New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 7462 - 7548

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

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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

7462 - Fear is insufficient faith....

7463 - Who was embodied in Adam?.... I.

7464 - Using the time on earth to break free from the mould.... Jesus Christ....

7465 - Who was embodied in Adam?.... II.

7466 - Change of spiritual good....

7467 - Change of the divine word....

7468 - Presence of God.... address....

7469 - Infinitely long fall into the abyss.... Path of return....

7470 - Taking stock of oneself and contact with the spiritual realm....

7471 - Apostasy of beings from God....

7472 - Call of Jesus Christ.... serious address of God....

7473 - "Come to Me...."

7474 - Concept of time and space....

7475 - Indications of disasters....

7476 - Living faith....

7477 - (Dortmund disaster.... )

7478 - God's word - spiritual sun....

7479 - Coming of the Lord....

7480 - Death, where is your sting....'

7481 - Bonding with God in the middle of the world....

7482 - God's love and justice....

7483 - Faith and love....

7484 - Descent of Christ to earth....

7485 - Christmas....

7486 - Responsibility in earthly life....

7487 - The grace of God's direct address....

7488 - Confidence in fulfilment of prayers....

7489 - Bonding with Jesus Christ....

7490 - The soul's fate after physical death....

7491 - New Year's eve word....

7492 - New Year's message....

7493 - Reference to the end.... Renewed banishment....

7494 - Love is life itself....

7495 - Carrying the cross.... Following Jesus....

7496 - Jesus as leader....

7497 - Help of Jesus Christ to walk the earth....

7498 - Child's request for father's address....

7499 - Scrutiny of spiritual knowledge.... Calling upon the spirit....

7500 - Plan of salvation is explanation for everything....

7501 - 'I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh....'

7502 - Truth or error....

7503 - Premature return of Lucifer....

7504 - Final stage of embodiment....

7505 - Love illumination without resistance....

7506 - Jesus - God - Man ?....

7507 - Is knowledge necessary on Earth?.... Commandments of love....

7508 - Peace in God....

7509 - Spiritual need of the neighbour....

7510 - Loving father words....

7511 - Understanding spiritual problems.... incarnation....

7512 - Conscious or medial receptions....

7513 - Aim of earthly life: bonding with God....

7514a - The strength of the Word.... Daily work of improving the soul....

7514b - The strength of the Word.... Daily work of improving the soul....

7515 - Actual provision of the entity....

7516 - Redesign to love....

7517 - Task of the disciples of the end time....

7518 - Endless fatherly love seeks reciprocation....

7519 - Victory over the adversary with Jesus Christ....

7520 - New earth.... Romans 8....

7521 - Pure truth.... The Word from above....

7522 - Final reminder....

7523 - Supply of force....

7524 - Destiny conducive to reach full maturity....

7525 - Firm faith.... prayer in spirit and truth....

7526 - The free will of man....

7527 - The hallowed name of Jesus....

7528 - Spreading the Gospel.... Jesus Christ....

7529 - Duration of returning to God....

7530 - Conscious psychological work....

7531 - Distributing the divine Word....

7532 - God's endless love....

7533 - Standstill of earthly life....

7534 - Work of the spirit in man....

7535 - Love is everything.... God's word....

7536 - Right knowledge must be sought....

7537 - Increased supply of grace before the end....

7538 - Short or long lifetime....

7539 - Source of life....

7540 - God's care for the human being....

7541 - Man determines his own fate....

7542 - God's word announces His will....

7543 - Comforting Words....

7544 - Following Jesus Christ....

7545 - Jesus' work of love and mercy....

7546 - Understanding God's incarnation....

7547 - God is a kind, merciful judge....

7548 - God's endless, immeasurable love....

Fear is insufficient faith ....

B.D. 7462 from November 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

It is My will that you should not be afraid but only ever believe in a loving and almighty God and Father, Who will not leave you in distress. Fear, however, is insufficient faith. Fear does not know God's love and omnipotence Who wants to be your Father .... For as soon as you believe that I love you like a father loves his children you will also be convinced that I will not let anything happen to you, no matter what the enemy of your souls will do to you. My protective Fatherly hand is always ready to intervene when it means providing help for My child in need. And you are in need when you are afraid, be it physically or spiritually .... you are in need when you are anxious and despondent because you lack the strength of faith that nothing can happen to you as long as you turn to Me and appeal to Me for protection and help.

Yet even if your own common sense keeps telling you this, your heart nevertheless remains scared and sad, and this is where you have to improve matters yourselves .... by establishing your bond with Me as intimately as possible, with your eternal Father Who is just waiting for you to come to Me in heartfelt prayer and confide your worries to Me. I require this sincere devotion to Me in order to provide your heart with the inner calm that is still lacking in you. You have to come to Me with your every concern and in a completely childlike manner appeal to Me for help .... And I will listen and answer your prayer because I love you like a father loves his children. But you often find it so difficult to approach and discuss matters with Me .... you so often remain distant and struggle to cope with your worries although it would be so simple to burden Me with them and free yourselves of them ....

You have a loving Father Who would like to arrange a pleasant earthly life for you if only you would grant him the right to do so by forming a heartfelt bond with Me as a matter of course .... Anyone who is connected to Me will truly no longer suffer hardship; but difficulties arise as soon as you loosen the connection, because I do not tie you to Me but long for your voluntary devotion to Me .... And this is what you should demonstrate through heartfelt love and personal communication by confiding your worries to Me and appealing to Me to take them from you .... Then all you have to do is wait and it will happen as you wish .... all your worries will be taken from you. And you need not even fear if you are besieged by the powers of darkness, for they cannot harm you as long as your will applies to Me, as long as you yearn for Me and the final unity with Me .... And therefore you should only ever question your deep-down desire, and if it applies to Me you can also firmly trust in the fact that My longing for you will not allow Me to abandon you, that I will protect you from every difficulty wherever it may come from .... I want to own you one day and will not allow you to go astray as long as you yourselves also aim for and strive towards Me .... That is why every worry and apprehension is unnecessary .... You belong to Me and shall remain My Own eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Who was embodied in Adam? .... I.

B.D. 7463 from November 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You will always be directed correctly by My spirit and mentally guided into truth. I have given you this promise and it will come to pass as soon as you want to be instructed by Me Myself through the spirit. For My spirit in you is My share, it therefore knows all that which you would like to know .... In the beginning only supremely perfect spirits existed, for My tireless spirit of love created them for its own happiness. This spirit of love yearned to receive the same love in return, It yearned for a like-natured being, and possessing it initiated the act of creation, insofar as that this being came forth from Me first. From then on I wanted to share with it the bliss of creating, because it is extraordinarily blissful for a perfect being to time and again create through its will and strength the same beings in all magnificence and constant urge to love, which thus resulted in creating. And My first-created being, Lucifer or the bearer of light, experienced the pleasure of creating in the same way, and it was inconceivably happy .... I allowed it complete freedom, for it was devoted to Me in profound and purest love, I did not limit its creative power since My strength of love constantly permeated this first-created being and because its will, too, was entirely free but nevertheless utterly concurred with Mine, because its love for Me shone brightly to the highest degree .... Consequently, only like-natured, supremely perfect beings were able to emerge from this bond of love .... beings, which were true images of Me Myself, just as the first-created spirit had been in the beginning. When the division of his will started, when Lucifer, in full possession of strength and light, began to compare himself with Me .... when his love occasionally lessened and a certain amount of selfish love broke through, it also occasionally lessened the bright shine of his nature and this affected the beings as well. Nevertheless, these beings had been created through his will and thus My permeation of strength, they equally still emerged in supreme perfection but now and then also started to direct their will wrongly, since it was and remained completely free in all beings which arose from our mutual will and strength. The beings took on the nature of their creator but since My strength of love was their fundamental substance they were also divinely natured; they were perfect because nothing imperfect can emerge from Me and My strength, however, free will is part of a perfect being and this was able to develop in every direction.

Thus it cannot be said that the beings were forced to conform to their creator's nature, because the strength from Me, which was always involved in the creative process, always guaranteed that, after the first being was created, nothing inferior would emerge from its creator's will .... because free will is bestowed upon every being and this required every being to experience its own test of will. And this free will resulted in the fact that the fall into the abyss also included beings which emerged from us first, whose intense light of love should never have allowed for it but who misused their free will just as Lucifer, the bearer of light himself, whose exceedingly magnificent nature should never have come to fall because he possessed brightest realisation .... But for this reason, his fall has to be condemned even more just like the fall of those first beings .... just as, the other way round, the later created beings stood firm and detached themselves from him when they were allowed to use their right of self-determination and chose their Lord .... And one of those fallen original spirits was Adam, whose soul was entitled to embody itself as a human being due to its maturity but this nevertheless did not protect him from falling for a second time .... because once again his free will failed .... but not because he was too weak to make the right decision .... He wanted to be greater than God .... That was his original sin and it was the renewed sin in paradise .... And I wanted to create children for Myself who see their Father in Me and after whose love I longed, because My immeasurable love constantly desires reciprocation .... This love was the basis for My whole act of creation, the creation of all original spirits and later of earthly-material creations, because I want to attain this love one day, if only after an infinitely long time .... Time and again I try to make you humans understand the magnitude and profundity of My love, yet as long as you have not become love yourselves, as long as you have not shaped yourselves such that My strength of love can permeate you again as in the beginning, you will be unable to comprehend the depth of My love .... However, you should know that you are able to touch My heart, that I will fulfil your every wish, that I guide you into truth and bestow light upon you because I know that only light causes happiness, because light originates from love and you possess all My love, even if you are unable to feel it .... But time and again I will provide you with the evidence of it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Using the time on earth to break free from the mould .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7464 from November 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

The plan of redemption takes place according to a just order, every phase has to be passed through by the once fallen original spirit, and every phase has to be regarded as a time of probation for the spiritual being, which therefore cannot be arbitrarily omitted or skipped. And that is why redemption also requires a certain time which, however, can then be terminated in the stage as a human being or also be endlessly prolonged again, but which always required an endlessly long time before, until this embodiment as a human being once takes place. This time of pre-embodiment can indeed also be somewhat shortened when the beingness gives up its hard resistance and now ascends in lighter deformation, but this shortening of time is minimal in relation to the time where the being is still bound in hard form and is to free itself from it. Thus you humans lack the concept of estimation for this period of time, and you have to be content with the fact that you have already lived on this earth for endless times before you were allowed to experience the grace of embodiment as a human being .... And therefore you should value and appreciate this grace particularly highly and do everything in order to finally get rid of your last form, in order not to be begotten again into hard matter and to have to travel the agonizing path once more if you fail. You can truly speak of eternities, since you walk your path separated from God and are wretched, but you yourselves can put an end to this state, and therefore you are informed again and again of what your task on earth consists of: to redeem yourselves from a captivity which has already lasted for eternities .... You can do it, for many means of help are at your disposal, you need not have travelled the earthly path in vain, you have a completely certain guarantee for your redemption: the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself, Who ransomed you from captivity with His blood on the cross. Without His help you would truly be too weak to complete the work of redemption; but with Him you can do it, for He helps you to do so, He provides you with strength where you alone are too weak, He sets you free from your previous lord if only you have the will to let Him redeem you .... Then your earthly life can be completely finished, you can be released from all external forms and re-enter your true home as a pure spirit .... The endless time of your imprisonment has now come to an end because your will has proven itself, because it turned to the one Who alone can bring you salvation: to Jesus Christ, in Whom the eternal deity embodied Himself in order to redeem you, in order to redeem your guilt of sin, which resulted in this long distance from God .... But your earthly life is only short and therefore you must do everything in order to attain this redemption before the death of your body, so that you will not enter the kingdom of the beyond still bound, where your redemption will be far more difficult, because your free will applies there too, because you yourselves must want to find redemption through Jesus Christ. Don't let the time on earth pass without having seriously worked on your redemption, without having surrendered yourselves to the one Who alone can set you free from sin and death .... Remember the endless time you already had to cover and now make use of the gift of grace of embodiment as a human being by seeking the bond with Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross in order to end your eternity-long state of torment and to open up the kingdom of light for you, so that you can enter it after your earthly life and be blissfully happy again and remain as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Who was embodied in Adam? .... II.

B.D. 7465 from November 28th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You can come to Me in every adversity, whether you are troubled by earthly or spiritual matters, for I love you and gladly want to grant your wishes: My spirit of eternity impelled Me to create .... My love was greater than great, My wisdom unsurpassed and My power infinite .... Love, however, was strength Which wanted to become effective, Which wanted to express Itself, It wanted to create things which, in turn, gave Me an abundance of pleasure. Unable to give Itself away My love looked for a vessel to pour Itself in, that is, It created Its own vessel, since apart from Me nothing existed which could have caught My immense flow of love in order to experience its bliss. And from within Myself I externalised this vessel as a like-natured being, as My image. The fact that the same creative spirit and creative will was just as inherent in this being as in Me Myself was inevitable or it would not have been in My 'image'. It was actually My will that the being should feel the same bliss of the 'creative' act, and therefore countless similar natured beings came forth from our mutual strength of love of will .... a creative act which can only be hinted at to you humans but not explained in-depth .... But now you must distinguish between My living creations, which emerged from My strength and the beings will, and the first-created being, which My love alone externalised from Me .... This being, Lucifer, had the right to be regarded as a God-like being until it fell .... I had placed it by My side and merely required it to acknowledge Me Myself, that is, to acknowledge that I created it out of My strength .... and it would have remained the most blissful being which could have created and worked next to Me as a true image which was entirely permeated by My strength, with the exception that due to this permeation of strength it was dependent on Me .... However, this would have been a dependence which the being would never have needed to feel, had it continued to share the same will and the same profound love as Mine .... It did not comply with My request, it refused to acknowledge Me as the source of strength and thus descended into the deepest abyss .... It also took many followers along .... beings, which our mutual love and strength and will had created. The path My first-created being takes is entirely its own choice .... The path of the spiritual beings he pulled down into the abyss with him is subject to My will, that is, I prepared a path for these fallen beings on which they can and will return to Me, their Creator and Origin of eternity.

Lucifer, too, would have been able to take the same path, which I, in My wisdom, recognised as being successful, however, I once created him as a completely free being and as a completely free being he has to take the path of return independently .... He was in My image, he was not in a state of dependence on Me, because Love would never have allowed for a lessening of strength on My part .... He was My image whose free will I respect, regardless of how wrongly directed it is .... I will not force him in any way, and I will wait until he voluntarily starts his return to Me .... But as yet he is far from it .... And if it is said: Lucifer incarnated himself in Adam, then it relates to the evil which can be found in all fallen beings .... His satanic spirit, thus everything opposed to God, must go through the embodiment as a human being, and thus Adam, i.e. the embodied original spirit within him with all its evil instincts and inclinations, also had to take abode in the human form in order to discard this satanic spirit, in order to completely turn to Me again, Whom he, as a human being, was certainly able to recognise as his God and Creator of eternity. Even Lucifer would have had to take the path through matter, through all creations, should a human form be available for the purpose of a continued re-transformation towards Me .... For his still utterly untamed spirit would have burst every form, as indeed was the case when he entered the first form in order to test it .... It only consisted of soft and compliant matter which would have been unable to contain My first-created being's untamed spirit .... whereas Adam's original spirit had already sufficiently matured so that he felt comfortable in this form up to a point and he would certainly have been able to resist the temptations Lucifer employed in order to regain the fallen brother who was fast approaching the goal. Lucifer was My adversary, and he still is and will remain so until the very last spiritual being he pulled down with him into the abyss starts on the path of return to Me .... Only then will he, too, change his mind and voluntarily hand himself over to Me, but it will still take eternities until this goal is reached ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Change of spiritual good ....

B.D. 7466 from November 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

What you hear through the voice of the spirit within you can also represent as purest truth, as long as it concerns purely spiritual processes which you are unable to fathom with your intellect alone. But you must beware of ever making unauthorised changes to the spiritual knowledge which I convey to you directly .... And changes have been made .... otherwise no contradictions would arise but there would be complete agreement with everything that was imparted to you through My spirit. You humans have a particularly great need to change or improve, and thereby you can seriously endanger the truth, as has already happened and is therefore also the reason for My everlasting revelations, through which I want to restore purity and clarity, because only truth is light which can make people happy. Every deviation from truth, no matter how small, creates confusion and can therefore also endanger truth, which is then rejected or rejected at the same time as the recognized error and the human being only loses instead of gaining. Let it be said to you that I look at everyone with angry eyes who changes My word and thereby gives it a different meaning than I Myself have put into it. For it is difficult to rectify such changes again once they have taken root in a person's thinking and the person now begins to doubt where the truth is to be found .... For views will then always oppose each other, and the human being himself is often unable to make a decision. But I don't lack reasons, I don't leave it at simple assertions but give clear and distinct reasons so that the human being can recognize for himself with good will and is able to separate truth from error. And that is the first condition: a deep desire to stand in the truth .... Anyone who has this desire within himself will also very soon recognize where it can be found, and he will soon overlook the baselessness of untrue teachings and detach himself from them. But you must turn to Me with the request for inner enlightenment, for the intellect alone will not be able to solve such problems, which requires the working of the spirit. But this is said to you seekers of truth, that I will not let you walk in darkness but always kindle a light in you, because you shall possess the truth you are looking for, because you shall not become the victims of those who believe they have to improve Me and arbitrarily add what I have not spoken .... The truth asserts itself as soon as only the human being himself desires nothing but to stand in the truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Change of the divine word ....

B.D. 7467 from November 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

Only the will to stand in truth guarantees you such .... But if you want an already preconceived opinion to be truth then you are not safe from error, for then your thoughts are no longer purely spiritually directed and they can be deceived by the one who is an enemy of truth. And he truly has many opportunities to slip in and undermine an edifice of truth, because people willingly give themselves to changing or elaborating My divine word again and again, and thus human accessories are inevitable. My word usually only remains pure in the original text .... and every change is also a danger for change of meaning and truth. And in the ignorance of the processes surrounding the creation of all beingness, in the ignorance of the process of the change of beingness back to Me, one's own concepts, one's own views and one's own assumptions were often interposed into the word and thereby paved the way for error, which was then difficult to eradicate again and in the course of time resulted in a different picture which no longer corresponded to the pure truth. You ask yourselves how this is possible .... Nothing perfect, nothing pure will remain so perfect and pure among people who are still imperfect themselves and still under the influence of My adversary .... For his constant endeavour is to invalidate My word from above and again and again make the truth appear doubtful, which he also often succeeds in doing if the very desire for the pure truth is not so strong that they recognize light when it shines for them. But it will always be difficult to eradicate errors which have arisen in this way, for they take root in people's thoughts far sooner than pure truth. But you will be able to recognize it if it is your desire to be instructed in the pure truth. You will see from the correlations that and how error has crept in, and you will also be able to detach yourselves from it. For this is why I repeatedly give the pure word from above, because it is obvious to Me where the truth is in danger .... and because I know about people's actions who, with the best will and faith but nevertheless with a certain spiritual arrogance, carry out such 'elaboration' of My word which is absolutely unnecessary, because I convey the truth to you humans in an easily understandable and simple way so that it does not require any change on your part. For only an awakened spirit can distinguish truth from error, but an awakened spirit also knows the exclusive value of My word from above and would not presume to make changes to it. And you humans should only ever be grateful when bright light shines towards you and again and again chases away shadows which error signifies .... You should be grateful that I speak to you again and again in order to give you truthful information, so that you will not move into wrong thinking and then no longer be able to recognize the pure truth .... You who want to be Mine shall also walk in truth, for it alone is light and light alone is bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Presence of God .... address ....

B.D. 7468 from December 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 79

I come close to you through My word, thus I am present to you when My word sounds to you. And you should make use of this, for My presence signifies the greatest grace you can receive from Me, because you have not yet reached the high degree of maturity, the result of which is always My presence and which makes you the happiest being .... Nevertheless, I am with you or I would not be able to address you. But I know about your will to hear Me and therefore also speak to you .... I am present to you .... Do you even know what it means that you can feel Me, that you have proof of My presence in My word which flows to you from above? You are not aware of the immense evidence of grace but you listen to Me as you listen to a fellow human being when he speaks to you .... And yet, it is I Myself, your God and father of eternity, Who speaks to you in all confidentiality as a father speaks to his children. I don't leave My children alone, I make Myself known to them, I speak to them so that they are aware of My presence and thus also accept My word as an address from the father, Whom they only need to listen to in order to hear Him. And this is My greater than great love for you, My living creations, which causes Me to follow you even though you keep your distance from Me .... but I will cause you to repent, to return to Me .... You shall stop on your path which leads away from Me, you shall reflect and slowly start on the path of return .... you shall reflect on what your father speaks to you and obey what He advises and requires of you. this is why I address My children and blessed are you if you listen to Me and take My words to heart .... blessed are you when you recognize your father's voice in the words you hear and when you respond to them like children. Then My presence with you will become constant, you will want to hear Me at all times and through this will of yours compel Me to be with you and to take abode in you, for your desire for Me will also certainly be fulfilled because I love you and desire your love .... And this is My love's greatest fulfilment when you come to meet Me yourselves, when you are drawn to Me in your heart, when My love for you is reciprocated and you constantly desire to speak to Me .... Then the separation between us is truly lifted, then the child has found its way back to the father, it has taken the path of return to the father's house, it has landed at My heart and will now also remain with Me eternally. And I can only achieve this through My word from which you experience My love for you, which resonates in your hearts and which you therefore follow and thereby also feel its effect of strength .... Then you will also be and remain aware of My presence, then you will establish the intimate bond with Me yourselves, which belongs to the right relationship of a child with its father. You will love Me with all your heart and come ever closer to the father‘s heart until complete unification has taken place, until the child has returned home to the father from Whom it once took its origin.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Infinitely long fall into the abyss .... Path of return ....

B.D. 7469 from December 2nd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

The work of return is taking its course according to My eternal plan of Salvation. One stage after the other has to be covered, no stage can be arbitrarily missed out, everything takes its course according to My eternal order, the return will happen in the same way as the fall from Me had once taken place, the only difference is that this descent proceeded into infinite emptiness, whereas the return continues through all kinds of works of creation and thus the ascent is guaranteed, because My wisdom and love deem it to be advantageous. Nevertheless, it will take an infinitely long period of time before this work of return is concluded, before the fallen being may inhabit the earth as a human being again, in order to take the last step towards perfection .... These periods of time are so infinitely long that you humans are incapable of comprehending them. However, the fall into the abyss took even longer still, from the point of view of time .... But no concept of time and space existed then, to the spiritual beings which fell away from Me everything was endless .... since due to the ever greater distance from Me they also became increasingly more atrophied, thus the absence of strength of love caused a feeling emptiness and desolation, which they had never known before . And in this state all realisation began to wane, the spiritual being's thinking became confused, the beings were no longer capable of giving account to themselves as to what had happened, ever more darkness surrounded each being until it was no longer aware of itself and its substance became hardened .... until all energy of life was gone .... Only then did I take care of them again .... Only then did I let Creation arise from these no longer self-aware beings, whose spiritual substance had thus hardened and which I therefore reshaped into all kinds of different creations ....

Hence, Creation had once been the strength I emanated as a being, which was merely reshaped for one purpose: that it should serve Me according to My will, because it once wanted to dominate and as a result of this sin fell into the abyss .... Through being of service it should ascend again, albeit in a constrained will yet with the certainty of reducing the infinitely long fall downwards .... Through its service in the state of compulsion it was intended to reach step by step higher spheres again .... up to the state in which it was also meant to be of service but of its own free will, without being forced into it by Me .... for only then will it be able to take the last step to reach perfection, for it will only use its own free will correctly if it is of loving service of its own accord. The path the once fallen spirits have to cover is infinitely long but their path has been delineated by Me .... Although during the last stage as a human being there is a risk of failure, but the final test of will cannot be avoided, it has to be taken in free will, and therefore it is possible that the human being will fail .... but this will not stop Me from implementing My plan of Salvation which applies to the return of all fallen spiritual beings. One day I will reach the goal and I will do everything possible so that the human being as such will not take the path across earth in vain, but I will not force him, because his every action has to be voluntary and because he must voluntarily be of loving service if his path is to gain him success so that he, at the end of his life on earth, will be liberated from every form ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Taking stock of oneself and contact with the spiritual realm ....

B.D. 7470 from December 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You should quite often abandon yourselves to thoughts of eternity, you should leave the earth and everything relating to it behind you at times and mentally occupy yourselves with the fact that everything is transient after all and question what you should do in order to gain everlasting possessions which will last for eternity. Furthermore, you should consider your relationship with God, whether it is the relationship of a child with the Father or whether God is still far away and out of reach for you, to Whom you only rarely turn to with the right kind of prayer. You should take a seriously critical look at yourselves as to how you conduct your life .... whether it complies with God's will which is, after all, known to you: whether you live a life of love, true to His commandments .... An introspection like that will always be a blessing, even if you can only spend a short time on it but every spiritually directed thought will be taken hold of by the beings of light and answered accordingly and you will always derive spiritual benefit from it. But you should not only consider the world and its demands. For its commodities are transient and will only serve your sense of well-being for a short time but they will not bring you spiritual achievement. However, the time is approaching its end and you all still have to do much work to improve your souls, that is, you have to discard your own faults and weaknesses, for which a continuous battle needs to be waged and the strength it requires should constantly be requested from God. Therefore, you should pray ceaselessly, i.e., always direct your thoughts heavenwards and present all your worries and concerns to the Father and appeal for His blessing. Whatever you do, be they spiritual or earthly tasks, shall be done with God's blessing, and they will always benefit your soul, for God only requests your bond with Him in order to convey His strength to you which you require for the work of improving yourselves. And a constant bond with Him requires you to frequently dwell with your thoughts in the spiritual kingdom and a conscious turning away from the world. Every minute you withdraw into silence, every thought you send upwards, is one step higher to the goal, which you will then also surely reach. You should not just live an entirely unspiritual life, for then your earthly life will be a waste of time and will not result in spiritual achievements ....

However, your bond with Him will detach you ever more from the world and tie you to the spiritual kingdom, into which you will withdraw even more frequently the more insistently the world approaches you, which soon will no longer attract you, because once a soul has entrusted and joined God He will hold on to it. But it always involves an inner battle, for the world keeps the person captive with its enticements and attractions and it requires a serious will to resist these temptations and to be content with spiritual possessions, the true value of which cannot be judged by a person for as long as he lives on earth. But one day he will be happy about the treasures he acquired on earth, one day he will know that they alone are of value and that only the soul with spiritual treasures at its disposal can consider itself happy, for it will be able to work with them in the spiritual realm after everything of an earthly nature has fallen away from it and it has to relinquish all transient possessions of the world. Then it will be wealthy and blissfully happy, a worldly person, in contrast, will stand deprived and lonely at the gate to eternity, for the possessions he acquired on earth do not follow him into eternity and he will have no spiritual possessions to show .... For this reason you should think often of death and your spiritual state, and try to gain spiritual possessions on earth, which one day will constitute the degree of light and bliss when your soul leaves the body and enters the kingdom of the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Apostasy of beings from God ....

B.D. 7471 from December 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

In the beginning all beingness shone in the brightest splendour of their perfection .... It was like God .... His images were created in which the eternal godhead was reflected, in which God found His essence in the tiniest measure, for they were sparks of His radiated fire of love, they were sparks of strength which radiated from the source of strength from eternity .... These beings were infinitely blissful, they were close to the father, they constantly received the blissful strength of love and were able to create and work with this strength according to their will, which was also the will of God .... But this state of the beings did not remain such that they stood in the same will with God .... For the will was free and was not forced to direct itself towards God. It was free to turn, even from God to another pole .... And that is what the beingness did, it directed its will wrongly. But since the attainment of the highest perfection of these beings was at stake, a test of will could not be avoided and therefore they were faced with a decision .... They knew that they had emerged from God, from a creative power Which also continued to permeate them with strength of love .... But they could not see it .... whereas they could behold that being which shone in glory, which had emerged from God first and from Whose will they themselves were also begotten as beings using that strength from God .... Standing in highest realization through the light of love which continuously shone towards them, they knew about this process of creating beings through the will of Lucifer and the power of God .... But they were able to see the radiant being of light, Lucifer, while God Himself was and remained inaccessible to them. And now their will was to decide in favour of their creator and shaper from eternity .... And the will of the beingness split .... One part remained faithful to its creator, Whom it recognized as the only active elementary power, while a large part turned to the visible spirit in deluded thinking, although it did not lack realization, but it allowed itself to be dazzled by the beauty of Lucifer, Who shone in all glory as long as He was still united with God. The separation from Him, however, lasted for an infinitely long time until his being was so darkened that it was no longer aspired to by the beings as 'God' but was only regarded as a lord who had the beings under his control. But in the beginning he shone in brightest brilliance, and during this time the beingness still decided in his favour. The fall therefore already happened when the beings turned towards their radiant producer and put God aside because He was not visible to them. Only after the fall did their spirit darken, after the fall the being fell into darkness, by which is to be understood the state of complete lack of knowledge in which all spiritual beings which had fallen away from God languish in eternal torment .... But this decision of will had to take place once, free will had to be tested as to which direction it turned, because the highest perfection depends on it, the state of the being, which cannot be created but has to be established by the being itself. However, the fact that countless beings have fallen does not prevent them from once again using their will correctly (rightly) and taking the path of return to God again, but then He will have made perfect children out of the beings who will still be blissfully happy to a far greater degree than the beings could have been in the beginning as 'created' beings .... Yet endless times will pass until the being has shaped itself back into perfection again, because free will will always be decisive if the highest perfection is to be achieved .... because free will will always be tested again, which has to turn completely to God in Jesus Christ, Who is now the visible God for Whom the being longed and with Whom it will also unite in its perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call of Jesus Christ .... serious address of God ....

B.D. 7472 from December 6th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

All of you will return to your father's house and one day be unspeakably blessed .... But you will determine the time of your return yourselves .... And therefore I speak to you again and again, and I try to encourage you to do everything that you shape yourselves so far in this earthly life that you can be accepted into the kingdom of light, because without light there is no beatitude and the return into the father's house is synonymous with utmost beatitude in light and strength and freedom. You can considerably shorten the time of return, but you can also endlessly prolong it again, and I want to prevent that. That is why I speak to you again and again and make you aware of the great misery and torment of your decline, I contrast it with the glories of My kingdom and only thereby want to motivate you to strive for My kingdom with all seriousness and eagerness, for one day you will realize what it means to still have to live endless times in bondage, in adversity and torment, on this earth, but where it is also possible to attain light and freedom with good will. Don't be indifferent and don't live out your days as if you were destined for a never-ending earthly life .... Remember that you only have a short time left which is nevertheless sufficient to free you from bondage, which is fully sufficient to pave your way into the father's house and to rush into the arms of the one in Whom alone you can be blissfully happy .... And use this short time for your salvation .... Do not postpone what you should do soon, for you do not know what time is still granted to you on earth .... This is a time of grace of utmost importance, for it can suffice to lead you to beatitude, but your free will has to strive for this. The period of time you are still granted is only very short and yet it can suffice for the complete spiritualization of your soul .... But the time of your renewed battle is immeasurably long when you completely fail and you will be bound again in the creations of the new earth. Again and again I would like to admonish you to remember that it is an unheard-of grace that you are still allowed to live in order to shape and form yourselves into beings which correspond to My image, and that you are also able to do this with My support .... But you must want to be free and direct your steps to the cross, to Jesus Christ, Who will truly help you to reach your aim. This alone determines your return into the father's house, that you call upon Jesus Christ for help, for on your own you are unable to direct your steps towards the right aim. But He will help you, and your earthly life will not be an idle one if only you call upon Him, because then you will recognize Me Myself in Him and thus establish the connection with Me which is necessary in order to reach your aim .... And every day can bring about this change of nature, because you will immediately be provided with strength if you faithfully turn to Jesus Christ, Who only awaits your call in order to lovingly consider you, Who will always convey strength to you if only you sincerely desire it. Remember that you can be rid of your external form in a short time in order to then be eternally blissfully happy in freedom and light .... but that you can also remain eternally in bondage if you use your will wrongly, if you fail in this earthly life and indifferently only pay attention to worldly things but don't think of your soul which is in great need .... For sooner than you think the end is here .... For each of you the hour will come unexpectedly, because no-one knows when it is determined by My will. And therefore everyone should seriously endeavour to live such that the call of life can come for him at any time, everyone should live such that he has established the bond with Jesus Christ and can receive strength from Me for his earthly life and the shaping of his soul, Who will now be acknowledged by Me Myself in Jesus Christ when the human being calls to the one in Whom I embodied Myself, to Jesus, with Whom I united Myself, with Whom I became one, Who was only the shell in which I could shelter Myself in order to redeem you humans .... I was in Him and He was in Me .... and whoever recognizes and acknowledges Him also acknowledges Me, and after his death he will return to Me in his father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Come to Me ...."

B.D. 7473 from December 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

It is My will that you gather yourselves in prayer and lift your eyes to Me as soon as you are in distress of body or soul. Then it will fall away from you, as I have promised you with the words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you." And it is truly not difficult to turn to Me, of Whom you know that He loves you and will always love you for all eternity. You therefore also know that you will not make a wrong request if you entrust your needs to Me in all intimacy and ask Me for help. "Come to Me ...." Can I entice and call you more clearly than with these words? "I will refresh you." I want to take the hardship from you and strengthen and refresh you, I want to give you what your soul needs when you are in spiritual hardship, but I also want to provide for you earthly when you are in physical hardship, I always want to lovingly take care of you because I Myself do not want you to..., that you suffer but you yourselves create all these sufferings and hardships through your various faults and shortcomings which you should and can remedy with My strength and therefore first require strength for this, which you should receive in heartfelt contact with Me in prayer or through loving activity .... This is why such hardship often has to come upon you but it need not last if only you adjust yourselves correctly to it .... if you look within yourselves and ask yourselves where and how you are still deficient and then make an effort to remedy this deficiency. I want nothing else than that you work on your soul yourselves and provide it with the necessary maturity to open up the kingdom of light when you depart from this earth .... I only want you to enter the kingdom of the beyond as maturely as possible, and therefore you will sometimes have to go through trials where your faith is to prove itself .... The belief that I am always ready to help if only you call upon Me in the right way, that I may help you .... and praying to Me in the 'right way' only means that you intimately unite with Me and speak to Me as intimately as a child speaks to its father .... Once you have established this right childlike relationship with Me, only then will you see how easily you will be relieved of your worries, how quickly everything will be resolved and you will be released from your adversity, be it spiritual or earthly burdens which weigh you down .... They can all be taken over by Me so that the cross will not weigh you down so heavily .... For My love helps you to carry it or even takes it off you completely, as it is good for your soul .... And therefore I can only ever say to you: Establish the intimate bond with Me in prayer .... It is the easiest means to become free from your burden, and you will not send any prayer to Me in vain which ascends to Me from the depth of your heart and therefore also reaches My ear. I will listen to you and give you back the peace of your heart if you have lost it due to My adversary's influence, who knows your weaknesses very well and therefore attacks you where you are vulnerable .... And he also knows about your weakness of faith and therefore he also intervenes there. Resist him and come to Me in complete trust, Who is stronger than he is and can and will protect you from him and his attacks at any time if only you trustingly hand yourselves over to Me, so that I have full right over you towards My adversary, but whom I cannot push away as long as you still grant him the right over you and your hearts .... that you thus succumb to his temptations with weak faith. Heartfelt prayer to Me will give you so much strength that you will be able to resist him and join Me ever more closely, Who only awaits your call in order to be able to defend you against him. Do not disregard the great strength which lies in a right prayer .... Use this great grace again and again, for through a right prayer in spirit and in truth you can achieve everything with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Concept of time and space ....

B.D. 7474 from December 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

They are concepts of eternity, would you like to imagine the times since your soul is on its way back to Me, and you lack all ability of estimation for this, which is why eternities are spoken of. However, one day this state will end, one day the concept of time and space will also change for you .... as soon as you have entered the state of perfection, which no longer knows any limitation. Then everything is the same for you .... past, present and future .... and you experience everything, where and when you want it, as present, a state which you are likewise unable to imagine. But the being only knows limited things in the state of imperfection, however, all limitation is invalid when the being has become perfect, thus has returned to its original state in which it was in the beginning. This is why the soul will also be able to experience everything retrograde again as present and recognize My great love, for only then will it also grasp the miraculous nature of its course of development from the deepest fall to the highest height, and it will be blissfully happy in the awareness that it is now My child and will remain so forever. For then there is no longer any limitation, then it can stay where it wants and also put itself into the state it wants, even if it already lies in the past, because this has now become a present state for it. The concept of time and space belongs to the state of imperfection, just as every limitation is always a sign of deficiency, which you humans will also only understand once every limitation falls away from you. But the prerequisite for this is that you enter the kingdom of light .... This is also a degree of bliss in which all limited things will fall away from you, for the kingdom of light means the abolition of all limitations, it means insight through time and space, the soul will be able to stay wherever it wants, wherever it wants to be in its thoughts and whenever it wants, and as a result past events will also come alive in it because it can experience everything as present. And then it will praise and sing My eternal thanks that I have guided it back into its father's house, where the beatitudes it can now enjoy in My presence will never end and it will always be aware of My love and grace which will prepare these glories for it forever .... And then the soul will experience My act of salvation and only then will it realize what this act of salvation has meant for itself. For only now will it recognize the great love which has redeemed its great sin in order to be able to open up all the glories of the kingdom of heaven for it .... It recognizes the abysmal distance it once stood from Me, it recognizes the great grace and mercy which followed it into the abyss and lifted it up again, it recognizes the tireless patience and love on the path of return, for it also sees its former resistance and rejection towards My love .... and it trembles in holy shuddering because of My great love and mercy towards all that once fell .... It cannot but praise and glorify Him Who created it and Who saved it through His work of redemption from eternal torment .... And again and again it experiences this work of mercy anew because it thereby attains ever deeper realization of what was done to it in order to make it so infinitely blissful. And the soul, full of gratitude, will do everything in order to help other souls achieve the same beatitude, for it sees the great hardship of those who still dwell in darkness and its constant will is to help them, because the love for all unredeemed is kindled in it in view of the glory which My love has prepared for My child and will continue to prepare for it for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Indications of disasters ....

B.D. 7475 from December 11th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

Soon it will become obvious to you how transient everything is that belongs to the world, because you will hear more and more often about destruction by the forces of nature, about all kinds of accidents and disasters and the unexpected deaths of many people .... And no-one knows whether and when they might have to suffer the same fate, no-one knows when their last hour will come. Yet each person knows that they cannot take anything along into eternity .... Therefore they should let-up in their earthly striving, in their chasing after all sorts of earthly possessions, for when the hour of death arrives they must leave everything behind .... Time and again you will be reminded of this through unforeseen instances when belongings have become worthless through sudden cases of death and all kinds of misfortune. But these are all signs of the Eternal Deity's mercy which are to remind you to remember your own death as well .... All these are signs of His love, which only ever wants to advance your soul's salvation and which would like to help you take stock of yourselves and change your way of life. For everything you do for the world, everything you only do for your earthly life, merely provides you with transient goods; but the spiritual goods you offer your soul will gain you spiritual possessions again which will follow you into eternity, even if you are suddenly and unexpectedly recalled from your earthly life. For spiritual possessions are everlasting, they cannot be taken away from you and will make you very happy in the kingdom of the beyond one day .... Nevertheless, regardless of how often the transience of all earthly things is pointed out to you, you never ever try to mentally assign such destinies to yourselves but go on living as before, and time progressively moves towards the end; a limit has been set, both for the individual person as well as for all people, which no-one can ever determine but which might be the next day for him, because every individual person is in God's hand. People should always remember this and live as they would were they to know the day. Every day they should be willing to leave the earth; they should constantly increase their spiritual wealth and always defer their earthly desires, they should live in awareness of eternity and not just for the moment, since plans for the future can never be made with certainty, thus they should rather count on an early death and prepare themselves for eternity than spend every day merely striving and craving for earthly possessions, for these are and will remain transient and won't gain the soul any advantage. However, only the soul will survive, it cannot perish, and to make sure that its fate will be good, the human being should provide the soul with that which will help it progress towards happiness: .... The human being should only ever accomplish works of love, in that case he would truly take better care of his soul than he is able to do for his body. For the latter will be preserved as soon as the human being considers his soul first, but soul and body need not fear death, which otherwise will always be dreaded by a person and scare him as long as the human being on earth does not bear his actual purpose in mind. Yet anyone who takes care of his soul first is no longer afraid of death, to a certain extent he is prepared every day and death will not take him by surprise, instead he will merely consider it a much welcome change of location ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Living faith ....

B.D. 7476 from December 13th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

Every person should strive to have a living faith, to think with conviction, to keep all doubt at bay and to always draw the strength from a living faith which will make his path through life easier. A firm faith will always make a person's earthly path easily passable, a firm faith will give him security, for a firm faith also presupposes the bond with Me which will always provide the person with a feeling of security. However, only faith accompanied by love can be alive .... for only love awakens faith to life. But whoever lives in love lives in Me and I in him .... Thus love secures My presence for you and My presence, again, must also awaken faith in you to life and a living faith gives you the strength again which lets you overcome everything because you are constantly certain of My help. To believe vividly means to know in your deepest heart that what you believe is truth .... To believe vividly means not to doubt for a moment the success of what you undertake or request, and to believe vividly further means to let the strength of faith work in My will .... which will also sometimes result in unusual activity where the strength of faith is particularly strong. To stand in living faith is already bliss on earth, for the human being need no longer fear anything because he believes it or knows that there is always a way out for him, because there is also nothing insurmountable for him since he is constantly united with Me. For he can now work with My strength which is unlimitedly at his disposal if only he believes. Yet how few possess this living faith, how few are so permeated by love for their neighbour that living faith would be the certain result of it .... And without love faith remains dead, without love the human being cannot have the strength of faith at his disposal which makes him blissfully happy and able to master all difficulties. Then it will only ever remain dead words if the human being also wants to assure his fellow human beings of his faith, whereas living faith needs no words but works silently through complete conviction and inner certainty .... precisely through the intimate bond with Me, which is the result of love. This is why this inner conviction cannot be expected from a person who is devoid of all love, for he cannot believe but will far rather reject everything he is asked to believe .... he is incapable of a living faith because he lacks love. The purest truth could be imparted to him but he will not accept it because love is also required for its recognition and thus love, faith and truth cannot be separated, because pure truth can never be proven either but has to be believed and this can only happen in love. A living faith is blissful, and therefore you should only strive for such a living faith .... you should live in love and thereby give life to the faith within you, which will then also provide you with the strength in abundance to act and live on earth in accordance with faith. But only living faith is of value, a dead faith is as good as none, it neither has the strength in itself nor can it give the human being life .... The human being will fail when the strength of faith will be demanded of him one day, when he will have to prove himself and make the final decision of faith, on which his soul's fate will then depend after the death of the body .... or also the state of new banishment when the human being still experiences the end of this earth in unbelief .... Then the power of faith will prove itself when this decision is demanded of you humans .... And then the person who stands in love and in living faith can count himself blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

(Dortmund disaster .... )

B.D. 7477 from December 14th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

God's ways will not always be man's ways, God's will not man's will, and God's plan of salvation will often make people doubt His love .... And yet, God's endless love underlies everything that happens. The fact that the correlations are not always obvious to you humans should not cause you to doubt God's love and wisdom in the slightest, for what a human being's intellect cannot grasp God foresees far in advance, and therefore He can also rule and work in wisdom .... it will always serve the best of the souls which are affected by those events. For love, wisdom and power determine all strokes of fate, all events and also disasters of all kinds, and nothing happens without God's will or His permission. And that is the decisive factor in how the human being himself reacts to everything that fatefully approaches him, which is obvious to him as a clear stroke of fate .... He must by no means rebel, otherwise he would offend God's love, which he is only unable to recognize but which is always involved, whatever God may let happen .... He should only accept everything from His hand in profound humility and it will turn out well for him, spiritually or also earthly. God's wisdom is always involved and also foresees and recognizes the value of strokes of fate for people's souls. But where love and wisdom are at work a blessing must also result for people's souls, and this is very often decisive for unusual strokes of fate, even if people are thereby called away from their earthly life. For you humans don't know to what extent their souls were in danger of being lost, you also don't know what spiritual fate such souls escaped .... But God knows, and therefore He often picks up people in the midst of life for whom a further life on this earth means danger or who find better opportunities to mature in the beyond or make better use of them than on earth. His love, wisdom and power are always at work when it is a matter of saving souls from ruin, and in the last days the danger of being lost to the world and thus also to the spiritual kingdom is very great .... And then follows banishment into matter .... a far worse fate than being called away into the kingdom of the beyond, where maturation is still possible and higher development can continue, which was suddenly interrupted on earth .... In addition, fellow human beings are often to be addressed and startled out of their rest .... For there is a dangerous indifference, and it is only a blessing when people become aware of a sudden death so that they reflect on their purpose of earthly life and their own attitude towards it. For you should always bear in mind that every day can also be your last, and you should ask yourselves to what extent you are well prepared when the hour of departure suddenly approaches you .... You cannot ask yourselves this question seriously enough, how you would fare in the event of a very sudden passing away .... And such a question will be helpful for your soul work, for you all don't have much time left because the end is near, but none of you knows whether he will still experience the end or whether he will already be called away from earth prematurely .... You should deal with death from time to time, for you all have to pass through its gate to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's word - spiritual sun ....

B.D. 7478 from December 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

The spiritual sun shines in your hearts when you hear My word .... And it illuminates everything and dispels all darkness. The spiritual sun is the light from above which emanates from Me Myself and shall find reflection in your hearts so that it will work on and in you. The spiritual sun originates from the source of all light, from Me Myself, Who is the source of love, light and truth and Who constantly flows out to all beings in the entire universe, to all earthly and spiritual beings who open themselves to let My light of love flow into them. And where this sun now shines all darkness is eternally chased away, i.e., people who stand in the light of love of the spiritual sun also stand in realization, and all spiritual darkness has departed from them. And the human being feels good when he has escaped the darkness, even though he does not feel the great earthly grace as does his soul, which is happy that it has escaped the darkness and entered the circuit of My sun of love. But My sun shines for everyone, only those who flee its glow and voluntarily seek out the night will experience nothing of the benefit of the sun's rays, and therefore no ray will shine for them to show them the way out of the darkness. And thus My word from above sounds to all, but not all expose themselves to the benefit of the divine word, not all desire its rays and allow themselves to be illuminated by them. Many continue to walk in darkness, they avoid the divine light of love, they don't listen when a light is brought to them through My messengers, when the divine gospel is proclaimed to them; they turn away and continue to walk in spiritual darkness and therefore cannot be happy in their hearts either, for the darkness will always deprive them of all cheerfulness, the darkness will depress them even if they walk in the world in the glow of the dazzling lights which, however, don't spread brightness in their hearts. They could bask in the rays of My divine light of love, they could be immeasurably blissful, and their soul would also feel it when it is illuminated by rays of light which enlighten everything in it and make it appear transparent, which was previously still confusion and darkness. The soul only feels at ease in the rays of the divine sun of love, it feels My radiance as a blessing and would like to constantly stay in this sphere, yet the human being's will is decisive as to whether the soul comes into its own or not, for the human being's will alone determines that it stays in the light of the spiritual sun or steps out again into the shadow of darkness where dense darkness surrounds the soul. And therefore the human being cannot be forced to listen to My word from above and make it his own, because free will always has to decide whether the human being opens himself to the rays of the divine sun of love or whether he closes himself off and flees the light .... to his own disaster and ruin, for the soul can only feel at ease in the light, and every dark state is a state of torment for it. But the spiritual sun constantly sends its rays out into the darkness, and every being which desires light can enter its realm and it will feel bliss in abundance, for My sun of love radiates brightest light, and where there is light there is bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 7479 from December 16th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

Prepare yourselves for the coming of the Lord .... For He will descend to earth again, He will come in the clouds on the day of judgment, and He will fetch His own into His kingdom of peace and bliss. But He will no longer be born of a woman, yet all who belong to His own and persevere in all tribulations until the end will behold Him, only His own will behold Him and they will be blissfully happy. His descent to earth once took place for the salvation of people from judgment, from satan's bondage, and it will take place again and become a judgment for those who do not believe in Him and are still voluntarily in satan's power .... who do not allow themselves to be saved by Jesus Christ before the day of judgment will dawn. Yet this coming of His will mean deliverance for His own, for they are in great distress and cry out to Him out of great need that He should take them away from earth. And He will come in power and glory but remain invisible to the rejected, who will only experience the process of the rapture and, full of horror, recognize the hour of their end. But they will not change, for they cannot free themselves from their lord nor call upon the one Who would have power over that lord and would also use it if only a call from the heart to Him would sound .... The coming of the lord is near .... Only a short time left which will be a time of great hardship for you, for the forces of darkness will rage to such an extent that even the believers will find it difficult to stand firm, and because of them the days will also be shortened so that they will not fall prey to the oppressions of the prince of darkness. For the darkness is again as great as it was when God Himself descended to earth in order to redeem people .... The same darkness is spread over the earth, and people walk along in the night of death and do not seek life either, for they would still have the strength to come to life, but they walk along indifferently and do not know what awaits them in the coming time. Judgment is near, and it will bring death to men or life .... Yet life can only be found with God and with God, and therefore God will grant life to all people who want to remain His own, and He will descend to them in order to bring them salvation again from utmost adversity. He Himself will come on the day of judgment, He will judge the living and the dead .... He will raise up those who believe in Him, and they will be allowed to behold Him and live .... they will be caught up still in the body to be allowed to live on the new earth one day .... But He will also judge those who are dead in spirit and assign them the place to which they belong according to their spirit .... For the time is fulfilled, and all of you should only live in expectation of the day which will come as surely as one day follows another, which will bring Himself and cause rejoicing and gladness in His own .... but which also signifies judgment for all who are His opponents and will also remain so for a long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Death, where is your sting ....'

B.D. 7480 from December 17th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

And your end will be a blissful one if you die in Me, in your Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, Who has promised that you will not taste death if you have a living faith in Me .... Then I will come and take you to Me into the spiritual kingdom, and your hour of death will just be a change of environment .... Your soul will exchange earth with the spiritual kingdom and be indescribably happy, for all heaviness will fall away and it will trustingly follow Me with burning love, because it has recognised Me as its Redeemer, Who is waiting for it at the threshold to the spiritual realm. Why are you afraid of death? .... Through My death on the cross and My resurrection I have taken the sting out of death, I have bought you life with My blood, and this life you will then take up and never ever lose again.

As long as you live on earth you dread your hour of death .... and regardless of how it may appear to your fellow human beings .... your faith in Me in Jesus Christ will give you a happy ending, even if it seems otherwise to your fellow men, for I alone Am also Ruler over death, and I know whom I can grant eternal life .... And he need not fear death and its horror any longer, for I died the excruciating death for him, so that My Own will be spared, who follow Me and thus want to be and have been true confessors of Jesus Christ on earth.

Take My Words seriously and believe that I Am also a Lord over death and that I can ward off all horrors from someone who has become My Own through his faith and love. And even if his body seems to suffer .... I determine the degrees of pain, and truly, My love will not give the person more to bear than he is able to carry and as is necessary for his soul. This is why I was able to convincingly say 'Death, where is your sting; hell, where is your victory ....' For I remained victorious over the one who had brought death into the world, and I will truly let My Own have a share in this victory, which I gained over the price of darkness .... I will grant a happy hour of passing away to those who hold on to Me and remain faithful even in times of struggle and of hardship, for I will also give them the strength to endure and to prove their loyalty for Me. And the greatest victory on earth is to follow Me in firm faith until the end, and this faith will be bestowed upon you by your love which alone brings forth a living faith.

Therefore, you who endeavour to live a life of love need not fear the hour of death, for it will only mean an entry into another world for you, and you will gladly leave earth and exchange its domain with the kingdom of light and blissfulness. You will cross over in peace and harmony of soul, you will not have to pass through any darkness but in a garment of light may enter the kingdom which belongs to Me and promises you glories which you have never seen or experienced before. For if you have found Jesus Christ He will lead you into His kingdom Himself .... into the kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bonding with God in the middle of the world ....

B.D. 7481 from December 18th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

In the midst of the world's hustle and bustle you should often seek My spirit, i.e. send up a heartfelt thought to Me that I will not let you go alone but can always make you happy with My presence .... In the midst of the world's hustle and bustle .... for you are constantly claimed by the world and can easily entangle yourselves in its bonds .... And therefore you should not lose the bond with the spiritual world, which alone is worth striving for and in which I am the ruler from eternity. And you cannot get lost if your thoughts keep wandering to Me, for then I will not leave you but hold you firmly by My hand, and wherever you go and stand I am with you, and you can safely go all ways even through the hustle and bustle of the world. But who remembers Me even in the world? There are only a few for whom I stand higher than the world, and therefore only a few will consciously enter into the bond with Me. These are My own who carry Me in their hearts, who remember Me at all times and who can therefore also walk safely through the world's hustle and bustle because they always have Me as their companion. But this requires firm faith in Me and love for Me which makes them constantly long for My presence. And only a few ever have this faith and love for Me. But these are to be praised happily, for they are the ones who are close to Me and whom I will protect on all their paths. The majority, however, regard the world as their God and only hope for everything from the earthly world and strive with all their might for its goods and treasures, believing that they will then possess everything their heart desires .... And yet, such people only acquire transient values, they are not spiritual wealth, they are only pseudo goods which pass away with the person's death, which he cannot take with him into the kingdom of the beyond. Yet people don't want to know anything about this, and thus they value earthly goods far too highly and use all their strength to acquire such transient goods which are of no use to them for their souls and their salvation. And these people will not send up any thoughts to Me when they are in the midst of the world's hustle and bustle, for their God is this earthly world with its goods, and they have completely devoted themselves to it. And thus I cannot be present to them either, for every person has to long for My presence, he has to consciously establish the bond with Me, which, however, does not happen with the children of the world because the world keeps them tied to My adversary, who is also the lord of this world. And yet, even a thought of Me would suffice for Me to take the human being by the hand and lead him through this world to another aim: that I would direct his eyes spiritually once this bond has taken place .... But I do not use coercion, and I can only ever advise people to seek My presence and to secure it for themselves .... so that they will attain beatitude on earth already and one day in the spiritual kingdom, in the kingdom which is not of this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love and justice ....

B.D. 7482 from December 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You need never fear Me as a heartless Judge Who mercilessly condemns you even if you deserved it. Although My justice must manifest itself with every judgment, My love will nevertheless have a mitigating say and never pitilessly condemn you because it cannot help itself but to forgive, to rectify and to place a healing hand on wounds a person has inflicted upon himself through his sins. For the soul has caused all calamities, all pain, all hardship and suffering itself, and it is not that I have judged it because of that, but it has condemned itself of its own free will, it has created the state itself it now finds itself in. And My justice prohibits Me from lifting it out of this self-created appalling situation if it does not desire it for the sake of Jesus Christ .... It is certainly condemned but it has chosen its own condemnation .... It should always be recognised that I Am not a 'punishing' God Who thus imposes such punishments upon the sinner as atonement for his sins, but that this state of punishment was voluntarily striven for and entered into by the sinner and that I, on account of My justice, cannot give him a better fate than the one he has chosen for himself of his own free will. I take pity on the hardship such sinful souls find themselves in and My love would truly like to create a better fate for them, yet once again it is a matter of free will, which neither My love nor My justice will infringe upon .... The soul itself must want to escape its hardship and it must .... because it is too weak on its own to accomplish its will .... call upon Jesus Christ for strength and help .... This is the only path the soul can be shown, then My mercy will manifest itself and, for the sake of Jesus Christ, all sins will be forgiven. If, therefore, a last 'Judgment' is spoken of, it should not be understood as an act of punishment by Me, which might question My mercy or make My infinite love appear doubtful .... Rather, it should be understood as establishing the order, as straightening-out the wrongly directed state in which humanity in particular but also all bound spirits find themselves in during the last days, when people, through My adversary's influence, run riot and live in a completely God-opposing way .... Then My merciful love will intervene again and put everything right .... but it cannot provide the soul, which has failed as a human being, with a different fate from the one that it has voluntarily aspired to. This is indeed a judgment but not one based on My wrath, instead I banish the spirits back into a physical shell with profound compassion, because justice prevents Me from providing these spirits with a blissful fate .... Yet one day this fate will be theirs too, one day free will shall also make these spiritual beings inclined towards Me, and then I will be able to seize them and permeate them with My love without it being rejected .... For although My love is infinite .... justice is also part of My Nature, and this will come to the fore when the time is fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faith and love ....

B.D. 7483 from December 22nd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

Only rarely do you feel so strong in faith that you cheerfully and calmly go through hardships which approach each of you humans but impress you in a completely different way .... precisely because of your strength of faith. Anyone who has a deep and living faith will not let himself be so impressed, for he always knows that someone is ready to help if he asks Him for it ..... He firmly believes and this faith gives him strength. But anyone who is anxious about his adversity, be it of an earthly or spiritual nature, is still very weak in faith and therefore does not take the path to the one Who can and wants to help him, or he approaches Him with a hesitant heart, always in doubt as to whether he will be helped. And this also impairs God's will to help, because firm faith in Him is the first condition to be able to intervene without fail. How easily people could go through earthly life who only possess this living faith and trustingly turn to God for help .... for the depth of faith also makes direct dialogue with Him possible, which always finds an open ear and always the father's willingness to help His child. As long as this firm unshakeable faith is lacking, there are also limits to His will to help, because this is anchored in the law of eternal order, that faith emerges from love and eternal love can only express Itself when It finds an open heart .... if a heart therefore glows with love .... or also: As soon as a loving heart calls upon God for help, it is also convinced that it will be helped. Love and faith are inseparable, for one emerges from the other .... faith comes alive through love, but love presupposes faith in a being Which has to be loved once It has been recognized through faith, and this love will always give birth to a living faith in a God Who is full of love, wisdom and might and Who also wants to express Himself in His love, wisdom and might. And the human being will speak to this God full of trust and present all his needs to Him .... And he will find a hearing with God, God will draw close to the human being full of love, He will take the human being's fate into His hands and guide him on the right path, He will take everything from him which oppresses him, He will not let such faith be put to shame but will do to him what he asks for .... for God has promised His help to everyone who believes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Descent of Christ to earth ....

B.D. 7484 from December 23rd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

In the midst of sin I came to earth and My soul felt the torment of the impure sphere in which it took abode. For My soul came from the kingdom of light, it came from a sphere where everything was pure and bright and clear, where it was blissfully abundant, where it could create in freedom and strength according to its will .... it came down to earth where everything was dark, unfree and weak, however, (and) full of demons which sought to oppress My soul everywhere and at all times. For it was satan's kingdom into which I descended because I wanted to redeem people from their bondage, for they were bound by him and were under his control .... But I was free according to My soul and yet willingly submitted Myself to all laws to which people who lived on this earth were subordinated. And the reason for My descent was My overwhelming love for you humans who once had fallen away from Me and obstructed your path of return and therefore needed a saviour Who would make this path of return free for you again. My love for you was immense and did not diminish even when you once fell away from Me .... My love looked for a way out for you so that you could find your way back to Me, your God and creator from eternity .... My love for you was that of a father Who never ever wants His child to be separated from Him forever but tries everything to win it back again in the shortest possible time in order to induce it to return to the father's house. And this love also found a path and paved it Itself so that you, My living creations, could enter this path and walk it with the aim of reaching your God and creator, Who wants to be and remain your father forever. I Myself descended to this earth and took abode in the midst of My creatures who had become sinful in order to redeem them from their sin. I took abode in the midst of sin, for all people had become sinful, all people were beings who had once fallen away from Me, whom arrogance and lust for power had driven away from Me into the abyss, but from which they could no longer rise without help. Now I offered them My helping hand after My love had already been active to such an extent that they, embodied as a human being, only needed to take hold of My hand in order to be safely lifted up from the abyss to the height, to Me Myself, from Whom they had once distanced themselves of their own free will. I descended to earth, I took on a human form and lived as a human being in the midst of people, except that I was pure and constantly came into contact with sin, which tormented My soul unspeakably because I Myself was without sin. And these torments were indescribable .... but only to be understood by a pure, sinless human being, as there is rarely one on earth, for the original sin burdens every human being, but the human being Jesus was free from it, Whose cover sheltered Me Myself, Who wanted to accomplish the act of salvation in Him. And I could only shelter Myself in a pure sinless cover, for My divine fire of love would have consumed everything which could not withstand Me and My strength of love in purity and love .... But I shone through the human cover, and this happened through His preaching and miracles which were intended to testify to My divinity to people and made the mission of the man Jesus recognizable. For My soul remained pure and sinless, and thus My spirit was able to work and also show itself in all fullness externally, and the deity of the man Jesus could be recognized by every person who came close to Him. For I Myself, the eternal deity, worked through My spirit in Him and everything the man Jesus did I did in Him. But every sin would have made the working of My spirit in the form it happened impossible. Yet My fellow human beings' sins tormented Me unspeakably but also gave rise to My act of salvation, for this was intended to release people from the sin which satan had brought into the world and which had to be redeemed in order to redeem people from My adversary's power. For they themselves were too weak to free themselves from his power, because he has a right over the souls which once voluntarily followed him to the abyss. But I give them the strength to release themselves from him, which I previously acquired through My death on the cross and which I impart to you who desire to become free from him. I ransomed you from your lord through My death on the cross so that you can detach yourselves from him if you want to claim this sacrifice of Mine for yourselves, so that you want to turn away from him towards Me and cannot be prevented by him if only this is your free will to belong to Me for eternity. That is why I descended to earth, for humanity needed a saviour from its adversity. Humanity walked along in darkness and sin pressed them to the ground again and again, they were unable to rise without help. And now I have brought this help to people through My descent, through My sacrificial death, through the act of salvation which has been accomplished for all people who ever walk the earth. I lived in the midst of sin and finally took all sins upon My shoulders, I bore all your guilt of sin as a pure, sinless human being and thus went to the cross .... And I have thus redeemed the whole world from death, for everyone who only wants can be saved .... Anyone who only wants to can detach himself from My adversary, he can become free and enter bliss in light and strength, because I died for this on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christmas ....

B.D. 7485 from December 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

All the angels in Heaven were jubilant and rejoiced when I descended to Earth in order to redeem humanity. They knew that their fallen brothers would forever have been irretrievably lost had I not taken pity upon them, had I not searched for and found a way which enabled them to return to Me .... And the thought of knowing that their fallen brothers were saved again, after an infinitely long time of anguish in bondage by the hostile power, made them very happy. I took pity on the human race which was incapable of releasing itself from this power, which was in dire need of help, which needed a Saviour to make

Amends for their immense guilt, Who would accomplish the act of atonement for the human race, being powerless to do so themselves .... And I sent My Son to earth .... I Myself descended to earth in order to redeem humanity and had to achieve this in a human form in which I Myself took abode in order to accomplish this act of Salvation because as 'God' I was unable to suffer, thus I would not have been able to remove the guilt which obstructed the path to heaven for people. For this reason the boy child Jesus came into the world, in whom sheltered a soul of light which subsequently prepared for Me the human abode as a place I could dwell in to be able to accomplish the act of Redemption for the human race.

All the angels in Heaven hailed Me when I entered the shell of the small boy child Jesus, when I humbled Myself to deepest lowliness and fully permeated the boy child Jesus with My divine spirit, so that many different miracles happened at the time of His birth. All events in nature and with the infant itself indicated the extraordinary mission which had to be accomplished by this infant, and the people around Him also recognised the light which shone forth from Him; they knew that this light came from above and shone brightly. And they thanked Me on their bended knees that I had sent them the Saviour Who was to release them from utmost adversity .... For those who were devoted to Me with love also felt their spiritual distress in the midst of the heartless world, which was My adversary's realm .... And in the midst of this sinful world I embodied Myself, I encountered sin and heartlessness and had to prove Myself as the human being Jesus in the midst of this world .... I had to stem My abundance of light and adapt My soul to the sphere it lived in .... in a manner of speaking I had to let go of the 'light' .... but I did not let go of the 'love' in Me .... This flared up extremely intensely for the suffering brothers who had fallen so low. And this love gave Me the strength I needed in order to be able to accomplish the act of Salvation as a human being .... Love made Me descend to earth, and love impelled Me to spiritualise My body completely, so that body, soul and spirit became as one and thus were able to completely unite with the divine love Which sheltered within Me, Which had chosen My body as an abode in order to suffer and die as a human being on behalf of the sinful human race; in order to remove its guilt and to open the gate into the kingdom of light again, which was and remained closed for all beings due to their apostasy from Me .... until the day of My crucifixion, of My great act of mercy, which opened the gates again and cleared the path into the Father's house .... to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Responsibility in earthly life ....

B.D. 7486 from December 25th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

As soon as you take the path across earth you will exist in undreamt of heights, compared to the abyss you found yourselves in after your apostasy, after your fall into deepest darkness. Truly, only a few more steps have to be taken by you, compared to the infinitely long path you have covered already .... You only need to take a short stretch of path ahead of you in order to reach the goal that was given to you an eternity ago: to be permitted to stay in close proximity to Me as a child of God, to be able to blissfully enjoy the glories of heaven, to be intimately united with Me as it was in the beginning. You are close to your perfection when you may enjoy the grace of the final embodiment as a human being .... and after a short time of testing your will can enter this very kingdom of glory which I promised you when I said 'Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him ....' You can reach your last goal in this very short earthly life, compared to the time which lies behind you .... But you can also fall abysmally low again .... you can return to the places you left an eternity ago with My help in order to travel the path of ascent. If you consider that the long path of your preliminary development might have been futile, that you will have to take the same, infinitely long lasting path again .... if you consider that you will be forfeiting My kingdom and its magnificence for the sake of short physical pleasures by allowing your soul to starve in favour of your body .... then a great sense of responsibility should make you strive twice as hard in order to reach your goal while you are still on earth. You should do whatever it takes in order to attain My kingdom and its glory, in order to escape the fate of a renewed banishment and to conclude your process of development, so that you will be released from the form and able to enter the kingdom of the beyond .... Only a few more steps need to be taken and you will have succeeded.

Gather all your strength once more and don't regret the difficult ascent .... comply with My Words, do whatever I say to you, try to fulfil My will, and you will thank Me forever that time and again I convey this serious admonition to you in order to protect you from a repeated fall into the abyss. I incessantly appeal to you and try to awaken your sense of responsibility; strength will continually flow to you through My Word, My love is constantly striving to help you to progress, so that you will cover the last short path with My support, so that you will not become too weak in order to complete your pilgrimage .... Time and again I will guide you to a source from which you will be able to draw from My water of life to gain strength and vigour on your pilgrim's journey .... Time and again I will make you aware of the agonising state of a renewed banishment, only to encourage you to follow your goal, to establish the bond with Me and to venture the last short rise at My side, which will surely not be in vain but will truly lead to the goal as long as you make a serious effort to reach this goal. It is not My will that your earthly path should have been futile, it is My will that you should soon be able to enjoy total freedom in light and strength .... I want you to return to Me as My children, to desire with all your heart to escape the abyss and to belong to Me, Whose children you will have become once you have overcome the abyss. I want to know you as blissfully happy, I want you to work in light and strength and freedom, so that you fulfil the purpose that was designated to you from the very start but which presupposes your change from a 'living creation' into a 'child' of God, which you should thus accomplish in earthly life. This is why I constantly speak to you and exhort you to heed My voice. And I will pursue you with My Words until the end. For I don't want My living creations to be wretched. I want them to become and remain blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The grace of God's direct address ....

B.D. 7487 from December 26th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You are granted the immense grace that I Myself bend down to you and address you as a child is addressed by its father, but you are unable to assess the value of this great grace .... You take My address for granted and are not aware of the greatness of the gift of grace which you are allowed to receive from My hand every day. Nor would you be able to bear it if you grasped the deepest meaning of My address, for you still live in a very earthly sphere and yet make contact with the spiritual kingdom because My greater than great love provides you with this bond. For in order to be able to hear My address you have to be connected to Me, because you establish this bond yourselves of your own free will, therefore I lean towards you and speak to you .... which presupposes a voluntary devotion to Me. And then a miracle of My love takes place .... you can hear Me, you can hear My speech and always feel the love of your father in heaven which expresses itself to you in such a way that it speaks to you. For My words are now also words of love and mercy, words of concern for you and, arising from this, words of urgent admonition and warning, because the father cares for His children and He wants to help them at all times .... You humans should live on earth according to My will; and if you do so you will also fulfil My commandments of love for God and your neighbour, and you will receive strength in various forms, and then I will also be able to address you Myself and convey the strength from Me directly to you .... And in order to encourage you again and again to fulfil My will, therefore I speak to you and personally inform you of My will. As long as I can speak to My children, as long as they open their ears and hearts to Me when I want to speak to them, the direct supply of strength which you humans need so much is also possible .... For you cannot ascend without help, you will only ever move on level ground, and the ascent will be too difficult for you, which the final aim requires .... But you must take the path upwards, you may not remain on the ground, for the aim is above and you shall reach it. And therefore I speak to you from above so that you lift your eyes to Me, so that you behold Me and strive towards the aim which I Myself want to be for you. And therefore I want to win your love first, I want to ignite this love in you through My address, and then you shall leave everything behind and only want to belong to Me for time and eternity .... I want to win your love and therefore speak to you, for you shall feel My love in My words and reciprocate My love in your hearts until the heart is completely filled with love and I Myself can take abode in it in order to make you eternally happy. My infinite love expresses itself through My word, which I convey to you again and again, through which I want to win you, which shall make you happy temporally and eternally and which shall lead you to Me, Who is the word of eternity. Again and again I want to address you, even if you cannot grasp the magnitude of this gift, but one day you will know what the transmission of My word has meant for you. And blessed is he who has accepted it, blessed is he who listens to it and puts it into practice .... blessed who accepts My word and moves it in his heart .... For he will still experience the blessing of it as long as he lives on earth, he will be seized by My love which will never let him go, and he will constantly unite with Me until he will never be able to separate himself from Me again, until he is inexpressibly happy in constant union with Me. Therefore try to imagine your father's profound love, Who again and again sends His word to earth, Who again and again addresses you in order to win your hearts, Who bends down to the smallest and lowest in order to make it happy through His word .... Listen to it, move it in your hearts and live it out, and you will experience your father's love ever more, He will touch your hearts and they will return His love, you will come to Me of your own free will and unite with Me, and you will be blessed and remain forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Confidence in fulfilment of prayers ....

B.D. 7488 from December 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You can always live in firm faith that I will hear you if you pray to Me in spirit and in truth .... And even if help does not come immediately it will not fail to arrive, for I will not leave any prayer unfulfilled which is sent to Me in spirit and in truth. But I also often have to test you as to whether you persevere .... Therefore you should not waver in your faith, you need only wait with certainty that you will be fulfilled and I will truly not disappoint you. Again and again I tell you that you should be firm in your faith, and one day the time will come when it will be easy for you to muster this faith in My certain help, and then you will also have overcome the world. But you still have to struggle for this faith, you will still get into situations where only a right prayer in spirit and in truth will bring you help. And I often let these hardships come upon you because I don't want to achieve anything other than such firm faith. You should never think that I could deny you your requests .... you should be completely certain that I will fulfil them, and the easier it will be for Me to help you in every adversity. For I too am bound by law .... not that I have a higher power above Me which prevents Me from doing what I want, but the law of eternal order, which has Me Myself as the author, forbids acting unlawfully, and a firm faith belongs to the law of eternal order and therefore also carries the strength within itself .... You only ever need to think that I am your father Who loves you, and you only ever need to imagine an earthly father who is unable to refuse his child any request .... How much more likely will your father in heaven grant His child's every request who trusts Him and seeks to gain His love .... You can go through earthly life quite safely and carefree, for whatever still weighs you down I will surely take away from you as soon as the time has come .... as soon as your faith is alive, so that you are fully convinced and simply expect My help .... Then it will also be given to you .... You only need to pray and then wait .... But your prayer must not be a lip prayer which does not reach My ear. Even short heartfelt words with which you present your hardship to Me are enough, and they will certainly reach Me and be heard. But the weaker your faith is, the longer I will have to disappear, and this will cause you to doubt My love or My might, and then your faith will become increasingly weaker, because every doubt has a negative effect but will never increase your strength of faith .... therefore you can safely rely on My help, expect it if you have sincerely appealed to Me for it. And let it be said to you that I want to win My child's love for Me and that I therefore already do everything in order to win its love. And love always wants to give itself away .... My love for you, however, is exceedingly great, it only ever wants to give and make you happy, and it will truly not deny itself to you. For this reason, however, it will also grant your every request if you make this possible for Me yourselves through undoubted faith. Therefore constantly strive for such faith, again and again imagine My infinite love for you and know that it will grant you everything, even if it sometimes slips away in order to achieve your even more heartfelt appeal, which is always a prayer in spirit and in truth .... Such a prayer always reaches My ear, and such a prayer will also always find fulfilment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Bonding with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7489 from December 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You may speak the name of the lord at any time, and you will always find a hearing with Him, because He only waits for you to turn your thoughts towards Him and He can lower His ray of love into your hearts. Because to the latter it belongs that your hearts open, and this happens by turning your thoughts to Him. Every spiritual thought is a connection of you with the kingdom of light. Every thought of Him, your God and father in Jesus Christ, is a bond with Him, which is the most valuable thing for you at any time, because every bond brings you power and light, which your soul feels even beneficially, even if your body is not able to feel anything of it. That is why you should turn to Jesus Christ even in the smallest needs, because you always establish the bond with Him, which will never remain unsuccessful. And the many small needs in human existence should only ever cause you to turn to Him .... because He wants you to remember Him always and everywhere, and because your bond cannot be intimate enough, you want to experience great blessings from it. You should come so far that you only go your ways with Him, that you entrust everything to Him, that you do nothing without Him, that you ask Him for advice, whatever you do .... that you no longer walk alone, but in constant company of Him, Who wants to be and remain your guide on your earthly life path .... because then you will also safely reach your aim. And even if your concerns are small .... the bond with Him is the only important thing, and even the smallest concerns shall cause you to do so, and your father will be pleased with you, with whom He desires to be connected for all eternity. For you had once voluntarily separated yourselves from Him and must therefore voluntarily return to Him again .... In your thoughts you have to turn to Him again, from Whom you once strove away in complete blindness of your thinking. But as humans you cannot be forced to do so, and that is why you stand in the world with free will, which you can now also direct towards the world and its charms, but then you yourselves are still very far from God, Who however wants to win you back for eternity. And every thought, which you turn to Him in the middle of earth life, is a beginning return to Him, which is now to be striven for more and more seriously, i.e. that you lift your thoughts more and more often to Him, from Whom you once went out. For this reason, however, the freedom of will also remains with you, because you are to find and go the way to the father out of love; He does not want to force you to do so, because only love is the only binding agent which re-establishes the old relationship as it was at the beginning .... Love alone connects the child with the father, the creature with the creator from eternity .... And God wants to possess this love from you humans, and He therefore entices you in every way and courts your love .... and whether this happens through hardship of all kinds, He seeks to persuade you to join Him, which will then also take place in love, which the father will now prove in many ways so that He wins the child's entire love and the union can now take place which eternally unites the child with its father. Let your thoughts wander upwards again and again, to Jesus Christ, your God and father from eternity .... And your life will soon take place more spiritually, you will easily overcome earthly life with all its difficulties, and you will soon live only for the spiritual kingdom, for the kingdom which is your true home and into which you will enter when your earthly course is finished ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul's fate after physical death ....

B.D. 7490 from December 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

After death you will enter a completely different world than earth, but you have the possibility on earth to shape this world such that it will make you happy and you will gladly replace your life on this earth with it. For you can acquire a kingdom of light and beatitude for yourselves if you live an appropriate way of life on earth, if you readily accomplish your psychological task and gather possessions for the spiritual kingdom. Then the world which you enter will truly be a kingdom of bliss, you will not stop rejoicing and marvelling and would never ever want to return to earth again, if this were at all possible.

Thus you yourselves create the world which will receive you after the death of your body .... And therefore you should live responsibly on this earth. For you can also enter a dark and barren kingdom where you will be miserable and which you nevertheless will be unable to leave at will, since your free will aspired to this kingdom while you lived on earth. This, too, was your own affair; it was your own will, for your way of life on earth was such that your fate in the spiritual kingdom could only result in torment and constraint, in darkness and weakness.

Yet either way you will enter a different world, a spiritual kingdom, where all earthly goods will be lost to you, where you will only find what you had spiritually acquired for yourselves on earth. And therefore it is a dreadful state for souls which had not acquired any spiritual goods at all, which had only tried to obtain earthly goods and therefore entered the kingdom of the beyond entirely destitute, where it will then be extremely difficult to attain spiritual possessions, albeit it is not impossible. For the world they occupy now is comparative to their state of soul .... It can mean that the soul continually wanders through dry and barren places where it can't find anything at all to satisfy its hunger by which such souls are constantly tormented .... which can only be satisfied with gifts of love .... with a supply of strength obtained through loving intercession for such souls.

This is why a soul can already be called blessed if it is followed by kind thoughts beyond the grave and if it has done good works that follow it into eternity .... But poor and needy are the souls which have not earned their fellow human being's love, which are followed by unpleasant thoughts and have to suffer them far more than you humans on earth can possibly imagine. Therefore, always let kind thoughts follow all deceased into eternity, take pity on them and help them find their way out of the first darkness, never leave them alone but often remember them kindly, it will make them feel good and they will experience it as a flow of strength, as a little help on their path of ascent, which they can only travel if this help is granted to them.

The soul creates its own fate which will await it in the kingdom of the beyond, and in order that it will be a beautiful and pleasing one you shall work for it while you are still on earth, you shall acquire spiritual possessions and always carry out deeds of love, for such deeds will follow you into eternity and amount to a spiritual wealth with which you can work for your own and other souls happiness .... with which you can increase your bliss at any time and impart strength to other souls so that they, too, will walk the path of ascent and be able to become blissfully happy one day .... even if this path of ascent will require a lot of strength and effort, but with good will it is nevertheless possible to progress if they receive help from their spiritual friends and from people on earth who always remember such souls in their prayers ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New Year's eve word ....

B.D. 7491 from December 31th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

You must seriously consider the thought that you are close to the end .... regardless of whether it is only your own end or that of the whole of humanity, because the time has expired which was made available to you humans in this period of redemption in order to release yourselves from the control of God-opposing power. You must familiarize yourselves with the thought that you are approaching the end. And you should prepare yourselves for this end. You can only be warned and admonished through the word of God, Who has instructed His prophets and servants to announce the end to you in His name, and you should take the divine word seriously and draw conclusions from it, you should give account to yourselves as to how far you are prepared when the end suddenly and unexpectedly reaches you. And you will have to admit yourselves that you still lack much for perfection and that you still need much help which only one can provide: Jesus Christ, the saviour from sin and death .... Where you lack, He will help, and if you go to Him with all your faults and weaknesses, with sins of every kind, and appeal to Him, He will release you from them, and you can now calmly await the end, you have turned to Him and He will now no longer let you fall. You yourselves are too weak, even if you are of good will .... you require an influx of strength which shall also strengthen your will, and this can only be conveyed to you by the saviour Jesus Christ, the saviour from sin and death, Who only awaits your call in order to be able to take care of you, in order to release you from His adversary's power, in whose chains you are until you have called to Jesus Christ for His help. He alone has the power over them, He alone can redeem your guilt of sin, He alone can strengthen you in the will for perfection, and He alone will do all this if only you approach Him for it when you call to Jesus Christ .... For with your call you surrender to your God and father of eternity, Who embodied Himself in Him on earth in order to accomplish the great act of salvation in you .... to redeem you from His adversary. You should think of all this when the near end is predicted to you again and again, when you are admonished or warned by the divine word .... Then you should only ever know that you will be pointed to Jesus Christ, and you should follow this advice .... And it will only be to your advantage. You will be doing your soul the greatest service you can do for it, for the soul will then have to deal with its fate in the kingdom of the beyond when the hour of its end has come. And if a blissful fate should await it, it will only find it at the side of the divine redeemer, but without Him the kingdom of beatitude will be closed to it .... And you can firmly believe that you are standing before the end .... You can believe that one day the time will become present which has been announced to you since the beginning of this era, that one day the earth will experience an upheaval because one day everything will have to be made anew again, so that the further development of all spiritual substances will continue, so that everything will be straightened again and the spiritual substances will be integrated into the creations of the new earth according to their state of maturity again .... This time has long been predicted and it will come with certainty, for the time is fulfilled and you all have to reckon with an imminent end if you are not called away into eternity beforehand ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New Year's message ....

B.D. 7492 from January 1st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You will continue your path of life under My guidance if only you want to remain faithful to Me until the end. Then you need never fear having to walk your path alone, I will be your constant companion and this means that you can walk completely carefree, that you will always strive towards the right aim and also reach it, because I Myself guide you by My hand and will not allow you to deviate from the right path .... For you entrust yourselves to My guidance, and this means that I Myself take responsibility for you. Then you need no longer fear an opposing force, even if it repeatedly tries to harass you, but through your devotion to Me, through your will that I may be your guide on the path of life, you always give Me the right to isolate you from him, to place Myself between you and him and to calmly guide you away from him towards the eternal aim. As soon as your will is only seriously directed towards wanting to belong to Me you are relieved of all responsibility yourselves, then every path is determined by Me and truly so that it is good for you that it leads towards the right aim. And you must always have a firm support which you find in Me .... you are too weak on your own and like swaying pipes which the storm is able to bend and which you cannot withstand; you need a strong staff and a support to hold on to, you need a faithful father's hand which grasps you and no longer lets go, which guides you over all dangers, which always protects you wherever you go and stand .... You need a brother who is strong and takes you into His protection .... And I always want to be this brother for you, the companion, the friend, the guide and protector in every adversity of body and soul .... I will be your beginning and your end, your first and last thought, I will be everything for you, your God and creator and your father, and you shall cling to Me in love and faithfulness .... And your path will always be the right one, wherever you go in earthly life .... it will lead to Me, to your father's house, it will lead to the father's heart, for I Myself draw you and because I long for you I will never leave you again until you have completely become Mine, until you have returned to Me, your God and father of eternity, from Whom you once took your origin .... I will not rest until this return has taken place, and therefore I will no longer leave you alone on earth either as soon as you have expressed your will that you want to belong to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reference to the end .... Renewed banishment ....

B.D. 7493 from January 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

It has been amply proclaimed to you humans that you are approaching difficult times, time and again you have been admonished and warned to stop and change your conduct into a God-pleasing way of life .... Time and again it has been pointed out to you that your soul will be in great danger if it suddenly has to give up its earthly life and enter through the gate to eternity .... Imminent Judgment has been announced to you, the spiritual and earthly upheaval of earth .... your attention has been drawn to the renewed banishment on the Day of Judgment. You have been exhorted to eagerly work at improving your soul in order to avert this fate of a new banishment from you .... But you listen to it and yet do not seriously believe that everything that has been predicted might come true .... You have no faith, and without faith you don't have the right sense of responsibility towards your soul, which suffers dire adversity .... For only a few more days remain which, however, would be enough to provide it with a certain degree of maturity if this were seriously aspired to. People lack faith and even the believers harbour slight doubts when the near end is being mentioned to them .... even the believers don't want to accept unreservedly what they are told about the end, although it comes from above. And you must keep your freedom of will, you may not be coerced, and so the days pass by without any achievement for you as long as you do not willingly strive to attain spiritual maturity. Yet then you will no longer doubt that which you were foretold .... As soon as you spiritually strive of your own accord everything you were expected to believe will also become a certainty for you. Then you will also be able to confidently inform your fellow human beings as to what time it is and that the end is near ....

Only someone who is convinced of it will also be able to proclaim the near end with conviction and everything else which humanity is approaching. Only a few are certain that the end is near, for they recognise the signs of the time and are able to recognise it because they look at everything from a spiritual point of view and thus also consider that the time of the end has come. You humans should pay attention to the signs which were announced long ago. Then you will also realise the hour in which you live and it should not be difficult for you to believe in an end and in everything that is associated with this end. Whether you like it or not, you don't have much time left .... Only, the believer will still endeavour to draw a spiritual benefit from this information, whereas the unbeliever will not even utilise these last days, which he will bitterly regret one day, if he is not granted a renewed banishment, which is such a dreadful fate that the human being should do everything in his power in order to avoid it. This is why he will be informed of it time and again, the knowledge will be conveyed to him as to what will happen to the souls which fail during their earthly life and which will no longer be admitted into the kingdom of the beyond because the time has come to an end .... This knowledge should motivate them to eagerly work at improving their soul. But only a few people believe in it, and proof may not be given .... For this reason countless souls are at risk of losing their earthly life and, at the same time, having their substances dissolved again for a new process of development through the creations of the new earth. They would still be able to avert this danger from them during the last days but they must voluntarily work at improving themselves, they must .... if they think that they cannot believe .... consider the possibility that it is true what they are told and subsequently live accordingly, and they would gain a considerable plus for their souls and not get lost when the day of Judgment has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love is life itself ....

B.D. 7494 from January 4th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Only in love will you find true life .... Love awakens you into life, and love maintains your life forever .... For he who lives in love lives in Me and I in him, and since I Am Love Itself and the Life of eternity, everything that loves must also be alive .... My fundamental nature has to be in everyone who practises love .... You will have escaped death forever once love has awakened you to life, for then you will also have escaped the one who brought death into the world because of his heartlessness. Anyone who has love is also alive .... Life, however, is constant use of My strength, life is constantly requesting this strength and using it in accordance with My will. Thus no human being who loves and is therefore alive can be inactive any longer, for he will always use the strength permeating him in line with My will, which is also his will, because love and life always signify union with Me Myself .... And therefore it is possible for the human being to attain his soul's full life on earth already if he makes an effort to live in love, if he unites with Me and constantly receives strength from Me, which then also reveals 'life' .... a state of constant blissful activity.

This person will never ever need to fear death again for he has overcome it, even if the person seems weak and incapable of earthly activity in the eyes of the world, but his soul is no longer constrained, it is free and can work and create in freedom which, however, will always have a greater spiritual effect than an earthly one, for this relates to the true life .... Life on earth can nevertheless be a state of death if it only describes the body's degree of life, which can decline at any day so that the state of death will then overcome body and soul and life will be eternally lost. It is the life of the soul which should be taken care of, and this purely happens through a life of love which provides the soul with strength and thus endows it with true life that lasts eternally. Love alone provides you with such life, and your soul will be happy to have emerged from the state of death into the state of life, where it then can and will be constantly active because the steady influx of strength no longer allows for further inactivity or immobility, because it works and is effective in My will and this work consists of helping those souls to salvation who are still in the state of death and, due to their weakness, require help. This work is accomplished by the soul even if the body is oblivious of it, for it carries out its own activity which is independent of the body but which will not let a soul rest once it has come alive through love. Only love is true life ....

If, however, you work for My kingdom you will not lack love either, and you need only ever try to increase your strength, you need only ever practise love so that ever more strength will permeate you and then you will be able to work consciously and unconsciously for the benefit of the souls who suffer hardship because they have not yet found the true life. All work carried out by you on such souls are indications that you have found life yourselves, and every such effort will also be blessed, for life brings forth new life again, and what you save from eternal death will bear witness of you and your life, for you would be unable to do anything if you had not found life already through the union with Me and My constant influx of strength into you .... You are alive and will live forever .... And you will work in accordance with My will and therein find your own bliss while still on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Carrying the cross .... Following Jesus ....

B.D. 7495 from January 6th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

To live as My disciple also means to humbly carry the small cross that is imposed on you humans for the benefit of your soul .... Following Me is associated with taking the path to the cross as well which, however, will be bearable for each one of you because you can always call upon Me to help you carry your cross .... And you will not appeal in vain .... I will take your cross from you or ease your burden; I will not let you carry more than you are able to endure ....

But you have to at least accept a small burden or you would not take up 'My discipleship' which, after all, is of utmost benefit for your soul ....

To live as Jesus' disciple is a really great advantage for the soul, for then it will endure much suffering and thus improve itself while still living on earth, it will enter the kingdom of the beyond purged and thus will have already purged itself of much which would only be an obstacle to beatitude, for the soul has to be purified if it is to wear a garment of light, and thus enter into the kingdom of light. And one day it will be grateful to Me that it was allowed to rid itself of its impurities whilst still on earth, but this also entails travelling the path to the cross, carrying the small cross with which I burden every human being who wants to be My true disciple, who wants to accompany Me on My path to the cross and remove part of his guilt of sin himself while on earth. He will find forgiveness of his guilt, all sins will be remitted to him, for I died on his behalf on the cross, but his soul's state can vary in its degree of light, and in order to render the soul translucent all impurities have to be removed, it has to clear away what it is capable of removing itself, and thereby it will only increase its own degree of light which it otherwise has to acquire in the beyond through deeds of love for the souls who are in need of help ....

The soul will indeed find forgiveness of sins through the Redemption of Jesus Christ, and that means that it will also enter the kingdom of light; but the varying abundance of light depends on the work the soul performs on itself, which happens through deeds of love and endurance of suffering. That is why every soul is burdened with carrying a cross and therefore it should not fail. It has to carry it patiently or appeal to Me for relief, and I will truly not leave it without help .... As soon as you turn to Me the burden will become perceptively less, for I want you to call Me since I, as the bearer of the cross, always want to walk by your side in order to support and strengthen you when the burden appears to become heavier for you .... Then, by all means, you may look for the One Who wants to take the weight off you, Who will place the burden upon His Own shoulders in order to release you from it .... Yet you should not dispose of the cross entirely if you want to be true followers of Jesus, for He carried the heaviest cross on your behalf because he had accepted all of humanity's guilt of sin and carried it until the end of His path .... It was often too much for his strength as a human being but He carried it for love of humanity, which He wanted to redeem from the consequences of all sins the human race languished in. And thus you, too, should carry your cross with love for Me in Jesus Christ until the end of your earthly life, and you will gratefully realise the advantage your soul has gained by 'following Jesus' when it enters the spiritual kingdom with an abundance of light and freedom, because it will have already removed all burden of sin during its path to the cross, because it enters purified through the gate of eternity into eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus as leader ....

B.D. 7496 from January 8th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Where is your path leading to if you have not chosen Me as your leader? .... This is what you should ask yourselves time and again and desire nothing other than My becoming your leader, to Whom you can entrust yourselves and safely walk by His hand through earthly life. And truly, you will always be led correctly, you will not take wrong paths and distance yourselves from the goal, you will always take the right paths by which you can reach the heavenly kingdom, for then you will be travelling the path to the Father's house, to your eternal home. But you have to request My leadership .... I won't impose Myself on you, I will not try to influence you against your will to take or avoid these or those paths .... I want to be asked to be your leader always and everywhere .... I want you to appeal to Me that I should guide and lead you across all uneven paths, and I want you to entrust yourselves to My guidance without resistance, that you will follow Me on the path which I precede in order to guide you to the eternal home. For only one path is leading to it, which is steep and requires exertion, it necessitates strength, a firm staff and support for your safe passage ....

Just let Me always be your leader and you will soon be incapable of going wrong, you will not need to worry that the path will lead you astray or become impassable for you and your failing strength .... If I precede you, you can follow without worry, for I know the best way to the goal, and I will truly shorten the path for you, clear it of all obstructions, carry you across all obstacles and always take you by the hand so that you will reach the goal safely and without harm. But you have to entrust yourselves to Me without reservation, you must not hesitate or fear to be guided wrongly, for you will never be able to find a better leader than Me in earthly life, regardless of how many loyal friends you find amongst your fellow human beings, but they nevertheless don't all know the path of ascent which leads to Me .... And this is why you should always just keep to Me, but then don't worry any longer, for once you entrust yourselves to Me I will reward your confidence and take you into My protective care on your earthly course of life. And you will barely notice your progress, for walking next to Me also means receiving My strength, being able to hold you by My hand and thus effortlessly covering the ascent, on account of which you live on earth. For this path has to lead upwards. As long as you walk on even ground, your path is not the right one, since your goal is up above and accordingly it also requires strength, which you can always receive from Me if you have chosen Me as your leader for your earthly course of life.

Yet this life is hard if you walk alone or give My adversary the right to join you, who will know only too well how to embellish the path and fill it with temptations, so that you won't notice that it does not lead upward but into the abyss .... Then you will be in great danger, for you will prolong your path of return to Me or make it entirely impossible, for I cannot be found below, and the path that is leading through lovely meadows, which is easy and travelled by the children of the world, is not leading to Me but inevitably into the abyss, from where it is incredibly difficult to ascend and will take an endlessly long period of time again. Nevertheless, you have to choose the leader yourselves; you need only ask Me to assume guidance over your earthly life, and I will be with you and displace the other one, when he wants to join you. For if you call upon Me as your leader you will also be relieved from all responsibility, then I will act on your behalf and direct and lead you onto the right paths, so that you will safely reach your goal: that you will return to Me in your true home, that you will enter into your Father's house where I Am waiting for you in order to unite with you again for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help of Jesus Christ to walk the earth ....

B.D. 7497 from January 10th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Every human being needs the help of Jesus Christ if he wants to reach his aim in earthly life: to establish union with the God and creator of eternity, with his father. He is still far away from God when he begins earthly life as a human being .... For he has to establish unity with Him of his own free will, and this will therefore first has to decide in favour of Him, which requires a certain struggle which can also have a negative outcome. The human being must learn to recognize that there are two masters who want to possess him and that his own will is decisive as to which master should now take possession .... One master already has a certain right to him but cannot force him to remain with him, instead he must release the human being if he himself wants it and turns to the other master .... But a long battle can precede this final decision, because the former does not relinquish the soul without a fight but still struggles throughout earthly life for it to remain attached to him. Yet God Himself also fights for every soul, albeit in a different way than His adversary .... He knows that the human being has to be helped in this decision of will because he himself is too weak to direct and use his will correctly. And so that the human being's will can be strengthened, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself died on the cross under dreadful torment and suffering in order to thereby acquire a strengthened will for people. But he has to ask Jesus Christ for the benefit of this strengthening of will .... He absolutely has to take the path to Him and obtain the necessary strength from Him for right will and right action. Thus he must first want to use his earthly life according to God's will. In this way he already confesses the right lord, and then he will also be helped in every way .... Only through Jesus Christ is the path to the father .... And therefore the human being on earth first has to gain knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation. And this knowledge is conveyed to him by the gospel, the good news about the path, the truth and the life .... the divine teaching of love, which is a clear guide to first attain right thinking and then also to muster the will to travel this path with the help of Jesus Christ .... For the good news teaches love, love recognizes Jesus Christ and also knows Him .... love establishes the union with Him, the supply of strength is assured, and the path to the father has been taken and also safely leads to the aim, to the final union with God, Who embodied Himself on earth in Jesus Christ in order to prepare people's path to Him, their God and father of eternity. But if the human being wants to reach the aim on earth, this also means a fight against the lord, who also has a right to him and does not want to release him .... The battle requires strength, and strength can only be obtained from Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... Without Him the human being is unable to fight the battle victoriously, he will always be defeated and his will will also be so weak that he will not be able to resist the adversary, he will be defeated by him, he will not be able to rise because he lacks strength .... And therefore he must call upon Jesus Christ and appeal to Him for strength and the supply of strength .... and he will not call in vain, for as soon as he is serious about escaping the adversary's power Jesus Christ stands beside him as a fighter, and he will truly be and remain victorious, for for this He died the bitter death on the cross, and He paid the purchase price for all souls which desire to come to Him .... Thus only the will is necessary, and in order for this to become strong the human being must also appeal to Jesus Christ and he will truly experience the strengthening of his will. The human being comes into the world without knowledge, then he will be offered all kinds of knowledge and then he must inwardly decide for what is right .... And as soon as only his will is good he will also want what is right and turn to a higher power to help him to always recognize and do what is right .... And then he will receive the right knowledge about Jesus Christ, about His divine teaching of love and about the path he has to take in order to attain his aim in life: the union with God in Jesus Christ .... which will re-establish the relationship which existed in the beginning .... that true images of God surround Him and create and work according to His will, which is now also the will of all His children ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Child's request for father's address ....

B.D. 7498 from January 11th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The power of the spirit fills your hearts as soon as you desire to hear My word, and I will never remain silent in the face of a request which proves My child's willingness to serve Me. I will speak to him and through the child to all people who want to listen to Me. It is a gift of love from the father Who knows His children in adversity and wants to help them .... It is a gift on My part which you don't deserve but which My infinite love offers you in order to help you in spiritual adversity. My word resounds in infinity and you humans may hear it if only you open your ear and heart to My word, if you, desiring to hear Me, enter into silence and listen to what your father says to you. You cannot hear My word without this inner desire, otherwise My words will only resound in your ears and not be able to touch your heart. But I want you to listen to Me and will therefore bless everyone who opens himself to My words, for this signifies an illumination of strength for the human being which he needs more than necessary. He is in a state of complete weakness, for he is still far away from Me and can only gain strength if he receives it directly from Me .... And this includes My address, because thereby he enters into contact with Me and can now also receive unlimited strength. But he has to establish the connection himself through heartfelt thoughts and prayer .... Then he will hear My voice, even if it sounds to him indirectly, when My word is conveyed to him through My servants on earth. Then he will feel addressed by Me, he will hold a dialogue with Me because he has sought and established the bond with the one Who now addresses him in the most loving way, just as a father speaks to his child. All of you should often give Me the opportunity to communicate with you directly in speech and counter-speech, you should present all your questions, worries and concerns to Me in your thoughts, you should speak to Me like children about everything that moves you and I will answer you, even if you don't receive My answer straight away because you are not always able to hear Me. But you will receive the answer as surely as a father fulfils the requests of his child who loves him and whom he loves far more than you can imagine. All you have to do is enter into silence from time to time and unite with Me in thought, and you will always derive the greatest spiritual benefit from such a bond, for it always signifies a direct reception of strength which often only your soul feels but which constantly progresses in its development as a result. I always want to feel your childlike love which expresses itself in your desire for Me and My word. And then I can also fulfil your desire, I can speak to you and you will be able to hear Me and also understand Me. And I will always tell you that My love for you is endless and that it only ever desires your return to Me, to your father's house .... Again and again I will tell you that I will not rest until you have started this return journey, until you feel the same longing to return home to your true home .... until you have the desire to unite with Me forever and to be and remain blissfully happy with Me and near Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Scrutiny of spiritual knowledge .... Calling upon the spirit ....

B.D. 7499 from January 13th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You ought to think about what you are expected to believe, you ought to examine it, and always call upon God for help that He may enlighten your spirit, that He may give you the understanding and the right power of judgment in order to be able to distinguish truth from error. You should not believe blindly, don't accept everything presented to you as truth, for God's adversary is diligently at work because it is in his interest to undermine the truth, to intersperse the truth with error and to lead people into thinking wrongly .... And so it is understandable that it must be checked, for an examination must be made wherever two different opinions are endorsed, because both together cannot be true if they deviate from each other. But you are incapable of conducting such an examination by yourselves as long as you only use your intellect, because the latter can easily be controlled by God's adversary. First, your spirit must be awakened and then you will not find it difficult to examine spiritual knowledge. Therefore you should always pray for an enlightened spirit first, for bright and clear thoughts and judgment of what you are expected to believe. And you will soon become aware of the fact that not many teachings will stand up to serious scrutiny as soon as it is conducted with a call upon God for illumination .... You will discover contradictions, misguided interpretations, indistinct concepts will confuse your thoughts and distortedly portray the image of God, your Creator and Father of eternity, you will not always be able to reconcile love, wisdom and power with what you are being taught, with what you are expected to believe. And any teaching which casts doubt on any one of these .... love, wisdom or power .... is wrong .... You should always apply the yardstick that God's nature may not be portrayed distortedly if a doctrine lays claim to truth. However, God's adversary will always aim to present God in a way that it will be difficult for people to grant Him all their love. Therefore he will make an effort to distort God's nature, to portray an unclear image of Him and, particularly, let God's love appear to be doubtful, because people will then stop believing in God and refrain from doing what is the most important in earthly life: to establish a bond with God, which can only be established through love. Everything that is suitable for making you doubt God's love is the adversary's activity. And every doctrine portraying God as a merciless Judge Who only wants to punish His living creations is therefore his work .... even if God's justice is mentioned. God's love outweighs everything, although God's nature will always and forever be perfect and, as a result, justice will never be excluded in everything God does or allows to happen. Yet a true doctrine will never exclude God's love, consequently, one can never speak of eternal damnation either because this contradicts divine love .... Hence the criteria for the credibility of a doctrine can therefore always be applied in relation to what extent God's love, wisdom and power the doctrine represents .... And this scrutiny can be carried out by a person at any time with God's support; it is just that the intellect should not deem itself capable of it by itself, for this still forms different judgments for as long as God's adversary can still influence it, and he will always interfere where the bond with God, the eternal Father, has not been established as yet .... but which will be established when the human being sincerely calls upon Him for enlightenment through the spirit. After all, this is a matter of truth, and everything shall be done so that you humans gain possession of truth, but you must participate through your will to know the truth .... In that case you will also turn to God of your own accord with an appeal to help you to make a distinction between truth and error and to separate them .... and you will live in truth for as long as you walk with God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Plan of salvation is explanation for everything ....

B.D. 7500 from January 15th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

In My eternal plan of salvation you humans should seek the explanation for unusual events of all kinds .... You should always know that everything is based on My love, wisdom and might, that everything is arranged according to purpose, that nothing happens without My will or My permission, always adapted to the eternal plan of salvation .... that everything serves to lead the spiritual back to Me. Whether it is the creation around you, whether it is the individual's destiny .... everything is arranged in such a way that it serves the spiritual's further development, regardless of its degree of maturity. The spiritual substance, which is still bound in the creations, undergoes upward development according to My will, whereas the spiritual substance in the stage of free will, as a human being, determines its degree of maturity itself and therefore its course of life unfolds according to destiny, again in accordance with My will, because I know how its development progresses best and what is necessary and appropriate for the individual human being. The human being therefore has free will and therefore determines the degree of his maturity himself. My plan of salvation, however, takes this free will into account and shapes his earthly life such that the will can freely decide again and again and also help the soul to mature. I know the human being's will from eternity and have also based My plan of salvation on it, but one day it will lead to the final result .... the return of all spiritual substances which once fell away from Me. I will not refrain from influencing the human being's will but never by force .... which understandably requires a long time. But before Me a thousand years are like a day .... what I don't succeed in one redemption period I will succeed in the next or the one after that .... but the freedom of will remains preserved in time, since the spiritual is embodied as a human being on earth. Nevertheless, the individual's course of life is determined by Me, and even all events which affect him from outside are permitted by My love, wisdom and might such that they can somehow have a blessing effect on the soul if the human being's will is good, that is, if he no longer offers Me open resistance .... Yet all this knowledge is hidden from the human being as long as he has not sought or established a bond with Me. Until then nothing is known to him about a plan of salvation, he knows nothing about the creature's correlation with its creator, he knows nothing about a return of the spiritual, about an apostasy of the spirits from God .... He is completely ignorant when he begins his earthly life as a human being .... And this knowledge must first be imparted to him .... he must be willing to accept it and seriously concern himself with his God and creator. Only then will it become clear in him, he will grasp the correlations, he will now find the explanation in My eternal plan of salvation for everything that mentally moves him. And then there is also the possibility that his free will will now decide correctly, that he will direct it correctly and that his fate in life will determine him to want and act correctly, that his soul will mature and he will start on the path of return to Me and he will now also reach his aim .... Only when the human being knows why he is on earth does he begin to live consciously with a spiritual aim .... For this reason I will then also present My eternal plan of salvation to him when I see that he desires this knowledge, and then he will also realize that My plan of salvation is only based on love, wisdom and power, that I will not depart from it, even if eternities still pass by; for I will not eternally leave in the abyss that which once fell away from Me, but My aim will always and forever remain to lead all fallen things upwards, back to Me, from Whom all created things once originated .... And My aim will always and forever remain to form children for Me out of My creations, which, however, has to be achieved by the creature's own free will .... Yet I will also reach My aim, and one day everything created by Me will be close to Me and inexpressibly happy, one day My work of return will be finished, even if the process of development will extend over eternities ....

Amen

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'I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh ....'

B.D. 7501 from January 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

If you are being addressed by Me, My spirit will descend upon you, My eternal Father-Spirit will make contact with the spiritual spark in you, which remains inseparably as one with Me and is merely an emanated spark which shall return to Me, which shall repeatedly unite itself with the Father-Spirit again. If you are being addressed by Me you will be imbued by the fire of My love, the spiritual spark in you will ignite and spring into action .... It comes alive in you according to its fundamental element. And then a spiritual exchange can take place, that is, spiritual insights can be conveyed to the person, for My spirit is all-knowing, there is nothing it does not know, nothing is unclear to it, it is as knowledgeable as I am and also emanates its knowledge as I do .... It is My spirit which is speaking to you, it is not a second part of Me, it is I Myself Who speaks Words of love and wisdom to you. For you are My once emanated strength of love, you are spirit of My spirit and therefore also always in contact with Me because the strength of love cannot separate itself from Me, only you, as created beings, can keep yourselves distant from Me .... but it is only a distance which exists in your consciousness which, however, on My part cannot remain like this forever, because your fundamental element is the same as I Am: strength of love will forever be in contact with the source of strength. And this contact becomes a reality when you hear Me, when My spirit descends into an open vessel and thus permeates the human being so that he will be able to hear My voice. Then the distance between the human being and Me will be repealed, he will have moved near to his God and Father again, he will let the spiritual spark in him become a flame and this will leap back again to the fire of the Eternal Love .... The tiny spark in the human being finds its path to Me, and the connection is also established by the human being's will, it exists forever and can never be broken. But it concerns the conscious contact .... This should be aspired to by the human being so that the distance will be repealed, a person should want to be in contact with Me which then enables the working of My spirit, then My spirit will be able to 'pour out upon all flesh ....' And that will very evidently happen during the last days before the end: 'My spirit will pour upon all flesh, servants and handmaidens shall prophesy ....' For people only rarely establish the connection with Me now, so that I must evidently manifest Myself through the spirit by choosing people for Myself who are not opposed to Me, who prepare themselves as a receiving vessel for My spirit so that I can pour My spirit into them and then speak through them to humanity for their benefit and spiritual advantage. It is necessary that I speak to you humans ....

You should all listen to My voice, and you should all take stock of yourselves, consider My Words, live accordingly and thus prepare yourselves for the end which you cannot avoid because the time has come to an end. I pour out My spirit upon all flesh .... This has been announced to humanity in advance, hence you should not find it difficult to believe in My working of this nature .... You should realise that the time I referred to is upon you, that I will speak to you through servants and handmaidens who, on My instructions, shall inform you through their prophetic spirit. For they will predict future events, they will remind you of My predictions and you will be unable to deny that My spirit will pour itself out again, that these proclaimers do not speak their own words but voice that which is revealed to them by My spirit. I need them as mediators who are to bring My Word to you humans in all purity and clarity again, I need them to speak on My behalf, because My Words are necessary to warn you of the dangers you are facing if you don't take stock of yourselves and change. For all you humans go on existing without love and thereby become slaves to My adversary .... You must change yourselves into love, then you will take the path to Me and be saved from the downfall. But you don't have much time left, consequently My voice sounds ever louder, and I speak to you ever more frequently through the mouth of My servants and prophets; I only ask of you to believe those who keep receiving the flow of My spirit because they shall speak on My instructions .... And you will not regret having complied with their admonitions by listening to them and by merely making an effort to live according to the Word which sounds to you from above through My servants, which is your Father's voice of eternity and shall also guide you back again to Me, from Whom you once came forth and distanced yourselves of your own free will .... Heed My Word from above and know that it is the working of My spirit, that I want to help you and therefore avail Myself of these servants and handmaidens by pouring out My spirit so that I can speak through them to all of you .... so that you will not approach your ruin when the time has been fulfilled ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Truth or error ....

B.D. 7502 from January 18th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

I am the lord Who reigns in time and eternity, to Whom everything is subject that My will has created, and Who directs everything according to His will and wise discretion. I am your God and creator from eternity, Who speaks to you as your father because you are His children who shall one day be immeasurably blessed at His side in creation and activity in freedom, light and power .... But when your father speaks to you from eternity He will also instruct you in all truth, He will introduce you to the truth, He will correct you if you are given wrong spiritual knowledge from outside and He will also openly point out what is truth and what is error. For I am the eternal truth Myself, and I will not tolerate that those people who desire truth are deprived of it or deformed, so that the human being moves in wrong thinking. My adversary, however, has made it his principle to declare war on truth, because truth allows Me to be recognized correctly but he only ever wants to prevent people from learning to recognize and love Me correctly. That is why he tries to distort My image. He portrays Me differently than I am and wants to make it difficult for people to love and strive for Me as their father. He always strives to undermine the truth, to mix it with misguided spiritual knowledge and to prevent people from recognizing Me .... And where the desire for truth is not deep he also succeeds there; but where the human being seriously desires the truth he will be recognized .... For I certainly help those who desire to stand in truth, and therefore I repeatedly convey the pure word to earth where there is a danger that the truth will be misunderstood or where My adversary has already found so much ground that his work of lies finds favour. It will always depend on people themselves whether they come into possession of the truth, for it always depends on their degree of desire for truth that it will also be conveyed to them unconceived. The adversary, however, likewise tries to persuade people to accept his spiritual knowledge, which he tries to spread amongst people by blinding their thinking and also succeeds if he finds tools which serve him .... For it concerns their innermost attitude towards Me or towards him. This is decisive as to whether I or My adversary can then express himself. But a tool which is active for Me will never be able to be used by My adversary at the same time .... just as, conversely, I will never use a tool which gave its will to My adversary and served him. Pride and the need for recognition are My adversary's best targets of attack, and then it is easy for him to persuade a person to serve him because he persuades him that I Myself chose him for a mission .... But this self-examination must also be carried out by a person himself in order to be certain of his task, otherwise no error could creep in which, however, is obvious if the result contradicts My pure word from above, which I Myself convey to earth, because again and again a correction is necessary. For the earth is flooded by error, what people represent as gospel is interspersed with error .... the truth is rejected everywhere but error is gladly accepted, people's thinking becomes confused, there is no more clarity, no more agreement, no more right understanding .... Everything deviates from the pure truth and yet is represented as truth by people. But the error can also be recognized by every person who has the will to stand in the pure truth .... because I stand by this Self, because I, as the eternal truth, give Myself to every person who desires the truth. But his good will is also required .... and he can always appeal to Me for enlightenment of spirit, and I will answer his prayer. For the human being must now also be able to recognize the correlations, and then he will also know where truth and where error can be found .... I am the lord, I Myself am the truth, and I am love .... I have the power to convey the truth to all people but I don't force a person to accept it, because the possession of truth depends on the person himself, to what extent he desires it and strives for it or asks for it. But the fact that My adversary will not cease to fight against the truth is certain and should always make you humans think that you should only consciously turn to Me if you want to live in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Premature return of Lucifer ....

B.D. 7503 from January 19th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You will also always be supplied with the truth, as I have promised you .... I will not leave you in erroneous thinking as soon as it is only your will to stand in truth: It is an erroneous view to speak of the return of My adversary, Lucifer, which will still require eternities before he himself makes this return to Me. Again and again I tell you that his situation is different from that of the beings which once fell away from Me, which indeed also renounced their love for Me and voluntarily distanced themselves from Me and therefore descended into deepest darkness .... Yet they were beings influenced by him, even though they were endowed with free will, to whom he presented himself as 'God' and thus induced them to follow him. And they allowed themselves to be dazzled by his light and beauty, in which he still shone before his final separation from Me took place .... But these beings did not see Me and therefore they followed him .... Lucifer himself, however, recognized Me, he knew that he had come forth from Me even though he was unable to behold Me. He deliberately sinned against Me, he exalted himself above Me and thereby incurred a guilt which will take him eternities to atone for, because he does not take the path which I Myself have prepared for the spiritual beings .... the path through the creations of this earth, through matter .... because he still works as a free spirit in a negative sense, because he acts as My antipole on all spiritual beings which walk the earth embodied as a human being. His freedom has not been taken from him but he uses it wrongly. He has to travel the same path again on which he distanced himself from Me in order to reach Me. And he has by no means changed his mind, he still harbours hatred and enmity towards Me because he feels equal to Me and envies the strength which he also drew from Me as long as he was united with Me in love. In his deluded thinking he sees in his followers the fullness of his strength .... And this following is very great and will not let a feeling of weakness arise in him for a long time yet. Until then, however, a return of the one who still believes he can overthrow Me and raise himself to My throne is not to be thought of either. But one thing is certain, that everything spiritual would already be on the path of return to Me if he had taken this path himself, for what he does will also irrevocably be done by his followers .... which is why this view is also wrong, that it is only his followers who work in the last days .... He, Lucifer, is and remains the prince of darkness, and he will not leave his kingdom for a long time to come towards the light. He will still often have to be bound by Me if his activity manifests itself in such a way that there is a danger that people will be deprived of every opportunity to find Me .... which will always happen at the end of a period of redemption where he will be granted great freedom which he will use extensively. A long time will be necessary until the followers detach themselves from him, but not a second sooner will My adversary give up his resistance against Me, which I have foreseen since eternity and was able to make his will serviceable for My plan of salvation .... which, however, I would never have done if only the slightest prospect of a change of will existed which would bring the prodigal son back to Me .... He will not start the way back until he will lie weakened on the ground and must first appeal for My strength in order to be able to rise and return to Me. But then he will also be welcomed with open arms, for My love has no end, and even the deeply fallen will be illuminated by My love until it finds its way back to Me again from where it once took its departure .... until it enters the father's house again and is now eternally unspeakably happy ....

Amen

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Final stage of embodiment ....

B.D. 7504 from January 21st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The process of return requires endless times and often several periods of redemption are necessary before the spiritual being is so far advanced that it can embody itself as a human being for the last course on this earth. No human being is aware of what it means for him to be allowed to dwell on earth as a human being. He is not aware that this short time is the final stage of his course of development, that then the course over earth can be completely finished for him, if he does not completely fail and plunge into deepest darkness again in free will. The latter is the great danger which, however, no human being has to fear who seriously strives to fulfil God's will. For the latter is protected from the fall, and he ends his earthly life in a certain degree of maturity which ensures his ascent in the spiritual kingdom. And no matter how small his degree of light may be .... if he has only come so far that he is in contact with God, then he need not fear death either, because then he will no longer hopelessly fall back into darkness. Thus, it only requires good will to live pleasing to God, to belong to Him and to live his earthly life according to His commandments .... And the danger is averted to be bound in the creations for endless times again and to languish in darkness, as was his lot long before. You humans cannot appreciate the duration of your ascent, and you would be horrified if you could grasp what torments lie behind you .... But you have had to go through it, and you shall be saved from such a course again. That is why again and again this time is brought before your eyes when you were in ascent development. But it will not and cannot be proven to you because of your freedom of will. And yet you should at times remember that it is eternity for you, which lies behind you, and that you have arrived shortly before the aim .... And with eagerness you should seek to reach the last aim, and this good will alone will help you to do so. For your will will be assessed as it is directed during your earthly lifetime, and your state of soul will be in accordance with it at the end of your life on this earth .... It is only a short period of time that you live on this earth as a human being, and you could truly reach your aim in this short time .... Yet fierce temptations approach you, for again and again the earthly world pushes itself forward and seeks to induce you to attach your senses to matter and now to direct your will wrongly so that it departs from the actual aim and only strives for that which belongs to the world .... And this is the great danger for man, to be drawn back to matter, which he had long since overcome .... And the danger is that the human being will become matter again .... that his soul will fall into a state which had long been considered overcome and which dates back eternal times. And only a rightly directed will can avert this danger. The human being has to fight against the temptations of the earthly-material world, he only ever has to look for God and long for Him, and he will direct his will correctly and live on earth as it is God's will and thereby also safely reach his aim .... After this earthly life he will be able to enter the spiritual kingdom, his soul will be free from every material external form, and then it will also be able to ascend further and attain beatitude in the kingdom of light .... For it has worked its way up from the abyss, and then it will also eternally remain in light and freedom and be able to work full of strength for all eternity ....

Amen

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Love illumination without resistance ....

B.D. 7505 from January 22nd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

In the beginning there were only beings filled with light and strength .... Darkness and lack of strength were only the consequence of the sin of apostasy from Me, for thereby the beings had reversed their initial nature into the opposite .... they had deprived themselves of light and strength, they had stepped out of the realm of light and strength, for they distanced themselves from Me at will and made My effect of strength of love impossible, which is fundamentally bound to the fact that love only touches love but remains ineffective against all resistance. When the beings strove away from Me they resisted My illumination of love, and this conscious will of resistance darkened their spirit, they lost all realization as well as their strength which originated from Me and My illumination of love. Hence the being became deficient, it turned into the opposite of what it was created as .... and therefore could no longer remain close to Me, for its conscious turning away from Me caused it to step out of My love's circuit, it strayed away from Me, and its free will was taken into account so that it was no longer able to feel Me and My love, which, however, had previously been the case, for My strength of love blessed the being. And now it got into an unfortunate state which it could no longer change of its own accord because it was without strength. Nevertheless, the re-transformation has to be carried out one day, for nothing can remain eternally separated from Me that has emerged from Me. It was the beings emanated strength of love from Me which irrevocably once again pushes back to Me, and whether eternities pass over it. But before My strength of love can illuminate it again without being rejected, the being has to be forcibly guided back so far that it can be given a small light which then has to be nourished by itself in order to shine into a bright light of love which imparts so much knowledge to it that it learns to love Me again and lets it desire Me. The illumination of love is absolutely necessary but can only take place in a certain degree of maturity of the soul, and the being has to reach this degree of maturity through a long process of preliminary development, through which a slight approach to Me is achieved again, so that I can then once again have an effect on the being when it walks across earth in the state of free will, as a human being. The fallen being lacks light and strength, it first has to attain light and strength again in order to be able to completely rise from the abyss, in order to change again into its original being, which was love and therefore has to become love again. And this can only be achieved by My illumination of love which is accepted without resistance and can then also take effect. Therefore, as long as the human being .... the spiritual being in the last stage of development .... still lacks realization, this illumination of love cannot yet take place unhindered, otherwise the lightless state would be remedied .... And then the human being is also not in possession of strength which likewise requires My illumination of love. But it is also certain that one day all resistance will subside, that one day the human being will voluntarily enter the realm of My flow of strength of love, that he will long for light and strength and hand himself over to Me with love in order to then be able to be continuously illuminated for his own bliss. For now his nature also changes, it enters its original state again where it was immeasurably blissful in light and strength .... It is close to Me again and can create and work with Me, for it no longer resists the influx of My love, it opens itself in free will and the return to Me is accomplished, which is and will always remain the purpose and aim of existence on this earth until the work of the return of all spiritual substances is completed ....

Amen

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Jesus - God - Man ? ....

B.D. 7506 from January 23rd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

When I walked the earth the incomprehensible happened, that the eternal deity manifested Itself in a human being Who was no different from other human beings except that His soul was pure because it was a soul from above which animated the man Jesus. His fleshly cover, however, consisted of the same substances as those of other human beings .... they were also particles which had passed through creation, which were at the beginning of their development and therefore still very immature .... But they contained a soul which was from above, which, however, does not mean that the body was therefore untouchable for the spirits who wanted to tempt it and did so during its entire earthly life .... I walked this earth as a human being .... This was synonymous with the fact that I felt everything humanly, that I had to suffer as a human being and had to fight humanly in order to master all temptations of My body. In Me was the eternal godhead .... Yet I first had to have spiritualized My body to such an extent that it sought the eternal god-spirit together with the soul, that it yearned for Him and thus glowed with love for the father, Who was therefore now also able to take abode in Me because My love drew Him. For I was full of love for the one from Whom My soul had once originated, and My soul brought this love with it to earth when it descended from the kingdom of light to earth in order to animate the human body, which was to become the abode for the father of eternity .... Who embodied Himself in the human being Jesus in order to accomplish the work of redemption for the whole of humanity .... This embodiment of God as a human being is and will remain the greatest mystery ....

I filled a human being with My spirit, that is, I completely permeated him with My spirit of love, and body and soul became My shell because the body joined the soul's desire and thus completely spiritualized itself, so that I was able to dwell in the human being Jesus in all fullness, that He and I were one, that the human being Jesus completely deified Himself through the love which filled Him .... And this love was I Myself .... Thus I could well say that I took on a human form, or also: The human form was only the outer shell which sheltered Me Myself so that I could dwell amongst humanity without it passing away at the sight of Me Myself. For people would not have been able to bear My radiance of love, they needed a cover behind which they could conceal themselves from those who were still far away from Me and who nevertheless came close to Me. But the outer shell had a mission to fulfil: to suffer and die on the cross, because this could only happen through a human being, for the deity in Him was unable to suffer but It wanted to atone for the great guilt which weighed upon the whole of humanity and for the redemption of which I descended to earth .... And the human body accomplished the work of atonement because love .... My original substance .... gave it the necessary strength to persevere until the end. The human shell thereby spiritualized itself in all its substances and was able to unite with the soul and ascend to heaven after the resurrection, because nothing earthly burdened the body any longer and thus the process of maturing was completely completed in it .... which also required the immense torments and hardship which preceded His death. But Jesus' body had to be created like other people's, Jesus had to endure the battle against all challenges from My adversary's side during His life on earth .... He had to exemplify to people the life they should also lead as true followers in order to be able to be redeemed. And He therefore had to struggle with the same temptations as every human being should it be possible for people to also gain victory over the adversary .... For if Jesus had been unusually endowed with abilities or advantages of a divine nature it would not be possible for weak people on earth to follow Him, and again and again people's weakness, their inadequacy, would signify an obstacle on the path to the father which, however, was initiated for all people through Jesus' death on the cross .... which a 'human being' suffered who had become one with Me through His love, thus love .... I Myself .... accomplished the work of redemption. Jesus was a human being, His soul was from above from the kingdom of light and He was filled by My spirit .... I Myself was in Him because nothing impure prevented Me from abiding in Him. And thus He was I and I was He .... we were not two but one, and whoever is able to behold Jesus Christ one day in the kingdom of light will behold Me face to face, Who in Jesus Christ has become a visible God to you humans and all beings in the spiritual kingdom .... Who redeemed you from your guilt of sin so that you could behold Me face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Is knowledge necessary on Earth? .... Commandments of love ....

B.D. 7507 from January 24th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

No knowledge needed for the maturing of souls shall be withheld from you. This is why My Gospel is proclaimed to you, the divine teaching of love, since you need to practice love first in order to be able to actually understand the additional knowledge you receive pertaining to My loving care for your souls' salvation. Thus My Gospel first proclaims My two commandments of love for God and your neighbour, and if you live up to these you will also become receptive for additional information, for then your spirit will come alive and it will instruct you from within; that is, it will grant you the understanding even if the knowledge, which originated from Me, is given to you by outside sources. Love, however, comes first, and no amount of extensive knowledge will be of use to you if you don't possess love, in that case you can be called spiritually dead. On the other hand, a person who lives a life of love won't need extensive knowledge .... He will mature through his way of life and suddenly attain realisation when he exchanges the earthly world for the spiritual kingdom. Nevertheless, spiritual knowledge is also beneficial on earth if it is correctly utilised, if the human being wants to penetrate spiritual correlations, if he would like to get the right idea about My reign and activity .... For then he will learn to love Me ever more and constantly desire to increase his knowledge, because instructions which come forth from Me arouse his spiritual appetite. And thus you humans are being addressed by Me, because only I, as the Eternal Truth Itself, can convey knowledge to you which corresponds to the truth ....

And I know where My Word is taken to, where it will meet the right understanding again .... and I know where love is being practised and who tries to live according to My will. And thus they will receive knowledge which is appropriate to their maturity of soul, to their desire for truth and their conduct. And each person is at liberty to use this knowledge at his own discretion .... he can make use of it by passing it on or think about it in great depth himself, and he can increase it if he strives for it diligently and with good will. Then he will receive constantly more spiritual information, and he will gratefully accept the gifts from My hand because his soul will be maturing and his knowledge will be growing .... For a dead spirit does not desire to know anything about the spiritual kingdom. Nevertheless, no-one should feel depressed if he does not have a lot of spiritual knowledge to show for. As long as he lives on earth according to My will, as long as he fulfils My two commandments of love and thus tries to shape himself into love he will become illuminated with lightening speed as soon as he enters the spiritual kingdom, and then he will be and remain blissfully happy, for he will also understand in a flash and realise all correlations most clearly .... But he must live according to My will, for no-one can be spared the fulfilling of My commandments of love, they are the most important in earthly life, they are the foundation of My Gospel, which is conveyed to you time and again, regardless of by what means. By merely taking the commandments of love to heart and aiming to comply with them you will also fulfil your task in life and help your soul to mature. And this Gospel can be presented to you in all places, you merely need to accept it with the will to hear Me Myself, you must desire and recognise Me Myself in My Word and become receptive when My Word sounds within you, when I address you in order to inform you of My will .... For My Gospel, the good news and doctrine of Salvation, will only ever inform you of My will, which consists of motivating you into being lovingly active and of showing you the effects of a life of love, so that your soul will mature and you will become blissfully happy .... Then the knowledge, which those of you who desire it and which you now may receive, will also make you happy .... You will learn to love Me increasingly more, you will also learn to look upon the next person as My child and your brother, you will love him too and thus slowly change your nature into love, which is and will remain your earthly task of life until you have become perfect, until you unite with Me in love and thus remain united with Me for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Peace in God ....

B.D. 7508 from January 26th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

I give you the peace which the world cannot give you .... The world will indeed offer and promise you its pleasures but these will not give you the inner peace which you can only find in Me, for it is your soul which feels the inner peace, and this is addressed by Me alone but not by the world and its pleasures. The latter only serve the body for satisfaction, but the soul demands something else, it demands My address, My strength and My blessing, and if it has these it will also have peace within itself as long as it lives on earth. 'Peace in Me' is the most valuable thing I can offer you, for at the same time it is the guarantee for a rightly conducted way of life, for a way of life which corresponds to My will, otherwise you would not find peace within yourselves. And if you then live a life of love, an inner peace will make your heart happy, you will feel that you live according to My will, for love unites you with Me and My peace can then descend into your heart, for you are in Me and I in you .... Love is also a guarantee for inner peace, and to practice love is not worldly desire or worldly fulfilment .... love is spiritual good which can be attained by the person who is of good will .... And this person will then also have peace within himself. But where does the world radiate peace? It will only ever put your hearts into restlessness, there will be no end to your desire, you will strive and grab whatever earthly goods you can from the world and you will never have enough of them, for the world will only become increasingly more attached to you and you will think less and less about gaining spiritual goods, your striving will become increasingly more busy, you will become increasingly more restless .... There will be no peace in your soul because the world cannot give you peace. Yet you should strive for peace from Me, then you will also know that you are taking the right path, for to have found peace in Me is truly your soul's greatest salvation .... and only the person will be able to speak of peace of soul who lives according to My will, who keeps My commandments .... and lives a life of love. And blessings will also arise from his way of life, his soul will mature and be ever more intimately united with Me, he will always feel secure in Me, for he has found the peace which only I can give him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual need of the neighbour ....

B.D. 7509 from January 27th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

And this shall become a blessing for you yourselves if you take care of your neighbour in his spiritual hardship. To alleviate earthly hardship is indeed the commandment of neighbourly love, that you should do to him what you want to be done to you when you are in the same hardship. But you should also help him in spiritual hardship, and this will have an effect on his soul as well as on your soul. For spiritual hardship is far worse than earthly hardship, because the latter will end with the passing away of earthly life, but spiritual hardship will be taken over into the kingdom of the beyond and will have a dreadfully agonizing effect on the soul. And you can help your neighbour in spiritual adversity if you first help him to a living faith .... if you point him to Jesus Christ, without Whom no human being can become blessed. If your neighbour is still completely without faith then he is in great spiritual hardship and it will not be easy work for you to help him to faith. But you can encourage him to work with love, you can first influence him so that he practices love, and then it will already be easier for him to believe what you recite to him. And this is first of all the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of salvation which you should pass on to your neighbour who does not yet possess it .... And he will soon be able to believe it if he is of good will and therefore also lovingly active. But it also has to be conveyed to him in all truth so that it will not cause his rejection and then it will be very difficult to ever make him understand the act of salvation. Truth alone has the power to influence a well-meaning person, but he will immediately reject error and destroy all vineyard work on him. Therefore, the first thing you need to do is to know the truth yourselves before you can offer spiritual help to your neighbour .... but you, who are taught by Me directly, have much spiritual knowledge in your hands which you can impart to him, and your love will also ensure your success, for whatever you undertake with love for your neighbour will not be without success .... It will benefit his soul, just as you yourselves will receive more the more you give away of your spiritual wealth, for the need is great .... People try to remedy earthly hardship themselves, even if they approach you as their brothers for help .... But they don't think about spiritual hardship and therefore don't ask for help either. And therefore you should offer it to them yourselves; wherever you can you should direct your conversations to a spiritual basis, you should try to find out your neighbour's attitude in the spiritual sphere, and you should proclaim the gospel to them, i.e. stimulate them to be active in love .... And then you will also find the opportunity to speak of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and notice the impression this makes on the people you thus teach .... And even if you only achieve a small success you will nevertheless have rendered an invaluable service to your neighbour, for the words you used to him will not be lost .... They will take root and one day the seed will sprout and a strong faith can develop from it, depending on the willingness of the person you show true neighbourly love towards. Therefore often think of your neighbour's spiritual hardship and try to help him. And it will truly be a blessing for him and for you, for I Myself will support you, I Myself will knock on the hearts of those, and blessed are those who open the door of their hearts to Me when I desire entrance ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Loving father words ....

B.D. 7510 from January 29th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You may confidently leave yourselves to My guidance if you have approached Me for it. Hand over all your worries and needs to Me and then just wait for everything else and it will work out as it is good for you earthly and spiritually. You would only lack full confidence in My help otherwise you would go your earthly path calmly and cheerfully, always in the certainty that I will take care of everything for you and that you only need to leave yourselves to Me. But you do not yet possess this very strength of faith and it cannot be given to you, you have to acquire it .... once through the firm will to come close to Me, and secondly through loving activity, which will certainly earn you My presence, which will then also give you this firm faith. I cannot give you this faith but again and again I can assure you that you have a faithful helper in Me Who is always concerned about your spiritual and also your earthly well-being. And therefore you can also address earthly requests to Me, I will grant them if only you firmly believe in them .... And thus your earthly life can also take a sudden turn which you do not expect .... For My ways are often different from your ways or your plans, because I know all your hardship and suffering but I want you to consciously present them to Me in order to be able to help you. I want you to discuss everything with Me because I want to possess your trust and express your confidence in My help, for I want your faith to strengthen when you visibly experience My help .... A strong faith is everything, it carries you over everything difficult, it makes you resilient and courageous in battle, a strong faith is a close bond with Me, a strong faith secures My presence for you, and in a strong faith you can achieve everything from Me, for I will not let a strong faith fail ....

Amen

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Understanding spiritual problems .... incarnation ....

B.D. 7511 from January 30th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The problem of God's incarnation in Jesus Christ can be explained to every human being if the teacher makes use of My word conveyed to you from above. But whether it is understood depends on the will of the person being taught, on his maturity of soul, on his degree of love, which only gives him the right understanding for it. For it is not the knowledge he accepts which is decisive as to whether he penetrates this problem but the readiness of his soul, which must have a certain preparation in order to be able to positively attune itself to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself when He lived on earth. And this preparation of the soul brings about love, which is like a bright light that shines through and enlightens the soul .... To explain God's human manifestation requires the awakening of the spirit, both from the teacher as well as from the one who is to be taught, for a person who is still unawakened in spirit is also completely blind, and he would never grasp it even if it were truthfully explained to him. This is why there is so little understanding amongst people for this problem as well as for Jesus Christ's act of salvation, because only a few people are able to form a correct idea, precisely because the majority of people's spirit is still unawakened. And thus most people only look at My human manifestation from the point of view that I bestowed abilities upon the man Jesus which allowed Him to be unusually active. Thus they only see Jesus as a human being with high ethical aims and unusual abilities; but that the eternal deity concealed Himself in this human being is incomprehensible to them and therefore not credible either. For this reason they will also usually form two concepts under 'Jesus Christ' and 'God', from which the erroneous teaching of a three-person deity has arisen, which cannot be refuted so easily either, because the right understanding requires the awakening of the spirit and this can only be awakened again through a life of love .... but love has grown cold amongst people, as is obvious in the last days before the end .... And yet, the right understanding is so necessary in order for a human being to completely surrender to Jesus Christ, in order to recognize and acknowledge Me in Him and thereby to have the certainty of attaining eternal life, for: "He who believes in Me has eternal life ...." For this reason people first have to make an effort to live in love, then My pure word can be conveyed to them, and then every problem will be easily solvable and understandable which is now presented to people in My name. And love is only weakly kindled on earth, and that is why so much error is advocated, that is why so much lack of understanding is encountered despite the supply of pure truth from above. For until the flame of love illuminates the human heart the truth cannot gain a foothold, it is just as incomprehensible to people as erroneous teachings which wrongly try to solve all these problems. Then the human being cannot distinguish truth from error either, but this is easy for him if he is of awakened spirit, if he is able to hear the voice of his spirit within himself through a life of love, which now opens and rightly guides his thinking. It is always love which is decisive, and a person who lives in love will always find complete understanding for all correlations, but without love he will be blind in spirit and the clearest instructions will be of no use to him because he cannot understand them. Therefore, first make an effort to live a true life of love and then desire the truth, and it will come to you clearly and comprehensibly, for then you will receive knowledge from within which will give you brightest light, which you will understand and which will make you happy, and you will also enter into the right relationship with Jesus Christ and through Him also with Me, Who embodied Myself in the man Jesus and Whom to acknowledge is also an acknowledgement of Myself which will one day lead you to beatitude, back to Me into your father's house ....

Amen

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Conscious or medial receptions ....

B.D. 7512 from February 1st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Knowledge is imparted to you through the spirit, you are taught from within and can then pass this knowledge on, but you can always proclaim the origin within yourselves, you can deny with certainty that you have received it from outside and thus represent spiritual knowledge as having been received from Me Myself. And this is then also the guarantee that this spiritual knowledge is truth, for if the spirit within you teaches you, you must receive truth, because the spirit within you is My share, because it can only proclaim to you what corresponds to truth, since it is the spirit of My spirit and I am the eternal truth Myself. Hence you can represent your knowledge as truth with certainty, for you did not receive the spiritual knowledge from outside, you did not gain it through study, but you possess extensive knowledge which came from yourselves, which was in truth conveyed to you 'from above', because the spirit in you is in contact with above, with Me, and will never ever relinquish this bond. And yet, the examination is still necessary as to whether the knowledge you possess was imparted to you in a mediumistic state or whether you received it in a fully conscious state .... You must always seriously check if you want to represent your spiritual possessions as truth, for there is also the possibility that in a state of unconsciousness you hand yourselves over to spiritual forces which likewise try to transfer spiritual knowledge to you if you surrender (divest yourselves of) your will and these forces can now use your will. Then there is an obvious danger that ignorant forces will also divest themselves because they are not countered by the clear will and the desire for truth which protects the human being from error. And you should conscientiously check this .... For the spirit in you expresses itself in a fully awake state, it speaks to your soul and informs it of what I Myself want to convey to the human being on earth .... because the spirit in you is part of the eternal father-spirit. But mediumistic receptions are and remain a danger for the human being, for he is not protected against hostile influence because the soul does not consciously defend itself when hostile forces approach it. And they will always do so under the guise of truth in order to be listened to .... But you humans can hardly distinguish error from truth because it is well disguised, yet as soon as only the slightest deviation is recognizable from the spiritual knowledge which comes to you humans through the working of My spirit, you must be careful not to fall into error, for then the working of the opposing forces can already be detected precisely by the contradiction with My pure spiritual knowledge. But you are warned again and again not to put yourselves or let yourselves be put into a mediumistic state, for it is a danger for you to which you expose yourselves. For you yourselves will find it difficult to separate truth from error, because the camouflage is a very skilful one and the impure spiritual forces likewise make use of My sayings which they know and use for their purposes. The working of the spirit guarantees pure truth, but mediumistic receptions are not working of the spirit in a good sense, even though spiritual beings also try to gain acceptance and also succeed if the human being uses his will, if he allows himself to be used by them as a tool in an unconscious state. And you have to carry out this examination when spiritual knowledge is offered to you which does not entirely correspond to the word conveyed to you by Me. The recipients need not be of a will turned away from Me, but they are not so united with Me that they completely hand themselves over to Me, so that I can protect them against those spiritual forces .... They often have a great urge to assert themselves and want to stand out, and this demonstrates a degree of arrogance which the adversary knows how to exploit very well. And because they themselves are convinced of their task to serve as a tool they do not seriously examine themselves either and thus indulge in the spreading of erroneous spiritual knowledge if they do not seriously seek their soul's salvation and then also inwardly feel a resistance to continue to be medially active. The working of the spirit has to take place in full consciousness, and then a teaching material is imparted to the human being from within in which My spirit can work, for he is in direct contact with Me and hears My word, he hears Me Myself, because his spiritual spark has established the bond with the father-spirit of eternity, with Me, Who now makes Myself known to him, as it is a blessing for him and humanity. And he will always receive and convey the pure truth, he will never need to fear falling prey to error as long as he desires the truth himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Aim of earthly life: bonding with God ....

B.D. 7513 from February 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Again and again you have to be reminded of your aim in earthly life, of the union with Me, on which your salvation depends and which determines your state in the kingdom of the beyond. You once voluntarily separated yourselves from Me, and the voluntary return is the aim for which you stay on earth. Therefore, as soon as you turn your thoughts towards Me, as soon as you desire to enter into contact with Me again, to be accepted by Me again, you will recognize your aim and strive towards it .... and then live your earthly life consciously. But as long as you still lack this aspiration you will hardly think about Me and then live your earthly life aimlessly or only ever with your eyes turned towards the world, thus the world is also your aim but not the spiritual kingdom. Only the union with Me will return you to your original state, because then the transmission of strength of love can take place again as it did before .... But if you are still separated from Me then you also lack the strength of love, and then you are and remain imperfect as you were at the beginning of your embodiment as a human being. You can only be blissfully happy in unity with Me, you have to seek and enter into this unity yourselves, thus you create the state of bliss yourselves, just as you also created the wrong state yourselves. And therefore it is your earthly task to seek contact with Me, and I will certainly let you find Me because I long for this bond Myself. Thus, as long as you humans live on earth without intimate remembrance of Me you will still live apart from Me; yet you must live with Me, and therefore you must unite with Me, you must do this yourselves, because you once revoked this bond yourselves through your wrong will. I Myself never behave in a rejecting way towards you, I only wait for you to come and establish the bond with Me yourselves, and I am always willing to accept you because I want to illuminate you with My love which gives you light and strength and bliss. But this bond has to be established by you of your own free will, because you once left Me of your own free will. But it can be established at any time if only your will is willing to do so. To seek contact with Me is every human being's free will, therefore you can only ever be encouraged and admonished but never compelled to do so. And this is why so many people walk through earthly life without becoming aware of their actual aim, because they strive for everything else rather than their God and creator, their father of eternity. The world still holds people captive, and you must first try to detach yourselves from the world, you must turn your back on the prince of the world and seek Me, Whose kingdom is not of this world .... But you will not regret it if you spend your earthly life in this direction .... For once you have entered into the bond with Me you will also recognize the worthlessness of the earthly world, and you will easily be able to resist its temptations and attractions, for the bond with Me is worth far more to you and you will no longer give it up. And so that you enter into the bond with Me you will be addressed by Me again and again, and your aim of earthly life will be placed before your eyes so that you will then live consciously and live this life with Me, Who is your father and also wants to be aspired to and loved as a father by My children. But then you will certainly reach your aim, for having found the bond with Me also ensures My guidance, My influx of grace and the transmission of strength of love which you all need in order to change your nature again, so that you become what you were in the beginning .... light-filled beings who can create and work with Me as it is their destiny ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The strength of the Word .... Daily work of improving the soul ....

B.D. 7514a from February 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You should draw the strength you are lacking from My Word. Consider that I speak to you Myself after all, and that this is truly an act of grace which can never be ineffective. Consider that I Myself illuminate you with My love and that you, therefore, should feel it as a flow of strength which is a truly great blessing for your soul. And you will feel physically strengthened, too, if you sincerely unite yourselves with Me .... And new blessings will flow to you time and again because I see your weakness, your spiritual and earthly failure during times of psychological hardship .... But you need not fear failure if only you always keep to My Word: 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavily laden .... I will give you rest ....' You will always find the help you require with Me. You only need to turn to Me with complete trust and time and again hear or read the Words through which I always address My children as a Father. Through these Words you will receive strength and your desperate situation will always resolve itself, you will be able to wait with perfect certainty until your help arrives. My Word contains the strength which will subsequently flow into you if you allow Me to speak to you, however, you must also be convinced of the fact that you are being addressed by Me. You should not read the letter of the Word but be wholeheartedly involved in it and listen to Me, and you will feel the effect of My Word within and on yourselves, as is to be expected, because everything coming forth from Me is strength and must also have the effect of strength. If, however, you still believe yourselves to remain unaffected then it is only due to the fact that you did not establish your bond with Me closely enough, and then you should only remember that My love is intended for you and you will feel this love in My Word and your soul will be strengthened ....

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The strength of the Word .... Daily work of improving the soul ....

B.D. 7514b from February 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Every day offers you the opportunity to mature psychologically, for you can make contact with Me every day through loving actions and heartfelt prayer, and every time you contact Me it enables My strength to flow over to you, which will always affect your soul beneficially .... And if you only make it possible once a day to receive a flow of strength then you can also assuredly expect your maturity to increase and your soul will have won, the day will not have been lived in vain .... And you always have the opportunity, both for loving activity as well as for a heartfelt dialogue with Me, and therefore your process of maturing need not come to a standstill, you can confidently and cheerfully continue on your path through life, for gaining a plus for your soul means a great deal in view of the near end, which precisely requires the increased work of improving the soul. And although you won't physically perceive it, it concerns predominantly your soul, and this need not be left empty-handed, even if you did not greatly benefit in an earthly way from the day. However, you will also receive earthly strength if you earnestly appeal for it to your Father in heaven, for He is aware of all your problems and will gladly resolve them too ....

After all, you are My children, I take care of all your worries and difficulties, but I also expect your will to be aimed at attaining full spiritual maturity .... Every prayer leads to spiritual blessings, for yourselves as well as for the loved-ones you pray for. Therefore you will also at all times be able to carry out your psychological task, just as you will always be able to pray, by merely uniting yourselves closely with Me and mentally stammering words .... I hear and understand them and I gladly grant requests which a child sends to Me with confidence in My help. And thus no day need be lost for you, since you can always benefit spiritually, providing, of course, that you are of good will and want to belong to Me, because I Am addressing My children with these words who have already established the relationship of a child with its Father and are no longer apart from Me. The others, however, can let many a day pass by without seriously considering their soul, and they are in great spiritual distress. You may also pray on their behalf and it will be a blessing for them as well as for you, for all people shall find their path to Me, because beatitude can only be found in and with Me, because unification with Me is the first and final goal which all of you should reach. Always remember that I love you, that you are My children and I only long to be in constant contact with you which, however, must be established by yourselves. And if you confer your love to Me you confer your will to Me too, and then your thoughts will always be directed towards Me, and you will assuredly help your soul attain maturity, you will not live on earth in vain, because then every day will bring you closer to Me until you are united with Me forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Actual provision of the entity ....

B.D. 7515 from February 6th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Let it be said to all of you that I will not give up on you, and whether you still resist Me for as long as .... You emerged from Me and inevitably have to return to Me again, because this is the fundamental law that My strength always pushes towards the original source of strength again, thus nothing is lost that is from Me but always and forever remains united with Me. And you are strength from Me which I once emanated as beings to whom I gave a purpose: to work and create in My will. This destiny has not been fulfilled, but this does not exclude that it will nevertheless be fulfilled one day, and if eternities pass over it .... but the original purpose of this beingness remains in existence, and the beingness will certainly meet this one day. Only when the strength is effective according to My will and My purpose will it fulfil its right purpose, whereas before it is used for activity which is contrary to Me, which is not and cannot remain a permanent state. As a human being the being can now decide whether it will bow to My will and thus strive towards its original destiny or continue to resist Me .... As a human being it is put to the test as to whether it wants to return to Me as the source of strength or whether it wants to remain further away from Me, which then means further weakening of the strength which then cannot work to the same extent as it once did because the being's resistance does not allow for a full effect. But the being itself is strength within itself, otherwise it could not exist .... it is the strength of love once emanated by Me which has only diminished in its effect because it strove away from Me or also because the being refused to accept My love and is therefore also weakened accordingly. And therefore it cannot create and work according to its actual purpose, it has become a deficient creature which would be completely powerless without support from Me. But since it shall one day find its way back to Me again and this can happen very easily in the stage as a human being, I also support it in this stage especially .... I reveal Myself to it as the origin of itself, I encourage it to seek contact with Me and I enlighten its spirit when the human being has found this connection. I kindle a light in him so that he can recognize Me as his God and father and that he is also able to love Me, for as soon as he begins to love Me I can illuminate him again with strength of love, and this has the effect that he pushes towards Me again of his own accord .... that the strength once emanated by Me flows back to its source, that the being itself seeks unification with Me, that the strength thus unites again and can now also work unitedly again .... And since the being has approached Me in love again it will now also create and work according to My will, it will now fulfil its purpose and be active according to My will, which, however, is now also the being's will, because it has now become perfect through the union with Me and will remain so for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redesign to love ....

B.D. 7516 from February 7th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

My love for you lasts forever .... You did indeed once denounce your love for Me, you rejected My illumination of love, but nevertheless this was not able to diminish My love for you, for it still blazes with the greatest fervour because My fundamental nature is love and will forever be nothing else. You are therefore likewise love .... sparks which radiated from My primal fire and which will also eternally remain nothing but sparks of love .... But they are outside of the primeval fire because you strayed from Me of your own accord and thus distanced yourselves from Me through your will .... And since your will is respected from My side, My love also leaves you untouched, i.e., it relinquishes its effect in view of the resistance you oppose Me. Only when you give up your resistance will the repelling of My strength of love on your part diminish, and only then will it be possible for My love to have an ever stronger effect on you again, that you will be able to feel it again and that you will be blissfully happy to be illuminated by My love again, as it was in the beginning .... But complete union with Me is the first condition for this, your voluntary approach to Me must have been accomplished, you must freely want and strive to be united with Me and open yourselves to Me through this will, thus desire and accept My illumination of love .... And thus you must consciously enter into contact with Me .... Your will must be completely devoted to Me, your thinking must be concerned with Me, you must always lead your way of life in the awareness of My will .... You must give yourselves completely to Me, submit yourselves to My will and thus constantly live consciously in view of Me as your God and father from eternity .... And thus you will see from this that the human being must also occupy himself with Me in thought, that he cannot exclude Me from his thinking, that he therefore takes the path to Me without any compulsion, yearns for Me and trusts Me that I accept him, that I also unite with him. And he will also muster this trust when he remembers that I am love, that profound love unites Me with every one of My living creations, that this bond has not been revoked on My part either, it only has to be established on your part, because it was you yourselves who willingly severed it. Therefore, the human being must remember his actual task in earthly life, which consists of uniting with Me, and he must fulfil this task at all times, every day and every hour .... by only ever raising his thoughts to Me and wanting Me to take care of him as long as he dwells on earth. The firm will to reunite with Me, from Whom the soul once separated, will also guarantee the union, for the will alone is enough for Me to keep him from falling into the abyss again, to pull him up and to place his soul into the original state again where love united us, which is the original nature of both of us. It is enough for the human being to change himself into love, then he will also take on his original nature again and then My never-ending love will be able to radiate through him completely again and prepare him for the beatitudes he felt in the beginning .... For My flow of love will now continuously radiate into the being again, which found union with Me and will also never ever give it up again, for love has found its way back to the original love again and it can now experience eternal happiness as it did in the beginning ....

Amen

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Task of the disciples of the end time ....

B.D. 7517 from February 8th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

A great task has been assigned to you: To receive My word and spread it throughout the world .... I have chosen you as disciples of the last days to work for Me, just as I once gave My first disciples the task to go into the world and proclaim the gospel. And so you should pass on to your fellow human beings what you have received from Me Myself, you should proclaim the gospel again, you should convey My divine teaching of love to your fellow human beings in all purity, just as I Myself convey it to you on earth. For My gospel .... the joyful message of salvation .... must come forth from Me Myself if it is to have an effect: so that people live accordingly and thus shape themselves into love. For My gospel only ever teaches love. People have completely strayed from their actual purpose, they certainly listen to My teaching of love but no longer take it seriously .... And therefore I want it to be conveyed to them again in all purity, and therefore I sound My word from above and instruct you, who want to serve Me, to pass on to the world what you hear from Me through the voice of the spirit. This is a task which only a person willing to love and serve can accomplish if he first listens to Me and then also tries to convey My will to his fellow human beings, which often requires patience and much love. But I Myself have to address people and can only do so through a person who gives himself to Me as an instrument so that I can speak to people through him. Yet no human being can be forced to serve Me as an instrument, and therefore only a few people can be found who carry out this task of their own accord, who are always willing to listen to Me and then also inform their fellow human beings of this .... And these I bless, for it is a great service they render Me that they want to guide the souls of fellow human beings to Me who are in great need if they are not helped, that they experience the pure truth through you. For what is proclaimed on earth as My gospel is no longer My pure word, the teaching which I Myself preached on earth .... It has become badly deformed and therefore has to be conveyed to earth again in all purity, as it once came forth from My mouth when I sent My disciples out into the world with that mission. Therefore the word sounds from above again and is voluntarily accepted by My messengers and servants on earth who have offered themselves to Me as faithful servants in My vineyard. These now receive a seed from Me which is suitable to bring forth the most glorious fruit if only it is properly nurtured and cared for. And this is your work, you My servants on earth, that you take care of all those who do not yet have the right faith, who have little knowledge of My pure gospel, to whom you therefore shall proclaim My divine teaching of love, as I Myself proclaim it to you through My word which sounds to you from above. When you receive My word you will always also receive the strength to work with it; people will always be brought to you who need My pure gospel, who are able to live it out and who, as My disciples, will also gladly listen to you, for every step you take as My servants in the vineyard will be blessed and also bring spiritual success if your love for Me impels you to be active for Me and in My name in My kingdom, which is wherever you carry My word, where it is gratefully received by you again and lived accordingly ..... where My gospel is proclaimed, which emanates from Me in all purity, so that you humans, who hear it, will also stand in the truth .... And you should take this task of yours seriously, it should take up all your strength, for if it is done with love it will not remain without success either .... People will learn about My will, strive to fulfil this will and thereby mature their souls. And therefore your mission is an important one, for it cannot be fulfilled by every person .... I can only ever choose My disciples Myself who will do justice to this task, and these I only admonish to take their task seriously, for it is the last time before the end and much vineyard work shall still be done .... much seed shall still be sown, much land which still lies fallow shall be cultivated, and much love for Me and for fellow human beings is required if you, My disciples, want to fulfil your last mission on this earth: that you go out into the world and proclaim to people what I want to say to them, what was conveyed to earth through you .... You shall inform them of My word which repeatedly sounds down to you humans from above so that your souls will still be saved before the end ....

Amen

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Endless fatherly love seeks reciprocation ....

B.D. 7518 from February 9th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

I only ask little of you, for I only want your love .... And if you were to recognize Me in My perfection, you could not help but love Me, for you would overflow with happiness and gratitude that I desire you and want to be united with you .... You would give Me all your love because you want to reciprocate My great love for you .... But you do not recognize Me as yet, you are so imperfect yourselves that a great gulf separates us which requires much work on your part to bridge and which you still find difficult to accomplish. And because I am still far away from you, you are also unaware of My infinite love for you which only ever wants to see the right relationship established between you and Me, the right relationship between child and father, in order to be recognized and loved by you as your father. Although I approach you again and again, I try to make Myself recognizable to you, I prove Myself to you as creator Whose wisdom and might you shall learn to recognize, and I approach you as father in order to win your love for Me, yet it requires your willingness to also come close to Me, only then will you be able to recognize Me and learn to love Me. For only love alone unites us, only through love can the union be established which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life .... But once you have found Me, once love for Me has ignited in you, then you will also know that I truly don't ask much of you, for then you will give Me the love of your own accord which I long for, and then you will fulfil your actual purpose of earthly life: you will establish the union with Me, your God and father of eternity, which once was the original relationship which you yourselves voluntarily relinquished. And then you will also return to the original state where deep, pure love united us and the being was immeasurably blissful. But since you once voluntarily renounced your love for Me you must now voluntarily offer your love to Me again, and this is what I try to achieve during your earthly life. Therefore I cannot use any coercion towards you, I can only entice you, I can reveal Myself to you as extremely lovable, but I must leave you free to give Me your love .... just as you yourselves will only find your salvation when your love is meant for Me, because the soul only enters the original state again when it has found Me. And finding Me also means loving Me .... And I have been longing for this love since the beginning, and My love for you will have no end and therefore also pursue you until it is reciprocated, until you open your hearts to Me, until you receive Me Myself into your hearts, because love drives you to prepare a dwelling for Me in order to be united with Me forever, in order to be able to create and work with Me as a true child of the father in unlimited bliss ....

Amen

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Victory over the adversary with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7519 from February 10th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Only with and through Jesus Christ can you become blessed .... As long as you still keep your distance from Him the gates into the kingdom of light are closed to you, and His adversary still keeps you under his control, because then you still belong to him voluntarily. Only when you direct your gaze to the cross can you become free from his control, for then you will also look towards Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross, and you will consciously enter the circle of those for whom the man Jesus gave His life in order to redeem them from his control. Then Jesus' blood, which is intended to wash you humans clean from sin, will not have flowed in vain, and then you will make use of the work of grace yourselves, you will acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world, and thereby you will also acknowledge God Himself, Who embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to accomplish the work of redemption on earth. And therefore you must profess Him during your earthly life, you must not distance yourselves from Jesus Christ, you must live your life with Him, you must always be mindful of His crucifixion and appeal to Him that He may also have died for you in order to redeem you, for you must fully consciously acknowledge the act of salvation. You must know that you are lost without Him, that His adversary will not release you from his power as long as you do not stand behind the one Who defeated the adversary through His death on the cross. But as soon as you stand by His side you will also be victorious over the enemy of your souls .... You will possess the strength and also muster the will to set yourselves free and want to belong to Jesus Christ all the more intimately the more you devote yourselves to Him and the more willingly you make use of the blessings of the act of salvation. To go through earthly life with Him, with Jesus Christ, also means to have found redemption .... it means no longer being weakened and at the mercy of God's adversary, it means having found forgiveness of sins and safe protection against all temptations, for Jesus Christ will always stand by the human being and ward off the adversary if only His help is requested. Yet without Jesus Christ the human being is too weak to resist him, he lacks both the will and the strength to defend himself, and the adversary still has his full power over him. But Jesus has become victor .... He redeemed the souls from him with His blood and through His death acquired the strength for you, which you can now request from Him for the battle against the enemy of your souls. And you humans should all make use of this privilege, you should let Jesus Christ give you what He acquired for you, then you will also possess the strength to resist, Jesus Christ's fighter will always walk by your side and fight for you, and with Him you will gain victory over the one who kept you bound for eternities .... You will be able to release yourselves and powerfully resist him, for you now draw strength from your divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who will provide you with it in abundance if only you call upon Him and appeal to Him for strength for the sake of His crucifixion. You will be strong and powerful with Him, yet you will have to remain weak and miserable without His help in the hands of your enemy, because you have no strength to resist yourselves and therefore need the help of Jesus Christ. Therefore request it at all times, escape the adversary's power by consciously turning to Jesus Christ and appeal for His protection, which He will surely and gladly grant you, Who died for you on the cross in order to redeem you ....

Amen

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New earth .... Romans 8 ....

B.D. 7520 from February 11th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

No work of creation on this earth will escape the huge upheaval; it will involve everything from hard matter to the plant- and animal kingdom up to the human being .... Everything will be affected by a work of destruction the extent of which will surpass anything that has ever taken place on earth .... Everything will be consumed so that one can truly speak of a new earth after the work of transformation has been completed. Thus all banished spiritual substances will first be released from their material form; but they will not be able to enjoy their state of freedom for long since they will be bound again in new creations according to their respective degree of maturity. This is why the new creations can arise in a very short time and don't need a long process of development because the appropriately matured spiritual substances are already present and only require different forms so that the development can continue to progress on the new earth. And these new creations will be so diverse that it will truly lead to great spiritual advancement within far shorter time than on the old earth, for the spiritual substances will not be subjected to as much opposition as is the case in the last days during which evil forces noticeably exert their impeding influence everywhere.

And so the act of transformation will happen quickly but no human being will be conscious of it, for those who were raptured will be returned to the newly shaped earth but will be unable to estimate how long they had been absent from earth because they lacked all sense of time. But nothing will remain in its old form. And even the people themselves will not experience their earthly garment as burdensome .... to a certain extent they will already be enclosed by a more spiritualised form although it is still earthly-material substance, but they will experience no physical weaknesses and pain and will be able to live their life on the new earth in a state which truly can be called paradise. And this state will continue for as long as people live in close unity with God, for as long as they are in direct contact with the world of light and its occupants and completely live in accordance with God's will. In time, however, a change will take place again when the prince of darkness will gain control over people once more; but that will not happen for a long time since the first generations will still be very intimately united with God, Whose power and glory they were permitted to experience, so that they would remain faithful to Him and constantly live their lives in His love and grace.

As a result the influence of people on all creatures will be most favourable too; people's love will be felt by the spiritual substances in all works of creation and the more love they sense the faster they progress in their development and in this loving environment also abandon their inner resistance faster. It will gladly be of service and can often leave its form very quickly in order to occupy the next higher one, which considerably shortens the process of development compared to the previous period on the old earth. If only for the sake of this bound spiritual substance alone people should recognise God's love in the act of transformation, for not only the human being requires God' help but all creatures sigh for release .... The human being, however, has the opportunity to release himself from the form during his earthly life .... If he fails then it will be his own fault that he has misused his free will again and so he will also have to bear the consequences, for then he will only receive what he had aimed for himself during his earthly life .... since he only desired material things they will become his external shell ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Pure truth .... The Word from above ....

B.D. 7521 from February 13th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You should only ever keep to My Word. And if you are given spiritual information from external sources then check whether it concurs with My directly imparted Word to you and reject what contradicts it. For what the spirit from Me has proclaimed to you is pure truth, which you can also endorse as pure truth at all times. You need not fear spreading error as long as you keep to what I convey to you from above. For since it is My will that the truth shall be spread amongst people I will also take care that you receive it, and I will only ever express Myself through the spirit where the guarantee is given that it will be received and also passed on without being altered .... And I know if and when this is possible, and this is where My spirit will flow .... I want you humans to live in truth .... But I also know how much My adversary is affecting you, who will always try to infiltrate the truth with error .... I know who desires the truth and where My adversary has little influence .... And thus I also know when the request for truth gives Me the opportunity to convey it to earth and in turn to pass it on to other people if only they have the will to serve the truth. I Myself proclaimed the Gospel to people when I lived on earth and they only received pure truth from Me, irrespective of what I taught them ....

Likewise purest truth is coming forth from Me again, and it merely requires a desiring and open heart in order to be received and evaluated as truth. But then it will also spread light, and the characteristic of truth is that the human being will subsequently grow in realisation, that he will gain the kind of knowledge which will illuminate him .... which only truth is able to achieve. Every error, however, causes confused thinking; it darkens the spirit and can never have pleasing effects. Anyone who desires the truth will also feel the blessing of the light .... anyone who lives in error is not aware of it but he lives in the darkness of spirit. However, no person will be able to say that the truth is unattainable, that it can never be accessible to people .... Everyone who seriously wants the truth and enters into contact with Me will be able to receive it. And it is now clearly imparted to you through My Word from above and you can always scrutinise it as to what extent the spiritual knowledge given to you by external sources corresponds to the latter in order to then also know whether you have the truth. For what I convey to you Myself cannot be anything else but the truth which you should keep in high esteem and never relinquish again, for it is an incredibly significant gift of grace which intends to resolve people's spiritual adversity, which intends to place you into a state of light and strength and help your soul to mature, and which is offered to you by My great love so that you will not keep living in spiritual darkness.

My spirit descends upon you, it pours itself into an open vessel and time and again fills it anew .... My spirit gives you the truth that can only originate from Me and thus the spiritual information can also be confidently upheld as truth towards other people, because no untrue spiritual information can come forth from Me .... And that it comes forth from Me is repeatedly proven to you again by the fact that My human manifestation and My act of Salvation are constantly mentioned .... that I Myself, your God and Father, Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, draw close to you in order to bear witness to Myself. You can detect extraordinary activity and can therefore conclude that a spiritual power is at work .... And it will also be easy for you to acknowledge that this spiritual power is divine, since you are constantly only instructed to love and made aware of the fact that Jesus Christ ought to be your only and most important goal .... And therefore you can also believe what is conveyed to you through My spirit, for the Eternal Truth Itself draws close to you and instructs you .... because It wants you to live in truth ....

Amen

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Final reminder ....

B.D. 7522 from February 14th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You only have a little time left .... You are told this again and again, for you don't take it seriously, you don't want to believe that you are close to the end and that you are approaching this end with giant strides. For the time is fulfilled, the spiritual low is so low that a change must come about of its own accord if everything spiritual is not to be lost without salvation. And yet, you humans can still achieve your own salvation in this short time if only you can muster the serious will to do so. But the end will come irrevocably, for only a few people will still accomplish this act of salvation for themselves and make an effort to live according to God's will until the end. Yet most of them reject all admonitions and warnings, they continue to live their usual lives and thus place their souls into great hardship which, in the end, will decide their continued existence or their dissolution .... You humans don't believe in the end, and this already is spiritual hardship for your soul, which is therefore not considered according to its wretched state but has to live in want until the end. And you could help it if only you lived consciously and fulfilled God's commandments .... you would fulfil the commandments of love for God and your neighbour, which every human being knows about .... you would only practice loving your neighbour and thereby also prove your love for Him your God. It is possible for all of you humans to practice love, for you are all approached daily by opportunities where you can prove your love for your neighbour, and your souls would mature in no time at all and you would no longer need to fear the near end either .... But as long as you don't believe in it you don't make an effort to mature your souls, you only pay attention to what serves your body and ignore your soul's desires .... But you do not stop time, nor do you stop the end. One day after the other seems to pass in peace, and yet the signs are already making themselves felt everywhere, for everything comes as it is written .... By the signs you will recognize the hour in which you live. Everything points to the fact that a change will take place, for love has grown cold amongst people, darkness is great, humanity lives without faith, for even those who speak of faith only possess a dead faith without spirit and life .... people chase after matter, they don't believe in Jesus Christ, they have no bond with Him and are therefore still completely under the control of His adversary .... And he rages unmistakably, for he knows that he does not have much time left .... But time is limited, it is coming to an end, and there are also irrevocable limits to his activity .... And thus the end will come unexpectedly, and only the few believers will know how close the end is to everyone, and these will live consciously, they will adjust themselves to the fact that they will still have to endure the final battle, but they will stand firm and await the coming of the lord .... For He will come on the day of judgment and fetch His own to Himself, as He Himself has proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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Supply of force ....

B.D. 7523 from February 16th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You can overcome yourselves if you approach Me Myself in Jesus Christ, for I acquired the strength for you through My death on the cross, which you can now draw from Me without restriction .... Therefore you must take refuge in Me again and again and entrust your worries and needs to Me in prayer, and I will take care of you, I will help you, of that you can be certain. You need strength to overcome .... for you yourselves are still powerless as long as My adversary can still harass you because you don't keep close enough to Me .... The intimacy of your connection to Me would also convey an abundance of strength to you, and then you would also be able to work together with Me in an unusual way. Yet only few people possess such profound love that they are intimately united with Me at all times. But where this love is, faith is also exceedingly strong, and there My strength can come into its own .... Yet I will never deny you My supply of strength if only you ask Me for it. Your spirit and soul will be strengthened even though your body feels weak, and soon the soul will also be able to transfer strength to the body and it will be resistant in every way. Thus you need not complain about weakness as long as you can call upon Me in Jesus Christ, for every such call will find fulfilment. I don't want you to pass away in weakness, and therefore strength is always available to you from My side, but I want you to come to Me Myself and appeal to Me in order to then also be able to provide you abundantly with everything you lack. For I have promised you this help with the words: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...." But you shall come .... I await your supplication, I wait for your bond with Me, but then I will also be able to communicate Myself to you, for your blessing and spiritual gain .... You will never send a request for strength to Me in vain, you will always receive fulfilment, and if you don't feel it physically your soul will nevertheless benefit from it, which will then also convey to the body what serves it .... But at times the weakness of the body is also suitable to push the human being ever more intimately towards Me, and then the supply of strength will also take place as surely as I bend down to every child to help it in its adversity .... (16.2.1960) And in view of the approaching end you will still need much strength and help, you will often believe that you are too weak to meet the spiritual and earthly demands placed upon you, but you need not be weak because My strength is constantly at your disposal which you can request at any time. Even a thought which you send up to Me in prayer will convey this strength to you, for no prayer is in vain which is directed to Me in spirit and in truth, which is not merely spoken by your lips but felt by your heart and sent up to Me .... And the strength will first fill your soul, because it has to be taken care of first, for it concerns its maturing while you still walk on this earth. But the body will also be provided for, the body will also receive noticeable strength if only you believe that I love you and want to release you from every adversity .... But this is also the purpose of every adversity, that you approach Me for help, that you seek the bond with Me and that My strength can overflow into you in this bond, so that you will always feel strengthened if only you open yourselves in heartfelt thoughts of Me, so that I can give you what you desire: strength and grace and an enlightened spirit which recognizes Me everywhere and in every event, so that you will then also learn to love Me and love will unite us ever more firmly and then all weakness will also fall away from you, because then you will walk with Me and be fed by Me with light and strength at all times ....

Amen

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Destiny conducive to reach full maturity ....

B.D. 7524 from February 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

On My part you are offered every possibility for development, for your whole course of life is determined by Me such that it will provide you with constantly new opportunities to work at improving your soul. Time and again you are faced with opportunities where you must prove yourselves, where you must activate your will, where you thus have to form your own point of view and where it will then matter as to how you reconcile your actions and intentions with My commandments of love for God and your neighbour, which should be at the root of everything you do or don't do. And your destiny is purely arranged such that you will be motivated to become lovingly active .... Time and again opportunities are created for you to consider your neighbour and thereby also prove your love for Me. My sole concern is to help you transform your nature, and therefore I will also always express Myself in a way which offers you possibilities to achieve this transformation. Your destiny is determined by Me, yet only ever in such a way that it will serve you for the best, that your soul can thereby mature fully if you are of good will, that is, if you intend to achieve perfection on earth. In that case you can only ever recognise My hand in everything you encounter, which guides you such that it will benefit your soul. And this is why you should also humbly accept what providentially approaches you .... This is intended in My plan of eternity, and this plan is truly designed in love and wisdom and will be implemented in love and wisdom, always for the sake of your salvation.

Hence, disaster doesn't actually exist for you, for although on earth it seems that way, spiritually it is nevertheless only an opportunity to achieve maturity for your souls, and it is only up to you as to whether such a disaster will benefit you, whether it will be a blessing for your soul. It all depends on the attitude of your will, whether it seeks contact with Me and holds on, in that case everything he does and thinks from then on will be a blessing for him. Everything that happens to a person according to destiny must have a good effect for someone who closely unites with Me, for he will not let go of Me and will also overcome every seemingly difficult experience, because I Myself will stand by his side through his heartfelt bond with Me. And thus his destiny will actually resolve itself and take a positive course as soon as the person merely is and remains in contact with Me. And the bond with Me is the purpose and goal of every event, but not everyone will establish it and therefore must often suffer for a long time before he takes the path to Me, Who can then relieve him from every burden when he entrusts himself to Me and appeals for My help. But he should always bear in mind that only his maturing on earth will be blessed on My part and that everything which comes upon a person is conducive to this maturing .... he should always consider that it is up to him as to how long such strokes of fate will burden him, and that he will release himself from them as soon as he enters into heartfelt unity with Me .... he should always remember that it only concerns this heartfelt unity, that he should return to Me, from Whom he had once voluntarily distanced himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Firm faith .... prayer in spirit and truth ....

B.D. 7525 from February 18th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

And it should be enough for you that I repeatedly assure you of My help .... You should believe and patiently expect My help, for no plea will go unheard if you send it up to Me in spirit and in truth .... Fulfilment only lies in the strength of faith, and if I repeatedly address you and assure you of My help then it should not be difficult for you to believe in the love of a father Who wants to help His child. My love for you is overwhelming, you just don't feel touched by it because you don't show Me the same love, but the assurance of My love shall strengthen your faith and you should go through life with joyful courage, you should be unburdened and cheerfully let Me take care of you alone. You may be happy as long as you are certain that a father watches over you and faithfully guides you through your earthly life. You need not tremble and fear for an hour or a minute, for your father's love will carry you over everything, for you are My children whom My love has created. And there is nothing I cannot overcome, even if it seems insurmountable for you .... there is nothing that is impossible for Me. It is just that your faith in it is still too weak, and therefore you often make it impossible yourselves by doubting My love and My might, which could be remedied by Me at any time. But you will certainly experience My help, for you will also attain this firm faith if only you always struggle for it. I want you, as My children, to also experience My love, and it will give itself to you and help where help is needed, so that you will recognize Me as your father, so that you will learn to love Me and become ever more inflamed in your hearts for Me .... For I want to be united with you through love. And if you love Me your prayer to Me will also be a prayer in spirit and in truth, you will speak to Me as a child speaks to its father, and every fulfilment of your request will be guaranteed by the sincerity with which you turn to Me and desire help. And therefore don't hesitate and entrust yourselves completely to Me that I will take your fate into My hand, that I will direct everything as it is good for you, that I will look after you spiritually and earthly and protect you against evil forces which try to pull you down. Yet your heart already belongs to Me, your will is turned towards Me, and your faith will become firm the more intimately you press towards Me, the more you join Me and appeal to Me for My love .... It will become yours, for I will not deny Myself to anyone who earnestly desires Me and My love ....

Amen

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The free will of man ....

B.D. 7526 from February 20th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The human being's will is always taken into account. This is also known to My adversary, who endeavours to influence the will as well and who can often achieve success because the will turned towards him usually still dominates the human being before he has found Me and consciously turns away from My adversary. Neither I nor he forcefully influence the human being, but both I and he struggle for his will and try to win it. But the human being decides for himself .... And according to his will I can approach him or My adversary can take possession of him. Therefore everything is done on both sides to win the human being's will. But this will will also be respected because it is free, and even if My adversary will not show consideration he is powerless in the face of a will turned towards Me. This is why it is already a great advantage for the soul if the human being is willing to listen to Me and thus gives Me the opportunity to wrestle for his soul. Then I will first be able to address him, then the soul will also feel the strength which lies in My word, and it will turn to Me ever more the more it listens to My word with the good will to do what is right. But if it turns away when it hears My word then My adversary can take possession of it, for then it will openly announce that it is still in bondage to him. And thus battles constantly take place between the forces of light and darkness for the human being's soul. And this alone decides which forces will win the victory. For the soul can freely choose the path it wants to take, it cannot and will not be hindered, neither by good nor by evil .... It can only ever be influenced, but the decision lies with itself. And thus you should pay attention to this will of yours so that you don't hand yourselves over to that from which you should and can become free in earthly life. For your free will is your innermost will and thinking, your innermost desire, whether it is directed towards Me or My adversary. But earthly life also approaches you according to your will, My plan of salvation came into being according to your will, and all events fatefully approach you according to this will, and you are always offered the opportunity to change your will if it was previously still directed towards the adversary .... to direct it towards Me, Who will now also pull it with gentle force .... but never have a coercive effect on it so as not to endanger free will .... You yourselves decide to which lord you will give yourselves .... you yourselves can direct your will and it will always be respected by Me, just as it can never be forcibly directed towards itself by My adversary. And thus you know that you yourselves decide your fate for eternity .... that you can take your path to Me yourselves but also remain with My adversary, but then you will also irrevocably have to bear the consequences once your earthly life, which was only given to you for the purpose of changing your will, has come to an end and which can result in your complete release from the form but also in renewed captivity, depending on how you use the gift of grace of earthly life for the salvation of your soul. But freedom of will is guaranteed to you at all times, for in all freedom you shall choose Me as your lord and turn away from My adversary. But I will stand by your side at all times if only you turn to Me, if your will separates itself from My adversary .... For then you will belong to Me and I will never let go of you again, you will remain Mine forever ....

Amen

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The hallowed name of Jesus ....

B.D. 7527 from February 21st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You are immune to all attacks by My adversary if you oppose him with the name of Jesus, which has to be spoken with all sincerity if you want to experience his effectiveness. For then the adversary will let go of you as soon as he has to recognize that you adhere to Jesus, that you have entered His realm into which he cannot follow you. But first you must believe in Jesus Christ yourselves .... you must be inwardly fully convinced that He has redeemed you from sin and death, that He is your God and father from eternity .... you must believe that I embodied Myself in Him in order to redeem you humans. This firm, convinced faith makes you My children, it makes you confessors of Jesus Christ, and from now on you will be victorious when My adversary wants to oppress you as the enemy of your souls and attacks you. Then one thought of Jesus Christ will suffice and he will leave you, because Jesus Christ defeated him through His death on the cross and because He paid the purchase price for your souls with His blood .... the adversary therefore no longer has a right to you as soon as you want to belong to Me. Only the weak or unbelievers are still his prey, for they have no strength to resist even if they wanted to escape from him, but their will is also too weak to distance themselves from him, and thus they remain enslaved until they also turn to Jesus Christ to help them in their adversity. And if you are in physical or spiritual adversity then you know that the adversary oppresses you, and then firmly and intimately unite with Jesus Christ, speak His holy name and know that you are then also united with Me Myself, Who is one with Him, Who died for you humans on the cross. And I will hear your plea and spread My protective hand over you so that he will have to leave you, so that nothing can happen to you, for the adversary is powerless against Me and you can desire and receive My strength and help at any time. The man Jesus was once My cover when I descended to earth to the people who were in need .... the man Jesus prepared Himself as a cover for Me, He lived and worked in love, He spiritualized Himself through love and fully accepted Me as the eternal love in Himself .... Jesus, the man, was love, and thus He was God, Who is eternal love. I Myself was able to dwell within Him, I was able to completely permeate Him and fill Him with My spirit of love, I was able to spiritualize His human shell so that it no longer needed any further development and at the same time was able to ascend with the soul into heaven, into My kingdom which is not of this world .... And you should call upon this Jesus again and again in every affliction of body and soul, you should speak His name with devotion and know that great strength lies in His name and that you can avail yourselves of this strength at any time when you are in need. It is the holiest name in the world, and all the angels in heaven bow their knees before Him, they praise and extol His name without ceasing, and they thank Him unceasingly for His redemption, for the work of mercy which He offered on earth on the cross for all people of the past, the present and the future .... And the power of His name will come to bear again and again, He will hear every call that rises up to Him .... The father in Jesus will take care of all those who need His help, I will always and constantly be your helper in spiritual and earthly adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spreading the Gospel .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7528 from February 22nd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Every person who proclaims the Gospel to the souls .... who tries to bring My Word consisting of the divine teachings of love to his fellow human beings, contributes towards their redemption .... Everyone who reminds his fellow human beings to love proclaims this Gospel when he simultaneously teaches that these are the most important commandments I have given to people, and when he informs them of the results of fulfilling these commandments. Everything that contributes towards educating people to love is already redemption work, because the human being redeems himself through love alone and because love has to be practised in order to thus enable the salvation of one's own soul .... For love will always seek contact with Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, Who only now can bring true redemption to the person believing in Him ....

The human being has to find Jesus Christ without fail because redemption without Him is impossible .... And thus every person renders redemption work if he points or leads his fellow human beings to Jesus Christ .... This is vineyard work, it is a spreading of the seed .... which is the divine teaching of love .... into the human hearts. It is a conscious effort performed by a person for the benefit of his fellow human beings' souls.

Anyone who has found Jesus Christ himself, who has found redemption from sin and death through Him, will then not grow tired of proclaiming Him to his fellow human beings and will also help him to become redeemed .... anyone who has found Jesus Christ will not rest until his fellow human being has found Him too, and thus he will keep talking about love and inspire his fellow human being to also take the path of love which has Jesus Christ as its goal .... He will not rest until the other person has also found deliverance from sin and death.

As long as the human being is still distanced from the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ his love has not yet become powerful in him, for this love knows and acknowledges the divine Redeemer and cannot help but proclaim Him .... And he who has found Jesus Christ can't help himself but to proclaim His Gospel of love to everyone he comes into contact with .... He will be constantly active on His behalf and thereby lead many souls to Me, for he makes My Word accessible to them, which is the task of everyone who receives My Word himself, who desires it and to whom I therefore speak .... irrespective of whether this happens directly or through reading or hearing My Word. For it is always Myself Who speaks to you humans if you desire to hear My Word .... This is why proclaiming My Gospel is extremely necessary, and everyone will be blessed who accepts this mission of helping to redeem his fellow human being's soul, of making the knowledge accessible to him of how and why he has to be redeemed if he wants to become happy one day ....

Anyone who lives with love has found Jesus Christ and the light of realisation shines in him .... but anyone who is not yet redeemed has to be educated, the image of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ has to be brought home to him and he has to be reminded to turn to and appeal to Him that he, too, should find redemption through Him and His act of Salvation .... And therefore every person spreading My Gospel throughout the world is blessed, for he leads long lost souls to Me who will find salvation through Jesus Christ Himself, Who has redeemed him, too, with His blood ....

Amen

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Duration of returning to God ....

B.D. 7529 from February 23rd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

And even if the work of return continues for eternities .... one day I will achieve My goal that everything I once had created and which had fallen away from Me will return to Me of its own free will and thereby 'living creations' will have become 'children', as has been My plan since eternity. The duration of the process of return depends entirely on the spiritual being which, during its last test of earthly life as a human being, has to prove its will. And since free will so often fails because it cannot pass the final test, one period of Salvation is not enough, and time and again new developmental eras are required. And therefore one can speak of eternities until this process has been accomplished one day.

Yet the processes of development are times of adversity and torment .... And for this reason alone I aim to shorten them for you, and My constant concern is to influence you such that you will preferably reach your goal during one such developmental process, during one period of Salvation .... that you will improve your nature and sincerely look for unification with Me, because then you will also be close to your perfection and close to the goal. To Me a thousand years are like a day .... I personally don't mind how long you take to return to Me, yet you are the ones who will suffer if you excessively prolong your time of return and thus also have to endure immeasurable agonies and adversities .... And since I love you I take pity on you, and only for this reason do I try to win you over sooner, for only I know how much time lies behind you and subsequently also ahead of you, if you fail in this earthly life .... I know your process of development and would like nothing better than for it to be finished when you leave your last form as a human being on this earth .... I don't want you to suffer even longer; I would like to make you all blissfully happy in My kingdom .... But I will only be able to do so if you have shaped yourselves in such a way that you are close to your original state. If this transformation has not taken place during your earthly life I cannot spare you a repeated process through the creations, and then it will take eternities again until you have to make your decision of will as a human being on this earth. For only free will can take you close to the goal, even if My love for you is infinite I nevertheless cannot ignore your will and provide you with a fate which you do not deserve as a result of your will, which is still against Me and therefore you cannot be called perfect either. And fate corresponds to maturity .... or, only the will determines the fate of the soul, the once fallen original spirit, who shall return to his source by himself .... to Me, Who is God and Creator of all of you, but also your Father. One day I will reach My goal, one day you will return to Me again ....

But how much time it will take is determined by you yourselves in the stage of a human being .... Hence you are burdened by a tremendous responsibility during the time of your earthly life, and you should always remember this and do what I ask of you through My Word. For in My Word I Myself come near to you in your earthly life and inform you of My will. If you comply with it, you will also be close to your perfection, and you will still reach your given goal before your earthly life comes to an end. And then the dreadful torments and adversities will be over for you, and you will enter into My kingdom, which is a kingdom of light and bliss and which you will recognise as your true home. And I only would like to call on all humans: Take care that you reach your goal during this earthly life, use your will correctly, and then you will live in accordance with My will, then you will also change your nature and become what you were in the beginning once again .... beings, which are allowed to take pleasure in light, strength and freedom close to the Father's heart .... beings, which are infinitely happy ....

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Conscious psychological work ....

B.D. 7530 from February 24th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

No-one should reckon to have much time left for the work of improving his soul, for no-one knows when his last hour will come. The human being should live as if every day were the last he was given. He should busily work for the benefit of his soul .... He should not let any day go by without having performed a kind deed, he should support his neighbour with advice and help, he should think of his God and Creator and establish with Him the relationship of a child with its Father .... he should pray to his Father every day and commend himself to Him and His grace. He should entrust himself to Him and appeal to Him for His protection and guidance, he should make mental contact with the world of light .... he should only ever want to do what is good, and then he will, in fact, only do that which complies with God's will. A person can greatly contribute towards his soul's speedy maturing on earth if only he consciously works at improving his soul, i.e., by always keeping in mind why he inhabits this earth and then living according to God's will by fulfilling the commandments of love for God and his neighbour. And he can implement this every day if he is interested in moving forwards in his development, that is, if he lives his earthly life appropriately. But he should not defer this work because he does not know how long he will live on earth .... This knowledge is withheld from him, and for good reason, or he would not be free in his will .... But he also easily runs the risk of carelessly deferring the work of improving his soul, always counting on the fact that there will still be plenty of time to seriously consider his soul ....

No-one knows when his hour will come, it can suddenly take you by surprise, and then you will feel bitter remorse when you realise in the spiritual kingdom what you neglected to do on earth. Many people enter the kingdom of the beyond totally unprepared, they made no spiritual progress at all, they neglected to do everything that might have resulted in this progress, they only lived on earth for their body but never considered the soul, which alone continues to live after the earthly body's death. And therefore, it must suffer the consequences alone, either to linger in agony and darkness or to stray in utter bleakness through infinite spaces, poor and miserable and in severe distress. You are still living on earth and can spare your soul this dreadful fate, nevertheless, you must make use of your life and work daily and hourly at improving your soul, which can already consist of a spiritually directed thought, because then the beings of light will help you and time and again try to draw you into spiritual spheres, which they will also succeed in doing if you are of good will. You should often consider the hour of your death and you will increasingly overcome your fear of dying, for the more you work at improving your soul the less you will fear the hour of death, for then you will be prepared for it, you will live consciously and therefore fearless and aware you will approach the end, which is time and again proclaimed to you. But woe to those who live irresponsibly from day to day, for the day which ends their life will take them by surprise .... Woe to those who have never considered their soul and only ever attended to their body .... Regardless of whether they die before or live to see the day of the end .... their end will be a dreadful one, for their soul will have to bear the fate which the human being has prepared for it on earth ....

Amen

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Distributing the divine Word ....

B.D. 7531 from February 25th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You shall proclaim My pure Gospel .... There is great spiritual hardship amongst people who no longer hear My pure Word because they don't believe, because their faith is not alive or it would enable them to understand My Word wherever it is offered to them .... For if they requested it with a living faith then they would also truly receive the Word such that they could understand and draw strength from it. But people lack this living faith, just as the messengers lack the strength of spirit which would enable them to accept My Word directly from Me, or even allow Me to speak through the messengers to people Myself. For only the Word that is conveyed by Me has the strength to penetrate a person's heart and become effective. And thus you should mention everywhere that My Word is sent to you directly from above and that it can truly give you the blessing of the Gospel if you accept it gratefully and are not just hearers but true doers of My Word.

You should proclaim My Word wherever the opportunity presents itself, for people have to know about My Gospel, they have to know about My divine teaching of love, they have to know My will in order to live on earth accordingly, in order to fulfil My commandments of love and always use My Gospel as a guiding principle for their way of life. For only then can a change of character occur in the human being, only then can he shape himself to love and fulfil the purpose of his earthly existence. Hence I convey My Word from above to you humans time and again, hence I use every opportunity to reveal Myself to a human being in order to get access to all people through him, in order to inform everyone of My will and My commandments.

And whatever you humans can do in order to spread My Word, in order to carry it into the world, should be done by you, and your fellow human beings' attention should be drawn to the extraordinary grace bestowed on people by receiving My Word. You should acquaint them with the living God with Whom you should associate, Who wants to be accepted into your hearts and Whom you have to approach by yourselves if you want to unite with Him. You should inform them that I Am people's eternal Father and also want to be acknowledged by them as their Father .... You should encourage them to acquire a living faith and thus proclaim the commandments of love, the fulfilment of which will awaken in them a living faith and their spirit, so that they then will strive towards Me of their own accord and establish the union with Me because their nature has changed into love, and love thus strives towards love .... For it is the Eternal Love which reveals Itself to you humans, it is the Eternal Love Which longs for Its children, it is the Eternal Father Who bends down to you in order to inform you of His will. And the messengers of My Gospel will be blessed; they will experience My grace and My protection as long as they live on earth and also one day in the spiritual kingdom, for they have been faithful servants to Me who will receive their reward ....

Amen

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God's endless love ....

B.D. 7532 from February 26th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

And you shall experience My love and grace forever, for I will not let you fall, even if eternities pass until you voluntarily return to Me. But as long as My love and grace pursue you I will always be ready for your salvation, I will always provide you with gifts of grace without measure, and it will only ever be up to you yourselves whether you accept My love and grace so that they can take effect on you. For even if you are still apostate to Me, even if you consciously keep your distance from Me .... you are helpless, weakened beings which My adversary still has under his control and which cannot free themselves from him by their own strength. But first they must freely give their will to Me, only then can I provide them with strength, and in order for them to carry out this direction of will I repeatedly turn My love and grace towards them; I pursue them with My love and will also one day achieve that they consciously turn towards Me and now also accept My love and grace .... And then they will be saved for time and eternity .... But the freedom of will determines the duration of their turning away from Me, the freedom of will must be preserved, and this alone also evaluates My love and grace. And thus the being can cover the path of return to Me in a very short time as soon as it turns its will towards Me again .... But since it cannot be forced to do so, it can also take eternities until it takes the path of return to Me. And therefore My love constantly endeavours to influence the being's will as soon as it walks across earth as a human being. I shower it with graces which can motivate the human being to seek contact with Me and thus also consciously turn his will towards Me .... But it can also be unsuccessful because My adversary tries to influence the will in the same way and often gains more influence .... Yet My love and patience is infinite, I do not cease to woo the being's love, and I use such means which are all suitable to change the will and therefore are means of grace of great value. For all of you are My children, and a father's love does not diminish, it will care for and strive for the child until it has found beatitude, which it can only find in union with the eternal father. And even if I don't reach My aim in one redemption period My love will nevertheless not give up on you, only it will have to use such means again which you humans don't want to acknowledge as God's love .... I have to let you go through the works of creation again with the same final aim that one day you, as a human being, will be able to decide for or against Me again .... But even then My love is at work, and a renewed earthly progress is also a grace for the fallen being, for it irrevocably brings the being upwards, it gives it the opportunity again to ascend from the abyss and to one day reach the stage as a human being again. And once again My love and grace will take effect as soon as the being as a human being offers no resistance, and once I will also reach the aim: The being will join Me again in love and now be eternally and inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

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Standstill of earthly life ....

B.D. 7533 from February 27th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You start your life on earth without knowing the purpose of earthly life, you gradually become aware of yourselves and then you first have to be informed of the meaning and purpose of your existence. Yet this instruction by and large only concerns your physical welfare, and it can often take a long time before you become aware of a spiritual life .... before you consider your soul and its requirements. If, however, you are correctly instructed early enough, that is, if your attention is drawn to your spiritual development, then your soul will be able to prepare itself accordingly and assert its wishes, i.e. you can live a spiritual life next to the purely physical life and gain spiritual benefits for the soul .... However, a person who only pays attention to his earthly life, who only meets the body's requirements and ignores his soul, will gain little spiritual success. Only when he becomes aware of the fact that there is a different purpose and goal than merely the physical welfare of the body can the beginning of a spiritual life be spoken of. Prior to that earthly life is just a standstill, lived in vain for the soul, for the human being's spiritual development.

But every person has the opportunity to receive the information about the meaning and purpose of existence, it is just that he doesn't always believe these explanations, in which case the soul will be considerably disadvantaged .... And then it can often take a long time until the person begins to understand the worthlessness of earthly ambitions and strives towards a different, spiritual goal. Nevertheless, it has to be left up to him in which direction he shall turn his thoughts and his will, yet he will always receive instructions and then it will depend on him whether these instructions will help him gain understanding, and whether he will derive a benefit from the information conveyed to him. He has to accept this information of his own free will, he simply has to want to fulfil the right purpose of his life .... Then he will also of his own accord turn to the Power Which He recognises above himself with an appeal for assistance, then he will be helped in coming to the certain realisation and subsequently live his life on earth consciously.

For the human being was given intelligence, he can think and mentally consider the pros and cons and thus make a decision, it solely depends on his decision as to whether he will only live an earthly life or strive spiritually as well .... And although it also depends on his will as to whether he thinks correctly he will nevertheless always be offered the option to arrive at the correct conclusion, he will not be left without help, for it is always possible for him to find and travel the right path, so that his life need not be a standstill but can result in complete spiritual development. However, in the final analysis his will is always the crucial factor, for it is free and its direction cannot be determined by any means. Yet everything will be done on part of God in order to direct this will such that it will turn towards God of its own accord, and then every support will be given so that the human being will reach the right goal ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work of the spirit in man ....

B.D. 7534 from February 28th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

My spirit shall work in you, My strength shall become powerful in you .... for then I will work with you and you will work with Me .... And no matter how weak you feel as a human being, My spirit gives you strength and power which has a spiritual effect, My spirit fills your soul and guides it to perfection. And once you are filled by My spirit your physical weakness will also disappear, then you will receive strength from Me and you will be able to master everything and also meet earthly requirements. For then you will be closely united with Me and have unlimited strength at your disposal. But you must believe and in this convinced faith seek My bond, then no limits will be set for you, you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to, you will succeed in everything, for you will no longer undertake anything without Me. But which of you humans possesses this strong faith that he unconditionally hands himself over to Me in order to be able to work united with Me according to his will? You all do not yet have this faith which can move mountains. And therefore you are fainthearted and despondent .... But you should make an effort to allow My spirit to work in you, you should request My strength and make use of it, because it will be given to you without restriction as soon as you request it to work with love. And then you will also learn to believe when My strength visibly proves itself to you .... My spirit will guide you and you will think and want correctly and then also request strength from Me where you need it. I want you to be filled with My spirit, but you must also want the same or the working of My spirit will be impossible .... You only have to approach Me with convinced faith that I Myself will make you happy with My presence, then My spirit will also have to become active in you, for wherever I am I express Myself through the spirit. Just believe and want Me to be with you, and I will truly comply with this will and never leave you again. And then My spirit will work in you and My strength will flow through you and your soul will mature as long as it still lives on earth. But if My spirit is working in you then it will also instruct you from within, it will make you feel what you should or should not do, it will convey right thoughts to you, it will reveal knowledge to you, and it will also kindle love in you for your God and father of eternity, for My spirit in you is My share which draws you into love for Me Myself because it remains eternally inseparably united with Me. And thus it also has to impart strength to the person who allows it to work, for he has to live in love or the working of the spirit would be impossible. And a life of love irrevocably earns him a supply of strength from Me, Who is eternal love Itself. This is why the working of the spirit is always connected with the supply of strength, or also: My spirit is strength which gives itself to everyone who lives in love .... This person will be brightly enlightened and his soul will also be able to do the work on itself full of strength .... And the human being will become aware of this supply of strength as soon as he establishes the heartfelt bond with Me, and then he will also consciously use it to work in love .... And then I will be in him and he will be in Me .... And then he will work united with Me with My strength ....

Amen

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Love is everything .... God's word ....

B.D. 7535 from February 29th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Everything that is supported by the spirit of love is beneficial for your spiritual development. If only the flame of love is always nourished within you then you can also speak of spiritual progress, yet without love you will remain at the same stage as when you began your embodiment as a human being. It is about your will, thinking and acting .... As soon as this is determined by love you also fulfil your purpose of earthly life, you mature your soul. But if self-love is the driving force behind everything you undertake, then this will only have a physical effect, you will not be able to achieve success for your soul. However, the spark of love slumbers in every person's heart and only needs to be ignited .... The human being only needs to carry out a small work of love and this spark of love will have found nourishment and will increase, and the human being will then be driven from within into ever new works of love, because the flame of love will constantly increase until it completely fills the human being and his whole way of life will only be a constant working of love .... and then his self-love will also have become smaller and smaller, whereas love for his neighbour will constantly increase. But then the human being's change of nature is also complete, for the purpose of which he walks on earth. This process of change requires the human being's good will, which is free and therefore cannot be forced to carry out works of love; but if it is good then the human being will do of his own accord what corresponds to the commandments of love for God and his neighbour. And the fact that the will is good should be achieved through the supply of the divine word .... As soon as it is possible for the human being to be addressed by God, so that he willingly listens to His word, it is also possible for the human being's will to turn towards God, to turn towards 'good', and then the human being is also inwardly willing to do good .... that is, to perform works of love. And therefore the supply of the divine word is a necessity, and the work in the vineyard of the lord consists of spreading the divine word, of conveying God's address to people, of causing them to open themselves when God wants to address people through His word. And His address will always consist of Him placing the commandments of love for God and neighbour as paramount and clarifying their effect .... And then the human being can decide of his own free will what his attitude towards this will be .... He is certainly called upon to live a life of love, but he is not forced to do so .... However, his salvation depends on how he evaluates the divine word, whether he is not only a listener but also a doer of the divine word. But once the divine spark of love has been ignited in him it will no longer go out but always receive new nourishment. Eternal love Itself will repeatedly send Its ray into the heart and kindle the flame of love again and again until it flares up brightly and intimate love seizes the whole person, which then applies to the divine creator and father, Whom the heart has recognized and Whom it now also loves with all its soul. Then the purpose of earthly life is fulfilled .... But without love it remains idle, without love the soul cannot mature, and without love there is no redemption for the soul ....

Amen

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Right knowledge must be sought ....

B.D. 7536 from March 1st 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The light of knowledge cannot be given to you from Me if this is not your innermost desire, that you become enlightened in spirit. You are in spiritual darkness as long as you do nothing to dispel it. This darkness is the result of your apostasy from Me, it is the effect of the distance which you yourselves have willingly placed between Me and yourselves and which can only be remedied by you reducing the distance yourselves, by you coming closer to Me again, by you making My illumination of love possible through your will. And this illumination therefore also means enlightenment of spirit, that you regain the knowledge which you had given away yourselves through your apostasy from Me. But knowledge has to be conveyed to you again, knowledge has to be made accessible to you during your earthly existence so that you consciously live your life in accordance with this knowledge .... Nevertheless, it requires your free will to accept this knowledge when it is offered to you .... thus knowledge which corresponds to the truth cannot be given to you against your will. And that is why understanding this knowledge requires .... to the right knowledge .... this very will and the desire for it, otherwise it would remain incomprehensible to you even if it were presented to you without your desire. And so it can well be said that light is only given to him who desires light .... It can be said that only the human being who deeply detests darkness and longs for light, for the right knowledge about the purpose and aim of his earthly life, about the purpose and aim of creation and God's plan of salvation, for the right knowledge about the nature of the divine creator, about the plan of salvation and the original sin .... In order to receive all spiritual knowledge there must also be a strong desire in the human being for his darkness to disappear and for a small light to be kindled for him again which illuminates the right path to perfection, because he would like to take this path. But if the human being has this desire then he will also certainly be enlightened by My spirit, then he will certainly be able to chase away the darkness, for then he will already have considerably reduced the distance from Me, through his desire for truth he will also have proven his desire for Me, and I will certainly not deny Myself to him, I will kindle a light for him which will now never go out again. The human being will remain in spiritual darkness as long as he is still turned away from Me, because this means the same: a lack of illumination of love which can only spread the light. The human being still rejects My love, and without My love he is without light .... He does not possess love himself either and therefore also belongs to the one who is the lord of darkness. And only when he changes himself into love will the desire for light awaken in him, and then the little spark in him will ignite and first spread a small light which, depending on his will, can grow into a bright little flame and then he himself will no longer be without realisation either, for love will bring him a real light ....

Amen

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Increased supply of grace before the end ....

B.D. 7537 from March 2nd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

In the end time the measure of grace poured out on you increases because the demands on you are also excessive and because My adversary uses all his might to pull you down into the abyss. You humans are weak and in need of a great supply of grace, you are irrevocably lost if you don't receive help, you are dependent on an unusual supply of grace which, however, will also be granted to you because I love you and want to save you from ruin. For this reason you will repeatedly experience unusual help in the last days; although you will often not want to see it as 'help' because you humans are often severely affected by all kinds of strokes of fate; but these, too, are to be regarded as means of grace, because you and your fellow human beings will be clearly informed of the transience of all earthly things and thereby also receive an indication of your actual destiny .... Thus you will be made aware of yourselves and your task on earth. Everything that stimulates you to spiritual striving is to be regarded as a means of grace .... But the greatest and most significant means of grace is the transmission of My word from on high .... In the last days faith has become so weak that even the book of the fathers is no longer particularly respected, that people no longer take My word from it, that they only read it according to the letter but do not value it as My address. Therefore I have to address them differently, I have to convey My word to people on earth again through messengers, through servants devoted to Me .... I must seek the opportunity to speak to people as a father speaks to his children. A bond must be established from the spiritual kingdom to earth .... People's attention must be drawn to an unusual activity on the part of the spiritual world. How the individual person receives it depends on himself, on his will to do good and on his willingness .... But it is an overwhelming grace that I Myself address you in the last days and announce to you everything that is to come, that I initiate you into My eternal plan of salvation, that I enlighten you about all correlations, that I give you a testimony about Myself and My nature, about My infinite love for you and about My eternal plan, through which I want to win you back again, you who once got lost to Me. This knowledge, which I convey to you through My word from above, is a very special gift of grace through which you can still be saved from ruin in the last hour if only you listen to Me, if only you open your ear and heart to hear My voice. And the closer it gets to the end the more abundantly I will distribute My gifts of grace, and again and again it will be possible for you humans to recognize Me Myself in every event which affects you .... And only someone with a completely closed heart will not make use of the blessings which are so abundantly offered to him. But anyone of good will can make use of them .... And anyone who immerses himself in My word, which is conveyed to you humans from above, thus also evaluates the gifts of grace, and he will feel it in his soul that he receives strength and will be able to survive the time of the end without danger. He will always be able to draw strength from My word, which is blessed with My strength. For people are weak and I want to help them in the coming time so that they will withstand all demands, so that they will also endure the coming battle of faith, so that they will persevere until the end ....

Amen

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Short or long lifetime ....

B.D. 7538 from March 4th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The time given to you for your earthly life is not long, compared to the infinitely long time of your preliminary development, the duration of which cannot possibly be estimated by you. And your earthly life can even be shorter if you are called back into eternity prematurely. Therefore you should eagerly consider your soul, you should provide it with as much nourishment as possible so that it won't have to starve if it only lives for a short time on earth .... You should constantly provide it with ample food and drink and never rely on a very long earthly life, for you don't know the day and hour of your physical death .... But your soul will also be able to mature in a short period of time if you are of good will and help it to mature. No-one can determine or know how long he will live, and precisely this lack of knowledge ought to encourage him into actively improving his soul, his way of life should be such that he can calmly consider every day to be his last without having to worry about his soul's welfare.

And a great many people will lose their lives during the last days, for a large appraisal will still take place and many people will yet be recalled prematurely for the sake of their soul's salvation, because they had neglected their psychological work but nevertheless shall not fall prey to the merciless fury of God's adversary who would only draw them ever deeper into the abyss if these souls were not saved from him before. Especially people without spiritual aspirations don't consider an early death and live irresponsibly although they cannot be called bad. God takes pity on them and wants to help them to develop further in the beyond, which will in fact be far more difficult but not impossible, whereas on earth the fate of souls who live without a sense of responsibility could easily result in a complete descent into the abyss. You are offered enough opportunities on earth to reach full maturity in your earthly life, but if you don't take advantage of them you are not making the most of your life as a human being either, although it was only given to you for the purpose of your soul's maturity. If you don't use the grace of your embodiment as a human being and help your soul achieve final maturity then it is also irrelevant whether you live for a long or just a short time on earth. Yet even if you reach old age, earthly life can still be regarded as brief compared to the time of your preliminary development. Nevertheless, even a very short time on earth will suffice to fulfil your purpose on earth. And thus your maturity is not dependent on the length of your earthly existence but purely on your will of making expedient use of this existence.

Through the Word of God you are shown time and again the right path in order to achieve your soul's perfection .... you are repeatedly reminded of the divine commandments of love, the fulfilment of which is the only purpose and goal of your existence as a human being .... And you can always practise love even if your life is short, your soul will derive a benefit if you live a life of love .... However, if you don't keep these two commandments your life will be in vain and your responsibility even greater the longer you live on earth; in which case you can only be thankful if your life will be shortened and you still have the opportunity to develop further in the kingdom of the beyond, so that you will not go completely astray at the end of the day when everyone will be judged according to his efforts ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Source of life ....

B.D. 7539 from March 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

All of you should lie down at the source of life, at the spring which I have opened up for you, from which the living water flows which you need on your pilgrimage on this earth. Do not pass by the spring on your earthly journey, where you can draw from it and again and again fetch strength to continue the pilgrimage. For it leads steeply upwards and requires strength. And therefore you should refresh yourselves again and again, you should sit down at the spring and drink from the water of life, so that your soul will be strengthened and be able to continue its path with strength .... Again and again I open up a fountain of life for you humans, for I know that you are in need of strength, I know that you often sink down tired and cannot continue on your path because it leads upwards and you are too weak to ascend .... I also know where your path leads past and that is why I let the water of life spring forth just there, so that you will be led to the source and can rest in order to strengthen yourselves anew .... I convey My word to you wherever you may go .... It will be handed to you through messengers and you need only open your hearts; you need only bow down and draw from the source. For My word comes from Me Myself and is offered to you directly or indirectly through My servants. Take it, you will be nourished and strengthened by Me Myself, you will be provided with strength by Me Myself, I will take care of your adversity and provide you with spiritual nourishment. I provide you with strength and help you to successfully complete your pilgrimage. I offer your soul the bread of heaven, I nourish it with My word .... You may accept My word unadulterated and pure, it is blessed with My strength, it will have an effect on your soul like a drink of fresh water, like a delicious bread from which it can draw all the strength it needs for its maturing as long as it stays on earth. And just as water flows out of a spring pure and fresh, My word also sends you unadulterated spiritual knowledge which still contains all healing power, which therefore also refreshingly and fortifyingly touches the soul and enables it to successfully continue its ascent which leads to the most glorious aim, back to Me into the father's house, which the soul once voluntarily left. It has sunk deep and must now also strive upwards again, its fall into the abyss has distanced it far from Me .... it therefore has to cover an equally long path in order to reach Me again. And this path requires strength and perseverance .... again and again the soul has to provide itself with renewed strength, again and again it has to seek the source of life where everything it needs for ascent is supplied to it. Again and again the soul has to hear My word, it has to drink the water of life which will also flow to it again and again at the source, because I Myself have made this fountain of life accessible to it .... because I Myself convey My word from above to you humans and you may then also always hear this word as soon as you desire it. All of you should gather around the spring, accept from Me with a grateful heart what My love offers you, also draw the water of life for others and offer it to them if they cannot gather at the spring like you .... Then you, who want to serve Me, make sure that they are still allowed to drink; then also carry My word to where the land is dry, where the spring is far away .... only bring them My word .... the water of life .... as clear and pure as you yourselves have received it from Me, protect it from all contamination and ask Me to bless the word with My strength when you pass it on to weak, needy souls who are already sinking by the wayside and are no longer able to rise .... Restore and refresh them and they will receive strength again to walk on .... They, too, will feel the strength of My word and make an effort to walk to the source themselves in order to get strength for their souls, food and drink, which you all need in order to recover, in order to cover the ascent to the height which the attainment of the aim demands of all of you. For no human being has the strength on his own, everyone needs a supply of strength for his pilgrimage on earth, every soul needs food and drink, every soul needs nourishment which gives it strength to successfully complete its earthly path. And it finds this nourishment with Me, this nourishment is offered to it by My word, which I have blessed with My strength ....

Amen

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God's care for the human being ....

B.D. 7540 from March 6th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

First seek the kingdom of God .... For it is your task in life to find the contact with My kingdom so that this kingdom can receive you again one day when you leave the earth. This is, in fact, your only task, because everything else will sort itself out, if only you make an effort to do justice to this task. You were placed in this earthly world in order to look for the spiritual kingdom while you live in it .... But you were also given a glorious promise that you will be able to cope with this earthly world as well if you fulfil the condition of looking for the kingdom of God first .... In a manner of speaking, I promised you a reward which, by itself, should alone entice you to comply with My requirement, for as a result of My promise you are also spared the struggle for existence, the worry about your life, about your earthly life ....

You need only take care of your soul's salvation, and I will take over the care for your physical well-being and sort out everything, which otherwise would demand a great deal of effort from you if you had to deal with it by yourselves. I will take over the care which earthly life demands of you as soon as you fulfil My requirement: to first strive for My kingdom and its justice .... i.e. if you completely hand yourselves over to Me because you recognise Me as your God and Creator, as your Father of eternity, because you recognise that true justice can only be found with Me, a life according to your soul's maturity, and because you realise that this is why you should seek Me and My kingdom, which will then certainly be opened for those of you who hand yourselves over to Me with complete trust in My justice .... You should only live in the right way with a view of acquiring My kingdom .... You should strive for heartfelt contact with Me ....

However, don't look for Me in the world, for My kingdom is not of this world, therefore you must turn your thoughts heavenwards, away from the world and its enticements .... you must think of My kingdom, your true home, which you once abandoned and to which you should return again. And you will not regret it if you follow My advice to strive for this kingdom, for you will also be relieved of all earthly worries and problems at the same time, because I will take care of these on your behalf and, in every adversity, I will truly look after you. I will provide for you in an earthly way like a father for his children, I will give to you what you need in everyday life, and I will also provide you with an abundance of spiritual wealth, for as soon as you turn your eyes to Me and My kingdom you will also receive gifts of grace from there and your bond with Me will grow increasingly stronger, earthly life will no longer be a burden to you, you will have what you require .... physically and spiritually .... For then you will have escaped from the danger of succumbing to the world and its demands, of completely becoming enslaved by it and thus you will also have escaped from the lord of the world by completely consciously turning towards My kingdom which will now be granted to you. First seek the kingdom of God, all other things will be given to you .... This promise shall encourage you to look for the bond with Me and My kingdom, for as yet you are often held back by earthly worries, which you take more seriously than the worry for your soul .... But I promise you certain help, I take all your worries upon Me, providing you first look for Me and My kingdom .... Therefore you can live your earthly life completely without worry, if only you would always remember My promise .... However, only a few people take these Words seriously but they are released from all earthly burdens, for I Myself look after them, and I will lovingly look after every person who only ever strives to gain Me and My kingdom. And he will certainly reach the goal, he will find Me and unite with Me. He will not live his life on earth in vain, he will be admitted to My kingdom and be very happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Man determines his own fate ....

B.D. 7541 from March 7th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

The kingdom you desire will become your abode .... Spirit or matter will be your cover, depending on your will, but this is free. The fate that awaits your soul after the body's apostasy is one you have created for yourselves through your will, which was meant for spirit or matter. Understand that you yourselves are the originators of what awaits you after your death. For you receive what you want: a stay in hard matter or in the spiritual realm .... The fate you have chosen for yourselves during your life on earth awaits you. But they are quite different lots .... They signify bliss or torment, and only those who strive for the spiritual kingdom in earthly life will be allowed to enjoy a beautiful state, they will be blissful, whereas hard matter will again become the shell of the spiritual, which only strived for matter on earth and which is in a state of hardship and torment .... yet through its own fault. You humans live on earth for the purpose of spiritualizing your ego .... of your soul, which is no longer far from its completion. But you must accomplish this spiritualization yourselves of your own free will, and therefore you cannot be hindered if you turn more towards matter again and your ego slowly hardens again .... when your soul sinks back into the depth from which it had already ascended so far that it should only still prove itself as a human being .... It certainly has the opportunity to completely spiritualize itself in the short time of earthly life, for it is granted assistance in every way. But it is also exposed to temptations by the world, it is constantly enticed by matter and seeks to take possession of it; thus it can, in free will, place the material world before the spiritual world, and then it irrevocably takes the path of return to the abyss, then its perfection is in question unless it still comes to its senses before the death of its body and strives towards the spiritual kingdom with a strong will .... which is also possible for it because this will is respected and supported at all times. This is why the material world is a great danger for the human being whose will is weakened ..... For the will determines the soul's spiritual state and this can very easily develop regressively .... And then the soul's matter will stay when the body falls prey to death. But if the human being seeks to attain the spiritual kingdom, if his thoughts move more in this than in the earthly kingdom, if he seeks the bond with God, then he need not fear falling prey to matter and his fate in the beyond will be accordingly .... He is in the spiritual kingdom which he aspired to on earth, and only the soul's degree of maturity determines the degree of light and bliss which that spiritual kingdom offers him .... but it is the spiritual kingdom .... the soul has been able to completely detach itself from the material form, it has reached its original state again, since it was able to create and work in full freedom in light and strength .... It has reached its aim on earth and now no longer needs to pass through the material world, but this is the fate of the souls who only desired matter on earth. And it is the last time of grace, it is the time before the end, when unusual help will still be given to all people so that they can still accomplish their complete spiritualization on earth .... Unusual events provide unusual help where people themselves have become too irresponsible and indifferent .... God Himself comes to the aid of all souls because He loves them and wants to spare them the dreadful fate of a new banishment .... But all people have free will, and this determines the soul's fate in eternity, in the time after the death of the body, which can be extremely glorious but also equally agonizing, depending on this will and the way of life the person leads on earth. Anyone who strives towards the spiritual kingdom will also enter it; anyone who desires matter will have to take it as a cover again, for the kingdom of the beyond is closed to these souls as soon as the last day on this earth has come ....

Amen

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God's word announces His will ....

B.D. 7542 from March 8th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

All thinking, willing and acting that is in accordance with the will of God serves the soul to its advantage .... And the will of God is love .... And thus a person's thinking, wanting and acting must always move within God's will if the principle of love prevails, if love determines all thinking, wanting and acting. Therefore the divine teaching of love cannot be preached to you humans often enough, which clearly presents God's will to you and therefore every person who wants to become blissfully happy has to know about it. And because people become negligent, because love has grown cold amongst them, because they are indifferent towards the divine teaching of love, God lets His word sound from above .... He draws people's attention to a process which again has the transmission of the teaching of love as its occasion, thus He once again conveys this teaching to people so that they recognize its importance and should deal with it mentally .... His word sounds from above which teaches love for God and one's neighbour again in order to ignite the spark of love in people which is buried and in danger of being suffocated. For love has grown cold amongst people and they don't know what this means .... that it signifies a spiritual low from which God still wants to rescue people before the end comes. God Himself addresses people and gives them the commandments of love for God and neighbour again .... He gives them the same gospel again which He also proclaimed when He walked the earth. For He wants people to live in love again, because they can only become blissfully happy if they change their nature, which only knows selfish love and therefore the human being is distant from God .... God wants people to seek contact with Him, which is only possible through love or through heartfelt prayer which, however, will only be sent up to Him by a person full of love. Love is the first thing, and love must therefore be preached again and again to people who are blissfully without love. Only when the human being's thoughts, intentions and actions are determined by love will he live according to God's will .... And God announces this will to people through His word. He will only ever instruct people to fulfil His commandments of love, for then their thinking, wanting and acting will also be in accordance with God's will. Therefore, the divine teaching of love cannot be switched off, it is the most important thing because it gives people the guideline for their way of life, because it clearly reveals God's will, which will always be love for God and one's neighbour, because then the human being will change again into the former perfection, because then he will accept his original nature again, which was pure love. And again and again God will sound His word from above, for what is taught on earth is no longer respected, even though it is also meant to be the divine teaching of love, yet the proclaimers on earth lack strength if they are not in most intimate contact with the one Who Himself is the word from eternity .... And therefore God Himself addresses people and conveys His word directly to earth, because the adversity on earth is great, because love has grown cold on earth and because only through love can the human being be saved .... And thus he will be taught again and again, and again and again he will be given the commandments of love for God and his neighbour, which he only needs to fulfil in order to acquire eternal life. Yet without love he will be lost for eternity, without love he will live his earthly life in vain, without love his soul cannot mature, without love he will remain a slave to God's adversary who is devoid of all love himself ....

Amen

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Comforting Words ....

B.D. 7543 from March 9th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

I want to lead you through every adversity .... if only you entrust yourselves to Me, if you submit to My will, if you don't resist Me with your own will or wrong actions. I will place what you shall and shall not do into your heart, and you can always believe that it is My will, and you can unreservedly do what you inwardly feel impelled to do at all times. Time and again you will experience moments when you will seemingly lose your inner calm, but equally you will also find it again, for this, too, is part of your soul's spiritual maturing process, that in times of distress it turns to Me for help, that time and again it seeks a renewed bond with Me, so as not to become indifferent to its psychological task. And this shall be a comfort to you, that I know all your adversities .... and that I will put an end to them when the time is right .... You don't need to be disheartened once you have handed yourselves over to Me and My guidance; you can be assured that I will guide you well and that your every path is predetermined by Me Myself, that you can thus follow it and it will always lead you to the goal.

Yet your life cannot pass you by without struggle and suffering or you would not achieve any spiritual progress, but this is your reason for living on earth after all. However, I will always be your protection and shield; I will always take care that you do not break down under the cross with which I burden you for your salvation .... It will not be heavier than you are able to endure, and it will also be taken from you again when it has achieved its purpose: to gain a degree of maturity for your soul which heightens its bliss when one day it can discard the body and enter the spiritual kingdom. The cross will be taken from you again as soon as the purpose has been achieved, for I will not let you suffer any longer than necessary, and I will also help you carry it when it seems too heavy for you at times ....

You can truly live your earthly life without worry and it will be endurable for you, you will be able to master it with My help, for you granted Me the right to walk by your side as soon as you had chosen Me as your leader. And this shall always be your guarantee that you will not take any wrong paths, for I will prevent it because I love you and because you have turned to Me of your own free will. Just sacrifice to Me whatever weighs you down and it will be a blessing to you. But don't allow yourselves to get depressed by minor disagreements which will confront you time and again but which are not long-lasting ....

Just renew your heartfelt bond with Me, which is the purpose and goal of all earthly adversities, and you will soon experience a change, once again you will gladly and cheerfully go through life, you will be released from your burden and learn to love Me as your Father ever more, Who will protect and guide you through every adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Following Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7544 from March 10th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You are always urged to follow Christ, and again and again Jesus' suffering and death on the cross is therefore placed before your eyes so that you yourselves take the path to the cross and thus also walk the path of discipleship, as soon as you have recognized His act of salvation as a work of mercy which no human being accomplished on earth before or after Jesus. And if you acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world, then you will also carry your sins under His cross and ask Him to shed His blood for you too .... You will ask Him for forgiveness of your sins and be willing to walk the path of following Jesus, i.e., to love and suffer on earth. You can only redeem yourselves through love and suffering if you bear your suffering in view of Jesus Christ, for He alone makes you able to do so, otherwise you will collapse under the cross which is imposed on you during your earthly life. With Jesus Christ, however, the cross will become easy for you, for He will help you to carry it .... Yet you don't know what blessing your soul will receive if it takes up its cross and follows Jesus, you don't know how much faster it will mature if it humbly bears the suffering it is burdened with and yet looks up to the cross of the saviour and redeemer Who died for it in order to make it possible for it to be released from its guilt. And it will find forgiveness, for Jesus Christ has redeemed all people from sin and death who want to become free from their adversary, from the enemy of their souls. You should walk the path of following Jesus .... This also includes a measure of suffering which you must be willing to endure and which Jesus' love has burdened you with, so that you will always come closer to Him, so that you will call upon Him when it seems too difficult for you .... But you should try to bear it because then you will follow Him, Who preceded you on the path to the cross. Through His path to the cross He opened the way to eternal beatitude, and if you now follow Him on this path you will also reach the gates through which you can enter the kingdom of light. But the path of following Jesus will always mean a path of suffering which will only become passable for you through love, because love is strength and then you will also endure the cross which is burdened upon you. It was the infinite love of the man Jesus which gave Him the strength to walk the path of the cross to the end, and love will also be the source of strength for you which makes the path of suffering easier for you, which lets you become overcomers. But without love and suffering your soul will not be able to mature, without love and suffering it will stay away from the path to the cross .... Therefore, take up your cross without grumbling and carry it until the end, and it will become increasingly easier for you, for the divine cross-bearer Jesus Christ walks beside you and He will lighten your burden, He will support and strengthen you because you are willing to follow Him ....

Amen

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Jesus' work of love and mercy ....

B.D. 7545 from March 11th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You should always look towards the cross, you should always remember the saviour Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross .... You should always try to imagine His bitter pain and suffering which He endured for your sins, so that your guilt of sin was redeemed and you could enter the spiritual kingdom again unburdened, the kingdom of light, the gates of which Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, opened for you. For your sins He suffered, for your sins He died on the cross .... He, Who Himself was without sin, took your guilt of sin upon Himself and went the way to the cross for you. And He did it out of immense love for you humans, whom He knew to be in greatest spiritual need, whom He wanted to release from the fetters of the adversary who had held you captive for eternities. It was a work of love and mercy, such as has only once been accomplished by a human being who was not differently aligned like you, but only harboured so much love in His heart that He wanted to sacrifice Himself for His suffering fellow human beings. And it was this love which gave Him the strength for His act of salvation, it was this love which drove His will, which enabled Him to endure immense suffering and pain and to walk the path of the cross until the end, until His exaltation on the cross, until His agonizing death. But love was God .... It was God Himself Who sacrificed Himself on the cross, it was the eternal love Who suffered and died for humanity. And this love needed a human shell which endured suffering and pain .... a shell in which the greatest work of mercy ever experienced by humanity took place .... This sacrifice on the cross cannot be remembered often enough, because it was unique and yet applied to all of humanity, to the people of the past, the present and the future .... Again and again people must experience that the work of redemption has been accomplished for all of them; again and again they must hear that they themselves also belong to the redeemed if their will is willing to accept the graces of the work of redemption .... Again and again people must remember the divine redeemer, they must turn their gaze to the one Who died on the cross for humanity .... they must imagine their own sinfulness and know that the divine redeemer also died for these sins, providing they are carried to Him, under His cross .... that the human being therefore wants to become free from them and appeals to Jesus Christ for forgiveness of his guilt. The human being must consciously take a stand towards Him and His act of salvation. And therefore he should always remember that he would be lost without Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... He alone is his saviour from deepest adversity, He alone forgives his guilt, He alone leads him into the kingdom of light and bliss when he has handed over his guilt to Him and asks Him for redemption .... And therefore no man's life is hopeless, no matter how much he has sinned .... One took all guilt upon Himself and redeemed it on the cross out of immense love. And you should acknowledge this one, you should know and believe that Jesus was the son of God, that He was a human being Who harboured a soul of light within Himself which was so full of love that it was able to contain eternal love Itself and that this 'eternal love' walked the earth in order to suffer and die for people .... in order to redeem them. And if you believe and acknowledge God Himself in Jesus you will also become free from all guilt, you will be able to enter eternal life as He has promised you ....

Amen

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Understanding God's incarnation ....

B.D. 7546 from March 12th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You should mention every teaching which comes to you from above about the problem of My human manifestation in Jesus, for they will always contribute towards giving light to the human being who longs for light. Precisely this problem is much disputed, and even if people want to accept the existence of the man Jesus they are nevertheless not aware of His actual mission, and they cannot understand that I Myself walked across earth in the man Jesus. But it is of great importance to acknowledge Me Myself in Him because the redemption of every individual person depends on it. The beings which once detached themselves from Me in arrogance, which did not want to acknowledge Me as their lord and therefore fell abysmally, absolutely have to take the path of return to Me, and this includes that they acknowledge Me as their God and creator, as their father of eternity .... I died for this great sin of the former apostasy from Me in the man Jesus on the cross, thus I redeemed the great sin through My suffering and death .... But this also includes the complete return of will to Me, which therefore also requires an acknowledgement of Me .... an acknowledgement of the man Jesus as God's Son, in Whom the eternal deity Himself embodied Himself, so that Jesus Christ must therefore be acknowledged as God and the human being must turn to Him in order to thereby also prove the acknowledgement of Myself. It is difficult to make this problem comprehensible to the human being, but as soon as he knows about the aim of all people on earth, that the soul has to spiritualize itself in order to accept the original being again, then it is also possible to understand that the human being Jesus had spiritualized Himself in such a way..., that I, as the eternal love, could take abode in Him, that His original nature thus completely corresponded to Mine, that we were no longer two but one and thus I Myself accomplished the act of salvation which ended with the most painful death on the cross .... I am a spirit Who fills the whole universe, I cannot be personified as a limited form as you imagine, but I was able to take a form as My abode, I was able to radiate this form fully and completely with My spirit, and then this form also had to be Me Myself. It was only the outer shell of a human being, but what was in this outer shell was divine spirit, that was I Myself from eternity .... Again and again this teaching shall be brought to people, for again and again I try to guide people into truth through My word, to give them full understanding for the greatest mystery, for My incarnation in Jesus, so that you will learn to recognize why Jesus Christ has to be acknowledged, why you should call upon Him and then only ever call upon Me Myself. As long as you humans lack this understanding you will also have a certain indifference towards Jesus Christ, because you only ever look at the work of the man Jesus but cannot find a spiritual connection which is the basis of His mission on earth. But you humans were the reason for this act of salvation, you humans caused Jesus' descent, your original sin was the motive for My incarnation in Jesus, for only I Myself was able to redeem this original sin because it was too great for you to have been able to pay it off yourselves, even if it had been your will. And I had to use a human shell to do so .... a shell which was able to suffer and die like any other human being but which, by virtue of the spirit of God sheltering within it, was able to endure unusual suffering which any other human being would have succumbed to prematurely. So I Myself took on such a cover and became a 'human being' ..... But the human being, Who served Me as a cover, was 'God' at the same time, for only the outer cover was matter, but what this cover contained was spirit in all fullness, for My spirit permeated everything in Him, His body and His soul, because the human being Jesus had prepared Himself such that I could take abode in Him. Nevertheless, He died as a human being on the cross, He bore immense suffering which I allowed to suffice as a sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity, for all people of the past, the present and the future. And if the human being wants this problem to become comprehensible to him, then he will also be given the understanding for it. Nevertheless, there must be messengers who receive and pass on My pure word, and everyone of good will will also feel inwardly touched when he is given information about the extent to which Jesus was God and I, as your God and father, became human .... But the degree of his understanding depends on the degree of love which fills a person's heart .... Love will kindle a light for him and he will also recognize the light of eternity, Which Itself became human in order to redeem people from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God is a kind, merciful judge ....

B.D. 7547 from March 13th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You will always be pointed to My infinite love and mercy, and therefore every sinner shall fearlessly come to Me and appeal to Me for forgiveness of his guilt of sin .... I walked the earth as a human being, I experienced all weaknesses of My fellow human beings as a human being, I had understanding for them because I Myself was human .... I look down with immense love on all people who are at fault and My mercy wants to help them. But they have to come to Me themselves and entrust themselves to Me, and therefore they have to know about My love so that they will have faith in Me, Who does not condemn them but wants to help them to become free from their sins. For the sinner is still under My adversary's control, he is still a slave to him, and therefore he will remain in sin as long as he has not yet escaped from My adversary. But he will only be released from him when he takes refuge in Me to help him .... And he will only take refuge in Me when he has recognized Me as a kind, merciful judge under Whose power he willingly submits .... Therefore you should not speak of a God of wrath, of an unmerciful judge who mercilessly condemns what has become sinful .... My love and mercy know no bounds, and if your sins were as red as blood I would wash you white as snow .... you can believe this, for you are all My creatures who came forth from My love and whom I will love for all eternity. You just have to recognize your guilt, you have to admit yourselves that you have become guilty and come to Me with this admission .... And you must approach Me in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your guilt. For I died on the cross for this guilt and thus redeemed it. You should always remember that I am a God of love, not a God of wrath. The fact that My justice cannot endow you with beatitude should only ever make you strive to establish a just balance yourselves, which consists of you recognizing and confessing your guilt .... that you appeal to Me for forgiveness in order not to fall prey to My justice, which may not be eliminated despite My greater than great love, because justice belongs to My perfect nature. Yet since I Myself redeemed the guilt on the cross, you need only want Me to have shed My blood for you too, and then you can also avail yourselves of the blessings of My act of salvation .... You can count on full forgiveness of your sins because My love has redeemed them. And I call out to all sinners: Come to Me, under My cross, and cast off your burden of sin .... and you will be set free from it, because My love and mercy wants to prepare a blissful fate for you .... because I want you to return to Me from Whom you once came forth ....

Amen

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God's endless, immeasurable love ....

B.D. 7548 from March 14th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

You will eternally not need to do without My love, for My fundamental nature is love, thus I cannot help but show love to you, My living creations, whether you are worthy of it or not .... Even your apostasy from Me could not reduce this love, because this is not possible or My nature would change, which is eternally supremely perfect, thus it also has to emanate unlimited love. If it were possible for you to grasp this infinite love of Mine you would also reciprocate My love, because you would open yourselves to My illumination of love and be unable to do otherwise than push towards Me in love. But because you are still imperfect you cannot imagine My all-encompassing love, you measure with human yardsticks and also set limits to My love, and therefore you are also unaware of My attitude of love which is always and constantly valid for you, especially during your time on earth when you are supposed to prove yourselves. The fact that I Myself am love is still incomprehensible to you humans as long as you have not changed yourselves into love .... Therefore you will only be able to understand everything when your nature has become love, but then you will already have come so close to Me that you will also feel My great love for you, and then you can also be called blessed, even if you still live on earth. But first I want to impart this knowledge of My love to you, you should have faith in Me, you should not see the distant God in Me but your father Who lovingly looks after His children and does not want them to go to ruin. You should know that everything that affects you fate-wise is determined by My love, for My wisdom recognizes what serves you, and because I want you to become blessed I also use the means which promise success. My love for you is exceedingly great, and if it were to be united with My righteousness, with My perfection, I would create unlimited beatitudes for all of you because I want you to be happy .... But the law of eternal order requires a degree of maturity for these beatitudes, a state which only love can create .... Therefore you first have to change yourselves into love before My love can make you completely happy. But it is always and forever meant for you, and if you were able to imagine that I embrace you with heartfelt love despite your inadequate state of maturity, you would also give yourselves to Me without restraint and bridge the wide gulf which still keeps us apart as long as you keep away from Me .... try to imagine My great love for you, try to come close to My heart, awaken love for Me in yourselves and now give Me your heart .... try it and it will only be for your own good, for then you will be willing to unite with Me, and this will is already blessed and will also lead you to the aim. Always remember that My love is unlimited and that it encompasses everything that has emerged from it .... And you are My living creations whom I want to make into My children .... This is why My love always and forever belongs to you and will also reach its aim one day, so that it can radiate through you again as it once did, so that it will make you unimaginably happy because My love knows no limits ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers