New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 7246 - 7327

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

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

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

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‘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

7246 - Habitual customs and words....

7247 - "I will send you the 'comforter'...."

7248 - Suffering purifies the soul....

7249 - 'The measure you give will be the measure you receive....'

7250 - Evidence of Jesus' existence on earth....

7251 - Love is the key to wisdom....

7252 - Mediator for the transmission of truth....

7253 - Right use of the life force: working in love....

7254 - Content of the divine word: love....

7255 - Scrutiny of spiritual values for divine origin....

7256 - Living christians.... power of faith.... presence of God....

7257 - The path of return to God....

7258 - Prerequisite for hearing God's voice: Detachment from the world....

7259 - The soul's process of pre-development....

7260 - Supply of food and drink....

7261 - Compulsory work.... only works of love are rated....

7262 - Resurrection.... Decomposition of the flesh....

7263 - Every human being experiences God's revelation in himself....

7264 - God's address to every human being....

7265 - The soul consciously starts earthly life .... Past memory....

7266 - Characteristic of the living christian....

7267 - Grace of the word reception....

7268 - God's plan of salvation always requires new creations....

7269 - (Personal)....

7270 - Law of divine order is love....

7271 - Does the human being possess free will?....

7272 - God's love pursues man until he himself opens his heart....

7273 - Receiving the truth through the spirit....

7274 - What is a right prayer?....

7275 - Convincingly spreading the truth.... right doctrine....

7276 - Sounding of the divine word in infinity.... participation of beings....

7277 - God's plan of Salvation is based on the human being's free will....

7278 - Tribulations and trepidations of Jesus, the man....

7279 - God is a "God of love", not a God of wrath....

7280 - Conditions for attaining childship to God....

7281 - Spiritual helpers respect free will....

7282 - "No man's eye has ever seen it...."

7283 - Dress of light.... eager soul work and unexpected end....

7284 - Request for strengthening of the will....

7285 - God's endless love can be recognized by every human being....

7286 - Exression of the spirit only possible through the working of love....

7287 - Vineyard work after the event.... preparation for this....

7288 - Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep....

7289 - Voluntary return guarantees bliss....

7290 - Overcoming the gulf in the beyond: Jesus Christ....

7291 - Food for the soul must be desired to be effective....

7292 - Blind faith and dead Christianity....

7293 - Lovelessness = darkness.... love = realization....

7294 - Fighting selfish love....

7295 - The forerunner of Jesus Christ....

7296 - Powerful effect for the 'doer of the word'.... coercion....

7297 - Transformation of earth....

7298 - Serious reminder and indication of the end....

7299 - Love awakens the spirit, the spirit sets free....

7300 - The shortest way is the way across the cross....

7301 - Vineyard work: spreading the divine word....

7302 - God's plan is irrevocably fulfilled....

7303 - Sincere longing for unification with God....

7304 - Concerning the 'inner Word'....

7305 - "I am the way, the truth and the life.... "

7306 - "My kingdom is not of this world...."

7307 - Frequent introspection is necessary....

7308 - "To the humble, God gives His grace...."

7309 - Power supply in the hereafter requires loving will to help....

7310 - Wisdom from God is unlimited.... inexhaustible born....

7311 - Answers to questions.... Serious examination of the origin....

7312 - Re-incarnation....

7313 - Every mentally directed thought is detachment from the opponent....

7314 - Neither kingdom of light nor kingdom of darkness may be proven....

7315 - The adversary's temptations by means of worldly enticements....

7316 - Sensations of body and soul during word reception....

7317 - Challenges of the adversary.... Jesus' fears on the mount of olives....

7318 - Good Friday....

7319 - Easter....

7320 - Resurrection on the third day....

7321 - The divine cross-bearer Jesus Christ....

7322 - Descent to hell....

7323 - Perfection of God.... unlimited love....

7324 - The final judgement is grounded in the love of God....

7325 - The light of knowledge can shine on everyone....

7326 - Justice....

7327 - The blessing of spiritual work....

Habitual customs and words ....

B.D. 7246 from January 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Neither words nor outer forms are sufficient for a change of being if the heart does not give life to the words or is not involved in your actions. You humans have been given many rules and regulations, and you only ever try to comply with these rules and requirements, regardless of whether you are wholeheartedly involved or whether they are really only empty forms which you fulfil through actions that lack any attitude of your own. But such 'fulfilments' of demands will not earn you a blessing, they will not bring you a step further upwards, they will always only remain empty actions or words which are as good as not carried out or not spoken. And you should therefore be more accountable for your thinking, speaking and doing, you should observe yourselves and practice self-criticism so that your whole being does not become a template and your earthly life remains an empty run. Seek above all the truth .... Whatever it is, think about it, and then consciously adjust yourselves to it. Whether you speak or act, it will always correspond to your innermost feelings, the heart will be involved and everything will gain life through it. And then you will certainly recognize what is wrong, what is pushing at you or being pushed at you. And only then will you consciously adjust yourselves, reject the wrong, accept the right and act accordingly. But what use are words or actions that you only speak or carry out at the request of others without being clear about what you are actually saying or doing? You can well imagine that God cannot judge you according to what your heart is not involved in, that He cannot credit you for something you dutifully do without being aware of what you are doing. You may have been brought up to do such things, you may have been brought up to repeat words, and you need not be involved in them with a thought. How should God judge such words or deeds? Only once you have taken a stand your words and actions will be judged. But you will also have to answer for such deeds or words because you misuse your vitality and carelessly spend the time which is only given to you to mature your souls. And thus you must be aware of the fact that you must subject everything you receive from outside to scrutiny .... that you do not merely keep the customs from your childhood as a template and thus adopt them into your manhood, but that you should think about everything as soon as you are intellectually capable of doing so .... which, however, does not mean that your intellect alone is sufficient to decide on truth or untruth .... But for once you should consider the value of what has settled in you as a habit and only then take a stand on it yourselves. You should not be satisfied with empty words or dead actions that only gain life when the heart participates in them. Only then will you live your life consciously, only then will ever new questions arise from one question, only then will the knowledge come alive, which you also absorb mechanically, and only then can you speak of an ascent, as long as you are of good will .... You must help yourselves to life, the heart must participate everywhere, and you must abhor any form or dead words .... Then your life will not be an idle one, then you will have a success to report at the end, you will have matured and your soul will have achieved a gain for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"I will send you the 'comforter' ...."

B.D. 7247 from April 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall all be comforted who go through your earthly life grieving or anxious. My love will always pursue you and My love does not want you to suffer. And thus I will send you the right comforter, My spirit, which imparts words of love to you, words of comfort and words of strength. I have promised you My spirit that it will comfort you when I no longer dwell in the body on earth. And this promise applies to all who take the path across earth .... I Myself will always be with them in spirit and address them so that they will not feel lonely and abandoned, so that they will not need to mourn, so that they will not fear and tremble .... For I Myself am with all who ask Me for comfort and strength and love. My spirit is truly a comforter, for can a human being address you more lovingly than eternal love Itself does? And eternal love expresses Itself through the spirit, as It has promised: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." And this spirit, which is My emanation, will truly lift you up and comfort you, it will not leave you powerless, it will strengthen you and again and again give you courage and strength, and you will always be able to master earthly life because you lean on Me Myself when your spiritual spark unites with the father-spirit of eternity in order to let Him comfort you. Therefore there will only ever be one path when the heart is sad, when the human being wants to despair in earthly or spiritual adversity, the path to Me Myself, so that My spirit will become active in you, so that it can express itself and truly does so in such a way that you will continue your path strengthened and comforted towards the right goal. For then I will speak to you Myself and My words will touch your heart like balm, they will alleviate all pain and remedy all secret hardship, My word will penetrate your hearts and bring everyone the comfort he needs in his suffering. Not arbitrarily have I spoken these words: "I will send you the comforter ...." For I knew about the many hardships into which My children will fall if they want to walk the path of following Jesus. Suffering will not be able to be kept away from them on this path, and in this suffering I wanted to assure them of My comfort .... and since I was no longer on earth in a purely physical sense I promised My own the 'comforter', My spirit .... thus Myself, only not visible as a human being, yet present to everyone who needs comfort and strength and calls upon Me for help in his adversity. But I cannot intervene in a comforting way where My spirit is not requested, where there is no bond between the spiritual spark in the human being and the father-spirit of eternity. I have to wait until the call reaches My ears that a person is in distress and that he expects help from Me. Then I will certainly be ready to help, for I have promised My comforter to all who believe in Me and long for Him .... And therefore no human being need be despondent, no matter what distresses him .... for he will always find comfort and help with Me, and I will quite obviously grant him such, so that 'My spirit' will become manifest and its working, true to My promise: "I will send you the comforter, the spirit of truth ...." You can keep this promise of Mine when you are troubled or distressed, for My word is truth, and no one who turned to Me in his distress will need to go from Me without being comforted ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Suffering purifies the soul ....

B.D. 7248 from January 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will be given far more than is taken away from you, for you will receive spiritual possessions in exchange for relinquishing earthly goods. Thus you will feel apparently neglected, you will think yourselves weighed down, you will feel earthly under duress and depressed, but just as certainly you will 'receive' spiritually .... even if you just receive ever greater purification of your soul as a gift in return for these earthly limitations or all kinds of oppositions. You can only mature through opposition. If, however, your earthly life proceeds smoothly there will be few or no opportunities for maturing and your soul's development will lag behind. But as soon as you feel encumbered turn to Jesus Christ and he will help you carry the weight or take it from you. And be in no doubt whatsoever that he will hear you .... He knows why you have to struggle on this earth, and therefore He always stands beside you just waiting for your call which offers Him the opportunity to place Himself between you and the enemy .... This request has to come from yourselves but then it will certainly be successful. However, your weakness of faith or the smallest doubt will time and again give God's adversary the right to encroach on you and to steadily weaken you .... And then you will have to defend yourselves by handing yourselves over to Jesus Christ, by calling upon His help to displace him and to protect you from him. And truly, no appeal will be in vain .... For His love does not leave you but it requires your love and request for Him in order to take effect.

But every successful test provides your soul significant advancement and one day you will realise how much these inner struggles contributed towards the soul's purification, which yearns for its perfection and still has to assert itself until the end of its life. Therefore bless every hour of your suffering on earth, physically or psychologically, and know that you are nevertheless advantaged compared to those who go through earthly life cheerfully and unburdened and don't experience this purification process of the soul because they don't seriously aspire towards it and are therefore still offered many attractions in earthly life to take pleasure in. They don't surrender anything and therefore cannot receive anything either .... They get out of the world whatever they can and their souls' condition is of no interest to them, on account of which the soul does not suffer, yet it will have to suffer twice as much at a later time when it realises its imperfection and has to admit that it had done nothing to purify itself on earth. Every suffering human being on earth is advantaged compared to those who live an easy and carefree earthly life .... Nevertheless, a true Christian can also be cheerful in confidence of the fact that he only ever needs to encumber Jesus Christ with his worries and burden and that life will also always become bearable. For his trust will not be disappointed, and the certainty of always having a helper by his side will also result in this cheerful joy which should grace every good Christian. Therefore, once again: Bless the suffering as long as it impels you towards Jesus Christ, to Him Who will help you carry your cross providing you appeal to Him for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'The measure you give will be the measure you receive ....'

B.D. 7249 from January 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall receive a good measure .... The measure you give to your neighbour shall be the measure you receive again, according to My promise. My love constantly wants to give and make you happy, My love wants to provide for you in abundance, but love can simply only join love, therefore, if I want to bestow happiness upon you, you must do the same, you must want to give and make those people happy in your environment who want to accept your love. I cannot give love to a person with a heart of stone, who is not lovingly active and therefore neither deserves love nor wants to be made happy himself .... But wherever I recognise love I give without restriction, and My gifts are truly not scanty. And if I then see the effort My children make to please each other, if I see that they try to alleviate hardship, that they are willing to give to a needy fellow human being, then I Am truly also willing to consider a friendly giver because of My love for him. The measure you give will be the measure you receive again. But it should not be understood that you only do such works calculatingly in order to receive again in return .... Only true unselfishness, the urging of the heart to please, is valid before My eyes. And to the same extent I will also shine My love upon the person who only lets his love speak when he gives whatever it may be. All possessions are included in this promise of Mine, earthly as well as spiritual ones .... and likewise I will consider the giver in an earthly and spiritual way. For both the fellow human being as well as the lovingly active person require earthly and spiritual possessions during their earthly life, yet more attention should be given to spiritual possessions, for these alone ensure the soul's salvation, and anyone who considers the salvation of his soul first need not worry about the preservation of his earthly life. Here, too, he will receive from Me depending on his conduct towards his neighbour. And so you can receive without limitation, both spiritually as well as earthly, if only you always remember My promise 'The measure you give will be the measure you receive ....'

You need never fear to go short yourselves if you overexert yourselves .... I don't count the cost, I give to you 'unmeasured', that is, according to the love you imparted with your gifts. And truly, you will not be disadvantaged even if you relinquish without qualms what you might possibly need yourselves. You will not go without and be able to gather a rich harvest again, because My love knows no bounds either when it wants to make you happy. For this reason, no hardship need exist on earth if you all bore My promise in mind, for you would help each other and I would help you, whenever the need arises. But anyone who anxiously calculates as not to disadvantage himself by helping another person will not gain many blessings, for his love and trust in Me is still very small, nevertheless, I have to demand both in order to be able to give and to make him happy without restriction. You have a Father Who only ever wants to give joy to His children, but He wants His children to be of the same spirit, so that they, too, would like to please and that everything done by a child is expressing love. Then My love can be so evidently directed towards the children that it gives and causes joy without measure and goal, so that the children recognise their Father in His gifts and love Him with such depth of feeling that it impels the child towards the Father in order to join Him forever, in order to be and to remain His Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Evidence of Jesus' existence on earth ....

B.D. 7250 from January 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every human being has the opportunity to discover the secret of God's human manifestation, and every human being will then also have proof of Jesus' existence, Who will be revealed to him as God's Son and Redeemer of the world, which will render all other evidence superfluous. And anyone who has finally understood the human manifestation of God also knows that, and why, faith is required, why proof is not favourable but rather unfavourable for the soul's process of development, which is the reason for a person's life on earth.

The fact that God embodied Himself in Jesus Christ, in Jesus the man, is and remains beyond belief for people who have no spiritual connection at all, to whom spiritual aspiration is unfamiliar .... And thus 'spiritual aspiration' should be understood to mean the 'soul's process of development', which was not given earthly life as an end in itself but merely as a means to an end. Consequently, anyone not spiritually motivated is not 'awakened' either, i.e. his reasoning is more influenced by error than truth, he will rather accept misconceptions and regard them as truth, and the pure truth will seem unacceptable to him .... precisely because his spirit is still dark, which does not refer to his intellect but to the spiritual spark within a person, the divine part. This person will not accept purely spiritual causes and thus God's human manifestation as the 'result' of such a spiritual 'cause' will be beyond his understanding. But it happened, God Himself embodied Himself in a human being, and this human being was Jesus, the son of Mary, Who was begotten by the spirit of God. Nothing was allowed to happen which could force people to believe, even Jesus' birth was subject to human law, but not the conception .... People should not be so arrogant as to doubt this when they consider that all living beings as well as the whole work of creation emerged out of God's strength, thus it is indeed possible for this strength to create a human being out of His will.

But this birth without conception also had spiritual reasons which an awakened spirit can quite easily understand. However, the human being has to know that there were spiritual reasons for the entire work of creation which were based on the free will of the first created spiritual beings, and that this free will also plays a part in the existence of the human being .... the first created original spirit .... which is significant and at the same time also an explanation why no or only little evidence can be found for the existence of Jesus the man, since a human being may not be compelled by any means to take a positive or negative attitude towards Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour. His attitude towards Him must be the result of complete freedom of will because this alone determines the human being's spiritual rebirth into the first created being, which is the purpose for the human being's life on earth.

Whatever can be proven enforces a decision .... No person may be forced to make a decision if the previous perfection of the first created being should be achieved once again, which is the purpose and goal of the entire work of creation. Hence, first of all a person has to know about the origin and goal of everything in existence, about the meaning and purpose of creation and all created beings within it. Yet he will never be able to gain this knowledge from books, it has to be conveyed to him through the spirit of God, Who is eternal truth Himself. This, however, requires conditions which all people certainly could but only few want to meet .... Nevertheless, the spirit of God can only express itself where these conditions are met: a living faith in God which can only come alive through love, and a conscious request for God's truth in the very belief to receive the truth from Him .... And it will be given to the person because the spirit of God now contacts the spiritual spark, which is a part of Him, in the human being and the person will be taught through the spirit ....

Anyone who cannot or does not want to believe this will never attain wisdom, the light of knowledge .... But the most marvellous revelations will be unveiled to anyone who believes, he will see brightly and clearly that which is incomprehensible to other people, he will be able to understand the correlations, and the problem of God's human manifestation in Jesus will be resolved in such an amazing way so that he will not require any further proof and yet he will be able to perceive everything more clearly than even the keenest intellect could. But then the period of time between Jesus' life on earth and the present is irrelevant to an awakened spirit because Jesus' life was not an event intended for a certain group of people but it was intended for all people in the past, present and future .... All people will know of Jesus' life but they need no evidence of His existence if their spirit is awakened, yet without the awakening of spirit even the most distinct evidence would be useless for the attainment of the maturity of the soul, because faith on the basis of proof is no faith which respects free will, and only free will is taken into account. The intellect is of no or very little significance to the awakening of the spirit within the human being .... The latter is the result of a life of love, a life of unselfish love for other people, hence researching the most profound secrets is not the privilege of keen intellectual activity but solely the prerogative of those who keep God's commandments, which Jesus the man taught on earth 'Love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself ....' The result of fulfilling these commandments is the most certain and obvious evidence of Jesus' existence because then God's spirit will lead the person to finding the truth and also explain to him all correlations which the human intellect alone would never be able to achieve ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love is the key to wisdom ....

B.D. 7251 from January 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will continue to think incorrectly as long as you ignore the commandments of love for God and your neighbour .... No matter how much you study and ponder, it will be of no use to you. Without a life of love of your own, the success of your research will only ever be a false success, i.e., it will not correspond to the truth. But if you put it to the test you would be surprised at how your thinking changes. Everyone can change himself to love, because the ability to love has been placed in his heart and it is mostly only due to his will if he does not use this ability, if he is not lovingly active. For this reason only a few people will go through this test, but by doing so they could so easily get the evidence which would make them infinitely happy, because their hearts would suddenly become enlightened. But the fact that wisdom, the light of realisation, is only the result of a life of love, is not accepted by people as truth, for they cannot associate an impulse of heart with the activity of their intellect, they don't want to link their emotional life with lucid intellectual thinking. And yet, love is the key to wisdom, and no-one who ignores the commandments of love for God and his neighbour will know the truth. However, the explanation that God is Truth as well as Love Itself is so simple.

One is unthinkable without the other, just as fire emanates light by natural law, so must the fire of love emanate the light of wisdom. The intellect is not enough in order to ascertain the truth, but intellect united with love will explore the most profound depths of divine wisdom .... Even if this statement seems presumptuous to you humans .... you would be able to prove it yourselves if only you seriously wanted to know the truth. This is why all efforts will be futile when you want to ascertain spiritual secrets, things, which cannot be proven by earthly means and yet are meaningful to a truth loving person. But the thoughts of a person who changed his nature, which at the start of his embodiment as a human being mainly knows selfish love, into unselfish neighbourly love, will indeed correspond to truth or be far closer to it than that of a rationalist who is devoid of love. You humans should believe this and transform your nature to love, then you will have accomplished your task on earth and the bright light of realisation will be your reward on earth and even more so in the kingdom of the beyond, which all of you will enter again after your life on this earth because it is your true home, which you once dwelled in and left of your own free will when you threw yourselves into darkness by extinguishing the light of love in you. On earth, you are not aware of the spiritual correlations, but the factor of lack of love also played a part in causing your spiritual darkness, and you can only become enlightened again if you transform your selfish love into unselfish love and thereby approach the Deity once more, Who is Love in Itself and wants to win you back .... And so, in order to clarify your thinking and to learn to understand the correlations which are associated with your earthly task, you must rekindle love in yourselves, you must, quite simply, return to God and unite with Him, Who is Love Itself .... Then light and strength and freedom will be yours again, as it was in the beginning, and once brightly enlightened you will realise everything, you will be blissfully happy because the Eternal Love permeates you once more as before ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mediator for the transmission of truth ....

B.D. 7252 from January 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And what you hear from Me take into your heart and know that it is purest truth with which I want to make My children happy, who devote themselves to Me, who open their heart and ear to hear My voice. I speak to you continuously, yet you can only hear Me as soon as you demand it. Then My word will resound in your heart and inform you of My will, it will guide you into truth, it will comfort and admonish you, it will promise you My protection and My grace .... But now you should also represent it as My word, you should not evaluate it for yourselves alone but also give your fellow human beings the opportunity to take notice of My word .... You should convey it to them, even at the risk of not being understood and meeting with resistance. But you should make the attempt, I Myself will initiate everything else, and even a failed attempt can have positive results one day. But it is about the supply of truth, and whose heart is capable, who recognizes the truth and also accepts it. Especially the supply of truth is difficult to achieve with people, for their thoughts are too little concerned with spiritual questions and therefore they remain unmoved even if a ray of My eternal love hits them. Yet again and again there are individuals who feel the ray of love beneficially and want to bask in it .... And to these I also turn all My love, and I also seek to address them through My word. Passing on the truth from Me is your task which I gave you when you agreed to be of service to Me. For the spreading of truth is of such great importance, after all, people are in a tangle of error that they should be helped to find out, that their thoughts should be directed to the giver of truth Who wants to and can guide them into right thinking if they don't resist Him. Everything should be tried in order to win fellow human beings over to My word, even if many attempts are unsuccessful .... But you cannot judge this, and I foresee and know how and when My word will be accepted. I know those who desire truth and hungrily accept it, and even if it is only ever one, then I have already won a soul for Myself, which can only be won through truth alone. This is why I address you who consciously open yourselves for the acceptance of My word, because I also want to speak through you to your fellow human beings to whom you now have to take the path with My support. For I will truly guide your paths, I will lead people into your path or knock on doors for you so that you can bring the lord's gifts to your brothers or sisters, and anyone who opens them will receive delicious gifts and also recognize the lord Who bestows such gifts upon him. But I require mediators for this who grant Me access into their hearts, who make it possible for Me to speak through their mouths to their fellow human beings who do not take the path to Me of their own accord and approach Me for truth .... Yet without truth they cannot become blissfully happy, and therefore you must convey the truth to them, you must use every opportunity to acquaint them with the truth from Me, and it will truly be a blessed undertaking for all who take part in it, for all who are willing to give and also to take ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right use of the life force: working in love ....

B.D. 7253 from January 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every day places new demands on you, and again and again you need strength to be able to meet these demands. And as long as your vitality is still at your disposal you will also be able to fulfil your earthly as well as spiritual task. For even the only earthly used vitality can earn you spiritual strength if your earthly activity consists of works of love. But once you have gained spiritual strength you need no longer worry about being able to fulfil your task, for through the supply of spiritual strength you will always be more stimulated into loving activity, and thus you will accomplish the change of nature for the purpose of which you live on earth. Thus not much is actually demanded of you humans other than the change from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love. But nevertheless you need strength for this, because love is strength, and if you have not yet ignited it in yourselves you are devoid of all strength. But selfish love is not strength, on the contrary, it still robs you of strength, for it will always demand your life force for the highest achievement in order to be able to do justice to itself; selfish love demands everything for itself, and thus it also only abuses the life force for the benefit of the body, because only that is helpful to the soul which works itself out as unselfish love .... Hence, if a person uses his vitality for loving service his soul will derive the greatest benefit from it, the person will receive much spiritual strength and this, in turn, will irrevocably bring the soul to maturity, for a person who is of service with love will never refrain from this activity, the works of love will increase, the supply of spiritual strength will impel him to work with love and bring ever greater maturity to his soul. And it is such love which the human being should kindle in himself and let flare up into a bright flame, for it is divine love, whereas selfish love is an inheritance from God's adversary and therefore will not make him happy either. For although the human being strives to gain all advantages for himself and will also mostly receive them through the adversary's support, he is and remains a weak being which has no light of realization and no strength to recognize and strive for the true purpose of earthly life .... He will depart from this earth in this powerless and lightless state and enter the kingdom of the beyond in exactly the same way, whereas the loving human being already acquires light and strength on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in a garment of light, thus he need not fear darkness or weakness because he has gathered much spiritual strength on earth, because he has used his vitality correctly to work with love. Love is strength, but without love there can be no strength either, only lightlessness and powerlessness. You humans need all strength, and if you want to fulfil your earthly task and are still powerless, then appeal to God for the supply of strength to work with love, and He will guide your senses correctly so that you make good use of your vitality and thereby acquire spiritual strength. But don't believe that you will always be left with the strength you currently still possess .... Even vitality is a gift which will be taken from you again when the hour of departure from this earth has come. Therefore make sure that you will have plenty of strength at your disposal then, that you will have gathered spiritual possessions so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom full of light and strength and then also be eternally blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Content of the divine word: love ....

B.D. 7254 from January 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

If you immerse yourselves in My word you will realize more and more that I only demand love from you, love for Me and for your neighbour .... Your whole process of development is only based on the principle of love, regardless of whether you are still bound in forms of creation or already walk the earth as a human being .... serving love is always the only important thing, it is always love which favours this process and brings you to the goal: that you become perfect again as you were in the beginning. And whether I inform you of My will, whether I reveal deeper wisdom to you, whether I reveal My plan of salvation to you .... I will always emphasize love, and you will only be able to understand everything if you live in love yourselves. If you lack love then everything will be incomprehensible to you and you will also be unwilling to let Me teach you. And yet, you must experience that My commandments of love are the most important, otherwise you will never muster the will to fulfil these commandments of Mine .... unless you kindle the little flame of love within yourselves, and then you will be able to recognize with the fullest of light and find everything comprehensible which is incomprehensible to others. This is why the transmission of My word is so necessary for you humans, for through it you will be made aware of My will for the first time and you can then take a stand on it yourselves. My word is My address to you, and depending on your nature you will feel it to be an address or it will fall on your ears like an empty sound. You cannot be forced to feel it in your heart as My address; your will remains free but your will determines you to respect and obey My will, thus to put into action what I demand of you through My word. If you do this you will soon become enlightened, you will know why My will is to fulfil the commandments of love, because you yourselves will experience the evidence that love is a strength which has a positive effect. As a human being you have the opportunity and also the strength to do works of love, and then your ascent will certainly proceed. But first you must know that you can only ascend through love. And this knowledge is conveyed to you by My word .... Therefore it cannot be avoided on earth that My gospel is preached again and again. Again and again My word must be proclaimed, again and again people must have the opportunity to experience My will, and only then must their own will become active to utilize the knowledge, for hearing the word alone is not enough if it is not followed by action .... But then the fulfilment of My commandments of love will take effect in many ways. The human being will have the strength to always be lovingly active anew; he will receive light in that nothing will remain unclear to him anymore which will help him to ascend, he will also stand up for My word with conviction, because this also results in the strength of love that he also wants to help his fellow human beings to ascend. And he himself will strive without ceasing to reach the goal which he has now also clearly recognized. My word must be proclaimed, for people live in ignorance because they live in unkindness, and they must be stimulated to love through My word. Therefore they shall also receive knowledge of the serving task of all works of creation, so that they will first learn to understand what the whole of creation is about, and that they themselves have also travelled this path before they are given the final task on earth of serving with love in free will. You humans achieve everything if you serve with love, earthly and spiritually you will be richly blessed, but only through serving love will you be able to release yourselves from the power of the one who is devoid of all love and therefore infinitely distant from Me, Who is eternal love Itself. There is only one path to reach Me .... the path of love which leads via Jesus Christ and His cross to the goal, back to the father, from Whose love you all once emerged ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Scrutiny of spiritual values for divine origin ....

B.D. 7255 from January 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can only receive spiritual food directly from Me, therefore everything offered to you as ‘spiritual nourishment’ has to be scrutinised for its origin. Indeed all presenters of the divine Word claim to offer the pure truth from Me but in that case all presenters would also teach the same, there should be no different schools of thought or denominations all of which, however, differ from each other in their teachings. Consequently it is absolutely necessary to examine which teachings can be traced back to Me as the originator. And that requires thinking about .... which is not to say that thinking alone results into an undisputed judgment because that too might lead to different results of thought .... intelligence alone is therefore not decisive for the judgment of the claim of truth in spiritual values. But at least the desire for truth is a step forward, given that the human being actually thinks about whether he was offered the truth or a misleading notion.

Then the will for truth ensures his correct reasoning during the ‘investigation’ for truth, the person begins to critically review what is offered to him. And such a review is necessary because misguided spiritual values do not have the sanctifying strength to heal the soul so that it can fully mature and feed itself with the food it needs. A misguided doctrine is not the right food for the soul, on the contrary, it can even contribute that the soul remains ailing and weak and yet does nothing to recover .... because the human being simply fails to notice that he is given unsuitable nourishment. Hence spiritual food has to originate from the kingdom to which the soul should return one day because it is only a guest on this earth to become suitable for the spiritual kingdom. Therefore it has to become suitable by way of food and drink, by way of nourishment which helps it to achieve a certain maturity of soul. And this maturity in turn is necessary to enter the realm of light, which is the soul’s true home but which requires the soul to be in a state which it must first accomplish on earth.

And now I Am offering the right food, and blessed are those who accept the heavenly bread directly from My hands, blessed are those, who do not look elsewhere for nourishment, blessed are those, who drink from the source and refresh themselves for their pilgrim’s journey across the earth. Their souls will mature with certainty and become suitable for the spiritual kingdom .... but not the souls of those who accept misguided values, whose nourishment is impure and can no longer claim to have been given by My hand. They will not derive much healing power from the food they accept and would do well to retrace the river’s flow to discover whether it leads to the right source .... whether I Myself Am the provider of what they are offered. And now they much rather take their nourishment from the source. Now the human being is no longer satisfied with a diluted teaching, now he can also judge for himself what is beneficial for the development of his soul because he can sense the truth when he is given strengthening food and stimulating drink, the truth which he previously could barely feel.

The soul which is ailing and wants to get well needs healthy and strengthening nourishment. And no soul walking across the earth is fully mature; each one needs support, it needs food and drink which enlivens and restores it, which returns it to the state it once was but which can only be guaranteed by My hand .... when the human being takes the direct path to Me and now allows himself to accept food and drink from Me. Then the soul will recover, it will approach its perfection because what is given by Me can only be a blessing for the soul .... because My love wants to help the soul to get the life which it will never lose again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Living christians .... power of faith .... presence of God ....

B.D. 7256 from January 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Only when you are faced with great adversity will it become clear whether you are living christians or only call yourselves formal christians who will fail when they have to prove themselves. And this time will come upon you when only a living faith can help you, when you have to prove yourselves, when the strength of faith has to be tested, which only a living faith can muster. The majority of people only have a formal faith; they do not reject what they have been taught but they have not yet seriously thought about the teachings. And as soon as they are prompted to call upon their God and creator, they will look for Him in the distance because they do not yet have communion with Him, a communion which manifests itself as a feeling of God's presence. And as long as this feeling is not yet in the human being, God has not yet come alive in him, and faith in God is only an empty expression, because he does not possess Him. Only the feeling of God's presence characterises a living christian, and then he will also possess the strength of faith which lets him take the path to the father in great hardship and ask for help from Him. Much suffering and misery will befall people, precisely in order to put their faith to the test. And it does not depend on the denominations, for every denomination can include living and dead followers, people who have entered into intimate bonds with God and those for whom God is and will remain the distant God, Whom they certainly know by name but have no bond with Him themselves as yet in order to call upon Him for help and assistance in cases of sudden adversity. But the need comes .... It must come for the sake of people who walk along indifferently and have not yet decided for themselves how they will relate to their God and creator from eternity .... It must come for people who believe to be christians and are only christians in name .... A confession of Jesus Christ is required of all, and only those who have a living faith can make such a confession .... but not those who only know about Him but have not yet established the right relationship with Him, which He requires in order to be able to be their redeemer from sin and death. Every person can decide once for the right relationship with Him, and he should do it of his own free will, because earthly life repeatedly gives him the opportunity to make this decision. But anyone who is foolish, who only ever remains a formal christian, that is, who is well aware of the divine redeemer but has never made use of His love and grace in order to be redeemed from his bondage .... who has not yet spoken to his father like a child, will first have to go through suffering and hardship in order to find the path to Him; he will first have to be so severely affected that only one way out remains for him, to take refuge in God in Jesus Christ and thereby confess that he believes in Him alive .... whereas the formal christian often still loses his shallow faith when the going gets tough and thereby proves that he has not yet had any bond with Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, with God Himself .... The closer it is to the end, the more necessary this testing of faith will be, for more and more people separate themselves, even if they belong to an ecclesiastical community, but it is only an illusory bond for the sake of fellow human beings, there is nothing true and living left which can be counted as a 'community of believers'. The churches are only worldly organizations, but no longer the union of deeply believing people who see in Jesus Christ the founder of their church, which was only founded on firm faith. And people will therefore be forced by life to make a confession, for the coming time will be very difficult for many people but nevertheless also a blessing for the living christian, because he will establish the bond with God ever more firmly and he will also be led out of all adversity and distress by his faith, because there is nothing for the living christian which cannot be overcome with the 'strength of faith' ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The path of return to God ....

B.D. 7257 from January 16th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I will always come to meet you when you take the path to Me. Believe Me that your distance from Me is giving Me little happiness, although you humans should not imagine a concept of sorrow on My part either, but I long for your love, and as long as you remain separate from Me I feel the absence of this love. Hence it will also be comprehensible to you that I watch your every step, that I see when you turn them into My direction and that I will then also come to meet you in order to shorten your path of return, so that you arrive at your goal faster. Even so, I will have to stop in My track if you come to a standstill yourselves, if you change your mind again or look back to the region you want to leave. I don't want to determine you free will by any means, I can certainly lure you, which in fact I do, but I cannot compel you, for your return to Me must be and has to remain a completely free act of will. Yet you ought to know and believe that no thought of yours which applies to Me will fade away or fail to reach its goal. And every such thought will be assessed by Me as free will and appropriately rewarded by constantly staying near to you and doing everything in order to attract your attention time and again. You don't know how infinitely profound My love is for you, My living creations, you don't know that this love will only ever yearn for you and that I therefore will not write off any one of My living creations, even if it still keeps its distance from Me of its own free will .... Even then My love will still take care of it and try to approach it, but how much more so with a child who is and wants to remain My Own, which just keeps looking sideways because it gets excited and attracted from all directions .... But I know how it thinks in its heart, I know that its love is intended for Me and that it is just too weak to resist all kinds of enticements. For, time and again, it will assuredly find its way back to Me, it will remain on the path to Me and will not divert from it either, since the longing of its heart applies to Me alone.

The path to Me leads steeply upwards, it is arduous .... it just won't do that I should make it easy, that I should combine it with enticement, because this path should be taken for pure love of Me and not for the sake of other advantages .... which is only ever a hostile intention to attract people into taking other paths which will lead far away from Me. This is why you will quite often get tired during your excursion to the top and yet longingly look back to the world you want to leave. And I allow this to happen but only for your own sakes, for every voluntarily accomplished ascent will have the most glorious results .... I will come ever closer to him and he to Me, and in My presence the human being will then experience the bliss which will compensate him for everything he had relinquished for My sake. And this presence should be the goal which you should pursue with absolute determination; you should not rest until you have reached Me, Who will assuredly shorten your path by coming to meet you .... Thus you will not be separated from Me for much longer, as long as you only desire My presence and steadfastly continue on the path you have taken .... even if you occasionally find it difficult because you can't see any obvious progress and believe not to have climbed up even one step .... If you were able to look back into the abyss you would also be able to assess the significant distances you had covered so far, and you would happily cover the last short stretch of the path which still separates you from Me. But you can rest assured that I will prevent you from falling back into the abyss .... I will invisibly hold on to you and continually pull you upwards, after all, My heart rejoices in the fact that a child is returning into the Father's house, and I will truly help on this last short path to reach it and walk beside him imperceptibly until he sees Me at the goal and My arms are able to embrace the child which has returned home to the Father, from Whom he once had originated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prerequisite for hearing God's voice: Detachment from the world ....

B.D. 7258 from January 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You must listen deeply within yourselves if you want to hear My voice. And that requires you to completely withdraw from the material world and engross yourselves in spiritual thoughts .... it requires you to completely empty your heart from earthly thoughts so that it can then be filled by thought currents of a purely spiritual nature. People will always find it difficult to completely detach themselves from the world, but My voice can be heard more distinctly the less the heart is burdened by mental impressions of worldly origin. Once the heart is completely empty the flow of My spirit can pour into it unimpeded, and then you will experience this as an uninterrupted talking to you, as a flowing-over of My spirit into you, as My direct Word which you can hear as clearly as a spoken word. The more you resist earthly thoughts, the more clearly will you hear My voice. And this requires a constant battle with the external world which, impelled by My adversary, wants to intrude time and again in order to disturb the intimate conversation between Father and child. You can prevent this by not yielding to it, by rejecting all thoughts pertaining to the world .... by instantly addressing Me in thought asking Me to prevent this interference .... And your will shall be taken into account, because it is solely directed towards Me.

Only those who are able to detach themselves from the world are therefore entitled to hear My voice, for whom I have become a Concept Which no longer can be replaced by the world .... who have recognised Me as their eternal Father Who wants to turn you into his children and will not let go of you again until He has accomplished His goal. Once this separation from the world has taken place, the world will no longer succeed in winning the human being back, because My direct Word will have granted enlightenment to him and he will not want to miss this light again. However, he will nevertheless constantly have to struggle with the world, since he still lives in the midst of the world and it will try to influence him in every way, because it is precisely this intimate dialogue which My adversary wants to disturb as and wherever possible. This is why it always requires a strong will to establish such an intimate bond with Me that My voice can come through, drowning out the voice of the world. The human being's will can accomplish that, and then he will only ever sing My praises and give thanks to the One Who speaks to him and thereby bestows an invaluable gift upon him ....

For My Word is the visible or audible sign of My infinite love for you, My living creations. It demonstrates that it is in your own hands to establish such close contact with the highest and most perfect Being that you will be able to hear His voice .... and that you have the evidence of this communication when you write His sacred Word down just as you receive it .... This supremely perfect Being speaks to you .... Contemplate the meaning of these Words .... I speak to you from above, you hear My voice, your comprehend what I tell you, and thereby you can recognise your Father's voice Who loves you and wants to possess you forever .... I speak to you because I want you to come to Me of your own free will, so that you will start your return to Me into your Father's house, which I want to achieve by addressing you. But in order to hear My Words your will must be firm and strong, time and again it must look for the heartfelt bond with Me, Who cannot be found on the surface of the world but far away from it .... Consequently, all worldly thoughts must be suppressed and you must listen into the stillness of your heart, and then you will truly hear My Word in all clarity, because My love especially applies to all those who try to reach Me, who desire to hear Me and to whom I therefore reveal Myself according to My promise 'that I will come to My Own in spirit and remain with them until the end of the world ....'

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The soul's process of pre-development ....

B.D. 7259 from January 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

It is difficult to convince people of the fact that they had already travelled an infinitely long path before they reached their existence as human beings. It is difficult, given that precisely this knowledge is not included in the Gospel, which is the foundation of every church organisation. But God knows why He did not incorporate this knowledge, why He did not give his disciples the instruction to spread this knowledge, of which Jesus' disciples were most certainly informed. He only gave them the task of proclaiming the divine teaching of love, He made the commandments of love for God and one's neighbour the subject of what they were to proclaim as Gospel to their fellow human beings, which were also proclaimed by Jesus as a human being on this earth. For every person who lives up to this teaching of love will gain increasingly more knowledge and subsequently also find out about the human soul's infinitely long process of pre-development, which only has to pass its last test of will on earth.

The commandment of love is, in fact, the first and most important commandment, a person will not benefit from any knowledge, regardless of how profound it is, if he fails to live a life of love. For even this knowledge would just be misconstrued intellectual information since only love is the key to realisation and without love everything will remain incomprehensible .... which is evident in the present time .... since the said information will not be believed because it cannot be realised as long a person's thinking is not illuminated by love. Everyone willing to love will dwell on it and not entirely reject it but he might perhaps question why such knowledge was not given to people earlier, why it isn't mentioned in the Book of Books. And the same answer applies that knowledge is only of value for a person if it has come alive through love .... This is why every kind-hearted person will also be guided into deeper knowledge when the time is right. But since humanity is near the end they shall live even more responsibly. The knowledge about the soul's process of preliminary development can increase this sense of responsibility in people which, in view of the near end, is not to be underestimated. Even people who are as yet unable to believe can be prompted by thoughts to change their way of life. On the other hand, however, this knowledge is not necessary if a person lives a life of love according to God's will. Then he will receive the knowledge instantly when he enters the kingdom of the beyond; he will brightly and clearly recognise what appeared unbelievable or was entirely unknown to him on earth.

But during the last days everything possible will be done on the part of God for the human being to reach the goal with ease. His attention will be drawn to his earthly task and the great significance of fulfilling this task, and in view of the end he will also be informed of the previous development, although without proof. However, everyone can obtain this proof for himself if he lived a life of love which could enlighten him and also grant him the ability of spiritual vision. In that case a person would also be able to observe the bustling spiritual activity within the various works of creation, he would come to see the lives of animals and plants in a different light and he would no longer doubt that he, too, would have passed through all these stages of pre-development .... But this presupposes a high degree of love, hence the divine teaching of love must always take priority, i.e., the human being's attained degree of knowledge or realisation on earth depends on his fulfilment of the commandments of love. Love is absolutely necessary for the human being but he does not need to be knowledgeable, because he can suddenly become brightly enlightened if he has lived a life of love on earth. And this is why you humans should not be surprised that the Gospel does not openly state something which nevertheless can be found concealed within .... For the Word of God has various meanings, which only a person living in love will come to understand .... Then he will also find many references regarding the human being's pre-existence in the creations of earth, and he will only ever attempt to pass his findings on to his fellow human being although they will only be believed if this person, too, is permeated by love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Supply of food and drink ....

B.D. 7260 from January 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Much bread from heaven will be offered to you in the last days before the end, because there is great need for food and drink which will help you to heal. The streams of grace pour down to earth in many places, again and again I reveal Myself to you in the word, again and again I try to touch people's hearts and make them receptive for the word which comes to them directly from above, which they shall therefore recognize as My word. But it can only ever happen in a form which does not compel faith, the word from above will never be one hundred percent proof that it originates from God Himself, from the highest and most perfect being, for this would compel its acceptance, and this would not be a success for the soul which should want, think and act in complete freedom of will as long as it lives on earth. But My word is such an unusual gift of grace that it can also be recognized as My word, even if it may not be regarded as evidence, even if the unwilling person seeks or is able to give himself many other explanations for the origin. The willing human being needs no proof of this, he feels it when he is addressed and his heart opens to this address from above. But you humans are only slightly aware of the fact that My love gives you a very unusual proof, yet My love is great towards you humans who are in such spiritual adversity that you are almost no longer able to recognize Me. And therefore My love comes to your aid, for the adversity of time dictates it if I don't want you to get lost again for an infinitely long time. I know about your fate after the end of this redemption period and I would like to spare you it, I would like to save you from the extreme, from the new banishment into matter, I would still like to save you from the end. But since you have free will I can only quietly guide, admonish, warn and lovingly address you, and this could also be enough to persuade you to turn back if only you would listen to My address and then seriously take yourselves to court. For I inform you of everything you should or should not do on your earthly path of life, I only inform you of My will through My word, and if you only make an effort to live according to this will then you will have escaped all danger, for I bless your will and I will never let you fall back into the abyss once your gaze has been turned towards Me, which I want to achieve by conveying My word from above .... I speak to you and give your soul food with My word which it needs, without which it cannot mature and which only I Myself can offer you. I bring you the bread of heaven on which it will recover and eternally no longer fall back into weakness and darkness, for My word is light for every soul which accepts it and lives by it .... My word brings 'strength' to the soul as spiritual nourishment, My word brings 'light' to you as an emanation of My love, and My word finally brings 'freedom' to it, it will be able to detach itself in strength and light from the one who has held it captive until now. You humans cannot come to life without My word, and because I know this I provide you with it in abundance, again and again I open the fountain of life from which you can draw so that you will never lack food and drink, spiritual nourishment, which you particularly need now in view of the end. Yet it is up to you whether you open yourselves to My loving address, for no matter how delicious My gifts are they will never force you to accept them, for your will is and remains free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Compulsory work .... only works of love are rated ....

B.D. 7261 from January 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Only that which was done of one's own free will has eternal value, as soon as it concerns works which are to be valued as works of love. The human being should not ask for reward or retribution when he performs a work of neighbourly love, nor should he merely fulfil a duty and believe that such service will be valued just as much as a deed performed by free will which exceeds the measure of the fulfilment of duty .... Only that which love accomplishes can be valued before God, and true love is always selfless and without calculation. And such works therefore have eternal value, for they have an effect on eternity, they give the soul the maturity which determines its degree of beatitude, and thus they determine the soul's fate after the death of the body. People's earthly life, however, is mostly filled with demands or dutiful work which they like to believe fulfils their purpose of earthly life but are not aware of the fact that it is not about the nature of their activity on earth but about the degree of love in which everything that fills people's lives is carried out. Admittedly, a part of self-love is also necessary in order to meet the demands of the body, because the human being also has duties towards his body, thus he has also been granted a part of self-love on the part of eternal love. Nevertheless, not only self-love may determine a person's every action, but only work which has been carried out entirely without calculation, where only love which wants to give and make happy was the impetus, and which therefore also achieves imperishable spiritual values, which is the soul's wealth when it departs from earth, has an eternal value. Every activity which is carried out dutifully can indeed also be a blessing if it is done willingly and selflessly, which is precisely why every work must be based on love if it is to have a beneficial effect on the human soul and its fate in eternity. For what is done for the earth also passes away with the death of the body, which alone was the beneficiary of that activity which was determined by self-love. Therefore, it is not indifferent how the human being approaches his earthly activity .... He can do his 'duty' and yet not gain a blessing for his soul; but he can also fulfil every duty with inner joy and love, he can consciously serve his fellow human being and do so gladly and joyfully .... then it is not only 'duty work' but at the same time activity of love, for the impetus originates from his free will, and free will alone determines whether selfish love is pushed back and unselfish love comes to the fore. Every human being's work on earth can fulfil its serving purpose if it is not consciously done on behalf of God's adversary, i.e. an effect which harms people is quite clearly recognizable .... Then no blessing can ever rest on the performer who indulges in such activity which is obviously done on the impetus of the adversary from God. And this activity will indeed also have an eternal value but in a negative way .... it will also affect the human being's soul, and the soul will have to suffer again for an infinitely long time, for the human being was only motivated by selfish reasons to indulge in this activity, and he has to answer for it. But every human being can feel the urge within himself to perform unselfish works of love. And if it is not possible within the scope of his fulfilment of duty, then he can do it in addition, and this will have a particularly beneficial effect in that he will soon also be allowed to fulfil his duty in a 'serving' way, for the human being's will alone determines his direction, and the right-willing person will also be given the opportunity by God to use his will correctly: to 'serve in love' .....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Resurrection .... Decomposition of the flesh ....

B.D. 7262 from January 21st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Everyone of you living on earth will physically die, but your soul will either arise into life or remain dead, if it did not strive for life on earth. Thus, resurrection is assured to all of you who desire to live .... For those who do not believe in the resurrection do not desire life for their soul either, instead, only the life of their physical body is possibly desirable for them, which they seek to prolong as far as they are able to do so. But they will die and remain dead for an infinitely long time to come, even though one day resurrection will be assured to them too .... However, anyone who seeks and strives towards attaining life for his soul can also be certain that it will rise from the dead after the death of the body, for Jesus Christ provided the evidence for this, Who arose from the dead on the third day, Who had conquered death and the one who had brought death into the world. Admittedly, His resurrection is being doubted by believers and unbelievers, for even the believers are unable to grasp this greatest of miracles and are often inclined to harbour quiet doubts as long as they merely 'believe' but have not yet brought this faith alive properly. But as soon as My spirit can work in the human being these doubts will be clarified and Jesus' resurrection will be the clear evidence of his own resurrection for him, he will know that he will not die but only enter from this life into the kingdom of the beyond, where he will live forever.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a constantly disputed problem amongst people, for on the one hand they want to doubt it, on the other hand they want to deduce from it a resurrection of 'the flesh' because they believe that Jesus also arose in the flesh on the third day .... They don't yet realise that Jesus only made Himself visible to people in order to help them to believe, but that they only ever saw his spiritual body which presented itself to them visibly. All the substances of his physical body had spiritualised themselves through His crucifixion, and thus the 'man' Jesus had put on a spiritual garment when He visibly approached His disciples .... And you, too, will put on this spiritual garment at your resurrection into life .... The physical body stays behind and its substances continue the path of higher development; hence the body of flesh decomposes and its substances animate other forms again which are still at the beginning of their development .... Thus they will never enclose the soul again, they will never be the shell for the soul again and be resurrected with it at the same time .... And yet the soul will arise from the dead if it has fulfilled My will on earth, if it strives to enter the life I promised it when I lived on earth as Jesus, the human being. A resurrection is assured to all of you, yet you determine the time yourselves. However, you must gain the right understanding of a 'resurrection of the flesh', for the works of your flesh will certainly be judged and according to these will be your resurrection .... either to life or, if your works give evidence against you, to death, the banishment into hard matter. And this is once again an infinitely long lasting state of helplessness and darkness, a state of death which, however, you aspired to on earth yourselves because you lacked the faith that you are destined for life and not death, which you caused yourselves .... For this reason I arose from the dead in order to provide you humans with this evidence .... And yet, you can only believe it again if you, through a life of love, awaken your spirit which will subsequently explain and instruct you about everything, and then you will also be able to believe with conviction what cannot be proven to you. Strive towards life and you will never ever need to fear death, you will live forever in strength and light and freedom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every human being experiences God's revelation in himself ....

B.D. 7263 from January 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every person shall experience that God's love takes care of him, and therefore every person is sometimes harshly touched by fate, and depending on his attitude he will receive help in his adversity. But he will be able to visibly recognize where help comes from if only he has a spark of faith in God and His might within himself, for he is often affected by adversity from which there seems to be no help anymore .... And yet, help will come to him, even if it seems natural but obviously proving the intervention of a loving and powerful God. For God wants to reveal Himself in His love, He wants people to recognize Him and then also learn to love Him, because God is only ever interested in the human being's love which shall turn towards Him. Yet the human being's will is also part of it in order to recognize God and to love Him .... Anyone who always rejects God would also not feel touched if he once visibly experiences God's help .... For him it remains a coincidence or his own merit when an adversity is reduced, when help arrives or fellow human beings assist him. Then he will always be inclined to explain everything to himself naturally, without accepting a God and controller of his fate. And he cannot be forced to think differently, only such strokes of fate can repeat themselves and slowly cause him to think about it, but with positive success only when the inner resistance against God diminishes, when he plays with the thought that a higher power is decisive in every person's life. But anyone who repeatedly feels God's love and allows himself to be seized by it has drawn blessings from his course of destiny, no matter how difficult it may have been, for recognizing God's love is of such great importance for people that this also explains the hard fate of many people who are repeatedly touched in order to decide for God once they have recognized Him in His love .... because only this decision determines the human being's conscious life. For the human being only becomes thoughtful when such 'revelations' of God obviously reveal themselves to him, and as soon as he looks at all events in his life from the point of view that they were imposed on him by God, but that God also orders and levels them again in His love for the human being, his life will become a conscious one, he will take everything upon himself in the certainty that he will also be helped because God loves him. To have gained this realization is a great spiritual progress which will certainly result in an easier earthly life for him, because now there is no longer the necessity of severe strokes of fate, because the human being is convinced of God's love and surrenderingly submits to His will, which he has recognized as loving. Every person has this opportunity to come to recognize God's love, but His will is not anticipated, and therefore many people still remain untouched, although God's love often speaks a very clear language. But the strokes of fate naturally accumulate in order to make the human being deal with them mentally and learn to recognize what he would rather deny: that there is a God Who directs and guides everything and Who lovingly takes care of all His living creations so that they will still find and take the path to Him in earthly life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's address to every human being ....

B.D. 7264 from January 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Let yourselves be addressed by Me at every hour, which is already caused by a heartfelt thought of Me, for I will respond to it and answer you, even though it is often only received by your spirit as soon as you don't dwell on My thoughts for long. Yet My answer can also touch your heart at any time, for it is only necessary that you intimately unite with Me and wait in this bond until you hear My answer. Believe this, that only a heartfelt bond is necessary in order to hear My voice, that you thus cause My presence in you yourselves through your will, which seeks Me and remains with Me in thought. And once I am present to you I will also grant your requests because you present them to Me in childlike trust and therefore I can also act upon you like a loving father acts upon his child. You can strive for nothing better than My constant presence in you, for then you will already have won everything. My presence is the guarantee that you have become My own, that the child has found its way back to the father, for where I dwell the adversary is displaced, and where I am there must therefore also be bliss. But you are free at any time to secure My presence, for this is solely caused by your will .... If you call Me then I am with you, if you don't leave Me in your thoughts then you also bind Me to you, then I must be present to you, and My presence will never be without effect .... You will always derive blessings from it by receiving strength which constantly flows into you from Me Myself when I can be present to you. And every person who longs for My presence can be certain of it, for I fulfil such a desire of the heart. The fact that I now also speak to you is the most natural consequence of My presence, and therefore you should only ever listen inwardly to what I have to say to you. I will warn and admonish you, I will comfort and uplift you, I will instruct you and constantly inspire you to love, I will speak to you as a father Who wants to protect His children from adversity, Who loves them and in His love would also like to make them happy .... And therefore I will also make demands on the child in order to make the gratification possible, which can only take place under certain conditions. My love, however, is so great that it tries to make everything easy for you and therefore also addresses and instructs you that you should only practice love likewise in order to then also receive strength for an earthly change according to My will. Whom I can address need not fear to go wrong, because I can only address him if his will is good and turned towards Me, and because then he will also not consciously sin against Me and My love. He will not want to, and all his weaknesses and afflictions are manifestations of his body's still immature substances which become all the more prominent the more they are challenged by the soul's will to completely hand itself over to Me. The body has not yet reached this degree of maturity and tries to defend itself, but it will not succeed with the soul's strong will to enter into My will. And as soon as the human being allows Me Myself to be present, as soon as he mentally tries to establish the bond with Me again and again, the resistance in him will become ever weaker, for the soul constantly receives strength and its will asserts itself. Let Me address you often, come to Me again and again if you are in adversity and distress, let your thoughts take the path to Me and often withdraw into silence in order to listen within .... And My address will always sound clearer to you, for My love uses every opportunity to make itself known to you .... The father will use every opportunity to speak to His child who only surrenders to Him in love and wants to hear His address ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul consciously starts earthly life .... Past memory ....

B.D. 7265 from January 25th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Prior to your embodiment as a human being your destiny of life was presented to you and you entered this final embodiment in full realisation of what will happen to you in earthly life, because the final goal you would be able to reach was simultaneously obvious to you and because it was your own free will to release yourselves from the final form through this earthly progress. Afterwards, however, this past memory was taken away from you and thus your life proceeds without you being conscious of the success you could achieve. However, there is no other option, otherwise free will would not come into its own, which has to accomplish your final perfection in the first place. But it is certainly possible for you to overcome all difficult strokes of fate granted to you, for no person will have to bear more than he is able to cope with, albeit with the strength of God, which is always at his disposal .... However, if a person only relies on his own strength, life's offerings can undoubtedly devastate him. Yet he always has the opportunity to request strength from God .... he has the opportunity to pray .... But this presupposes his belief in a God and Father of eternity, otherwise the person would never call upon a God for strength and help. Yet every person who still lacks faith can find it if he reflects on his life, his destiny and everything that surrounds him. A thinking person will truly not find it difficult to attain faith in a powerful and wise Creator, he just does not often want to admit that his relationship with this Creator is so close that He is even willing to help him in every adversity, no matter how small or great, if He is asked to do so. Such people lack belief in the correlation between the Creator and His living creation, thus a God of love is barely credible to them, consequently, they keep themselves distant from the One Who, however, wants to be called upon by His creatures so that they prove their bond with Him. For this reason people will time and again be afflicted by strokes of fate which are not only intended to make the affected people themselves but also their fellow human beings think about their attitude towards a God and Creator, Who also wants to be the Father of His children to Whom He gave life.

With God's strength every individual human being is capable of overcoming even the most severe strokes of fate. And he also agreed to this before his embodiment as a human being, for he was not placed into this or that embodiment against his will, he voluntarily started his earthly path with the view of complete liberation from every form and also with the firm confidence that he will master life in the right way. But as a human being he often fails and the challenges often seem insurmountable to him as long as he does not avail himself of help by His God and Creator, Whom he must acknowledge without fail if his earthly progress is not to be in vain, without any success for his soul. This is why the first and most important requirement is the belief in a God Who is love, wisdom and omnipotence in Himself .... And in order to gain this faith the human being must first kindle love within himself .... Love, however, is strength in itself too, and thus every person who lives a life of love will irrevocably be able to cope with even the most difficult destiny of life because he already receives the strength from God, hence he will also have a living faith, so that he will call upon God as his 'Father' in every earthly or spiritual adversity and truly be guided through it, because God Himself is love and He has the power to put everything right again that has become disorderly .... because He helps the person with His strength to master even the most difficult situation in life. And He will always be prepared to be of assistance to him in every adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Characteristic of the living christian ....

B.D. 7266 from January 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

As long as My spirit is not yet working in you, you are merely followers or formal christians, for My spirit's working is the characteristic of the church which I Myself founded on earth. Only then will you belong to this church founded by Me when My spirit can express itself in you, that you hear its voice, that you are thus awakened to life, which proves My spirit's working in and on you. And the sign of My spirit's working is that you are alive, that you have become true christians, thus also true doers, not just hearers of My word. A dead christian does not have these signs, he goes about his life, he will hardly speak of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, he will also not make an effort to live a life of action; yet he calls himself a christian because he has not yet understood what I mean by this. A christian is a true follower of Jesus, a person who makes an effort to live his earthly life like Him, which consisted of unceasing activity of love and an intimate bond with His father, Who was in Him. This intimate bond must first be established with Me in Jesus Christ if My spirit is to become effective, if it is to be able to express itself by gaining influence over all thinking, willing and acting. Then the human being will be guided by My spirit, for I express Myself through the spirit and make My will known to the human being. Thus the human being must live a second life next to his earthly life, he must strive spiritually, for which a formal christian has no time because he is imprisoned by the world which does not release him. The spiritual christian lives his earthly life on the side and the spiritual life fills his purpose in life, for he is impelled by the spirit from Me which never lets him rest. And thus every spiritual thought, every bond with Me, every impulse to do a good deed, every deeper understanding of spiritual knowledge and ever new desire for it is all to be regarded as 'working of the spirit', and all this also characterises a living christian, whereas the formal christian is completely lacking, for he is not so much moved by the life of his soul as by the life of his body, and spiritual bonds are alien to him because they are inconvenient to him and he therefore avoids them. And therefore he is a dead christian who will not be able to prove his 'life' when he is put to this test. For a person is not a dead christian with impunity, and one day it will become apparent how deep he is still in the grave, how darkened his spirit is and how far away he himself still is from being a true follower of Jesus Christ. And that is why only a few people have the right to call themselves christians, because most of them are not, even if they belong to ecclesiastical organisations but do not honour them. For in all these organizations people can take the right path of following Jesus in order to then also possess the characteristic of My church as true christians: the awakened spirit which now guides and teaches them, which brightly illuminates their path of life and which truly has an effect on the human being in the best sense, because it is My spirit which expresses itself in you and I also truly only give you what is good for you and your souls. And every one of you can awaken the spirit in himself to life if he only seriously wants to fulfil his earthly task, if he seriously wants to unite with Me, Whom he recognizes as his God and father and establishes this intimate union through loving activity .... For anyone who practices love establishes unity with Me, Who is love Myself, and My spirit will radiate through him and give him light .... He will now only ever be active in My will and gain eternal life while still on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace of the word reception ....

B.D. 7267 from January 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You cannot grasp the grace of the proclamation of the word or you would not hesitate for a minute to contact Me in order to be addressed by Me. But it is also due to your imperfection that you are unable to grasp the magnitude of such an event that I address you directly. For you yourselves are so limited in your perfection, rather, you are so imperfect that you cannot imagine anything perfect and are even less able to grasp that the most perfect being bends down to the imperfect creature in order to communicate with it, in order to give it love and evidence of grace and to draw it close to Itself again. But you know that you once came forth from Me, and I love this created being with all the fervour of My love, which is incomprehensible to you. And this love impels Me to draw close to you and to enter into such a connection with you that you will be able to hear My voice if you want to. Admittedly, none of you humans is in such a degree of maturity that this imparting of My audible word would be nothing unusual, but precisely the weakness of people .... of My creatures which once came forth from Me .... causes Me to help them out of their state of weakness. They take pity on Me, and hot love for the weak is now also added to My primal love, and thus I approach people despite their imperfection, and I seek to supply them with the lacking strength so that they emerge from their state of weakness and start their way back to Me again with all their strength .... for they are previously still at an infinitely long distance and must voluntarily return again in order to give Me the evidence of their love for Me too, which seeks to unite with Me. I have come down into the sinful world, although this is not My kingdom, but I also seek to bring My kingdom into this world .... I seek to turn people away from the world and therefore come to them with My kingdom. I take care of the imperfect creatures and want to help them attain perfection, which they are eternally unable to do without My help .... This is why I speak to them but they don't grasp the unusual, they accept My gift of grace as something self-evident. And yet it is the evidence of My infinite love for the fallen, which I don't want to leave in the abyss and therefore always try to pull it up to Me again. If people could grasp this overwhelming grace they would no longer want to live on earth but long for their father with all sincerity and for the kingdom which is their true home .... they would simply no longer endure earthly life, which weighs down an originally freely-created being like a burden and thus is a shackle for this being which it would like to cast off just in order to reach Me. But I cannot suddenly give perfection back to the imperfect, the being itself must strive to become perfect again, as it was in the beginning .... And so that you will muster this will I speak to you and show you the path which leads to perfection. For you must receive information about what you should or should not do in order to become perfect again. And if your fellow human beings proclaim this to you, if they try to make the gospel accessible to you, you still lack living faith in it, which is why I Myself convey My word to you from above in order to help a few to gain a living faith if they are doers and not just hearers of My word. No human being is aware of the great grace of 'receiving the word' but nevertheless it can help to lead fellow human beings to perfection who are only of good will and listen to what I say to them. Then My word will not fail to have its effect, and people will mature and devote themselves to Me ever more; they will do what I request through My word, and love will also flare up and spread in them, and only then will they grasp the great significance of the father's speaking to His child in order to help it attain perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's plan of salvation always requires new creations ....

B.D. 7268 from January 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

New creations will still arise on this earth for eternities, and the upward development of the spiritual will continue, which is still bound in hard matter and other works of creation, for eternal times are already required by a once-fallen original spirit for this return from the deepest depth to the height, up to the stage where it may walk across earth embodied as a human being to pass its last test of will: for or against God, to Whom it once offered its resistance and therefore fell .... An infinite amount of fallen spirits still have to take this path, and it takes eternities for these spirits to remain far away from God in utmost wretchedness until they are even allowed to take this path of return .... until it becomes matter according to God's will and then slowly ascends in material creations. For this reason all matter is already a state of constraint which proves that God's love has taken care of the hardened spiritual substance in order to shape it according to His will, for it is then already seized by God's strength of love which enveloped it in order to give it a helpful purpose, irrespective of whether it is at the beginning of its development or has already progressed. All matter is hardened spiritual matter enveloped by God's strength of love, which has received its envelopment for the sake of a purpose. It is not always possible for you humans to recognize the purpose, but nothing in the whole of creation is without meaning and purpose, only it is often only known to God alone, because human thinking and conceptual ability is still limited. But only as human beings can the original spirits recognize themselves again as beings, because before they were not aware of themselves. And as long as the earth exists and harbours creations of the most diverse kind, countless original spirits are bound in it, all of which still have to gather and find themselves in order to one day be able to animate the form of a human being when those bound little particles have attained their appropriate maturity. And as long as there are creations in, on and above the earth there can be no end to this earth which serves as a maturing station for the fallen spirits. For this reason it is not possible to speak of a downfall of the earth if this is understood to mean a complete decay, a total dissolution of the earth's body, for the bound spiritual substances require shells and thus again and again new creations which offer them shelter depending on the state of maturity which the individual particles have already reached. One day the earth will indeed be a purely spiritual creation, yet eternities will pass until then, because a spiritual creation can only shelter mature spiritual beings and the countless creations on earth only ever prove how much unredeemed spiritual substance has taken abode in those creations. And this spiritual substance cannot jump over developmental phases at will, it has to ascend from the abyss according to natural law, in accordance with the divine order in which God's plan of salvation .... the return of the apostate to Him .... was conceived and is carried out. And this very plan of God's salvation requires eternities and it requires new creations again and again, otherwise the change of external forms could not take place, which is necessary again and again in order to give the spiritual the opportunity for serving activity through which the ascent development is guaranteed. The constant coming into being and passing away in nature is a process according to divine order, which takes place according to natural law .... Yet from time to time acts of violence also take place according to God's will in order to repeatedly dissolve hard matter and release the spiritual within, which is now to begin its course of development in lighter external forms .... and at the same time to capture and bind fallen spiritual again in hardest form. And the earth will still have to serve this task for eternities, it will certainly be transformed again and again but it will not be able to pass away, for an incomprehensibly long time is necessary for you humans until even the last spiritual substance will be embodied on this earth, which you can well describe with the word 'eternity'. And yet, you can also speak of a downfall of the earth, for what lies ahead of you signifies an end of your life for you humans, for nothing will remain alive, people and animals will lose their lives apart from the small flock of those who will be raptured in order to then become the tribe of the human race again on the newly formed earth which shall populate the new earth, as is God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

(Personal) ....

B.D. 7269 from January 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Surrender everything, worries and hardships, joys and sufferings, health and sickness, for everything comes from My hand. And I will not impose anything on you other than that which is conducive to your soul's salvation. But I also determine the duration of everything, and therefore it is good and right to leave it up to Me when I want to end a state or let it occur, for only that can be a blessing for you which I deem good for you. And thus only surrender yourself in full trust to your father of eternity that He will hold you firmly in His hand .... and the path you take will truly be right and lead to the goal. You don't know the path, but I know it and guide you, so that you can be unconcerned about whatever may come. However, a small cross will remain imposed on you, after all, this cross is only destined for perfection, and your will shall accept it as burdened upon you by Me, Who truly knows what you are capable of bearing. You can be certain that I will always guide your thoughts correctly, and what you therefore do in My name will not remain without blessing, both spiritually and earthly .... by which the physical condition is to be understood .... As long as you are in My service you will also be able to perform the service, for My love cares fatherly, and even as a householder I give My servants everything they need to work for Me as long as they want to serve Me and I make use of their services. Therefore, you can cheerfully face the future, which will always be bearable for you as long as you entrust yourselves to Me and My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Law of divine order is love ....

B.D. 7270 from January 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

This is the fulfilment of the law, that you live in love, for love is the law of eternal order, love is the only existing thing which no opposing will is able to overthrow .... love is the strength of God and thus the primal element which has its origin in God but which is also the primal being of God Himself. And thus the law of eternal order can only be fulfilled or maintained if love is the principle in which all beingness moves .... Without love the law of divine order will be overturned, without love there will be a lack of strength and light, without love there will be sin, i.e., every violation of the law of eternal order is a sin because it is directed against the original source of love, against God Himself, Who is eternal love. Nothing can find approval before God's eye that does not take place within the framework of the lawful order, which is love. Everything that opposes it must be wrong before God because it is based on unkindness and because unkindness opposes God's love, thus it is part of God's adversary whose nature is devoid of all love. Whatever you humans encounter in earthly life has to be tested for the degree of love which determines every event. Only that which is evident as 'activity of love' will stand before God, and where there is only the slightest lack of love God's eyes will turn away, since He cannot be pleased with sin. And you humans can easily judge whether an action, a speech or even a thought was caused by a degree of self-love or even unkindness, no matter how small it may be .... And therefore you will also know that you often play with sin, that you often violate the law of eternal order if you merely allow an unloving thought to arise within you and don't push it away when it arises within you. And likewise you are very quickly prepared to speak unkind words or to carry out an action which lacks love .... You move far more outside of divine order because you are not always filled with love, on the contrary, you easily let yourselves be carried away into unkind judgment or thinking. And it need not always be actions which do not meet with God's approval, but you humans should all pay more attention to your thoughts or words that they do not violate the law of divine order .... for divine order can only exist where love is the highest principle which fills the human being and determines his thoughts, speech and actions. You all still practice love far too little, you all do not yet recognize love as the most important thing which alone brings your maturing process to a successful conclusion. Only through love do you reintegrate yourselves into the law of divine order, and only then do you take on the being again which you were in the beginning and once gave away. But you have to become again what you were in the beginning, and therefore you have to accept your original being again, which is love in itself .... Only when you live in love again will you enter the divine order and fulfil the law .... you then join the eternal love again, there is no longer any separation, there is then also no state of imperfection but from then on you move in strength and light and freedom, because then you have become perfect, just as your father in heaven is perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Does the human being possess free will? ....

B.D. 7271 from January 31th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Human will is not controlled by Me, instead I allow it its freedom. Even if you humans, time and again, would like to doubt free will .... your thoughts and intentions are free. You will not be able to dispute this even if someone else's will or destiny prevents you from implementing your intentions. Your thoughts and intentions, however, are the expression of your innermost feelings, which you can aim in any direction, for this is within your power and is not determined by another person's will. If you humans spent more thought on your freedom of will you would also learn to regard your earthly life, to some extent, as the 'consequence' of your will .... However, you come to the exact opposite conclusion; you look upon your course of life with all its events as proof of your lack of freedom of will, because it frequently does not correspond to your wishes and thus you regard it as a coercion of will .... but which, in truth, was only caused by your wrong will, albeit I presented it to you such that it is helpful for you, even if you don't like it. And even in the most unpleasant situation you can still think and want unimpededly. Implementing a deed is only the next step of your will, but even then I only rarely oppose it, instead I let you have as much freedom as possible, nevertheless, only within limits. And thus you can use your freedom of will to try and order your earthly circumstances, you can change their course. You can do anything in order to completely change your circumstances of life .... sometimes you will be successful and at other times not, for without My will and My permission you are unable to do anything .... but that never revokes your freedom of will.

You should learn to differentiate between 'free will' and 'implementation option' .... As long as you only acknowledge the latter as free will you are right, for this still depends on My will or My agreement. But one day you will only have to justify yourselves for your will, which does not depend on the deed, but it will equally be judged according to whether and how it was made use of. Will and deed certainly belong together, for the will without the deed is no will if the human being himself omits or prevents its implementation. Hence you should critically observe yourselves in this respect; this is why the significance of your free will is constantly presented to you, which you humans cannot deny if you seriously think about what is to be understood by it. Your innermost thoughts and intentions are your very own possessions, and no-one can stop the direction you give to your thoughts and intentions. However, you are also accountable for it, because free will is a very significant factor in earthly life on which My plan of Salvation is based, it was the cause of the past apostasy from Me and must also accomplish the final return to Me, or the work of return would have been completed long ago had My will alone determined that My living creations should take the path to Me within a specific time. The fact that this is determined by the human being's free will itself is so tremendously important that it repeatedly has to be explained to people who dispute free will and who are therefore not aware of their great responsibility, who go with the flow and believe they are living creations with no will of their own in regard to their God and Creator Who, however, once created them as free beings and also wants to help them regain the freedom they possessed in the very beginning. Freedom of will is not a mere object or concept of faith, instead, through serious deliberation, the human being can find out for certain, and then he will live his life responsibly and safely reach the goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love pursues man until he himself opens his heart ....

B.D. 7272 from February 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will never ever lose My love, no matter how far you distance yourselves from Me, for you emerged from My love and your fundamental substance is and remains love, just as My fundamental nature is love. Yet as long as you yourselves are in opposition to Me My love will also find resistance against which it cannot force itself. My love waits until you give up your resistance and voluntarily turn to Me. And this has to happen during your earthly lifetime as a human being where you are endowed with intellect and free will, for you have to consciously turn the latter towards Me and thereby open yourselves to My illumination of love. As long as you don't do this, as long as you still turn away from Me, My love cannot take effect on you, thus you will feel nothing of My love, and yet it applies to you, it pursues you even in times of resistance, it does not let go of you, because love constantly seeks unification with the object of its love. But since this can only happen voluntarily on your part .... because My love is always willing to do so .... it constantly follows you, seeking to determine you, likewise seeking love which will then truly flow into you in richest measure. If only I succeed in turning your thoughts and intentions towards Me then I can also draw your attention to the God Who wants to be your father .... I can make you aware of all works, through the works of creation I can draw your attention to a being Which loves you and wants to give you joy, and then I can slowly kindle love in you for this being, I can present Myself to you as the father Who, in love for you, wants to do everything in order to make you happy. And I have won you as soon as you feel touched by My love yourselves, as soon as you think about the God and creator Who is your father from eternity. If only once such thoughts occupy you then I will have taken root in your hearts and you will then also never be able to displace Me from them again, even if you temporarily turn your thoughts to the world again, but the God Whom you once recognized as father you will then no longer give Him up yourselves, for I love you and My love keeps you captive once it could only ignite in your hearts. You had to travel a long path in order to learn to recognize Me in the stage of self-awareness; but once you have recognized Me as the being from Whom you once approached your origin, then you will soon have reached the end of your development, for then My love will be able to take hold of you, and you will feel this because you will no longer be able to get away from thoughts of Me, because again and again you will turn to Me, Whose love you now long for and will certainly be granted to you. And if you can now also love Me yourselves then the bond has already been established, which is the goal of every human being on earth .... Then My love will have ignited in you, and what it grasps it will never let go of again. Because I Myself am love I must one day also succeed in the work of return, for your fundamental substance is also love which one day will also remember itself, which will ignite as soon as a spark has ignited .... And this spark of love has been placed in every person's heart, and if it comes into contact with My fire of love then it must ignite and seek to unite with the fire of eternal love, because love seeks union and will not rest until it has entered into it .... One day you will all become Mine on this path of love, and in order to shorten the time of separation between us, which your free will has to abolish, My love pursues you until you turn around and open yourselves to Me, until you yourselves open your heart to Me, into which My love now shines with brightest light .... until the fire of My love completely transfigures you and you have become one with the eternal love, with Me Myself, Who is your father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Receiving the truth through the spirit ....

B.D. 7273 from February 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And when My spirit descends upon you much knowledge will be made accessible to you, knowledge which no human being's intellect could ever fathom without My spirit working in him. For this I choose the appropriate vessels for Myself into which My spirit can flow, for 'spiritual things' can only be received spiritually, i.e. what is conveyed to you humans from Me can only be received by the spirit within you which is in contact with Me because it is part of Myself, thus My share .... The intellect remains untouched by the spiritual influx until it also submits itself to this spirit. But before that it would not have the ability to grasp spiritual things, which is why it is also very difficult to win over researchers of intellect to first awaken the spirit in themselves to life if they want to penetrate spiritual knowledge. They cannot grasp this condition because they only seek to clarify everything with the intellect. But the intellect must be addressed by the spirit, then it will be able to record most marvellous results. And every person could manage to be addressed by My spirit within himself, yet this requires a life of love which not everyone is willing to lead. A loveless person denies the spirit within himself every expression, whereas a loving person gives him the opportunity to express himself, which is also extensively used by My spirit. Love determines the human being's intimate bond with Me, Who is in him with every work of love .... And love then also gives life to the faith in Me that I will give to the human being what he lacks: the light of realization, the knowledge, which is wisdom and cannot be gained in any other way than this way of expression through the spirit. It simply requires the will to receive the light, the knowledge, from the highest source .... And this will will cause the human being to turn to this source and open himself in order to let the divine flow of love flow into him .... But the will is free and therefore cannot be forcibly directed towards Me in any way, which is why faith is necessary beforehand, so that the human being can make contact with Me through the spirit within himself in order to request what he lacks. Every person can tap into this source, everyone can draw from it in abundance .... But anyone who does not decide to seek out the source, who does not bow down in order to drink from the spring of life, can never be approached by the spirit within himself either, he will always remain outside the well, he will do nothing in order to procure light and strength for himself, and he will also never be able to experience the truth about spiritual correlations because he does not take the spiritual path which alone makes the truth accessible to him. Not for a second will I sever the bond with you, My living creations, but only when you also want it, when you consciously seek the bond with Me, will the contact be established, because it was you who once turned away from Me .... even if a complete separation was impossible. Yet your will was the decisive factor, and this will now has to make the decision again, it has to turn fully towards Me again in order to receive My ray of love, which previously could not touch it, so that it becomes aware of it. But love is a prerequisite for this again, for the human being's will only turns towards Me when this love has been kindled in him .... But then it also means that the human being grants the spiritual spark within himself the right to flare up and illuminate the human being's inner being, or also: My spirit now pours into the open vessel and bestows truly delicious gifts upon you .... My spirit guides you into truth, into the recognition of your being, your earthly task and your goal .... And you will become knowledgeable of what you will never be able to achieve through intellect alone ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

What is a right prayer? ....

B.D. 7274 from February 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can get anything from Me if you pray for it in the right way. You shall not demand but appeal to Me with a humble heart for help in earthly and in spiritual adversity. And you shall believe that I will help you because I love you. Hence I request a right prayer in spirit and in truth, so that I will then be able to support you in accordance with your faith. Whatever it may be, everything is possible to Me, even if you humans don't think it possible, but My power is unlimited, and My wisdom also foresees everything and accordingly can always work for the salvation of your soul. And My love will also carry it out, you are, after all, My children, to whom I will not deny anything that is beneficial for them. A right prayer is a prayer that will reach My ear, because you make the effort to let Me be present with you .... when you are aware of you own weakness and beseech Me to provide you with strength and help .... Such a prayer will not remain unheard because it is addressed to Me in profoundest humility ....

But anyone who demands is not praying correctly .... and demands are made by many prayers which are merely voiced by the mouth, because the human being imagines that it merely requires the speech of a praying person in order to attain the blessing of a prayer .... Not the words but the feeling of the heart gives a prayer depth and spirit. It is only ever the intimate relationship with Me which the human being enters when he prays in the right way. And his prayer will be answered by Me .... For this reason just a few words suffice to touch My ear and to be heard by Me. Long formal prayers, however, are abhorrent to Me, for the human being will not be able to keep concentrating on his words, only his lips are speaking, and the prayers won't come through to Me, they will be spoken in vain and only serve to displace people's faith, for since I cannot grant such prayers, faith in a powerful, wise and loving God will also be undermined, it will get progressively more lost because I only expect the heartfelt bond which has to be established by the heart and then will also guarantee My presence in the person, to whom I can reveal Myself as a Father to My child by granting his prayer .... Learn to pray correctly .... For what you have so far called praying is not a right prayer in spirit and in truth. Believe Me that I prefer a short deep sigh to prayers which last for hours, which are possibly said on instructions and do not arise by themselves from the heart of the person .... But just a few words are enough when the heart is involved in what the mouth is saying or what is mentally moving the person. Then I will not close My ear, I will help and grant whatever the child requests which is imploring its Father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Convincingly spreading the truth .... right doctrine ....

B.D. 7275 from February 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You, who have come into possession of the truth yourselves, shall stand up for the truth .... And the fact that you live in truth is guaranteed to you by your receipt of My word, which originates from Me Myself as the eternal truth. Hence you can be certain that you are offered truth, and therefore you can also pass this truth on from Me with the same certainty, you can impart it to your fellow human beings without hesitation and also advocate with all conviction that you only spread purest truth. You will not lack this inner conviction as soon as you take your work for Me and My kingdom seriously, for at the same time as My word you also receive the power of judgment, at the same time as the truth you also receive the gift of recognizing the truth, and therefore you can also vividly represent this word of Mine because you know that you are instructed by Me Myself, Who alone can offer you the truth. But it is also necessary that the truth is spread because it alone gives light and because the earth is in deepest darkness, i.e. people have taken possession of error and lies and cannot release themselves from this darkness unless the path is illuminated for them .... which is only ever possible through the light of truth. In the last days the spiritual darkness will become ever more dense, people will be blind in spirit, they will not recognize anything and not know about the correlations, they will also not know about the one Who can guide them to the light, Who wants to lead them to the eternal light, to the brightest realization of truth from Me. And therefore My word shall be brought to them through you who receive it directly from Me .... Again and again you should open yourselves to receive My word, you should pass it on in such a way that it will not be changed and thus the pure truth will be distorted again, as very often happens on the part of people. You should teach and let yourselves be taught, for only he who has a right teaching material himself will pass it on and bring blessings. And therefore you should not work with knowledge which you have received elsewhere but only pay attention to My instructions and proclaim My words to fellow human beings who desire them. You cannot open yourselves up to Me often enough so that I can let My spirit flow into you .... My gift of grace, My word, cannot be offered to you often enough, for the light in you shall increase, it shall shine ever brighter, and this is only possible if your heart lets light shine into it again and again, if the flame flares up ever brighter and finally can completely illuminate the heart .... But then it will also be easy to spread and advocate the truth, then the human being will speak with utmost conviction what was conveyed to him by Me Myself. And as a living representative of My word he will also be successful with his fellow human beings, for they will be able to hear Me Myself, albeit through the mouth of My servant who speaks to them. Only the light of truth can make people happy, whereas every knowledge which lacks pure truth remains misunderstood and will not bring light. But humanity languishes in darkness, the soul cannot mature without truth, it cannot find the right path if everything around it is darkened, and it cannot recognize the cross of Christ either, which is only recognizable to the one who walks in truth, whereas it remains an empty sign without meaning and purpose to the others because they do not recognize the meaning and purpose of the cross. The truth must first provide enlightenment, the truth must first illuminate the incomprehensible sacrifice which the divine redeemer made for humanity. And for this reason alone the truth must be spread, because the cross of Christ cannot be ignored by the one who wants to become blessed. But a person will not go to the cross of Christ who does not know its deepest meaning and who has never been given proper light about the man Jesus, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross for all people. I Myself make such obvious contact with you humans that I speak to you in order to enable you to receive truth and clarity about that sacrifice on the cross, in order to illuminate the path for you on which you can ascend to the height, to beatitude, if you walk this path in accordance with My word, which leads out of the darkness of night into the light of day but which is only taken if the human being accepts the truth which is offered to him by Me in an unusual way. And you, My disciples of the end time, should zealously advocate this truth and know that you are thereby fulfilling a task which is equal to the task of My first disciples whom I 'sent out into all the world' ..... Guide all people back to the pure truth and know that it alone is the light which leads out of darkness and makes them eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sounding of the divine word in infinity .... participation of beings ....

B.D. 7276 from February 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My word resounds far out into infinity and can be heard by all beings who want to hear Me. Thus I address the self-aware beings, the people on earth, the beings on all celestial bodies as well as all souls in the kingdom of the beyond who have not yet found a permanent place for their further development, who are still undecided and wander about in the twilight .... My word resounds to all of them, which should make them seek ever more contact with Me, Whom they shall learn to recognize and love through the fatherly address which continues to sound to them. And the more light flows to the beings the more they desire it and the more attentively they listen when My word is spoken to them. But people on earth are not very receptive to it because they have not yet spiritualized much, because they still dwell in a sphere where My adversary has more influence and they are more likely to listen to his language, for it is the world through which he addresses people and also wins them over for himself. In the kingdom of the beyond, however, My word is already more respected, for the soul which has once felt the strengthening effect of the word constantly longs for it, even though this influence is only high (great) according to its degree of maturity and can only touch the being very minimally in the beginning. But this degree of maturity irrevocably increases through the influx of My word, and the soul's desire for My words grows ever greater, which it feels like rays of light in which it feels a sense of well-being which it no longer wants to miss. But even more highly developed beings are already recipients of My word which sounds in infinity .... They are beings of light who likewise accept My word, which they feel as a source of strength and always accept in order to pass it on again in the still dark spheres where they know unfortunate beings who still completely lack light. It is the endeavour and activity of the beings of light as well as the inhabitants of highly developed worlds to whom these beings are handed over for care. For My word must resound everywhere and where it cannot be received directly from Me, mediators must be active who pass on My word. On earth this is the task of those who have voluntarily offered themselves to Me for service, who have placed themselves into the state of maturity that they can be directly addressed by Me and who are also willing to pass on what they receive, because great darkness prevails on earth which urgently should be chased away by light but can only be dispelled by the light from the heavens. I also have to address people directly if it is to become light amongst humanity, I have to convey an unusual gift of grace to those who only have the will to serve Me, even if their own state of maturity still leaves much to be desired, but the will to serve Me as a mediator also encourages them to live in accordance with My will and to make themselves suitable as a vessel into which I can pour Myself. And countless spiritual beings take part in such transmissions of My word to a person, for wherever My word sounds this is always evident in the spiritual world through flashes of sparks of light or rays which attract countless spiritual beings; and active participation now takes place when I speak to people, to the seeking souls and to all beings which open themselves to hear My word. This is why such transmissions of My word from above are particularly blessed, even if all beings are called to them through the human being himself who require help .... For the souls hear this call and don't hesitate to comply with it .... And souls also come from the abyss, for My word will also work there as a spark of light and entice them to follow it wherever it sounds, so that it will bring light to all souls on earth as well as in the beyond and chase away the darkness in which they previously found themselves. People are always free to decide if and when they want to hear Me .... I always speak, I don't impose any restrictions on you, but you can only hear Me if you want to, if you open yourselves to Me and My speech and make it possible through your will that I can speak to you. But you should also know that you do not hear My voice alone but that countless beings attend the teachings .... And this should impel you to seek ever more frequent contact with Me in order to prompt Me to speak to you, to convey My word to you. You humans, who want to be of service to Me, should remember all starving souls even more than yourselves, for the number is great to whom you simultaneously give spiritual help and nourishment when you yourselves lie down at the source which My love has opened up for you .... when you yourselves prepare yourselves to receive that which brings you light and helps you to ascend .... Remember that My word resounds into infinity, and therefore help all to the light who desire it, for only the light will be able to change wretchedness into bliss .... Only the light from above will break through the darkness and help all souls on earth and in the kingdom of the beyond to become blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's plan of Salvation is based on the human being's free will ....

B.D. 7277 from February 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My work of returning the fallen spirits is based on My eternal plan of Salvation and according to this plan of Salvation everything will run its course over infinitely long periods of time for which you humans lack all concepts. My plan of Salvation has been designed again in love and wisdom and My power implements it, consequently, one day I will reach My goal .... that all fallen spiritual beings will start the path of return to Me into the Father's house. Yet the implementation is not determined by My will alone, but the free will of the beings, which were once created in all perfection despite which they fell away from Me, decides the length of time this said return to Me requires, thus every single being determines for itself how much time its process of development, its return to Me, will take. Therefore, My plan of Salvation is also based on the free will of each individual being .... which is a fact that is inconceivable for you humans but which I deemed to be essential if one day I want I to be surrounded by truly free and totally devoted children to Me, because this is the purpose and goal of My eternal plan of Salvation .... I knew each and every being's will from the beginning, both as original spirits as well human beings later, when the original spirit has had to prove itself and once again can decide of its own free will which path it wants to take .... I knew your direction of will and was able to design My plan of Salvation accordingly, which includes your every thought and expression of will and is based on these accordingly. And truly, it was planned such that every being can cover its process of development with ease, because I will always helpfully stand by its side when it is at risk of making a wrong decision. Time and again it will be able to make a choice but not be forced to make the right decision, yet his destiny will affect a person such that the right decision will always be closer at hand, that inwardly he will be urged to take the right path but that this urging may never be felt as compulsion.

My love applies to every individual being, and whatever I can do to shorten its course of development until the final return to Me will certainly be done by Me. And thus no person will ever be able to say that his situation in life forced him to make an opposing decision .... My wisdom is truly beyond all doubt, and thus I foresaw all opportunities which served a person to make the right decision and based My plan of Salvation on this. Admittedly, I also forever know the direction of every individual's will but during his time on earth as a human being I do not want to know it, and thus the human being can nevertheless make a free decision, for precisely because of his wrong will I let destiny so affect his life that he has every opportunity to change his will, and My side will eagerly support him in this .... for 'there is joy in My kingdom over one sinner that repenteth ....' This should be understood as a complete change of will which is indeed intended in My plan of Salvation but does not definitely determine this said plan of Salvation. You are completely free during your life on earth, and even if I know .... you are by no means bound, because originally you were entirely free beings and this freedom will not be taken from you as soon as you live on earth as self-aware beings again or even when you enter the kingdom of the beyond .... No force of any kind is exerted on you, and what or how you are was created by yourselves. But My plan of Salvation also plans an assured and final return into the Father's house .... However, the day will come .... it is just that the time it takes can be brief but also very lengthy, and this is taken into account in My plan of Salvation, always in consideration of your will, which is free and cannot abide any kind of force. But the fact that you will reach your goal one day is certain, and it is equally certain that a thousand years are like a day to Me, that no law of time exists for Me .... You yourselves, however, are still subject to this law, your imperfect state keeps you bound to the law of time, and that is extremely painful for you, for your distance from Me is a painful state which you immeasurably prolong again if you don't unite with Me .... if you have not achieved your return into the Father's house as yet. I would like to protect you from this long state of torment, therefore I will urgently admonish you time and again to use your will correctly, that is, to subordinate yourselves to My will, of which you are repeatedly informed. Receiving My Word and thus the knowledge of My will is part of My plan of Salvation, which will be implemented with love, wisdom and might .... but you will always be at liberty to consider it according to your own will. Consequently, the length of time you require for your return differs considerably but it can already be over for you at the end of your life on earth and can finally have resulted in freedom, light and strength, if you strive for it yourselves and make every effort to desire My help for it .... for this striving is already the correctly directed will which safely lets you reach your goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Tribulations and trepidations of Jesus, the man ....

B.D. 7278 from February 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I, too, found life on earth as a human being difficult at times, for I was subject to the same laws as you are, I had to fight against the same weaknesses and temptations, and it was not always easy to face up to them even though My heart was full of love and was therefore permeated by divine strength when I needed it. But hours of psychological distress were also part of My journey through life and had I not experienced it like you, I would not have been as 'human' as you either .... My soul had to go through the process of spiritualisation on earth which led to My complete unification with the Father, the complete becoming as One with Him. Although My soul had indeed come from above, it nevertheless had come into flesh with all its immature substances which every material shell basically consists of, and all these substances had to spiritualise themselves, for the body with all its wishes and cravings exerted an extraordinary influence on the soul which was unable to ignore these temptations but had to bear up against them .... just as is the task of the human soul who wants to take the path of following Jesus in order to release themselves from sin and death. However, the battles I had to go through were difficult and My earthly progress often weighed Me down like an overwhelming burden which wanted to make Me doubt that I would ever be able to travel this path until the end. Time and again I drew strength from love .... For by virtue of My love and its consequences I also foresaw the difficult path I had to take, I foresaw the suffering and death on the cross as well as the people's spiritual state who nailed Me on the cross .... And yet I had to continue My path until the end .... Time and again I had to endeavour to master My fears and weaknesses and cling to the Father to strengthen Me in every adversity of body and soul, for I experienced all these tribulations like you and even far more severely, because My life surrounded by sinful humanity was already a torture for Me, Who lived in all purity in the midst of those for whom I wanted to suffer and die.

However, the more My body matured, the deeper became My soul's union with the Father Who was in Me, and the clearer became My mission, which I indeed began as a 'human being' but concluded as 'God' and which I was able to accomplish because the strength in Me grew constantly, just as the love for the unhappy human race became greater the nearer I got to the end. And Love was the strength which made Me accomplish the act of Salvation; Love was the Father in Me Whose will I wanted to fulfil in order to help My fallen brothers. I consciously travelled My earthly path, at first I only had vague ideas and every now and then bright thoughts and insights; yet the more the spiritualisation progressed in Me the clearer I saw the plan of Salvation on account of which I had descended from the kingdom of light to Earth. But as long as human substances were still clinging to My body I also had to endure human suffering and torments which, last but not least, also included the inner distress of not being able to cope with My task .... for I knew what it would mean were I to fail in the battle against the one who was, is and will remain everyone's enemy for eternities to come. Yet I gained victory over him, I took on the battle with incredible pain and suffering and constantly gained more strength because My love for you also kept growing since you must suffer until you are released from him and his power. My strength grew as My love intensified .... And so you humans know that you can only draw the strength for your earthly task from love, for My adversary will always try to weaken you by driving you into unkindness, by wanting to prevent you by any means to carry out an act of love in order to keep you weak .... But then remember that I, too, have struggled against him, and that he also tried to weaken Me through trepidations and anxious questioning of whether I would have the strength for My mission. Then turn to Me for help and appeal to Me for strength against the enemy of your soul and for every battle in life, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature .... And you will not ask in vain, for I will truly grant everyone's prayer who calls to Me in his distress ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God is a "God of love", not a God of wrath ....

B.D. 7279 from February 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My love and mercy does not allow a being to be eternally in death, to be eternally exposed to the torments of hell, to be eternally unredeemed .... There is no eternal damnation, and even My first-created being .... now My adversary .... will one day be accepted by Me again and be able to enter into supreme beatitude when the time comes. For I am a God of love but not a God of wrath Who mercilessly condemns everything that once opposed Him. A God of love, however, does not punish but seeks to raise up the fallen, He seeks to lift it from the abyss to the height, He wants the lost to find its way back to Him again, with Whom it will always find loving acceptance, because I am a God of love. And thus the state of separation from My once-fallen creations will never last forever, it will end one day and heartfelt communion will unite every being with Me again, as it was in the beginning. Yet the periods of separation can be immeasurably long. The being can certainly spend eternities at a distance from Me and thus be in an unhappy state, and it determines the duration of its departure from Me itself. Thus it also creates the state of hell for itself, for I do not condemn the being due to its past guilt of sin but the being creates the distance from Me for itself, the being itself strove for distance and therefore must also strive for approach itself, because it was initially created free by Me and misused its freedom. Therefore it will once again enter the state of freedom and then it will also have to accomplish the return to Me. A state which the being created for itself must also end itself if it wants to become a truly blissful being again and not just be a puppet which places My will in a place which it did not desire itself. The being is in the state of death for as long as it is at a distance from Me, and My will is and remains to restore the being to the life it lost through its own fault .... Hence there can be no question of condemnation on My part, which portrays Me as an unmerciful judge Who inflicts the most dreadful punishment on a guilt .... to be eternally separated from Me .... My nature is love, and even the creature which has become sinful still possesses My love, because My original nature knows nothing but love .... And love always seeks to please but never to punish or banish, for you are My children whom I created out of My love and who will also always and forever possess My love, even if they are at the greatest distance from Me. And if they stay in hell, if they gather together in droves with a truly satanic mindset, My love will still seek to save them even then and to detach them from My adversary to whom they still cling. And I try everything to win them back again and snatch them from their lord. But this cannot be done forcibly but also requires their own will .... and it is this which often extends the duration of their separation from Me for eternities, and you humans then deem an 'eternal damnation' credible when you are thus taught. You should always remember My love which does not cease, and a loving father does not leave His child forever to His enemy and adversary .... A loving father will pursue His child wherever it may be and always show it a path which leads back to Himself again, into the father's house. But justice also dictates that the child has to take this path itself, because it once distanced itself from the father on this very path .... justice dictates that the child recognizes its wrongdoing and repentantly pleads with the father that He may help it to cover the long and difficult path .... And I will truly not hesitate to come to this child's aid, I will go to meet it and do everything to shorten its way back, but I will also always leave it the free will to likewise seek the father's nearness, just as I seek My child's nearness and don't deny Myself to it. For My love lasts forever, therefore I do not want to be separated from My child forever. Yet it must also give its love to Me and then it will truly be awakened from death to life, it will live eternally in My kingdom and be blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Conditions for attaining childship to God ....

B.D. 7280 from February 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every one of you is destined to walk the path across earth who wants to attain childship to God, but not every one of you attains it, rather, there are only a few whose earthly path is so successful that they can depart as true children whom the father can receive into His kingdom. For conditions have to be fulfilled which could certainly be fulfilled by people but which nevertheless cost too much self-conquest to be taken seriously by all people. The prerequisite for attaining childship to God is a life of love which results in a high degree of maturity, and very few people are prepared for such an activity of love. But it is nothing impossible, God does not demand something that would be unfulfillable for human beings .... But childship to God ensures the being an immeasurably blissful existence in the father's immediate proximity .... What this means cannot be explained to you exhaustively, but it is a fate which promises supreme bliss to the being which has become God's 'child' from a 'creature' .... God has then achieved His goal, which He already planned when He created countless spiritual beings and which also provides Himself with unlimited bliss. But to reach this goal requires the free will of every individual being, and therefore there will also only rarely be people on earth who so seriously strive towards the goal and are completely absorbed in love during their earthly life. And yet, every human being could achieve it, for living in love is not that difficult if only the human being would muster the serious will to do so. But love must be practiced for its own sake, not out of calculation, for the latter would not be love. Love must be kindled in the heart and then flare up ever more brightly through loving activity, then the fire of love will quickly spread and take hold of everything .... or also: Anyone who is once driven from within to work with love will never let up, because every work of love is a bond with the eternal love and fills him with ever new strength which he uses again to work with love. But the human being is too full of selfish love and as long as he does not conquer it, that is, as long as he does not overcome himself, he will only ever try but never seriously strive to fulfil the commandments of love. Yet only the beginning will cost overcoming, for nothing can soon tempt a loving person to do it to himself .... He finds far more happiness in loving his neighbour than in fulfilling his own wishes and desires. And this degree must be reached if the attainment of childship to God is to follow, which only requires pure, selfless love, which one day will bring him endless happiness, such as the father provides for His child whom He loves above all else. You shall certainly all become God's children, yet His children will have the right to the father's inheritance, who will immediately return from earth into the father's arms, who will directly receive His strength of love and therefore also be directly permeated by Him, which signifies unlimited beatitude. Only the path across this earth earns the once fallen original spirits the childship to God, although other souls can also expect beatitude in the spiritual kingdom if they have developed into beings of light on earth or in the beyond, but the degree of light of all beings is different, and the highest degree which can be attained on earth is the degree of childship to God, which you should all strive for and which you could also achieve with good will and heartfelt bond with the God and creator Who wants to be your father .... For this heartfelt bond will give you the strength to overcome yourselves, and once you have become completely selfless you will only ever work with love, you will try to make happy and not think of yourselves but only of your fellow human beings. And then your degree of love will increase and you will be certain of God's presence, which is also a guarantee that you will be close to the father .... For the father desires His children, for whom He wants to prepare an eternal life in unlimited bliss ....

Amen

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Spiritual helpers respect free will ....

B.D. 7281 from February 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every soul shall be saved, and spiritual friends join every soul in order to bring it to maturity during earthly life with their support. Thus every soul has support as soon as it desires it, but it cannot be influenced against its will to subordinate itself to its spiritual friends in order to safely reach perfection. It must declare its willingness to be guided by these friends and to accept admonitions and warnings for its salvation. If it does not do this, then the spiritual helpers are also powerless towards it, they must withdraw because a person's free will may not be touched. But it is well advised to listen to the voice of its spiritual friends, and it does so when it is mentally warned of this or that or when it is mentally urged to do or refrain from doing this or that and now gives in to this inner urging or resistance, always in the will to think or act right. This will is decisive as to whether the beings can intervene, for their activity is only ever mental influence which is only successful if the will is good. If the will is fickle, that the soul itself is not clear how it should decide, then other spiritual beings will also try to intervene, and then the human being will be harassed by different, opposing thoughts, because both his spiritual friends as well as the opponents want to win the will and do everything to be able to register success. The human being is never left to himself, he constantly has faithful helpers at his side whom he only needs to give permission to assist him. Then he can also safely rely on the fact that he will be well guided and advised and that he will also receive strength to live on earth according to God's will. For his guardians will not leave him, they will constantly influence him in a good sense and also push away the opposing forces if possible, because they have the right to do so through the conscious call from people. This certainty of having faithful helpers at your side should make you confident that your earthly change will be successful, for these helpers are capable of much, and once they are allowed to take over the office of looking after you then they will also not let up in supporting you with advice and deeds and helping your soul to maturity. But this will only ever be possible if your will is good, which means that it freely turns towards God. Then the spiritual helpers have every right to exert their influence on you, for God Himself has given them this office of care and they carry it out joyfully and gladly in His will. Then it is also easily possible to achieve perfection on earth, for the spiritual friends' efforts are only aimed at spurring people into loving activity and to subordinate themselves to divine will in everything, because then the return to God is also guaranteed if the human being serves with love .... which is solely God's will .... And thoughts will therefore constantly be directed such that the human being can literally call himself a 'christian' .... for he will live in love, therefore recognize and acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and thus also be redeemed from sin and death .... he will take the path to the father because there is no longer any resistance in him, because the child longs to return to the father's house, because it wants to return home to the one from Whom it once took its origin ....

Amen

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"No man's eye has ever seen it ...."

B.D. 7282 from February 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

No man's eye has ever seen and no man's ear ever heard what I have prepared for those who love Me .... But it is certain that I have unimagined glories in store for you, only you may not take a glimpse into My kingdom of glory during your earthly life because then you would no longer be able to live, because you would no longer be able to fulfil your earthly task in freedom of will. But you may always remember My promise and know that I love you and want to make you blissfully happy. You should know that your thinking is only ever limited, that you cannot even imagine the true heavenly kingdom, for nothing on earth would bear comparison with the glories which await you there when you can leave the earthly kingdom in a garment of light in order to enter your true home, with which earth could not bear the slightest comparison even if you imagined everything to a far more glorious extent. They are incomparable structures of the most glorious beauty, they are spiritual creations which make you exceedingly happy .... They are things which you have never seen before and which only appear to you spiritually as soon as you have attained the degree of maturity to be able to see spiritually. But one thing is certain, that you will now start to live more than ever .... that, looking back, you will not be able to comprehend that you once loved the world and found worldly things desirable, and you will be happy that the world did not keep you bound, otherwise you would never be able to behold this kingdom of glory. If you were able to anticipate something of the glories in earthly life or temporarily catch a glimpse of them then you would also strive for this kingdom with all your might, but you would only ever be determined by self-love and never by pure love for Me and your neighbour, and your earthly life would not be able to bring you perfection, which nevertheless has to be achieved and is also possible without the human being being able to form a clear picture of what beatitude will consist of one day .... But My word shall suffice you humans, My promise, which holds out the prospect of undreamed-of glories to you if you live according to My will. And such an unprovable promise does not force your will, for only faith gives it the right to truth, and for the believer it will also be fulfilled but only after the entrance into the kingdom of the beyond. For this reason it is also pointless to try to imagine images of the souls' stay in the spiritual kingdom, for all ideas are only ever based on earth and its possessions which, however, cannot be used as a comparison for that kingdom and lack all understanding for things in the spiritual kingdom of light. Therefore be satisfied with the words: "What no man's eye has ever seen and what no man's ear has ever heard, that I have prepared for those who love Me ...." Unfathomable and unspeakably glorious things await you, for My love wants to make My children happy and prepare for them an exceedingly blessed fate .... And you should all strive for such a fate, but only love for Me or for your brothers should ever motivate you to live according to My will, never self-love, the desire for the glories of the world of the beyond, for then this fate will never be granted to you, because only pure, selfless love will earn you such a high degree of maturity that you will be able to occupy My kingdom in all its glory .... that your eye will behold and your ear will hear what you would never have dreamed of before, because all My promises will come true, because My word is eternal truth ....

Amen

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Dress of light .... eager soul work and unexpected end ....

B.D. 7283 from February 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Again and again you will also be told that you should not neglect your soul's work because you don't have much time left. Again and again you are admonished to still use every day for your soul's salvation, for none of you knows the day and hour of your departure, and none of you still has very much time to wait for, because the end comes as a surprise to all of you, but many of you don't know whether you will still experience the end or whether you will already be called away from earth beforehand. You don't take such words seriously, which proves that you don't believe in them .... And yet you should reckon with the fact that every earthly life can only be short, which is proven to you every day by what happens around you. One day you will bitterly regret every day you left unused in order to create an advantage for your soul in the spiritual kingdom, for they are useless days since you don't do any work for your soul, since you don't make an effort to do good works which alone will follow you into eternity. It is truly of utmost urgency that you write these words into your heart that you should work while it is still day, because night will irrevocably fall upon you when you can no longer work .... And you could still perform so many works of love that you could truly acquire a degree of maturity for your soul which would ensure your entry into supreme bliss. You could acquire riches for your soul with which you can then work in the spiritual kingdom .... you could truly create a garment of light for yourselves and then need not fear the entrance into the kingdom of the beyond; but you don't do it because you don't believe that your earthly way of life will one day have an effect after your physical death. And therefore you are told again and again that you should not neglect to help your soul gain a garment of light which you can only create on earth through diligent soul work, through a life according to God's will, through fulfilling God's commandments of love, through constantly fighting and combating the weaknesses and cravings which drag your soul down and do not allow it to ascend into higher spheres once it becomes free from the bondage of the body. Then it can still be bound to matter by its desire for it, and then it will not find a blissful abode in the beyond but will still have to suffer for a long time from the desire for earthly-material goods, it will not be able to rise from those spheres in which it dwelled during its earthly life, and its state will be pitiful and unhappy. And you could prevent this, you could ascend into bright heights after your death if you took the admonitions and warnings to heart, if you respected yourselves and wanted to do everything in order to discard faults and weaknesses and to dissolve the dross by which the soul is and will remain enveloped if you humans lack the firm will to carry out soul work. You only need to live in love .... and everything else will then take care of itself, for as soon as selfish love has been overcome and changed into unselfish neighbourly love, all weaknesses and cravings will also fall away, and the soul will become louder and clear, because the rays of love can break through and the soul is now assured of a garment of light, so that it then truly need not fear death, even if it suddenly and unexpectedly approaches it and its earthly life is prematurely ended. For as soon as the human being carries out the work on his soul he has also recognized the meaning and purpose of earthly life, and his soul has reached a degree of love which now enables it to enter the kingdom of light when the hour of departure from this earth has come ....

Amen

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Request for strengthening of the will ....

B.D. 7284 from February 16th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My adversary will not be able to prevent a person from taking the path to the cross, for his will already limits the adversary's power. Thus the will is first, and once this will has turned towards the cross then the adversary has to step back and he can no longer prevent the human being from taking the path to the cross. But the will is free, the adversary cannot influence the will, just as I Myself do not force the human being's will to take the right direction. But your will is often very weakened, it cannot quite make up its mind yet, and then it remains under the adversary's power. Therefore, let your first prayer be the request for the strengthening of your will, which I will certainly grant because I have acquired the strengthened will for you in Jesus Christ through My crucifixion. The strengthening of will is extremely important for the ascent development of your soul, and you can already secure the grace of a strengthened will through a silent supplication, and then you will also take the path to the cross, you will consciously turn to Jesus Christ and ask Him for forgiveness of your sins and for your redemption from the enemy and adversary .... And your redemption will be as certain as My love is for all of you who once came forth from Me. But in order to give your will the right direction you also need to know about the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And therefore it is necessary that the glad tidings of your saviour and redeemer are proclaimed to you, that you are informed of His act of love and mercy and of the reason for His crucifixion for the whole of humanity. But for My part it will also be ensured that all people will be informed of what has happened for the sake of sinful humanity .... People's gaze will be directed towards the cross so that all those who are unredeemed, who are still in sin and have not found forgiveness, will take the path to the cross. All people should know that they only need to take the path to the cross in order to become free from their guilt, in order to be saved from all misery of the soul. And the knowledge of the divine redeemer and His act of mercy will also strengthen people's will to go to Him themselves or at least to send a prayer to Him beforehand that He may strengthen their will, which again and again falls back into weakness without the help of Jesus Christ .... But then the adversary will have become powerless, he will no longer be able to prevent him from going to where peace and redemption beckon to him with his eyes fixed on the cross, to where his guilt must also be carried if he wants to be released from it and completely detach himself from the adversary's power. Therefore, it is solely up to the human being's will how he will relate to Jesus Christ's act of salvation, and no human being can say that he was prevented from taking the path to the cross himself .... He cannot be hindered if he himself wants it and has his eyes fixed on the cross of Christ. The adversary lacks the power to do so because the human being's will is free. But his rightly directed will will earn him the highest and best: redemption from sin and death .... And therefore you humans should only ever ask that your will be rightly directed and that I may strengthen this will, and this request will truly be granted to you .... For it is spiritually directed and only testifies to Me that you are willing to let yourselves be redeemed and that you only need protection and strength against your adversary .... And your will will be granted, it will be strengthened through Jesus Christ, Who laid down His life for this purpose in order to purchase a strengthened will for you, in order to help you to become free from your tormentor ....

Amen

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God's endless love can be recognized by every human being ....

B.D. 7285 from February 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You shall only become aware of My infinite love for you, and then you will also ignite the spark of love within yourselves which will become a flame and strike Me again. And that is all I want to achieve, that love will ignite in you which will then unite us eternally again, just as unkindness once separated you from Me. And the fact that I love you could become evident to you again and again if you were to look at everything around you and also your whole earthly life in thoughts of Me, Who directs your destiny, Who created everything that delights your eyes and your senses .... as far as it is not My adversary's means to chain you to the earthly-material world. But you can see My love for you everywhere if only you look around you with open eyes. If My love did not keep you then you would be surrounded by unimaginable chaos, for your earthly life would already lack all order, since I must rule by natural law even over those whose will is completely turned away from Me. They would have supremacy and destroy everything that is still meant to serve their fellow human beings for upward development. My love, however, puts a stop to them and prevents them by natural law from encroaching, which would be extremely harmful to all of you. But you humans often don't recognize My rule and activity when it is openly evident, because you take everything for granted and accept comforts as a matter of course. And yet, it is love which applies to you, My living creations, whom I want to make My children and who therefore shall return My love to Me so that I can unite with them as it was in the beginning. My love for you has not yet diminished and will also not cease eternally .... Yet you will not feel it as long as you are without love yourselves and do not open yourselves to My illumination of love. But once you become aware of My great love for you, then the ice around your heart will melt and then My illumination of love will have taken effect .... You begin to reciprocate My love, you ignite the flame of love within yourselves and the now flaring fire seeks to unite with the fire of love from eternity. You humans should only pay attention to how often a merciful fate saves you from unusual sorrow and suffering, you should pay more attention to everything beautiful and happy in your life and gratefully remember Him Who allows you to experience it .... You should pay attention to every smallest event in your life which reveals a wise guidance of your heavenly father, and you should know that nothing happens without My will or My permission, that I constantly remember you and let everything happen to you out of My love as it is beneficial for you .... You should know that only My love ever speaks out of all events which affect you .... And if you are now fully aware of My love then the hot feeling of love for Me will also ignite in you, then you will want to make contact with Me, you will enter the circuit of love and allow yourselves to be illuminated with the blissful feeling of resting on the father's heart and being well sheltered in His love. And then I will also be able to have a direct effect on you, and My love will give you further evidence which you will only be able to experience in heartfelt union with Me ....

Amen

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Exression of the spirit only possible through the working of love ....

B.D. 7286 from February 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every spiritual thought is an expression of the spirit within you, otherwise all your thinking would only be earthly directed. But the spiritual spark in you constantly seeks the bond with the father-spirit, and it will always try to influence you by mentally affecting you. But its influence will only ever affect the spiritual kingdom, thus it will likewise turn your thinking towards this kingdom if it finds no resistance in your will. For the latter can also fully turn to the world, then it will reject every spiritual thought, and the spirit cannot express itself to the human being .... And very clear boundaries can be drawn: The more the human being thinks of himself, that is, is concerned about his own well-being, the more purely earthly thoughts will fill him and the spirit will be denied its activity. But if the human being thinks of his neighbour who needs his help, then the spirit will penetrate and be able to convey such thoughts to the human being which flow out of the spiritual kingdom and also lead him to the spiritual kingdom again. For then love will have awakened in the human being and thus also the spirit, which will always express itself for the blessing of the human being's soul. The spiritual spark, which is part of the eternal father-spirit, is the spark of love which has to be ignited in the human being in order to become effective. This spark of love slumbers in every human being, but it is up to the human being himself to ignite it, and thus the human being himself must awaken the spirit in himself to life .... He must practice love and let the spark of love flare up into an ever brighter flame .... he must perform works of neighbourly love, and to the same extent he will also give his spirit the opportunity to express itself. And what the spirit now gives him with such expressions is spiritual wealth, they are goods which originate from the spiritual kingdom and also follow the human being into the spiritual kingdom when he leaves this earth .... The flame of love illuminates the human being's inner being and he will now become seeing and knowing, he will learn to recognize what was previously unknown to him, he will gain a correct image of the creator and His creation, of his own relationship with this creator and of the task which was given to the human being for his earthly existence. But such knowledge will not be dead knowledge, knowledge which was only supplied to him from outside but which does not spread light within him. Such knowledge will be truly alive and give him brightest light which he can no longer lose for ever because it was imparted to him by the spirit within himself. For the spirit is part of the father-spirit from eternity, and therefore it is also familiar with all secrets of creation, it knows about the eternal plan of salvation, it knows about God's reign and activity in His kingdom .... He knows everything and can therefore also inform the human being who causes him to express himself, who, through a life of love, makes contact with the spirit within himself such that he can then be constantly guided and taught and only ever hears what the spirit from God announces to him. But this process can never take place in a person who only loves himself and the world .... The spiritual spark is still buried in him and it can happen that he has no opportunity to express himself until the end of his life. Then earthly life will have been lived in vain by the soul, which will not be able to register any spiritual progress because it lacks love. For even the slightest activity of love would awaken the spirit to life, but where selfish love predominates the spirit slumbers, and it cannot influence the soul in any way to accept the thoughts it receives. A person who only loves himself and the world resists all spiritual thoughts, which will indeed always push their way in but never force the person to accept them. Love alone brings about the change of will and nature, and only love gives the spirit the opportunity to express itself. And without the working of the spirit no human being will attain realization, without the working of the spirit no human being will travel the path to the father, because the father alone draws him upwards through His spirit, with Whom he is eternally and inseparably united, if only the human being of his own free will seeks this bond ....

Amen

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Vineyard work after the event .... preparation for this ....

B.D. 7287 from February 19th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

A great deal of work will await you who are active in My vineyard, for the time still lies ahead of you when you will have to use all your strength in order to do justice to the great onslaught which will befall you. For many will demand clarification from you, many will want to know where to look for God when the great event has befallen you which only a few will be able to explain properly. And these few, who previously received clarification from Me Myself, will now have to speak and pass on their knowledge and explain everything to their fellow human beings such that they will be understood and that a wise and loving ruler can also be recognized from all events, in Whom they believe and to Whom they should call for help. There will be great need and therefore many a heart will be open for sermons of this kind .... Individual people will hunger for the word of God, through which alone they will receive enlightenment and which they will also acknowledge as correct knowledge which corresponds to the truth. But this work in the vineyard of the lord will require much good will, much patience and perseverance, for just as many people will be found who will talk back to you and raise so many objections that it will be difficult for you to answer them .... Yet just one thought of Me, one request for My support is already enough that I will now speak through you Myself and you need not worry how you will fulfil your task .... I will put the words into your mouths so that all will receive their answer as it is successful for the individual .... for the believers as well as for those who speak against you. They, too, will be unable to reply to you, they will feel defeated and think about it themselves, if they are not already so deeply in My adversary's grip that he will have the upper hand and people will leave you unwillingly or incite against you .... Then let them go, but take care of those who seek you, whom I also want to address through you Myself, to whom I want to bring My word, so that light will arise in them after the deep darkness before. There is still a time of rest for you where you, My servants on earth, can still carry out your vineyard work calmly and serenely; but it will give way to a time where it is important to seize every opportunity to banish the great, mental, spiritual misery which already lies in the fact that hardly anyone is still able to believe in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence and that this very unbelief means far greater misery for people because they don't know where to turn in their adversity. And helping them to believe again is a great work of love and mercy which you, who receive My word directly from My hand, should carry out. For you are qualified to give your fellow human beings the right enlightenment, you can kindle a light for them, and you can give them comfort and hope that they will be guided by Me Myself if only they call upon Me Myself for help .... And your word will not fall on stony ground, for through My intervention the ground .... human hearts .... is already prepared for the reception of a seed, which you will now be able to scatter abundantly wherever it may be. Then you will also be able to openly come forward and pretend to be My messengers, for no-one will stop you, because the adversity is so great that every blade of hope will be seized and people will willingly listen when you preach about My love, wisdom and might. But it will not be long before you will be forbidden your mission, for soon My adversary's vassals will start to counteract and they will take action against you with great severity, which is why you should then withdraw with great wisdom so as not to endanger and tear down everything you have managed to build up so far. But I will be with My blessing with all who listen to you and are not hostile towards you. But prepare yourselves for this time and gather strength, which you can only draw from My word, for you will need it for everything that is to come, which is planned in love and wisdom and therefore should and can only serve all of you for perfection, for the attainment of the degree of maturity already on earth, if you only recognize Me Myself and My rule and activity in everything, which is only ever based on My love for you ....

Amen

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Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep ....

B.D. 7288 from February 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

For all souls I shed My blood on the cross of Golgotha .... If this comes to the souls' attention in the darkness, then it is also a ray of hope for those souls, a blade to which they cling if they have the will to be delivered from their torment and to come out of their hardship which is becoming unbearable for them. For even in the deepest darkness light is sometimes brought in when messengers of light descend into the depths and inform the souls that the saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ also died for them on the cross .... Although these messengers of light come veiled, they appear to the souls of darkness as like souls who have come to their senses and consider a way out for themselves, who then remember Him of Whom they heard in the earthly world but in Whom they never believed .... And now eager debates are being conducted, mostly against Me Who accomplished the act of salvation in the man Jesus, for they are all still under My adversary's control who does not want to allow him to lose one of those souls. But the messengers of light are untouchable for him, and their arguments nevertheless again and again convince individuals who look for a way out and entrust themselves to those messengers who suggest guiding them, and then they will always be led to where bright light shines, where their knowledge is increased, and they now start to draw hope because they feel at ease in the circle of light but also know that they themselves first have to acquire the right to be allowed to stay in the area through their attitude. As long as they inwardly resist, they cannot yet be considered to have been released from the darkness, it will strike them again and again and again put them into great torment. Yet they do not forget the speeches of those messengers once they have taken part in them and responded to them, they nevertheless call them to them again and again through their thoughts, and their desire to be able to enter the circle of light again and to hear more of Jesus Christ, Who is also said to have redeemed them and thus can also release them from their torment, grows ever greater. This is the most important thing for the souls in darkness, that the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion is brought to them, if it was unknown to them so far. But usually only a small reference to Him will awaken their memory, providing the desire has already awakened in them to be redeemed from darkness. If they don't have this desire then all knowledge of My sacrifice on the cross is far away from them, then the messengers of light of love won't help either, then they are still completely under My adversary's control, and then much intercession is necessary to make these hardened souls think differently, for without Jesus Christ there is no salvation from darkness for them. In the last days before the end the light beings are constantly working for those souls in darkness who want to help them to leave the deepest depths before the end so that they will not fall prey to the state of new banishment, which even surpasses their present stay in terms of torment. And your prayer for these souls contributes a great deal that their hardship will diminish and they will open up when helpful beings make a suggestion to help them to freedom. The cross of Christ lets its light shine everywhere so that the souls will remember more and more what it is all about .... But only the being's free will makes it possible for the blessings of the act of salvation to pour over the souls, for free will must be willing to call upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ for salvation from the abyss. And the soul will only do so when it has received teachings which have awakened and strengthened its faith in My sacrifice on the cross, so that it now sincerely appeals to be redeemed by Jesus Christ from its torment, which torments the soul until this decision has matured in it to turn to Me in Jesus Christ itself .... But then it will be lifted up from darkness into light, i.e. it will no longer need to enter the dark places, it will be accepted into the circle of light seekers and be filled with light and in deepest gratitude lend a hand itself to help and save its brothers with whom it had to share the darkness .... And such a soul will also succeed in much redemptive work, for in its urge for love it will now eagerly endeavour to bring the gospel to those souls as well, to convince them of the loving and merciful work of the one Who shed His blood on the cross in order to save all souls from spiritual death ....

Amen

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Voluntary return guarantees bliss ....

B.D. 7289 from February 21st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

From Me is all salvation, all light and all bliss. He who has Me has everything, and his existence is only a song of praise and thanksgiving for his lord, Who has become his father out of pure love. And therefore all beingness is still outside of beatitude as long as it has not yet found its way back to Me, as long as it has not yet returned to its origin. For the being was created in all bliss, and it could also have eternally remained in this state of bliss if it had not voluntarily turned away from Me itself. Yet I allowed it its freedom and did not prevent it from taking its own path which led far away from Me. And therefore all happiness has left it, it has become a being which has had to torment itself for eternities and is not released from these torments as long as it has not taken the path back to Me. Yet with Me its state of torment will be changed, with Me it will find complete bliss again, with Me there is only love, light and strength and freedom .... An infinitely blissful fate awaits you, and you humans on earth don't believe it or you would do nothing else but acquire this glorious fate for the purpose of which you live on earth. For this reason, however, such a fate can always be offered to you without you being compelled to start on the path of return, for such a teaching is far more likely to meet with unbelief than with profound faith with the result of inspiring a purposeful life, for people are so distant from everything spiritual because they are still so distant from Me themselves and therefore are hardly touched by teachings which concern the spiritual kingdom, eternity and the fate of every soul. Such teachings only echo in their ears, they hear it but it does not penetrate their hearts, and they change their way of life even less so that it brings them close to the right goal. They do not reshape themselves, i.e. their nature, so that it is only pure love and thus this would already be equal to the return to Me, Who can only be found again on the path of love. And even though I repeatedly describe the glories of My kingdom to you, as far as it is possible for you to grasp, you still don't let My words have an effect on you because success is not earthly visible or tangible to you and therefore all the worldly treasures of value are far more likely to tempt you to strive for them than the treasures which one day await you in the spiritual kingdom. And yet, I cannot do more than inform you of My kingdom and its bliss through My word .... I can only instruct you again and again through My spirit and admonish you to live appropriately on earth; I can only make My word accessible to you, which is purest truth, and you must now evaluate it yourselves by letting it penetrate your hearts and acting accordingly .... And the spiritual treasures will now reveal themselves to you, you will discover spiritual abilities within yourselves and by means of these also start and cover the return path to Me more easily and effortlessly; you will now already begin to understand what is meant by 'spiritual treasures' and that they are far more valuable than the treasures the world can ever offer you. For the latter are only sham goods, without permanence, without value for eternity, but they are able to blind your eyes so that you do not see the treasures which are already offered to you on earth from the spiritual kingdom .... For the glories will only await you on the other side when you have entered My kingdom in light and freedom .... Only then will you sing praise and thanks to Me, only then will you be receptive to the light and strength which now shine towards you and make you blissfully happy. But first you must muster the will yourselves to approach Me again, Whom you once voluntarily left .... you must believe My words that I love you and long for your return, and then you must desire to hear Me Myself .... And truly, you will reach the goal, you will enter the kingdom where I Myself am, and you will be unspeakably happy in My presence in light and strength and freedom ....

Amen

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Overcoming the gulf in the beyond: Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7290 from February 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

A vast gulf still exists in the spiritual world between those who kept their distance from Me during their life on earth and those who had already found Me and were able to enter the spiritual kingdom in a garment of light. They can certainly see the former and ascertain their miserable state, but the former are staying in a realm where they can see nothing else but themselves or like-minded spiritual beings whose constant discord and dispute among each other poisons their existence and prevents them from feeling any kind of happiness. Nor will these souls ever be able to see their loved ones again if these have already departed with a higher degree of maturity; instead, they must first reach a certain degree before a blissful reunion can happen .... Hence, such souls inhabit two worlds, although all souls enter the spiritual kingdom after their body's death .... They are two worlds which are very distant from each other, which is not to be understood spatially but merely relates to the nature of each individual world .... A vast gulf exists, and yet, this gulf must be bridged sooner or later. Time and again beings from the kingdom of light must descent unrecognised and try to do their redemptive work on the souls by attempting to persuade them to detach themselves from their environment and to follow the beings of light, which then will aim to lead them ever closer to their own region .... that is, they must inform the souls in darkness of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and His immense act of mercy which was accomplished for these souls should they want My mercy for themselves. Only then will the gulf diminish between them and Me, between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light .... Only then will the souls take the path which leads out of the abyss into higher spheres, and only then will the blessings of the act of Salvation take effect on them and gradually also result in a state of maturity where they themselves can and want to do redemptive work, because they want to repay their gratitude, which impels their willingness to help the wretched beings which still linger in the abyss.

The gulf must be overcome and there is only one bridge: Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer .... Anyone who takes the path to Him also takes it to Me, even though he did not want to acknowledge Me on earth or was still vastly distanced from Me. He can only come back to Me by way of Jesus Christ, and He is therefore the bridge which leads from the dark region into the kingdom of light .... This should be remembered by all people who on earth certainly deem themselves to be in contact with Me and who nevertheless have not yet found the right attitude towards Jesus Christ, who only call themselves Christians by name and in reality have not established a heartfelt bond with Me in Jesus Christ, who therefore have not yet availed themselves of the blessings of the act of Salvation and so cannot speak of a redemption of their original sin either .... They, too, will face a deep gulf when they arrive in the beyond, for they will first have to seek and find Him, the divine Redeemer, so that He will release them from their guilt as well, for they only acknowledged Him with their mouth on Earth without involving their heart. But I look into the heart, and regardless of how loud and how often the mouth voices My name, I will not be deceived and cannot place the soul where it doesn't actually belong .... It will be confronted by a vast gulf when it passes into the spiritual kingdom .... in other words: It will see nothing else but what its earthly-inclined senses want it to believe, and it will only be to its advantage if it can detach itself quickly and does not resist the helpers notions, so that it can quickly be introduced to the divine Redeemer as the only Saviour from its situation .... The connection must be made, the soul must take the path to Me by way of Jesus Christ and it will safely be guided by Him through the gate into the kingdom of light when it has bridged the vast gulf, when its will impels it to Jesus Christ and it desires and finds salvation through Him. Then it will also have taken the path to the Father .... I will receive it into My kingdom of light and blissful happiness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Food for the soul must be desired to be effective ....

B.D. 7291 from February 23rd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

According to desire you will receive .... For even if spiritual nourishment is supplied to you without desire it will not serve you as nourishment as long as you don't feel hunger and thirst for it. You must therefore 'desire' to be fed and watered yourselves, then you will also receive the right nourishment and your soul will be strengthened and progress in its development. Now the body makes its need known, it announces itself when it needs nourishment for its maintenance. The soul, however, often cannot assert itself because it only expresses itself quietly and its voice is then not respected. It is still pushed back by the body, which first claims for itself what the soul, however, also needs. But the soul cannot be satisfied with purely earthly food and earthly drink .... It needs other nourishment, and this has to be provided by the human being's will by leading the soul to the lord's table where it can receive unlimited nourishment. The human being's will is always ready to provide for the body, but it is far more necessary to provide for the soul, for it will outlive the body when its hour has come. Then neither food nor drink, nor all medicine .... will help the body. The soul, however, remains and is now in a state corresponding to its care during its existence on earth. You humans should always bear this in mind and, out of this consideration, spur on your will to meet the soul's needs, to provide it with food and drink and the right medicine for its state, and the soul's fate in eternity will thereby be assured, it will not need to live in want in the kingdom of the beyond but will have its full life. Thus the human being must consciously provide the soul with food and drink, he must impart the word of God to it which is the soul's proper nourishment and ensures its eternal life. The human being himself must want to receive the word of God so that the soul will be satiated and strengthened on its pilgrimage across earth. Then the soul will also draw strength from the nourishment offered to it, which it cannot receive in any other way than through God's word. And as soon as only the human being himself desires to hear God's voice, his desire will also be fulfilled .... God Himself speaks to the human being in many ways .... He intervenes in the human being's thoughts, He comes to him in the form of a book, He speaks through the mouth of a servant, or He Himself speaks to His child when it goes directly to the father and wants to hear His voice .... The soul's desire is always granted, no soul remains without invigoration which seeks to satisfy its hunger and comes to the lord's table .... which, however, always has to be prompted by the human being's will, which therefore has to happen consciously, otherwise even the most delicious food, the direct word from above .... offered by God Himself .... would have no effect on the soul. For what is not desired would be a gift of grace without desire but which does not exert any compulsion and therefore remains ineffective. This is why people can often receive this gift of grace without recognizing it as such. Then the words, which God's love guides to earth, remain entirely without impression, which will touch and delight a desiring soul in the deepest way. But if the effect of the divine word on all people were the same .... irrespective of their desire or indifference .... then it would have a compelling effect on the soul, and every soul would have to ascend but the will would have become unfree, whereas the soul nevertheless has to decide in freedom of will to accept or reject .... The soul needs strong nourishment if it wants to mature and progress, and it is also offered to it at all times, but only the inner desire is decisive as to what strength the soul draws from the nourishment .... which is why the human being must also know about his soul's needs and about the responsibility if he denies it the nourishment it requires, if he does not pay attention to its needs and the soul is weak and wretched when death approaches the human being and it has to leave his body. The soul itself has been indifferent in its desire, otherwise it could have pushed the human being from within; and the soul itself must now also bear the consequences of its indifference, for it remains .... It is the actual I of the human being, which cannot pass away. This is why the human being is instructed again and again but not forced either, for the soul must freely decide in earthly life, and it must now also bear the consequences of a wrong decision in the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

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Blind faith and dead Christianity ....

B.D. 7292 from February 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

It is difficult to convince people of the fact that I cannot be satisfied with a formality .... and by 'formality' I mean the following of human traditions and customs, which are totally worthless, precisely because they are only a habit, an adopted heritage which is a mere pretence and therefore cannot be pleasing to Me. For I want truth, a living Christianity, I want people to follow eagerly and be alive themselves, for I will never be able to appreciate or approve of that which is dead. And dead is everything people acquire or adopt from their fellow human beings without first having seriously formed an opinion of it themselves. If therefore a person was taught to accept a certain point of view he is, as soon as he is able to think, duty bound to deliberate on it and only what he accepts or rejects of his own free will are his own thoughts, for the use of which he will have to justify himself. But he will also have to justify himself for blind faith .... Such faith can never be credited to him as pleasing to God, for I cannot condone that everything is thoughtlessly and unhesitatingly believed and that the human being himself does not scrutinise anything he is expected to believe. And neither will he ever be able to claim that 'teachers' had instructed him in such ways, for he is .... seeing that he can think for himself .... in a position to think about what he is demanded to believe. And if he seriously wants to discover the truth his thoughts will also be guided correctly. But most people lack this serious will; hence they thoughtlessly accept everything and then live in the belief that they are true Christians as long as they don't reject the religious doctrines regarding Jesus Christ. But what they possess is a far cry from faith, for a faith that is of value before My eyes must be alive and can only be gained through a serious attitude .... But where can this be found? ....

People are often satisfied with the one-time instruction in their youth, which they then take along into adult life and believe that this knowledge is enough and that they have no further responsibility towards a God and Creator .... How very mistaken they are, and how empty they will stand before Me one day when I demand accountability for their life on earth .... Yet they cannot be convinced of their wrong thinking, or they would make an effort to gain insight and with a living spirit also deal with the hitherto dead knowledge they possess. There are only a few who are not satisfied and search in order to find the truth .... And these few will indeed find it because they inwardly search for Me Myself, the Eternal Truth Itself. But all people would be able to search, for all people are able to think, and every serious thought would lead them to the right path of their search, for then I Myself will already be prepared to stretch out My hands and draw everyone desiring enlightenment out of the dark into the light. However, as long as a person does not realise that he is on the wrong path he will not look around in search of the right path either .... And people believe that they take the correct path because they are persuaded to believe it by leaders who have not yet found the right path themselves. And thus it remains up to every individual person himself, but indirectly every individual will be helped time and again, he will be mentally admonished to reflect and to ask himself how he will fare when he must justify himself before Me .... And if he remains in silence for a while after such inner questions I will also answer them, for I only require him to turn to Me consciously .... Then I will never leave his side until he is on the right path of looking for Me and then he will also most certainly find Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lovelessness = darkness .... love = realization ....

B.D. 7293 from February 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

One day you will clearly realize the significance of your earthly life, and only then will you know what you could have achieved and think back in deep remorse to the many opportunities you left unused for your spiritual maturing. Yet you can already come to this realization on earth if only you would simply keep My commandments of love. Not much more is required of you than that you observe these commandments, and then the realization will also come to you of its own accord why and for what purpose you live on earth. And you all know these commandments of love, thus you could also acquire the knowledge of the meaning and purpose of your earthly life, and you could all truly leave earthly life in a state which can be called blissful for you .... But the fact that you do not live as My commandments of love require is also the reason why you live on earth with a darkened spirit and without responsibility towards your soul. For love enlightens your spirit, love alone gives you the knowledge which, however, you lack without love. And one day, when you enter the spiritual kingdom, the degree of love will be decisive for the place of stay .... for the sphere in which you now dwell after the death of your body .... And this can very easily be such that one day you will bitterly regret not having made better use of your earthly life. For one day you will all come to realize the importance of this earthly life and look at your own state of soul and know that you could have shaped it differently yourselves because you lived on earth for the purpose of doing so .... And yet, information about it can only ever be given to you humans, which you now believe and accept or not. For you are free, otherwise it would truly be easy for Me to give you clear knowledge about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, but then you would no longer be able to make a free decision of will because the certain knowledge would already force you to do right and to live on earth. And therefore only one thing is important to repeatedly point out to you humans My commandments of love for God and your neighbour, which cannot be done often enough in order to awaken the human being's sense of responsibility, for if this commandment of My love is repeatedly presented to him he will also subject his thoughts and actions to self-criticism, and he will make an effort to live according to My will as soon as he is not completely opposed to Me, thus completely belongs to My adversary. His attitude towards My commandments of love also shows his attitude towards Me Myself .... If he rejects the former then he also rejects Me and demonstrates his bond with My adversary .... But if he tries to live in love then it is a sign that he wants to go to Me and detach himself from My adversary, and then he will demonstrate his bond with Me ever more, because he will perform works of love ever more eagerly and the significance of his earthly existence will now also be so clearly understandable to him that he will adjust his life far more spiritually than earthly, for the love within him is the light which illuminates his spirit and gives him brightest realization. And thus the darkness can also be explained in which people walk who do not respect My commandment of love .... Their inner being cannot be enlightened, they will never be able to grasp any correlations, they will only live a selfish life and be all the more darkened in spirit the greater their self-love is .... They disregard My commandments of love and have no sense of responsibility towards the soul, which is why they will enter the kingdom of the beyond blind and poor when the hour of departure from this world has come. And they will remain in darkness for a long time in this kingdom, for even there they can only reach the light if they are lovingly active, and this requires strength which can only be given to the soul through loving intercession, because the soul itself has no strength whatsoever, since on earth only the body was thought of but not the soul. And therefore it is very difficult in the kingdom of the beyond to reach where it could easily have reached on earth if only it had heeded My commandments of love. For love is strength and helps every soul to ascend .... and therefore no-one can become blissfully happy without love ....

Amen

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Fighting selfish love ....

B.D. 7294 from February 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You only should possess a small amount of selfish love and you will find it easy to fulfil My commandments of love for God and your neighbour. Selfish love cannot be small enough, for this alone prevents the human being from performing selfless neighbourly love which is, after all, the most important thing in earthly life if the soul is to reach perfection. But selfish love clings to every person as a legacy of the one who is devoid of all love, who loves himself above all else or he would not have become My enemy and adversary, who lays claim to everything himself and wants to take all authority away from Me. He alone wants to possess, and every kind of selfish love is a demand for possession, hence an acceptance of his plans and a distancing from Me, Who is love Itself. As long as selfish love still prevails within the human being he will not care about his neighbour nor change his nature into love, which first of all requires curbing his selfish love. And so you humans can only ever be informed of the fact that you are still subject to My adversary's influence as long as your selfish love is still predominant, and that should motivate you to fight against yourselves .... Your should always oppose you own wishes with your fellow human being's hardship and try to consider your fellow human being consistently more and do without for his sake. Then your soul will progress greatly, in fact, only the degree of your selfish love enables you to assess the state of your soul, and you should never believe that your work of improving your soul is right as long as you haven't overcome your selfish love, which is the best indicator for your soul's maturity. But you can rest assured that I will help you overcome yourselves if only you have the sincere will to achieve this degree of maturity where your neighbour's fate is closer to your heart than your own. Then you will also receive strength, because I bless every sincere will and help you not to weaken in your determination to become perfect. However, without this fight against your selfish love it is not possible, without this fight you will never selflessly take care of your neighbour, you will never experience the feeling of love which wants to please as long as you are still imbued by desiring love, which is My adversary's share. And he will keep you enchained until you have freed yourselves by being victorious over your selfish love, which is a major advantage for your soul and which can only mature if the human being eagerly improves himself, if he constantly tries to fulfil My will which is always merely expressed in My commandments "Love God above all else and your neighbour as yourself ...."

Amen

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The forerunner of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7295 from February 28th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And when you hear that someone is proclaiming the Lord in an extraordinary way then you will know that the final phase of the last days has started, that the forerunner of Jesus Christ is carrying out his mission again to announce Him, Who will come on the day of Judgment to fetch His Own and to implement the change on earth, as is proclaimed in Word and Scripture. He will appear entirely unexpectedly causing much stir because the power of his voice is great and because he will speak to people in such an earnest and significant manner that many will feel impressed and accept his word .... because they realise that he is proclaiming the 'Word of God', and also because the signs of his working in order to help his fellow human beings are remarkable. He will be a true miracle worker of the poor and miserable, a helper in the adversity which will befall humanity at the time of his appearance. And he will speak loudly and clearly, he will not be afraid of those who prohibit his activity, he will expose those who speak and act in opposition to God's will all the more and thus he will be hated and persecuted by the powerful of this earth, whose conduct of people he strongly condemns. But the gulf between the earthly and the spiritual world will already be too deep as to expect any understanding by the former of what the 'voice crying in the wilderness' proclaims. They will laugh at him and only pursue him so keenly because he is very popular, since there are nevertheless people who let themselves be impressed, much to the annoyance of the authorities which oppose all faith and proceed against it.

And this time is not far away, it will not be long and you will hear of him. But then you will also know that you have to persevere, for once he appears you will also have to be prepared for the imminent battle of faith, and then the direction you take will be crucial, for then it will only be too obvious that you have to decide either for God or for the world .... He will strongly support you in taking the path to God, for he will speak convincingly and powerfully. God Himself will speak so obviously through him that no human being should find it difficult to join him, because he will also provide such visible evidence of his calling that people will thus be able to recognise who he is .... He himself also knows what his function consists of and that it is his last task to precede the Lord and announce Him with a loud voice .... He is also aware of his origin and likewise of his end, which again will be dreadful, but he fears nothing and nothing will stop him from completing his mission, which will be very blessed ....

And anyone joining him will truly do well, for he will be able to draw much strength and get much light from this great light which will shine wherever he appears. He is already alive but not yet aware of his task, which nevertheless will suddenly become clear to him and fundamentally change his earthly life, for although he is of service to the Lord and also recognises the spiritual low level humanity is languishing in .... he has not yet been called, but it will happen all of a sudden .... And then he will leave his hitherto quietude and become fully conscious of his task, for he will be moved by the spirit of God, granting him complete clarity about his mission. And he will gladly serve the Lord with a devotion which makes him constantly more suitable for the final service which he wants to render before the end, before His return .... But you humans, pay attention to those who proclaim the Word of God, and you will recognise the one who becomes very noticeable because he wants to fulfil an unusual mission: to announce the coming of the Lord and by means of powerful sermons make people aware of their earthly task to be repentant and seriously work for their soul's salvation, for he will announce the end to them which will soon follow after his appearance, for the time has been fulfilled which God granted humanity for their perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Powerful effect for the 'doer of the word' .... coercion ....

B.D. 7296 from March 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Nothing is allowed to have a compelling effect on you but in all freedom of will you have to decide for Me or against Me. And therefore My gifts of grace are also .... as unusual as they are sent to you .... are not compulsory in their effect, instead, the latter will only start at all if you accept them of your own free will and live accordingly. My word can indeed be offered to you but it is only the deed .... the living out of My word .... which reveals a visible effect. And no-one will live out the word who is not willing of his own free will to strive towards Me. But for the one who has made this decision, who thus lives according to My will and is a true doer of My word and not just a listener, the effect of blessing will be so immense that he will then no longer be able to doubt for a moment that he has been addressed by Me Myself. But then this direct address is no longer to be regarded as compulsion. If I could speak from above to all people then there would truly also be success, but this success would not be of value to the soul, precisely because it would then only compulsorily decide in favour of Me, Who has obviously and undoubtedly expressed Himself from above .... I cannot and may not prove Myself to humanity, although it would certainly be within My power to provide people with very clear evidence of Myself .... But earthly life has to be lived without any coercion, without any determination of will, since the soul's perfection is the goal and purpose of its earthly progress, and it is and remains free in its will and actions if it is ever to reach perfection. But every person can provide himself with the proof of My existence, of My activity and work, by living out My word, because then the effect of My word will become apparent to him by itself. And this is determined by every person himself, whether he allows Me Myself to speak to him on one occasion, i.e. whether he accepts My word, if it is offered to him, and subjects it to contemplation .... and whether, on the other hand, he now makes the attempt to live accordingly, i.e. to be a doer and not just a listener of My word .... The human being's will has to do this itself, but it will never be to his detriment if he makes up his mind to do so. But in the same way the human being can listen indifferently when My word is proclaimed to him and let the word fall flat on his ear, thus hardly listen to it but never make an effort to live according to the word .... And then it will also remain without any effect, then it will be nothing more than a spoken human word from which no-one can expect an effect, so as not to forcibly gain human will, which would be entirely worthless for the soul. However, you will be offered many aids besides or apart from My word .... which also include suffering and hardship, which shall cause you to think, so that you will then have an open heart when My word is proclaimed to you. You will also be mentally stimulated to take a stand through all kinds of events where your heart can also be open again for the acceptance of My word. You will even find yourselves in difficult situations where you will be grateful when a ray of hope shines for you which 'My word' can mean for you again .... You will always be prompted to reflect, and then the possibility may already exist that you listen more attentively and inwardly try to come to terms with the spiritual knowledge offered to you .... But all reflection has to be voluntary, you can never be addressed in such an unusual way that you have to believe in an activity on My part, for that would be a disadvantage for you and could not result in a blessing for your soul. Yet you humans would all do well if you paid attention to everything that happens around you which can only be explained to you when you relate it to My word, to the knowledge which is incomprehensible to you as long as you are without any contact with Me .... But you can attain enlightenment through My word and then also be inspired to live according to My word, which, however, always first requires a willing listening to the 'glad tidings' which are conveyed to you, because I love you and want to win you over before the final end comes and you become completely powerless victims of it because you kept your distance from Me .... I cannot force you to approach Me but I can admonish and warn you again and again and do everything to encourage you to listen when My messengers approach you and proclaim Me. And if you open yourselves then it will only be a blessing for you and you will be saved from ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transformation of earth ....

B.D. 7297 from March 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The earth will continue to exist, for I have not planned its total destruction .... Yet everything living on it, as well as all creations of nature, will cease to be, so that a complete purification of earth can take place, since in its present state it no longer serves the progress of the spiritual substances. All living creations in, on and above the earth will lose their lives; they will be released from their enshrouding external form and able to continue the path of development, which at the moment is at risk for all spiritually tangible beings. For My adversary rages in every possible way and, time and again, tries to stop or interrupt this development. But the earth shall still fulfil its task for an infinitely long time to come, seeing that still immature beings shall mature on it to attain childship to God .... And therefore earth will arise again after a thorough purification process has taken place, after all spiritual substances are correctly placed, that is, after they are embodied into the external forms they merit, from hard matter up to the human being, who will also have to be offered easier opportunities to achieve maturity again to enable them to reach the goal of becoming true children of God. Thus the final destruction is synonymous with the end of the old earth, even though the planet as such will remain and merely its external shell will go through a complete transformation. And thus the 'end' can, and rightfully should, be pointed out, as it will not just mean the end of all civilisations but also ends the existence of every work of creation on this earth. And a new period will start again, the entire earth's surface will be brought to life by Me again with the most magnificent kinds of creations for the human eye to delight in once more, as I will give all new creations most exquisite forms and provide all types of living creations to coexist with the people who will inhabit this new earth again and whom I will take there Myself in love, wisdom and might. For I will establish the root of a new human race with those I was able to remove from the old earth; they remained true to Me until the end and thus are chosen by Me as the new generation, who in turn shall bring forth people who live within My will and amongst whom I can dwell Myself by virtue of their faith and love ....

And it will be a blissful state, for the new creations will delight people to an extent never known before. People will truly inhabit a paradise, an earth which no longer corresponds to the old earth, because it will only be occupied by mature people capable of receiving an extent of bliss previously unknown on earth, since humanity already belonged to Satan, thus necessitating the cleansing of earth. And this time lies ahead of you, and each one of you would still be able to change his nature such to be granted the great blessing of the rapture .... But a person is rarely able to muster firm faith in it, and only few people have such abundance of love that they belong to the small flock which I will call away suddenly and unexpectedly .... But prior to that, a time of need will befall earth which should be a very definite sign for you that the day is not far away. When you are able to clearly observe My adversary's activities, when you yourselves are exposed to the evil deeds of his cohorts, when the adversity gets worse and a way out seems impossible to you, then this end will be near, then I will use My might to destroy everything profoundly evil and rescue My Own from certain destruction .... And those taken away by Me will live to see the downfall of the old earth, although they will no longer be affected by it themselves .... But one day they shall bear witness to the judgment of a righteous God, they shall be able to observe the act of destruction and yet praise and glorify the One Who has saved them from this judgment.

And once again I will carry out an act of creation, for My willpower alone will let a new earth arise, a dwelling place for My small flock, for My chosen people, who will then be able to live their new life in paradise, in peace and freedom, in happiness and bliss, in light and strength .... where no suffering and pain exist because the source of all evil is bound and unable to oppress people for a long time .... For one earth period has come to an end, and a new one will start again to help countless still bound spiritual substances to progress in order to enable them reach the final goal, the unity with Me as My child. And this is what lies ahead of you humans, for the time is fulfilled which was once granted to you to achieve the final release from the form ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious reminder and indication of the end ....

B.D. 7298 from March 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The turn of the world is still preceded by much misery, for people still have to be severely touched beforehand because they go along in the frenzy of worldly pleasure and make no effort to prepare themselves for the near end, for their own end as well as for the end of the earth, which is immensely significant for every single human being. It is no longer a long time but people do not believe it and work and create as if they still had eternally long times ahead of them where they or their descendants can reap the fruits of their labour .... But no one will attain the blessing of what he tries to build with effort and sacrifice. Everything will take the course of the earthly, it will fall prey to destruction, in whatever way that may happen. Even the coming natural disaster can deprive you of all earthly possessions, insofar as you humans have your dwelling place in the area of this natural occurrence. But even those who will survive it unscathed will no longer have a long life span, and their possessions will also face ruin, for the end will follow not long after, and nothing will be spared from this end .... And if you humans seriously think about it, then your effort and work should not be in proportion to the benefit of what you create for yourselves, because you yourselves don't know how long you will be beneficiaries, on the other hand you know exactly that once the death of your body is certain. Although you don't want to believe that actual life will only begin after that .... But you should nevertheless reckon with it and prepare yourselves, and you will truly do well and gain far more than earthly possessions can mean to you. The time ahead of you cannot be called a time of rest, every single one of you will be affected by all kinds of strokes of fate so that you will not sink into rest, which for you is equal to the rest of death, for you should be and remain vigilant and again and again be reminded of the upheaval you have to expect. You should not attach your heart to earthly matter, again and again you should think of death, and therefore you will also experience much around you with your fellow human beings if it does not concern you yourselves which should and will make you think if you are of serious and good will to cover the path across earth in God's will and to fulfil your purpose of earthly life. Then you will be addressed by Him again and again, for He wants to help you to still reach the right goal before the end comes; He wants to assist you in the battle against the world and in the work you should do on your soul during the short time you still have left until the end. And the coming time cannot be a time of rest for people but they have to be stirred up again and again and kept in restlessness and worry so that they will not slacken but again and again think of their own death, which can quickly befall anyone. What happens is not by chance; it is all based on God's will, Who in turn intervenes according to the will of the human being where it is necessary. And He will still often intervene in a painful way, for the human being's soul shall not be lost but still arise to life as long as it still lives on earth. But every human being's hour of death can already be the next day, the human being himself does not know it, but he should reckon with it and do everything to be so prepared that he gladly and joyfully gives up earthly life in order to exchange it for a joyful and free existence in the spiritual kingdom. The time is serious and no-one should take it lightly, everyone should work on himself and his soul and put earthly worries aside, for everything will work itself out for the person of good will as soon as he puts the spiritual goal before his earthly endeavours, but he will never be blessed who only desires the world and creates without ceasing for this world .... He will lose everything and also himself, for his soul will return into the darkness from which it should rise ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love awakens the spirit, the spirit sets free ....

B.D. 7299 from March 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Nothing is able to bind the spirit which you give life to within you through love .... It will assert itself against all desires of the body, it will try to determine the soul to influence the will in the right way, and it can also do this because love in you grants it the right to do so and because, as a divine part, it is stronger than all mortal things in you and the soul voluntarily submits itself to it. The spirit in you is My share .... So who or what should be able to resist Me Myself if you don't want to do so yourselves? And the love within you demonstrates the will to completely submit to Me, for love is the same as I am Myself, and love pushes towards Me .... And thus you will be free as soon as you awaken the spirit in you to life through love, for contact with Me also signifies freedom, for only My adversary puts shackles on you, but I Myself try to break these shackles and therefore will never tolerate a gagging of your will as soon as it has turned towards Me through loving activity. And thus, once again, it is love which accomplishes this .... Love alone is the bond with Me which sets you free, love alone is the wake-up call of the spirit in you, and the soul will now only ever obey its voice and thus determine the will to completely submit to the spirit's desire, that is, to enter into My will. The way My spirit expresses itself is not subject to doubt .... It will always emphasize the law of eternal order, and this law is: love .... Love therefore determines the spirit to express itself, and the expression of the spirit is in turn a call to loving activity, which is why there can no longer be any eternal decline once the human being has awakened the spirit within himself to life through love .... Then the soul's process of further development has to proceed, then the goal is also assured for it: union with Me on earth already as soon as the human being has only declared himself willing to work with love on earth .... And what it means to have given life to the spirit within you will only become clear to you when the spirit introduces you to truth, when it gives you light and you receive bright knowledge which will make you blissfully happy. For an ignorant person walks along with a darkened spirit, he is not a truly living person but the chains of death still hold him captive and will not release him until he himself decides to enter the law of eternal order .... until he will once practice unselfish neighbourly love, whereby a small light will now be kindled in him .... until he gives life to the spirit within him .... Then he forces freedom upon himself, for light means freedom, and darkness he himself has chased away through his service of love. An awakened spirit is freedom in itself, it loosens all bonds and wrests the human being from My adversary's fetters, because it has the power to do so as My share, which it will truly use, after all, it is a matter of leading the human being to Me, which always means an unleashing from his control. The person who lives in love becomes free and his spirit is awakened to life. And he can consider himself fortunate to have been transferred from the bound state into the state of freedom. And he will also appreciate the happiness, he will never want to miss being taught by the spirit within himself and feeling safe in its control, for its power only makes him happy but never appears to him as a fetter which threatens his freedom. Therefore, all of you awaken the spirit within you to life, for only then will you be able to speak of 'life', then death will never be able to frighten you again, for then you will have overcome it, because then you will live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The shortest way is the way across the cross ....

B.D. 7300 from March 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I want to show you the shortest path that leads to Me, back into the father's house. It is the path across the cross, the path to Jesus Christ, Who became a shell for Me as the human being Jesus so that I could accomplish the work of redemption for you, the work of atonement for your once great guilt of turning away from Me. This work of mercy was accomplished by My love for you, My creations which had become sinful, which had thereby plunged themselves into greatest wretchedness and were to be released from it. My love wanted to take over the guilt for you and make atonement for you, for love was the only thing which could redeem this great guilt, and you yourselves had renounced all love, you had rejected every illumination of love on My part, you were completely devoid of all love, and since this great original guilt could only be atoned for with love, My love had to redeem the guilt for you if I wanted you to ever become free again and be able to return to Me .... You have now also become free from this through My act of salvation, yet always with the restriction that you yourselves want to return to Me in freedom again .... that you yourselves want to be illuminated and permeated by My love again, which is strength and light and freedom. Hence you first have to muster this will if you want to be accepted into the circle of those for whom I died the most bitter death on the cross. Only your will is necessary so that you will then also receive the necessary strength to be able to travel the path to Me, for to travel this path means to be willing to enter the realm of My sun of love again, so that you will change your hitherto unloving nature into love .... Hence there is only one path which leads back to Me again .... the path of love, but you will only be able to take it when this path leads to the cross, otherwise you will be too weak to perform works of love despite your good will as long as My adversary still has you under his control, as long as the divine redeemer Jesus Christ has not yet entered your life, Whom you will only find on the cross of Golgotha if you set out on the path to Him. For He alone can and will strengthen your still weak will by showering you with His graces acquired on the cross and thus you will, as it were, receive back the strength of will you once possessed and lost due to your fall into the abyss. If I therefore want to show you the shortest path, it means that you absolutely have to make contact with Jesus Christ, that you approach Him for the strengthening of your will, for the forgiveness of your guilt and for redemption from your still bound state .... And all this is also synonymous with a life of love, with everlasting activity of love which completely transforms your nature and thus brings it into line with Mine again, Who is eternal love .... Every person who endeavours to live in love will also look up to Jesus Christ on the cross, he will feel guilty and ask to be released from his guilt, in weakness of his soul he will take the path to Jesus Christ and avail himself of His graces acquired on the cross .... He will lean on Him because he feels too weak himself, and he will not need to go any further than the cross because there he will find everything he needs in order to be taken back into his father's house .... He will be certain of the forgiveness of his guilt of sin because he has also changed his nature, as well as the path to the cross is a matter of heart for him and therefore he also deeply regrets his guilt. But this change of nature does not take place without the will to love, for it is precisely love which the being lacks and which it has to ignite in itself again in order to assimilate itself to My original nature. But the human being will also be able to do so if only he is of good will to fulfil his earthly task for the purpose of which his earthly existence was given to him. The will is everything, and it is certainly strengthened by Jesus Christ .... But for this reason the divine redeemer cannot be excluded, and therefore the path to the cross is the human being's one great task, the fulfilment of which, however, secures him strength and freedom, light and beatitude, as it is promised to you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work: spreading the divine word ....

B.D. 7301 from March 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Anyone who feels called to work for Me and My kingdom will also accept My word as being addressed to him when it concerns receiving instructions for the work in My vineyard .... He will feel addressed himself when My call goes out to My vineyard labourers to be industrious and to carry My word out into the world, i.e. to sow the seed which I send to you so abundantly .... to spread My word .... It is only a matter of fellow human beings taking notice of My address from above, of being given the opportunity to hear My voice for once so that they then have to adjust themselves to it, so that they decide to continue to be addressed by Me and to hear Me Myself, but which they can only do through you, who therefore feel called as My servants to receive the word from Me Myself and to pass it on. I have chosen My servants and servants Myself, even though they first had to testify to their will to serve Me, because I do not coerce a servant. You are completely free, and you must carry out the work in My vineyard completely freely, only out of love for Me, Whom you want to serve, and out of love for your fellow human beings who need your services because they are in need. They need good nourishment which their souls can fill themselves with, and therefore they also need good seed which will bear fruit in a thousand ways if they let it sow in their field of life and diligently nurture the new seed so that it will sprout and bear fruit. Again and again I therefore address My servants on earth and admonish them to work diligently for Me, again and again I instruct them to proclaim My word to their fellow human beings, and thus you should not be tardy and do everything in order to only inform your fellow human beings of the delicious teaching material which you receive from Me every day .... You should work diligently, for time is pressing. I would truly not admonish you so often and urgently to do this work if it were not so urgently necessary, because the time left to people for the rescue work on their souls is running out. And My word is the only means to inform them of what awaits you all .... My word is also the only path everyone should take in order to reach the right goal .... My word is furthermore the source of strength to be able to carry out everything I ask of you for the purpose of your own perfection .... My word is the bond between Me and you which you must enter into in order to travel the right path .... My word therefore signifies light and strength for you, which you absolutely need on the short pilgrimage path you humans still have to take. Therefore, again and again I admonish My vineyard labourers to be diligently active, to be completely absorbed in your work for Me and My kingdom. And I can only tell you again and again that the work is very urgent, since it is becoming increasingly difficult to find willing listeners who believe you and accept My word in their hearts. But for the sake of the few eager work shall be done, for only having saved one soul means a great gain for Me, in which all of you also have a share who help to still lead souls back to Me before the end. And let it be said to you that you will always find a field again where you can sow and a good harvest will be achieved .... For I know who hungers and thirsts for My word, and I direct them and your paths in such a way that you will find each other and be able to serve each other .... For humanity will still experience much, but I will also know how to protect those who walk with Me from every adversity and danger, I will be a faithful householder to My servants, Who cares for them spiritually and physically and in Whose service they will truly not regret ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's plan is irrevocably fulfilled ....

B.D. 7302 from March 8th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can consider everything possible but not that I deviate from My plan of salvation, which has been determined since eternity. In My wisdom I recognized the time when My intervention is necessary, and in accordance with this recognition the plan has been determined which I will certainly carry out, as I have announced to you again and again. And I was able to make these announcements to you humans again and again through seers and prophets because I saw the course of development, because I saw that you are increasingly regressing and that the time will come when this regression has to be stopped if My plan of redemption for the fallen spirits is not to be endangered .... I certainly allowed and still allow the being free will as long as it does not completely destroy itself .... But My adversary's power over the being will increase the more wrongly the human being's will is directed, and therefore the time will come when I will snatch this being from the adversary again and bind it in matter once more so that he will lose control over it. And this is My plan of salvation, to help the beingness to ascend by some means, which, however, often puts itself in danger of taking an unholy path which leads it into the adversary's hands again. I can only help the being to become free from his control; but I cannot take the spiritual from the adversary, which is basically his possession because of his own attitude. But precisely for this reason I have designed My plan of salvation, which will certainly also be successful one day. And thus My reign and activity will always proceed in a lawful order; and as My plan provides for it, it will also be carried out with the certain success of a constant upward development, albeit with apparent interruptions which nevertheless basically signify a continuation of the development. But people will never know the exact day and hour, thus they will never be able to time the course of My plan of salvation. For a thousand years are like a day before Me .... which, however, does not exclude that one day the thousand years will be over and the day of the end, the day of My unexpected intervention in My plan of creation, will have come and the announcements will come true .... And therefore you humans should always be mindful of this day; you should live in constant expectation such that you unhesitatingly look forward to the day which is of utmost importance for all of you. I have always pointed this out, and until the day is approaching I will continue to point it out so that you will not be able to say that you have never been urged to work diligently on yourselves in view of the end which is foreseen in My plan of salvation, because a transformation of the old earth has become necessary if it is to continue to fulfil its purpose: to serve the spiritual as a maturing station. Again and again I tell you that these are not empty words, that I will not deviate from My plan, for it only aims at the redemption and return of all spiritual substances which once fell away from Me and into wretchedness. I know from eternity about your will, about your spiritual state and about the time when I have to intervene, and I will truly intervene, for the time has come, people have reached a spiritual low where only I Myself can restore order in the way intended in My plan from eternity. And since this is based on My infinite love and unsurpassable wisdom, it will truly also fulfil itself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Sincere longing for unification with God ....

B.D. 7303 from March 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Take me into your heart, that is to say, sincerely long for unification with Me .... I will take care of anyone who harbours this genuine will and he will unite with Me forever because he has changed his will which once had turned away from Me, he has bonded with Me again just as he once had separated from Me. The greatest evil in the world is that people live with a certain indifference, an indifference towards Me, Whom perhaps they might still accept, but they barely know or grasp the connection with their God and Creator because they do not analyse themselves. By and large they walk their earthly path not without knowledge of Me but nevertheless without meaningful faith .... but mainly due to indifference .... except for people who clearly oppose Me .... But I mean those who are indifferent, who are the majority, who outwardly claim to believe in Me and yet hardly if ever involve themselves with Me .... They have not yet taken Me into their ‘hearts’, their will is not yet sincerely focussed on the union with Me, although they would deny this to their fellow human beings. But I know the degree of longing for Me and I want to be accepted in your hearts, I want your thoughts to involve themselves with Me so that you feel motivated to develop the close bond with Me .... so that you have that very will to unite with Me again, from Whom you once had voluntarily separated ....

It is precisely this honest will which can cause a complete change of your lifestyle and your inner being, but without this honest will you cannot even achieve a minor change of attitude, since your indifference will give My opponent the welcome opportunity to step between Me and you and truly successfully exercise his influence. I cannot walk with you because your heart is not sincerely searching for Me yet and therefore I cannot keep My opponent away either when he attaches himself to you. But without Me you will not have the strength to resist him, you will only too gladly agree to his plans because he will promise you worldly goods in return .... However, if you have the sincere wish of heart that I should be close to you then your will applies to Me, and then I will be able to push him away and thus will be truly close to you .... then you will have accepted Me in your heart and walk the right path to Me. With other words, once I have taken possession of your heart you will never lose Me again in all eternity because you had truthfully desired it.

And you all should give account to yourselves of the direction of your innermost will. You all should ask yourselves what you love most on earth, whether you still prefer worldly things or whether My presence alone is so desirable that you are willing to give up everything for My sake. If you are able to do the latter you are truly on the right path and your sincere will shall be rewarded, because now you will not waste any time which you could spend in My company because your heart will increasingly long to receive Me and such longing shall always be granted. For I too long for My children and want that they will return to Me again one day, Whom they had left due to their wrongly directed will .... which they have to change again towards Me, towards their eternal Father ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Concerning the 'inner Word' ....

B.D. 7304 from March 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My voice will be heard by all those who yearn for it and who make contact with Me in their hearts, thus who do not merely send lip-prayers to Me, which I do not hear. But I have many children who sincerely pray to Me and whose prayer I therefore grant, especially if they only appeal to Me to speak to My child as a Father .... For this request testifies to its love for Me, Who is everything to such a child .... God and Father, Friend and Brother .... And then I will express Myself as a Father, Friend and Brother, and My Words will, at all times, relate to its appeals and wishes, which the child presents to Me with complete confidence. And thus every human being may consider himself spoken to by Me if he merely remains in heartfelt communication with Me until he become conscious of My reply, for precisely this waiting and expecting of My answer must not be neglected, but it also assumes a profound faith that I speak to My children .... Were people to have this profound faith they would not find it unusual for a God to speak to His living creations; for a Father to speak to His children. But only a few have precisely this faith, and this is why I can so rarely express Myself such that fellow human beings will also find out about it. Added to that is the fact that people hear My Words in a completely different way, usually in their own language; that is why the results of a child's heartfelt dialog with the Father are considered its own product of thought, unless an extraordinary content takes fellow human beings aback or teaches them to think otherwise.

Yet I say to you: I speak to My children far too gladly as to let an opportunity of expressing Myself pass by, although I can only ever reveal Myself in accordance with their state of maturity and the task, which the recipient of My Word has to fulfil on this earth at the same time. Hence, as soon as the transference of My Word is combined with a task, the conditions this recipient has to fulfil will also be different in order to be suitable for his task. In that case the results of the heartfelt communication with Me, the content of My direct speech, will also be of a different kind, because it will have to stand up to criticism by rational people, because they must be viewed as teaching material which is intended to be spread, which is to be conveyed as the Gospel to people who are suffering utmost spiritual hardship. But it will by no means contradict My Words to My children, although they will be presented in a different form precisely because of their purpose. For I must address My children according to their capacity of reception. And as soon as My messages are quoted literally they will never contradict themselves .... if, however, they get rearranged according to personal opinion, then error can and will also be included in the Words which, initially, were conveyed to a person in purest truth.

Whatever you humans hear from above should be left unchanged by you .... Time and again I want to remind you of this, then the truth will be guaranteed, and then nobody will be able to take offence apart from those who, as yet, still don't know the truth themselves. For even if a person's thinking at first deviates from the truth My Word will guide it back onto the right path, or controversial questions will, for the time being, be sidelined until the person completely accepts My Words without inner resistance .... caused by wrong instructions .... and such contradictions will clarify themselves. But I speak to all of My children if they allow Me to speak to them due to their intimate bond and the will to hear Me .... And My Words are always aimed at those who are moved by the same questions and have the same will to hear Me. Nevertheless, in view of the great spiritual hardship and the near end I convey My Word .... the teaching which was proclaimed by the man Jesus on earth .... to earth again, so that it shall be spread and touch all those human hearts which, in their search for truth, are open to My Words when they are imparted to them by My messengers. This Word is therefore intended for everyone but will likewise only make an impression on those who listen to it without resistance, and they will subsequently act and live in line with My Word and will also be able to experience the effect of My Word, for they will gain in strength and light, willpower and wisdom, for everything that comes forth from Me will have to take effect, providing that the person's will does not offer resistance .... that the person wants to be addressed by Me and gratefully accepts My gift of grace which My love offers and will continue to offer him until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am the way, the truth and the life .... "

B.D. 7305 from March 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

No human being has life unless he receives it from Me .... for I am the life and from Me all life emanates. At the beginning of his embodiment the human being still belongs far more to death, and he shall first attain true life on earth. He has to take a certain path for this, and this path is again Me Myself .... He has to accept the truth from My hand, because I am also the eternal truth. And thus there is only one path to truth and life, and this path is called Jesus Christ, for every human being must first be redeemed by Him if he wants to attain eternal life. This is why I came to earth in the human being Jesus Myself to show people the path, to lead the way, which everyone should only follow Me, thus to attain life in truth. However, before they are redeemed by Jesus Christ they still walk in the night of death, they don't know the truth, they don't know the right path which leads to life, and if they knew it they wouldn't have the strength to walk it ..... But Jesus Christ gives them this strength, He guides them and sets them free from death so that they can enter into blissful life. This is why I said: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." Without Me no-one can attain truth and life, for as long as he does not have Me as his guide he takes a different path which certainly does not lead from death to life. But the human being must also want to reach life, and he must fight against the one who tries to keep him in death, who will do everything to prevent him from finding the right path, the path to life. The human being must want to live himself and turn to the lord of life, asking Him for strength and guidance, because he alone is too weak to travel this path. For the path goes upwards and requires strength .... the path is arduous and not tempting, and therefore it also requires the person's firm will to cover it for the sake of the goal. For the goal is glorious: the goal is a life of bliss, of light and strength and freedom .... But no human being needs to despair or be afraid that he will lack strength if only he turns to Jesus Christ, to the one in Whom I Myself walked the earth in order to redeem you humans from sin and death, from weakness and darkness .... Whoever turns to Him turns to Me, if only he believes that I am the way, the truth and the life .... if only he believes that only one can give life, Who Himself is lord over life and death .... and when I speak of "life", I speak of the life that lasts forever, not of the short earthly life that was given to you only for the purpose of acquiring eternal life .... I want you to live for eternity and for this life of yours to be a blessed one, but you must take the path via Jesus Christ and you will most certainly attain life in all freedom and truthfulness, you will be united with Me again as it was in the beginning, you will live forever and now no longer lose this life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

B.D. 7306 from March 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will not be able to achieve spiritual success if your eyes are only turned towards the world, for everything that belongs to the world only serves the body's comfort, yet it harms rather than benefits the soul. The soul can only benefit from the kingdom which exists in contrast to the earthly world, from the kingdom of the spirit which belongs to Me and therefore also only contains spiritual treasures which I want to distribute and whose beneficiaries will only ever be the soul but not the human being's body. "My kingdom is not of this world ...." I have quite openly drawn a line, I have emphasized it, that My kingdom has nothing in common with this world because they are two entirely different kingdoms whose goods are thus desired and received by the soul or the body .... depending on the human being's will, who has to decide about it in earthly life. But the soul could assert itself with its desire, for just as the body expresses its desire so can the soul express its desire, and thus the stronger this desire is the more the will will decide .... But if the soul gives in, then the body retains the prerogative, and it fetches everything in the earthly world which seems desirable to it and which fills the human being's senses. And the soul then comes away empty-handed because it cannot register any satisfying or spiritual progress from those worldly things, but the soul's time is lost which was used to satisfy the body. There are two different kingdoms, My kingdom and the earthly world, and equally different are their goods, which are distributed according to desire .... imperishable the one and imperishable the other .... And yet, it is mostly the latter which are desired, for they enfold the human being's senses and make his will weak .... The spiritual goods, however, strengthen him if they are seriously desired and received only once. Then the willpower and the desire of the human being's heart will increase, and then the worldly goods will also lose their appeal. Then man is saved for time and eternity .... But it is precisely the first steps into the spiritual kingdom that are so extremely difficult for the human being as long as the earthly world is still so tangible before his eyes and he can fulfil his wishes in it ..... But once this step into the spiritual kingdom is seriously taken, then the lights from the earthly world fade and the bright light from My kingdom begins to shine and spread ever brighter radiance .... And then the soul will fetch light and strength for itself, and then it will want to return to the earthly realm less and less, although it still lives on earth, but it often dwells in My kingdom of light and bliss, for it receives treasures from this kingdom..., which will no longer be lost to it, which will follow it into eternity, it matures during its earthly life because its strength constantly increases and it can work ever more diligently on its perfection, for it leaves the earthly world behind for the sake of My kingdom, which is 'not of this world' .......

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Frequent introspection is necessary ....

B.D. 7307 from March 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Look within yourselves and recognise your weaknesses .... Frequent introspection is very necessary for you, for you humans are not aware of the fact that you are still very inadequately shaped because you do not critically look at your state of soul but are satisfied so long as only your external appearance is alright in your opinion. Yet the latter does not contribute towards increasing your maturity of soul, which requires work in its own right if it is to yield results. And it is necessary for you to know how you should be like and how you actually are .... This is why you should give account to yourselves more often, you should exercise self criticism and only ever use My commandments of love for God and your neighbour as the guideline .... and you will soon become aware of weaknesses and imperfections which will then surface with crystal clarity if you have the serious will to change your nature. And you should know that it has to be a serious will of your heart, not just resolutions outwardly voiced by the mouth but which do not affect the heart. You humans are still far too earthly minded with the result that unselfish neighbourly love is hardly ever practised, because a human being who is still too attached to the world always thinks of himself first before he considers his neighbour.

However, if you are serious that your soul should attain maturity then you will frankly and honestly admit your weaknesses and imperfections to yourselves and try to counteract them in order to achieve a change and to prove your serious will to yourselves, for only the serious will assures success, whereas a superficial examination will not be regarded as such and cannot signify any accomplishment for the soul either. You can certainly be helped in every way, insofar as that you will find support in your intention as well as in action, nevertheless, the actual work of improving your soul has to be done by yourselves, and this involves looking inwards and realisation, it involves the absolute seriousness of a self-examination, which then will also divulge to you where you will have to start with your work but then you will certainly be successful, for in that case you will find a high level of spiritual support. Everything depends on the serious will, and this will is valued by the One Whom you should love above all else and Who also commanded you to love your brothers, who are His children too and who also require your love. This, however, is lacking in all of you, and therefore you will repeatedly have to listen to the admonitions to look within yourselves. For if you are to be helped then you must first know where help is needed .... And only when you know yourselves, when you make an effort to recognise your nature, which is still far from perfection, will you try to reach it, even if it is still an act of a very determined will, but it is nevertheless possible with spiritual support as soon as it is established that you are of good will and sincerely strive towards attaining perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"To the humble, God gives His grace ...."

B.D. 7308 from March 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The will to serve is entering into humility, it is the beginning of victory in the battle against arrogance, which still characterizes man as a child of satan and which he should therefore fight with all his strength. Arrogance wants to rule, it places itself high above everything standing next to it; the arrogant person wants to subjugate everything and force it under his service, the arrogant person is brutal and unloving, he has all the characteristics of God's adversary which are obviously evident, and therefore he is on the path to ruin if he does not change and seriously takes action against the arrogant spirit. And he will do so as soon as the will arises in him to serve .... Serving his fellow human being is truly liberating, for then he escapes from the adversary and enters another sphere, for humility leads him to God, through humility he comes close to God and receives blessings in abundance, according to His promise: "Only to the humble do I bestow My grace ...." Humility will always prove itself in a serving will to help, the human being enters a completely different stage of development when he lives in humility, when he fights all arrogance, when he begins to recognize himself and becomes aware of his weakness of will and faults which take away all arrogance and place him in the consciousness of deepest lowliness. And accordingly he will also imagine himself to be far away from God, he will raise his eyes to Him in true humility and appeal to Him for His mercy .... But this will not be a game, not an external form but profound inner humility which therefore also makes him worthy of God's grace so that he will be strengthened in his intention to work on himself in order to remedy the shortcoming and to become more worthy of God's love and grace, which a humble person longs for and requests from the bottom of his heart. The humble person has already accomplished the turning away from the adversary, for humility is a divine quality, a degree of perfection which always presupposes the turning away from the adversary, even though the person then still has to work very hard on himself in order to become worthy of God's constant presence. But the serving love which now fills a humble person soon transforms his whole being into love, and a truly humble person soon comes so close to the father's heart that he unites with the eternal love and thus also attains perfection. As long as the human being still lacks true humility his process of maturing is not yet finished either, for only true humility draws the father to His child with certainty, which proves God's childship through true humility .... And as long as there is still a spark of arrogance in the human being, the path to this unification is still long, for God's adversary is still involved, and the battle against him has to be waged with all will and firm resolution, and it can also be waged as soon as the human being achieves helpful neighbourly love, which will then also earn him victory over himself. Only once should the human being go into himself and reflect on his faults and weaknesses, on his vices and bad habits .... And he will get away from his arrogance quite considerably if he is only honest with himself .... But this critical self-examination can be the turning point for him, because as soon as he recognizes himself and is of good will, he will turn to God in humility and ask Him for grace and mercy .... which he can then also be quite sure of, because "God gives His grace to the humble" ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power supply in the hereafter requires loving will to help ....

B.D. 7309 from March 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Everyone should strive to perfect himself as long as he lives on this earth, for once he has entered the kingdom of the beyond in an imperfect state he will have far less strength than on earth, and for the time being he will have to acquire strength through loving activity which, however, also requires strength again, whereas on earth he has the vitality at his disposal which he can use according to his own will, thus also for loving activity. Consider that only loving activity will ever bring about your perfection, that your soul can only mature through loving activity, regardless of whether on earth or in the beyond .... Consider that you always need strength for this .... You are to be pitied if you arrive over there in a powerless state and are now dependent on the help of people on earth or the beings of light in the spiritual kingdom in order to regain some strength for the time being. People can impart this supply of strength to you through loving intercession, but that is why you should also gain the love of your fellow human beings on earth, who will now include you in their intercession so that you will gain strength. The beings of light will also come to your aid but they cannot arbitrarily convey strength to you .... You must be willing to help other souls in their adversity with this supply of strength, and precisely this will to love must awaken in you yourselves, only then will you receive the necessary strength to work with love. There is certainly much adversity in the kingdom of the beyond, yet anyone who has passed by his fellow human being's adversity on earth will also be little affected by it in the beyond, because his self-love is still too great and he only thinks of his own adversity. For this reason it is far more difficult to attain a higher degree of perfection than on earth, and therefore you humans should not be indifferent but make good use of the vitality at your disposal for your salvation in the beyond .... You can truly gather many treasures on earth if only you diligently carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love, and you will enter the spiritual kingdom full of strength and light and thus immediately be able to utilize your spiritual treasures as helpers for the wretched beings who failed to gather spiritual wealth on earth and who are therefore dependent on loving help in utmost adversity. For only love can bring them help, even if their own will first has to be willing to accept this love and likewise help their suffering companions again, who, like themselves, failed to acquire spiritual treasures on earth. The adversity is great in the kingdom of the beyond, and anyone who therefore knows, who believes the reports about it, should still try to attain maturity of his soul on earth, and when he enters the spiritual kingdom he will be happy to have followed these admonitions, for he will never be able to make up for what is extremely easily possible for him on earth with good will .... He will certainly still be able to attain light and beatitude, but it will take much longer and require great effort to take only a few steps further, whereas earthly life had sufficed to enable him to attain the highest degree .... the degree of childship to God .... which, however, he will no longer be able to attain in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore live in love, do everything to bring your soul to perfection while still on earth, and one day you will be blessed in abundance and, as true helpers, also be able to carry out redemptive work in the beyond for those who, through their own fault, have remained in darkness and can only reach light and freedom with great effort ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Wisdom from God is unlimited .... inexhaustible born ....

B.D. 7310 from March 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The knowledge which can be offered to you through My spirit is inexhaustible. As long as you stay on earth you will be able to constantly increase in wisdom, but this supply will never come to an end, even if you spend eternities in the light of wisdom, for My kingdom is inexhaustible, My nature is unlimited and thus also the wisdom which constantly flows forth from Me. But you humans are still too limited to grasp such a saying .... precisely because the limitation of your knowledge is a sign of imperfection, whereas I, as a supremely perfect being, know no limitation and the same therefore also applies to the outflow of My perfect being. Thus you would be able to be taught for eternities, i.e. I would be able to address you for eternities and impart ever new wisdom to you .... and ever brighter shining light would shine upon you, in whose area of radiation you are. But as long as you stay on earth I must also take your capacity into account, because you still lack a great deal for perfection, because you are still very far away from the perfection of your being .... Nevertheless, My love for you is infinitely deep and wants to make you happy .... For this reason it conveys as much spiritual knowledge as possible to you and only ever demands a joyful acceptance from you, a desire for it, a hunger for the right nourishment for your soul. And the more thirsty you are for knowledge, the more questions you ask Me, the more joyfully and willingly I will answer you, for it is now (only) up to you to what extent you desire .... and you will receive without limitation. You are sitting at the source from which you are constantly allowed to draw, and you should make use of this, you should desire clarification about all questions which move you, because I have given you the assurance that I will also answer your questions. And you can be certain that the spring will never be exhausted, that ever new wisdoms will delight you according to your own desire. But also be satisfied when I offer you light food, because I know exactly what will be beneficial for yourselves and also for those to whom you offer the food again. I consider each individual according to his desire, and each individual shall also feel addressed by Me, which is why I truly also know what food each individual needs. But at the right time My light of wisdom and love also shines particularly brightly because I see which desire awakens in the human heart and I also want to make these hearts happy with it. You will all receive what you desire. But it is My joy if you desire and are also insatiable in this desire, for My table is richly laid and you will truly not need to hunger or starve, and everything your heart desires in terms of spiritual nourishment will be at your disposal. For the fountain of life is inexhaustible, the spring from which the living water flows is inexhaustible, My love is infinitely great and My wisdom unsurpassable .... And thus My love will still present you with many a wisdom, and My gifts of grace will make you happy and again and again stimulate you to ask new questions, and you will never be restricted by Me, because I want you to receive the deepest wisdom, yet I can always consider you according to your degree of maturity, which, however, can constantly increase and constantly reveal deeper wisdom to you if you strive for it yourselves. And you need never fear that I will remain silent if you seriously request clarification .... For My spirit guides you into truth, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Answers to questions .... Serious examination of the origin ....

B.D. 7311 from March 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

I want to answer your every question providing you are capable of completely closing yourselves to the world and its impression, thus with an utterly empty heart only yearn for My presence, then you will also be able to hear My Word without any kind of ambiguity .... for which it is absolutely imperative to put all earthly matters aside. This is also why so much is being endorsed as 'My Word' where a person's thoughts were still too involved, where this 'silence in God' had not been established, where My answer had not been waited for. It always depends on the degree of love and unity with Me that and in which way a person is being addressed by Me, and someone who completely hands himself over to Me need not fear misconstruing the communication he receives .... He will, without hesitation, be able to endorse everything as My merciful expression, and therefore he will also unhesitatingly be able to ask questions but they will certainly be mainly of a spiritual content, because a child which totally hands itself over to Me will be far more interested in spiritual than earthly questions. Yet people are still very attached to the world and often desire explanations about purely worldly things, which they always present to Me in the hope that I will give them the desired answer. And this jeopardizes the judgment of My Words, for people with predominantly earthly interests are not yet mature enough to completely close themselves off and enter into a confidential dialogue with Me, their thoughts will more likely keep digressing and return to the world from which they are unable to disconnect themselves completely .... And this makes a divine communication questionable if not entirely impossible .... Therefore, you should very seriously examine that which you endorse as 'coming from Me' and expect your fellow human beings to believe that I Myself Am the Originator of it.

Only he, who was able to establish this heartfelt bond with Me in complete seclusion and allowed no worldly thoughts of any kind to enter during his heart's association with Me, may feel certain and endorse the results of his heartfelt dialogue with Me as being completely without error .... He can also ask any question and it will be answered to him, because it is always his will not to fall prey to error and because the truth means everything to him. I speak to everyone, but whether My Word or his own thoughts come to his mind is determined by the human being's own seriousness of will as soon as it concerns questions which are not only of spiritual substance .... where there is therefore a risk that worldly thoughts creep in and thereby easily endanger the truth .... whereas, on the other hand, purely spiritual thoughts will guarantee inner composure and seclusion with the result that the answers will be appropriately clear and truthful. If you want to speak with Me then I also demand your undivided dedication to Me .... But then I will also take complete possession of you and all results of thoughts will be the outpouring of My love into your hearts .... If, however, you still share your desire for Me with the world then you cannot expect of Me that I make Myself heard by you and you must therefore very seriously examine yourselves and thus exercise self-criticism, which will always be beneficial for you if it is your will that I should address you. For the pure truth must be desired by you, otherwise you will never be able to receive pure truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Re-incarnation ....

B.D. 7312 from March 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You all should know that you cannot deliberately repeat your earthly progress as a human being, you have to make use of this unique opportunity if you don’t want to be plagued by bitter remorse one day because you entered the spiritual kingdom in an immature state. The assumption that you can repeat earthly life as often as you like until you have reached the degree of perfection lets you strive half-heartedly for perfection. As a result, this teaching is detrimental for your soul’s salvation, it is a danger, as due to this teaching many people neglect to improve their soul in the hope to make up for their failure in another life. But this teaching is misguided ....

Your embodiment as a human being is a gift of grace which you should fully utilise, because your process of development is finished once you enter the kingdom of the beyond, and any further development depends on your attitude in the spiritual kingdom, which can vary considerably .... With good will, the light beings’ active help and effective intercession by people you can still progress in the beyond and achieve beatitude, but you will need to employ far more strength than on earth .... however, you can also descend if you are completely obstinate and ill-willed at heart.

In this state it would be a truly undivine act to allow you another embodiment on earth which would never assure your spiritual progress, because free will is always decisive, and because of free will you lose your past memory. But with good will you can also attain this maturity in the spiritual kingdom, which will guarantee you a transmission of light and thus a degree of happiness, which can constantly be increased .... And then you will have no more desire for life in the flesh and to experience another incarnation on earth ....

It can happen in individual cases for very special reasons, but they should never be considered to be the norm and used as justification for the doctrine of re-incarnation. For the issue is not that people could not attain a particular degree of maturity .... because Jesus Christ died on the cross so that a human being can gain complete freedom from the form during a single life on earth as human being. It is just that the human being’s will has failed and therefore he also has to accept the consequences .... a miserable state in the spiritual kingdom, which he can neither stop nor change as he likes. Besides, in accordance with God’s will everything ascends, only the human being’s will can be regressively orientated .... And thus it would contradict God’s plan of divine order if a being would be placed by His will into a previous form which it had not used correctly. This is a misuse of a gift of grace for which the being has to give account and accept the consequences.

Re-incarnation can certainly take place in special cases, when souls of light embody themselves on earth in order to render helpful services, who express their immense love for suffering humanity by accepting another life on earth as human being in order to help people in spiritual distress. Hence it can be indeed believed that there are people on this earth who descended from above, but they themselves do not know it, and although their fellow human beings might suspect it they cannot say so for sure. But far less believable are assertions that people without any discernible spiritual mission have incarnated several times on earth already ....

The teaching of re-incarnation is dangerous for people because individual cases are being generalised, and the person’s responsibility during the short time of his earthly life will be ignored and gives way to carelessness in someone who believes that he will always be able to make up what he neglected to do .... The realisation in the kingdom of the beyond will be a heavy burden to him one day, because no human being will ever be able to make up for his neglect during his earthly life due to his own fault. He can certainly still achieve a degree of light there and increase it continuously, but he will never be able to attain the degree of childship to God, which can only be attained on earth .... And in addition, he also runs the great risk to descend even further in the spiritual kingdom if he does not take the opportunity and endeavours to ascend with the help of the beings of light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Every mentally directed thought is detachment from the opponent ....

B.D. 7313 from March 21st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every thought is blessed which applies to Me or the spiritual kingdom, for it first testifies to the inner life, the life which is to be lived next to the earthly life if the latter is to be successful for the soul. Anyone who only thinks about the kingdom which is not of this world has already taken a step towards Me, and he will also follow this path and no longer deviate from it. For the spiritual kingdom will no longer let go of anyone who has paid attention to it, because I Myself will no longer let him go once this path to Me has been taken. Earthly life as such does indeed demand a lot of thoughts from the human being, because the human being lives in the midst of the world and therefore also has to turn his thoughts towards the world and its demands .... But nevertheless, this is not the actual life which completely satisfies the human being if he is of a will turned towards Me. Only the one who still belongs to My adversary will find full satisfaction .... Therefore, every spiritually directed thought already proves the striving towards Me, and such a person can no longer be satisfied by the world alone, he will often let his thoughts wander into a kingdom which he suspects to be his true home and therefore again and again mentally returns to it. And such spiritual thoughts will also always be connected with thoughts of Me Myself, and therefore I can also take possession of the soul and hold it so that it can no longer escape Me and My love and voluntarily allows itself to be captivated by My love. Thus, as soon as a person reflects on the goal and purpose of his earthly life, as soon as he thinks about his God and creator, as soon as he tries to fathom His nature and is willing to enter into His will, as soon as he demands to be instructed correctly and truly about all such questions, his thoughts will move outside of the merely worldly life and I Myself will become the focus of his inner life .... And then I can truly also influence the human being and always with success, for free will moved him to his thoughts, and this free will also gives Me the right to take possession of his soul and to now provide it with everything it needs for maturing and perfection. Every spiritually directed thought towards Me or My kingdom is a voluntary detachment from My adversary, which I can and will then also make full use of in order to completely redeem him, for such spiritual thoughts will irrevocably be directed to the cross of Golgotha, where the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will accomplish the redemption, thus completely freeing the human being from the enemy and opponent of life .... But the fact that the human being's thoughts are directed towards the cross will always be the concern and endeavour of all beings of light which surround the human being and which also try to influence him mentally on My behalf, because the human being's will and strength alone is still weak as long as he is still under My adversary's control. However, every spiritually directed thought also gives these beings of light the right to exert their influence, and thus every soul which is only of good will is also in the constant care of spiritual guardians, and it will also certainly one day reach the goal for the purpose of which it walks across this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Neither kingdom of light nor kingdom of darkness may be proven ....

B.D. 7314 from March 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You would be able to look into immeasurable heights but also into immeasurable depths if you were given this gift, but then you would no longer be able to walk the earthly path of completely uninfluenced will, for you would have lost this freedom of will through the sight of the glory in the spiritual kingdom as well as the abysmal darkness which would paralyse you with horror in every decision of will. But both are present, and you will also be taught the knowledge of it so that you will live your life responsibly. You can therefore reckon with it, and you can shape your way of life accordingly, but you will always lack evidence, and that is good for yourselves. But one day you will experience that what was presented to you in earthly life was truth, and then you will enjoy the glories with gratitude and praise or also remember in deep remorse the earthly existence which could have released you from the torment and agony of darkness if you had used it correctly. And yet, every proof must remain denied to you, and you only have to orient yourselves according to the word of God, which repeatedly reminds you of both the glories as well as the punishments in eternity in order to motivate you to live according to God's will, which is made known to you through His word. And the fulfilment of His word is not so difficult for you that you need to fail, for God only requires love for Him and your neighbour .... in order to make you happy one day with all His glories in the spiritual kingdom. But as soon as you continue to remain unkind, as an inheritance from His adversary whom you once followed into the abyss, you will also be granted the dreadful fate of the abyss, you will eternally remain in darkness again and eternally not become free from the one who has kept you bound for eternities. And if God's word is repeatedly presented to you, it is only His infinite love for you that He wants to protect you from the dreadful fate of the renewed fall into the abyss .... For His love wants to make you happy, you who are His children and came forth from His love .... His love wants to give you eternal glories in the spiritual kingdom which are incomparable but promised to everyone who fulfils God's commandments .... which "He has prepared for those who love Him ...." God only requires love from you, and anyone can give this love to Him, and he shall give it to Him of his own free will, without the fear of punishment or the expectation of unimagined glories driving him to do so .... Love alone is what God wants from you, and His love will make you happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary's temptations by means of worldly enticements ....

B.D. 7315 from March 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

If you are craving the world and its pleasures then you will know that you are approached by the tempter who wants to win you over again for the world which you endeavour to escape from. The realm of earthly joy and pleasure is his domain and he truly governs it in a way that many people fall prey to it, for they all crave earthly and physical joys and pleasures and they will all get what they want if they pay homage to the world and accept all enticements he presents before their eyes. He cannot beguile people by any other means than through the world, for once they have chosen the spiritual kingdom they will truly not comply with his will and turn their thoughts towards him .... In that case, however, he will come to meet them through the world and its attractions and a person must be very strong-willed indeed in order to resist the temptations .... Therefore, take note that when you seek to gain worldly pleasures you are at risk of succumbing to his artful temptations and forearm yourselves to resist him. Turn your attention towards the spiritual world again with increased vigour; hold yourselves to account as to what extent you bear up against such temptations, which you can be certain to be the adversary's work who wants to turn you against God and His kingdom and therefore will not shy away from using any means to achieve this goal. Admittedly, he will not be able to achieve much with a serious aspirant apart from the fact that the human being fulfils the requirements of life he has to fulfil, since he lives in the midst of the world and should prove himself in it. Nevertheless, the decisive factor remains the feeling of the heart, for it shall not allow itself to be captivated by desiring earthly joys and pleasures, since it depends on the heart's desire as to how far the human being will distance himself from the spiritual kingdom and return to the earthly world again. The temptations by God's adversary will not stop, he will also fight for the souls he is in danger of losing until the end, he will not let up until the end from pushing the spiritual kingdom aside in favour of the material world, and thus the soul must remain determined and resist. And the more progress it has made in its striving, the easier it can defend itself and the lesser will be the risk of complying with his will again, for the spiritual kingdom will also captivate the soul and not let go of it again, if its will is inclined towards God and thus no longer belongs to the adversary but releases itself increasingly more from him .... Then the human being will no longer be affected by temptations, the world will have lost its attraction and only the spiritual kingdom will be desirable for him, the unity with God will be the soul's only and highest goal and it will certainly attain this goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sensations of body and soul during word reception ....

B.D. 7316 from March 25th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The worldly-directed human being only feels with his physical senses, whereas the spiritually striving person feels with his spiritual sense, and although the body is not aware of this the soul is in a state of bliss as soon as it establishes contact with Me in order to hear My word. And to provide the soul with this state quite often should be your constant endeavour, you should use every free minute to send your thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, and your soul will truly derive great benefit from it, even if you don't physically feel anything of an elevation of the soul. But if the latter were the case, the contact with Me would already be subject to a slight compulsion or would arise more from an egoistic urge, because the body would like to create a sense of well-being for itself and for the sake of which it only desired the exchange between Me and itself. But the will should decide completely freely, and therefore every exchange will always presuppose a willingness to make a small sacrifice as long as the human being himself is not filled with such a strong desire to hear Me and My word that this very desire drives him into contact with Me. This state is indeed the right one in which I gladly communicate with My child, however, I also allow Myself to be satisfied if I have the opportunity to express Myself to you humans at all, because I recognize the importance and urgency of proclaiming the pure gospel to people again, and because this requires the very intimate bond which the human being has to establish of his own free will. He cannot be forced into it, nor can he be arbitrarily placed by Me into a state where he mechanically only fulfils My will and accepts My word from above .... He has to seek contact with Me completely freely of his own accord and want Me to speak to him for the blessing of all those to whom he now wants to convey My word. And I will instruct him and again and again supply him with spiritual nourishment for himself and for all souls which want to satisfy themselves with the bread of heaven. And even if his senses feel nothing of a union, but the soul is delighted and enriched and delights in the gifts which flow to it abundantly as evidence of My love, which the soul feels. Again and again the human being has to seek the bond with Me of his own accord in order to be strengthened anew again and again by My supply of strength, yet one day it will experience the blessing that its own will was strong enough to establish the bond with Me and to allow itself to be addressed by Me. It will receive the reward, but the reward must never be so openly noticeable that the bond is only established for the sake of the reward. And that is why every reception of the word is always preceded by the activity of the will, which has to declare itself willing to listen and thus to accept the bread of heaven, the right food and the right drink for the soul .... And this will experience great blessings and be able to constantly mature, for My word is not without effect, My word is blessed with My strength which helps you all to attain perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Challenges of the adversary .... Jesus' fears on the mount of olives ....

B.D. 7317 from March 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You will still have to prove yourselves many times, for the temptations will not let up until the end. But you should also consider that unusual gifts of grace will make it easier for you to withstand everything, that you will also receive a significant amount of strength through the supply of My word from above, to which I have to say again and again that your soul truly feels this, even if you are physically in great weakness and believe that you are not strong enough to resist. I stand by you, I don't leave you alone, I know about your struggle and your spiritual hardship, I know about your physical hardship and weaknesses, but I have promised you My help if only you turn to Me, and I will certainly grant you this help, for I love you and don't want to lose you to My adversary who plays his game with you in an undetectable way in order to win you over. Yet don't let him have this triumph but simply turn to Me and I will help you. It is precisely the spiritual striving which he seeks to prevent and hinder you in every way, and if you know this you should use yourselves with increased strength by praying for the time being only for strengthening in your weakness .... and it will visibly come to you, only it requires you to overcome it, and this has to be mustered by your free will. But you will be granted a glorious victory, for the soul has its advantage from every battle it has passed, even if you yourselves can only register the feeling of love fulfilment towards Me; yet you will always become stronger and remain victorious over him .... And remember My work of redemption and the strong temptations before .... The adversary also tried to gain control over Me, he also tried to hold Me back from the work I wanted to accomplish, he also filled Me with a feeling of profound weakness and deprived Me of all faith in My power of resistance. And I prayed as a human being and experienced strengthening and thus became the victor over him because My will was strong to redeem you humans. And as long as you direct your will towards Me you need not fear that I will hand you over to My adversary. I will wrestle with him for your soul and truly, I will win it for Myself for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Good Friday ....

B.D. 7318 from March 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Jesus' walk on the cross and His death on the cross were painful beyond measure .... And should this suffering be made so obvious to you humans that you could grasp it, you would truly perish with horror and be unable to comprehend that a human being could endure such a measure. But it was the strength of love which endured such things for fellow human beings who were under satan's bondage and whom He wanted to liberate from this bondage. The man Jesus, by virtue of His high degree of love, saw the immeasurable suffering of the whole of humanity under satan's rule. And this took pity on Him so that He wanted to take everything upon Himself in order to reduce people's suffering and to clear the way to their heavenly father, Whom they had once voluntarily left and therefore fell into the adversary's hands. He knew about the infinitely great sin of apostasy from God, but just as He also knew that people were never able to make satisfaction for these sins. And thus this inability also meant eternal separation from God, from the father, as Whose children they had once come forth in supreme perfection. In His infinite love for God and also for the fallen brothers He sought to reunite them and was willing to pay the highest price for it .... to offer the act of salvation on the cross as a sacrifice of atonement for the great guilt of the once fallen. But the man Jesus contained a soul from the kingdom of light .... But this soul, in the form of a weak human being, had to accomplish the work of redeeming the guilt, which meant that the magnitude of the guilt was disproportionate to the degree of torment and suffering a human being was capable of enduring, and a human body would never have been able to endure it, what the human being Jesus took upon Himself had He not, through His greater than great love, also possessed a measure of strength which enabled Him to die the most agonizing death on the cross after immense suffering and pain before which would have been enough for any other human being to take his earthly life. But Jesus wanted to suffer for the sake of people, and the strength of His love endured until the end .... But the suffering was immeasurable and incomprehensible to you humans, and only because love offered this sacrifice did God accept it, and He allowed the tormentors to pounce on a pure, sinless human being as emissaries of satan and inflict ever new pain and wounds on Him in order to increase His suffering. It was truly an act of utmost mercy which can only be explained by the fact that Jesus also saw the appalling spiritual hardship people were facing and wanted to redeem them from this adversity. Earthly life will end once but spiritual life will continue, and He overlooked this spiritual life in all its agony and bondage. He knew that there was no longer any salvation from it, that people themselves could not save themselves from it, that the great debt had to be paid first, which people themselves were incapable of doing .... And this knowledge moved Him to His plan of redemption with all its torments and sufferings, with all fear and the most bitter suffering and dying on the cross. Jesus went to His death quite consciously, and precisely the knowledge beforehand increased His suffering many times over, because as a human being He had to endure the same fears and pains and thus had no reduction of them through His divinity .... For the presence of God in Him had not determined His will, which had to decide completely freely until the end, which cost the most bitter struggles and overcoming before the last act of the act of salvation took place. But He had passed the battle, He voluntarily gave His life on the cross, for He had the power to turn everything away from Himself until the end, yet He no longer used this power but suffered and died in excruciating pain in order to accomplish the act of salvation .... to make atonement for humanity before God again and to open the way to the father for it, which until then had been closed to it .... For Jesus' love for His fallen brothers was endless and this love took everything upon itself to bring them help, to redeem them from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Easter ....

B.D. 7319 from March 28th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Even if you take notice of My act of Salvation, of the act of mercy I accomplished on your behalf .... you will be incapable of grasping its full depth and significance, since on account of your imperfection your spirit is still unenlightened and only allows for occasional rays of light to flash up, which enable you to exchange the darkness with a dim light if you empathise with this greatest act of mercy .... if you deeply and inwardly look at the individual stages of My path to the cross and My suffering and dying of the crucifixion and accompany Me on this path with profoundly heartfelt love .... This will enable you to somewhat sense, if only momentarily, My immeasurable love for you which made Me make this sacrifice and you will, as it were, participate in it if your soul puts itself in this position and tries to understand what is incomprehensible to you as a mere human being. I shed My blood for you .... These Words are casually recited and truly not grasped in their profundity .... I bought back the life you lost to My adversary with My blood, with My life, and I truly paid the highest purchase price a human being is capable of paying, for the fullness of love within Me until the hour of death gave Me the strength to patiently suffer all pain and accept the most bitter affliction in order to give you humans the life you had lost back again. I died for you .... For you had deserved this death yourselves due to your past sin of apostasy from God .... that is, you stood in the midst of death, you lacked the life for which you were created .... Therefore you also lacked the bliss, for only 'life' is bliss. And I wanted to return this bliss to you and thus had to purchase your life with the greatest sacrifices only a loving human being was capable of making. However, even I found this sacrifice inconceivably difficult, for My human body was no differently natured than that of any other human being, but the burden of the cross was so heavy that I was only able to carry it with tremendous effort and love and indeed have carried it for you, My fallen brothers .... But words alone cannot describe this burden, and neither can the human being's intellect grasp the magnitude of the sacrifice; only a heart with an abundance of love is able to put itself in this position, and this heart will suffer vicariously and take the path to the cross with Me and make Me immensely happy, because a heart like that is a redeemed victim from My adversary and belongs to Me forever and because it is truly a greater than great joy for Me to know that the sacrifice on the cross was not made in vain for such souls who love Me and endeavour to follow Me. They will indeed be enlightened by a small light, they will have stepped out of the spiritual darkness and passed through the first degree of realisation, even though they will only realise the whole significance of My act of Salvation in the spiritual kingdom, but its rays of light already shine and blessed is he who can already live in its radiation while he still exists on Earth .... blessed is he who thus belongs to the redeemed and has become My child through My crucifixion ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Resurrection on the third day ....

B.D. 7320 from March 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

And you all can rejoice, for the Lord has risen from the dead .... Thus it rang out in the kingdom of the spirits as well as with My Own to whom I appeared on the third day when I had left the tomb and showed Myself to My disciples .... Deep sadness had entered their hearts for they had lost what had been their sole purpose in life throughout the time they had spent with Me on earth.

They believed that they had lost Me to death forever, since they did not and could not believe that I would rise from the dead, even though I had informed them of it before. The disciples were still earthly bound in that way and the reality of the earthly world was sobering to them, they were seized by so much fear and lamentation that I wanted to comfort and strengthen them and thus appeared to them after My resurrection .... I had given them the task of going out into the world and proclaiming Me, that is, spreading My divine teaching of love and informing people of the act of Salvation which I had accomplished for all humankind .... But in order to carry out this mission they had to be completely convinced of the truthfulness of their proclamations ....

And the act of Salvation also included My resurrection which ultimately was the crowning glory of the work of Salvation, for the people should be informed that I had defeated death, that death need never ever be experienced again by anyone who follows Me, who wants to receive the blessing of My act of Salvation and who thus leads the kind of life that I had lived on earth. Hence he will not need to fear death anymore because I had defeated death and thus also the one who had brought it into the world. And that is why My resurrection was visibly witnessed by people, that is, only by those whose degree of maturity permitted spiritual vision since My body was spiritual, it was no longer a body of flesh and therefore only visible to those who already possessed the ability to see spiritually and to whom I therefore also had announced My resurrection.

The fact that My tomb was empty certainly also surprised the other people, yet they all looked for other explanations than that I had risen from the dead .... And this teaching will simply always require a 'belief' which, however, can be acquired by all people who voluntarily step under My cross, if they want to belong to those for whom I died the most bitter death on the cross. The belief in Me and My act of Salvation simultaneously includes the belief in My resurrection, because a soul having been redeemed by My blood already has the inner certainty of an indestructible life ....

The disciples were not yet permeated by My spirit, they were still in the dark after My crucifixion, for their fear did not allow any light. And thus I helped them by means of My visible appearance but which then convinced them so overwhelmingly and made them so joyful and happy that they now thought they could easily carry out their mission and with increased strength wanted to apply themselves to the proclamation of My teaching and My crucifixion as well as My resurrection. In the days after My resurrection I was able to convey instant strength to My disciples, for the salvation of their souls had progressed and they were already able to free themselves from their previous lord, and then they unhesitatingly proceeded with their preaching ministry because they knew that they could no longer die, or that only their body could die but that they would continue to live in My kingdom, and thus death had now lost its sting for them too ....

Hence the act of resurrection was more or less first an aid for My Own, whom I had left behind in utmost psychological distress because their faith had still not reached the necessary steadfastness for their task of spreading My Word throughout the world .... But they were meant to speak on My behalf, and therefore they had to also have this convinced faith which only required their complete redemption, but then all My disciples irrefutably possessed this faith so that they were able to be truly devoted proclaimers of My teaching once their mission began ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The divine cross-bearer Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7321 from March 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Carry all your burdens and worries under the cross .... As soon as you entrust yourselves to the divine bearer of the cross you will be tangibly relieved of your burden, for He will help you carry it, or He will take the burden from you and throw it into the great burden of sin for which He died on the cross. All you humans make far too little use of this great privilege, you often torment yourselves for a long time and yet you cannot lighten the burden yourselves; but neither do you take the path to Him Who has always promised you His help, Who loves you all and does not want you to suffer. And He has said to you: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ...." Again and again you should remember His words and thus go to Him, entrust yourselves to Him in your adversity and then humbly wait for His help, for He will help you because He has promised it to you and because His promises will truly come true. He certainly knows about all your hardship but He demands that you come to Him, that you thereby testify to your faith in His love and power .... He demands your trusting devotion to Him, He Himself wants you to burden Him with your burdens, He wants to carry them for you in order to release you from them, for He can do this as soon as you acknowledge Him as the redeemer Jesus Christ, Who is one with the father, or also: as soon as you acknowledge Jesus Christ as your God and father of eternity, Who walked across the earth for you in the man Jesus in order to redeem you. And every burden is still a sign of guilt, of imperfection, which therefore shall drive you under His cross, because thereby you testify to your faith in Him and then He can rightly release you from the one who oppresses and afflicts you .... Every burden is bearable for you if you are strengthened by Him, the divine bearer of the cross, or if He helps you to carry it. For a small cross is imposed on all of you so that you can follow Jesus. And you must also take this small cross upon yourselves humbly, for it will strengthen your power of resistance and you will become strong fighters against the enemy of your souls, strong fighters for the lord too, by Whose side you will truly not fight unsuccessfully. But He will also not allow the cross to weigh you down, that it rests too heavily on your shoulders, He will always be ready with His strong arms to support you or to take the cross on His shoulders, because His love carefully watches over you so that you don't become the victim of the one who wants to bring you down. Therefore always remember Jesus' words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden .... I will give you rest ...." You need not despair hopelessly, you need only always turn to Jesus Christ and entrust yourselves unreservedly to Him, and He will hear you .... He will draw you to Himself in fatherly love, and body and soul will be strengthened by His love and mercy, which only ever seeks to make you happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Descent to hell ....

B.D. 7322 from March 31th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The more you think about the price I paid in order to purchase eternal life for you, the more you must question what happened to the souls which lived and died before My crucifixion and whose souls were still dead in the true sense of the Word, precisely because I was as yet unable to grant them life. Their souls still belonged to the adversary; they had not been bought back from him as long as I had not accomplished the act of Salvation .... Depending on their way of life these souls were also in a realm of the dead where they .... aware of their existence .... lived in a way which could not be described as 'bliss'. But the sphere where they stayed could not be called 'hell' either, where those whose conduct during their life on earth had thoroughly proven them to be Satan's followers. It was a vestibule of hell, not a place of peace and beatitude but neither a place of profound darkness and torment. Their consciousness also occasionally experienced bright moments when they were able to communicate with each other, when they remembered images from their earthly life and they also became aware of the fact that they would not stay in this sphere forever but that one day they would be saved by the Messiah, Who had already been announced to them by prophets on earth .... And the souls which, as a result of their way of life, had also recognised and faithfully served God, waited for this Saviour .... Thus I descended to them after My crucifixion .... They, too, received the knowledge of My love's act of grace and mercy, for My blood was also shed for them and I wanted to buy their souls back from their present master as well .... However, they had to voluntarily give their consent for this, consequently, I did not come to them as a radiant spirit of light Whom they had to follow on account of the compelling light, instead, I came to them as the suffering Christ with all the signs of My crucifixion, nevertheless as a human being Who had allowed himself to be nailed to the cross out of love for His fellow human beings .... They, too, first had to believe without compulsion that I was the promised Messiah; they had to follow Me just as voluntarily as My disciples did at the time of My life on earth .... They were all certainly able to suspect Who I was but complete certainty was denied to them which, however, would have determined their decision had I descended into this realm after My resurrection shrouded in light and glory, had I clothed Myself in the exceedingly radiant spiritual garment whose light no being was able to resist. I descended to hell .... All those in the vestibule of hell followed Me, for they only needed a tiny light which I gave to them through all My signs of the bitter crucifixion .... But I also descended into the deepest pits in order to also get there as a human being full of love Who had sacrificed His life for His brothers .... However, I found little credence and only a few left the tangle of depravity .... For they all were still firmly held captive by the enemy's claws who, inflamed with rage, had to recognise My victory over him and thus did everything in his power in order to keep his followers in the abyss .... because then he knew that I was stronger than him and that I had succeeded in loosening the chains of those who wanted to follow Me. He was no longer able to stop them and he will never ever have power over those souls again who want to release themselves from him for the sake of Jesus Christ. But he will lose more and more followers .... because I died for all people, and one day all people will also be redeemed from him .... For one day even he will surrender to the strength of My love, one day he will also desire My love .... Admittedly, eternities will still pass by, yet to Me a thousand years are like a day ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Perfection of God .... unlimited love ....

B.D. 7323 from April 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You can always be certain of My blessing when your thoughts rise into spiritual realms, for I am waiting for this because then I can speak to you if you want it. I will never close My ear to a spiritual request, I will never prevent you from hearing My voice, for I only wait for you to open your heart in order to let My spirit flow into you. And thus hear that I love you from the beginning with such depth that nothing can separate Me from you .... Even your voluntary turning away from Me was unable to diminish My love for you. And love always seeks union, love seeks to please and to be united with the object of its love. And thus My love also applies to you humans, as spiritual beings which once fell away from Me, with undiminished strength, and therefore it will not leave any opportunity unused, thus it will not leave out any bond established by you humans where it can give itself away. If I were to refuse you a spiritual request, if I were to remain silent when you desire to hear Me, then My love would truly not be so profound .... but then I would not be perfect either, for everything perfect knows no limit .... You only need to think once about what it means when you speak of Me as a perfect being .... Every 'limitation' would be a lack, that is, imperfection, which certainly applies to you humans but not to your God and creator, to your father of eternity. And My infinitely great love also declares that I fulfil all that can lead you closer to Me .... Thus a fatherly address irrevocably draws My child to Me, and since I long for this union I will also always comply with such a request and speak as long as My child opens its heart and ear to Me. I know no limits but I remain silent where limits are set for Me by My children themselves, for I do not force you through the omnipotence of My love. But My love constantly pursues you, even if you keep away from Me, even if you believe you can do without Me. Then I will only let a feeling of emptiness arise in you, but only ever when I know about your will that it belongs to Me. For I will not afflict a follower of My adversary with My love as long as he still rejects it with a will turned away from Me. But I know you, My children, and I also know the direction of your will. And you may believe that I will no longer leave you out, even if you temporarily release My hand and go your own way .... You will not wander far and long in your solitude, for I will follow you on your path, and as soon as you are in danger of being joined by My adversary you will, seized by restlessness, look around for your leader and protector and hastily take hold of My hand again which is stretched out towards you. For I will not let you go because I know that you keep turning your eyes towards Me and that you have already become My possession through your will. And this is My love for you, that I bless you anew every day, that I increase your strength, that I speak to you whenever you desire to hear Me .... And thus My love will guide you safely and always for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The final judgement is grounded in the love of God ....

B.D. 7324 from April 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 77

My love is meant for all My living creations, but especially for those who are still far away from Me and whose course of development upwards is still in its early stages. Eternal times will still pass until this spiritual being in the human stage will also be able to release itself from its last restraint, whereas you have now reached this stage where complete release from the form is possible for you if you use this short earthly existence correctly .... But this spiritual being is still to go the endless long course of its development, an abundance of torments and sufferings still lies ahead of it in the bound state, of which you as a human being cannot form an idea .... The higher development through the works of creation requires a period of time which is equally inconceivable to you .... The being always suffers because it is not free as it was originally created, and because its ascent development can only proceed under agonies of bondage through the world of rocks, through the world of plants and the world of animals up to the human being .... As a human being it is now given a certain freedom, both in terms of will and purely physically, for it can act and move according to its own will and is no longer subject to the law of compulsion as it was in the time of pre-evolution. The duration of a human being's life on earth is also only very short compared to the infinitely long time of that pre-development period. With good will he can easily reach his goal, the liberation from form. If, however, he lacks good will, then this is his own fault, and the punishment is then also very severe .... or also: Man creates the consequences of his wrong will for himself .... Now consider what a privileged position the human being already has in comparison to that beingness which is still to begin its course of development or has already covered a short distance of it .... Consider that this spiritual being also possesses all My love, the love of the father, Who wants to help His child to find its way back up from the deepest depth in order to one day also be able to travel the path to the father in a state of free will. Thus this spiritual essence also needs My help, it is so weak that only My help can enable it to move into ever higher stages of development, to release it from the hardest fetters for the time being and to loosen the fetters again and again according to the state of maturity which the spiritual essence has reached in the state of compulsion .... Consider that you humans are basically the same as that spiritual being, that you also had to travel the same path, that My great mercy also helped you to be able to break the first shackles before infinitely long times .... And now consider how indifferently you now exploit your freedom .... how you could easily reach the last degree of development on earth and how tardy you are to strive towards this your last goal. My mercy and love, however, is and remains the same as it was in the beginning, and this love and mercy remembers the still languishing spiritual as well as the human being and helps where it cannot help itself on its own .... But the human being can reach maturity in earthly life, and if this is not the case then his free will has failed, for which he has to answer. And the fact that he has to answer for himself is preached to him again and again through My word, so that he thus knows full well that he cannot sin 'with impunity' .... but which he does if he does not respect My word, disregards God's commandments and only pays homage to the earthly world and his bodily pleasures, thus he willingly concedes to My adversary and thus forfeits his own goal of becoming free of his last restraint. For this reason he will also meet with the fate of being banished into matter again, which is My adversary's realm .... But then you cannot speak of 'unkindness' on My part when the just punishment befalls those people, when a judgment falls upon earth which, in My eternal plan of salvation, is always imposed upon humanity when I want to restore the order which you humans have overturned of your own free will .... And even if countless people lose their earthly life in the process .... My love also applies to that being which I thereby give the opportunity to come one step closer to Me in its development. And thus only My love always underlies everything that comes upon humanity, for I am a God of love and justice but never a God of wrath and condemnation, for even the spiritual being, which failed as a human being in the last test, is now given the opportunity again to attain freedom once more after all .... For deepest wisdom and deepest love always determine My rule and activity in infinity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The light of knowledge can shine on everyone ....

B.D. 7325 from April 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every human being carries the light within himself, but whether he lets it shine is determined by his own will. It could shine so brightly that everything in him would be illuminated, i.e. he could walk his earthly path full of knowledge about the pure truth from God, all correlations could be known to him, all problems could be clarified, he could truly be 'illuminated from God' if his serious will wanted to strive for this. And this serious will consists of shaping himself into love, of changing selfish love into unselfish neighbourly love and thus of becoming absorbed in love and concern for fellow human beings and in love for God, the creator and father from eternity. Then the light in him will ignite and burn into a bright flame, then the spirit from God will break through, Who Himself is the light from eternity, Who knows everything and now also wants to communicate His knowledge to the human being, who now also listens and hears what the spirit from God announces to him. What is still a mystery to people, what seems insoluble or impenetrable to them, would be revealed to them, and in the light of knowledge people would happily go through earthly life because they now also clearly recognize its purpose, the reason and the goal and travel the earthly path with blissful hope because the goal is desirable to them. People need not walk along in spiritual darkness, they could also shape their earthly life far more brightly if only they lived a life of love. For the spirit from God can only be awakened through love, the light in the human being can only be kindled through love, the union with God can only be established through love, and to be united with God in light is truly the most beautiful goal a person can achieve on earth. Union with God must also entail the most light-filled recognition, because God is the light from eternity and because He radiates light through the human being who unites himself with Him through love. And the irradiation with divine light of love is also irrevocably brightest knowledge, the knowledge of pure truth, which has its origin in God. All people could acquire this knowledge because all people have it within themselves, because in every person lies the spiritual spark which is part of the divine father-spirit from eternity. And thus God has not closed the truth to people, He has not set any limits for them, He has the light ready for them in unlimited degrees, it just has to be ignited by the human being himself, he has to awaken the spiritual spark in himself to life, he has to listen to what this spirit from God announces to him, and he will truly already move in a blissful sphere on earth when the knowledge of the secrets is made accessible to him which only makes his earthly existence worth living. God Himself does not set limits to people's knowledge, yet the human being sets them himself through his attitude towards Him and through his observance or disregard of His commandments of love .... For it depends on a life of love whether and to what extent the spirit from God expresses itself, and this life is determined by the human being himself by virtue of his free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Justice ....

B.D. 7326 from April 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Justice will also be done to the righteous in My kingdom, for anyone who thinks and acts righteously on earth can also expect a judgment for himself from Me which will fully satisfy him. Every person should do his fellow human being fullest justice, and this means that he should treat him as a brother with whom he shares everything he has been allotted by the father .... He should treat him justly, i.e. as it is in the spirit of the father, Who loves both children equally and never wants to see one set back before the other. And this applies in particular to spiritual possessions which are necessary for people to mature their souls .... Earthly justice should also be shown to the fellow human being by never taking advantage of him or unjustly causing him harm. Yet earthly it cannot be avoided that people receive earthly goods in different ways, because this is based on My eternal plan of salvation, that the individual people's different situations in life serve to increase their mutual will to help and that voluntary giving or voluntary helping are works of unselfish neighbourly love which has to be practiced on earth for the purpose of their own perfection. Yet spiritually, helping one's fellow human being signifies even deeper love for him, after all, everyone shall be led back to the father, after all, every person shall find the path to Me. And therefore every person should regard the other as his brother who has the same right to be accepted again as My child, and no person should believe that he alone is entitled to this right. And everyone should help his brother to mature spiritually, even though the will first has to be ready for this. But the human being will have shown justice to his fellow human being if he first provides him with the means to reach perfection. How he then uses the evidence of his love is his own responsibility, but the reward of the righteous is certain .... he will be rewarded by Me in the same way, he will be given as he himself has given out .... And thus righteousness is a work of neighbourly love, that every person should be provided with what he does not possess himself but which is necessary for his salvation .... And the human being, who is allowed to enjoy it, should justly think of his brothers who are not in the same situation, and he should supply them spiritually and earthly, because he himself is also supplied by Me, Who takes pleasure in justice and blesses everyone whose thinking and actions are just, as right neighbourly love also dictates. And thus the human being in the spiritual kingdom will also be considered and blessed by Me, for righteousness belongs to My fundamental nature which you humans should conform to .... it belongs to the essence of love which you should shape yourselves into again on earth, and it is one of the virtues which were your own in the beginning, which you have to adopt again if you want to return to Me, to your father's house, as perfect again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The blessing of spiritual work ....

B.D. 7327 from April 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Active spiritual work increasingly releases you from the material world and you become its conqueror as well as its master. The more you occupy yourselves with spiritual work the more the soul releases itself from its physical form even though you live on earth, yet it raises itself into other spheres, it enters the path to its true home, it is just a guest on this earth which has not forgotten its true home but steadily strives towards it. But what does the ‘spiritual work’, which lifts you from the earth’s sphere, consist of? ....

Every thought concerning the spiritual world initiates such spiritual work because as soon as the soul grasps the thoughts which come from that world the beings of light enter into contact with it and, as you might say, enter into conversation, i.e. one thought develops into another, the thoughts lead to God and in turn open the dialogue with God and the effect is that the human being now talks to his fellow human beings about spiritual matters, that he is no longer content with worldly knowledge, that all his thoughts reach precisely into that spiritual sphere from where he is now taught, from where his soul now receives spiritual nourishment. In this manner the soul matures fully, it will persuade the body to conduct itself during earthly life in accordance to its spiritual insights, the human being will work on himself, he will live consciously, i.e. he will be conscious of the purpose of his existence and his goal and make an effort to achieve this goal. Although he continues to live his earthly life he won’t consider it the most important issue but his thoughts will repeatedly lift themselves into the kingdom which is not of this world. And he cannot help himself but work on behalf of this kingdom by seeking to encourage his fellow human beings to take more notice of the spiritual kingdom than of worldly life, he will draw their attention to the emptiness of a worldly orientated life .... he will have conversations with other people about the cross of Golgotha .... he cannot help himself but mention the Divine Redeemer Jesus Christ time after time because the spiritual kingdom captivates him as well as Jesus Christ Himself, Who takes pleasure in His children who love and strive to follow Him.

You will learn to appreciate the value of an earthly life which enables you to be spiritually active and which offers spiritual success for your soul .... Because you are guided by beings of light to whom you are assigned for care during your earthly life. And their influence will not cease and only ever relate to your soul which can only profit from spiritual activity, which will mature fully during earthly life and also is a shining example to your fellow human beings. Because a spiritually striving soul is outwardly recognisable by constantly working for the kingdom of God and always performing labours of love in God’s vineyard as it feels the inner urge to serve God and to lead other souls back to Him, because its inner love expresses itself at all times in work for God and His kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna