New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 6868 - 6999

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

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

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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

6868 - Mission of the lord to His servants....

6869 - Fatherly address to questioning children....

6870 - End time prophesies and admonitions....

6871 - Help of God's servants to build the bridge....

6872 - How far does Lucifer's power reach....

6873 - Exceeding authority.... banishment....

6874 - The blessing of doubting.... Truth....

6875 - Which forces trigger natural disasters?....

6876 - Faith without love is dead....

6877 - 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect...'

6878 - "Judgment" means "to judge anew - to classify"....

6879 - The water of life must be drawn from the spring....

6882 - End Prophecies.... Are you My Own?....

6885 - The will's decision in favour of God....

6889 - God exhorts to believe in the end....

6890 - Received after conversation with "Jehovah's Witnesses".... (part)

6899 - God's unusual workings in the end time....

6920 - The souls' fate in the beyond....

6921 - God's address is something quite 'natural'....

6922 - The pure gospel of love....

6923 - Free will.... strokes of fate....

6924 - Soul work: transforming self-love into neighbourly love....

6925 - Ability to believe presupposes will to believe....

6926 - Justification of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ....

6927 - Admonition to make use of the end time for the salvation of souls....

6928 - God's everlasting care of love.... strokes of fate....

6929 - Book of books.... mind exploration....

6930 - The soul's process of development before embodiment....

6931 - Earthly knowledge is not 'wisdom'....

6932 - The bridge to Me is Jesus Christ....

6933 - Unfair means of the opponent....

6934 - The battle of Lucifer against God....

6935 - Those who love God....

6936 - Statements by seers and prophets....

6937 - Effectiveness of the divine ray of love....

6938 - Don't let the sacrifice on the cross be in vain....

6939 - God's struggle for the world's people....

6940 - God’s blessing for every action.... Marriages....

6941 - God's gift: the spark of love, a part of Himself....

6942 - Scientific research with God or without God.... I.

6943 - Scientific research with God or without God.... II.

6944 - Task of Christ's fighters....

6945 - No seed is lost.... beyond....

6946 - Right use of vitality....

6947 - Opening the door of the heart.... communion....

6948 - Overestimating material goods....

6949 - Occasion of God's address....

6950 - Love" only opens up knowledge.... human commandments unimportant....

6951 - Jesus came as Saviour....

6952 - Accountability towards God.... Doing one's duty is not enough....

6953 - The spiritual struggle for the will of man....

6954 - Lucifer and his apostasy from God....

6955 - Attainment of childship to God only on this earth....

6956 - Blessing of connections from earth to the kingdom of light.... rays....

6957 - The faith that can move mountains....

6958 - The right path will be shown to people....

6959 - Increasing temptations.... intimate prayer.... power of the word....

6960 - God's courtship of servants for His vineyard....

6961 - Right and wrong thinking....

6962 - God.... love.... living faith....

6963 - Thinking ability does not mean generating thoughts....

6964 - Effectiveness of power according to divine order....

6965 - Exhortation to evaluate God's gift of grace....

6966 - Vineyard work requires postponement of wishes....

6967 - Spiritual coercion....

6968 - 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God....'

6969 - The faith in Jesus Christ is in danger....

6970 - Calm before the storm.... Illusion of peace....

6971 - Target of the opponent: destruction....

6972 - Call of Jesus Christ in temptations and hardships through the adversary....

6973 - God's plan of Salvation.... Original sin.... Adam's fall.... Work of redemption....

6974 - Faith conditions love....

6975 - Attacks by 'false representatives'....

6976 - Freedom of will excludes evidence of faith....

6977 - Separate worlds.... Various heavenly bodies....

6978 - Grave importance of life on earth....

6979 - Final separation.... The coming of the Lord....

6980 - The right prayer....

6981 - Light transmission equal to realization....

6982 - Perpetual resistance comes out from the opponent....

6983 - 'Mind' does not replace the 'spirit from God'....

6984 - Meaning of a love life....

6985 - Jesus' spiritual mission....

6986 - 'Convinced' faith....

6987 - Process of purification through strokes of fate....

6988 - The agony of the being without self-awareness.... Rom. 8, 19:22....

6989 - Blessing of sickness.... sudden recall grace....

6990 - Do not sell your soul....

6991 - Free will caused the apostasy.... Deification....

6992 - Only through 'love' does man come to knowledge....

6993 - God's ways are not always people's ways....

6994 - Spark of love.... salvation through Jesus Christ....

6995 - Call to vineyard workers....

6996 - Circle of light.... sin against the spirit....

6997 - Love of God must be demonstrated through love of neighbour....

6998 - Listening to the word.... using the gifts of grace....

6999 - Incarnation of God in Jesus....

Mission of the lord to His servants ....

B.D. 6868 from July 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only ever regard yourselves as My messengers who are to carry the gospel out into the world, who pass on on behalf of their lord what was imparted to them themselves. Receive and share out .... For this is the service you should render Me, because you have voluntarily offered yourselves to Me to work in My vineyard. People do not come to Me themselves in order to receive My gifts from My hand, they do not seek Me Myself because they do not know the path which leads to Me. Therefore you should show them the way, but you should also convey gifts from Me to them so that they will have the desire to seek Me themselves. And if you render this service to Me I will bless you. The fact that you have voluntarily placed yourselves in My service also obliges you to obey Me, which only consists of willingly carrying out My instruction to pass on My gospel .... that you don't self-willedly carry out work which does not serve the spreading of the gospel, or that you don't become complacent .... because then you would not be good servants to Me in the last days before the end. The seed has to be scattered in the fields which have not yet been sown .... and the seed can indeed fall on infertile ground, it can fall on stony ground or in sandy desert .... but a little seed can also sprout anywhere if the necessary water of love also flows to it to ensure its flourishing .... Only the little plant which is carefully nurtured and cared for can flourish and bear fruit, and you should also give this care to the seed .... Again and again you should deliver My word to them, simultaneously imparting good 'seed' and 'living water' so that the seed can flourish. If I admonish you again and again not to neglect this work of yours, you should realize from it how important it is, how necessary I need labourers in My vineyard and how diligently you should carry out this work so that a good harvest will still be achieved in the last days .... And you, who want to serve Me, you truly no longer need to attach importance to earthly activity, for this will be taken care of for you as soon as you only prioritize the work for Me. Consider, however, that you are already blessed by the fact that I have accepted you as servants in My vineyard, that you yourselves constantly receive gifts from My hand which not every human being can show .... consider that you are unusually gifted by the fact .... that you thus also have a sure sign of My love but also a sign of My mission which the lord gives to His servants: For what you receive yourselves you should not keep for yourselves alone but pass on in unselfish neighbourly love .... And you should always prove yourselves worthy of this great gift of grace and faithfully serve Me. I only require of you that you smooth the path to those who are still distant from Me, that you announce Me Myself so that they don't keep their doors closed when I come and knock. I need you as mediators, and your mediation also requires that you are not recognizable as My messengers through unusual radiance but that you walk along just as simply as your fellow human beings, whom no compulsion of faith may determine to accept My word. This is why you should speak to people as human beings, this is why your ministry is more difficult and first requires your complete dedication and readiness for Me in order to obediently fulfil your lord's command as His servants. You should only pass on My word, and only from My word can you draw the strength for your work. You should not let yourselves be held back by those who have not yet properly recognized your mission, even though they are no longer hostile towards Me .... you should unwaveringly take the paths which are shown to you by Me, which lead to where there is still barren, uncultivated land, where you should take up the spade in order to dig up the field and sow it with a seed which I Myself provide for you. Only with this shall you work, and you will be faithful servants to Me, whom I bless now and for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fatherly address to questioning children ....

B.D. 6869 from July 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The door to My heart is always open to you, and you can enter at any time and present your concerns to Me. You can always come to Me when you are in distress of body or soul, and you will also always find an open ear for everything that distresses you .... that is: You can always pray to Me .... and the more intimate your prayer is, the closer you are to Me and the more certain I hear you. And once you have entrusted your needs to Me, once you have had a heartfelt conversation with Me so that you now also know that I have listened to you, you need not worry about anything anymore, for I have now also taken over these worries because you have entrusted yourselves to the father like true children. And now you only ever need to do what you inwardly feel impelled to do, because this is My answer when you ask what you should do. And you can travel your earthly path completely carefree as soon as you walk it in My company .... And you will walk in My company as soon as I have become the content of your thoughts. And anyone who has offered himself to Me to serve Me and My kingdom is now also in union with Me and his earthly path has already been arranged by Me because he is willing to serve Me. Thus he should now regard himself as My servant whom a good householder will truly provide with everything he needs for himself and in particular for his activity in My vineyard. And I know exactly about this activity for Me and My kingdom .... I know about the successes and also about the failures .... but it is nevertheless not done in vain .... But every servant should also consider that the clearing of an area which is first to be cultivated is not easy, that it requires strength and endurance, patience and diligence, but that every piece of good soil which is won is worth the great effort .... and that I bless My servants for their faithful service, which I alone can best evaluate. And therefore no-one shall become despondent but only ever come to Me in his hardship and always draw strength from Me in heartfelt prayer, because I will always answer him, mentally or through My word, which will be imparted to him if he cannot hear it in himself. But again and again people shall hear that they should pay attention to their thoughts after such a prayer .... For these thoughts are My answer, as soon as the desire is serious to hear an answer from Me. And therefore every person can confidently turn to Me himself in all his needs, I only require a prayer in spirit and in truth, the heartfelt prayer of a child to the father, for a lip prayer does not reach My ear. But you also often have thoughts and questions which do not only concern spiritual matters, and I will also guide your thoughts correctly in these matters, but you should nevertheless try to free yourselves from such oppressive thoughts and only present every concern to Me in all childlikeness, but then also be convinced that I will take over every further worry. Likewise, you should try to free yourselves from false concepts of God-worship .... For childlike humility and devotion to Me, which completely fills a person's heart, is truly worth more to Me than external gestures and customs which are intended to show this humility but which can also be stopped despite the lack of inner humility and love for Me .... Do you then believe that you have to prove to Me what you feel through outward appearances, when I know about your innermost heartfelt emotions? Humility and pride are obvious to Me and you cannot hide either of them from Me, whether you kneel or stand upright, whether you move amongst your fellow human beings with a gloomy or cheerful expression. And thus I will not ask you to mortify yourselves, even though all of you humans still have to give up many weaknesses and faults or fight against all kinds of cravings. For the latter is what I call right fasting, to become master of the desires still dragging down the human being's soul, that he gets rid of all vices and desires, that he truly takes strict action against his body where it still tries to dominate the soul and expresses desires of various kinds which do not serve the soul's best ..... But whatever the human being accepts in food and drink in just measure he should only allow himself to be blessed by Me, and then it will also impart strength to him to do pleasing vineyard work for Me .... And he should accept with a grateful heart what My love offers him, be it spiritual or physical food .... For every father provides his children and every master his servants with everything they need in food and drink ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End time prophesies and admonitions ....

B.D. 6870 from July 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

As yet the period of Salvation is not concluded, a short period of time is still separating you humans from the final work of destruction on this earth .... And all of you could still become blessed if only you would recognise and acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, the spiritual state you are in when the end of this earth, or even the end of your earthly life, comes upon you depends on this .... For the end you are granted will come suddenly and unexpectedly. And yet, no human being need be unprepared, for every person will still be told often enough what is in store for all of you, he just will not want to believe it. What is about to happen to you will ring in every person's ears again and again, for all coming worldly events are also indications and signs of a near end. And likewise all people will also hear My voice resound from above, for this event will not remain hidden from any person and can still be a last warning for everyone that the end can happen just as suddenly to them as it will happen to those who fall prey to the natural disaster. It will only be a little while longer, yet it will soon pass by .... But then the end will come without fail along with the Judgment which will decide the fate of every single soul. If only you humans would just acquaint yourselves with this idea that you create your own future fate, and if only you would believe Me that you can still attain your goal with ease providing you still make use of the short time, providing you entrust yourselves to Me and appeal for My guidance .... But you don't listen to My warnings and admonitions, you remain indifferent, and you allow the disaster to confront you without protecting yourselves from it or averting it .... For you do not believe .... You don't believe My Words and I Am unable to inform you of the coming events in any other way than through My Word, in view of the fact that you must find the path to Me of your own volition and therefore you may not be given more obvious proof ....

And the wheel of time keeps turning relentlessly .... Countless people will still be recalled by Me and this, too, should arouse people from their sluggish, routine life that is like a sleep from which they will be rudely awakened one day but then have no more time to prepare themselves for the end. The sleepers don't want to forgo their rest and slowly slip into a sleep of death, for their souls can only look forward to death because they don't appreciate life enough in order to acquire eternal life for themselves. People distance themselves ever further from Me Whom they should, after all, strive towards, and they think of their divine Redeemer even less, His act of Salvation is totally ignored, and thus My adversary, who can only be overcome by the One in Whom I embodied Myself for the sake of sinful humankind, is in control of people .... But without Him the end will also be terrible for people, for they will be hopelessly at the mercy of their destiny, they will be unable to find redemption because they reject the Redeemer Himself .... because they don't take the path to Me Who alone can help them. Again and again I approach people in Jesus Christ, again and again will people be told about His Gospel, they will repeatedly be invited to profess Jesus Christ and to adopt His divine teaching of love, and the approaching end will also be repeatedly mentioned. But it will be left to them to profess Him and to accept His blessings. But without Jesus Christ they will be unable to survive this end and neither can they be admitted to the kingdom of light if they are recalled earlier without having found Him .... All the same, the end will come without fail. However, it would not have to be feared, it would not have to be dreadful if faith in My Word impelled people to diligently work at improving their soul, for then a person would establish the connection with Me in Jesus Christ and the blessings of the act of Salvation would be utilised and assuredly also lead to maturity, so that he would not have to fear the end and the Judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help of God's servants to build the bridge ....

B.D. 6871 from July 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Where your work for Me is done, My working can now also begin if hard resistance is not put up against Me. But first a bridge must have been built, for open resistance means a deep gulf which still separates people from Me. Thus your work is by no means unimportant or unnecessary, for you can help build this bridge, it has to be built from your side, because the gulf has also arisen from your side .... And if the human being himself does not set to work to bridge the gulf again, then his fellow human being must give him an impetus and help him to tackle that work .... But then I am certainly ready with My help and now also send My helpers to him. And I Myself will now come to meet him in order to make the path to Me easy for him .... To every human being the 'grace of God' obviously approaches once, to every human being I once stretch out the hand which he should take .... I speak to every human being once so clearly that his heart must be touched if he only allows himself to be addressed without inner resistance .... Every person once stands at a crossroads and sees a narrow path which leads upwards, whereas the other path is flat and appears more tempting to him. But if he has the inner drive to ascend, then he also chooses the narrow path. And again and again My messengers stand on the path whose guidance or instructions he only needs to follow. And you, My servants on earth, are such messengers who should constantly be active for Me. But as long as you are still on earth, in the midst of the world and its dangers, in the midst of people who have no urge to rise from the abyss, it will also cost you again and again effort to lead these people to the narrow path, for they usually only listen to you unwillingly and pass you by. Nevertheless, you should not cease to call them and draw their attention to the path of ascent, because their will first has to be stimulated before I Myself can confront them in order to offer Myself as their guide. Yet open resistance repels Me, I do not break open resistance by force but hold Myself back. Your will is turned towards Me and yet you are still closer to people than I am, because you yourselves walk amongst them as a human being .... Hence you can influence your fellow human beings in a favourable way, whereas I am still prevented from influencing them precisely because of their resistance, which proves that they belong to My adversary. If you only succeed in breaking the hard resistance, then the human being will also occasionally look beyond the gulf he still faces himself, and then he will mentally build a bridge, for thoughts that are already turned towards Me are the first pillars which are supported by Me so that they do not collapse. From Me it would truly be easy to build a bridge to you humans on earth .... I have also built this bridge through My act of salvation, thus it exists but can only become visible to the human being when he acknowledges Me as the redeemer and calls out to Me .... And this always means giving up his resistance, his free will becoming active. Therefore the desire to bridge the gulf must come from him .... and that this desire is awakened in him is what you shall achieve through your vineyard work, which precisely consists of proclaiming My gospel to people, of directing their thoughts to the area where I am the unrestricted ruler, so that they therefore also remember Me and My power and glory .... If they are now able to recognize Me as a God of love then they will no longer resist My illumination of love, and then I will also be able to exert My influence without applying any coercion of will. The human being's freedom of will necessitates your assistance, because of freedom of will I cannot express Myself so obviously that they have to come to believe in Me .... but you can tell them the same thing I have to tell them. Yet they can believe you or not, they can also reject you because what they hear through you is not yet a hundred percent proof .... But it can touch their hearts, they can feel that it is truth and give up their resistance. And then your preliminary work will have been successful, then I Myself will be able to intervene, and then the gulf which separated us will also be overcome, the ascent will be covered effortlessly because I Myself can now guide the human being so that he will safely reach the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

How far does Lucifer's power reach ....

B.D. 6872 from July 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

In the beginning all beingness was radiant with light, for it came forth from the eternal light and was in its original substance the same as He from Whom it had proceeded. God is light and power in Himself .... And He also radiated light and strength into infinity. But He gave His emanations forms, He produced beings from Himself which were created in His image .... which is not to be understood that these forms were narrowly limited shapes but that they were self-aware spiritual beings which were also able to radiate their light and strength in all directions, which were equipped with the ability to think and free will, which recognized themselves as creatures of an infinitely stronger power and which were also in contact with this power through the word .... They were in fullest knowledge, because God revealed Himself to them through the word, since His creatures were unable to behold Him yet should constantly know about His presence, about His will and about their actual purpose .... And their bliss was immeasurable, for they were also permeated by love and the aim of their love was only ever God, Who made them ever more happy. But they did not remain in this bliss .... for that being, which was initially created by God, which first came into being as a result of His will to love, was not satisfied with merely hearing its creator .... it also wanted to behold Him, and because this desire could not be fulfilled for it .... since the eternal centre of light and strength is not visible to the beings emanated by Him .... it recognized itself as the first and supreme visible entity, which was therefore also recognizable as such to all spiritual, self-aware beings, and it raised itself to become their dominating power .... This being certainly knew that it itself was also first created, and thus it also had to acknowledge the creating power as being above it, for the word which proved the God and creator also sounded to it .... It also knew about His will, it had the brightest realization itself. But it also possessed free will. And this will was directed against God .... The being did not want to be dependent on a higher power, it did not want to draw its strength from God but it believed itself to be powerful to such an extent that it rejected God's strength. It doubted God's strength because He did not present Himself to it in a visible way. And it also tried to transfer its will to the beings which its creator's will had let arise from God with the use of strength. For to be full of light and strength also meant to be able to create and shape without limitation. But the will directed against God had the consequence that light and strength diminished because this will now prevented the influx of the strength of love from God. Consequently, the first-created being also took .... now the adversary of God .... diminished in light and strength the more it exerted itself by creating ever new beings .... As long as he made use of God's strength he was therefore also able to create, but when he rejected it his creative power was also put to an end .... the more his resistance to God increased, the more his creative power decreased .... For the apostasy from God was not a sudden one, but took place over an endless period of time. It began with a brief turning away and repeated opening of oneself to God's strength of love and thus also the continued creation of new beings, and it ended with complete resistance to the divine illumination of love .... which also meant complete inability to create. But God's adversary now saw his strength in the endless host of beings created by his will. For with diminishing strength the light of knowledge had also diminished, so that he, darkened in spirit, was unable to recognize the significance of his resistance to God .... He is devoid of all knowledge and creative power .... but he nevertheless has great power, for it consists in his great following, which is fundamentally 'strength from God', as well as he himself is once-radiated strength. His and his followers' power therefore consists in being able to offer resistance .... and thus to prevent God Himself, Who does not violently break any resistance, from making His creatures happy. God is love, and love creates bliss. Those beings therefore believe they have power over God because they impose restrictions on Him in His activity of love .... They rebel against God and are not hindered in their intention because God's love does not force itself but has to be accepted voluntarily. Their whole strength therefore consists of offering resistance themselves and also influencing the more yielding spiritual to intensified resistance .... And they also retain this strength until they voluntarily surrender and, through God's illumination of love, also regain possession of creative power .... (15.7.1957) But they will never be able to use their strength to let things of any kind come into being .... They lack creative power, for this is only effective in association with God; but as soon as the being places itself outside God's circle of love, it can also no longer draw the 'creating' power .... and thus also God's counter-spirit, which deprived itself of the strength flowing to it through its ever-deepening fall. Before Jesus' death on the cross his strength was sufficient to keep his followers in bondage, that is, to prevent them from drawing strength of love from God in order to be able to detach themselves from him. For he kept them in complete blindness and they did not recognize the cause of their weakness and blindness. But this power has also been broken through Jesus Christ, and thus the once fallen beings can also find redemption. And now the adversary only concentrates his remaining power on his God-opposing activity, that he thus seeks to destroy what God let come into being, that he seeks to dissolve material shells in order to liberate the spiritual within .... in the belief that he will thereby regain it himself. But even for such destructions his power is not enough and every work of creation is safe from his direct destructive influence .... And therefore he tries it in a roundabout way by trying to make the human being's will submissive to his plans .... Thus the human being who has a certain amount of strength in earthly life again for the purpose of testing his own will has to carry out such destructions. Nevertheless, satan's power is still inconceivably great, only towards this very appendage, which is why Jesus Christ died on the cross to bring salvation to the once fallen, to help him against him. But when the fall of Lucifer is spoken of, this fall covered eons, periods of time for which you have no conception. And countless beings were created in these endless periods of time, for Lucifer's separation from God was not suddenly accomplished, and thus as long as he still kept contact with God he also still drew the strength necessary for creation from God, which is why all beings are also God's share and His work of return applies to all beings. But the created beings became more and more God-opposing the more their creator turned away from God of his own free will until Lucifer was able to create the infinite creation .... until Lucifer persuaded the endless host of created spirits to completely separate from God .... until he considered himself the source of strength and influenced the created beings in the same sense so that they blindly followed him when they were given the right of self-determination by which they could have separated themselves from their creator and turned to God, Who also revealed Himself to them in the fullest light but Whom they were unable to behold either. But the countless fallen beings also need eons for their complete return .... And therefore new creations have to arise again and again, i.e., again and again hardened spiritual substance, the deeply sunk spiritual substance, is dissolved and banished in these creations in order to start on the path of return to God .... But the resistance of the last created substance is so strong that it still has to spend endless times in its hardening before it can also start the ascent in the works of creation .... Thus new creations will also arise throughout endless times which God's will, His wisdom and might, will allow to emerge, and His adversary's power and strength will diminish more and more because every new creation will wrest a part of its adherence from him, even if eternities will still pass until even the last fallen thing has become matter .... But the deeply fallen is not conscious of being .... and therefore cannot harass the already more mature spiritual. It is completely suspended, and struck with blindness it merely contributes to strengthening the opponent of God's consciousness of power .... because he too is completely without knowledge. Only once the spiritual substance has regained self-awareness and now directs its will wrongly again will it be able to use its power on behalf of its lord and wreak havoc among people .... And this is the right granted by God to His adversary to fight for his followers during the time of freedom of will as a human being. He and his vassals truly make good use of this time, but the human being has a very safe help in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, and if he makes use of it the adversary's strength and power is completely broken, then he has become free from him and finally returns to his father's house again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exceeding authority .... banishment ....

B.D. 6873 from July 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Spiritual activity will never be prevented by Me as long as it does not exceed the limits I have set for such activity which is directed against Me. Hence you must distinguish between activity which completely corresponds to My will, which is therefore carried out by spiritual beings who are servants of My will, who utilize the flow of My strength of love on My behalf .... and an activity which precisely opposes this activity of love, which therefore also originates from spiritual forces but which act on My adversary's behalf. And this activity is permitted to a certain extent, because all activity .... from both the good and the bad side .... is the struggle for people's souls, which is My aim and also My adversary's aim to win. Since it is now about a lawful battle, because those souls are just as much Mine as his share, My adversary has also been granted the right to be allowed to influence the soul as a human being during his earthly progress. And he makes use of this right in every way. He is also very successful because people, in their imperfection, still carry much of his spirit within themselves and are more open to his influence than to the influence from My side; but since it concerns a free decision of the soul's will I do not hinder him in his activity. But to the same extent as he wins back souls for himself again, I wrest from him once-fallen spiritual things in order to bind them in matter for the purpose of beginning his upward development .... But this course of development takes eternities until the spiritual has reached the stage of a human being. And even then there is still no guarantee that it will pass the test of will in the last stage .... It can also descend into the abyss again, and endless periods of time can pass until I have reached the aim I pursue, because again and again the negative influence on the part of My adversary can destroy what I have achieved so far .... But I nevertheless let him work, for he, too, emerged from My strength of love, he, too, was a child of My love which was allowed to share all beatitudes with Me before it fell. But restrictions are imposed on his former power and strength .... which he has to observe or I will stop his free activity. I have established this limit in the human being's will itself, for he is not allowed to force it. The human being can decide for himself whether he wants to surrender to its influence or withdraw from it .... And thus it is also considered coercion of will if My adversary influences certain people in such a way that they deprive their fellow human beings of the opportunity to make a decision .... that people's thinking is thus forcibly directed and processed only one-sidedly, that all knowledge about Me and My act of salvation is prevented .... Then My adversary exceeds his power, and then I Myself intervene in order to completely disable him for a time. However, this deactivation of the adversary will also involve the binding of his followers at the same time, whose spiritual activity will then also have assumed an impermissible degree, which is why the process of redemption has come to a standstill and absolutely needs to be reshaped. But binding the followers also means purifying the spiritual sphere so that they can no longer have a devastating effect on people's souls. But since, in turn, a two-sided influence is necessary for the decision of will, this purification of the spiritual sphere can only be possible when such a decision of will has already been made .... when people on earth have therefore freely decided in favour of Me despite strong opposing influence. And only such people can then enliven earth when the adversary and his followers are bound .... And as long as the descendants of these people, because they were conceived in spiritual purity, are completely devoted to Me, My adversary will also have no access to people .... but in later times they will grant him access again themselves through a recognizable downward inclination which will loosen his chains. For people on the new earth also possess the knowledge of him and his power, of his nature and his aim, and by virtue of their free will they are always free to join him willingly. And again, I do not curtail their will and accordingly also loosen its fetters so that it can take possession of what freely demands to be its own. For I do not exert any compulsion, not even on My counter-spirit, which I do not dispute its right .... But he must bow to Me as soon as he abuses the right granted to him .... For I alone am the lord of heaven and earth, of the light world and the dark world, Who truly works in light, wisdom and omnipotence and Who therefore also rules according to justice and righteousness in heaven and on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The blessing of doubting .... Truth ....

B.D. 6874 from July 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The fact that doubts creep into your hearts time and again is insofar favourable as that you will think about the questions that move you and subsequently can also be influenced by the beings which try to clarify your doubts. However, only such doubts are meant by this which befall a serious seeker, which motivate a person to keep searching and asking for more .... and not those doubts which makes indifferent people feel justified into rejecting the information offered to them because they don't actually desire it, who will therefore never acknowledge a bearer of truth. Their doubts are merely excuses and an escape into darkness again. Serious seekers, however, are not instantly satisfied and their doubts can become a blessing for them since they do not stop questioning, and precisely this provides the beings of light with the opportunity to mentally influence them time and again until their thinking becomes clarified and what previously had still been doubtful to them will become a conviction. The thinking human being will generally not be superficial either by simply dismissing what does not seem credible to him, but he will dig deeper before he completely rejects a teaching he has received. Thus doubt can lead to clarification as well as protection against the acceptance of errors if a person endeavours to know the truth. This is why a person should not be condemned by voicing reservations, for they only testify to genuine seriousness. But he should also consider the possibility and not rest until he has completely gained an inner conviction so that he can either accept the information as truth or safely dismiss it as error. And doubts help him in order to gain this conviction. A person who deems himself knowledgeable cannot be instructed anymore, for he is no longer receptive to the currents from the world of light, he only uses his intellect but he doesn't hear what is whispered to him by enlightened beings.

However, someone who doubts listens within, he asks questions and then certainly also believes that he is able to solve these doubts himself in an intellectual way, but as soon as he seriously strives for the truth he can rely on the fact that his thinking will be guided correctly, for the serious seeker of truth has this guarantee, because God as the Eternal Truth will also allow Himself to be found by him. This is why the human being determines the value of knowledge he acquires himself .... since it only depends on how seriously he desires the truth. And for this, too, he should give account to himself, for everyone knows that 'people can err' .... that he therefore cannot rely on knowledge he has received from other people, and that he therefore must also be willing to relinquish that knowledge if he can receive the 'pure truth'. And he can only ever desire and receive pure truth at the source of the truth. Hence he must inform God of the knowledge he received previously and appeal to him for clarification as to what extent it corresponds to truth. And God will truly grant this appeal and perhaps even place doubts into his heart, for the transmission of pure truth can only take place if the person opens himself in order to receive what he desires from the highest source: the pure truth from God .... This mainly concerns spiritual knowledge, but even earthly thoughts will be guided correctly in a person who has taken this path to God, to the source of truth. And the profound inner certainty, the firm conviction, which he will then feel is the best assurance that he has taken the right path, for no objection to the contrary will be able to shake his point of view, he will also be able to maintain it towards his fellow human beings without doubting it again .... unless new problems arise which he will also safely be able to solve again in the same way .... For God gives the truth to all who merely desire it sincerely but withholds it from those who rely on their own strength, who try to intellectually ascertain that which is known by God alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Which forces trigger natural disasters? ....

B.D. 6875 from July 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

With every spiritual gift you receive the evidence of My love, for you shall not remain in darkness, you shall increase in light and strength, in realisation and strong will and live and work on earth accordingly. For every activity in blindness of spirit, in wrong thinking, is worthless for the soul, and since it is My will that your soul shall mature on earth your activity must have a purpose, which only the light of realisation can achieve. And thus time and again I will enlighten you where it is still dark in you. I will instruct you truthfully and repeatedly pour out My spirit over you as soon as you present Me the opened vessel so that I can fill it when your heart longs for My Words. You very often still shelter misguided thoughts, especially when you cannot let go of knowledge, of concepts, which did not come to you by way of the spirit, which cannot be called the 'working of the spirit' but which were intellectually acquired and possibly even combined with spiritual findings, on account of which you don't question its truth. But it is not pure truth and therefore you cannot attain complete clarification until you let go of this mental knowledge, until you are willing to abandon it, because only then will there be brightness in you which will illuminate every corner of your heart. Only someone who is in constant contact with Me will be able to understand that, he will therefore also instantly recognise when he is approached by error .... because this realisation is the result of his heartfelt contact with Me. And so every one of you, too, can become released from error through this heartfelt bond with Me. For I do not allow you to entertain erroneous thoughts and one way or another will convey the truth to you:

The creative process requires strength .... this will be obvious to all of you. Strength is My emanation of love which is accepted without resistance. Consequently, only a being which voluntarily opens itself to receive strength and therefore does not resist Me in any way which would render My every illumination of love ineffective, can be creatively active .... From this follows that the flow of My strength of love can only permeate beings which have joined Me already, which can no longer be counted amongst My adversary's followers, for they are still opposed to Me, otherwise they would no longer be his adherents. Hence these beings can neither participate in creating nor destroy creations because they lack all strength to do so .... precisely because they repel this strength of Mine through their opposition. However, I always speak of beings .... of self-aware spiritual beings, I speak of the once fallen original spirits which started their fall into the abyss as individual beings and which also have to return to Me again as individual beings. But the once fallen original spirits only became self-aware again in the human stage .... whereas prior to that .... as dissolved spiritual substances .... they were not self-aware. Only in a state of self-awareness can the being accept My strength of love of its own free will or even reject it again, and only in this state can it be creatively or destructively active. But now you humans can also observe destructions which cause you to make wrong assumptions .... These destructions or influences are accomplished by natural forces, by elemental forces, and are not, as you believe, a manifestation of the forces of darkness. First you need to be instructed as to what these natural forces basically are, to whose will and whose power they are subject .... You should know that I allow all spiritual substances a certain amount of freedom once they have made some progress in a state of compulsion and thus they can temporarily remain unconstrained, that is, if they had to leave their shell prematurely and have not yet entered a new form. In that case people will have intervened contrary to My lawful order and thereby so incensed the released spirits about the unlawfully interrupted process of development that they went on a rampage. And they are, in fact, entitled to do so, because premature liberation is no real freedom for the spiritual substance, in fact it is so painful that it wants to take revenge on the human race for having caused this pain. This becomes particularly apparent when the normal growth of botanical creations is shortened due to greed, to avarice, when human will destroys creations of nature which, according to My plan of Creation and Salvation, also serve their purpose and are therefore unlawfully prevented from fulfilling their intended purpose. The same also applies when useful earthly creations .... i.e. fashioned by human hand .... are wilfully destroyed, so that the bound spiritual substances therein are prematurely released .... Hence I do not prevent these spiritual substances from united elemental activity .... but I only allow it for a certain length of time in order to constrain them again for the purpose of further development ....

However, huge manifestations of strength, as recognisable in natural disasters, need to be explained and assessed differently .... The degree of opposition of all spirits is known to Me, and therefore I also know when it lessens, when the restraint of the bound substance in hard matter can be eased. These spiritual entities test their strength by joining forces in order to burst their chains. Since the opposition to the strength of love .... which hitherto encased it in form of matter .... has already become weaker the spirits' strength has become stronger to the same extent, and I do not stop these spirits from forcefully creating their next form for development themselves .... Consequently, I allow the still completely immature spiritual substance to release itself from its present state earlier, which happens in the form of more or less violent natural disasters, in eruptions, earthquakes, thus in such natural catastrophes which originate inside the earth and should therefore be regarded as manifestations of strength by the bound spiritual substances there. But this 'destructive' urge is by no means a sign of increased opposition towards Me and therefore My opposing spirit's activity or influence, instead it is merely the urge for another, easier form; admittedly, it is an unconscious urge but, as a result of reduced opposition, one which naturally arises in the spirits, which I do not prevent because these spirits will be bound again anyway for further development in order to come yet another step closer to Me. Even if it seems to you humans that My adversary's forces are at work .... he can neither change nor destroy My works of creation, so all such events must be assigned to My will and My might but they all have a spiritual purpose at the same time .... even if countless human lives fall prey to them. For even the spiritual substances which are still bound in the creations of earth are given the opportunity to continue their path of development. Terminating a person's life on earth also happens for a reason, My love and wisdom will truly not harm anything, so that whatever happens is beneficial for the soul of the individual person affected by it. What the human being regards as a misfortune need not be a disaster .... unless he loses faith and totally hands himself over to My opposing spirit's control. In that case, however, he had already been his follower and even then he can still change his will, precisely because it is free. But any natural activity resulting in devastation or destruction can only be caused by the spiritual substance which is either still banished in solid matter and tries to release itself or which was unlawfully released from softer forms and thus rages because its process of development was cut short .... However, spiritual beings working on My adversary's instruction will never be able to manifest themselves in such a destructive way, because these beings are self-aware and have no strength at their disposal for such activity. Earthly creations are certainly My adversary's domain because his followers are banished in them .... yet they are solely governed by My will and everything in a bound state is subject to My law ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faith without love is dead ....

B.D. 6876 from July 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You would never ever have been able to redeem yourselves had I not accomplished the act of Salvation on your behalf. My infinite love wanted to lift you out of a wretched state although it was caused through your own fault .... Consequently, it was an act of grace and mercy for you, it was an unmerited gift which is at your disposable if you want to become as blessed again as you were in the beginning. Hence the Words 'only by grace can you be saved ....' However, without this act of Salvation of Mine you would never have been able to attain beatitude, for you did not have enough strength to lift yourselves out of the abyss and your will was even weaker, so that you would not strive to release yourselves from Satan's bondage either. Thus it is imperative that you make use of the blessings of the act of Salvation .... And this first of all requires your faith in the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to suffer and die for you humans, in order to acquire an inconceivable treasure of grace for you as Jesus, the man. Without this faith in Me you will never make contact with Me and appeal to Me for help, for a stronger will, for the strength to be able to ascend .... But what is to be understood as 'faith in the divine Redeemer'? If the words 'I believe in Him' alone were enough then Salvation would truly be assured to the greatest part of the human race, for these words are very often and by many people said. But these words alone are not enough for Me to grant beatitudes according to My promise 'He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life ....' I demand a living faith, complete inner conviction of what you humans are taught about the sacrifice on the cross by those who proclaim the Gospel to you on My instructions .... However, in order to attain this inner conviction it requires an already awakened spirit which enlightens the person from within, which gives him an understanding of the cause, of the reason for the act of love which the man Jesus accomplished .... Only what the human being understands will he be able to believe with conviction .... Thus a person must first give his inner spark of love the opportunity to manifest itself, which can only be brought about by love again. An entirely unloving person can therefore indeed say the words 'I believe in Jesus Christ' but he lacks all inner conviction, consequently, he will never be able to acquire eternal life either. Only love recognises Him, and thus I demand a faith that has come alive through love .... But even the concept of 'love' shall be explained, for this word, too, is frequently misused ....

All you humans experience love, but you must ask yourselves in which direction your love aims .... you must learn to differentiate between the desiring and the giving love .... the temporal love, which always wants to own, and the pure divine love, which always wants to give happiness. The fact that an earthly- inclined love will not awaken the divine spiritual spark in you is self-evident, thus it must be the unselfish, happiness-giving love which should be kindled in order to allow for the 'working of the spirit' in you. This love is strength which, once the person has kindled it, will never let him rest, which constantly impels him into loving activity, which is not satisfied with emotions but which completely transform the person's nature, so that he increasingly more often enters into contact with Me, because 'Whoever remains in love remains in God and I in him ....'And such love subsequently will also yield a living faith, for the contact with Me through love must also lead to brightest realisation, so that the significance of the act of Salvation is clearly revealed to him and that nothing can shake his faith anymore .... 'Whoever remains in love remains in God and I in him ....' Anyone who spends serious thought on these Words must also realise that a person, who is most intimately in contact with Me through love, will also be permeated by My strength of love, that the flow of strength will flow into him .... but that this influx of strength will no longer allow for inactivity. Thus the strength of love must somehow take effect .... and namely in a way which testifies to the source of this strength, in an activity which is 'wanted by God' .... in all kinds of loving actions. The person can simply no longer refrain from taking loving actions as soon as he is permeated by My strength of love, and thus his love will also prove itself by implementing good deeds .... The human being will more or less show his love for Me in selfless works of neighbourly love and thereby join Me ever more firmly and be saved for time and eternity .... For in that case he believes in Me and My act of Salvation, he has already found redemption because this proven love demonstrates his release from My adversary, who shies away from love because he lacks all love himself. No-one without love will have a living faith, and no-one will feel love within himself who does not manifest it in good deeds, because love is a force which impels people into loving activity. And the reason why no living faith in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation can be found anymore in the last days .... is because love has grown cold amongst people .... Therefore time and time again love must be preached to people first, love for one's neighbour must be so strongly emphasised because only this love testifies to love for Me, and love for one's neighbour will also always require an activity, be it of an earthly or psychological nature .... earthly or spiritual help, which, understandably, will only be valued if it is motivated by love .... All this is so easy to understand and yet, without love, people's thinking is and will remain confused. But the 'redemption' consists of the fact that the human being abandons his opposition and allows himself to be illuminated by My strength of love again as in the beginning, when the spiritual being was still perfect .... From love you once emerged and you shall become love again, only then will you be, and remain, blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect...'

B.D. 6877 from July 24th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You were granted a length of time for your salvation, and this time is fully sufficient for you to liberate yourselves and enter the kingdom of light after the death of your body, providing you make correct use of it and avail yourselves of all blessings which are at your disposal throughout this time. I truly do not expect the impossible of you, and My Words 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect...' would be unjustified were it difficult or impossible to attain perfection on earth. Nevertheless, it requires your will to reach the goal on account of which you live on earth .... Your will is free, and this alone determines which degree of maturity your soul has attained at the end of your life on earth. Even though unlimited blessings are at your disposal you must use them of your own free will, since they do not compel you in any way, instead they simply remain ineffective if they are not gladly and gratefully accepted. This flow of grace is available to all people .... thus all people can attain perfection on earth. And so no-one is more disadvantaged than another person, no-one is privileged to receive a greater measure of blessings. But one person can certainly unearth the great treasure of grace, whilst another can disregard it and move on .... The acceptance and use of blessings does not depends on a person's fate, on his circumstances or his worldly sphere of activity, for every human being has the opportunity to accept an unlimited measure of blessings, since it is merely a matter of soul, a matter of free will, because no earthly power or no earthly living conditions can force a person to forgo spiritual wealth providing the person is willing to make mental contact with Me and appeals to Me for grace and strength. For this is conveyed to him by Me at the exclusion of earthly obstacles. These are possessions which are imparted to the soul and can be received by every person to the same extent. It merely depends on the direction of the human being's will, and the direction of his will is not enforced by any side.

At the start of its embodiment as a human being the soul is indeed enclosed by thick layers which prevent the penetration of light, but a tiny spark nevertheless shines within which influences it to think and want in a benign way .... If it complies with this influence it will become increasingly more enlightened within; if it ignores it, it will already have rejected a blessing for, especially at the beginning of its embodiment, it is accompanied by spiritual guardians, regardless of the human being's circumstances. They will not exert force either; nevertheless, the person can turn towards that which is good, because these spiritual guardians will prevent evil influence from enslaving the will. And as soon as the human being can think for himself, he also has the ability to differentiate between good and bad, because he will be affected in the same way by the results of other people's good and bad actions. Even if external circumstances were to force him into bad actions, his innermost will can resist it .... and this will therefore shapes the human being. However, a good will always accepts blessings, and these flow to it truly without restriction. Consequently, every soul has the opportunity to completely discard its layers during the time at its disposal. It can attain perfection, for every weakness can be balanced out by blessings, providing the human being is willing to make use of the treasure of grace at his disposal, for the latter was gained by Jesus Christ through His death at the cross, so no-one needs to remain weak, no-one is hopelessly exposed to My adversary .... every person can become blessed by grace .... He need only turn his free will towards the divine Redeemer; as long he is still unenlightened and therefore has no knowledge or realisation, he must comply with the inspiration from the indwelling spiritual spark which urges him into good intentions and actions. Only then will he make use of the great treasure of grace and he will also always be receptive to the influx of blessings which will never cease as long as the human being lives on earth, but it will always require free will in order to let it take effect, in which case, however, the attainment of the goal of becoming perfect will be guaranteed.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Judgment" means "to judge anew - to classify" ....

B.D. 6878 from July 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Judged beings are all of you, i.e. bound according to your spiritual state .... And therefore, when a 'near judgment' is announced to you, which is connected with the end of this earth, it means that all spiritual beings will be 'judged' again according to their state of maturity, thus they will have to take on the form which corresponds to this state .... that order will therefore be restored which is law from eternity. You are all still in judgment as long as you are not yet allowed to enliven the spiritual kingdom as free spiritual beings, as long as you still walk the path across the earth, consciously or unconsciously as being bound in the works of creation .... You are in a state of judgement as long as you are not yet free. But 'judgment' is not to be understood as a state of punishment. It is certainly an act of God's justice which, however, is always also founded in His love and wisdom but must never be regarded as a punitive act on His part, for God only wants to save but never to condemn. However, salvation is only possible within the order of eternity, and if this order is overturned, which is certainly possible through human free will, it must therefore always be restored .... that which has stepped out of order must be 'straightened'. And such an act of re-arrangement is imminent for you humans and also for the spiritual bound on this earth .... For at the end of an earth period there is complete chaos spiritually and earthly. Through the activity of God's adversary everything has become disordered and spiritual ascent development has therefore become impossible. The fact that people have to answer to their God and creator in the end is therefore to be understood in such a way that the spiritual state of each individual cannot be kept hidden from God, that everything is obvious to Him and He therefore also knows about its fate, about the sphere in which the soul now takes abode, or about the forms which a re-dissolved soul has to take in its individual particles .... For everything is revealed to Him, and His office of judgement consists in the 'reclassification' of everything spiritual .... which is thus equal to the concepts of bliss and damnation. His justice and His love are decisive, for even the state of banishment is only a means to help the fallen spirits to ascend again, but it cannot be ignored because justice could not permit such .... And therefore the judgment must also be feared by people who have stepped out of divine order, for nothing else can earn them a new banishment in the creations, which is why it cannot be mentioned strongly enough, because the short time until the end is still sufficient for a change of nature if the human being seriously strives for it. For God's love and mercy still seeks to save everything from the end which is not entirely contrary to Him .... He also helps the greatest sinner, but He cannot eliminate His justice and make happy the one who does not deserve it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The water of life must be drawn from the spring ....

B.D. 6879 from July 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only at the spring is the water of life clear and pure, and only there can you draw strength and be nourished without having to fear taking in substances harmful to your soul. Only at the source is unadulterated truth, only at the source can you receive the nourishment directly from God's hand, which is the right food and the right drink for your soul. And that is why you humans will always be pointed to the right source, that is why the spring has been made accessible to you from which you can drink and refresh yourselves at any time, because God wants you not to be forced to feed your soul inferior nourishment which does not serve you to mature. And you can all seek out this source, for you only need to make heartfelt contact with God and ask Him that He Himself will feed and water you .... He will certainly grant you this request, for He wants to speak to you Himself, and He can do so as soon as you open yourselves to His address. And if this heartfelt request has preceded it, then it doesn't matter where and how you listen to or read the 'word of God', for now God can intervene Himself, He can speak through the mouth of an earthly servant, He can guide your thoughts when you accept His word from the scriptures, He will always speak to you Himself because this heartfelt request for His soul nourishment has preceded it. And then you need not fear that you have received food which is unhealthy for your soul. And so you now have .... as the influence of His adversary .... spiritual knowledge is conveyed to you as an influence of His adversary, you will also recognize it as erroneous, your soul will resist accepting it, it will refuse the food offered to it. And this, too, is God's visible working in you that you recognize what does not come from Himself. And thus no human being needs to worry about which school of thought is the right one, for God's address can be conveyed to the human being in all denominations if only he sincerely desires it, because God truly complies with this request .... But for the most part people are content when they are dutifully 'hearers of the word', and the desire to offer their soul food and drink is lacking. And so then the soul satisfies itself with food that is not good .... it is too far away from the source, and the water is no longer pure and clear and therefore no longer has the sanctifying and cleansing effect. It is also often poisoned, and the soul that enjoys it always becomes sicker and weaker, it is unable to rise and ascend, because (interruption)

(14.1.1958) (supplement requested)

everything impure has a paralysing effect, and nothing can go up .... to God .... what comes from below and pulls down to the depth. No soul will reach the light either, for light only ever comes from above, while the depth only spreads darkness. The right source, however, will always be free and open and accessible to every person, but it will also always require a small ascent. And this already shows that the human being has to make an effort himself if he wants to draw from the source of life. And therefore there is always the danger that the water is polluted the deeper it flows, i.e. the word of God can no longer convey the strength to the soul, which is thoughtlessly listened to in places where the human being accepts it without his soul having first travelled the path of ascent to God Himself .... in order to appeal to Him to give it the right food and the right drink. For God Himself must offer the water of life to every human being, it must be drawn from the original source, for God Himself must first bless the gifts if they are to benefit the human being's soul ....

Amen

(The announcements NR. 6880 and 6881 have been lost).

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End Prophecies .... Are you My Own? ....

B.D. 6882 from July 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Anyone who regards himself as one of My Own also knows that the last days have started, that humanity is facing a spiritual and earthly turning point. For My Own are informed by the spirit, My Own can be spoken to by the spirit and hear My voice, either directly or in their thoughts .... And they also faithfully accept My Word which is given to them by My messengers and has originated from Me .... Thus My Own know what time they live in, they know that the last hour of the world's clock will strike soon, that night will begin to engulf countless people on this earth and that a new day will begin to dawn for others, for the few who will remain true to Me until the end, who belong to My small flock .... which I call 'My Own'. And they still have a task on earth: to inform their fellow human beings of what earth can expect .... this will not be easy, for despite the fact that My Own are convinced of the truthfulness of My Word .... thus also of the proclamations about the end and the Judgment .... fellow human beings will not believe them and indignantly turn away when the last days are mentioned to them. Nevertheless, time and again they should try to point out that My announced end will not be far away.

And as confirmation of this you should also draw their attention to the natural disaster which will put the whole world into turmoil beforehand .... And you should also tell them that the subsequent end can be expected with the same certainty, for through this natural disaster I still want to give people a final warning, a final sign, to make it easier for them to believe what you tell them .... Anyone who is enlightened himself should also let the light shine into the darkness .... Anyone who believes in Me and My Word himself should also try to show his fellow human beings the way to faith, and do so kindly so as not to arouse resistance .... And therefore the natural disaster will not keep you waiting for very long, since it is also intended to contribute towards preparing people for the end .... You should also mention the natural disaster, My intervention, which every person will be able to take notice of, for it will be of enormous proportions and cannot be dismissed as an everyday occurrence .... Thus you should constantly point to this event and not be afraid to speak about it openly, for it will come with absolute certainty .... And anyone who has heard about it from you will also find it easier to believe in the announced end. Thus My Own shall be capable workers for Me, even if their work merely consists of speaking about the forthcoming events ....

Then they will already render Me an immense service, for I want people to know but can only give them the information through a human mouth, which they then may or may not believe, but at least they will have heard of it and will also remember it when the day comes that the whole world will hold its breath in view of the natural catastrophe which will bring overwhelming suffering to the people who experience it .... Do not fear that you spread misguided prophesies but speak frankly and openly that I Myself conveyed them to you and that you firmly believe in My Words .... They will not be able to call you liars, for sooner than they think they will get the confirmation. Yet people should use this knowledge to shed their doubts in regards to the proclamations of the end .... With that, much will already have been achieved, because then they can prepare themselves and thus be saved from the abyss ....

Amen

Revelation 20, 1-6

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

(The Holy Bible, King James Version)

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The will's decision in favour of God ....

B.D. 6885 from August 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You will always be nourished with life-giving strength if only you want to attain life. You should just for once think about your soul's fate, you should not only consider your earthly life but the life of the soul, which you are meant to gain on this earth. You should reflect on what your soul is missing and try to quench its hunger and thirst .... you should strive spiritually during your earthly life .... That is all I expect of you, for once this will breaks through in you, you will also receive help to attain the goal. And thus it merely depends on your will that the Father looks after you and guides you .... Where this serious will exists there is no more danger of falling into My opponent's hands because then I will have the right to protect you against him. Hence, anyone who wants Me to accept him is already accepted by Me and will then also receive the strength to live according to My will on earth. This is why everyone who is of serious will can be secure in the knowledge that he is in safe hands in My care and My protection .... And about this he has to give account to himself .... If his thoughts and intentions are still firmly inclined towards the world then his will is not serious, then he deceives himself even if he tries to testify to his will with words. For the will towards Me is already a turning away from the world, because no-one can serve two masters, Me and My adversary at the same time, who is the lord of this world. Although the human being is living in the world and will have to do justice to many demands .... there is nevertheless a difference whether his heart is attached to the goods and pleasures of this world, whether they occupy his thoughts and intentions .... or whether he only uses the goods of the world as far as they are needed for his sphere of activity he is in charge of .... Merely the heart's inmost desire is the decisive factor as to which lord can take possession of the human being. And this has to be answered by the person himself and in all truthfulness, as not even the slightest movement of the heart can be hidden from Me .... Therefore I also know whose will belongs to Me exclusively and whom I can subsequently guide and draw towards Me .... I also know who voices what are simply words which lack this utter sincerity of will. Nevertheless, I also take care of these, but the success is only guaranteed when the heart has undevidedly chosen Me. For then the human being will come to Me like a child to the Father and My Fatherly love will take hold of it and forever keep it with Me .... But in that case the human being is also willing to help his soul attain full maturity, he will provide it with nourishment and refreshment and not just live an earthly but also a spiritual life .... he need no longer fear to go astray, for he will be holding on to My hand and unwaveringly walk towards the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God exhorts to believe in the end ....

B.D. 6889 from August 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Every day brings you closer to the end, every day leads you to beatitude in paradise on the new earth or also to the abyss when you experience the end in a state which requires a new banishment .... This is an incontrovertible certainty, for what is determined in My plan from eternity will also be kept, and the day of the end is therefore fixed and it is imminent for you in a short time .... If you would now rely on this announcement of Mine, then you would also arrange your life accordingly .... The spiritually striving ones would be even more eagerly concerned about their soul's salvation, the worldly people, on the other hand, would enjoy earthly life even more and still try to savour all pleasures before the end comes .... But these lack all faith, and those only have a weak faith because the announcement for an 'end of this earth' demands such unusual things to be believed, because such an event has never been experienced before and no evidence is left for earlier similar events. Everyone does not take My words seriously enough, and a slight doubt about it is also in the hearts of My own, because they are 'human beings' who are only ever able to grasp limited things, and such an end as I predict to them is so immense that they cannot conceive of it .... but you shall believe Me .... For I do not send you words from above which do not correspond to the truth .... Nor will I let you be misled by forces which work on behalf of My adversary, because you have to carry out a mission: to do the work on earth for Me in the last days which can only be done by people. Through you I want to stimulate people into eager soul work, I want to speak to everyone through the mouth of a human being in order to still save what has not completely fallen prey to My adversary .... The service you should render Me only consists of passing on My word to your fellow human beings, and therefore you can only receive pure truth from Me. And therefore you also enjoy every protection against the forces which ascend from the kingdom of darkness and try to dim or extinguish the light from above .... Therefore you need not fear that doubtful spiritual knowledge will come to you, and you can spread the words I speak to you without hesitation and in all certainty in order to send warnings and admonitions to humanity, because the end is coming ever closer .... I will never tell you the day and hour so as not to make you incapable of the work you should and can still do in firm trust in Me, your God and father of eternity .... but I can only ever point out to you that you don't have much time left .... And this serious admonition will be sent to you time and again in order to increase your zeal, for you must not become lukewarm. And you would do well to live and speak as if tomorrow were already the last day .... For it comes unexpectedly .... Although you will still experience My intervention beforehand, but it will not be long in coming either, and the end will soon follow it .... And if you were only able to roughly assess the great significance of the end of one redemption period and the beginning of a new one for the course of development of everything spiritual .... and especially for the people now living on earth, then you would also be able to understand why I send these words to you again and again and why I admonish you, who are and want to remain My own, to firmly believe in My words. For only in faith do you speak with conviction, and only a profound faith also gives your words the power of persuasion for your fellow human beings .... only the certainty of your speech will make them questionable. For mention must be made of the end, and whoever believes in it will also still make use of the time and not be lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Received after conversation with "Jehovah's Witnesses" .... (part)

B.D. 6890 from August 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

.... But a calling to 'work in the vineyard for the lord' requires more than intellectually acquired knowledge .... it requires being 'taught by God'. But if they were taught by God, then there would truly be no differences of opinion, then all servants of the lord would teach the same and there could no longer be different schools of thought. And yet each one claims the right to represent truth. And almost all of them are based on the scriptures, the 'book of books' .... and yet they teach differently. The word, however, always remains the same and originated from God. Should God therefore teach His representatives differently .... if they all believe that they are taught by God through 'the word'? For no one can deny that the representatives of many faiths contradict each other, but that they all seek to substantiate their teachings with 'the scriptures'. But let it be said to all of them that knowledge of the letters is not enough to extract truth from them but that God's spirit has to enlighten them first and that this enlightenment through the spirit is an absolute prerequisite to be called by God Himself for a teaching ministry on earth, so that fellow human beings will receive the truth which only the 'spirit from God' can convey. Consider that even the most valuable book can be closed to you if it is not deciphered for you first. And therefore you, who believe yourselves to be entitled to teach, should not always refer to a book which is still closed to you and to which you have not yet found the key: an awakened spirit which guides you into all truth .... You must all be taught by God .... and only then will you also be able to bring truth to your fellow human beings. However, you cannot consider yourselves 'taught by God' as long as your opinions contradict each other. And the many different schools of thought are proof of this, that .... although they all claim to draw from one source .... they have not yet found the right source, Which is God, the living word, Who reveals Himself to all those who sincerely want to be taught by God ....

Amen

(The reference (part) after the heading suggests that the proclamation is only a part, but we do not have another manuscript. d. Hg.)

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God's unusual workings in the end time ....

B.D. 6899 from August 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I can only ever instruct you and make My will known to you .... but I cannot force you to accept these instructions or to fulfil My will if I don't want to endanger your perfection. Therefore I cannot give you even clearer evidence that it is I Who speaks to you, which would only mean compulsory faith for you .... I can only ever give you the one advice to turn to your father yourselves if you acknowledge Him and to ask Him to always let you think and act right .... Thus you must completely hand yourselves over to your God and father and only allow Him to rule and also be willing not to oppose His divine guidance. I only require your will, which you should completely subordinate to Me .... If I possess this you will truly no longer be able to think and judge wrongly. The surrender of your will is also the simultaneous relinquishment of all resistance against Me .... But then you will also recognize the father's voice when He speaks to you. I will truly not advice you to do anything which suggests satanic influence, and if only you honestly give an account of it you will only ever have to recognize and acknowledge the divine teaching of love as the content of My revelations. But if you take offence at teachings which were hitherto unknown to you, then bear in mind that humanity is close to its end .... consider that I therefore still use many means to save it from ruin. One such means is also the transmission of knowledge which is intended for those who only let their intellect speak .... who are no longer able to muster childlike faith because My pure teaching was interspersed with misguided teachings which aroused their will to reject .... who want to grasp and think everything through with their intellect and who therefore have to be offered food which can appear acceptable to them if only they are of good will .... Consider that I also take care of all people in order to still help them before the end. Bear in mind that My love applies to all people and that I try everything to win them over for Me, but that My adversary also rages mercilessly in the last days because he knows that he does not have much time left .... Thus, through his satanic activity alone he also causes an unusual influx of grace on My part .... And I truly know which gifts of grace can still save you humans; I truly know what every individual person needs. But you don't know, and you are easily inclined to believe that you can determine Me in My working .... for you do so as soon as you deem 'divine revelations' to be concluded and thus, as it were, impose a 'limitation' on Me which, however, does not correspond to My perfect nature, which knows no limitation .... Anyone who believes in Me can consider himself blessed, for his path to Me is no longer far. But I also want to lead those who still dwell in the distance to faith, and therefore I let them look into it a little deeper than you others need to .... But you can be certain that I want to be a father to all My living creations and therefore want to clarify their relationship with Me as long as they have not yet found a connection with Me. Only little faith is to be found amongst people in the last days, but no-one suspects what consequences this lack of faith will have when the end has come .... But I know about the dreadful fate of those who experience the end immaturely, who have not gained a glimmer of knowledge .... And they have mercy on Me .... Can you not understand that I take care of them, that I still try to save what is possible, that I resort to means which were not necessary until now? and I have also predicted this unusual relief action, I have pointed out that I will "pour out My spirit on all flesh ...." that "My spirit will guide you into truth ...." I have further told you that the mystery of creation will be opened before you, that My own "do not need a teacher, because I Myself teach them ...." (Jer. 31, 33-34) You will not be able to prove Me wrong if you read the scriptures with an enlightened spirit, but you will not be receptive to deeper knowledge as long as your spirit is not awakened. The 'voice of the spirit' is 'My voice', and the voice of the spirit reveals Me to Myself .... And if I now want to save those wretched creatures, I Myself must speak urgently to them. But they are unable to hear My voice and therefore I have to make use of a mediator, I have to speak through his mouth .... But what I have to say to each individual person, what can still be a blessing for each individual person, that must be left to Me alone, and you should not demand any reason or evidence for it either, instead you should be content with the fact that the adversity of the end time and My infinite love is the simplest reason for it .... But I will gladly answer your question confidentially addressed to Me Myself .... because I don't want any of My children to be troubled by doubts or to think wrongly either .... because I love all of you who want to be Mine and therefore will not close My ear to any confidential request ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The souls' fate in the beyond ....

B.D. 6920 from September 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

As yet you still wear the earthly garment; as yet your soul is still enclosed by a cover preventing its carefree flight into the spiritual realm, you are still bound to this earth .... But the time will come when the soul will leave its fleshy cover, when earth will no longer be able to hold it and it will lift itself up to heaven, if it has acquired sufficient strength to raise itself from the earthly sphere into a world without obstacles, where it will be able to zoom through time and space and enjoy blissful happiness in radiant heights. But this flight of ascent requires strength .... the kind of strength which should not be confused with the vitality of life but by which it is permeated when it has entered into heartfelt union again with the eternal source of strength, with its God and Father .... when it has returned to its Father's house, where no hardship or suffering but only happiness and eternal life exist.

However, it is also possible that the hour of death will not denote a great change for the soul .... It will indeed also be able to leave the physical body and yet not be free, if it is weak and unable to elevate itself from earthly spheres because matter had dominated its mind, because it completely allowed itself to be ruled by it and never accepted the divine strength of love. Then it will indeed also occupy spiritual spheres, that is, it will exist beyond this earthly world, yet it will lack vitality and be condemned to inactivity. And this is a state of torment for the soul, a state of helplessness and darkness, and yet it is aware of itself.

Death is the conclusion of a developmental chapter; the soul will change its abode in any case .... but the sphere the soul will then occupy may well be rather different .... And the human being himself creates on earth his soul's fate after death. And therefore he should value every day as an immeasurable gift of grace, he should be prudent with every hour and use it for the salvation of his soul .... he should not content himself with earthly joys and pleasures since the beatitudes in the spiritual kingdom will outweigh them a thousand fold.

The human being should always remember that he has to take it into his own hands to acquire an abundance of bliss, and so he then also has to be willing during the short lifetime on earth to renounce what gives the body a sense of well-being but is detrimental to the soul. For the soul is enclosed by a layer from which it should free itself in earthly life. The impurities still adhering to the soul obstruct God's light ray of love from entering .... They first have to be dissolved so that the light of love can fully permeate the soul, and this also means that after death the soul will be able to raise itself entirely unburdened and enter the spheres of the blessed. And heartfelt prayer to God, deeds of love and even various forms of physical suffering will cause the dissolution of this layer ....

Love and suffering are the most effective means of purification, love and suffering internalize the human being, love and suffering distance him from the world and its pleasures .... The path of love and of suffering is the path Jesus took. He called upon people to become His followers, and He has promised life to those who follow Him. For His path will lead to the goal for sure. It leads out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, and He will also help anyone who loves Him and wants to follow Him carry the small cross, when it seems too heavy to the human being and he turns for help to Him, to the divine bearer of the cross .... But once the physical cover is shed the soul will rejoice and jubilantly enter through the gate to eternity. Then it will have fulfilled its purpose of earthly life, it will have returned to its true home of eternal life and eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's address is something quite 'natural' ....

B.D. 6921 from September 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The process of spiritual transmissions from the kingdom of light is basically something quite natural, for as soon as a person is intimately connected to God it is also possible for him to hear His voice, the word of eternity, which also expresses itself through His angels, through the inhabitants of the world of light. But people have distanced themselves far from God, they don't know that they can connect so closely with God that they also feel His presence and that His presence proves itself through His word. And therefore something quite natural is regarded as unusual and as a result not valued; God's revelations are rejected as unbelievable, and thereby people deprive themselves of the greatest grace, for to hear God's address directly or also conveyed is a gift of grace of immeasurable value: God Himself shows people the path they should take in order to become blissfully happy, and He also gives them the necessary strength for this through His word .... However, addressing God must not be a compulsory act of faith. And therefore the process of spiritual transmissions takes place such that it also allows for other explanations if the human being is not willing to acknowledge this process. For he may not be forced to believe, and he will also not be forced to do so .... His will alone decides whether he recognizes a gift of grace as such and evaluates it accordingly. And a willing person also feels addressed by God. He is not only a listener but a doer of the word and soon finds proof of the truth of the divine word because his life of action itself brings the 'working of the spirit' into him. Every person can create this proof for himself if he would only put into action what his ear and heart have heard. For not only the direct transmission of the word has a beneficial effect in this way. The word of God can be received wherever it is proclaimed .... If only the listener willingly opens his heart and ear and sincerely desires God's address and now also aligns his way of life accordingly, then the effect of the divine word will not fail to materialize. The bond with God will become ever more intimate and the human being himself can hold a heartfelt dialogue with Him and also be certain of His loving response. For God is a father .... and a father also speaks to His child .... But if the child closes its ear and turns away from its father, then it cannot hear anything either. And God is love .... Love seeks to save, to help and to make happy. And therefore God will warn, admonish and give strength and light to those who let themselves be addressed by Him. He will also speak to those who still stand apart from Him, but His address will not force them to listen to Him. Yet they shall be offered the graces, they shall have the opportunity to hear Him and, depending on their will, they will also experience the blessing of His address. But it would be far more unbelievable that a 'God of love', a 'father of His children', keeps silent, that He leaves people to their fate and does not offer them any help at all .... For people would be irredeemably lost if they were only dependent on what is offered to them by human beings. For there must be water of life, it must be drawn from the source which is God Himself, the original source of all strength and all light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The pure gospel of love ....

B.D. 6922 from September 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

And whether the gospel is proclaimed everywhere in the world, whether the commandments of love for God and neighbour are constantly recited to people .... the gospel can only be considered 'spread in the world' if it is heeded, if the way of life is now lived in accordance with this gospel of love and only then are the prerequisites for recognizing and acknowledging Jesus Christ and His act of salvation given. Dead knowledge is not enough because every effect for the soul depends solely on the fulfilment of the commandments of love, on a way of life in love. The gospel of love has to be proclaimed, and that is like sowing the seed .... But whether the soil is good enough to receive the seed and whether it will now sprout, grow and flourish and bear fruit, that is up to each person himself .... And this then is 'acceptance or rejection of the gospel' .... This is why servants of God are needed who, as disciples of Jesus Christ, carry the gospel out into all the world, who are to stimulate people's will to accept it. And if they do good work as servants in the vineyard of the lord, it means that they are tirelessly active in making the fallow fields fertile .... that they try to stimulate people's hearts in love and patience to take in the delicious seed that guarantees growth if it is only properly cared for and watered again and again with water of love so that it can sprout and flourish. Bad seed, however, cannot bear good fruit, and that is why the lord of the vineyard provides His servants with good seed and gives them the task of cultivating the fields of the vineyard. But the servant who does not have good seed at his disposal will not be able to achieve great success. So what use is it if a gospel is spread into the world that is no longer pure and unadulterated .... what use is it if a teaching is spread that no longer corresponds to the truth ....? Then one cannot speak of the proclamation of the gospel which the man Jesus taught on earth, which was a divine teaching because God Himself spoke through Jesus and thus purest seed was scattered which also promised a good harvest. And it is this pure, unadulterated gospel which has to be conveyed to people again, which God Himself wants to convey to them again through His disciples, whom He has chosen Himself for this ministry. Irrefutably, a seed that has been mixed with bad seed must also bring a corresponding harvest .... The field will bear only little useful fruit but many weeds, which must be separated and burnt at harvest time. But a good master will always see to it that the seed is clean before he sets his servants to work. A good master also employs good servants who he knows will protect the good seed from contamination, but he will not keep a servant who procures seed elsewhere and who need not be surprised if no success is to be seen .... if what the earth produces cannot be used and must therefore be discarded. For the weeds will overgrow everything, the weeds will also take away the vitality of the few good plants, and all the work of those servants will have been done in vain. And then one cannot speak of 'spreading the gospel', one cannot speak of proclaiming the 'divine word' which, as an outpouring of divine love, contains the 'doctrine of love' which has to be followed of its own free will, completely without coercion, in order to bring the soul the maturity for the purpose of which it dwells on earth. But God will always instruct His true disciples and convey the pure gospel to them. And He will also send them out into the world again to proclaim His word, to sow good seed in people's hearts, to preach love and only ever exhort them to love. And where the divine teaching of love is proclaimed the spirit of God will also descend into human hearts which live according to this teaching of love. And He will teach them, He will guide their thinking correctly and they will know and recognize what they have to do in order to become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will .... strokes of fate ....

B.D. 6923 from September 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Whichever path you take on earth, everything will fatefully approach you which shall help you to mature your souls. You can indeed shape your earthly life of your own free will and thus believe that you have determined your earthly path yourselves. But you will not be able to avert what affects you fatefully, and I Myself take over this control of destiny, always in accordance with your situation in life created by free will. For you can certainly create the external circumstances for yourselves, but they are not all too decisive in influencing your spiritual development. Yet through My will you will again and again be placed in situations where you can make the decision of will which determines your soul's fate .... These are mostly experiences which you yourselves do not desire and would not create for yourselves if it were within your power .... in which you are not directly involved. Indirectly, however, you have caused such events yourselves because I deem them necessary due to your spiritual low, which, however, you have caused yourselves. And so it is these fateful interventions which make you doubt a person's 'free will'. If they are somehow prevented from carrying out their plans, they believe that they have been deprived of their free will through fateful interventions .... But 'will' is not to be confused with 'possibility of execution'. Man can direct the will according to his discretion, even if it is impossible for him to put it into action. And the will should therefore be stimulated to express itself in a certain direction .... which is precisely what fateful life situations are supposed to help with. The course of earthly life is not as important as the influence such a life situation gains on the soul .... how the soul feels impressed by it and which path it takes .... For at the end of earthly life it is completely irrelevant what earthly successes the human being has achieved through apparently his own effort of will .... But if the soul can book a success for itself, then it is truly only a blessing if it has been achieved through severe strokes of fate. And thus the human being can shape his own life of his own free will, but he will not be able to prevent My will from intervening where it is necessary for the sake of his soul. Thus I apply My will without, however, curtailing the human being's own will, for this is and remains free, and although his hands are sometimes tied so that he does not succeed in carrying out what he wants, he nevertheless cannot be forced to will otherwise, and this will alone is decisive. The will alone is evaluated. It is the will which earns the soul progress or relapse. And so that the will becomes active in the spiritual sense I Myself so often intervene in people's fates .... well recognizing what blessing this can mean for the human being's soul. Your will and thinking will not be forced, neither from My side nor from My adversary's side, but it will be made easy for you by Me to direct your will and thinking correctly by touching you in such a way that a limit is set for your own strength but which you can cross if you take the path to Me .... This alone is My purpose through all kinds of strokes of fate, that you turn to Me of your own free will for My support, that you thereby acknowledge Me, that your earthly existence is not lived in vain, that you reach your aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Soul work: transforming self-love into neighbourly love ....

B.D. 6924 from September 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Nothing can release you from doing soul work on yourselves if you want to acquire eternal life. The transformation of your being is a work of free will. It is the transformation from self-love to unselfish neighbourly love, for the latter alone is divine love, a love as it corresponds to the original being of God .... a love which works itself out as strength and which is the principle of divine order. But at the beginning of his embodiment the human being is filled with self-love as an inheritance from the one who is devoid of all love and to whom you owe your existence as a human being. For once you were divine beings filled with light and strength, you came forth from God's love and thus were also filled with love as His creations. But it was a pure, selfless, divine love which only ever sought to please, which pushed back towards the eternal love and stood in intimate union with it. But this love changed through the influence of the one who turned away from God in self-conceit and who also transferred his will and his attitude to you. And the turning away from God resulted in His love also encountering resistance, that you rejected it and thus it could no longer take effect on you, because all resistance nullifies the effectiveness of love. But the fact that God does not abandon His creations which emerged from His strength of love .... that He constantly seeks to regain their love and that He therefore found a way to enable their return to Him again is based on His infinite love. However, the return to Him can only take place when the being accepts His strength of love again, which means that it gives up its resistance, that it changes, that it reshapes itself into what it was in the beginning .... that the wrong love, ego love, thus changes into divine love again .... But this transformation of the being also requires conscious work on oneself .... At the beginning of his embodiment, the human being is always only concerned to care for himself and his physical well-being, and to strive .... He will always think more of himself than of his neighbour, he will first look after his body than perform works of love for his fellow human being, because he is still dominated by self-love as a result of his former apostasy from God. But if he now carries out conscious soul work, then he will also make an effort to displace all selfish love from himself and replace it with unselfish neighbourly love .... And that means a transformation of his nature, for gentleness, humility, peaceableness, justice, mercy and patience will always have a beneficial effect on fellow human beings, but they also require a putting aside of the 'I' and physical desires, a fighting against weaknesses and faults .... thus ego love will slowly change into pure selfless love which always wants to make happy. You must irrevocably accomplish this work of the soul, and no-one can take this work from you, it is the purpose of your earthly life, it is the sure path of return to God and to eternal beatitude. And there is nothing that releases you from this conscious work on your soul, there are no other means which give you beatitude by circumventing this work on yourselves. You are all afflicted with faults and weaknesses because you have given up your former perfection by falling away from God, by rejecting His love .... But you can attain perfection again, you can become full of light and strength again, yet you first have to align yourselves with God's original nature again, otherwise the divine flow of love cannot flow through you. And this is also possible for you in the human stage if only you have the serious will to do so and therefore consciously work on yourselves. The strength also comes to you as soon as you ask God for it. And what you initially feel to be difficult work will always become easier for you, because then you yourselves will feel an unknown happiness which only pure, divine, self-surrendering love can provide. But as long as the human being still puts his own well-being first, this inner feeling of happiness is also alien to him, even if his body creates well-being for itself .... But it is about the soul .... For this is your actual self, which should take the path back to God if it wants to expect an eternal life in bliss and be received by God as His child into the father's house again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ability to believe presupposes will to believe ....

B.D. 6925 from September 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The ability to believe presupposes wanting to believe .... You will be unable to convince those people who can't muster the will to attain the truth, for their unwillingness leaves them open to the influences of God's opponent, to whom they increasingly more fall prey and who will only ever influence them to close themselves to every spiritual influx on the part of God. Spiritual knowledge cannot be proven; it has to be believed .... However, people are not expected to believe blindly, the truth is made accessible to the human being but it is left up to him what he makes of it, for God grants every human being freedom of will. The human being is therefore more or less facing a crucial decision as soon as he is offered spiritual information .... he can accept or reject it .... But in order to make this decision his will has to become active. If the human being rejects it without further investigation then he cannot say: I cannot believe it, instead he must say: I don't want to believe it .... If, however, he is willing to understand it then he will examine it .... and only then will he be entitled to reject it if he cannot agree with it, or he will gain an inner conviction and thus 'believe' even though the evidence cannot be given to him. Someone who means well will certainly be correctly guided in his thinking .... even if he had not so far wanted to acknowledge anything that can be described as spiritual knowledge. Blind faith is worthless, only a convinced faith will give rise to blessings. But a convinced faith can only be gained if the human being wants to attain realisation, if he desires clarification about things that are hidden to him, about secrets which human intellect cannot unveil.

Every individual person and can will presume that he only possesses partial knowledge, that therefore many unsolved problems still exist for him. If these problems concern earthly questions, they can be solved intellectually. The results can be tested and also be changed .... Then the evidence can be produced that the human being's thinking was right .... But apart from the earthly world there also exists a spiritual world .... Although this, too, must only be 'believed' again, yet revelations from this spiritual world are sent to people which could almost be classed as evidence already .... but always leaving it open to certain doubts, which need to be overcome by a person himself, and this requires his will. He is able to provide the evidence for himself and thus gain convinced faith but he must also want to do it .... Someone who does not contribute towards it cannot acquire anything for himself, and 'faith' cannot be granted to a person as a gift, otherwise a free decision of will could not be spoken of. First the human being must want to believe and through living a life of love enable himself to learn to distinguish, for he should never believe in errors, and he is entitled to reject what he is unable to believe if he seriously means it and does not reject all spiritual information given to him. The ability to believe presupposes wanting to believe. Blind faith, however, is nothing a person can be proud of .... Blind faith is not pleasing to God, after all, it testifies to indifference towards the truth and the right realisation. The human being should use his intelligence but not only his intelligence, he should also question his heart, which means as much as that he should also pay attention to his feelings, for the One Whom people have problems having faith in manifests Himself through the heart .... but Who also rewards the will if it is good and is aimed in the right direction ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Justification of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6926 from September 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The commandments of love for God and neighbour are the primary things in human existence. For if they are fulfilled, then the meaning and purpose of earthly life is fulfilled, and then the divine order, which was once overturned, is also restored. God's plan of salvation now only aims at the establishment of divine order, and all His working and activity is only directed towards this, because the state of order is a divine one and because everything divine is also incomparably blissful. God as eternal love will only ever want to make happy, but according to His perfect nature a making happy of His creatures can never take place outside of justice .... Thus only something divine and perfect can be made happy by Him as it corresponds to His love, because the imperfect is guilty of its nature, because in free will it gave itself up to perfection, thus it also voluntarily spurned bliss. This was a guilt which put a barrier in God's delightful love, admittedly not a barrier which God's power could not break through but which would question His supremely perfect being if God, despite this rejection, wanted to bestow on the imperfect being what perfection presupposes. The debt must first be paid, the being must recognize its guilt and seek to restore the state in which it originally found itself. For justice cannot be eliminated. The creature's happiness can therefore only take place in a state of divine order, and happiness means 'being permeated by divine strength of love', it means that divine strength of love flows into the being, which is now also able to create and shape itself for its own happiness .... But it is extremely difficult for the being which once rejected God's strength of love to enter the state of divine order again, because in the lack of strength resulting from the rebellion against God it also lacks the strength to change itself again, and therefore it would have to eternally remain in the voluntarily striven for wretched state if it were dependent on the being itself to return into the state of divine order. Alone, without help, it is no longer able to do so, for the guilt was too great and the depth abysmal into which it fell through this guilt .... God's love and mercy, in turn, was so great that He wanted to provide this help for the beings which had fallen away from Him .... But His love could not simply cancel a guilt because His justice did not allow for this. He had to demand an atonement and the debt had to be paid .... And because the debt was immense and the beings themselves would never have been able to pay it off in their weakness and darkness, a supreme being of light offered to pay the debt on behalf of God so that God would become righteous and His love could give itself away again .... The being of light wanted to make a sacrifice to God which, however, also corresponded to this great guilt. It wanted to make use of God's strength of love in order to be able to carry out a work of mercy as a 'human being' which was intended to bring redemption to all fallen beings .... It wanted to divest Itself of Its strength and light, take on a human form and now, as a self-weak being, walk an excruciatingly difficult earthly path with the aim of sacrificing Itself, of giving Its life for Its fallen brothers .... And it only wanted to make use of God's strength of love for this purpose, it wanted to bring love within itself to its highest development and thus exemplify a life of love to people which earned it God's strength of love, which resulted in 'eternal love' completely filling it, that it took possession of the body of the man Jesus and thus it was now also possible for it to suffer the most dreadful death on the cross and to atone for guilt through its suffering and death .... And God accepted the sacrifice, His love was willing to make even the compensation by Himself which God's justice demanded .... The guilt was therefore redeemed by Jesus, in Whom God embodied Himself, because love .... which is God .... completely filled the human being Jesus and thus the 'human being' deified himself, i.e. united with God, thus became one with Him. Every once fallen being must strive for this deification and make it its aim, and since deification can only be achieved through the irradiation of divine strength of love, the fallen being must therefore live a life of love in the human stage, through which it enters into intimate union with God and thus the divine order is also restored .... (9/23/1957) And because people are without realization until the divine light of love illuminates them, they have been given the commandments of love for God and neighbour, the fulfilment of which earns them that light of love .... And they should also know why this commandment is the most important commandment, they should know that only love can lead to union with God and that union with God also means divinization, the establishment of the original state where everything moves in the law of eternal order and can now also use the strength flowing to it from God in love and wisdom .... in the will of God, which is now also the will of the being. Love is therefore the fundamental law .... But the human being is still weak and darkened in spirit as long as he stands outside of divine order, as long as he still lives under the burden of original sin. And so long he will hardly perform works of neighbourly love. But the knowledge that Jesus Christ's act of salvation has also been accomplished for him can cause him to call upon Him, he can mentally occupy himself with Him even if he is not fully convinced of His spiritual mission .... And every thought of Him in good will is already a bond which has a beneficial effect. For the divine redeemer Himself already thereby gains influence on the human being's soul. And everything else merely depends on whether the human being allows himself to be determined by this influence or not. But the influence consists of stimulating the human being into loving activity, for Jesus Christ will do the same as He did on earth as the human being Jesus: He will only ever point to love, because this is the principle of divine order, thus love has to be practiced without fail in order to first reach a degree of enlightenment which then determines the human being to seriously seek unity with God .... And thus even people who know nothing about Jesus Christ and His act of salvation can attain this degree of enlightenment if only they live in love. For a spark of love is placed in every person's heart .... Thus a person only needs to be willing to love because the ability to love exists as a divine gift of grace. The human being can remedy the weakness which burdens him through original sin through loving activity, because Jesus Christ died for all people, because He accomplished the act of salvation for all people. These people have entered the divine order through their willingness to love, and if the knowledge of Jesus Christ is conveyed to them they will also grasp it and enter into conscious contact with Him, to Whom they had already unconsciously united through love .... But the realization will come to them in a flash when they leave earthly life, and therefore they can be considered redeemed because the soul pushes towards Jesus Christ by virtue of its love .... Every person is able to practice love .... because God does not completely abandon a person to His adversary and because the human being's will is also influenced from a good spiritual side .... But the weakness of will is often so great that he needs help, which will certainly be given to him through the call of Jesus Christ. But where the knowledge of Jesus Christ has not yet been conveyed to the human being, the forces of light are constantly endeavouring to stimulate people into a life of love, and the knowledge can also reach them through inner enlightenment, no matter in which form it is offered to them. But they will learn to believe in a God who is inclined towards them in love and mercy .... And if they consciously surrender to Him they will also be released from their past guilt, they will be freed from the power which kept them bound, because eternal love Itself loosens the chains of the being which practices love and thereby joins It again in free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Admonition to make use of the end time for the salvation of souls ....

B.D. 6927 from September 24th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only few people seriously strive for perfection, most are satisfied with externalities and are not aware of their purpose of existence. They value earthly life as the highest and only ever strive to make it as pleasant as possible for themselves without considering what advantage the soul derives from it and what they owe their souls. The soul wants to be nourished just as much as the body, the soul needs nourishment even more urgently, for it is what remains when the body passes away, when the human being's life is over. And the state it is in at the end of its earthly life is decisive for eternity. It can be glorious but also very bleak .... the soul can dwell in supreme bliss in the spiritual kingdom but also ruefully remember the unused time of earthly life when torment and darkness is its lot. And people do not remember this .... They live out their days and let their soul starve, they first look after themselves, i.e. their body, before they think of supplying the soul with good nourishment which enables it to mature, which helps it to reach perfection. Sudden death in their surroundings often draws people's attention to the fact that their own life can also end very quickly .... people are often taken away from the circle of their loved ones through death, and then they certainly also temporarily think of their own death, but only a few make a serious change in themselves, only a few live their earthly life consciously and still prepare themselves for the life which comes afterwards. For only a few are strong in faith .... Only a few enter into living contact with God and thereby attain inner realization of the purpose and aim of earthly life. And therefore only a few will reach the degree at their demise which secures their entrance into bright heights, but most will still have to struggle and fight for a long time in the kingdom of the beyond in order to just reach a small glimmer of light which makes their fate more bearable. For their strength will not be great and yet an ascent is still possible for them if they are not completely hardened in spirit, if they accept the guidance and instructions in the kingdom of the beyond which will still be offered to them through God's merciful love but which also presuppose their own will to still achieve spiritual progress. And therefore only a warning and admonition can be called out to people: Make use of the time on earth for your soul .... Don't let it pass by unused but remember that the actual life still lies ahead of you, that earthly life is not the first but that it is decisive for eternity. For you can achieve much on this earth if only you seriously strive for perfection .... But you can also fail, and you will bitterly regret not having heeded the admonitions and warnings on earth ....

Amen

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God's everlasting care of love .... strokes of fate ....

B.D. 6928 from September 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

All who long for God's love will also be allowed to experience it, for this is already the fulfilment of earthly life, that God's love seizes the soul which does not resist Him. Therefore no human being need fear that his earthly life could be in vain if he himself wants it to bring him success. For anyone who allows such thoughts to arise in him is also aware of the fact that he has a task on earth which applies to the salvation of his soul. And if he wants to fulfil this task he will also be helped in every way, because God's love never ceases and has also not diminished in the state of greatest distance from Him, because He pursued the being with His love and now His love can also become effective. The fact that the human being nevertheless repeatedly falls into weakness of will, that he also temporarily forgets his actual purpose on earth when the world captivates him, will not diminish God's love, and again and again the human being will experience that God will not abandon him .... For he will get into situations which let him seek God ever more intimately. And every renewed bond is proof that the human being longs for God, and God will never deny Himself to him. This is why a person's life can never be monotonous, always in the same peace and security, for this would not advance a person but make him indifferent to striving higher. But a striving person will not be granted such severe strokes of fate as those who first have to be brought to take up the thought of God and turn to Him in free will. And since in the last days people will be completely attached to the world, but God will turn His care towards them until the end, the strokes of fate will also increase, which are only ever intended to kindle that very desire for God's love. But such strokes of fate are not always successful. People can be affected as sensitively as they like, they try to cope with it themselves, they do not bow to the power of a mighty God and creator even if He obviously makes Himself known to them .... because even then the human being's free will is respected and therefore the 'working of God' cannot be proven in such strokes of fate and people therefore prefer to accept everything else than the direct intervention or will of a God and creator. But the slightest devotion to Him in thought will also be rewarded and encouraged by God, for this can be the first step towards the aim. And thus many things will still happen which are able to put people into turmoil, much suffering will still befall the earth, a 'higher power' will still often intervene and many people will still be extremely painfully affected by events of all kinds .... The belief in a God will dwindle more and more and sometimes even be completely lost due to such events, but people will also be urged to turn to a God and creator for help .... For God only expects this call in order to then so obviously take care of people that He proves Himself to them and an intimate bond between the human being and God can be the result. But once it has been established God will never give him up again, only his will has to be sincere .... Then his weakness will also be taken into account and the human being can know that he is safe in God's love, Which will then reveal Itself to him again and again until the end of his life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Book of books .... mind exploration ....

B.D. 6929 from September 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

What your intellect will never fathom can be explained to you by the spirit within you if you allow this yourselves in free will. You believe yourselves more or less capable of research, or you also trust other researching people that they can convey truthful results to you .... But you forget that there is one area where human intellect alone is unable to penetrate, even if it is highly developed and easily able to solve earthly problems .... This one area is closed to him as long as he does not sincerely appeal to Me to open the gate for him so that he can gain insight. It is impossible for him to explore this area without Me, and I alone decide to whom I will convey the knowledge, to whom I will introduce the truth, to whom I will reveal the secrets, to whom I will solve the problems which thus touch the spiritual area. For I alone know who will use such knowledge correctly and to whom it will be a blessing. Admittedly, all people could consider themselves blessed to receive light about that which is still hidden from them. But the light also presupposes a clear, purified vessel that prevents turbidity .... Knowledge presupposes a degree of maturity, otherwise it would be completely worthless for the human being and could not bring him any realization. And if this degree has not yet been reached, then even the sharpest intellect will not find its way in that area .... It will remain dark in him as long as his spirit cannot give him brightness. And thus it is also of no use if wisdom .... i.e. knowledge of the pure truth .... is sought from people who think themselves capable of giving enlightenment but can only ever speak of pure intellectual results. It is also of no use if a person tries to acquire knowledge from books, even if it is the book of books, the scriptures, which certainly contain truthful knowledge but which remain a closed book to the immature reader, even if every letter is known to him. Admittedly, every person will be able to benefit from it if he only believes the words which he can well understand, if he takes the indications for a righteous way of life seriously and lives according to them. For then his soul's initially still very immature state will lift up and a small glimmer of light will already shine in him, but first it requires a way of life in accordance with My will, which can certainly be recognized from the scriptures .... But anyone who believes that the scriptures will bring him the highest knowledge, who believes that this knowledge can be gained through study, through precise knowledge of the letters, is very much mistaken. For this attempt has already been made so often and has only ever brought greater confusion, because every researcher has come to different results .... except for those who devote themselves to Me in childlike humility and love, whose spirit I now illuminated and was now also able to grant them insights, whom I Myself was able to introduce to the truth, as I promised .... And thus neither science nor dead faith will explore the area whose illumination I Myself have reserved for Myself: Only those who prepare themselves as a vessel into which I can pour My spirit, whose serious striving on earth is to first shape themselves into love, who endeavour to fulfil My will, who are founded in the law of eternal order, will ever attain the light, who only ever demand a way of life in love from you humans, so that you will assimilate your nature to My fundamental nature and then the overflowing of My spirit upon you will be the inevitable result of it .... Walk in love and you will now be introduced by My spirit into the realm which, however, remains closed to every human being without love .... For only through love will you becomezMy children, and I will truly withhold nothing from My children, I Myself will introduce My children to the truth, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's process of development before embodiment ....

B.D. 6930 from September 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You humans have passed through many forms .... i.e., your real Self, your soul, had to go through a long process of development before it was allowed to incarnate in a human body .... And this process of development was the path through all the works of creation .... Dissolved into countless minute particles the soul had to animate each one of these works of creation and thus slowly mature, as soon as various particles had joined each other they had to constantly enter new forms, and all forms .... the innumerable works of creation .... contributed towards the maturing of these substances of soul until, finally, all particles were allowed to come together again and as a human soul enter and give life to the last form, the human body. Hence you all had to travel this path of development since due to your past fall into sin the separation from God became so great that the soul in its lifeless state, which was the result of its apostasy, would never have been able to overcome this vast distance from Him. It first had to be brought back to life. But life could not be granted to the beings which had become sinful .... they had to acquire it through being of service. However, the being would never serve voluntarily because it would have been prevented from doing so by God's adversary, whom it had followed into the abyss ....

But it wasn't meant to remain eternally subject to death, it was meant to be given the opportunity to attain life .... and this 'opportunity' was the creation. God seized the fallen spirits from His adversary and made them serve Himself, He gave every work of creation its purpose according to natural law and made it fulfil this purpose in a state of compulsion.

As a result it had to be of service and, if only after an infinitely long time, thereby acquired a weak life which nevertheless enabled it to become constantly more active. For every being having once emerged from God's love was His emanated strength which wants to be active .... However, the beings which had joined God's adversary rejected God's illumination of love which is needed for living, thus for a being's activity, and therefore it fell into the state of death. And were it left to the being itself it would never be able to come alive again because its fall into the abyss made it completely helpless. For this reason God called a work into existence which at first ruled out the being's will for activity, which subordinated itself entirely to His will and which, through 'natural law', carried out the purpose He had assigned to this work, to the whole of creation.

His plan consisted of slowly bringing back to life what was lifeless, of giving it the possibility to be active again. And thus it was joined to the individual works of creation in tiny particles and through natural law obliged to get active again .... It was bound in these creations and unable to resist, it had to be of service .... but thereby was also able to reach the degree of development which gained it ever more freedom and finally also placed the spiritual being into the state of free will, from where it then has to decide whether it wants to continue its ascent or return into the abyss once more .... For God certainly helps the being to ascend but He does not compel it if it wants to descend. This decision of free will therefore takes place during the final stage of development on this earth .... when the soul is embodied as a human beings and can use its free will again at its own discretion .... Then the human being must recognise the great mercy of the former process of development and make conscious use of his earthly life, he must prove himself worthy and have the will that his final stage shall take him to the goal, he must strive whole-heartedly for his perfection and thus prove that he belongs to God; he must do whatever it takes so as not to fall again into the hands of the one from whom God's love had helped him become free throughout infinitely long times .... He must not live carelessly during this short time but again and again only remember the spiritual goal which will release him from all constraints, which signifies the reunion with God in light and strength and happiness .... And thus you humans were given earthly life for the sake of liberating your soul from a bondage which was placed upon you by God's adversary since time immemorial but which was its own fault and thus it will also have to remove its own share in order to gain its freedom and everlasting life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly knowledge is not 'wisdom' ....

B.D. 6931 from September 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Even if you deem yourselves wise, you are nothing of the kind as long as I cannot let My light shine into you to enlighten your spirit. For that which you consider knowledge will not make you happy for long, even if it comes close to the truth, for it is merely earthly knowledge .... knowledge, which relates to everything you deem worthy of knowing for your earthly life. Were you to forego your physical life tomorrow this knowledge would also be lost to you if you could not show any spiritual progress. But those of you who don't strive spiritually do not possess wisdom. Wisdom is the realisation of everlasting knowledge, which comes forth from Me alone and flows to the one who sincerely desires it. However, you humans only ever judge intellectual results and deny the value of all spiritually gained conclusions. You thereby only prove that you are still unenlightened, that you exist in a pitiful state because the time you lived on earth has so far been completely useless. You are chasing after the wrong possessions if you content yourselves with the information you have gained so far, which exclusively answers earthly questions and solves problems which, from a spiritual point of view, are worthless. You miss the purpose of your earthly life which solely consists of changing your soul's spiritual darkness, of dissolving its layers which prevent the penetration of light. You don't even know the purpose of your earthly life, you don't know about the actual task you are given, but you believe yourselves to be wise if you possess purely earthly-orientated knowledge .... if you have a keen intellect at your disposal and solely use this divine gift to research and ponder with a purely earthly goal in mind ....

You can attain an eminent reputation on earth, you can indeed achieve great things compared to your fellow human beings, but you cannot call yourselves wise, since by virtue of your intellect you will be unable to fathom anything which lies beyond the sphere of human habitation .... And at the end of your life you will have to admit that you know nothing, if you approach your end consciously, if you come close to passing through the gate to eternity and you think about the accomplishments of your earthly progress .... Then your own self-assurance will leave you; then you might perhaps even become aware of the futility of your efforts, and you would be grateful if you could still receive a small glimmer of light about the human being's real purpose of life. If you .... who deem yourselves wise .... are offered a light during earthly life you spurn it due to self-importance, for while you are influenced by deceptive light you cannot feel the gentle radiance which, however, would enter your heart, whilst the deceptive light .... your intellectual knowledge .... cannot spread inner clarity. You should never reject a light if it illuminates you unusually, your should not try to explain such light intellectually, you should close your eyes, which are already weakened by the deceptive light, and let the true light shine into your heart, that means, you should put all your earthly knowledge aside for once and simply listen quietly when you hear Words of wisdom .... You should make time to let your thoughts roam into a region which is unknown to you, and long to learn more about it .... And every such thought will become a blessing for you .... For then you will receive knowledge which you will recognise as 'wisdom from God' and which will truly gain you greater success than the worldly knowledge you strive for .... which will vanish, just as your body will vanish, and which has not provided the soul with the slightest progress .... which left it in the same darkness it was in when it came to earth as a human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The bridge to Me is Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6932 from October 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I shed My blood for all of you who live in sin and wickedness, who still wear the earthly garment which is evidence of a state which is not My will and not My work but which was based on your own will and its execution. As human beings you are imperfect creatures, for you are dependent on a higher power, you are not free, powerful beings which can work without restriction, for you had forfeited your own freedom and strength, you had also given away the light of realization, you made yourselves wretched creatures in deluded thinking. And this is why you now walk the earth and have the opportunity to regain your once blissful and perfect state again, because My greater than great love and mercy reaches out to you, because I built a bridge for you which enables your return to Me .... because I accomplished the act of salvation for all of you which redeemed the great guilt which was the cause of your wretched state. But you humans are not aware of the fact that you only live on earth for the purpose of changing your nature, that you are imperfect, thus wretched, and that you should become perfect again in order to attain unlimited beatitude .... This imperfect earthly existence is enough for you, you don't want to lose it, and therefore you don't do anything yourselves to enter the bridge I have built in order to be able to reach Me. You have no desire within yourselves for your true home because you are devoid of all realization of what you were in the beginning .... And you would be able to gain this realization if only you decided to live a life of love on earth .... Then you would also see the bridge and want to enter it. You would recognize and learn to understand Me and My act of salvation, you would feel drawn to Me because you would suddenly have the certainty that I alone can fetch you back into your father's house. I shed My blood for all of you so that it should wash you clean from your guilt .... You humans do not understand these words as long as you lack a life of love .... Then both My human manifestation and My act of salvation are incomprehensible and doubtful to you. Then you cannot believe in Me, because only love awakens faith to life .... But you can perform works of love if only your will is good. But your will is free .... However, the will can be stimulated to do good, to act well, to live a life of love. And this happens through the supply of My word. And thus you will understand that it is extremely necessary to address people again and again and to proclaim the teaching of love to them, which I preached on earth as the man Jesus .... Only by addressing people can they be advised to make an effort to live a life of love, and only then can they gain faith and consciously come to Me in Jesus Christ, Who accepts everyone because I died for everyone on the cross. But I cannot force people under My cross .... and only those will ever come voluntarily who are of good will and not completely devoid of love .... Although My blood has flowed for all people, not all people will come into the blessing of the act of salvation, for the human being's will itself must be willing to allow itself to be redeemed, and this means that it has to acknowledge Me, that it has to take the path of its own free will to the cross, so that he entrusts himself to Me in his weakness and inadequacy and appeals to Me for help, so that he recognizes and confesses himself as guilty and demands to return to his God and father again, from Whom he once turned away of his own free will. He has to enter the bridge, i.e. he has to find the bond from this earth into the spiritual kingdom; he has to recognize that earth is not his home, he has to look for this home outside of earth, he has to recognize himself as a flawed creature and ask his creator to take care of him, he has to demand the child to the father .... Then it will also have safely entered the bridge which I Myself built through My crucifixion, and then the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will also be fully recognized in His mission, because He Himself is the bridge which leads to Me, because the human being will then safely take the path to the cross and I can now also open the gate to beatitude for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unfair means of the opponent ....

B.D. 6933 from October 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

He who has My word shall have no doubts about My love, wisdom and might .... For My word shall be proof to him that I always work in love, wisdom and omnipotence .... it shall be proof to him of My constant presence, of My constant concern for the human being's body and soul, of My constant care for him. He should not doubt My love which arranges everything in such a way that it is good for the human being's soul .... he shall not doubt My wisdom which truly recognizes what can have a beneficial effect, and he shall not doubt My might which can remedy everything, to which no limit is set and which therefore also becomes active in accordance with My love and wisdom. Anyone who has My word should only firmly rely on Me .... he shall believe .... And I will truly not let his faith fail .... In the awareness of My nearness he will also be able to muster this faith. And therefore he should only intimately unite with Me so that he feels Me. He must feel My presence, then all doubts will fall away from him, then his faith will be alive, then he will feel seized and cared for by My love, and then I will have achieved what I wanted to achieve: a bond which endures, which no longer allows distance from Me and which is necessary for a special task. For I set ever greater tasks for those who want to serve Me, but their fulfilment requires a special strength of faith. And I want to educate My servants to such a strength of faith. Moreover, in the last days I will fight a battle with My adversary who wants to snatch the souls from Me by unfair means which already belong to Me .... And you bring this battle to an end yourselves, for My adversary, in his delusion, seeks to undermine Me and My working, he believes he can catch My emanation of strength in order to strengthen his power and thus to be able to direct and exploit the strength of love radiated by Me according to his wrong will. He wants to misuse you who receive My strength of love directly .... Understand, he wants to use you as carriers of divine strength of love which he can no longer receive himself. But for this you have to turn away from Me .... And this is what he wants to achieve in faith, then to appropriate 'filled vessels' for himself and to enrich himself with their contents .... with love-power from Me .... His thinking is wrong, but the means he uses will put you in danger if you don't firmly hold on to Me and long for My presence so intimately that it will be your protection and help. Hence you yourselves are the deciding factor in the battle against My adversary, which he wages with dishonest means and which requires great strength of faith on your part. And he will use ever new tricks the closer the end is, and therefore your faith must also become ever stronger. And every passed test of faith will strengthen it until your faith in My love, wisdom and omnipotence has become so unshakeable that My adversary will shake it in vain, that he can attack with all his might and yet achieve nothing .... And I will make ever greater demands on you which you will also be able to meet by virtue of faith, for the end time will still bring many temptations by the adversary which you will only be able to cope with in heartfelt contact with Me. But as long as doubts still creep into your hearts regarding My direct address you are also in danger of not being able to withstand his onslaughts. But anyone who has My word should drop all doubts, after all, he is a co-worker to Me whose willingness to serve secures him My protection and My help in spiritual and earthly adversity. He should only ever secure My presence through heartfelt prayer and activity of love, then My adversary will no longer be able to harass him, for My love, wisdom and might will prove themselves because the human being himself now allows this ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The battle of Lucifer against God ....

B.D. 6934 from October 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

God's adversary has been fighting against God for an eternity, he has been trying for an eternity to seize supremacy because his fall has caused him to lose the realization that this is an impossible undertaking and because he is completely blind and does not recognize himself and his essence or his creator, Who, standing in supreme perfection, does not destroy him despite his adversary's activity but constantly endeavours to lead his followers and finally also himself back to the light, that is, to realization. But this struggle, which has lasted for eternity, achieves something: highly developed spiritual beings emerge from it, who .... having once fallen away from God themselves .... nevertheless return to God again, but now not only as 'creatures' but as 'children' of God, exhibiting a degree of bliss which they had not yet possessed before their apostasy .... because the perfection of a being created by God was not its own merit, but the present perfection was striven for in free will by the being which once fell. The fall of Lucifer, the first created being, was not willed by God but likewise a matter of free will of his .... But on this fall God built His plan, which was to bring back to Him right children. But God's adversary is unaware of this plan; he certainly knows that he has lost followers through Jesus' crucifixion and is still losing them, but in his blindness he does not recognize God's infinite love, instead, for him He is only the counter-spirit whom he wants to dethrone in order to usurp supremacy over everything created. His delusion degenerates into abysmal hatred, which becomes stronger and stronger the more he sees his power dwindle. He is no longer able to recognize God's love, and even if he seems to display a certain shrewdness in cunning and intrigue .... he is completely blinded, he is able to dominate everything created. He can no longer grasp any connections, he rages, as it were, blindly against everything that does not submit to his will. This is why he need not be feared by people who were already allowed to receive a small light, who trustingly devote themselves to God's love, who strive towards Him and seriously strive for perfection. For these are already far above God's adversary in their knowledge and they will always be able to see through his activity. But he does not give up the battle precisely because he does not recognize its hopelessness and because he already sees victory in gaining time, in believing that he can prevent the return of his followers which, however, is only postponed by his activity but will certainly happen one day. All beings fallen with him are without knowledge as a result of their fall .... all walk along in darkness .... And if a small light flashes in this darkness then God's adversary sees this light as a danger to himself and seeks to extinguish it. But every person who seriously strives towards God also begins to shine .... he is illuminated by God's love and the light ignites in his heart .... He slowly comes to recognize and now separates himself from the darkness, which triggers bright indignation in God's adversary and constant attempts by him to extinguish the light .... But the light is stronger than the darkness .... And that is what God's adversary does not want to grasp, otherwise his return would also be quicker. But the work of return is constantly continued by God, and His adversary even unintentionally offers Him a hand by creating the resistance as God's antipole on which the fallen should test itself, which is drawn into the battle and even brings it to a decision itself .... For the struggle is waged for that which has fallen, which .... according to the adversary's deluded thinking, strengthens his power but which, from God's point of view, is nevertheless free and should remain so and, in its freedom, should travel the path to Him in order to attain precisely that increased degree of maturity which ensures unlimited beatitude. Lucifer's battle against God has lasted for eternities, and it will still be waged for eternities, but it will nevertheless end victoriously one day when everything that has fallen has returned to God again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Those who love God ....

B.D. 6935 from October 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Those who love God will derive a benefit from everything. For God takes particularly good care of them, and if suffering and worries or harsh strokes of fate are granted to them, He will only ever use these means in order to help the soul become perfect. You humans will frequently experience that precisely those fellow human beings who make every effort to live a God-pleasing life are being afflicted by strokes of fate, and you cannot comprehend why they must suffer and struggle so much on earth .... But neither do you know about their glorious fate after their death. 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which I have prepared for those who love Me ....' And God wants to prepare the soul which grants Him its love on earth for this bliss. For the soul must have reached a specific degree of maturity before it can enter the eternal splendour, that is, it must be clean and pure, it must have discarded all impurities which prevent it from entering this magnificent kingdom. Only rarely is a soul so perfected that it would need no suffering, no means of purification of any kind. Its heartfelt devotion of God and its love for Him will often be rewarded by Him in a way which you humans on earth, admittedly, cannot understand, whereby through suffering and adversity He helps where the human being himself is still too weak. Yet all those afflicted by suffering shall take comfort in the fact that everything will benefit their soul as long as they only 'love God' .... And they prove their love for God through humble devotion to Him, through their will to live correctly and righteously, and by fulfilling the commandment of love for their neighbour, which also incorporates the fulfilment of love for God. Anyone who loves the next person as himself has the right relationship with God, for his indwelling strength of love is God's emanation, which was only able to affect him because he loves God. No suffering should therefore dishearten that person who has already voluntarily handed himself over to God. He should only ever regard it as the evidence of God's love, Who wants to help him to still mature fully during the short time on earth, in order to then be able to provide him with an inconceivable measure of bliss. Do not allow the difficulties of a stroke of fate to depress you or make you waver in your faith .... For this, too, will have been determined by God's love and wisdom, Who certainly knows what the individual still requires, Who does nothing or lets nothing happen arbitrarily but always pursues a plan which, one day, will also be clearly presented to you when you have successfully completed your life on earth. You must not compare God's reign and activity to that of a human being's conduct, for even if a person is good, he nevertheless lacks the final wisdom which is always the decisive factor for everything that God inflicts upon a person, the wisdom which is only based on God's love. And thus God also realises the outcome a person's every experience can result in, and He aims to achieve this outcome .... And it will certainly raise the state of maturity of a soul which loves God .... Earthly life is only short and you humans do not have much time left in order to enable you to leave the Earth so matured that you can be granted glories beyond measure .... And in view of this, God Himself will help you by still providing you with opportunities to prove yourselves during this short time, which you can certainly do successfully if you humbly accept everything .... always believing God only allows for that to come upon you which is helpful for you. You should not quarrel and grumble, you should not doubt His love. Your love for Him must remain the same while you submit to everything you receive from the Father's hand. For regardless of whether it is His will or merely His permission .... it will always benefit the salvation of your souls as long as you remain inclined towards Him with love. Otherwise His Words 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which I have prepared for those who love Me ....' would not be warranted. Your love ensures that His promise will be granted, and if you have this certain and firm faith, you will also endure everything with ease, everything will become less severe and significant, even if, in the beginning, it seems very difficult for you to bear ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Statements by seers and prophets ....

B.D. 6936 from October 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Listen to what the spirit of God proclaims to you: the seers and prophets are chosen by Me Myself because they have to fulfil a great and important task .... informing people of the forthcoming Judgment of the world and admonishing them to prepare themselves for it. These seers and prophets don't use their own words but merely pass on what My spirit tells them. Thus, in a manner of speaking, you receive a direct proclamation from Me Myself, I merely have to use a mediator in order not to compel your thoughts and actions. You therefore can believe it but are not forced to do so. You will believe it if you acknowledge the gift of vision and prophesy in these mediators; you will reject it if you doubt their mission. But I want to make it easy for you to believe them, I will visibly emphasise their mission by allowing the announced events to happen which precede the Judgment .... I will make sure that these announcements will be spread, that many people can be informed of them and that they then will experience the evidence of it, because everything will happen as I predicted through seers and prophets. Although I warned people .... when I lived on earth .... to beware of false Christs and false prophets and pointed out that My adversary's emissaries will also wreak havoc, I now caution people once again not to get caught in his nets of lies and to believe his intrigues, for he is active and through remarkable accomplishments, through physical works of wonder, is trying to awaken in people the belief that the 'powers of heaven' are expressing themselves ....

But precisely his remarkable activity during the last days also gives rise to My countermeasure which consists of using methods that revive a weak faith again or let a lost faith arise anew. And this cannot happen in any other way than through pure truth, which comes forth from the source of truth but must reach you humans through mediators because you are unable to receive it directly yourselves.

And thus I present to people what lies ahead of them. And the people I have chosen to mediate between Myself and you humans can be acknowledged by you as genuine prophets whose words you should believe. I Am also prepared to demonstrate that they speak on My instruction and inform you of what is to come by very soon making the first announcements come true. For the most important task of these seers and prophets is the announcement of the end, which is of utmost importance for you humans and which you thus should await being prepared. And for this you are still granted a period of time which can suffice to save your souls from ruin.

And so I will not hesitate much longer, I will confirm My seers' and prophets' mission, I will let their proclamations be followed by action .... Prior to this .... before the end .... I will shake the earth and show Myself to all people through a natural event which time and again has been announced according to My will. For I gave them the instruction Myself, they only spoke as My instruments, as My representatives on earth who should admonish and warn people on My behalf. You must not deem yourselves safe from events which testify to a higher Power, you should dread them and believe that My Word is truth, that I Myself speak and have spoken to you through them and that you are therefore definitely approaching an extremely difficult time, if My grace will not call you back beforehand. You are facing the end of an era, and in this certainty you should live your life accordingly .... always in view of a sudden end which, however, need not be feared by anyone who consciously improves himself, who pays more attention to his soul than to his earthly body, for he will not lose anything but only gain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Effectiveness of the divine ray of love ....

B.D. 6937 from October 6th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

My ray of love hits you with undiminished strength, but your resistance limits its effectiveness and therefore it can neither enlighten nor warm you. That is why you are ignorant and powerless as long as you still defend yourselves against Me. And you cannot deny this deficiency, for you lack the clear realization of your origin and your aim. You perhaps assume but lack the conviction that your assumptions are correct. And you also lack strength, for although you have vitality at your disposal it is nevertheless subject to certain limits, your body is subject to laws which you cannot overturn at will if you don't want to endanger your existence. Thus you have to admit ignorance and weakness if you seriously think about it .... And thus you also have proof that My strength of love cannot take effect on you as yet, because such means that all deficiencies have been remedied as well as My strength of love can shine upon you without encountering resistance. But you lack the evidence for this, or even .... you don't make an effort to procure the evidence of the effect of My illumination of love .... because you all could. You need only no longer defend yourselves against Me, you need only consciously turn towards Me and want to be illuminated by Me and My love .... And you will be amazed at the transformation that will take place in yourselves by virtue of My love. You will see the darkness disappear, hitherto unsolved questions will be answered for you, you will be able to grasp the correlations, and you will also have strength at your disposal if you make use of it yourselves in full belief that you, as living creations of a powerful God, can also draw strength from Him if you are willing to accept it from Him. All of you could provide yourselves with this evidence but only if you consciously turn to Me and open yourselves to My illumination of love .... if you want to make contact with Me .... Only then will your earthly existence become understandable to you, only then will the darkness give way and you will realize with the greatest of light why you walk on earth. Although physical weakness can still cling to the human being then, for it is more spiritual strength which he now receives and which he uses again for spiritual activity, which may indeed also include appearances which become visible on his fellow human being's body .... But he did not accomplish them with his life force but with the strength of love which flowed to him from Me and for which nothing is impossible. A person who is still unaware of all this has not yet opened himself to Me and My illumination of love, he is still inwardly repelled by Me, even if he is not a 'conscious opponent'. Yet his indifference and his aimless earthly life .... for earthly aims are not to be recorded as plus .... prove his 'God-remote' attitude, they prove his distance from Me, even if he professes faith in a God with his mouth. The 'opening of his heart to My ray of love' must be a completely free decision on the part of the human being, he must consciously turn to Me in an hour of inner contemplation and then request from Me what he lacks: light and strength, i.e. knowledge and the strength to now be able to utilize this knowledge according to My will .... He must consciously give up resistance, that is, consciously unite with Me .... He must establish contact with Me so that the flow of love can be transferred to him .... The human being may not value his intellectual knowledge as 'realization', for as long as he has not been enlightened by Me Myself he will not be able to represent intellectual knowledge as absolute truth but only ever assume that it could be the truth, whereas he will now represent as truth what he has once 'recognized' through inner enlightenment. So as long as you humans still question or assume, the divine light of love has not yet become effective in you. But you can all acquire this firm conviction as soon as you give Me the right to let My ray of light of love flow into you through your will .... Then weakness and darkness will depart from you, then light and strength will fill you again, which were your own in the beginning .... And only then will your path go upwards, whereas before you were wandering along on the same level, often even in danger of going downwards again because you go astray in darkness and will never reach the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Don't let the sacrifice on the cross be in vain ....

B.D. 6938 from October 7th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

My suffering and dying on the cross can also have been unsuccessful for you humans, the sacrifice on the cross can have been in vain for you who do not allow yourselves to be impressed by it, who do not acknowledge the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, who merely take notice of the 'human being Jesus' but do not acknowledge His divinely spiritual mission, and hence you exclude yourselves from those for whom the act of Salvation has been accomplished. You consciously have to turn to Him if you want to participate in the blessings of the act of Salvation. The 'salvation' depends on you, even though I died for all people on the cross.

But you humans do not know that you are constrained, that you can never enjoy freedom in light and strength without deliverance through Jesus Christ but remain in captivity even if an infinitely long time will pass by ....You do not know that the state of bondage, the lack of strength and light, can never be changed other than by way of the Calvary cross .... And even if you reject the divine Saviour Jesus Christ, even if you ignore His accomplishment, it depends entirely on Him how long you will be in an unhappy state ....

You do not regard your human existence as very unhappy and therefore do not look for the One, Who can provide you with a blissful fate. But your earthly existence as a human being does not last long, and only then will you become aware of the torments of your inhibited state, then the energy of life, which was yours as a human being, is taken from you .... providing you are not bound in hard matter and have to experience the agonies of confinement therein. However, as long as you keep your self-awareness you still have the opportunity to call upon Jesus Christ, your Saviour .... be it on this earth or even in the kingdom of the beyond, if you are not absorbed by utter darkness. And for this reason My love constantly endeavours to direct your thoughts to Him, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem you. Time and again I will try to bring Jesus' achievement home to you. Time and again I will take care that His act of Salvation will be mentioned and that you, who are still completely distant from the cross, who attach little or no significance to anything in relation to Jesus Christ, will be given the information.

Every one of you will be approached and referred to Him sooner or later, every one of you can deliberate on the information about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, and everyone can now respond to Him in accordance with his will. But his attitude is decisive for an endlessly long time or even for eternity .... Because he may indeed have to stay in torment and constraint for an infinitely long time, but he can also be eternally free, and in light, strength and blissfulness thank his divine Saviour for the act of merciful love which had bought him his freedom and resulted in his blissful previous state again. No human being is exempt from this decision, and every human being prepares his own future fate .... but My love constantly helps him to make the right choice, My love constantly advises him, so that no human being will be able to say that he was left uninformed of the means for his redemption.

But even My love does not determine your will .... For you have chosen this wretched state of your own free will, and of your own free will you shall also make an effort to be saved from it again. And for this reason the salvation through Jesus Christ requires your free will, otherwise the whole world would have been redeemed already, otherwise no-one would be in bondage and weakness any longer, because the act of Salvation has been accomplished for all humankind.

But only your will utilizes the blessings of the act of Salvation, when you freely profess your faith in Him, Who died on your behalf on the cross .... when you acknowledge Me Myself in Jesus Christ and thus want that I would have died for you. Then you will be truly liberated from the state of constraint, you will pass from this earth redeemed and enter the kingdom where you can be infinitely active and happy in light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's struggle for the world's people ....

B.D. 6939 from October 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

My love and mercy also turn to those people who still think in a completely material way, who walk their earthly path without any spiritual bond .... who only evaluate what is visible and tangible to them and unhesitatingly reject everything that cannot be proven. These people need not be exactly bad, they can lead a righteous way of life but they reject all spiritual influx, which means as much as that they always remain on the same level, that they walk a level path and at the end of their earthly life cannot record any spiritual progress and the whole earthly course was, as it were, in vain for the soul .... for what remains after the death of the body. Hence the soul need not have developed retrogressively and yet it has no success to chalk up .... It enters the kingdom of the beyond in the same state of maturity in which it started its earthly life, and even there an ascent will be difficult for such souls because their will to reject all instruction is still as strong as on earth. Moreover, its thoughts are also confused, it knows nothing of its physical death, and thus it can rarely only be brought to a different way of thinking through the instruction of spiritual friends, because the views the human being possessed on earth also caused it to become arrogant. I would like to come to their aid while they are still on earth .... I would like to give their thought structure a nasty jolt, I would like to let them look into a light, I would just once like to make them also reckon with the possibility of a spiritual world .... I want to offer them every assistance in stepping from the flat path, which is aimless, onto that path which leads upwards .... I only want to make them realize the worthlessness of all material goods once, so that they seriously consider the purpose and aim of their existence on earth. For especially these people are difficult to guide because everything spiritual, every belief in another world, in a continuation of the soul, only appears to them as a sign of naivety of their fellow human beings, from which they themselves want to be and remain free. And these people are therefore particularly sensitively affected by strokes of fate; the transience of the earthly is so often brought home to them, yet only rarely with success. But the abundance of such events, which will also increase, shall become understandable to you if you also remember the large number of those who have precisely this unspiritual view of life .... And if I only win a few of them, if only a few allow themselves to be addressed by Me through such strokes of fate, if their direction of vision now changes and they let go of their previous thinking .... then I will have achieved much, and the strokes of fate were a blessing .... For until the end of every person's life I wrestle for his soul in order to spare it the infinitely long time in the kingdom of the beyond where it is lightless and all efforts made on such souls remain fruitless. What the human being achieves on earth signifies a considerable head start which the soul can no longer catch up with in the beyond. And since precisely these people are in the majority on earth it is understandable that I have to resort to ever stronger means which you .... who are devout .... will not be able to explain to you as being based on My love. But you don't know about the hardship of those souls, which can last an infinitely long time .... you don't know how valuable one day on earth is when you consciously strive towards the aim .... and how many days are thus lived completely uselessly by those whom I also want to win for Me and My kingdom. And the most painful event can be regarded as the greatest grace if it causes a person to consciously strive towards the aim .... For the earth will pass away and nothing will remain for the person who has only ever lived his earthly life. But the spiritual kingdom will remain, only it can become a tormenting abode for the soul for eternity if it closes itself when its light is brought ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s blessing for every action .... Marriages ....

B.D. 6940 from October 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

All blessings have to come from God Himself in order to take effect. A human being’s blessing will only ever be a ‘blessing’ for another person when God is called upon, that is to say when this blessing is given in His name. And therefore you humans may also contact Him yourselves if you want to receive His blessing because your plea that God should sanction your planned action will also gain you His caring help in every situation of life. God has indeed chosen His servants on earth who shall impart on His behalf the gift He Himself wants to give to people .... who speak to people on His behalf since He cannot speak to them Himself due to their freedom of will. And His representatives are also able to implore God to bless his fellow human being, to direct the results of his actions such that they will benefit the person. But this is entirely under God’s control, hence only God alone can give His blessing and the human being can only do so on His behalf, with other words in the name of God. This is why every human being is also able to request God’s blessing for his undertaking without those whose office makes them feel entitled to give blessings. Because much of it is a mere formality, and the inner state of mind is not greatly observed anymore. A person with an inner connection to God will no longer do anything without first having prayed for God’s blessing, and God’s blessing will also be assured to him ....

However, the conferring of blessings which has become a formality, which is mechanically carried out, which is tied to customs, will always just remain a formality and have little effect on people, or many things which will never correspond to God’s will would have to find God’s approval. For instance, formal marriage ceremonies are also blessed, for which God would not give His approval and which He would prevent if He did not observe the free will of people. Marriages take place for worldly, materialistic reasons which do not deserve the description of ‘marriage’ .... Unions are entered into which do not show the prerequisites required for a good marriage before God .... However, the blessing of the church is not denied to such unions, but whether God Himself will bless such a marriage remains to be seen .... even though an ecclesiastical blessing need not always be ineffective, when both the person conferring the blessing as well as the recipient have established sincere contact with God, thus when God Himself is petitioned for His blessing by all participants. Hence only this sincere contact with God is decisive as it proves the human being’s willingness to be blessed by Him. God will always be ready to direct everything for the benefit of a person’s soul, and He will also know how to direct worldly events such that they result in a blessing for him, if the person prays for God’s blessing himself.

But people’s entirely unblessed beginnings will not result in much benefit, just as the purely formal blessing cannot be considered a divine privilege, a ‘blessing of God’. Only what is prayed for spiritually and in truth and carried out can be of value .... that is why every heartfelt prayer for God’s blessing will be granted because it is God’s will that the person should enter into heartfelt union with Him and his blessing will only evolve from this bond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's gift: the spark of love, a part of Himself ....

B.D. 6941 from October 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You are lacking light and strength because you are still imperfect. However, without light and strength you will not attain perfection either and would hopelessly have fallen prey to a wretched state were you not granted help and first given light and strength, which subsequently enables you to reach the state of perfection. Hence, at the beginning of your life on earth you are oblivious of the correlations, of the meaning of your earthly life and your task, you are completely without knowledge .... you are lacking light .... And if this is brought to you by way of being instructed of your earthly task then you, on the other hand, lack the strength to attain your spiritual perfection as long as you don't acquire the strength for yourselves, which can only ever happen through kind-hearted activity. And for the acquisition of this strength .... thus for being lovingly active .... you usually lack the will, because your imperfect state also signifies an exceedingly weakened will .... So this is how you are at the beginning of your earthly life which was only given to you to shape your imperfect nature into becoming perfect. Your life on earth would therefore be incredibly hopeless had God's love not granted you something to help you attain perfection again: He placed a minutely small spark of His infinite spirit of love into you .... This tiny spark of love is His share, it is inseparably united with Him, it is spirit from His spirit, light from His eternal essence of light and strength at the same time .... This tiny spark is capable of achieving a change in you so that all imperfection will fade away and enable you to leave this earth as radiant beings of light. But this requires you to kindle this tiny spark yourselves, that you provide it with nourishment so that it can spread out .... it requires you to allow the divine spirit of love to impel you into activity of love, for that is its task, it is God's help that this spiritual spark constantly tries to influence you from within to do works of love .... because 'love' equals 'light and strength', because ignorance and lack of strength fade away as a result of activity of love .... because love is the only mean to become as perfect again as the being was at the start. Without this spark of love no-one would reach this goal in earthly life, for the being had once completely rejected all of God's illumination of love of its own free will and was no longer able to love correctly, which is its legacy of the one who was the first to renounce God's love ....

Thus the human being is this once-fallen being which believed itself capable of existing without divine illumination of love .... Admittedly, it could no longer perish again but the state of a fallen being became a completely different one than as it was originally created .... For only love is the invigorating strength which enables the being to be blissfully active, without love the being is dead and in spiritual darkness and therefore must also feel tremendously wretched. Yet despite having formerly rejected His love God placed this minutely small spark of love into every human heart and so established contact between Himself and the person, which, however, must also be utilised by the person, because even this spark of love, the part of the divine spirit, does not coerce the human being's will. Nevertheless, with gentle urges it tries to influence this will to practice love, which then can ignite a flame in the person's heart spreading light and at the same time providing the person with strength to change his nature. Therefore it is possible for every human being to obtain light and strength for himself in earthly life, but since free will must not be excluded God's spirit of love remains in the background and does not compel a person into activity which causes his perfection .... on account of which countless people fail to make use of the great gift of grace and thus remain in darkness and weakness from which only activity of love can release the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Scientific research with God or without God .... I.

B.D. 6942 from October 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

First take care of the establishment of order within yourselves, then you will also experience a wonderful solution to all other problems, then the divine order and lawfulness will reveal themselves to you, you will not need to research but will see everything brightly and clearly .... be it works of creation or laws of nature which give you cause for research and experimentation of every kind. Only the order within you is a guarantee for right thinking, right cognition and truthful results of your intellectual thinking. If this order has not yet been established in yourselves, then you can experiment as much as you like .... you calculate wrongly .... and a wrong calculation results in error. Let it be said to you that you, as human beings, cannot research natural laws as long as you yourselves are still outside the law of eternal order .... For as long as you do so you will be in communion with God's adversary who is never interested in giving you light but always wants to confuse your thinking more. His aim is to distract people from their actual earthly task. His aim is also to reveal the problems of creation to them differently in order to destroy the belief in a God and creator. And all those who try to solve the secrets of creation and are not firmly and intimately united with God can only draw wrong conclusions because they are influenced by the adversary due to their own unbelief. On the other hand, the opponent's power does not exceed the power of God .... But everything proves the nearness of the end of this earth, for people not only seek to make the earth but also the universe subservient to them, and therefore the answer will also come from the universe. You humans will still experience much because all the forces of hell are at work in this last time, and what you consider impossible will be possible through their influence. But nothing will be a blessing for you because it is not God's spirit but the spirit of the adversary which instigates people to try to prove their power and strength. In no way will spiritual development be promoted, in no way will the divine order be established, which has been overturned by humanity, which lives devoid of all love .... In no way does humanity seek to attain peace, hatred and imperiousness alone determine people's actions, and everyone seeks to outdo the other, but never in working with love but only in emphasising power and knowledge .... And every thought, every striving is only meant for earthly aims. And thus people live outside of divine order, and therefore they can never accomplish or achieve anything which is in line with divine order. But they overestimate their own strength. Although God allows His adversary to express himself in a way that seems to cancel out His creative principle .... there are limits to Him and His activity and thus also to the people who are under His influence. And human creations do not last, for their original substance is not strength of love emanating from God but strength gathered and wrongly directed by God's adversary through people's will .... or also misused natural strength which .... could be a blessing to humanity if used correctly. But right application can never be spoken of where divine order is not first observed .... where spiritual development suffers damage, where God and His rule and activity are not acknowledged, where God's adversary visibly drives his nature and people are willing servants to him. For divine-spiritual striving cannot be concealed, it becomes evident, just as the working of the opposing spirit can be recognized ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Scientific research with God or without God .... II.

B.D. 6943 from October 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You have been allowed to take possession of the earth in order to mature on it during your short earthly lifetime. You can subdue it as far as this corresponds to your degree of maturity, and you can make it serviceable to you, for everything serves you for the preservation of your life if you use it properly and integrate yourselves into the law of eternal order. Earth has been assigned to your soul as a place of residence for the purpose of maturing, and full of gratitude you should only make use of this gift of grace, for having to walk the earthly path is not easy but it offers the greatest possibility of success, and the human being can leave it as a true child of God, for which only earth thus offers him the opportunity. But this great grace is not valued .... In their delusion people believe that life on this earth alone is the purpose of their existence, and they also arrange their lives according to this opinion. They truly proclaim themselves rulers of this earth, yet not in the sense that God has given them the right to do so, but only with a view to earthly success, to increasing their material goods and taking possession of all things which are common property but which are illegally appropriated by individuals. And this attitude of people leads so far that they soon no longer allow themselves to be satisfied with the domination of this earth, that they climb into an area outside the work of creation which was assigned to them by God .... But the creator of heaven and earth also foresaw this procedure from the very beginning. He built His plan of salvation on people's free will, on the direction of their will, and this plan of salvation will always be carried out when people's will gives cause for it. Thus, as soon as human souls are in serious danger of completely forgetting their purpose of earthly life, when it is no longer possible to speak of a development or a maturing of the souls at all, then the purpose of earth will also have been missed and God will end one epoch of salvation in order to start a new one under different conditions. People are increasingly distancing themselves from their actual aim, they draw up plans and work overzealously on their implementation which have nothing whatsoever to do with the development of the soul, and this attitude reveals one thing in particular: that the ruling principle is becoming increasingly more widespread .... thus also that God's adversary is visibly at work and that people are all too obedient servants to him. For what people are striving for in the last days is by no means aimed at a return to God, at the transformation of their being. It is merely earthly-materially oriented; the search for power and strength, for honour and fame and a prominent position is all too evident, and all this testifies to the influence of the one who, as God's 'adversary', also wants to hold people back from their actual earthly task and who therefore tries to direct their eyes towards anti-divine intentions. But God does not prevent people .... But He foresaw this, and He puts an end to the redemption period in the knowledge that the earth no longer fulfils its purpose. People will still provide incredible evidence of their wrong thinking and striving and boast of their successes .... but they will not be allowed to enjoy them for long .... The adversary has great power in the last days, and he also needs it extensively, but people need not fall prey to him, for they also have an abundance of grace at their disposal so that they could free themselves from him and his power. Yet people themselves misjudge their purpose of earthly life, people themselves like to be dazzled, and therefore they also have to bear the consequences when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of Christ's fighters ....

B.D. 6944 from October 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Fight the battle with all zeal against error and lies .... Know that I have chosen you to be My fighters, to whom I give the task to fight with the sword of the mouth for Me and My kingdom. I don't want you humans to go against each other and inflict bodily harm on each other, I don't want the strong to abuse his strength against the weak, I don't want a battle for the sake of earthly possessions, but you shall wage one battle which is just: the battle against untruth, against false doctrines, as long as they concern Me Myself and My kingdom, which is not of this world. For misguided teachings prevent people from feeling love for Me, and misguided teachings have led many souls to My adversary .... But the misguided teachings also originated from the adversary, and therefore you should fight them if you want to serve Me. Wherever you recognize that people's thinking is wrongly guided you should be active in enlightening them and oppose the truth to the teachings which are advocated by them. For only truth is able to give light, only truth can promote the soul's development, whereas untruth causes the soul's cover to become increasingly denser and the human being lives in darkness, in ignorance and wrongly guided thoughts. I guide the pure truth to earth .... You who receive it should pass it on and not be afraid to cause offence. But you will have to fight, for My adversary will fight you, he will also oppose you with his fighters, but you should and can withstand them because your weapon is sharp, because your weapon is truth which no-one is able to refute as soon as you speak in My name and thereby give Me the opportunity to speak through you Myself .... And truly, no-one will be able to ward off My blade, it will strike and incapacitate the adversary. And especially in the last days so many opinions will come to light, many will believe themselves called to stand up for the truth and yet eagerly advocate lies and error, because this is the adversary's cunning to feign divine activity where human work is unmistakable .... And because they neglected to take the path to Me directly with questions which were also raised in them in the beginning, which certainly would have been answered truthfully by Me. And thus they will now prove to be opponents to you, they will attack the pure truth from Me and seek to invalidate it in the influence of the one who is an enemy of truth .... And then your counterattack will be necessary, then you should only quietly appeal for My help and you can take up the battle without worry and you will emerge victorious. My word truly has great strength, and if you let Me Myself speak through you, you will certainly wield a good blade and the adversary will have to retreat in a weakened state .... The truth will be victorious .... therefore don't be fearfully silent where speaking is appropriate but fight with the sword of the mouth, because I Myself instruct you to do so in realization of the great spiritual misery which is the result of error and lies. Only truth can banish this misery, only truth brings light to people. And they must walk in the light if they want to take the right path which leads to the aim but which can never be found in the darkness of night ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

No seed is lost .... beyond ....

B.D. 6945 from October 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

It is a blessed beginning to want to bring help to the souls in their distress, and therefore it will never remain without success, even if it is not immediately recognizable. Anyone who is only able to address a soul once will also remember it, even if it only comes to mind later. But since its will has to be respected at all times, many a soul needs a longer time before it comes to its own senses, and it can also depart from earth without having made use of the gift of grace it was offered on earth. But even then it can still remember your words because they are spiritual possessions which are everlasting and which can therefore still have an effect on the soul in the kingdom of the beyond, always providing it is not in hard resistance and thus completely darkened in spirit. Therefore you should never believe that your efforts are completely unsuccessful .... You don't know about the strength of the word which originated from Me and which never loses its effect once the resistance has been abandoned .... Therefore it is first necessary to break that resistance of a soul which prevents the effect of My word's strength .... Thus My word must once be offered to a person on earth with love, because love can break the person's resistance .... And on the other hand loving intercession must be offered to the souls in the beyond which is also able to break their former resistance .... But then they will also experience the effect of My word's strength, then it will suddenly resound in them again, just as you offered it to them on earth, and then it will be gladly and gratefully received and become understandable to them .... You can therefore scatter much seed which will one day also come up, even if your effort now seems futile to you .... My word is not lost once it has flowed out of Me and found its way to a heart .... It can rest in stony ground for an infinitely long time in order to take root one day, however unbelievable this may sound to you, but it is emanated strength of love from Me which never loses its effect, it only pauses in its effectiveness where it encounters resistance. But since one day every being will give up resistance, the time will certainly come when the word conveyed to it by Me will start to have an effect. And when a soul awakens to life in the beyond, i.e. when it gives up its resistance and follows the instructions and advice of its spiritual friends, then everything it was offered on earth in terms of spiritual nourishment, which was conveyed to it by Me Myself through My servants, will also arise in it. Then it starts to become bright in her, and then she also recognizes her great guilt of having spurned the word, for she realizes that she was able to achieve far more on earth, and the word itself, which she once rejected, judges her .... Her remorse is great and yet she can escape the wretched state and now also ascend, although she can never ever reach the aim again which was possible for her on earth. What has taken its origin from Me can eternally no longer pass away .... But the effect of it is bound to the time of giving up resistance .... it can soon become effective and help the soul to unexpected beatitude, but it can also take endless times until its effectiveness is permitted, but it will not be lost. And this knowledge shall spur you, My servants, into eager activity. You should scatter the seed at your disposal everywhere, you should carry My word wherever an opportunity presents itself .... You should only pass by the servants of satan because then you would be working in vain, for their effort is to oppose Me. They are in open battle against Me, and they will also attack and hostile you, which is why you should turn away from those who obviously belong to My adversary. Yet you will recognize them, for they do not hide their faces when it is a matter of taking action against the light which shines down to earth from above ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right use of vitality ....

B.D. 6946 from October 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You had distanced yourselves from Me infinitely far, and therefore your path back to Me is also infinitely long. For you have to walk the path upwards again exactly as you had undertaken it downwards, you have to develop yourselves upwards again step by step, just as you once regressed in free will. And this requires the maintenance of a plan of salvation, it requires a re-insertion into the eternal order from which you had stepped out through your fall. To put it simply: love was your original nature .... you changed it into unkindness and now have to accomplish the transformation into love again, which therefore took an infinitely long time because you no longer had the strength for this transformation .... When you know this you also become aware of the immense significance of your earthly life as a human being in which you have a measure of strength at your disposal again compared to the infinitely long time before when you lacked this strength. This vitality enables you to change your nature if you use it correctly, but you can also misuse it, you can use it in the wrong way, and then you will have left the great and last opportunity to return to Me unused. Thus, in earthly life you can easily accomplish the change back to your original being again, because you only need to use your vitality to work in love .... Then you will cover the last short distance step by step and return home to Me, to your father's house. This is the purpose and aim of My plan of salvation of love, to be able to give you the bliss again which you were allowed to enjoy in the beginning. But due to your fall into the abyss you have lost all knowledge of this .... and even if it is conveyed to you, you lack the evidence, and therefore you don't take it seriously and don't strive towards the aim of your earthly life. But only the approach to Me will restore your bliss, whereas the distance from Me is and remains an unhappy state for you. And thus you should only ask yourselves whether you are blissfully happy .... And you should answer this question truthfully .... you should ask yourselves whether 'blessedness' means the goods that the world offers you .... whether they make you happy without desire .... whether you can force them upon yourselves and whether they last and give you lasting happiness? If you are honest, you must answer all these questions in the negative, even if you temporarily believe that you can create your own joys and pleasures. But you know that what you love can be taken from you daily and hourly, that there is no guarantee that you will be allowed to possess the world's goods and pleasures permanently .... You know that the goods you strive for and which make you happy are only pseudo goods and that you cannot speak of eternal bliss .... But precisely this beatitude shall be your aim, for I want to give it to you when you have returned to Me again after this infinitely long time of distance from Me. And thus these serious questions should prompt you to make the right use of your vitality, which is an unheard-of gift of grace from Me because you once rejected it. How rich this vitality can make you, how easy it could be for you to carry out works of love, precisely because you have vitality at your disposal .... Yet you also have free will at your disposal in earthly life as a human being, and this therefore determines whether you ascend or fall back into the abyss. And even if My love provides you with abundant grace, even if I create all possibilities for you and show you the path which leads back to Me .... I do not force your will because otherwise you would never be able to reach perfection. I merely continue to make you aware of the great responsibility earthly life as a human being means for you. And I will not let up informing you of what you were, what you are and what you should become again .... And if you can also believe this without proof, then you will also live responsibly on earth, then you will increasingly try to reduce the distance between us, and I will help you as soon as you yourselves want to return home to your father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Opening the door of the heart .... communion ....

B.D. 6947 from October 17th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Anyone who closes his door and denies Me entrance will have to live in want, for only I can provide him with what his soul needs. You humans believe that you can provide yourselves with food and drink everywhere, with nourishment for your soul, and you don't think about the fact that only I can give the soul the right nourishment and that you .... wherever you may go .... always have to approach Me Myself for it, thus you have to open the door of your heart so that I Myself can enter to feed you .... And if you approach Me Myself for this, it doesn't matter where you address this request to Me, for I will always hear you and come to you wherever you call Me. It is not the case that I have stored food and drink somewhere so that you can now provide for yourselves without making contact with Me .... You will only be able to receive the right food and the right drink from My hand, which will enable your soul to recover and strengthen itself for your pilgrimage to the homeland. And therefore I Myself must be able to enter you, you must willingly open the door for Me and now also take supper together with Me, because I Myself want to feed you, because I Myself offer each individual this nourishment he needs for the recovery of his soul .... I only knock at the door of your heart, but you yourselves have to open it and let Me into your heart. So what use is it to you if you fill yourselves with food which I Myself have not prepared for you? Then you will indeed fill yourselves but you will not be able to take the substances from the food which your soul needs to build itself up .... it will remain dead or weakened, it will feel hunger and thirst and no help will be brought to it in its need .... And this is the lot of the souls of those who are eager to penetrate 'God's word', who constantly occupy themselves with the word of God and only burden their minds with it, who seek to fathom the meaning of the divine word by way of study and whose souls come up empty in the process. Thus they believe to nourish their souls and yet only their intellect receives what they call 'bread of heaven', which they now want to distribute again to their fellow human beings. They themselves will go empty-handed, i.e., their souls will go hungry, and their fellow human beings will not be able to receive anything for their souls either if the intimate bond with Me is not established first and I am approached to feed them, if the door has not been opened first that I can enter them in order to pass the supper to them .... All My words had a spiritual meaning but people no longer pay attention to it. And when I said to My disciples: "Take and eat, take and drink .... do this in remembrance of Me ...." so also the spiritual meaning of these words was always only the direct connection with Me .... that they should remember Me as well as receive food and drink which serves as nourishment for their soul. The presentation of bread and wine alone is just as little use to the soul as the reading and listening to the divine word if I am not first sincerely remembered and thus, as it were, the feeding of the soul by Myself takes place .... Nor are mere empty words sufficient to call upon Me Myself .... It must be a call in spirit and in truth .... The door of the heart must be opened to Me and I must be asked to come in .... And I will truly distribute food and drink what every soul needs. Thus the opening of the door is equal to the voluntary turning to Me, the desire for union with Me and the request for the bestowal of gifts of grace, it is the soul's admission of weakness and neediness which wants to be nourished by Me Myself, and through such an opened door I will truly enter the heart, I will administer food and drink to the soul and it will recover, it will mature, it will come to life which it now can no longer lose eternally ....

Amen

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Overestimating material goods ....

B.D. 6948 from October 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You seek to gain from life everything it offers you; you strive for the goods of this world with all your senses, you increase your possessions and eagerly collect earthly treasures. You do not even think about how worthless all that you desire is .... You do not think about what matter is in the first place and in what relationship you already stand to it. Material goods should indeed serve you, you can make them serve you, but you must not let yourselves be dominated by them .... And this is what you do when your thoughts and aspirations are exclusively directed towards the acquisition of material goods. Then you have already become the slave of matter or also the slave of him whose domain is the material world. For all matter is spiritual that once fell away from God, which hardened itself through its resistance to God and is now forced by God's will into a serving function in order to emerge again from the hardened state .... But the human being was once the same which, after an infinitely long time, worked its way up again through involuntary service, that it was allowed to shed the material coverings and has now regained freedom again to a certain extent in order to now also become free from its last material cover through a right relationship with God and also towards matter, which it has therefore overcome. He should help matter to serve, but he must not let himself be dominated by it. But the behaviour of people proves the latter .... The addiction to matter has become excessive, people only live with this aim in mind, that is, to acquire what the world offers them, and the joy of possession is an open devotion to that from which their earthly task is to detach themselves. For he who desires the world with its goods has no desire for the kingdom that is not of this world. For anyone who desires the world remembers little or nothing of his God and creator, he is not in the right relationship with Him, he is not the 'child' who seeks his 'father' .... He still has much fellowship with the one who is lord of the material world and strives to return to him, from whose power God had already helped him so far through his walk through creation that it is easy for him to completely detach himself from him on earth. But man can never accomplish this release if he does not first free himself from the desire for these material goods. Only when he learns to despise them, when he no longer attaches more value to them than that they serve him according to divine order, only when spiritual goods are worth striving for can he accept the latter and thus accomplish the change from this world to the spiritual kingdom, and only then will he succeed in complete detachment from the lord of this world. And everyone could do this if only he would consider the worthlessness of earthly goods, if only he would think about the value of even the most desirable things in this world at the hour of his death, which he cannot determine himself but which can be granted to him on any day. Man lives and therefore thinks only of life, but not of death, which is insecure for him .... and he shakes off every thought of it unwillingly .... And yet he knows that he cannot take anything into the kingdom of the beyond that he has acquired in earthly life .... Yet he allows himself to be dominated by the thought of making his earthly life as beautiful as possible, and again and again he is influenced by God's adversary in this sense, so that his greed for material goods will always increase because one tries to outdo the other and no-one thinks of how poor he really is and in what hardship he will cross over into the spiritual kingdom when his hour has come. But no human being can acquire earthly and spiritual goods together. Only he will be richly blessed at the end of his earthly life who has become master of the goods of this world, who has only sought to gather spiritual treasures that will last for all eternity ....

Amen

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Occasion of God's address ....

B.D. 6949 from October 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The living evidence of My love is the word which comes to you from above as a direct emanation from Me .... for I speak to you because I love you and also want to win your love. Eternal, everlasting love unites Me with My living creations and this love also wants to express itself. It is not satisfied that it sustains you, that it ensures your existence. It wants to communicate itself to you, it wants to give you proof that the highest, most perfect being Which created you is also constantly connected to you .... It wants you to desire this being, your God and father, and likewise to re-enter the firm bond which you once severed .... And that is why I reveal Myself to you, that is why I speak to you humans again and again, that is why you hear My word from above. If My love for you had diminished due to your former apostasy, the great distance from Me would certainly be reason enough for Me to keep silent towards you, because it was you yourselves who distanced yourselves from Me .... But My love for you cannot ever diminish, and the further you distance yourselves from Me the more eagerly I endeavour to fetch you back to Me again, which is precisely the explanation for My greater than great love. But you humans cannot grasp what it means for a being to possess My unlimited love. Nor can you imagine what effect this love would have on yourselves if you reciprocated it, if you pushed towards Me again with the same love as you did in the beginning .... You live in a world which hardly knows love anymore, you yourselves are only willing to love to a small extent, you also make no attempt to test the strength of love because you don't know that love is strength in itself .... And in your ignorance you keep yourselves distant from the source of love from which you could draw strength in abundance. And if I want to remedy this ignorance of yours for the time being, then I Myself must speak to you and enlighten you. And this alone is proof of My love for you that I want to help you achieve a happiness which is still completely unknown to you. If I wanted to leave you as you are then I would not need to speak to you, but then you would eternally live in ignorance, thus in darkened spirit, and you would not be happy, for darkness is not happiness. But I created blissful beings out of My strength of love, which My love constantly permeated and always gave them new happiness, because My love cannot help but give itself away .... But you, as beings which have fallen away from Me, are deprived of this happiness but you will never need to do without My love. And this love tries to shape you again such that it can also give you gifts again without being rejected. Such a gift of love is also My word spoken to you from above which wants to give you a glimmer of light, which shall touch your hearts and open them for the flow of My love. I only address you because you humans doubt a connection with a higher being, with the being Who created you .... because you have isolated yourselves so much from this being that you already doubt His existence. Yet My address shall prove Myself to you, for I will not let go of you even if you still resist .... My love follows you, and My love will prove itself to you again and again without exerting any coercion of will upon you. But the strength of My love will nevertheless touch you one day and you will voluntarily surrender to it. But you shall always have the opportunity to recognize your God and father, you shall be able to take notice of His never-ending love through the word which I Myself convey to earth .... For it will become increasingly more difficult for people to believe in a God of love and mercy because they lack all light, because people themselves give access to error rather than truth and because only truth can spread true light. My word from above, however, is truth, it is the light in which I Myself can also be recognized and loved and which I therefore will ignite again and again in order to win My living creations' love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love" only opens up knowledge .... human commandments unimportant ....

B.D. 6950 from October 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Every person could attain correct thinking if only he lived his life in divine order. And then every person would also possess the right knowledge why and for what purpose he takes the path across earth, for God does not keep Himself hidden and He also enlightens the person who listens to Him, who desires clarification about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence. But a way of life in divine order is synonymous with a way of life in love .... And people usually lack this, and the result is wrong thinking, a darkened spiritual state, lack of understanding and rejection of truth. Love is the bond with God, where love is missing there is great distance from God. This is the simplest explanation for the fact that people lack knowledge and do not accept it when it is offered to them. Only a person who is willing to love can be given knowledge which he lacks, for only he will also be able to understand it and it will appeal to him, he will recognize it as truth. A change of thinking can therefore only be brought about if people are made so urgent about the commandments of love for God and neighbour that they seek to change themselves .... And as long as those commandments are not emphasized as important, as long as people's attention is drawn to completely unimportant things, it is also impossible to familiarize them with the truth, to present them with knowledge which explains their purpose and reason for being. Proof of this is that the same knowledge is readily accepted by one person while it meets with rejection from the other .... and that the former unmistakably possesses a heart willing to love while the other is hardened and pays little attention to God's commandments of love. 'Knowledge' will also never cause people to become 'active in love', but only the will to love opens up the meaning of knowledge to the human being. Love is therefore the factor that must always be reckoned with if people want to achieve spiritual progress. For even the most ignorant person can mature his soul if his way of life is a change of love, even though he lacks all knowledge on earth but it is imparted to him in a flash in the spiritual kingdom. And therefore love will always have to be preached to people first .... This is far more important than introducing them to knowledge for which they lack all understanding as long as love has not been kindled in them either. Jesus' teaching of love, however, is proclaimed everywhere where a spark of faith can still be found amongst people, for Jesus' teaching of love is the foundation on which every church organization was built. Therefore, anyone who belongs to a church organization also knows about the commandments of love for God and love for one's neighbour .... He himself can now make use of this knowledge .... He can make the commandments of love the guiding principle of his way of life, but he can also put the fulfilment of these commandments on the back burner and give priority to unimportant commandments .... He can forget about this latter of the divine commandments of love .... He is not prevented from doing so, for he has free will. But then his spiritual state is darkened and he cannot be illuminated in any other way than that the light of love ignites in him. For this reason the blame does not lie solely with those who offer people false food when they have been informed of Jesus' divine teaching of love. For every human being can freely choose to observe the commandments of love for God and neighbour .... If he considers them to be of primary importance, as he was taught, then he will also kindle in himself the light which will give him brightness even about the occasion and purpose of his earthly life .... If he neglects the fulfilment of these commandments then it will remain dark in him, no matter how much truthful knowledge is supplied to him. Therefore only one thing is necessary, again and again to point people to Jesus' divine teaching of love, again and again to preach love and to urge the fulfilment of the commandments .... Only then will the human being make himself receptive for knowledge which explains God's plan of salvation to him, and only then will he utilize the knowledge and eagerly strive for perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus came as Saviour ....

B.D. 6951 from October 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I descended to earth because of the great spiritual need, because I had pity on the people who were held in captivity by My adversary, who could no longer resist him and who cried to God for a Saviour. But only few still believed firmly and steadfastly that the Messiah would come as it was written, but these few expected Him with great longing, they expected Him as their Saviour from severe difficulties and distress .... And I descended for their sake, because their cry for help reached My ears and I did not want to disappoint their faith. Besides, the time had come for the mission of the man Jesus .... I wanted to release the whole of humanity from the adversary's ties, and I also wanted to bring redemption to those who had already passed away but could not enter My kingdom until the immense guilt of sin had been redeemed, which was the cause of humanity's existence on earth .... I Myself came to earth in this human being Jesus to bring salvation to all people, to rescue them from the chains with which they had been bound since eternity and to open the path into My kingdom for them, into the kingdom of eternal peace and bliss.

Only few people were willing to receive Me when I descended to earth, that is, only few recognised Me, because they were living a life of love .... And hence the flock of My followers was small, even though I constantly endeavoured to motivate people to do works of love which would have resulted in their recognition of Me as their God and Father of eternity. Because the immense hardship was caused by the fact that there was little love amongst people, that they were already completely controlled by the one who, being entirely without love, confronted Me as My enemy, whom I wanted to fight and, through My victory, rescue the souls which he held captive. Thus I Myself exemplified a life of unselfish love to people, because love was the weapon which I Myself wanted to use against My opponent and which also gave the people themselves the strength to resist him. Without love they were his slaves, but he cannot resist love, love is the only weapon to which he succumbs, but at the time of My descent to earth it could barely be found amongst people .... Love was the only bond with Me, their God and Father of eternity. And this bond had to be established if people wanted to hear My Word.

My Word could no longer be spoken to them, because without love they no longer believed in a God Who wanted to speak to them. And so I came to earth to speak to people Myself, to reveal to them My will once again, to give them My commandments of love once again, and to once again proclaim My Gospel .... the divine teaching, which was to guide them into bliss. But I had to bring yet more significant help to people .... First I wanted to save them from the power which kept them enchained, which depleted their will and prevented them from fulfilling My will. I wanted to release them from his control .... And to this end I chose the form of the human being Jesus in order to accomplish an act of love and mercy which would deliver humanity from all hardship .... But all the people who wanted to be released from their tormentor also had to side with Me. Those who voluntarily stayed with him could not be saved by Me, but those who turned to Me also received the strength from Me to release themselves from his clutches.

However, this act of Salvation had to be accomplished by human means, because people's will must not be compelled. They should be entirely free to acknowledge or reject the act of Salvation by the human being Jesus .... in Whom I Myself was made flesh. For this reason I walked on earth as the man Jesus and prepared people for the immense sacrifice of compensation, which was to make

Amends for the enormous guilt of sin, on account of which they lived on earth. But only few recognised Me and saw Me as the Saviour, the Messiah, Who always and forever had been proclaimed by seers and prophets. The hardship was overwhelming when I descended to earth but the act of Salvation was accomplished, because My love was overwhelming too, and thus Love wiped out the guilt of sin by sacrificing Itself on the cross. And this love will time and again try to help people who have not yet found salvation, who have not yet made use of the blessings of the act of Salvation and thus still languish in My adversary's captivity, who would never be able to release themselves without help and whom I will nevertheless never abandon. Instead I will cross their path time and again and draw their attention to the act of Salvation by the human Jesus, Whose love as a 'human being' recognised his fellow human beings' spiritual hardship and Who, by virtue of His love, made the sacrifice to die on the cross in extreme agony. And time and again I will come to people in My Word and inform them of Jesus' act of supreme love and mercy, Who received Me Myself, Who totally united with Me by means of love, and Who became the Saviour and Redeemer from sin and death for all of you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Accountability towards God .... Doing one's duty is not enough ....

B.D. 6952 from October 22nd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The possibility exists for every human being to attain perfection during his life on earth. This is why he is accountable to God as to how he uses his time on earth. Thus he cannot sin 'with impunity' .... i.e., it will not be without consequences if he does not live a correct way of life, if he lives it in a way that the soul does not derive any benefit from it. And these consequences have to be accepted by him, which he subsequently indeed views as 'punishment' but which are merely the result of his wrong way of life .... Thus he has to blame himself for his apparent state of punishment, he caused it of his own free will, for he could just as well have lived correctly, because it was possible for him. But people very rarely think of their future responsibility towards God, Who cannot judge any differently than earthly life demands. They don't think about it because they don't believe, because they don't want to believe, that they have to fulfil a purpose during their earthly life. People's lack of responsibility keeps steadily growing the more faith dwindles amongst them. The actual earthly purpose of life is not considered and the time after the body's death is not thought of either, because all faith in it is lacking. That is why the soul will be horrified when it becomes conscious of its existence as well as of its miserable state and when it realises that it caused this state itself .... On the other hand, however, the human being on earth can only ever be admonished to live a responsible way of life, he can only be informed of a God's judicial authority but he cannot be forced to believe by means of evidence. And people also believe that it is sufficient to do their duty and not to commit any obvious offence .... But thereby they do not reach perfection and a life like that is not the purpose of their earthly existence. The grace of embodiment as a human being must be utilised, because it is a gift for the being which had disfigured itself and which should, and is able to, attain its former perfection again. It is a gift, because the being turned away from God of its own free will, thus it had spurned His divine strength of love. But God offers the being His strength of love once more, and He does this when the soul travels the earthly path as a human being. This incredible gift of grace should be respected by a person, he should not treat it carelessly, he should accept what God's love offers to him .... Therefore he will have to justify himself before God as to how he used this gift of grace. He must do everything in his power in order to make himself worthy of God's love, he must gratefully accept what is offered to him in order to attain his past high level again; but he should not live his earthly life irresponsibly, for this grace is only given to him once. And although God will not let go of him, he will nevertheless never be able to catch up with what he had neglected to do during his earthly life because of his own fault .... And his remorse will be immense once he recognises in the beyond the significance of the gift of grace he had left unused on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The spiritual struggle for the will of man ....

B.D. 6953 from October 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only the one who has decided for God will also follow the path that leads to Him. First of all, the will is necessary to rejoin the highest being, even if the human being knows nothing about his former apostasy from Him. But as soon as he recognizes and acknowledges a God and creator above himself and is urged towards Him, his will will have turned towards Him again from Whom the being once turned away in free will. And then the human being will also receive the strength for the path which leads upwards. But no human being will take this path who has not yet turned to God of his own will. For the path to Him demands self-sacrifice, it demands a conscious work of the soul which no-one undertakes on himself as long as he does not yet strive towards a aim .... For one thing has to be declared, that the human being still belongs to God's adversary as long as his will has not yet decided for God. And the adversary will never tolerate the human being's soul work which contradicts his own fundamental nature, and he will always use his influence for selfish thoughts and actions as long as the human being is still in his possession. But God helps every person whose eyes or thoughts only turn towards Him that his will becomes active and he decides in favour of Him. But then he will also be able to constantly receive strength and his ascent will be assured, for God will never ever leave him to His adversary once he has professed Him. But before that the human being is not only exposed to the influence of God's adversary but his thoughts are also influenced by the world of light, a silent battle is waged for the human being's will, his thoughts are directed from God's adversary to the world while the beings of light try to guide his thoughts into the spiritual kingdom and also fatefully intervene in his life to support their endeavour. But coercion is not used from either side, which is why this battle can often last a very long time before it is decided in favour of one lord or the other. Every person will at times occupy himself with thoughts which lie outside the earthly, but not everyone persists in them for a long time. Very often he resists such thoughts and quickly returns to the realm of the earthly-material world. And this has been defeated by God's adversary, his influence was stronger than that of the beings of light who nevertheless do not give up the fight and again and again try to gain stronger influence over him. Yet some people cannot let go of thoughts of the spiritual world, they keep returning even if the world temporarily captivates them, and these are the ones who feel they belong to a higher being and would also like to establish contact with this being but have not yet found the right contact and therefore have not yet openly expressed their will to God. The beings of light do not work on them in vain, and they also achieve that people themselves send questioning thoughts out into infinity and are now also grasped by the spirit, Which fills infinity, Who then also never lets them go but continues to guide them until they consciously unite with Him, until their will only strives to reach the aim for the purpose of which they live on this earth. Every searching, questioning thought is already a turn of will towards God, which is noticed by the beings of light and now supported in every way. And what does not succeed straight away can nevertheless be successful for once as long as the human being is still undecided, i.e. has not completely surrendered to the adversary so that he stifles every budding thought .... The battle for souls continues until a person's physical death if he has not already decided in favour of God, for God will not give up a soul as long as it lives on earth as a human being. But even the adversary will not rest from harassing souls which have already willingly given themselves to God; only his efforts will remain unsuccessful, for then the human being will no longer be without strength and he will be able to offer resistance because God Himself will help every person who has found the path to Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Lucifer and his apostasy from God ....

B.D. 6954 from October 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

My plan from eternity is the return of the spiritual, which My adversary bound to himself after his fall into the abyss, after his apostasy from Me and his rebellion against Me. My adversary emerged from My love as a first-created being .... I had created this being in My image and therefore it stood by My side in an inconceivable abundance of light and strength, exceedingly powerful and wise .... it was the most blissful creature because My love constantly permeated it, bestowed supreme beatitude upon it and again and again sought to increase this beatitude for that being. My fundamental being was reflected in this being created by Me, except that it was visibly externalized for Me, whereas the being was unable to behold Me Itself. But it knew of Me, it knew that I had let it come into being and that it received this blissful strength of love from Me. For I Myself transferred that knowledge to My image because I Myself wanted to establish an exchange of our thoughts with it .... because I had also given it the ability to understand the 'word' which sounded in it as an imprinted thought and which it was now likewise able to return and thus the most blissful exchange took place between us for the sake of which I had let the being arise. For My infinite love sought a resonance, it sought a vessel into which it could pour itself, it sought an object which it could make happy, for which it wanted to prepare the most blissful existence forever .... This plan had certainly been designed by Me since eternity but it always left open the question whether this being would also join My plan, because it was created in all freedom of will and externalized by Me as an independent being which could also determine itself. Although My thoughts in the form of the word resounded in it, the being was nevertheless not forced to think and want like Me .... It possessed the ability to consider My word in all directions .... it was therefore able to arbitrarily give the word a meaning for itself which I had not put into it. But it was only able to do so as soon as it entered into an inverted relationship with Me, its God and creator .... whereas it completely agreed with Me in its thoughts and intentions as long as it opened itself to Me with devoted love in order to receive My ray of love. But the being was also aware of this very ability and therefore also attempted the state of repelling My strength of love in order to be able to form its thoughts according to its own will completely uninfluenced .... These attempts only took place after an infinitely long time of unlimited bliss which My love had prepared for the being .... And during this time of the first-created being's most intimate communion with Me it was creatively active to such an extent that it called countless beings into being, because this urge for exchange, for objects to receive its love, was also present in it as a sign of My image and I therefore constantly supplied the being with the strength necessary for creation. However, when the being made the first attempts to repel My inflowing strength of love, the process of wrong thinking also began .... and the strength to create temporarily diminished .... But the being also felt the decrease in bliss and turned to Me again in pure love, so that I was able to make it happy again as before and the creation of supremely perfect beings also continued again .... But those temporary interruptions increased .... (25.10.1957) For again and again the being considered within itself whether it should not be able to achieve and create the same without Me, and it also tested itself in its creative activity by temporarily isolating itself from Me, thus also denying Me the supply of strength of love, and yet used its existing strength to create beings entirely according to its will, which then also already carried something of its will within themselves. But these were only ever short attempts and it always returned to Me again in order to experience the happiness through My strength of love. Its thinking, however, took on an increasingly more hostile form .... The strength of love, which it knew had its origin in Me, was envied by this being .... of light bearers .... Me, and he toyed with the thought of inducing Me to divest Myself of My strength of love by perpetually creating new beings, of appropriating the right of possession over these beings for himself and thus weakening Me .... while he wanted to enjoy the evidence of My strength withdrawn from Me and surpass Me in power and strength .... These thoughts did not suddenly arise in him, but a single wrong thought .... one moment of wrongly-directed thinking .... gave place to ever new wrong ideas. The light-bearer was at odds with himself. And he could easily have found his way out of this conflict if he had discussed it with Me, which was certainly possible for him. He constantly drew My strength of love, and precisely this uninterrupted influx caused him to think wrongly that this influx would not change forever, even if he isolated himself from the one Whom he certainly recognized as his God and creator. But every thought directed against Me weakened the supply of strength and caused him to become ever more rebellious against Me .... until he finally completely renounced Me and thereby also put an end to the influx of strength which enabled him to create .... But during this infinitely long time an endless number of beings had also emerged from his will with the help of My strength, which were of the same inner nature as their creator was to Me at the moment of creation .... But My strength of love permeated all beings otherwise they could not have come into being, and this strength of love also urged all these beings towards Me to the same extent as towards their producer. For although the latter placed his wrong will into these beings, the light of realization was nevertheless still in them which ignited My strength of love in them. Hence the beings were not yet sinful when My now adversary let them come into being. But they were also easily inclined to believe his ideas when he presented himself as the highest being, because none of the created beings could see Me. They were impelled by love for Me, yet the one who was visible to them wanted to be acknowledged by them as God and creator, and He was also acknowledged by those beings whose act of creation had taken place at the moment of an inner opposition to Me .... Light was given to those souls from Me, they were also able to hear My word and they were also able to think .... Hence they need not have believed his ideas and acknowledged him, but their will was also free, they could neither be forced by Me nor by My adversary, and therefore they became sinful when they were supposed to use the right of self-determination and decided in favour of My adversary. For they recognized Me even though they were unable to see Me, but they voluntarily followed the one they could see .... It was, as it were, a decision against their better knowledge .... and therefore a huge guilt which caused the being's complete weakening, a darkened spiritual state and lack of all strength .... For the influx of My strength of love was consciously rejected when they followed My adversary into the abyss .... Only those who are able to grasp the perfection in which all beings once emerged from Me, how brightly the light shone in all of them, can imagine the magnitude of their guilt for having given up the light and followed the one who led them into darkness. All these fallen beings could not have been called to account if they had been deprived of all knowledge beforehand by My adversary's will, but they were all products of My strength of love, and thus they were also permeated by it and, as beings of light, able to make the right decision when this was required of them. But they directed the will in themselves wrongly, and they were not prevented from doing so, and therefore the distance from Me is also in accordance with their guilt, and the return to Me requires eternities and can also only take place when the substitutionary atonement of the man Jesus is acknowledged and requested by every being which once fell ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Attainment of childship to God only on this earth ....

B.D. 6955 from October 26th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only on earth is it possible for you to attain the highest degree of perfection, so that you, as God's true 'children', will be able to enter into supreme happiness. Earth is the place of education for the spiritual essence which makes the greatest demands on the human being's will. All places of education in the entire universe serve to mature the souls, and they can also help them to achieve immeasurable bliss, but only the process across earth can gain the being the childship to God, a degree of happiness which signifies a direct influx of strength and light, utmost proximity to the heavenly Father and the beholding of Him face to face in all glory. There are so many different degrees of blissfulness in the kingdom of light, and it already denotes happiness and bliss if a being has found admission to the realm of light at all. But the degree of bliss can constantly increase, and this concept cannot be easily explained to you humans as long as your thinking is still limited, as long as you still live on earth. However, you can nevertheless be educated to strive for the highest goal that can be achieved by your life on earth. You shall know and believe that God has embodied you on this earth precisely because He wants to prepare an inconceivably magnificent fate for you, but which you have to acquire for yourselves, which he cannot just give you, but He is providing you with all possibilities to make sure that you can attain the goal.

The souls which travel the path across this earth have already ascended from the lowest abyss, they have left such an appalling path of suffering behind themselves that they are indeed sufficiently prepared to still travel the last short path, but precisely this last time of trial is dangerous, since after the infinitely long time of extremely painful constraint they now sense a certain amount of freedom and can easily misuse it. Especially this earth is a place of temptation, because the embodied souls on this earth have been the most loyal followers of God's adversary, which he doesn't want to release and thus he constantly influences the souls which strive to ascend. But if these once most loyal followers of the fallen original spirit can detach themselves from his bondage then an really wonderful fate will await them, for then the change from God's 'living creation' into God's 'child' will have taken place, but this also necessitates complete dedication to God, a total change of their nature, a shaping into a high degree of love .... hence an extremely difficult and sorrowful earthly life, if it is to lead to the goal. But only few people will reach this high degree of perfection, nevertheless, the path across earth will be more highly valued by God than a path across other places of development which offer easier conditions for the beings yet also grant them happiness and bliss as long as they fulfil the tasks required of them in all these schools of divine love.

All souls shall return again, and their bliss consists of the fact that there will be no end, that the being will constantly strive in order to constantly receive fulfilment, that the bliss, too, will forever increase, which God is bestowing on those who approach Him. However, people on earth don't know what they are able to attain through their earthly life .... they don't know that they can pass over untold intermediate stages, that it is possible for them to gain a place at the Father's heart which will eternally compensate them for the most difficult earthly fate, for a life on earth which almost seems unbearable to them .... God therefore has embodied Himself as a human being on earth in order to demonstrate to people what kind of life a person ought to live in order to attain the highest goal. He has shown to them that it is possible to so spiritualise the soul through love and suffering, that it can completely merge with God, in order to then be and remain forever indescribably happy in total union with the Father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of connections from earth to the kingdom of light .... rays ....

B.D. 6956 from October 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

When the eternal love descends to you in order to prove Itself to you, countless rays emanate into the darkness of this earth, and attracted by these rays countless beings find themselves, to whom the darkness causes agony and who also notice the tiniest glimmer of light and rush towards it. A connection from earth to the spiritual kingdom is exceedingly blessed because it is a possibility to also impart a glimmer of light to the souls in the beyond, for these keep themselves .... especially when they are still very immature .... near earth, and through such connections they can come to the realization that they themselves no longer dwell on earth and that nevertheless a contact exists between the earthly kingdom and their present abode. Yet even such souls are attracted by the rays who no longer have an earthly bond but feel the torments of darkness in darkened spirits .... A small ray of light can now also give them a little illumination of spirit, and it is therefore a great blessing if a person enables the eternal love Itself to send a ray of light to earth, for the light cannot shine down into darkness against people's will. The benefit such souls feel when a ray of light also touches them is indescribable, and even a hardened soul can soften and give up its resistance, for it was love which had touched it and which also does not remain without strength as soon as the soul voluntarily finds itself where it beholds light. And if you humans now consider that every intimate connection with the spiritual kingdom, every spiritual thought and especially every prayer in spirit and in truth always transfers you into radiant light .... if you consider that you are always surrounded by souls which are only waiting for the flashing of a ray of light because they have already been able to observe it with you, then it is a conscious work of redemption on your part if only you often establish this bond which enables the shining down of the divine light of love. For the souls in darkness can only ever be shown the path through a glimmer of light to you .... where, through God's love and grace, the path leading out of darkness to the light is also shown to them. And if those souls only once receive light about the redemptive work of the man Jesus, if only once they can be truthfully informed of the greatest work of love and mercy which was offered for all people, for all sinners, then even the unredeemed souls in the spiritual kingdom will know that they themselves have to take the path to Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... Then the small glimmer of light will have helped to ever brighter light, and every soul which allowed itself to be touched by the divine light of love will now bring large crowds of souls from darkness again and likewise seek to push them into the circle of light where it found help and a light which did it unspeakable good .... which is why it seeks to pay off its gratitude with redeeming activity. It is difficult to address the souls in the beyond who dwell in darkness, for they are still in the same defence as on earth, and light cannot be given to the souls against their will either .... But as soon as a connection is established between earth and the spiritual kingdom, which is not concealed from such souls by God's grace, a quite human curiosity first awakens in them and they unconsciously enter the circle of light which surrounds these people in order to also be touched by a ray of light from which they then no longer want to separate themselves .... Once such a bond is lifted again that the human being pursues his earthly thoughts or duties again, these beings nevertheless remain close to him in order not to need to do without a ray of light when it shines again. And therefore every spiritual activity is an immense blessing, for it has far more effect in the kingdom of the beyond than on earth, where you humans often have little success. But the souls you called out of darkness through God's ray of love, which you yourselves granted access to through your will, are eternally grateful to you. And if you still consciously call upon these unredeemed souls you can truly accomplish a work of redemption of the greatest magnitude, for there is great hardship in the kingdom of darkness where many souls are already languishing for endless times and are approaching a new banishment if they don't escape the darkness before the end and allow themselves to be touched by a ray of love .... Always remember those souls in prayer and often give them the opportunity to experience the merciful love of the divine saviour Jesus Christ by giving them light through your will to help them by consciously calling them to every spiritual mediation .... And it will be a blessed work that you do ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The faith that can move mountains ....

B.D. 6957 from October 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You are all not yet strong enough in faith otherwise not the slightest doubt would befall you when you turn to Me in heartfelt prayer. You lack the strength of faith which can move mountains .... Although I always want you to submit yourselves to My will, to completely enter into My will, with strong faith you would not doubt that My will is other than to give you what you ask for .... For this is the strength of faith that you feel at one with Me and My will, that you feel so intimately united with Me that the same will also controls you, that you no longer feel isolated from Me but that you walk your earthly path in the feeling of complete agreement between My will and yours and therefore also always know that you will only request what I want to give you. You all have to form your bond with Me even more intimately and then you will truly be able to move mountains, for then it will always be Me Who carries out everything you want. And therefore you should ward off every doubt, you should approach Me for help in full faith that I will help you .... For as soon as you sincerely join Me you will only address such requests to Me whose fulfilment will not be detrimental to your soul. And therefore only ever ask yourselves whether you desire something for the soul or only for your body .... I truly do not withhold from the soul what serves it, what is desirable for the body alone I can certainly withhold from you, but then only ever out of love for you so that your soul will not suffer any harm. Yet again and again I tell you that you will only address such requests to Me yourselves which I will grant as soon as you are sincerely devoted to Me. And thus you first have to ask yourselves what kind of bond exists between you and Me .... And as long as you doubt, this bond also leaves much to be desired. For if you are convinced of My presence within you then you will also know that I regulate everything and think and act for you. Then you will also know that nothing is impossible for Me, that I only want you to trust Me .... that I only require strong, unshakeable faith from you in My love, wisdom and power .... You should gain this faith in order to also be able to transfer it to others, and the stronger this faith is within yourselves the more convincing you can also influence your fellow human beings, who shall also attain faith again. You don't doubt My power but you doubt My will .... Therefore you must still be of a different will yourselves, otherwise you would know yourselves to be in complete agreement with Me and then you would not desire anything which does not correspond to My will .... But if you desire, then you should also know that I desire the same for you .... that I therefore also want to fulfil your requests as soon as you submit yourselves to Me and My will. For then you cannot want anything else. And then your prayer will be right and you need not doubt. So only ever strive to let Me be present in you through your will to live to please Me, through heartfelt prayer and unceasing love .... Then you will also always be of the same will as Me and only ever request what I will certainly grant you, for then your will will be Mine and you will only ever request what is beneficial for your soul's salvation ....

Amen

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The right path will be shown to people ....

B.D. 6958 from October 31th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I can only ever just kindle a light for you and illuminate the way, but you have to voluntarily walk it yourselves. And I can also offer you My company but at the same time I will not impose it on you, precisely because I won't force you, instead you yourselves have to join Me and appeal to Me that I should always walk by your side as your fellow traveller. But then you cannot go astray .... I, for My part, will certainly do everything to enable your ascent to Me, nevertheless you have the freedom to want and act at your own discretion. So many people fail because they misuse their freedom and turn a deaf ear to all My advice and words of caution, yet their rebellious determination will not be forcefully broken. You can certainly force people on earth into obedience, there you can use your power when you believe that people resist you unjustifiably. But My eternal plan of Salvation excludes all use of force where it concerns the retrieval of the spirit; because the final goal I want to accomplish can only be achieved by the being's free will. My love will persistently strive for this goal and will also find the right means to turn the spirit's will to its favour so that it then will voluntarily walk the path of return into the Father's house.

Love achieves much, and any loving being's influence on the still undecided spirit can be successful .... but this will be difficult if the being still favours My adversary. But the human being's will is respected, it is merely constantly pursued .... or, in other words, the path will always be shown again to the person. That is, a light is kindled, time and again My Word will be made accessible to the human being which, as a light from above, clearly and precisely informs him of his earthly goal and shows the divine Saviour's cross in its brightness .... And once the human being can see this bright path, the will is also able to decide whether to follow this path and to aim towards the cross .... this path has to be taken by every human being himself. It is pointless just to see it and not to follow it; hence it is pointless to 'merely take notice' of My Word or of Christ's act of Salvation; instead it is essential to walk the path which leads past the Calvary Cross: My Word has to be exemplified in the same way the man Jesus did on earth, and then the path, which is clearly shown to you humans, will be followed. And thus no human being should believe that it is irrelevant as to which path he walks, no human being should believe to reach the same goal on lesser ways, nor should any human being believe that he may walk without the right guidance, because then his path will inevitably lead into the abyss, back to where he came from, from whence My love had already lifted him ....

He has to commend himself to Me Myself, he has to appeal for My guidance, one day he will have to look at the path brightly lit ahead of him and should not be deterred when he sees the cross which shows that he will have to go through suffering. He should always think of the magnificent goal that can only be reached in this way, and he must .... if he wants to walk this path ....petition Me for strength and trust in My guidance .... And he will indeed be able to walk the path of ascent because I will always guide him such that he will by-pass all treacherous cliffs, that he can easily step across each obstacle and climb the peak with ease. For I will always give him the strength not to tire, no matter how steep the path appears to him .... But he will not reach the goal alone, for as soon as he walks alone someone else will join him who will quickly and easily push him away from the right path towards the abyss. However, My love will always pursue you because My love does not abandon any of My living creations ....

Amen

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Increasing temptations .... intimate prayer .... power of the word ....

B.D. 6959 from November 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You will still often find yourselves in spiritual distress, for My adversary will do everything in his power to win you back whom he fears to lose. And his means are only ever those which cause you severe distress, mentally or physically, so that you should doubt Me .... in a God Who promised you His help, Who said to you: Ask and it will be given to you, knock and it will be opened to you. If he succeeds in causing such doubts to arise in you then he has already taken you one step back, but you yourselves are decisive, for he cannot force you to follow the thoughts which he tries to transfer to you. You can immediately ward off every such thought as soon as it touches you if you are always aware that it originates from My adversary who wants to tempt you. You, who strive towards Me, need only ever fully consciously reject My adversary, you need only want not to fall prey to him and his temptations will bounce off you, for this will of yours gives you the strength to do so. You need not doubt My love for you, and even if your fate in life depresses you, you must still firmly believe that this, too, is only for the salvation of your soul and that one day you will thank Me, Who truly knows what is good for you. But again and again My adversary will also try to intervene and want to exploit every weak moment for himself and his plans. But the fact that you acknowledge Me and turn to Me is an abomination to him, and it is his greatest endeavour to prevent this, to tear you back from Me again. And therefore he tries to cast doubts into your hearts about a God Who loves you and helps you at all times, as He has promised. And whenever such quiet doubts arise in you, then remember that he is at work and resist him, and know that you are My children whose well-being is close to the father's heart and from whom He never withdraws His love. And then take everything upon yourselves with submission, for it will only benefit your soul. His activity in the last days, however, will assume devastating proportions and it requires strong faith to resist him. For this reason I repeatedly draw your attention to the fact that you should not cease to struggle for a strong faith; that you should pray for strength and grace which I can then also supply to you in great measure; that you also acquire the strength for yourselves through a life of love and that your faith will then also increase .... and that you again and again hold heartfelt dialogue with Me, your God and father, from Whose love you came forth. You will be able to draw much strength from this intimate dialogue, for it can flow into you directly if you give Me the opportunity to speak to you. For My word is a source of strength which will surely supply you with what you lack .... And as soon as you immerse yourselves in My word, as soon as you give Me the opportunity to speak to you Myself, it will be completely impossible for My adversary to harass you, because then you will stand in a glow of light which he will flee, which is your best protective barrier against his attacks. And if you are therefore in spiritual or physical distress then test the strength of My word. Give yourselves to Me in humble dialogue, let My word take effect in you and you will be equal to My adversary's every attempt, you will be able to resist, and your faith in My love and mercy, in My might and wisdom, will grow, and you will increasingly push towards Me and detach yourselves from the one who is My enemy and yours ....

Amen

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God's courtship of servants for His vineyard ....

B.D. 6960 from November 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I Myself assign the work to My servants which they are capable of doing and which they will always do successfully if only they willingly follow My instructions. I alone know where the plough has to be placed, I alone know the nature of the field and what kind of seed it can take up in order to bear fruit .... And thus I also always lead My servants to where their work is needed .... I always guide My servants on earth into the path where right vineyard work is to be done. And therefore the individual person's path of life will always be guided by Me so that everyone can enter My servants' sphere at some point, the right guides will step into every person's path, every person will have the grace that his heart's field can be planted with good seed if only he does not resist and deny My servants entry into his sphere .... I truly always find ways and means when I see that a person is in spiritual and earthly adversity. And in order to control the spiritual adversity I will again and again hire labourers for My vineyard, because many servants are needed who shall help Me to cultivate the soil for My sowing even in the last hour, for the time of harvest will soon have come .... (4.11.1957) That much still has to be done in this last time I keep telling you, My servants. And none of My servants should think that their work is dispensable, for the spiritual hardship is very great and there are only a few who offer to help Me. Yet the world of light is also constantly active but it needs your help because you first have to establish contact with your fellow human beings so that the beings of light can then intervene. For people are rarely willing to exchange the earthly sphere of thought for the spiritual one, yet their thoughts must first be directed into the spiritual kingdom if they want to make contact with the spiritual world or if the beings of light want to mentally influence people. And you, My servants on earth, can accomplish this by talking about the kingdom which is not yet a real concept to people, which seems unreal to them and yet is the kingdom which alone has reality, which is everlasting and shall one day become the abode of all people. But people who are still without any knowledge, whose thoughts only have purely earthly aims, these are the fields which are to be cultivated, which is certainly hard work which requires patience and perseverance and for which I have hired you in the last days before the end. It is hard work, for the resistance is often very great, but I will also give you the necessary strength, I will give you the right tools, I will provide you with seed which promises the best fruit .... And therefore it is certainly possible to transform those fields into good soil but it requires a great deal of love .... Love for Me, your lord, and love for your neighbour who, in his present state, is only to be pitied and needs help, and therefore not everyone is suitable, not everyone is willing to tackle this difficult work because he lacks love .... But I constantly solicit their services and I will truly reward My servants well, for time is short .... Soon night will fall where no more work can be done. The day will soon come to an end, but as long as it is still day, the light of the day shall also still be used. That is why My call for workers who want to create and work in My vineyard according to their lord's instructions keeps ringing out. Yet I can only use those who adhere to My instructions, because I alone know in which way a rich yield can still be achieved, and because I also know how much time is left until the harvest is brought in. And therefore I will bless every servant who wants to serve Me, and he will truly not do any work in vain, no matter how arduous it may seem to him and he himself cannot see any success. His love for Me and his neighbour will ensure his success, and he will not need to fear the night either, because he will have accomplished his day's work at the right time ....

Amen

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Right and wrong thinking ....

B.D. 6961 from November 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Man has been given the ability to think. This also gives him the opportunity to research, to penetrate previously unknown territory, he can use his intellect to draw conclusions and build on his conclusions or experiences .... This also enables the human being to be creatively active, for everything he wants to bring into being must first be considered so that it also corresponds to the purpose for which it is created. Admittedly, the human being can also draw wrong conclusions, he cannot use his thinking ability correctly, his thinking can move in the wrong direction and the results can therefore also have a detrimental effect on people. But it is always possible for him to bring his thoughts back into the right order, because it is up to him how he uses his thinking ability. Therefore, the human being must first be aware of the fact that he can think right as well as wrong. And he must try to fathom the reason for this .... if he wants to secure himself against his thoughts taking the wrong direction. As long as there are different views even among those whose intellect is highly developed, not all can make the claim to truth of their intellectual results .... And as long as there are still disputed questions, even in earthly areas, the individual's ability to think will also be evaluated differently. If the human being only considers his ability to think to be a talent arbitrarily placed in him by nature, which is his own business to develop, then the intellect will certainly always be stimulated to increased activity but he has no certainty of right thinking .... But if it sees its ability to think as a good bestowed upon it by the creative power, then it also seeks to win the affection of this creative power, and then its thinking will also be directed such that the intellect will produce truthful results. And then all results of these researchers will also agree who entrust themselves to a creative power acknowledged by them before they approach research which unusually demands their thinking activity. And then a structure will also be recognizable, the created works will be a blessing for people, they will have a serving task and also fulfil their serving purpose .... But just as the creative power does not refuse its assistance to people who ask for it, a counter-power also participates in the thinking of those who isolate themselves from the former .... and this counter-power seeks to guide thinking wrongly in order to prevent the emergence of blessed creations, in order to disturb all order. For the human being himself is not the 'producer' of his thoughts but they are sent to him from the spiritual kingdom, but the human being processes those thoughts according to his will, for which he was given the ability to think. He can also create evidence for the correctness of his thinking and therefore also draw logical conclusions despite opposing influence .... But then the aim he strives for is determined by the opposing power, and that is why once irrevocably a wrong conclusion is to be recorded, which destroys all previous successes or research results .... no matter how tremendous and convincing they seemed to be. But the human being can be certain of his success and need not fear erroneous conclusions if he consciously hands himself over to the power Which has endowed him with intellect and the ability to think .... if he appeals to this power for right thinking in accordance with his purpose on earth. Then he can also penetrate areas which are still unexplored, and he can expand the knowledge he has gained and again and again gather new knowledge, he can be active for the benefit of humanity, for what he now undertakes will also correspond to the will of that creative power Which was asked to guide him .... Science must work with God .... For even the sharpest intellect can err, and it will err if God, as the epitome of all wisdom, is eliminated .... because then God's counter-spirit will have access, which wants to confuse people's thinking, because it hates and seeks to overthrow everything that reveals divine order, and because its activity will never result in a blessing for humanity .... but his activity will irrevocably begin where people give their God and creator no room in their hearts. Therefore, even if there is still progress to be made in the scientific field .... you humans will only be able to enjoy it if divine assistance is evident .... But you will have to fear the results where man alone brings about works without God .... For the latter does not create alone but in cooperation with the one to whom he is in bondage, through his isolation from God .... and whose intervention brings destruction and death ....

Amen

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God .... love .... living faith ....

B.D. 6962 from November 6th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

To let faith come alive in oneself also requires a lively activity of love, an unselfish activity of love for one's neighbor. Everything that a person does to himself, he should also do to his neighbor, as soon as the latter is in need, and this requires a putting aside of one's own demands, it requires a fight against self-love, which clings to the human being as an inheritance of him, who is completely devoid of any love. But you humans will be able to notice a wonderful effect of such an unselfish love life, because you will gain a convinced faith .... It will be possible for you to believe when the divine teachings of faith are presented to you, because through the life of love you are also no longer so darkened in spirit to understand these teachings of faith rightly, and you therefore accept them without doubt or contradiction. To have found a living faith is truly happy, because you then also enter into contact with Him in Whom you believe .... You give yourselves to your God and father as a matter of course, you enter into the right relationship of a child to the father, and your earthly life is now also purposeful because you recognize your actual earthly task. If you are unselfishly active in love, your life is a constant giving and making happy .... but you receive a thousandfold back again .... first of all a convinced faith which makes you happy, and furthermore a measure of graces and spiritual goods which accumulate to a wealth which you can already utilize on earth, but even far more in the kingdom on the other side when you have left this earth. Unselfish activity of love is a proof of the presence of God, Who expresses Himself in every work of love, Who is love Himself and Whom you therefore cause to be present with every work of love .... For "he who abides in love abides in Me and I in him ....", 'love' and 'God' are inseparable terms .... Where love is, there is God, and where God is, works of love are also always performed. But where love is, faith in God must also come alive, because His presence is unmistakable. And the convinced faith lifts man beyond the earthly sphere, faith does not only stick to what can be proved, but it also gives understanding for what cannot be proved, as well as this faith has come out of love. What you therefore gain through love activity is far more than what you give. On earth you humans are still subjected to natural law difficulties, which can affect your body as well as your soul. But as soon as you have gained a living faith, you can also banish such burdens, you can become master of every adversity in communion with Him, in Whom you now firmly believe, because for Him there is nothing that He cannot remedy, and if you firmly lean on Him, then you are, as it were, also in the midst of His sphere of power, no disaster can befall you, no adversity can approach you anymore because you feel your father beside you by virtue of your living faith and thus you also know yourselves to be safe in His love .... But all this can only be achieved by a living faith, the firm certainty that God's power and love will be revealed to you, because He is your father from eternity .... When you consider this, that only the will to love needs to be stimulated in you to relieve you of all adversity on earth as well, that you are as it were raptured from the heaviness of earth by virtue of love .... when you consider that you only need to take care of your neighbor in unselfish love and now also a faith will fill your heart that can move mountains .... and if you consider that a living faith also lets you make completely different use of your earthly existence, then you truly sacrifice nothing through your work of love, but you gain an exceeding profit .... You receive light and power to such an extent that you regain your original being. And what you have believed becomes a blessed certainty for you: You are firmly united with your God and father from eternity, you stand in the light again, i.e. in fullest knowledge of your destiny, and you possess the power to now also create and work according to this destiny with God and in His will .... For you have become His children, and you will remain His children forever ....

Amen

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Thinking ability does not mean generating thoughts ....

B.D. 6963 from November 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

It is impossible for you to generate your own thoughts but you are able to pick-up and make use of thoughts flowing to you. For the thought is a spiritual emanation of strength, which you will understand if you consider that you are certainly capable of thinking about what is presented to you in some form or other but that you will not think about something that is entirely unknown to you until you have been touched by a ray of thought which, however, cannot originate in yourselves. On the other hand, however, it is possible for everyone to mull over and resolve problems if he accepts the influx of thoughts from the spiritual kingdom, but this will never be proof that he generates these thoughts himself .... When I brought you to life, when I externalised you from Myself as independent living creations I nevertheless established a connection between Me and you, which consisted of the fact that I spoke to you and you were able to reply .... And you were able to feel as well as hear these Words .... The feeling was the 'thought' which you audibly perceived as 'Word'. But then, due to your 'thinking ability', you were able to form an opinion about this thought or Word and reply to it according to your will .... or continue on your own to think about the thought you had received, you are able to form or shape it as you want, thus more or less develop it further in either direction, judging the thought sent to you either correctly or incorrectly .... This is the thinking ability I granted to you as created beings in order to communicate with you, again, according to your will. Something must exist first, only then will you be able to deal with it. And I Myself Am the primary cause of everything in existence .... Everything originates from Me, regardless of whether it is the life of the creature or the blissfulness of the most elevated spirits .... And thus 'the Word', too, originates from Me, which first appears as thought in the human being but has to be voluntarily seized by the person. And then he will be able to deal with it and use it according to his will.

Thus, intellectual thinking cannot generate a thought but it can choose and receive the thought currents surrounding it. The intellect can deflect or pick-up inflowing thought waves, which can be easily understood if you compare it to the transmission and reception activity developed by you humans in radio technology .... The transmissions come forth from a higher Will or Being and can be received by every person but do not forcibly impose themselves if a person opposes them: And because this is determined by the person's will, the will is influenced from a good as well as an evil side .... You should know that you are always surrounded by all kinds of thought waves .... by those coming from Me, which are conveyed to you by the world of light that works according to My will, but also by those which certainly originally emerged from Me, yet which, through deliberately using strength in order to oppose Me and their thinking ability, were shaped adversely and are now also sent to you by this power .... once again demanding your will, which can accept but also reject them. And so you are also able, by virtue of your free will, to use the thought currents from the world of light wrongly, that is, your thinking ability can take a negative attitude towards these thoughts if you hand yourselves over to the adversary by isolating yourselves from Me. The beings of light will never abandon you, they will always try to influence you, but they cannot prevent you from taking My adversary's side. However, were you unable to give the thoughts sent to you from the world of light another direction, you would not possess free will either, you would more or less be compelled to think correctly and no error would exist in the world .... Thus, you must use your thinking ability, you must form some kind of opinion of what first affects you as a thought .... And that gives you the impression that you 'create' the thoughts yourselves .... In that case, however, your 'thinking' would be very restricted, it would constantly revolve around the same thing, around that which can be seen by your eyes and touched by your hands, because you are also physically limited. But that which is limitless in you .... your soul .... is indeed in contact with Me and constantly receives the evidence of belonging to Me .... It can also make unrestricted use of My influx according to its will .... this is why the human being by virtue of his thinking ability is also able to do what he likes with the thoughts sent to him .... thus he can think correctly or wrongly .... And the guarantee for correct thinking is offered to him by Me Myself, he need only make conscious contact with Me. If he fails to do so he is subject to My adversary's influence, and then darkness prevails over light .... and everything the human being does in this dependence on him will be wrong and opposed to My divine order ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Effectiveness of power according to divine order ....

B.D. 6964 from November 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You came forth from My strength, and all strength which emanates from Me flows back to Me again. And thus you cannot remain distant from Me forever, you will irrevocably take the path of return, even if this requires a long time, because it is an irrevocable law that the strength emanating from Me will return to Me again. But in what period of time this happens is not determined, because it depends on how long the strength remains ineffective .... which therefore means long distance from Me. And the ineffectiveness is caused by the free will of the beings which originated from Me, but just as free will also has to cancel the ineffectiveness, but then the now again active strength will also strive towards Me. Now you yourselves are this beingness which emerged from Me, which abused its free will and thus you yourselves .... as radiated power .... as it were, into something dead, which could no longer work, which became incapable of activity. But according to My law of eternal order this strength must one day become active again. And therefore I transformed this frozen strength .... yourselves .... into creations of a different kind .... to creations in which the strength could not work arbitrarily but had to submit to My law of eternal order again .... while I allowed the once emanated essence to work completely freely. Thus the strength which was now bound in the works of creation had to become active again, and at first only very minimally but always increasingly testifying to its effectiveness. This made the return to Me possible. But it is not enough for Me that the strength merely works according to My will, I want the once created being to work according to its own will, but that this will urges the being to unite with Me again in order to now be able to create and work without limitation for its own happiness. And that is why I withdraw My will again at a certain stage, and that is when the once fragmented forces have united again through the course of creation and the being which once came forth from Me can be placed into the state of free will, in which it is now to prove to itself which direction free will now takes. The cycle of strength once emanated by Me is now almost complete, the being can reach Me again in a very short time .... But the cycle can now also be interrupted again, the being can prevent its strength from being effective again if it steps out of My eternal order and re-establishes the state where it is in inner resistance to Me and thereby also causes the effectiveness of the strength from Me to falter again .... because My divine emanation can only work in lawful order, in union with Me, through constant influx from My eternal original source. Any distance from Me reduces the effect of strength and delays the return of strength to Me .... But the fact that every strength will return to Me again one day is likewise a law of divine order, only it is not insignificant how long the strength remains distant from Me .... It is therefore not insignificant because the beingness once emanated by Me is also unhappy as long as it is isolated from Me. And this isolation has to be lifted by the being itself, namely when it has overcome the deepest depths through My love and grace and is in possession of free will again in the stage as a human being. For I do not fetch the beings back for Me by force, I only help them to overcome the greatest distance from Me .... but then it must strive towards the place of origin again in complete free will. The being as a human being must seek unification with Me, its God and father, the once emanated strength must flow back to the original source of strength .... The union must take place, which will then bring unlimited bliss to the being, which will never end again ....

Amen

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Exhortation to evaluate God's gift of grace ....

B.D. 6965 from November 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

If you have the grace to be addressed by Me then open your ears and heart to My words, let them penetrate and work within you, and then you will evaluate a gift in the right way and experience the greatest blessing from it. You just have to give up all inner resistance, you have to free yourselves from prejudices, you have to willingly allow My voice to touch you and then you will also recognize by whom you have been addressed. But every resistance makes you unable to recognize this. Faith is not demanded beforehand but only the abandonment of all resistance. But faith will then come because you will feel the effect of My address. And this is all I want to achieve, that you give Me the opportunity to address you. For I do not force you, it must be your completely free will to listen to Me or to listen to the one who brings you My word as My mediator. I speak to you through a human being but it is not his words which you hear, instead you hear Me Myself .... but only if you don't oppose him, if you listen to his words without defending yourselves. All of you humans cannot yet grasp the love which prompts Me to speak to you .... And you don't want to believe that My direct address can touch your ear .... You cannot imagine that your God and creator seeks contact with His creatures .... You consider this God of yours to be far away, and you are also very distant from Him as far as your spiritual state is concerned .... But I try to reduce this distance by addressing you and telling you that you must approach Me yourselves, that your will determines how great the distance between us is. You must try to reduce the great distance yourselves, but I help you and also give you the means which you only need to use in order to approach Me again. You have distanced yourselves from Me but I am always willing to accept you again, and I show you My willingness by speaking to you even though you turned away from Me of your own free will. And you can hear Me .... I offer you an unusual gift of grace because the end is near, because you all only have a short time left to cover the path of return to Me, and because you therefore have to hurry so that the end will not surprise you at an even greater distance from Me. People have always been able to hear My voice but in the end time it will come through louder because the noise of the world has also become unusually loud and can easily drown out My voice. And therefore you humans will also be unusually addressed by Me revealing Myself to individual people and instructing them to take care of the spreading of My revelations. For everything shall be tried to touch people's hearts, for what the ear alone hears has no effect on the human being's will, who must seek close unity with Me in order to still be able to fulfil his earthly task in the short time until the end. Obvious help has to be given to people, for they are all weak in faith .... They are unable to recognize Me Myself and their close relationship with Me, they only see the world and consider their earthly life an end in itself, they walk along unaware of their actual earthly task and leave this earth without any spiritual success. But I want them to attain life in this short earthly lifetime, that they gain faith in Me and know their actual purpose. And therefore I reveal Myself again and again and convey this knowledge to them .... And if they only let Me speak to them once they will also feel in their hearts that I love them and only want to help them to live .... But anyone who rejects My servants also rejects Me Myself, for these servants do not speak but I speak through them. But anyone who listens to them also knows that he will attain life, for at the same time as he receives My word he will also receive the strength to be able to accomplish a change in his life .... He will turn towards Me, he will strive to come closer to Me and I will draw him as soon as his gaze is turned towards Me. And then the way back to Me will also be assured, the vast distance will become ever smaller, he will intimately join Me .... He has found his way home to the father and will now remain with Him forever ....

Amen

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Vineyard work requires postponement of wishes ....

B.D. 6966 from November 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You must be willing to give everything if you want to be true servants to Me, if you want to serve Me with the zeal which your work in My vineyard requires. You don't know how necessary your activity is in the last days before the end, but again and again I have to emphasize that everything has to be done in order to still bring help where salvation is possible. The work for Me and My kingdom requires self-conquest, that is, a putting aside of earthly desires and pleasures, because all time for it is lost and yet you humans don't have much time left until the end. For this does not only mean the end of this earth but also the hour of death, which can happen to every person sooner than he thinks. And it is extremely difficult to achieve in the kingdom of the beyond what the human being can still easily achieve on earth: the bond with Me through a living faith .... As soon as you, as My servants, can only achieve the one success that people seriously consider their death and the life of their soul after their death, as soon as you can only motivate them to establish the right relationship with Me, as soon as you can only awaken or revive their faith in Me, then great work will have been successfully accomplished and the further development in the kingdom of the beyond will no longer be doubtful when the human being is unexpectedly called away from earth. And thus in order to be able to accomplish this work you need strength and love for your fellow human beings, for you have to take care of them with patience and perseverance, which often requires you to put your own wishes aside. You cannot proclaim My gospel enough, you cannot scatter enough of the seed, and you should seize every opportunity where this is possible for you. For you don't know when each individual will be called away from earth, and therefore you should carry out the work of love on everyone I lead you into the path to impart spiritual good to him. Only diligent vineyard work can succeed in opening hearts for My word, for only living 'representatives of God' are able to stir human hearts and cause them to seriously reflect. For the dead proclaimers of the word will have little success, for they are lukewarm, useless servants who lack the right seriousness because they themselves lack living faith. The spiritual adversity has to be recognized and it has to be tackled with a firm will to remedy it ..... And you, who have freely offered yourselves to Me for service, you know about this adversity and also have the opportunity and the means to remedy it, for you possess My word and can pass this on .... You can enlighten your fellow human beings and also point out their actual earthly task to them, you can also impart knowledge to them which can make them thoughtful and determine their will to hand themselves over to Me .... And then you will truly have achieved great success, and you will have been efficient servants to Me, for then you will have done a work of redemption and the soul will already be able to pass over into the kingdom of the beyond with a certain degree of freedom when the hour of death has come. And you can still bring salvation to many a soul through diligent vineyard work, but you must not become lukewarm and indifferent, for there is not much time left for all of you. But anyone who is willing to give everything will also receive an abundance of strength in order to be able to carry out this redemptive work. He will always find it easier to detach himself from the world, from earthly pleasures and desires, the more eagerly he devotes himself to the work for Me and My kingdom .... And in the end only this work will make him happy, because it will provide him with spiritual strength which he will use again and again according to My will for the salvation of those who are in greatest danger of losing their spiritual and earthly lives ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual coercion ....

B.D. 6967 from November 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You are in spiritual bondage as long as your fellow human beings force your will, as long as you are not given the right to make your own free decisions. Consequently, it cannot ever be My intention for you to be under threat of eternal punishment or be obliged to accept or reject what is prescribed to you .... You should make an entirely free decision, because your free will should decide, hence each individual person should make his own decision because this determines the soul’s fate after death. I Myself will not force you, neither have I given you any commandments which could restrict your free will .... Because even My commandment of love requires your free will, since love may not be compelled, which should be self-evident to every person. But only love will develop the knowledge of truth .... And thus you humans cannot benefit when it is specified what you should believe, what you should accept as truth .... because only a person living with love will be able to assess whether the doctrines given to you will correspond to the truth .... And this assessment has to be undertaken by every person himself, he may not be prevented from doing so by prohibition or commandments .... Because the latter is ‘spiritual coercion’. The consequence of such coercion is that people are living by a variety of misguided teachings and will not make their own effort to find their way out for fear of threatened ‘punishment’.

Every human being is entitled to his freedom of thought, and only his own assessment can result in happiness. Every dogmatic set of guidelines is spiritual coercion, irrespective of whether it is true or not. I constantly offer you humans the pure truth but I do not force you to accept it .... precisely because you should make your own free decision during your earthly life. And coercive measures are always an admission of weakness, of inability, to make people achieve an objective by other means. Anyone who genuinely wants to serve Me should, with much love, try to draw other people’s attention to the benefit of thinking and acting correctly. Time and again he should preach to them My Gospel of love, he should urge them to conduct themselves with love but refrain from all coercive measures. He can ask his fellow human beings to repeatedly listen to the proclamation of the divine Word .... he should remind them to do so kind-heartedly, but he should not make them do so under threat of divine punishment or use the commandments to force them .... because this is not in accordance with My will. For this reason I cannot agree with humanly decreed ecclesiastical laws which all merely impel a performance of duty but frequently undermine the voluntary dedication to Me .... And I can even less approve the prevention of inspecting the spiritual literature of other schools of thought .... Because every person should also be allowed to consider its truth, and he will also be able to do so if he is sincere in his desire for truth and asks Me Myself for assistance ....

Freedom of thought and free will are decisive for a successful earthly life of a person, because I only value the results of free will, whereas anything that was imposed as a duty or fulfilment of a commandment is worthless before My eyes. Anyone who is making an effort to live a life of love will also clearly recognise that love alone is the crucial factor for the human being to live in truth .... Then he will also realise that all commandments have become null and void because a loving person will act in accordance with My will by himself. He will also know that every person has to struggle with himself so as to be able to make a decision based on free will. Because love alone is the bond with Me, Who is love Itself, and as soon as he walks the earthly path with Me, due to his life of love, his will is also directed such that he will no longer require any human commandments .... As far as I Am concerned you are free at all times .... but My adversary will forcefully try to gain you for himself. And since he is unable to force you himself he will attempt to achieve it through people who belong to him .... Therefore reject all coercion because it is always a sign of he who intends to corrupt you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'Seek ye first the kingdom of God ....'

B.D. 6968 from November 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only that which helps your soul to attain full maturity can be beneficial for you. If only you always strove towards that which is useful for your soul then I would also take appropriate care of your body, for I gave you the assurance that I will look after you like the birds in the sky and the flowers in the field. You would truly not need to worry about 'tomorrow' if you considered your soul's salvation paramount, if you sincerely sought Me and My kingdom. But you humans have forgotten what is most important, your thoughts are fully and completely occupied with the world, with your body's well-being, and thus you are burdened by worries and problems, you let yourselves ever more increasingly be diverted from your actual task on earth, you pay constantly more attention to the world and only create and work for your transient part and don't consider your soul. For you don't believe My Words that I will add everything unto you if you first seek My kingdom and its righteousness .... You don't take these Words seriously and therefore don't test their truthfulness either. But I have only given you earthly life so that your soul should mature, for the body will perish, but the soul will exist forever. And the soul should .... not being entirely capable of living .... attain life on earth. This awakening into life should be brought about by you. That is the purpose of your existence as a human being .... and in order that you will be able to accomplish your purpose, you will be supported by Me in every way .... Excessive worry about your body should not hinder the work of improving your soul, for this reason I take care of the former as long as you regard your actual task as more important, as soon as you 'seek My kingdom and its righteousness'. Then you will truly not lack anything, you will be taken care of both physically and spiritually, for I look after your body as well as after your soul and I will provide abundantly, because I love you and want to win your love as well.

However, people remain permanently burdened because they don't give credence to My Words nor do they try to procure the evidence of the truth, on the contrary, they completely ignore the soul's life because they neither strive to reach Me and My kingdom nor want to help their souls to attain a more bearable state. For they have no faith in Me .... Therefore they often have to endure severe suffering; they must go through physical hardship because they don't believe in My promise and faithfully wait for My help, because the well-being of their soul is not their priority and therefore they won't let Me Myself as a Father take care of His children. A little more faith in My Word could manage to achieve a considerable change in people's spiritual state, for as soon as people seriously strive towards Me and My kingdom, they would also keep My easy commandments of love, they would treat their neighbour with love and thus live completely righteously and remain within the divine order. In that case they would already have taken possession of My kingdom and accepted Me, because love would drive them to Me .... I would be able to provide them with everything they need for body and soul, for both physical as well as spiritual possessions could be given to them, as I have promised. Nevertheless, no-one will be forced to believe, but the Word of the Gospel will be recited to everyone 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you ....' And every person can spend serious thoughts on this Word; he can make his earthly life easier for himself if he trusts in Me and My Word. First I expect his dedication to Me, which I will then reward him by taking care of his earthly worries, since he will now be a true aspirant for My kingdom. But as long as the human being regards his physical well-being of greater importance than his psychological development he will barely find time to consider his soul, for the body's demands will increase and discard every silent admonition on part of the soul, and the soul will go short and be badly withered at the end of its life on this earth .... for it was unable to gather riches, since the body took precedence. But regardless of what earthly wealth a person has attained and acquired .... he must leave it all behind when the hour of death arrives. The soul, however, will enter the kingdom of the beyond in a bare and deprived state, because the human being had neglected to do in his earthly life what is most important: to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The faith in Jesus Christ is in danger ....

B.D. 6969 from November 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Faith in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation is increasingly disappearing the closer the end approaches; the activity of God's adversary solely intends to keep people away from the divine Saviour to prevent their calling on Him, because then the adversary will have lost the entitlement to their souls, because then Jesus Christ Himself will step between him and the person who calls to Him for help. And thus in the end time it can be very clearly noticed that faith in Jesus Christ is repeatedly counteracted from all directions .... that everything is done to stop the knowledge of Him and His act of Salvation. Admittedly, it will not be entirely successful because God's activity is also visibly evident, Who time and again proclaims Jesus Christ through His Word. But the adversary will cause much harm amongst people and will spare no means in achieving his objective. And since human beings hardly ever practise love, since their love has grown cold, it is easy for God's adversary to destroy faith in Jesus Christ, because even where it still faintly exists it is nevertheless not sufficiently alive to resist the adversary's temptations. People without love succumb to him because their spirit is dark and for this very reason the adversary has an easy time.

But he uses dishonest means .... He oversteps his permitted authority .... For although he does everything to cause people's downfall, without being prevented by God due to the human being's test of free will, he nevertheless does not have the right to stop people from receiving knowledge of God, Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ on earth to redeem humanity .... Where two opponents fight each other, i.e. where human beings should freely choose between one power and another, they also have to know about both powers and their characteristics, activities and goals, otherwise it is impossible to make a free decision. And hence God's adversary may not cause disorder on earth for much longer, because He, Who is mightier than him, Whom all powers of heaven and earth have to obey, will put a stop to his activities because he is overstepping his authority. Therefore it is of particular importance during the end time to provide people with the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer .... And everyone who wants to serve God should consider this task a priority, they should counteract the adversary's activity by it, they should inform people of the One to Whom they should turn if they don't want to fall into the hands of their enemy and destroyer. Because he does not want to get people in order to make them happy .... he only wants to turn them away from God so as not to lose followers who, in his view, are his whole power.

And the state of affairs in this world is sad, only a few people still have a living faith in the divine Redeemer because most people only speak dead words without spirit and life when they describe themselves as Christians to their fellow human beings .... but they have no living bond with Him, and therefore they are not yet redeemed either and fall prey to the adversary as soon as a serious decision for or against Jesus Christ has to be made. And this decision will be demanded .... Because the adversary also successfully induces the people in his bondage into proceeding ruthlessly against everyone who has faith. And then they will have to confess openly and before the world their relationship with their Saviour and Redeemer. They will have no more choice .... and only those few will stand firm who, with living faith, turn to Him for help. But those who fail this last decision are only to blame themselves because they are all given the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and the divine teaching of love is not unknown to any human being either .... And if only they would accept and exemplify the latter their faith would also be awakened or reinforced, and they would not be without strength to resist. Yet every human being's will is free, but it also results in appropriate consequences ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calm before the storm .... Illusion of peace ....

B.D. 6970 from November 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

And even if it seems to you as if you are approaching a period of peace, you should not let yourselves be deceived .... it is only the calm before the storm and sooner than you think there will be changes in the face of those who speak of peace but start to throw the torch amongst the nations of this earth. The lull is dangerous for you because you get drowsy and in this state only value your earthly existence .... Therefore, I will continue to disturb people from their tranquillity in order to keep them awake. And thus much more will happen still, time and again people's attention will be drawn to accidents and disasters of all kinds. In addition to the apparent progress and earthly prosperity people will also have to take part in such events where human strength does not suffice to avoid them. They should learn to realise that no-one is safe from such blows of fate, no matter how secure his earthly life appears to be.

Do not be fooled by the world situation which seems to calm down, for they are all deceptive machinations, and you might get a rude awakening if you trust this calm and ignore every caution that points to the end. The change will come suddenly, and then you all should be prepared and thus believe that the turning point will come. You will be able to observe many signs of the last days, but at the same time My adversary will throw sand into your eyes too .... For he does not want you to believe in an end, to take serious stock of yourselves and change. For this reason he also influences his servants to make people believe that they are approaching a new, glorious future in peace and joy. And he succeeds, for people will always rather believe what they can observe themselves than what is proclaimed to them from the spiritual kingdom. In any case, they rather want to believe in a beautiful and happy future for themselves in an earthly sense than in an end of this earth.

But I will not stop warning and cautioning you, for it does not merely concern the few years of your earthly life but it concerns eternity .... And My admonitions will become increasingly more urgent the more an evident 'calm' spreads across the earth .... the more people accept a seemingly peaceful existence and forget their good intentions, which they might perhaps have already taken due to the constant references to the approaching end. By using the world My adversary will once more extend his tentacles to people, and it requires a strong faith not to fall prey to his power.

For this reason I will draw your attention time and again to what still awaits you .... Don't let yourselves be deceived .... My Word is truth and will come to pass, and My Word tells you of an approaching end, which is preceded by a distinct intervention by Me, a natural disaster on an huge scale .... And this catastrophe will surprise the believers of peace, and even then they could still turn around and take the short path until the end in constant striving for perfection ....

But this catastrophe will cost untold human lives .... And how do you know whether you are not amongst them? Whether it is not already too late for you, who live indifferently and with future hope and allowed yourselves to be dazzled by the prince of this world? Therefore you should always remember My Word when you hear about people's sudden death, about misfortunes and all kinds of human suffering. I thereby want to remind you all of a sudden end, I want to turn your attention to the Power Which can destroy everything you fabricate, and Which can ruin all your plans .... Unite yourselves more with this Power .... find the path to Me, entrust yourselves to Me and appeal to Me for right guidance, for protection and mercy, and believe that there is only peace in unity with Me .... that you will be deceived when earthly peace is promised to you. For humanity no longer lives such that it can have a peaceful earthly existence, it no longer strives for spiritual development and therefore has also lost the right to live on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Target of the opponent: destruction ....

B.D. 6971 from November 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Countless worlds have already come into being through My will, and countless worlds will still arise .... For the work of the spiritual's return requires them, because all once-fallen spiritual has to be integrated into the process of activity again if it wants to come close to Me again. And every single world gives this spiritual substance the opportunity to become active, even if My will is decisive for the time being and assigns it the activity which slowly helps the fallen spirits to ascend again. All worlds only serve the one purpose of returning the once fallen spiritual substance, and all worlds are therefore governed by My will, they are subject to My law of order, they testify to My love, My wisdom and My might. Nevertheless, their original substance is spiritual substance which has fallen away from Me, thus it still belongs to My adversary, but at the moment of the creation of these worlds I withdrew the power over this spiritual substance, otherwise it would forever no longer be able to ascend from the abyss to the height .... My adversary, however, knows about the endless number of those who followed him into the abyss, and this knowledge strengthens his adversarial attitude towards Me, it strengthens his belief that he will one day be able to dethrone Me, and it strengthens his hatred because I have wrested a large part of his following from him which, bound in the works of creation, has taken the path of return. And therefore he does not cease to exert his destructive influence, that is, to work towards destroying as many works of creation as possible in the belief that he can then release the bound from them and take possession of them again himself .... It is not possible for him to destroy those works of creation because he has no power over them. But he exerts his destructive influence at the time when that spiritual substance has reached the final stage where it is in possession of free will again, which My adversary has the right to influence, because the once fallen spiritual substance shall now freely decide for Me or for My adversary. And at this time he not only seeks to regain the human being himself but through him he also seeks to seize the still bound spiritual by trying to determine him to destroy creations which My love let arise in order to help the spiritual to return to Me. The adversary's domain is the earth inhabited by people, and in this domain he works in a truly satanic way. People are the target of his activity, for he can only exert his influence on them, for he has no access to the other works of creation, to the countless worlds in the universe. But he believes that he can still find access to those worlds, but he will never succeed. But he also transfers his confused thinking to people .... He also tries to persuade them that they can take possession of other worlds, and he also finds servants in bondage to him who adopt these thoughts and strive for the same as he. He also confuses their thinking and lets them make the most unbelievable attempts to break through previous barriers in order to explore worlds which are inaccessible to them. The adversary makes them believe that he can break down these barriers, and he is also listened to when he drives people into completely pointless research. For all such research is not aimed at spiritual development and can therefore never correspond to My will. And they will have an even less destructive effect on works of creation which I let arise outside of earth .... precisely because neither My adversary nor the human being possess the right of rulership over those creations, because My will also guarantees the existence of every work of creation until I Myself deem the time to have come when its purpose is fulfilled and it can be dissolved again into pure spiritual substance .... (18.11.1957) However, the adversary's efforts will take on an increasingly more threatening form the closer the end is. He drives people to attempts which even accelerate an end of this earth .... These experiments take place on earth and have an effect on earth itself. Although people's aim is the spheres outside of this earth, what they will achieve is obvious evidence of satanic influence, for the living conditions on earth will change, harmful air changes will be created for people and animals against their will; and the earth itself will become a source of fire which will one day also claim its victims .... For the destruction of this earth is My adversary's main aim .... And since people are already strongly addicted to him he will also succeed, yet without bringing him the slightest advantage. For he does not win back his followers but loses them all the more surely .... His aim is the destruction of the creations I let come into being for the purpose of returning the spiritual. And he will achieve much through people on this earth but he will never be able to destroy the other worlds created by Me because he lacks the power to do so himself and is only allowed to influence the spirits if they live on earth as human beings. And thus you can gather from this that the adversary will not be able to take possession of the universe either .... and thus neither will the people who devise such plans and believe they can control areas in space by virtue of their intelligence .... They can certainly make attempts and keep expanding their attempts but they will inevitably come to death when they step out of the realm of this earth. Yet this is also My adversary's purpose, that no creative authority will be recognized anymore, that people will deem themselves capable of investigating every law of nature and that the distance between people and Me will constantly increase .... He will achieve much but he will not be able to intervene in My plan of creation and salvation. He will only cause hopeless confusion in the thinking of all those who are already in his power and blindly follow his instructions .... until finally his activity takes on such forms that people themselves put the globe in danger, that they experiment without a second thought and .... since I am completely eliminated from their thoughts .... trigger an all-destroying catastrophe which means the end of this earth and every living creature on it. Before that I will give people a serious warning which alone could make them realize the absurdity of their plan: I will send them a warning from outer space, I will bring the earth into a danger which will be triggered without human influence .... I will let a celestial body step out of its orbit which you humans will not be able to resist, which you are powerlessly at its mercy .... in order to show you that it is I alone Who rules the world and all creations moving within it. And thereby you could still come to an understanding and give up your plan. But you are already too much a slave to My adversary, and thus the end will come as it is proclaimed .... The earth will ignite and people themselves will be the cause of it because they follow the one who wants to destroy and ruin everything ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call of Jesus Christ in temptations and hardships through the adversary ....

B.D. 6972 from November 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

When doubts creep into your hearts about the truthfulness of the divine word, when you fall into uncertainty, when it is necessary to stand up for it .... when the inner joy of working in the vineyard of the lord leaves you, then you know that you are severely harassed by God's adversary who takes advantage of every weak hour to make you incapable of your God-serving task. But you have support in Jesus Christ .... don't forget that .... If you call upon Him, He will confront the adversary and He will certainly push him back and not let your work for Him be endangered. But Jesus Christ demands one thing from you: that you completely hand yourselves over to Him, that you are willing to detach yourselves from the world and thus from your adversary, who is the lord of this world. You will understand this when you consider that the adversary still has a claim on you as long as you still take pleasure in the world, and that he can then also still exert his influence on you in the form of what your heart is still attached to. And you all still have an inclination towards this world, even if your thoughts are mainly directed towards the spiritual kingdom. But they still often stray, and God's adversary then uses this to work on you in his will in order to alienate you more and more from the spiritual kingdom. But devotion to Jesus Christ protects you from him and you will be able to resist every temptation .... For Jesus Christ is the victor over him, He has the power to push him away from you if you seriously want this. Jesus Christ is your redeemer from sin and death, He brings you salvation of the soul, He stands ready for your protection and leaves no-one in His adversary's hands who calls upon Him in the battle against him. But the adversary will also let up in his oppressions if you are at his beck and call, if you turn to him again through the desire for the world .... Then he will give you what you desire, and then you will be in serious danger of falling into his power again and turning away more and more from the spiritual kingdom. And thus only your serious will is necessary to be the property of your divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Then he will have to let go of you and you will be saved for time and eternity. These words are addressed to all people who are in physical and spiritual distress, for as soon as they endeavour to live a life according to God's will they are also exposed to constant temptations from the adversary, which are understandably particularly strong for those who have offered themselves to God for service. And so they are also often unusually harassed, but all have the one at their side Who is truly their protection and shield in every adversity. Only call upon Him in sincerity and hand yourselves over to Him will lead you out of all adversity and you will be freed from all kinds of temptations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's plan of Salvation .... Original sin .... Adam's fall .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 6973 from November 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The work of redemption began with the emergence of the creations in the universe .... it began with binding the hardened spiritual substance in the form, thus with the shaping of material forms which at first were spiritual in substance themselves and then also sheltered spiritual substances within themselves which had already gone through a certain process of development. The spirits which once had deserted God had distanced themselves from Him to a point that God's strength was no longer able to touch them, therefore they became immobile and rigid, they became hardened in themselves. And during this time they belonged to God's adversary and would never have changed their situation. But it was God's plan to provide these hardened spirits with an opportunity to attain a state of splendour which surpassed their past beatitude by far .... God wanted to shape His 'living creations' into 'children' .... which, however, had to be achieved by the creature itself. Hence the created being, which had rebelled against God in free will and consequently fell abysmally low, had the opportunity to completely voluntarily ascend to maturity again in order to then be able to achieve the work of deification .... but it had to be lifted out of the abyss since it was no longer capable of ascending by itself due to its total lack of strength. And God provided this help for the fallen spirits by letting the creation arise, by shaping the hardened spiritual substance through His will into many different kinds of creations. And with these creations began the redemption or the return of the spirits to God.

Now the fallen spirits were guaranteed ascension up to a certain level, because divine will is the decisive factor in this plan of creation and the adversary has no influence whatsoever on the bound spiritual substances within the works of creation.

Even the continued ascent as a human being would have been guaranteed had the first human beings faithfully lived according to God's easy commandment and resisted the temptations by God's opponent .... for which the first human beings, Adam and Eve, certainly had the strength .... But since they were allowed to use their free will and let themselves be beguiled by the adversary, they failed and thereby made the work of redemption far more difficult for the whole of humanity than it should have been had they used their will correctly. Hence the people who followed were considerably weakened by this sin of the first human beings, they no longer had the strength which the former had at their disposal and to a certain extent carried the burden of this sin, so God's adversary had achieved a great deal:

He endangered the prospect of people .... the once fallen original spirits .... ever attaining the final goal of deification. And therefore God provided help for them again .... He sent His Son to earth, i.e., a supreme being of light started his process on earth in order to fulfil the conditions as a human being which the first people neglected to fulfil and which devastated them .... He thereby wanted to help them escape their state of weakness, He wanted to enable them again to reach the deification. It was the man Jesus in Whom the Divine Love Itself took abode .... the Father Who wanted to help His children liberate themselves form the adversary and to come back to Him .... He sent His Son to earth, a being Who likewise emerged from His creative strength and Who had to enter a human shell in order to first become a vessel for the eternal Spirit of God Who in this human form wanted to bring salvation to His living creations. But again the human being's free will remains decisive .... For now he first has to acknowledge the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and accept His redeeming help if he wants to reach the goal of unification with God, of childship to God, which is a state of supreme perfection and beatitude. All fallen spirits are able to reach the highest pinnacle, because the act of Salvation by the man Jesus has demonstrated that a human being's will is able to offer resistance to his opponent and arch enemy, that love is the strength of resistance which everyone can kindle in himself .... and because every human being need only appeal to the divine Redeemer for help in order to then also emerge as a conqueror of death and attain the life which can only be found in unity with God .... and which also proves the release from God's adversary, who only ever endeavours to keep all created beings in the abyss, in the state of death. Hence 'redemption' means 'release' from the one who brought death into the world, redemption means accepting Jesus Christ's help, for without him the human being is weak as a result of the original sin and the sin of his ancestral parents, which were only atoned for by Jesus Christ's death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faith conditions love ....

B.D. 6974 from November 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

If you ask how you can attain faith, this is already a sign that you want to believe and that you are looking for a path which will lead you to the aim. In times of earthly adversity you humans all need support, for then you feel that you are too weak on your own, that your physical strength alone is not enough, and then you would also like to believe that you could entrust yourselves to a higher power, but this faith is usually lacking. For you cannot acquire it through your intellect, you cannot intellectually create evidence for what you want to believe in .... in a power with Whom you are most closely connected, Whose will determines your destiny, Who is a being of supreme perfection and Who draws close to you when you call upon It. But you can cause this supreme being to prove Itself to you, and It will give you the inner conviction of that which cannot be proven intellectually. For this supreme being reveals Himself to the human being in many ways. But It places conditions on it: the acknowledgement of Itself, the creator-spirit, from Whom everything emerged, the serious desire for truth .... and a way of life in love .... These conditions are indispensable for this creative power .... God Himself .... will enter into contact with you and help you to a convinced faith. The rational man will constantly look for proofs and reject everything that cannot be proven .... He never steps out of the world he has intellectually built within himself into another world, and he therefore cannot recognize the latter either, it remains hidden from him. But it can be entered by every person who lives in love .... For through his life of love he already establishes the connection with the eternal love Itself, Which he is unable to deny with conviction, and love Itself then guides him into the truth he desires. But you humans are very far away from the truth because love has grown cold in you. And therefore you are no longer able to believe, everything you are asked to believe seems unreal to you; you only move with your thoughts in the real world, and despite eager intellectual activity you remain empty and poor in spiritual knowledge .... of the knowledge that reveals the ultimate meaning of all things .... yes, you even presume to reject the great revelation of God in Jesus Christ, His incarnation in Jesus, into the realm of legend. You do not give in to the quiet impulses within you to let the heart speak for once instead of the intellect. You try to meet everything with reason, which only the heart can judge .... because your heart is no longer able to do so due to a lack of love. The mission of the man Jesus, apart from the act of salvation, also consisted of living a life of love to people .... because such alone helps to enlighten the spirit, because a life of love is indispensable in order to come close to the truth and to develop all forces in the human being which testify to a divine origin. Love was preached by Jesus, the disciples were instructed to spread the divine teaching of love. And this doctrine of love is the foundation on which the christian religions were also built .... But so little attention is paid to this teaching of love that it is understandable why people's spiritual state is darkened, why faith mostly does not go beyond a formal belief and why divine revelations are repeatedly attacked or rejected as untrustworthy. Love alone is the key to truth, and love cannot be replaced by worldly wisdom, no matter how great, by intellect, no matter how sharp .... for love alone is the irrefutable bond with God, Who unites Himself with the human being in every work of love, Who allows His spirit to overflow onto the human being who, through love, assimilates himself to His original being .... And God can and will reveal Himself to this human being, He will let him gain insight into areas which are inaccessible to the human intellect, He will enlighten his spirit and give him fullest understanding for profoundest wisdoms and for His plan of salvation and its reason ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Attacks by 'false representatives' ....

B.D. 6975 from November 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Anyone who confesses Me in Jesus Christ is and remains Mine for eternity .... You need not fear that I will hand you over to My adversary, who will indeed repeatedly harass you but has no power over you as long as your will is turned towards Me. My adversary certainly tries to separate you from Me, and his activity is often not easy to recognize under the cloak of piety .... For even those who sincerely strive towards Me are attacked by those who seem to strive for the same, for My adversary uses them if he cannot succeed in any other way to drive a wedge between Me and you .... For a person who seriously strives towards Me wants everything but not to act against My will .... And therefore My will is also held up to him from the opposing side in order to shake his belief that he is acting correctly. Yet you can believe that I Myself accept the one who has accepted Me into his heart through his conscious willful devotion to Me and the acknowledgement of My act of salvation in Jesus Christ. I would truly not be a God of love if I wanted to reward a person's love for Me in such a way that I abandon him to ruin .... that I thus leave him to My adversary. And he need not fear to go wrong once he has faithfully given himself to Me and requested My guidance .... And thus I can only tell you again and again that the adversary's activity will indeed not diminish and that he will again and again try to cast doubts into your hearts and that he will also use such people for this who also feel themselves to be 'God's representatives on earth' .... but that they will only do his will if they are not yet intimately united with Me themselves, because then they would immediately feel his influence and resist it. But I protectively hold My hands over you and don't let such temptations endanger you, because I know your will and you are already Mine through your devotion to Me. No matter how your further earthly life will turn out .... you can be certain of My guidance and fatherly care, and you can devote yourselves to the work for Me and My kingdom without worry, for this, too, will be watched over and guided by Me, because My adversary's activity has to be counteracted by Me and you are instructed by Me to carry out this work. You should not worry about this, for precisely the attempts to dissuade you from this work for Me shall give you ever stronger impetus, because you can be certain that these attacks originate from My adversary .... precisely because you serve Me .... If you were to serve him you would truly be supported in every way, you would receive public honours, you would be brought into everyone's field of vision, you would also pay homage to the world and be richly endowed with the goods of this world .... but you would never ever raise your voice for Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, you would rather speak out against Him, for then My adversary's spirit would be active in you, and this would always express itself in an anti-christian way. You, who want to serve Me, need truly not fear to succumb to his power, for the very fact that you stand up for Jesus Christ is also your secure protection against his attacks, for He Whom you confess before the world is also on your side, and the adversary will have to surrender to him, he will have to release you who consciously confess Jesus Christ and thus want to serve Me, Who will be recognized and known by you in Jesus .... But every person has to answer for his will. And therefore it is good to fully subject this will to Me, then the human being will truly not be able to want and think differently than it corresponds to My will, for then My will will also be in him. But it is impossible for Me to want contradictory things from you .... thus I will not put it into one person's heart to be active for Me and into another person's heart to oppose this activity and dissuade the former from doing so .... Thus My adversary must be able to express himself in the latter, who is interested in stopping the work for Me and in My will .... or at least to awaken doubts in you as to whether your work is God-willed. Devotion to Me protects you from wrong thinking and wrong will, and therefore I only ever admonish you to join Me ever more intimately, and then you can also walk safely and unconcernedly on earth under My guidance, for I Myself will then guide you to the aim ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Freedom of will excludes evidence of faith ....

B.D. 6976 from November 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No-one can be forced to believe; consequently it is impossible for divine revelations to be given in such a way that they cannot be doubted. But they can be recognised as divine revelations by someone with a serious will to understand, who therefore has an entirely open-minded attitude and seriously examines them. However, were people to be given irrefutable proof that they are addressed by God Himself, their thoughts and intentions would be determined by this proof .... thus it would exclude a free decision of will which, however, is the purpose and goal of life on earth. It truly would be easy for God to speak to people such that they no longer were able to doubt His existence, but in that case the purpose of earthly life would be missed, for the being's deification is an act of free will, hence free will must remain inviolable, and this excludes all absolute proof. However, it is nevertheless possible for every person to procure his own inner conviction, for as soon as his will has chosen God by consciously wanting to approach Him, God Himself will give him the evidence of His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... He will manifest Himself to him in a way that he can no longer doubt and is happy about this gained realisation. But the grace of God's manifestation is granted to every person .... Yet not every person evaluates it and attains realisation. Creation itself is already a manifestation of God, and it alone could serve the human being as living proof already, it could convince him of the eternal Creative Spirit Which manifests Itself through this creation. But even creation may not be faith-compelling evidence .... This is why the human being can also try to substantiate the emergence of creation in a different way .... which he surely will do by virtue of his free will if he isolates himself from God due to his opposing will and anti-divine nature. This person cannot believe because he does not want to. And to give such a person irrefutable proof would merely compel his will and the faith gained thereby would be totally worthless.

Different opinions will always exist in the world, that is, amongst the people of this earth, because not all people have the same will and not all of them evaluate the blessing flowing to them in the same way. But every individual sooner or later has the opportunity to spend some serious thought on a Power with Which he is connected through a life-preserving influx of strength .... He has the opportunity to draw a comparison between himself and the things He created .... and between himself and the One Who created him. He can come to the conclusion that 'a God' Who has created everything cannot be denied and that his own existence substantiates this God. Then he will be able to build upon this inner conviction and also consider God's revelations possible and subsequently live his life according to these revelations, which will always result in his increasingly brighter realisation and therefore in indisputable faith even without proof. Human will may not be infringed upon if his progress on earth is to be successful, so that he will deify himself and be able to depart from this earth as a free being full of strength and light. However, the will should be stimulated in order to be deployed in the right direction .... And this happens through blessings .... through fateful events, through particular experiences, through bringing people with different directions of thought together .... and from time to time also through conveying divine revelations. And if the human being does not openly resist these blessings they can have positive effects, and there is a possibility for a change of will in the human being, that he will not reject everything which previously seemed incredible to him, that he will think about it and .... if he is of good will .... that his thoughts can be guided correctly without coercion. The human being need only realise that he is weak and small and unable to fathom everything with his intellect alone. The feeling of his own weakness and lack of knowledge can impel him towards the Power he can no longer deny to be above him. But anyone who deems himself knowledgeable, who overestimates his intellect, will never attain truth and wisdom, for he does not open himself to the Power Which would like to permeate him because he isolates himself from It. The human being must subject himself to this Power of his own free will, only then will he realise the relationship he has with this Power and he will know what he is, what he had been and what he shall become again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Separate worlds .... Various heavenly bodies ....

B.D. 6977 from November 27th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Countless heavenly bodies circle in the universe, that you people are not be able to see, that all have emerged from God’s strength of love, that’s to say they were once-radiated divine strength of love in their substance, but originally it had another destination. For this radiated strength of love were beings, who should be active by the will of God, but which have not fulfilled their original destination and used their own force in a will opposed to God. So these beings miseducated themselves to creatures in a completely adverse type to God, and they couldn’t stay in their deformity, because it contradicted the divine order. Therefore God reorganized these creatures, He dissolved them into countless tiny sparks of force, and from that He let arise new creatures of various kinds. That, what once was created as self-conscious beings, were now initially rigid structures, which God gave many different forms and the most various purpose determination. He brought (gathered) Himself so to speak once emanated strength from Him in specially created forms for that .... He created countless worlds by virtue of His will, that are basically all the same: transformed spiritual beings, but which should get back their original form, but therefore first must serve each other in God’s will .... Insofar all these worlds are connected with each other, that they have the same creative spirit as the Father, that they all are created by the same power and also they all have as a last aim the association with this creative spirit again. One will reigns all these worlds, and one strength preserves them. But nevertheless the different worlds are separated from each other, and none of the worlds comes into close contact with one another, because the basic substances of each single world are collected in accordance with it, and these basic substances have come more or less insubordinate to God and therefore they also need the most various individual creations, to organize themselves again and enter into the original state. Therefore each heavenly body is a work of creation for itself, all stars are different from each other in basic substance, creation and destination. Because the will to create of the eternal creative spirit is unlimited, because even His love ans His wisdom is limitless. And His last aim is, to get back all once radiated strength from Him as accomplished children, who can create and act with Him in the same will for their pleasure and their salvation. The earth is such a work of creation, that God let arise for the purpose, that miseducated beings can turn again to their original being through their own will after endless long time. But only the earth offers the possibility, to achieve the highest perfection, while the other worlds partly contain already highly developed beings, partly are teaching institutions for such self-aware beings, who did not reach the aim in life on earth, but still need and also can be able to get to a certain level of maturity, once being able to fulfill its original purpose. However, for the achievement of the highest aim only the earth is the responsible work of creation, but therefore a passage on this earth is also far more difficult than going through other worlds .... But in the end all creations in the universe serve only one purpose for the return of the spiritual, who once had fallen away from God. And therefore each creation will also remain strictly separated from the others, because the self-aware spiritual has to cover its course of development in complete freedom of will in each world .... but immediately this freedom of will would be at risk, if compelling evidence would arise by compounds of self-aware beings for the salvation plan of God and the free striving for perfection would be prevented from itself thereby. Although spiritual connections exist and can be initiated, but these do not exert any compulsory faith on the self-aware beings of this earth, they can be believed and not believed, and they only will exert a beneficient influence, if a certain state of maturity of those beings has already reached .... if people on earth have already recognized their purpose of existence and want to achieve their last aim .... Then they are already near completion, and they do not need evidence .... they believe also without such and strive for their reunification with God in free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Grave importance of life on earth ....

B.D. 6978 from November 28th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No human being is fully aware of the significance of earthly life, and no human being knows what he can acquire in this earthly life. The knowledge of it can certainly be conveyed to him, he can also accept it as true and let it take effect on him, but he can never grasp the great spiritual correlations, nor can he foresee the effect of a correctly lived earthly change, because he does not know the radiant strength he once had towards his God and creator and that his final aim is the same bliss again in full possession of light and strength .... As a human being he is too limited in his thinking and could never grasp what was in the beginning and what is to be achieved again. But again and again God tries to expand this still limited thinking, and the human being himself can also do so if he breaks the shackles of his soul, if he begins to dissolve the dense shells around it, which can happen through a life of love, because the latter is already a slow reshaping to the former nature .... thus can also remove all limitations. But as long as the human being lives on earth he will not be able to exceed certain limits, for a person's love is rarely so overwhelming that it is also able to remove the soul's last cover already on earth. But once it enters the kingdom of the beyond after the death of the body, then its state can already be very full of light, and then it will also recognize the correlations, and it will know what unheard-of grace earthly life means for every human being .... But this recognition cannot be given to it by God, it must have acquired it itself, which happens through a life of love. And therefore people also don't know about the significance of a life of love .... They don't know about it until they lead it themselves, but then their thinking is no longer limited either, it reaches far into God's plan of creation and salvation, and the soul comes ever closer to God as its father of eternity. Many a soul will feel bitter remorse when it has to realize in the kingdom of the beyond how little it has valued its earthly life, what state it could have reached and how far it has fallen behind due to its own fault. For every soul's attention is drawn to this, every soul is stimulated in earthly life to work with love, and in various ways it is also given knowledge to which it can adjust itself. But a person may never be influenced by force, and therefore God will not make him unfree in his thinking either. But he could exceed the limits set for him in his earthly form himself. And precisely this is what the soul will have to realize one day, that it would also have been possible for it to acquire light and strength in earthly life .... it will have to realize that only its own will prevented it from being lovingly active, but that it would have been possible to be lovingly active .... For every person has the opportunity to do so, every person is addressed by his fellow human being's adversity .... but every human being also has free will. And thus this free will is both the impetus for activity in love as well as the reason for refraining from good works. And therefore the human being has to answer for his will or also: The will determines his further fate in eternity. And for the testing of this will the human being was given earthly life, which can bring him unbelievably glorious things but can also put him into an agonizing state .... If only the awareness of responsibility can be awakened in people, if only the significance of earthly life can be presented to them so that they seriously think about it, then the possibility is already given that they will think about themselves and their shortcomings, and the work on their souls can begin, i.e., the human being can endeavour to live in accordance with God's will .... and this also always means practicing love towards his neighbour .... And the blessing of such an activity of love will not fail to materialize, for the human being will start to think differently, he will be able to explain to himself many things which were previously incomprehensible to him, he will increasingly direct his thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, cover after cover will fall from his soul .... But only love is able to bring about this change in his nature, only love is his soul's only remedy which, however, works safely and puts the soul into a state that it can now leave earthly life permeable to light .... that it now recognizes itself as God's creature which once left Him but may return to Him again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Final separation .... The coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 6979 from November 29th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

There have always been people who handed themselves over to My adversary's influence as well as those who seriously endeavoured to reach Me and fulfilled their purpose of earthly life .... And there will always be people on earth who strive in either direction as long as earth serves as a place to mature for the spirits. But during the time shortly before the end of a period of salvation the number of those who surrender to My adversary will always predominate, and a far lesser number of people will strive towards Me .... just as, at the start of a new period of development, it will be the other way round .... in fact, at the beginning of such an epoch the earth will only serve as an abode for people who have completely entered into My will and cannot be influenced by My adversary anymore .... And so it is not surprising that My adversary's raging will also become increasingly more noticeable during the last days before the end, in a manner of speaking, spiritual substances are embodied on earth whose opposition to Me has barely diminished despite the fact that they have taken the infinite long path through the creations. Nevertheless, they have attained a certain degree of maturity which allowed for their human embodiment and therefore the possibility also exists that they can pass their test of will on earth, because, despite My adversary's greater activity, I Myself also provide exceptional help and take care of the weakened human race. However, in most cases their opposing will shall emerge anew and the adversary's task to regain them again will be an easy one. But the fact that especially devout people will exist during the last days who will very eagerly strive to attain My kingdom will be proof that it is possible, despite My adversary's intensified influence, for the people presently embodied on earth have opposed Me for a very long time already, otherwise they would have been permitted to embody themselves before this time .... apart from the individual souls which came to earth for the purpose of a mission in order to help the human race, which is suffering acute spiritual hardship. And therefore it concerns a final separation, the chaff will be separated from the wheat, and prior to this everything will be done to assure a good harvest; all souls will receive help to liberate themselves from the one to whom they have been enchained for eternities already.

However, the final decision is up to them. All people can find out for themselves that the world is governed by a truly satanic spirit, that people are far more taken in by him and willingly comply with his demands. The world is full of devils and the closer it gets to the end, the more it will manifest itself. For wherever a person's will is weak he slips in and strengthens it, but in a negative sense, so that deeds will be done in this world which can only stem from Satan. And since the number of those enslaved by him will predominate, the battle against the small flock of My Own who aim towards Me and My kingdom, who want to remain faithful to Me and are therefore subjected to these attacks, will also rage extremely severely. And these few will know that the time is coming to an end, that My return can be expected, because the adversity, from which I want to save them as I have promised, will become almost unbearable. People only rarely stand by these promises as well as the prophecies concerning the end. They are no longer able to believe, because they live in a completely different time and everything of a spiritual nature seems unreal to them .... But they would only for once need to seriously think about the events which everyone can experience or observe happening around them, then they would also have to remember the prophecies which indicated this time as well as the consequences .... However, My adversary will have great power in the end .... This, too, has been foretold, and all people can easily recognise that humanity is influenced by Satan, regardless of whether they accept him or call him by another name, but his activity is unmistakable. Yet My activity should also be observed and testify to Me Myself, a Power Which is stronger than the former .... For I, too, reveal Myself to those who distance themselves from the opposing spirit, who are devoted to Me and appeal to Me for strength and help. And I will visibly manifest Myself to them when the day has come that I will separate the goats from the sheep and take them away from this earth in the flesh in order to let them experience My power and glory in accordance with My promise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The right prayer ....

B.D. 6980 from November 30th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

A right prayer in spirit and in truth will always reach My ear. And you pray correctly when you speak to Me like a child speaks to its father .... when you entrust all your needs to Me or even just send a single call to Me in your adversity .... when you hold intimate dialogue with Me, i.e. believing that I hear you and also expect My answer, that you imagine what your father would answer you .... For as soon as you pray correctly you will also think correctly, always in devotion to Me and My will. But no prayers are of use to you which you have learned, which you can also say without thoughts which can very often only be a form because they are not felt by the heart. And therefore a true prayer can only be said in silence, where all external impressions fall away, where you devote yourselves to Me and speak to Me undisturbed as your heart tells you .... This is why I have told you: "Withdraw into your closet ...." I only want to hear the voice of a child, and I will always open My ear to it and also be exceedingly pleased to hear the requests which the child now expresses. Anyone who is able to pray correctly has thus also established a child's relationship with the father, which is a prerequisite for reaching the aim on earth: the union with Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. But anyone who only sees God and creator in Me will not be able to speak to Me confidentially either, there will always be a gulf between him and Me which I would like to see bridged and which is why I often let the human being get into such distress that he calls to the father in his distress. Admittedly, the right relationship between child and father also presupposes a living faith, and thus, again, only a loving person will pray correctly because he recognizes Me as his father to Whom he takes refuge in his distress. But you humans don't know how graciously you are considered by the fact that you may come to Me without hesitation when you are depressed or in dire need. You don't know how gladly I lean down to you when I hear sounds of love, when you turn to Me and desire help from Me. For you once severed your bond with Me yourselves, but I want it to be restored, which you prove to Me through a right prayer. Anyone who sincerely prays to Me is no longer separated from Me, he acknowledges Me as his God and creator, and he also wants to be like a child to the father, thus he wants to enter into His original relationship. Therefore, a right prayer is already a passed decision of will, and a person who has now established the child's relationship with the father will also constantly receive the strength from Me to become as he was in the beginning. He will be able to reshape his nature, for every intimate contact with Me, every prayer in spirit and in truth makes it possible for My flow of strength to overflow into him. Thus he will always receive spiritually, even if an earthly request remains unfulfilled for him, because I recognize this as beneficial for his soul. But what he receives spiritually compensates him a thousand fold for what I have to deny him for the sake of his soul .... And thus every prayer is far more about the contact between the human being and Me, for this can only be established by the human being himself, although My love is always willing to approach the human being. And therefore only the prayer sent up in spirit and in truth can be valued or receive blessings, because such alone also guarantees the intimate bond which, however, will be very questionable with formal prayers of any kind .... For then the human being does not use prescribed words but speaks to Me in a most childlike, trusting way. And I gladly listen to him because it makes Me happy to hear the voice of a child which gives itself to Me in love. And a loving child will not only ask Me for earthly things, it will also request spiritual goods because it wants to reach Me and longs for unification with Me in its deepest heart. And its gain will truly be great, for it will be abundantly provided for by My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light transmission equal to realization ....

B.D. 6981 from December 1st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Nothing will remain hidden from you if your soul can be completely permeated by My light of love, for then it will be in contact with Me again, and then there will be no more darkness, no more lack of knowledge and no more unresolved questions for it. Then it has become knowledgeable, and it only needs to contemplate in its thoughts what it wants to know in order to also already receive enlightenment through My love. Then the exchange of our thoughts will take place as in the beginning, then the relationship from the child to the father will be established by this soul, and then it will also be allowed to experience the father's love without limitation and also be blissfully happy without limitation. But this state of a soul is not yet conceivable for you humans, you are still in darkness as long as you have not yet recognized your task on earth, or sparks of light will certainly shine upon you from time to time which already provide you with a small realization .... But only a few have a light within themselves which already shines in a larger radius, thus it has chased away the actual state of darkness. But these souls will feel far happier than the former, for already having a clearer picture of the actual purpose of earthly life also means a certain security for the human being in relation to all fateful experiences. He sees a purpose in everything that goes on around him, and he also sees his own task in the midst of his surroundings. Even if his own life is less favourable, he still has an advantage over his fellow human beings, and therefore he does not find his own situation in life oppressive, for he knows that he is in contact with Me as the power Who can always help him and avert everything that oppresses him. Thus he is never hopeless because a light constantly shines for him which reveals much to him. To go through earthly life without knowledge is always proof that the human being does not yet receive My illumination of love, that he resists it and therefore lives in spiritual darkness. And then it only makes sense to him what is connected with the material world and what he will therefore also strive for without considering that it loses all meaning at the moment of his death. Thus he is blind in spirit, the night of death surrounds him even though he lives on earth, for his soul is dead, it is not touched by My ray of love because the human being excludes all possibility of this. But how grateful the soul would be if it only possessed a small glimmer of light when leaving the body, its bodily shell, at the hour of death. The smallest ray of light would show it the way .... But so it wanders around in darkness, and its fate is pitiful because it will not lose the awareness of its existence but then it will only ever reap what the human being has sown on earth. And thus the soul has prepared the darkness for itself, it did not take care in earthly life to dissolve the covers it is surrounded by and thus to grant My ray of light of love access .... To dissolve these coverings in the beyond is much more difficult, and the soul needs help. And it can often take a long time until it finds its way around its surroundings, until it walks along in a twilight .... until a small realization makes it happy and it now also directs its will according to this realization. With constant striving the light in it will also increase, i.e. My work of love and mercy will become ever more clearly understandable to it and also its own state, it will learn to recognize ever more brightly what its actual task and final aim consists of and strive towards it. But to have already acquired this realization on earth and thus to be able to cross over into the spiritual kingdom in light is the human being's aim on earth, which everyone could achieve and which makes him unspeakably happy at the hour of death. For then the soul will be over-brightly illuminated and able to overlook and understand everything, every veil will fall before its eyes, and the bliss of constant light penetration will be the fate of those who already begin to dissolve the shells of their souls on earth, which can only happen through unselfish loving activity .... On earth you humans will not experience the spiritual effects of such loving activity, but at the hour of death you will be allowed to experience them, and in a flash you will have spiritual knowledge at your disposal which will also enable you to work in the kingdom of the beyond .... to lead ignorant souls to the light again and to do the same to them as was done to you during your earthly life: to make the hearts receptive for the divine light of love which I constantly let shine upon them so that they will become eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Perpetual resistance comes out from the opponent ....

B.D. 6982 from December 2nd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You should not be discouraged if you have to overcome resistance in earthly life, for in view of Me you will easily be able to overcome all such resistance, for I will help you. But they have to be so that you will mature, even if you belong to My own and show the serious striving to fulfil My will. Yet you, too, are still afflicted with weaknesses and faults which you will not have much time to overcome .... And My adversary tries his hand at these weaknesses and faults, and you must offer him resistance if you want to mature your souls. Yet don't fear that you will fail in the battle against him, for I will provide you with strength and he will have to let go of you as soon as he recognizes your bond with Me and his futile effort to win you over for himself. And thus his temptations only contribute towards the perfection of your souls if you have already surrendered your will to Me. He pushes you, as it were unintentionally, into increased spiritual activity, because you, who serve Me on earth, nevertheless take the path to Me in earthly as well as in spiritual adversity and because this bond with Me is also expressed in eager vineyard work, but never as My adversary would like you to turn away from Me. For I keep you and will not release you again for ever .... And I have the right to do so because you turned to Me of your own free will and therefore already belong to Me. But I also have to leave him his right to influence you, for as long as you live on earth as a human being he is entitled to this right which he also truly uses .... which is expressed in all kinds of hardship and distress which shall make you doubt My love, wisdom and might. Yet know that My love for you will not diminish, that My might is unlimited and that My wisdom, too, can guide every event in its effect to benefit your soul if only your will does not resist Me. For the sake of your fellow human beings I cannot completely protect you, who serve Me, from sorrow, suffering and illness, for you should not appear exceptionally gifted, which would nevertheless be a certain compulsion of will for your fellow human beings .... Yet don't fear that I will deny you My strength, that I will not keep My servants for Me as long as I need them to work in My vineyard. But persevere in full faith in My help and also bear all suffering with patience, then it will only be a blessing for you .... but never bring My adversary the desired triumph. The battle against the truth will become ever fiercer. Again and again you should remind yourselves of this, for the end is approaching, and because only truth can save people from ruin, from the abyss into which My adversary would like to plunge them, he will also fight against truth with all means. And he has many means; he wants to make you unable to do the work for Me and My kingdom himself .... he also wants to prevent you from doing so through opponents of the truth, even if they seemingly stand up for the truth, if they pretend to be My representatives on earth .... My servants will still have to face much from their side, for My adversary uses them in the belief that he will then have greater success. For the pure truth exposes him and his activities, the pure truth gives a true picture of Me and My plan of salvation, and only the pure truth can cause people to look within themselves and strive for a serious change .... And he wants to prevent this with cunning and violence. And therefore you, who receive the pure truth directly from Me, should not be surprised that the attacks on his part will increase and that they can still be expected from him in various ways. But your faithfulness to Me will repel them again and again and secure you My protection and My supply of strength, for I do not leave those who do not leave Me .... I cannot force your will, just as My adversary is not allowed to do so either, but you should muster a strong will which is not meant for the adversary but for Me; you should surrender to Me and always remain united with Me in prayer and loving activity. Then you need never fear that you will succumb, that you will take the wrong path or that you will not be able to carry out your work for Me and My kingdom. For the time is drawing to a close and My servants' faithful work is still needed for countless souls on earth and also in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'Mind' does not replace the 'spirit from God' ....

B.D. 6983 from December 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only pure truth can reach you through the strength of the spirit, for only the spirit, which is part of the eternal deity, knows everything and can impart the knowledge of everything to you. Until you humans make this fundamental truth your own, all your research and brooding will be in vain because you are not certain of the correctness of the results you have gained through research and brooding. And as long as something seems doubtful to you, you cannot speak with conviction of its truth. That is why so much thought work is in vain, and people spend much time and energy which they would use far better if they did works of unselfish love instead of those mental researches. For the man of the world these words are incomprehensible, because he is not able to reconcile emotional and intellectual activity. And yet the activity of the intellect is only blessed by God when the heart is willing to love. For God's blessing must rest on everything the human being intends to do .... or divine order must first be observed if the human being's thoughts and actions are to be successful, a success which is valuable in every direction. Error, however, will never have a successful effect, and no human being will want to keep it either if he has recognized it as error. And the recognition of error and lie would also be easy for every person as soon as he lives a life of love. It is all so clearly understandable if the human being would first want to accept the law of divine order, if he would admit that for the time being the human being has to remain in order in order to also be able to recognize everything that corresponds to this divine order. The law of divine order, however, is and remains love .... If this law is overturned, if it is not fulfilled, then all effects must also irrevocably contradict the order. Lies and error, however, exist outside of order, lies and error will always be where people sin against divine order, where people live next to each other without love and no longer understand the meaning of their earthly life. Therefore, if a person wants to attain truth he cannot possibly find it in people who obviously live in opposition to divine order, whose lives therefore do not reveal any divine order according to the fundamental principle of love. For there the spirit from God cannot express itself either. There the 'portion of God' is prevented in its working, and the intellect of man cannot replace the spirit from God. How much richer, therefore, is the human being to be called who, through a life of unselfish neighbourly love, is instructed and guided by the divine spirit within himself and who, upon entering the kingdom on the other side, can survey with brightest clarity everything that was still kept hidden from him on earth .... compared to those people who make excessive demands on their intellect and yet will never find their way out of limited thinking if their way of life is led in unkindness .... These will only be surrounded by darkness at the end of their earthly life, for all earthly knowledge is gone and only spiritual knowledge is still of value after the death of the body. But all people carry the divine spiritual spark within themselves, and it would be possible for all people to cause it to be released. But their free will must impel them to move in divine order, i.e., to live in love. For truth is also a sign of divine order, because only the 'deity' is to be addressed as 'eternal truth' and every truthful explanation must therefore also originate from God, Who imparts it to people through His spirit. God, however, can only speak through His spirit to those people who are already within His circle of love, because those outside cannot hear the voice of the spirit. And people only enter His divine circle of love when they practice love themselves, but without loving activity they also isolate themselves from the one Who is eternal love and also eternal truth .... And no matter how eagerly they use their intellect they will not arrive at the truth, instead, all their research or results of thought deviate from the pure truth, which God only gives to those who want to belong to Him, who make an effort to live in divine order and who therefore also cause the spiritual spark within themselves to express itself and now no longer need to fear falling prey to lies and error .... For God Himself protects them from this by enlightening their spirit, by guiding their thinking correctly so that they are very well able to distinguish truth from error ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Meaning of a love life ....

B.D. 6984 from December 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

God's admonitions will only ever result in a life of love .... Precisely the importance of a life of love is little known to you humans, and yet a life of love is the sole factor which secures your beatitude, an eternal life. And people don't think of that, and they pay more attention to everything else than their own attitude towards the most important thing in earthly life, love .... They go about their earthly duties day in and day out but they do everything more with their intellect than with their heart .... They consider all pros and cons, they try to work and create advantageously and to carry out earthly work dutifully, but they don't account for the extent to which the heart is involved, to what extent love is the determining factor in their actions. And yet, every work done without love is useless .... And even the daily work must show a degree of love for the people for whom it is done. Yet only few people are aware of this, and therefore for many their whole life can be an idle one if a slow transformation of the human being has not taken place .... a transformation from self-love to neighbourly love, or also: a reshaping to the former being, which was love. For the most part, every deed is only done for the sake of a certain advantage, but selfless activity of love is rare, and only the latter is of value for the human being's soul. And people should once give an account of what they have done during the day in complete selfless love .... It will be extremely little, for selfish love is still too predominant or such a state could not exist on earth as it undeniably does. People should also give account to themselves as to what extent they themselves are still capable of love, i.e. how they are touched by their fellow human being's fate and willing to help him. Every person only thinks of his own fate and tries to improve it if possible, but no one thinks of his fellow human being who is in need. And thus no human being may be self-satisfied if he only fulfils his duty. His spiritual state will always remain on the same level, for only an act of love will improve it, only loving activity will bring spiritual maturity to his soul. Therefore, what use is it to you humans if you also provide yourselves with all the comforts of life, if you dutifully do everything in order to gain such a life of well-being, what use are all your efforts and endeavours in earthly life if they were made without love and you have not progressed one step further in your development at the end of your life if you have only taken care of your earthly well-being? The soul could only recover and mature through works of love, and it is the soul alone which will remain when you have completed your earthly course. The soul can only attain its original form through loving activity, and it is precisely this loving activity which you grossly neglect, you rather add unloving works to it and therefore burden the soul extraordinarily .... And thereby you render your earthly life completely useless, you don't live according to purpose and will one day feel bitter remorse that you left a gift of grace unused and thereby missed out on a glorious fate in eternity. But you humans are also inaccessible to teachings about the meaning of a life of love .... You have already sunk so low through your selfish love that your spirit is darkened and you no longer recognize the light which shines towards you when the divine teaching of love is brought to you. Love has grown cold amongst people, and this also means that earthly life is useless for the souls, that the purpose of earthly life is misunderstood and that people's spiritual state has become darkened. And only the one who makes an effort to live a life of love himself also recognizes the disaster which threatens humanity, which lives without any love .... Only he knows that the prince of darkness then also has power over an unloving humanity, that it is in bondage to him and is in his power from which it can only free itself if it uses the weapon of love against him, for he who kindles love in himself will be avoided by the adversary because in his vicinity is God Himself, Who is eternal love and Whom he flees who is devoid of all love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' spiritual mission ....

B.D. 6985 from December 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

When you have recognised Jesus' exalted spiritual mission then you will also understand why the divine Saviour must constantly be mentioned, because an ascent into the light is only possible when the human being has been released from his original sin. People are not aware of this original sin, consequently they do not know the meaning of the act of Salvation either .... They cannot find the connection between the crucifixion of Jesus the human being, in Whom they might perhaps believe, and the beatification of people .... And many people reject Him because they were merely told of this act of Salvation but it was not truthfully explained to them. And yet, such an explanation can only be given to those who sincerely want clarification, and there will only ever be few people who want this. Because even the most lucid explanations are incomprehensible to people who do not glance into the spiritual kingdom, who only acknowledge the physical world and anything that can be seen and proven to them. But the mission of Jesus the human being was not an entirely earthly issue, although it took place in full view of people ....

It had a profound spiritual reason and as long as people are not aware of this they cannot face the divine Saviour Jesus Christ as guilty brothers who burden Him with their guilt, who ask Him for redemption. And yet this request has to precede their salvation, consequently they have to know about their guilt of sin, about the immense offence against God which had led them into sin and which could not be redeemed except through the great sacrifice of compensation by the human being Jesus. Hence, as long as people do not feel that they are sinful they will not take the path to Him, to the cross, with their guilt. And until then they will not acknowledge the divine Saviour Jesus Christ either. Only the knowledge of their original beginning, of their former nature, and of their resistance to God, can give them the understanding for the achievement of Salvation by Jesus, Who had lived in such a way as a human being that He could receive God Himself within Him. Thus the act of Salvation was accomplished by Eternal Love, Who wanted to liberate Its living creations from the constraints of Its opponent.

This description will make Jesus' mission more plausible to people than merely talking about the sins they have committed during their lifetime and which often appear too small to justify such an achievement of Salvation in order to redeem these sins. Of course every sin is an offence against love, thus an offence against God .... but the original sin of the former apostasy from God was so immense that the beings themselves could not have redeemed it in an eternity. It is not possible for you humans to understand this .... But a huge sin like that also necessitates a huge expiation, which was indeed achieved by a 'human being' but only because this human being incorporated God within Himself, thus the strength of God had enabled Him to do so, but this strength was only 'love' .... God's fundamental substance ....

As originally created beings people had once rejected God's strength of love and thus were entirely without strength ....

However, the man Jesus consciously accepted God's strength of love and used it to accomplish an act of mercy for His fallen brothers .... to make

Amends for their guilt. Nor do people know that their existence as a human being on this earth is the result of this original sin and that they will indeed return to their original state again one day, but not without acknowledging the One, Whose immense love had redeemed them. Because their apostasy from God was a deliberate 'turning away from Him' which necessitates a deliberate 'turning towards Him again' in order to establish their original relationship with God once more. It is a tremendous blessing that this knowledge is given to people, which everyone should make use of simply by considering it and by accepting as truth that which has been imparted to him. Then he need only turn to the 'Jesus the human being' and speak to Him in thought .... And He will reply to him as 'God', He will help him to recognise his guilt correctly and take it from Him, if he admits to it and requests His help ....

And every single human being can become aware of the fact that he must have done something wrong at some time, if only he considers that he is an imperfect, weak and ignorant being and seeks to discover its cause. For no such inner question remains unanswered, it merely has to be asked, but most people refrain from doing so, yet callously spurn any mention of the divine Saviour as well as His great spiritual mission when they are made aware of it. But time and again God will proclaim the divine Saviour Jesus Christ to humanity, and all His servants working for Him on earth will constantly preach His name and His Gospel with ever growing enthusiasm, so that all will be released from their guilt who listen and enter into sincere contact with Jesus Christ, in Whom God Himself had become human in order to redeem what is constrained by His adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'Convinced' faith ....

B.D. 6986 from December 6th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No human being is forced to believe but everyone has to acquire it himself. Therefore, even if spiritual teachings are presented to the human being he cannot be compelled to believe in them, because such faith would only mean lack of contradiction, thus the human being would not openly express himself against them but he would still not need to be inwardly convinced of them. Such people therefore cannot be called 'believers' as long as they have not yet gained the inner conviction of the truth of what is demanded to be believed. And such faith is worthless before God .... For neither the intellect nor the heart affirmatively puts itself to it. However, the intellect alone cannot acquire this conviction because it cannot produce any evidence for the truth of the spiritual teachings. But the heart can attain conviction .... but only through the working of love. And the human being, in turn, cannot be forced into love because love is completely free. Love is the only means of attaining a living faith, an inner conviction without proof. This is an incontrovertible truth which cannot be refuted but will never be acknowledged by unloving people. For it is precisely only confirmed through love: And thus it is also understandable why precisely doctrines of faith are repeatedly disputed, why humanity has completely different opinions in the spiritual sphere and why unity can only be recorded where people live a life of love .... but why the latter also hold their views with full conviction, for they have gained the right, living faith through love. And thus spiritual knowledge could certainly be conveyed to people but it will not be able to become a conviction in them until the spirit in them is awakened through a life of love. And therefore it is the first and most urgent thing if people are to be helped to attain faith, to preach love to them and to stimulate them to be active in love. However, as long as these efforts are unsuccessful people will not be able to believe in everything else which has its origin in God and should lead to God again. So it can be said quite simply: Without love no one will reach God. Only one thing is necessary for man: to kindle love in himself. But all indications of this are ignored, only a few take it seriously and try to shape themselves into love, only a few subject their nature and their way of acting to serious criticism and try to change. And that is why only a few people reach the aim. To be able to believe wholeheartedly is blissful, but it is not to be understood as blind faith which has not been preceded by a serious examination of the doctrines of faith .... which can also be held by a person who has little love .... the faith which should rather be called 'fanaticism' than 'faith'. Love always remains the foundation of faith, and a faith without love collapses as soon as it is to prove itself .... But one day people will be called upon to prove themselves, and then only a few will persevere, only a few people will have this conviction which only a life of love can give and which is therefore called the strength of faith which stands firm in the most difficult tribulations in the last days before the end. Only then will it be proven who is truly faithful .... but the blind believer will fail. He lacks the strength which only love can bring him .... He lacks inner conviction and will therefore unhesitatingly surrender faith because he did not possess it in reality ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Process of purification through strokes of fate ....

B.D. 6987 from December 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No matter how your earthly lives shape themselves, they are determined by My will in order to give you ever more opportunities for your souls to mature. But you will only become psychologically fully mature if you faithfully accept My will, if you humbly bow down and completely subordinate yourselves to Me .... Then you will also experience My obvious help in every earthly and spiritual adversity. The aim of life is the spiritualisation of your soul, the purging of all impurities which still cling to you, so that it can be completely permeated by My divine light of love when it leaves its earthly body. This purification, however, will not take place if the human being's earthly existence passes by without any struggle .... unless the person lives an exceptionally loving life. Then the layers will disintegrate and the soul will have achieved its goal at the end of its life.

But often it will still have to accomplish this process of purification through suffering and adversities, through personal struggle. And since My wisdom knows this, My love always takes care to help it to mature. Consequently, you will not be able to live your earthly lives in constant calm, storms will rage around you, and often enough you will be despondent as a result of your fate .... And yet you need not be afraid, you will be able to overcome everything by merely joining Me even more firmly the harsher you are affected by fate.

I Am mindful of everything and you are never alone, even if you are earthly entirely on your own, even if you believe that you have been abandoned by all people .... I will truly never leave you, and to be united with Me compensates you a thousand fold for the loss you suffer or have suffered. But you also always have to recognise Me Myself in every happening that comes your way. If I Am your first and last thought you will be strong, no matter what happens to you.

But if you distance yourselves from Me by complaining and grumbling and rebelling against your fate, then you will also get steadily weaker and the adversity will burden you ever more .... because then there is no other available means for Me to win you back, to make you bow down to My will again .... I truly only have your best interests at heart, and nothing will happen to you without My will or My permission. But in constant contact with Me it will be easier for you to carry your burden .... And then everything that at first looked like an inextricable tangle will be beautifully resolved. And the soul will have achieved a great benefit if, during the greatest difficulties, it has not severed its bond with Me.

Especially in these last days before the end people are at great risk of forgetting about Me in their hunt and rush for worldly goods .... And if I want them to remember Me again then I can only employ such means which will shake their very way of thinking, by using hard blows of fate I have to put them into a situation of wit's end, so that they then will remember the One, Who alone is able to help them. For their souls are still wrapped in dense layers, they have not yet done much to purify their souls, that is, they neglect to do unselfish deeds of love, and a different process of purification is therefore necessary to make the soul transparent enough for just a little bit of light, for which it will be extremely grateful to Me one day ....

And no person is exempt from experiencing misfortunes, because I love all human beings and want to help them find their way back to Me one day if they are still distant from Me, or to encourage a closer unity with Me whereby they can receive increasingly more strength to improve their souls and to achieve full maturity while still on earth. For I want them to pass over with a degree of light already, so that they will be spared the agony of darkness in the kingdom of the beyond; I want that their earthly progress should not have been in vain .... And for this reason you humans should only ever see My will or My permission in everything that happens to you and humbly submit yourselves to My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The agony of the being without self-awareness .... Rom. 8, 19:22 ....

B.D. 6988 from December 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You were created for eternity .... Thus you cannot ever cease to exist even though you had a beginning. But you were able to change your nature and so you did and as a result temporarily deprived yourselves of self-awareness. You certainly continued to exist but you were no longer conscious of your existence. Nevertheless, it was not a state of happiness, it was no blissful passing away into a void but a state of torment because it signified restriction for the spiritual being that once was created as a free being, which also experienced this restriction as agony. But since you will continue to exist forever you should also be able to enjoy your existence, you should live in a blissful state, that is, you should be active for your own pleasure in strength and light. That is your goal, the goal of every being which once was created by Me is to live and be active in My will, to be blissfully happy in full light and strength like Me and able to create and shape for its own pleasure. Yet countless beings I emanated in light and freedom lost their self-awareness due to their own fault. They relinquished their freedom, light and strength and chose a dreadful fate for themselves .... But they were unable to destroy themselves and will never be able to do so either. Were this voluntarily chosen state without self-awareness devoid of all agony, no being would ever strive for a life in beatitude, for then it would, to a certain extent, have perished and only be recognised as a being by Myself. However, the agonies of a banished being are inconceivable, and you humans should not remain indifferent to the threat of a renewed banishment, for even if you lack self-awareness you will nevertheless be exposed to agonies which you will be able to comprehend one day in retrospect when you have entered into life. For it is the spiritual essence which suffers, not the human being whom you deem to have passed away. And the spiritual essence can certainly have hardened in itself but it is not obliterated, it is not insensitive and suffers extreme pain even in its tiniest substance, therefore the whole of Creation .... the spiritual substance bound in matter .... in contrast to the kingdom of light and its inhabitants .... is 'unredeemed' or 'unhappy', i.e. bound in pain, and in its pain it yearns for redemption.

The pain experienced by the spiritual substance is incomprehensible to you humans because that which was given to your soul as a covering .... your earthly body .... is only able to feel and endure pain up to a certain degree which, however, is no comparison to the agonies the soul has to endure in its unredeemed state and which are also felt by the still bound spiritual substances of the external shell. But since only the soul is a self-aware being it can therefore only in the state of a human being consciously aspire towards a change of its nature, a transformation into its fundamental nature. The realisation that it can never perish, that it will exist forever, will then also motivate it to seriously aspire towards a happy eternal life, to strive towards a 'life in beatitude' and to gain strength and light again in order to be active in accordance with the law of divine order. But as long as it lacks this realisation the human being's life on earth will be to no avail and the soul will remain bound and will also leave its body in a bound state .... And then the agonising state emerges again which it did not feel as much on earth. It is dead even though it exists .... It did not acquire the blissful life on earth, the state of banishment is also threatening it again if it does not succeed in coming to the realisation in the kingdom of the beyond that it has not and cannot cease to exist although it no longer lives on earth .... Only this realisation can prompt it in the kingdom of the beyond to strive towards 'life' after all, and then it will also receive help to do so. But it is dreadful for an already self-aware soul if it has to experience the fate of a new banishment again .... if its self-awareness is taken away and it has to take the path through the creations dissolved in countless tiny particles and to endure the agonies again, which every external shell represents for the spiritual being. For only by means of pain can the spiritual being become so purified that it will mature into a self-aware being again which shall live one day and will then never ever lose its life again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Blessing of sickness .... sudden recall grace ....

B.D. 6989 from December 9th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

It is an essential factor in earthly life that you are aware of the task you have to accomplish as a human being. You should always be told that life itself is by no means important, that it is therefore not a matter of the body carrying out all its functions and being in good health, but that it is merely a matter of the soul inhabiting the body and that all bodily abilities should be used for the soul's benefit, that it finds its way out of its pitiful state and reaches the aim which is set for the spiritual. The soul can even mature far more quickly in a sick body, providing the human being takes his earthly task seriously. And if the human being only ever regards his body as the vessel which the soul needs for its further development, and if he therefore only tries to maintain this vessel, to care for it and make it resistant, then he will also live his life consciously, and then he need not fear that his body will fail before the soul has reached its possible maturity .... On the other hand, it is different with people who have no sense of responsibility towards their soul .... They can be in unusually good physical health and unexpectedly lose their life because they don't think about their soul and therefore have no further development to report, so that existence on this earth is completely without meaning and purpose and the soul is therefore deprived of its outer shell so that it still has the opportunity to ascend in the kingdom of the beyond. The health of the body is such a great gift of grace that it should also be utilized, but not in an earthly material sense but for the salvation of the soul .... But a sick body is likewise a grace for the human being who does not close himself off to God's influx of grace .... for it is, as it were, a barrier set by God against the world .... Overcoming the world is made easy for the human being and great help is given to the soul. Yet the human being must consciously submit to God's will and also regard his body's decrepitude as a gift of grace, because ultimately it is not the physical life but the life of the soul which is the purpose of the human being's life on earth. And therefore only the soul of this human being who knows about his actual task and wants to fulfil it will mature .... For God will help him in every way to progress his soul, and this often also includes states of adversity or physical suffering which, however, must then be regarded as a means of purification but not as a punishment or an obstacle to reaching the aim. And the hour is predetermined for every person when he departs from this earth .... because God has known about every individual person's will since eternity and He also knows what a soul can still achieve on earth and in which way it is more at risk .... so that a sudden recall in the midst of life must also still be regarded as grace. Anyone who only regards earthly life as an end in itself will also not be able to understand that a God and creator allows human lives to be destroyed whose natural hour of death is not yet to be expected .... But He knows about every human being's willingness to acquire life for the soul. And He also knows what is advantageous for each individual soul. The human being only needs to have the knowledge and faith in his earthly task, then his soul's greatest adversity will be remedied, for then the human being will also endeavour to help it to live. But the world is the soul's greatest enemy .... And it is a special grace of God when He tries to protect the soul from the world, when He creates obstacles for the human being to pay homage to it .... So then we can also speak of a 'blessing of sickness', which is such an obstacle for many a person who wants to live according to God's will and is often still weak to resist the temptations which threaten him on the part of the world. For God is love, and love always helps the weak so that it will not be endangered .... But people often misjudge God's love, yet anyone who strives towards Him can also know that he is safe in His love .... he can trust Him that everything God lets come over a person is good ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Do not sell your soul ....

B.D. 6990 from December 10th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The price you pay for a joyful, pleasurable earthly existence is too high, for in return you sell your soul to the one who pulls it back down into the abyss. It is only an exceedingly short time during which you can indulge in the pleasures of the world, but eternity is infinitely long, the time is infinitely long when you dwell in darkness again in unspeakable torment. But you overestimate this short time on earth and thoughtlessly give away an eternal life in glory for truly worthless things .... You don't know what you are doing and don't listen to the serious warnings and admonitions which are constantly sent to you, so that you will lead your way of life responsibly, so that you will remember the time after your physical death when you will receive the delicious reward if you take all warnings and admonitions to heart and only try to improve the state of your soul. My adversary knows how to lure you with the charms of the world and you don't see through his game that he tries to win your soul with it, which only needs to get rid of the last shackle in order to be able to enter the kingdom of light, My kingdom, where it will be blissfully happy again in light and strength as it once was .... And neither the bliss in the kingdom of light nor the torments of the abyss can be shown to you, for you have to return to Me again in complete free will .... just as he cannot force you to follow his enticements and lose your soul to him either. But I truly do everything to draw your attention to the horrors of the abyss which you will inevitably face if you are unable to separate yourselves from the world and its goods. And you will also be told about the beatitudes in the spiritual kingdom which await you if you live according to My will, if you strive to attain spiritual goods and put the world aside .... The fact that you don't believe in it is the result of your way of life, for you completely forget about your neighbour who is in need because of your desire for the world and earthly goods. If you would willingly turn your help to him then everything would also seem more credible to you which is held up to you by My servants who, in view of the end, step into the path of all people once in order to proclaim the gospel to them. But the increased greed for the world and its pleasures dulls you, and every warmer feeling in your heart is stifled, for My adversary, who knows that love snatches souls away from him, takes care of this, that he will certainly lose them if only the human being kindles love within himself. However, the human being's desire for earthly possessions makes him insensitive to his neighbour's hardship; his selfish love becomes ever stronger and he only seeks to gain everything for himself, and it hardens his soul, the shells become ever tighter and My adversary has won the game .... He has only paid a small price for the soul: a physical comfort for a very short time which has already come to an end with the death of the body and .... can already be over on the morrow. Why do you humans not even seriously consider your situation, the certain end of your life on this earth, which you yourselves cannot determine in terms of time .... why do you attach such great value to earthly goods and the pleasures of the world? And carelessly you give away the indescribable bliss of the spiritual kingdom for the sake of these short, worthless pleasures. Earthly life is a test for you humans, it is the last time of free decision for Me or for My adversary. And he will offer you everything in order to win you over for himself .... but I, too, will let grace upon grace flow to you, yet I will not exert any coercion of will upon you. Yet it is not impossible for you to make the right decision, for you are constantly informed and you can also recognize the transience of earthly things on a daily basis, you experience the sudden recall of fellow human beings from their lives on a daily basis .... you can think about everything .... Thus you will one day also have to bear the consequences of your decision if it is not for Me, and you will be allowed to enjoy indescribable bliss if you renounce your short earthly lifetime in order to gain Me and My kingdom for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will caused the apostasy .... Deification ....

B.D. 6991 from December 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Only perfection came forth from Me .... for profound love and supreme wisdom created everything and nothing was impossible for My power. Hence I was also able to externalise beings of supreme perfection which, as My images, were very pleasing to Me. They were created as miniatures of Myself and it made Me extremely happy to allow these creations of Mine to create and work in an abundance of light and strength in order to also bestow upon them the same pleasure of finding happiness in their created works. All beings were therefore permeated by the necessary creative strength which enabled them to be likewise creatively active. However, they were more or less only the 'implementers of My will', since with the strength of love flowing to them the beings were also imbued by My will, thus they would only ever have remained My 'creatures' had I not externalised them as completely free beings, with free will, which they were able to display in any direction. Only this made them supremely perfect, but it also enabled them to lose their perfection .... As long as they were governed by My will they would never have lost their state of perfection, free will, however, provided them with this opportunity, just as, on the other hand, it also enabled the complete deification of the 'created' beings .... so that they, like children, were able to partake in My activity and creating of their own free will and yet with Me and in absolute accord with My will. Then the highest goal will have been reached which I had intended when I created beings in My love and My power .... For then the being can no longer lose its perfection and can be described as infinitely happy. But it would have been possible for every being, as there was no reason to turn away from Me when it was able to make use of its free will. It was perfect and only needed to use its will to remain in this perfection .... The explanation that it became imperfect and fell was due to its awareness of strength and light, for it wanted to prove that it was full of light and strength. And thus it misjudged My love, which bestowed everything entirely selflessly upon the being in order to make it happy. Just a single arrogant thought was enough to cloud the light of realisation and this was followed by increasingly more wrong thoughts, which turned its will in the wrong direction because it was free.

It is difficult to make you humans understand how it is possible for a perfect being to fall in the first place .... because perfection always signifies light as well, i.e. complete realisation .... But precisely the awareness of its abundant strength made the being consider the strength within itself more than the light, and the abundance of strength made it easy for it to become arrogant, which instantly clouded the light. Like Myself the being was constantly able to externalise new creations and it began to displace Me, the primary source of strength .... It no longer wanted to acknowledge its relationship of dependency on Me and once it had embraced this thought it also lost track of the dreadful consequences resulting from its direction of will. However, a free being externalised by Me must also have the freedom to be able to change its nature .... for perfections should not denote a state of compulsion for the being, otherwise it truly couldn't be called to be in My image. But the being will indeed always keep this freedom of self-transformation; consequently, from its freely chosen and created state of imperfection it can also attain supreme perfection again and thereby reach My intended goal that it becomes and remains My child. I would never have been able to create such 'children' for Myself because the divine characteristic of free will has to become active by itself .... so that that the living creation in its perfection as granted by Me was able to want to remain in it voluntarily or .... if it failed this test of will .... had to acquire the degree of perfection again which it once forfeited of its own free will .... Anyone who can grasp this enigma will also understand My eternal plan of Salvation and he will know that only infinite love and wisdom was able to devise such a plan, because I want to prepare a fate for My created beings which signifies supreme happiness forever .... And My love, wisdom and might will pursue this goal until it is reached, until all spiritual beings having emerged from Me can create and work by My side in supreme beatitude, as intended by My plan of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Only through 'love' does man come to knowledge ....

B.D. 6992 from December 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

I will never place a barrier in your knowledge, for this is your aim, to regain the light of realization which you once possessed and voluntarily gave away. But I Myself cannot give you the light, you must acquire it again yourselves and I will never place the slightest obstacle in your way. The full recognition of Myself and the voluntary union with Me remove all barriers which still exist as long as you are distant from Me and which therefore also signify lightlessness. But once the union with Me has been restored, this cannot result in anything other than that you dwell in My circle of light, that you yourselves are therefore also permeated by light .... And light is knowledge .... Only one thing is necessary, that you are so intimately united with Me again in order to be able to receive My emanation of light and love. But as long as you live on this earth as a human being you lack the right belief that you can enter into such an intimate union with Me that you, as it were, merge with My spirit of love .... And because you are not able to believe this with conviction, the barriers still exist and your knowledge remains limited. But you can let your faith grow ever stronger through your will and through a life of love. No other advice can be given to you than to always practice love so that you thereby cause Me Myself to unite with you .... As God I appear too distant to you; but if you know that I am love then you also know that I must be with you in every work of love which you unselfishly carry out. And thus you have a certain guarantee that you will be able to make contact with Me, for it is possible for all of you to practice love, for all of you can do good works without self-interest .... And you will also soon be able to convince yourselves that your knowledge will then also expand, that it has to become light in you, because I Myself am the light which then enlightens your hearts, because My presence also expresses itself in such a way that the darkness is chased away and that a peace enters your hearts which is always the sign of divine unity. You shall regain your former fullness of light and strength because it alone also guarantees you bliss. And because I want this, because it is My aim that you will be blissfully happy without limitation, help will always be given to you from Me but I will never prevent you from reaching your aim. And if you come to Me in believing prayer and ask Me to smooth the paths for you which lead into the kingdom of light, then you can also be certain that your earthly course will be shaped such that you will reach the aim. But I cannot impart knowledge to you humans against your will, i.e. give you light. Yet I can always admonish you to love, and you should comply with My admonitions and then tear down all barriers yourselves which separate you from Me and thus also from the light. It has been a long way, for the deepest depths held you captive, death and night surrounded you and the distance from Me was immeasurable .... And you have already come considerably closer to Me, only a short distance still separates us, and you must now still try to overcome this in earthly life. You are no longer in deepest darkness, a small light shines for all of you because I Myself have placed a tiny spark of light in you so that you shall find the path to Me, back to your former state of bliss .... But you should let this light of love become a bright flame yourselves, and the distance between us will become smaller and smaller, you will come closer and closer to Me, because this flame of love constantly flares up towards Me and because it forces the original light from eternity to unite with this flame .... And only your love achieves this, that you intimately unite with Me again, as it was in the beginning .... that you radiate in light and strength again, because you now constantly accept these from Me again and no longer oppose Me. This is your aim, which you can all achieve as long as you stay on earth if only you constantly work in love .... For love and I are one, and thus I Myself must be in every person who lives in love, and where I Myself am there is light and strength and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's ways are not always people's ways ....

B.D. 6993 from December 14th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Your ways are not always My ways .... You often don't know the goal when you start a journey but I know where your way is leading to and often gently push you into a different direction. And if you give in to My urging you will also safely reach the right goal. But often your resistance is too great, your own will is stronger, and you take no notice of the gentle urges which originate from Me. Then I will have to let you go because I won't forcibly break your will. And then you will be in danger of losing the connection with Me, because it will not yet be tied firm enough and you will not have yet completely submitted yourselves to My guidance.

But you should not be surprised that your plans will often get shattered, that your intentions won't succeed, that the way you take will become difficult for you. All these are gentle indications that it is not the right way, and even then you could still stop short and diverge from this path and get onto the right track that promises greater success .... not in the earthly-material sense but which guarantees you spiritual success. My guidance is only guaranteed if your thoughts aim into My direction, and then you will also realise that every way was right, that you made progress even if you, at first, resisted taking these ways. But if you are purely earthly-minded you will surely walk into the wrong direction and should only ever be grateful if you are clearly prevented from continuing on this path. Yet the more worldly-minded a person is, the more eagerly he will try to overcome obstacles, he often pulls down all barriers, that is, he doesn't question whether what he does is right, and only tries to reach his goal which, however, is only a worldly directed one. And I must let such people have their own way, for their will is still too firmly focussed on My adversary to bow down to My will. But you humans will attain far greater benefits if you entrust yourselves to My leadership and then always let yourselves be guided without inner resistance ....

A father has an overview of where his child is going and what dangers lie in wait for it and, in his love, tries to guide the child onto a path which is safe to take and will lead to the right goal. And like a good father I, too, Am concerned for every individual person's destiny and want his earthly path to become a blessing for him. But the human being often turns his attention into the wrong direction in the hope of finding something there which, however, will be detrimental for him. Although he retains his free will, his earthly way of life can nevertheless be directed by providence other than by that which he wishes for and wants, yet always for the benefit of his soul. Still, as long as the person complains and inwardly rebels against his destiny, this blessing will be small. Only when he surrenders in the realisation that it is determined by a higher will and that it is wrong to fight against it will he achieve a benefit for his soul. And the human being will often be able to observe such fated interventions by Me which should always make him think ....

There is only One Who determines the human being's course of life, and he should learn to recognise His ways as good and right, he should always humbly bow down to his fate and know that a loving father is concerned for His child's well-being and that everything, even what is apparently unfavourable, is a blessing for the person if he does not offer resistance, if he lets himself be guided and also accepts events which the Father recognises to be right for His child and thus applies. And he should yield to every inner impulse urging him to act differently, for such inner stirrings are always My gentle voice by which I attract and call the child onto a different way, onto the way which will truly bear results and lead to the goal, to the right goal, to the purpose of his earthly life.

The human being's will often differs from My will, and thus his ways are not always My ways either .... But he will always have My love, and this only wants to save him, it wants to win him over for itself, and therefore it will also always guide the person such as is good for him, yet even My love will not force his will, for this is and remains free, because the human being shall completely freely decide in favour of his eternal Father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spark of love .... salvation through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6994 from December 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

No-one is capable of helping his soul to freedom on his own if he does not experience My support, if the strength of the spirit does not flow through him, if the spiritual spark in him, which is My share, does not instruct him from within and influence his thinking to turn to Me in Jesus Christ again and again, so that he, as it were, frees himself with Me from the one who has held him in bondage for eternities. This liberation is possible through the act of salvation which I Myself accomplished for you humans in the man Jesus. And now only your own will is required to release yourselves from My adversary .... But then you will also certainly attain freedom. And thus the strength of the slumbering spirit within you is not to be underestimated .... You have to awaken it to life, but then it will guide you and direct your thoughts to Me in Jesus Christ, for I have placed a tiny spark of My spirit of love in you for this purpose, so that the work of salvation will succeed, so that My suffering and death on the cross will not have been in vain for the individual person. And a single work of love already awakens the spirit in you, and it will express itself by stimulating you into continued activity of love .... And then you must also noticeably feel the 'strength of the spirit' which constantly pushes you towards Me. You must succeed in releasing yourselves from My adversary's power if you only use the strength of the spirit, because then you will approach Me Myself for strength, which I truly will not deny you. And every bond with Me, be it through prayer or also through actions of love, will always earn you an influx of strength from Me, and your thoughts will constantly dwell more on Me and your striving upwards will be obvious. The strength of the spirit is accessible to all of you, for you all have this spark of love from Me within you and you all need only want it to ignite .... you need only offer no resistance when it wants to express itself to you, that is, you should pay attention to every subtle stirring of your heart and comply with it, for it will always stimulate you into loving activity .... If you comply with these suggestions the strength of the spirit will unfold more and more, you will have light thoughts and also understanding for many events which are incomprehensible to other people .... You will also feel an increased urge in you to bond with the spiritual kingdom, i.e., worldly desire will be pushed back and spiritual desire will be more prominent, you will always be accessible to spiritual conversations and often have to direct your thoughts upwards, towards Me, because the spiritual spark in you will push towards Me, towards the father-spirit of eternity .... I therefore draw you through My spirit, for alone you are unable to do anything .... But the fact that you want and carry out your will was brought about by Jesus' work of redemption .... For through His death on the cross He first acquired for you humans the strengthened will, He acquired for you blessings without number, all of which help you in your weakness to defend yourselves against My adversary, because without help you would be too weak to resist. And the redemption through Jesus Christ also has the effect that the spirit in the human being can set itself free more easily, that only the slightest will to love already allows it to be active and that it can express itself the more obviously the more you join Jesus Christ, the more vividly you confess Him and acknowledge His act of salvation. Then you can also be regarded as redeemed, for the strength of My spirit will now work in you and you will be active again with light and strength for the benefit of your fellow human beings who are still without light and without strength. Thus I Myself in Jesus Christ must always help you to become free, otherwise you would never be able to get away from your tormentor because you are unable to resist him as long as you are still his portion, thus you cannot yet direct your will towards the divine redeemer Who may only take you away from him when you consciously turn to Him for help. But the small spiritual spark in you, the part of Myself, will urge you to do so as soon as you only allow it to work. It will appeal to you through the heart and urge you to perform works of love .... And therefore each one of you can also become free, but no compulsion will be exerted on the human being, not even by My spark of love .... But I am always ready to help, because My love for the weak, unredeemed will not cease and will one day also win this for itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call to vineyard workers ....

B.D. 6995 from December 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You still have much work to do for Me and My kingdom, for the time still lies ahead of you when your work will only really begin because the earthly adversity will be very great and then people will also be more receptive to My word which you shall bring to them. But before that much small work has to be done, which consists of still calling workers for My vineyard into service, of first instructing them themselves in order to then also be able to be successfully active as My servants. For this service has to be voluntarily rendered for Me, and therefore I address people through you so that those who recognize the father's voice voluntarily offer themselves to Me for help, and then I can also give them a light and make them suitable for the coming task. The world still emerges and therefore there are few who look into the spiritual kingdom .... But the earthly world will suffer a severe blow and so will the people who pay homage to it ..... Much will change in a short time, and this change will nevertheless make some people think, and they will also have an open ear for My servants' speeches, for they will find explanations for otherwise incomprehensible events. And then their actual mission will also begin at this time, for which I have trained you and am still training you, because then you shall also give your fellow human beings the right comfort and advice which will benefit their souls. People are blind in spirit because they only think of their own well-being and have no eye for their fellow human being's adversity .... But when the general adversity will start through My will, through a natural event of the most momentous kind, then some people will also let themselves be softened and be willing to help, and I will also give them the opportunity to be able to help. And these will also receive a clear light which will shine all the brighter the more they are lovingly active. And much new ground will be opened up, fallow fields will be cultivated and sown with good seed. And this is the last time of work in My vineyard, the last sowing, which shall still bring forth abundant fruit, but for which I also still need many willing and faithful servants, because very little time remains for the last harvest work before the end. Therefore you should not grow tired and weary and not believe that your work is in vain because you now see little success .... The tiniest seeds you scatter can still take root and sprout because I Myself create the necessary atmosphere .... through a very painful intervention but which can still be a blessing for many souls. And even if people believe that they are approaching a calm and peaceful time, it is only an illusion and overnight the calm will change into turmoil and chaos of an unimaginable kind. For I know the day and the hour but you don't, and only the hint shall suffice that you don't have much time left and therefore have to make good use of the short time. No human being needs to be unprepared, for every person will receive warnings and admonitions but only a few will accept them as credible and adjust their lives so that they can also be suddenly recalled from this earth. A time of adversity will befall the earth which could truly shake everyone's thinking but which will nevertheless leave many people's hearts untouched who are completely under My adversary's control and therefore will do everything in their power to reduce their own state of adversity and do so at the expense of their fellow human beings again, because My adversary impels them into increased unkindness .... And precisely then you, My servants on earth, must step forward and counter My adversary by only ever pointing out to people that they themselves will be helped to the same extent as they are willing to help, and that everyone should help his neighbour if the great adversity is to be alleviated and My visible help is to be given to everyone. You shall also try to justify My intervention to them, and you will also be understood because I Myself address people through you and everyone who is not entirely in My adversary's hands will also recognize My voice and feel touched by it. There is still much work ahead of you but you will be able to accomplish it with My help and My blessing as soon as you are only willing to serve Me and help your fellow human beings as long as there is still a possibility of rescue ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Circle of light .... sin against the spirit ....

B.D. 6996 from December 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Far beyond shines the ray of My divine light of love. And again and again I kindle new lights so that the darkness is chased away, so that people can recognize the paths they walk, so that they also find the right path which leads upwards. In the night they go astray, without light they are helpless, and the dimmest glimmer of light is already a joy to them, provided that they do not seek to conceal themselves, that they therefore use the darkness in order to remain unrecognized .... These shun the light, for they are still under the power of My adversary, the prince of darkness. But anyone who sees a little light flashing with joy will also come into the blessing of this light, and he will now be able to safely continue his path, after all, he can also recognize the aim he is now heading towards. And thus I continue to let My light of love shine down to earth which, as a dark area, exposes its inhabitants to the danger of being devoured by darkness. I convey My word to people, My direct emanation of love, which brings brightness to all who are of good will .... To be able to receive the divine light of love irrefutably means to have stepped out of the darkness of night into the light of day. At first only a faint twilight will make the path recognizable but the light will shine ever brighter, for the sun of the spirit will rise and send its rays far out so that every person who wants to escape the night can enter its circle of rays. And all little lights emanate from the eternal light of love, for where a glow is spread there the light from Me also shines. My adversary will likewise let shining lights shine, but these will not spread a glow which makes all things recognizable .... They will only dazzle the eye, and such a dazzled eye will only barely recognize the gentle light from Me, for it delights more in the dazzling light and keeps looking towards it, and its eye becomes fainter and fainter until it finally remains completely in darkness. The gentle light, however, which shines upon you in the form of My word illuminates your inner being and makes you unspeakably happy because you are also able to recognize Me Myself in this light, because you see an image which had disappeared from you .... because you regain the knowledge which you lost eternally ago .... It becomes light in you, for My word proclaims My love to you, and My love also kindles love in you again, and the divine light of love spreads within you and urges eternal unification with the original light of eternity. You would all be completely without realization during your earthly existence if My word were not conveyed to you, which again and again radiates My love into infinity .... Without this word the darkness in you would never come to an end, for you would forever walk in the night on wrong paths. But you will receive light through My word as soon as you live out My word, thus do what is My will and what is proclaimed to you through My word. And where My will is fulfilled it will also become increasingly brighter, because people themselves enter My ray of light of love through the fulfilment of My will, because they open themselves ever more to My illumination of love and only think back with a shudder to the night they escaped from .... (18.12.1957) And then I will also no longer let you sink back into darkness, My love will protect you from this. Only if you consciously .... despite better knowledge .... hand yourselves over to My adversary again, thus if you consciously 'sin against the spirit', your fate will be all the more dreadful, for then your rebelliousness will be a sin of such great significance, then you will burden yourselves with such a grave sin that you will have to atone for this sin for eternities again, because then you will also consciously reject the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and you may not hope for forgiveness of sin. But anyone who has once gained realization rarely leaves the light which My love radiates over him .... Anyone who has once recognized and lived out My word flees from My adversary and also rarely only allows himself to be beguiled by him .... And therefore the 'sin against the spirit' is certainly the most serious sin, but it need not be feared by those who are devoted to Me in love and whom I can therefore address directly or through My messengers. For there will also be light there, and anyone who walks in the light will not go astray either. My light of love continuously radiates into infinity, and willing recipients are only ever necessary in order to allow light to penetrate even the darkness of earth .... vessels must always be present to receive My light of love .... People who willingly let themselves be illuminated by Me and then pass on the light they receive. I certainly want to illuminate the whole earth and give light to all people, yet it is the domain of the prince of darkness where the light can only break through when a human heart opens itself in free will to the rays of My eternal light of love .... But then the light will also shine far into the darkness of night and attract people again who desire light, and then My adversary will lose his power in those areas too, for the light will reveal his nature and his activity, and people will flee him and consciously turn to Me, from Whom the light emanates which makes them happy. But in darkness he can work without being recognized, and therefore I will bless every person who is willing to receive light and pass it on .... I will also provide him with strength to help those who take the wrong path and therefore need a light to escape the darkness of night. For light alone is bliss, and light is supplied to all who hear My word and also live according to this word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love of God must be demonstrated through love of neighbour ....

B.D. 6997 from December 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You can only ever prove your love for Me through unselfish works of love for your neighbour .... And I require this evidence from you, for you cannot love the father Whom you do not see if you deny your love to the brothers you see. You all came forth from Me, My love created you and you were also love in your original substance. The fact that your love now changed was an act of turning away from Me, and this act also repeated itself towards your fallen brothers, for you were no longer capable of love. The return to Me can only take place in love, thus you must feel love within yourselves and then you can also unite with Me again. But then the feeling of love is not limited .... the love in you grasps all beingness, and in all naturalness it also turns towards your fellow human beings, your neighbour, and it will also express itself towards the neighbour. And only then will you provide the evidence that love is in you, that you also love Me and that the return to Me is now also assured. But if you believe that only emotional feelings are to be understood as 'love for Me', then your love has not yet been kindled, because this inevitably also includes your neighbour, because true love is My inheritance and also does not exclude any of My creatures. For I cannot be satisfied with emotional impulses which easily rise in many people and just as easily fade away again when other impressions move the human heart. But anyone who performs works of love for his neighbour with unselfishness has experienced a change in his nature, the person places self-love behind selfless love for his fellow human being, and this person also gives Me proof that he loves Me .... For I Myself can now work in him and impel him to increase his love, because it is also applied in the right sense. However, practicing neighbourly love is often the cliff for people where they fail. Many people pretend to love God, but words alone are of no use. And the deed must be done to the fellow human being, only then can one speak of 'love for Me'. And as long as people's main thoughts are the improvement of their own well-being, they will only lie to themselves if they pretend to love Me .... But the bond with Me will be completely different for the person who observes the commandment of neighbourly love, who does not need this commandment either and yet is absorbed in caring for his fellow human beings. He will communicate with Me in all informality, he will always feel Me close to him, for he allows My presence within himself precisely through his love for his neighbour. He will also by no means need to do without My care of love, for as he distributes himself he will receive, and his love for his neighbour will again and again prompt him to give, be it earthly or spiritual goods .... and again and again he will therefore also be allowed to receive earthly and spiritual gifts and be blissfully happy in My love, because he knows where the gifts come from, because he knows that he has a faithful father in Me Who holds his life and his destiny in His hand. He knows that he is safe but this firm confidence is only given to him by the love which embraces all his fellow human beings and which only ever impels him to help earthly and spiritually. And I demand this love from you humans, the love for your sisters and brothers whom you know to be in need. Only then will you prove your change of nature, only then will you be on the safe path to Me, which you can only reach through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Listening to the word .... using the gifts of grace ....

B.D. 6998 from December 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You should not close yourselves off to the gifts of grace from above, for if you don't make use of them you will find it difficult to resist the world and its temptations because you lack the strength to do so, which you can repeatedly receive from My word. Don't believe that it doesn't matter whether I speak to you or not .... nor believe that you can receive strength elsewhere in order to be able to fulfil your earthly task, for this earthly task consists of overcoming the world .... matter .... and to mature spiritually, for which you absolutely need strength, because it is extremely difficult for a being which is still under My adversary's control to become free from him. And only I can give you this strength, for the adversary takes it from you and keeps you weak in order to prevent a return to Me. But I am always ready to supply you with strength in the form of My word. And since you humans only rarely accept it where it is offered to you, since you lack the faith that I Myself want to address you through those proclaimers, I have let further springs spring up in My love where the living water now flows towards you in all purity, where you may refresh yourselves and constantly draw strength from the water of life. And you should not pass by these springs but interrupt your walk and receive strength and reinforcement and only then continue on your way .... And then you will take every obstacle lightly, you will become overcomers and it will no longer be difficult for you to renounce the material world and its pleasures because you will exchange something else for it which will satisfy you far more than the goods of this world .... And it shall not annoy you when that which still belongs to the world is fatefully taken from you, when you are forced to make sacrifices, when obviously the world's pleasures are withdrawn from you, for then I only provide you with hidden help to detach yourselves, and I quietly urge you to where My word sounds, where a spring has opened, and I offer you something else for the loss you have suffered. It is by no means then a bitter fate which has affected you but a grace which you should only accept gratefully, for one day you will recognize it that only My love was active, even though it made you become fainthearted at first .... (21.12.1957) But once you have feasted on My word then your thinking will also clear up, the confusion into which you seem to have got will clear up, for one benefit of this greatest gift of grace, My word from above, also has a noticeable effect: you can explain all events around you, you know that they are only means to release you from the world and its dangers, you know that they are no coincidence but determined by Me and My will in order to help you. For as long as you humans regard earthly life itself as the purpose of your existence you will live wrongly, and then it will only serve no purpose .... But if you learn to recognize that it is only the means to an end, that you should wage the final battle in earthly life against everything that belongs to My adversary in order to come closer to Me, then you will also evaluate it as a gift of grace; and you can only come to this realization if you let yourselves be taught by Me through My word, either directly or through My messengers who receive My word from Me. Thus, first of all it concerns the knowledge which can grant you a certain realization if you willingly accept it. And this willing acceptance is 'acceptance of a gift of grace' .... If you now think about it and try to live your earthly life accordingly, this is 'using the gifts of grace' .... And it will certainly bring you success that you will mature in earthly life. For now you will also receive strength because you are willing .... It is solely a matter of your will, it is a matter of how your will adjusts itself when you are offered gifts of grace from Me .... But he has to decide freely, and therefore the human being can only ever be admonished and warned, the 'word of God' can be presented to him again and again, but none of My gifts of grace is compulsory, and therefore it is so significant how the human being decides on earth .... Yet he will also be helped in every way so that the decision will be easy for him and that he will make the right decision, for My love constantly seeks to save and to draw the souls upwards from the abyss into the kingdom of light, into My kingdom where there is eternal peace and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Incarnation of God in Jesus ....

B.D. 6999 from December 22nd 1957, taken from Book No. 74

And salvation came from above .... For the earth lay in deepest darkness, the earth and the kingdom of light were unbridgeably separated from each other, and therefore first a bridge had to be built from above to the earth, which people were then to enter and were also able to do so, because one preceded them, Who wanted to lead them back to the father .... For the father longed for His children .... But He could not lift them up by virtue of His love, instead, the guilt had to be settled first which had caused a wide gulf between the creations and the creator. Without atonement for this guilt it was impossible to return to the father; but again, the guilt-ridden creatures were also unable to make atonement themselves. And therefore the gulf was unbridgeable until a saviour descended from above Who accomplished the work of atonement .... The eternal love Itself descended to earth and brought salvation to humanity .... The eternal love Itself redeemed the guilt and made atonement for the great sin by incarnating Itself in a human shell and now made a sacrifice as a human being which was unique .... for this human being Jesus took upon Himself a measure of suffering and torment out of love and walked the path to the cross with people's guilt of sin burdened .... He suffered and died on the cross in order to offer God the sacrifice of atonement for His fallen brothers. For this man Jesus recognized humanity's enormous guilt of sin because His soul came from the kingdom of light, because a soul of light, a primordially created angelic spirit, voluntarily offered to make atonement for His fallen brothers as a human being. This soul of light therefore animated the body of the infant Jesus and as such began its journey across the earth with the same task that is given to all of God's creatures: to spiritualize themselves through a life of love and to reunite with the eternal love as it was in the beginning .... And Jesus exemplified a life of love to people, He showed them the path to the father, He demonstrated in Himself the effect of a way of life in unselfish neighbourly love, and He concluded His earthly life with the work of redemption, with the redemption of that great guilt which once caused the beings to become wretched .... But this act of atonement was not accomplished by the 'human' but by the 'love' in Him .... For through His life of love He caused the eternal love to manifest Itself in Him, to fill Him completely. And Jesus then drew the strength from it to accomplish the work of salvation. A human being would never have been able to accomplish such an act without love, and thus it was love Which atoned for humanity's sins .... it was God Himself Whose fundamental substance is love and Who was in all fullness in the man Jesus, so that He deified Himself on earth through love, so that He became one with the eternal love .... God became 'man' .... Jesus was 'God' .... Only he who has changed himself into love will be able to understand this mystery, and he will also be able to understand that from the hour of redemption onwards there was a bridge which leads to the father, which can be entered by every one of His creatures who wants to reach the father, and that Jesus, the divine redeemer, built this bridge through His suffering and death on the cross. Love Itself devised a path to enable the fallen being to return home to the father, and love Itself initiated this path .... And thus salvation came from above to earth, which was cut off in deepest darkness and no longer had any contact with the kingdom of light. The eternal light let Himself descend, He broke through the darkness, the lord of light and bliss took up the battle against the prince of darkness .... And He defeated him, He paid the debt on the cross with His death and ransomed the souls from the one who held them in bondage. But God accomplished this act of salvation in a human being because God was unable to suffer and die and because a sacrifice which was intended to compensate for this immense guilt could only be associated with immeasurable suffering and torment and the most bitter death, which the human being Jesus wanted to endure out of love for humanity in order to bring His children back to the father, for whom He yearned. This work of salvation was unique, for profoundest love and highest wisdom united, which the man Jesus possessed, and He therefore mustered all willpower to suffer and die for His fellow human beings. And thus salvation came to earth on that night when the infant Jesus was born .... God Himself sent His Son to earth, Who then prepared a dwelling place for the father in Himself, so that father and son .... God and man .... united and accomplished the work of mercy, so that the original sin was redeemed and the path is now free for every human being upwards, to the father, to the kingdom of light and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers