New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6590 - 6672

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

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

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

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May this Word of God become a blessing to many people. (Also see B.D. No. 4015)

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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

6590 - World event.... Natural disaster.... Battle of faith....

6591 - Knowledge about the process of pre-development....

6592 - Explanation of this remarkable gift of grace....

6593 - New birth means resurrection....

6594 - God needs servants in the time of harvest....

6595 - Miracle consequence of faith....

6596 - Spiritual low impact of unredeemed sin debt....

6597 - Relief action on souls beyond....

6598 - Beatitude or renewed banishment depends on free will....

6599 - 'God breathed a living soul into him....'

6600 - The crucifixion started a period of Salvation....

6601 - Natural disaster before the end....

6602 - Grace of embodiment as a human being....

6603 - Commitment for truth....

6604 - Duty to help in case of danger to fellow human beings....

6605 - Substitutionary atonement through Jesus Christ....

6606 - God, the right guide on the earth's migration....

6607 - Confessing before the world....

6608 - Concept of time and knowledge about it....

6609 - Urgent invitation to communion....

6610 - Proclaiming Jesus' teaching of love is urgently needed....

6611 - About 'Baptism'....

6612 - Let the spirit work in you....

6613 - Feeding the truth.... God's will be done....

6614 - No human being is safe from sudden retrieval....

6615 - God speaks as a Father to His child....

6616 - Fear of death....

6617 - Confessing before the world....

6618 - God's will.... man-made commandments....

6619 - Justification before a court.... Public testimony....

6620 - Sunlight.... (rotation amplified)

6621 - Enforced actions are worthless for eternity....

6622 - High value of correct prayer ....

6623 - Love light ray from above....

6624 - Calling upon Jesus Christ from the darkness....

6625 - Consider the time after death....

6626 - God's word is blessed with His strength....

6627 - Different schools of thought.... Where is truth?....

6628 - World wisdom and dazzling light.... request for truth....

6629 - Final rescue attempts.... People's low level....

6630 - Exhortation to undaunted vineyard work....

6631 - God's word unusual resource....

6632 - God's care for souls beyond.... intercession....

6633 - Earthly limitations can be exceeded by spiritual means....

6634 - Creationless spaces....

6635 - Mischief and misery.... God's will or permission....

6636 - Guardian spirit.... Spiritual guides....

6637 - Fear of dying.... Beholding the spiritual kingdom before death....

6638 - The concept of 'hell'.... Renewed banishment.... God's infinite love....

6639 - Soft light.... Deceptive light.... (Sensationalism.... )

6640 - Doubt about doctrines of faith.... spiritual compulsion....

6641 - The being of God....

6642 - Jesus' soul....

6643 - Request for strength secures God's help upwards....

6644 - God's love for the apostate (degenerated).... salvation....

6645 - God gives back many times.... gifts without love worthless....

6646 - Human responsibility.... free will....

6647 - What is the soul....

6648 - Dishing out the truth.... leading.... spreading light....

6649 - An hour of Christianity.... The way to God's heart....

6650 - Power of living faith.... presence of God....

6651 - Caller on the earth's path....

6652 - Right assessment of life on earth....

6653 - Heralds of the word called by God....

6654 - Individual's decision of will....

6655 - Serious admonitions and warnings from God.... sheet anchor....

6656 - Power stream from God....

6657 - Presence of God safest protection

6658 - Acknowledge God before passing away.... come all to Me....

6659 - Renewed reminder to vineyard workers....

6660 - Faith in God.... powerfulness....

6661 - Struggling for firm faith.... God's presence....

6662 - Redeeming work in the beyond....

6663 - The strength of Jesus' name....

6664 - Total surrender to God....

6665 - God's tools in the end time.... false prophets....

6666 - Premature destruction.... hoarding earthly goods....

6667 - Loveborn of divine power....

6668 - The way to God is the way of love....

6669 - Struggle on earth and in the afterlife for souls....

6670 - Acknowledging Jesus Christ and benefiting from the graces....

6671 - Free will must be recognized....

6672 - Exploiting the graces of the work of redemption....

World event .... Natural disaster .... Battle of faith ....

B.D. 6590 from July 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Bear everything with patience and don't allow your faith to waver .... Many a time I will still have to exclaim this to you for you will have to suffer for the sake of your faith, although you are as yet unable to understand this. Up to now you still enjoy a certain freedom of thought; your fellow human beings still pay little attention to the spiritual life of those who want to remain loyal to Me. Nor are you as yet prevented by the authorities from carrying out your spiritual work ....

But the time will come when you will no longer be free regarding spiritual matters, the time will come when fellow human beings as well as earthly powers will be hostile especially towards those who think correctly, who take their psychological development seriously, who speak truthfully and want to help their fellow human beings' souls to salvation .... And it is precisely them who will be put under extraordinary pressure while the advocates of misguided teachings will still be tolerated and even supported rather than hindered in their work. And then you will also often ask yourselves why I allow this to happen, slight doubts will arise in you and you will weaken because you have to suffer .... And therefore I keep calling out to you: Endure everything and remain strong in faith, for you will walk away with the crown of victory .... Precisely these Words are still barely believable to you, for so far there are no signs at all of this difficult time.

Yet suddenly a change will occur, because a worldly event causing people a tremendous shock will provoke open rebellion against the One Who, as God and Creator, lets something happen that has devastating effects on people .... And therefore they will deny this God and Creator all acknowledgment, every belief in Him will be discarded as unfounded, and all who defend the belief in Me contrary to this opinion, all who confess Me and also want to inform their fellow human beings for the better, will be treated with hostility.

Time and again I have announced that I will express Myself through the forces of nature in order to awaken the sleepers and the lethargic .... And a few of them will indeed wake up but, in contrast, many more will lose their still feeble faith in the face of the widespread destruction and the great human cost of this event. And then the most diverse opinions will be voiced, and many people will hatefully deny a God and Creator and be hostile towards anyone who doesn't share their point of view. And then My adversary will work with great cunning to incite this hatred, and he will be successful, for the earthly loss suffered by people as a result of this natural event will embitter them and impel them to make unfair demands and to exploit defenceless fellow human beings. People's heartlessness is increasing and whatever they embark on clearly betrays the adversary, the Antichrist, on whom they depend. And laws and decrees will be issued which will severely affect especially My Own who have to suffer on account of their faith and are barely able to comprehend the severity of their fate. And then I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own .... so that they will not lose heart, so that they will not fall by the wayside .... so that they will become blessed ....

Just hold on to My Word that you will be delivered from utmost adversity, and await the fulfilment of this Word, for I will come Myself and rescue you, I will also manifest Myself extraordinarily beforehand in order to strengthen you if you are in danger of weakening .... You don't have to be afraid as long as you put your trust in Me, as long as you make contact with Me in prayer, for then you will also always receive the strength to offer resistance .... And always remember that the enemies might well be able to kill your body but not your soul .... remember the reality of eternal life and that every human being's life on this earth will soon come to an end .... Then your fear will vanish, then you will be filled by the strength of faith and you will persevere and only ever bear witness for Me and My name ....

Firmly commit these, My Words, to your memory and they will comfort and strengthen you in the forthcoming time .... Secure your strength in advance, accumulate it, for there will still be some time before I will express Myself through the natural event .... And if you use this time well in order to strengthen your faith then the subsequent battle of faith will not frighten you, it will find you armed, and the earthly adversity will hardly touch you, because then you will expect My coming with certainty, because your faith will have grown so strong that neither threats nor proceedings against you will be able to shake it .... Then you will be good fighters for Me and My name and all the powers of hell will not be able to conquer you, for I Myself will fight with you and I will truly lead you to victory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Knowledge about the process of pre-development ....

B.D. 6591 from July 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The knowledge about your soul's process before its embodiment as a human being is appropriate during the last days before the end for all people who go through life indifferently and are unaware of their responsibility towards their soul. Although such people will not want to accept this knowledge it can nevertheless reveal to them a new point of view regarding their existence .... It can explain much which was hitherto unknown to them, it can encourage them to think and also unsettle them as they consider their future life, which they will no longer be able to doubt if the knowledge corresponds to the truth. A thinking person will not be able to reject it offhand but only few will be willing to accept it; yet it could still bring many people to their senses before the end and prompt them to change their attitude towards God ....

Imparting this knowledge by allowing people to gain an insight into His plan of eternity is also one of the means still used by God in His love because the end of this period of Salvation will also close the gates to the kingdom of the beyond and there will only be the two options for continued existence .... namely, as a human being on the new earth or as dissolved spiritual substances banished anew in the creations. This knowledge was previously not essential because the immature souls were still able to gain maturity in the kingdom of the beyond and thus had enough time for their development, but people in the last days lack this opportunity and thus God still wants to help them by other means to achieve the degree of maturity which will prevent their banishment into hard matter.

Spiritual aspirants have indeed always been granted insight into God's plan of Salvation, yet mainly for the sake of their own development or in order to teach people with a particular thirst for knowledge, whose appeal for clarification was granted by God .... In the last days, however, this knowledge shall be distributed amongst people as admonition and warning, for although people's past memory had been taken away from them, their belief in the soul's previous infinitely long path will nevertheless awaken a certain sense of responsibility, and even an unbeliever can get second thoughts about his way of life and these can surface time and again like silent admonitions so that he will nevertheless consider them. And occasionally such explanations can also fill gaps in people's knowledge and are then more likely to be accepted because the meaning and purpose of creation become obvious .... yet only ever for thinking people who want logical reasons in order to be able to believe.

Such people are thrown a lifeline by God which can draw them onto safe ground .... And He will also let them find ways to find knowledge, He will convey the knowledge of the plan of Salvation and the infinitely long process of the soul's development to where it will be needed, even though not all people will need to know about it .... Yet God knows every individual person's thoughts and considerations and wants to answer their questions or dispel doubts .... But nothing He undertakes will be without meaning and purpose, and whatever He conveys to earth in the form of knowledge He, in His wisdom, has also recognised to be appropriate ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Explanation of this remarkable gift of grace ....

B.D. 6592 from July 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My direct communication with human beings is an undeserved grace because a person only rarely achieves a degree of maturity on earth which brings him close enough to lead to a direct illumination of love from Me. However, in the final days before the end I speak to all human beings in a way that they can hear Me, even though it may not be direct. To this end I need a human form which allows My direct work on itself .... which is willing to submit itself to Me .... and I use this willingness in a remarkable way because people are in urgent need of help. Although I can only choose a form as My instrument if it has already achieved a certain maturity of soul, but this maturity would not suffice for the kind of illumination which is the share of a true child of God .... of a human being who will leave this earth completely spiritualised to be received by Me as My child, who will now receive all the privileges of a child and thus can also closely relate to Me as a child to its Father .... You have to understand that such a degree of maturity is the primary prerequisite for the emanation of My love’s strength to touch another being directly in order to then be transmitted by numerous recipients of light to wherever there is a desire for it.

Hence I call it an undeserved grace when I use a less mature human form to send this emanation of My love’s strength directly to people. In view of the approaching end the flow of mercy has to be increased in order to help people .... what otherwise would be impossible can still be achieved with an extraordinary input of strength .... For this reason I Am prepared to accept a person’s mere sincere will to be of service to Me .... providing he has met the requirement which allows My spirit to work within him. Because this is My promise: ‘I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth, who will teach you everything and remind you of everything which I tell you ....’ Thus My spirit works in every human being who, as a result of his love, has shaped himself into a receptacle of My spirit .... It leads him to the right knowledge, it enlightens his thoughts, it provides him with insights, and thus the human being will live in truth, the light will be within him and he will also be able to impart his knowledge to other people .... He will be filled by My spirit and be entitled to speak of My presence within himself. And this working of My spirit in a person requires a certain degree of love which every person of good will can achieve on earth.

However, this degree of love can be continually increased and lead to a unity with Me which will become close enough for Me to seize My child with all the fervour of My love, so that, with indescribable happiness, it will be able to hear My voice and be filled with such strength of love that it will long to pass it on .... However, this degree of love is rarely found on earth .... But My direct communication has a tremendous effect .... an effect, which no human being on earth could endure. For this reason I can only use a very small amount of strength when I take care of people, when I want to help them, but it still has an incredible effect on people while their degree of maturity is still low .... In fact, when I use a human being to speak to them I also speak to them directly .... but the strength which compels people to believe in Me is reduced, in as much as My communication will always be the language of the person I use .... whether I speak to them directly through this person or whether they hear the Words which this person has received directly from Me .... the people will always feel that the spiritual values were ‘passed on’ to them, they will always first hear the words of the human being acting as mediator, and, depending on their degree of love, will become aware of Myself and My love .... so that, in fact, something extraordinarily important will be given to human beings which can be of real help, but which will never affect them in its fullness of strength, because they would not be able to bear it ....

And likewise the mediator .... the form I use to express Myself .... will be affected by this, in accordance with his degree of love, because he too will only be able to hear the sound of My voice after he has achieved a higher degree of maturity, so that he will receive clear evidence of My presence .... But for the most part he will merely hear My message, the working of My spirit in him, in his thoughts. Although in that case he indeed serves Me as a mediator, I can reveal Myself through him to all human beings, but the flow of My love’s strength will affect him just as little as the people to whom I speak through him .... because he too has to walk the earthly path with complete freedom of will .... which would be prevented by any extraordinary communication on My part. Nevertheless, amongst the people who offer themselves to serve as My instrument I can only choose those who can meet the specific conditions .... Because I offer people a tremendous gift of grace even before the end, and it takes strong faith and willpower to place oneself at My disposal as a mediator for this gift of grace, which will have only become that strong by virtue of a life of love ....

(11.07.1956) Love and faith are indispensable for a mission, which constitutes a service to Me as well as a service to other people, to be a mediator between Me and the people. The person must be completely convinced that I can and want to communicate in order to help people .... and this conviction of faith has to be obtained by a life of love. Only then can I mould this person into an instrument and let My emission of grace flow towards all people .... which will, in fact, result in a state of bliss for their souls but which will not be experienced as unusual by the people themselves.

However, if My strength of love also touched the person’s mind he would no longer be calm enough to hear and record My spirit’s pronouncement, then he would only be affected by My illumination of love himself. Imparting it to other people, however, would be impossible .... Nevertheless I want to use him to talk to all people, and that requires an instrument which will completely submit to My will, which will only want to be My instrument for the purpose of a mission ....

And thus it can only receive its reward in the spiritual kingdom, whilst it will not receive any particular privileges during its earthly life apart from those which I have promised to all labourers in My vineyard: that I will look after them spiritually and physically, that they are under My protection and will be constantly directed and guided by My care. They should not be prompted to surrender to Me due to an unusual feeling of blissfulness which would be synonymous with a force of will, but they should be prepared to serve Me and other people of their own free will and unconditionally believe that their dedication can be a service to Me .... This kind of faith and will is blessed by Me, and My blessing will help the soul to mature. Thus, people can receive an undeserved grace during the final days, an unimaginably effective emission of grace which, if it is used correctly, can help them to ascend, yet without being spiritually compelled to do so. My direct message can be heard in a manner which is endurable for people because the illumination by the light of My love will occur in disguise, which the said human form shall facilitate .... Consequently, people will receive an amount of strength which will benefit their maturity of soul but which can be increased at any time depending on how My gift of grace is used .... by way of which I still want to save people during the final days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New birth means resurrection ....

B.D. 6593 from July 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The day of your new birth is also the day of resurrection for you .... As soon as your soul reflects on its purpose of life on earth, as soon as it makes contact with Me, with the spiritual kingdom, as soon as it begins to strive towards Me and My kingdom, it emerges from its grave of darkness, it awakens to new life .... For the new birth of the soul is precisely the change from the realm of My adversary into My realm. The soul still dwells on earth but it was born into darkness at the beginning of its embodiment as a human being and of its own free will has made its way to the light, thus it has emerged from its grave as soon as it was able to liberate itself from its shell with the help of Jesus Christ, as soon as it has now attained a spiritual rebirth and its thoughts and aspirations are now spiritually directed .... So it has also experienced a resurrection from the night of death to the light of day .... Thus the 'day of resurrection' refers to this change which the soul can still make on earth and which also guarantees it a 'life' in light and strength in the kingdom of the beyond .... whereas souls can also remain in the state of death after their departure from this earth but still have not passed away .... For no soul will be able to pass away, no matter how immaturely it departs from this earth, it will only be in a death-like state, without strength and in densest darkness .... It exists but is not resurrected to life .... A resurrection is certain for every person who makes an effort in earthly life to establish the connection to the spiritual kingdom .... who thus strives for an ascent upwards of his own will, who does not allow himself to be satisfied with earthly existence alone but acknowledges a higher being, entrusts himself to Him and completely surrenders himself .... whose soul thus experiences a new birth when he carries out this inner transformation and surrenders himself to Me of his own free will .... And such a soul will not need to fear earthly death either, for it merely escapes the external shell, the body of flesh, and enters the kingdom of the beyond with a transfigured body, because it is once incorruptible and because it has also overcome death, the darkness and powerlessness which exclude 'life' in the spiritual kingdom .... and because something living is also visible to the equally living .... And the soul is happy to be able to get rid of its body of flesh, which was only a fetter for it as long as it lived on earth. But immature souls also discard this bodily cover and yet remain bound, they remain in their grave, in darkness, in a state of ignorance, to their own torment and hardship .... But they, too, can still rise to life in the kingdom of the beyond, they, too, can come out of their grave, they, too, can attain to the light with the help of Jesus Christ, if they call upon Him, Who rose from the dead, Who conquered death, that He may roll away the stone before their grave, that He may take away the guilt of sin which held them in the night of death, in the grave .... so that they too may come out into the light of day .... All men can rise from the dead, but Jesus Christ must give them succour .... And if He is already called upon on earth for His help, for redemption from sin and death, the soul can also already experience its resurrection on earth, and it will then never die again, even if the human being suffers earthly death. Yet every soul is immortal .... i.e., it no longer passes away, and no matter how much it is in the grave of its sin, it must endure the darkness of its grave, it must realize its complete lack of strength to be able to rise from its grave .... it cannot and is dependent on help .... And if it therefore accepts help which is offered to it in love, then it will also remember Him Who alone can help it to resurrection .... it will call upon Jesus Christ, Who Himself rose from His grave, Who overcame death and Who can loosen every fetter .... Who offers His hand to every soul so that it can rise from the grave and now enter into life, which it can no longer lose either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God needs servants in the time of harvest ....

B.D. 6594 from July 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

In the time of harvest many reapers are needed, and then I also constantly accept servants who want to serve Me. The time of harvest has come and much work still has to be done so that even the last fruits still come to maturity, so that they can be brought into the barns .... And the wheat will be separated from the chaff .... You all know these words which I spoke on earth and you will now also understand them when you know and believe that the end is near, that this time has now also come when I need faithful servants in great numbers who are willing to work. Much good seed has been sown and there could be a good harvest; yet not every seed has fallen on good soil, not every seed has sprouted and been nurtured with the love of an eager farmer who wants to extract good fruit from his soil. But I am thel lord, and all land is My possession, which I handed over to diligent labourers who were to cultivate it and build it up on My behalf. But when the time of ripeness has come I must still recruit many labourers to help Me bring in the harvest .... I must send out My servants to work in My name, to proclaim My word, to admonish and spur people on to loving activity, they must speak in My name and for My name .... point to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, and to the near end, they must do everything to still save souls from darkness .... Then they will do the work of a faithful servant in My vineyard, only then is it possible that many good fruits will come to ripen, which I can gather into the scouring pits, which I can call into My kingdom, which will be separated from those who will be burnt as chaff in the eternal fire .... Once the hour of the end has come, then everything will also irrevocably come to light which is unfit to give life, which must not be regarded as fruit but as an empty husk that serves nothing but to be burnt and scattered to the four winds .... But in the end the harvest shall be great, and therefore the growth of the smallest plant shall be observed and encouraged with all love .... For a good servant can do a great deal if he lovingly nurtures and cares for even the smallest plant .... if he exposes it to the rays of the sun and diligently waters it with water of love .... A good servant can still bring Me much fruit, and I will bless him for his effort and perseverance which can bring Me an abundant harvest. Therefore I cannot use servants who are careless and lazy, who don't perform their service properly, who are only active in pretence because they believe they can deceive Me .... And My call is therefore again and again addressed to those who are still willing at the last hour to enter My service, since I accept everyone because time is pressing until the end .... And whoever wants to serve Me I will also give him the strength to be active for Me .... Only he must take his work for Me and My kingdom seriously, for it is urgent, after all, the rich harvest for Me means a loss for My adversary .... It means awakening to life, an escape from certain death .... And this is why servants can contribute much if they follow My call and do what I instruct them to do: if they carry My word into the world, if they only ever speak of Jesus Christ and His work of love, if they proclaim His divine teaching of love and thus plant good seed in the soil so that it can still sprout and bear abundant fruit before the end comes .... For there is only little time left but it shall be well used .... so that I can reap a rich harvest ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Miracle consequence of faith ....

B.D. 6595 from July 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My love is and always remains turned towards you .... And My love only ever wants what is best for you, it only ever wants your soul's salvation, which will continue to exist when the body has passed away. Everything that affects you in earthly life is based on My love, and therefore you need not be despondent and anxious for a minute, for My love levels everything in its time, it creates the balance where body and soul are unequally considered, that is, where the soul is in danger due to the use of the body and yet shall mature according to My will. You can always be firmly convinced that I keep a watchful eye and know about your spiritual as well as your physical needs and will remedy them at the right time. Therefore you need not worry, whatever it may be, for I Myself take care of you. I only require of you that you completely hand yourselves over to Me, that you don't go your own way, that you are always willing to let yourselves be guided by Me .... that you therefore let go of every worry and trust Me completely that I will provide a remedy for everything that distresses you. Every worry of your own is a lack of trust and hinders Me in My plan of love. But if you completely hand yourselves over to My will and believe in My love and My might, then you can truly travel your earthly path unencumbered, for My love protects you from getting into danger if you only let yourselves be guided by Me. Hence this is a convinced faith which truly makes you come alive, for then every burden will fall away from you and you will be able to be unusually active, for then you will also receive strength which you will then use in My will .... I ask much of you .... to believe that I am present to you, Whom you nevertheless cannot see .... But you who hear My word directly, you who are addressed by Me through My messengers, this belief should be easy for you, for My voice is proof of My presence to you .... And thus, if you know Me Myself present to you, you can nevertheless also be convinced that I know about all your sufferings and hardships and that I can remedy them .... And then you must also believe that I will remedy them when the time comes, otherwise your faith would still be very weak and then also explain your hardship. I am your God and father, your creator from eternity .... Everything has come forth from Me in wisdom and power and so also you yourselves, whom I have created out of My love .... You should only think of this My creative power, of My wisdom, might and love, then every anxious worry will fall away from you, because then you will know that nothing is impossible for Me .... And because My love always and forever applies to you, I will also use My power if you should become healthy in body and soul .... but I can only ever use it when this no longer means compulsory faith for you .... You shall not attain faith through miracles but you shall also experience miracles through faith .... And it is truly easy for you to let such faith come alive in you, for I work on you so obviously, I speak to you, I let My word resound in your heart .... and you only need to tear down and overcome one thin wall, the quiet doubts which still arise in you from time to time .... You only ever need to imagine My great love for you and then you will also be certain that this love will do everything for you in order to give you life and that it will also sustain your earthly life as long as you want to be active in a life-awakening way. Throw all burdens away from you and entrust yourselves to Me, and know that your saviour and redeemer lives, that He took all infirmities upon Himself so that you may become free from them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual low impact of unredeemed sin debt ....

B.D. 6596 from July 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The burden of sin weighs humanity down .... It is not that people feel this burden physically, but that their souls are downcast, which manifests itself in low-mindedness, in godless lifestyles, in unbelief and world hunger .... in completely materialistic thinking and striving. Hence the spiritual low on earth is the effect, the sign of the still unpunished guilt, it is the consequence of a life without Jesus Christ, for people have not yet found their redemption and their souls still carry the immense burden of their sin themselves and are depressed by it so that they cannot lift themselves up without help. Thus God's adversary still has full power over these people and expresses himself by driving them to act contrary to God, by withholding all knowledge from them and only ever being concerned about keeping them outside divine order .... There could not be so much misery in the world if this adversary were not able to cause so much harm, yet people themselves allow him his disastrous activity, they are in bondage to him, for they are still entangled in the sin which handed them over to him when they fell away from God and followed his adversary. They will not let themselves be freed from this great sin by the one Who has the power to also loosen their chains, by Jesus Christ, Who died on the cross for the sake of this great guilt of sin, Who redeemed it for all those who believe in Him and place themselves under His cross .... But people do not believe in Him and are therefore unredeemed and thus in the power of the enemy of their souls. And this is the great spiritual adversity in which the whole of humanity finds itself except for the few who have found Jesus Christ and also found redemption from sin and death through Him .... The earth is meant to serve the fallen spiritual to mature. And on this earth God Himself came into the world in the man Jesus to help people free themselves from their bondage. And all people could redeem themselves completely if only they would turn to Him, to Jesus Christ, and acknowledge Him as their liberator and ask for His help .... But only a few believe in Him, in His mission and in their redemption .... They are still so deeply in sin that their lord can easily prevent them from turning to another for help because He ensures that the knowledge of this helper is withheld from them. But God in His love grants this knowledge to all people, and truly, all could make use of it and dare to try to release themselves from the adversary's bondage .... For the time being they could only want to be released from their burden which weighs them down, then they would truly already be helped .... Instead, his influence becomes ever stronger, for people also reject the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, as misguidance without once taking a closer look at it. And they cannot be forcibly brought to believe in it .... But neither can they find salvation without faith in Him. And this explains the spiritual low which causes God to put an end to His adversary's activity .... For people who have sunk to the depths would be irredeemably lost if they were not wrested from the adversary and reintegrated into the process of development which leads them up from the depths again, even if it takes an infinitely long time. The graces of Jesus Christ's act of salvation remained unused by the people of this time, and therefore their stay on earth is no longer long .... And satan's activity, which tries to prevent people from finding Jesus Christ, must also be stopped. But he will not keep the soul even though he believes to be its master forever .... For as soon as humanity has reached a certain spiritual low, God's love will take care of it by allowing a new earth to arise through His will and His might, and the spiritual substance which failed as a human being will take up residence in it again in a just order .... And again it will have to go through the course of development until it will be confronted again to confess Jesus Christ and let Him redeem it .... For only He can redeem the guilt of sin which burdens every being, and only He can give it freedom and redeem it from satan's bondage ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Relief action on souls beyond ....

B.D. 6597 from July 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The task you have been given does not only extend to the people on this earth but the souls in the kingdom of the beyond have also been handed over to you for care, because they, too, shall be given the opportunity to be listeners of the divine word, so that they can still make up for what they missed in earthly life .... so that they can still find Jesus Christ there, to Whom they have to take refuge in their adversity and distress in order to be redeemed by Him .... Love must also be preached to those souls above all .... because only then can their state of misery be remedied when they acquire strength of love through their own will to love and only then can they be active in love. In the last days before the end the redemption of the souls in the beyond is urgent insofar as they are more willing to accept the divine word, the gospel of love, than people on earth .... and because every soul which ascends in the beyond can also be a helper for earthly people again if it can now mentally influence them and its endeavour will only ever be the spiritual salvation of those. Where the influence from person to person is only weak, there the influence from the spiritual kingdom can still be successful if people think of deceased loved ones and these have already reached a certain degree of light .... to which you, as diligent labourers in the vineyard of the lord, can help them. This is why your task is particularly important, and again and again you will be admonished to fulfil it conscientiously, so that such a rare opportunity can be exploited where the souls of the kingdom of the beyond can fetch nourishment for their souls .... Although the same nourishment is also offered to them in the spiritual kingdom, their degree of realization is so low at first that they cannot assess what is offered to them and are more inclined to reject it, as they did on earth. But through your mediation they feel addressed and charitably touched, because God's grace makes it particularly easy for them to attain faith in the last days, and because these immature souls are still too closely connected to earth, so that they are also easier to influence from earth .... just as, conversely, their efforts will later also be directed towards people on earth whom they know to be in the same need after their physical death. These connections and actions of help from earth to the beyond and vice versa have always been possible, but in view of the end they become more evident when people are aware of their task and lovingly commit themselves to the salvation of the souls .... Then God particularly blesses such connections, and His blessing also means success. The number of souls still struggling for salvation is endless, but God's love and grace is also endless .... But a ray of love also has an endless effect .... And if a person only commits himself with love for the redemption of a single soul, this redeemed soul will then be able to be active again to such an extent that countless souls will find salvation through it again .... And therefore, with your help countless souls can still be saved before the end. You should always remember this and always bear the significance of your task in mind. Then you will be eagerly at work and tirelessly create and work for God and His kingdom .... And God will bless your work, for you will help Him to bring back that which is already eternally separated from Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Beatitude or renewed banishment depends on free will ....

B.D. 6598 from July 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Whatever you may desire on earth, your wishes shall be granted .... For you will receive whatever you desire once your life on earth is over. If you desired spiritual possessions, the spiritual kingdom will provide them to you in abundance, if earthly commodities had been your wish then the earth will accommodate you again .... the matter you aspired to will become your cover once more as it had been an incredibly long time ago .... But you will always have created the fate yourselves which is granted to you after your passing away .... If, however, the grace is bestowed upon you to be recalled before the end of this earth, then a short time will still be granted to you during which you can still discard earthly desires, during which spiritual wealth is offered to you once again which you need only seize in order take possession of it for the sake of your salvation. Yet once again it depends on your free will whether you still make use of these final blessings or let them pass you by unused in order to then be embodied into earthly creations once more because you asked for it. But you can only be blissfully happy in possession of spiritual wealth .... This is My constant admonition and call for caution which applies to all people as long as they still live on earth .... You will all have to bear the consequences of your earthly life, for it is the law of divine order which cannot be revoked by My love and I cannot, for the sake of 'grace', bestow beatitudes upon those who live their lives on earth contrary to My will, contrary to My eternal order .... who are merely the servants of the world and therefore deprive themselves of the expectation of a blissful spiritual kingdom .... As long as this earth continues to exist My flow of divine grace is still open both on earth as well as in the beyond, and all wrongly thinking and living souls will be offered blessings but they shall all keep their free will ....

However, as yet there is still the possibility of a change of will, all those who are misguided .... be it on earth or in the beyond .... still receive kind-hearted advice to consider their actual task; as yet the spiritual world eagerly endeavours to gain access to people's thoughts on earth, just as beings of light approach the souls on the other side, and they all only strive to direct their thoughts correctly, to turn their eyes towards Me and to awaken a desire for light in them, so that they will not walk past the fountain of grace where it opens itself, from which they can draw to benefit their souls. But even this time of grace will come to an end and then the day will come without fail when every soul receives what it desires .... And anyone who never paid attention to spiritual wealth will be left empty-handed and will have to accept a dreadful fate .... Then the period of Salvation will have come to an end, then an infinitely long night will start for the souls whose will was wrongly directed .... But inconceivable bliss will be granted to those who made an effort to reach Me and learned to despise earthly commodities .... The kingdom of the beyond, however, will likewise be only a kingdom of bliss, for all wretched souls will have to go through the excruciatingly painful process of development again, but only in order to one day attain the freedom again which they had misused in this earthly life. Sooner or later all beings will be able to make a free decision again and it will depend on them whether they prolong their time of agony or enter into beatitude again within a short time .... But all will receive help to reach the goal, for I pour out My blessings without limitation, and anyone who makes use of the blessing will be relieved from all adversity and pain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'God breathed a living soul into him ....'

B.D. 6599 from July 19th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My eternal plan of Salvation intends to bring about the deification of your souls, which indeed had once been divine and perfect beings yet they forfeited this perfection of their own free will .... You humans should know that I did not externalise you from Me as imperfectly as you are now, that I undeniably created the human form, but the soul, which animates this human form, had already spent an infinitely long time of changing its voluntarily fashioned, completely wrong state to such an extent that it was able to dwell in the human form in order to attain complete deification again. You must know that I did not create you imperfectly to then demand of you as human beings to perfect yourselves .... because nothing imperfect can emerge from Me .... Once you are in possession of this knowledge you will also consider your earthly existence from a different point of view .... You will realise that it is not an end in itself but the means to an end .... However, as long as you are lacking this knowledge you justifiably believe that you may use your earthly life purely for the sake of improving your physical well-being .... You believe that you may use your energy of life purely physically, even if you aspire to the goal that every individual person should improve himself ethically in order to achieve a better human race .... But you don't understand the spiritual task of the individual yet .... The human being himself is not the final goal, the existence as a human being is merely the final opportunity on this earth to reach the highest goal. And the teaching that I 'created man so that he should love Me, be of service to Me, in order to thereby enter Heaven' is only justified if the human existence is looked upon as a limited stage for the soul which once became imperfect, otherwise this teaching will lead to wrong ideas, such as the one that something 'imperfect' .... the soul .... was joined to the human being at birth, that thus something imperfect was brought to life by Me .... This not only confuses the image of My nature, which is supremely perfect, but also people's train of thought, who do not grasp their actual task on earth and will therefore be increasingly more worldly orientated because a wrong concept is being developed in them.

Although through love for Me and selfless service the human being could indeed be able to attain the right realisation and subsequently beatitude .... it will nevertheless prevent love being kindled towards a Being which uses its creative strength for the emergence of imperfect creations; and even selfless service lacks the right motivation if people are unaware of the perfect spirits' former apostasy from Me, which consisted of the fact that they wanted to rule with arrogance .... hence they discarded the principle of love .... Their imperfection was caused by the beings themselves .... However, the fact that you are imperfect as a human being cannot be doubted, and therefore you must first try to ascertain the reason for your imperfection and not be satisfied with the explanation that I created you the way you are on earth now .... But the latter is endorsed by all those who portray the act of creation of the human being such that a 'soul' is 'created' at the same time for this human being .... which they deem they can justify on account of the Words 'God breathed a living soul into him ....' The fact that this living soul is a formerly fallen original spirit is not known to them .... but this knowledge could be discovered by every individual person if only he seriously questioned the meaning and purpose of earthly life and his task on earth. And even a misguided teaching could make a person question, if only he wanted to gain clarification .... And especially the teachers who guide people should first attain clarification themselves, which they can receive at any time by merely turning to Me Myself if slight doubts, which everyone can feel arise within himself during deliberation, would make them turn to the right source, where purest trust will refresh anyone who desires it. The reason why there is so much darkness amongst people that misguided teachings were able to spread is due to people's indifference towards the truth, for it is available and within reach for everyone who seriously desires the truth. Yet only a few try to penetrate My eternal plan of Salvation .... but for them everything is obvious and they are brightly enlightened because the Light of eternity Itself kindles it in all those who want to escape the darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The crucifixion started a period of Salvation ....

B.D. 6600 from July 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My crucifixion concluded a period of redemption in a spiritual sense .... A hitherto hopeless state had come to an end, for until My crucifixion entering the kingdom of light had been impossible and even with the best of will people only attained a degree of purification; yet eternities would not have sufficed in order to completely remove the sin of the past rebellion against Me .... Thus, the weight of this guilt of sin forced them to stay under My adversary's control, so that the tormented souls in realising their adversity cried for a Saviour. However, from the moment I gave up My life for humanity's immense sin My adversary's power was broken, and thus a new time began .... The first entirely redeemed souls were able to leave their place of abode and enter through the gates to bliss, which I had opened .... This possibility remains as time and again souls will be able to release themselves from His power, time and again souls will liberate themselves from all shackles. The period of 'salvation' therefore began when I gave up my life, although the development through the creations and life on earth have been necessary for complete salvation and were only ever brought about to create the prerequisites which would then result in the complete return. And therefore one can indeed speak of a new time since the accomplishment of My act of Salvation, for only from then onwards was it possible to grant the souls the eternal happiness in which they were once permitted to live in light and strength .... Nevertheless, people are not aware of the fact that they are able to attain the most beautiful state, precisely because I Myself died on the cross for them in order to build a bridge from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of light .... They are not aware of the fact that they voluntarily hand themselves over to My adversary's control again if they don't acknowledge My act of Salvation .... that they cannot expect any other fate than that which was granted to the souls of people before My crucifixion: bondage and darkness, weakness and torments, which are the share of the unredeemed over which My adversary still has power.

The Saviour came from above and was only recognised by a few .... But the act of Salvation has been accomplished .... the gate into the kingdom of light was opened, and for this reason a new period of Salvation began with My crucifixion, even though Earth as such did not show any particular manifestations .... For it was only possible to change the hopeless state at the time through the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ and the act of Salvation, through a conscious inclination towards Him, through the acceptance of the sacrifice of love and thereby the redemption of the guilt of sin .... And once again people were granted a period of time during which, with good will, they were able to achieve complete redemption .... But this time has now expired, the incredible grace people were granted is not and will no longer be utilised .... People remain bound to the adversary's world because they make no attempt to release themselves and because their own free will must strive for this liberation. And thus a limit has to be set again; a new period needs to start, where the act of Salvation is highly valued again, where redemption can take place on a large scale, because the effect of the act of Salvation remains unchanged if only the will of people allows for this effect. However, those who are unwilling must once again feel the shackle of their captivity severely, so that even in these beings the desire for freedom, for blissful happiness awakens one day .... And My adversary must be deprived of this power over these beings which he keeps in such darkness that they can't see the light of the cross either .... And again, a new period will begin, for higher development of the spirits continues to progress constantly, and new souls will keep coming into this world, which are granted the opportunity to allow themselves to be liberated by Jesus Christ .... Time and again I pour the blessings of My act of Salvation upon these souls, and time and again such souls will also return to Me as My children .... For the act of Salvation has been accomplished for all once fallen spirits, and it did and will take effect on all people, past, present and future, until the day redemption has been completely achieved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Natural disaster before the end ....

B.D. 6601 from July 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The end of this earth and of all living creatures upon it is inevitable .... No creations on earth will remain, people and animals will lose their lives apart from the small flock of those who will be raptured in the flesh. This last act of My will has been planned from the beginning, time and again it has been proclaimed to people by seers and prophets, and is now announced to people again with all urgency as being close at hand, because it will be so enormous and no-one shall experience the end without having been informed of it. Yet the proclamations find no credence .... An event is approaching people, the enormity of which cannot possibly be imagined .... and yet it is dismissed as implausible and the admonitions and warnings are futile, for no-one prepares himself for this enormous happening. People don't believe in an end .... And thus I will proceed with My final exhortation .... I will still give the unbelieving human race a last sign in the shape of a natural disaster .... the scale of which will also be huge but it will only affect the earth to a limited extent, so that they will no longer think it impossible and seriously take account of themselves as to whether and how they can be justified before Me at the end. Great events are often foreshadowed .... The natural event, which will be followed by the end shortly afterwards, is intended to be a final admonition, for it will cost many human lives, countless people will fall prey to the elements of nature, or little impression on the hardened hearts can be expected which, however, shall still be saved prior to the destruction .... I have always spoken though the mouths of prophets and even now I keep speaking through My devoted servants .... Yet people do not listen to this language apart from a few who believe My Words and are therefore willing to influence their fellow human beings according to My will ....

But now they shall clearly hear My voice and not be able to close their ears, for humanity's indifference motivates Me to disturb them and shake them out of their tranquillity, their worldly spirit .... so that no one will be able to claim that he received no warning. But even this warning will not result in turning to Me completely, because people don't want to recognise My voice and because I do not use force which impels people to come to Me .... Then the end will sweep everything which remains in opposition to Me away, for every human being still remains in opposition who does not turn to Me in view of the previous immense destruction .... which demonstrates My might .... Everyone still remains in opposition who thinks that an end of this earth is impossible, for he is spiritually unenlightened, which betrays his affiliation to My adversary .... I still try to break this opposition by all possible means without using force. And this final intervention will truly appear to be a cruel method yet I use it for the sake of your salvation, because My Words are not being believed and because the end is near to which they will then inevitably fall prey, and then their spiritual state will be the decisive factor as to what fate awaits them on the day of Judgment. And time and again I say to My servants that they cannot mention the end and the preceding natural event diligently enough, that they should not be afraid to draw people's attention to the fact that they will not have much time left, that they should unhesitatingly speak about My eternal plan and that they therefore should also spread My Gospel, so that people know what I expect of them as not to descend into darkness as a victim of the forthcoming event .... I only ask for a loving heart which is willing to make sacrifices .... Then they will be able to wait for the coming events without fear, then they will belong to those who will emerge unscathed even if everything around them threatens to disappear .... However, dreadful things will be in store for those who do not want to believe .... And then I will have mercy on everyone who calls upon Me in his adversity, for I only want to rescue people and not let them fall prey to ruin .... For the end will come without fail, and then everyone will be judged in accordance with law and justice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Grace of embodiment as a human being ....

B.D. 6602 from July 22nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

No human being is aware of the unheard-of grace of being allowed to live on earth, for no human being recognizes his actual self .... No human being can appreciate what he was in the beginning and what he can become again through a right earthly life .... He once shone in inexpressible beauty, his abundance of light and strength was unlimited, and therefore his bliss was also unlimited. But no human being on earth can imagine such bliss and abundance of light and strength, and knowledge alone is not enough to grasp the great grace granted to the being that it may embody itself as a human being in order to emerge again from a freely chosen state which it had created for itself but which is completely unworthy of this perfect being .... But the fact that the human being cannot grasp it is well thought out by God, otherwise the earthly course could not result in free development to ascent but would force every being to ascend, which, however, would eliminate the attainment of perfection. And thus the human being stands, as it were, completely blind in an area which he has to walk through in order to reach the aim. And his blindness would always let him go astray if he were not accompanied by a guide who offered him his guidance. This guide will now tell him what he can achieve, he will also present his deficient state to him as self-inflicted and again and again spur him on to change it, but he will also leave him full freedom of will to listen to his ideas and to lead his way of life accordingly or to go his own way. But no human being needs to go through life without spiritual guidance .... And this, too, is again a grace .... therefore a grace, because once the being stood in brightest light and voluntarily gave itself to this light. Thus it spurned something divine, it rejected what God's great love bestowed upon it when He created the being. And this was a sin which justly had to lead to complete darkness .... and justly also meant a wasting away of God's love and mercy .... But the divine love and mercy does not deny itself eternally. But it is and remains an act of grace that God gives these fallen through their own fault the opportunity to work their way up again, even though this happens in such a way that the human being himself is not aware of the significance of his earthly existence. But God also tries to provide him with the knowledge about it, only 'knowledge' and complete 'realization' are still different, but the human being can acquire a degree of realization that he is able to believe what is presented to him as knowledge. Yet a single glimpse into his original state of light would render the human being incapable of further striving, for he would then perish under the force of his sin .... But he shall reach his former state of light again. For this reason every possibility has been opened up to him through God's love and grace, thus he finds himself in a perpetually flowing flow of grace of divine love which can also lead him to the aim if he completely surrenders himself to it, if he does not 'swim against the current' .... that is, if he does not offer inner resistance to those spiritual guides who are extremely eager to help him progress, but who nevertheless leave him complete freedom. But anyone who willingly allows himself to be steered and guided will come ever closer to his original state, and soon he will also recognize in his spirit the truth of what is presented to him .... he recognizes God's infinite love and grace, and then he humbly submits himself to the God and father he has recognized, and he desires Him with all his senses .... Then he can already be permeated by a small light of realization which, however, is only a faint reflection of the original light which once completely permeated him .... But then the grace of embodiment as a human being bestowed upon him was not ineffective, and then he returned to the father, from Whom he is no longer able to separate even in eternity, for love has now indissolubly united him with the eternal love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Commitment for truth ....

B.D. 6603 from July 23rd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Without hesitation you should support the spreading of truth, for I guide it to earth for this purpose, so that light will shine amongst you humans, so that error and lies, which are never helpful for the soul's salvation, will be invalidated. You humans must walk in the light if you want to attain beatitude. But error and lies are darkness and never lead upwards towards the eternal light. Anything that deviates from the pure truth, which has its origin in Me, must always be regarded as My adversary's activity, whose only aim is to extinguish light, to fight the pure truth and to keep people in spiritual darkness. And now you can also understand that his activity will never lead you to Me; you can understand that his activity will be made easier for him if the human being is indifferent as to whether he stands in truth, because then error and lies can also easily be presented to him .... But anyone who desires the truth will also receive it, for his desire for light will be satisfied by Me Myself. My bearers of light .... the people to whom I can convey the pure truth directly .... But they also have the task of entering the darkness and letting the light shine there. They have the task of illuminating every untrue teaching and branding it as error .... And therefore I also admonish them again and again to speak without shyness where they know their fellow human being to be in danger of falling prey to an erroneous teaching and to oppose him with the pure truth .... with the serious admonition to test with My support. Many misguided teachings have crept into the doctrine which I Myself proclaimed to people on earth .... This has not remained unchanged, and My concern will always be to remove what is wrong, what has been added, so that only My teaching of love will be preserved and people will always be able to draw strength from it, but which is no longer inherent in the falsified teaching .... And therefore this is a work of neighbourly love, to help fellow human beings to become partakers of the 'strength of My word' .... by offering them My pure gospel, which exposes everything that is wrong and ungodly and can truly bring light to people if they willingly listen to it. Anyone who earnestly strives towards Me desires the truth in his heart and will not feel satisfied by a teaching which deviates from the truth. But anyone who does not want to give in to a misguided teaching, even if his attention is drawn to the fact that his thinking is wrong, does not have the serious will to reach Me either. My adversary still has him under control, otherwise he would not represent the adversary's way of thinking. And every person can recognize for himself whether he is offered truth or error if he turns to Me Myself to help him to do so .... For I will truly no longer let him dwell in error who appeals to Me for truth .... And thus the human being need only trustingly hand himself over to Me Myself so that I may guide his thoughts correctly, and he will truly find his way out of the darkness, he will willingly turn to the light which shines for him and shall illuminate his path to Me .... But you should lend Me your mouth so that I Myself can speak through you .... You should speak openly and freely and I will put the words into your mouth which you will then also speak with conviction and thus help your fellow human being out of erroneous thinking who does not oppose you. Truth alone leads to bliss. Where there is untruth, My adversary still reigns .... But every person can recognize truth and error if only he appeals to Me Myself for spiritual enlightenment, if he seriously wants the truth to be revealed to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Duty to help in case of danger to fellow human beings ....

B.D. 6604 from July 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Each of you is obliged to save your neighbour if he is in danger, to help him so that he can escape this danger .... This is dictated by neighbourly love, even though you cannot be forced to provide such help; but one day you will have to answer to God if you have neglected to do so. For you are all children of one father, and if you love the father you must also love one another .... Love, however, ensures protection and shelter for the neighbour, and love always finds a way out, a means to avert the danger, for love is divine radiance and God truly knows how help can be given, and God's radiance of love also transfers this knowledge to the person who wants to help .... For the most part, however, people live next to each other in complete indifference to the fate of the other. And the commandment of neighbourly love is an empty concept to them. The need and danger of their fellow human beings do not touch them, and the will to help has sunk to a minimum .... because people are without love. Voluntary works of love alone are richly blessed for eternity .... If they are omitted, spiritual wealth will also fail and people will be poor and of dark spirit. If, however, the person next to you is obviously in danger and you pass by this emergency impassively, then you have incurred a grave sin and not merely omitted a work of love, for this omission will be reckoned to you as if you yourselves had put your fellow human being in danger. Whether it is a spiritual or an earthly danger which threatens your fellow human being, you are obliged to prevent this danger if this is within your power .... just as you are obliged to protect your fellow human being's life if it is in danger. If you only turn away unwillingly you will burden yourselves with an immense guilt for which you will have to answer and which you will also have to pay off and be grateful for if you are still given the opportunity to do so in earthly life .... Admittedly, the duty only ever exists towards God, for you cannot be forced by people into works of love. But what you only do because earthly power commands you to do so does not release you from your responsibility towards God and does not earn you any spiritual riches either .... But you yourselves would be happy to find a helper in the same danger and therefore you also know exactly how to appreciate the value of such help .... And if you fail then it is a sign of utmost unkindness, it is renewed evidence of your attitude which is still completely influenced by God's adversary. This is why you all have a certain obligation towards your neighbour when he is in danger .... And thus you will now also know that God will not condemn you if you take up arms in an emergency, as soon as you only want to avert a danger, as soon as you want to protect your neighbour if his life is threatened .... But only then do you act in a godly manner, but your motives must never lie in self-love .... The life of the individual human being should be sacred to all of you, for God gave it to you so that you might mature, so that you might regain perfection .... But where this life is in danger, man must take the side of the endangered person and try to preserve his life .... And then even an apparently evil deed will not be contrary to God's will ....

Amen

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Substitutionary atonement through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6605 from July 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Jesus Christ took your guilt upon Himself as a substitute, the man Jesus gave Himself in order to redeem the guilt of sin for you humans, although He Himself was the purest, most innocent being Who ever lived on this earth. He suffered and died for you .... But God would never have accepted this human sacrifice if it had not been made out of love. For God's justice demands that every being must atone for its own guilt in order to become free from it .... But Jesus, the man, countered this justice with His greater than great love which was meant for the weak, burdened brothers who alone could no longer muster the strength to take upon themselves and bear the suffering which would have been necessary in order to pay off the immense guilt which existed in the apostasy from God in free will .... He recognized the hardship in which humanity languished and knew that the sin of forsaking its love for God and rejecting God's strength of love could only be compensated for by a work of love which equalled this great guilt of sin, which therefore had to be superhuman in order to atone for that great sin .... He knew that no human being was capable of such a feat of love because they all lacked the strength which was required to accomplish it .... And He therefore also knew that people .... His once fallen brothers .... were irretrievably lost if help was not brought to them. The man Jesus was full of love for the wretched, and in this love He offered Himself to God for atonement .... And therefore God accepted His sacrifice, which He thus made on behalf of people .... God therefore valued the love of Jesus, the man, extremely highly, because Jesus withstood all temptations of the adversary which were intended to bring forth his self-love .... because Jesus, the man, was completely selfless and did not think of Himself, because He only ever kept the great hardship of His fellow human beings in mind and therefore wanted to help them. Love alone motivated Him to make the sacrifice, and this love alone motivated God to accept His sacrifice. Thus love brought about the compensation so that God's justice was not circumvented .... that the atonement was made, only not by people themselves but on their behalf by Jesus, Who stood on the same level due to His humanity but through His greater than great love built a bridge to God, Who is eternal love .... That God Himself could now embody Himself in this human being is now understandable, for Jesus was 'filled with love' .... or also .... the 'love Itself' was in the human being Jesus .... And thus God Himself made atonement for the sins of His creatures, God's love redeemed the guilt, God allowed Himself to be crucified in order to bring salvation to His creatures in deepest need .... The sin of the former rebellion against God was too great to be atoned for by human beings themselves, but God's love was even greater .... And in the man Jesus this love manifested itself in a work of mercy which was and can be unique on this earth. And therefore every person will be burdened by the guilt of sin as long as he does not make use of the work of love which was also accomplished for him ..... For no human being is able to atone for the immense guilt himself, no matter how great and painful his suffering on earth may be .... Only love redeems, and this love has also brought redemption to you humans in Jesus Christ .... love alone has set you free, and thus God Himself was your redeemer from sin and death ....

Amen

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God, the right guide on the earth's migration ....

B.D. 6606 from July 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You still have to go far if you don't let yourselves be guided by Me, the leader, Who truly knows the right path and Who wants to lead you all to the aim. As long as you humans walk without Me you will move on a level path or you will walk downwards .... For the path to Me goes upwards. But it cannot be travelled alone without My guidance, for it will not be found by people who do not seek communion with Me. And thus you live your earthly life completely uselessly, for what you find on these paths you have taken is like fleeting mist .... they are foam formations which pass away without leaving the slightest usefulness for you. But if you progress upwards under My guidance you will be granted goods which will remain with you forever, which you may take with you into the kingdom of the beyond, which every one of you humans has to enter once, which will be your abode after the death of your body but which will vary according to your earthly change .... And many people go there 'without God' .... only a small number are so connected to the creator of eternity that they have chosen Him as their guide and unconditionally follow Him wherever He leads them .... There are only a few people who always stick to Me, who remain united with Me in sufferings and joys, in hardship and sorrows .... who always have Me by their side and don't take a step without My guidance .... who don't start any work without having requested My blessing, who entrust themselves to Me in every matter of life, in spiritual or earthly adversity, and ask Me for My advice and My help. But these truly also have the most faithful helper at their side, and they can travel their earthly path carefree, it cannot be missed, and it will not be too difficult either, because I support and guide them and give them strength to ascend. Why don't all you humans choose this right guide? Why don't you listen to those who refer you to Me, who want to help you to a successful earthly change? You can all come to the realization that you are subject to a higher power, that One guides your destiny, if only you think a little about yourselves and everything that surrounds you .... Would I demand faith in Me from you if it were impossible to gain it? You can all procure the inner certainty for yourselves that I Am, that there must be a creator Who let everything come into being .... And then you would truly make better use of the short time of your earthly life than you do. And again and again you will all be made aware of this creator and sustainer .... Again and again you are encouraged to think about it, but again and again you unwillingly reject such thoughts. Again and again there are messengers along the path who call to you to leave the level path and turn upwards, and again and again I Myself approach you as an unknown guide and offer you My services .... because I alone know where your path leads to and where you should go .... But you do not listen to Me, the ideas of My messengers leave you unimpressed, and you wander and wander and get nowhere, for your life is an idle run, it constantly moves in the same path .... if you are not 'bad' and then inevitably end up in the depths .... But you all know that your stay on this earth is not eternal, and every clever person should make the most of this short time to the best of his ability .... You certainly do this but only in an earthly sense; what you acquire has no lasting value and only burdens you, so that you already don't want to take the path upwards because you would have to leave this burden behind and it seems indispensable to you. But if you entrust yourselves to Me as your guide then you can be certain that you need nothing more for your ascent than good will and an open heart which gives itself to Me so that I can fill it with My love .... Then you truly don't need anything else, for with My leadership I will also fully take care of you, and you need only ever turn your gaze upwards and you can enjoy the most glorious region which you behold and which you are now heading for. And your path will only be short if you walk in My company, but it will surely lead to the aim.

Amen

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Confessing before the world ....

B.D. 6607 from July 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

If you represent Me before the world, I will confess you before My father .... I spoke these words as the man Jesus to My disciples and thus to all people, because all My words applied to the whole of humanity, because all My words belonged to the divine teaching of love which I wanted to be proclaimed amongst all peoples .... And precisely these words are to be valued unusually because they impose an obligation on you humans .... Not only should you believe in Me yourselves but you should also profess your faith to your fellow human beings .... You shall confess Me before the world .... You should therefore stand up for My name before the whole world. Only then will you be accepted by Me, the father, as I have promised you. Thus I am not content with you inwardly believing in Me, with you not doubting Me and My act of salvation, with you perhaps also calling upon Me to forgive your sins, for I require a living faith in Me .... and a living faith cannot help but represent Me before the world, for as soon as the human being has a living faith he will be driven from within to constantly remember Me in Jesus, and then his mouth will not be able to remain silent either, he will overflow with inner gratitude and love for Me, Who accomplished the act of salvation in the human being Jesus in order to save you humans from the night of sin. And I knew very well why I spoke these words, for I knew about the great spiritual adversity which comes upon all people who do not recognize and acknowledge Jesus Christ. And in this adversity people have to take care of them in order to help them to believe in Jesus Christ. And for this it is necessary that they proclaim Me, that they confess Me in Jesus and now also loudly bear witness to Me and My name .... What a person experiences inwardly, what moves him mentally, is not known to his fellow human being .... he must be quite obviously pointed to the divine redeemer, and this can best be done through the testimony of love of those who have found Him and who now prove their living faith in Me by speaking of My work of mercy .... that they openly stand up for Me and My name in front of all people, that they praise My name and describe themselves as followers of Jesus Christ and also try to win fellow human beings for Me. People walk on this earth in order to finally find liberation from the material form .... But no matter how they change on earth it cannot lead to the aim without the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, because I accomplished the work of redemption in Him and therefore everyone who wants to be redeemed from his bondage has to turn to Me Myself in Jesus Christ .... Anyone who is truly liberated, who has found redemption through Him, also praises His name aloud, he will only ever speak of Him and His immeasurable act of love, he cannot help but mention His name aloud, for all bonds have fallen off him, he is free from adversarial power, he has given himself to Me in Jesus Christ, and such an act of transformation is not carried out silently and secretly, it is recognizable to all fellow human beings. For the mouth is not silent where the heart is filled with the love and grace of Jesus Christ, and thus the human being confesses Him before all the world as his saviour and redeemer, and he also seeks to lead his fellow human beings to Him .... He does not deny Him even if he himself is threatened by danger, because he knows that every danger can be averted by the one Who has power over heaven and earth, Whose breath is sufficient to destroy everything, just as His will is sufficient to resurrect what had already fallen prey to death .... And he who has been raised to life does not fear death either .... He will also stand up for Me and My name when the final decision is demanded, yet he will do it out of love for Me, and therefore I will accept him because he confesses Me before all the world ....

Amen

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Concept of time and knowledge about it ....

B.D. 6608 from July 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Endless periods of time have passed and will still follow .... Time periods which mean eternities for you humans but which will nevertheless come to an end one day, because in the state of perfection there is no longer a concept of time for the being, thus the torment of an infinitely long time is also ruled out for such a being. Yet again and again you humans must be made aware of the eternities you have already lived on earth and that you can already put an end to this infinitely long time of your development in your earthly life if you endeavour to become perfect, so that you will then no longer be subject to the law of time and space, so that you, as most blissful spiritual beings, will also lose the torment of the concept of time, which belongs to complete beatitude. Again and again you must be told that your existence has not only been on this earth since your birth as a human being but that you have already covered eternal times, partly consciously, partly unconsciously, and that it is up to you whether you prolong this time endlessly again or put an end to it .... But in the state of imperfection there is no end for you, only the way of your existence is different .... thus the conscious state can also disappear again, and yet you continue to exist unconsciously, and then you have to cover eternities again until you again have the opportunity to complete your earthly course in a degree of perfection which excludes every concept of time. Although you don't know anything about the time behind you, and therefore you don't take your perfection on this earth seriously either .... You may not know it either, i.e. it may not be irrefutably proven to you, because then you would be in a certain compulsive state of perfection .... Nevertheless, this knowledge is presented to you and it is left up to you how you relate to it ..... If you believe in it even without evidence you will also make an effort to reach a degree of light on this earth, you will strive for perfection, and then the 'end of time' will also approach for you. But the unbeliever will not allow himself to be impressed by such knowledge either, and he is in great danger that he will prolong his own time, that he will be bound in the creations for eternities again, that he will unconsciously take an infinitely long earthly path again but nevertheless have to take upon himself the torments of this path, because for the originally freely-created spiritual being every constraint, every bound state is also a state of torment .... That is why the knowledge of this is made accessible to people in the last time before the end, it is presented to them and can lead to greater responsibility towards the souls. Again, this possibility is very small because without faith in an earthly purpose of life, in the attainment of a specific aim, even such knowledge is not believed, because even the teachings about the soul's course of development are only regarded as fantasies to which no significance is to be attributed. But these teachings are a serious reminder, because it concerns the freedom of every individual soul .... It is about something that every being wants, because it can only feel happy in freedom, but which it .... in order to possess it .... it must also strive for .... And it should be stimulated by the supply of this knowledge, people should think about the term 'eternity' .... and relate themselves to it. And they should also know that both freedom and bondage lie within their will, that they will be helped in every way to attain freedom but that they will also not be hindered if they return in free will to the bondage again, from which they have already released themselves and can now completely detach themselves in earthly life. Whether they accept the knowledge as credible, whether they draw their conclusions from it and make it the basis of their way of life, however, this also determines their spiritual state, it determines the degree of maturity they reach on earth and consequently also their state after the death of the body .... But the transmission of this knowledge is also one of the last means of grace which are used to help people in their spiritual adversity .... But everything happens and has to happen without coercion, for perfection can only be achieved in full freedom of will, yet help will be granted to the soul in every way ....

Amen

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Urgent invitation to communion ....

B.D. 6609 from July 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Just always come to My table and get the nourishment which your soul needs .... Again and again you must take it to yourselves, it must constantly be able to refresh itself at the source of My love, and therefore you must also constantly let Me speak to you, and you must never believe that you have received enough nourishment, for I constantly speak to you because I know that you always need strength and reinforcement, because I must always speak to you so that your souls can become strong and mature. The well of life will never run dry, My table will always be laid for you, but you must come to Me yourselves and never believe that your soul could do without the bread of heaven if it does not want to harm itself. For what I offer it is My strength of love, without which it cannot become blissfully happy .... But beatitude consists of constantly feeling My illumination of love and yet always having a desire for it .... Thus you will never be full but constantly use nourishment which refreshes and strengthens you, which makes you feel your bond with Me ever more .... Thus you will constantly be allowed to partake of the lord's supper with Me and also have to do so if your bliss is not to be impaired. But My table of gifts is immeasurably richly laid and I want to share everything with you, I want to treat My guests to the best because they are extremely dear to Me. And a good host is happy when his gifts are desired and gratefully accepted. And thus I also want you to come to My table again and again in order to take supper with Me, in order to receive the food which I break and bless for you, which I offer you because I know that you need it and cannot receive enough of it. Love prepares the food for you and love distributes it to you .... Love beckons and calls you, it sends messengers to invite you, and love itself will never close the door but keep all gates open which lead to the source of life .... My messengers will guide you to where My gifts are distributed so that your soul receives good gifts .... This is why you should always find yourselves at My table, again and again you should open your hearts to My address, you should cultivate a constant bond with Me and never let Me go from you .... You should always desire My presence which, however, also proves itself through My address, through the influx of My flow of grace, through the presentation of My word, of the bread of heaven and living water which strengthens and matures your soul. Why do I tell you this? Why do I exhort you so urgently to receive My word? Because times will come when this approach to My table will be difficult for you, and because you have to be prepared for this time, that your souls have become strong and that you will then feel such a desire for My nourishment within you that you will also overcome these difficulties in order to only be able to partake of the lord's supper .... But for this your soul already needs much strength which it should have gathered beforehand. I truly provide for you abundantly, but you cannot let yourselves be fed and watered by Me abundantly enough .... Believe these words of Mine that you will need a great deal of strength and can only receive this strength through the right food and the right drink. For this reason, however, My love calls upon you again and again to shelter around the source which I have opened up for you .... And you should make use of this grace as long as it is easily accessible to you .... And you will then also be able to overcome resistance in order to come to the lord's table .... And you have to expect such resistance, for the end is approaching where My adversary will try everything to push you away from Me. Therefore you shall be strong and My gifts shall seem so precious to you that you will only desire them, that you will long for communion with Me and that you will always find your way to where I have laid My table for you ....

Amen

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Proclaiming Jesus' teaching of love is urgently needed ....

B.D. 6610 from July 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My Gospel shall be spread throughout the world .... I gave this instruction to My disciples while I still lived on earth, and I give My disciples of the last days the same instruction today, for it has become more necessary than ever to convey to people My Gospel, the Gospel of love, which is unfamiliar or no longer taken seriously by everyone, even though it is well known. People have distanced themselves from Me because they no longer live in love, thus I cannot be with them either. And a life without love will result in certain death for you .... Hence it has become imperative that people be informed, that My teaching of love is proclaimed to them again, that the danger they are in is brought home to them if they fail to live according to My commandments of love, and what they will achieve if they shape themselves into love ....

My teaching of love has to be proclaimed to all nations of this earth, and therefore I send My disciples into the world again .... The teaching material I give to them and which they shall distribute is exquisite, so that people can once again be taught in the same way which I preached on earth as the man Jesus in order to bring salvation to people from their lifeless and constrained condition.

More than ever it has become necessary to emphasise the divine teaching of love, for it is observed far too little. What should be normal for people such as loving each other like brothers and doing for each other what is customary amongst brothers is no longer known to them, everyone just thinks of himself, and everyone regards his fellow human being as his enemy rather than his brother .... There is no community which unites with love, unselfish neighbourly love has almost disappeared but selfish love has grown ever stronger, and therefore people are at great risk of delivering themselves to death and having to linger in this sleep of death for eternities again .... but which they can escape if only love is kindled and practised in their hearts once more. For this reason I repeatedly prioritise love, I Myself constantly preach love; the essence of My Word, which is transmitted to you directly from above, only ever consists of love which motivates Me to help you, and which has to be practised by you, too, if you want to remedy your soul's hardship, if you want to wake up to life and not ever lose this life again.

And I awaken servants for Myself everywhere .... disciples, which I instruct again as during the time of My life on earth, disciples, to whom I proclaim My pure Gospel with the instruction to pass it on, because I know that people have to be informed of the Gospel of love, of their earthly task to deliver themselves from their bondage and darkness through unselfish love. For although people know My commandments of love they nevertheless speak of them thoughtlessly, they don't consider them in their hearts and act accordingly ....

And therefore their attention needs to be drawn to them again, time and again they have to be spoken to and stimulated to act with love, they have to be told that they can only become blessed through love because only through love can they come closer to and establish the unity with Me, which has to take place without fail in order to be happy. And thus there is no other mission more urgent than this: to proclaim My teaching of love or to revive it again with reference to the One Who suffered for love and died on the cross. For all people have to be informed of Him Who exemplified to them a life of love, Who was motivated by love to endure utmost suffering and an excruciating death in order to save humanity from the night of death ....

People shall only be taught to look after their fellow human beings with unselfish love, to approach them like brothers and to treat them like brothers .... Only that guarantees their own salvation, but a heartless way of life inevitably drives people into My adversary's hands, who is devoid of all love. Yet until the very last day of this earth My messengers will still preach love, until the last day they, as My disciples of the end time, will proclaim the Gospel of love, for only the person who accepts it will escape the end and experience My love and mercy to the same extent as he has practised it himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

About 'Baptism' ....

B.D. 6611 from August 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You cannot appreciate the immense grace of receiving My Word, since all your questions are answered by Me and any doubts are expelled whenever you turn to Me for an explanation. I answer such questions mentally, too, but you are frequently unsure as to whether you have received these thoughts from Me and thus your doubts are not dispelled, whereas the Word you receive makes you happy as soon as you make use of the grace bestowed upon you by receiving it. Many more questions are on your mind and simply a trusting prayer to Me would suffice in order to receive an explanation from Me, but you turn to Me far too seldom with such requests and thus you are not yet fully aware of the immense grace at your disposal:

Every human soul requires a thorough cleansing, a bath to remove all its impurities which refreshes and revives it and makes it suitable for the work it has to carry out on earth. And every human soul has to be willing to undertake this purification or to submit to it in the knowledge that prior to this it is not as I want it to be, as it has to be in order to approach Me and to stay with Me eternally. But such a purifying bath is not to be understood purely externally, it is an act which has to take place internally, which only becomes outwardly recognisable by a change in a person’s character, thus giving the person himself the certainty to have worked himself out of a morass, to have had a refreshing bath and to then leave it completely cleansed. However, clear water with a refreshing effect cannot be stagnant, it has to be a flowing, living stream, the kind of water that has the strength to purify and revive. Hence you require ‘living water’ .... and you also know what is to be understood by ‘living water’ ....

Time and again I invite you to come to the source from whence the living water flows, time and again I want you to enter into the sea of My love, to immerse yourselves, to allow yourselves to be ‘baptised’ by Me Myself with My Word, which alone has the strength to effect a change in you, which purifies and revives your soul and gives it true life ....

Thus when I said to My disciples ‘Baptise them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost’ .... it is meant that they were to bring My Word to people in My name, the living water which originates from Me .... that people have to go to the source. Love Itself .... the Father .... offers you humans the Word which enables you to reach profound wisdom if you live accordingly and thereby awaken the spirit within you which will give you complete enlightenment .... Your soul needs this Word which alone has the same effect as pure water on your body: that it leaves the bath strengthened and suitable for every task it will be required to do .... And thus My disciples were supposed to carry My Word to all people who were meant to receive something precious with love which was to kindle their love in turn and bring the spirit within them to life .... Living water, however, only originates from Me. I Myself Am the source from whence living water flows, and every human being must have descended into the well of My love in order to receive divine wisdom and to recognise it through his spirit.

This is the baptism which every person must have received in order to become a member of the church of Christ .... the church I Myself founded on earth .... Consequently your will is required first, which has to make the free decision to descend into the stream of My love, to accept My living Word and thereby purge its soul, which will then make My presence possible. My Words are only ever to be understood in a spiritual sense, and no outward process will ever achieve the inner transformation of a being, the purification of a soul. Therefore you should always endeavour to discover the spiritual meaning of My Words which, however, will become quite clear to you when you ask Me Myself in your heart for clarification, because if you genuinely desire it you cannot do anything else but think correctly .... But then you will also accept My Word without resistance when it is given to you by My disciples, and then you will enter into My divine abundance of love .... you will receive baptism .... My love will permeate you with My spirit and guide you into truth .... love, wisdom and strength will then be the soul’s share .... The Father, Son and Holy Spirit will then be constant companions of the souls who let themselves be baptised with the water of life and love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Let the spirit work in you ....

B.D. 6612 from August 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You must not resist the spirit within you if it wants to express itself .... You must always be ready to listen to it, you must often go into silence and listen to what it wants to say to you. You must consciously open yourselves, for he will never force or try to penetrate too loudly but always wait for your willingness and then offer you delicious things. The spirit within you is the voice of My love which is always ready to sound for you, which constantly wants to speak to you but can only speak to you if you are also willing to listen to Me. And if you seriously consider what a great grace it is that you are privileged to hear My word, then you must only ever give thanks in profound humility for this gift of grace and never miss an opportunity to receive it. And thus the more often you open your heart the clearer you will hear My voice, and I will be able to impart inexhaustible wisdom to you which will make you profoundly happy .... And then you will soon be able to rise above all earthly things, you will learn to regard everything as a quickly passing final test and trial which will then be followed by an eternal, unclouded spiritual life .... Soon nothing will bother you anymore, because your soul will detach itself more and more from the material world and only longs to return home to its father's house. Only My spirit can convey this to you, and only your spiritual ear can receive it, but you yourselves can shape yourselves through your will such that you will become able to hear My voice, and My gifts will never be limited to you .... But you determine the measure yourselves. It is the law that free will is not ignored, that you must turn to Me yourselves if My ray of love is to affect you. But I do not restrict you, I do not withdraw from you but you yourselves give the reason when it seems to you as if I am not present to you, because a wall immediately pushes itself between us when your will is looking for another aim. And you must also remove this wall again yourselves and you will find Me again because I was never far away from you .... But that you are at a considerable advantage if My nearness is constantly proven to you through the receipt of My word need not be told to you, for your state of soul will prove it to you yourselves, you will feel an inner peace in My nearness and be full of strength because you receive it directly from Me. Let the spirit within you often have its say, just always create opportunities for it to express itself .... So often give yourselves over to inner contemplation, shut yourselves off from the noise of the world and listen to the subtle sound within you .... Want Me to speak to you and listen to Me .... And you will truly go through earthly life richly blessed and also be able to pass on much of the blessing .... For you all need strength and light .... which My spirit gives to everyone who opens himself to it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Feeding the truth .... God's will be done ....

B.D. 6613 from August 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You can only ever be assured that I will convey the truth to you if you desire it. I don't want you to walk along in darkness, I always want to kindle a light for you, that is, I want to correct every untrue thought, every misguided teaching, I want to counter them with the pure truth so that you will become enlightened and correctly recognize Me Myself as well as My reign and activity, because I nevertheless want you to learn to love Me but I will never be able to win your love as long as you form a different idea of Me through wrong teachings or wrong concepts, which therefore does not correspond to the truth. I want your love .... and you will only love Me when you recognize Me as a supremely perfect being Which in Itself is love, wisdom and might in unsurpassable measure .... But every false teaching makes you somehow doubt My perfection, for it will either question My love or My wisdom or omnipotence .... For this reason I oppose them with the truth, even if you cannot penetrate all depths of it, but I Myself will not submit anything to you which could contradict the pure truth .... of which you should always be certain. For I love you with the omnipotence of divine love, and this love of Mine also guarantees you good gifts .... But often the pure truth will also be incomprehensible to you because your soul is not yet receptive to it, because it cannot yet judge correctly due to its still deficient development .... Nevertheless, you should believe that I correspond to the will and desire for truth and will not let you be misled if bad forces have this intention .... You will indeed always be harassed by such forces but they will not be able to work against Me if I have made the plan to convey the truth to humanity and have chosen a person whom I deem suitable for this purpose .... otherwise the transmission of truth would be impossible, but the end time urgently requires a purification of the already very deformed teaching. Therefore you humans can accept without any doubt what is conveyed to you, for as soon as you are only willing to live in truth you will certainly reject untrue goods but you will also always recognize My gifts as truth .... Only entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith that I will not let you fall prey to My adversary's cunning and trickery .... As long as you want to serve Me he cannot harm you and it is impossible for him to approach you because your will hinders him. Yet I also occasionally test the strength of your faith in Me and My word, because I demand unconditional faith from you in order to then be able to bestow gifts upon you which seem unusual and yet only require strong faith .... But the slightest doubt makes it impossible for Me because I don't want to force your faith. There are no limits to you if you want to penetrate the deepest depths of wisdom .... But a faith which has not yet reached full strength sets its own limits .... And therefore I can only ever provide you with spiritual knowledge according to your faith, yet you can accept what I give you as purest truth and thus also represent it to your fellow human beings. For I truly have all means at My disposal to prevent the acceptance of misguided spiritual knowledge if I want to convey the pure truth to humanity, because this is urgently necessary in the last days before the end .... For many people are blind in spirit, many are seduced by unscrupulous leaders .... although their own will allowed it. But all people shall have the opportunity to also take notice of the pure truth which comes directly from Me. And therefore it shall also be able to be guided to earth .... Thus I oppose My enemy's cunning and deceitfulness with My power, and I can use it where a person fully gives his will to Me .... And there I will resist My adversary to push forward, and he will have to obey Me because the human being's will belongs to Me. I will guide the truth to earth, and what I will comes to pass .... And never will My adversary succeed in extinguishing or dimming a light which I Myself have kindled on earth ....

Amen

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No human being is safe from sudden retrieval ....

B.D. 6614 from August 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Every day is a step closer to the end .... This applies to the individual human being as well as to all inhabitants of earth, for what has been predicted since the beginning of this redemptive epoch will come true: the earth will cease to exist in its present form. But every day is still a gift of grace for you humans, for you can use every day to mature your souls. One day you will understand the meaning of these words and you will feel deep remorse if you have not used the time which is still given to you. Therefore you will be admonished again and again to take all relevant advice seriously, for once time has passed it will be too late and then every person will have to bear the consequences of his way of life. Every person should seriously consider his death, which can happen quite unexpectedly, even if he does not want to believe in an 'end' of the earthly period .... For no one is safe from a sudden call. But he can expect death without worry if he is prepared, because then he knows that he will only change his place of residence and that this change will truly not disappoint him but bring him a free, blissful life. And the human being is prepared when he feels that he belongs to God, when he endeavours to live for His pleasure .... when he remains constantly united with God through prayer and deeds of love .... Then death does not frighten him, for he is not so addicted to the world that he fears losing it .... And you humans could all create this state for yourselves which would free you from the fear of death. You only need to seriously seek contact with God and then you will also endeavour to live according to His will. But therefore you have to believe in Him and also in a continuation of life after death. And most people lack this faith, therefore they want to live it up on earth, they want to deprive the world of what the world offers them and are completely indifferent to the state of their souls .... And thus death will take them by surprise and they will have to pass over into the kingdom of the beyond in a completely immature state if they are still called away before the end of this earth or have to endure a far more dreadful fate .... to be banished anew in matter. People hope for a complete passing away, for being extinguished, and therefore also their indifference towards death .... otherwise they would not be so calm, since every person knows that death can overtake him any day .... Only faith would awaken the sense of responsibility in them, but without faith they do not possess it. And thus one day after the other passes by unsuccessfully for the souls of men, but the end cannot be stopped .... For God's plan will be carried out in its time, no matter what people's condition will be then. But He still admonishes and warns beforehand in every way .... Death approaches people so often and abruptly that even fellow human beings are clearly addressed and could become apprehensive. Again and again people are presented with their earthly task of preparing themselves for the actual life after the death of the body .... Yet the human being retains the freedom of his will. He can only ever be reminded of the end and admonished to make good use of earthly life .... Yet he cannot be forced to believe in it, and the fate that awaits him he creates for himself ....

Amen

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God speaks as a Father to His child ....

B.D. 6615 from August 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Just as I spoke to My disciples when I lived on earth I still speak today to all those who want to hear Me .... Wherever someone exists who believes in this and opens himself to Me that is where My voice will be heard. However, I only rarely find this faith and therefore Am only rarely able to speak to a person directly, even if all other conditions are being fulfilled, if the person so shaped himself that I can be present to him, if he has purified his heart and prepared it as an abode for Me .... But the belief to be able to hear Me directly nevertheless does not exist and therefore the person fails to do what is most important: to carefully listen within for My voice, for the manifestation of My love, for the sign of My presence, for My Word .... The fact that belief in this has gone astray, that they think it implausible to hear Me directly, is a particular attribute of people's spiritual state, it is the evidence that the 'working of My spirit' is no longer a right concept for them and that they no longer understand the Words of the Scriptures either. Furthermore, it is proof that the striving for the 'gifts of the spirit' is omitted, that they are therefore ignorant of the results of a life of love, of a righteous life before Me .... otherwise people would certainly make an effort to attain spiritual gifts and subsequently also penetrate this information regarding the strength of the spirit.

It is indeed very worrying that people no longer see the Father in Me but only their God and Creator, providing they still believe in Me .... The relationship of a child with its Father is unheard of by them and thus they also deem the most natural thing to be impossible, namely the fact that the Father speaks to His child .... This faith only rarely exists and yet every person should be filled by it, only then would every person also make an effort to be addressed by Me and to comply with all required conditions for it. For I Am unable to manifest Myself if conscious attentive listening has not taken place first so as not to impose a coercion of will, but occasionally I will also let My voice be heard by those whose hearts are striving to reach Me, who are devoted to Me in love .... so that they will more often attentively listen to Me within and give Me the opportunity to speak .... But anyone who lacks this faith has not established the right relationship with Me as yet, even if he deems himself called to work for Me and My kingdom. For as long as he still doubts My direct speech his faith will not be alive enough to turn to Me like a child to its Father and desire to hear His voice. However, the fact that people are still so distant from Me even though I would like to be present to all of them .... is a shortcoming which also testifies to the spiritual adversity experienced by humanity during the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fear of death ....

B.D. 6616 from August 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Death is just the passageway into a life which will last forever. You humans would not have to fear death if your life on earth corresponded to My will .... if you had travelled this earthly path in divine order, for then you would not feel terror-stricken in view of death, because then your soul would just rejoice at being able to escape the body in order to return to its home where the earthly body is utterly superfluous, where ceasing to exist cannot be spoken of but where a free life in an abundance of light and strength will await the soul. Jesus Christ arose from the grave on the third day .... He demonstrated to you that there is no such thing as ceasing to exist after the body's demise, he has provided you with the evidence that a correct way of life merely results in the change of the earthly into a spiritual body, that the human being continues to exist, that only his shell has experienced a transformation, which is absolutely necessary for staying in the spiritual kingdom .... And you all are able to accomplish this change yourselves, and death would then truly have lost its sting. But since you humans do not believe in life after death, you neglect to prepare yourselves for a stay in the spiritual kingdom, and since your soul has therefore no prospect whatsoever to clothe itself after physical death in a radiantly bright spiritual garment you fear death, and rightly so, for you cannot cease to exist but earthly heaviness can still cling to you, and your awakening after the body's death will not be a happy one .... But you will awaken, regardless of how imperfectly your soul is shaped .... it will find out that it has not and cannot cease to exist .... And this fate is unconsciously dreaded by you humans who fear death.

Yet you ought to remember the One Who has overcome death .... Jesus Christ wants to awaken you to life, He wants to give you an eternally-indestructible life which you shall never lose again. Accept His gift of grace, remember Him during fearful hours and commend your soul to Him, and appeal to Him not to let it fall prey to death, but to have mercy on it and to help it attain life .... And, truly, you will not have sent your appeal to Him in vain .... Your fear will disappear to be replaced by blissful calm, a calm which only Jesus Christ can bestow upon the soul. The living faith in Jesus Christ dispels all dread of death, for the human being knows that he will rise again, just as Jesus Christ arose on the third day.

But anyone without this faith in Him will fear death or believe that he will cease to exist, that he will return into oblivion from where he imagines himself to have emerged .... And he, as well as all others who lived on earth without Christ, will have a rude awakening .... And it will take a long time until they are convinced that they have not perished, but that they can only escape their lifeless state if they call upon the One Whom they refused to acknowledge on earth, but Who alone can give them life again .... Death need only be the transition into a new and immortal life .... It need not worry people on any account, because Jesus Christ has prevailed over it, because He accomplished the act of Salvation in order to deliver people from a condition which had been brought into the world by His adversary .... But Jesus' act of Salvation and resurrection are not properly valued by people .... Many know of them and yet do not believe, and therefore they are also unable to derive the benefit from the effects of the act of Salvation and resurrection .... But the living faith gives people firm confidence and therefore also removes their every fear of death .... And these will blissfully fall asleep in the Lord and joyfully awaken with Him in the kingdom of light and beatitude .... For they will eternally not taste death again, they will only ever have eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Confessing before the world ....

B.D. 6617 from August 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

If you stand up for My name before the world you openly testify for Me and My kingdom, you confess Me as My followers and thus consciously place yourselves on My side. And then you will have fully and completely fulfilled your earthly task, you will have become Mine of your own free will, you will have accomplished the separation from My adversary, the path of return to Me will have ended, even if your perfection has not yet been achieved on earth, but a relapse into the abyss is eternally no longer possible, for the kingdom of light has already received you and the light can no longer be eternally obscured. Whoever has found Me will now no longer let go of Me, just as I will not let go of him because he now belongs to Me .... The open confession of faith in Me has taken all right from My adversary, for the decision has now been made as to which lord you have chosen, and he can no longer do anything against your will. And thus you now also know how highly this decision of faith, which you all still have to make, is to be valued, and you recognize from it that it is necessary for humanity to experience a time of faith struggle which forces it to make an open decision. For there are many people who are not yet clear themselves as to whether and what they believe, who only then seriously take a stand on the doctrines of faith and struggle through to confess or reject when they are completely without faith. For spiritual questions are discussed less and less, and rarely are they the content of conversations or serious debates .... And therefore people will then have to deal with such questions when a clear decision for or against Me is demanded of them. Many will be anxious, many will be determined to reject Me, but My name will also be joyfully known by those who have always been in contact with Me, who have recognized Me and My guidance during their earthly life and who feel My presence so strongly that they testify loudly and joyfully and profess Me. All fear will be far from them and they will still recognize in it a sign of the approaching end that people will be required to confess their faith. And thus they also know that My coming is near, and in this certainty they will also remain steadfast in the face of all threats because they believe in My might and strength, in My love and in the truth of My word, which was conveyed to them and which they may also constantly receive until the end. And as fearful as the weak believers will be, so courageous and steadfast are those because they draw strength from My word, because they are certain of My presence and therefore know no fear and worry in My presence. Neither earthly promises nor threats can deter them or make them waver, for they do not fear for their lives and no longer pay attention to earthly goods, for they had already tasted spiritual goods and thus no longer desire the world. But for the sake of their fellow human beings they have to be drawn into this battle so that the weak can still lift themselves up by them, so that the strength of faith will be revealed in My own. As soon as you humans confess Me before the world you are Mine and are now also under My protection, and I truly have the best in store for you, but you need not worry about what could be best for you .... I will consider you in such a way that you will be blissfully happy, regardless of whether on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But I demand the open decision from people, I am not content with the inner acknowledgement of Myself if the outward appearance remains that the person is not My follower .... I demand a testimony for Me and My name even before the world .... For only then will you believe in Me alive, and only then will you experience the blessings of such faith .... My promise will be fulfilled that I, too, will confess you before the father as you confessed Me before the world, so that you will return to the father again as children, from Whom you once wanted to separate and also did so willingly because you denied Me your acknowledgement .... which you must therefore now testify to before all the world ....

Amen

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God's will .... man-made commandments ....

B.D. 6618 from August 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

What God asks of you is nothing unrealizable but can be done very easily by you if only you have the will to respect God's will. For then you will receive the strength to carry out what He asks of you. Your original nature was love, for you emerged from the original strength, from divine love. If you are now devoid of all love, then it is due to your own will which turned away from God and thereby also rejected His illumination of love, thus you rejected it .... But if you turn to Him again in free will then you also open yourselves to His illumination of love and receive it in the form of strength which you now also use in God's will .... for works of love .... because the divine strength of love is an inner impetus for you to likewise be active according to your fundamental nature. And that is all God requires of you: that you voluntarily turn to Him again and are now also able to shape yourselves into love again. God requires this of all His living creations, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, because without such a transformation into love the being can never find the union with God which alone makes it happy. Earthly life has now been given to you humans for this purpose, and at the same time He also guides His gospel to you .... the knowledge of God's will and of your earthly task. He makes the divine teaching of love accessible to you in order to first stimulate your thinking, which shall then determine your will. Therefore, anyone who turns his will towards God will also find it easy to acquire the kingdom of heaven, thus to be placed into the state of beatitude which necessitates the fulfilment of divine will. However, anyone whose will is still determined by God's opposite pole, because the human being himself grants him the right to do so, will have to make great efforts to detach himself from this power, and he will also hardly decide to do deeds of love because he is completely without strength due to his willful turning away from God, which also means that he rejects every gift of strength and expresses this in unloving thoughts and actions. A change in love on earth is all God requires of you humans, for it only applies to the transformation of your wrong will and being to what you originally were. Only that which can lead to this change of nature, only that which promotes a life of love in unselfishness, can be regarded as God's will. But you humans have arbitrarily given yourselves commandments and thereby pushed the divine commandments, which only demand love for God and your neighbour, into the background, because the commandments issued by you are more respected than those given by God Himself and which alone lead to beatitude. If you want to be obedient, you now have to deal with .... with a ballast which does not bring you much beatitude, which is rather a great danger for you if you forget the divine commandments of love. And again and again you must therefore be enlightened, again and again the divine teaching of love and its effect on your soul must be presented to you. And you must know that you will not get any further if you ignore these commandments of love .... and no matter how eagerly you try to fulfil what you are commanded by people, what, moreover, is presented to you as 'God's will' .... Only the works of love determine your fate in eternity, and these are not difficult for those who also receive strength from God through their devotion to Him .... As soon as your thoughts, your will, is directed towards God, the spark of love in you will also become a flame, and you will be urged from within to work with love .... And so that you turn your will towards God, He reveals Himself to you in many ways, in creation, in your earthly fate and through His word .... And every person who is of good will can recognize Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justification before a court .... Public testimony ....

B.D. 6619 from August 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Step forward, My servants, when it concerns defending Me and My teaching, for you will be pushed into situations when you publicly have to acknowledge Me. The circumstances surrounding the act of Salvation will be more and more publicly discussed .... The life of the man Jesus and His earthly fate, His humiliating end, will certainly be deemed possible, but a divine mission of this human being will never be acknowledged, and therefore the belief in Him as humanity's Redeemer will be rejected and ridiculed in every respect in order to establish a matter-of-fact and non-religious way of thinking in people. And that is the time when you shall come forward .... And anyone permeated by My spirit won't be able to help himself but to take a stand on behalf of Me and My name, since his inner conviction will let him speak and counteract eagerly and also try to convince his fellow human beings. Hence I prepare suitable instruments for Myself, hence I convey to them the truth and with it also the power of perception, for then it will become necessary that they come forward with their knowledge in order to fight the opponents with the sword of their mouth. Wherever Jesus Christ is demeaned, wherever His mission is doubted and this doubt is openly voiced, you, My representatives on earth, shall recognise and accomplish your task .... You are able to do so because you are informed of My plan of Salvation, because all correlations are clear to you and because you firmly and confidently believe in Him, Who has delivered you from bondage .... Only confident objections such as you are able to voice due to your knowledge can silence your opponents or make them think .... And even if you do not succeed in convincing these opponents you will nevertheless still gain a few people who were affected by it and start to think.

Then you will have to speak boldly and without hesitation, for I will put the words into your mouth and the obvious wisdom of your words will astonish those who are not yet entirely under My adversary's control. Admittedly, your opponents will scorn and ridicule you, yet for the sake of My name you will have to accept this, as it has often been foretold that you will be judged because you are My representatives on earth. This time will come as certainly as one day will follow the other .... Even if it seems to you at the moment as if the number of avowers is constantly growing .... it concerns the living testimony of Jesus Christ which My adversary seeks to prevent ever more .... His influence is such that people will combine everything .... even religious life .... with the world, that they themselves will finally turn it into something secular but rarely, if ever, establish heartfelt contact with Me, depending on how much influence he is able to exert on the individual person.

Only rarely can true, living Christian faith be recognised, which consists of people cultivating love between each other, of living in the spirit of My divine teaching of love, of their every thought and action being determined by love and thus also being My will. And this is why affirmation before the world becomes ever more necessary, because everyone is anxiously trying to hide their inner attitude if it is good, that is, directed towards Me, whereas campaigns against Me and My teachings are openly coming to the fore. People will always frankly admit their rejection of My Word and Myself, yet fearfully try to conceal their walking in unity with Me. And fellow human beings, still being weak, are unable to get the strength they need and shall also receive by people who eagerly acknowledge Me .... This is why I demand that you will manifestly stand up for Me and My kingdom when this declaration is demanded of you .... For you will only be able to counteract and undermine My adversary's influence by publicly testifying about Me. Anyone who honestly confesses Me before the world will be able to do so due to his inner conviction, and he will be successful with his fellow human beings and strengthen their faith ....

But as soon as fearful silence is kept, those of little faith will not find the courage to admit to their faith either. The outspoken declaration, however, will release all inhibitions and take away fear, for I Myself will give you strength in abundance if you openly want to bear witness to Me. And then you will also confidently face those who sit in judgment over you. Admittedly, they will spit poison and bile at you but it will hardly touch you, for then the strength of faith and the strength of the Word, with which I Myself will address them through you, will demonstrate themselves .... They will be unable to answer and merely try to pursue you with helpless fury but be unable to get anywhere against My might and strength. But anyone anxiously trying to hide his attitude towards Me will grow increasing weaker, for I will be unable to support him until he acknowledges Me. Hence I keep admonishing you and time and again remind you of My Words 'Whosoever shall confess Me before the world, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven ....' Remember this when the time comes that you have to make this decision, and remember that it will not be to your disadvantage, because I alone can give and take, and that you therefore shall first consider My will, My demands, before you comply with the requirements of earthly powers .... if they are aimed against Me and My name .... Confidently bear whatever threatens you if you want to remain faithful to Me, for I can and will avert everything from you if you openly acknowledge Me, and then My might and glory will reveal itself .... Then you will find out what the strength of faith is capable of doing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sunlight .... (rotation amplified)

B.D. 6620 from August 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Nothing I reveal to you through the voice of the spirit will ever contradict itself. It is just that you humans cannot always grasp the right meaning and therefore you sometimes believe to find contradictions where none exist. Consider that the earth is one of the tiniest celestial bodies and that this celestial body is held by the sun into whose sphere it belongs. This sun radiates through the earth, i.e., it gives it light and thus also guarantees all life of plants, animals and humans. The sun again receives its luminosity from the universe, it is fed with light and strength from Me Myself or also from all light-receiving beings to whom all visible and spiritual worlds are handed over .... The incessant exchange of light and strength between Me and all My creatures is necessary in order to also maintain the endless many creations .... So you know that the light of the sun is nothing else but constantly flooding light from Me into the perfect beings, and through them all creations are fed with light and strength. You can therefore explain the light of the sun as a spiritual emanation from Me .... But then one thing must also be clear to you: that this emanation of Myself permeates everything .... That it is therefore well able to radiate through the whole earth, that there is no 'body' for it which would be able to stop the luminosity .... Do you understand this? You humans reckon with the laws of earthly matter and earthly-generated light .... But these laws switch off, or they can be switched off, as soon as a disorder has occurred in My great body of creation which has a spiritual cause, thus it also has to be spiritually remedied. Unheard-of spiritual revolutions are preparing themselves, and this always means increased activity .... increased movement .... I do not contain such an upheaval of the spiritual, but I limit its effect to the heavenly body affected by it .... And I truly have the power and the wisdom to also adapt such unusual processes to the lawful order which rules in My whole creation .... Surely it will be possible for Me to integrate a single celestial body into the great order of creation despite unlawful processes, so that the existence of the former will nevertheless remain assured until the time I have provided to end such chaos and restore the original order .... Every law I have given, and every law I Myself can abolish again .... And thus I can also let day and night become day and night according to My will, and the prerequisites for this are given in the very foundation of sunlight, which is only ever spiritual emanation of Myself. Is it not said: "The powers of heaven will move ...." "Sun and moon will lose their glow ...." People on earth will be able to notice many a change if they look around them with clairvoyance and clairaudience, and such changes cannot be explained in purely earthly terms. However, very few people are accessible to spiritual explanations .... But I put the spiritual first, I make the spiritual processes known to you which, however, also reveal earthly effects. What happens in the great human being of creation is beyond your knowledge, yet the world of light also looks after the smallest earthly work of creation and conveys light to it .... Thus the heavenly body earth is also looked after by them and supplied with light, as My will determines and as is beneficial for humanity, so that it does not suffer a lack but also does not necessarily have to attain a view which is detrimental to its spiritual development .... For the human being has his own task, but the revolting spiritual also wants to assert itself, and its activity should still remain hidden from the human being as long as he is not yet aware of the correlations. And therefore no such striking changes in the laws of nature will be recognizable, even though they exist. But remember that nothing is impossible for Me .... And think about what the light is at the bottom of the ground .... where therefore the light of the sun also has its origin .... And do not doubt, but believe .... And you will always find the light in yourselves, as soon as you desire it from Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Enforced actions are worthless for eternity ....

B.D. 6621 from August 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

What you accomplish under duress does not lead to bliss. Regardless of what you do, it has to arise from a degree of love in you, you must do it voluntarily for love if it is to result in a spiritual blessing for you, if it is to lead you towards perfection. This is why the fulfilment of a commandment can never help you attain higher development unless the commandment of love is fulfilled, which I Myself have given you as the most important and exclusive commandment but which cannot be counted as a lawful commandment, precisely because love is something that is free which does not abide compulsion. Thus you must indeed live in love in order to become blessed .... This is what I want to achieve through My commandment .... However, acts which are accomplished without love are hardly the ‘fulfilment of My commandments of love’. For I did not command you to accomplish acts but to practise love, and love cannot be forcibly demanded, love must be a matter of free will and arise from the heart. And thus I can count everything that is done under compulsion as worthless for eternity, even if they are actually good works which .... were they based on the right love .... could provide the soul with supreme possessions. If, however, the accomplishment of good works without love is already worthless for eternity, how much more worthless is the fulfilment of laws given to you by people. Only what you freely do of your own accord is valued by Me according to your degree of love, but I will never look at what you do in order to comply with the duties expected of you unless you also do it because of love for Me and not because you are obeying an order.

You must always make this difference and know that the value of every deed and every thought rests in love alone, but that everything else is worthless if it lacks love. If you therefore seriously examine your thoughts and actions you will soon find out whether you have gathered riches for yourselves or whether have you so far remained poor .... And you will also recognise that I could never have been the originator of commandments which should be complied with as a matter of duty and whose fulfilment is strictly observed .... You will also recognise the invalidity of requirements I cannot have demanded because they signify a certain coercion for the human being which, however, does never correspond to My will. I only value what is done by free will, for I only gave free will back to you in the stage of a human being because you are meant to put it into practice. You shall determine your fate in eternity yourselves, and in order for you to use your will correctly you must also be instructed correctly .... The latter is the only task I asked of My disciples when I lived on earth, and which I have always asked My representatives on earth to do: to teach and to proclaim My will to people .... However, at no time ever did I give the order to establish laws and, under threat of temporal or eternal punishments, force people to keep them .... The consequences of a true life of love as well as heartless conduct should certainly be presented to people, but that should be more than enough .... But people should not be frightened with threats of eternal punishment into conscientiously doing everything that is demanded of them and thereby more likely stifle than arouse the love in them. All spiritual compulsion is to be condemned for it prevents people from making a free decision. The soul’s life in eternity can only be gained through love alone; love, however, does not abide coercion otherwise it cannot be called ‘love’. This is why every person should pass judgment on himself as to whether his thoughts and actions are determined by love or whether they merely comply with laws which were supposedly decreed by Me .... I require nothing else from you other than love for Me and your neighbour .... but which you must grant Me of your own free will .... Only then will you fulfil My commandment and can become eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

High value of correct prayer ....

B.D. 6622 from August 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Everything will be beneficial for you if you appeal to Me for My blessing. If you come to Me like children to the Father with a request, I will not close My ears but grant you what you ask for. You should be firmly convinced that I will hear you, that I will always lend you My ear and take pleasure in the words of trust spoken by your heart, even if your mouth remains silent. And thus I will guide you on every path you take and will always arrange everything so that it will be a blessing for you .... You are unaware of the rich blessings your heartfelt contact with Me results in, which you establish with Me through a prayer in spirit and in truth. This sincere bond enables My strength of love to flow into you, which will provide the soul with tremendous impetus, it will further its development like a refreshing jet of water turns a bud into a flower .... The soul needs this influx of strength but it cannot receive it if the door to the heart is locked .... which is always the case as long as the human being remains isolated from Me. He must open himself up voluntarily and this happens precisely through his connection with Me in prayer. Every heartfelt prayer signifies a union with Me, because I pay attention to every such prayer .... But if the prayer concerns a spiritual request, My flow of grace will pour out over My child in abundance, and the soul will have taken a large step up. For My strength will not remain ineffective, even if this effect is not obvious to you as a human being. People could so easily change their nature through the right kind of prayer .... A prayer in spirit and in truth is the direct path to Me which gives a person what he is in dire need of: My strength of love .... Then he will be able to meet all requirements I expect of him so that he will become fully mature, he will be able to accomplish the work of improving his soul and need not fear any weakness, for through prayer he can repeatedly receive a new influx of strength and will not fall by the wayside but instead safely reach the goal. But who seriously shapes his soul such that I can accept it into My kingdom? So that it can stay close to Me in order to be indescribably happy? Only a person who sincerely prays to Me .... Few prayers rise up to Me and thus only few people will reach their goal on earth .... The fact that you may pray to Me, that you may approach Me like children to the Father and can also appeal to Him for help, is a gift of grace you humans value far too little; indeed, you often even disregard it .... For you would be able to dispose of all weaknesses through prayer. If you thus have the serious will to reach higher spheres, to attain Me, then prayer is the best guarantee that you will reach your goal, for every request pertaining to your spiritual well-being will be granted, because it is what I want to hear from you: the desire for Me .... However, I will also help you in earthly adversity, for I have promised this as well if you believe firmly and without doubt .... Therefore you may avail yourselves of the grace of prayer at all times, I will always be open for you as soon as you pray in spirit and in truth, as soon as you trustingly present your needs and problems to Me. And you will never have to wait in vain for the fulfilment of your prayers, since a Father Who loves His children will grant their desires providing it does not harm their soul’s salvation. For I will never disappoint a child which trusts Me implicitly.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love light ray from above ....

B.D. 6623 from August 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

In the midst of the world a ray from above hits you, a light which shall warm your hearts, a light which shows you the path you have to take in order to reach Me. I have certainly placed you in a world of lightlessness because you yourselves are still completely without light when you embody yourselves as a human being. But you shall reach the light of day from the darkness of night, you shall not remain in this darkness forever. And therefore a light from above shines upon you and illuminates your path of earthly life. Admittedly, many paths also go through the night, and these paths are all far more populated, they are far more travelled by people than the one path which has a gentle glow of light. For the even still dark souls often shun the light, and they feel at ease in the darkness. But everyone can enter the path which only asks for light .... Hence you humans need not live in a state of ignorance, you can be instructed at any time and thus increase your degree of knowledge, but then you must also pay attention to the light which shines down upon you from above. I want you to return to Me, Who is the light from eternity. But you are darkened in spirit and would not be able to stay with Me as long as your soul has not become receptive to light .... This is why I guide My light to earth in gentle rays, and anyone who enters the realm of My light of love and grace .... and thus walks the path of light .... will always be able to let more of the light shine into himself and always come closer to Me without having to perish before My light of love .... He shapes himself as he must be in order to be able to unite with Me as he once did. I cannot unite with a dark being because it would perish before My strength of love. But the being can become full of light if it opens itself to the light which constantly shines down to earth .... if the human being accepts My word within himself and allows this word to take effect on him .... For My word is the ray of light which is constantly sent to earth, and anyone who accepts My word thus enters the path of ascent which is illuminated by light. You humans don't know what a gift of grace the transmission of My word from above is for you, for you still live in the midst of the world which is the darkest region, but you will also see sparks of light flashing everywhere, and it is now up to you whether you follow these sparks of light .... For everything that comes from Me must be light, it must bring you brightness and broaden your realization, your knowledge. And only one thing can achieve this: My word, which is sent to you as proof of love. You should not remain in darkness .... you shall not perish in this world of darkness, you shall be led out in order to finally be able to be blissfully happy in the light again, for the darkened state is only wretchedness. And I constantly help you to achieve this by imperceptibly pushing you onto the path where it is bright .... by letting you make contact with people who are already permeated by light, who have already entered the right path .... who convey My word to you and encourage you to accept and live it out. I direct the ray of love-light everywhere, My divine gospel, which is to impart light to you, which is to transform you according to My will. And My love and care never ceases, again and again people learn about My will and about their task in life, My word can also kindle a light in them again, and blessed is he who guards the flame which once shone for him .... blessed is he who no longer wants to miss My word and now leads his life according to this word .... This one now walks rightly and his path leads him safely to the aim, for he has detached himself from darkness and walks fully consciously towards the eternal light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Calling upon Jesus Christ from the darkness ....

B.D. 6624 from August 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is not My will that shall determine your fate in eternity, but rather you yourselves, through your will, shall make it either glorious or dreadful; but you can change an appalling situation and, if you want to do this, will always receive My support. And regardless of how dark you are, light will be made accessible to you, and if you desire light then you will always be able to remain therein, you won't have to return to the darkness, for your will shall always be complied with even in the spiritual kingdom. Don't reject those who want to make you happy by giving you light. You will feel better than in the dark regions from which everything shall ascend to the light one day, although it has to happen voluntarily .... All of you who dwell in dark regions, be they on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, are unhappy living creations without peace, without light and without strength ....

These are the effects of sin with which you have been burdened for eternity and which you have even increased during your earthly life as a result of your heartless way of living .... As long as you are not released from this guilt of sin your state cannot improve either. But you can want to have the guilt taken from you so that you can arrive at light and blissfulness. First decide to become free from a restraint which burdens and tortures you .... Resolve to entrust yourselves to the One Who can set you free, and appeal to Him to help you. You all know of the One Who sacrificed Himself on the cross for the guilt of your sins .... You all know of Jesus Christ, but not all of you believe in Him and His act of Salvation. And yet He is the only One Who can help you in your distressing situation, Who can lift you up from the abyss, Who can and wants to grant you light and life .... but Whom you have to call upon yourselves and appeal for help. Anyone who does not believe in Him will not turn to Him either and will remain in darkness forever, since there is no other way to happiness without Him. But time and again you will be referred to the One, time and again a light will be offered to you, a gleam of hope, which you should heed. Turning your eyes to the gleam of light a cross will always shine for you, if you are not entirely obstinate, for in His great mercy He will come to meet you in order to save you .... But you may also rest assured that He will save you if only you want it yourselves ....

And thus I repeat that I do not condemn you, that it is not My will which has determined the fate which makes you feel unhappy, but rather you created it yourselves and you can also change it yourselves if you take refuge in the One Who can release you .... in Jesus Christ, with Whom I Myself have become as one, Who thus is your God and Father of eternity. Irrespective of whether you are still living on earth or whether you have had to shed your earthly cover already .... light will only be within and around you when you have found Jesus Christ .... but without Him you will be living in darkness, without Him you will also be distant from Me, Who had embodied Himself in the man Jesus Christ in order to die on your behalf on the cross for the atonement of your guilt of sin .... Only when a person hands his guilt over to Me with complete faith will he get released from it, and that is entirely up to your own will .... My love cannot do anymore but to keep sending you bearers of light proclaiming My will, who will also kindle a light in you .... Allow yourselves to become illuminated, change and come to Me in Jesus Christ .... and the darkness will recede, bright light will appear and all torments of darkness will fall away from you, you will be able to rise into spheres of light and be and forever remain blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Consider the time after death ....

B.D. 6625 from August 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

One day you all will have to lay down your earthly body and your soul will be assigned another abode .... Not one of you will escape his fate, everyone can expect his physical death with certainty. Thus you know that your life on earth is limited and that no-one can prevent his body's death when his hour has come .... Yet in spite of this certainty you live your life on earth as if it would never end. You always plan and work for the future without knowing whether you will still experience it. You don't take this into account but it is a fact; you only create and work for your short life on earth which does not last. You yourselves, however, will not perish, your soul stays alive even after your body's death, and your soul is your real Self .... Hence there is, in fact, no death for you, only a change of location ....

If you think about this very seriously then you will act prudently by taking care that this said later location will make you happy. Then your concern will include the time when you no longer live on this earth but continue your life in the kingdom of the beyond which, however, is created corresponding to your conduct on earth. You would all be more diligent if you believed this. The more you worry about the upkeep of your body, the less you believe that you will go on living. You cannot receive evidence for this because your earthly life must not be determined by fear which, however, would be triggered in you, who do not strive to ascend voluntarily, by the certainty of a continuation of life after death. Voluntary aspirants are indeed certain of it, they believe .... but precisely because they strive to ascend. And a striving born out of fear will not lead to perfection. Therefore it cannot be proven to you humans that there is life after death. But everyone can awaken the belief in it himself simply by seriously considering it and wanting to do what is right.

People's attention will therefore be ever more obviously drawn to the fleeting nature of what they value too highly. People are snatched away in the midst of their lives, and from this everyone could learn to regard his life, too, as a gift that could be taken away from him any day .... And he would only have to pursue the thoughts arising in him in the event of a fellow human being's sudden death .... He would only have to pursue the departed soul into infinity .... He would only have to think more often of him, who did not cease to exist but merely changed his abode .... And truly, hands would extend to him from the spiritual realm to draw him up.

Yet even if the human being lacks the certainty of life after death he should nevertheless expect the possibility and time and again visualise this possibility when other people die and question what his own fate might be if he were to be called away suddenly. For as long as the human being cannot prove that there is no continuation of life after death .... which will never be possible .... he should always make provisions. And he will never regret if he, on earth, not only considers his body but also his soul, if he gathers a few spiritual treasures on earth which then will help him to advance in the spiritual kingdom. Then the soul will reap what the person has sown on earth, and blessed is the soul which has made provisions on earth for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's word is blessed with His strength ....

B.D. 6626 from August 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

All souls will be able to draw comfort and strength from My word, regardless of whether they are still on earth or already in the kingdom of the beyond, if only they willingly listen to it when it is recited to them. For I have blessed My word with My strength .... and it is due to this strength from Me that the souls find salvation from their adversity when they turn to Me, when they learn to recognize the great act of mercy of the man Jesus, in Whom I embodied Myself for the sake of these unhappy creations which are still distant from Me. My infinite love and grace is presented to them through My word, and the strength of My word causes them to understand everything and be touched by it .... that they can believe, because the strength of My word stimulates love in them and they are now also able to fulfil My will .... My word is blessed with My strength and will exert a great influence if it is listened to of good will and received into the heart. Yet I only ever speak of the living word, not of mere form, of empty speeches which remain completely without an effect of strength .... For if the latter had the same effect then there would truly be no more unredeemed souls in the beyond, since people speak everywhere but all too often it is merely a dead reading of letters which lack all strength, and therefore such places of dead word proclamation are rarely visited by souls in the beyond which need truly enlivening words in order to awaken from their dead state. And the same happens to people on earth .... They will not attain life through dead word proclamations, this requires the living water which originates from Me and which also has an obvious effect of strength on people who willingly listen to it. But the word is only alive when I Myself speak it, and this requires the proclaimer of My word to let Me Myself speak through him .... that he himself is of living faith, that he completely hands himself over to Me as soon as he wants to speak to people, so that I can then take possession of him and thus speak Myself, even if the word sounds from his mouth. The proclaimer's intimate connection with Me must exist, otherwise I will not speak but only he himself will speak and then the strength of My word will never be able to touch a human heart unless the listener himself establishes the intimate connection with Me, for then I will speak directly to him and he will likewise be touched by the strength of My word. These words will be understandable to you humans if you consider that 'the word of God' is constantly and everywhere publicly proclaimed, but that humanity's state of soul is so unusually low that one has to speak of spiritual darkness, of spiritual hardship .... This hardship, this low level, could not exist if 'My word' were conveyed to people, if every proclaimer of God's word were himself of such a nature that he would be a suitable instrument for Me, through whose mouth I Myself could express Myself .... The strength of My word would penetrate everywhere and truly reveal an obvious effect .... (8/20/1956) And then there would be far more opportunity for people to hear Me Myself than there is now, where people indeed visit the places by tradition where the word of God is to be offered to them, but where often only human words are heard because I Myself am not given the opportunity to express Myself through human mouths, but I never bypass the free will of the preacher who has to establish the connection with Me himself in such a way that I can make use of him .... Then people would also be able to feel the strength of My word, then they would leave these places deeply impressed and take something with them if they are of good will and desired to hear My word. The powerlessness of what they mostly hear, however, is expressed in the fact that people do not change their way of life in the slightest, that they do not take to heart what is demanded in the gospel, in My divine teaching of love .... Church attendance only has a visible effect on very few people, that they make an effort to change their nature, that they consciously work on their soul, that an upward striving can be recognized .... because the 'strength of the word' which brings about such a change is lacking. What is Mine, what originates from Me and testifies to Me, will never remain without effect as soon as a person is open-minded and allows Me to speak to him .... And therefore My word has to be conveyed to people, and for this I need such servants who are willing instruments for Me, who .... if they want to proclaim My word .... also let Me Myself speak through them .... Only then will the word have strength and also show visible effects. And only then will people's spiritual state be able to improve, which, however, also includes the listeners' willingness to accept My word. If I now convey My word directly to people again, then you will also be able to explain this to yourselves in the great spiritual adversity .... And where those fail whose office it should actually be to proclaim My word to people, there I assign servants to Myself who willingly accept My word and pass it on in order to help those who long for My word, who need strength and desire it from Me Myself .... who willingly open their hearts and ears and who will therefore now also hear Me Myself, even though I don't address them directly .... I have blessed My word with My strength .... All who allow themselves to be addressed by Me will experience this, for they will mature in their souls, their nature will change and become like My original nature .... they will live in love and reach the aim .... to eternal bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Different schools of thought .... Where is truth? ....

B.D. 6627 from August 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

All spiritual disagreements could be resolved if each supporter approached Me Myself with his opinion and awaited My explanations .... Then there would truly be no conflicts, then all people concerned would have to re-unite because they would all simply receive the same answer from Me. The fact that so many divisions have occurred, that so many schools of thought have been formed, is certain proof that this path to Me had not been not taken, that people had only used their intellectual thought and this can never produce the same results, because My adversary can all too easily intervene and confuse the intellect where I Myself Am not called upon in order to enlighten it. A few advocates of their point of view have done this, and therefore their opinion will more likely correspond to the truth, but it is not accepted by those who have ignored Me.

And thus the law, the truth, will repeatedly shine through but too little attention is given to its light and conflicts are not resolved. They will always surface because intellect is more highly rated and intellect can alter the worst distortions such that they are deemed to be wise and are then endorsed again. If you humans now considered the many different religious doctrines and schools of thought, then this itself should make you doubt the truth of what everyone supports, since there can only be one truth .... Thus .... if the truth really was amongst the various schools of thought .... all others would have to be wrong. But which one is true? .... Each one claims to have the truth and yet it cannot be recognised or it could not be doubted and abandoned in favour of another. Do consider this .... Do consider that the truth belongs to Me, do consider that you are My children, whom I love .... Thus I will not withhold the truth from you .... thus it will also have to be recognisable. Therefore, as long as you humans do not know but merely assume that you live in truth you will not possess it.

However, this does not apply to those of blind faith who have never formed an opinion of what they are expected to believe, rather I address the leaders, the representatives of individual denominations or schools of thought who in turn seek to convince their followers of the truth of what they represent. I speak to those who use their intellect and come forward in order that their still undecided fellow human beings should join them. I speak to those who certainly would be mentally capable of recognising the pure truth if they let their heart speak at the same time, if they offered the spirit within themselves the opportunity to express itself but have so far refrained from doing and are thus misguided in spite of having a highly developed intellect. All these would be surprised to get the same results if they followed the right path to Him Who is truth within Himself and can and will only ever give the truth ....

The many denominations and different schools of thought provide alarming evidence that the ‘working of the spirit’ is alien to all those in charge at the top, who do not work together because they represent conflicting opinions .... And if they were to permit the working of the spirit they would soon realise that there is no need for an external organisation, that the human being has to look for the truth within himself and that everyone will recognise the truth who allows himself to be taught by his spirit, who takes the path to Me, abides by My will and listens to Me .... But then he can claim the right that his ‘faith’ has become ‘certainty’, and then he will also convincingly support the religious doctrines. And all those of the same spirit will also be taught the same by their spirit and thus know that pure truth can only be found in Me Myself, that it makes everyone indescribably happy who has found it and that all disagreements will be resolved when it is explained by the only One in authority to do so ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

World wisdom and dazzling light .... request for truth ....

B.D. 6628 from August 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Worldly wisdom will pass away like everything else that belongs to this world. But My word will always and forever remain, and the light which radiates from Me and shines out into the darkness will remain. But you humans have to go through the darkness, and thus you also have to learn to distinguish between dazzling light and the right light which brings you true enlightenment .... And dazzling light is all knowledge which was gained intellectually; dazzling lights are all wisdoms which do not originate from Me. And you must learn to distinguish these from the rays of light which illuminate everything and show you the path which leads to Me. This right light can certainly also be offered to you in a form which appears to have been gained humanly, i.e. intellectually, but then the intellect was also enlightened because it was in intimate contact with Me. And then this person is also a bearer of light, a representative of pure truth .... But then all seemingly intellectual knowledge will also be in harmony with the spiritual knowledge which I Myself convey to humanity in direct form. But as long as this agreement does not exist, that knowledge must be called 'worldly wisdom', which will pass away like everything that belongs to the world. But the world will not allow itself to be convinced, the world holds its children captive and they cannot detach themselves from the world if they don't sincerely appeal for My help to do so. The human being who thinks of reaching the aim without Me is in fact taking a path which leads far away from the right aim .... For in all childlikeness the human being must confess his father of eternity and approach Him for the right guidance .... then he will also be guided correctly .... If only you humans would believe that you can achieve nothing without Me .... and if you would not want to resist when I take hold of your hand to guide you. My love will always supply you with what serves your perfection; but if you don't accept it then delicious streams of grace will have flowed to you in vain, and your earthly progress can also be in vain because your soul did not receive the right nourishment, because you filled yourselves with unsuitable food which neither gave the soul strength nor maturity. But you yourselves must bear the responsibility for your soul's fate, or else you must take upon yourselves the fate you have acquired for yourselves .... But earthly life is given to you to prepare a glorious fate for yourselves, i.e. for your soul, after the death of the body .... Truth alone is the right nourishment for the soul. But only I Myself can distribute it, and if you want to have it conveyed to you by people because this path seems more natural to you, then you must nevertheless first make heartfelt contact with Me and ask Me to convey to you the person who imparts to you that which corresponds to the pure truth .... For I do not have just one way and not just one means to convey the pure truth to you, but it must have its origin in Me if it is to bring about your perfection .... Therefore you only ever have to ask Me for the truth in your desire for it .... This is the only certainty that you will then also come into possession of the truth. For I truly do not leave this request of an earthly child unheeded, for I long for this request in order to be able to reveal Myself in whatever way .... No person who has addressed this request to Me in spirit and in truth will be left in error by Me; the pure truth will be conveyed to him, and he will also feel it as truth and be blissfully happy .... As long as a human being only regards himself as a created being, as long as he has not yet established the relationship as a child with the father, the light of truth will not shine for him either, for this light allows the human being to recognize the connection with his creator and father of eternity .... Only this light shows the human being the short path which a right child only needs to cover in order to reach the father .... But anyone who regards God as unreachable also finds it difficult to establish contact with Me .... And he walks endless long ways and the aim moves further and further away from him. For a child achieves everything from the father .... but the creature remains in the separation from Me which it once accomplished itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Final rescue attempts .... People's low level ....

B.D. 6629 from August 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

And even if an angel descended from heaven bringing the Gospel to people, they would not believe it .... for their wilful rejection is so strong in the last days, My adversary's power over humanity and their distance from Me is so great, that they will be unable to feel or perceive anything Divine; because they are so earth-bound that they are incapable of moving into spiritual spheres and thus everything of a spiritual nature will either be declined or disputed. This is such a distinct sign of the approaching end, and precisely because of this attitude I will bring about the end, since no further development is possible on this earth anymore given that people won't change, instead they are growing ever more worldly and ever more unsuitable for spiritual emanations. Consequently, it becomes increasingly more difficult to proclaim My Gospel to people, it becomes increasingly more difficult to change their way of thinking and to open their hearts for My Word, since they don't recognise it as My Word and thus close their ears .... but they thereby also reject the means by which they could be helped and raised from below. Only very rarely will someone listen, and only very rarely will the Word be accepted by a heart and also recognised as a divine gift ....

And for the sake of these few I will not intervene earlier but wait for the day that has been determined since eternity, although humanity has already reached the degree of low level which calls for an end .... But every individual soul that I can still gain is worth this delay, I will helpfully stand by every individual soul of good will and let it find the path to the messengers of My Word. But there will just be a few, and the time will soon be fulfilled, the signs pointing to the end will soon increase, and the hour of Judgment will soon strike for all people .... At a time when My adversary gives the orders, because people have joined him, My servants' work on earth will be particularly difficult and even often unsuccessful, and yet it has to be done, for no-one shall be able to say that they didn't receive any blessings from Me .... Every person shall sooner or later have been addressed by Me, and every person's path will be crossed by one of My messengers, only that this messenger can either be entirely ignored or his gifts declined .... but this is always determined by the person's own will. And this will has to be offered possibilities to be tested, which thus also includes the presentation of My Word, which can never be forcibly imparted to a person.

And likewise, hard-hearted people will often still be affected by alarming events, and even then they often will still be able to soften their hearts, for I will continue to attempt to bring deliverance to people until the very last day. I will not let anyone fall before the end but I will be unable to delay the end beyond the time determined by My plan of eternity as not to let the souls of the lost fall even lower, in order to spare them an even more painful fate than the renewed banishment into the creations of the new earth, which therefore has to take place at the designated time.

And I truly know what benefits people's souls, and I also know how to protect them from the worst .... My servants on earth, however, will receive the strength from Me so that they, despite an apparent lack of success, will nevertheless work diligently in My vineyard, for no work will ever be done in vain; and one day they will also recognise it themselves and be happy that their work to improve the souls has contributed towards the souls' redemption, because My blessing rests on all work which is gladly and joyfully done for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation to undaunted vineyard work ....

B.D. 6630 from August 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

People's mental confusion increases more and more and they move away from the truth more and more because they are completely under the influence of the one who is an enemy of truth. For their thoughts are meant for the world and thus they also surrender to the lord of this world who leaves no stone unturned to keep the truth from people. But they don't allow themselves to be taught either; they are convinced that they live right and justly because they only ever consider their own advantages and consider everything to be good which therefore benefits them. And such an attitude can never earn them the truth, which is the share of the one who despises the world and only strives for the spiritual kingdom. It is impossible to move in the world and in truth at the same time because truth requires giving up the world. A renunciation of earthly goods only earns the human being spiritual goods. But as long as the human being strives for nothing but earthly goods, truth will be denied him or he will not recognize and value it as truth if it is nevertheless offered to him. But a worldly person does not desire truth either, he is content with the goods which make earthly life pleasant for him and does not think about the soul's life after death. And his spiritual state becomes ever more dark, his thinking ever more erroneous and his soul ever more wretched .... If I now give you reasons for the present spiritual darkness, this should not mean that you, My servants on earth, should therefore slacken in your work for Me and My kingdom. Where you have no success at all, there "shake the dust off your feet" and walk on .... You should undauntedly carry out your work in My vineyard, for it is not done in vain, it will nevertheless result in success, because no spiritual work is useless, you yourselves just cannot see the effect of your efforts. And therefore you should not tire and always carry My word anew into all the world .... If one rejects you, then go to the next and on and on, a grain remains with everyone; it can fall on stony ground, but a seed can also sprout in secret at a time when you no longer think about it .... A single word may have remained in your memory and at a later time sound again softly and then find an echo .... For it does not lose its power, and I count on it .... You should not let your hands drop hopelessly, you should not give up your work .... you should only always know that I Myself am with you and bless every work for Me and My kingdom .... and that this blessing will be evident one day, thus no work is done in vain. For as soon as the desire for the world subsides, the hitherto confused thoughts will also clear up and the submerged will come to the surface .... And that once the desire for the world subsides, I Myself will see to that, even if often in a painful way .... But it is the salvation of the soul and not of the body that is important. And suffering of the body can be exceedingly beneficial for the soul. Therefore do not worry but undauntedly do the work for which you have voluntarily offered yourselves to Me .... Also accept derogatory remarks undauntedly and do not let them hinder you .... Keep on walking and offer My gift of grace to everyone you meet .... Every now and then you will find shelter and be able to do beneficial work. And if each one of My own saves just one soul again, he will have done a blessed work which will have an effect which you cannot measure .... But you will always have the world as your adversary, yet you should also administer to the worldly people what is salvific for them .... For many of them will remember your words when the time has come when what I have long announced to you will be fulfilled .... And then the seed can still sprout and bear fruit .... For until the end every person still has the opportunity to call upon Me, and no call to Me will be in vain ....

Amen

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God's word unusual resource ....

B.D. 6631 from August 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

An unusual hardship requires unusual help .... And that people's hardship is unusually great is beyond doubt, for it is not about earthly hardship which only affects a part of people but about spiritual hardship which is far worse because its consequences extend into eternity. Admittedly, only the earthly adversity will be obvious to people and they will not try to remedy it either, which would certainly be within their power .... For they have too little love for their fellow human beings, they don't want to help unselfishly, and this is also the great spiritual adversity, that people lack love. For without love they are in the power of God's adversary, without love they face a dreadful fate, without love they end up in the abyss. But people nevertheless don't believe and therefore do nothing to remedy the great spiritual adversity .... Therefore, if they are to be helped this has to be done in an unusual way, because there is not much time left until the end and otherwise there is no prospect that a change of their attitude will be aspired to of its own accord. And this unusual aid is the great gift of grace of the divine word which God Himself conveys to earth and which could certainly bring about a change if it were listened to and taken to heart. Admittedly, the latter is also dependent on the human being's free will, but even a person of good will would no longer take the path to God without an obvious grace as long as He appears to be far away from him .... which, however, is also the case in recent times due to people's unkindness. And the proclamation of the word in the hitherto customary way can hardly cause a person to establish a closer bond with Him, which, however, His direct address can still achieve. It is an unusual act of help because the spiritual need is unusually great but God's love still uses every means to control this need. What empty words without spirit and life can no longer achieve, a living word can still achieve: that the person thinks about it, goes into himself and changes .... This is the only thing God wants to achieve through the transmission of His word, that the ear and heart are touched, that the word does not fall on the ears, because a dead proclamation of the word is completely without power and because power is necessary in order to bring about a change .... The water flows slowly and sluggishly, it already carries a lot of impurities with it, it has neither a cleansing nor a revitalising effect, and where no attempt is made to free it from impurities or additives it will soon be unable to fulfil its actual purpose .... But the fresh, clear water which flows from the spring is different and has an exceedingly beneficial, invigorating and revitalizing effect .... And therefore God opens the spring and lets His word flow to people in all purity, so that those who had already fallen prey to death will come to life, if only they withdraw their strength from the precious gift of life .... if they willingly listen to the living word of God and live according to it .... Through this unusual remedy spiritual hardship can truly be remedied, and countless souls could still be saved before the end .... But no compulsion will be done to them either .... God gives delicacies, and He gives abundantly .... But anyone who is satisfied with dead proclamations of the word cannot eternally recover or awaken to life. He is in deep spiritual distress, for he lacks one thing: the love which would also let him realize that his life is an empty run .... He first has to let himself be addressed by God Himself, Who will present love to him as the first and most important thing he has to practice .... And if he allows himself to be addressed by God Himself, then he will be touched by God's love and feel its strength .... And then he, too, will change, his will will turn towards God, and he will draw from the well of life, he will recover and grow stronger .... he will come to life and will no longer lose life ....

Amen

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God's care for souls beyond .... intercession ....

B.D. 6632 from August 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

My merciful love applies to all My living creations and thus also to all souls in the kingdom of the beyond which still suffer from a lack of light. And since I Myself Am the Light from eternity I also don't want to leave My living creations in darkness, and every opportunity to give them light will be utilized. But everything has to take place in lawful order, and therefore the will, the desire for light, is first necessary in order to be able to supply them with light. But as on earth souls in the beyond often remain in a defensive position towards the truth for a very long time, only because My adversary has persuaded them that they themselves stand in truth. And just as on earth, problems are often debated in the beyond too, and many different opinions are represented .... although no longer with unclouded clarity because the thoughts of those souls often become confused, but for the most part they don't easily depart from their views. And if I want to help these souls to reach the light, the truth, I first have to put them into states of darkness so that they feel uncomfortable and start to think why they are no longer clear and able to think. I have to awaken in them the desire for light, only then can they be given light, even if only to a small degree at first. Believe Me that I am constantly concerned about the souls in the beyond who can only not be given light because they resist it, but who could easily achieve it if only they would give up their resistance to the pure truth. And this is especially the case with souls who dealt with questions on earth which cannot be solved without the working of the spirit .... whose earthly existence was filled with brooding and intellectual work, with investigating their and their fellow human beings' 'being', who believed themselves capable of teaching and administered spiritual knowledge to their fellow human beings which was truly not to their advantage .... who were welcome tools for My adversary to cause ever more confusion amongst people and to deprive them of their childlike faith .... but who nevertheless did not act with bad intentions but in their delusion alienated themselves from the one Who alone is the source of truth. A very long time can pass until they have detached themselves from their wrong concepts, but they, too, are products of My love, My concern is unchanged for them too, and again and again I also open up opportunities for them to change their thinking, but still leaving them the freedom of their will in the beyond. But the desire for light will come if they have only once been touched by a spark of light .... And My love and My mercy guarantee that sparks of light will flash upon them .... You humans don't know the immense effect of My word's strength and therefore don't know about its redeeming power when it is lovingly offered to the being in the beyond .... But the souls which once have gained access to the circle of light of My gifts of grace are saved for all eternity, for a word from Me will no longer let them go, for they feel its strength and also the benefit of the spark of light which clarifies their thinking and gives them the impetus to seek the truth .... Anyone who was once able to hear My voice through you will long for it forever and his longing will be fulfilled .... This is why there cannot be impenetrable darkness for a soul which is willing to listen to you if you want to bring My word to them; yet you can achieve its entry into the circle of light through loving thoughts and prayer for these souls .... The soul will comply with every such loving request, for it will not close itself off to love. And you can see from this that every individual person can achieve redemption if he lovingly takes care of those who have not attained light on earth, if he points out to them that they can still find what they lack on the other side and if he recommends these souls to Me Myself that I will have mercy on them .... and for the sake of your love I will also lead them to the light ....

Amen

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Earthly limitations can be exceeded by spiritual means ....

B.D. 6633 from September 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The limitations you imagine yourselves to have were not imposed on you by Me, you are not as limited as you believe yourselves to be, because you can always achieve by spiritual means what appears to be unattainable in an earthly manner. But you have to take this spiritual path of your own free will; it is closed to those who are unable to muster the will to establish spiritual contact with Me .... Thus, they are restricted, both in regards to their knowledge as well as their strength .... yet, again, they were not created by Me as they are at present, instead they placed themselves into this imperfect state, which is therefore also a state of limitation. No person should ever say such words as 'No-one can know that ....' or 'No person will ever be able to fathom that ....' For these words merely prove that he has not established a heartfelt bond with Me, they demonstrate that the spiritual state of such people is still low .... that they have not done anything yet in order to attain light, to attain realisation. As long as the human being is still living in sin on earth, as long as he has not been redeemed by Jesus Christ from the original sin which caused his darkness of spirit, he cannot become enlightened .... But once the redemption through Jesus Christ has taken place My spirit's working in the person becomes possible and then all boundaries fall away .... Then My spirit will provide him with the knowledge which his intellect alone cannot give to him. But he can also achieve greater things than his still worldly fellow human beings .... he can indeed possess strength in abundance and contrary to his humanly-natural ability achieve feats which likewise demonstrate that the 'limitations' can be exceeded .... Yet only a few people acquire light and strength by spiritual means, only a few people exceed the natural boundaries even though all people would be able to do so. For the limited state is merely the state of imperfection which, however, could be changed by people at any time were they willing to do so.

The fact that so little true knowledge can be found on earth, that people speak so absolutely convinced of the limitation of their knowledge and the limitation of their strength, merely proves the degree of their imperfection again .... Did I not say 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect ....'? Hence you are also able to do it, and then you would also be able to know and accomplish everything, like your Father in Heaven. These Words alone should encourage you to strive towards perfection, and then the state of limitation would no longer exist for you .... Instead, you even doubt the truth of what you are told by those who have exceeded the limits, who take the spiritual path and have established such intimate contact with Me that I Myself can reveal the knowledge to them which concerns that which exists beyond earthly things .... which cannot be fathomed by your intellect alone as long as you are not released from the original sin, which makes a 'working of the spirit' impossible .... Hence the act of Salvation first has to be accomplished in you, the guilt has to redeemed which once obscured your spirit; but then you will be able to become enlightened again and limitations will no longer exist for you, since this boundary had been erected by the guilt of the original sin. However, it can be removed at any time again as soon as the original sin no longer exists, as soon as it is redeemed through Jesus Christ .... as soon as the person can be enlightened again by My spirit and the relationship with Me has been established again as it was in the beginning. The fact that people have no knowledge of this demonstrates their state, it demonstrates that they are not yet redeemed from their original sin, it also demonstrates the lifeless faith people live in although they proclaim to be Christians, who constantly speak My name and yet live their earthly life in complete spiritual blindness. And it is difficult to guide such people into a living faith in the strength of the spirit, which wants to reveal itself and yet is only able to manifest itself in a few people. It is difficult because people have not ignited love within themselves and therefore cannot understand My great love which accomplished the act of Salvation in the man Jesus .... And as long as the act of Salvation is not fully consciously made use of people will remain in darkness, and the limitations cannot be exceeded by them ....

Amen

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Creationless spaces ....

B.D. 6634 from September 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is the love for the unredeemed which underlies the whole of creation, which brought it into being and ensures its existence. And this love has no end, which is why there will also be no end or cessation of earthly creations until all bound and therefore wretched spiritual beings have been redeemed. Visible creations only prove My working to you, for you humans are unable to see the spiritual creations, but these spiritual creations likewise serve the spiritual for perfection, which, however, is still incomprehensible to you as long as you are imperfect inhabitants of earth .... Yet My love also let these spiritual creations come into being because, apart from their purpose of leading to higher perfection, they also contribute to the happiness of the beings which are already allowed to receive light and strength from Me and are now allowed to use them creatively in accordance with My will. My rule and activity is the constant emanation of love and its purposeful determination .... Where love and wisdom can work unhindered, even the most wonderful creations have to arise and serve to make the spiritual being happy again, which was once created with the ability to feel and judge, so that works of love produced by Me have to cause it indescribable bliss. However, I cannot bestow these blisses on beings which have given up their perfection or have not yet attained it, but which I nevertheless love infinitely .... And thus I first try to shape them such that they can join the host of blissful spirits .... and therefore constantly create new creations which correspond to their degree of maturity but whose task it is to increase that maturity .... And thus earthly creation is secured for endless times to come, because there is still infinitely much spiritual which needs such creations to mature, to return, to the perfection it once voluntarily surrendered. And once the earthly creations have passed through, even if only with little success, then the still imperfect will be supplied to spiritual creations, and even now My infinite love ensures that further development is possible, even if in a completely different way than could happen on this earth. I do not leave any being to its fate, for I have created innumerable opportunities to mature in My longing for love for the spiritual beings which once fell away from Me. And even the greatest resistance is only increased impetus for creative activity for Me, because thereby I can express My love which is always and forever meant for My living creations. But love never forces .... And therefore it also leaves unlimited freedom to the beingness, but it is so strong that it constantly draws the beingness .... And as long as earthly works of creation exist I demonstrate My love, because these serve the once fallen being to return to Me .... Yet even this greater than great love of Mine can meet with resistance, and creations can be wandered through without the slightest success. Then it can be possible that this spiritual being, which is still completely opposed, cannot see any work of creation, neither earthly nor spiritual .... that it is in complete emptiness, in endlessly vast spaces, where it is completely dependent on itself, where nothing proves 'life' or 'love' to it and yet it is conscious of itself to endless agony. This state of being without creation is the most dreadful fate that can be bestowed upon a soul which left all creation unused for spiritual further education, which also drew no benefit from its earthly existence, which thought it had emerged from nothingness and also believed it would sink back into nothingness after the death of its body .... And yet, even this state is a loving act of mercy for the soul, for it does not last forever either, but it prepares the soul such that it looks at the first creations again full of astonishment and gratitude, which My love now lets arise before its eyes .... And now the further development can begin in the spiritual kingdom which it neglected on earth .... And My creations, whether of a spiritual or earthly nature, will nevertheless achieve perfection after an infinite time, because My love will never cease to help the unredeemed until I will once be able to make it happy with My love until it accepts it without any resistance and thus has accomplished the return to Me of its own free will ....

Amen

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Mischief and misery .... God's will or permission ....

B.D. 6635 from September 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The worldly man is satisfied with what satisfies his bodily senses and does not deprive himself of anything that satisfies his senses, even if he believes that he is indulging in 'spiritual' pleasures and only understands this to mean intellectually acquired goods, if he occupies himself with knowledge which again only concerns earthly things. Thus he feels good and does not deprive himself of anything because his soul does not push itself forward with its desire and cannot push itself forward either, since the body has the upper hand. But this state of contentment does not last until death, or only very rarely, because such a person usually ruins himself physically, because illnesses or increasing age prohibit those earthly pleasures or the fulfilment of bodily desires and the person is then often forced to think about himself, about his life and about the purpose of existence. And then God's love approaches him again and again and tries to hold him back from the world, He tries to impart strength to the soul that it influences the human being from within to detach himself from the previous striving and to free himself from worldly thoughts .... But the soul will only penetrate if it has a certain amount of strength which, however, must come to it from outside .... through help which can consist of good conversation, spiritual conversations or transmission of the divine word, through good books or through loving intercession of a fellow human being .... From this the soul receives the strength to also influence the body, and then a slow change of thinking can occur, and the rest of earthly life can still be used well for the maturing of the soul. Illness, misfortune and earthly hardship are therefore indispensable for people who give themselves too much to the world and are often the best and only means to learn to recognize the world's staleness. And these means are therefore used again and again and become ever more apparent the more humanity turns its gaze to the world. And that is why increased enjoyment of life, excessive earthly pleasures and the sensual performances of the worldly side will always be accompanied by phenomena of a negative kind, by misfortunes, illnesses and blatant misery, which is based on excessive enjoyment of life. People should, as it were, already experience in their own bodies the devastating effects which hedonism and intemperance produce, and they should thereby learn to recognize what the body actually is and what the life they have led up to now has brought them. For other means are unsuccessful with such worldly people, but these can still achieve what ideas and good speeches could not .... that they distance themselves from the world and escape the greatest danger of being devoured by it. For this reason, all apparent disaster in the last days should be regarded as divine will or permission which can also still have a beneficial effect, even if it is caused maliciously or also testifies to adversarial activity .... It can always bring people to their senses and result in a turning away from the world, and then their soul will be saved from a far worse fate after its recall from this world ....

Amen

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Guardian spirit .... Spiritual guides ....

B.D. 6636 from September 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

A loyal spiritual guide accompanies you throughout your earthly life wherever you might go .... You are never without spiritual protection, and if this guide, as well as the beings of light surrounding you, were permitted to work unrestrictedly, your full maturing on this earth would be guaranteed, since their love for you leads them to do whatever will help you to ascend. But they are not allowed to affect you unreservedly because your will itself is imposing restrictions on them .... They, too, are only able to influence you according to this will, and you humans often prevent the activity of the beings which guide you due to your opposing will. Nevertheless, your guides will not abandon you and will keep trying to exert their influence until you die. Hence you are constantly surrounded by guardian spirits, and you can always turn to them for help, yet they are only permitted to help if you have established the bond with Me first, for it is the law that the beings of light only ever implement My will, that they only ever act in accordance with My will.

Thus a God-loving-person can live a truly carefree earthly life .... because he will always be granted much loving support if he, after heartfelt prayer to Me, hands himself over to My helpers and also asks for their protection and support. These guardian spirits and guides are permeated by light and strength; consequently it is easily possible for them to shape your earthly existence such that it will be bearable for you .... They are able to resolve adversities which confront you on an earthly level or which arise through the influence of evil forces ....

These spiritual guardians are instructed by Me to take care of you as soon as you have established your bond with Me through your will, through your attitude, through labours of love and through prayer. Thus a person devoted to Me can always rest assured that he is protected by Me directly, and My heavenly servants merely implement My will .... And My will always has your well-being at heart, since you have already given yourselves to Me and desire My protection.

And thus you know that you are never alone, regardless of how lonely or abandoned by the world you believe yourselves to be .... You are surrounded by a host of helpful spiritual beings which, instructed by your spiritual guardian, take care of you and protect you from physical and spiritual harm.

But it would be wrong if you only made contact with these beings due to a certain sense of superstition, if you saw in them anything else but My servants who are only allowed to help you once you have established the connection with Me .... For as soon as you call upon spiritual beings for help without faith in Me and without love for Me you will call upon adverse forces and place yourselves under their control .... For these adverse forces, too, are in your vicinity and only waiting for the opportunity to take possession of you, and this opportunity always presents itself when I Am excluded from your thoughts, when you live and act without Me on this earth .... In that case even your spiritual guide will be unable to take precedence, since your will does not allow for it.

And then the adverse forces will be especially busy, which you are just as able to feel around you as the good beings which work on My behalf. But you will invariably fall prey to these evil forces since they are very powerful and they will use this power because your will is giving them the right to do so .... However, you need never fear these evil forces if your will only ever applies to Me and you commend yourselves to My protection. In that case I have numerous helpers at My side wanting to be of service to you. And then the path of your earthly life will always be under the protection of your spiritual guide, whom I placed by your side Myself from the time of your birth until your death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fear of dying .... Beholding the spiritual kingdom before death ....

B.D. 6637 from September 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Spiritual death is far more dreadful than physical death. And it is spiritual death which people unconsciously fear if they are frightened to die, for they fear what will happen to them after the death of the body .... this fear can befall the very person who does not believe in a continuation of life after death .... The soul feels that it is in a wretched state, and it transmits this awareness as fear onto the body, which therefore fights death as long as possible.

Fear of death is an involuntary confession of psychological immaturity, for the person lacks all realisation and therefore also confidence in God's mercy, in hope for help, which it certainly would always receive if it would call for help. The soul is in utter darkness and unconsciously fears to approach an even darker night. A fully matured soul expects its final hour with complete calm, it longs for deliverance from its bodily shell, it hands itself over to the One in Whom it believes, and commends itself to Him and His grace. And often such souls are allowed to take a glance into the kingdom that awaits them and can radiantly happy open their eyes, in order to then close them forever and to escape from their body into the kingdom they beheld. Fear of death is a distinct indication of the soul's state, and such souls must be given much help by their fellow human beings so that they will still awaken in the last minute and turn to the One Who wants to help and is able to help them ....

Anyone who witnesses the death struggle and fear of a soul will be able to send a quiet, heartfelt prayer to Jesus Christ if he wants to help this soul to find inner peace .... For the soul will feel this help and reach out for the last rescue anchor, and it will be carried by the fellow human being's love when it leaves the body .... to Jesus Christ, Who will not close His ear to a sincere prayer for help. For this reason people should take especially good care of those who are afraid of dying and who thereby admit that they are still far from the light, from the right realisation and therefore also from God .... Fear of death confirms that they need help or they would be permeated by blissful calm when they feel that the hour of their departure from this earth is approaching.

And it is an act of utmost mercy and love to support a fearful soul, when nothing else can be done but to call upon Jesus Christ Himself that He may have mercy on this soul. This loving appeal will be heard and can save the soul so that it will be spared the darkest night ....

Amen

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The concept of 'hell' .... Renewed banishment .... God's infinite love ....

B.D. 6638 from September 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Even the most depraved living creation is a child of My love. Therefore it also has My unabated care to return to Me one day, even though it will have to travel a far longer path in order to bring itself into line with Me and My fundamental nature. But I will not let it fall, and whatever can be done on My part will be done by Me in order to help the creature to recognise and change itself. However, the distance is often so vast that the opposing force has greater influence and My illumination of love remains ineffective. For this reason it may also take eternities until it comes a little closer to Me but I will never abandon it .... However, when we talk about hell this relates to an accumulation of such depraved living creations in the beyond, which had already passed through earthly life with negative results and which continued to descend ever further in the beyond because they submitted themselves to My adversary anew .... Therefore, before a renewed banishment of the creations on earth takes place, which always signifies the beginning of a new era of Salvation, these adherents of Satan move within spheres where they can indulge in their most evil passions, where they inflict all kinds of evil deeds on each other and where constant fighting and arguing prevail and where they always try to draw weaker beings into their domain .... hence where they, on instructions of My adversary, act such that they will sink ever deeper. These places have no boundaries; hell is, in a manner of speaking, wherever such deeply fallen beings congregate, where they rage against each other .... on account of which one can also speak of on earth of hell and of states of hell when evil-minded people are hostile towards each other and wreak all kinds of havoc. All these beings are nevertheless My living creations on whom I take pity and whom I would like to release from their sin and their bondage to My adversary, for they are still wholly under the influence of the one who rose up against Me and who also incited all of his created beings to revolt against Me so that they, too, apostatised and became wretched.

But they had also been My children because they emerged from My strength which permeated My adversary without limitation and which enabled him to create these beings in the first place. Therefore My love also belongs to these beings no matter how deep they have sunk .... which will now also explain to you humans why a new creation of earth will have to take place. For I Am just as concerned about these unhappy creatures in the deepest abyss as I Am about the people on earth .... I also want to prepare a path again for those which have already languished under My adversary's control for an infinitely long time; I want to wrest them away from him and constrain them once more in solid matter so that their path will go upwards again, so that the immense resistance they still offer Me will slowly wane .... My love for those having descended remains unchanged and will never diminish either, but there is no other way to demonstrate My love than through a renewed banishment into earthly creations, there is no other way to achieve success or their return, therefore it follows that a transformation of earth is necessary, as I always and forever proclaimed to you. Only love determines My every activity and reign throughout the universe, even if you humans are unable to detect love therein .... Sooner or later you will understand My plan of Salvation and give thanks and sing your praises to the One Who also guided you out of darkness and death, Who wants to give happiness to all beings which emerged from Him .... and Who, with invariable love, also considers those which require His love most urgently because His adversary is keeping them enslaved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Soft light .... Deceptive light .... (Sensationalism .... )

B.D. 6639 from September 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Due to the fact that people are moving increasingly further away from the truth their spiritual adversity is steadily increasing. They are no longer capable of discernment, error and lies seem more believable to them than pure truth so that conveying truth to them is becoming ever more difficult, precisely because their thoughts are confused due to the influence of the one who opposes the truth, because he opposes God and thus will do anything to keep people’s thoughts confused. You can truly call it spiritual chaos, and if truth is to prevail again it can only be brought about by people who receive the light of truth from God and thus, as bearers of light, try to pass it on. But even these bearers of light will find it difficult to be accepted, because the places where they want to work are particularly besieged by opposing elements, who more or less counteract them such that they apparently represent the same, in order to confuse even those who are willing to accept the truth. You humans have no idea about the battle of darkness against light during the last days before the end. Yet people would not need to fall victim to this battle, for anyone who desires truth from the bottom of his heart truly need not fear wrong thinking, and he will always notice when the adversary has infiltrated the spiritual knowledge that is offered to people. Thus he will also recognise where truth is to be found, and he will join the bearers of light and gladly accept the truth of God from them.

The truth is glowing but it is not a deceptive light .... and a deceptive light is anything that affects the eye as dazzling as lightening, rendering it unable to recognise the true light, which only emits a soft light that is soothing to the eye ....

If you now consider Christ’s plain and simple teaching and the powerful effect of the pure Word of God .... and compare them with the restlessness, tension and sensationalism people are subjected to through reports, which pretend to be of spiritual origin but make a person insensitive to Christ’s simple teaching, so that he only ever wants to see the unusual, exciting .... then you also know what is meant by ‘deceptive lights’ and that they cannot benefit your soul. If you turn to God you will also be looked after by God .... but if you turn to the powers in the universe whose actions you are unable to judge, you can also expect flashing deceptive lights from the universe, and then you humans will become confused, which is to be expected, since God’s adversary has found a suitable ground where he can establish himself.

As long as people are offered alternative nourishment to the ‘divine Word’, which appeals more to the senses than to the heart .... as long as activities of the spiritual world are associated with appearances of a mysterious nature .... thus, as long as ‘sensations’ are sought or feigned which, however, do not result in any ennobling influence on people’s souls, it is not God Who is at work but His adversary in disguise, in order to gain people for himself, in order to destroy their appreciation for the light from above, for the pure Word of God. And he is succeeding at this to an alarming degree as long as a person’s mind does not exclusively belong to God, as long as the world is not entirely overcome by those who believe that they have been called to improve the world and its people .... who are not satisfied with the soft shine of the divine light of love but prefer the dazzling glare of lightening and become blinded by it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubt about doctrines of faith .... spiritual compulsion ....

B.D. 6640 from September 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Being in inner conflict with a doctrine of faith is only ever advantageous because it proves the will for truth and because then the truth can also be mentally conveyed to the human being because he opens himself to receive it. Every doubt is preferable to absolute certainty as long as it is not the directly imparted truth which, however, will then also appear acceptable to a person seriously desiring truth, even if doubts have preceded it. In any case, however, doubt proves that the human being is not indifferent to the nature of the spiritual knowledge offered to him. And therefore it is to be condemned in any case if people are forbidden to think about a doctrine of faith, about the justification of the truth claim of such a doctrine .... The human being has the duty to think about it, because he alone has to bear the responsibility for his soul .... because this responsibility cannot be passed on to those who demand the unquestioning acceptance of a doctrine of faith. Only when the human being thinks for himself can spiritual good become useful to him, and then he will also .... if he is serious and demands truth .... will take offence at illusionary or untrue teachings. He will mostly start to doubt, and this is truly a blessing, for then he will open himself to the spiritual currents which are mentally conveyed to him through the world of light. It is so easy for the human being to attain truth, for the desire for it also secures him the attention of truth. But people have fallen into a certain laziness of thought precisely because of the well thought-out trick of God's adversary to forbid people from thinking about what they are required to believe .... This is one of his most shameful means by which he has subjugated people to himself and can keep them in blindness of spirit .... But neither will man be able to excuse himself, for whatever the 'supposed church' demands of him .... he can turn to God Himself at any time and let Him advise and instruct him, and just one thought of wanting to fulfil God's will would truly also reveal God's will to him, for God has ways and means enough now (in order to) comply with the human being's desire. But this very 'desire' is lacking in people, and they entrench themselves behind this commandment .... to accept every doctrine of faith unchecked and without hesitation. And thereby God's adversary created many opportunities for himself to assert the pure truth without being offended. And therefore every doubt is the first step to escape from this area; every doubt proves one's own thinking and use of intellect, which God gave to every human being because it concerns a free decision of will in earthly life. Every person has to stand up for himself, and his intellect can help him to do so if he wants to reach God, to fulfil his earthly task. But God's adversary prevents this free decision of will by wanting to force them to adopt his way of thinking .... which, however, never leads to God .... And thus, as long as people are still dominated by spiritual coercion, as long as they are still forbidden to acquire knowledge and to freely choose their thoughts, they will still be under the adversary's power, but they will immediately escape from him if they pursue the doubt arising in them and try to acquire the right knowledge .... And God meets them, He first lets them clearly recognize the baseless and wrong and then also guides them to the pure truth which will dispel their doubts and which they unhesitatingly and convincingly accept as truth. For the intellect should not only be used in earthly relationships but it is also the task of the intellect to fathom and clarify spiritual matters as soon as the human being seriously strives to perfect himself, to reach God and to think, want and act in accordance with His will .... Then he can be convinced that God will not let him fall prey to error because He Himself is the 'eternal truth' and He also wants His living creations to walk in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The being of God ....

B.D. 6641 from September 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You humans will never be able to completely fathom My Being, for your own imperfection will prevent you from doing so for the first time, but I will also be and remain unfathomable for every being created by Me, because I am the eternal primordial centre Whose emanation you as well as all created beings are .... Creations of infinite tininess which are unable to grasp the elemental power from which they originated. And thus I can only ever give you pictorial explanations as long as you stay on earth, yet these explanations will always correspond to the truth, even though they are such that they can only be regarded as a weak comparison of what you want to know about My being. As long as you personify Me Myself, that is, as long as you imagine something limited as 'God', it is difficult to give you a correct explanation .... As soon as you imagine Me as 'strength' alone, you are likewise still thinking erroneously .... But if you are able to imagine something being-like, which fills the whole of infinity, or if you are able to imagine the whole of infinity as a living, I-conscious, thinking and exceedingly powerful being .... then you are already getting closer to the truth, for I am the all-filling spirit, Who knows no limitation, Who is everywhere and Who is nevertheless also present in the smallest, most inconspicuous work of creation .... Who is strength and light in Himself, Who is love, wisdom and power in highest perfection .... No-one can imagine this spiritual being because every created being is just a tiny spark of that divine strength which is precisely unable to grasp its creator. Yet the bliss of My living creations consists of being in contact with Me, their creator .... to live and work in the awareness of belonging to Me, to know themselves loved by Me and to constantly receive My strength of love .... This blessedness is increased by the fact that I .... the hitherto incomprehensible and unfathomable being .... that I likewise assumed a form for the formed being, that they can now communicate with Me as with something similar, because the strength of love flowing through the being triggers such a desire in them to be united with Me in intimate communion. As an all-filling spirit I cannot be visible to My living creations but I was able to shelter Myself in a form equal to their own, I was able to occupy a form in such abundance as it was able to contain while it was still earthly matter in order to then radiate through the spiritualized form without limitation, so that I was and remained visible to My living creations who were able to bear the sight of Me .... And every being can also experience this irradiation with divine strength of love and increase it to an ever higher degree, which therefore means the 'deification' of the created being, which I set as the aim for every being when I called it into life. The human being Jesus was therefore the first being to achieve this deification on earth and at the same time fulfil a mission which had become necessary due to the apostasy of the originally created spirits from Me .... Who, however, could only fulfil this mission if the 'divine strength of love' was used .... when love filled the human body to the highest degree. Thus I Myself, Who am the strength of love from eternity, had to be in the human being Jesus .... 'Love' had to embody itself in a human form so that the mission could now be carried out: to redeem the guilt of sin of the former turning away from Me .... I, the eternal deity, therefore took abode in the human being Jesus, but precisely in such a way that My essential strength: love, wisdom and omnipotence, poured into that human being, Who was to serve Me as a form and Who was also never to lose this form, because I wanted to become a 'visible' deity for you in it, Who has now become imaginable to you in such a form .... Nevertheless, I am and remain unfathomable in My beingness for all beings, because this also belongs to bliss, to always and forever strive for something seemingly unattainable and yet to know oneself loved by this elemental, supreme and most perfect being .... And I have proven this immense love to you humans through My death on the cross, which the man Jesus indeed suffered but was only able to suffer because of My love .... because I Myself was in Him and thus love accomplished the act of salvation which now made the highest beatitudes accessible to the created being, which it would never have been able to achieve without this act of mercy ....

Amen

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Jesus' soul ....

B.D. 6642 from September 11th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Everything conveyed to you by My spirit will concur in its meaning .... It is certainly left up to people's own will to assign a different meaning to the Words My spirit reveals to you, in which case such a person is not spiritually enlightened, nevertheless, it cannot be claimed that contradictory spiritual knowledge was conveyed to you by Me. For the 'Spirit of God' does not err .... And where an apparent contradiction appears to be present clarification needs to be requested; I Myself must be approached for an explanation: .... The soul of the human being Jesus came from above .... A spirit of light descended to Earth, a being which had come forth from Me and remained with Me entirely of its own free will when a large host of created spirits fell away from Me and plunged into the abyss .... But this spirit of light had to fulfil a mission as a human being, He had to descend into an unenlightened region, thus he had to leave his abundance of light behind to begin with, which merely would have had a disastrous effect since the people on earth were incapable of accepting such a light from above, thus they would have perished in its radiance. A human being had to accomplish the mission .... the act of Salvation for humanity .... And this person had to be in the same environment as his fellow human beings, for the point was to show them a path, to exemplify a way of life to them which they should follow .... Consequently, Jesus, the human being, had to be just as human as they were .... And so He was, despite the fact that the soul had descended from the kingdom of light .... The soul, which sheltered in the body of the infant Jesus, was just as influenced in its thinking, wanting and feeling by its earthly shell like any other human being .... Thus, due to its surrounding environment as well as its external shell, the same passions and cravings had to be awakened, for to live earthly life as a 'human being' also meant having to fight against the same instinct from within and outside .... After all, the point was to strive towards spiritualising the soul, to achieve the unity of the soul with its spirit, which is the purpose and goal of every person's earthly life .... It was necessary to provide people with the proof that it was possible to achieve this spiritualisation on earth ....

And so Jesus, the human being, fought and struggled in the same way .... which therefore necessitated a similar natured soul .... which had nevertheless descended from the kingdom of light in order to be able to serve God Himself as an abode, Who would never ever have been able to manifest Himself in a sinful soul .... For Jesus' soul was without sin, but this does not mean that it was entirely devoid of instincts and passions, for no matter how strong these weaknesses and passions of His were, no matter how strong the temptations approaching Him were, He resisted and was able to resist them because His love was also strong and this gave Him the strength for resistance. The soul of Jesus, the human being, left the light behind and entered the darkness .... And countless earthbound souls adhered to this soul, thus they besieged it in the same way that every human soul is besieged by dark forces .... Since Jesus had to travel the path as a human being, the soul was unable to push these beings away, instead it had to try to overcome them by means of a demanding battle, it had to muster the will not to give in when it was tempted. It was able to muster this will by virtue of the love it had not left behind, which was and remained its share because it was divine strength, with the help of which Jesus, the man, was intended and able to accomplish His mission .... but which would also enable every person to be victorious if only he would kindle and nourish the love in himself .... Time and again it must be stressed that the act of Salvation had to be accomplished by a human being, that Jesus at first should only be regarded as a human being, Who succeeded in spiritualising Himself on earth .... and that this human being had therefore entirely subordinated himself to natural law, that His physical body was like that of every other human being and that His soul was not allowed to defend itself either when impure spirits took possession of it .... However, at no time did He allow these spirits to gain the upper hand, because His will prevented this and because through love He also managed to find the necessary strength. Nevertheless, He had to struggle like every other person, for He should and wanted to be a shining example to them, He wanted to show them the path which they, too, could take in order to spiritualise themselves while still being on Earth. For only that which was also humanly possible could be expected of people .... If Jesus would have had strength at His disposal which was entirely impossible for people to acquire, He would never have been able to say: 'Follow Me ....' Yet this never excludes the fact that His soul came from above, that it had been a soul of light, in which God Himself took abode and was able to do so because it was pure and without sin, since love gave it strength to resist all temptations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Request for strength secures God's help upwards ....

B.D. 6643 from September 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Only with divine support will you be able to assert yourselves in earthly life against the temptations or oppressions of God's adversary, for you cannot resist alone because you lack the strength to do so. No matter how bad his temptations are, no matter how cunningly and treacherously he acts against you, God's grace is equally at your disposal, and you can always expect help from God if only you request it. It is solely a matter of your decision which lord you profess, which lord you want to belong to, and thus, if your will is turned towards God, you will also appeal to Him for help, which will always be given to you. But you will never be able to free yourselves from God's adversary with your own strength, because you do not possess this strength when you enter earth as a human being. You once forfeited it yourselves, i.e. you rejected the strength which God gave you in excess .... And as weak, powerless beings you are now embodied on earth .... And now you have to ask for the strength again which you once rejected .... And it will flow to you without restriction, for God will certainly grant you this request, because you will only find your way back to Him with His strength and yet He longs for your return, thus He will also do everything to regain you who were lost to Him for an infinitely long time .... Thus your earthly life is an idle one if you live it apart from God, even if you are not His adversary's outspoken instruments, because without God you will remain on the same level if you don't sink back into the abyss again. But your path shall go upwards and for this you need strength. God constantly offers you this strength through His word which is intended to lead you to Him, which reminds you of a lord above you and which you want to accept in your heart and live out, because then strength will already flow over to you and your heart's desire will now be for God, Who will imperceptibly pull you upwards. But without God you will not reach the height .... Ask Him for the supply of strength, turn to Him Whom you recognize as being above you, and through this request oppose the adversary and he will have to let go of you, as soon as you call upon God for protection against him, for strength to be able to withstand his temptations. For God does not leave you without help, He gives gladly and abundantly, and His flow of grace constantly flows to you .... Open yourselves and also constantly draw strength from God, and your earthly life will be a blessed one and lead you to your aim .... For even if the temptations are great, even if the decision in earthly life requires your entire will .... nevertheless God's love is so great that He will grant you humans strength and grace to a far greater extent and you can well survive the battle against His adversary if only you make use of His love and grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love for the apostate (degenerated) .... salvation ....

B.D. 6644 from September 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Even those who turn away from Me are children of My love, and My concern is also for them to find their way back to Me. Therefore do not believe that I have written off just one person before the end .... don't believe that I will give one up before the last day has come. For the return to Me can come suddenly, and what My words could not achieve can still be brought about by unforeseen events which have such a profound effect on a person that a great change can take place within him, but then he will also be saved for eternity .... Every person's soul is nevertheless connected to Me in its fundamental nature, it is the spirit of My spirit, and even if it is immersed in deepest darkness, it can nevertheless gain realization like a flash of lightning and then long to return to Me. But this also involves stirring events which are often so painful for the person himself that he feels close to the end and therefore carries out a 'general cleansing' .... that he suddenly realizes the wrongness of his way of life and heartfeltly desires to be or become a different person, if he still has the opportunity to do so. And I know the nature of every individual soul, I know its attitude towards Me and what it needs .... Therefore I also know how I have to attack it in order to win it over. And no matter how depraved the human being is, seen with the human eye .... The soul is and remains My share which I will never ever let fall .... And I always take into account the fact that it is imprisoned by My adversary and cannot free itself from him alone, that he has power over it, thus everything evil the human being does is his influence, his activity, which makes use of this very soul in order to do its mischief on this earth, and therefore I always see in this soul the enslaved being which cannot defend itself when it is driven by My adversary into despicable activity. The human being certainly has free will but it is so weak that he cannot resist without help. And he lacks this help because he does not turn to Jesus Christ, because he does not call upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ. And yet I love this soul and leave no stone unturned that it, too, will find the path to its saviour and redeemer. And thus you humans should also look at such apostate people with eyes of love, you should remember them with profound compassion and help them through good thoughts which will always have a beneficial effect on such wretched people who can indeed be successful in earthly life but who already have to (can) go through great hardship in earthly life, as My love and wisdom deemed good for their souls .... Show mercy to all those souls and don't condemn them, for they are tormented, wretched beings for whom the path to Me can still be endlessly long if success is not recorded in the still short but exceedingly hard time of the end. Especially this being, which is completely controlled by the adversary, needs your help, your loving intercession and your good remembrance because it is exceedingly weak. Yet such people are detested by people and their 'lord' has all the greater power over them. And you should beware of this if you don't want to increase his power. Wrest every soul from him which is in such distress, help them to find Me, which you are very well able to do if you give them loving thoughts which will always have a good effect, because love pushes the adversary away and gives the soul the strength to defend itself. You can still contribute infinitely much in the short time until the end that you have already found Me, if you also see My children in those people for whom I struggle until the end .... Just don't condemn them and don't show them hatred .... because this will only plunge them into greater darkness ....

Amen

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God gives back many times .... gifts without love worthless ....

B.D. 6645 from September 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

What you voluntarily sacrifice you will receive back in many ways. You humans should never believe that you have to live in want yourselves if you sacrifice yourselves out of love for your neighbour, for your father in heaven knows what your situation is like and will never let the earthly child suffer a lack if it lives on earth in accordance with His will, if it practices love and always works in love. But people's selfish love often keeps them from helping their neighbour, for they are not willing to sacrifice so as not to diminish themselves .... And these will never experience the blessing of the working of love and will also never be allowed to experience the pure joy of giving to themselves. But your father in heaven will repay you abundantly, you can be sure of that .... And thus wealth will always increase for an unselfish donor, spiritually and earthly the more he gives of what is his the richer he will be, he will not need to live in want, which is why no human being can excuse himself with poverty which prevented him from giving .... But the will to love is valued which accompanies every gift, for without love every gift is worthless, no matter how great and valuable it may be. And this again shows that even the knowledge of God's return should not motivate a person to do good, for as soon as only self-love or calculation is the motive for an apparent work of love, it nevertheless has no value .... Only you should not let the fear arise in you that you will not be able to exist yourselves when you give to others, for this worry is unnecessary if only your heart impels you to give and to give happiness. And therefore it would truly be a paradise on earth if no human being would want to pass by the hardship of his fellow human being .... if everyone would relieve hardship regardless of his own situation .... For this will never get worse. But every good work would awaken love again and let people mature much faster .... But selfish love prevents this, and everyone thinks of himself first before he thinks of his fellow human being, but he himself will not be able to acquire anything through his own strength, he should bear this in mind .... And just as he first receives from God what earthly life gives him, he should also want to give out of inner impulse, and it will never be to his detriment. For every deed of love has a spiritual and earthly effect, and every deed of love is a step closer to God, Who Himself is love ....

Amen

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Human responsibility .... free will ....

B.D. 6646 from September 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You have to take the last step towards perfection in earthly life of your own free will .... Until then you were guided and could not go any other way since you were subject to the law of compulsion, thus you had to carry out everything God determined, whereas now in earthly life God's will is indeed revealed to you but you have to fulfil it completely freely out of yourselves and therefore can also live your life contrary to His will. Thus it is, as it were, given into your own hands what you achieve in earthly life .... And this is a great responsibility for you, for your 'thinking self', which determines your will and actions. But precisely for this reason your perfection is often called into question because you do not respect God's will but let your own will prevail which is opposed to divine will. And yet, everything depends on this short earthly time, for the life afterwards will be in accordance with this earthly lifetime. It can be immeasurably beautiful, a life of eternal bliss, but also immeasurably agonizing when the dark kingdom receives the soul after the death of the body .... And you decide that for yourselves .... As infinitely great as God's love for His creatures is, He nevertheless cannot turn away a fate from them which they have created for themselves in free will .... He cannot influence the human being against his will because perfection would then also be impossible .... He can only ever admonish and warn through His word, but still leaving it up to the human being whether he heeds the divine word at all, whether he follows it. But it is only an exceedingly short time compared to eternity, which the human being should, however, evaluate differently than he does .... Yet the freedom of his will, which he has regained after an infinitely long time of bondage, he very often abuses and yet he cannot be prevented from doing so .... He could reach the highest perfection on earth, for nothing more is required of him than: to overcome his self-love so that he would then be compensated a thousand fold in the kingdom of light and glory for what he sacrificed in earthly life .... He only needed to give very little in order to receive an infinite amount .... But he does not want to believe this and thus enjoys it beforehand. And thus he is content with pleasures which cannot in the least outweigh what he forfeited .... But he cannot be prevented from doing so, for free will is not taken away from him, precisely because it is meant to prove itself, because the human being alone has to decide how to evaluate his earthly life .... He can only be guided, everything can only be presented to him and he can be helped by indications, but it must be left up to him what benefit he derives from his guidance of destiny .... And that God takes care of every human being with love, that He makes it easy for him and offers him all possibilities, that is truly without doubt because He loves all His creations and wants to win them back. But He will never forcibly try to influence people, and therefore there is a great danger that people will fail in their last test of earthly life .... And yet, no human being can say that he did not have the strength for this, for it is abundantly available to every person but it has to be requested or acquired through prayer and activity of love. Prayer, however, presupposes faith in God and loving activity presupposes a change in his self-love .... The human being can do both, for he has the ability to do so within himself, and he only needs to want to, then he will be supported by God in every way. His strength would be increased and a light would also be kindled in him .... But where the will is absent there is no hope, and earthly life has been put back without result. The body has been abundantly provided for but the soul has remained as it was in the beginning of its embodiment as a human being .... Heavenly bliss, which lasts forever, has been forfeited for the sake of worthless goods. And the soul must continue to go through hardship and misery and perhaps also cover its entire course of development once again .... but the human being's will has determined this fate itself ....

Amen

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What is the soul ....

B.D. 6647 from September 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

There is still a complete lack of clarity about problems which cannot be solved by human intelligence alone and where God's spirit has to work even though its working is rarely acknowledged. But only He is able to give a clear answer to questions that concern unsolved problems. However, even the results of such working of the spirit are doubted although they alone correspond to the truth. Irrespective of what question is asked, only the answer given to people by God Himself through His spirit will always be correct .... However, 'spirit' should not be confused with 'intellect' because intellect can just as well reason in the wrong direction .... There is no guarantee that intellectual results correspond to truth or so many different opinions and points of view would not exist, all claiming to be truth but all merely gained by means of intellect ....

The 'spirit', however, is the radiance emanated by the Eternal Truth Itself which gives light, i.e. knowledge which is simply accepted by the intellect, for which there is no evidence. But the 'spirit of God' provides absolute innermost conviction, it provides comprehensive clarification even without making special use of the intellect: .... The concept of 'soul' cannot be tangibly explained to someone unless he has already acquired a certain amount of 'spiritual knowledge' because the soul is something spiritual, it has no earthly-physical quality and can therefore only be explained spiritually. The soul is the fluid essence which gives life to the body, to the physical form .... The soul is the actual life, the human being's true ego, which is sheltered in an external physical shell, which cannot be seen but is always present as long as energy expresses itself in it. Without the soul the human being would not be a self-aware being. The soul is God's once emanated strength which He externalised as a spiritual being to whom He gave an independent life. And this being was endowed with free will and the ability to think .... The fact that and why this spiritual being .... the soul .... shelters within the human body during its earthly life is a separate issue; first it should be explained that it is the soul which thus enables the human being to think, feel and want.

It should be emphasized that the soul is the animator of all organs, that every physical activity, every prompting of will and feeling is the expression of the soul within the body .... which is indeed something spiritual that cannot be seen by the human eye and which .... if it could be seen .... would fully resemble its external human shell. It is the soul which continues to live after the death of the body and which then can also be seen by other souls whose degree of maturity enables their spiritual vision. The soul can therefore never be explained as some kind of physical substance .... it is and remains spiritual substance, thus God's spiritual emanation, which is intended to fulfil a purpose on earth .... It is indestructible and immortal but can differentiate itself from other souls by its emission of light, and the purpose of its earthly life consists of increasing the degree of light which it had once darkened of its own free will ....

It is not possible for anyone to explain the essence of soul purely scientifically because the soul is nothing tangible nor explicable with human senses but strength from God's strength, Whose essence is and remains equally inexplicable but Who cannot be denied by thinking people. Just as the soul is the true Self of the human being which cannot be defined either, which exists yet cannot be proven, which certainly controls the functions of the physical organs but can also exist without the body, whereas the body without the soul is completely lifeless matter even if all organs are still unchanged .... But the life is missing as soon as the soul leaves the body .... something is missing that activates the body, which triggers the organs' functions, which decisively influences the brain voluntarily and which arouses the stirring of every resolve in a person .... And this thinking, wanting and feeling something .... the soul .... now exists in other spheres but always as the same being which previously inhabited the body. And therefore it can also be recognised in the realm of the beyond which, however, requires a certain degree of maturity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dishing out the truth .... leading .... spreading light ....

B.D. 6648 from September 18th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Take care of the ignorant and introduce them to the truth .... Again and again I give you this instruction, but I also know how difficult it is to pass on to your fellow human beings what you receive directly from Me, because I also know that people's thinking is too real, that they mostly close their minds to the spiritual and that they also don't want to believe that they can be taught by spiritual beings who work on My behalf. And thus they also don't believe in a direct impartation of truth .... but they unhesitatingly accept what is conveyed to them by human beings. If the leaders on earth were to be won over, people's thinking and knowledge would truly be better off because they would be believed .... But precisely the leaders are inaccessible to the spiritual transmission of truth, and yet they could spread infinite blessings through truthful enlightenment. Only people who make contact with Me Myself will think correctly, and I can also enlighten their spirit as soon as they are willing to impart spiritual knowledge to their fellow human beings. But no-one will attain the truth on his own, through pure intellectual thinking, for I reserve this for Myself, and in order to receive it the bond with Me has to be sought and established first. But it is urgently necessary that the truth should be spread, because the knowledge of truth alone can bring about a change, because truthful thinking will also result in a way of life in accordance with My will. But conversely, the human being will not fulfil his purpose of earthly life if he is not properly enlightened .... Unless his life is an activity of love which then also gives him enlightenment from within through the spirit and guides him into right thinking. Love is decisive as to how far a person stands in truth .... And no matter how highly developed a person's intellect is .... If he does not possess a love-filled heart which constantly impels him into loving activity, then his intellectual thinking does not correspond to the truth either, and then he will neither achieve spiritual progress himself nor be able to lead his fellow human beings onto the right path, because the right path to Me is only ever the path of truth .... Without love there is no recognition of truth .... People must first know that love is the 'fire' from which the 'light' of truth shines. And if a person's love fills his heart, then he will also be accessible to the ideas of a light bearer, and then it will be easy for both of them .... to distribute light and to accept light .... And then beneficial work can also be done for fellow human beings who need guides as long as they don't make themselves receptive for the truth from Me, which I constantly try to convey to people who are of good will. People's attention should only be drawn to the fact that it is not the highly developed intellect but only a heart capable of love and willing to love which guarantees that pure truth will be offered to them, and thus they should and can also test the value of every spiritual gift, and they will always be able to believe a person whose way of life reveals love, for his thinking will also move in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

An hour of Christianity .... The way to God's heart ....

B.D. 6649 from September 20th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Only few people find the way to My heart, and only few people are willing to walk that way even though they claim to be faithful Christians, even though they outwardly belong to those who have joined clerical organisations and are therefore called religious. All these have indeed followed this path but have stopped before they reached My heart. You humans can understand this when you take a closer look at your earthly life which gives priority to the world, to physical welfare, and when you give serious account of how little time you spend thinking of Me and your actual purpose in life. And for the most part you only give Me the traditionally designated time .... a short morning, noon and evening prayer or the hour of the official church service. Only rarely do your thoughts search for Me of their own free will, only rarely do you speak to Me of your own accord, only rarely do you desire to come into heartfelt contact with Me .... your thinking will always be completely occupied with earthly worries, earthly plans and earthly pleasures.

I Am not the main subject of your thoughts, even if you believe in Me as your Creator and Preserver you are still a long way from seeing the Father in Me to Whom you are drawn by your love .... And therefore you only rarely take the way to My heart, or you would be able to speak to Me like children to their Father, so that you could let Him be with you in every situation in life, so that you more than less live your life in close contact with Me. Then you would also talk about Me more often, your conversations would take other directions in that case, because hardly anyone mentions Me in daily life and those who do are smiled at contemptuously, they are not taken seriously ....

This is how you humans are in reality, only seldom can I be present within you because you don’t remember Me and even less often come together in My name .... Only seldom do you sacrifice Me an hour due to actual inner need .... and therefore I say, only few people walk the way to My heart, only few allow Me to be their constant companion on this earth. And this hour of Christianity cannot result in spiritual progress, as long as it only consists of the traditional visit to the church service and the performance of its rites it is not a voluntary relationship with Me .... Only the living relationship, the inner urge of your free will, can help you humans to perfection, and the desire to hear My Word and to offer food to the soul will be considered as longing for Me and will be fulfilled.

And the human being should give account of himself about his innermost feelings for Me and to what extent he simply observes the traditional requirements which he was taught, and whether he merely observes them traditionally too .... I look into the hearts and no one can deceive Me but I also long for those hearts and Am not satisfied to be only in second or third place. And as long as the world and its demands are still in first place you belong to the ‘dead Christians’ because living Christianity expresses itself differently .... It consists of an unceasing activity of love, i.e. an activity with Me. And the human being with whom I can be present because of love will always remember Me too, he puts Me before all worldly matters and starts nothing without sincerely uniting with Me first ....

But there are only few and yet, many people believe they live the right way because they live in accordance with clerical demands. And all these will not stand firm at the time of the last decision, for they will lack the strength which they have to receive directly from Me and therefore they need the heartfelt inner union with Me .... You should know that the time will come when the last decision will be demanded of you and you will then experience serious difficulties if you don’t possess living faith which, however, requires that you have to find the way to My heart and proceed on it .... Because only I can give you strength but I have to be present with you, and therefore you have to unite with Me in love ....

Amen

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Power of living faith .... presence of God ....

B.D. 6650 from September 21st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The world will still make great demands on you which you should be able to cope with. And you must spiritually acquire the strength to do so, for there are also spiritual attacks which indeed come from the world but precisely for that reason require much strength to resist. I want to prepare you for this time, I want to strengthen your faith, but this can only ever happen if I impose tests of faith on you, the passing of which results in an ever stronger faith. Again and again I tell you that I need faithful servants on earth, and again and again I recruit new servants because much work is still to be done before the end. But all these servants must have strong faith because otherwise they are unfit to work in My vineyard. And therefore they must be unusually loving and thereby increase their strength of faith, for they can only speak vividly for Me and My name if they themselves are alive in their faith .... They must serve their fellow human beings as an example of the strength a living faith produces and how only this living faith can be won .... The working of love is indispensable in order to attain strong faith, and the working of love is stimulated by fellow human beings' adversity and suffering .... which therefore cannot be eliminated and can bring much blessing. But I also have other means to let you humans mature into a strong faith, after all, it is only a matter of feeling Me present, of coming so close to Me that you then trustingly present all your needs and worries to Me and ask Me for help, which will then also become yours .... You must look for My closeness and commune with Me ever more often .... for then even doubts which still exist will give way to the certainty that I will help you. And then you will no longer let go of Me. It is My presence which gives you security, and for this reason I would like you to call upon Me through heartfelt prayer .... For the closer you draw close to Me the easier I can influence you so that you will feel Me and then also firmly believe. And you will need such faith in the coming time .... and this alone is the reason why you will be able to stand firm. The world can still push you away from Me, that is, you feel two realms, as it were, and cannot unite them, the spiritual kingdom will be displaced as soon as the world approaches you. And this separation must be removed by you .... You must feel just as connected to Me in the world and know that I am present to you, only then will you also have power in the world and your vineyard work will be successful .... Then you will not fear the world which threatens you because you will know that I am at your side .... This alone I want to achieve, and therefore I try everything to draw you so firmly to Me that this bond can no longer be loosened by worldly impressions or worldly demands on you. And illnesses and suffering, hardship and worries also serve this purpose, because they can result in this intimate bond with Me and then an over-strong faith is certain gain .... "Come to Me when you are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ...." - "Ask, and it shall be given you; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Always remember these words and take the path to Me, and know that I am your father and also want to be loved by you, His children, as a father. And a loving father does not leave his children in adversity as soon as he can help them .... And you will not doubt that I can help you, that I want to help you is proven again and again by My words which betray love for you, and love is always ready to help ....

Amen

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Caller on the earth's path ....

B.D. 6651 from September 22nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Long distances are still to be covered by those who do not heed My call, Who draws their attention to a short path and yet they pass it by. They can still wander for endless times and will not reach their aim because they have taken a wrong direction. But again and again paths branch off, to Me .... But if they are not followed, the human being will eternally not reach the aim. But I do not stop calling so that they will be stopped by the call and can reflect whether they want to walk on or turn back and turn into the right path .... And such calls always sound for a person when My word is presented to him, when his attention is drawn to My will in some way, which can happen conversationally or also through writings, because again and again the human being is forced into trains of thought which involve Me Myself or his actual purpose of existence. Then a call from above will sound to him, as it were, then messengers from Me will step into his path, and then he will be prompted for a short time to make a statement which can be beneficial or also detrimental for him .... Most people take this wrong path which does not lead to the aim, but I do not let up with My indications to change the path, and I will not let up until the end, for again and again paths branch off which lead to the height .... to Me .... and until the last hour the human being will still be able to change his mind and leave the old path if only he listens to My messengers once. But there is a great obstacle, there is a reason which makes people far rather go wrong .... My adversary persuades them to be on the right path .... that is, everyone is so convinced of himself, of his knowledge and his value, that he does not like to listen to the advice of others, and this self-assurance is whispered to them by My adversary who tries to prevent people from striving towards Me. A person who doubts himself and his thinking will look around and ask and therefore also listen if he encounters a caller on his path .... And this person is easily influenced to leave his path and continue on a different path, and he will truly not regret having followed the guide who lured him onto the right path .... But with most of them the callers only meet with rejection, because the wanderers feel superior to them, because they themselves believe to possess the best knowledge of the right path. My adversary has gained great power over people, for they willingly follow him wherever he leads them. But no-one will be able to say that he has not been addressed by My messengers, no-one will be able to say that he has never seen paths which branched off from his own .... No one will be able to say not to have come into contact with people who broached spiritual conversations and espoused views different from his own .... And everyone had the duty to also think for himself once, because then enlightening thoughts would certainly have come to him, for I always help where only the slightest will is evident to think and do what is right. But every person retains the freedom of his will, and therefore he must also answer for how he has used his free will. The broad, even path is taken en masse, many walk along it self-confidently but most only follow them as fellow travellers who don't think about the aim they reach themselves and who also allow themselves to be led by those without any concern that it could also be their undoing. And again and again My messengers mingle with the masses, drawing their attention to the byways, but they find little hearing, and only very few hikers join them who have faith in those messengers and also do not fear the somewhat more difficult ascent. Yet a glorious aim awaits them which all people could reach but only a few do, because people don't pay attention to My messengers whom I send their way again and again in order to help them attain beatitude ....

Amen

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Right assessment of life on earth ....

B.D. 6652 from September 24th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You cannot comprehend the bliss the spiritual kingdom will give you if you transform your being during your life on earth in such a way that you can take possession of the realm of light. Nor can it be illustrated to you, because you would then live your life on earth to some extent with an attitude of coercion and thus the purpose of your life would be completely lost. And although it is presented to you as truth there is no proof because it would endanger your freedom of will. But this much can be said, that the most difficult life on earth in hardship and distress, in sickness and despair, will be compensated a thousand times by this state of happiness, and in retrospect you won't be able to understand the difficulties you experienced when you had to make sacrifices. Because then the time on earth will appear to you like a fleeting moment and the whole eternity of bliss will be ahead of you ....

You humans place too much importance on your earthly life, in a worldly sense .... Spiritually it is indeed significant for you because a rightly lived earthly existence can result in said eternity of happiness. But what this earthly life gives you in a worldly sense is entirely useless and merely offers a temporary sense of well-being compared to eternity. You should always consider that one day you won't understand how you could have enjoyed things that were of no spiritual value .... and you will be grateful to every soul who showed you the worthlessness of such things and guided your vision towards other goals. But as long as you humans live on earth you won't appreciate such advice and therefore Jesus said 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and only the violent take it for themselves ....'

If you would try to imagine the endlessly long time that your soul has already walked on this earth and that eternity is ahead of you then you could better evaluate the short lifetime on earth. You would know that it is really just a moment and gladly give up the pleasures of this moment in view of the blissful happiness which you would acquire by making an effort. This is exactly your test of will: that you don't strive after the share of God's opponent but that you strive towards God as your goal .... And when you humans receive such evident help by being given the knowledge about the purpose of your earthly life, when your eyes are being opened to enable you to see what the blind person doesn't see, then the goal should entice you too, because earthly life won't last forever and for the individual it can even end tomorrow ....

Your earthly existence is questionable because you cannot be certain to enjoy it for long .... however, every one of you can be certain of the spiritual life, it just can turn out very differently. And that is something you determine yourselves with your attitude in earthly life. Yet you nevertheless have the right and the duty to take the place that was assigned to you in your earthly life. Consequently, the pleasures of life are not denied to you and God does not expect you to become hermits, nor to completely retreat from the world .... But you should not let the world dominate you, you should be master of the world, you should make the world serve you, as it is God's will .... but remember that the meaning and purpose of existence in this world is always spiritual development, which you can indeed achieve during your earthly life .... 'The world' should not completely occupy the human being's thoughts but spiritual thoughts should dominate instead, then the world will no longer be a danger even though the human being completely lives in the midst of the world. And the human being should always be aware that earthly life is not an end in itself but only the means to an end ....

Whoever accepts these thoughts for himself will not be satisfied with the offerings of the world .... He will search and strive for higher goals and the world will no longer be a danger to him, he will no longer find fulfilment in the world because he will have recognised its real worth, or worthlessness. More over, God gave the human being with his creation many gifts which the human being may safely enjoy, just as He leaves it to the human being to take rightful pleasure in all things as long as only God Himself is and remains the most important goal for the human being ....

Amen

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Heralds of the word called by God ....

B.D. 6653 from September 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is truly a beneficial task to proclaim the gospel which originates from Me Myself. For people suffer from a lack of it because they are rarely only presented with pure truth, because I Myself can no longer address people as long as the proclaimer of My word has not been chosen by Me for this office .... if he has granted himself this office without having been called to it by Me. The proclamation of My gospel, of the divine teaching of love, is inevitably necessary for humanity because it should know My will in order to live in accordance with it on earth. Thus I will bless everyone who makes himself available to Me and teaches his fellow human beings on My behalf. But he must first be informed by Me of My will, or he must be of such a nature that I Myself can address the people through him to whom he wants to proclaim My word. I cannot use him for this office if he wants to spread his own knowledge which he has acquired through study and which he believes to be the truth .... Before he takes up his office he must first unite himself with the One he wants to proclaim .... He, as a right servant in My vineyard, must first receive the orders of his lord .... he has to hear the instructions from Himself in order to be accepted by Him as a servant and to be looked after with a task. As far as earthly matters are concerned, this is a self-evident process for you humans that every subordinate receives instructions from his superior .... But when proclaiming My gospel you are often satisfied with what fellow human beings present to you, but you do not approach the actual lord for His instructions .... You elevate yourselves to a place which I have not assigned to you, you call yourselves 'representatives of God' or 'servants of God' and are often not in direct contact with Him yourselves. And those who suffer are those to whom you want to proclaim My word but who therefore lack strength because I Myself cannot speak to them through you, thus they do not hear My word but your own words which therefore will have little effect of strength unless the hearers themselves unite with Me so intimately that they then hear My voice in your words. But for this reason I bless those whom I could call to teaching activity through their own will, for they will never speak their own words but always allow Me Myself to speak, and if I now address people they will noticeably receive strength and light. You can see for yourselves the hardship humanity is in because too few genuine representatives are active by the lack of faith which has taken hold amongst people, because these words do not penetrate, because they have no effect on the listeners, because their proclaimers were not called by Me but only created a profession for themselves, a worldly employment under a spiritual cloak .... Proclaimers of My gospel called by Me Myself will never use empty words but always speak vividly, full of conviction and zeal they will represent Me and My name and only ever proclaim truth which will convince again when the listener has a desire for My word. And such a living proclamation will also be successful, the listeners will let the word penetrate their hearts and make an effort to also become doers of the word, (26.9.1956) because I Myself address them and My address truly has a different effect than mere words which are devoid of spirit and life, albeit they shall reflect what I Myself preached on earth. Only if My representatives on earth make it possible that I Myself can speak through them will there be success with people. But there are far more empty preachers of the word than those who are alive and preach in My spirit. But only the latter can bring it about that people awaken and become alive themselves, because only those can work through My strength of spirit which awakens life, which brings the dead back to life .... And I will bless those who are active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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Individual's decision of will ....

B.D. 6654 from September 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is every individual person's task to still reach the last aim on earth, but it is only fulfilled by a few. Every human being stands isolated in creation, even though he has contact with his fellow human beings; but everyone has to pursue his development of ascent for himself, he can only find loving support, but his own will is always a prerequisite. And this will is what earthly life is about .... The will can indeed be stimulated in many ways to take a certain direction but it cannot be forcibly determined to do so .... And it can often be influenced and yet it decides differently, and it renders all influences ineffective. But the decision of will alone is what matters in earthly life, which every human being has to make for himself. Hence there are two aims which the human being on earth can strive for .... the world, earthly matter, the goods which are transient, or the spiritual kingdom, which also reveals itself to people on earth but, because it is not visible or tangible, is mostly overlooked. Both aims are known to people, it is just that the spiritual aim is very often unbelievable to people, even though they are presented with knowledge about it .... Therefore the choice is not easy when it concerns visible and invisible goods for which the human being should decide. And he usually chooses what is visible and tangible to him and completely ignores the other aim. But his will is free .... There is therefore only one possibility to disparage in his eyes the goods that appear desirable to him .... to present them as pseudo-goods without value, as impermanent and illusory .... on the other hand, to emphasize the spiritual goods as solely valuable and permanent. Man cannot be forced to think rightly, but it is possible for him to do so .... And just as little can he be forced to think wrongly .... He is free to do both, he has to make the decision all by himself, because this decision also determines his later life in the spiritual kingdom. And therefore he is approached by the most diverse experiences which are all suitable to guide his thinking into the right direction, but opposing influences are not left out either .... And the human being is often forced to make decisions which he has to make himself. And now only his innermost attitude towards God is decisive .... If the human being only has a little faith in a God and creator then he will also feel that he belongs to Him and make the right decision .... But if he lacks this faith, then God's adversary will have the upper hand and the human being will decide in his favour. Only faith in God must be present, then the right decision is certain. But precisely this faith is not often present because humanity is on a low spiritual level, thus it is still in bondage to God's adversary who would like to stifle all realization, all knowledge of a God of eternity in people. Yet God constantly ensures that this knowledge is conveyed to people, and anyone of good will also knows that he is united with a power Which gave him life. And his will will also certainly turn to this power .... It is possible for every human being to come to this realization that a 'higher power' rules the world and that he himself is dependent on this power. But not every human being accepts this realization. There are many who close their minds to every reasonable explanation, who do not want to be subject to a power and who can therefore easily be ruled by God's adversary .... But their will is free .... And thus every individual person's decision remains a matter of free will, and eternal life depends on this decision .... the earthly or the spiritual world will dominate thinking, i.e., God or His adversary has an influence on the human being but the human being himself determines his lord .... And thus it will certainly also be possible for the human being to reach the final aim if only his will is correctly directed .... to God, Who will then also provide him with strength which, however, he will lack if he allows himself to be controlled by God's adversary ....

Amen

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Serious admonitions and warnings from God .... sheet anchor ....

B.D. 6655 from September 27th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You will drift inexorably towards the abyss if you don't grasp the sheet anchors yourselves which again and again are thrown to you by My love. But this grasping of a lifeline requires your will, and this is too weak or turned towards completely different aims so that you don't pay attention to what could mean salvation for you. And thus time will pass until the end without you being willing to leave the paths which lead towards the abyss. And you cannot be prevented from doing so .... Nor will My unusual intervention bring you to your senses, you will accept it with the same unbelief which is your nature before, you will indifferently follow everything and seek again to arrange and continue life for your benefit .... You will remain untouched by what should be a last attempt to awaken people and urge them on a different path .... But you will not be able to stop the last end, which will then bring a hard lot for you .... the new banishment in the creations of the new earth. Because of your freedom of will you cannot be hindered in your conduct of life, you can only be made aware of it again through warnings and admonitions, yet this, too, depends on your free will as to whether these warnings and admonitions make an impression on you, whether they influence and stimulate you into a change of will. And therefore earthly life continues in an apparently orderly manner, an apparent blossoming can be observed as far as earthly plans are concerned, untiring work and activity can be observed, an accumulation of earthly values, an increased lust for life is evident, success upon success, and people are satisfied with this earthly development as soon as it provides them with physical advantage, physical comfort. But the deeper they sink spiritually. For in the midst of their earthly striving they completely forget their actual earthly task, that they should mature spiritually .... But I have recognized this state since eternity, and My plan of salvation has also been determined in accordance with it, which then provides for an end of the development period when no more spiritual successes are evident on this earth. And this point in time will soon come, for there are only very few spiritually striving people but an infinite number of only worldly oriented ones. And since the purpose of the earth is only the upward development of the soul, but this is no longer regarded as a priority, the earth has fulfilled its mission for this epoch .... it must give way to a completely new-ordered earth, or also: a new order must be established on this earth so that it again corresponds to its actual meaning and purpose. But it can never be expected that the people on this earth will change again .... They drift ever further downwards and I stop this fall by binding them again in the creations of the new earth. There is no spiritual change on this earth, as is often assumed by those who don't want to believe in an end of this earth period .... But the change will come, however, on the new earth a spiritually more mature human race will be found which will now live a life again according to My will and in constant contact with the spiritual kingdom .... But such a life can never be expected on this earth because the material spirit is too developed, because My adversary keeps people in bondage and they themselves do not oppose him. Therefore, what he thought he could plunge into the abyss will be taken from him .... His share will be snatched from him through the new banishment, thus he himself will be weakened for a long time and will no longer be able to harass people because they have given themselves to Me and are withdrawn from his influence. But one thing is certain, that you humans on this earth are close to this turning point, that you have to reckon with an end of this earth and that this end also means a complete destruction of the earth's surface, which also includes the end of man and animal, thus of every creature. This is why again and again words of love and mercy sound to you humans, this is why I don't stop sending you admonitions and warnings, this is why again and again I throw you lifelines, because I want to help you to grasp the whirlpool of the world and not let yourselves drift on .... otherwise you will inevitably end up in the abyss and face an agonizing fate, the new banishment in the creations of the new earth ....

Amen

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Power stream from God ....

B.D. 6656 from September 28th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Try to receive the divine currents of strength within yourselves by opening yourselves to Him, Who is the source of strength from eternity. Your thoughts, your will, your desire may only be turned towards Him, and your heart must open willingly in order to receive from the eternal source of strength what God wants to give to all His creatures: strength and light in abundance. Consciously enter into silence in order to unite with Him and cultivate this intimate contact, and you will always be strengthened anew, His love will always give you what you lack and what you desire .... You must live more consciously .... by always longing for the nearness of the one Who is your father and to Whom you should establish the right relationship as children in order to also experience the father's love. Life has been given to you by God and therefore you should always remember Him with love and gratitude, you should not take it for granted but also appreciate this extraordinary grace by not letting go of Him in your thoughts and thus a continuous overflow of His strength can take place in you which will let you grow and mature until perfection .... And when you feel certain of the influx of strength then you will also be able to accomplish or overcome everything, then every weakness will fall away from you, for then you will be in possession of the most delicious good .... Divine strength fills you and you are aware of God's presence .... Your earthly progress shall bring you to this state where you have become overcomers because you are allowed to make unrestricted use of divine strength, but you still have too little faith that you are allowed to appropriate this strength, and yet God requires nothing more of you than that you open yourselves to His strength .... that you appeal to Him for the supply of strength and at the same time are already willing to accept it .... that you let yourselves be fully consciously permeated and, as it were, surrender your whole body to Him so that He takes possession and expels everything that is ignoble .... that you only seriously want to become a receptacle of divine strength. Your will is everything, and your will also causes everything, as soon as it is spiritually directed .... And to be filled with strength from God is a spiritual desire which is fulfilled. The desire for divine strength still expresses itself too little, even in spiritually striving people .... For then the body tangibly feels this lack of strength, and it has to suffer .... But where there is strength from God, there is no suffering, no illness, no hardship, for all this is overcome with divine strength .... God wants to be present to you always and forever .... But you do not always allow His presence. When you perform works of love you tie Him to you because He Himself is love .... But you can also cause Him to be present through thoughts, and you should make use of this and thus never go without Him, for He only waits for your call, which is every thought turned towards Him .... And He responds to this call and will make you happy as a sign of His presence with power in the form you request .... And He will speak to you as a sign of His presence when you open your ear, or He will convey strength to you when you open your heart to His flow of grace .... You should make use of His love and always allow yourselves to be given, for He only ever wants to give if only He recognizes your willingness to receive, if only you are willing to accept what His love has intended for you .... Power and grace in abundance which will make you overcomers on this earth. For strength from God is always effective if only its effect is permitted .... if only the human being faithfully trusts this strength ....

Amen

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Presence of God safest protection

B.D. 6657 from September 29th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You can be certain that My fatherly hand constantly guides you and that you cannot go astray if I Myself am your aim. In times of earthly adversity you often believe that I have withdrawn My guiding hand from you, that I leave you to your fate, and then you become anxious and despondent .... Yet in every adversity of body and soul I am closer to you than ever, I only want you to strive to come closer to Me, that you long for Me, and therefore I seemingly keep Myself hidden in order to awaken the feeling of abandonment in you which then makes you look for Me, that you seek Me and desire to be intimately united with Me. The intimate bond with Me also brings you back the certainty that I am always ready to help. I always walk beside you but at times you are not aware of it because you turn your eyes to the world or because you are too busy with yourselves and therefore don't think of Me. And every lonely walk will frighten you, for then you will also be exposed to harassment on the part of your soul's enemy, which I will not prevent because you should realize that you need Me Who wants to be your protection and shield, your guide and companion. The dangers for you are becoming ever more imminent if you walk your earthly path alone, because the number of your enemies in the last days is immense, and therefore you need ever more of My help and guidance in order to withstand the tribulations. But you humans are not aware of this danger and therefore often careless because you distance yourselves too far from the one Who alone can help you .... And therefore I always remind you of Me through hardship and suffering which you cannot cope with on your own .... because I want you to turn to Me, to let your thoughts wander to Me ever more often, to grant Me a permanent stay with you, but which your will alone only makes possible, that you mentally unite with Me and thereby draw Me to you. The closer it gets to the end the more strongly the world will bind you, not only due to your love for the world, which you may already have overcome, but the demands of the world will still be on you, because every individual has to fulfil his duties in the midst of the world, which often seem unfulfillable to him .... And there is the danger that worldly worries and thoughts will try to displace Me, that you will hardly find time for a quiet hour which you give to Me and therefore neglect to let Me take part in your worries and turn to Me for advice and help, for the allocation of strength for your earthly path of life .... And then you will become weaker and weaker, and yet you could also provide yourselves with ample strength for the most difficult situation in life, because I am always willing to impart it to you if only you ask Me Myself. Let it be said to you that you need not fear any weakness as long as you let Me walk beside you and consciously remain in constant contact with Me. But don't exclude Me from your thoughts, don't let the worries of the world push themselves forward, no matter how great they appear. I certainly have the power to take them away from you but that is why I want to be intimately approached, I always want to be felt as present by you and therefore always be the main content of your thoughts. As soon as you withdraw Me I will also obviously withdraw Myself, and then the world will always oppress you more .... However, if you grasp My hand to guide you through all adversity then your fear and weakness will also leave you, for then you will receive My strength, it will flow into you through the intimate bond you establish with Me .... And I require this intimate bond which, unfortunately, you often sever and thereby cause Me to seemingly withdraw .... You will still need much strength in the coming time, and it will always be at your disposal if only you, like children, reach for the father's hand, Who will safely guide you until you have reached your aim ....

Amen

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Acknowledge God before passing away .... come all to Me ....

B.D. 6658 from September 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

No matter what spiritual state you are in you will always find help if you desire it. And therefore My word is conveyed to you which you can use to strengthen yourselves at any time, which will always become a source of strength for you if you willingly listen to it and try to comply with it. My word will give strength to those of weak faith, and it will also be most precious to those who are already Mine, who are strong in faith and love .... And My word can also touch a person's heart who is faithless if only he allows himself to be addressed without resistance .... Then the effect of My word can be that he becomes thoughtful and his will to defend himself decreases, for My word always has a powerful effect where there is only no open resistance. For this reason I will also occasionally address the faithless through My messengers if they don't show any open resistance, always in the hope that they will remember it one day and revive My words in them again .... but just as I also make use of a person's temporary weakness of faith to come before them Myself and address them ..... Although always through My servants who let Me speak through them. And such open words can considerably contribute to the strengthening of faith, which every human being urgently needs. You humans are all in need of help, whether you are of weak or strong faith, for you have not yet attained the strength which relieves you of all earthly adversity, because you are all severely harassed by the enemy of your souls, who has been so conspicuously active lately that even My own will not remain untouched. And there is no better antidote to his activity than My word, which is the emanation of strength from Me and therefore also the best help against him. Anyone who willingly listens to My word is immune to his influence .... And therefore My adversary makes good use of this time when the human being shuts himself off from My word .... Therefore, when you are oppressed by evil power, only take refuge in Me by allowing yourselves to be addressed by Me, by immersing yourselves in My word and depriving it of the strength to resist his oppressions .... The will to hear Me Myself already displaces him, and My word is the best means of protection against his temptations and attacks. My own usually take this path to Me of their own accord when they are in spiritual or earthly adversity .... But I also call out to the weak in faith as well as to the faithless: "Come to Me when you are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ...." In every affliction you should come to Me, i.e. send a thought to Me which I recognize as a cry for help and also come to your aid .... Therefore I say you will all experience My help, no matter what spiritual state you are in, if only you turn to Me. And I especially appeal to those who don't believe in Me that they should nevertheless make an attempt to call upon the one for help in unusual distresses, Whom they refuse to acknowledge .... I am not resentful, I will also come to their aid in order to reveal Myself to them. For I want to win the lost for Myself even before the end has come. For this reason I also use seemingly cruel means for which you humans cannot explain yourselves. But if I only achieve a call for Me when completely faithless people send such a call to Me, then these means will not have been in vain, and they themselves will recognize the blessing of that adversity even if they are taken from this earth .... but I Myself have been able to address them and have been heard by them, and now I can lead them further on the path of ascent .... If only I achieve that I am acknowledged before the departure from this earth, then the soul will be saved, then My adversary will have lost it for good, then the resistance will be broken, and then it can slowly ascend to the ascent in the kingdom of the beyond too .... And therefore I speak constantly and to all .... Whoever lets himself be addressed by Me is saved, and over him My adversary has lost the power and the right .... he is Mine and will remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

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Renewed reminder to vineyard workers ....

B.D. 6659 from October 1st 1956, taken from Book No. 71

An office has been assigned to you by Me, and as soon as you are willing to serve Me you will also be able to administer this office, for I don't demand anything of you which you cannot fulfil. Nevertheless, at the same time you must also make an effort to gain My satisfaction, for I require diligent work from you, as only the person who loves Me and therefore also serves Me joyfully will achieve. As soon as the human being's zeal diminishes, his work will also be less successful. But it is urgently necessary in the last days before the end .... And My adversary will be just as eager to hinder your work, to undermine it and make it ineffective, and he will have much success. And his success will tire you and there is a danger that you will slacken in your work for Me and My kingdom. Again and again I tell you that you should nevertheless remain eager and not allow yourselves to be influenced by his successes and your apparent failures .... For I Myself am on your side and you work on My behalf, thus also under My blessing. You, as My disciples of the end time, do not have an easy ministry because little faith will be placed in you. But you possess something exceedingly effective in My word which is directly commanded to you by Me .... And this word cannot be outweighed by anything else, even if My adversary sets the world with its goods against it .... All this is transient but My word will last for eternity. Every person to whom you impart My word will be addressed by Me Myself through this word, and he will draw strength in abundance from this address and his soul can no longer get lost. And since the soul is the imperishable, it will awaken in the spiritual kingdom after the death of the body because it has come to life through My word .... And therefore My instruction to you, My servants on earth, is to only ever convey My word to your fellow human beings, which you receive directly from Me .... Take this work seriously, for you possess delectable possessions which you should distribute, because only such work alone is of value, whereas every earthly activity is only blessed by Me when the spiritual work is preceded by you. Everyone who has come into possession of My word has the same task again if he wants to live to please Me. And he will fulfil this task just as eagerly if he loves Me and also shows love to his fellow human beings. Anyone who has once accepted My word in his heart also knows that the spreading of this word is the most important, the most urgent thing at this time, for I Myself was able to address him and guide him to the right realization. And your concern should only ever be to open hearts for My word, to inform your fellow human beings of My word and to give them samples which can also awaken a hunger for the right food and drink. There is not much time left at your disposal where you can be unhindered in your activity .... But as long as you are still free in your spiritual activity you should also be eager and make use of every opportunity to speak for Me and My kingdom. For it is necessary, for people are increasingly turning away from Me and towards My adversary. And therefore everything spiritual will also seem ever more untrustworthy to them and the gulf will become ever wider, it will become ever more difficult for you to find acceptance, to be listened to and to be able to convey My spiritual knowledge to them, but this should not hold you back in your eagerness, for as long as the earth still exists the last possibilities are not exhausted either, and again and again a soul can still find its way back to Me, whose salvation is therefore still incumbent upon you. You should not worry whether you will be successful but always believe that you possess the most effective means of help with My word and therefore can also work with My word .... For I only send it to earth so that the souls will still be saved before the end comes .... But for this I need people who serve Me as mediators, because I Myself cannot address those people who are still far away from Me .... I need you and therefore constantly call upon you to work diligently and not to slacken in your service for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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Faith in God .... powerfulness ....

B.D. 6660 from October 2nd 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Without God's assistance no human being will reach his aim, for he lacks will and strength when he enters this earth as a human being. His earthly life can indeed appear successful but physical well-being is not the human being's aim which he should strive for and achieve. It is the soul's progress, its maturing, for the purpose of which the human being was allowed to embody himself on earth, and for this development of the soul the human being needs God's assistance. He needs an influx of strength from God, he needs spiritual goods which only God Himself can offer him .... But His bestowals of grace require the willingness to make use of them .... they require a will turned towards God, thus an open heart. Now every person, regardless of his earthly situation, can comply with this requirement which secures him an abundant measure of grace, and thus every person can help his soul to mature, he can reach the aim which is set for him, yet it is his free will. And therefore, again, there are not many people who achieve their purpose of earthly life, because the human being pays less attention to his soul than to his body and turns his eyes to the world and does not remember his God and creator. However, he cannot be compelled to think differently, only God can constantly be brought to his remembrance and his connection with his creator of eternity be mentioned. Because God cannot be bypassed if the aim is to be achieved, He must also constantly be presented to people .... Again and again people's thoughts must be directed to the one to Whom they owe their existence, and again and again their attention must be drawn to the fact that they are dependent on a power and that they should make this power inclined towards them by fulfilling God's will and thus by establishing contact with Him .... Faith in God is the first thing if their earthly existence is not to remain idle .... All people are indeed informed of the fact that there is one Who determines everything, Who directs everything according to His will .... But only a few seek to acquire the inner conviction of what is imparted to them about it, only a few people allow the learned faith to come alive in them .... But only living faith also establishes a connection between the human being and God which then will certainly result in the influx of grace which guarantees the attainment of the aim. As long as the human being lacks a living faith in a God and creator, his will and thinking will not be turned towards this God and he will also be powerless to help his soul ascend. He will just as little believe in his soul and his actual earthly task, he will only look at his earthly life purely earthly and all striving will only apply to physical well-being .... Unbelief is the worst evil, it is the greatest obstacle to reach the aim on earth, it is the adversary's best weapon of God, for he has the unbeliever completely under his control. But even the unbeliever has been endowed with the gift of intellect, and he need only develop a strong desire for truth within himself despite his unbelief, then his intellect can occupy itself with thoughts which can also cause his unbelief to waver. For his unbelief can be the result of wrong teachings, and such unbelief can also be shaken by truthful teachings which cause the human being to reflect. Faith in God is indispensable if earthly life is not to have been lived in vain. But it can also be gained with good will .... But if a person is completely under the adversary's control he lacks this will, and then his soul can leave earthly life in the same state as it entered it, and then it can also take an infinitely long time in the kingdom of the beyond until its will changes and it acknowledges a lord above it .... Yet God must be acknowledged by every soul which once wants to reach its aim ....

Amen

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Struggling for firm faith .... God's presence ....

B.D. 6661 from October 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

In the realization of your own adversity it will not be difficult for you to put yourselves in your fellow human beings' position of need, and your will to help them will grow, just as you now know better the means which will also help them out of their adversity. Therefore you, too, must occasionally be affected by hardship of all kinds so that you will eagerly participate in helping your neighbour if he asks you for it or if his state of need becomes apparent to you. You yourselves also need earthly hardship in order to strengthen your faith in Me as the one Who can and wants to help you. You yourselves need this faith if you want to convincingly refer your fellow human beings to Me who are in the same need, and you should strive to attain this strong faith. As long as you are in adversity your faith is not yet strong enough, for it would no longer burden you as soon as you have handed it over to Me in firm faith .... even if it had not yet been taken from you .... but the confidence that I will bear everything for you which you burden Me with in profound faith in Me will set you free and no longer let you feel any hardship. All My efforts only go towards letting you attain this profound, unshakable faith, because you, My servants on earth, will urgently need it in the forthcoming time and then you will also be able to successfully work for Me in My vineyard. Only ever regard every earthly adversity as a means used by Me to help you gain strong faith .... And strive for such deep, living faith .... which is possible for you at any time if only you awaken the awareness of My presence in you .... if you never think of yourselves as being alone but always accompanied by Me, if you can also adopt the thought that I will not leave your side even in hours of greatest adversity because I always want to have an effect on you from within .... that you therefore pay more attention to My presence than to your suffering .... You must mentally turn to Me and believe with conviction that My love and might will intervene when it is time, for I alone determine the time .... I know what you are able to endure and accordingly your adversity, your earthly suffering, will also affect you, if only to be able to speak from experience if you want to help your fellow human beings in the same predicament .... But how easily you could become free from all worries and suffering .... For as soon as this profound living faith in My might and love fills you, you will also be released from all adversity. The fact that My adversary intervenes again and again, that he tries everything to stop your activity for Me, this shall also explain much to you, for he often places conditions on Me which I therefore do not deny him because I know that he will not succeed, because I know My own and want to provide him with the evidence that his thinking is wrong .... And this shall be an increased incentive for you to persevere and strive for ever deeper faith, you shall defeat him and use My strength to do so .... You should always know that he cannot harm you because your will is My will .... And therefore do not doubt Me and My love for you but accept it as so certain that you will always find help with Me, whatever it may be .... Always know that I am present to you, then you will also be overcome by peace if you firmly and confidently believe that I will not let anything happen to you as long as I Myself am with you. And therefore you can only secure My presence through heartfelt remembrance of Me, through frequent silent dialogue with Me, through works of love and through the firm will to reach Me as your aim. Receive Me Myself into your heart, for your will opens it to Me, and if I Myself am in you then you need fear nothing more .... I Myself take possession of you and also keep My house for Myself .... because I still want to work in it on earth .... because it shall serve Me Myself as an abode until the mission is fulfilled for which you have offered yourselves to Me ....

Amen

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Redeeming work in the beyond ....

B.D. 6662 from October 5th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

And you will be able to participate in the work of salvation, for this will be your activity in the kingdom of the beyond when you are sufficiently mature enough to be assigned an activity. You will bring light into the darkness, because you have experienced yourselves how agonising it is to live in darkness and how much happiness the light has given you. No redeemed soul will be inactive, and therefore every soul will be integrated into the host of those who carry out redemption work .... For they all are motivated by their love to help those who are wretched in returning to God, for Whom they are now tirelessly active and work because they share His will and are full of love for Him. And thus the deliverance of all souls is guaranteed, even if infinitely long times will still pass by until all spirits have found their way back to God, from Whom they once separated of their own free will. But this free decision will also determine how long the salvation process will take for each individual soul .... The soul is also able to offer resistance and delay its return to God for an endless time, but already redeemed souls will always take care of them, therefore no human being on earth and no soul in the kingdom of the beyond will be completely without help, which also explains the fact that time and again they will be offered the opportunity to enter the path of return to God, because it will be shown to them.

If, however, a human being adamantly rejects every incentive to enter the spiritual path during his earthly life, then small openings of light will repeatedly be provided to the souls in the beyond which will make the path visible to them, because the soul of light takes pity on the souls which wander around in profound darkness .... And thus begins the redeemed beings' activity of helping these poor souls achieve salvation too. Hence no soul is without a sphere of activity, just as no dark soul is without guidance, only the free will of the latter determines the success. But once the work of redemption has been successfully achieved on just one soul, then another redeeming power will have been gained again to help the dark world, which in turn can and will accomplish inconceivable work, since it is now full of love and, due to its gratitude, willing to render the greatest possible help. And every soul has its adherents with whom it will work particularly diligently, even if it will meet with resistance for a long time .... But its love will not diminish, and love will always liberate, because no being will be able to resist love forever.

Indeed, it would be possible for complete salvation to take place on earth already, because Jesus Christ has suffered and died on the cross so that people are able to receive strength, that they are able to partake in the graces of the act of Salvation if they want to .... But Jesus Christ has not compelled people's will either, and it is up to the will to either make use of the act of Salvation or to ignore it .... But whatever was neglected on earth can be continued in the beyond, because redemption work is carried out there as well, and even then an appeal for His grace and mercy can still be sent to Jesus Christ .... And every soul having found Him itself, having been redeemed by Him from sin and death, will also draw attention to Him, it will inform every unredeemed soul of His love, it will direct their thoughts to the great act of compassion by the human being Jesus and thus try to lead every as yet unredeemed soul to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... And its steadily growing love will also be successful, for love will achieve everything, and love can't help but participate in the act of Salvation, which began with Jesus' crucifixion and will not end until all still unredeemed souls are delivered from every constraint and thus have also attained life and beatitude, until the complete return to God has been accomplished, until all spirits that have emerged from God have returned home into their Father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The strength of Jesus' name ....

B.D. 6663 from October 6th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

When you speak My name with deep devotion you accrue an abundance of spiritual strength for yourselves, for you thereby proclaim your faith in Me, your reverence and love, which you bestow upon your divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, and this faith can be rewarded by Me with a flow of strength which you all urgently require. And if you then come together in My name you will all be permeated by strength and your soul will feel My presence, for then I will dwell within your midst because your devout thoughts allow Me to be present with you .... And you will find yourselves in a developmental stage which guarantees deliverance as soon as you confess Me in Jesus Christ .... Ever since My crucifixion your salvation is therefore dependent on whether you acknowledge My act of Salvation by the man Jesus, whether you believe that your God and Creator descended to earth in order to accomplish the act of Salvation in the human being Jesus on your behalf .... Hence you have to confirm this belief of yours, and you do so by devoutly uttering My name, by acknowledging your God and Father in Jesus Christ and thus expressing it by mentioning My name. I will always hear and grant the call you send to Me in Jesus Christ and it will allow Me to be present with you.

And every meeting in My name will be blessed by Me .... I want to guide your thoughts and enlighten your spirit; I want to speak to you Myself and I Am indeed able to do so because I can be amongst you, because you believe in Me. And therefore you should frequently get together, and where two or three are gathered together in My name, there Am I in the midst of them .... I can therefore at any time partake in your conversations, in your thoughts, I can impart to you everything you need at that time; I can enlighten you where doubts remain, and I can advise and help you, for you all are in need of My advice and My help, you all still resemble weak little children who must be led by the hand towards the right goal. But as soon as you just speak My name with a faithful heart you will enable such guidance. And this is why people won't be able to claim 'Here is Christ .... there is Christ ....' for I cannot be searched for in any locality, I Am only present where a believing human heart allows Me to be present through kind-hearted activity and where, in small circles, My name is devoutly uttered in living faith of My act of Salvation ....

For only faith that has come alive through love recognises and professes Me as the Redeemer Jesus Christ and allows for My presence. And thus I can indeed be proclaimed everywhere yet I can only take abode in a few human hearts, precisely because My name is only voiced by a few people with the absolute conviction that I brought them salvation through My death on the cross, and because only for a few people My name has the strength to penetrate their soul and truly bring it to life .... And these will noticeably feel My blessing, they will feel very intimately united with Me and thus associate with Me like a child with its Father, they will be conscious of My presence and harmony and inner peace will be their share, because .... where I Am .... there is peace and bliss.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Total surrender to God ....

B.D. 6664 from October 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

God's ray of grace hits all of you because His love embraces all of you and He wants to promote every person's course of development if only you don't resist. He knows every person's degree of maturity and seeks to increase it .... thus He will also direct and favour everything as it is beneficial for you, and thus you can entrust yourselves to Him and His guidance without hesitation .... He will make it right .... One thing you must be certain of is that everything you are granted in earthly life is only meant to serve your spiritual maturing and that therefore nothing is wrong, no matter whether it touches you joyfully or sorrowfully .... And even if it is obviously human influence it must have been wanted or permitted by God .... And even then it will serve you for perfection, for ascent development, for the maturing of the soul. And once you have made this certainty your own for the time being, then you will also accept every event with inner peace, because it cannot be wrong as soon as you only ever entrust yourselves to God and His guidance. In the last days before the end many means will still be used to increase the degree of maturity of individual souls or to push people onto the path which is right before God. There is not much time left and therefore sometimes stronger means are necessary to accelerate the course of development where this is possible. Many people will have to experience increased suffering, others will be dealt with particularly harshly again because they go along their earthly path in lukewarmness .... Many things will happen which will make the 'love of God' appear questionable .... Misfortunes, catastrophes and outlandish events will overtake people and terrify them, but everything is laid down in God's plan of salvation, nothing will happen to people without God's will or His permission .... And all of you humans can hand yourselves over into His hand without worry, He will guide each individual in such a way that every event and experience can serve him for the salvation of his soul, and those who hand themselves over to Him in complete trust will no longer walk on their own authority, their every step will be guided .... They recognize divine guidance and place themselves unconditionally under His control. Therefore no human being needs to worry about his earthly path of life who has only established the bond with God and seeks to fulfil His will. He knows himself to be guided and led and also allows himself to be guided without resistance, and the divine guidance obviously becomes apparent in him, for all resistance resolves itself, all obstacles are removed; what seemed impossible becomes possible .... God's presence proves itself again and again where unrestrained devotion to Him has preceded .... All people should make this confidence their own, that God regulates the life of the person who surrenders himself to Him, and that everything that comes upon him will then also contribute to the increase of the soul's maturity if it is humbly accepted and endured .... but that spiritual development will then also never come to a standstill but be progressively retraced .... Only the human being's will is necessary to come close to God and to be accepted by Him. And everything now unfolds according to this will, and the human being irrevocably reaches the aim. Every spiritually striving person can therefore let himself drift without worry, for God has already taken over the guidance from the moment the human being's will turned towards Him .... Then He will no longer let him out of His hand, and the less resistance He finds the easier the ascent upwards will be, even if life seems difficult and painful to the human being .... But it leads to the aim, and the still short time of earthly life can still result in high spiritual successes, because God's flow of grace flows unceasingly during this last time and because every person can immerse himself in this flow of grace and his soul becomes powerful and feels God's love ever more and surrenders to it. Devotion to God is all He asks of people in order to then let His divine sun of love and grace shine and then give every person what he needs in order to increase his soul's maturity in the short time until the end ....

Amen

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God's tools in the end time .... false prophets ....

B.D. 6665 from October 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Whatever contributes to the redemption of the still unredeemed spiritual will still be used before the end of this redemption period has come. For every possibility will be utilized because the unredeemed is approaching a difficult fate and God's love would like to protect it from it, but the being's free will must also make use of these graces granted to it. And thus new prophets, servants of God, keep appearing in the last days who speak on His behalf and point to the near end. And all these messengers have unusual power .... be it in the way they speak, in their healing or prayer power or in their seer-like ability, so that people's attention is drawn to them and now, as it were, every individual is also addressed by God Himself, albeit through a human being .... For the latter only ever presents himself as an 'instrument of the lord' .... And so even the weakest faith can be strengthened, even unbelieving people can be made thoughtful .... Such a reference can fall on good ground because unusual phenomena accompany it, which nevertheless do not compel people, but are rather put down by most people as 'false prophethood' as 'dazzling works' .... mostly by those who are under an anti-truth influence, who only want to accept what they themselves represent, and who also deny a 'near end', i.e. do not want to believe. And thus God's activity will become visible everywhere, yet only recognized by His own, by those who have a living faith and therefore also recognize the hour in which humanity lives .... Nothing will remain untried which can still result in the smallest success, because it is of utmost importance to what degree the individual human being will be affected by the end, because a low degree of maturity already spares him the fate of a new banishment and because God's love and mercy still wants to achieve this, because He alone knows what it means to have to start the whole process of development from the beginning again, and because He also knows how much endless time is required in order to then be allowed to dwell on earth again as a human being in the stage of free will in order to pass the final test of will. And signs and wonders will happen .... even on the part of satan, who knows how to use the last time for himself in the most unthinkable way and often appears under the guise of piety and tries to deceive people .... But you humans will always be able to distinguish the right light from the dazzling light if you only pay attention to what aim is being striven for and in what guise a 'prophet' appears .... You only need to pay attention to whether unselfish love characterizes them. For those who speak and work in the name of God on the adversary's behalf also pursue earthly aims, they are not concerned about the souls' salvation but pursue worldly aims, whereas the 'messengers of God' only ever warn and admonish people and mention the approaching end with the advice to turn their thoughts towards God. And their constant activity is to proclaim the word of God, to highlight the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, and therefore they will also perform miracles in Jesus' name, because this, too, is an unusual grace of the last days, that Jesus Christ reveals Himself, that the strength of His name is proven to people .... that He Himself thus works amongst people who believe in Him and testify for Him. And these people will never be able to be portrayed as false christs and false prophets, but they will certainly also be misjudged by those who lead a sham christianity .... who can be called dead christians, even though they also speak the word of God .... For anyone who has a living faith also has the ability to judge, and he will always profess these prophets of the last days who are still active on God's behalf in order to save the last souls from ruin .... for they spread light, and in the light all who belong to God and want to serve Him until the end will also come together ....

Amen

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Premature destruction .... hoarding earthly goods ....

B.D. 6666 from October 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

In development-standing-spirit holds every work of creation that is visible to your eyes. And its development progresses upwards as soon as these creations correspond to their purpose. And thus it will also be understandable to you that such creations may not be unlawfully prevented from fulfilling their purpose, which, however, is the case when malicious destruction takes place of that which serves the human being or other creations in any way before it has fulfilled its purpose, thus it naturally approaches decay .... Then the spiritual's course of development is interfered with against God's will, and such interferences also have a damaging effect on the human being himself, because the spiritual lets off steam, which becomes unlawfully free until it is bound again in creations of the same kind. For the maturing of the spiritual takes its time, and as soon as people live their lives in divine order, this time granted to the spiritual is also always paused .... For only such interventions on the part of people are harmful which do not have the motive of love as their cause. The dissolution or destruction of hard matter as well as of the already more mature-spiritual plant and animal world can also take place, which have love for the neighbour as their motive, if something is to be created which is a blessing for people. Then people's beginnings will also be blessed by God, and then the purpose of those creations will be fulfilled, as it were, and the spiritual will only take on new external forms in order to ascend further. For only through service .... even if in the law of compulsion .... can the spiritual develop ascend, which is why it is also an offence against divine order if hoarding earthly goods prevents them from being of service .... Then the spiritual is certainly bound but the service in the works of creation is denied to it, as well as earthly things remain unused, as well as treasures are collected which are not used for their actual purpose. Only service will ever redeem the spiritual, and therefore every human activity will also be blessed by God which helps the spiritual to be of service .... which therefore lets such things arise which serve their fellow human beings again, which correspond to a useful purpose and are therefore also used, because hoarding such things prolongs the course of development, because it delays the spiritual being's ascent development and causes it useless torment and also demonstrates the human being's still immature spiritual state which takes pleasure in hoarding earthly treasures. The bound spiritual substance finds it beneficial when it resides in a sphere where divine order is observed, for as soon as it is permitted to be of service the torments experienced by the spiritual substance in its bondage will diminish and the resistance will also diminish, and the present external form will mean less and less restraint until it is allowed to be burst by the spiritual substance which, through service, has now attained a degree of maturity again which allows for a new, less solid external form .... Everything spiritual in matter has to redeem itself through service, and you humans should contribute to it that it is offered the opportunity .... Whatever you create through the ability given to you by God, you should .... only ever be concerned that it serves your fellow human beings. You should beware of malicious destruction, you should not prematurely prevent any works of creation from fulfilling their purpose, for by doing so you interrupt the course of development of the spiritual, and depending on the motives which drive your actions such destructions also have an unfavourable effect on you humans yourselves, for what does not correspond to the law of divine order also has an effect in accordance with it, and the law of divine order for the human being will always read: Serve in love .... thus also to protect his fellow human being so that he does not fall victim to the raging of the released spiritual .... For he, too, has the right to defend himself if his course of development is unlawfully disturbed ....

Amen

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Loveborn of divine power ....

B.D. 6667 from October 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

If the floodgates of divine love open and let His flow of strength of love flow to you, then this is evidence that you are in need of it, that you are in adversity from which only this flow of grace can rescue you. And it will be directed by God's wisdom and love to where it can bring blessings, even if people's free will is taken into account .... Nevertheless, the degree of maturity of the individual person must also be taken into account, who may be more or less able to receive it into his heart and let it take effect. But let that be God's concern .... You yourselves should only ever do what your heart impels you to do and leave everything else to God, Who offers the right nourishment to every person who desires it for his soul. And He also guides the thoughts of those who are active for Him .... (want to be) .... He also gives them what they need to work for Him and His kingdom. It is only important that every gift is passed on in love, which originates from the eternal love .... Then it will also be a blessing for the recipient, for love always causes the addressed soul to open itself without resistance, because love is a strength which cannot be resisted .... The strength of love constantly flows to people from the lifeborn of divine love, and no matter how it is shaped it does not remain without effect .... albeit often at a later time when the human being's degree of maturity is still low .... But nothing is lost that has flowed from the divine source. But anyone who would like to fill himself with lighter food will also receive it at the right time, he need only present this request to God, Who is exceedingly pleased to fulfil His children's spiritual wishes. In the last days before the end the streams of grace will flow ever more abundantly, because the adversary's activity also aims at spreading error amongst people in order to confuse their thinking and to gain influence and power. And his activity has to be invalidated, which is why people have to be spiritually instructed and should receive information about many questions which the adversary causes because he keeps people's spirit in darkness. Anyone who is in the midst of the world will also be urged by the world to ask such questions which God wants to answer for him if God is his aim .... He who stands apart from the world and has given his heart to God does not need such explanations because he does not doubt, because he has a childlike faith which cannot be shaken .... But the world forces itself everywhere, and the spiritually striving human being should be able to distinguish appearance from reality .... He should be able to resist attacks, and for this he needs God's strength, which therefore flows to him through His word .... And every gift which comes from God does not fail to have an effect as soon as it is desired and offered in love. For this reason you, who want to serve Him, should do all work with love, and then it will always have a beneficial effect. You should not neglect to pass on the living water, which will always have a revitalizing effect on all who desire and gratefully accept it .... And God will enlighten His servants' spirit when they do the work for Him and His kingdom, He will give them what they need in order to be beneficially active again, and He will also strengthen the hearts which open themselves to the loving address of the one Who is to be their aim in earthly existence. God Himself determines the food and drink, just as only a human being desires the nourishment for his soul from Him .... And what He gives will truly fulfil its purpose, it will mature the soul and give it strength to resist when the adversary's activity obviously appears .... which He very well foresees and therefore distributes strong nourishment in advance which will be a blessing for it in difficult times ....

Amen

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The way to God is the way of love ....

B.D. 6668 from October 13th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

I will come to meet you all if only you take the path of love, for I Myself cannot take any other path since I Myself am love. And if you want to reach Me then you have to take this path and you will soon feel My hand which will take hold of you and pull you upwards. But if you take a path where eternal love cannot meet you, then you will cover long distances and still not see the aim, for this path does not lead to Me .... it always leads further away from Me, Who cannot be reached other than through love. And thus you, My servants on earth, should also instruct your fellow human beings, you should only ever point them to this one path of love and draw their attention to the fact that all pseudo-christianity is secondary and ignores love .... People have a wrong attitude towards their earthly task; they believe they will reach their aim if only they fulfil their religious duties. Too little emphasis is placed on love, which alone is important, and much is taken into account which, however, is of little value for eternity. And it is alarming that they believe they are fulfilling My will if they meet the 'ecclesiastical' demands placed upon them, and yet people do not achieve the slightest progress in earthly life if they do not kindle love within themselves, if they do not live a life which corresponds to My commandments of love. Again and again you should put love first, you should live a life of love yourselves and constantly point out to your fellow human beings the effect of a right life of love, their actual task of redeeming themselves through loving activity. You should only ever explain to them the importance of fulfilling My commandments of love, because they alone only lead to unity with Me, because the path of love alone is the path to Me, to eternal life. People who walk without love isolate themselves more and more, they increase the distance from Me instead of decreasing it, they cannot come close to Me because I cannot dwell where love is not .... And if you therefore walk your path alone, without Me, then you will be joined by My adversary who will certainly push you further and further away from Me, away from the right path, who will prevent you from working with love and kindle self-love into a bright glow .... so you belong to him again because you are at his beck and call. Unkind people believe neither in Me nor in My adversary, but all people could experience that a work of love also changes their thinking if it is carried out selflessly .... And all people are also offered the opportunity for such unselfish works of love, because again and again I try to urge them onto this path of love .... But no coercion happens to them, and that is why My approach is often unsuccessful. Therefore I admonish you, My servants, again and again: preach love .... for this is urgent in the last time before the end, because too little mention is made of it, because people believe to have done enough by belonging to a denomination and fulfilling traditional customs, and the core .... My doctrine of love .... have not yet grasped. People's attention must be drawn to the idleness of their lives if they have been led without love .... They have to hear again and again that I am 'eternal love' and that the path to Me is only ever the path of love .... that they can never reach Me Myself without love, but that only I can offer them a life of bliss if they can endure My nearness by shaping themselves into love .... There is no eternal beatitude without love ....

Amen

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Struggle on earth and in the afterlife for souls ....

B.D. 6669 from October 14th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

The spiritual world unfolds an unusual activity, both on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond. But forces of light as well as of darkness want to win over all people on earth and also the souls in the beyond and therefore do everything to succeed. On earth this unusual spiritual activity can be recognized by the addiction to pleasures of life on the one hand and the appearance of living proclaimers of Jesus Christ on the other .... thus an activity of evil forces which is countered by the world of light by visibly sending strength and help to people so that the willing do not perish in the whirlpool of the world. Likewise, increased activity of love can also be observed in the kingdom of the beyond, for the battle between light and darkness rages there too, and in view of the approaching end and thus the transformation of the possibilities of development an action of redemption also takes place on the greatest scale in the kingdom of the beyond. The souls are so obviously shown the way and offered help that only the completely hardened reject it, but the majority accept the help offered to them with gratitude. The working of love in the beyond and on earth is not unsuccessful, even though God's adversary has recently used all conceivable means to increase his flock of followers. Yet the world of light ensures everywhere that his art of deception and his thinking become evident .... so that people on earth and the souls in the spiritual kingdom will also clearly recognize what they have to expect from him and are willing to let themselves be influenced by the side which sent sparks of light to them and thereby caused them a benefit. Precisely the increased devilish activity of God's adversary entitles the world of light to likewise increase its influence, which will now also be exploited in every way. For the world of light knows about the forthcoming end and also about the necessity of increased help, and its love impels it to this help, which therefore obviously expresses itself on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond. For this reason you humans need not be surprised when you hear of spiritual revivals, of living representatives of christianity and their strength, of seers and prophets who all prove the influence of the world of light on those who seriously seek God .... but you will now also understand why the working of the counter-spirit is so obvious and that its pernicious influence is also recognizable in the hostile attitude of the majority of people towards those who profess God and His kingdom. And this will become even more obvious the closer the end is .... But no person needs to fear the work of the dark world who only adheres to Jesus Christ, who recognizes his God and father of eternity in Him and who is therefore immune to all his adversary's arts of seduction. For the spiritual world will just as obviously stand by him and also make itself known in a very clear way. This is why all of you humans can still experience strange things in the last days, both positive and negative, for God's adversary uses the short time left to him in a truly diabolical way, but his opposing forces, the beings of the world of light, do not tire in their fight against him either. They, too, are allowed unusual activity where it is necessary to protect people or souls in the beyond against the adversary, and much strength has to be distributed for resistance and for the living confession of Jesus' name, because this confession will be demanded. Then it will also prove how helpful the good forces are to all who strive towards God, who strive to live in His will and who commend themselves to Him and His grace .... And they will not fall prey to the adversary's arts of seduction, for they stand under the protection of God and the world of light ....

Amen

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Acknowledging Jesus Christ and benefiting from the graces ....

B.D. 6670 from October 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

If you want your earthly life to be successful for eternity, then you must make use of the blessings which the divine redeemer Jesus Christ acquired for you on the cross .... If you don't make use of these blessings then it is impossible for you to attain the degree of maturity which guarantees you entry into the kingdom of light after your physical death .... For you lack strength because you have become weak and helpless due to your past apostasy from Me, because you are subject to the power of the one who dragged you down into the abyss .... You are now at the mercy of this power and cannot resist it with your own strength, you also have too weak a will which does not strive for a release from this power .... But you can certainly experience a supply of strength and a strengthening of will if you turn to the one Who died for this on the cross in order to help you break free from your dungeon master. For what you lack He acquired for you because He knew of your weakness and helplessness and because He wanted to break the adversary's power .... because He wanted to pay the ransom for you through His death on the cross and that adversary can no longer hold you if you want to be released from him. Everything has been done for you so that it is now possible for you to ascend again .... you can attain maturity of soul on earth but never without Jesus Christ .... You first have to let yourselves be redeemed by Him, you have to appeal to Him for strength and grace which you may now also receive in abundance because you desire to become free from the enemy of your souls. Thus you have to make use of the blessings of the act of salvation: You must ask for strength and reinforcement of will from the one Who acquired this treasure of grace through His death on the cross. When you enter this earth as a human being My adversary still has power over you .... And in earthly life it is solely a matter of whether you turn your will away from him and towards Me again, which, however, you only prove if you acknowledge Jesus Christ, because I embodied Myself in the human being Jesus in order to use My love for you so that you can return to Me again .... Hence, acknowledging Jesus Christ is synonymous with acknowledging Me Myself, Whom you once rejected, thus you separated yourselves from Me of your own will. This great sin had to invalidate you, for My strength of love could no longer take effect in you due to your resistance .... And if I want you to take the path back to Me, then I first have to impart strength to you .... thus I have to give you something you don't have to claim: I have to impart grace to you, and this, in turn, had to be acquired through an immense sacrifice which love wanted to make for you. And thus the sacrifice must also be acknowledged and thus also the one Who made the sacrifice .... the man Jesus, Whom deepest love motivated to bring help to the bound souls. And in this man Jesus I embodied Myself, because I am 'love' from eternity. Therefore, if you want to return to Me, if you want to successfully cover your earthly path, you can never pass by the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, for only from Him will you receive the strength and reinforcement of your will, whereas otherwise you will remain weak and will never be able to release yourselves from My adversary's power .... Only the call of Jesus Christ is enough to prove that you acknowledge Him, and you will now receive from His inexhaustible fountain of grace what you need in order to attain light again, strength and bliss .... But without Jesus Christ you live your earthly life in vain. You will remain in the abyss, for you will be held fast until you call upon Me yourselves in Jesus Christ, for as long as your will is still turned towards him, who will not release you .... but who no longer has control over you as soon as you hand yourselves over to the divine redeemer, which is also recognition of Me and you have now also passed the test of earthly life ....

Amen

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Free will must be recognized ....

B.D. 6671 from October 16th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

You can only be given what you desire or are willing to accept when it is offered to you, because your free will is always taken into account and a gift contrary to your desire would therefore impair this free will. And thus the effect of any spiritual gift is always dependent on your willingness to accept it .... God in His infinite love is always willing to give, and His gift of love would truly suffice to lead people to perfection, so that everything fallen would already be completely redeemed .... But this contradicts the law of divine order, it contradicts the principle of freedom and thus also the plan of deification of what God has created. The blessedness of all created things consists in the perfection attained in freedom of will, and no matter how much free will is denied .... It is the basic principle and also again the cause of the innumerable cases of human failure on earth .... But it will eternally remain with the being which embodies itself on earth for the purpose of this deification, it will again and again be put to the test and have to decide for God, in that the human being freely desires divine gifts out of himself or is willing to accept them .... yet without these gifts he will never be able to reach perfection either. God, however, constantly offers His gifts .... He does not force them upon a person but He makes sure that they are brought to the person, that his will is stimulated to accept or reject them .... And He will not cease to change the will despite frequent rejections, but He will not exert coercion .... He respects free will, which is the sign of divine beings and which also once substantiated the apostasy from God but which can just as well strive towards the highest height as it once strived towards the depth. He who disputes free will is also still in complete bondage because he is subject to the one who holds him in bondage. But he has also not yet made the attempt to become free from him, otherwise he would be conscious of his free will. He who disputes a free will feels himself bound, even if he is not clear who or what holds him bound. But the admission of having no free will is the surest sign of his being bound, whereas the person who recognizes and acknowledges a free will already feels himself free .... And this person has already detached himself from God's adversary, and he appeals to Him Who can remedy all deficiencies, for he also recognizes himself as deficient despite his free will and therefore 'desires' .... And abundantly can be supplied to Him, nor will it remain ineffective, for now God's will also comes into effect because the human being's will has turned towards Him .... Turning towards God is free will, for God's adversary, who keeps the being bound, would never direct its will towards God if it were not free. However, earthly life is precisely about this decision of will, which .... because free .... can and must take place if the being wants to reach perfection. And an unfree will would let the whole earth life be purposeless, and no reason whatsoever would be found for the human being's earthly course as well as for the emergence of creation, which is to bring the bound spiritual to maturity so that it can regain free will again to reach the final aim as a human being. The human being can receive unmeasured gifts if he only desires God's gifts, precisely because he is in possession of free will .... But therefore God cannot bestow gifts against the human being's will either, and therefore they remain ineffective as long as the human being resists them, because he is never forced to deify himself but this always has to happen of his own free will ....

Amen

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Exploiting the graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 6672 from October 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

And if you don't make use of the blessings of the act of salvation then your earthly existence will not be evaluated, for only as a human being can you freely use your will, and no matter how much it is weakened it is still possible for you to call upon the one Who brought you salvation through His crucifixion .... And this call alone is a request for the blessings acquired from Him. Such a call to Him requires recognition, which every human being can also achieve if only he uses the gift of his intellect insofar as he reflects when he receives knowledge about Jesus Christ .... Then the divine redeemer can already take hold of him and convey the right thoughts to him, and then the connection is also established .... The graces can become effective in the person .... But it is different when the human being has a negative attitude towards every teaching concerning the work of redemption .... In that case he closes himself off from the source of grace of his own free will. But then he also only lives a purely earthly life, he does not strive for spiritual progress, he merely regards earthly life as an end in itself, and his will is and remains wrongly directed .... He still belongs to God's adversary and cannot become free from him without the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Admittedly, you will not lose your existence, for even if you leave earthly life unexploited you will still exist after the death of your body, but no state of life, no state of blissful activity awaits you, instead, you will then be subject to spiritual death because you are still burdened by sin, from which Jesus Christ brought you redemption if you had accepted this redemption yourselves. Your will cannot be circumvented, just as it aligns itself with the divine redeemer, so also is your state .... free or bound .... For you cannot expect redemption without acknowledging Him Who purchased this redemption for you on the cross. He took all your guilt upon Himself and atoned for it on your behalf .... But how can you expect a free lot, you who set yourselves apart from Him, who do not accept the graces He purchased for you? .... How can you be blessed as long as you are still devoted to another lord whom you first have to renounce by acknowledging Jesus Christ? .... You can only be blessed when your guilt of sin has been paid off. You yourselves are eternally incapable of doing so, therefore He bore your sins for you and atoned for them. And you must turn to Him in earthly life and appeal to Him that He may also have redeemed the guilt for you .... And then you will receive grace upon grace, for then His love will take hold of you and no longer let you fall. And only then will you properly evaluate earthly life, which was only given to you for this purpose, to return to God through Jesus Christ, Who embodied Himself in the human being Jesus in order to die for you on the cross. Earthly life offers you the opportunity to ascend freely and brightly into the kingdom of the blessed after your death, for only the acknowledgement of Jesus as redeemer of the world is necessary in order to also be able to make use of the blessings which guarantee your perfection, but you can also, by virtue of your free will, let this great opportunity pass you by and remain in darkness and bondage again for an infinitely long time .... You must open yourselves to the gifts of grace, you must acknowledge Him in free will .... Then your earthly life will not be an idle one, then you will progress in your development, and then there will also be a blissful life for you, because Jesus Christ alone can lead you out of the night of death to life in light and glory ....

Amen

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