the illusion of great earthly successes, he is an expert at directing their thoughts towards wrong goals and is always listened to, because people do not want to know about a spiritual purpose of their earthly life, because their thoughts are only directed towards earthly things and because the spiritual which they liberate in a god-opposing will, cannot exert a good influence on these people either, who disturb its course of development. It is seeming advancement and yet decline, a fall, as it cannot be imagined to be worse .... And only a few people have an open eye for this because they carry God in their heart and regard earthly life only as a passage to actual life in eternity .... And this is also continually pointed out to these so that they can still influence their fellow human beings as far as this is possible .... People strive ever higher and sink ever lower. And they should let themselves be warned by the apparent advancement they experience .... They should think and not live blindly from day to day, for creation did not come into being for purely earthly purposes, although it serves people, yet its actual purpose is spiritual development which, however, is now completely disregarded, and thus the earth no longer fulfils its purpose either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Union of the spiritual spark with the Father-Spirit .... Jesus ....

B.D. 6575 from June 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Once the spirit awakens to life in the human being the connection with Me will be established, for the spirit within a person is a spark of My divine Father-Spirit, it is a part of Me and thus the same as I Myself, so then you will also be able to rightfully say 'God is within me .... ' For the spirit within you only awakens to life when you practise love, and then I, as the Eternal Love, can be within you Myself. However, although you all carry this divine spark inside of you it can nevertheless be buried due to your own will, due to your way of life, and remain so until your death .... In that case you went through life 'without God' .... because you lived without love and thereby made every contact with Me impossible .... Even so, you have lived your earthly life and thus left a great blessing unused; you failed to live up to the purpose of your incarnation as a human being: You did not unite with Me but remained in the isolation you once entered as a result of your apostasy from Me. In order to facilitate the unity I helped you with a great act of grace: First I placed a tiny spark of My divine spirit inside of you and then constantly stimulated you to kindle this tiny spark by placing you into situations through destiny where you, with good will, would be able to accomplish labours of love .... It often was and is possible for you humans to let the spark of love within you ignite into a flame. You truly don't lack opportunities but it is an act of free will, and thus you can also neglect being lovingly active and the spirit within you remains dormant and cannot express itself, thus you have not established a connection with Me and are dead although you believe yourself to be alive .... And your earthly life is at a standstill, because a life 'without God' can never lead to advancement but attests to the connection with My adversary.

Thus I Myself cannot be within you because through your heartless nature you yourselves deny Me entry. This state amongst people can be observed far more than people's heartfelt unity with Me by living a life of love and allowing themselves to be guided by My spirit .... And this state can always be recognised when people no longer have faith in Jesus Christ Who, through His death on the cross, intended to help them strengthen their weak will of releasing themselves from My adversary. The divine teaching of love which the man Jesus preached on earth was meant to show people the path of uniting the spiritual spark within them with the eternal Father-Spirit. This is why Jesus exemplified a life of love to His fellow human beings and also demonstrated the effects of such a way of life: the complete unification with Me, which showed itself in His Words and activity on earth .... What was impossible to achieve before Jesus' sacrificial death, due to people's weakness of will who were still burdened by the original sin, was possible for people to achieve after his crucifixion, because they were granted the strength if they acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world and laid claim to His help. And then it also became possible for them to establish unity with Me by awakening the spiritual spark within them through activity of love and thus enabling Me Myself to take effect in them. However, without Jesus Christ no person's spirit can be awakened, for I Myself cannot be in someone who rejects Me, who does not believe that I redeemed him from sin and death .... Although My tiny spiritual sparks lays dormant in every person's soul only love will awaken it to life, love, however, recognises Jesus Christ, it recognises Me in Him and unites itself with Me .... or in other words: Love is the divine spark which wants to unite itself with the fire of eternal love .... Then, however, you will be alive even if you lose your mortal life .... You have already been resurrected from death as soon as the spirit within you comes alive, and thus you cannot lose this life again because you have returned to Me and with Me death can never ever happen again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"You can only be saved by grace .... " Streams of grace ....

B.D. 6576 from June 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You shall receive a good measure, for I am lavish in handing out, I give without restrictions if only you want to receive My gift. And therefore I have to emphasise time and again that you alone determine the measure, through your will to make use of it .... You stand in the midst of a stream of grace. If you open yourselves grace can flow into you, but if you close yourselves it will flow past you and you will not receive any blessing from it, for it does not penetrate against your will, it does not break the resistance but remains ineffective. And this also explains the spiritual low level of individual people, who admittedly all live in the same circumstances of life, who would all have the same opportunities to develop upwards and yet are so different in their spiritual maturity, because the will of resistance is partly still very strong but partly has been given up and in a few cases there is also an eager acceptance of My gifts of grace .... but these people can mature unusually in their souls. And thus the acceptance or rejection of My word, which is offered to people through My right servants, can also be explained .... This word of Mine is a gift of grace with a very special effect and yet it can remain ineffective where the resistance is still too great. Then it is neither understood nor recognised as a divine gift, and people carelessly pass it by, which could bring them an unheard-of ascent if they wanted to receive it and live it .... Nevertheless, time and again I distribute My blessings, time and again I offer My word to people even if they have already rejected it many times, for I give without restrictions because I love My living creations and want to lead them to salvation. And they can only reach the goal with constant help, they cannot be saved without My grace, for they are too weak to ascend without help, and all help is grace .... because My living creations have fallen into this state of weakness of their own free will and because their often long-lasting resistance to My help makes them guilty, thus they could not expect any help if My love were not so great that it is lenient .... Time and again I am willing to help them, time and again I make My streams of grace flow to them, and where much is received more grace constantly flows in, for I truly am lavish in distributing My gifts. And all of you should make use of this assurance of Mine and request the supply of grace and strength incessantly, for I will pay special attention to this conscious request and impart grace and strength in abundance to all who desire it .... You can only be saved through grace .... Do you now understand these words? But they do not mean that I arbitrarily bestow grace upon people, that I arbitrarily choose some to be saved .... This assumption would be a great error which would relieve you humans from striving and working hard in order to be saved .... But a life on earth, however long, would be unsuccessful without My grace, and therefore you must request it and make use of it .... And I will never give to you meagrely, I will distribute according to My infinite love, and each one of you can and will reach his goal who opens himself and gratefully accepts what My love offers him so that he will be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Loving intercession for worldly-minded people ....

B.D. 6577 from June 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Very often My word dies away unheard because it only touches people's hearts softly, because it does not sound loudly and audibly like everything that emanates from the world and is mostly not missed by people. But whoever opens himself will also hear it .... But opening is the human being's free will, and therefore everyone has to answer for himself whether My word has found its way into his heart, for it will sound to every person time and again if he does not hear it, because My love and mercy will not rest in order to save a lost soul as long as it dwells on earth. And hardship and illness will often support My efforts, but I will never forcibly influence a person, for this would be wrong. But the most effective means is loving intercession for those people who are still too strongly attached to the world and therefore cannot hear the subtle sound of My address within themselves, for I will always address them mentally but I will not prevent it if even such thoughts are unwillingly rejected because they are opposing their own desires. The human being himself is responsible for his attitude, but he will always feel loving intercession as a temporary receptiveness for spiritual matters, which can also lead to a change of will one day, so that then the ear of the heart will open itself when My word sounds. The world has great power and can also completely gain control over a person, but loving intercession is just as strong a power and often wrests souls from the world which had already fallen prey to it, because My power is always at work where there is love .... And a soul which was strongly attached to the world can suddenly recognise its worthlessness, its staleness, and desire something which satisfies it more when a person lovingly takes care of it and assists it through intercession, which results in the supply of strength for those souls. And truly I say to you: Your love achieves more than My adversary with all his power, for he is no match for this weapon, and where love wrestles he releases the soul, because there I Myself wrest the souls from him and he cannot resist Me. If more love were found amongst you humans, the spiritual hardship would also be less, for you would be able to help all those to come to life whom you would include in your loving prayer .... For no loving thought is ineffective, even though I respect the free will of a still unruly person .... But he, too, will change under your intercession if love prompts you to it. It must be an extremely comforting thought for you to know that no person is lost for whom you do what you can in loving care .... Your love still draws back from the depths those who have already sunk, your love can break the hardest resistance, it can soften a hardened heart, it can become a saviour for a soul because love achieves everything. And thus you humans can constantly help Me to bring the lost back to Me where My love must remain silent for the freedom of will and because the law of My eternal order cannot be circumvented, otherwise I truly would save everything fallen from its distress. And this distress is particularly great because only few people give their love to those who are in danger of getting lost. This is why I address all people through My word, and I admonish them to love so that they include all in their loving thoughts and loving prayers who need such a help in order to also open their hearts themselves when My word sounds to them. The world is a great danger but it can be averted through the power of love .... You all should take this to heart and know that you yourselves can also contribute a great deal towards snatching the victims from the world, i.e. from My adversary, because you yourselves use the weapons to which he succumbs .... if you lovingly take care of those who are enslaved by the world. You can save them, and so that love will flare up in you, remember the unspeakable distress in which such a person's soul finds itself .... which is so weak that it can no longer offer any resistance and therefore needs a supply of strength beforehand in order to free itself from merciless sway .... Help it and give it strength through loving intercession and it will thank you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God's love plan .... World destruction ....

B.D. 6578 from June 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

And even if you resist My love, it will not leave you and will pursue you and be intended for you for all eternity. What I do not achieve now until the end of this earth period will continue in the next period and one day nevertheless lead to the goal without Me having to use My might. Love alone will accomplish it, but My living creations will only appreciate My infinite love when they have reached the light, when they themselves dwell close to Me and also participate in the great loving work of redemption. This is why you cannot grasp beatitude in the kingdom of light as long as you are still imperfect, because it presupposes the very love which is constantly active but which the human being, as an imperfect being, lacks. Therefore, nothing spiritual can sink so far into the abyss that there is no longer any redemption for it .... The spiritual beings which are full of light prevent this by virtue of their love, which is My emanation and which therefore will not allow anything to remain in unhappiness forever. Love never ends and therefore the care for the unhappy spiritual does not either. And even if it takes eternities according to human concepts .... for Me there is no time, and I see the complete spiritualisation of all the creational before Me, I know that I will reach My goal one day on the path of love and mercy. That which has become perfect reverently faces My plan of Salvation, it recognises My wisdom and power, and it recognises My greater than great love which underlies this plan of Salvation. And it therefore already contributes to this act of Salvation in order to reciprocate the love which was also meant for them, for looking back they can also follow their course of development and in their gratitude cannot overdo in helping their unfortunate brothers. And where love is at work there is also certain success, and it is impossible for anything to be lost where love is at work, even though an infinitely long time can sometimes pass for My living creations' freedom of will, but the goal will be reached some day. The redemption period which was granted to you humans has expired and a new one begins .... But not because the 'wrath of God' is inflicting a 'punishment' on you, but because the 'love of God' is at work and creates new opportunities for your development, because this earth no longer offers such opportunities .... I therefore end an epoch in order to reintegrate what has gone out of order into the eternal order, in order to nevertheless help the spiritual, which failed, to ascend. My infinite love therefore justifies everything, even the most horrific event for you humans of a total destruction of the earth's surface, which extinguishes all life of every creature .... Only My love is at work, and only My wisdom knows the right means which serve the achievement of My goal. The fact that you humans on earth do not recognise My love from every event is only due to your lack of love .... Otherwise you would also be knowing and only show love and gratitude to your Father in heaven, Who wants to lift you up to Himself in His love. Only when love itself fills your heart you will understand everything, but then you will also help to redeem the fallen beings, because love urges you to activity and this activity will only ever be spiritual work: .... spreading the Gospel amongst fellow human beings and constantly striving to unite with Me. For divine love cannot have any other effect than in wanting to help and make people happy and in the everlasting desire for Me .... As soon as love fills your heart, you will also come close to the goal I have set for Myself and henceforth you will be filled with unlimited bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

'No one comes to the Father ....'

B.D. 6579 from June 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

No one comes to the Father except through Me .... The extreme importance of these words also explains the necessity of leading those people who are not yet believers to faith in Jesus Christ, or of advocating a living faith where knowledge of Jesus Christ is already present. For no one can come to Me who does not recognise Me Myself in Jesus Christ .... Because there are people who indeed say that they believe in 'God', since He gives evidence of Himself in everything which surrounds the human being, but who do not want to accept Jesus Christ as Son of God and Saviour of the world although they do not consider themselves unbelievers. But these people are still very distant from their God and Creator, they have not yet come into closer contact with Me and hence their thoughts cannot become enlightened.

They are still burdened with the sin of the former apostasy from Me, and this sin ties them to My adversary, they will not get away from him without Jesus Christ. But not many people know about this sin of the past apostasy from Me, consequently they are not aware of the significance of Jesus and His act of Salvation either. Providing people know the teachings of the Gospel, providing they know the words spoken by Jesus on earth, they could also reflect on the words 'No one comes to the Father except through Me ....' And if only they seriously wanted more information about this, they would certainly receive it, and the thought of these words would certainly never leave them again ....

The only way to Me is through Jesus Christ, since the redemption of the guilt of sin has to come first in order to be accepted by Me .... No being who had voluntarily become sinful can approach Me before salvation through Jesus Christ. This is a law which even My infinite love cannot reverse. And no human being will really feel completely confident in his heart about God either, Whom he may well acknowledge with words or superficial thoughts, because on serious reflection he would know that he does not have the right relationship with his eternal God and Creator ....

He will never confide in Me like a child to his Father, he will only believe that God exists but not establish a close connection with Me, which requires love .... Because love also enlightens his spirit, love would improve his spiritual vision .... Love would make him question but not make an erroneous statement. Every person will feel slightly uneasy when he contemplates spiritual thoughts and will not yet have made contact with Jesus Christ .... The course of suffering and crucifixion will not remain unknown to him, time and again he will enter into conversations with other people or be reminded by them of Jesus Christ because I constantly guide his thought to the human being Jesus, Who lived on earth and experienced a painful end .... Even if he does not yet acknowledge Him he does know of Jesus' earthly life, and I Myself will remind him of Me in Jesus Christ.

And corresponding to the human being's degree of love will be his acceptance or rejection .... Wherever there is love I take hold of the person Myself, and his resistance will steadily lessen, until he finally sees the human being Jesus in an entirely different light than at the beginning, when He was still defensively opposed to Him. However, if he does not want to learn, if his will is still hostile at the hour of his death, he cannot expect blissfulness in the spiritual kingdom, in spite of a right way of life he can only be accepted into the realm where all deniers of Christ dwell, because he refused to be redeemed on earth, and he will enter the spiritual kingdom in a constrained state .... But even there he can still find his divine Saviour and Redeemer ....

And again, it is a great mercy on My part that I will meet all those in the spiritual kingdom who so far had rejected Me, that I will hear every appeal sent to Me as the Redeemer, and that I will then take hold of the caller's hand and lead him from that realm into My divine region .... Because I will still retrieve the souls from the abyss providing I Am acknowledged .... providing a soul has found the way to Jesus Christ, Whom it had rejected on earth but without Whom it cannot reach its goal. The kingdom of light is closed to every soul as long as Jesus Christ does not open the gate for it, but this necessitates that He is acknowledged as Son of God and Redeemer of the world. For this reason the human being Jesus said the words 'No one comes to the Father except through Me.'

Because I Myself spoke through the human being Jesus, I Myself wanted to be acknowledged in Him, Who merely served as a cover for Me during earthly life .... but which I kept even in the spiritual kingdom so that I could be a visible God to all My living creations, since I was an eternal Spirit after all .... and as such could not be seen by the created beings. I chose a form for Myself in order to become a visible God for you humans, and in this form I accomplished the act of Salvation. Consequently, you also have to acknowledge the form in which I had dwelled, and then you will already have taken the right path to Me, your Father of eternity .... However, without Jesus Christ you will not ever be able to come to Me, because without Jesus Christ My adversary will not release you, since you still belong to him as a result of your will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The true peace ....

B.D. 6580 from June 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is not the world that can bring you peace, but I alone can give you true peace .... And therefore you should not neglect to approach Me Myself for inner peace for you and your fellow human beings. For on the part of the world many things will still assail you and worry your heart, but I can pour oil on troubled waters, I can lower peace into your heart so that you can truly live peacefully in the midst of the world, in the midst of greatest turmoil and commotion, because you feel My presence. Wherever I am there is peace, and therefore ensure that I can be with you, then nothing will be able to touch you and nothing will be able to shake you, for I Myself will spread My hands over you .... "I give you what the world cannot give you" .... peace in Me .... And even if you have to go through this world, the confidence that I walk beside you, that you do not walk alone through the valley of the earth, gives you that feeling of inner peace, the peace in Me. And what can the world do to you if you feel safe in My presence .... if you entrust yourselves to the One Who is stronger than the world, if you win His love through your will to be and to remain His .... Then the storms may rage around you, you will not hear them because I command them to spare you. Only strive for this inner peace because it proves your bond with Me, and give Me the right to always walk next to you through this intimate bond with Me, or rather: Want to be Mine and only ever achieve the goal set for you, to mature spiritually. Then the world will take second place by itself because you turn away from it. But do not seek to find inner peace in the world .... For the world cannot give what it does not possess itself, because it is the realm of the one who tries to mix up everything and therefore also makes all people become peaceless who pay homage to his world .... For he does not love peace but will constantly seek to disturb it. And the more disturbing things are in the world the more clearly his activity emerges. And therefore I warn you time and again about the world, and I admonish you to take refuge in Me if you want to find peace, for all of you will still be in commotion because of the events which emanate from the world .... All of you will be in very difficult situations and will only be able to escape to Me so that I may give you what you are deprived of .... the peace of the soul .... And therefore you know who is at work when you are seized by uneasiness, when you are frightened an run into trouble, when you feel lonely and abandoned .... And then I only wait for your call to come to you and accompany you on your path through life. And then peace which the world cannot give you will enter your heart, which can only be found with Me and in Me, and which you will need in the time to come. Then your gaze will always be directed heavenwards, your thoughts will dwell with Me and in My kingdom, and the world will have lost its horrors for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Stream of grace or great need through natural events ....

B.D. 6581 from June 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

You humans allow day after day to pass without opening your heart to the radiations from the spiritual kingdom which are intended to revive your souls and help them to mature. And the time of grace granted to you will become ever shorter and you will not make use of it. Whatever can still be done on God's part for their salvation will truly not remain undone, yet no matter how abundantly the stream of grace flows it will pass by closed hearts and thus cannot fill empty hearts. But neither does it forcibly gain access to you, your will must open your hearts for it and you fail to do so. And therefore God will use other means which will severely strike hardened hearts as well, and yet are also suitable for people to awaken from their dull rest and to become introspective. It is the world which prevents them from directing their thoughts into the spiritual realm, and this world will therefore be struck by God's power so that people will recognise the One Who is stronger than everything that holds their senses under its spell and realise that He can also destroy everything because He has the power. In the last period before the end, God's power will obviously come to the fore in natural events against which people are completely powerless. But only the recognition of their own powerlessness can turn their eyes to the Most Powerful in the universe .... Provided that they still have a little faith in a God and Creator, in a Sustainer of all that has been created. But even this faith is almost non-existent, and it is to be revived. The ground on which people believe they stand so firmly is to be shaken in such a threatening way that there is only one way out to the One Who has all power. What the constantly flowing stream of grace cannot achieve, that hearts voluntarily open themselves to it, must now be brought about by a great adversity which was not caused by human will but has its origin in nature itself .... where there is no salvation through people, where only the One can help, Who wants to be recognised and can only remind hardened people of Himself in this way .... For people all know about Him .... And they can, even if unbelievingly, remember Him in hours of extreme danger to their lives and make the attempt to experience His grace and mercy. But even then they are not yet forced to take the right stand on Him. You humans do not pass by these events of the time to come .... For God does not neglect anything which makes the slightest success possible, and if only a few souls find salvation .... for the sake of these few souls He will leave no stone unturned before the time of grace, which is only very short, comes to an end. But these events are still preceded by a great many on a smaller scale .... Time and again people are shown how powerless the individual is in the face of fate in order to learn to recognise a ruler of all people's destinies. Yet God will never express Himself in such a manner that He has to be recognised, because the will should remain free and thus make the decision, and no one hundred percent proof of God's existence may exert a compulsion of faith. But God does not give up on people and seeks to save them until the last hour, and His stream of grace flows incessantly, and it could still revive and awaken many hearts if only they wanted to open themselves to it .... But soon the fixed period of time will have expired, soon the voice of God will express itself audibly .... His last call to repentance, which will then be followed by the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Intercession for fellow human beings ....

B.D. 6582 from June 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

To live in darkness of spirit in this world is the fate of all those who are still bound by God's adversary, who have not yet found salvation through Jesus Christ .... who therefore travel their earthly path in ignorance and weakness, spiritually blind and without the strength to detach themselves from this very adversary. The souls of these people are surrounded by very dense layers, and no ray of light can penetrate and enlighten the soul. It has occupied its body of flesh with the determination to reach full maturity therein, yet from the beginning of its incarnation it always relented to its physical body, which became a welcome tool for the adversary to prevent the soul from maturing .... The soul, the spiritual being within the human being, is thus living a pitiful life in its body, for regardless of what this body undertakes it keeps increasing the density of the soul's layer and makes it impossible for the soul to step into the light unless it is granted help. And if the human being purely lives for his body and thus no change can be expected from his side, help has to come from outside .... the soul has to be freed from the control which had seized the body .... And people already having found redemption shall participate in this work of liberation .... which can only ever take place by commending the said soul to Jesus Christ, Who alone is able to deliver it from its adversity, Who is able to release it from His adversary's domination.

Introducing the human being to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ is the quickest way of deliverance for such souls, by informing him of Jesus' teaching of love the human being can change himself and take the path to Him, which will be truly successful for the soul since Jesus Christ will then take care of it Himself .... If, however, the person is fully under Satan's control, he will not want to accept any teaching about the Salvation through Jesus Christ, he will be hostile towards the divine teaching of love since the adversary has knowingly cultivated his selfish love, and thus he will not help his soul in the slightest by trying to dissolve the layers, because this can only happen through deeds of love from which he is prevented by his selfish love. And then his fellow human being will have to take pity on such a soul and support it by providing it with the love which it is denied by its own body .... It can only be delivered through love, and every kind thought will make it feel good, it experiences it like a spark of light, like a flow of strength, and occasionally it also succeeds to influence its physical cover in a positive sense .... Every soul can be saved if it is lovingly supported ....

This should make all you humans think, for you all can play a redeeming part if only your hearts are able and willing to love. Admittedly, your love will be unable to accept the guilt of such souls and make

Amends for it, yet it can impart the strength to change their will and take the path to Jesus Christ, to the cross, where they will find salvation.

The soul is the thinking, feeling and wanting part in the human being .... If the soul is thus provided with strength through selfless love, then it will also influence the human being from within to think and want what is right, then the spark of love will penetrate the darkness within, it will realise the wrong direction of its will and begin to judge itself .... The human being will start to reflect on his life, and the more love he receives from his fellow human beings the more assured will be his change, for love is strength which will never remain ineffective. This is why loving intercession will never be futile, and no human being can ever go astray if loving thoughts will follow him, if he is included in prayer and entrusted to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... What no amount of discussions can humanly achieve can nevertheless be achieved through heartfelt prayer, if love for the weak and darkened soul is the driving force to provide it with light and strength .... And no human being will need to go astray if only one of his fellow human being's love would take pity on him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"My yoke is easy .... " "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence .... "

B.D. 6583 from June 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Only ever abide by My commandments of love .... Then you will fulfil your earthly task, then you will live according to My will. I only gave you this commandment of love and therefore did not make it difficult for you to fulfil My will if you are only willing to love. But for many people it takes an inner struggle because self-love must be driven out of the heart first. That is why I have said: "My yoke is easy and My burden is light", but also: "The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and only the violent are seizing it .... ", a contradiction that can only be clarified in your will, in your willingness to work with love. Every human being is capable of love, for I Myself put the divine spark of love into every human heart. Every human being can kindle love within himself, no human being can say that he is completely incapable of love. But there is also a completely wrong love in the human being, and My adversary has kindled this in him: .... the love for himself, which predominates at the start of earthly life as a human being, which impels the human being to take possession of what appears desirable to him and is attainable .... whereas divine love does not want to possess but only ever wants to give .... And it is this love which I demand through My commandments, the unselfish love for Me and for the neighbour .... Anyone who is able to overcome selfish love will find it easy to acquire the kingdom of heaven, for the right kind of love will yield him much strength, a right kind of loving activity is an activity with Me, Who am Love Itself .... But where selfish love is still intense it is a matter of fighting a hard battle with oneself .... and this battle is not easy but can nevertheless be won, for I truly do not demand anything impossible from you, for I grant you the ability to develop the right love within yourselves. Yet you must now also use this ability yourselves, you must be 'violent' .... but I will also help you to do so .... Where self-love is particularly strongly developed, the hardship around a person also becomes particularly apparent, and his gaze is obviously directed towards where he could help, he is repeatedly moved to loving activity, yet always in such a manner that it is up to him to help or to turn away unwillingly .... His will alone must decide, and he can change because the divine spark of love will also stir in him, yet likewise without coercion. But if the human being has the will to acquire the kingdom of heaven then he will also use force, for this will alone gives him strength .... Earthly life is only about fulfilling My commandments of love, and I truly do not make too great demands on you .... But you humans create other commandments for yourselves which are easier to fulfil in order to be relieved from My commandments, you deceive yourselves by eagerly fulfilling commandments issued by people and now believe that you have fulfilled your earthly task .... But I only evaluate the degree of love you achieve .... I only evaluate the works of unselfish neighbourly love by which you also prove your love for Me. I want you to put My commandments first and lead your earthly life in accordance with them, because selfish love, which is My adversary's share, must dwindle from your heart .... because you must flare up the tiny spark I have placed in you into highest embers in order to be able to unite with Me. The spark shall merge with the fire of eternal love, and this is a work which you must carry out yourselves but which you can also do, because you will never remain without help if you make this serious will to unite with Me arise in you .... Then you will also receive the strength, and My yoke will be easy for you and the burden light, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Fulfilment of the promise of Jesus ....

B.D. 6584 from June 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

"Whoever keeps My commandments is the one who loves Me .... I will reveal Myself to him .... " Do you know what a great promise I have given you with these words? I Myself will reveal Myself to you, I will communicate with you, I will disclose Myself to you as your most loving Father from eternity .... I want to address you as a sign of My presence in you, who you have, through love, prepared a dwelling place for Me in your heart .... Whoever loves Me is therefore offered something delicious by Me, he can hear Me, he can hear My voice, and he has certain proof of My love for him, for I Myself make Myself known to him .... Thus I have given you a glorious promise and only linked the fulfilment of this promise to the fulfilment of My commandments, that you live a life of love .... For love alone makes My approach to you possible, love alone lets Me be present in you. Every one of My promises requires of you to love Me and your neighbour, because I can only ever give to you according to your faith, which first must come alive through love .... But this promise means the most beautiful goal for you: I Myself want to come to you and make My dwelling in you .... I want to celebrate Communion with you, I want to distribute something delicious to you, I want to be with you in the word and inform you about Myself .... because I want you to learn to love Me, Whom, however, you do not know as long as He has not revealed Himself to you. But you will never be able to partake of My promise if you do not shape yourselves into love .... And therefore I gave you the commandments of love for God and your neighbour. Through these commandments you should know My will, although love also must be practised freely out of you if it is to be effective. For even works of love are worthless if they are carried out under pressure. A commandment is certainly a certain compulsion but 'love' cannot be forced, it is something free .... Only the human being should take note of the fact that only a life of love is important if he wants to be saved, and therefore I presented him love in the form of My commandments .... For you humans are still free to observe and fulfil them or to be heedless of them, because the fulfilment of those commandments does not have an earthly effect but predominantly yields spiritual possessions .... But a revelation on My part is the highest spiritual good the human being can acquire on earth .... To have heard My address within oneself is proof of My love which outshines all earthly goods. Then the separation between Me and the human being will be lifted, then I will be close to him again, so close that he will be able to hear My voice, and then he will mature in realisation, because I Myself will remove all veils from his eyes and let him gain insight into My work and activity, into My eternal plan of Salvation and reveal My nature to him, so that his love will increase constantly and he will serve Me already on earth and also in eternity .... Time and again I point out the intimate contact with Me which will result in the highest spiritual advantage for your soul. Yet these promises are seldom heeded because they presuppose a life of love, and yet the fulfilment is .... My presence in you and the evidence of it .... the most delicious thing attainable to you on earth, and you should only ever make an effort to live a life of love in order to now also recognise the truth of My words when everything in you gains light and life, when you experience the fulfilment of My promise yourselves .... when you hear My address and now also no longer doubt My presence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Voice of conscience ....

B.D. 6585 from July 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everyone shelters a silent admonisher inside himself which imperceptibly urges or warns him but manifests itself so gently that it can easily be ignored if the human being pays no attention to it. This inner admonisher is a grace of God too, it is a means of help used by God's love, a gift which is given to every person but which has to be paid attention to in order to be of use. As long as the human being wants to live a right and just life he will always pay heed to his inner voice, he will feel impeded if he is on the verge of doing wrong, and he will sense a gentle inner urge where it is necessary to do good deeds, for the inner admonisher is able to express itself in people who are of good will. Yet the 'voice of conscience' can also very easily be suppressed or drowned out by temptations which are louder and therefore more likely to be heard but which will never benefit the soul. In that case the human being becomes insensitive; he becomes indifferent to whether his actions are good or bad .... He abides by all suggestions promising worldly benefits and takes no more notice of the voice of conscience if it wants to manifest itself. However, this insensibility for the advice of conscience is his own fault, for the silent admonisher exists in every human heart but it can be displaced or consciously blocked from expressing itself, and that happens if a person acts contrary to the inner admonition or warning and thereby silences this gentle voice .... For God does not use coercion of will, and it would be a coercion of will if the inner voice ever more loudly came to the fore and thereby inhibited the person's will and actions. Every gift of grace from God must voluntarily be used if they are not to be ineffective .... However, the greatest success can be achieved if the human being allows himself to be completely guided from within .... If, before his every action, he first spends serious thought on it, if he, by always wanting to do what is right, appeals to God for His guidance and subsequently allows himself to be guided by Him ....

Then the voice will speak ever more clearly and understandably to him, then the voice of the world will no longer be able to drown it out .... Then the human being will consciously submit himself to the guidance of the spirit, for he will recognise its working in him and know that it is the voice of God which now guides and directs him, which educates him and stands by his side with advice .... Thus the human being's inner admonisher, the voice of conscience, can be motivated by the person himself to speak louder if he is always willing to listen and to comply with its suggestions, but this only happens to people who live a life of love .... Then no further obstacles to express itself exist for the spiritual spark anymore, then it can emerge and openly influence the person, it no longer signifies a coercion of will, since the will readily submits itself to the divine-spiritual guidance of its own accord .... And when this happens the human being will be leading an inner life, he will constantly communicate with his inner guide and know that it is God's voice which speaks to him, which warns and admonishes him and guides him wherever he goes .... Subsequently, his way of life will also comply with God's will, because the spirit within himself only ever influences him according to God's will. No person need ever go through earthly life without the voice of conscience which admonishes and warns him, for it will address all people as long as they can still be guided, as long as they are still undecided as to whether to act good or evil .... Yet as soon as the will is more inclined towards evil the voice grows ever more silent and can finally completely fade away unless a sudden change occurs. But for as long as the human being is alive God will keep trying to inwardly speak to him and to touch his conscience .... Nevertheless, He will never exert any force whatsoever on his will, He will always allow him to keep his freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason of the enlightenment on the plan of salvation and the purpose of life on earth ....

B.D. 6586 from July 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

My gifts of grace flow to you without restriction and you could truly gather riches for yourselves on earth and be richly blessed when you enter the kingdom of the beyond after the death of your body .... And I will also increase the measure of grace until the end, I will make it as easy as possible for you to come into possession of spiritual possessions, yet I must always leave it up to you to accept what is given to you to the greatest degree. Yet if you refuse there will be no salvation for you, for I cannot determine your way of life or your spiritual maturity against your will. And thus the hour of the end draws ever closer. For this reason I give you enlightenment in the last days which should set you humans thinking because it concerns knowledge which only few people possessed before: I give you knowledge of My plan of Salvation, of your purpose of earthly life and of the meaning and purpose of creation. If you seriously think about this enlightenment you will no longer be able to live unscrupulously from day to day, instead, you will wonder whether you walk on earth in accordance with your purpose of life and what fate awaits you after your departure, and you would be saved from ruin .... And therefore My constant concern is to convey this knowledge to those people who are not yet aware of their task on earth .... I sometimes use the strangest means in order to present this knowledge to those people; yet where the resistance against Me is still too great all efforts are also fruitless .... precisely because free will must be respected .... I only want to induce people to form mental bonds with the spiritual kingdom, and I seek to achieve these bonds in many ways .... Where My Gospel is proclaimed there the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ is made accessible to people, and the direct connection from people to Me in Jesus Christ can be established, and thus these people are saved as soon as they have handed themselves over to Me in Jesus Christ .... But where the proclamation of the Gospel does not take place, where people keep away from every event of that kind and also reject all ecclesiastical teachings of faith, there only remains the possibility to stimulate the thoughts through a truthful presentation of My plan of deification of that which once emerged from My power of love. For the emergence and existence of creation in its lawful order nevertheless causes people to think about meaning and purpose and its origin .... A truthful presentation can also be successful insofar as people allow their minds to wander into spheres which are to be assumed outside of earth .... that therefore a connection has now also been established which is utilised by the beings of light by intervening and working in an instructive way. I do not want any soul to get lost, and all people are equally dear to Me; I also try to win over those who are still distant from Me, and I often have to use other means with them. And thus the tasks of My servants on earth are also very different, and I provide each one with the gifts he wants to and can best utilise .... And I also place him in the place where My work can be utilised successfully. And the service for Me and My kingdom only ever consists of establishing connection between people and the spiritual kingdom. For it is hopeless for the souls who only see and strive for the world, who reject every thought of a spiritual realm and therefore do not make use of a single one of the blessings offered to all of them .... My abundance of grace will always be poured out more and more until the end, and everything is grace which helps to direct the human being's eyes upwards, to turn his thoughts towards Me and My kingdom, so that he can be grasped and drawn upwards, so that he will not be lost when the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Prophetic gift .... A spiritual gift which demands action ....

B.D. 6587 from July 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The prophetic gift is indeed a gift of the spirit too, nevertheless it is not a happiness-inducing state for a person because God only bestows this gift on someone with the purpose of drawing his fellow human beings´ attention to forthcoming judgments and their consequences and to seriously admonish and warn them .... For it only ever concerns people's spiritual welfare, their salvation of soul, which they ought to gain but often neglect due to lethargy and take paths which lead to disaster. However, all wrong thinking and every bad deed affects the soul and a life in opposition to divine order will always result in degeneration .... And according to law every sin will, sooner or later, have an unfavourable effect and thus the whole of humanity's sinfully darkened state will also have such effects and result in judgments which intend to restore divine order again .... People do not consider this in their blindness, hence their attention has to be drawn to it and they must be reprimanded to change their way of life .... The consequences of their wrong attitude have to be made clear to them and thus they must receive warnings .... And the task of seers and prophets is to announce forthcoming judgments, to predict to people all that which will come to pass according to divine will and what they themselves can only know as a result of spiritual enlightenment, as a result of foreseeing the future but which only refers to humanity's spiritual development, or as a result of God's revelations which they hear through the inner voice. To announce such events to people is not a happiness-inducing mission but a very necessary one, for which a person requires God's commission and subsequently must also comply with it if he wants to be of service to God and help his fellow human beings for the salvation of their souls. God will not let any judgment come upon humanity without informing them first so that they will still have time to change themselves ....

For this reason many seers and prophets will still arise during the last days who clearly see the approach of the coming Judgment before their spiritual eyes and who feel committed to inform their fellow human beings of what is awaiting them. They know that they will have to speak about it because they realise that it was shown to them for the sake of those who will have to fear such judgment. And although he will not be listened to gladly he will nevertheless not fail to loudly proclaim what he knows in order to warn and admonish people. He himself derives no benefit at all from this gift, he is merely an instrument in the hands of God Who avails Himself of him in order to still influence people without forcing their will, Who is able to speak through him to people Himself so that they will all still be able to prepare themselves if they are of good will. However, the prophets of the end time will find little credence with people and yet they will keep proclaiming what they know. The will often be ridiculed as false prophets or be treated with hostility, for God's adversary will appear at the same time but he proclaims to people the opposite. He offers them hope for progress, he promises people a glorious time and a change for the better .... And he tries to benefit from it himself .... False prophets are not unselfish, they can be recognised by the fact that they allow themselves to be paid for their service, and they speak from their intellect. However, God's spirit can only work in people who are utterly devoted to God and want to serve Him unselfishly .... Therefore you humans are able to assess every prophet yourselves, for a genuine prophet has the salvation of people's souls at heart and only warns and admonishes them to bear the events in mind which he is meant to proclaim according to God's will. And you ought to listen to them, for they speak on God's instructions and in view of the near end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Logical reasons for world events ....

B.D. 6588 from July 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

It is difficult for worldly people to believe what you, My servants on earth, proclaim to them on My instruction .... It seems so unreal to them that they would much rather portray you as fantasists than to take your words to heart and to count on their likelihood. For what you are telling them does not fit into the plans they make for themselves in their earthly life .... The belief of it requires a complete change of thinking from one area to another .... and they don't see the need for it. They live and want to enjoy their life. And therefore they first fulfil their selfish love and a dark spiritual state is the result. They grow increasingly darker within themselves and My kingdom moves ever further away from them instead of being taken by them as their possession.

And yet, I cannot leave them to their fate, time and again I approach them and also inform them increasingly more often through seers and prophets what will await them .... And thus their calls of admonition and forewarning are even heard in the midst of the world in order to direct people's attention to an area which they would otherwise not enter. Nothing else can be done for their deliverance but to address them Myself through My servants, since this is the most natural way of revealing Myself as it will not compel them to believe and yet it is occasionally successful.

The indications of the end and the natural catastrophe preceding the end will be repeatedly made known to people in various ways, both in relation to proclaiming My Gospel as well as to the world events which should make those people think who avoid the messengers of My Gospel but who shall also be addressed. Where My Word is still heard the connection with Me still exists or is not yet broken, and it is easier to make the coming events believable to them, because My Word has always indicated an end of this earth and referred to the signs which announce such an end ....

But it is difficult to approach people who have disassociated themselves from religious organisations and let the world or earthly success become their only purpose in life. I would also like to address those, and where I Am unsuccessful through My instruments on earth I can only let worldly events speak to them: accidents, disasters and natural destructions can still influence their thoughts, and then it is possible that they will also try to relate such thoughts to the announcements of a near end, which they will also hear about even if they are servants to the world. And in the forthcoming time there will be no shortage of voices who intend to arouse people from their sleep on My behalf. I also still want to win those who completely stand apart but who are not interested in religious doctrines .... yet nevertheless willingly listen to a clear explanation about the meaning and purpose of creation as well as the human being's task in life .... and who therefore have to be given a logical reason if they are to be lead to believe in a higher Power Which rules the universe with wisdom and love ....

My means and ways are manifold, and thus I also need servants on earth with various dispositions who therefore can be called upon to carry out various tasks in My vineyard. And I truly place all labourers in the right place where they can work successfully .... But they all just have the one purpose: to inform people of the approaching end, for believers and unbelievers alike shall know that they live in the last days of grace, which they should and could use well so that they need not fear the end. And they all shall also be informed of what I want to achieve through various worldly events, through exceptionally sorrowful happenings, through illness and adversities .... For it is only My love which allows this to happen to people so that they will still mature fully or find Me before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fit teachers .... Dead proclaimers ....

B.D. 6589 from July 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

A clear realisation and assessment of spiritual knowledge will make your work much easier for you who want to work for Me, for you always must prepare for hearing objections or for having to answer questions, and only a convincing answer will dispel the doubts which prevent fellow human beings from accepting what you offer them. Human beings cannot possess equal knowledge unless the same degree of maturity has yielded them the knowledge. But if a person wants to teach, if he wants to convince his fellow human beings, then he must first be knowledgeable himself and also possess the ability to judge in order to be able to represent his knowledge convincingly .... And therefore he must have received knowledge from Me Myself as a result of his will and a certain maturity of soul .... Thus not every person is fit for a teaching function containing spiritual knowledge. And this fitness can never be achieved through study, through the intellectual acquisition of knowledge which certainly concerns spiritual fields but cannot yet be called 'spiritual knowledge', because other prerequisites are necessary for the acquisition of such knowledge. But I want people to be instructed, and thus I Myself must train the teachers who convey spiritual knowledge to their fellow human beings in such a manner that it is effective, i.e. that it brings about their transformation .... that fellow human beings understand what is important and make an effort to meet My requirements. What is not presented to them in an understandable way they will not pursue either, and what is only held up to them schematically will also only be adhered to schematically and have no effect on the soul .... It does not suffice that people are only given the empty knowledge of dogmatic doctrines of faith, and it is also not enough that they know about the way of life of the man Jesus and his fate on earth .... Only the truthful explanation of what is demanded to be believed .... Only the right description of Jesus' mission, of the cause and purpose of His act of Salvation will move people to live accordingly .... And this truthful presentation and explanation can only be given to you by a fit teacher who was thus introduced to this knowledge by Me Myself and who himself fulfilled the prerequisites in order to be able to understand and assess the knowledge .... in order to then also be able to represent it with conviction. Only then will it also be possible for him to refute every objection, for then it will not be dead knowledge but knowledge full of life, which can never be gained through study alone. But people are to be awakened from their dead state to life, they are to be transferred from the state of lightlessness, of lack of knowledge, into a state of brightest light, so that they realise everything clearly and now also live according to this on earth. Thus they must be offered the right knowledge and in such a way that they are willing to accept it, because a convinced proclaimer of the Gospel will also speak powerfully, because his conviction makes him speak vividly and he therefore will produce impression, whereas dead proclaimers are unsuccessful despite intellectually acquired knowledge of the greatest extent .... These are not the right teachers I need in order to convey spiritual knowledge to people .... They are still dead themselves and first must come alive before they can awaken others to life, they will only ever make use of acquired words which lack persuasiveness unless they are so full of themselves that they consider themselves and their intellect infallible and now draw their powers of persuasion from that. But these will only achieve that they are not contradicted, but they will never be able to kindle a living faith. Nor will they kindle a light, because they themselves have not yet kindled it in themselves .... They certainly have knowledge but no realisation .... And thus they are not fit for a teaching function through which people are to come to life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer